MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxdo | 2026-02-04 16:31:01+00:00
I have my personal reasons to hate Elon. But the article is full of fluff and lacks imagination, typical of the "the world is static and will never change" mindset.

What they are trying to do is an a very ambitious engineering challenge in several highly integrated domains, from spaceships to robotics, gpu, server design , ai.
Typical stakes are high margins are high.

Project also pushes boundaries of what human can do the same way starlink did. 20 years ago starlink scale was also an "impossible" thing. Is it possible now to push one gpu and serve it from space? Yes, can you do it at scale? Big question.

Obstacles :

Price per kg to orbit. They aim to go from $150 to $10 per kg. Can they deliver? Big question, but having something that demands so many starship, like GPU heavy tasks, will help them achieve this goal. Benefits? No rent, no cooling issues, cheap sun-powered electricity 24 hours a day, unlike anywhere else on Earth.

Jurisdiction. Servers can't be shut down or taken away by police, etc.

Cooling. Yes, it's a vacuum, but with $10 per kg, you can deliver pipes and coolant, and since you don't have space constraints, you can build these pipes with a robot, making that datacenter extremely cheap.

3. Labor. If a robot can do primitive tasks combined with design that is fully remote, you labor costs goes almost to 0.

the output: with $10 per pg, delivering solar panels, coolant + robot for some urgent fixes. Robots even with current technology can swap a harddrive for example, especially if hardware is built to be mantained by robots not human. You don't need large construction, you invest into design, that once assembled , cost you maybe comparable amount of hardware to deliver. After that it runs for free!

The economy if this obviously beating anything exised on earth.
by mayhemducks | 2026-02-04 16:31:05+00:00
This is my attempt to answer your question about "what kind of algorithm can you implement to detect something dangerous". Disclaimer though, I agree that the proposed regulation is way too broad and will have unintended consequences as written.

If you look at how Apple detects contraband imagery, they hash every image that gets uploaded into the photos app. Those hashes are transmitted to servers that compare them to hashes of known contraband.

A similar system could theoretically be used for STL files. So it isn't about detecting exact shapes, it's about preventing printing of STL files that are already known to be dangerous. This would make it harder to illegally manufacture parts for weapons because it would make it much harder to share designs. If you didn't have the knowledge or skill to design a reliable FCU, you would have to find a design someone with that knowledge and skill created - which the printer could theoretically detect with a cryptographic signature.

As the original author of the post pointed out though, this could and would be bypassed by actual criminals. As with most things like this, it's probably impossible to prevent entirely, only to make it more difficult.
by Dansvidania | 2026-02-04 16:31:56+00:00
Hi HN, I have been trying to ways to use AI that make sense to me and to my activities, other than coding agents that is.

This is my first attempt at something that I believe might actually be useful. Not letting the AI write for you, but poking holes and making suggestions that you may or may not take. Fact checking and gathering sources are next on my list.

I hope you give it a spin, I know that BYOK is a bit of a hurdle and I apologise.

Cheers!
by torginus | 2026-02-04 16:32:34+00:00
The rumor I heard is that Musk's big issue with SpaceX was that he was only able to employ US citizens with a security clearance, as per the limitations of a rocket company, which he has rallied against multiple times.

One of the motivations behind this whole thing could be that he could make a way for foreign talent to work on space projects without the necessary government signoff.
by reachcmphere | 2026-02-04 16:32:54+00:00
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by 6510 | 2026-02-04 16:33:05+00:00
I've had some fun conversations failing to explain why someone needed to try a multi monitor setup. It seems one could just get used to small screen. I normally use a redmagic phone. Today I had to test a website on an older iphone and got some claustrophobia vibes from it. No idea how I've ever used it.

I did some experiments with this https://synesthesia.go-here.nl but was to lazy to sufficiently learn it. I never got around to writing a code viewer.
by palmotea | 2026-02-04 16:33:15+00:00
> Consider how many more philanthropists would be created by returning this 30% back to individual discernment.

Many, many fewer than you assume.

