MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2026-02-14 06:44:41+00:00
Because they only got there first time around because of Kennedy's promise after he was shot.

It didn't take a moon landing to win the Space Race - by that point Soviets already exhausted their potential gained by surprise and trophy German tech, and stopped trying.

It didn't solve any scientific or exploration goals because by 1969 it was abundantly clear (unlike in 1961) that there's nothing to do for people in the Solar System - U.S. Mariner and Soviet Venera probes proved that it was sterile and incapable of supporting life. And lunar flights were seen as a precursor and ways to debug tech for future missions to Mars and Venus - that were not to happen.

Progress in computers, automation and sensors turned out to be so much faster than anticipated that by 1969, while it wasn't yet possible, it was clear that tech that will enable same or better scientific results on the moon but without people, was just a few years away - it never happened on the Moon simply because that job was done by Apollo - just at much higher cost and risk.

CCD camera was invented in 1969 and it was the final nail in the coffin of Lunar exploration, making the "Lunar telescope" a totally laughable plan. Just imagine, in 1961 they anticipated people flying there and back to collect photographic plates or film from the automated telescope - which as they presumed, had to be there because stabilisation of attitude in orbit with precision necessary to make astrophotos, was impossible and it had to stand at firm ground! Needless to say, by 1969, it was possible and sensors to replace film existed too, and Hubble Space Telescope project started in 1969 itself.

Manned spaceflight is a waste of resources and only continues to exist because of institutional inertia.
by wcfrobert | 2026-02-14 06:45:34+00:00
This is hilarious. Reminds me of the commandments revisions in animal farm.

No animal shall sleep in a bed.
Revision: No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.

No animal shall drink alcohol.
Revision: No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.

No animal shall kill any other animal.
Revision: No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.

All animals are equal.
Revision: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
by bitwize | 2026-02-14 06:45:43+00:00
An LLM can modify the code, rebuild and restart the next iteration, bring it up to a known state and run tests against that state before you've even finished typing in the code. It can do this over and over while you sleep. With the proper agentic loop it can even indeed inject code into a running application, test it, and unload it before injecting the next iteration. But there will be much less of a need for that kind of workflow. LLMs will probably just run in loops, standing up entire containers or Kubernetes pods with the latest changes, testing them, and tearing them down again to make room for the next iteration.

As for hallucinations, I believe those are like version 0 of the thing we call lateral thinking and creativity when humans manifest it. Hallucinations can be controlled and corrected for. And again—you really need to spend some time with the paid version of a frontier model because it is fundamentally different from what you've been conditioned to expect from generative AI. It is now analyzing and reasoning about code and coming back with good solutions to the problems you pose it.
by bombcar | 2026-02-14 06:45:46+00:00
We have exactly what you want - it's called shiplap or car siding.

It's wood that is nailed up in such a way that you can pretty easily remove and repair something and replace it.

However, inside wall things get done so rarely that the cost savings by using drywall more than covers paying someone to patch the drywall after a repair.

A middle ground is to run all utilities at the bottom or top of the wall, and use large baseboards/crown molding to cover it up.
by kerkeslager | 2026-02-14 06:45:52+00:00
Let's drop the charade where you pretend you don't know what advertising is. You're smarter than that, and your playing dumb act would be more persuasive if you didn't ask leading questions that clearly show you know the answers. This isn't a good faith argument.

I mean are you really asking whether creators embedding "sponsored by" scenes is an ad as if you don't know? C'mon, don't insult your readers with this nonsense.

HN commenters are not legislators, and even if random HN commenters can't draft legislation, that doesn't mean that a minimally-funded team of experts would have any difficulty with the problem.
by gherkinnn | 2026-02-14 06:45:55+00:00
How much of the big tech layoffs were because of over-hiring and, in some orgs at least, large numbers of employees "resting and vesting"? Elon took an axe to Twitter and his chums saw that it chugged along well enough so Google, Amazon and friends did the same.

I haven't seen the same firing sprees outside of FAANG and their wannabees.
by KingMob | 2026-02-14 06:45:58+00:00
IANAL, but the Polyform Project (https://polyformproject.org/) apparently are, and they drafted a suite of licenses for these purposes.

Also, I'm not sure how anathema AGPL is. It's true I rarely see AGPL projects being hosted by big clouds, but AGPL is also just less popular as a license. I know AWS hosts AGPL Grafana, but iirc, they had to work out some deal with upstream.
by zapzupnz | 2026-02-14 06:46:13+00:00
See, that makes sense to me. Build it all into one device, super simple, super clever.

