MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-05 14:23:33+00:00
>With technological improvements, we could work far less than we do and enjoy a nice quality of life.

The current allocation of who does and who does not have to work and how much they have to work is suboptimal, and one of the reasons for societal decay.

>And the 2nd question looks like American propaganda where if you don’t spend trillions and trillions on defense, the Chinese, Russian, whatever boogeyman will get you.

There are multiple examples of the Chinese, Russian, Americans, and other boogeymen "getting" others in my short lifetime of 40 years.

Either way, there's highly undesirable work that has to be done for many societies, whether it be cleaning sewers, farming in humid, hot weather, and educating one's self for 30 years just to do surgery at 2AM, and clean up the fluids and mess of that surgery. If only some people have to do that and not others, it obviously brings up questions of fairness, so the fair alternative is everyone has to work for a certain quality of life (which is not currently true for those with >$x assets).
by danelski | 2026-02-05 14:23:41+00:00
The 'who was there first' game doesn't make sense because neither of them created this term. One is older, the other is a company worth over seven billion euros and one of the biggest marketplaces in Europe. I'd argue that it has wider brand recognition because of that, but ultimately it all comes down to your background. I'd expect the number of people in the US who heard about it in context of the game library to be larger than for Allegro.eu and at the same time smaller than the original meaning.
by squeefers | 2026-02-05 14:23:44+00:00
I suspect hes designed a system for HIS company, which is in a data heavy industry. this doesnt apply to most other types of company, and I suspect when he tries to actually do it, it falls apart when he tries to define any requirement or obligation that stems from legislation. If the law was a coherent and unambiguous specification, thered be no problem, but the reality of it is messy and not so easily defined.
Show HN: Lightweight embedded document database in Rust with ACID and MVCC
by sohzm | 2026-02-05 14:24:18+00:00
i wanted a db that is like sqlite but it should be a document db, so here i made it, (i asked chatgpt to summarize feats): Here’s a lightweight, embedded document DB in Rust with ACID transactions + MVCC (snapshot isolation; reads don’t block writes). Features: JSON docs (auto IDs, upsert, CRUD); copy-on-write B-tree engine with single/compound/unique indexes; WAL with CRC32 + crash recovery + auto-checkpointing; query language (and/or/not, comparisons, exists/has) w/ dot-notation; aggregation pipeline (match/sort/limit/skip/project/exclude + group/count/sum/avg/min/max); full-text search (unicode tokenization + TF-IDF); change streams; bulk ops; schema validation (JSON Schema); backup/restore; MVCC GC; read-only mode; LRU page cache; metrics; language bindings (Go/Python/JS via C FFI). Repo: https://github.com/sohzm/jasonisnthappy
by buildsjets | 2026-02-05 14:24:22+00:00
Unlike all the other guesses here, I actually do have experience with manufacturing specialty aerospace fasteners similar in size, shape, complexity, and precision as these. These are most assuredly being manufactured on a specialty tool called a “Swissing Lathe”, or Swiss CNC machine, because that is the machine you always use to make parts like this. It is a multi-headed turret mill combined with a lathe that can continuously feed a piece of long bar stock and continually spit out fasteners. They were invented many years ago to produce extremely high precision small screws for watches, and in fact Citizen is one of the main vendors of these tools to this day. Based on my experience I would expect the cycle time for making this part to be 30 seconds or so.

Here’s a good video that eli5’s the difference between a Swiss screw machine and conventional CNC.

https://youtu.be/y3y0tATB0lg?si=pkYDT3BV0-6C-aq5

And here’s a video with a high quality soundtrack that shows how the machine combines automatic lathe cuts, mill cuts, and thread rolling without changing machines, swapping cutters, or re-fixturing the work.

https://youtu.be/MPAK5I1HJAw?si=fnMmjDp6ydYSDbfH

And if you need some specialty fasteners made and have an unlimited budget I can reccomed these folks.

https://centrix-us.com/
by ninja3925 | 2026-02-05 14:24:48+00:00
TLDR:
« Today, we’re introducing Frontier, a new platform that helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can do real work. Frontier gives agents the same skills people need to succeed at work: shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and clear permissions and boundaries. That’s how teams move beyond isolated use cases to AI coworkers that work across the business. »
by zihotki | 2026-02-05 14:24:55+00:00
The point they use is that our vision angles are fixed and if you sit too close you won't see the whole screen at once. What's the point of having bigger screen in that case? Also the angles of viewing won't let you see that juicy colorful picture at the sides even if you turn your head.

