MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by outime | 2026-02-03 13:36:22+00:00
>If "just build it natively" were actually easier, faster, or cheaper at scale, everyone would do just that.

Exactly. Years go by and HN keeps crying about this despite it being extremely easy to understand for anyone. For such a smart community, it's baffling how some debates are so dumb.

The only metric really worth reviewing is resource usage (and perhaps appearance). These factors aren't relevant to the general population as otherwise, most people wouldn't use these apps (which clearly isn't the case).
by fch42 | 2026-02-03 13:36:30+00:00
Sometimes, not to do something can be the right (morally, technically, economically, ...) thing to do.

You don't always need to present the other cheek to do right. Neither do you always need to retaliate.

Nord Stream finally made it clear to Germany that "convenience" isn't a
durable energy market strategy.

It's not correct though that Germany has done "nothing". The suspects are pursued by Germany, https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-poland-blocks-extradition-... so there's that.

If you mean though whether there's a will in Germany (nevermind a commitment or funding) to rebuild Nordstream ... you're right, nothing has happened
by rdslw | 2026-02-03 13:36:41+00:00
all the examples for visual UI, are tasks which already are (or soon be) done by the agent, not human. hence not needed.

I suspect that final(*) UI is much more similar to TUI: being kind of conversational (human <> AI). Current GUIs provided by your bank/etc are much less effective/useful for us, comparing to conversation way: 'show/do me sth which I just need'. Not to mention (lack of) walled garden effect, and attention grabbing not in the user interest (popups, self-promo, nagging). Also if taking into account age factor. Also that we do not have to learn, yet another GUI (teach a new bank to your mom ;).
So at least 4 distinct and important advantages for TUI.

My bet: TUI/conversation win (*).

*) there will be some UI where graphical information density is important (air controller?) especially in time critical environments. yet even there I suspect it's more like conversation with dynamic image/report/graph generated on the go. Not the UI per se.
by brightball | 2026-02-03 13:36:59+00:00
The pattern I’ve observed throughout the US is that we have all those same things as well as citizens who can go to speak at various council meetings.

People are ignored, councils seem to rubber stamp things and the tactic at higher levels is to make a terrible decision and then attempt to use courts to delay any attempt to stop whatever the decision was. When it’s finally stopped, it will be done again slightly different and restart the lengthy court process.
by mk_stjames | 2026-02-03 13:36:59+00:00
I fly between various countries in western Europe a dozen times a year and have done so for a decade and every single time I've boarded a plane I have had to shown a photo ID with my name on it that matches my name on the plane ticket. Most of the time the gate agent barely looks at the ID/name, but it is required to hand it to them. I have never once just walked on a plane without showing ID with my name on it, and I have never seen anyone in line in front of me do so, ever, and I'm talking hundreds of flights at this point. It doesn't have to be a passport, I see older Spanish people showing their driver's license only all the time, but it has to have a photo and a name (to match the name on the ticket in some way) and be a state issued ID. Again, they seem very lenient with that whole name matching thing and checking the authenticity of the ID (it isn't scanned, just visually inspected), but I've never seen anyone just say 'no' and get on a plane.

So what the hell part of the EU are you talking about where they don't ask for any ID at the point where you are boarding, whatsoever?

For reference, here is Iberia's page for required ID when flying, and I've seen that this is absolutely enforced every time when checking in and boarding.

https://www.iberia.com/es/fly-with-iberia/documents/spain/
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 13:37:22+00:00
>Affordable housing, education, universal healthcare will make us all happier and healthier.

The past ~100yr of state policy has made a lot of economic winners out of people in these industries by putting it's thumb on the scale in their favor.

