MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runjake | 2026-02-03 17:30:02+00:00
I agree that the phone can draw you in because that is by design.

Where we differ is who’s responsible for what happens next. I am solely responsible for where I spend my attention. The tools I use are: adding friction, disabling the hooks and tactics and changing defaults so that less willpower is required, and, ultimately, if I can't make it work how I want, I get rid of it.

If I feel like something is working against me and I can't remedy that, it's gone.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-03 17:30:24+00:00
Is there a way I can tell why the forks were created, like the PR description? Even if there was, I would still want to see comments/discussions both from maintainers and the community so I know i'm not applying some shady patch.

I think you and others on this thread have the problem of not being able to ignore people. But that's your problem entirely. If you want a feature to silence PR notifications, by all means, I have no problem with that. You're taking out your notification annoyance by taking away a critical feature from your users. That's just petty and mean in my opinion.

Heck, does your email client not have the feature to auto-sort emails to junk/deleted? Is there any frustration you have beyond that?
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-02-03 17:30:34+00:00
I didn't like the existing SSH applications for iOS and I already have a local app that I made that I have open 24/7, so I added a screen that used xterm.js and Bun.spawn with Bun.Terminal to mirror the process running on my Mac to my phone. This let me add a few bells and whistles that a generic SSH client wouldn't have, like notifications when Claude Code was done working etc.
Show HN: Orchestrate Claude Code CLI from GitHub
by elondemirock | 2026-02-03 17:30:50+00:00
Hey everybody!

"Kiln" orchestrates Claude Code instances on your local machine using GitHub projects as its control panel.

https://kiln.bot

https://github.com/agentic-metallurgy/kiln

If you're around Stage 6-7 on the Gas Town scale, you may have 3-15 terminal windows open. You're out of screen real estate and the markdown files are piling up. TUIs and specialized IDEs are meant to help, but they're more things to manage.

Kiln simply polls GitHub projects. When you move issues from one column to another, Kiln invokes Claude Code CLI to run the corresponding /command.

Claude creates the worktrees, researches the codebase, creates and implements the plan. Stores it in GitHub Issues.

It's meant to be simple, nothing new:

- Use your existing claude subscription (no auth trickery, runs locally)

- All context and state is on GitHub (no markdown mess, no local DBs, easy recovery)

- Poll instead of webhooks/events (no external attack surfaces, works behind VPN)

- Supports MCPs and anything else Claude can do

That's the heart of it and it works because... it's just Claude :)

It's got a few more tricks, but I'll cut it short.

ps: sorry for fresh account, needed a real name one :) been lurking since 2008.
by aspizu | 2026-02-03 17:30:56+00:00
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by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 17:31:00+00:00
You phrased this as "many of the other concerns mentioned in the article", but this concern is not mentioned in the article, nor in the linked report. It falls on the article/report to make the case for its claims, not for charitable HN comments, and it fails to do so. The article highlights three specific concerns: that there is no ability for public servants to compel the redaction of personal data from public records, that there is no broad law preventing data brokers from selling information obtained from property records and court filings, and that there is no recourse to sue data brokers for violating local laws that do exist. All of those apply equally to private citizens, and therefore the claim that these problems are "unique" to public servants is not supported. Furthermore, these claims are the basis for which the report goes on to suggest making a carve-out in legislation specifically covering public servants rather than the general public for the problems it identified, when all of those problems should very much be addressed on a general basis.
by AlienRobot | 2026-02-03 17:31:27+00:00
Everyone is anti-copyright until they understand what copyright means.

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-03 17:31:42+00:00
He is literally flooding the zone, and it is working because we fall for the bait every time. This is how he manages to skate on the more odious actions, because until someone actually gets killed the public is desensitized to all the shrill "he's ending democracy" claims that sound faintly similar to, and about as credible as his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
by dust42 | 2026-02-03 17:31:53+00:00
KV caching means that when you have 10k prompt, all follow up questions return immediately - this is standard with all inference engines.

Now if you are not happy with the last answer, you maybe want to simply regenerate it or change your last question - this is branching of the conversation. Llama.cpp is capable of re-using the KV cache up to that point while MLX does not (I am using MLX server from MLX community project). I haven't tried with LMStudio. Maybe worth a try, thanks for the heads-up.
by spicyusername | 2026-02-03 17:32:12+00:00
Such a shame that so many U.S. citizens do not see the ramifications of their political decisions.