For me who always uses a Magic Trackpad, doing gestures is the equivalent to holding down that wee button. So I think we see eye on eye on this.

It's the people who can't imagine that you'd ever have your hands away from the keyboard, so everything that could reasonably be done with a keyboard can and must be done with a keyboard, who get up my back.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-14 06:46:14+00:00
It is especially glaring in this case because, when queried, it is clear that far too many of the most zealous proponents don't even understand the simplest basics of how these models actually work (e.g. tokenization, positional or other encoding schemes, linear algebra, pre-training, basic input/output shaping/dimensions, recursive application, training data sources, etc).

There are simple limitations that follow from these basic facts (or which follow with e.g. extreme but not 100% certainty), such that many experts openly state that e.g. LLMs have serious limitations, but, still, despite all this, you get some very extreme claims about capabilities that are extremely hard to reconcile with these basic and indisputable facts.

That, and the massive investment and financial incentives means that the counter-reaction is really quite rational (but still potentially wrong).
by solatic | 2026-02-14 06:47:37+00:00
People who have difficulty on dating apps want to find a scapegoat, so they scapegoat the app.

The truth is that dating markets are lemon markets. People who are "dateable" tend to find success quickly, and people who are "not dateable" tend to stay on the market. Hence over time, the market will be dominated by "not dateable" people. No dating app on the planet will magically make you a "dateable" person.

To find success on dating apps, you have to work on yourself first, and only afterwards make sure that work shows through both in your profile and in your texting.

Source: was on the apps, undateable for eight years (depression and low self esteem), went to therapy, after making huge changes to my life and getting to a point where I felt like things were going well in everything but being single, a month later I found my girlfriend (now two years together).
Show HN: DevUtility Hub Source Code – 117 Tools in Next.js 15
by badboyshah | 2026-02-14 06:48:04+00:00
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by metadat | 2026-02-14 06:48:09+00:00
I have quantum fireball from 2000, so 26 years old, still going strong.

5 years doesn't seem that long for a drive that cost hundreds of dollars! Persistence is the point.

Just wondering why Seagate seems like the bottom of the barrel in the longevity department. Western Digital drives seem to fail a lot less frequently on average in this dataset and in my life experience.

To Seagate's credit, I do have 8x24TB drives that have been working fine for the past 4 years. Hopefully can last a few more until the compute hardware shortages pass.
by chrisandchris | 2026-02-14 06:48:25+00:00
By that logic, and looking at the data [1] you should come to the conclusion that one should remove the death penalty, because Europe has less homicides compared to the US and does not have a death penalty. So there are actually less murders without death penalty.

Obviously, that conclusion is flawed, because the data also shows otherwise in some countries I guess - and just using the death penalty as data point is useless. There are way more factors in play that lead to murder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Show HN: Scansprout – QR code generator I extracted from an art gallery project
by veryhungryhippo | 2026-02-14 06:48:55+00:00
I was working with an art gallery that wanted QR codes on their labels so visitors could scan to see more details about each painting, artist bio, purchase info, etc. The gallery also wanted to know which pieces were getting the most attention.

I built an internal tool for them and later extracted it out into Scansprout (https://www.scansprout.com).

It generates QR codes and tracks scans including location, device, time. You can see which codes are actually getting engagement vs. which are being ignored. For the gallery, this helped them understand visitor behavior and figure out which artists to feature more prominently.

Tech stack is Python (Django), Postgres, HTMX, Hyperscript. Hosted on Heroku. Happy to answer questions about the build or the tech stack. Would love your feedback :)
by conception | 2026-02-14 06:49:33+00:00
Season one it was a traditional adventure of the week style show that was popular at the time and before. because having a multi season story arc was unheard of and still more or less is today so the first season was traditional TV and only when mildly successful did it have the ability to spread its wings. and it did so so well that it forced other shows like DS9 to also have seasonal story arcs.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-14 06:49:50+00:00
Good article. Nice to get some counter arguments to the utopian/libertarian/dystopian world views that dominate the debate here normally. None of those views are new. You can go back hundreds of years and find very similar points of view as early as the the seventeenth century when modern science was born, early industrialism, pre and post WW-II, etc.

The real world is much more resilient and stubborn. The industrial revolution indeed wiped out a lot of jobs. But it created a lot more new ones. Agriculture and food production no longer is >90% of the economy. The utopian version of that (we all get free food) never happened. The dystyopian version (we'll all starve) didn't happen either. And the Luddite version (we'll all go back to artisanal farming) didn't happen either. What happened is that well fed laborers went to work doing completely different stuff. Subsistence farming now only exists in undeveloped countries and regions in e.g. rural Africa.