Any reversion to a "natural market state" or perhaps beyond, where the government weighs in to the advantage of those who do not make money on housing or healthcare would necessarily make loser out of all the people who right now benefit from the government having its thumb on the scale where it is currently positioned and they will fight tooth or nail to prevent this.
Ask HN: How much does ATS parsing penalize modern CV layouts?
by ATSPASSKIT | 2026-02-03 13:37:52+00:00
I’ve been looking into how Applicant Tracking Systems parse CVs and I keep seeing a gap between assumptions and actual behavior.

In tests with different CV versions, text-first, minimal layouts seem to preserve information better than visually structured ones.

I’m curious how much real-world evidence there is behind common ATS advice versus folklore.

For those who’ve worked with hiring systems or done testing:
Have you seen measurable differences in parsing accuracy based on layout?
by anovikov | 2026-02-03 13:38:37+00:00
Quite naturally - 1960s were the time when we discovered that Solar System is a pretty barren place. Mariner IV sent back pictures of craters on Mars - proving it couldn't have an atmosphere dense enough for people. Venera series probes proved at about same time that Venus surface was unsurvivable for anything we could recognise as "life". Stars are too far away. That was about it.

Many people don't get the origins of enthusiasm of first years of the space era, it wasn't because of politics, it was because there were real hope to find intelligent life in the Solar System itself - as crazy as it might sound now. And almost total surety of finding at least some form of complex, multicellular life. Disappointment when the real data came in, was massive. That's why space program went nowhere after Apollo, becoming a politicised clown show - by the time Apollo 11 landed, it was abundantly clear there wasn't much to see or do in the Solar System.
by zbentley | 2026-02-03 13:38:49+00:00
Oh, I don't think we should change the semantics of "rm"--not because reversibility is unimportant (shameless self-promotion: it is: https://blog.zacbentley.com/post/on-reversibility/), but because baking it into "rm" is the wrong layer.

Folks usually want reversibility in the context of a logical set of operations, like a Terraform apply. For shell commands like "rm", the logical set of operations might be a session (having a ZFS snapshot taken on terminal session start, with a sane auto-delete/age-out rotation, would be super useful! I might script that up in my shell profile in fact) or a script, or a task/prompt/re-prompt of an AI agent. But yeah, it definitely shouldn't happen at the level of a singular "rm" call.

Since filesystem snapshots (in most snapshot-capable filesystems, not just ZFS) are very simple to create, and are constant-time or otherwise extremely fast to perform, the overhead of taking this approach wouldn't be too hard.
by pnexk | 2026-02-03 13:39:39+00:00
On the contrary, it being published in 2012 makes it feel a little closer to 20th century mode of traditional media cultural criticism which felt a little more grounded than it is now in established media.

It’s also interesting for me because it’s a small slice of insight into the cultural consciousness of people’s perceptions of the trajectory of technology and its ills & promises at the time. It may sound like I’m exaggerating how long ago this was, but it really does feel like 2015 onwards was a large disruption from the expected status quo in the West in both good and bad ways. Not just in politics (Cambridge analytica?)but also in the way the general public perceived the technology industry and the nature of the kind of force it is at large in society.
by PeterStuer | 2026-02-03 13:40:18+00:00
Bespoke software development is a huge market. It is incredibly expensive. AI coding agents are not perfect, but just usable enough to be coached through by a semi-IT-literate business person to write some scripts or a little crud site that's needed for a specific LOB task (typically a 30k-250k range project)

The alternatives before were propose the case to IT, and if lucky it gets put on the planning, outsourced to consultants, and delivered 18 months from now for an astronomical investment in both time and cost. Or go at it yourself with Excell and VBA.

