MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lfx | 2026-02-04 19:50:10+00:00
Hey Collin!

Interesting idea, few things:

- The website tells less than your comment here. I want to try but have no idea how destructive it can be.

- You need to add / mention how to do things in the RO mode only.

- Always explain destructive actions.

Few weeks ago I had to debug K8S on the GCP GDC metal, Claude Code helped me tons, but... I had to recreate whole cluster next day because agent ran too fast deleted things it should not delete or at least tell me the full impact. So some harness would be nice.
by advisedwang | 2026-02-04 19:50:20+00:00
Companies, not begin sentient, don't have values, only their leaders/employees do. The question then becomes "when are the humans free to implement their values in their work, and when aren't they". You need to inspecting ownership structure, size, corporate charter and so on, and realize that it varies with time and situation.

Anthropic being a PBC probably helps.
by johnvanommen | 2026-02-04 19:50:32+00:00
This is such a loaded question.

Because the fundamentals are basic:

Creating money out of thin air generally creates inflation, because theirs is more currency chasing the same amount of assets.

But the Devil is in the details, because there are hundreds of currencies, one currency can be exchanged for another, and interest rates vary all over the world.

Then once that starts to make sense, you open up a box called “derivatives,” and now the complexity just went off the charts.

I only need to understand it in the context of loans on assets, so I can do the math in my head or in excel. Occasionally I’ll vibe code this stuff in Python.

Because I’m not diving into the deep end of complexity, the books I absolutely LOVE are the cautionary tales of when it all blows up.

In that respect, I think “when genius fails” is an all timer.

Nearly everyone knows about the Great Recession, and the depression and the dot com bubble.

But the collapse of Long Term Capital Management was the canary in the coal mine.

LTCM blew up for all of the most predictable reasons, and as the name implies, nearly everyone involved in LTCM were at the top of their game.

Another book that is more folksy is “a man for all markets“, a book about the dude who revolutionized stock options, largely due to a fascination with Blackjack!

(The LTCM guys were big time gamblers too.)

https://www.google.com/search?q=a+man+for+all+markets+by+ed+...
by PrivateButts | 2026-02-04 19:50:42+00:00
ROCm is their CUDA-like and imo it's been a buggy mess, and I'm talking bugs that make your entire system lock up until you hard reboot. Same with their media encoders. Vulkan compute is starting to recieve support by stuff like llama.cpp and ollama and I've had way better luck with that on non-nvidia hardware. Probably for the best that we have a single cross-vendor standard for this.
by bombcar | 2026-02-04 19:50:49+00:00
Local is often the best way, especially if you don't have resources that would overwhelm them (donating $1 billion to a local food pantry would likely blow it up).

But get involved personally; attend meetings, talk to people in the community, get to know what is being done and by whom, and places where some money goes a long way will start to become clear. In my experience the all-volunteer places are often way underfunded and don't really know what they're doing beyond helping people; if you can help guide them it can be incredibly valuable.
by epolanski | 2026-02-04 19:50:58+00:00
In most muslim-majority secular countries it's more up to tradition than religion. You won't find wearing hijab that common in Albania, Kosovo, Indonesia or many of the central asian stans.

In Turkey or Jordan you will more often see hijabs, but most women don't wear it.

Hell, most muslim women in western countries do not wear it.

Thus, I don't know what kind of data backs your comment. Of course many women want to wear it and do. As a Turkish female friend of mine says: it's very convenient when you don't have time to do your hair to just wear an hijab. My, very christian, SO, too liked to wear it when in the middle east, as she liked the style and didn't mind blending with local customs.

But most women definitely don't want to have to wear it.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-04 19:51:05+00:00
Lobbyists at this point is just sports 'flood the zone' defense strategy gumming up the process everywhere so they can point and say 'look at it, government doesn't work'. Another form of the Reagan 'starve the beast' strategy to say 'look at it, government doesn't work'. I'm starting to feel the same with speech online. Capitalism and other negative social elements working to undermine the social system that impedes them just constantly flooding the systems that assume/can handle the volume of/when all interactions are in good faith but can't designed to handle malicious flooding.

