MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loudmax | 2026-02-02 16:16:52+00:00
This M1E3 Abrams tank prototype is a hybrid:
https://insideevs.com/news/784805/abrams-m1e3-hybrid-tank-vi...

It turns out that if you aren't deluded by culture war superficialities, energy efficiency is an advantage on the battlefield. Presumably this Prius on treads is confusing to chickenhawks who conflate "Likes" on Facebook and Instagram with military supremacy.
by avsm | 2026-02-02 16:16:53+00:00
(author here) The mutation is only for performance critical code. I'm first trying to match C/Rust performance in my code, and then transform it to more idiomatic functional code (which flambda2 in OxCaml can optimise).

It's too difficult right now to directly jump to the functional version since I don't understand the flambda2 compiler well enough to predict whta optimisations will work! OxCaml is stabilising more this year so that should get easier in time.
by lazarus01 | 2026-02-02 16:17:16+00:00
Im fortunate to live in an area dense with traditional taxis and Ubers, no Waymo yet.

I rarely take taxis, the exception is when I have to haul my gear to the studio for a jam session. I always take a taxi, because it’s cheaper and faster than using an app to call an uber.

On 80% of the trips, I end up having a nice chat with the driver and learn something new about humanity or myself.

I really enjoy these interactions, but I feel for the drivers, it’s a very tough job where most taxi drivers have to scramble to find places to urinate or do so in an empty bottle between their legs. There is not much dignity in the job. I feel a negligible segment enjoy it as a reliable career.

I wonder what will happen to the drivers if a large representation of the 1 million+ daily trips are displaced by automation?
Open Claw Clone and Dev Containers
by afspear | 2026-02-02 16:17:41+00:00
Open Claw scares me. I keep seeing bots posting stuff that looks like sec. vulns. Also, file level access of all my stuff is kind of a non starter. However, the idea of an autonomous agent that just churns on my code is a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if one of these kinds of agents could be stuffed into a dev container?
by MiddleEndian | 2026-02-02 16:18:30+00:00
The funny thing is SAAS frequently provides less value because of automatic updates. If your toilet could change its shape at a moment's notice because of some study on a sample of people who are entirely unlike you or even just because some random PM wanted a promotion, and you could not stop it from doing so, it would be incredibly obvious how bad that was. Yet many people in the software field try to convince users that mandatory automatic updates on their devices are a good thing.
by raffkede | 2026-02-02 16:18:40+00:00
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by Fnoord | 2026-02-02 16:18:52+00:00
This is akin to States in United States losing sovereignty to the United States Federal government. It is a balancing act between the two, and calling the USA (or the specific States) therefore not sovereign isn't about curiosity; it is intellectually dishonest. Surely you can do better if you want a discussion where curiosity reigns.

> [...] and in fine sovereignty, to the EU from member states [...]

This no longer works if NATO doesn't exist or if those member states get under military pressure by either Russia or the United States.

The narrative you mention is spread by alt-right trolls in order to lower the power the EU has. It is called divide and conquer.
by dtm987654123 | 2026-02-02 16:18:57+00:00
>Things like tone and grammar are the very basics that you learn right at the beginning.‡ Beginners complain about them, but after a few months of studying Chinese, you should be fairly comfortable with the tones.

Disagree slightly with this- pronouncing the tones individually and getting to the point where you can be understood isn't too hard (well still hard), but combining them when speaking more quickly is more challenging, especially if you want it to flow nicely, and adding emphasis while maintaining the tones. Not that it's mandatory if you just want to understand/be understood, it depends on one's goals.

It's a common misconception that it's enough just to learn the tones and move on and it's very hard to find teachers who are able to help with more advanced pronunciation
by tingling168 | 2026-02-02 16:18:57+00:00
It's good to finally hear some news AND have results coming from the Proton team regarding some of the most complained about problems. Namely, that Proton seems to release new products while leaving the existing ones with known issues and a general feeling of being "unfinished".

Anecdotally the Proton Mail app is now *much* faster.

Looking forward to see this approach brought across to the rest of the product line.
by Someone | 2026-02-02 16:19:26+00:00
For those wondering: to juggle 4 balls, you either have to decrease the time between catching a ball and throwing it again or increase the time a ball is in the air.

Unless you start throwing feathers or balloons, the latter requires you throw higher. That requires you to either spend more time launching them up (bad for the ‘decrease time between catching and throwing’) or use more force (bad for throwing accuracy.

Also, even assuming you juggle 4 balls keeping “time in hand” equal, you have to throw it higher by a factor of (4/3)². That’s almost 2.

