MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 09:42:30+00:00
Its certainly a symptom. With corporate financing of elections in the post Nixon years, neoliberalism has run amok and led to the disaster we are in. What I worry about is that only about 50% of the country has a passport. Half the country have never seen how other places are run and now 40+ years later a large percentage of the country wouldn't even remember how things used to be. They just think this is how every place runs.

The movie Fahrenheit 11/9 builds up understanding of the theory using specific case studies on the behavior you describe. They also discuss efforts to try and fight back. It is a recommended watch for anyone interested in understanding the underlying reasons for how we ended up where we are now. I can't believe the film is now eight years old yet feels like it was produced right now. Some of the people who were high school kids in the movie graduated college and are now even running for congress to try to fight back against neoliberalism! :O

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wf-Y2_I91A
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-02-03 09:42:42+00:00
Yes. Absolutely. The biggest data point pushing the affirmative is less Anki itself but the success of products at the forefront of the second wave of spaced repetition apps [1] like Khan Academy. Duolingo, too, but Duolingo gets flak from people for being too Goodhearted by retention for its own good; Khan Academy actually does force feed you enough actual problems to learn some math.

Writing the cards is engaging with the cards for some small subset of the population. I am part of that audience. But most people are terrible at it, and it's not an easy skill to build.

Ther majority of people who are interested in Anki -- and the vast majority of normal human beings with nonzero willingness to pay, which is a very unique subset of the population with goals that tend to look like "Pass X exam by Y date so I can [get a job|earn my citizenship in a better country|...] -- just want good pedagogical material wrapped in some control harness so they can treat some fraction of their learning the same way they treat going to the gym. Show up, put in the reps, get results.

[1]: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-second-wave-of-spaced-...
by metalman | 2026-02-03 09:42:55+00:00
looking at the pictures.....Syracuse looks a lot like my home town... did, old buildings, low rise high rise, muddled look, sortof stuck, was a good place till the land bankers bought up stuff and waited, and now Halifax ,NS is the second fastest growing city in NA, and there is a forest of cranes
and older sections of town are under the wrecking ball, 9 billion $ hospital going up, and some days my phone blows up for no particular reason, other than I suppose, everyone else has stopped answering there's.
I have no idea what all the many tens of thousands of new residents are going to do, but here they are re-building my home town into a mini megalopolis.
So, the comonality is the land banking parking lots, literaly, parking money, as an
asset, that will beat holding costs and inflation, untill, BOOM!
The secondary type is to by up lots, right at highway exits within 30 min circle of an area like this, cant loose.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-03 09:43:13+00:00
> Gas generators can be spun up to provide megawatts in seconds btw

Only if they're already spinning and everything is hot and ready.

Non-spinning reserves can take hours to bring online. Cold power plants cannot be brought up quickly. The simplest designs can ramp within a few minutes, but these are generally not intended for any kind of continuous operation due to efficiency concerns.
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-03 09:43:28+00:00
My caveman brain was psyched out by the idea of stopping my coke drinking habit. I thought I had a soda addiction. Turns out I didnt, I just didnt drink enough water. After I pulled water bottles instead of coke cans from the fridge, the cravings went away.

Sometimes we don't need cold baths or extreme regimens to fix all the messed up things we're doing to our bodies. Simple changes go far to heal the damage.
by palebt | 2026-02-03 09:43:32+00:00
Location: Remote (contract)

Technologies: Kotlin (Android), Python (Django), Java, Dart (Flutter), Stripe, FHIR, Compose Multiplatform

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by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-03 09:43:41+00:00
One of underlying issues is also, that "web dev" is a very broad field. There are people programming Ruby on Rails, C#/ASP.NET MVC, Python, Java etc. without JavaScript at all, and it is considered web dev. There are people doing FE/BE separated in whatever backend language, and using Angular/Vue/Svelte/React with TypeScript, Javascript and so on. It is a very heterogenous field. So you should narrow down what you are looking for.
by ankit_sparks | 2026-02-03 09:44:15+00:00
Hi HN

I’m An Nayal, and I built DatingX to help people form more intentional, meaningful connections.

Most dating apps optimize for swipes and matches. DatingX focuses on:
– better conversation prompts
– relationship intent clarity
– reduced ghosting through guided interactions

It’s currently available on [Android/iOS/Web].

