MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:24:39+00:00
The American people voted for Biden and twice for Trump - both of whom have unfavorable reputations regarding the way they behave with minor girls.

Bush Sr. and Jr. openly did wars for oil, under fake excuses like "WMDs".

"Gentleman" Obama too has a dubious distinction - he's the only two-term American President who kept his country directly involved in wars throughout those tenures, including wars he himself signed off to start. Yet he shamelessly went and collected that Nobel Peace Prize.

And Trump was so miffed at not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, that he unleashed tariff wars on all allies, and then arrogantly invaded a sovereign peaceful nation (Venezuela), and he's now threatening to seize Cuba (he's already stopped all oil going to it, in order to cripple this struggling nation that CIA destabilized since decades), Greenland, Columbia, Canada and whatnot.

AFAIK, no American president has bothered to take serious efforts to prevent gun shootings in American schools and colleges. USA has maximum mass shootings and maximum school shootings compared to rest of the world, the statistics are really shocking. (The evil that happened as the Uvalde school shooting, where the shooter was protected and aided by the police themselves - such avoidable tragedies on innocent children just breaks my heart.)

It seems that healthcare and safety of children are the least of the worries of the Americans, as they keep voting for such fakers and warmongers to be their President.
by Woodi | 2026-02-06 06:25:36+00:00
Do someone pays for anti-C propaganda ?? All that logic breaking accusations...

Eg. here, from memory:

> ...you want to read 32 bits from file but OH NOOES long is 64 bit ! The language ! The imposibility !

But when you read something ot unserialize some format you just need to know based on format schema or domain knowledge. Simple and straightforward like that ! You do not do some "reflections" on what language standard provide and then expect someone send you just that !!

So that anti-C "movement" is mostly based on brainless exampless.

Not saying C is perfect.

But it is very good and I bet IBM and other big corps will keep selling things written and actively developed in C/C++ + adding hefty consulting fees.

In the meantime proles has been adviced to move to cpu-cycle-eating inferior languages and layers over layers of cycle burning infra in cloud-level zero-privacy and guaranteed data leaks.

Oh, btw. that femous Java "bean" is just object with usually language delivered "basic type"... How that poor programmer from article should know what to read from disc when he just have types Java provides ?? How ? Or maybe he should use some domain knowledge or schema for problem he is trying to solve ??

And in "scripting language" with automatic int's - how to even know how many bits runtime/vm actually use ? Maybe some reflection to check type ? But again how that even helps if there is no knowledge in brain how many bits should be read ?? But calling some cycle burning reflection or virtual and as much as posible indirect things is what fat tigers love the moust :)
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-06 06:26:29+00:00
well, this should probably be more like a SHOW HN post, with a bit more technical details, but things I notice:

since it's a platform for non-lawyers to use, the text is too legal sounding, for example your topics

Commercial law
- Business transactions and agreements.

Criminal law
- Addressing crime and sentencing.

Employment law
- Fairness for employers and employees.

Estate and probate law
- Managing and distributing assets.

Family law
- Separation, divorce, and settlements.

Immigration law
- Visas, residency, and sponsorships.

Litigation
- Matters involving the courts.

Some of those are things your target clientele might not understand (maybe I am underestimating the intelligence of the U.S general public here, which I believe is your intended audience, but I've heard you'll never go broke doing that)

I might want it like

Commercial Law = I need to make a contract!

Employment law = two categories, I am an employee. What are my rights? and I am a business owner. What are my rights? And that second one I might put into parts merge in bits of commercial law.

and so forth, someone might read probate law? That's me I'm going on probation!!

Things I might expect, you don't get lots of criminal law customers.

From having worked at Thomson Reuters, once you have the tech in place to gather and organize this data the money making is in segmentation. Yeah, this is how you might organize things if you were making a site for Lawyers, but I sort of feel it is wrongly structured for a site for non-lawyers. Hopefully you are getting data on usage patterns to think of restructuring as I think you could maybe build something more intuitive solutions for potential lawyer customers.

I also hate chat based UI, so that may explain some negative feelings here.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-06 06:26:50+00:00
The value Mitchell describes aligns well with the lack of value I'm getting. He feels that guiding an agent through a task is neither faster nor slower than doing it himself, and there's some tasks he doesn't even try to do with an agent because he knows it won't work, but it's easier to parallelize reviewing agentic work than it is to parallelize direct coding work. That's just not a usage pattern that's valuable to me personally - I rarely find myself in a situation where I have large number of well-scoped programming tasks I need to complete, and it's a fun treat to do myself when I do.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-06 06:27:07+00:00
I made this to explore the links of the vast canvas of HN to itself. By mining "Related:" comments and scanning 46 million items, I aggregated about 36,500 clusters of discussions that span time and threads.

