MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rngfnby | 2026-02-03 01:08:44+00:00
I tried but they lied and told me it wasn't an option.

So I told them the sign above me said it was.

So she lied and told me my ID had to be issued within the past year (mine was 14 mo. old).

So I asked to speak to her manager.

So she told me to step aside and lied that she'd call her manager.

After waiting five minutes looking at her not call the manager, I started whistling the anthem, loudly, at a crowded major city airport.

The manager rushed over.

He asked what the problem was, and asked to see my ID. So he sounded it into the scanner triggering my picture.

He pretended that that was a mistake. So I told him he was really cute piece of work.

I filled a complaint with the TSA.

They answered that they took the incident very seriously and never followed up.
by cakealert | 2026-02-03 01:08:48+00:00
This is fairly naive, Elon isn't the only investor in SpaceX.

My guess is "that they did the math" and had an engineering study which convinced them that getting AI datacenters into space will make sense.

It's also not hard to imagine why, the process alone once perfected could be reused for asteroid mining for example, then mirogravity manufacturing, either of which alone would be enormous capital intensive projects. Even if AI dataenters in space are break-even it would be a massive win for SpaceX and leave their competition far behind.
by bsder | 2026-02-03 01:08:49+00:00
> Sounds to me like that found a valueable use for their land and got rid of the low value things you really enjoyed...

That would be the case if the storefronts didn't just wind up remaining empty. Empty commercial real estate is rife in the US right now.

Your "No Parking" area always has competition from the suburbs in the US. If you make parking too problematic, things can invert. Then, people will save up tasks for their trip to the burbs and be completely inert locally--they will do next to nothing with local businesses, do everything inside their house (way cheaper, you know, since I bought the stuff at Costco) and the car remains parked and unmoving until their next trip to the burbs. Once that inversion happens, your "walkable business area" spirals into more and more empty storefronts and the decline becomes ridiculously difficult to arrest.
by rionmonster | 2026-02-03 01:09:11+00:00
Somewhere between being obsessed with Dungeon Crawler Carl and thinking about Apache Kafka, the lines got crossed and I ended up writing a blog post over the weekend.

It dives into Kafka Queues, one of Apache Kafka’s newer features, and looks at how they help bridge the coordination gap when chaos is flying everywhere whether that’s in production or a fantasy dungeon.

Using an adventuring dungeon party as an analogy, the post compares traditional consumer groups with the newer share group model and explore why coordination matters when you’re dealing with uneven workloads, bosses, traps, and everything in between. In distributed systems (and dungeons alike), failing to coordinate usually ends the same way: badly.

Overall — it's a pretty fun high-level summary of the underlying idea behind them and includes a "strategy guide" of blog posts and other articles that dive into those concepts a bit deeper.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-03 01:09:39+00:00
I'm amazed at this kind of thinking. I get it, obviously, and it's not uncommon, but still.

Elon Musk has already revolutionized three industries:

1. EVs: Before Tesla, no one thought electric cars could be a mass-market product. And even today, the Model 3 and Model Y are at the top of almost all sales lists.

2. Orbital Launch: No one expected Space X to succeed. What does a software guy know about real engineering? But today, re-usable rockets are the way of the future, and Space X is at least 5 to 10 years ahead of any other company.

3. Satellite Communications: Every single major military power is trying to deploy their own version of Starlink. Before Starlink, 50 satellites was considered a big constellation. Starlink has 8,000 satellites and they are literally launching hundreds every month.

I know it's impossible to prove a counter-factual, but I'm convinced that none of these three would have happened without Elon. No other Western car company has (even now) produced a profitable EV. No other space company has prices as low as Space X. No one even has the capability to build a Starlink competitor (not yet at least). Without Elon pushing these projects, they simply would not have happened or would have happened decades later (after China or someone else beat us to it).

Even his not-yet-successful projects are far beyond most other companies:

Boring Company has actually built tunnels and passengers are actually riding it. No one else is even trying.

Neuralink has actually helped patients.

Tesla FSD actually does work (I use it all the time), and even if Waymo is ahead, Tesla is easily in second place.

I 100% get the hatred for Elon Musk. His political positions are absolutely worth criticizing and I cringe most of the time he tweets. But to deny his business and engineering ability is just motivated reasoning.

