MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xl0 | 2026-02-02 21:00:55+00:00
SEEKING WORK
Location: Nomadic, Colombia at the moment
Technologies: PyTorch, Deep Learning, LLM, Diffusion models, NumPy, JAX (a bit), CUDA | SvelteKit, TypeScript, tailwind, drizzle | Linux (25 years), AWS, Docker, common sense
Email: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com
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I'd love to get back into Deep Lerning (torch, cuda, etc, etc), but also cofortable with the usual "Agenetic AI", whatever you want it to mean, and :heart: SvelteKit. In my past lives: Linux kernel development, Molecular Biology masters, Electronics engineering in Shenzhen.

Some cool stuff, or just check my gh:

https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors

https://chat.congusto.ai/chat

https://lovely-docs.github.io/

https://pelican.alexey.work/
by spijdar | 2026-02-02 21:01:04+00:00
Learn about what stuff? Linux? System V UNIX?

I haven't done LFS since my tweens (and I'm almost 30 now), but I remember the sysvinit portion amounted to, past building and installing the init binary, downloading and extracting a bunch of shell scripts into the target directory and following some instructions for creating the right symlinks.

Obviously, you can go and check out the init scripts (or any other individual part of LFS) as closely as you wish, and it is easier to "see" than systemd. But I strongly protest that sysvinit is either "Linux" (in that it constitutes a critical part of "understanding Linux" nor that it's really that understandable.

But setting aside all of that, and even setting aside the practical reasons given (maintenance burden), when the majority of "Linux" in the wild is based on systemd, if one wanted to do "Linux From Scratch" and get an idea of how an OS like Debian or Fedora works, you would want to build and install systemd from source.
by Xylakant | 2026-02-02 21:01:16+00:00
This exists, in german it's called Eisspeicherheizung. You have a few cubic meters of water buried in a concrete bunker and you use a heat pump to pull energy out of the water until it freezes. The system not only uses the thermal mass of the water, but the thawing/freezing energy which is higher than the energy required to heat water by 1degree by a factor of 80 - meaning if you freeze 1kg of water, you need to pull out enough energy to heat one kg of water by 80 degrees.

You can then use a heat pump that's optimized for the expected temperature range and you don't even need to insulate your water storage tank - you actually want the cold in winter to seep out into the surrounding soil, free energy.

In summer you have cold storage for your AC.
by michaelt | 2026-02-02 21:01:17+00:00
According to [1] the median Bay Area big tech worker earns $272k/year - or $130/hour.

According to [2] Uber drivers make $15 to $25 an hour, before expenses like fuel.

So while it's not normal it's certainly plausible that some people take taxis on a daily basis.

More broadly, as levels of wealth inequality rise in a given society, more people end up working in the personal service sector doing things like cleaning, food delivery, taxi driving etc.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-fra...
[2] https://www.triplog.net/blog/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-02 21:01:19+00:00
Countries that have reverted from democracy to authoritarianism/autocracy: Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, Italy, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

Countries that went that way due to coup: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Honduras, Italy, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Spain, Sudan, Thailand, Uruguay

Countries that have gone from democracy to partial erosion of democracy: Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Georgia, India, Israel, Mexico, Nepal, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, United States

There's a reason they called it the democratic experiment. We've had a good run, but everything ends eventually.
by hbn | 2026-02-02 21:02:02+00:00
I'm terrified to use any of these Windows debloaters or do anything that gets me too far away from the default intended way of how Microsoft wants a Windows install to be because it's always just a matter of time before an update breaks things or you get impossible to diagnose behaviour since you disabled something and a new "feature" was written expecting that something to be there.

Microsoft can barely make Windows function when you're using it as intended. I don't expect them to make it work after I messed with their semi-functioning mess.
by exvi | 2026-02-02 21:02:03+00:00
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by eesmith | 2026-02-02 21:02:04+00:00
The definition of terrorism is broad.

