MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-08 21:55:05+00:00
> If Trump is doing this without the popular support of the people, then yeah, he’s behaving like a king.

America is deeply divided, > 30%, < 45% of the American public believe in what Trump is doing, ~50% are horrified. Trump isn't listening to the courts, it is basically the first time in American recent history where we've had to deal with an executive, whose is responsible for enforcing federal judicial decisions, just ignoring them. America might not survive this intact, actually the odds of America simply breaking apart are growing everyday of this adminstration.

> So I don’t think that’s particularly anti-democratic like you say.

Yes, he has his core support. But it is at least anti-american, even if you don't think it is anti-american.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-02-08 21:55:32+00:00
Is this an ad written by AI? It's hard for me to believe that the 60-second crimp problem is "a very common pain point". 60 sec is just my arbitrary ballpark, there's no reason why 60 sec would be a recurring length of time encountered...

> The manual crimping bottleneck, especially at 60 seconds per crimp for JST connectors, is a very common pain point
by Aurornis | 2026-02-08 21:55:37+00:00
> But my understanding is non-DHA is not helpful so I may not be understanding correctly

A lot of the common wisdoms about fish oil and omega-3 were based on early studies that had some too good to be true results. As studies were scaled up to more participants and more rigorous methods many of the amazing early results gave way to less impressive or even null results.

I think it’s a good idea to get a mix of omega-3s in your diet, but given everything I’ve seen I don’t think it’s all that important to start micro optimizing everything with isolated supplements. Consume a mixed variety of sources and try to get some fish in there every once while.

The importance of DHA specifically in this study is a good example of how individual studies don’t tell the whole story. This could be a spurious result that is correlated with something else that leads to elevated DHA in the blood (diet choices). Supplementing isolated DHA could miss whatever the real factor was.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-08 21:56:25+00:00
One way I've seen of doing this is to include a PTC heater. It's a heating element that you feed DC. It has a positive coefficient of resistivity vs. temperature, so it'll asymptotically approach a temperature defined by the structure of the material. No PID controller required, it's just a sheet of material you include in the battery structure.

Granted, you have a minor bootstrapping issue wherein you need the battery to be warm before you use battery power, but at very low % of the battery's power capacity I suspect it's less of an issue.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-08 21:56:25+00:00
There's no way around the cost of electricity, at least in the short term. Nobody has come up with a way to meaningfully scale capacity without scaling parameter count (≈energy use). Everybody seems to agree that the newest Claudes are the only coding models capable of some actually semi-challenging tasks, and even those are prone to all the usual failure modes and require huge amounts of handholding. No smaller models seem to get even close.
by csense | 2026-02-08 21:56:25+00:00
Nobody should use biometric ID systems. Resetting my password requires plastic surgery? No thanks.

Involuntary compliance [1], false positives and false negatives are all big, unsolvable problems with biometrics.

[1] To some extent, all authentication systems are vulnerable to legitimate users acting under coercion. https://xkcd.com/538/

Biometric systems take the choice of compliance away from the user, they can physically force you to unlock your phone. With a password you have a choice not to comply even in coercive scenarios; you have the option to say "I'm willing to die from getting hit with the wrench before I'll give up the password."
by whaleidk | 2026-02-08 21:56:41+00:00
Hopefully this does not count as being uncivil, I just want to cut through what feels like insanity to put my (and at least a few others’) feelings plainly:

If you are one of those devs who heavily uses LLMs at work and you are in a position of relative authority, either as senior+ or something else, and you hand off your LLM code to others to review or “build off of”… we hate you. We don’t want to be your voluntold slop jannies. LLM over use and vibe coding is taking a fairly enjoyable job and making it insufferable. Now I have to sift through 3-10x more lines of code that are written in a non-human thought process using terrible naming schemes and try to find the bug… just to realize that the code isn’t even solving for the correct or underlying problem. Every time I have to interact with a co-workers LLM code, my tasks take weeks longer than they would have. This is including the ones who claim to be exerts in prompting and harnessing and whatever skibidi buzzword is out this week.

You are not saving time, you only think you are because you don’t look closely at the output and send it off to your lowley janitors to deal with. And the people who claim to be running 20 or 30 AI tasks at once what are you even building? If you aren’t literally shipping the next Amazon that’s just embarrassing.

I can not wait for people to wake from this bizarre mass psychosis. I already see co-workers context window getting smaller than free version ChatGPT in an incognito window.
by brtkwr | 2026-02-08 21:56:50+00:00
I was too scared to install OpenClaw on my main laptop but happened to have an old Jetson Nano lying around. Despite being 18.04 un-upgradable release, I managed to install OpenClaw (thanks to the bun runtime). I've documented the setup process in the blog post so that others don't have to suffer the same pain.
by bartread | 2026-02-08 21:56:53+00:00
Whilst I disapprove of your use of the word "just", which I am strongly of the opinion should be banned in engineering circles...