The simple reality is that we have 8 billion people probably growing towards 10 billion. These people are going to buy and spend stuff with their income. Whatever that is, is what the economy is and what we collectively value. If AI puts us all out of work, people aren't going to sit on their hands and go back to subsistence farming. They'll fill the time with whatever is is that they can create income with so they can spend it on things that are valuable to them.

This notion of value is what is key. Because if AI lowers the cost of something, it simply becomes cheaper. We need a lot of valuable and scarce resources to power AI. That isn't cheap. So, there's an equilibrium of stuff that is valuable enough to automate with it that people still want to pay for by committing their valuable resources to it. Which as they become scarcer become more valuable and more interesting from an economic point of view. The economy adapts towards activity that facilitates value creation. We're opportunists. It all boils down to what we can do for each other that is valuable and interesting to us. Whatever that is, is where there will be a lot of growth.

I'm in software, I'm not worried about less work. I'm worried about handling the barrage of stuff I don't have time to do that I now need to start worrying about doing. There's no way I'm going to do any of that without AI. It's already generating more work than I can handle. This isn't frivolous stuff that I don't need, it's stuff that's valuable to my company because we can sell it to other companies who need that stuff.
by hikkerl | 2026-02-14 06:50:13+00:00
You might found out the hard way that a lot of people say they want that, but very much want to avoid it.

The main allure of these apps to young women is all the attention from far more attractive men (relatively). Take that away - show her men who might be her "equal" in terms of marriageability, men who might be willing to commit to her - and your service will soon be dismissed and abandoned for only showing ugly men.

You need to sell the fantasy, sell the delusion. Sell hope. The reality hits too hard.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-14 06:52:40+00:00
> The maintainer should just open a new issue for RFC compliance himself since that's a pretty big issue and he obviously thinks OP spams too much.

Reading the issue tracker, why would he do that unless he could repro?

> Hi @feld , I can't really tell if this is related to the ticket that you pointed out. I'll be helping you with this issue as well as looking into the other ticket. Can you give me step by step instructions on how to reproduce what you are seeing? Please note that I have limitted experience with HAProxy and Erlang.

> ...

> I've successfully connected to the server with the examples/client/client and I cannot reproduce what you are seeing. I've built with both WOLFSSL_TLS13_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT defined and undefined.

He only gets a reply six months later!

This, I feel, clearly shows Feld's intentions - he wasn't interested in agetting it fixed, it was not a bug for him, but he was interested in spreading the word about it. i.e. To me, anyway, it looks like Feld is more interested in writing outrage-bait than getting a working product.

I've used WolfSSL in anger and the experience was much better than OpenSSL and AWS-lc.

Looking at the ticket itself, I consider the responses from the dev team to be pretty good support - better than some paid products I have used.
by debarshri | 2026-02-14 06:52:48+00:00
We do something similar in adaptive [1].

What you can also do is add frontend and backend user to the proxy and then agents won't ever get the actual db user and password. You can make it throwaway too as well as just in time if you want.

Traditionally it was database activity monitoring which kind of fell out of fashion, but i think it is going to be back with advent of agents.

[1] https://adaptive.live
by grunder_advice | 2026-02-14 06:52:51+00:00
I think dating apps are a flawed concept irrespective of profit motives. They reduce men to their appearance and the most overt displays of wealth. Then they line them up against the wall, and they ask women to pick who they like best... For the men among us who will be among the most handsome and wealthiest in any given room, it works really well.
by flanked-evergl | 2026-02-14 06:54:14+00:00
The people keeping housing prices high are the leftist that push regulations that make it impossible to build while importing immigrants who disproportionately use welfare and get starter loans which they then use to push up housing prices without contributing anything to the economy. If this is the "ownership class" I guess stop voting for leftist. But nobody does, they just keep doing it, and housing becomes even more unaffordable.
by fao_ | 2026-02-14 06:54:27+00:00
> Season one it was a traditional adventure of the week style show that was popular at the time and before. because having a multi season story arc was unheard of and still more or less is today so the first season was traditional TV and only when mildly successful did it have the ability to spread its wings. and it did so so well that it forced other shows like DS9 to also have seasonal story arcs.

Unfortunately incorrect! JMS had the entire plot and "bible" written out start to finish before the show was produced, and the show was approved based on that bible. It had all the room it planned for and needed at the start. There were even built-in "escape hatches" planned for if actors had to drop out (which happened to Michael O'Hare, unfortunately)
by matwood | 2026-02-14 06:54:31+00:00
> If a piece of software required a team of ten to people, and instead it's built with one engineer overseeing an AI, that's still 90% job loss.