Our society has an IRC/USENET problem.
by seg_lol | 2026-02-04 19:51:32+00:00
I think harder while using agents, just not about the same things. Just because we all got a super powers doesn't make the problems go away, they just move and we still have our full brains to solve them.

It isn't all great, skills that feel important have already started atrophying, but other skills have been strengthened. The hardest part is in being able to pace onself as well as figuring out how to start cracking certain problems.
by ghostly_s | 2026-02-04 19:51:51+00:00
Have ignored the flood of "Clawdbot" stuff on here lately because none of it seemed interesting but read this and skimmed the docs and I'm leaving puzzled- I understand "Clawdbot" was renamed "OpenClaw" due to trademark...yet I'm finding currently three different websites for apparently the same thing?

1. https://openclaw.ai/ [also clawd.bot which is now a redirect here]

2. https://clawdbot.you/

3. https://clawdbotai.org/

They all have similar copy which among other things touts it having a "local" architecture:

"Private by default—your data stays yours."

"Local-First Architecture - All data stays on your device. [...] Your conversations, files, and credentials never leave your computer."

"Privacy-First Architecture - Your data never leaves your device. Clawdbot runs locally, ensuring complete privacy and data sovereignty. No cloud dependencies, no third-party access."

Yet it seems the "local" system is just a bunch of tooling around Claude AI calls? Yes, I see they have an option to use (presumably hamstrung) local models, but the main use-case is clearly with Claude -- how can they meaningfully claim anything is "local-first" if everything you ask it to do is piped to Claude servers? How are these claims of "privacy" and "data sovereignty" not outright lies? How can Claude use your credentials if they stay on your device? Claude cannot be run locally last I heard, am I missing something here?
by jmyeet | 2026-02-04 19:52:01+00:00
To dismiss the impact of economic sanctions is at best intellectually dishonest. Economic sanctions aren't a natural disaster. Somebody is imposing them. Who, exactly? And why?

Also, US allies (ie Israel) can kill hundreds of thousands of people without any consequences. In fact, we bankroll the weapons they use to do it to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

So why are the documented atrocities of one country not an issue at all but the transgressions of another country worthy of starving that country for decades? What's different between these two? And who is making that determination?
by frisbm | 2026-02-04 19:52:13+00:00
and not even that, I'd narrow it further to not detrimental before and during the prime reproductive periods of a species. After that period, detrimental traits are totally fair game and more dependent on technology, culture, and family care dynamics. Heart disease later in life caused by genetic predisposition to high cholesterol isn't something people generally select for or against in a partner, but its effects happen later in life well after people have children so it passes on.
by sejje | 2026-02-04 19:53:34+00:00
Way cheaper to find a broken mower.

They're constantly sold dirt cheap in my area with very minor problems, like old gas. People don't know how to fix it, so they buy a new one and sell the old.

I bought four working mowers.
$500, $250, $220, and $200. One was missing a deck, one was running rough. Otherwise complete.

They're all craftsman, one vintage from the 80s.

We use one to mow, one to move the trailer, the old one mows but it mostly sits, and the last was a gift for my wonderful neighbors who are old and were still using a walk behind.
by raincole | 2026-02-04 19:53:39+00:00
> I agree the US is trending towards third-world mentalities. Statistics aren't good. >50% of Americans now see homeownership as out of reach

What lol. It makes no sense. The correlation between a country's GDP and home ownership rate is the opposite of what you're implying here. Usually in poorer countries more percentage of population own their own houses.

> Studies keep cropping up stating at 30-40% of young Americans will never marry

And this makes even less sense. Third-world is where new babies come from right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupancy
by MrTravisB | 2026-02-04 19:53:45+00:00
We actually do have an MCP server! Right now, it’s bundled as a package within our TypeScript SDK rather than being published as a standalone entity.

Just a heads-up though - it is currently in beta and hasn't been put through the ringer with exhaustive testing yet. We’d love for you to try it out, and we’re very open to feedback if you run into any issues or have ideas for improvement, please let us know!