> The definition in 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5) is broad: acts dangerous to human life that violate criminal law, with apparent intent to intimidate civilians or influence government policy, occurring primarily within the United States. It sounds precise. In practice, applied to protest activity, it creates enormous discretion.

The drift starts with how an incident is viewed and interpreted, even if no laws are broken, simply due to how an investigation is carried out.

> Consider how the label functions operationally. Once conduct gets coded as “domestic terrorism,” cases flow through joint terrorism task forces rather than ordinary criminal investigations. Prosecutors reach for terrorism sentencing enhancements. Banks and tech platforms treat individuals and organizations as if they’ve been officially designated, even when no such legal designation exists. The government’s internal machinery shifts and with it, the tools investigators use and the questions they ask.

This is magnified when there is a crime.

Suppose I block an ICE vehicle. That's illegal. I know full well I'll do the time.

But what's the crime? I might expect a public-order misdemeanor. I'm ready for that time.

What if ICE agents say they feared for their life and were intimidated by my clear attempt to influence government policy? Is my act now criminal intimidation, where I will be prosecuted as a terrorist? Even if found innocent, prosecutions like this historically "diverted investigative resources away from genuine threats while traumatizing thousands of people whose only offense was their politics."

That lack of precision about what 'terrorism' means - a problem pointed out when the law was made! - combined with institutional pressure "to treat the current threat as uniquely dangerous and the old protections as luxuries we can no longer afford" causes that line to drift.

All quotes and the scenario come from the linked-to piece.
by elijaht | 2026-02-02 21:02:12+00:00
Pilots and surgeons surely have easily accessible bathrooms as a part of their workplace, no? They’re also compensated significantly more and (IMHO) given a lot more dignity

In my city public bathrooms are extremely rare and it’s not trivial to find one. I’m sure taxi drivers are a bit more in tune with where they are out of necessity but even then it’s no guarantee they can find convenient parking/be in the right place/etc.
by govmaspy | 2026-02-02 21:02:13+00:00
Mason | Software Engineer | Fulltime | San Francisco | thisismason.com

We're building an agent to manage single family rental properties across the United States. We currently manage ~4,000 homes, are growing quickly, and are looking for full stack, back-end leaning engineers who would love to contribute to a state of the art agent.

I've written a bit about our culture + product before:

-> What it means to be "in-person" with our customers: https://medium.com/@maspinwall22/being-there-5c167dd8b163 -> LLM Communications in the wild: https://medium.com/@maspinwall22/llm-communications-in-the-w...

If interested, reach out directly to me: michael@thisismason.com
by ghosty141 | 2026-02-02 21:02:16+00:00
I think a lot of AI talk doesn't explain where it shines the brightest (imo): Write the code you don't want to write.

I've recently had an issue "add VNC authentication" which covers adding vnc password auth to our inhouse vnc server at work.

This is not hard, but just a bit of tedious work getting the plumbing done, adding some UI for the settings, fiddle with some bits according to the spec.

But it's (at least to me) not very enjoyable, there is nothing to learn, nothing new to discover, no much creativity necessary etc. and this is where Codex comes in. As long as you give it clearly scoped tasks in an environment where it can use existing structures and convetions, it will deliver. In this case it implemented 85% of the feature perfectly and I only had to tweak minor things like refactor 1-2 functions. Obviously I read and understood and checked everything it wrote, that is an absolute must for serious work.

So my point is, use AI as the "code monkey". I believe most developers enjoy the creative aspects of the job, but not the "type C++ on your keyboard". AI can help with the latter, it will type what you tell it and you can focuse on the architecture and creative part of the whole thing.

You don't have to trust AI in that sense, use it like autocompletion, you can program perfectly fine without it but it makes your fingers hurt more.
by mancerayder | 2026-02-02 21:02:21+00:00
It's the movement, a vast Zeitgeist of evil, away from categorizing and organization, and towards Search.

