MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theflyestpilot | 2026-02-11 00:08:55+00:00
I spent 1500 this month. Crunch time on a project so I went for it.

opus 4.5-4.6 costs of about 250 per day

had requests vary between 5 cents and 45.74 per call...

Hand to God, truly not that many calls per day. Just constant steering.

I essentially gave them my lunch money hand over fist.

opus performance was fantastic.

Though the cost confusion with cursor pricing and well known upcharge is why I'm intending to churn next month to go direct to source with Claude code... without the middle man.

compose 1.5 might keep me from churning now that I'm across the finish line on the project. But 1500usd could have given me Claude code for the year.

Frankly they could be making sh*t up with the cost per call... "Nobody is going to know."
by jajuuka | 2026-02-11 00:09:58+00:00
Getting into one fight and just leaving over it is pretty foolish.

What are you talking about? Of course you should treat everybody well. But that doesn't mean everyone will treat you well. Of course I've been harassed before. But that's not related to this at all. We're talking about Bazzite where someone got called an idiot once.

You're really reaching now. If you were harassing my partner or children this would be an entirely different conversation. Again, that's not relevant at all. You're just reaching for anything to make this emotional plea. Also slurs? Come on now. We're literally talking about someone getting called an "idiot". Not a slur. Stop stretching the truth.

Your hypothetical was "If you have to repeatedly deal with it, you'd likely leave the space we share or ask someone to make me leave".

Nobody was abused here. Good lord. So THAT'S what set you off. So "just ignore mean words" does mean "let everyone call you slurs all day". It's means what it literally says. Mean words. Mean words are "idiot", "stupid", etc. They are silly and childish insults. They are not harmful words. They are not slurs. They are not harassment. Do you understand what I said now? Because I think your invention of scenarios that didn't happen here is extremely unproductive and is derailing the conversation. Instead of using slogans and extremes, ask questions next time. Can really save you and others some effort.
by tim333 | 2026-02-11 00:10:18+00:00
This might explain a mystery I was pondering - I cycled up to St Pancras station and some guy I'd never seen before said "no one likes you" which puzzled me but looking at the article my appearance is pretty much like Cycling Mikey.

While he probably does a good job, it seems a bit over the top. I don't see that much bad driving in central London. Quite a lot of iffy cycling though especially from the deliveroo guys.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-02-11 00:10:37+00:00
The article says this about the job:

> Our remote operators are transported into the device’s world using a state-of-the-art VR rig that allows them to remotely perform complex and intricate tasks. Working with hardware teams, you will drive requirements, make design decisions and implement software integration for this custom teleoperation system.

The article notes that this is very unlike what Waymo is doing:

> This should enable Tesla to launch a service similar to Waymo without having to achieve a “superhuman level of miles between disengagement.”
by nickpeterson | 2026-02-11 00:11:04+00:00
I’m sure it wouldn’t be profitable for them, but I feel like having some vendor sell a ‘reference machine’ that they know could run the core OS well would be a good in between. Someone like Framework selling a workstation looking desktop in a specific reference config couldn’t be too bad. Feels like just enough to get a community started. Most tasks really don’t need bleeding edge hardware anymore, the thing could go years without hardware changes.
by johndhi | 2026-02-11 00:11:20+00:00
I could be wrong and would be happy to be so but it seems like this to me:

If someone did a few months of house arrest for "pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution involving a minor" it would be incredibly easy for that person to say - whoops, she said she was 25 and then they threw the book at me." And not terribly unreasonable for someone to take him at his word on that.

The real crime is that the prosecutors massively under charged him for doing an insane gigantic awful pedophile recruitment ring. No one really knew that til a long time later.
by rjh29 | 2026-02-11 00:11:27+00:00
It's not fine at all? Before social media the average was 28 hours a week of viewing per person, obviously a non negligible percent of people watch TV for 100% of their free time.

Modern social media is even more addictive - always with you even when you're not home, short form, customized to your tastes, you can skip videos so you no longer need to feel any pain at all.
by mrmuagi | 2026-02-11 00:12:16+00:00
I always followed proper form and didn't ego lift, even though my deadlifts were the highest weight.

I think on retrospect deadlifts may have been my issue to, I did the deadlifts that day and later remember going to pickup something off the ground and getting the issue. Not sure if the deadlift was the cause, but I always thought my muscles were sore/tired and lax, thus when I went to lift the thing my lower back stability was compromised.

I'll try Romanian deadlifts and those other exercises, thanks for that suggestion.
by TexanFeller | 2026-02-11 00:12:22+00:00
> In my view nonnegative real numbers have good physical representations: amount, size, distance, position

I'm not a physicist, but do we actually know if distance and time can vary continuously or is there a smallest unit of distance or time? A physics equation might tell you a particle moves Pi meters in sqrt(2) seconds but are those even possible physical quantities? I'm not sure if we even know for sure whether the universe's size is infinite or finite?
by adventured | 2026-02-11 00:12:29+00:00
'Consensual' sex between a 50 year old President - the most powerful man in the world - and a 21 year old intern. Yeah right.

