MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nevermark | 2026-02-04 22:03:12+00:00
Yes, because there is a heat delta. A heat difference.

Using higher heat to raise lower heat is just the most simple case.

But purpose isn't relevant to this constraint, it is a physics constraint. Regardless of purpose, you can't extract useful energy from heat without a heat difference to work with. (And without a heat difference, even "heating" with heat doesn't do anything.)
by ekidd | 2026-02-04 22:03:18+00:00
I have a wide range of Claude Code based setups, including one with an integrated issue tracker and parallel swarms.

And for anything really serious? Opus 4.5 struggles to maintain a large-scale, clean architecture. And the resulting software is often really buggy.

Conclusion: if you want quality in anything big in February 2026, you still need to read the code.
by kuil009 | 2026-02-04 22:03:47+00:00
This feels a lot like the old RPA hype cycle to me — more sales narrative than structural change.

Most companies are not going to replace stable SaaS with a pile of AI-generated internal tools. They don’t want the maintenance or the risk.

If there’s a real B2B game changer, it’s Microsoft.

The day Excel gets a serious, domain-aware AI that can actually model workflows, clean data, and automate logic properly, half of these “build vs buy” debates disappear. People will just solve problems where they already work.

Excel has always been the real business platform. AI will just double down on that, not kill SaaS.
by mnbbrown | 2026-02-04 22:03:54+00:00
Incroyable! Competitive (if not better) than deepgram nova-3, and much better than assembly and elevenlabs in basically all cases on our internal streaming benchmarking.

The dataset is ~100 8kHz call recordings with gnarly UK accents (which I consider to be the final boss of english language ASR). It seems like it's SOTA.

Where it does fall down seems to be the latency distribution but I'm testing against the API. Running it locally will no doubt improve that?
by theodric | 2026-02-04 22:04:21+00:00
My first printer was a delta in 2015. I spent more time calibrating it than I did printing, and it was never very good. I then got an Anet A8 in 2017, but it was too flimsy. Cheap, tho!

Around 2021 I spent quite a lot upgrading and dialing in an Ender 3 V2 so it was repeatable, whisper-quiet, and dead reliable.

That's it. This doesn't end with me buying a Bambu. It's still all of those things. I'm very happy with my printing appliance, and also that its only data connection is via microSD sneakernet.
by Groxx | 2026-02-04 22:04:32+00:00
>I also have a fairly light touch normally, and the pressure curve on either the Remarkable 2 or Pro requires me to press too much for comfort to get any “width” in any of the tools.

Yeah, this bothers me a lot with mine too (an RM2). I can't believe how heavily I have to press to get full line width on many tools, it's harder than I press when I use an eraser on a stubborn mark in real life.

Responsiveness wise... the latency on common actions has increased incredibly in the past couple of years. Not pen drawing, that's still excellent, but general UI navigation and recognizing taps and long presses and whatnot have really gotten bad. At this point I've got it rolled back to 2.x almost all the time, which is also a whole lot more moddable than 3.x. I like many of the UI changes and additions in 3 (except infinitely vertically scrollable stuff, that keeps screwing up and interpreting taps and swipes as vertical scrolls when there's absolutely no additional content to show, so it just stops responding for a second while it scrolls three pixels down, and I would be thrilled if I could disable it completely), but not at the cost of responsiveness.
by basilikum | 2026-02-04 22:04:56+00:00
Eradication of the Guinea worm will be one of the huge milestones in the history of humankind. Just reading about them is nightmarish. In 1986 estimated 3,500,000 people had an infestation. Now we're well below 100. However eradication also needs animal cases to go to zero which are still in the hundreds.

