MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 20:25:02+00:00
This is not how to reverse the damage that has already been done, if you are unwilling to forgive, you are as bad as MAGA, perhaps worse. Forgiveness is a core human virtue we do not want to lose.

No, half of the voters did not intentionally vote for this. Half of the voting public doesn't pay any attention and votes based on their finances or party allegiance.

You and I saw all the bad things to know what would happen. That was hidden from many people. Yes you can fault them for being ignorant, but that doesn't imply intentional malice
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 20:25:05+00:00
Do you often convert between inherently binary units like RAM sizes and more appropriately decimal units like distances?

It would be annoying of one frequently found themselves calculating gigabytes per hectare. I don't think I've ever done that. The closest I've seen is measure magnetic tape density where you get weird units like "characters per inch", where neither "character" nor "inch" are the common units for their respective metrics.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-03 20:25:17+00:00
> I don't take "trust me" from a crypto bro as proof of backing funds

This is a good distillation of the inherent issue going forward with crypto. The people in tech I trust _least_ (cryptobros) are selling in a service that I require the _highest_ level of trust (finance). It's a very bad sales pitch.
by Teever | 2026-02-03 20:25:39+00:00
The game changed when Trump threatened the use of military force to seize Greenland.

At this point a nuclear power like France has no issue with using covert violence to produce compliance from Musk and he must know it.

These people have proven themselves to be existential threats to French security and France will do whatever they feel is necessary to neutralize that threat.

Musk is free to ignore French rule of law if he wants to risk being involved in an airplane accident that will have rumours and conspiracies swirling around it long after he’s dead and his body is strewn all over the ocean somewhere.
by dinobones | 2026-02-03 20:25:44+00:00
Has any society ever behaved that way? It's already a push to get people to think of the middle/lower classes during the present.

I understand the desire to find an entity or group of people to blame, but they were acting in their own self interest at a peak time, they didn't know the party would be over soon, for many of them, it still isn't.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 20:25:56+00:00
The last check on power is murdering politicians in their homes? I beg to differ. If the situation is so bad that violence is truly necessary, the last check is an organized revolution, not an assassination. If the figure is a genuine dictator and important enough to have real power, they would have extensive security surrounding their home anyways. This fantasy of assassinating a would-be Putin or whatever does not justify exposing the addresses of city councilmen or judges or whatever random public servant somebody wants to kill over their grievances.
by twism | 2026-02-03 20:26:02+00:00
it's been awesome ... i've been using this setup for 7+ years. Obviously with other phones (former pixel 5) but the passport form factor of the pixel fold works great for one handed use and I use it folded most of the time. Unfolded is just icing on the cake.

I build webapps so there's no difference using my phone or a laptop save for app switching/multi-window speed. As for typing speed, sure it's a bit slower but it helps I program in clojure(script) so the concise and terse syntax helps.

Also, when I need to dive into developer console I use KiwiBrowser which is slower to get around compared to desktop chrome but it gets the job done.

I've been meaning to share the minimally modified APKs I use and write a blog posts.

https://x.com/ashafa/status/1702499586982412720/photo/1
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 20:26:17+00:00
The value proposition for Starlink was always pretty clear. A decent chunk of people have no good broadband internet access. Provide it, and they'll pay good money for it. It needed cheapish launch capability, which existed when it was proposed, and everything else about it was fairly mundane. It made economic sense.

Of course it's the economics, not the physics, that are the challenge. We have thousands of existence proofs that you can launch a computer into orbit and have it work. The question is not, can you do it. The question is, why would you do it instead of putting that same computing capacity in a building somewhere?

It's not an either/or proposition in general but it is at the small scale. If I'm going to spend a million dollars on computing equipment, I can spend it on a terrestrial installation, or a space installation, or put some if it towards each, but anything I put towards one takes away from the other. If the economics of a terrestrial installation are much better than a space installation, why would I allocate any of my money to space?

Most of the conversation here seems to boil down to:

"Putting a data center in space is very hard and makes no sense."

