MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aragilar | 2026-02-10 10:00:03+00:00
Sufficiently bad PRs/comments/etc. are against the GitHub Terms of Service, look under section C (Acceptable Use), which links to https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici..., which then includes https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici..., on which you'll find multiple actions would describe posting AI slop (or things ancillary to it).

I wouldn't do this where it's not clear there was an issue, but for something like the really poor OCaml PR that was floating around, reporting the user to me seems like a logical step to reduce the flood.
by alias_neo | 2026-02-10 10:00:31+00:00
You're implying some difference here that I don't see.

Both platforms need some way for the client to register to their respective push services, Apple needs an Apple account, Android needs google-services.json.

Both platforms require your app to generate a token which the platform's respective push service holds, and send it to your server which you then use to identify the client you're pushing too.

Apple also requires the Auth p8, Bundle ID, Team ID and Key ID, which are roughly equivalent to the contents of the google-services.json.
by destory-everyth | 2026-02-10 10:01:22+00:00
To be fair, Since they have lived in quite a few locations you can easily become desensitized to the conditions of these so called "slaves". The conditions of them in the UAE are not verry different from Singapore. The law allows for transportation on the back of open trucks, mass casualty traffic incidents involving the poorest workers are common. For a maid if they want to change employees they need permission from their current employer and the current employer can choose instead to repatriate them, with 30 days to exit the country and no money or means to challenge any mistreatment the abused are simply expelled and forgotten about. You can imagine the power imbalance, sa cases, torture and malnutrition. To the outsider it looks well balanced but it is simply well segregated. Even public housing has a ratio per building causing minority races to be unable to sell their properties on a level market rate.

The local mouthpiece even has a topic for maid abuse https://www.channelnewsasia.com/topic/maid-abuse
by tosti | 2026-02-10 10:01:50+00:00
It's fine if it's opt-in until the opt-in becomes opt-out and I get to use my old gear until it dies. That would still be fine with me except for the fact that my income and by extension wife and family depend on me using a computer. That would still be fine if somehow we could escape this system and still have food and shelter but that won't fly with the healthcare system we depend on.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-10 10:01:58+00:00
New EV prices are still falling for entry-level models. This is not the Ferrari, of course.

In a few years new EVs prices will be below equivalent ICE vehicles. Total cost of ownership already often is.

Second-hand EVs already are a bargain. EV owners complain about poor resale prices, but that's good for the buyer.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-10 10:02:01+00:00
> but ok that story is dated

I'm struggling to think of the last time I saw a commercial unix -- we still had solaris on some new machines until about 2006 - the last I remember was the x4500 with ZFS.

Our sun sysadmin contractor (whose full time job it was to look after about 10 solaris machines) was a big fan of ksh at the time.
by mcv | 2026-02-10 10:02:32+00:00
> You may not like it, but the USA is still a nation of laws.

I would love it if the US was a country of laws, but the rule of law has been quite thoroughly killed by the Trump administration. It wasn't very effective even before Trump, as you can see by how the prosecution of Trump's crimes got blocked or derailed every step of the way, but after his election, the Constitution has gone completely out of the window.

> Third world shitholes have lots of problems caused by illegal immigration because they don't do enough to enforce the law and restore order for their citizens.

Their problems don't come from illegal immigration. Not even a bit. Unless you use it as a euphemism for colonialism. The real problem there is corruption and a lack of rule of law. And the US is heading in that same direction fast.

> I'm rather glad that US culture hasn't yet turned into another Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Republicans are working on that.
by BoredPositron | 2026-02-10 10:02:38+00:00
Qwen always suffered from their subpar rope implementation and qwen 2 seems to suffer from it as well. The uncanny feel is down to the sparsity of text to image token and the higher in resolution you go the worse it gets. It's why you can't take the higher ends of the MP numbers serious no matter the model. At the moment there is no model that can go for 4k without problems you will always get high frequency artifacts.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-10 10:03:00+00:00
Some buildings can be nice. But the real crime with brutalism was the stuff that got demolished to make room for it. Also, a lot of brutalist buildings have not aged well. Concrete gets ugly after a few decades.