Clinton had a decades-long history of being a sexual predator. He was repeatedly accused of rape. He was also active with his friendship with Epstein during those years, which I think everybody understands what that means at this point.
by rcxdude | 2026-02-11 00:12:35+00:00
Except that one is transmissive and the other reflective. They're not the same kind of thing. TBH I feel like a demo like this is the only way to get an intuitive feel for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xx7sPPTu3Y .

(I agree that just going on about Rayleigh scattering is probably overly obtuse: at least not without explaining that scattering is part of how color is formed in the first place. But it's also not just a case of 'well air is blue like apple juice is orange')
by _carbyau_ | 2026-02-11 00:12:54+00:00
As a person who lived for a long time in a political capital I was so frustrated with news articles titled like this.

"[City] decides [XYZ stupid thing]!!!"

No! We in the city didn't decide it - our responsibility is limited to our political representative. Everyone else voted in idiots and sent them here to decide idiot things!
by tuetuopay | 2026-02-11 00:13:31+00:00
Speculation: Europe has a lower risk management cost than the US when it comes to card transactions, making it more profitable.

Smartcards with PINs were ubiquitous much much sooner (it being a French idea did not help for US market penetration), which means today the magnetic stripe on our cards is little more than decoration. Seriously, I'm 29 and I've yet to see a single magstripe payment here (while it was daily when I went to the US).

Also, we pretty much only have debit cards (don't know why, but don't know why I would want a credit card). This is even less risk for both the network and the merchant and the bank, reducing issues for all links in the chain.

Or the fact that Europe has 100M extra people in it, and a lot of countries seldom use cash nowadays.
by lysace | 2026-02-11 00:13:38+00:00
No, I was actually correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian

Ximian, Inc. (previously called Helix Code and originally named International Gnome Support) was an American company that developed, sold and supported application software for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. It was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in 1999 and was bought by Novell in 2003

...

Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011. In May 2011 The Attachmate Group laid off all its US staff working on Mono, which included De Icaza. He and Friedman then founded Xamarin on 16 May 2011, a new company to continue the development of Mono. On 24 February 2016, Microsoft announced that they had signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin.
by zb3 | 2026-02-11 00:13:45+00:00
> Would you consider MFA to be a measure against you, the owner of the device, because it makes it harder for you to login?

In theory - of course, it shouldn't make it any harder for _me_ to login, it's just that in practice the friction is inevitable since it can't distinguish between me and someone else without it.

> You're still free to walk into their branches, or use their physical cards, if you prefer not use their limited selection of devices.

The point is that this freedom is going away. I'd absolutely want to use their physical cards (there are smartcards with e-ink displays which would be a great thing for confirming payments), but no, they're slowly taking this away, starting by limiting transfers done without their mobile app.

And _their_ mobile app needs to invade __my__ property by locking down the system. I understand this might be neccessary to ensure the UI can be trusted, but this shouldn't happen on my device as it restricts my ability to do completely unrelated things.
by deepsun | 2026-02-11 00:14:02+00:00
Only because we made the "overstaying" an illegal offense. But there's no reason to -- if the guy was paying taxes the whole time, and never committed a serious crime, then we should be happy to welcome such guys, ramping up our GDP.

Don't forget that the paperwork costs a lot, if one has children, can get close to $10k.

Look at Spain -- instead of deporting "illegals", they just made them "legals" (those without a criminal record). Easy, problem solved.
by vladdoster | 2026-02-11 00:14:14+00:00
Location: Nashville, TN
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Willing to relocate: boston || nashville
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Redis, Docker, Open Service Broker, {,non}relational & vector dbs, shared services, SOA
Email: mvdoster@gmail.com

resume: https://linkedin.vdoster.com && http://github.com/vladdoster

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Designed and built Platform-as-a-Service for microservice workloads running on Azure and AWS
to migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud. The platform operates globally, allowing teams to
deploy to several Azure-backed regions worldwide. Helped plan and create regional landing zones
in Azure for application teams wanting to perform globally. Designed platform components using
Terraform, Go, and Node; developed support tooling using Bash, Python, and Azure CLI. De-risk the
platform by addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring the platform is PCI compliant.

api/devops software engineer @ Harvard Medical School (2 years)