Such illusions are ultimately self-defeating. The more opposed one is to Elon Musk (in business or politics) the more important it is to see his capabilities clearly.
by yowlingcat | 2026-02-03 01:10:11+00:00
What I don't understand is why Gemini is not #1, other than that Google has no economic reason to have the same fire under its ass to be #1 as Anthropic and OpenAI. Or maybe they are correctly assessing that getting to good enough and out-building infrastructure is more valuable; they do have their TPUs as bets on their future and their search monopoly today to print nearly endless free cash flow. Perhaps Gemini is advancing at exactly the right rate for them.

I guess there is one thing that Gemini is objectively better at than either, which is long context, and it does seem to be by an order of magnitude. What boggles my mind is why Gemini is still not as good as the open weight frontier models yet. If they got just to parity with that along with their existing long context and strong token pricing, they'd be able to take over the coding market. Are they just biding their time to make their move? Hard to discern.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-03 01:11:19+00:00
I believe you, and that doesn't change my stance. The segregationist South doesn't represent this country. It represents the remains of a racist Confederacy that was destroyed, save for the ideology that persists in the hearts of those that choose to continue to deny what this country has always been about.

Do we include you in support of that ideology? I worry that you might be missing the irony of your argument.
by yowlingcat | 2026-02-03 01:12:02+00:00
Just came across SST the other day and it looks very interesting. It looks like it's based on Pulumi, so it begs the question for me of why does it exist? Structurally it doesn't seem to be that different in capabilities. Perhaps it is more that it is a more opinionated subset that has better ergonomics. Is that correct, or is the reason different for you?
by jfengel | 2026-02-03 01:12:28+00:00
Inventing categories is what the court does. The Constitution is incredibly brief, and gives zero guidance on how to clarify conflicts. It has always been full of "common sense" exceptions, like criminalizing threats (despite the unqualified "freedom of speech" language) or probable cause (police can invade your house if they know you are committing a crime right now).

The sum total of these "common sense" exceptions, and the "legal reasoning" that extends them to the modern world, means that the document itself doesn't actually mean anything. Your rights, such as they are, consist of literally millions of pages of decisions, plus the oral tradition passed down in law schools.
by coldtea | 2026-02-03 01:12:48+00:00
>Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years.

I see complains about RAM and slugginess against Slack and countless others Electron apps every fucking day, same as with Adobe forcing web rendered UI parts in Photoshop, and other such cases. Forums are full of them, colleagues always complain about it.
by reverius42 | 2026-02-03 01:12:52+00:00
A lot of people who are a little bit ignorant think it's really easy to cool things in space because space is notoriously very cold.

Physics, it turns out, is slightly more complicated than this and it turns out vacuum is an incredibly good insulator and more (much more) than offsets the temperature differential in terms of how easy it is to cool something.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-03 01:13:01+00:00
> Why would satellites be manufactured on the moon? There's nothing on the moon. The raw materials would have to be ferried over first. What would be the point?

From lunar regolith you would extract: oxygen, iron, aluminum, titanium, silicon, calcium, and magnesium.

From the poles you can get fuel (water ice -> water + hydrogen + oxygen).

The real constraint is not materials, but rather power generation, automation reliability, and initial capital investment.

So you have to shuttle machines, energy systems, and electronics.

The moon can supply mass, oxygen, fuel, and structure.

Satellites that would benefit most are: huge comms platforms, space-based power satellites, large radar arrays, deep-space telescopes, etc.
by cedws | 2026-02-03 01:13:09+00:00
Wow, first one in a week!

I think they've just stopped caring about the consequences at this point, they know they have enough market dominance and lock-in that they can go down as often as they like.

Besides the frequent outages, GitHub is largely being left to rot because they're distracted by AI. Actions is a security catastrophe. I can't point to a single feature that they've shipped in the past year that pushes the bar.
by ghc | 2026-02-03 01:13:11+00:00
I found that surprising, so I looked on Wikipedia.

Soyuz-2 capacity to LEO: 8,600KG

Falcon 9 capacity to LEO: 22,800KG when expended, 17,500KG when not.

Soyuz-2 Cost to Launch: $35 Million

New Falcon 9 Cost to Launch: $70 Million

Used Falcon 9 Cost to Launch: $50 Million (cost to SpaceX: ~$25 Million)

Soyuz-2 cost per KG: $4000 (data from 2018)

New Falcon 9 cost per KG: $964 when expended, $1250 when not.

