MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnfong | 2026-02-05 02:09:16+00:00
> Heck look at /r/locallama/ There is a reason its entirely Nvidia.

That's simply not true. NVidia may be relatively popular, but people use all sorts of hardware there. Just a random couple of recent self-reported hardware from comments:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qw15gl/comment...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qw0ogw/analysi...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qvwi21/need_he...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qvvf8y/demysti...
by anitil | 2026-02-05 02:09:34+00:00
This is a really interesting way of distributing binary executables. I don't think I'd quite put all the pieces together that it could be done this way, with python just acting as a thing layer over the executable itself.

I feel like this pattern opens up more possibilities but I can't quite work out what they would be.

Edit: Simon links to a page talking about using python/pip to install a C compiler for any platform [0]

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/23/bundling-binary-tools-...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-05 02:10:02+00:00
> but finding myself asking Sonnet to rewrite 90% of the code GLM was giving me. At some point I was like "what the hell am I doing" and just switched.

This is a very common sequence of events.

The frontier hosted models are so much better than everything else that it's not worth messing around with anything lesser if doing this professionally. The $20/month plans go a long way if context is managed carefully. For a professional developer or consultant, the $200/month plan is peanuts relative to compensation.
by JimDabell | 2026-02-05 02:10:34+00:00
An agent that runs things in remote sandboxes to set things up doesn’t really fit with Infrastructure as Code.

Lately I have been setting up Pulumi stacks in ephemeral AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations and working on a Kubernetes cluster locally with Tilt. So far, Claude is pretty good with those things. It seems to have pretty good knowledge of Pulumi, basic knowledge of Tilt, and good knowledge of Kubernetes. It’s a little out of date on some things and needs reminding to RTFM, but it can get a lot done by itself. If it were a real point of friction, a cheat sheet (sorry, “skill”) would be enough to solve the majority of issues.

The example you provide seems to be more along the lines of SSHing into remote boxes and setting things up manually. That’s not really helpful when you want to work on repeatable infra. You try to distinguish yourself from generating Terraform etc., but actually that’s what’s valuable in my experience.
Show HN: Zetoe – Instant AI actions for any selected text
by prince_singh | 2026-02-05 02:11:08+00:00
Hi HN — I’m building Zetoe to make AI feel like a native part of the web.

Zetoe adds a small blue action bubble whenever you select text on a webpage. From that bubble, you can instantly run AI actions on the selected text — without switching tabs or copying anything.

The goal is simple: instant AI actions for any selected text.

Current actions include:

- Ask AI about the selected text

- One-click summaries

- Instant translations

- In-context fact checking

- Smart form autofill

I built this because my own workflow kept breaking due to constant context switching between tools. The selection-based bubble felt like the lowest-friction way to keep everything in place.

It’s still early (~60 users), and I’m actively iterating on UX and reliability. I’d really value feedback on:

Whether the bubble interaction feels natural

What actions you’d want available on selection

Where this helps (or hurts) your flow

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/zetoe/mfcncdeeeekkj...

Website:https://zetoe.com

Happy to answer questions or share more about how it’s built.
by ejoso | 2026-02-05 02:11:45+00:00
In that list of Apple products that you own, do none of them match the ops comment? You’re saying none of those products are or have been in their time in the market a perfected version of other things?

There are lots of failed products in nearly every company’s portfolio.

AirTags were mentioned elsewhere, but I can think of others too. Perfected might be too fuzzy & subjective a term though.
by atonse | 2026-02-05 02:12:04+00:00
My point is that why were they picking a candidate to begin with, even before Bezos got involved. Why wasn’t that the thing that annoyed people?

I don’t like the idea of a paper taking sides (even if, in this case, their endorsement aligned with my side).

