MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 19:05:49+00:00
> I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing

I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too.

It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were still not really picking up the clues... That's a whole decade ago, times were different, yet things seems the same, that's fucking depressing.
by Tossrock | 2026-02-03 19:06:23+00:00
But... Claude Code is already cloud-based. It relies on the Anthropic API. Your data is all already being ingested by them. Seems like a weird boundary to draw, trusting the company's model with your data but not their convenience web ui. Being local-only (ie OpenCode & open weights model running on your own hw) is consistent, at least.
by vercaemert | 2026-02-03 19:06:47+00:00
I'm suprised there isn't more "hope" in this area. Even things like the GPT Pro models; surely that sort of reasoning/synthesis will eventually make its way into local models. And that's something that's already been discovered.

Just the other day I was reading a paper about ANNs whose connections aren't strictly feedforward but, rather, circular connections proliferate. It increases expressiveness at the (huge) cost of eliminating the current gradient descent algorithms. As compute gets cheaper and cheaper, these things will become feasible (greater expressiveness, after all, equates to greater intelligence).
by crazygringo | 2026-02-03 19:06:52+00:00
But doesn't Ctrl+Alt+Del bring up the screen to switch users or sign out? "Task Manager" is one item in the list of options you get, but it's not the main one or anything, in fact it's the last:

https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/hzx6btMYEqZJfSAL3WVxXuW3-jw=/1...
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-03 19:07:26+00:00
When do you actually need to open Xcode if you have XcodeBuildMCP [0]?

I haven't opened Xcode in months. My terminal: Claude writes code. build_sim. launch_app_sim. screenshot describe_ui.

What still requires Xcode: Instruments profiling, Signing/provisioning

For UI iteration, describe_ui returning the accessibility tree might actually be more useful to an agent than a preview screenshot.
by taoji1994 | 2026-02-03 19:07:45+00:00
AI Headshot Generator is an AI-powered online portrait creation platform where users can generate professional-quality ID photos, business headshots, visa photos, and more by uploading a selfie or providing a text description
The site offers various photo categories including standard ID photos, professional portraits, and creative styles, with customizable options such as background color and image dimensions. It even features a text-to-headshot mode, allowing users to generate headshots from descriptions without uploading any images
by baljeet_ | 2026-02-03 19:07:53+00:00
This is actually my first real feedback since launching, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to tell me this instead of just closing the tab.

You're 100% right — 4 popups before seeing the product is ridiculous. I got so caught up building features that I forgot what the first visit actually feels like.

Good news: I just pushed a fix. Disabled the welcome tour completely and the install prompt now only shows after you create an account. Should just be a small cookie notice at the bottom now.

If you get a chance to revisit, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think of the actual product. And honestly, any other feedback — good or bad — is welcome. Solo founder here trying to build something useful, and this kind of input is exactly what I need.

Thanks again
by iainmerrick | 2026-02-03 19:07:54+00:00
Depending on your precise requirements, I think it might have changed.

I've been trying out Bunny recently and it looks like a very viable replacement for most things I currently do with Cloudflare. This new database fills one of the major gaps.

Their edge scripting is based on Deno, and I think is pretty comparable to e.g. Vercel. They also have "magic containers", comparable to AWS ECS but (I think) much more convenient. It sounds from the docs like they run containers close to the edge, but I don't know if it's comparable to e.g. Lambda@Edge.
by southerntofu | 2026-02-03 19:08:09+00:00
Even at the time Bill Clinton was already very much right-wing. When he was in power, he oversaw the destruction of public services and the introduction of neoliberalism. Is that not right-wing?

It's not just me saying this. Ask anyone who was politically active (as a leftist) in the 90s. I'm not sure what was the equivalent of the Democratic Socialists of America (center-left) at that time, but i'm sure there was an equivalent and Bill Clinton was much more right-wing. That's without mentioning actual left-wing parties (like communists, anarchists, black panthers etc).
by bborud | 2026-02-03 19:08:27+00:00
You are framing this as moral blame. It isn't about that. It is about strategic risk.

Why would we blame the US for our own inability to build a viable software industry? Europe has been painfully aware for years that this is self-inflicted.

The reason there is now serious talk about reducing dependence on the US is not resentment, it is risk. Dependence used to be a convenience. It is increasingly a liability. Trust in long-term stability, rule continuity, and alignment of interests is no longer something we can assume. That changes the calculus, regardless of who is "at fault".

From the perspective of someone who works in software, I’m glad this conversation is finally happening. It’s not about assigning blame. It is about taking responsibility for capabilities we should never have outsourced so completely in the first place.

