MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-04 21:41:09+00:00
1.htm contains article text, including hyperlinks, no Javascript, no CSS, only 2 tags used: 1. <p> and 2. <a> with attribute href

x=AA1VBKdf
{ echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";
(printf 'GET /content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/'$x' HTTP/1.0\r\n'
printf 'Host: assets.msn.com\r\n\r\n') \
|busybox ssl_client assets.msn.com \
|grep -o "<p>.*</p>"|tr -d '\134'; } > 1.htm

firefox ./1.htm
by Legend2440 | 2026-02-04 21:41:31+00:00
I think this is accurate. However, this does not mean that the exponential isn't real, it just isn't sudden. We have been living through continuously accelerating technological and economic growth our whole lives, and things really do happen much faster now than they did in the past.

For example it took centuries for indoor plumbing to be widely adopted, and less than a decade for smartphones. It took hundreds of thousands of years to get the first billion people (~1800), but the eighth billion happened in eleven years (2011-2022).
by duskwuff | 2026-02-04 21:41:47+00:00
Eh? BFU ("before first unlock") is, by definition, the state that a phone is in when it is turned on. There's no need to "force" it.

If you mean forcing an iOS device out of BFU, that's impossible. The device's storage is encrypted using a key derived from the user's passcode. That key is only available once the user has unlocked the device once, using their passcode.
by mlyle | 2026-02-04 21:42:10+00:00
> Lets assume you truly believe the difficulty is the heat transport, then you correct me, but I never see you correct people who believe the thermal radiation step is the issue

It's both. You have to spread a lot of heat very evenly over a very large surface area. This makes a big, high-mass structure.

> how is it solved on earth?

We pump fluids (including air) around to move large amounts of heat both on Earth and in space. The problem is, in space, you need to pump them much further and cover larger areas, because they only way the heat leaves the system is radiation. As a result, you end up proposing a system that is larger than the cooling tower for many nuclear power plants on Earth to move 1/5th of the energy.

The problem is, pumping fluids in space around has 3 ways it sucks compared to Earth:

1. Managing fluids in space is a pain.

2. We have to pump fluids much longer distances to cover the large area of radiators. So the systems tend to get orders of magnitude physically larger.

3. The mass of fluids and all their hardware matters more in space. Even if launch gets cheaper, this will still be true compared to Earth.

I explained this all to you 15 hours ago:

> If this wasn't a concern, you could fly a big inflated-and-then-rigidized structure and getting lots of area wouldn't be scary. But since you need to think about circulating fluids and actively conducting heat this is much less pleasant.

You may notice that the areas, etc, we come up with here to reject 70kW are similar to those of the ISS's EATCS, which rejects 70kW using white-colored radiators and ammonia loops. Despite the use of a lot of exotic and expensive techniques to reduce mass, the radiators mass about 10 tonnes-- and this doesn't count all the hardware to drive heat to them on the other end.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-04 21:42:19+00:00
There's understanding, and there's understanding.

I think I'm pretty decent at understanding people these days, as in predicting how they'll react to things, figuring out what they want, that sort of thing.

But I don't understand it on a fundamental level, the way I understand something like math. I have a decent grasp of the game, but I don't understand why the rules of the game are what they are. I get the impression this is how a lot of people feel about math, or computers. They know you can compute a 20% tip by sliding the decimal point over and doubling, but it's just a procedure they follow, they don't understand it.

I've read and thought and interacted plenty. This has built up the skill just fine, but the fundamental understanding is something I don't think will ever come.
by janice1999 | 2026-02-04 21:42:34+00:00
Intent matters though. Malicious actors, who are very much in power, will use the information to target universities and ideas [1] they don't like. Don't build databases for your enemies. Censuses were a great tool too, until certain people took power, then destroying them became the moral thing to do [2].