I have done something similar, albeit in a different context, to fix the behaviour of a poorly performing SQL query embedded in a binary for which the source code was not easily available (as in: it turned out that the version in source control wasn't the version running in production and it would have been quite a lot of work to reverse engineer the production version and retrofit its changes back to the source - and, yes, this is as bad as you think it is).

When I initially suggesting monkey patching the binary there was all manner of screaming and objections from my colleagues but they were eventually forced to concede that it was the pragmatic and sensible thing to do.
by knorker | 2026-02-08 21:57:45+00:00
Yes, but the gains may be lost in the logistics of shipping the build binary back to the PC for actual execution.

An incremental build of C (not C++) code is pretty fast, and was pretty fast back then too.

In q1source.zip this article links to is only 198k lines spread across 384 files. The largest file is 3391 lines. Though the linked q1source.zip is QW and WinQuake, so not exactly the DJGPP build. (quote the README: "The original dos version of Quake should also be buildable from these
sources, but we didn't bother trying").

It's just not that big a codebase, even by 1990s standards. It was written by just a small team of amazing coders.

I mean correct me if you have actual data to prove me wrong, but my memory at the time is that build times were really not a problem. C is just really fast to build. Even back in, was it 1997, when the source code was found laying around on an ftp server or something: https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake...
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-08 21:58:18+00:00
>You clearly have idea about the basics of what you are talking about (as do almost all people that can't grasp the simple distinctions between transformer architectures vs. LLMs generally)

Yeah I'm not the one who doesn't understand the distinction between transformers and other potential LM architectures if your words are anything to go by, but sure, feel free to do whatever you want regardless.
by mirekrusin | 2026-02-08 21:58:23+00:00
All models have multimodality now, it's not just text, in that sense they are not "just linguistic".

Regarding conscious vs non-conscious processes:

Inference is actually non-conscious process because nothing is observed by the model.

Auto regression is conscious process because model observes its own output, ie it has self-referential access.

Ie models use both.
by patapong | 2026-02-08 21:58:55+00:00
This tool has completely changed the way I work with files - I no longer need to remember where they are, just a part of the name. Coincidentally, this means my files are better organized, since I know I can always just jump straight there instead of having to think about the folder structure.

I use it so often that I put it in the search bar, so that I can open it with Win + 1.
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-08 21:59:18+00:00
It seems like it depends on how the authors have configured Vouch. They might completely close the project except to those on the vouch list (other than viewing the repo, which seems always implied).

Alternatively they might keep some things open (issues, discussions) while requiring a vouch for PRs. Then, if folks want to get vouched, they can ask for that in discussions. Or maybe you need to ask via email. Or contact maintainers via Discord. It could be anything. Linux isn't developed on GitHub, so how do you submit changes there? Well you do so by following the norms and channels which the project makes visible. Same with Vouch.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-08 21:59:40+00:00
> They've gotten pretty good in the last couple years with gummies with a high dose and no algae test

Gummy supplements are questionable, especially for supplements that can have strong flavors and odors by themselves.

If you’re taking algal based gummies and thinking they taste good, they likely either have very little omega-3 or the ingredients have been so heavily processed that I’d start questioning if the omega-3 survived the processing
by insuranceguru | 2026-02-08 21:59:47+00:00
yep. it's a total market failure. 20 years ago, carriers completely underestimated the tail of cognitive decline and priced it way too cheap. now the legacy claims are bleeding them dry, which is why new LTC policies are basically non-existent or priced for the moon. it's a tough lesson in what happens when the actuarial data lags reality by 20 years.
by readitalready | 2026-02-08 21:59:59+00:00
This is basically my workflow. Claude Code for short edits/repairs, VSCode for long generations from spec. Subagents can work for literally days, generation tens of thousands of lines of code with one prompt that costs 12 cents. There's even a summary of tokens used per session in Copilot CLI, telling me I've used hundreds of millions of tokens. You can calculate the eventual API value of that.

Just at the absolute best deal in the AI market.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-08 22:00:12+00:00
Yes I hate gnome. I tried to use it but I needed too many plugins to make it work the way I need. I'm not the kind of person who adapts to software, software must adapt to me. But the developers of gnome love it and they make the best thing they want to have.

I hate their opinionated design and I love settings so I use KDE. I love that. That's the good thing about Linux.
by boycott_army | 2026-02-08 22:00:39+00:00
We're launching a project to track corporate layoffs in real-time, focusing on both numbers and personal stories. When companies lay off thousands, knowing who's responsible matters. This isn't just data; it's about empowering people to act.