And there's also the notion that a lot of brutalist architecture that isn't all that beautiful. There are some counter examples of course. But there are also plenty of really nasty urban areas that aren't exactly attracting hordes of tourists because it makes people feel miserable rather than amazed. Cheap construction, a vision that never panned out, etc.

I'm a big fan of the Bauhaus movement because it combines elements of what later became the brutalist movement but with a human perspective. There's something very optimistic about it and they thought hard about the human scale of things and how people would live in these buildings. A lot of that design still feels modern and progressive even a century later. Brutalism lost that human perspective.
by bilekas | 2026-02-10 10:03:20+00:00
> Trying to recover my sanity after a year of complete executive function failure. Tech can lead you to places that will absolutely destroy you mentally and emotionally.

I know its hard to appreciate other people trying to give advice when your headspace is not there, but burnout is a very real thing. It sneaks up slowly when you keep thinking you can take on a little bit more, a little bit more and then all of a sudden it becomes overwhelming.

It's happened to me where I was having full panic attacks seemingly out of the blue and passing out on public transport.

The only advice I would say is to try to force yourself once a day to really step away from it for at least an hour, maybe two if you can, keep the time you do it regular so it becomes a habit and be okay with saying no.

Your mental health is way more important than any work. Hope things improve.
by Coeur | 2026-02-10 10:04:02+00:00
Note that the exact date in May has not yet been announced, but there is a hint: in all the videos and screenshots of displays the date and time is shown as "Mon 25 10:10".

Now when Ive was still at Apple, the first screenshots of iPhone showed a time of 9:42 because that was the time they expected when the device was first shown. And that time was placed in all the official PR images well in advance.

Extracting from that, a Monday the 25th could be the time we'll first see the full car. Going through all 25ths of each month this year, May is indeed the only month where it falls on a Monday, so it's probably the 25th of May.
by TomWhitwell | 2026-02-10 10:04:31+00:00
It’s not an exaggeration to say that every day of the year, from maybe noon to midnight, these buildings are surrounded by people enjoying the city - walking along the river, going to arts events, eating out, walking between offices. It’s a hugely popular free public resource that is a massive good for Londoners. Previously (not here but at other points on the river) the water front was private - accessible only to people inside buildings - or derelict, like the areas around Tate Modern and Tower Bridge. This is one of the most human and whatever the opposite of alienating spaces in London today.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-10 10:04:59+00:00
I’d treat agent “skills” the same way you’d treat running a random Docker image / npm package: the default stance should be distrust unless you’ve reviewed it or you trust the maintainer.

A few practical reasons people still install them:
- Many skills are thin wrappers around an API (small surface area) and are easy to audit.
- You can run OpenClaw with least-privilege: only enable the tools/skills you actually need, use throwaway API keys/accounts, and avoid giving it file/terminal access unless you’re comfortable with it.
- Isolation helps: run the gateway in a container/VM, separate user accounts, and keep secrets scoped per-skill.

Verification is nice, but the security model should assume skills can be malicious, and keep the blast radius small.
by skywhopper | 2026-02-10 10:05:33+00:00
Here’s a (low quality) blog post from 1 Password:
https://1password.com/blog/from-magic-to-malware-how-opencla...

And the HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898615

Better, earlier post from Cisco:
https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/personal-ai-agents-like-openclaw-...

Although, none of this is a surprise, as simonw has laid out.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-10 10:05:49+00:00
FWIW the RAM number varies a lot depending on what you enable.

If you’re mostly using OpenClaw as a “gateway + chat UI” that calls hosted model APIs, and you’re not running a headful browser / local models / heavy indexing, you can often get by with much less than 4GB.

