MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2026-02-02 01:23:49+00:00
The "upside" description:

On the other you have a non-technical executive who's got his head round Claude Code and can run e.g. Python locally.

I helped one recently almost one-shot converting a 30 sheet mind numbingly complicated Excel financial model to Python with Claude Code.

Once the model is in Python, you effectively have a data science team in your pocket with Claude Code. You can easily run Monte Carlo simulations, pull external data sources as inputs, build web dashboards and have Claude Code work with you to really integrate weaknesses in your model (or business). It's a pretty magical experience watching someone realise they have so much power at their fingertips, without having to grind away for hours/days in Excel.

almost makes me physically sick.

I've a reasonably intense math background corrupted by application to geophysics and implementing real world numerical applications.

To be fair, this statement alone:

* 30 sheet mind numbingly complicated Excel financial model

makes my skin crawl and invokes a flight reflex.

Still, I'll concede that a Claude Code conversion to Python of a 30 sheet Excel financial model is unlikely to be significantly worse than the original.
by joearchitect | 2026-02-02 01:24:04+00:00
@xqb64: I've been coaching founders through the exact "n-th burnout" cycle you're describing. Usually, it's an environmental/biological bottleneck, not a willpower one. I'm building a 72-hour surgical Reset protocol specifically for high-load profiles like yours to reclaim deep work without the noise. Would be curious to get your take on the framework: https://github.com/joethearchitect/72-hour-reset
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-02 01:24:23+00:00
> The problem is that doing it sucks

I really dislike running for running's sake. But I love inline skating. Did a 20km route yesterday, did 43km a fortnight ago (which was admittedly too far for where my stamina is at). One of the things about skating (and this would also be true for cycling) is the different perspective it provides if you normally get around your local area in a car. You get to see the same places from radically different angles, depending on what paths are suitable to the mode of transport. Just going slower on or next to the road you get to see more detail, but footpaths and other tracks are often (possibly not the right terminology, but) 'off the beaten track'. In inner suburban Melbourne (whilst holidaying there) I chanced upon a relatively unpopulated footpath alongside a river / drain that took me 15km into the city, and it was (in parts) both peaceful and beautiful, despite really not being that far away from main roads / highways / freeways.

A lot of people like cycling, can be done individually or in any sized group.

Tennis is mostly individual (although an opponent is required), but I play in a team and enjoy the combination of singles, doubles, and an overall team result.

Football, soccer, rugby can be physically brutal, but are team sports that have a (forced) social aspect if that's an unmet need. Volleyball is a bit less intense. Table tennis. Lots of options for different sports that cater to different levels of physical stress.

Find a local park that has a basketball ring and just shoot hoops with yourself regularly. It at least gets you out of a chair and moving both arms and legs.

If you don't (think you) like any of those things, then you gotta do the hard yards to find that one rare thing you do like. It could just be something that you can find an appropriate level of progression that gives you 'that feeling'. I think that's what got me into skating late in life - I was terrible at it as a kid, but kinda forced into giving it another go as an adult, and within a couple of hours I was already better at it than in my childhood. It was a sense of accomplishment achieved in a relatively short term (= addicted? maybe).

Find your healthy addiction.
by B1FF_PSUVM | 2026-02-02 01:24:37+00:00
> Its a demonstration of wealth. This is called Veblen good

Just the other day I was reminded of the poor little "I am rich" iOS app (a thousand dollar ruby icon that performed diddly squat by design), which Apple deep-sixed from the app store PDQ.

If misery loves company, Veblen goods sure don't.
by YZF | 2026-02-02 01:24:53+00:00
I'm not sure "everyone knows" applies here. This is one of these situations where the language is intentionally confusing. Because most people when they hear about laws have certain assumptions about what those are and how they work.