Each one of these actions is a stepping stone the world is taking as a direct consequence of U.S. political negligence. And however difficult it was to render this consequence, it will be tenfold, or hundredfold, as difficult to reverse course.
by aaronblohowiak | 2026-02-03 17:32:36+00:00
So if you are using multiple languages to have scripts that run off your pre-commit hook, this is like a package and language runtime management system for your pre-commit hook build system? Rather, I think this is a reimplementation of such a system in rust so it can be self contained and fast.

This is the kind of thing I see and I think to myself: is this solving a problem or is this solving a problem that the real problem created?

Why is your pre-commit so complicated that it needs all this? I wish I could say it could all be much simpler, but I’ve worked in big tech and the dynamics of large engineering workforces over time can make this sort of thing do more good than harm, but again I wonder if the real problem is very large engineering teams…
by IhateAI | 2026-02-03 17:32:47+00:00
Imagine thinking that $80k setups to run Kimi and serve a single user session is evidence that inference providers are running at cost, or even close to it. Or that this fact is some sort of proof that token pricing will come down. All you one-shotted llm dependents said the same thing about Deepseek.

I know you need to cope because your competency is 1:1 correlated to the quality and quantity of tokens you can afford, so have fun with your Think for me SaaS while you can afford it. You have no clue the amount of engineering that goes into provide inference at scale. I wasn't even including the cost of labor.
by 93po | 2026-02-03 17:33:11+00:00
You're quoting Canadian law.

In the US it varies by state but generally requires:

A false statement of fact (not opinion, hyperbole, or pure insinuation without a provably false factual core).

Publication to a third party.

Fault

Harm to reputation

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In the US it is required that it is written (or in a fixed form). If it's not written (fixed), it's slander, not libel.
by happytoexplain | 2026-02-03 17:33:16+00:00
Usually when I see this opinion (yours), it leans on an uncharitable coloring of everybody who sees problems with copyright as "anti-copyright", when really those people largely are happy with the concept of protecting an individual's work. I.e. it is the age-old "those people" argument, where "those people" are a made-up conglomerate of opinions that are real, but come from slightly different contexts and from different people, throwing away those variables to create the illusion of a hypocrite.
by johnspurlock | 2026-02-03 17:33:20+00:00
"Over the past year, we’ve seen a shift in what Deno Deploy customers are building: platforms where users generate code with LLMs, and that code runs immediately without review. That code frequently calls LLMs itself, which means it needs API keys and network access.

This isn’t the traditional “run untrusted plugins” problem. It’s deeper: LLM-generated code, calling external APIs with real credentials, without human review. Sandboxing the compute isn’t enough. You need to control network egress and protect secrets from exfiltration.

Deno Sandbox provides both. And when the code is ready, you can deploy it directly to Deno Deploy without rebuilding."
by timhh | 2026-02-03 17:33:25+00:00
I have also been working on an alternative written in Rust, but in my version the hooks are WASI programs. They run on a virtual filesystem backed by the Git repo. That means a) there are no security issues (they have no network access, and no file access outside the repo), b) you can run them in parallel, c) you can choose whether to apply fixes or not without needing explicit support from the plugin, and most importantly d) they work reliably.

I'm sure this is more reliably than pre-commit, but you still have hooks building Python wheels and whatnot, which fails annoyingly often.

https://github.com/timmmm/nit

The VFS stuff is not quite finished yet though (it's really complicated). If anyone wants to help me with that it would be welcome!
by airhangerf15 | 2026-02-03 17:33:48+00:00
It's exactly what Abraham Lincoln did .. actually he went further and sentenced some news paper owners to death (overturned after the war).

Lincoln was not a good guy or pro-American (anti-speech, anti-due process), but he's viewed positively only because he won.

and as far as the Washington Compost, we know from the Church Committee the CIA likely has operatives in there. So unlike Lincoln, there was no real need to raid WaPo. It was likely just for show.
by pc86 | 2026-02-03 17:34:01+00:00
Perhaps a uniquely American opinion, but employees can opt out quickly and easily by not getting paid by public funds. Most public sector jobs have private sector equivalents. If you want to help people find jobs and your privacy is important enough to make public sector work untenable, get a job with one of the private sector organizations that does that.