Anyway, really great news about humanity beating one of its many terrible enemies just like the Malaria vaccine.
by riddlemethat | 2026-02-04 22:05:03+00:00
Anyone attempting to build a movement might find it interesting how Pumping Station One in Chicago is governed. It's a maker space but run by people who care (at least from my experience when I was a member back in 2015/2016). The process for electing leadership and holding members accountable was very democratic and fair, from my experience. They open-source as much as they can about how they organize:

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Do-ocracy

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Member_Manual

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Administration
by dylan604 | 2026-02-04 22:05:21+00:00
The example image for blanking from pyroelectro.com seems off to me. The blanking was on all sides of the images, not just two sides. The beam was off before reaching the end of the line, during the retrace, and still partially at the beginning of the line. The same for the retrace back to the top. The vertical blanking at the top of the image was important as things like CC and VITC were encoded there (as well as some other non-standard uses). Essentially, the active picture was window boxed in the blanking. This example image does not represent that well at all
by manmal | 2026-02-04 22:05:43+00:00
> I can’t imagine any other example where people voluntarily move for a black box approach.

Anyone overseeing work from multiple people has to? At some point you have to let go and trust people‘s judgement, or, well, let them go. Reading and understanding the whole output of 9 concurrently running agents is impossible. People who do that (I‘m not one of them btw) must rely on higher level reports. Maybe drilling into this or that piece of code occasionally.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-04 22:05:46+00:00
there's no shortage of software engineers, if it was so easy for an organization to replace a saas with something built in-house they'd be doing it all the time. In my experience in enterprise consulting implementing a well defined requirement is the easiest part. Getting everyone to agree on the requirement, getting it defined, and stopping it from changing after every demo is the hard part.
Show HN: First visual editor for e-paper displays (drag-and-drop, free)
by solarsyn | 2026-02-04 22:06:18+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Aaron, the creator.

I built this because I was frustrated with manually calculating coordinates
for e-paper displays. Trial-and-error was killing my productivity.

This is basically a visual WYSIWYG editor specifically for e-ink/e-paper
screens. You drag rectangles, circles, text, and icons around, then export
ready-to-run Python code for your Raspberry Pi.

Tech stack: Python + tkinter (cross-platform, no dependencies hell)

It's 100% free. If people find it useful, I'll add template library and
animation preview next.

Built-in icons for WiFi/Bluetooth/Battery were the most requested feature
during early testing.

Happy to answer questions!
by _carbyau_ | 2026-02-04 22:06:28+00:00
I agree with you regarding particular exploits by arbitrary input files against Notepad++ in particular.

I was trying - poorly it seems - to make a more general point regarding exposure to the internet and across "whatever other program" too. Something like 7-zip, VLC, syncthing, whatever other open source tools you may like, and how you use it exposing you to possibility of attack.

IE you are interacting with "the wild west of the internet" then the balance of update/not-update shifts more towards update. But if not, then the balance shifts to not-update.

But you are correct that either way it depends on the program in particular.
by somat | 2026-02-04 22:06:52+00:00
I think of it like time dilation, such as near a black hole(see what I did there, tying the two singularities together).

From the perspective of one experiencing time-dilation nothing appears unusual, everything appears normal, it only from the outside perspective that things are strange.

As far as I can tell the singularity happened in the late 1700's. For thousands of years the collective economic growth of the world was effectively a straight shallow line, it grew, but slowly and linearly, then in the late 1700's something changed, it went exponential and everybody was along for the ride, and from the perspective of being caught up in this exponential growth it appears flat, normal even. but you look at history and wonder why every advance was so slow. and you look ahead and say the singularity is almost there. But we will never actually reach it. by the time we get there it is the new normal.
by fortran77 | 2026-02-04 22:07:32+00:00
The Pico PIO has an instruction set and can be programmed.

You write PIO assembly that runs autonomously on a state machine, with explicit timing (e.g., out, in, set, mov, jmp, wait) and cycle‑accurate interfaces. The CPU communicates via small FIFOs, and interrupts are optional; the PIO can be “fire‑and‑forget” for many protocols.
by rags2riches | 2026-02-04 22:07:47+00:00
> “When I close my eyes, there’s absolutely nothing there,” Shine recalls telling his colleagues. They immediately asked him what he was talking about. “Whoa. What’s going on?” Shine thought. Neither he nor his colleagues had realized how much variation there is in the experiences people have when they close their eyes.