As for the cinema, there are a limited amount of seats where you can get the best immersion and they are in the sweet spot of screen size/distance
by reverius42 | 2026-02-05 14:25:38+00:00
> In a December 2013 email, Musk again wrote to Epstein saying, “Christmas and New Year’s, will be in the BVI /St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

> “I will send heli for you,” Epstein responded, with Musk writing back, “Thanks.”

> In a follow-up email on Dec. 25, Musk said, “Actually, I could fly back early on the 3rd. We will be in St Bart’s.” He asked if he and Riley should head to the island the day before.

> CNBC hasn’t confirmed whether Musk ever visited the Island, though Musk has denied ever traveling there.

> Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment.

To me “I will send heli for you” does not mean "being told no".
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-05 14:26:04+00:00
> yes you do need that many

You absolutely do not. what do you think about the website we are using right now! It has half of the problems listed above.

> facebook

Your work project doesn’t have a billion users.

We were talking about what it would take to fix the technical problems resulting from taking a working program to something people use.

> Any idiot can vibe code

I didn’t say that either.

How is it the HN opinion that it’s impossible to make a web application a lot of people use?
by lxgr | 2026-02-05 14:26:31+00:00
> key auth means the machine is authorized on your server

Not necessarily: Depends on whether your key is passphrase-protected and how your SSH agent is configured (if you use one). You can have the standard OpenSSH one ask you for confirmation of every key usage, for example.

> consider a vpn please

But also consider how you'll fix a broken VPN without SSH access.
by Hizonner | 2026-02-05 14:26:36+00:00
> apart from which website you logged on and when

Which is the whole damned problem, obviously.

> This quite literally the standard of Signal [1].

Yes, Signal is weak in a similar way. Although there is a difference between having to set up a bunch of wiretapping to do traffic analysis, and having the information handed to you on a plate.

> And this is of course assuming the worst from the national id implementation; any sensible law would require the id provider to delete all information as soon as the login is complete.

Assumptions that laws will be followed are out of order. Yes, you have the laws. Yes, you punish violations. But you still deal with the fact that violations will happen.
by bilekas | 2026-02-05 14:27:02+00:00
> The way work gets done has changed, and enterprises are starting to feel it in big ways.

Why do they say all of this fluff when everyone knows it’s not exactly true yet. Just makes me be cynical of the rest.

When can we say we have enough AI? Even for enterprise? I would guess that for the majority of power users you could stop now and people would be generally okay with it, maybe some further into medical research or things that are actually important.

For Sam Altman and microslop though it seems to be a numbers game, just have everyone in and own everything. It’s not even about AGI anymore I feel.
by piva00 | 2026-02-05 14:27:49+00:00
> Its the reverse. Most businesses exist to serve consumer needs. The state comes in and tries to regulate because of possible externalities caused by the business.

I agree, I should have phrased it as "big business" instead of just business, it's my mistake to not have been clear about that.

> The fact that businesses serve real demand of consumers means that most businesses don't go twards bad or show no empathy. It is in their interest to please the consumers. Ultimately the way you might see it is ideological.

Which leads me to this point, where I believe a lot of smaller to medium-sized businesses do need to provide good products for consumers to keep their edge. Where this starts to frail is when a business is too big, too detached from any controls, and instead starts to be the tail wagging the dog.

> The pushback against AI crucially misses the point that people actually want to use AI and their actual preference is such. What the left does here is assume (like you did) that by default, AI companies are bad and require regulation and pushback and they do it to an extent that is detrimental for everyone except the elites.

I don't disagree that people actually want to use AI, I do it and the tools have a lot of value. I disagree that big AI companies are not going to turn "bad" when given enough power, and I didn't mention regulation at all at this point, I said "caution, and planning".

> One might ask why? Why is it that the left wants, as a reaction, to curtail AI? It is ideological - assuming all businesses are bad by default. And also status quo preservation.

It's ideological, and dogmatic, which is why I disagree with the current position of the left for pushing back extremely without giving other avenues on how to develop it. I don't agree at all with pushing back without taking into account the reality: these tools are here to stay, their uses are still being discovered, we will settle into a new reality.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-05 14:27:54+00:00
> but I'm not happy I was prevented from buying fire sale assets.

This is another common misconception about bailouts: That if the government hadn’t stepped in, individuals would have been better somehow or been able to take advantage of a collapsing economy for personal gain.