Link: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/tabstack-typescript/tree/nex...
by bombcar | 2026-02-04 19:54:56+00:00
We also have the reality that "American charity" has done horrible things to poorer nations - shiploads of free American clothing has decimated African textile industries, boatloads of free American food has destroyed entire nation's ability to feed themselves.

The further away you are from the recipient the harder it is to see the second and third order effects. Local and small means they can be noticed, and things modified to change the outcomes.
by ymolodtsov | 2026-02-04 19:54:59+00:00
I like Safari's Reading Mode. It works practically everywhere, it's clean, and it looks great. I suppose that because Chrome's team prioritizes ads, they don't want one, so all their experiments in that area turned out badly (especially the one where you just get the raw page text in a sidebar).

Chrome Web Store has a bunch of options but imo none of them look good despite a million settings that they have.

Thankfully, Claude Code allowed me to build the exact extension I wanted. So here it is. It mostly uses Mozilla's Readability with some heuristics on top.
by johnvanommen | 2026-02-04 19:55:04+00:00
> One can make the argument that trump was elected because of OWS knock-on effects...

Absolutely.

And guys like Tim Poole got famous off Occupy, then parlayed that fame into building an audience for themselves.

The libertarians at OWS never went away, they just found new causes.

I was at the HUMONGOUS rally that Obama held in Portland in 2008.

The epicenter of OWS was based a few blocks away, years later, and reflected the optimism of 2008 hardening into frustration over Wall Street excess.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-02-04 19:55:37+00:00
Sadly, even if accurate, the exceptions (i.e. mean people who get power) can have an outsized impact because they don't respect norms and boundaries that prevent the worst abuses.

Also some strategies I'd call "mean" can be very effective: predatory pricing, monopolization, regulatory capture, disregarding externalities, lying, fraud, etc.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-04 19:56:18+00:00
> The logical leaps taken about voting for/against someone are troubling. The tropes around this are disturbing. The emotional vitriol around all of those are even worse.

Alright, the next step is to accuse everyone who might try to ground the discussion in truth that they must have TDS. I am not a huge fan of accusing one's opponents of projection, but man, sometimes it really does seem to be the most plausible answer.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-04 19:56:47+00:00
Lets assume an electrical consumption of 1 MW which turned into heat and a concommitant 3 MW which was a byproduct of acquiring 1 MW of electrical energy.

So the total heat load if 4 MW (of which 1 MW was temporarily electrical energy before it was used by the datacenter or whatever).

Let's assume a single planar radiator, with emissivity ~1 over the thermal infrared range.

Let's assume the target temperature of the radiator is 300 K (~27 deg C).

What size radiator did you need?

4 MW / (5.67 * 10 ^ -8 W / ( m ^2 K ^4 ) * 300 K ^4) = 8710 m ^2 = (94 m) ^2

so basically 100m x 100m. Thats not insanely large.

The solar panels would have to be about 3000 m ^2 = 55m x 55m

The radiator could be aluminum foil, and something amounting to a remote controlled toy car could drive around with a small roll of aluminum wire and locally weld shut small holes due to micrometeorites. the wheels are rubberized but have a magnetic rim, on the outside theres complementary steel spheres so the radiator foil is sandwiched between wheel and steel sphere. Then the wheels have traction. The radiator could easily weigh less than the solar panels, and expand to much larger areas. Better divide the entire radiator up into a few inflatable surfaces, so that you can activate a spare while a sever leak is being solved.

It may be more elegant to have rovers on both inside and outside of the radiator: the inner one can drop a heat resistant silicone rubber disc / sheet over the hole, while the outside rover could do the welding of the hole without obstruction of the hole by a stopgap measure.
Show HN: A TikTok-style research paper reader
by hajimi_hacker | 2026-02-04 19:56:51+00:00
I built this to solve a personal problem: I kept missing interesting new papers unless I deliberately sat down to search arXiv or manage alerts.