Use Falcon 9 coster per KG to Customer: $893 when expended, $690 when not

So realistically, Falcon 9 is roughly 20-30% the price per KG when new, and dropping to a minimum of 17.25% of the price when used.

Plus you get a larger diameter payload fairing and the ability to launch a payload up to 4X the size.

I'm pretty sure that even used as an expendable rocket, 1/4 the price per KG (if you need the capacity) is a pretty significant improvement. Now I understand why satellite ride-shares are so popular!
by runarberg | 2026-02-03 01:13:52+00:00
a) I don’t believe you, and

b) This is exactly the kind of urban legend which tends to proliferate in human society, a cute lie which sounds believable. Like prostitution being the oldest profession, and the great wall of China being the only human made structure visible from space.

The story of the Internet is that it was developed in the mid to late 1960s by a couple of Universities in America and used by the US military to share resources across mainframes in each institution, as well as across institutions. Since then them main driver of innovation has been among universities and telecommunication companies finding optimal ways to deliver packages across telephone cables, antenna, satellites, etc.

The story of the Web is that it was developed in 1989-1991 to organize and link documents at the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland. Since then the main driver for innovations has been browser vendors competing and collaborating in developing browser technologies such that users pick their browser over the competition.

I don‘t know the story of online payment systems, but I bet the main drivers were companies opining up stores on the web and looking to replace pay by wire schemes over the telephone, and a bunch of start-ups who were able to find that market niche, developed software and sold it to those stores. The main driver of innovation here being start-ups. Porn sites and Gambling sites were no more important to that story as any other stores who sold art, golf-clubs, flight tickets, or hotel bookings.
by atombender | 2026-02-03 01:14:08+00:00
That was a very intentional strategy. In hindsight, not a good one, of course, but Plus and its integration across the whole company was blessed by Page and Brin, who were quietly panicking that Facebook could eat Google's lunch by becoming the "start page of the Internet" the moment they integrated search. Which they never did and never appear to have wanted.
by iknowstuff | 2026-02-03 01:15:04+00:00
Tesla remains competitive in China, which can't be said of European EVs. Chinese ADAS are much better than European ones but still far behind FSD.

To bring the discussion back on topic: $50k/year or ~$250k over the course of the vehicle's lifetime, instead of $5k for a singular sale event, is why the path for the company is crystal clear. Cybercab is the same kind of step for Tesla as the Model 3 was back in 2017.
Show HN: Clod.ai – A Literal Wayback in Time Machine in Figuratively No Time
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-03 01:15:22+00:00
I discovered a free online Pomodoro timer in 2018. [1] I'd been a frequent user of it from then until it was decommissioned in early '25. I found it super helpful for timeboxing stuff within easy-to-commit-to intervals.

About a month ago, I started having really intense hunger pangs for it.

A few pages of the original implementation are archived on the Wayback Machine. A couple weeks ago, I got the idea to reverse-engineer it using those pages as a reference.

That's when I started researching what the Claude Code fuss was about. I wasn't then and am still not ready to spend money on AI. So, when I stumbled on the free Claud.ai, I figured I'd test it out on my reverse-engineering idea.

I used Copilot, Sourcegraph's Cody Visual Studio Code agent and ChatGPT a decent amount last year. More recently I've been using Gemini Code Assist. But this project was my first time ever using Claud.ai.

I guess Claude.ai in the browser uses React and Tailwind CSS for building web apps. I'm not a frontend developer. So, I had zero experience with either of those particular frameworks.

And that's the remarkable thing about the outcome. [2] Having zero experience with those specific technologies, I managed to successfully reverse-engineer a 95%-working online timer that's ≈faithful to the original, in my spare time!

Claud.ai in the browser turned out to be the perfect development environment for this particular experiment. Having the browser's Developer Tools handy was literally priceless for digging around in the HTML and CSS. Together with The Wayback Machine, that was hugely key to having Claud.ai (and the also-free Gemini CLI in later iterations) nail the original look and feel of the Marinara Timer as closely as I could.

I gotta say: Like all of my hobby projects, I took my sweet time on this one, too. Hobby projects are as much about learning for me as they are about the finished thing itself.

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/1SpicyTomater

[2] http://lingocoder.com/clod.ai/
Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-03 01:15:32+00:00
Especially interested in people using AI for brownfield development, but generally interested in if people are continuing down the spec driven path, or if agents + skills/prompts/mcp/agents.md/something else is filling the niche spec driven development was trying to capture.