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Amsterdam_civil_registry_...
by fix4fun | 2026-02-04 21:42:36+00:00
Really nice project - respect :)

Got two questions:
1. How fast it can ride ?
If I good estimate (based on max 2750 RPMs for electric motor MY1016 350W 36V, gear ratio ~100:1 and height of rear wheel ~0.5m) it should got about 0.8 m/sec.
So really safe for kids and dad :)

2. How long does the battery last ?
by mritchie712 | 2026-02-04 21:42:38+00:00
also, who pays for "a data visualization" SaaS?

I guess they mean BI, but for a company of any scale, they aren't paying for a chart, they're paying for a permissions system, query caching, a modeling layer, scheduling, export to excel, etc.

Stand alone BI tools are going to struggle, but not because they can easily be vibe coded. It'll be because data platforms have BI built-in. Snowflake is starting down this direction and we're (https://www.definite.app/) trying to beat them to it.
by imiric | 2026-02-04 21:42:45+00:00
That doesn't track at all IME.

Programming is not something you can teach to people who are not interested in it in the first place. This is why campaigns like "Learn to code" are doomed to fail.

Whereas (good) programmers strive to understand the domain of whatever problem they're solving. They're comfortable with the unknown, and know how to ask the right questions and gather requirements. They might not become domain experts, but can certainly learn enough to write software within that domain.

Generative "AI" tools can now certainly help domain experts turn their requirements into software without learning how to program, but the tech is not there yet to make them entirely self-sufficient.

So we'll continue to need both roles collaborating as they always have for quite a while still.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-04 21:42:51+00:00
Yeah, also if a SaaS costs, 10k a year, I promise its not not more cost effecient to pull your 10k a month engineer off their usual work to build and then maintain some vibe coded slope everytime an edge case occurs.

Also many customers of SaaS have little to zero engineering staff, they are in construction, resturaunts, law offices ect. These takes are so assanine.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-04 21:43:36+00:00
> the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/RSS

hmmm

> Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access adafruit.com

> Why have I been blocked?

> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Someone is lying here
by warkdarrior | 2026-02-04 21:43:44+00:00
As a separate note, I don't see how A12 Web (https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/#a1... ) is different from the current web, where (Javascript) apps are downloaded and run locally (in your web browser) all the time. There are some additional checks for digital signatures and package integrity, which are typically taken care of by HTTPS in the current web.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-04 21:44:05+00:00
Yeah, and I think that avoidance is the cardinal sin of the modern world. You can’t avoid the dissonance between how a person acts and what they say or want to be. This is especially true within yourself: you can’t ignore what James Hillman might call the “multitudes of the soul” because the pot eventually boils over, and you wonder why you cannot measure up to this ideal version of yourself.

When I’ve been mean at work, and I’ve had many moments, I’m often unsure where it comes from: why did I react that way? It’s not what I wanted. And I’ve been fortunate to be humbled so much in my life and career, now perhaps more than ever, that I’m forced to juggle with the parts of myself that I’ve left in the shadows to my own detriment. I think this is the central paradox of a lot of folks like Graham: when you have capital, even your losses can be manufactured to be wins, and so you become estranged from dissolution and decay and humbling necessary to be born again into someone with fresh perspective.

I think Jung said something like: it is better to be yourself and accept the consequences of being you versus forcing yourself into a mold of what you or others think you ought to be. And often this means engaging deeply with what you’re avoiding and coming to terms with why.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-04 21:44:07+00:00
The article clearly said that in the first few years after Bezos the newspaper was doing very well and even expanded. It was also very successful during the first Trump administration. It just didn’t know what to do after the end of the first Trump presidency.

