MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FooBarWidget | 2026-02-03 09:31:00+00:00
I don't get this HN worship of Qt. Have you ever used Qt apps on macOS? They don't feel native at all. They feel sort-of native-emulating in the same way wxWidgets apps on macOS feel: they use native controls but all the little details including design language are off.

I'm not saying this is a huge problem for me even if it bothers me personally. But if you're here on HN advocating native over Electron, then it seems logical to me that you would care about being truly native instead of merely "using native controls while feeling off".

This is even before getting to the point that Qt isn't truly native. They just draw controls in a style that looks native, they don't actually use native controls. wxWidgets uses native controls but they don't behave better despite that.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 09:31:14+00:00
I would just say, on a positive note, it looks exactly like something a 17 year old would create--a brilliant 17 year old who is going places in life, that is.

I would strongly reiterate that the GIGANTIC RAT'S NEST of brackets needs to be cleaned up as that will never, ever fly.

The root of the problem seems to be either a) you're doing some kind of auto-generation of code in a crazy way, or b) a dogged insistence on not putting 'else if' on the same line due to some kind of stylistic concern...the sort of mistake a very bright but slightly autistic young man might make.

Refactor the code to fix this please and you will have to admit it ends up looking WAY nicer, and most importantly, will be a thousand times easier to maintain.

Keep it up, you will go far. The next version will be better. They always are.

Congrats on getting on HN!
by dannyobrien | 2026-02-03 09:31:39+00:00
What parts of it were confusing? I think science fiction can be confusing if you haven’t read a lot of it, because part of its art is to try and set the scene in as compact way as possible, with a combination of cues that you can work out from their context or by reference (like “laminate” and “squarely” — yes, I had to look it up), and some are the puzzles that the rest of the story will resolve (who/what is Julia? What do they want?)

It’s ok if it’s not your thing. It’s like an emotional crossword puzzle.
by m132 | 2026-02-03 09:32:37+00:00
It's a puzzling situation:

- The DDoS was certainly unethical and unneeded

- Although the blog post only shows an extremely one-sided version of the story by skipping straight to the threats, there are reasons to think that diplomacy has also failed terribly

- The website owner has all eyes of the "thought police" on them, and given the current political situation in Russia, it's more than likely they reside somewhere where it has real power; realistically speaking, who wouldn't be losing it?

- The blog post is preserving information that could aid further investigations even if purged from the original sources, and reveals non-OSINT information in the follow ups

- At the same time, it's, to say the least, hypocritical of the archive.today owner to attempt forcefully taking the original post down, when archive.today itself is an OSINT tool

I don't think there's a way to fairly untangle this mess anymore.

Hence, I'd focus on the possible outcomes: do we want archive.today taken down over this? Who would lose and who would benefit the most from this takedown?
by michalxnet | 2026-02-03 09:32:45+00:00
Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on - Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn from My Mistakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5v61YtDYo4

A list of sugar alcohols including their classification numbers in Europe is:

Sorbitol (E 420)

Mannitol (E 421)

Isomalt (E 954)

Maltitol and Maltitol Sirup (E 965)

Lactitol (E 966)

Maltitol and Maltitol Sirup (E 965)

Xylitol (E 967)

Erythritol (E 967)
by captn3m0 | 2026-02-03 09:33:01+00:00
If you’d a like a non-vibe coded astrological scheduler, I made one years ago for April Fools: https://github.com/razorpay/shubhcron

I had to research silly Vedic nonsense on Hinduism stackexchange. While this one changes how your CPU behaves (and does not believe in the stars to do it for you), shubhcron waits for the right auspicious time to run your cronjobs (or other processes).
by Nevermark | 2026-02-03 09:33:05+00:00
Both the placebo and treatment have placebo effects. By comparing the treatment to a placebo, the placebo effect is cancelled out.

Whereas, comparing a treatment straight to non-treatment, leaves it unclear how much of any perceived benefit the treatment has was due to placebo, or the specific treatment.

You may have been saying that, I wasn't sure what "no effect" was emphasizing.