Where it gets chunky is when each tenant has its own Chromium instance, lots of background workers, or you’re doing anything that keeps long-lived context/caches around. In a multi-tenant setup I’d start conservative, but it’s worth measuring with cgroup limits and seeing what your actual p95 looks like.
by Citizen_Lame | 2026-02-10 10:05:51+00:00
Reddit became popular largely because Digg alienated its user base with a 2010 redesign (Digg v4) that prioritised publisher-driven and sponsored content over organic, community-curated submissions, driving a mass exodus of users to Reddit practically overnight. So let's stick to facts.

Why do people make claims about stuff they clearly know nothing about.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-10 10:05:56+00:00
> If it’s completely impossible to even imagine what the answer to a question is, as is the case here, it’s probably the wrong question to pose. Is there any answer you’d be satisfied by?

I would be very satisfied to have an answer, or even just convincing heuristic arguments, for the following:

(1) What systems experience consciousness? For example, is a computer as conscious as a rock, as conscious as a human, or somewhere in between?
(2) What are the fundamental symmetries and invariants of consciousness? Does it impact consciousness whether a system is flipped in spacetime, skewed in spacetime, isomorphically recast in different physical media, etc.?
(3) What aspects of a system's organization give rise to different qualia? What does the possible parameter space (or set of possible dynamical traces, or what have you) of qualia look like?
(4) Is a consciousness a distinct entity, like some phase transition with a sharp boundary, or is there no fundamentally rigorous sense in which we can distinguish each and every consciousness in the universe?
(5) What explains the nature of phenomena like blindsight or split brain patients, where seemingly high-level recognition, coordination, and/or intent occurs in the absence of any conscious awareness? Generally, what behavior-affecting processes in our brains do and do not affect our conscious experience?

And so on. I imagine you'll take issue with all of these questions, perhaps saying that "consciousness" isn't well defined, or that an "explanation" can only refer to functional descriptions of physical matter, but I figured I would at least answer your question honestly.
by nicoco | 2026-02-10 10:05:58+00:00
It is used in a non-federated context as the underlying in a lot of places (NATO, Zoom, british Military, Grindr, Jisti…). Federated usage is mostly private chats that don't really want to advertise that they do use it. It is sad because public groups also just work, but I know clients are missing a few features that would improve usability/UX. Some people are working on that, cf https://movim.eu/ for instance.
by ben_w | 2026-02-10 10:06:14+00:00
Assuming he was ever sincere about how he'd "like to die on Mars, just not on impact", the SpaceX development cycle is to throw lots of cheap hardware at the problem to find problems quickly. "Quickly" isn't possible when the launch windows only come every two years. (Short journey times and always-open launch windows for returns are among the reasons that, if I had his wealth and influence, I'd have always gone for the Moon over Mars).

Honestly though, the lack of any visible progress with SpaceX-branded Sabatier machines already had me suspicious.
by tokai | 2026-02-10 10:07:07+00:00
>I'm not arguing for mindlessly building bigger accelerators, and I don't think anyone is

But you are and they are. Just by the comments here its clear that even suggesting not to use untold billions on maybe pushing theoretical physics a little forward is meet with scorn. The value proposition either, in knowledge or technology, is just not well argued anymore besides hand waving.
by mythz | 2026-02-10 10:07:16+00:00
Not sure how it works in other OS's but in Omarchy [1] you hold down `Super + Ctrl + X` to start recording and release it to stop, while it's recording you'll see a red voice recording icon in the top bar so it's clear when its recording.

Although as llms-py is a local web App I had to build my own visual indicator [2] which also displays a red microphone next to the prompt when it's recording. It also supports both Tap On/Off and hold down for recording modes. When using voxtype I'm just using the tool for transcription (i.e. not Omarchy OS-wide dictation feature) like:

$ voxtype transcribe /path/to/audio.wav

If you're interested the Python source code to support multiple voice transcription backends is at: [3]

[1] https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/107/ai

[2] https://llmspy.org/docs/features/voice-input

[3] https://github.com/ServiceStack/llms/blob/main/llms/extensio...
by bilekas | 2026-02-10 10:07:27+00:00
> I've had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they're finding building yet another feature with "just one more prompt" irresistible.