I hate it. I was looking at how to fix the dark screen that resulted from turning on HDR in Windows 11, which some games need at the OS level for some reason, and Search was never giving me the Exact Keyword you need.

Search is always a guessing game, and you end up Googling the answer, it's so incredibly inefficient.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-02 21:02:32+00:00
Consider it in the realm of supply and demand.
The economics of software will change simply because the tool enables more software to be written.
In a way, the barrier of entry into the space of selling software has lowered. It hasnt vanished, but there will be many more entrants and offerings as a result, thus more competition for the existing SaaS companies.

I don't see how the economics of SaaS will remain the same when their value is formed of capital and labor expended, both of which require less now, so please explain how this doesn't lead to an increase in supply and a downward pressure on value?
by hnsr | 2026-02-02 21:02:51+00:00
Do you use Claude Code, or do you use the models from some other tool?

I find it quite hard to hit the limits with Claude Code, but I have several colleagues complaining a lot about hitting limits and they use Cursor. Recently they also seem to be dealing with poor results (context rot?) a lot, which I haven't really encountered yet.

I wonder if Claude Code is doing something smart/special
by cbfrench | 2026-02-02 21:04:05+00:00
The tech ban was not just about trying to create better individual learning outcomes or whatever; it was also a matter of respect to one’s colleagues in the class. I was teaching a discussion section of a larger class, so there was a minimal expectation that one would be attentive to what one’s classmates were saying. Allowing students to retreat into their screens effectively undermines the whole project and is, quite frankly, extremely rude to everyone else. That doesn’t strike me as overly “weird.”

If someone was entirely unwilling to be present and engaged or couldn’t go fifty minutes without access to a screen, that student could just be absent from class (with the consequent negative grade impacts).
by HobbstheTiger | 2026-02-02 21:04:39+00:00
Location: Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (US, researching Florida) Technologies: Python, Data Analysis, RF Engineering, Bioengineering, GMP/GAMP/ALCOA (Compliance), Inventory Control (NAV), Computer Networks, Cleanroom Protocols Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-hobbs/ Email: mail.shobbs+ai@gmail.com

Bioengineer and RF Engineer with a strong background in regulated environments (GMP/GAMP/ALCOA). I bridge the gap between hardware/lab operations and software data analysis. Experienced in Python for data analysis, inventory control systems, and maintaining strict compliance protocols in cleanroom settings. Looking for roles that require technical rigor in both engineering and data handling.
by isk517 | 2026-02-02 21:05:16+00:00
Even without national protectionism we are still experiencing isolationism, expect instead of it being done by nations in the interest of their citizens it is being done by corporations in the interest of their shareholders and it's leading to a dangerous amount of centralization as well.

Compatibility protocols are probably the best answer, allow individual countries to develop software they trust to interact with internationally accepted protocols and formats. As you said, good luck getting anyone to agree to anything. If email didn't already exist I don't think it would even be possible to implement today.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-02 21:05:18+00:00
A good litmus test is their position on solar panels, batteries, wind mills et cetera.

They'll save you money, increase your independence and increase your resilience.

Those are 3 core rural values. In practice, in my experience, most rural folk tend to be anti-solar. But there are a sizeable chunk of highly conservatively voting rural folk who are proponents of solar.
by devmor | 2026-02-02 21:05:41+00:00
As someone who lives in a city with a lot of Waymos (Atlanta), I do not understand why anyone considers these things more than an early test or a novelty.

From an outside perspective, they're constantly obstructing traffic and driving in erratic and confusing ways. It's gotten to a point that if I see one ahead of me, I'll turn down the next block and change my route to avoid being behind it and dealing with whatever slowdown its about to cause.

I took one once via Uber with some coworkers and it was also jarring to ride in. I'd rather take my chances with a random human.
by ggm | 2026-02-02 21:05:55+00:00
> at this time we are not entertaining any changes as such.