The AI thing will be a just 'good enough' barely working clutch of ugly code. Then again, so was most of the consultant produced code.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 13:40:35+00:00
archive.org supports DMCA. If you don't like some information in the Wayback Machine, you just have to send a form email and it will be removed from the Waybaeck machine.

archive.today/is/ph is adversarial. It archives things that don't want to be archived. That's why Trump's FBI is trying to unmask it.
by commakozzi | 2026-02-03 13:40:49+00:00
IMHO the HP 15C RPN is the best calculator ever made. I still have the original with the slip case and manual. However, more often these days i just use my phone's calculator without RPN (i don't need to do a lot of complicated math for mechanical engineering -- we use tables for most stuff). I reached a point/decision several years ago to protect my HP 15C for posterity.
by xerxes901 | 2026-02-03 13:40:59+00:00
> As a trivial example, you can dynamically depend on other services depending on system configuration (as PostgreSQL does)

Depending on what you want to do, a generator might be appropriate:

> Their main purpose is to convert configuration and execution context parameters that are not native to the service manager into dynamically generated unit files, symlinks or unit file drop-ins
by hwillis | 2026-02-03 13:41:17+00:00
The earth is actually a pretty big heat source in space. Solar radiation is a point source, so you can orient parallel to the rays and avoid it. The earth takes up about half the sky and is unavoidable. The earth also radiates infrared, the same as your radiators, so you can't reflect it. Solar light is in the visible spectrum so you can paint your radiators to be reflective in visible wavelengths but emissive in infrared.

Low satellites are still cooler in the Earth's shadow than they would be in unshadowed orbits, but higher orbits are cooler than either. Not where you'd want to put millions of datacenters though.
by k_g_b_ | 2026-02-03 13:41:24+00:00
So you're basing it all on your willful interpretation of "don't enforce federal immigration law" instead of going with any other interpretation that would not enrage you so? That seems unhealthy.
How about the following very likely interpretation: "abolish the government agency ICE through democratic process (including protesting and voting)" followed with one of "move immigration law enforcement to another agency and better qualified agents with different, more humane rules" or "also reform immigration law to be more humane than allowing the executive arbitrary deportation of people in a legal process of gaining legal visa/citizenship/etc"
or any of the other less ridiculous takes than your interpretation or Stasi comparison.
by Fuzzbit | 2026-02-03 13:41:37+00:00
With my cynical hat on, this move is to protect xAI from any issues with Tesla having peaked, and to maximise the value in SpaceX ahead of its IPO.

I'd also question whether a species deserves a future in the cosmos when we can't even care for the people here on earth, especially when the person leading the charge thinks its ok to shut down USAID which according to published figures will result in millions of deaths of the worlds poorest people to hunger, AIDS, Malaria etc.

Tech bro psychopaths need to check themselves.
by ryandvm | 2026-02-03 13:41:38+00:00
Exactly. He can croon about DOGE all day, but the reality is his entire fortune was built on feeding at the trough of government largess. That's why he talks about Mars all the time. He's not stupid enough to think we could actually live there, but damn if he couldn't make a couple trillion skimming off the top of the world's most expensive space program.
by pyrale | 2026-02-03 13:41:41+00:00
> it would be advantageous to have a bunch of smaller satellites, if you were concerned about cooling them.

...That's only relevant if you start from the position that your datacenters have to be space.

You could already make smaller datacenters on earth, and still have better cooling, if you were concerned about that. We don't do that because on earth it's more efficient to have one large datacenter than many small ones.
by RicardoRei | 2026-02-03 13:42:24+00:00
Hi, HN, I'm Ricardo, Head of AI Research at Sword Health.

We've been working on AI mental health support for a while now, and one of the biggest challenges we kept running into is how poorly general-purpose safety classifiers work in this context. They're built to flag harmful content broadly, so when someone in a therapy conversation says "I feel like I'm drowning," the system can't tell if that's a metaphor or a genuine crisis signal. That leads to two problems: either the system over-escalates on benign therapeutic content and breaks rapport, or it misses subtle signals that actually require intervention.

MindGuard is our "first" attempt to solve this. We developed it in close collaboration with licensed clinical psychologists, who helped us build a risk taxonomy that reflects how clinicians actually reason about urgency - distinguishing between safe therapeutic content, self-harm risk, and harm to others. We trained lightweight classifiers (4B and 8B) that achieve 2–26× fewer false positives than general-purpose models like Llama Guard, while still maintaining high recall on the signals that matter.