It seems antithetical to the ideas of independent and non-partisan journalism.
by slg | 2026-02-05 02:13:09+00:00
Maybe in the philosophical sense in that this is what their vote wrought, but there is absolutely no way to conclude that people wanted their institutions dismantled. The number of Americans who voted for Donald Trump was nearly identical in 2020 and 2024 once we compensate for population growth (22.4% of the population vs 22.7%). Anyone making drastic conclusions on the will of the people is just making something up whether they are conscious of that or not.
by notatoad | 2026-02-05 02:14:19+00:00
this seems obviously true, but at the same time very very wrong. openclaw / moltbot / whatever it's called today is essentially a thought experiment of "what happens if we just ignore all that silly safety stuff"

which obviously apple can't do. only an indie dev launching a project with an obvious copyright violation in the name can get away with that sort of recklessness. it's super fun, but saying apple should do it now is ridiculous. this is where apple should get to eventually, once they figure out all the hard problems that moltbot simply ignores by doing the most dangerous thing possible at every opportunity.
by bronco21016 | 2026-02-05 02:15:45+00:00
If you’re heavily invested in Apple apps (iMessage/Calendar/Reminders/Notes), you need a Mac to give the agent tools to interact with these apps. I think that combined with the form factor, price, and power consumption, makes it an ideal candidate.

If you’re heavily invested in Windows, then you’d probably go for a small x86 PC.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-05 02:16:02+00:00
I think a lot of people have been spoiled (beneficially) by using large, professionally-run SaaS services where your only serious security concerns were keeping your credentials secret, and mitigating the downstream effects of data breaches. I could see having a fundamentally different understanding of security having only experienced that.

What people are talking about doing with OpenClaw I find absolutely insane.
by andai | 2026-02-05 02:16:50+00:00
The $20 one, but it's hobby use for me, would probably need the $200 one if I was full time. Ran into the 5 hour limit in like 30 minutes the other day.

I've also been testing OpenClaw. It burned 8M tokens during my half hour of testing, which would have been like $50 with Opus on the API. (Which is why everyone was using it with the sub, until Anthropic apparently banned that.)

I was using GLM on Cerebras instead, so it was only $10 per half hour ;) Tried to get their Coding plan ("unlimited" for $50/mo) but sold out...

(My fallback is I got a whole year of GLM from ZAI for $20 for the year, it's just a bit too slow for interactive use.)
by mi_lk | 2026-02-05 02:18:06+00:00
your daily Streisand effect:

* https://youtu.be/FBSam25u8O4

* https://youtu.be/De-_wQpKw0s

* https://youtu.be/kQRu7DdTTVA

* https://youtu.be/3sVD3aG_azw

Hope the dude is ok, can't imagine getting so offended by these ads
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-05 02:18:12+00:00
After having spent a few days with OpenClaw I have to say it’s about the worst software I’ve worked with ever. Everyone focused on the security flaws but the software itself is barely coherent. It’s like Moltbook wrote OpenClaw wrote Moltbook in some insidious wiggum loop from hell with no guard rails. The commit rate on the project reflects this.
by ece | 2026-02-05 02:18:49+00:00
Your eye is just another input source, if you don't feel the controller lag from streaming games otherwise, you're probably not going to feel it here either. It's not like an additional round trip or anything, your eye is here and the joystick is here can be sent at the same time, and you get back the rendered frame in return.

As for peripheral vision, any gradation being smooth probably helps, but there might be more tricks to make it look normal. I'm reminded of how jpeg images and some sound codecs only store information that we can actually perceive.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-05 02:19:11+00:00
Their software efforts have little ambition. Tweaks and improvements are always a good idea, but without some ambitious effort, nothing special is learned or achieved.

A "bicycle for the mind" got replaced with a "kiosk for your pocketbook".

The Vision Pro has an amazing interface, but it's set up as a place to rent videos and buy throwaway novelty iPad-style apps. It allows you to import a Mac screen as a single window, instead of expanding the Mac interface, with its Mac power and flexibility, into the spacial world.

Great hardware. Interesting, but locked down software.