Always wonder what leads people to write like this. What does "as such" add to the sentence? At least "at this time" is temporally conditional to the future, it has purpose.

Entertaining is posh "thinking about" or "interested in" so had the merit of being one word in place of two but so is "considering"

Are we not entertained?
by ghosty141 | 2026-02-02 21:06:14+00:00
Yes they are, the fact that the agents have full access to your local project files makes a gigantic difference.

They do *very* well at things like: "Explain what this class does" or "Find the biggest pain points of the project architecture".

No comparison to regular ChatGPT when it comes to software development. I suggest trying it out, and not by saying "implement game" but rather try it by giving it clear scoped tasks where the AI doesn't have to think or abstract/generalize. So as some kind of code-monkey.
by kzahel | 2026-02-02 21:06:15+00:00
I'm also so baffled by this. I had to write my own app to be able to do seamless handoff between my laptop/desktop/phone and it works for me (https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere - nice web interface for claude using their SDK, MIT, E2E relay included, no tailscale required) but I'm so baffled why this isn't first priority. Why all these desktop apps?
by boldslogan | 2026-02-02 21:06:15+00:00
The death penalty should remain legal.
Yes/No

user clicks Yes. new one pops up
Show Results (button) or Guess which was more popular: Yes/No. This is more simple than guessing a percentage. but both could work.

So you then show the results and then you show the "meta" results which is like a "line" that is labelled where it shows what others thought of other people. The dead simple idea is a nice draw, this like...ah hah learning moment to learn or see more about the world I think is maybe a nice feature to add. to get more people to come back?
by its_magic | 2026-02-02 21:06:28+00:00
It's just HTTP only (no SSL) and there's nothing there. ... until now!

Here's some nice GTK3 patches for you:

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-disabling-atk-b...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-transparent-win...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-wheel-scrolling...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-appearance-tweaks-and...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-disable-mnemonics-del...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-file-chooser-tweaks.p...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-remove-dead-key-under...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-restore-old-context-m...

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-set-default-settings....

http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-show-alternating-row-...

Note that GTK 3.24.43 is the last version of GTK3.

My system is full of patches like this to tweak, improve, and adjust things. The point is to get off the "upgrade" treadmill and focus on making things work right.
Show HN: A Fast CLI for global fuzzy-search on Claude Code sessions
by Chronologos | 2026-02-02 21:06:36+00:00
Re-sharing since I made this repo private temporarily.

I run multiple Claudes at once in different folders, and after a while it becomes hard to manage/find specific sessions. cc-sessions gives fast, global fuzzy search over cc-sessions and allows you to resume/fork them easily.
Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
by NBenkovich | 2026-02-02 21:06:44+00:00
To make AI agents more efficient, we need to build feedback loops with real systems: deployments, logs, configs, environments, dashboards.

But this is where things break down.

Most modern apps don’t have fine-grained permissions.

Concrete example: Vercel.
If I want an agent to read logs or inspect env vars, I have to give it a token that also allows it to modify or delete things. There’s no clean read-only or capability-scoped access.

And this isn’t just Vercel. I see the same pattern across cloud dashboards, CI/CD systems, and SaaS APIs that were designed around trusted humans, not autonomous agents.

So the real question:

How are people actually restricting AI agents in production today?

Are you building proxy layers that enforce policy? Wrapping APIs with allowlists? Or just accepting the risk?

It feels like we’re trying to connect autonomous systems to infrastructure that was never designed for them.

Curious how others are handling this in real setups, not theory.
by dang | 2026-02-02 21:07:07+00:00
We phased out this regular thread a few months ago because most people were cross-posting between it and "Who Wants to Be Hired" (or, if they were seeking a freelancer, "Who Is Hiring").

I appreciate that you and at least a few other users have found these freelancer threads valuable and, if I can find a few minutes to look into it more closely, will consider restoring them. I'd prefer to have a solution to the cross-posting problem before doing that.