Consumer pressure has historically driven policy changes in America. By choosing not to support companies that harm communities through layoffs, we can push for change.

Here's our plan:

- Build a database showing which companies are laying off workers.
- Make this information public so people can make informed choices.
- Use consumer power to advocate for worker protection.

The more awareness there is about layoffs, the stronger discussions on worker protections and community resilience become. Our goal is not only to track layoffs but also to drive meaningful change through consumer influence.

We need to submit this initiative to the public and press to gain coverage and amplify our impact. How can we effectively present this data to pressure companies into protecting workers?

https://boycott.liveblog365.com/
by oj-hn-dot-com | 2026-02-08 22:00:53+00:00
Well, that speeds things up a lot. But I agree with spankalee, it should be a DAG.

< "ci": "CI=true bun run check && bun run test && bun run build && bun run docs && bun run zip && bun run zip:firefox"
> "ci": "CI=true bun run --parallel check test build docs && bun run --parallel zip zip:firefox"
by agentultra | 2026-02-08 22:01:16+00:00
I haven’t worked in a furniture factory but I have assembled car seats in a factory for Toyota.

The difference matters because the people who worked together to smash the looms created the myth of Ned Ludd to protect their identities from persecution. They used organized violence because they had no leverage otherwise to demand fair wages, safety guarantees, and other labour protections. What they were fighting for wasn’t the abolishment of automation and looms. It was for social reforms that would have given them labour protections.

It matters today because AI isn’t a profit line on any balance sheet right now but it is being used to justify mass layoffs and to reduce the leverage of knowledge workers in the marketplace. These tools steal your work without compensation and replace your job with capital so that rent seekers can seek rent.

It’s not a repeat of what happened in the Luddite protests but history is rhyming.
by Avicebron | 2026-02-08 22:01:32+00:00
I think you might have missed the point

> I’d think there would be very, very few people who are actively seeking people drama

Theoretically as a manager you get the bump up the power dynamic ladder (and probably pay ladder) because you are taking on the responsibility of "people drama". Being a good manager is antithetical to treating living, breathing human beings as NPCs in a game.
by wild_pointer | 2026-02-08 22:02:00+00:00
* The tool is truly amazing. Both for simple usage, and the advanced queries that it accepts. Very powerful, like a command line tool.

* As another comment says, v1.5 alpha has many advantages. Despite the alpha label, I find it to be very stable.

* Several software integrations exist: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6326, I mostly like being able to see folder sizes instantly in explorer. I used xplorer2 in the past, which has a plugin, but I went back to native explorer, which has a Windhawk mod, feels like what Microsoft should have done: https://windhawk.net/mods/explorer-details-better-file-sizes
by danaris | 2026-02-08 22:03:06+00:00
OK, maybe take it down a few notches?

I'm only "in the tech industry" in the literal sense, not in the cultural sense. I work in academia, making programs for professors and students, and I think the stuff "the tech industry" is doing is as rotten as you appear to.

UBI has never existed because the level of production required to support it has only just started to exist. (It's possible that we're actually not quite there, but that's something we can only determine by trying it out—and if we're not, then I'm 100% confident we can get there with further refinement of existing processes.) If we have the political will to actually, genuinely do UBI—enough to support people's basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, and a little bit of buffer, without any kind of means testing or similar requirements—then it's very, very likely that it will work. All the pilot programs give very positive data.

I'm not pushing UBI because I think it's a fix to the problem of automation. I'm pushing UBI because I think it's the fulfillment of the promise of automation.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-08 22:03:16+00:00
(I made some corrections [1] to my upper comment to make clear that when I mentioned H-1Bs I intended to refer instead to must-work immigration pathways in general, including but not limited to H-1B and EB-3.)

The previous context included:

>> A lot of people would prefer if even family sponsorships didn't exist.

> And yes, many want to get rid of it, because it’s a loophole in the skilled immigration system.

From the start of US immigration law, the must-work immigration pathways have never been the only (non-asylum, non-TPS) immigration pathways. What is your basis for framing family sponsorship as a "loophole" to the "skilled immigration system", accounting for the fact that some immigration pathway (whether agnostic to family unification or specifically allowing family unification) has long existed separately from the "skilled immigration system"?