If Tim Cook wanted to leave a real legacy product, it should have been a Vision Pro aimed as an upgrade on the Mac interface and productivity. Apple's new highest end interface/device for the future. Not another mid/low-capability iPad type device. So close. So far.

$3500 for an enforced toy. (And I say all this as someone who still uses it with my Mac, but despairs at the lack of software vision.)
by alanh | 2026-02-05 02:21:15+00:00
Apparently I can’t attach a cover letter, but I think I might be a better fit than might be obvious from my résumé. I do tend to "think like a product owner" (to quote the job desc) and love learning new tech on the job; I have been a React fan since 2014; and I know a dozen languages, so picking up Golang sounds fun. I am a design-thinking engineer who can also write: https://alanhogan.com/blog
by maxglute | 2026-02-05 02:21:48+00:00
Settlement is leading indicator / proxy of trust. The point is countries trust in PRC running financial pipes is increasing, because vs US/EU, PRC simply look more responsible.

USD treasury isn't great now AND trending towards bag holding catastrophic "our dollar your problem" depending on debasement velocity. Hence central banks ditching dollar for gold etc... it's still currently better than other options in the sense that no other options really exist except metals with no counter party risk. More this happens the more exorbitant and less privilege USD becomes, the worse it serves as reserve, the more opening for alternatives. This where PRC eventually comes in, i.e. recent reserve talk is for eventuality not hand off. In the meantime they are banking on USD being not great, and getting worse. Which increases rates -> increase debt finance / servicing cost. The system is getting worse for everyone, including US. Don't underestimate watching US debt servicing growing from 1T to 2T in a few years when US realizes exorbitant reserve currency without privilege is not worth maintaining. Waiting for US to recognize USD reserve isn't great for US is part of the transition.
by kernelvoid | 2026-02-05 02:22:03+00:00
Transparent answer about bunqueue's architecture.

Current state: bunqueue is single-server with SQLite persistence.

If the server goes down for 5 minutes, clients cannot push/pull during that window. However: the client SDK has automatic reconnection with exponential backoff + jitter, all data is safe on disk (SQLite WAL mode), and on restart active jobs are detected as stalled and re-queued automatically. Delayed/scheduled jobs resume from their run_at timestamps.

For your use case (100k+ scheduled jobs, low throughput): well-optimized. We use MinHeap + SQLite indexes for O(k) refresh where k = jobs becoming ready, not O(n) scan.

What bunqueue does NOT have today: no clustering, no multi-instance with shared state, no automatic failover, no replication.

What it does have: S3 automated backups (compressed, checksummed) for disaster recovery. A "durable: true" option for zero data loss on critical jobs. Zero external dependencies.

Roadmap: HA is something we're actively working toward. Native HA with leader election and replication. Managed cloud offering with automatic failover and geographic distribution.

Bottom line: if you need true HA today, BullMQ + Redis Sentinel/Cluster is the safer choice. bunqueue is for when you want simplicity, high performance (~100k jobs/sec), and can tolerate brief downtime with automatic recovery.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-05 02:22:11+00:00
> I don't think vibe-coding will replace anything. However, what if AI tools can make skilled developers more productive, particularly at simple tasks in unfamiliar environments?

That's not good enough.

Now that the world has successfully laughed off the "our models are so good they're superintelligent" AGI claims, AI companies and investors have moved on to the "our models are so good they're going to do all your workers' jobs" angle.

The insane investment is for AGI/total job replacement, not developer productivity tools. We are going to be sold pie-in-the-sky claims for a long time until the world wisens up to this rhetoric the same way we did with AGI nonsense.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-05 02:22:30+00:00
> Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.

But they are paying, aren't they?

Advertisements don't generate money from thin air. Advertisements cause people to spend money they otherwise would not have spent. That's why companies buy ads in the first place.