You wouldn’t be buying fire sale assets and getting great personal returns. That would have gone to corporations, family offices, and people in higher tax brackets.
by rozab | 2026-02-05 14:27:59+00:00
>The eradication program works by offering cash rewards for reporting cases in areas where the worm is present.

I wonder how they prevented a cobra effect[0] here? Clearly they did avoid it since there were so few human cases. Or maybe some of the animal cases reflect this?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Effect
Show HN: One-file docs generator in 478 lines of AWK
by reconnecting | 2026-02-05 14:28:00+00:00
I struggled to find a docs generator that isn't itself a whole project to embed Markdown as offline documentation into our product.

Result: a single cross-platform, zero-dependency AWK script that converts Markdown to raw HTML.

478loc, zero JS/CSS/inline style, frameset navigation, contenteditable for copy & paste.

Demo: https://www.tirreno.com/hellodocs/

Input MD: https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/hellodocs/

Try it: git clone https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/hellodocs.git && cd hellodocs && awk -f hellodocs.awk -v title='Hello, Docs!' README.md
by somenameforme | 2026-02-05 14:28:05+00:00
You're granting an employee a special status that doesn't exist. Imagine a random person working to undermine a contract between the government and a business, motivated by an effort to obstruct law enforcement from enforcing the law. I'm sure you'd agree that this would obviously be illegal - that doesn't change simply because the person happens to be working for the business in question.
by aditgupta | 2026-02-05 14:28:13+00:00
Exactly right, and that's the core point. Users don't write PTL or ISLs.
Let's say you have customer interactions (fetched from Zoom) or product/research notes. The AI structures that into PTL automatically. You see clean, editable notes and visual wireframes + high-fidelity prototypes and prompts. The structured formats exist in the background for token efficiency and interoperability.
by estsauver | 2026-02-05 14:28:23+00:00
I have a hard time believing that the right move for most organizations that aren't already bought into an OpenAI enterprise plan is going to be building their entire business around something like this. This ties you to one model provider that has been having issues keeping up with the other big labs and provides what looks like superficially some extremely useful tools but with unclear amounts of rigor. I don't think I would want to build my business on this if I was an AI-native company that was just starting right now unless they figure out how to make this much more legible and transparent to people.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-05 14:28:30+00:00
Naive comment from a hobbyist with nothing close to $5M: I'm curious about the degree to which you build a "home lab" equivalent. I mean if "scaling" turned out to be just adding another Raspberry Pi to the rack (where is Mr. Geerling when you need him?) I could grow my mini-cloud month by month as spending money allowed.

(And it would be fun too.)
by franktankbank | 2026-02-05 14:28:32+00:00
I see it as a coup on the company. You have owners who get a skim off the top who probably set it up well at the start. Then you have Xth generation of job maintainers who now run the company and don't see much good reason to make the company prosper as it could effect their career growth/stability. Politics wins out over engineering when the original visionaries hand over the wheel. Owners are too wealthy to care too much, they can sell and retire at any moment.
by arnvald | 2026-02-05 14:28:34+00:00
It's all cool as long as you keep all of this up to date, and that requires a lot of scrutiny and discipline.

Once I had to go through a security audit at a job I had. Part of it was to show managing secret keys and who had access to them. And then I realized that the list of people who had access to one key was different than the list of the code owners of the service I was looking at, which was yet different than the list of the administrators of that service. 3 different sources of truth about ownership, all in code, all out of sync.
by tracebit | 2026-02-05 14:28:42+00:00
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by Twirrim | 2026-02-05 14:28:46+00:00
Pooling connections somewhere has been fundamental for several decades now.

Fun quick anecdote: a friend of mine worked at an EA subsidiary when Sim City (2013) was released, to great disaster as the online stuff failed under load. Got shifted over to the game a day after release to firefight their server stuff. He was responsible for the most dramatic initial improvement when he discovered the servers weren't using connection pooling, and instead were opening a new connection on almost every single query, using up all the connections on the back end DB.
EA's approach had been "you're programmers, you could build the back end", not accepting games devs accurately telling them it was a distinct skill set.
by quesera | 2026-02-05 14:29:10+00:00
This is a great read, but note that it's specific to Windows and Dell/Lenovo/Microsoft.

Apple does it different(ly), and I'd argue more securely. Being able to specify the full chain of hardware, firmware, and software always has its advantages!