Most tools I tried (Scholar alerts, RSS, following authors) worked in theory, but in practice they often turned into inbox management or assumed a very narrow field. My work is interdisciplinary, and I wanted a way to notice new papers casually, in short moments, without committing to a full literature search.

So I built a mobile-first reader where papers show up as a feed. You can quickly swipe through recent papers, skim titles/abstracts, and give lightweight feedback (like / skip). The idea isn’t to replace deep reading, but to lower the cost of awareness and help surface things worth a closer look.

It’s still early and opinionated, and I’m sure there are tradeoffs I haven’t thought through. I’d love feedback on:

whether this discovery model makes sense at all,

how people here keep up with papers in practice,

and where this breaks down compared to existing workflows.

Happy to answer questions.
by ux266478 | 2026-02-04 19:57:34+00:00
What are you confused by?

> Ultimately it appears to be software with more fans than productive users.

Correct. You can swing productive usage of it in its current state, but it's still an experimental piece of software under active research and development. As it stands, it's more attractive to daily drive xorg as a default while keeping arcan around to hack on and experiment with.

It's been rapidly closing the gap towards usability over the last few development cycles. I can speak for myself as tentatively waiting for 1.0 before abandoning xorg totally, which is at least a few years away.
by bluGill | 2026-02-04 19:57:52+00:00
There are a number of different llms - no reason they all need to do things the same. If you are replacing web search then ads are probably how you earn money. However if you are replacing the work people do for a company it makes more sense to charge for the work. I'm not sure if their current token charges are the right one, but it seems like a better track.
by rendx | 2026-02-04 19:58:00+00:00
The context here is law and the specific categories within the law an activity needs to be argued to fit in, not perceived or real benefit to society in a broader sense. "Public education" is a broad category and it is proven to be accepted by German tax authorities for open source work.

Dependent on the project, other categories might work too. The list is in Abgabenordnung §52 ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ao_1977/__52.html ) / Fiscal Code Section 52 Public benefit purposes ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_ao/englisch_ao.p... )
by fodkodrasz | 2026-02-04 19:58:14+00:00
So what? Just build some nuclear power plants if AI data centers are so important. It can even work at night when it is infinitely as effective as solar on the ground!

Also I'm astounded how important AI data centers are when we are running out of freshwater, to mention a thing we could easily solve with focusing our efforts on it instead of this. But yeah, surely the Space AI Data Centers (aka. "SkyNet") is the most important we must build...

Also this is just about Elon jumping the shark...
by reaperducer | 2026-02-04 19:58:31+00:00
My understanding is the DOT gets pissy if locals fill in the pothole themselves

People in Chicago sometimes do this.

It's common enough that WGN Morning News parodied it by having its sports anchor go out and start filling potholes with giardiniera.

https://wgntv.com/video/pat-fills-potholes-with-giardiniera/...
by falloutx | 2026-02-04 19:58:42+00:00
>I really hope Anthropic turns out to be one of the 'good guys', or at least a net positive.

There are no good guys, Anthropic is one of the worst of the AI companies. Their CEO is continuously threatening all of the white collar workers, they have engineering playing the 100x engineer game on Xitter. They work with Palantir and support ICE. If anything, chinese companies are ethically better at this point.
by slg | 2026-02-04 19:58:51+00:00
I'll point out that I didn't mention the law in my first comment. I don't know the history of how this technology came to be so ubiquitous, so I didn't speak to it. However, from the perspective of a consumer, it doesn't really matter if it was due to regulation from the government or a collective decision of manufacturers to regulate themselves before the government intervened. The end result is still that the printer you buy from the local Best Buy will almost certainly block this. That is the precedent I was referencing and the collective loss that has gone unnoticed.

I also don't see the point about manufacturing firearms as particularly convincing. It was a process that used to be more difficult and technology has made that process substantially easier. It's reasonable for a government to think the old process didn't need regulation due to that complexity while the new technology intensifies the problem enough for a government response. New technology prompts new regulation all the time for exactly this reason.
by ajross | 2026-02-04 19:59:16+00:00
The RP2040 is a Cortex-M0, which is about the smallest core you find on modern systems but still a pipelined 32 bit RISC machine running in the dozens of MHz.