Worked as part of the DevOps team to manage a 15k core CentOS HPC cluster. Designed and implemented
Python-based security scanning pipeline to securely deploy & run Apptainer images via SLURM.
Coordinated cross-team emergency patching eﬀorts. Collaborated with researchers and engineers across
3-letter institutions to deliver secure research infrastructure. Built CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub, Jenkins,
to automate code builds, testing, and deployments. Wrote Puppet modules to manage configuration of HPC fleet.
Wrote custom Puppet module & Python scripts to automatically remediate Tenable findings.

full-stack software engineer @ Global Prior Art (3 years)

Used Django, Celery, Selenium grid, and AWS API Gateway for IP rotation to scrape USPTO patent PDFs,
apply CV for data extraction, and generate reports with relevant claims, saving employees 4-5 hours daily.
Wrote E2E black-box/fuzzing unit tests. Automated on-premise deployment via Github Actions and Ansible.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-11 00:14:17+00:00
That just doesn't happen. Either the lendor is happy with an uncollateralized loan, a significantly but partially collateralised loan (such as 50%) or a fully collateralised loan. And in each of those cases the lender knows exactly how much he thinks the collateral is worth. If the collateral doesn't cover the loan, there is a written agreement between both parties stating so. The borrower would be wise to use that as evidence, since it reduces his taxable gains. Otherwise it's assumed the collateral covers the loan. No need to do anything special.
by dwd | 2026-02-11 00:14:29+00:00
Mid-50s and also started programming in BASIC on any computer I could get my hands on, whether my own C64 or the BBC Micros or IBM XTs at school.

My take on AI really comes down to this:

Debugging your own code was an adventure and finally getting something work was a major rush. You had a sense of achievement.

Debugging LLM generated code is hell - it's basically debugging someone else code. There's no sense of achievement and no jump out of your chair and bounce around the room moments.

Sure, the code comes out fast, and maybe I'll find joy in finishing some side projects I've been tinkering with on and off since I first started programming, or it may just end up feeling like it's not mine any more.
by agentzed | 2026-02-11 00:15:49+00:00
Your consciousness has already “lost control”. That you function at all is only by virtue that you have not been sufficiently fucked with to take it all away from you.

It is the framework of civilization layered out before you that allows your comfortable and convenient living. The economics of needs and means which afford your lifestyle.

You are right to be worried, only you do not properly understand the problem.

Be competent. Be capable. Be self reliant. Do use technology to extend your means, yet take responsibility for investing in your own well being by maintaining an active interest in your stake in this world.
by tjkatr | 2026-02-11 00:15:51+00:00
Good that a one liner comment comes to the rescue of the overlords and is immediately put to the top by image polishing agencies.

We are talking here about a CEO who presided over a company that abused its "customers" by using open source for training while stripping attribution and copyright.

The same CEO repeatedly insulted those very developers, who made his company big and possible in the first place, and told them they'd get obsolete.

He now repeats that same refrain while launching a startup with a vague product.

He clearly hates open source and open source developers. And we should like him and trust another of his companies?
by xyst | 2026-02-11 00:17:05+00:00
I do give this author praise for actually being transparent.

> In total, I had $8.2k in profit on $16.3k in revenue. That was my total income for the year, which is obviously not enough to support a family, but my wife also works, and we have savings/investments.

Self bootstrapping is not for the weak. At the height of the "indie grind set", you would get all of these "indie developers" raiding your social media feeds with click bait shit like "I bootstrapped my project and earned 100M pre-revenue11!1!!!1"

In reality, a very small minority even make a living self bootstrapping. It’s quite literally the lottery.

Author in this case clearly has fallback (rich/working partners, savings, and ofc probably still has $ from TinyPilot sale).

Unfortunately, for the lot of us. You end up working for shitty Fortune 500 company, work on useless/mindless shit, grind for 8 hrs, collect paycheck, eat, sleep, and repeat.

No unions to have our backs when incompetent management wants to cater to shareholders. No stability. Maybe get laid off for vague reason. Find another shitty job and hope for less shitty management.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 00:17:09+00:00
yes, but in many cases that is because this payment method predates "modern" online payment

depending on what you buy "a lot" can be close to non or close to all

in the end it has major issues:

on the consumer side m

- majorly reduced consumer protection compared to e.g. pay pal. If you wire transfer by yourself doing charge backs ~two weeks later after not getting the goods is hard, potentially non-viable (dep. on country etc.).

- you can typo address or reference number, leading to a lot of headaches (also recently they changed it so that the recipient "name" has to be correct, but many companies send you only IBAN,BIC,ref number and not the exact by letter company name under which the bank account operates...)

on the seller side (sometimes also affecting consumer)

- the order is in a "in-between" state until they receive the money, which can be days. During that time they can't rely on actually receiving the money but they also have to keep the good ready to sell. Especially in situations where you e.g. sell limited time/amount goods (e.g. resellers, collector goods etc.) this can be a pain. If you then add any form of expiration data (e.g. concert ticket) this can make the payment method a absolute no-go.