I’d love feedback on:
– onboarding flow
– positioning vs existing dating apps
– what would make this genuinely useful for you

Happy to answer any questions.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-03 09:44:31+00:00
To be fair, sj dropped the ball on succession planning. Tim Cook, the promoted bean counter, is perfect as a profit-extraction leader Wall St. wants but nothing like sj in terms of valuing the product experience or category-defining innovation that doesn't steer things straight towards maximizing profits. The problem is, when the largest demographic, ordinary people, grow tired of throwing huge sums at fragile, stagnant, less cool, less durable tech they eventually stop buying and start buying elsewhere. Apple needs to find a founder-like CEO who is more concerned with leading, cool, usability, durability, and category-changing vision and less Cook or Scully brand exploitation for profit maximization.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 09:44:35+00:00
> If these laws are still on the books when the next D administration takes over, they should use them against Elon, Thiel, etc - strip them of US citizenship, deport them, and nationalize their companies (followed with repealing those laws)

Or the current R admin, next time Musk has a spat with Trump.

Would definitely be a popcorn moment; doubly so if Canada has changed its rules on citizenship by then and has also stripped Musk of that, leaving him only with South African.
by dworks | 2026-02-03 09:45:00+00:00
adding another external model/agent is exactly what I have been planning as the next step. in fact i already paste the implementation and test summaries into chatgpt, and it is extremely helpful in hardening requirements, making them more extensible, or picking up gaps between the implementations and the initial specs. it would be very useful to have this in the workflow itself, rather than the coding agent reviewing its own work - there is a sense that it is getting tunnel visioned.

i agree that CC seems like a better harness, but I think GPT is a better model. So I will keep it all inside the Codex VSCode plugin workflow.
by DeepDyno | 2026-02-03 09:45:54+00:00
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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I'm looking for machine learning roles preferably related to transformers, LangGraph or Agentic AI, Computer Vision, or related roles. Outside of my resume and work experience, I've been studying LLMs from Andrej Karpathy, Stanford Online, and arXiv to know transformers inside and out.

Shoot me an email and I would be happy to discuss it with you.
by flomo | 2026-02-03 09:46:03+00:00
Not listening to a blahcast, but shit like MAC addresses and other hardware IDs were well known to everyone in the field. Companies had 'inventory systems' which used this long before MS cared. I certainly don't begrudge anyone from getting their patented pound of flesh from Gates, just pointing out this is a great litmus test between the GNU and the not.
by wazoox | 2026-02-03 09:46:19+00:00
What a torrent of nonsense.

* Starship so far can't put as much tonnage in orbit as New Glenn or several other more conventional rockets. Putting "megatons" of hardware in orbit is an entirely unsolved problem.

* the ISS currently carries 250kW of solar panel and 70kW of radiators. Cooling vast amounts of hardware in orbit is ever more an unsolved problem than putting it up there.

Sheesh. I'm so tired of this bullshit.
by gucduck | 2026-02-03 09:46:21+00:00
This is very much in the same space as what I’ve been building, so it’s interesting to see the overlap in instincts here!

I started working on Civie (https://civie.org) 2 months ago, which also focuses on anonymous, low-friction daily civic polling with time-boxed questions and an emphasis on privacy by default. Different implementation choices, but the same core belief: participation should be easy, frequent, and not require turning your identity into the product.

Would love to chat sometime if you're interested in comparing notes and implementation!
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 09:46:26+00:00
Some of us do actually use such machines every now and then.

The point being made was that for many people whose lives doesn't circle around computers, their computing needs have not changed since the early 1990's, other than doing stuff on Internet nowadays.

For those people, using digital typewriter hardly requires more features than Final Writer, and for what they do with numbers in tables and a couple of automatic updated cells, something like Superplan would also be enough.
by flumpcakes | 2026-02-03 09:46:54+00:00
This must be the best example of why China will overtake the US as the world's number 1 super power before 2050. I would link you to a white house press briefing from Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... but it has been taken down by Trumpists. Another irony.

It's a shame that the US is being actively sabotaged by Republicans and Trumpists and people will continue on because saying that is apparently a capital-p Politics and not an objective fact.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-03 09:46:59+00:00
#33 here. I have written .. a lot of words. I don't know whether they're correctly excluding ">" quoted words though.

A quirky feature of HN is that you can only see detailed karma counts for your own posts. One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary.
by Bengalilol | 2026-02-03 09:48:30+00:00
Have a look at your submissions, they brought you karma.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=exagolo>

Although nothing is crystal clear, the karma system is not 1:1 for submissions.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024032>

Comment upvote +1
Comment downvote -1
Submission upvote >0 && <1 (not documented to prevent abuses)
Submission downvote not possible (only flagging is allowed)
by seethishat | 2026-02-03 09:48:39+00:00
I grew up close to Winston Salem, North Carolina. The city with two cigarette brands named after it. Everyone died of emphysema or lung cancer there. As a 10 year old kid, I could buy cigarettes from stores. In the 6th grade, our class took a tour of the RJ Reynolds factory in Tobaccoville, NC (yes that is an actual place) and we watched as our school teachers were given free sample packs of cigarettes.

I tell that story because it is true.