"Putting a data center in space is actually pretty easy."

But by "hard" we mean "difficult to the point of being extremely economically uncompetitive with putting computers in a building," and by "easy" they mean "technologically feasible and the basic concept of computers in space has been done many times already."
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-03 20:26:29+00:00
Chronic housing shortage, peak social competition, education and labor cratering in value, inability to find a job despite advanced degrees, above average salaries that don't pay the cost of living, "once in a lifetime crisis" after crisis, art(cinema, music, etc) in decline, politically deadlocked society... The list is long.

I always find it funny to read the statistics about how life has never been easier when society is in clear disarray and the opportunities that existed just a few decades ago simply evaporated.
by PassingClouds | 2026-02-03 20:26:37+00:00
It is interesting to see who will get there first. China seems to be right on target with their schedule, but the US is being more ambitious, this also looks a bit more fragile on execution.

I long suspect Blue Origin will be the first US based to touch down as Starship is just too complicated to get it done in the next 2-3 years, but that doesnt mean even the 2028 landing is assured.

Space exploration had been fairly low key for decades but the last decade has been something to see.
by Darshan009 | 2026-02-03 20:26:47+00:00
Location: New York City, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Anywhere in US)

Technologies:
Backend & Distributed Systems (TypeScript, Python, Java, Go), AWS/GCP, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, APIs, React/TypeScript, AI/LLMs (RAG, document ingestion), High-throughput systems

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdDCXJ2rnoWWVowAswfvy9eHGgH...

GitHub: https://github.com/Dars-git

Email: Darshangvaghasiya0@gmail.com
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-03 20:27:19+00:00
I think you essentially have to use the desktop version no matter what—so the real dichotomy is whether you want to use a free program with free online hosting with the bundled (free) web application... or if you want to buy a $25 app.

It seems a lot like saying nobody should use GMail unless they agree to pay for premium Google Services.
by Agingcoder | 2026-02-03 20:27:59+00:00
It has a very large number of bugs.

My favourite one ( still happens ) is having to mute then unmute at the beginning of the conversation otherwise nobody can hear me. It was so common, with people fiddling with their headset, calling again etc that I eventually asked everyone exhibiting audio issues to start with this

Another interesting one is that if you’re not connected properly , you send messages , but never get notified that they never left, and are never notified that you’re not connected.

It’s also a resource hog and will eat your machine for breakfast.

The list goes on and on, it’s very surprising.
Show HN: Muninn – A universal local-first memory layer for AI agents
by blackknightdev | 2026-02-03 20:28:02+00:00
Hi HN, I built Muninn because I was tired of dumping entire directories into LLM contexts just to keep my agent updated.

Most memory layers use complex vector DBs. Muninn uses a simple, transparent approach: it indexes your project into local Markdown files and surgically injects only the top-relevant facts using the CXP (Context Exchange Protocol) powered by Rust.

Local-first: Everything stays in ~/.muninn.
Universal: Works across different agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.).
Token-efficient: Reduces context overhead by up to 95%.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the local-first context approach!

Check out my website and get immediately started :www.muninn.space
Show HN: A one word check to detect misalignment in meetings
by anticlickwise | 2026-02-03 20:28:21+00:00
Hi HN, I’m a solo maker and I built a very small tool after noticing a recurring problem in my meetings.

I used to ask open questions like:
“How are we feeling about this?”
“Any concerns?”
“Thoughts?”

The pattern was always the same: a few people spoke, some nodded, many stayed silent.
In the moment, it felt aligned. Weeks later, execution slowed and people realized they’d understood the decision differently. I experimented with a constraint instead of more discussion. At the end of a meeting, everyone answers with one word. No explanations. No defending. No context.

What surprised me was that removing explanations surfaced patterns: clusters of hesitation, quiet tension or alignment, without putting anyone on the spot. Room Read is a simple implementation of that idea. It’s intentionally minimal and fast, meant to reveal signals before teams move on.