I found this bit about closing your eyes curious. It doesn't matter for my mental imagery if my eyes are closed or not. My eyelids are not a movie screen. I can imagine things quite as well with my eyes open. I focus less on what my eyes are seeing when I think hard about mental images, but they aren't really in competition. It's very easy to imagine visual things right there in my actual eye imagery.
Show HN: LLM Jailbreak Database
by mhavelka77 | 2026-02-04 22:07:48+00:00
I vibe-coded this online DB for LLM injection prompts. It's registration/login less with some ambitious spam/bot filtering. I'm interested in trying to tune the barriers of interaction to a sweet spot where the DB gets balanced and the useful working injections are actually on top.

thoughts?
by thephyber | 2026-02-04 22:08:10+00:00
I am very aware that the US Air Force / Space Force monitor’s trajectories and calls satellite owners when there is an anticipated collision but that method doesn’t scale, especially with orders of magnitude more satellites in the same LEO shells.

And it still doesn’t solve the problem of a cascade causing shrapnel density to increase in an orbit shell which then causes satellites to use some of their scarce maneuver budget to avoid collision. But as soon as a satellite exhausts that budget, it becomes fodder for the shrapnel cascade.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 22:08:10+00:00
https://openelectricity.org.au/

https://bsky.app/profile/davidosmond.bsky.social/post/3mdysi...

https://reneweconomy.com.au/near-100-pct-renewable-electrici...

https://www.energy-storage.news/australias-grid-forming-batt...
by wellwelloctober | 2026-02-04 22:08:27+00:00
To be clear, my main point here is that people seem to be in total denial that The Washington Post has been in decline for a while. Of course I don't wish being fired on anyone, but I don't think that it really has much value as a journalistic periodical at this point. Perhaps it happened while Bezos was in charge, perhaps it didn't, but I don't think all the staff there and who just got laid off have been producing a great product.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-04 22:08:30+00:00
> Here’s the thing: I don’t read code anymore. I used to write code and read code. Now when something isn’t working, I don’t go look at the code.

Recently I picked a smallish task from our backlog. This is some code I'm not familiar with, frontend stuff I wouldn't tackle normally.

Claude wrote something. I tested, it didn't work. I explained the issue. It added a bunch of traces, asked me to collect the logs, figured out a fix, submitted the change.

Got bunch of linter errors that I don't understand, and that I copied and pasted to Claude. It fixed something, but still got lint errors, which Claude dismissed as irrelevant, but I realized I wasn't happy with the new behavior.

After 3 days of iteration, my change seems ok, passed the CI, the linters, and automatic review.

At that stage, I have no idea if this is the right way to fix the problem, and if it breaks something, I won't be able to fix it myself as I'm clueless. Also, it could be that a human reviewer tells me it's totally wrong, or ask me questions I won't be able to answer.

Not only, this process wasn't fun at all, but I also didn't learn anything, and I may introduce technical debt which AI may not be able to fix.

I agree that coding agents can boost efficiency in some cases, but I don't see a shift left of IDEs at that stage.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-04 22:08:34+00:00
> The time will come when it’s rational for powerful people to make a stand -

Stand for what? They all seem to gain from this so I am not sure where your logic is coming from.

> According to the pattern, society has to go through a dark time first.

This sounds like a stereotypical hollywood story and not an actual thoughtful response to what is actually going on.
by projectazorian | 2026-02-04 22:08:42+00:00
To be fair, over the past year I've scaled my cannabis use way back and my memory is definitely better. But only like 30% better, which is nice but not a night and day difference. (Memory issues were not why I stopped.)