If this looks like blame from the outside, that’s a misunderstanding of what self-correction looks like.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 19:08:31+00:00
So there isn't a free lunch in life but you can fight back against financialization. In the case of a Twinkie follow this guide to make a proper twinkie at home: https://youtu.be/lD2OOTx2G9k?t=592

You will be spending your time but you basically "reverse" the financialization of the product in a way. You could also pay someone to make it for you but then you'd be spending more money (again no free lunch so you have to pick what you want to sacrifice: your time or more money)

I've been trying to do more of this at home to cut out anything processed at home but I have to accept that given limited time I have to let some food items I used to enjoy just go by the wayside.

I've also been trying to do this elsewhere such as "home cooked software" thats tailored to me only and does not include ever increasing junk I dont want.
by palmotea | 2026-02-03 19:09:17+00:00
> Yeah I kinda agree. I also think maybe like, having kids kinda blows. Maybe people just weren't able to choose before?

Having kids is a lot of work, but it's great. It's definitely not self-centered hedonistic pleasure, though.

If you're all like, "what's in it for me" having kids is probably not for you.
Show HN: No more static meeting links
by Mrakermo | 2026-02-03 19:09:19+00:00
not sure if anyone else feels this, but calendly links startes breaking my days.

I absolute hate sitting and dealing various dates suggestions, and calendly solved that.

But now I get 7 different meetings per day, and constant context switching.

Important meetings land between semi important. Team meetings get scattered. My calendar stopped reflecting what actually mattered.

So we built something simple:

It’s still a meeting link, but the guest shortly explains what the meeting is about, and an AI suggests the best time based on my priorities, focus, and team context.

If both people use it, the agents just coordinate and pick the best time automatically.

Sounds small, but already better than a static meeting link.

Curious if others here feel the same pain or if I’m just bad at calendars

Link if anyone wants to try it, you can't pay for it yet so free of charge.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-03 19:09:31+00:00
Yup. Culturally, the EU has favored more regulations over supporting more tech growth to an absurd degree.

Not that I disagree in principle with most of the tech regulations; it does make sense to protect privacy and combat monopolistic abuses and so on.

But you also need to support your own tech industry at the same time, and the efforts there have been like quarter-assed at most.
by nayuki | 2026-02-03 19:09:39+00:00
> some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated

You're right. Off the top of my head, the stupidest environmental regulation I can think of right now is the banning of plastic straws. It's such a minuscule amount of plastic used compared to the mountains of bags and packaging used in general commerce and industry.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting our environment. I just believe in evidence-based policy and setting priorities correctly. After all, money, labor, and attention are finite resources.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-03 19:09:49+00:00
I doubt that, but in reality, Harris was on the ballot, and was squeaky clean relative to her opposition.

And there's levels of skeletons, but calling up a governor and asking them to find votes and baselessly casting doubts on elections and endorsing and freeing people who attacked the US government is not on the same level of everyone else's skeletons.
by eadwu | 2026-02-03 19:09:56+00:00
I've tried nearly all the models, they all work best if and only if you will never handle the code ever again. They suck if you have a solution and want them to implement that solution.

I've tried explaining the implementation word and word and it still prefers to create a whole new implementation reimplementing some parts instead of just doing what I tell it to. The only time it works is if I actually give it the code but at that point there's no reason to use it.

There's nothing wrong with this approach if it actually had guarantees, but current models are an extremely bad fit for it.
by porttipasi | 2026-02-03 19:09:59+00:00
To be more specific: the prompt defines a trading philosophy and tells models what to look for in the charts. But the actual read and the decision is entirely on the model. Using your framing — it's closer to "here's inspiration, now maximize money" than "implement this exact strategy."
Which means improvisation within that framework is exactly what's being measured.

But yeah, it's closer to a leaderboard right now.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-02-03 19:10:02+00:00
It is not a moral stance. I just prefer to have my files of my personal projects in one place. Sure I sync them to GitHub for backup, but I don't use GitHub for anything else in my personal projects. I am not going to use a workflow which relies on checking out my code to some VM where I have to set everything up in a way where it has access to all the tools and dependencies that are already there on my machine. It's slower, clunkier. IMO you can't beat the convenience of working on your local files. When I used my CC mirror for the brief period where it worked, when I came back to my laptop, all my changes were just already there, no commits, no pulls, no sync, nothing.
by starkparker | 2026-02-03 19:10:09+00:00
Notable and recent: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clym85ev64lo

> When one-time Democrat Sam Negron headed to the polls to cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024, he did so with one thing on his mind above all - the economy.

> "I didn't like paying $7 for eggs," said Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable in the majority-Latino city of Allentown. "But basically it was all his talking points… making the US a strong country again."

...

> One poll, from Pew, suggested that 93% of Latinos who cast their votes for Trump rated the economy as their primary issue, with violent crime and immigration trailing far behind.