Libertarians like to make lots of good-sounding promises to justify their favored radical policy, but it's bullshit and the promises don't pan out when tested [1]. By that point, the libertarian has gotten what he wanted and moved on.

[1] Or their policy was already tried and already failed, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876387, leading to reforms to fix the problems that they're now mad about and want to undo.
by graemep | 2026-02-04 16:33:28+00:00
In general people who demonise Thatcher largely agree with her on many policies. They are generally pro EU (she campaigned to remain in the referendum on EEC membership in 1975), they are usually opposed to reopening coal mines, or nationalising BP (or BA or JLR) or making telecommunications a state owned monopoly. To be fair they might favour nationalising utilities and train operating companies, but that is about it. They rarely disagree with her that climate change risks "irretrievable damage to the atmosphere, to the oceans, to earth itself", and are unlikely to want to bring back the use of CFCs.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 16:33:59+00:00
An oppressed class asks for more solidarity in order to achieve rights. The patriarchal society in America will alleviate the burden of political differences between the patriarchs, the men. I believe the patriarchy explains these differences especially given the deteriorating women's rights in America such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Liberal women might not tolerate the ideas of other liberal women who advocate for traditional lifestyles. This is because their rights are stripped in trad lifestyles. Liberal men might not care if another liberal man wants a trad lifestyle.

I hope this research doesn't become a tool for men to point to women and say "I told you so". In the comment section of the original post, it's already become that way.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-04 16:34:08+00:00
I want to say that is generous of her, but one thing that is weird is if I didn’t want someone to go into my laptop and they tried to force me to use my fingerprint to unlock it, I definitely wouldn’t use the finger I use to unlock it on the first try. Hopefully, Apple locks it out and forces a password if you use the wrong finger “accidentally” a couple of times.
by hunterloftis | 2026-02-04 16:35:19+00:00
> Reynolds was in for yet another unwelcome surprise: The developer sued her for being “unjustly enriched” by the construction of the home on her land.

> The developers’ lawyer told SFGATE in March that Reynolds appeared to be taking advantage of the developer’s mistake. “Keaau Development Partnership is the only entity that has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of losses,” Peter Olson said. “She’s trying to exploit the situation to get money from my client and the other parties.”

I'm glad the judge laughed that one right out:

> The court has dismissed that case.

> “The clear motivation of KDP and PJC was to cut corners to reduce construction costs,” the ruling read. “... The encroachment on Lot 114 is so great that the Court finds it has caused the complete destruction of Ms. Reynolds' estate as it had been originally held and enjoyed.”
by saarraz1 | 2026-02-04 16:35:28+00:00
Agreed. Most people don't do anything and this might actually get them to produce code at an acceptable rate.
I find that I often know what I need to do and just hitting the LLM until it does what I want is more work than writing the damn code (the latter also being a better way to be convinced that it works, since you actually know what it does and how).
People are very bad code reviewers, especially those people who don't do anything, so making them full time code reviewers always seemed very odd to me.
by cityofdelusion | 2026-02-04 16:35:32+00:00
I think part of it is the person that wrote the blog is very wealthy. They mention a personal assistant, very expensive fashion items, and hotel reservations that are 2x the price I paid for my honeymoon. Most people are probably cross shopping Walmart brand milk with name brand, and they aren’t dropping hundreds a month on an AI subscription. It’s a class thing combined with the Bay Area engineer bubble mentality —- I have some family that came from money and they just see the world completely differently, they can’t fathom life in say, Kansas at median household income.
by TheDong | 2026-02-04 16:35:44+00:00
I find it so frustrating that Lockdown Mode is so all-or-nothing.

I want some of the lockdown stuff (No facetime and message attachments, no link previews, no device connections), but like half of the other ones I don't want.

Why can't I just toggle an iMessage setting for "no link preview, no attachments", or a general setting for "no automatic device connection to untrusted computers while locked"?

Sure, leave the "Lockdown mode" toggle so people who just want "give me all the security" can get it, but split out individual options too.