On the other hand, there's a certain creative groove that's a lot harder to get into now. So there's a tradeoff.
by input_sh | 2026-02-04 22:08:58+00:00
Cool, Thiel is still to blame.

That is the only business model of neobanks: be more incompetent than traditional banks, skirt the laws as much as you can get away with by being "new", raise prices through the roof once you have enough suckers because you have "better UX", raise the prices even further once traditional banks catch up and convince a certain percentage of your users to switch back, shut down entirely once you've burned through the market and cannot convince anyone new to use you.
Show HN: I stopped trying to sleep on long-haul flights
by Zaleo | 2026-02-04 22:09:36+00:00
Most advice about long-haul flights focuses on sleeping better.
After years of trying (and failing), I realized the problem wasn’t discipline or gadgets — it was the goal itself.
Sleeping well on planes, especially in economy class, is often unrealistic. Chasing it creates frustration and usually makes fatigue worse.
I started reframing the problem around “functional arrival” instead:
being able to think clearly, have usable energy, and not lose the first day after landing.
I wrote down the framework I now use — focused on posture, sensory stability, timing, and post-arrival decisions — and published it as a long-form article.
This is not medical advice, not biohacking, and not a promise of perfect sleep.
It’s a way to make better decisions under fatigue.

Happy to hear feedback or criticism.
by brikym | 2026-02-04 22:09:38+00:00
I can see three forms of competition here:

- A company vibe codes their own app to replace a SaaS. Great when they only wanted a small chunk of the functionality.
- Startups benefitting from AI coding are copying mature SaaS companies and competing on price.
- Mature SaaS companies are branching out into each others domains. Notion is doing email. Canva is doing an office suite.
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-04 22:10:03+00:00
The skills required to perform as a software engineer in an environment where competent AI agents is a commodity has shifted. Before it was important for us to be very good as reading documentation and writing code. Now we need to be very good at writing docs, specs and interfaces, and reading code.

That goes a bit against the article, but it's not reading code in the traditional sense where you are looking for common mistakes we humans tend to make. Instead you are looking for clues in the code to determine where you should improve in the docs and specs you fed into your agent, so the next time you run it chances are it'll produce better code, as the article suggests.

And I think this is good. In time, we are going to be forced to think less technically and more semantically.
by xienze | 2026-02-04 22:10:04+00:00
> I guess I'm ignorant but why do we continue overspending worldwide?

Social programs are popular with voters (well, the ones who benefit from them without paying sticker price), no one ever wants to take a step backwards in lifestyle (especially government employees), and there’s an unwavering belief that any amount of spending is “fine”, all we need are those damned rich people to pay their fair share.
by chmaynard | 2026-02-04 22:10:48+00:00
I admire what you are doing. It obviously serves you well and you hope it helps others.

I'm familiar with how to import CSV data with SQLite and I could probably learn how to do it with DuckDB with ease. Your tool introduces a new and rather shallow abstraction layer with commands that work for both databases.

The world needs tools that provide a great deal of utility, are trustworthy, and keep getting more reliable and capable. I'm not sure that yours will qualify.
by mindslight | 2026-02-04 22:10:58+00:00
While this has some valid points, constructively addressing these issues is clearly not the political thrust of the destructionists who wish to simplistically downplay the history rather than framing it in a more productive manner.

Also the condemnation of "treats political disagreement as moral evil" landed harder back before the other tribe decided to embrace the dynamic and fortify their political stances with blatant immoral evil. Totalitarian terror squads attacking American society to start a civil war and break up the leader of the western world? Pretty fucking evil.
by CharlesW | 2026-02-04 22:11:26+00:00
AI-assisted coding is not a black box in the way that managing an engineering team of humans is. You see the model "thinking", you see diffs being created, and occasionally you intervene to keep things on track. If you're leveraging AI professionally, any coding has been preceded by planning (the breadth and depth of which scale with the task) and test suites.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-04 22:11:27+00:00
You use outdated information. Modern Lightning, a layer 2 solution based on Bitcoin, does Bitcoin transactions in less than a second for less than any Visa fee. More to it, you can send transfers of less than 10satoshis (less than a cent) for fees in the millisatoshi range on an economical scale. Visa/Mastercard won't ever offer transfer fees of less than fixed 10cent per transaction, making micropayments impossible, and 1$ payments super expensive (more like 20cent fees on the dollar). That is one of the reasons why W3C web payments API was cancelled.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 22:11:39+00:00
Cause IQ describes the funders of this research as, "The Melvin and Betty Fine Foundation promotes Zionism, Jewish education, and the US-Israel relationship through various programs that work towards these goals." https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/melvin-and-betty-fine-...