> Data from the new CBS poll shows that a significant majority of Latinos - 61% - disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, while 69% disapprove of his handling of inflation. The vast majority said they judge the performance of the US economy through prices.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 19:10:13+00:00
The problem with the word "sysvinit" here is it's sort of a red herring. BSD init is better, in my opinion. I don't like managing all those symlinks. Plus, sysvinit is an old 90s application and its code does have some cruft built up over the years that could be removed and simplified. I'm devising a new init for my system that's much simpler than sysvinit and much closer to BSD.
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 19:10:54+00:00
The Gemini family seems to be better at high-level, generalizing

The Claude family seems to be better at localized coding tasks

I'm a big fan of Claude Code based prompts with Gemini 3 Flash in my coding agent. I'm unwilling to use any new Google products at this point in time. Used to be a stan, they have pushed me away and I'll never be a stan again
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-03 19:10:59+00:00
Such laws and policies are a blatant overreach. However the US is a superpower so if we act inappropriately smaller economies simply have to tolerate it to a large extent. It's no different than China throwing their weight around with their neighbors.

The EU jumping on that bandwagon was predictable but I don't think it's a good thing. We all ought to strive for a higher moral standard.
by babblingfish | 2026-02-03 19:11:15+00:00
> The surge of AI, large language models, and generated art begs fascinating questions. The industry’s progress so far is enough to force us to explore what art is and why we make it. Brandon Sanderson explores the rise of AI art, the importance of the artistic process, and why he rebels against this new technological and artistic frontier.

What It Means To Be Human | Art in the AI Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3uK-_QkOo
by dagss | 2026-02-03 19:11:16+00:00
Why do you want to move from Cloudflare?

Asking because I was looking at both Cloudflare and Bunny literally this week...and I feel like I don't know anything about it. Googling for it, with "hackernews" as keyword to avoid all the blogspam, didn't bring up all that much.

(I ended up with Cloudflare and am sure that for my purposes it doesn't matter at all which I choose.)
by Tepix | 2026-02-03 19:11:36+00:00
Using lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 I'm getting up to 32 tokens/s on Strix Halo, with room for 128k of context (out of 256k that the model can manage).

From very limited testing, it seems to be slightly worse than MiniMax M2.1 Q6 (a model about twice its size). I'm impressed.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-03 19:11:45+00:00
A lot of the nationwide products that got started a century ago were first produced without any artifical ingredients. Until years later as each additive creeped in. I imagine a lot of them under persuasive sales presure from the vendor of the additive.

Doesn't mean they were not yet seriously processed or truly the healthiest to consume.

OTOH there's always vegan Twinkies now:

https://oopsydaisysweets.com/products/vinkies

So attractively priced at only $30.00 a half dozen, they just sold out :(
by keeda | 2026-02-03 19:12:01+00:00
> And airport security in Israel makes Indian airport security feel like a breeze

Not just in Israel, but even at other airports for flights to Israel! I was surprised to find that flights to Israel from JFK and EWR actually have a secondary security screening at the gate. In fact, the entire waiting area is walled off with only 1 or 2 controlled entries and exits. If you have to leave the area to go to the bathroom, well, you're just going to get screened again when you come back.

And they are very thorough. They WILL rummage through your carry on and purse and shoes.

(I wasn't even traveling to Israel, I was at an adjacent gate but got in the wrong line by mistake, haha!)
by csummers | 2026-02-03 19:12:10+00:00
I'm developing a new programming language, so I have to provide a way for LLMs to know about and generate code for a language they have not seen (i.e., have no training data for).

My tooling was previously adding in AI hints with CLAUDE.md, Cursor Rules, Windsurf Rules, AGENTS.md, etc., but I recently switched to using only AGENTS.md and SKILLS. I appreciate the standardization from this perspective.
by aavshr | 2026-02-03 19:12:14+00:00
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Only within Germany

Technologies: Golang, Rust, Typescript/Javascript, Python | Distributed Backend Systems | AWS, GCP| Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Github Actions | PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://aavash.com/resume.pdf

Email: hi@aavash.com

Github: https://github.com/aavshr

Personal Site: https://aavash.com

I was the first hire at a Berlin based startup which unfortunately had to shut down after 6+ years. I took full ownership of backend systems and infra, maintained on call responsibility and worked across the board with growth, product and frontend work as needed.

Looking for a similar opportunity at an early stage company where I can provide high impact while taking ownership.
by worm4499 | 2026-02-03 19:12:17+00:00
Location: New York City, NY | Remote: Yes | Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, Flask, Airflow, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, AWS (EKS), ETL Pipelines, XGBoost, TensorFlow, Feature Engineering, Model Evaluation (Accuracy, Brier Score), Tableau, React, HTML/CSS, SwiftUI, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Google Analytics API, Salesforce API

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uPxfGCVuzQI5XNVT_j1Pmku3mDX... | Email: antoniojackson4499@gmail.com

New-grad bilingual (English/Spanish) software engineer with hands-on experience building production ML, data, and backend systems. I’ve shipped end-to-end pipelines spanning ETL, model training and evaluation, LLM-driven agents, and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on reliability, data quality, and real-world impact.