Apple's fingerprint readers do not perform authentication on the device -- instead the data read from the sensor (or derivatives thereof) is compared to a reference which is stored in the secure enclave on the Apple silicon (Ax Tx or Mx) in the iOS or Mac itself.
by thepasch | 2026-02-05 14:29:10+00:00
Sometimes it feels like the advent of LLMs is hyperboosting the undoing of decades of slow societal technical literacy that wasn't even close to truly taking foot yet. Though LLMs aren't the reason; they're just the latest symptom.

For a while it felt like people were getting more comfortable with and knowledgeable about tech, but in recent years, the exact opposite has been the case.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-05 14:29:19+00:00
I have several computers attached to the screen and run Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Of these I think Windows has the best solution with a utility called Fancyzones (part of a collection called Powertoys). I can define areas of any size and shape and easily move windows around so they occupy the defined spaces.

In Linux I have used KDE, which has at least one similar mechanism which works fine too, but was more trickly to set up and configure.

Lately I have also been running hyprland more often and the setup actually works well with a tiling WM. You can tile many times before the windows get too small to be useable!

One thing worth mentioning is that it's kinda tricky to get 8k/60hz working under linux since the TV only does HDMI. I tried several 8k DP to HDMI adapters before I found one that worked. Windows and Mac work fine with a normal 8k HDMI cable.

On the mac I just use manual window management, since most of what I do on the mac tends to just use one main window anyway (garage band, lightroom, photoshop and such).
by vkazanov | 2026-02-05 14:29:58+00:00
Actually, this is a copy of the older version of interface with a few lines dropped. I failed to generate a decent gif last night, will add a screenshot.

Admittedly, while working on this, I did consult my LLMs advisor through gptel(https://github.com/karthink/gptel) with a few custom tools setup, which I cannot recommend enough.
by jerf | 2026-02-05 14:30:25+00:00
DNS naming rules for non-Unicode are letters, numbers, and hyphens only, and the hyphens can't start or stop the domain. Unicode is implemented on top of that through punycode. It's possible a series of bugs would allow you to punycode some sort of injection character through into something but it would require a chain of faulty software. Not an impossibly long chain of faulty software by any means, but a chain rather than just a single vulnerability. Punycode encoders are supposed leave ASCII characters as ASCII characters, which means ASCII characters illegal in DNS can't be made legal by punycoding them legally. I checked the spec and I don't see anything for a decoder rejecting something that jams one in, but I also can't tell if it's even possible to encode a normal ASCII character; it's a very complicated spec. Things that receive that domain ought to reject it, if it is possible to encode it. And then it still has to end up somewhere vulnerable after that.
by ramses0 | 2026-02-05 14:30:29+00:00
[2]: https://www.debian.org/events/keysigning

People should only sign a key under at least two conditions:

The key owner convinces the signer that the identity in the UID is indeed their own identity by whatever evidence the signer is willing to accept as convincing. Usually this means the key owner must present a government issued ID with a picture and information that match up with the key owner. (Some signers know that government issued ID's are easily forged and that the trustability of the issuing authorities is often suspect and so they may require additional and/or alternative evidence of identity).

The key owner verifies that the fingerprint and the length of the key about to be signed is indeed their own.

--

...debian is INDEED old-school and slightly derpy (see their use of the condorcet voting method), but it has boded extremely well for their longevity. Debian exists for its users, and its users are generally developers.
by nanamahendra | 2026-02-05 14:30:43+00:00
it is not a small personal conflict, it is two years of non-stop escalation,
gyrovague not only wrote the doxx, he is obsessively pushes it to the media:

2023: https://boingboing.net/2023/08/05/the-internets-other-archiv...

2024: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240326-archive-today/

2025: the FBI story on many news sites

all these media articles are about gyrovague, archive doxx here is only fuel to promote gyrovague's blog

it must be stopped somehow
by lachlanallen45 | 2026-02-05 14:30:52+00:00
OP here. I built Orthanc because I was frustrated with the latency of current vector DBs for agentic workflows.

It’s a persistent memory layer designed specifically for any ai agent (not just RAG). It captures the graph of interactions so agents actually 'remember' context over time, not just retrieve chunks.

The Stack:

Sub-200ms retrieval (beating standard vector/Pinecone benchmarks).

Hybrid Graph + Vector approach for context retention.

Open Source SDK / Protocol.

I’m open sourcing the retrieval protocol/SDK today so you can see how the memory graph is structured. I’m currently hosting the backend to manage the graph complexity, but the client is fully open.

Roast my code or let me know what you think.