In this case this assumption is completely disconnected from reality. So yes, neither Trump, nor Putin, nor Starmer, nor Macron, nor any US citizen, and likely no citizen, or government of no country with any sort of power (India, China) or with a patron country with power isn't subject to any "international law". I.e. doesn't exist, it's just a word salad to manipulate the masses.
by gnabgib | 2026-02-02 01:24:53+00:00
(2020) Title fuckup (this is not SCP material) Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

At the time (393 points, 166 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705855

2021 (58 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29476967
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-02 01:25:03+00:00
> Whoa that's a lot to unpack. Most pressingly, why do you need to point out that judges are not "at the top"?

It's a relevant example. They are puppets, who do exactly what they're told or else. There are no activist judges, not for real. Same with all these politicians. They know which side their bread is buttered on and which side of the line to keep their toes on. Despite the illusion of their power, they are merely tools of the Establishment. "Their" power is the power of Big Brother, on temporary and limited loan. That's the deal they make with the Devil to be granted their position.

> No, where I live judges don't get appointed by "alphas".

Sure they do. The entire base of their support structure is men of power, who back the System. Without that they have nothing. They didn't put themselves in that chair, and it certainly wasn't you who did that.

> [...]

Pay attention to the world and learn. Stop arguing with every brick wall that comes along.
Show HN: Nod – Pre-code compliance validation for agentic coding workflows
by mraml | 2026-02-02 01:25:05+00:00
AI coding agents read specs and start building — but nothing in the CI pipeline validates that those specs are compliant, complete, or that requirements survive the iteration process.

nod is a lightweight GitHub Action that scans project documentation against community-maintained compliance rule sets. It catches missing controls, regulatory anti-patterns, and requirement drift before or during agentic development. It also includes an Agentic Action Security pack for validating agent guardrails and scanning for behavioral red flags.

Two files in your .github/ directory, run it in strict or permissive mode with findings logged as security scan results in GitHub.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/nod-ai-compliance-gat...
by throw20251220 | 2026-02-02 01:25:11+00:00
Maybe. Go and ask them. Maybe they are truly awful people, maybe they are old or ill, or disabled. Go and talk to them, then start labelling them x and y. See? No one got the idea. All “you” want is that nobody bothers “you”. But thinking from the perspective of others? No, that’s too difficult. The best realisation I had in life was that I am pissing others off for some reasons, as they piss me off for some other reasons. Unfortunately the majority of the lovely “society” doesn’t have that realisation.
by hinkley | 2026-02-02 01:25:27+00:00
There's a lot of things going on that lead to this.

One, the developers spend more time running this code than we do, and they have to get the program working before we can even use it. So any parts of the program that are hostile to the developers risks killing the entire project. Obfuscating the copy protection can hit a point where it makes bug fixing difficult.

Two, lack of training. If you, me, and Steve each have a bag of tricks we all use to crack games, whichever one of us figures it out gets bragging rights but the game remains cracked. Meanwhile Developer Dan has to be aware of all the tricks in all of our bags together if he wants to keep the three of us out. Only there's not three of us, there's 300. Or today, probably more like 30,000.

Three, lack of motivation, which is itself several different situations. There's a certain amount of passive aggression you can put into a feature you don't even really want to work on. You can lean into any of the other explanations to defend why your code didn't protect from cracking all that much, but it's a checkbox that's trying to prove a negative, and nobody is going to give you any credit for getting it to work right in the same way they give you credit for fixing that corner glitch that the QA people keep bitching about. Or getting that particle animation to work that makes the AOE spells look badass.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-02 01:26:23+00:00
Yeah I think the way Umbra was pitched when I watched the talks and read the paper was as more as "hybrid" in the sense that it aimed for something close to in-memory performance while optimizing the page-in/page-out performance profile.

The part of Umbra I found interesting was the buffer pool, so that's where focused most of my attention when reading though.
by bryantwolf | 2026-02-02 01:26:30+00:00
Hey hacker news! I wrote this and I’m glad it connected with folks.

To answer a few of your comments:

Writing is all mine but I had Claude proofread it, in addition to some close friends. Honestly it pointed out some great weaknesses in the original draft.