I think it's warranted to be skeptical of the research.
by sempron64 | 2026-02-04 22:12:28+00:00
I think the mistake here is that there is a certain rate of progress where humanity can no longer even collectively process the progress and it is equivalent to infinite progress. This point is the singularity and requires non-human driven progress. We may or may not reach that point but full automation is a requirement to reach it. We may hit a hard wall and devolve to an s-curve, hit a maximum linear progress rate, hit a progress rate bounded by population growth and human capability growth (a much slower exponential), or pass the 1/epsilon slope point where we throw up our hands (singularity). Or have a dark age where progress goes negative. Time will tell.
by tines | 2026-02-04 22:12:30+00:00
Not the point of the article, but just responding to the headline: LLMs are a space to think in the same way that watching television is a space to think. Some people may think while watching TV, maybe many of the people reading this watch TV this way, but most will not. In fact, television mostly acts as a soporific, killing intelligent thought and numbing the mind against any sort of complex cognition. Same with LLMs. They're a space to sleepily watch someone else think.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-04 22:12:39+00:00
Remember though this forum is full of people who consider code objects when it's just state in a machine.

We have been throwing away entire pieces of software forever. Where's Novell? Who runs 90s Linux kernels in prod?

Code isn't a bridge or car. Preservation isn't meaningful. If we aren't shutting the DCs off we're still burning the resources regardless if we save old code or not.

Most coders are so many layers of abstraction above the hardware at this point anyway they may as well consider themselves syntax artists as much as programmers, and think of Github as DeviantArt for syntax fetishists.

Am working on a model of /home to experiment with booting Linux to models. I can see a future where Python in my screen "runs" without an interpreter because the model is capable of correctly generating the appropriate output without one.

Code is ethno objects, only exists socially. It's not essential to computer operations. At the hardware level it's arithmetical operations against memory states.

Am working on my own "geometric primitives" models that know how to draw GUIs and 3D world primitives, text; think like "boot to blender". Rather store data in strings, will just scaffold out vectors to a running "desktop metaphor".

It's just electromagnetic geometry, delta sync between memory and display: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2987/1/...
by ugotsta | 2026-02-04 22:12:52+00:00
Wow, the website excels at showcasing the framework!

What are compiled binaries like with this and Dart? I've been building a sort of similar framework and engine in Nim, mostly because I can get binaries under 200Kb. I looked into implementing the concept in other languages but don't recall much with Dart.

Also, how does this carry over to Flutter? Is this similar enough that minimal changes would be needed to move a TUI app into Flutter's graphical domain?
by csallen | 2026-02-04 22:13:33+00:00
> Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output.

The output of code isn't just the code itself, it's the product. The code is a means to an end.

So the proper analogy isn't the photographer not looking at the photos, it's the photographer not looking at what's going on under the hood to produce the photos. Which, of course, is perfectly common and normal.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-04 22:13:43+00:00
Thanks, that was generally how I interpreted the article.

The issue was the terms. There was a lot of logic inversion that someone who's much more familiar with the terms could probably follow, especially when trying to understand how an investment in Microsoft was loosing value when the investment was from a loan in yen.

Likewise, the end of the article uses a lot of abbreviations, especially when referring to Australian currency, which I just don't understand at all.