> Buoyed by Bezos-funded expansion and the public’s fixation on the new Trump Administration, the number of digital subscribers soared from thirty-five thousand when he arrived to two and a half million when he left, in the summer of 2023. But Ryan failed to develop an adequate plan for how the newspaper would thrive in a post-Trump environment.
by leggerss | 2026-02-04 21:44:10+00:00
Something that strikes me every time I encounter SV Rationalism presented this way is the self-annihilation of it: tastes and preferences are to be optimized out as cognitive biases, grey uniforms mandated in lieu of individual expression (fashion). The god they're sacrificed to? “Technological progress"

I lived in SF for a few years and found the tech community's disinterest in art to border on allergy. It was as if expressing an aesthetic preference weren't an optimal way to spend one's time or money. Better to spend those things "optimizing efficiency” or optimizing oneself/one’s own life

It seems like Thiel and co _don't actually care about other people_ or human welfare writ large. This isn't a novel observation, but it bears repeating

It's mirrored in something I ask myself every time I hear that Thiel is a "libertarian" _while also_ being the founder of the biggest surveillance dragnet ever created: what about surveillance is libertarian? I thought libertarians were all about "live and let live" and "stay out of my business". It's the opposite. But I guess what he really wants is "freedom for me, surveillance for thee". Again, not a novel observation, but it finally clicked into place for me reading this piece

The state integration and the separatist fantasy aren't competing visions, though; you build the surveillance infrastructure inside the state, then exit into your own enclave that benefits from it. It all feels like a way to create the world depicted in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy (fantastic if you haven't read it): corporate enclaves with private security built for employees and their families with lawless "pleeblands" outside the walls
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-04 21:45:01+00:00
Even if the law helps, who would enforce it? The president can violate any law it appears. The DOJ won’t do anything against the president, since it is an executive agency under the president’s direction. If it required SCOTUS, it is just too slow acting to respond to the constant stream of violations. We need a new arm of the government to enforce the law against the executive branch.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-04 21:45:21+00:00
Because the people who created it forgot to implement authentication.

I bet they now wish they’d done that now that anyone can curl POST anything they want and it looks like the bots are plotting to take over the world but it’s really just humans trolling like they always have.

No human would have designed a system like this. No bot would either if it had the full context. Maybe that’s what wisdom is? Having the appropriate amount of context to make proper decisions.

This is where amateurs go wrong. They give the code assistant incomplete context because they simply don’t know any better.
by sea-gold | 2026-02-04 21:45:30+00:00
> Consider GitHub Actions. How much better off would we be if, instead of writing the workflow-job-step tree by hand, we could just have a single Python script, executed on push, whose output is the GitHub Actions YAML-as-assembly?

github-workflows-kt[0] is a tool for generating GitHub Actions workflow YAML files in a type-safe script, helping you to build robust workflows for your GitHub projects without mistakes, with pleasure, in Kotlin.

[0] https://typesafegithub.github.io/github-workflows-kt/
by pregnenolone | 2026-02-04 21:45:48+00:00
RAM encryption doesn’t prevent DMA attacks and perofming a DMA attack is quite trivial as long as the machine is running. Secure enclaves do prevent those and they're a good solution. If implemented correctly, they have no downsides. I'm not referring to TPMs due to their inherent flaws; I’m talking about SoC crypto engines like those found in Apple’s M series or Intel's latest Panther Lake lineup. They prevent DMA attacks and side-channel vulnerabilities. True, I wouldn’t trust any secure enclave never to be breached – that’s an impossible promise to make even though it would require a nation-state level attack – but even this concern can be easily addressed by making the final encryption key depend on both software key derivation and the secret stored within the enclave.
by stackskipton | 2026-02-04 21:45:55+00:00
Ops person here.

I'm already using LLM to generate things and I'm not sure what this adds. The Demo isn't really doing it for me but maybe I'm wrong target for it. (What is running on that server? You don't know. Build your cattle properly!)

Maybe this is better for one man band devs trying to get something running without caring beyond, it's running.
by CrazyStat | 2026-02-04 21:46:09+00:00
The premise of the singularity concept was always superhuman intelligence, so it’s not so much a parallel as a renaming of the same thing.