Just to go through the features I don't want:

* Lockdown Mode disables javascript JIT in the browser - I want fast javascript, I use some websites and apps that cannot function without it, and drain battery more

* Shared photo albums - I'm okay viewing shared photo albums from friends, but lockdown mode prevents you from even viewing them

* Configuration profiles - I need this to install custom fonts

Apple's refusal to split out more granular options here hurts my security.
by davexunit | 2026-02-04 16:36:11+00:00
The animation on the Syndicated Actors home page [0] does a pretty good job of showing the difference, I think. Goblins is much more similar to the classic actor model shown at the beginning of the animation. The "syndicated" part, as far as I understand, relates to things like eventually consistent state sync being built-in as primitives. In Goblins, we provide the actor model (actually the vat model [1] like the E language) which can be used to build eventually consistent constructs on top. Recently we prototyped this using multi-user chat as a familiar example. [2]

[0] https://syndicate-lang.org/

[1] https://files.spritely.institute/docs/guile-goblins/0.17.0/T...

[2] https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-securit...
by clint | 2026-02-04 16:36:27+00:00
i wonder how this compares to the work I've been doing @ 2389 with the binary-re skill: https://github.com/2389-research/claude-plugins/tree/main/bi...

Specifically the dynamic analysis skills could get a really big boost with this MCP server, I also wonder if this MCP server could be rephrased into a pure skill and not come with all the context baggage.
by rickypp | 2026-02-04 16:36:35+00:00
Were it me, I would have started with a pre-2000's Craftsman mower as a base. They have a 6 speed transaxle with a differential (which solves the steering problem mentioned) and a built-in brake, and examples with broken or missing gas engines can be had used for $100 or less quite often. They have that boxy sheet metal look of old tractors too. It would also be possible to adjust the pulley ratios to slow it down or just block off the higher speeds until the kids get a bit older.

Granted, I understand that the purpose of a project like this isn't just in the end result. Depends what crafts you want to practice and what's just necessary work around them. There's still quite a bit of fun project left in converting an existing mower to electric and refinishing it to look more like a classic tractor.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-04 16:36:58+00:00
Lego boxes include a set of instructions that implies there's only one way to assemble the contents, but that's sometimes an injustice to the creative space that Legos are built to provide. There can be a joy in algorithmically building the thing some other designers worked to make look nice, but there's a creative space outside the instructions, too.

The risk of LLMs laying more of these bricks isn't just loss of authenticity and less human elements of discovery and creation, it's further down the path of "there's only one instruction manual in the Lego box, and that's all the robots know and build for you". It's an increased commodification of a few legacy designers' worth of work over a larger creative space than at first seems apparent.
by verdverm | 2026-02-04 16:37:06+00:00
That's what the haters proclaim, it's from a position of bias and/or jealousy

ATProtocol made a decision, based on the other protocols, to put more emphasis on user experience. If you want to build a new social media fabric for everyone, they have to want to use it. AP / Nostr have UX that will never appeal to the masses.
by docmars | 2026-02-04 16:37:09+00:00
You touch on an aspect of AI-driven development that I don't think enough people realize: choosing to use AI isn't all or nothing.

The hard problems should be solved with our own brains, and it behooves us to take that route so we can not only benefit from the learnings, but assemble something novel so the business can differentiate itself better in the market.

For all the other tedium, AI seems perfectly acceptable to use.

Where the sticking point comes in is when CEOs, product teams, or engineering leadership put too much pressure on using AI for "everything", in that all solutions to a problem should be AI-first, even if it isn't appropriate—because velocity is too often prioritized over innovation.
by mccoyb | 2026-02-04 16:37:17+00:00
My 5 minute read is that the divergences are primarily in the communication model and in transactions:

- the SAM coordinates through the dataspace, whereas Goblins is focused on ("point-to-point") message passing