I recently added raw backlink counts (HN links) because I felt that surfacing these "human intelligence annotations" creates a view similar to PageRank. For now, there are multiple ways to sort and explore the current dataset, you can even write your own rank function. Let me know what you think!
by leonaoa | 2026-02-06 06:27:15+00:00
Ghibli Art AI is a web-based AI art generator that transforms user photos into Ghibli-inspired illustrations through advanced image style conversion models. The platform emphasizes soft lighting, painterly textures, and animated film-style color design, allowing users to recreate a dreamy illustrated look from ordinary images in seconds.
Built for creators, designers, and everyday users, the tool removes the need for drawing skills or complex software. Users simply upload an image and receive a stylized result optimized for avatars, social media posts, creative experiments, and personal artwork. The interface is lightweight and user-friendly, enabling fast generation directly in the browser.
Ghibli Art AI focuses on accessibility, visual consistency, and output clarity while maintaining a simple workflow. It serves as a creative utility for users exploring AI-assisted art styles and animated illustration aesthetics
by simianwords | 2026-02-06 06:27:46+00:00
My point is that material needs are more important to people under poverty than metaphysical like feeling bad about watching abusive videos.

You agree that this job is necessary to be done. You agree that this is the best option they have and they are better off with it.
You would also do the same thing if you were in their position. You agree that this job exiting is overall beneficial for everyone involved.

Then what’s with the moral grandstanding? Yes it’s not ideal that someone has to do the job.

What point do you want to make other than virtue signalling?
by charcircuit | 2026-02-06 06:28:14+00:00
Yes, performance of the generated code. You have some benchmark of using a handful of common programs going through common workflows and you measure the performance of the generated code. As tweaks are made you see how the different performance experiments effect the overall performance. Some strategies are always a win, but things like how you layout different files and functions in memory have different trade offs and are hard to know up front without doing actual real world testing.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-06 06:28:59+00:00
Yah but the key is that it’s not the power draw that’s the issue is the dissipation of thermal energy through pure radiation. The heat of the radiator is really important because it reduces the required surface area immensely as it scales up.

However the radiators you’re discussing are not pure radiance radiators. They transfer most heat to some other material like forced air. This is why they are cooler - they aren’t relying on the heat of the material to radiate rapidly enough.

I would note an obvious terrestrial example though is a home heat pump. The typical radiator is actually hotter than the home itself, and especially the heads and material being circulated. Another is any adiabatic refrigerator where the coils are much hotter than the refrigerated space. Peltier coolers even more so where you can freeze the nitrogen in the air with a peltier tower but the hot surface is intensely hot and unless you can move the heat from it rapidly the peltier effect collapses. (I went through a period of trying to freeze air at home for fun so there you go)

For radiation of heat the equation is
P = \varepsilon \sigma A T^4

P = radiated power
• A = surface area
• T = absolute temperature (Kelvin)
• \varepsilon = emissivity
• \sigma = Stefan–Boltzmann constant

This means the temperature of the material increases radiation by the fourth power of its value. This is a dramatic amount of variance at it scales. If you can expend the power to double the heat it emits 16x the heat. You can use a much lower mass and surface area.

This is why space based nuclear reactors are invariably high temperature radiators. The idea radiators are effectively carbon radiators in that they have nearly perfect emissivity and extraordinarily high temperature tolerances and even get harder at very high temperatures. They’re just delicate and hard to manufacture. This is very different than conduction based radiators where metals are ideal.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-06 06:29:26+00:00
Boomers and GenX benefited from freedom they are hellbent on taking away.

GenX? Yeah, it's not just the Boomers despite the memes.

Insurance CEO running a death panel until he got got? GenX

Musk, Thiel, may other notable big tech billionaires? GenX

Heather Bresch, CEO that jacked up price of EpiPen? GenX

School admins watering down education? GenX

Late-40 year olds to young 60 year olds manage the day-to-day at American universities, businesses, government. Zero self awareness. Little more than "line must go up!" automatons.