Seeking a new-grad engineering role on a driven team that values creativity, technical rigor, and ownership, where I can help ship high-impact systems and grow through real production responsibility.
by wrs | 2026-02-03 19:12:20+00:00
It’s turtles all the way down, though — how do you know that last deal had clear title? At some point you’re going to want insurance anyway.

In any case, the US system is already that the government records ownership (not for free, but for a small recording fee) and the title company charges for checking, and for insurance in case they get it wrong.

As just one example
of how it can go wrong, here in Seattle it’s common to find out your lot is nine inches smaller than you thought because surveying technology is a lot better now than it was when your deed was written in 1908.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-03 19:12:36+00:00
There's plenty of chatter these days that Europe needs to be more independent from other powers, needs to be more competitive and so on.

What's not clear is if Europeans are actually willing to federalize/centralize power enough to make that happen. E.g. in foreign policy, a Europe with twenty different strategies and twenty different militaries will never be able to swing its weight around the same as the US*, even if the collective level of power is the same on paper. But Europeans are still focused so much on "my country wants to do X" that it seems like they'd rather be separate than strong.

* A strong military is almost always an important component of foreign policy, even when it's not actually used to do anything...because of the implication.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-03 19:12:46+00:00
I am old, so my thoughts will differ. Also, seriously ask yourself:

1. Do you want to get a job, or

2. Do you want to build amazing thing

The technologies that will get you a job are not the ones that build amazing things. I was a JavaScript developer for more than 15 years, but now I do something different.

---

* Any of Node.js / Bun / Deno. I know they are not front end, but mastering them will super charge your localhost development.

* TypeScript

* Chart.js

* HTML video/audio tags. Building your own media player in the browser is ridiculously easy.

* Web Sockets, and also Web Transport. Web Transport is not all the way there yet, but it looks like it might be the replacement for Web Sockets
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-03 19:13:03+00:00
My pain points are mostly in the CPU debugger (since I'm not using much of the actual "IDE features" of Xcode except the regular edit-compile-debug loop anyway.

Starting a 'cold' debug session into a UI application may take 10-ish seconds until applicationDidFinishLaunching is reached, and most of that time seems to be spent with loading the symbols for hundreds of framework DLLs which are loaded during application start (which I never even need because I can't step into system frameworks anyway) - and seriously, why are there even hundreds of system DLLs in a more or less hello-world-style Metal application with minimal UI? This problem seems to go back to the ancient times, but it gets worse and worse the bloatier macOS UI processes become (e.g. the more system frameworks they load at start).

The debugger variable view panel is so bare bones that it looks like it's ripped out straight from an 80's home computer monitor program.

When debug-stepping, the debugger frontend is quite often stuck for 10s of seconds at completely unpredictable places waiting for the debugger to respond (it feels like a timeout).

Step-debugging in general feels sluggish even compared to VSCode with lldb.

For comparison, VS2026 isn't exactly a lightweight IDE either, but debugging sessions start instantly, debug-stepping is immediate, and the CPU debugger is much more feature rich than Xcode's. While in Xcode, everything feels like it's been added as a checklist item, but then never actually used by the Xcode team (I do wonder what they're using to develop Xcode, I doubt that they are dogfooding their own work).

The one good and useful thing about Xcode is the Metal debugger though.
by Estuary | 2026-02-03 19:13:11+00:00
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We’re open-source, developer-first, and focused on making data movement radically simpler across both our Platform and Applications layers.

We’re hiring for:

Senior & Staff Backend Engineers (Integrations)

5+ years backend experience; Go required, Rust a plus. Own core systems powering real-time data pipelines. Build complex API/database integrations, improve connector frameworks, and tackle deep challenges in performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Backend Engineer (Integrations) – 2–4 years of backend experience. Help expand and maintain our catalog of real-time data connectors to SaaS tools using Python. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers to build and optimize integrations with third-party systems, while deepening your skills in infrastructure and stream processing.

Solutions Engineer - Work with the founding team to help customers use Estuary effectively. Collaborate closely with engineering and product, shape how users integrate real-time data, and feed insights back into product development.

What we’re looking for: Engineers who care about building reliable, maintainable systems and enjoy working with complex APIs and data flows. We value curiosity, clear communication, and a willingness to learn.

Bonus points for experience with CDC tools, open source contributions, or fast-paced startups.

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