The art is all nano-banana through a tool called flora ai. I’d love to work with a human illustrator for something like this. I can draw, but I can’t paint and there’s an aesthetic here I think it handles better than I would have.

Man, it’s amazing that I can get something out there that expresses a vision all by myself. If this were a revenue generating project like an actual children’s book or something I’d love to work with someone that could bring it to life a bit more.
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-02 01:26:34+00:00
I've heard many anecdotes of Europeans who can't eat American wheat as it will make them sick. Even "organic." What is going on here? Something other than what we're told, is all.

"Organic" is a word owned by the U.S. Government, and cannot be used without their permission. Now who owns the U.S. Government? Follow the money trail.

Your anecdote is useful to further my understanding and I have no idea why it would be downvoted.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-02 01:27:22+00:00
Thanks! Maybe we can open up a stack connecting Surrey to Compton

https://archive.ph/2025.01.07-011400/https://www.politico.co...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499951

Lagniappe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37433030

(& I'd thought it was a weird IP encoding)
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-02 01:28:36+00:00
You say the security and battery issues "were solvable", so why didn't Macromedia or Adobe solve them? Adobe bought Macromedia in 2005, the era of Palms, Blackberries, Nokia/Symbian, Windows Phone, Microsoft Tablet PC; mobile devices were not a new surprise by 2005. Adobe did get Flash onto Palm mobile devices and TVs and early Android smartphones, and the experience was poor[1][2] - not just from those two issues; Flash sites weren't designed for mobile or touch or small screens. Customers had a choice of Flash-mobile devices, and preferred iPhones.

> "Ryan Lawler of TechCrunch wrote in 2012 "Jobs was right", adding Android users had poor experiences with watching Flash content and interactive Flash experiences were "often wonky or didn't perform well, even on high-powered phones".[9] Mike Isaac of Wired wrote in 2011 that "In [our] testing of multiple Flash-compatible devices, choppiness and browser crashes were common", and a former Adobe employee stated "Flash is a resource hog [...] It's a battery drain, and it's unreliable on mobile web browsers".[10] Kyle Wagner of Gizmodo wrote in 2011 that "Adobe was never really able to smooth over performance, battery, and security issues".[11]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

[1] https://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9692/palm-joins-adobe-fl...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Palm/comments/ere0c/how_does_flash_...
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-02 01:29:01+00:00
They said parents received priority. Homeless people whose children live with them are women mostly. Giving parents priority aided their children.

The report said the programs prioritized groups that are overrepresented in national youth homelessness counts, including LGBTQ+ and BIPOC youth, as well as those who were pregnant or parenting status, formerly incarcerated, undocumented, or had a history of domestic violence or trafficking, populations that are continually overrepresented in national youth homelessness counts.[1] Underrepresented was the journalist's description seemingly.

Some dangers to homeless people are gender neutral. Some are not. Sexual assault is not. But the portions of the report I read did not say immediate danger was considered.

Being transgender is a more polite way to describe being transgender.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60418acae851e139836c6...
by blazers777 | 2026-02-02 01:29:42+00:00
it's impossible to tell who is normal in these stories.

for example, the guy can start smoking inside, and it will always smell like smoke.

or, the guy can get his own buzzer.

i've had oversensitive neighbors sit there and bang on pots all night because fireworks or construction noise.

like another comment mentioned, apartments are just built really badly. you can hear anything. which leads to friends of mine complaining about stompers, but to me, they're clearly not stomping. they're just tip-toeing around as quietly as possible. when you get people actually harassing you daily, then you figure out the difference.

if you have to set up a machine or device, then you might be the bad neighbor. this is especially true if they don't set up a machine back at you. that means they're just taking in your harassment and not escalating.

people aren't total idiots. they figure someone is messing with them for their level 15 volume and keep it lower. For anyone with a TV, try putting your volume to 15. Is is unreasonable volume? It's very hard to say who is the psychotic neighbor. I've been on both sides: neighbors that were loud but normal (maybe they had bad hearing, or worked at night), and neighbors that were oversensitive, who were petty and bought machines and devices and sprays to really hurt all of the people who lived around them.
by fdsf2 | 2026-02-02 01:30:04+00:00
It behooves me that Gemini et al dont have these standard video editing tools. Do the engineers seriously think prompting by text is the way people want videos to be generated? Nope. People want to customise. E.g. Check out capcut in the context of social media.