- your selling/order processing system needs access to your companies incoming transaction history, which preferably should be a separate account. This mean additional administrative overhead and failure conditions. Also many such systems are kinda build crappy in my experience.

while I have been using that in some situations it really isn't competitive as a modern online banking solutions

Also for completion there is one additional SEPA method: That is you give the company the right to just take money from you bank account. You can split that into 2 versions: 1) permission for fixed amount reoccurring payments (e.g. donations,subscriptions) 2) arbitrary amounts at arbitrary times. The later requires a relatively high burden/overhead on the sellers side so you only see it with Amazone or Paypal
by danielodievich | 2026-02-11 00:17:39+00:00
I very distinctly remember a dev talk at early 2000s Microsoft where a distinguished engineer recently come to MSFT from VISA described the herculean effort that it took to run this network. There was an anecdote that he shared that stuck with me where they had a worldwide daily balance mismatch of something like 0.37 cents and it was all hands on deck to find the missing thing. Yeah, man, it is very difficult to run these networks, hence so much money in it.
by dpc050505 | 2026-02-11 00:17:41+00:00
In Québec we have pretty extensive parental leave and we have heavily subsidized daycare (used to be 7$ a day per kid, now it's means-tested but you still get a hefty refund on your healthcare expenses come tax season).

When the program was put into place it paid for itself with the amount of mothers that entered the workforce.
Show HN: Google Search MCP for local LLMs – 14 tools, no API key
by vkaufmann | 2026-02-11 00:19:01+00:00
I built an MCP server that gives local LLMs access to Google Search, Shopping,
Flights, Hotels, Translate, Maps, Weather, Finance, News, Scholar, Books, Images,
Trends, and a page fetcher - 14 tools total.

It uses headless Chromium via Playwright instead of the Google Custom Search API,
so there's no API key to set up, no usage limits, and you get real Google results
(not the CSE subset). Install is just:

pip install noapi-google-search-mcp
playwright install chromium

Then point LM Studio or Claude Desktop at it and your LLM can search the web,
compare flight prices, check the weather, translate text, look up stocks, etc.

Everything runs locally. The LLM sends a tool call, Playwright opens a headless
browser, scrapes the results, and returns structured text.

GitHub: https://github.com/VincentKaufmann/noapi-google-search-mcp
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/noapi-google-search-mcp/

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or MCP in general.
by cstever | 2026-02-11 00:19:05+00:00
>> Why would I spend time babysitting an LLM when I could have just done it myself

Exactly this. From what I understand an LLM has a limited context and will get that context wrong anyway and that context is on the edge of a knife and can easily be lost.

I'd rather mentor developers and build a team of living, breathing, thinking, compassionate humans who then in turn can mentor other living, breathing, thinking, compassionate humans.
by mtlynch | 2026-02-11 00:19:33+00:00
Thanks for reading for so long!

> Question: do you not have income concerns / pressures?

Yes, definitely. I am a bit worried about not being able to get back to $100k+/yr in income, and I'm less confident that the safety net of "just go back to FAANG" is still available.

> I’m not sure most people can endure as long as you have and it makes me wonder if you have supplemental income not accounted for.

I do. We have investments that provide additional income. We also live in Western Massachusetts, in an area where living costs are fairly low, so we fortunately don't need to draw down much from our investments to get by.
by acdha | 2026-02-11 00:20:04+00:00
Culture has changed a lot since the 20th century and older projects can have antiquated norms around things like testing. I was just listening to a recent podcast talking about how worrisome it is that OpenSSL has a casual culture about testing[1] and was reminded about how normal that used to be. I think in the case of telnetd you also have the problem that it’s been deprecated for multiple decades so I’d bet that they struggle even more than average to find maintainer time.

1. https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/02/01/python-c...
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-11 00:20:25+00:00
Seattle and Washington State are addicted to spending. And doubling state spending in a decade or so hasn’t improved lives - if anything services like school and policing are worse than ever. Now they are passing all sorts of taxes that will kick off a spiral downward.

See https://www.geekwire.com/2026/opinion-the-millionaires-tax-i... for details
by tuetuopay | 2026-02-11 00:21:03+00:00
And I thing the misunderstanding here is that Europeans don't really use credit cards: we use the term "credit card" when we should use "debit card", but that's language for you. Literally, you have to go out of your way to get an actual credit card instead of the ubiquitous debit card everybody has.

And in Europe, when people hear Mastercard or Visa, they just associate the name with refused payments at points of sale depending on the luck they had with the merchant, or the foreign country, etc.

I do agree that in this case, picking MC/VISA is not really important. When I changed banks a few years ago, it so happened that I switched from a Visa to a Mastercard. Nothing changed save for the logo on the card.