As for the latter:
I've moved a few comments that were posted here to the appropriate threads, but left the ones that had already been cross-posted and marked them as [dupe].
by fxwin | 2026-02-02 21:07:10+00:00
1) The first 2 links in the readme are 404s

2) I feel like the very first question this project needs to answer is: "Why should i use this over the official AWS CDK?" (assuming you want other people to use this). Besides maybe some nicer syntax I don't really see a reason to use this and lose all the (sometimes lacking) documentation, examples + community support that exists for CDK.

2.1) The listed benefits include "Use your favorite [...] type checker", but the example uses strings for specifying field types (vs. AWS CDK which would use enums, and is also "pure python") which immediately throws that out of the window
by DreamMan85 | 2026-02-02 21:07:11+00:00
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (EU)
Remote: Prefer on site, open to remote
Willing to relocate: Depends on location and role
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Astro, Vue, Node.js, Strapi v5, Supabase, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Auth (OIDC concepts), Docker, GitHub Actions, Figma, design systems, UX prototyping, UI architecture, content modeling
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-faccio/
Portfolio: https://www.dreamlab.solutions, https://www.mytradingwiki.com
Email: info@dreamlab.solutions

I’m a full stack UX designer and developer based in Amsterdam. I work across product design, design systems, frontend, backend integration, and internal admin tooling.

I’ve been building modular, multi-product platforms with a strong focus on maintainable architecture, clear separation of responsibilities, and reusable UX and code patterns. I’m comfortable shipping MVPs fast and iterating toward production quality with proper documentation and structure.

Looking for roles where product thinking, UX, and engineering overlap: full stack, product engineering, or frontend with strong UX and architecture ownership.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-02 21:07:15+00:00
Not useful very often, but fast and kind of cool: You can also just netcat the whole block device if you wanted a full filesystem copy anyway. Optionally zero all empty space before using a tool like zerofree and use on-the-fly compression / decompression with lz4 or lzo. Of course, none of the block devices should be mounted, though you could probably get away with a source that's mounted read-only.

dd is not a magic tool that can deal with block devices while others can't. You can just cp myLinuxInstallDisk.iso to /dev/myUsbDrive, too.
by fooey | 2026-02-02 21:07:26+00:00
This quote is amazing

> “AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it,” Ajit Varma, Firefox’s vice president of product, writes in the announcement. “We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.”

some people want nothing to do with AI

other people just want the AI to actually do something
by belter | 2026-02-02 21:07:27+00:00
Waymo is not solving driving, it is closer to a sophisticated Disney Parkland ride. It is running inside a tightly constrained Operational Design Domain:

- Geofenced areas

- HD pre-mapped roads

- Curated infrastructure

- Remote ops fallback

This is not general autonomy, it is highend automation inside a controlled distribution. The system degrades exactly where humans do not: construction, unmapped lane shifts, police manually directing traffic, chaotic mixed behavior.

A cop overriding a light is not an “edge case”, it is a semantic and social reasoning problem that current perception stacks still do not robustly solve.
It works because the world is pre modeled, not because the car understands driving.

Scaling that beyond a few mapped US suburbs into Europe is a totally different problem. Dont get fooled by Wall Street stock pumping.
by Reason077 | 2026-02-02 21:08:01+00:00
HS2 will be fantastic, transformative infrastructure… decades from now when (or if) it is actually completed.

The issue is that the project has been so badly mismanaged and costs have spiralled so far out of control that even the first small, incomplete section of it is now costing us 3X what the ENTIRE project was supposed to cost. It’s also at least 7 years behind schedule: when they started construction, stage 1 was supposed to open in 2026 - this year!!

Yes, NIMBYism is part of this, but catastrophic project management failure and a culture where contractors view the public purse as an limitless cash cow to be milked to the maximum extent possible have a lot to do with it too.

Bottom line is the UK is not good at building large infrastructure projects, and the bigger they are, the worse it gets. Complete rethink/reboot required.