Yes, but this assumes a finite amount of software that people and businesses need and want. Will AI be the first productivity increase where humanity says ‘now we have enough’? I’m skeptical.
by imiric | 2026-02-14 06:56:23+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree with what you said, but you're not taking a few things into account.

First of all, most people don't think critically, and may not even know how. They consume information provided to them, instinctively trust people they have a social, emotional, or political bond with, are easily persuaded, and rarely question the world around them. This is not surprising or a character flaw—it's deeply engrained in our psyche since birth. Some people learn the skill of critical thinking over time, and are able to do what you said, but this is not common. This ability can even be a detriment if taken too far in the other direction, which is how you get cynicism, misanthropy, conspiracy theories, etc. So it needs to be balanced well to be healthy.

Secondly, psychological manipulation is very effective. We've known this for millennia, but we really understood it in the past century from its military and industrial use. Propaganda and its cousin advertising work very well at large scales precisely because most people are easily persuaded. They don't need to influence everyone, but enough people to buy their product, or to change their thoughts and behavior to align with a particular agenda. So now that we have invented technology that most people can't function without, and made it incredibly addictive, it has become the perfect medium for psyops.

All of these things combined make it extremely difficult for anyone, including skeptics, to get a clear sense of reality. If most of your information sources are corrupt, you need to become an expert information sleuth, and possibly sacrifice modern conveniences and technology for it. Most people, even if capable, are unwilling to make that effort and sacrifice.
by pm90 | 2026-02-14 06:56:52+00:00
My gripe with grpc is that it doesn’t play super well with kubernetes services… you have to take a little bit of care, you need to understand how k8s services work and you have to understand how load balancing in grpc works. Ideally I would want to use protobuf as an interchange format, and a “dumb” http server that understands that.

That being said… once you do configure it properly it can be a powerful tool. The complexity though is usually not worth it unless you’re at a certain scale.
by jbonatakis | 2026-02-14 06:56:57+00:00
This is excellent. In the past when replicating via Debezium from a system making heavy use of cascade deletes I’ve had to write a layer that infers these deletes by introspecting the database schema, building a graph of all cascades (sometimes several layers) and identifying rows that should have corresponding delete records. These can then be excluded in whatever downstream system via an anti-join. It works but it will be better to not have to do that and instead have first class support for cascades.
by turtlebits | 2026-02-14 06:57:05+00:00
Drywall is pretty amazing, but I don't agree with all the points in the article.

It cheap to buy and cheap to install, easy to cut and installs fast. It's tolerant with imperfect walls and is surprisingly flexible. It can also be seamlessly repaired.

It can also act as a primary air barrier.

I do not like moisture resistant drywall, moisture control is more important as well as using proper materials in high humidity areas.
by chickensong | 2026-02-14 06:57:37+00:00
> This is an exaggeration intended to provoke.

No, I consider adding laws that ban a simple navigation technique as overreach and a reduction in freedom. To me it feels like banning candy bars because some people eat way too many candy bars. My intention wasn't to provoke, and you shouldn't make statements based off assumptions of someone else's thoughts. My intention is to point out that there's no one-size-fits-all solution, and that there are negatives associated with the top-down legal approach. I want to promote personal and societal responsibility instead of banning every harmful thing.

> This is hideous.

Yes, humans and life in general are filled with terrible things. Doom scrolling was created by us. We allow irresponsible and uncoordinated people to drive cars.

> You are very strongly implying that this is untrue.

So I'm lying because I don't think banning scrolling is the best solution? And you say I'm the one provoking... Have a nice day.
Context management is the real bottleneck in AI-assisted coding
by hoangnnguyen | 2026-02-14 06:58:16+00:00
After using Cursor and Claude Code daily, I’ve noticed that when an AI coding agent drifts or forgets constraints, we assume it’s a model limitation.

In many cases, it’s context management.

A few observations:
- Tokens are not just limits. They’re attention competition.
- Even before hitting the hard window limit, attention dilution happens.
- Coding tasks degrade faster than chat because of dependency density and multi-representation juggling (diffs, logs, tests).

I started managing context deliberately:
- Always write a contract
- Chunk sessions by intent
- Snapshot state and restart
- Prefer on-demand CLI instead of preloading large MCP responses

It dramatically improved the stability of the agent.

Curious how others are handling context optimization.