And even if you manage to make those throws with the same accuracy in angles, the errors in location by the time you catch the balls scale by the same factor.
Show HN: Url/sitemap/pdf/word to Markdown (feedback wanted)
by glennhv | 2026-02-02 16:19:34+00:00
Hi, I'm looking for feedback about usability, concept, pricing, perhaps features.

I created this tool because a client with over 300 pages of content on his website wanted to have the content in such a way that it can be send to a translation agency.

The next step was that I added an AI-integration to translate the copy, which can be reviewed by the translation agency.
by vidarh | 2026-02-02 16:19:41+00:00
You're taking it too literally.

The point is to recognise that certain patterns has a cost in the form of risks, and that cost can be massively outsize of the benefits.

Just as the risk of giving a poorly vetted employee unfettered access to the company vault.

In the case of employees, businesses invest a tremendous amount of money in mitigating the insider risks. Nobody is saying you should take no risks with AI, but that you should be aware of how serious the risks are, and how to mitigate them or manage them in other ways.

Exactly as we do with employees.
by CodeMage | 2026-02-02 16:19:43+00:00
Yeah, people do seem to think that em dashes are an indicator of GenAI. I have been accused of using AI to write my posts on a forum, precisely because of em dashes. That's how I found out about that particular sniff test people use.

Hasn't made me change the way I write, though. Especially because I never actually type an em dash character myself. Back when I started using computers, we only had ASCII, so I got used to writing with double dashes. Nowadays, a lot of software is smart enough to convert a double dash into an em dash. Discourse does that and that's how I ended up being accused of being an AI bot.
by leoedin | 2026-02-02 16:19:49+00:00
I use Copilot in VSCode at work, and it's pretty effective. You can choose from quite a few models, and it has the agentic editing you'd expect from an IDE based AI development tool. I don't know if it does things like browser integration because I don't do frontend work. It's definitely improved over the last 6 months.

There's also all the other Copilot branded stuff which has varying use. The web based chat is OK, but I'm not sure which model powers it. Whatever it is it can be very verbose and doesn't handle images very well. The Office stuff seems to be completely useless so far.
by kirin_memorang | 2026-02-02 16:19:55+00:00
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by inglor_cz | 2026-02-02 16:20:13+00:00
Czechia is quite nuclear-friendly and yet we ran into a problem with nuclear fuel supply; you don't feed raw uranium into the reactor, you need specially designed fuel rods. Switching from Russian to American ones for our nuclear power plants took several years. We just finished doing so, and now there is a conflict between the US and the rest of the world as well. Lovely.

All solvable, all better than just running out of oil, but I wouldn't call the situation "independence", just "having a better buffer".
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-02 16:20:39+00:00
In practice, building from source is not going to fix the problem. Nobody reads the source code of projects they download and compile themselves, certainly not for larger projects. It also takes a long time to compile larger projects. So, realistically, these rarely happen.

Of course, the one advantage of having source is that it is easier to run things like SAST tools against source, but how many people do that in practice? How integrated is that with package systems? And when package maintainers might provide hashes of what they ostensibly checked, you still need trust.

So we need a combination of static analysis tools that are integrated properly to produce trusted binaries, and you need earned trust and authority. Hyperindividualist self-reliance is, at the very minimum, impractical. And with authority, we know whose job it is to care for the quality of software and therefore whom to hang.
by _xgw | 2026-02-02 16:21:01+00:00
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by js8 | 2026-02-02 16:21:28+00:00
There is a difference between neoconservatives and neoliberals. You probably meant the latter, but Republican party was never neoliberal only, it also is, as you write, neoconservative.

It's not really surprising as conservativism and liberalism are both main pillars of capitalism, because the idea of property is based both on authority (like authority, you get the property ostensibly based on your past performance and you keep it indefinitely) and liberty (you can do what you want with it).
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-02 16:21:45+00:00
And the speed at which it happens:

> a cold, round anomaly about 200 km below the surface.

> By estimating how far the drip had fallen and calculating the speed of its descent, the researchers estimate that the drip broke off between 2 and 5 million years ago.

A few megayears later, the bit that broke off is still falling.

200km in 2m years, I make that 0.1m per year. Roughly - a bit less if it's > 2m years, and started below the surface.
by futohq | 2026-02-02 16:21:53+00:00
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by xoa | 2026-02-02 16:21:55+00:00
Thanks for sharing, hadn't seen it but at almost the same time he made that post I too was struggling to get decent NAS<>NAS transfer speeds with rsync. I should have thought to play more with rclone! I ended up using iSCSI but that is a lot more trouble.