Built solo, feedback welcome.
https://www.cognu.app/room-read
by Bender | 2026-02-03 20:28:22+00:00
I think the fact that the US and Israel have both recently demonstrated that modern stealth aircraft can enter deep into Iran's airspace effectively unopposed makes that a very risky endeavour for the Iranians.

For the Iranian citizens I totally agree. They would be absolutely screwed seven ways to Sunday. Many of the Mullah's and military however are deep underground, far deeper and in bigger under ground cities than our bombers can reach. Their government structure is challenging in that somewhere just over 25k Mullah's can step up and take control. I know I am over-simplifying it. The other problem is that Russia and a handful of other countries would likely assist them. I don't know what side Turkey would flip to. We also gave up on the Houthis, though I'm sure others saw that differently. Either way I think they could just wait us out until we ran out of resources. I am trying to find a way to put a positive spin on this but I just can't.
by throwforfeds | 2026-02-03 20:28:56+00:00
You're welcome! Here's the one I've been using: https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server

I've definitely hit walls with Anki over the years, and while the community decks help a lot, it's really nice to just tell Claude "can you take this assignment my tutor gave me, extract all the infinitive verbs, and then make cloze style cards for conjugations at an A1/A2 level?" and get it all done in a couple minutes.
by ralferoo | 2026-02-03 20:29:07+00:00
There's a good reason that gigabit ethernet is 1000MBit/s and that's because it was defined in decimal from the start. We had 1MBit/s, then 10MBit/s, then 100MBit/s then 1000MBit/s and now 10Gbit/s.

Interestingly, from 10GBit/s, we now also have binary divisions, so 5GBit/s and 2.5GBit/s.

Even at slower speeds, these were traditionally always decimal based - we call it 50bps, 100bps, 150bps, 300bps, 1200bps, 2400bps, 9600bps, 19200bps and then we had the odd one out - 56k (actually 57600bps) where the k means 1024 (approximately), and the first and last common speed to use base 2 kilo. Once you get into MBps it's back to decimal.
by dinobones | 2026-02-03 20:29:18+00:00
There are 67 million baby boomers in the US. How can you rationally blame them all? Roughly 20% of the population.

Saying the "boomers ruined everything" is not sophisticated, we can't move forward from a blame game, we have to diagnose the actions and actors that implemented them, but of course this is much more challenging.

Ancedotally, I know plenty of poor boomers. Have you seen who works at a Dollar Tree lately?

The popular dialogue that boomer=rich and greedy, millennial=poor and exploited is not productive, it's a fabricated generational war that distracts us from the real issues.
by pessimizer | 2026-02-03 20:29:20+00:00
Just like Europeans, you need to understand international law. It's not law like law within a country. It's a warning. US software firms were never obligated to comply with anything. If you don't comply, you create an enemy. You comply based on your judgement of that enemies' ability, determination and level of creativity that they will use to punish you for noncompliance.

Do you want to do any business at all there? Do you have any vendors there? Do your owners own anything else that does business there? Do you have any investors that live there? Do your kids go to college there? Do you have to fly over or through it, ever?

It's leverage against leverage.
by lukasgraf | 2026-02-03 20:29:38+00:00
I never understood this argument.

The checks in those pre-commit hooks would need to be very fast - otherwise they'd be too slow to run on every commit.

Then why would it save time and money if they only get run at the pipeline stage? That would only save substantial time if the pipepline is architected in a suboptimal way: Those checks should get run immediately on push, and first in the pipeline so the make the pipeline fail fast if they don't pass. Instant Slack notification on fail.

But the fastest feedback is obviously in the editor, where such checks like linting / auto-formatting belong, IMHO. There I can see what gets changed, and react to it.

Pre-commit hooks sit in such a weird place between where I author my code (editor) and the last line of defense (CI).
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-03 20:29:55+00:00
I think vibe coding might de-emphasize software as a end product. That part is more doable.

But the general purpose machinery, the substrait we work on? That's hugely open source today, and will gladly accept and make use of that platform innovation that you can offer up.