And if you're showing ads to poor people, you're probably causing them to spend money they don't have.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-05 02:22:53+00:00
What I find deeply troubling is that, from people I know, Microsoft is making it harder to use any other AI tool in the enterprise. Copilot operates like a computer virus where you can only use it for AI or you will be fired. It's really frustrating to hear about people I know when they can't do basic things with AI and their organizational policy changes it day-by-day in order to get the numbers up for Copilot. Their basic workflows involving PyTorch or Sklearn are being kneecapped and it's getting worse. Microsoft is becoming a huge liability for AI professionals that I know of.
by gregjor | 2026-02-05 02:23:03+00:00
@dang I appreciate the tireless and thankless work you do in HN, sincerely, but I don't always agree.

> Don't be curmudgeonly.

I feel flattered to get identified as a curmudgeon in company with Socrates, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, and George Carlin. I might take offense at the implicit ageism but at my age I roll with it. HN teems with unchallenged insults directed at the elderly, grating on us old people, but in line with the HN demographic.

> Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

No one can "be" those things since that implies an identity. One can write in a negative tone. Accusations of rigidity and genericity would require a large sample. No one who knows me would describe me as "rigid or generically negative" so I will let that go as an ignorant judgment.

> please don't cross into personal attack.

Refuting the OP's claims can't count as personal attack, unless we hollow out all argument and rhetoric. I apologize for the Adderall comment, should have left that out.

> That is in no way allowed here.

Ironic given the personal nature of the moderator scolding, attacking my age and identity by telling me what not to "be."
by mvkel | 2026-02-05 02:23:13+00:00
> We are certainly closer now to being able to prototype and go to market faster with a product

Absolutely. But this begs the question that businesses want to also sign up to maintain whatever product they've built, on top of their core business.

"Service" is the word that people seem to be forgetting in SaaS. If you roll you own, all you have is software.
by defrost | 2026-02-05 02:23:42+00:00
You appear to be trying to fish a response about a throwaway teaser from two weeks ago.

I know zip about the back story here, but I and many can appreciate that two weeks is bugger all when there are a lot of balls in the air and these guys will no doubt say more when they have more .. or not if it goes nowhere.

Stick a pin in your calendar and circle back in one or six months.
by DannyBee | 2026-02-05 02:24:10+00:00
Lawyer here - let me try to help.

This is an area that seems to confuse a lot of people because of what the 5th amendment says and doesn't say.

The reason they can't force you to unlock your phone is not because your phone contains evidence of stuff. They have a warrant to get that evidence. You do not have a right to prevent them from getting it just because it's yours. Most evidence is self-incriminating in this way - if you have a murder weapon in your pocket with blood on it, and the police lawfully stop you and take it, you really are incriminating yourself in one sense by giving it to them, but not in the 5th amendment sense.

The right against self-incrimination is mostly about being forced to give testimonial evidence against yourself. That is, it's mostly about you being forced to testify against yourself under oath, or otherwise give evidence that is testimonial in nature against yourself. In the case of passwords, courts often view it now as you being forced to disclose the contents of your mind (IE live testify against yourself) and equally important, even if not live testimony against yourself, it testimonially proves that you have access to the phone (more on this in a second). Biometrics are a weird state, with some courts finding it like passwords/pins, and some finding it just a physical fact with no testimonial component at all other than proving your ability to access.

The foregone conclusion part comes into play because, excluding being forced to disclose the contents of your mind for a second, the testimonial evidence you are being forced to give when you unlock a phone is that you have access to the phone. If they can already prove it's your phone or that you have access to it, then unlocking it does not matter from a testimonial standpoint, and courts will often require you to do so in the jurisdictions that don't consider any other part of unlocking to be testimonial.
(Similarly, if they can't prove you have access to the phone, and whether you have access to the phone or not matters to the case in a material way, they generally will not be able to force you to unlock it or try to unlock it because it woudl be a 5th amendment violation).

Hope this helps.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-02-05 02:24:28+00:00
> Will Steam Frame support other streaming services?
>SteamOS has a built-in browser, and we expect streaming services to work in a theatrical browser mode.