Ive been trying to create a quick and dirty marketing promo via an LLM to visualise how a product will fit into the world of people - it is incredibly painful to 'hope and pray' that by refining the prompt via text you can make slight adjustments come through.

The models are good enough if you are half-decent at prompting and have some patience. But given the amount invested, I would argue they are pretty disappointing. Ive had to chunk the marketing promo into almost a frame-by-frame play to make it somewhat work.
by westurner | 2026-02-02 01:31:06+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Shape-adaptive electronics based on liquid metal circuits printed on thermoplastic films" (2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01528-6

NewsArticle: "New heat-shrinking method integrates electronic circuits on irregular shapes" (2026) https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-method-electronic-circui...
by dceddia | 2026-02-02 01:31:17+00:00
The Claude Code client adds system prompts and makes a bunch of calls to analytics/telemetry endpoints so it's certainly feasible for them to tell, if they inspect the content of the requests and do any correlation between those services.

And apparently it's violating the terms of service. Is it fair and above board for them to ban people? idk, it feels pretty blatantly like control for the sake of control, or control for the sake of lock-in, or those analytics/telemetry contain something awfully juicy, because they're already getting the entire prompt. It's their service to run as they wish, but it's not a pro-customer move and I think it's priming people to jump ship if another model takes the lead.
by stevenwoo | 2026-02-02 01:31:52+00:00
We already know just based on the limited amount from the annual payment to all residents of Alaska from their state wide oil and mineral fund over the past 40 some odd years, there are a lot of studies - off top of my head some study found people who were unemployed were in aggregate slightly more likely to get work, because the money enabled them to look farther for jobs instead of just surviving, it also increased demand for goods and services provided by other Alaskans. Here's one of many that breaks things down from economist point of view
https://home.uchicago.edu/~j1s/Jones_Alaska_2022.pdf
by carey | 2026-02-02 01:33:38+00:00
The atmosphere above Christchurch, NZ tends to form layers in winter that trap the smoke and make this worse, and new fireplaces have been restricted to clean-burning log burners and dry wood by law.

It seemed like the biggest change in air quality in recent years came from the tragic earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 knocking down all the unreinforced-masonry chimneys, though.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-02 01:33:50+00:00
But why is the gear progressing so very slowly? Why a 25 year gap between reasonable power 1Gbps and 10Gbps?

And while not every cat6 will do 10, it would still be worth a shot, and devices aren't using 5 instead they're using even less.

Not to mention that cat8 will happily do 40Gbps as long as you can get from your switch to your end devices in 30 meters.
by dpb001 | 2026-02-02 01:33:50+00:00
A company I worked for in the mid-80’s used a PC based CAD package with this kind of copy protection. IIRC the cost of the software was about $5K, and engineers using it probably made around 50K/yr. This level of expense required a lengthy capex justification approval process. There was a category of users who didn’t need the software full time and since the software was tied to the dongle it was common to have the package installed on multiple workstations and borrow the dongle when needed.

The nature of our business was such that there was a lot of logic analyzers and signal tracing equipment in the lab and the dongle was reverse engineered and cloned after a couple of “where’d my dongle go” incidents.
by throw20251220 | 2026-02-02 01:34:34+00:00
Yeah, it’s simply pissing me off that no person noticed the only abnormal behaviour here is the dude labelling the whole category of human beings as “awful” without trying to understand their motives. Selfish and entitled on a boss level.