Question was prompted by seeing spec kit have no commits for over a month an no obvious integration with GitHub’s new agents integration.
by caseysoftware | 2026-02-03 01:16:05+00:00
> So it was never about security at all then, was it?

Never was.

I flew every other week prior to covid and haven't once been through the scanners. For the first ~6 years, I opted out and got pat down over and over again.

Then I realized I could even skip that.

Now at the checkpoint, I stand at the metal detector. When they wave me to the scanner, I say "I can't raise my arms over my head." They wave me through the metal detector, swab my hands, and I'm done. I usually make it through before my bags.

Sometimes, a TSA moron asks "why not?" and I simply say "are you asking me to share my personal healthcare information out loud in front of a bunch of strangers? Are you a medical professional?" and they back down.

Other times, they've asked "can you raise them at least this high?" and kind of motion. I ask "are you asking me to potentially injure myself for your curiosity? are you going to pay for any injuries or pain I suffer?"

The TSA was NEVER about security. It was designed as a jobs program and make it look like we were doing something for security.
by smy20011 | 2026-02-03 01:16:07+00:00
I think It's not because AI working on "misaligned" goals. The user never specify the goal clearly enough for AI system to work.

However, I think producing detailed enough specification requires same or even larger amount of work than writing code. We write rough specification and clarify these during the process of coding. I think there are minimal effort required to produce these specification, AI will not help you speed up these effort.
by yesiamyourdad | 2026-02-03 01:16:17+00:00
They have copilot-cli, which is something like Claude Code, it's actually pretty effective, at least more effective than Copilot+VSCode.

I think in the end it's branding. They want people to think "Copilot = AI" but the experience is anywhere from fairly effective to absolute trash. And the most visible applications are absolute trash. It really says something when Ethan Mollick is out there demonstrating that OpenAI is more effective at working with Excel than the built in AI.

There was an article posted here yesterday that said "MS has a lot to answer for with Copilot", and that was the point: MS destroyed their AI brand with this strategy.
by quesera | 2026-02-03 01:16:22+00:00
> Greedy, ruthless and well-connected?

Sure, but that's not enough.

> These people are hardly genuises.

You're quite wrong about this. I know it's tempting to look at a damaged person and assume that they possess no actual extraordinary capabilities, but these people are very very smart. Surely they'd be top-tier HN. :)

(Defining "genius" is a whole nother thing, but using any common vernacular meaning, my statement will apply.)

Not all billionaires, of course. In context, we're talking about Ellison and Musk. There may be others implied. These people are in fact extremely intelligent. What's missing is not horsepower.
by mhpro15 | 2026-02-03 01:16:28+00:00
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by DCAlmond | 2026-02-03 01:17:02+00:00
Cool concept. I built something very similar [1] but as a native iOS app in an attempt to cut down on my doomscrolling, but it turns out it’s hard to get my brain to read plain text when there’s a plethora of dopamine overloading video apps available.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/egghead-scroll-learn/id6630364...
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-03 01:18:05+00:00
Because X and xAI are both losing money. X needed cash to operate, so Elon rolled it into xAI to use xAI’s cash to help fund it. xAI is likely burning egregious amounts money, but will have trouble raising more capital. By rolling it into SpaceX he further covers up the financial issues because SpaceX is actually profitable. He can then raise more capital without having to worry (for a while) about how awful the burn is…

I, by and large, have a strong dislike of Musk to put it mildly. The one thing I will give him, and I think this is his real gift, is he’s absolutely brilliant when it comes to raising capital. He has proven to excel at raising capital, and deploying it well, for extremely capital intensive businesses. I do however wonder if the chickens are coming home to roost because both X and xAI are extremely unprofitable.

I think it’s almost inevitable we will see Space X and Tesla merge. The conditions of that merger will, I believe, say a lot about whether this move was brilliant or batshit.
by dserban | 2026-02-03 01:18:08+00:00
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by belter | 2026-02-03 01:18:11+00:00
If you put human lives on the line, both on the shared public road and inside the Waymo then how the sausage is made totally matters, as directly applies to what the failures modes are. Safe from A to B only holds in ideal conditions and limited zones. The hard problems like rare edge cases, weather, unpredictable humans, are precisely why it cant scale easily.

If the tech was truly solved, Waymo would not be geo fenced or expanding so slowly.