This is actually a really good point that I have kind of noticed when using AI for side project, so being on my own time. The allure of thinking "Oh I wonder how it will perform with this feature request if I give it this amount of info".

Can't say I would put off sleep for it but I get the sentiment for sure.
by jacques_morin | 2026-02-10 10:08:01+00:00
The Stanford prison experiment has been debunked many times : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/

- guards received instructions to be cruel from experimenters

- guards were not told they were subjects while prisoners were

- participants were not immersed in the simulation

- experimenters lied about reports from subjects.

Basically it is bad science and we can't conclude anything from it. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that top fortune-500 management have personality traits that make them more likely to engage in unethical behaviour, if only by selection through promotion by crushing others.
by fhd2 | 2026-02-10 10:08:03+00:00
I feel agentic development is a time sink.

Previously, I'd have an idea, sit on it for a while. In most cases, conclude it's not a good idea worth investing in. If I decided to invest, I'd think of a proper strategy to approach it.

With agentic development, I have an idea, waste a few hours chasing it, then switch to other work, often abandoning the thing entirely.

I still need to figure out how to deal with that, for now I just time box these sessions.

But I feel I'm trading thinking time for execution time, and understanding time for testing time. I'm not yet convinced I like those tradeoffs.

Edit: Just a clarification: I currently work in two modes, depending on the project. In some, I use agentic development. In most, I still do it "old school". That's what makes the side effects I'm noticing so surprising. Agentic development pulls me down rabbit holes and makes me loose the plot and focus. Traditional development doesn't, its side effects apparently keep me focused and in control.
by brazzy | 2026-02-10 10:08:17+00:00
> Yes, but we had hopes that it would lead to more. And had lead to more, something only known to be false in hindsight, who knows where that would have ended us up? What if it upended the standard model instead of reinforcing it?

Sure, but it didn't. Which is knowledge that really should factor into the decision to build the next, bigger one.

> What are we supposed to do then? As humans, I mean.

Invest the money and effort elsewhere, for now. There are many other fields of scientific exploration that are very likely to yield greater return (in knowledge and utility) for less. You could fund a hundred smaller but still substantial intiatives instead of one big accelerator. And be virtually guaranteed to have an exciting breakthrough in a few of them.

And who knows, maybe a breakthrough in material science or high-voltage electrophysics will substantially reduce the costs for a bigger particle accelerator?
by nader0913 | 2026-02-10 10:08:54+00:00
I am a Solo developer working on pluma.ink

Pluma is a blogging platform for people who want to write professional-looking articles with ease. It features a clean WYSIWYG editor, your own subdomain, and a distraction-free reading experience.
Our principles:

Simplicity over features — only what you need, nothing you don't
No ads — your readers see your words, not banners
Built to last — no trends, no bloat, just reliable publishing
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by adrian_b | 2026-02-10 10:09:21+00:00
The existing theories are extremely far from being good enough for practical purposes.

There exists a huge number of fundamental quantities that should be calculated from the parameters of the "standard model", but we cannot compute them, we can only measure them experimentally.

For instance, the masses and magnetic moments of the proton, of the neutron and of all other hadrons, the masses and magnetic moments of the nuclei, the energy spectra of nuclei, of atoms, of ions, of molecules, and so on.

The "standard model" can compute only things of negligible practical importance, like the statistical properties of the particle collisions that are performed at LHC.

It cannot compute anything of value for practical engineering. All semiconductor devices, lasers and any other devices where quantum physics matters are not designed using any consistent theory of quantum physics, but they are designed using models based on a great number of empirical parameters determined by measurement, for which quantum physics is only an inspiration for how the model should look like and not a base from which the model can be derived rigorously.
by JohnHammersley | 2026-02-10 10:10:02+00:00
This is such a well written story, and congratulations Ben, it sounds like it's been a lot of hard but ultimately successful work!