Good luck trying to make them feel bad, kids; coddled first world GenXers have seen some shit, bro, they are hardened thugs: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/gen-x-generation-di...
by jsattler | 2026-02-06 06:29:26+00:00
Anthropic released Cowork a few days ago. I tried it for a few minutes and it was unusable for me. It crashed several times and felt very buggy. What I liked was the idea of the productivity plugin. I set up my own version of it that is agent agnostic and can be easily customized. Here are the main ideas and a link to a template to fork.
by jeffreygoesto | 2026-02-06 06:30:02+00:00
But this is about the first systems? I tend to tell people, the fourth try usually sticks.

The first is too ambitious and ends in an unmaintainable pile around a good core idea.

The second tries to "get everything right" and suffers second system syndrome.

The third gets it right but now for a bunch of central business needs. You learned after all. It is good exactly because it does not try to get _everything_ right like the second did.

The fourth patches up some more features to scoop up B and C prios and calls it a day.

Sometimes, often in BigCorp:
Creators move on and it will slowly deteriorate from being maintenaned...
by indemnity | 2026-02-06 06:31:07+00:00
I had to go to Max, Pro is more like a taster.

At work tho we use Claude Code thru a proxy that uses the model hosted on AWS bedrock. It’s slower than consumer direct-to-Anthropic and you have to wait a bit for the latest models (Opus 4.5 took a while to get), but if our stats are to be believed it’s much much cheaper.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:31:48+00:00
Evil is, as evil does.

Bill Gates and his Foundation have a bad rep long before his Epstein link came into the news.

Who better to collude with a known child trafficker/molester, than one who has no qualms in killing children via illegal vaccines/drugs to help his nexus with Big Pharma.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of such innocent victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

The Gates Foundation operates like a monopolistic unethical pharmaceutical company (as a weapon and Think Tank of Big Pharma) under the guise of a charitable NGO or grantmaker.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/bill-gates-big-philanthr...
by zhoujing204 | 2026-02-06 06:31:59+00:00
Dictators are absolutely terrified of the paper trail. This is the entire reason for existence of the Great Firewall. The CCP invests heavily in sanitizing imported literature and curating the information supply to maintain cognitive capture over the populace.

We are seeing parallel mechanics from the Trump/GOP camp: look at the library purges in conservative states and the push to co-opt moderation on platforms like TikTok. Access to the historical record isn't just a detail; it is the fundamental substrate of free speech.
by sorbus-25 | 2026-02-06 06:32:27+00:00
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by thayne | 2026-02-06 06:32:39+00:00
The things complained about in the article are not a minimal reflection of how computers work.

Take the "wobbly types" for example. It would have been more "minimal" to have types tied directly to their sizes instead of having short, int, long, etc.

There isn't any reason that compilers on the same platform have to disagree on the layout of the same basic type, but they do.

The complaints about parsing header files could potentially be solved by an IDL that could compile to c header files and ffi definitions for other languages. It could even be a subset of c that is easier to parse. But nothing like that has ever caught on.
by titanomachy | 2026-02-06 06:33:18+00:00
I simply made the observation that when you go to churches in Greece, they are speaking the original New Testament and people can understand it. Which part are you refuting, that the priest is reading the original text or that the parishioners can understand him?

It certainly sounds strange and unlike how any modern Greek person would speak, but it can be basically understood especially if you are a bit used to it. I’m not an expert but I think it’s probably a smaller gap than say Latin and modern Italian. Definitely a smaller gap than English and Old English, despite being more than twice as old!
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:33:23+00:00
You should think twice before supporting evil people.

Evil is, as evil does.

Bill Gates and his Foundation have a bad rep long before his Epstein link came into the news.

Who better to collude with a known child trafficker/molester, than one who has no qualms in killing children via illegal vaccines/drugs to help his nexus with Big Pharma.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of such innocent victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

The Gates Foundation operates like a monopolistic unethical pharmaceutical company (as a weapon and Think Tank of Big Pharma) under the guise of a charitable NGO or grantmaker.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/bill-gates-big-philanthr...
by D-Machine | 2026-02-06 06:33:31+00:00
I think the careful response to this is:

(1) There are compilers written in C in the training set

(2) LLMs demonstrably can near-perfectly memorize training-set inputs (see other comments here)

(3) LLMs are very good at translation tasks (natural language or code, e.g.: C to Rust)

I don't think this necessarily completely deflates the impressiveness of this accomplishment, but it does qualify it to some degree.
by brookst | 2026-02-06 06:34:11+00:00
I’ll bite. Share your data?

Companies that were not profitable in their first year: Microsoft, Google, SpaceX, airBnB, Uber, Apple, FedEx, Amazon.