Does this mean they're actually bringing a touch/controller friendly browser tab to SteamOS finally? (Yes, i know about the decky browser plugin)

Since there's not enough info on the steam controller release date, does anyone know how well the PS5/PS4/Clone controllers with trackpad work with the steam os ui?
by andai | 2026-02-05 02:25:39+00:00
> So the tradeoffs involved are not only about developer time vs. performance, but also correctness.

The "now that producing plausible code is free, verification becomes the bottleneck" people are technically right, of course, but I think they're missing the context that very few projects cared much about correctness to begin with.

The biggest headache I can see right now is just the humans keeping track of all the new code, because it arrives faster than they can digest it.

But I guess "let go of the need to even look at the code" "solves" that problem, for many projects... Strange times!

For example -- someone correct me if I'm wrong -- OpenClaw was itself almost entirely written by AI, and the developer bragged about not reading the code. If anything, in this niche, that actually helped the project's success, rather than harming it.

(In the case of Windows 11 recently.. not so much ;)
by DannyBee | 2026-02-05 02:26:17+00:00
Unlocking/forced unlocking is not a 4th amendment issue, but a 5th amendment one.

The 4th amendment would protect you from them seizing your phone in the first place for no good reason, but would not protect you from them seizing your phone if they believe it has evidence of a crime.

Regardless, it is not the thing that protects you (or doesn't, depending) from having to give or otherwise type in your passcode/pin/fingerprint/etc.
by R_Man77 | 2026-02-05 02:26:24+00:00
I am far from a SamA stan, but this line was pretty good a zinger:

"More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.)"

Why the incumbent BigCo AI CEO -- who has more Texans using their product than apparently Claude's entire US userbase -- needs to or rather is choosing to be using zingers to make a rebuttal about a competitor's ads is much more interesting than the content of the message itself... which is mostly corporate feelgood slop.

Is OpenAI's runway actually as bad as the doomers like Ed Zitron think it is? Is OpenAI's deal with NVIDIA actually on ice? Are they seeing something in the subscription data that is troubling? Maybe it's nothing and SamA just felt like doing some dunking on twitter today. Or maybe the stress levels around running openAI have increased.

I previously thought OpenAI was going to be fine and the doomers were wrong. I still think the race is theirs to lose since they have very strong branding and userbase right now. But this is a very weak signal that gives me more pause about OpenAI's future than any of the doomsayer articles have.

I give a slightly higher weight to my psychoanalysis of the company's CEO's actions because none of the doomer articles have access to material nonpublic information or company internals to truly opine on the financial health of a multibillion dollar enterprise.
by lathiat | 2026-02-05 02:26:38+00:00
Back in the day (MySQL 5.0-5.5 era, when I was working at MySQL/Sun/Oracle in the MySQL support team) the MySQL documentation team was truly amazing and sets the standard for me even today compared to many other docs teams I see.

They had a very long and comprehensive manual. The manual on each page inter-linked easily to switch between the relevant page for different major versions with a dropdown version selector (3.x, 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5..etc).. and if a page had moved or didn't exist it always accurately redirect to the correct page as you did that switch.

And almost every single engineering change that ever mattered to me made it into the changelog and also had relevant docs. I could largely rely on it and didn't need "git log" like I mostly need today to figure out what changed in a version.

Partly this was process, every closed bug/change went to the docs team to process.. but the team was also fantastic and converting that into relevant docs and writing great docs.

A shame if that has been lost, they did have a stack of layoffs recently in MySQL.. apparently the developer team is also heavily down from where it was. I am sure this writing is a little biased but interesting reading never the less:
https://mariadb.org/reading-the-room-what-europes-mysql-comm...
by mvkel | 2026-02-05 02:26:45+00:00
Seems short-sighted to commit to not running ads exactly like OpenAI plans to. You win in the court of public opinion for a few months, then look like a hypocrite when you're inevitably forced to run ads because your investors demand it. Sort of like how safetyism was convenient marketing until it became clear that it was revenue repellant and they quietly walked it away.