We're also open-sourcing the models, the evaluation dataset (annotated by clinical experts), and the risk taxonomy.

Happy to answer any questions.
by shlip | 2026-02-03 13:43:06+00:00
Well I still think it's something to worry about before you end in front of a "Your account has been suspended" notice. How can you be sure someone has the whole dataset locally backed up ? Plus, you still have to reconfigure the workflows and stuff like that. Not to mention that sometime, project's websites are also hosted on github, so that's something else you have to rebuild.

And also, this means devs/contributors have to give their data to MS.

Since the whole point of the project is sovereignty, it should have started with setting up their own gitea/gitlab/etc. instances and domains.
by happymellon | 2026-02-03 13:43:08+00:00
> Inventive ideas like Pokemon may not exist if people could just reuse other people's IP to make a buck.

Ironic.

Pokémon drew inspiration from a number of areas including Ultraseven, which had the concept of the main character having number of capsules containing miniaturized monsters, which come out and return to their original sizes when the capsule is thrown into mid-air.

Pokémon initially was named Capsule Monsters.
Tell HN: OpenAI's Codex CLI is currently free to use
by davidpolberger | 2026-02-03 13:43:18+00:00
Codex can currently be used with a free OpenAI account. This was mentioned in their announcement yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054), but as they buried the lede, I thought I would mention it separately. They haven't shared how long the free tier will last.

I've been using LLM code agents since the Gemini CLI announcement seven months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919). My workflow is centered around Emacs and the terminal, so I skipped Cursor and other GUI-based tools. I'm not sure I would've taken the time to try agents at all if Gemini CLI hadn't been free initially.

While Gemini was a good start, subscribing to Claude Code completely changed how I work.

However, I was surprised to find that the new Codex CLI works incredibly well. It offers a terminal interface that doesn't make my fans spin up or render at single-digit FPS, unlike Claude Code. It also supports other TUIs like OpenCode.

So far, I'm pleasantly surprised, and you may be too.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 13:43:21+00:00
Yeah, knowing what words to use is half the battle. Quickly throw away a prompt like "Hey, `make build` takes five minutes, could you make it fast enough to run under 1 minute" and the agent will do some work and say "Done, now the build takes 25 seconds as we're skipping the step of building the images, use `make build INCLUDE_IMAGES=true` when you want to build with images. It's not wrong, given the prompt, but takes a bit to get used to how they approach things.
by mothballed | 2026-02-03 13:43:24+00:00
I flew once from Iraq to Sweden (in a private capacity). There was zero controls other than stamping the passport, passport control but no customs inspection. No check of bags and no question of what I might have been doing in Iraq or why I would go from there to Sweden. It was shocking. Just welcome to sweden and off to the street.

Hopefully they haven't changed. It's nice to see a place still left without the paranoia.
by fransje26 | 2026-02-03 13:44:27+00:00
That's because you have the right to travel freely between Schengen countries.

Asking for an ID or passport when embarking/disembarking would be similar to having an ID check at a border, and would therefore be a border control, i.e. no longer free travel.

Of course Schengen countries have the right to temporarily re-enable border checks.
by bretpiatt | 2026-02-03 13:44:30+00:00
The solution exists in the financial controls world. Agent = drafter, human = approver. The challenge is very few applications are designed to allow this, Amazon's 1-click checkout is the exact opposite. Writing a proxy for each individual app you give it access to and shimming in your own line of what the agent can do and what it needs approval is a complex and brittle solution.
by lightyoruichi | 2026-02-03 13:44:30+00:00
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by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-03 13:44:32+00:00
(The title of the blog reminded me the late Bob Pease [1] who had the signature, "What's all this XXX stuff, anyhow?" [2] where XXX might be "noise gain", "capacitor leakage"…)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Pease

[2] https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/pease/index.html
by scarrilho | 2026-02-03 13:44:32+00:00
Same for me. I discovered spaced repetition through Anki.
It helped me study Japanese, Agile, and countless other topics, and the Android and macOS apps work perfectly together. A friend used it so much that he ended up contributing to the Android app as OSS.