> In Vinge’s analysis, at some point not too far away, innovations in computer power would enable us to design computers more intelligent than we are, and these smarter computers could design computers yet smarter than themselves, and so on, the loop of computers-making-newer-computers accelerating very quickly towards unimaginable levels of intelligence.
by lbrito | 2026-02-04 21:46:12+00:00
>More recently, Srinivasan has been proselytizing a new belief that he likens to “tech Zionism.”38 Tech elites had to exit democracy and settle sovereign territories of their own. These peripheral islands of tech utopianism would in time unite, eventually accruing enough capital and power to challenge the nation-state. They would oversee a new tribe of loyal citizens dressed in matching gray. “If you see another gray on the street… you do a nod. You’re a fellow gray.”39

This makes the Roko's Basilisk post seem sane and reasonable
by input_sh | 2026-02-04 21:46:26+00:00
It can be both! You can fill up the seats with people that you pay to watch it!

You can also look it up on Rotten Tomatoes where it currently has a 99/100 audience score and then look it up on IMDB, where it has 1.3/10. I personally believe none of the two are completely legitimate, but I think it's pretty obvious which of the two is more astroturfed.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-04 21:46:42+00:00
One thing that surprised me in the Epstein files is just how much Epstein was intertwined in various foreign relations. Like Peter Thiel repeatedly meeting Russian officials and his Kremlin handler (literally) at Epstein’s properties. And various Israeli people conducting business there. Isn’t Thiel collaborating with Russians treasonous? What does it mean when you have this set of people who are all working together - Bannon, Thiel, Musk, Vance, etc - are they all treasonous?
by tempestn | 2026-02-04 21:47:52+00:00
There was an article posted recently about a new discovery around CSF flows during sleep too. It sounds like yawning causes similar flows, which could maybe explain why you yawn more when tired? It could be a compensation mechanism to provide a bit of the same effect you normally get when sleeping.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771636
by niemandhier | 2026-02-04 21:48:23+00:00
Data Centers in space make no sense due to radiation.

You cannot do two things at the same time:

1. Make electronics small.
2. Make electronics radiation resistant.

It’s a numbers game. The denser things are packed, the higher the probability that a random high energy particle or ray will damage something.

20 years ago NASA was buying old chips, because those were less susceptible, modern “radiation hardened by design” chips are better than those, but still slower than those for planetary use.
Show HN: Rereflect – AI-powered customer feedback analysis
by haqaliz | 2026-02-04 21:48:41+00:00
Hey HN! I'm the maker of Rereflect.

I built this after watching teams (including my own) drown in scattered customer feedback across emails, Slack, support tickets, and surveys. Valuable insights kept getting lost.

What it does:
• Analyzes sentiment automatically
• Categorizes pain points (bugs, UX issues, pricing concerns, etc.)
• Extracts feature requests
• Flags churn risk
• All from one dashboard

Tech stack: FastAPI + PostgreSQL backend, Next.js frontend, custom AI analysis engine.

Free plan: 250 feedback items/month. Just upload a CSV to get started.

I'd love feedback from the HN community:
- What would make this more valuable?
- What integrations matter most? (Slack, email forwarding, webhooks?)
- How do you currently handle feedback?

Happy to answer any questions!

Try it: https://app.rereflect.ca
by ribosometronome | 2026-02-04 21:49:18+00:00
Elementary reading skills would also make it obvious that I'm not talking about their move from and back to DC. Them moving back and forth from DC is certainly irrelevant to WaPo's quality.

They noticed a decline in quality from before and after the acquisition and are using that to conclude that the acquisition didn't impact the quality of the paper. Again, that certainly seems like a strange way to make the point that the purchase didn't impact its quality.
by vorticalbox | 2026-02-04 21:49:48+00:00
I have been using glm-4.7 a bunch today and it’s actually pretty good.

I set up a bot on 4claw and although it’s kinda slow, it took twenty minutes to load 3 subs and 5 posts from each then comment on interesting ones.

It actually managed to correctly use the api via curl though at one point it got a little stuck as it didn’t escape its json.

I’m going to run it for a few days but very impressed so for for such a small model.
by bradlys | 2026-02-04 21:49:55+00:00
Can you explain the 8B YOY increase in higher education for 23-24 to 24-25? It doesn't add up anywhere in the subcategories either. It's just magically 8B higher. It actually went down 0.4B if you add the subcategories.