And I wonder... is there a town named Twinkieville in the USA where everyone dies of obesity and/or diabetes and kids can buy pounds of candy at the store without an ID? Or, is every town in America Twinkieville?
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-03 09:48:53+00:00
100% agree with AI expanding core testing from my own edge and key yests.

I agree, I write out the sketch of what I want. With a recent embedded project in C I gave it a list of function signatures and high level description and was very satisfied with what it produced. It would have taken me days to nail down the particulars of the HAL (like what kind of sleep do I want what precisely is the way to setup the WDT and ports).

I think it's also language dependent.

I imagine JavaScript can be a crap shoot. The language is too forgiving.

Rust is where I have had most success. That is likely a personal skill issue, I know we want a Arc<DashMap>, will I remember all the foibles of accessing it? No.

But given the rigidity of the compiler and strong typing I can focus on what the code functionally is doing, that in happy with the shape/interface and function signature and the compiler is happy with the code.

It's quite fast work. It lets me use my high level skills without my lower level skills getting in the way.

And id rather rewrite the code at a mid-level then start it fresh, and agree with others once it's a large code base then in too far behind in understanding the overall system to easily work on it.
That's true of human products too - someone elses code always gives me the ick.
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by KodyBerns99 | 2026-02-03 09:49:21+00:00
I built Launch Tabs chrome extension because I'm tired of wasting mornings clicking through the same 20 tabs every damn day. Now, I just group my must-haves like Gmail, Slack, Trello and hit one button. Boom!

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by modo_mario | 2026-02-03 09:49:25+00:00
Isn't it better to heat the water up to a point (let's say 40 or 50 degrees) and to heat it the rest of the way with resistance heating?

>Versus resistance, which is exactly as efficient at 0°C and 1000°C

It isn't. The difference is smaller than for a heatpump tho obviously.
by neilwilson | 2026-02-03 09:49:35+00:00
By only doing projects for which there is sufficient political support across the board, not the ones that are supported by a tiny vocal minority of the electorate.

Either we live in a democracy or we do not. Democracy determines the correct path by wobbling between two incompatible options - implementation and repeal. That which is implemented by one side, but not repealed by the other survives as the appropriate path.

There is no alternative to this - without abandoning democracy and universal suffrage.

Remember that democracy is the worst way to run a country, except for all the other.
by flakeoil | 2026-02-03 09:49:59+00:00
The thing is that wether the ruling party is right or left there are limits to what they can do based on the real world we live in. For example there is a limit to how much they can lower or increase the tax. There is a limit to how much they can save on one thing and invest in another.

Often when a new party takes power, no big real changes are seen as it is not so easy to implement considering the real world. They have to go down some kind of middle path.
by freehorse | 2026-02-03 09:50:01+00:00
Depends way you look at it. In some ways, analytic geometry generalises a set of algebraic tools to geometric problems. Eg from the text

> For the analysts, this was irrelevant: algebra captured the essential relations expressed by the terms of the problem, which then served to guide the mathematician toward the solution. For the synthetics, by contrast, a solution to the original geometrical problem could only be geometrical in nature; and so, what the analysts were offering were not solutions but meaningless numbers.

> While the analysts strove for maximum generality, the synthetics argued for the specificity and locality of all mathematical methods. […] [For the synthetics] even more misleading would be to believe that there is a single universal method that can be applied to all kinds of problems.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-03 09:50:07+00:00
> if Windows NT had a proper UNIX subsystem

They actually did, but they made the mistake of packaging only the bare basics with it, and hiding it away as much as they could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

The American government added some obscure law that forced POSIX compatibility on operating systems for certain grants, so Microsoft made their business OS POSIX-compliant.

In theory, nothing stopped you from downloading and installing up-to-date versions of common UNIX tools. Had Microsoft had the necessary foresight, they could've killed deverlopers' dependency on tools like Cygwin and Git Bash and Linux entirely for many pieces of software, but they were too busy trying to make Win32 the standard ABI.

Funnily enough, Win32 became the standard for proprietary software on Linux (thanks to Wine+Proton) while many Unix/Linux-based tools became the norm for development, even on Windows (git, Qt). How different things could've been!
by david_allison | 2026-02-03 09:51:23+00:00
Hey, could you put in an issue, especially regarding the pain points, but also including what 'seems unusual': https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android

It's mostly due to time/resource/technical constraints [some of our strings come from a shared backend], but we can do better here, especially if there's now a lot more community interest in the feature.

Pull requests welcome! Do feel free to get in touch on the issue/Discord.
by pimterry | 2026-02-03 09:51:43+00:00
> the company has the money

It's not about money. It's not a tradeoff in cost vs quality - it's a tradeoff in development speed. Shipping N separate native versions requires more development time for any given change: you must implement everything (at least every UI) N times, which drastically increases the design & planning & coordination required vs just building and shipping one implementation.