- SAM (as presented) doesn't contain a transactional semantics -- e.g. turns are atomic, and there's no rollback mechanism (I haven't been up to speed on recent work, I do wonder if this could be designed into SAM)
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-02-04 16:37:23+00:00
I'm not a lawyer, but if I'm reading the actual regulation [0] correctly, it would only apply in the case of prompt injection or other malicious activity. 1005.2.m defines "Unauthorized electronic fund transfer" as follows:

> an electronic fund transfer from a consumer's account initiated by a person other than the consumer without actual authority to initiate the transfer and from which the consumer receives no benefit

OpenClaw is not legally a person, it's a program. A program which is being operated by the consumer or a person authorized by said consumer to act on their behalf. Further, any access to funds it has would have to be granted by the consumer (or a human agent thereof). Therefore, baring something like a prompt injection attack, it doesn't seem that transfers initiated by OpenClaw would be considered unauthorized.

[0]: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100...
Show HN: 8of8 – A trend radar for developers (17 sources, scored 0-100)
by JoseOSAF | 2026-02-04 16:37:53+00:00
I built 8of8 because I was tired of finding out about tools and frameworks after everyone else had already written about them.

It scans 17+ data sources every 2 hours — Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Reddit, ProductHunt, npm, hiring boards, funding filings, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, VC blogs, DOE research, and more. Every signal gets scored 0-100 across 8 validation dimensions.

The idea: if something is trending on GitHub AND companies are hiring for it AND funding is flowing into that sector AND npm downloads are growing — that's not noise, that's signal.

Right now there are ~120 qualified signals on the board. The scoring engine cross-validates everything — a signal needs to show up in multiple independent data sources before it scores high.

Stack: Python scoring engine, Flask frontend, single Vultr VPS. Data pipeline runs every 2h via cron.

Free tier shows all signals with scores. Pro ($29/mo) unlocks per-signal breakdowns, intelligence reports, and email alerts.

Would love feedback on the scoring methodology and what data sources you'd want added.
by cfiggers | 2026-02-04 16:38:11+00:00
I'm not rushing anywhere or arguing for or against anything at all in concrete detail. I'm trying to refuse the "all or nothing" fallacy that, yes, some people are arguing, and no, is not a straw man (you can see sincere examples of that viewpoint expressed in this very thread).

If I'm doing anything (and I'm self-consciously and intentionally doing next to nothing here), it is suggesting or reaffirming an extremely basic rational grid that, in my opinion, ought to apply across all aisles as universal, table-stakes context within which people who disagree with one another can try to reach rational, reality-informed compromise.

If I'm issuing any clarion call, it is this and only this:

Some environmental regulation is good, and some environmental regulation is bad, and we should use science to figure out which is which and then legislate based on the best good-faith interpretation of that science that we have access to.

That's it. Re-read my parent comment, if you don't believe me. That's literally all it says.

The reflexive contrary reaction, in this thread, against what I see as an extremely mild proposal justifies the (frankly quite minimal) effort I made in articulating it. This is not a universally accepted starting point for public policy discourse, though I think it should be (which is why I said so, in so many words).

Rational people, like both you and me I hope, have to voice this perspective and insist upon its acceptance and application if it is to survive the political polarization we're enduring as a society right now.
by coreycascio | 2026-02-04 16:38:40+00:00
For 6 months, I was that person with 15 browser tabs open just to publish one YouTube video.

vidIQ for competitor research. Runway for video generation. Descript for voiceover. Canva for thumbnails. Buffer for scheduling. ChatGPT for scripts.

$127/month in subscriptions. 20+ hours/week in busywork.

Got fed up and spent 3 months building one tool that automates the entire workflow.