The authors talk about it being harder to get traction. And that's both true because of LLMs, and also, has been the case for a while now. Theres so much open source already, so many great tools, that it takes real effort and distinction to stand out & call attention to yourself.
by cal_dent | 2026-02-03 20:30:07+00:00
Scratch the surface a little bit and it’s always comes down to housing/living costs.

More than enough work out there actually pays well in isolation to live a decent full life, it’s just relatively local housing costs it probably sucks.

And not just for young people. We’re fully in an environment where how good and flexible your life is is highly dependent on when you bought a home, or if you own a home.
Show HN: Research tool that turns one question into a branching discovery tree
by onounoko | 2026-02-03 20:30:10+00:00
I made this tool to make it easier to explore topics using AI. LLM chats are nice but they don't really connect ideas and become less useful the longer your chats are. MindBloom essentially allows for non-linear conversations and creates a web of connected ideas that you can explore in an infinite canvas. It also creates exploration suggestions for you so you can dive into topics in ways you might not have thought of yourself.

Here's a tree I made exploring the "cause of the fall of the roman empire" https://www.mindbloom.so/share/_iRWRv5IalGVQQWVJMdr-
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 20:30:19+00:00
That's fascinating! They got a lot of mileage out of those 2 transistors, didn't they?

But see, that's why I think there has to be more to it. That extra LF character wouldn't be enough to satisfy the timing requirements, so you'd also need to send NUL to appropriately pad the delay time. And come to think of it, the delay time would be proportional to the column the carriage was on when you sent the CR, wouldn't it? I guess it's possible that it always went to the end but that seems unlikely, not least because if that were true then you'd never need to send CR at all, just send NUL or space until you calculated it was at EOL.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:30:29+00:00
> don't think US will extradite anybody to EU

EU, maybe not. France? A nuclear state? Paris is properly sovereign.

> people with strong support of the current government

Also known as leverage.

Let Musk off the hook for a sweetheart trade deal. Trump has a track record of chickening out when others show strength.
by palata | 2026-02-03 20:30:40+00:00
> Sure, but can you be honest and admit that you don't have any of this yet? Just to take a simple thing like messaging, Europeans mainly use WhatsApp

Because it's very hard to compete against monopolies when there are network effects. What you can do is regulate them. The US government has been working very hard in the last decades to prevent that.

Recommended: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
by amluto | 2026-02-03 20:30:45+00:00
> > Oh wait, that didn’t actually happen

> Not sure how you can say that.

Because Elon canceled the Model 2.

> unscalable techniques like LIDAR

What, exactly, is unscalable about LiDAR? BYD appears to be planning to include LiDAR (one unit, presumably forward facing) in even their cheapest cars effective quite soon, and they seem to have a few tens of thousands of LiDAR units already on the road.

And Waymo’s solution is expensive but seems to scale fine.

Meanwhile, there is certainly nothing inherently that prevents scaling a pure-vision approach that relies on massive in-car computation, but Tesla wants to use their AI5 chips and they seem to be struggling to produce and scale them. (They also apparently want to launch them into space, but it’s not really clear that they exist.)
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-03 20:30:58+00:00
I am honestly happy for you that you made your system the way you want it. That is a good thing and please keep doing what you are doing.

This is not relevant to the average user. The average PC user doesn't use Linux and the average Linux user uses an off the shelve distro. For these distros it is very attractive to have a bunch of core services ready that work together because they are released as one. It can be done but why the hassle? What is the upside for the maintainer apart from maybe the moral high ground?

Software projects can also benefit from standardization. They can concentrate on writing functionality instead of maintaining abstraction layers. And I believe the more mainstream distros choose the SystemD stack the more it becomes the default or at least the initial implementation for their software.

We also have to keep in mind that this kind of standardization is nothing new. Pretty much every distro depends on the GNU coreutils. Maybe not on the binaries themselves but at least on their API. That is not very different from SystemD. We have a POSIX standard.