>In fact, some compression modes would actually slow things down as my energy-efficient NAS is running on some slower Arm cores

Depending on the number/type of devices in the setup and usage patterns, it can be effective sometimes to have a single more powerful router and then use it directly as a hop for security or compression (or both) to a set of lower power devices. Like, I know it's not E2EE the same way to send unencrypted data to one OPNsense router, Wireguard (or Nebula or whatever tunnel you prefer) to another over the internet, and then from there to a NAS. But if the NAS is in the same physically secure rack directly attached by hardline to the router (or via isolated switch), I don't think in practice it's significantly enough less secure at the private service level to matter. If the router is a pretty important lynchpin anyone, it can be favorable to lean more heavily on that so one can go cheaper and lower power elsewhere. Not that more efficiency, hardware acceleration etc are at all bad, and conversely sometimes might make sense to have a powerful NAS/other servers and a low power router, but there are good degrees of freedom there. Handier then ever in the current crazy times where sometimes hardware that was formerly easily and cheaply available is now a king's ransom or gone and one has to improvise.
by NoiseBert69 | 2026-02-02 16:22:20+00:00
I don't trust these numbers for Germany.

Why? Have a look at all the Tarifunternehmen salaries. 80k-90k€ is pretty much a standard salary you can reach after 5 years (with maybe changing your position once within the same company).

Feels like their dataset has significant sampling gap in some very big industries here.
by kyle_neon | 2026-02-02 16:22:52+00:00
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by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-02 16:22:57+00:00
Of course things were great for White men when an entire part of the US population were kept out of opportunities by law. “Separate but Equal” was the law of the land from 1898 to the 1950s. As were laws against interracial marriage until 1969.

This isn’t de facto marginalization this was encoded into the law.
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by infecto | 2026-02-02 16:23:11+00:00
Yes and what matters the most is what Waymo has been signaling for years. They don’t want the capex (owning and running the physical cars). I don’t know the intent of this raise but you have to realize companies may have a good asset but they don’t want to own it 100% for a multitude of reasons. Some of them could be as simple as wanting to get other investors involved and comfortable with the asset to maybe take on larger roles in future rounds. Or in this case potentially running the car part of the business.
by gnulnx | 2026-02-02 16:23:28+00:00
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by inglor_cz | 2026-02-02 16:23:35+00:00
Tanks are the heavy cavalry of the modern era, their main use is to break defensive lines.

Or rather, was. Neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians, operating diverse tanks on the bases of different doctrines, managed to do much breaking with them. The battlefield of today is just too different and much more hostile to anything that moves in the open and is big and slow enough to get hit.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-02 16:23:36+00:00
A lot of metric-driven roles are subjective as well. Most sales funnels are intentionally a random lottery. When prioritization exists it is often influenced by all those subjective categories like "management likes you".

As software developers we often see the raw data of this. The science often even isn't that hard based on the software you are asked to write how almost none of the "objective" metrics are truly "fair".

Metrics aren't an escape from subjectivity, they just smoke screen it. Companies love "rich get richer" lotteries and easily confuse that for "objective" or "fair".
by alephnerd | 2026-02-02 16:23:41+00:00
> china has been an invaluable partner

The PRC has stated it will continue to back Russia against Ukraine [0] which is a red line for the EU. Additionally, the PRC has been running disinfo ops against EU member states tech exports [1] while still attempting industrial espionage on European institutions [2].

China will not become a trusted partner of the EU as long as:

1. It continues to conduct industrial espionage against EU institutions

2. Attempts to undermine EU industrial and dual use exports

3. It continues to support Russia diplomatically and materially at the expense of Ukraine

4. It attempts to undermine the EU as an institution [3][4][5][6]

5. It continues to threaten EU nationals through physical [7] and legal [8] intimidation.

It's the same reason trust has reduced in the US as well.

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[0] - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3316875/ch...

[1] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...

[2] - https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/asie-pacifique/2026/01/14/...

[3] - https://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/_t2515/57/f8/c21257a743416/page.ht...

[4] - https://www.ft.com/content/1ed0b791-a447-48f4-9c38-abbf5f283...

[5] - https://www.ft.com/content/81700fc4-8f23-4bec-87e9-59a83f215...

[6] - https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ex-mitarbeiter...

[7] - https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/07/02/deux-espio...

[8] - https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/asie-pacifique/2025/12/23/...