---
viralvelocity.app

## What It Does:

* Competitor Intelligence*
- Type your niche → instantly see top 5 creators
- Analyze their viral videos, hooks, thumbnails
- Data-driven content strategy (not guessing)

* AI Script Generation*
- Analyzes competitor patterns in your specific niche
- Generates scripts based on proven formats
- Not generic ChatGPT—niche-specific scripts

* Video Creation (2 Methods)*
- Image slideshow with transitions
- OR Veo 3.1 AI video generation
- Auto voiceover with multiple voices

* Thumbnail Generator*
- AI creates thumbnails automatically
- Or upload your face image once → adds it to all thumbnails
- (Even faceless channels use face thumbnails for higher CTR)

* Channel Optimization*
- Overall channel score (0-100)
- Specific improvement suggestions per video
- SEO optimization (tags, titles, descriptions)

* Auto-Scheduling*
- Plan entire content calendar
- Publishes videos automatically

---

## Screenshots:

[Paste your 4 screenshots here directly in the post]

---

## My Question for This Community:

As fellow YouTubers—would this actually help you? Or am I solving my own weird workflow problem?

Specifically:
- *What would you actually USE* vs what's "nice to have"?
- *Is $79/mo fair* to replace vidIQ ($39) + Runway ($30) + Descript ($30) + Canva ($13) + Buffer ($15)?
- *What am I missing* that would actually matter for your channel?

---

## Full Transparency:

Solo dev, first SaaS product
Built it for myself first, now testing if others need it
Just launched this week—some features still rough around the edges
I use it for my own channel (eating my own dog food)
No fake testimonials or "make $10k/month" claims
Early beta, bugs exist, support is slow (it's just me)

---

I'm not here to sell. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth continuing or if I should pivot/kill it.

Honest feedback appreciated, even if it's "this is stupid and here's why."
Thanks for reading
viralvelocity.app
by taftster | 2026-02-04 16:39:11+00:00
This is a pragmatic answer. While yes, regex is not proven to be the Most Correct Solution for a generalized parse, when you are sitting down with some data in front of you and you can grab the needed bits with a regex group, why not exactly use this. It might be part of a bigger parsing strategy, sure. But if it gets the job on, that means you can move on to the next thing.
by legitster | 2026-02-04 16:39:15+00:00
The study adjusts for gender issues and finds the speaker's actual topics themselves don't make much of a difference.

> But the data does rule out a few possibilities. You might wonder, for instance, whether women are more censorial due to being more personally affected by the positions of the hypothetical speakers our surveys asked about. But only one of the speakers argues for a position that disproportionately affects women (banning abortion), and the gender gap isn’t greater for this speaker, so that doesn’t seem to be what’s causing the gap. My suspicion, corroborated by other research, is that women prefer social harmony.
by munificent | 2026-02-04 16:39:45+00:00
> as someone who has a chest freezer and a compulsive desire to buy too many things at costco, we take everything out of the freezer every few months to check what we have. before, this was a relatively involved process: me calling things out, my partner writing them down.

A thought I constantly find myself having when I read accounts of people automating and accelerating aspects of their life by using AI... Are you really that busy?

I mean, obviously, no one is thrilled by spending ten minutes making a dentist appointment. But I strongly suspect that most of us will feel a stronger sense of balance and equanimity if a larger fraction of our life is spent doing mundane menial tasks.

Going through your freezer is that you're using your hands and eyes and talking to your partner to solve a concrete problem. It's exactly the kind of thing primates evolved to do.

Whenever I read articles like this, I can't help but imagine the author automating away all of the menial toil in their day so they can fill those freed up minutes with... more scrolling on their phone. Is that what anyone needs more of?
by rhines | 2026-02-04 16:39:56+00:00
You convey tone through word choice and sentence structure - trying to convey tone through casing or other means is unnecessary and often just jarring.

Like look at the sentence "it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible." The casing actually conflicts with the tone of the sentence. It's not written like a casual text - if the sentence was "ppl talking about this are crazy" then sure, the casing would match the tone. But the stodgy sentence structure and use of more precise vocabulary like "veered" indicates that more effort has gone into this than the casing suggests.

Fair play if the author just wants to have a style like this. It's his prerogative to do so, just as anyone can choose to communicate exclusively in leetspeak, or use all caps everywhere, or write everything like script dialogue, whatever. Or if it's a tool to signal that he's part of an in-group with certain people who do the same, great. But he is sacrificing readability by ignoring conventions.