Final word regarding sysvinit: I worked with sysvinit, upstart and systemd and having an opinionated config format for services is so much better, in my opinion. Not having to read a whole shell script to know how a service works is such an improvement and the easy overrides for units (for example distro packaged ones) is amazing.

Note: In my post I counted distro maintainers as developers.
by ghc | 2026-02-03 20:31:05+00:00
> Transferring money across regions with the best 'normie' tools (eg Transferwise/wise.com) is multiple orders of magnitude more expensive than $0.0000015 (tranferring USDC or another GENIUS-compliant stablecoin on Solana).

I don't see how that's relevant to YC startups. Startups can't legally pay their employees in crypto through transfers, any more than they can write checks out of their bank account or pay their employees in cash. I've paid an overseas employee in BTC before, but we still had to go through a payroll provider and do everything above-board to satisfy IRS requirements.
by arjie | 2026-02-03 20:31:15+00:00
It does seem like it's harming open source in a few ways:

* no longer any pressure to contribute upstream

* no longer any need to use a library at all

* Verbose PRs created with LLMs that are resume-padding

* False issues created with LLM-detection by unsophisticated users

Overall, we've lost the single meeting place of an open-source library that everyone meets at so we can create a better commons. That part is true. It will be interesting to see what follows from this.

I know that for very many small tools, I much prefer to just "write my own" (read: have Claude Code write me something). A friend showed me a worktree manager project on Github and instead of learning to use it, I just had Claude Code create one that was highly idiosyncratic to my needs. Iterative fuzzy search, single keybinding nav, and so on. These kinds of things have low ongoing maintenance and when I want a change I don't need to consult anyone or anything like that.

But we're not at the point where I'd like to run my own Linux-compatible kernel or where I'd even think of writing a Ghostty. So perhaps what's happened is that the baseline for an open-source project being worthwhile to others has increased.

For the moment, for a lot of small ones, I much prefer their feature list and README to their code. Amusing inversion.
by latexr | 2026-02-03 20:31:28+00:00
As someone with experience with it, I heartedly disagree. It’s not that hard to not invade user privacy. You have to go out of your way to be invasive, just respect your users and collect as little data possible. That’s truly the way to go and reduces your liability in a multitude of ways, including protecting you of data breaches (if you don’t keep the data, there’s nothing to steal).
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-03 20:31:41+00:00
Well actually as a professional - no.

By the time I got my first job in 1996 I had been a hobbyist writing in assembly language for Apple //es and played around with it for 68k, PPC and x86 computers.

Three months into my first job as the only person who could code - I was hired as a computer operator based on a prior internship - I was tasked with writing a relatively complicated data entry system in C that ran across 12 network computers. I had to talk to the customer for the new contract and demo it. We ran the data entry center. 30 years later if I had to do the same using modern technology (pre AI), it would still take me maybe 3-4 months to get it done by myself.

Now on the other hand, I did admittedly become an “expert beginner” at my second job between 2002-2008.

But that’s besides the point , I have had two open reqs that I had to fight for and I’m judged based on my ability as a lead to get work done on time, within budget and meets requirements.

I hired a senior who I used my filter for at my last job. Why would I hire a junior that puts more work on me and my team?

I told him on a very high level “we need $x, these are the only constraints we are working under”. He came back with a design plan, he did the implementation, the design review and I gladly stepped back and gave him all of the credit.

That’s always my m.o., I’m far past the point where I need the glory.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 20:31:45+00:00
I have tried almost all of the Tastykakes that I could purchase here on the east coast. They seem quite average in terms of quality. While I have never eaten a Twinkie and Tastykake side by side I do concede that Twinkies these days are a bottom of the barrel level of quality and TastyKakes are at least a small level above. I'm just looking at that ingredient list and it seems quite processed.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-03 20:32:42+00:00
I haven't had excuse to use imapsync for awhile. I remember using it fondly in the past. I definitely hadn't looked at the site in years.

I see that there's a free (for up to 3GB, pay for more) migration service offered there now, too: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/

That's a pretty cool way to support the project.