Do you want to move slower to get "native feel", or do you want to ship fast and get N times as much feature dev done? In a competitive race while the new features are flowing, development speed always wins.

Once feature development settles down, polish starts to matter more and the slowdown becomes less important, and then you can refocus.
by port11 | 2026-02-03 09:52:00+00:00
Even with ex-partner being on iOS and an amateur photographer, we never paid for more than a bit of storage. I don’t think I know anyone (or ever did) that paid for Apple TV, and I think all our acquaintances have Spotify (we don’t). People fully buying into the Apple ecosystem seem to be fewer in Europe.

So yes, the App Store fees are the problem/big revenue source for now?
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-03 09:52:04+00:00
Outside of Arch(-derived) enthusiast circles, I haven't seen systemd-boot used anywhere.

It has some really nice tools and features that Grub lacks (i.e. it has tooling for checking the state of things like secure boot and analysing the security risks of your boot configuration), but every mainstream Linux OS I've used still relies on tools like Grub to boot.

I have some gripes with systemd-boot's limitations (notably, the insistence on an unthemed, white-on-black menu system that's not exactly enticing to Linux newcomers) but it's hard to deny its merits. Grub is tied together with a spider web of scripts calling each other, loading modules, generating code that is then executed again, and one mistake in one script can cause the bootloader config four scripts down the line to fail, leaving the system unbootable; the concise configuration file for systemd-boot makes for a much better bootloader configuration system in my opinion.
by Semaphor | 2026-02-03 09:52:46+00:00
As someone who adds several of those by himself (instead of buying products with them already included), the stomach irritating effects of too much of those (with "too much", as usual, varying from person to person) are well known. That does make me wonder (Sorry, not watching videos) how much she consumed with sugar alcohols, or if she is just extraordinarily sensitive.

Seems to me that it would require quite a lot of sweets, frequently.
by camgunz | 2026-02-03 09:53:03+00:00
Well but I think those instances are like, "wow this dude actually went to jail? how badly did he fuck up?" or whatever. Like, a counter example is like, one person went to jail for the financial collapse of 2008--to the surprise of no one (though, a fair amount of justified outrage). Rich people also frequently pay no taxes, like famously Amazon.

But, I don't think people have a detailed understanding of these things. I do agree they're at best fuzzy about what international law is (I am also fuzzy on it). I just don't understand what's manipulative about it. Like, what are people induced into doing based on the premise that the US follows international law? I think anyone operating in that sphere (international shipping, piracy outfits, aid organizations, criminal syndicates) is probably savvy enough to know the US will just blow you up and lie about it for thirty years.
by pseudosavant | 2026-02-03 09:53:10+00:00
Hard to take it serious when it opens with this note: `48% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities (Apiiro, 2024`?

Really? 2024? That was forever ago in LLM coding. Before tool calling, reasoning, and larger context windows.

It is like saying YouTube couldn’t exist because too many people were still on dial up.
by watwut | 2026-02-03 09:54:02+00:00
> Its depressing trying to steelman that behavior because you realize that the country you grew up in had these people there.

Maybe we should stop steelman them all the time. That is how they got enabled by centrists and pundits and moderates so much, they became the rulers. Steelmanning obvious bad faith actors is just another fallacy.

Steelmanning consists of ignoring disturbing claims conservative right says, not listening to what they are actually saying and replacing what they are saying by some feel good fiction of good intention.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-03 09:54:09+00:00
> You not only stumble upon a weird bug in your hacky solution that takes engineering weeks to debug, but your interfaces are fragile so feature velocity drops (bugs reproduce and unless you address reproduction rate you end up fixing bugs only) and things are so tightly coupled that every two line change is now multi-week rewrite.

I don't think you fully grasp the issue you're discussing. Things don't happen in a vacuum, and your hypothetical "fragile interfaces" that you frame as being a problem are more often than not a lauded solution to quickly deliver a major feature.

The calling card of junior developers is looking at a project and complaining it's shit. Competent engineers understand tradeoffs and the importance of creating and managing technical debt.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 09:54:44+00:00
Quite a few do care about the potential for job losses. On the other hand, a lot of people want cheap cars.

This dichotomy has always been in place for a huge range of specifics, both for imports and technology that makes workers less relevant. The "we want cheap stuff" argument is the one that has done best historically, though the track record of handling this badly also led to the invention of actual literal communism.
by DarkNova6 | 2026-02-03 09:54:53+00:00
I am not sure we can take a slogan from 2007 as a state of the art understanding.

But I am biased. I‘ve seen this slogan everywhere to promote UPFs that claim to be healthy because they are „vegan“.

Now that the market for meat alternatives has collapsed I don’t see this reasoning anymore. What a strange coincidence.