If the vast majority of companies are immediately profitable, why do we have VC and investment at all? Shouldn’t the founders just start making money right aeay?
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:34:30+00:00
Bill Gates dragged that bar into the murky quicksand though.

Evil is, as evil does.

Bill Gates and his Foundation have a bad rep long before his Epstein link came into the news.

Who better to collude with a known child trafficker/molester, than one who has no qualms in killing children via illegal vaccines/drugs to help his nexus with Big Pharma.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of such innocent victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

The Gates Foundation operates like a monopolistic unethical pharmaceutical company (as a weapon and Think Tank of Big Pharma) under the guise of a charitable NGO or grantmaker.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/bill-gates-big-philanthr...
by lionkor | 2026-02-06 06:34:52+00:00
Yes a human can hack together a compiler in two weeks.

If you can't, you should turn off the AI and learn for yourself for a while.

Writing a compiler is not a flex; it's a couple very well understood problems, most of which can be solved using existing libraries.

Parsing is solved with yacc, bison, or sitting down and writing a recursive descent parser (works for most well designed languages you can think of).

Then take your AST and translate it to an IR, and then feed that into anything that generates code. You could use crainlift or whatever it's called, you could roll your own.
by iafan | 2026-02-06 06:35:07+00:00
> There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff.

> The most prevalent one, these days, is that you gradually evolve the complexity over time. You start small and keep adding to it.

> The other school is that you lay out a huge specification that would fully work through all of the complexity in advance, then build it.

I think AI will drive an interesting shift in how people build software. We'll see a move toward creating and iterating on specifications rather than implementations themselves.

In a sense, a specification is the most compact definition of your software possible. The knowledge density per "line" is much higher than in any programming language. This makes specifications easier to read, reason about, and iterate on—whether with AI or with peers.

I can imagine open source projects that will revolve entirely around specifications, not implementations. These specs could be discussed, with people contributing thoughts instead of pull requests. The more articulated the idea, the higher its chance of being "merged" into the working specification. For maintainers, reviewing "idea merge requests" and discussing them with AI assistants before updating the spec would be easier than reviewing code.

Specifications could be versioned just like software implementations, with running versions and stable releases. They could include addendums listing platform-specific caveats or library recommendations. With a good spec, developers could build their own tools in any language. One would be able to get a new version of the spec, diff it with the current one and ask AI to implement the difference or discuss what is needed for you personally and what is not. Similarly, It would be easier to "patch" the specification with your own requirements than to modify ready-made software.

Interesting times.
Show HN: Termoil – Terminal dashboard for managing parallel AI coding agents
by Kanix | 2026-02-06 06:37:54+00:00
I run 5+ AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Aider) in parallel across different worktrees. The biggest pain point: agents silently hang waiting for [Y/n] permission in a tab I forgot about.

Termoil is a TUI that shows all your agent terminals in a grid and blinks red when one needs attention.

- Spawn up to 9 shell panes, run any agent in each
- Full terminal emulation (colors, mouse, cursor) via vt100
- Regex watchdog detects permission prompts near the cursor position
- Arrow keys to navigate, Enter to zoom, Ctrl+Space to exit
- Single 3MB Rust binary, no dependencies

brew install fantom845/tap/termoil
cargo install termoil
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-06 06:37:57+00:00
This used to require Nohands I think on Linux. But iirc I think somehow Bluetoothd and pipewire can maybe just do this somehow now? I'm quite surprised it works for three systems at once though! Neat.
https://nohands.sourceforge.net/

My Lenovo Tab Plus tablet works as a Bluetooth speaker. Bought it because it was crazy cheap and has amazing amazing speakers.

Overall we are deeply misserved by the weird casting of devices being for this or that. Computers are flexible & general purpose & should in most cases be willing to act as peripherals for other systems. Onwards, until maybe some day: the network is the computer.
by Lammy | 2026-02-06 06:38:41+00:00
I should know better than to feed the troll, but…

- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...

- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...

- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...

- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...

- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...

- https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

- http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

One would have had to try very hard to avoid ever hearing about Microsoft's behavior in the '90s.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-06 06:38:51+00:00
The one-shot performance of their recall attempts is much less impressive. The two best-performing models were only able to reproduce about 70% of a 1000-token string. That's still pretty good, but it's not as if they spit out the book verbatim.

In other words, if you give an LLM a short segment of a very well known book, it can guess a short continuation (several sentences) reasonably accurately, but it will usually contain errors.