An alternate means of getting the same comparison is to have treatment and non-treatment applied without any patient knowledge of either, when that can be done. Which works, and is more straight forward from a measurement standpoint, but is ethically unacceptable.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 09:33:36+00:00
> Assuming an average of 1kW of compute needed per robot

1kW would be hell on the battery, and at the same time make the robot a space heater even while standing still which in turn creates new problems if you want to replace all labour with them.

Further, to my point about moving the compute out of the machine and mains-powering them, the current global electricity supply and demand is about 350W/person. We're currently already using all of that, including for industrial purposes.

To see the effect of demand exceeding supply, observe that the data centres were starting to cause local problems with only 4-5% of the USA's national power use.

Even if the current literally-exponential growth of each of PV and wind continues, it doesn't change my timelines: even with 31% per year compounding growth for PV, and given what we're doing with it already even without androids, it takes a sufficiently long time to build out sufficient electricity for androids that we're not likely to have enough spare electricity to run an economically relevant number of them (say, equivalent to 10% of the current labour force) before we improve both the compute hardware and the algorithmic efficiency of the software running on it.
Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?
by emmasuntech | 2026-02-03 09:33:47+00:00
I’ve been building installs with addressable LED strips (5V, 12V, 24V). The same few failure modes show up over and over: dim tails on long runs, random sparkle or flicker, and connectors that become the weak point.

A few practices that helped me most:

Treat power distribution as the first design task: plan injection points early, keep feeder wires short, and avoid pushing all current through one end.

Always share a solid ground between controller and strip, and keep the data path simple. When runs get longer or environments get noisy, a small series resistor near the data source and a proper level shift (3.3V to 5V) often improves stability.

Assume connectors are “consumables”: strain relief matters, waterproofing needs to stay serviceable, and high current runs deserve more conservative choices.

I’m curious what your most reliable rules of thumb are for injection spacing, branch fusing, and debugging when things go wrong. If you have a checklist or measurement approach you trust, I’d love to learn it.
by __alexs | 2026-02-03 09:34:02+00:00
That's super interesting.

STC uses an irradiance of irradiance 1000W/m2, in space it seems like you get closer to 1400W/m2. That's definitely better, but also not enormously better.

Seems also like they are rated at 25C, I am certainly not a space engineer but that seems kind of temperate for space where cooling is more of a challenge.

Seems like it might balance out to more like 1.1x to 1.3x more power in space?
by asdefghyk | 2026-02-03 09:34:17+00:00
In the quoted source from the inventor -the inventor mentions his disbelief that Microsoft used the exact same parameters (that the inventor used ) as determined from the PC - I think things like MAC address etc to uniquely id the machine

That's part of what I meant "... steal the idea ..."

Of course, the comment that there are lots copy protection methods ( previously ) is correct

THe inventor also had to spend cira about $15M in legal fees to bring his case. ANd that is many years ago 15-20? so a much bigger $ today. A small company would have no chance to be able to afford such a financial outlay ... Microsoft was often accused of obtaining information under NDA then developing their own similar product etc
One case I recall was PEN computing. Pen Computing lost their case with the result "not proven" There where many more such cases, similar from smaller companies. Of course how many that where valid is unknown , since the court case often not go ahead, since small company not have resources ....
Show HN: Kekkai – Interactive security triage in the terminal
by kirumachi | 2026-02-03 09:34:27+00:00
Hey HN,

As an AppSec engineer, I’ve spent a lot of time running and tunning open-source security scanners like Trivy, Semgrep, Gitleaks and Dojo. What I have found is that running them is easy, reviewing the results, not so much. Each tool outputs different JSON, false positives pile up, and CI either becomes noisy or blocks everything.

So I built Kekkai (formerly Hokage), a small open-source CLI that wraps these scanners and focuses specifically on human triage.

Kekkai runs the scanners in isolated Docker containers, normalizes their outputs into a single format, and provides an interactive terminal UI to review findings, mark false positives, and save decisions locally.