> with provisions in place to ensure that Anki remains open source and true to the principles I’ve run it by all these years.

I really hope this holds.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-03 13:44:56+00:00
I still have a cheap Casio I use from time to time. Using it to calculate logarithms using only multiplication to the 10th power and the occasional divide by 10 was a calming thing to do over lunch in the gear shop without Internet access.

Start with X.
If 10 or more add 1 to the log10 for each decimal
If smaller than 1, subtract 1 each time you multiply by 10.writw that down plus a decimal point

Now the fun part, the fraction of the logarithm

Hit multiply 9 times then equal, to get the 10th power on the Casio

Each time you divide by 10 to get it back into range between 1 and 10, add 1 to the fraction

Repeat until you've got enough digits

PS: it also works for binary or any other integer base.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-03 13:45:29+00:00
> A monument to Tesla's design and engineering prowess is a marketing gimmick that compromises user safety.

You do know that flush door handles are to found across the automobile industry, right?

Range Rover, Jaguar, Hyundai/Kia, Ford, Nissan, Honda. Chinese heavyweights Xiaomi and Aion do it too.
by ps2026 | 2026-02-03 13:45:37+00:00
Hey absolutely! I checked out your website and looks great, I guess our ideas are validating each other! I would definitely be interested in learning more about your choices and implementation on demographics/verification, as I started down that path before shying away.

I had originally considered using protected session storage in the browser for storing demographic information so it never got stored on my server and stayed with the user, but decided for now to go as simple as possible with two big buttons. My main concern was, even if the vote was anonymous (especially when starting up without a large user base), if I had the users demographics stored on their account and if there were not many votes from say their region, you could in theory narrow it down to who that person was (email, ethnicity, age, location). If you had one user who was from Wyoming with those sets of demographics and you had one vote from Wyoming, well... I could make an educated guess who that was who voted and what they voted. I may have been overthinking it, but I just didn't feel personally confident enough to move forward with that, at least at the time.

I do also really like how you give the users context during their voting (pros/cons). I went with context after voting to get the gut reaction then drive discussion based on context. Really interesting to see!
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-03 13:45:40+00:00
They only run locally on my machine, and they use properly scoped API credentials. Is there some theoretical risk that someone could get their hands on my Gemini API key? Probably, but it'd be very tough and not a particularly compelling prize, so I'm not altogether too concerned here.

On the verification front, a few examples:

1. I built an app that generates listing images and whitebox photos for my products. Results there are verifiable for obvious reasons.

2. I use Claude Code to do inventory management - it has a bunch of scripts to pull the relevant data from Amazon then a set of instructions on how to project future sales and determine when I should reorder. It prints the data that it pulls from Amazon to the terminal, so that's verifiable. In terms of following the instructions on coming up with reorder dates, if it's way off, I'm going to know because I'm very familiar with the brands that I own. This is pretty standard manager/subordinate stuff - I put some trust in Claude to get it right, but I have enough context to know if the results are clearly bad. And if they're only off by a little, then the result is I incur some small financial penalty (either I reorder too late and temporarily stock out or I reorder too early and pay extra storage fees). But that's fine - I'm choosing to make that tradeoff as one always does when one hands off work.

3. I gave Claude Code a QuickBooks API key and use it to do my books. This one gets people horrified, but again, I have enough context to know if anything's clearly wrong, and if things are only slightly off then I will potentially pay a little too much in taxes. (Though to be fair it's also possible it screws up the other way, I underpay in taxes and in that case the likeliest outcome is I just saved money because audits are so rare.)