I know you'll deservedly get a lot of credit for all your work in remastering the game, but you should also get credit for how you've woven this narrative together, it's a lovely read. Thank you for taking the time to write it up, and good luck with the Steam release, and whatever project you take on next! :)
by nicoco | 2026-02-10 10:10:43+00:00
The targeted audience of this website is, for now, developers. Communicating is hard.

https://joinjabber.org/ is/was an attempt at something more user-focused. It is not linked to the XMPP Software Foundation. BTW, joining the XSF and participating in discussion around protocol evolution, communication strategy and these sort of things is free, and only requires asking for write permission on the XSF wiki to add an application page. Everything happens in the open (mailing lists, chat rooms). We value democratic processes.
by sevensor | 2026-02-10 10:10:59+00:00
IDE vim support suffers from three problems. First, performance. I have yet to try an IDE that can match the responsiveness of vim. You can obviously tank vim’s performance with plugins, but you don’t have to. Second: clutter. Modern displays are gigantic, and yet most IDE users don’t have more than 40 lines of code on the screen at a time. The rest is occupied by a file picker, command palette, integrated terminal, LLM chat interface, and so forth. You have to go to some effort to reclaim those pixels; big context is not yours by default. Third: uncanny valley effect. Vim implementation is usually incomplete, especially when it comes to ex-style colon-prefixed commands. It’s jarring to run into a spot where your muscle memory doesn’t work.

In short, IDE vim support does not measure up to the experience of using the real thing.
by rixed | 2026-02-10 10:12:28+00:00
Still working on my dream-network-monitoring-all-in-one tool (https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net)... that for now can displays only trace-route measurements, but I'm spending more time that I'd dare to admit working on the UI, which is not my strong point.

Still many things to add/polish before moving to the next planned measurements: estimates of buffering/serialization/transmission times, BGP flapping events, some weird conditions that I've noticed and would like to flag, and proper display of loops.

Will probably attempt another show-HN when I'm happy with that.
by mnw21cam | 2026-02-10 10:13:11+00:00
Carnot efficiency is 1 - Tc/Th, where Th is the hot side temperature and Tc is the cold side temperature. Tc is set by the surrounding environment, probably in the vicinity of 300K. If you have a hot side temperature around 1,000,000K then the theoretical maximum efficiency is very good. If that heat has to be stepped down by separating it from materials that would melt and you can only sustain a hot side temperature of 1200K, then your theoretical maximum efficiency drops to 75%. Obviously the real life efficiency will be a bit less than that, but the principle shows that the "lucky to get 1% efficiency" bit is nonsense - you're not actually losing that much after all.
by tombh | 2026-02-10 10:13:24+00:00
I see, thanks. So my thinking is that overly dark areas to the North are caused by _relatively_ low visibility. The heatmap is actually dynamically generated for every viewport. So I agree that there has to be some amazing view from those North faces, it's just that they are drowned out by the sheer enormity of the views on the South face.

If were to use absolute global values for the heatmap, then the Himalayas would just appear as pure, washed-out white.

Does that make sense?
by IanCal | 2026-02-10 10:13:29+00:00
A remarkable number of humans given really quite basic feedback will perform actions they know will very directly hurt or kill people.

There are a lot of critiques about quite how to interpret the results but in this context it’s pretty clear lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.

Start removing the harm one, two, three degrees and add personal incentives and is it that surprising if people violate ethical rules for kpis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
by Paracompact | 2026-02-10 10:13:32+00:00
Knowing how to build a brain is different from knowing whether that brain has consciousness in the sense that you or I do. The question of consciousness appears to demand new/orthogonal physics because according to our existing physics, there's no sense in which you or should "feel" any differently than a rock does, or a computer does, or Searle's room does, or a Chinese brain does, or the universe as a whole does, etc.