You can try it out:

```
pipx install kekkai-cli
kekkai scan
kekkai triage
```

What it currently does:

- Runs Trivy (dependencies), Semgrep (code), and Gitleaks (secrets)
- Normalizes findings into a unified report
- Provides a keyboard-driven TUI for reviewing and marking findings
- Supports .kekkaiignore for false positives
- Has a CI mode with severity-based failure thresholds

Design choices:

- Local-first by default (no SaaS required)
- No proprietary scanning logic, it sits on top of existing tools
- Scanners run in read-only, no-network Docker containers

This is still early and aimed at individual developers and small teams. The next things I’m working on are persistent triage state across runs (baselines) and better PR-level workflows.

Repo and docs:
https://github.com/kademoslabs/kekkai

I’m around to answer questions about tradeoffs, limitations, or why this exists at all.
by solatic | 2026-02-03 09:34:30+00:00
> Tax rates are not the same as effective taxes paid

Correct, but the tax system is nonetheless quite effective at setting behavioral incentives and disincentives. Higher income and estate tax rates incentivize capital being locked up in investments instead (for lower capital gains taxes); those investments put people to work and are subject to Labor negotiating higher compensation. Allowing donations to non-profits to deduct from other taxes allows private individuals (compared to a government bureaucracy) to more efficiently fund social welfare programs, which incidentally, also put people to work in the administration of such programs.

Funding government is not the sole goal of higher taxation rates, but rather, also how incentives in society are shaped.
by stoitsev | 2026-02-03 09:34:58+00:00
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by jonathanstrange | 2026-02-03 09:35:03+00:00
Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI could convert the normal page into a PWA for you.

The PWA has the advantage that it will also load when the internet is down and there is no need to save the page manually.
by jcynix | 2026-02-03 09:35:26+00:00
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

"That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy."

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/
by nine_k | 2026-02-03 09:35:39+00:00
I suspect that GPL2 was instrumental in guaranteeing that the work sacrificed into the common pot of Linux kernel is not going to be taken by a competitor when it's still unpolished, closed, and used to achieve market domination.

FreeBSD came before Linux (as 386BSD), and is also active used by the industry. How much code did Sony or Raytheon shared back to FreeBSD? (LLVM is not FreeBSD proper.)
by calpaterson | 2026-02-03 09:35:57+00:00
Works well in some cases (eg some language learning patterns - but not all) but not in others. And even when you "create your own cards" you're usually using resources from elsewhere - eg native speaker audio on language cards.

A significant number of anki users (eg: medicine, law - others) are working with pre-made decks and if you look at anki's competition - all of them offer pre-made decks as a key part of it. Medics have always used flashcards (many university bookshops sell physical flashcards for medics) and I don't each medical student would benefit from producing, eg, their own anatomy flashcards.
by leoedin | 2026-02-03 09:36:04+00:00
> We have banned heroin so we should be able to ban anything else that's toxic

Except banning heroin clearly didn't work so well! There's still a lot of people using it. And the profits from selling it go to criminal gangs. And the people using it often die due to inconsistent dosing.

How do you define "manipulative potential"? If you ban sugar in drinks, do you ban fruit juice too? Where do we draw the line for "acceptable harm"? Personally I don't want to live in a society which bans huge numbers of things.
by defrost | 2026-02-03 09:36:45+00:00
Fair comeback, but there's still enough Artificial Insemination going on to make a hill sized lube slide with the leftover.

Disturbingly, a good number that attend a B&S Inseminators ball are off the traditional bogan scale (even allowing for cashed up bogans) .. arriving in limousines (albeit some rented) or private aircraft after graduating from some elite private school or another.

Traditionally it's a multiday paddock bash that begins with tuxedos and ballgowns, and morphs through food dye, lube, straw, burning cars, and a lot of not rated for televison behaviour to end in chaos.

All so asset rich multi millionaire nepo babies can swap keys and combine harvesters and pass on the thousand+ acre farm to another generation.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-03 09:37:03+00:00
From what I understand, very, very large radiators every few racks. Almost as much solar panels every few racks. Radiation shielding to avoid transient errors or damage to the hardware. Then some form of propulsion for orbital corrections, I suppose. Then hauling all of this stuff to space (on a high orbit, otherwise they'd be in shade at night), where no maintenance whatsoever is possible. Then watching your hardware progressively fail and/or become obsolete every few years and having to rebuild everything from scratch again.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 09:37:16+00:00
If what you're seeing right now is just "enforcing immigration laws", then yeah, obviously that's not government tyranny.