> elected officials...have to expose their street address to get elected. This generates real risk.

Is there an epidemic of local German politicians being harassed and assaulted at their homes?

I can think of no reason why constituents should not know where the people in power over them live. Elected officials should not be able to hide from their constituents.
by nickjj | 2026-02-03 17:34:11+00:00
Delta is great.

Fortunately you can create a git diff TUI using `fzf` and `git diff` with pretty much a 1 line shell script.

For example: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/gd

If you run `gd` or `gd --side` it will show you a diff.

Delta can be used as a git diff tool by configuring your git tools, such as: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/git/c...
by whywhywhywhy | 2026-02-03 17:34:37+00:00
Taking umbrage as if it matters how I use the compute I'm paying for via the harness they want me to use it within as long as I'm just doing personal tasks I want to do for myself, not trying to power an apps API with it seems such a waste of their time to be focusing on and only causes brand perception damage with their customers.

Could have just turned a blind eye.
by barddoo | 2026-02-03 17:34:37+00:00
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by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-03 17:34:54+00:00
I'm heavily anti-copyright. I don't think it should exist. However, as long as it exists, I want it to be applied consistently across the board: AI shouldn't get to use Open Source code while ignoring its license, until Open Source developers get to use proprietary code while ignoring its license. Ditto art, movies, books, etc.
by lproven | 2026-02-03 17:35:10+00:00
> I was playing with it recently in a VM

With the small caveat that I only use Word, it runs perfectly in WINE and has done for over a decade. I use it on 64-bit Ubuntu, and it runs very well: it's also possible to install the 3 service releases that MS put out, and the app runs very quickly even on hardware that is 15+ years old.

The service packs are a good idea. They improve stability, and make export to legacy formats work.

WINE works better than a VM: it takes less memory, there's no VM startup/shutdown time, and host integration is better: e.g. host filesystem access and bidirectional cut and paste.
by falloutx | 2026-02-03 17:35:26+00:00
Basically a rage bait. If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? In fact Anthropic is literally paying $1.5B on the copyright settlement, that indicates its completely a settled issue that AI companies have been violating this law. Some have been caught and fined, others are been lucky or that influence over the government.

> Copyright Law Was Built for Human Scale

No where in the law it has this kinda scoped limits. It has a time limit and scale doesnt not matter. Scale matter in a way that its gets harder to enforces buts that not the fault of copyright law. If you steal at a big scale, its still stealing.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-03 17:35:43+00:00
> In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history.

And in terms of legislative impact he is the least successful president in history. I don't like the corruption one bit, but on balance it is probably the less damaging of the two.

> He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality

Not at all, though, on any kind of permanent basis. He is showing that you can make the executive branch do shitty things with executive orders. What he isn't managing to do is codify any of this in law. There's a reason that the universities and other 'elites' knuckle under and cut deals with him -- they know that these deals are informal and temporary, and go away with the next POTUS. If Trump took this agenda to Congress and got it enacted into law it would persist for many more years.
by AlienRobot | 2026-02-03 17:35:47+00:00
It's not true. You don't need "authorization" to create a derivative work. You do need a license to distribute copyrighted works, including derivatives. And this only matters when you are distributing it to a sizable audience.

For example, if you rent a movie, you can watch it with your family. Nobody is going to sue you for distributing the movie with 5 people in your room. That's pure nonsense. Same with music, books, etc.

If you try to play the movie in an establishment with dozens of people, then it can become a problem, because you're essentially a theater now.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what the law is on selling fan art on a convention or even privately commissioned fan artwork. But things aren't as draconian as people assume it is.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-02-03 17:36:07+00:00
> It doesn't matter if that's AI generated, generated with the help of other humans or typed up by a monkey.

It doesn't matter how true this should be in principle, in practice there are significant slop issues on the ground that we can't ignore and have to deal with. Context and subtext matter. It's already reasonable in some cases to trust contributions from different people differently based on who they are.

> Splitting out AI into it's own entity invites a word of issues, AI cannot take ownership of the bugs it writes

The old rules of reputation and shame are gone. The door is open to people who will generate and spam bad PRs and have nothing to lose from it.