Note though, that the article is really about the PIO device on these SOCs', which isn't part of the main CPU at all. It's sort of a very limited programmable hardware engine for the specific task of doing PCB level interconnect using GPIO and lightly buffered streaming. In some sense it's like a thematic midpoint between an FPGA and a CPU.

It's... honestly it's just really weird. And IMHO has really, really, REALLY limited application. It's for people who would otherwise be tempted to bitbang an I2C or UART, but not for ones who can put hardware on the board themselves, or who have a FPGA handy, or even for people who want to do non-trivial stuff like QSPI displays[1] or whatnot.

Basically PIO smells like a wart to me. I genuinely don't know who wants it. Regular hackers aren't sophisticated enough to use it productively and the snobby nerds have better options.

[1] The linked article appears to be doing a quarter-VGA display in 3-bit/8-color, and is sort of right at the limit of the power of the engine.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-04 19:59:21+00:00
We're genuinely speculating on the end of work and the thorn of the Protestant Work Ethic, and the imaginative void left by There Is No Alternative has us existentially paralyzed?

How depressing. If we're distressed at the thought of liberation then the bars of containment exist within our own minds. The door is open, we just have to step out.
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-04 19:59:29+00:00
Despite having read about it multiple times I still don't feel like I know what it is. My best guess is that it's an operating system, minus the kernel? But also it can be used as a GTK/Qt type interface layer? Or it can be used to replace X/Wayland? So like, a super modular operating system? And now I guess it's also a web browser, or a generalization of web-browser-like things that may or may not actually be compatible with the traditional web?
by Wilya | 2026-02-04 20:00:12+00:00
I'd like to point out that Qonto is a business bank. Not open to consumers. They also have a list of prohibited activities: (https://legal.qonto.com/en#template-uoa8xux5p) which, funnily enough, include "Hunting, trapping and related service activities", "mining nonrenewable natural re-sources" and "accessibility diagnostics" (??).

Consumer protection laws obviously don't apply to businesses, and banks close business accounts all the time for not following the terms of services. That sounds like a MUCH more probably cause than "I said mean things about Palantir".
by legitster | 2026-02-04 20:01:18+00:00
> The only guy with more credibility than me in Occupy is Micah White but he's been growing vegetables in Oregon ever since he visited Davos a few years back. So I'm the best you've got.

As an outsider to all this, it's funny how these movements always crumble as soon as there is any mainstream recognition.

You have X complaint against an institution. Let's say the institution accepts and reforms somewhat. It's pretty rare that the complainant will pat themselves on the back and say job well done. It's ultimately a game of diminishing returns.

If you have a hammer, it's not just that everything is a nail - you must find enough nails to justify continuing to use the hammer.
by jorgesanhueza | 2026-02-04 20:01:18+00:00
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by gruez | 2026-02-04 20:01:47+00:00
>Thiel has proved that he can hold a grudge. After Gawker outed him, [...]

That might be true, but it's a stretch to go from this to "Thiel had a grudge for this specific streamer and was responsible for him getting banned". For one, Gawker has orders of magnitude more visibility than this guy.
by joenot443 | 2026-02-04 20:02:03+00:00
> kids doing the bare minimum on homework in order to get back on social media faster

This was me for much of high school, but with Team Fortress 2 or Dota instead of social media.

Comic books, video games, television, skateboarding, fidget spinning - the list of things kids would rather do than homework is endless. I think a kid spending 4h+ on one activity is unhealthy either way, and it really comes back to the parents to be the arbiters. Speaking from experience, children (generally) aren't very good at predicting how best to spend their time, which is why involved parents are so important.
by wtetzner | 2026-02-04 20:02:09+00:00
> You can now do things you couldn't even have contemplated before. You've been handed a near-godlike power, and all you can do is complain about it?

This seems to be a common narrative, but TBH I don't really see it. Where is all the amazing output from this godlike power? It certainly doesn't seem like tech is suddenly improving at a faster pace. If anything, it seems to be regressing in a lot of cases.