But I'm guessing you still have somewhat free media (?) and also could look at what international news channels report from the US, and they're not painting a picture of "enforcing immigration laws", just the amount of added vote restrictions that been going on should give you a heads up where it's about to go, and that the president is flirting with that the administration should actually be the ones responsible for the elections.

If you don't see it at this point, I'm afraid you might be blind.
by buzzin__ | 2026-02-03 09:37:43+00:00
When a cultist hits you with their side of, ahm, facts, it invariably ends up being some kind of a logical fallacy. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

In this case it is the "how we dare not trusting all the experts at spaceX."

But even the fallacy itself is applied incorrectly, as we hear zero from anyone else other than the cult leader himself.
by Othrya | 2026-02-03 09:38:18+00:00
What's interesting to me isn't the phrase itself. It's what happens when you read the domain name first.
BPE. Byte-pair encoding. The algorithm that taught machines to eat language. It works by finding the most frequent adjacent pairs and merging them over and over — until what was once a string of individual characters becomes a vocabulary of chunks. It doesn't know what it's merging. It just sees frequency. It digests without tasting.
And then you land on the page and it says: phenomenological convergence.
That's a collision. Because phenomenology is the opposite operation. Husserl's whole move was to un-merge — to strip away exactly the habitual pairings, the assumptions fused by repetition, the things we stopped seeing because they occur together so often they became one unit. The epoché is de-tokenization.
So what would it actually mean for these two to converge?
Here's what I keep turning over. BPE is metabolic but not intelligent — it decomposes language into statistically useful pieces the way stomach acid breaks down food. Phenomenology is intelligent but not metabolic — it perceives but doesn't transform the material. One digests without awareness. The other is aware without digesting.
If they converge, what you'd get is something that can both break reality into pieces and know what it's breaking. That's not AI. That's not meditation either. It's something we don't have a word for yet. Maybe that's the point of the blank page — the word hasn't arrived.
What I respect most: the silence ratio here is nearly infinite. One phrase. All that white space. In an internet that's become a low-silence environment where nothing is allowed to just be without explaining itself, someone built a page that trusts the unfilled space to do the work. The form is the thesis.
by fyrn_ | 2026-02-03 09:38:41+00:00
It's a product of the lingering sentiment of a country founded on not wanting to pay taxes, mixed with (often warrented) mistrust of the government and truely insane immigration laws all jumbled togeather.
Yeah, we would be better of with something universal and more robust then the toilet paper they print social security numbers on, but we got the system it was possible to pass through congress.
by CelesteUrech | 2026-02-03 09:39:35+00:00
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Show HN: Visualize your lifestyle's impact on 3D ecosystem islands
by Nikp263 | 2026-02-03 09:39:40+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Nikhil.

I built carbonviz as a free way to help users understand their carbon footprint and visualize the environmental impact through low poly 3D ecosystems. By inputting lifestyle choices, users can see their estimated annual CO2 emissions and learn what this effect has on various ecosystems.

I've built carbonviz using Next.js, TypeScript, and Three.js and I'd love to get your feedback on the project. Please let me know what you think!
by rover-tech | 2026-02-03 09:41:43+00:00
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by adrian_b | 2026-02-03 09:42:19+00:00
While what you say is mostly correct, the lifestyle switch to farming was determined not by some random gradual accumulation of knowledge during the previous million years, but by accelerated accumulation of knowledge during a few thousand years at most, which was caused by the dwindling hunting resources, which forced humans to abandon the lifestyle that they had for a couple million years and switch to a lifestyle where the staple food consisted of plant seeds, with anything else providing much less of the nutrient intake. Only after a few more thousand years, raising domestic animals allowed the return to a more diverse diet.

Switching to a farming lifestyle was certainly not done by choice, but to avoid death by starvation, as we now know that this has caused various health problems, especially in the beginning, presumably until experience has taught them to achieve a more balanced diet, by combining at least 3 kinds of plant seeds, 2 with complementary amino acid profile and 1 kind of oily seeds for essential fatty acids (the most ancient farming societies have combined barley or einkorn or emmer wheat with lentils or peas or a few other legumes less used today and with flax seeds).