Are those who smoke on s top floor balcony also awful? Are those who smoke on a balcony of a multi-storey building they live alone in also awful people?
by bryantwolf | 2026-02-02 01:35:25+00:00
What parts felt too stretched? Or just as a composition would you have preferred I narrow it down? I thought it was fun that it goes a little overboard. To me it felt like doing so captured just how much these journeys can change over time.

I tried to focus on 3 main bits:

Early exploration, problems between people, and then how much is ultimately in or out of your control
by genesalvatore | 2026-02-02 01:35:51+00:00
If you want the "mechanics" view (no philosophy), here's the intended separation:

- *Phase 1 (this repo):* deterministic classification + policy evaluation + signed constitution artifacts
- signing/verification scaffolding (Ed25519) and templates
- evaluator returns *DENY / CONFIRM / ALLOW* deterministically

- *Phase 2 (not in this repo yet):* *Gateway/tool-router enforcement* so the agent can't bypass the decision
Clarification (so nobody over-reads it): this is a *reference integration*; it *doesn't grant patent rights* and doesn't disclose enforcement mechanisms beyond illustrative examples.

Pointers:
- Repo: https://github.com/genesalvatore/aos-openclaw-constitutional
- Policy evaluator: https://github.com/genesalvatore/aos-openclaw-constitutional...
- Canonicalize/sign/verify: https://github.com/genesalvatore/aos-openclaw-constitutional... and https://github.com/genesalvatore/aos-openclaw-constitutional...
- Constitution spec: https://github.com/genesalvatore/aos-openclaw-constitutional...

Happy to answer "how would you wire this into X tool router?" questions.
by gnabgib | 2026-02-02 01:37:17+00:00
404 (How are there upvotes?)

Past discussions:

2020 (406 points, 235 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460142

2020 (733 points, 344 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473263
by decimalenough | 2026-02-02 01:37:22+00:00
I'm almost certain it will be significantly worse.

The Excel sheet will have been tuned over the years by people who knew exactly what it was doing and fixed countless bugs along the way.

The Claude Code copy will be a simulacrum that may behave the same way with some inputs, but is likely to get many of edge cases wrong, and, when you're talking about 30 sheets of Excel, there will be many, many of these sharp edges.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-02 01:41:22+00:00
> Practically spoken, a lot of the transfer speed advertised by wifi is marketing hogwash barely backed by reality, especially in congested environments.

Yes but a hogwash of several gigabits sometimes does give you real-world performance of more than a gigabit.

> Intel doesn't provide many lanes, so manufacturers don't want to waste valuable lanes permanently for capabilities most people don't ever need.

It's been a bunch of years that a single lane could do 10Gbps, and a bunch more years that a single lane could do 5Gbps.

Also don't ethernet ports tend to be fed by the chipset? So they don't really take lanes.
by majormajor | 2026-02-02 01:41:53+00:00
One of the dirty secrets of a lot of these "code adjacent" areas is that they have very little testing.

If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output? Or maybe you'll be too worried about getting chided for "not being data driven" enough.

If an exec tells an intern or temp to vibecode that thing instead, then you definitely won't have any checkpoints in the process to make sure the human-language prompt describing process was properly turned into the right simulation. But unlike in coding, you don't have a user-facing product that someone can click around in, or send requests to, and verify. Is there a test suite for the giant excel doc? I'm assuming no, maybe I'm wrong.

It feels like it's going to be very hard for anyone working in areas with less black-and-white verifiability or correctness like that sort of financial modeling.
by zarzavat | 2026-02-02 01:41:59+00:00
Ooh and aah aren't words, they're sounds (onomatopoeia). A sound is just a sequence of letters used for their phonological values.

You can spell the sound "ah" however you like: ah, ahh, aah, aahh, there's no wrong way to spell it.

If you write "the washing machine tringged when it finished", 'tring' is not a word, even though it's following the rules of English morphology, you could have written any sequence of letters that most faithfully reproduces the sound of the washing machine. You could have written katrigged or puh-tringged.