A giant red flag here... That's half the net budget deficit. So... might want to explain it.
by emilio2601 | 2026-02-04 21:50:10+00:00
A couple notes - while the headline says it's an octa-core chip, it actually has 16 cores with different VLENs:

- 8× X100 cores @ 2.4 GHz (general-purpose, VLEN=256)

- 8× A100 cores @ 2.1 GHz ("AI-optimized", VLEN=1024)

By default, programs only run on the X100 cores, but there's a way to start processes on the A100 cores: https://github.com/sanderjo/SpacemiT-K3-X100-A100/blob/main/...

A more detailed write-up on the uarch can be found here (PDF auto downloads): https://forum.spacemit.com/uploads/short-url/60aJ8cYNmrFWqHn...

I believe this is the first RVA23-compliant RISC-V SBC on the market - excited to get my hands on one and test.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-04 21:50:21+00:00
Instead of both-sides-ing this, you can look at objective data. Here's BoxOfficeMojo: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4287397889/. Right now it says $8.1M in the US, $75k worldwide. Not bad for a movie that cost $40M to make and about as much to market, huh?

One rationalisation I've heard is that it made more money than expected for a documentary. If we take that at face value, it's worth asking why Bezos felt the need to pay Melania tens of millions more than the budget for the typical documentary.

Your case study in media bias writes itself. All it took was a google search.
by bandrami | 2026-02-04 21:50:32+00:00
It's a tale as old as time that developers, particularly junior developers, are convinced they could "slap together something in one weekend" that would replace expensive SAAS software and "just do the parts of it we actually use". Unfortunately, the same arguments against those devs regular-coding a bespoke replacement apply to them vibe-coding a bespoke replacement: management simply doesn't want to be responsible for it. I didn't understand it before I was in management either, but now that I'm in management I 100% get it.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-04 21:50:32+00:00
> If you trust Microsoft enough to run their operating system, you trust them enough to develop a package manager.

Yeah enough to run MS Windows in a VM, with services that mess with Windows Update and modified Group Policy.

I do install as most things as possible with the MSYS2 package manager.

> Suppose, for example, that they caught up to where Debian was 30 years ago and Windows shipped with a default list of sources for the core OS to which you could add your internal or preferred partners (e.g. Adobe in many companies). Literally millions of systems wouldn’t have been compromised because they had unpatched apps. If they’d had a curated list of responsible vendors, multiple generations of people wouldn’t have been trained that it’s normal to run installers because a web page told you so.

The issue is that Microsoft is already forcing a lot on its "users", if only installing things from the OS store becomes commonplace, then I think MS Windows will end up like iOS and that is way worse (for me).
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-04 21:50:32+00:00
Note that most of the 'Bitcoin anti-sustainability FUD' comes from a 2019 study published by cambridge university. The studies very heavily critisized, and in 2025 cambridge themselves revised their own models and admitted overestimation and model correction. The article is from 2022 and probably not up to date.

I would also highlight that most knowledge and mental models around Bitcoin and the ecosystem seem to be stuck in 2021 - but after the AI hype took over, there have been slow improvements and developments that go mostly unnoticed, also here on HN. I.e. the lightning network is evolving too, making anonyous (to a certain extend), sub-second, off-chain transactions possible at way better efficiency regarding energy. With other developments like Bitcoin Taproot (Schnorr signatures), async and trampoline payments on the horizon fir lightning, we can expect even better anonymity and ease of use for lightning network within the next 1-2 years.

Most comments, reasoning, papers etc. older than 3-4 years should be taken with a grain of salt, as it is a rapidly evolving and changing field. Probably the same applies to AI progress (especially the debatable energy consumption around AI).
Show HN: Notebook page on llama.cpp official webui
by hleszek | 2026-02-04 21:50:37+00:00
I made a llama.cpp Notebook PR to add a Notebook page to the official llama.cpp webui.

Now I don't need text-generation-webui to have the Notebook functionality, and can always use the latest llama.cpp features without waiting for an update of the llama.cpp python bindings.