Do not let the following tangent distract you from my previous question, but: H-1B itself does not provide a pathway for "family sponsored" immigration. H-1B allows immediate family members to temporarily stay in the US as dependents using H-4 visas. A person who uses H-1B without intent of becoming a permanent resident is by definition not an immigrant. If an H-4 holder becomes a legal permanent resident, it is because their H-1B-holding family member can become a legal resident (i.e. become an immigrant) as specifically allowed by the H-1B itself, and being a legal resident or citizen provides your family with H-1B-agnostic pathways for becoming legal residents.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937673
by root_axis | 2026-02-08 22:03:20+00:00
> brute-forcing renames with string replacement

That's their strategy for everything the training data can't solve. This is the main reason the autonomous agent swarm approach doesn't work for me. 20 bucks in tokens just obliterated with 5 agents exchanging hallucinations with each-other. It's way too easy for them to amplify each other's mistakes without a human to intervene.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-08 22:03:43+00:00
"*WANT* to close or *WANT* to merge". Not WILL close or WILL merge.

You look at the PR and you know just by looking at it for a few seconds if it looks off or not.

Looks off -> "Want to close"

Write a polite response and close the issue.

Doesn't look off -> "Want to merge"

If we want to merge it, then of course you look at it more closely. Or label it and move on with the triage.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-08 22:04:25+00:00
That's not a real dichotomy. A RISC processor can range from completely lacking vector instructions to including complex matrix multiplications, and a so can a VLIW processor.

As far as why there are architectural differences between DSPs and GPUs, the largest reason is that DSPs are designed for processing one-dimensional data, like sensor readings or audio, where as GPUs are designed to process two-dimensional data, like pictures and video. Adding a dimension greatly increases the complexity of the data-processing algorithms the device will be running.
by mitchellh | 2026-02-08 22:04:59+00:00
Vouch is forge-agnostic. See the 2nd paragraph in the README:

> The implementation is generic and can be used by any project on any code forge, but we provide GitHub integration out of the box via GitHub actions and the CLI.

And then see the trust format which allows for a platform tag. There isn't even a default-GitHub approach, just the GitHub actions default to GitHub via `--default-platform` flag (which makes sense cause they're being invoked ON GITHUB).
by trueno | 2026-02-08 22:05:16+00:00
interesting. id love an eclecticlight breakdown of this. they're one of the few if only that write anything worth reading on apple hardware, i once found a QOS/scheduler insight through those guys when I couldn't get my c/cpp project pinned to the cores I wanted on m-series. https://eclecticlight.co/m1-macs/
by crazygringo | 2026-02-08 22:05:17+00:00
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property

Does there? Why? There's no legal means to keep private aircraft (e.g. a Cessna) from flying over your property as long as they're over 500 feet. Then drones are below that, typically between 50-400 feet.

They're already not allowed to interfere with your property or privacy however. They can't hover to annoy you, or get close to snap pictures or whatever.

If you're concerned about accidents and safety, then the solution is safety regulation. But the idea that drones must keep track of which individual properties allow flight above and which don't, and try to navigate some around some kind of patchwork accordingly, is simply unpractical and unreasonable.

If drones turn out to be a general nuisance then cities/counties can ban them altogether or whatever as a collective decision, but the idea that individual property owners should be able to ban them is a terrible idea.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-02-08 22:05:17+00:00
IETF have a habit of posting "fun" RFCs on the 1st April each year. Some of them are more famous for being completely daft ("avian carriers" and climbing into trees to watch 0s and 1s painted on the top of tanks being the two stand-out ones), but it doesn't mean that everything they do on that date is to be disregarded as nonsense.
by delichon | 2026-02-08 22:05:38+00:00
> It's debatable whether the "consumers" won in the end.

If "in the end" is now, it's pretty clear that automation has made clothing both better and cheaper. And paying $10 now for shoes of less than 1/5th value of $50 shoes much later, or not at all, can be entirely rational. Most of us make that kind of compromise frequently.
by reify | 2026-02-08 22:05:55+00:00
call it what it fucking is! RITALIN.

using some poxy scientific name for a common amphetamine to justify giving it to children is grossly offensive to me.

Its a wonderful most excellent amphetamine.

I have worked with many a drug user who partake in Ritalin use, speed balling it mixed with heroin.

Heroin users get Ritalin Scabs from prolonged use.

Its a dangerous fucking drug and anyone who agrees to give that to any child needs to be arrested for child abuse.

you fucking muppets!!
by netsharc | 2026-02-08 22:06:42+00:00
Politicians seem to end up reacting to the polling/what the reactionary voters want, because they don't want to be kicked out of office. I don't know if it's just ego, or if it's a nobility of "We need to win, because if the other side wins, they'll destroy this country!"... this leftist still believes Obama and Biden wanted to keep/build a decent society, so do people like Bernie and AOC (let's not talk about Pelosi and her stock portfolio though), and that Trump is just about naked corruption with some populist policies thrown to the rabid supporters like meat...