Isolating the AI is the next best thing. It's still an account that's facing consequences, even if it's anonymous. Yes there are issues but there's no perfect solution in a world where we can't have good things anymore.
by mmooss | 2026-02-03 17:36:11+00:00
The reality of expert witnesses is not that they are authoritative sources outside the courtroom, but witnesses for one party. It's a job - sometimes for people who didn't find much success in their field - and they are paid by the party that calls them to testify.

Everything in a US courtroom is adversarial; every witness is cross-examined and their credibility can be questioned.
by dr_zoidberg | 2026-02-03 17:36:27+00:00
Not sure about that, SSDs historically have followed base-2 sizes (think of it as a legacy from their memory-based origins). What does happen in SSDs is that you have overprovisioned models that hide a few % of their total size, so instead of a 128GB SSD you get a 120GB one, with 8GB "hidden" from you that the SSD uses to handle wear leveling and garbage collection algorithms to keep it performing nicely for a longer period of time.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 17:36:27+00:00
The idea that we should let government software run on our printers to prevent the rate case where someone both wants to print a gun and do some crime with it is absurd. There are more important 1st and 4th amendment considerations here

NYC doesn't have a gun problem. They regulate the shit out of guns to no effect. They should regress closer to the national mean and spend the resources on stuff that matters more. And even if they do want to regulate it, micromanaging everyone's 3d printers is not the way to do it both because of bad efficacy and bad precedent.

I'm glad there's an ocean between us.
by throwforfeds | 2026-02-03 17:36:32+00:00
Agreed, Anki has really helped me with learning new languages. The creation of cards was always a slog though, so recently I've been playing with an Anki MCP server hooked up to Claude. I can dump my iTalki lessons in, or ask Claude to make cards based on a song I've been listening to, etc and get a bunch of relevant cards generated for me. It's honestly been kind of magic.
by echelon | 2026-02-03 17:36:36+00:00
Doesn't matter. Nobody should have that power.

If a company is going to automate our jobs, we shouldn't be giving them money and data to do so. They're using us to put ourselves out of work, and they're not giving us the keys.

I'm fine with non-local, open weights models. Not everything has to run on a local GPU, but it has to be something we can own.

I'd like a large, non-local Qwen3-Coder that I can launch in a RunPod or similar instance. I think on-demand non-local cloud compute can serve as a middle ground.
by tech_ken | 2026-02-03 17:36:36+00:00
> So 3 years ago they managed to get to 10% of the power budget of one data center by accident, using satellites not explicitly designed for that purpose, using a partially reusable launch platform with 1/10th the payload capacity of Starship. My point is they've already demonstrated they can do this at scale.

How was it by accident? You make it sound like it was easy rather than a total revolution of the space industry? To achieve 1/10th of what they would need for a single DC (and most industry leaders have 5 or 6)? Demonstrating they could generate power at DC scale would be actually standing up a gigawatt of orbital power generation, IMO. And again, this is across thousands of units. They either have to build this capacity all in for a single DC, or somehow consolidate the power from thousands of satellites.

> Then why does each satellite have a 6 kW solar array? Re-read that post I linked; the analysis is pretty thorough.

You're right, my bad. So they're only short like 6 orders of magnitude instead of 9? Still seems massively disingenuous to conclude that they've solved the heat transfer issue.

> Gen 3 is reportedly up to 1 Tbps ground link capacity, for one satellite.[1] There will be thousands.

Okay I'll concede this one, they could probably get the data up and down. What's the latency like?
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-03 17:36:38+00:00
> Most people in my social circles are various flavours of anti-AI, and it drives me crazy how many of them, who were once stridently anti-copyright, are now using copyright as one of the great pillars of AI opposition

As the article has pointed out, it's not the principle that has changed, but the scale. Lots of things that are tolerable at small scale (e.g. lying, stealing) become disruptive to society at larger scale.

Copyright has been used in the past as a way for corporations to rent-seek and limit innovation. Now it may be the only legal means to stop them from doing that.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 17:37:15+00:00
> I can think of no reason why constituents should not know where the people in power over them live.

I can think of plenty of reasons. Political violence in democracies is on the rise globally, and not the sort of organized political violence that people might use to liberate themselves from the chains of oppressors, but rather the kind of lunatic political violence that is committed by irrational lone actors who are fundamentally mentally unwell.

I believe you can have political transparency without involving people's homes and families.