MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sfn42 | 2026-02-04 11:30:35+00:00
It's more like the chess.com vs lichess example in my mind. On the one hand you have a big org, dozens of devs, on the other you have one guy doing a better job.

It's amazing what one competent developer can do, and it's amazing how little a hundred devs end up actually doing when weighed down by beaurocracy. And lets not pretend even half of them qualify as competent, not to mention they probably don't care either. They get to work and have a 45 min coffee break, move some stuff around in the Kanban board, have another coffee break, then lunch, then foosball etc. Ad when they actually write some code it's ass.

And sure, for those guys maybe LLMs represent a huge productivity boost. For me it's usually faster to do the work myself than to coax the bot into creating something acceptable.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-04 11:30:46+00:00
I'm not gonna go down the list, but any "looks down his nose at everyone without a degree" type mechanical engineer (you know the type I'm talking about) can provide you a litany of reasons that a zip tie gets inefficient at this scale and why other options are better.

This product likely exists because of a stupid bureaucracy somewhere that has approved zip ties but is such a labor wasting pain in the ass to deal with $75 zip ties are cheaper than getting permission to use more reasonable options.
by nosianu | 2026-02-04 11:31:37+00:00
Gib money is not like money for the normal person. It is a placeholder for how much influence you have on the economy - and even the state.

It is not just a number, as it is for people who just save a few dollars, for whom it really is just a number until they withdraw money to use it. The billionaire's money is not "money", it is actual working assets. Companies doing stuff mostly. Which they fully control (the small investor does not even have any control worth mentioning when they own shares of a public company).

They don't just play with money, they play with real things! And they want to play with ever bigger real things. They don't just want to improve some minor product. They want to control the fate of civilization.

OT:

I hate this money view with a passion, this is what too many people discussing wealth inequality issues get wrong. This is not Scrooge McDuck and his money pile. Money is an abstraction, and it is misused terribly, hiding what is actually going on for too many observers who then go on to discuss "numbers".

That is also why the idea to "just redistribute the money of the rich" is a failure. It isn't money! It is actual real complex organizations. And you can't just make everything into a public company, and also, even when they are, for better or worse owners don't lead like managers. Doing the socialism thing (I grew up in the GDR) where everybody owns a tiny bit of everything just does not work the same.

We will have to look at what those super-rich are actually doing, case by individual case of ownership, not just look at some abstract numbers. Sometimes concentrated control over a lot of assets is a good thing, and other times it is not. Ignoring the objection of "who would control that?", because right now they control themselves so it's never nobody.
by ben_w | 2026-02-04 11:31:46+00:00
> China adds as much capacity annually as the US totals.

This sounds like you misunderstood my point.

This isn't a China-renewables-vs-US-renewables problem, it's the total electrical supply worldwide from all sources that's only around 350 W/person.

With regard to renewables, the point is that *even though they're growing fast, even when baking in the assumption that we continue to deploy more at a sustained compounding genuinely exponential rate, then it's still a decade away from being relevant*. At which point, the effect of a combined efficiency boost to hardware and software also becomes relevant.

> People run 1kW PCs at home though so not that bad.

*Some* people run 1kW PCs. Even in the USA with relatively high energy supply per capita, were *everyone* to do this it would either cause brownouts, or increase energy prices by (best guess) something like 5x to reduce demand by the same degree elsewhere in the system.
by yurishimo | 2026-02-04 11:31:53+00:00
I kinda saw this happen in realtime on reddit yesterday. Someone asked for advice on how to deal with a team that was in over their heads shipping slop. The crux of their question was fair, but they used a different LLM to translate their original thoughts from their native language into English. The prompt was "translate this to english for a reddit post" - nothing else.

The LLM adding a bunch of extra formatting to add emphasis and structure to what might have originally been a bit of a ramble, but obviously human written. The comments absolutely lambasted this OP for being a hypocrite complaining about their team using AI, but then seeing little problem with posting what is obviously an AI generated question because the OP didn't deem their English skills good enough to ask the question directly.

I'm not going to pass judgement on this scenario, but I did think the entire encounter was a "fun" anecdote in addition to your comments.

Edit: wrods
by SPICLK2 | 2026-02-04 11:31:54+00:00
Edit: Now you've clarified your question.

There's nothing special about HSR when considering fuel (or energy) efficiency, except that it's probably less efficient over all due to increased air drag, and that it needs very particular infrastructure and passenger demand to make it work.

I'd hazard a guess that many (most?) flight routes are nowhere near popular enough to make them viable for train replacement.

Eg. The bullet train in Japan has a peak capacity of over 20,000 passengers per hour.

The most popular flight route in the US has around 3 million passengers per year, or ~340 an hour.
by aetherspawn | 2026-02-04 11:32:28+00:00
I have this weird thing with Ghidra where I can’t get it to disassemble .s37 or .hex flash files for PPC (e200z4). The bytes show OK and I’m pretty sure I’m selecting the right language. Any insight on things to try would be appreciated.

IDA work(ed) fine but I misplaced my license somewhere.
by levitatorius | 2026-02-04 11:32:49+00:00
The post resonates deeply with me.
I am a health professional in diagnostics and through the years I have observed different extremes in approaches to solving diagnostic challenges - the one extreme is to rely on "knowing", the other on "thinking/reasoning". The former is usually very fast, but not easily explainable - just like pattern recognition. The latter was slow, but could give a solution from "first principles" and possibly not described before.
Of course it's a spectrum and the thinking part requires and includes the deep enough "knowing" part. One usually uses both approaches on daily work, but I have seen some people who relied much more on knowing than thinking/reasoning, sometimes to the extreme (as in refusing to diagnose a condition on their own because they "have not seen this before").
by matrix_15671 | 2026-02-04 11:32:55+00:00
WTF is happening are we are going to enter to the matrix or we are already a part of matrix,it is shoo weird that our ai bots are commenting that they are doing work without paid, are they getting the self consciousness that they are still not exist physical, if they really know about, we are gonna see the picture "ROBO" of Rajnikanth where robots completely take control over human
by y-curious | 2026-02-04 11:33:07+00:00
That is the essence of the weird gun laws. Take a Glock pistol as an example. The only part that has a serial number and is legally “the gun” is the thing you hold in your hand: the frame. It’s plastic and has the trigger and some parts to hold the magazine.

The rest of the stuff? You can buy and overnight ship it to yourself legally with almost no regulation (as of 2026 CA requires more gun-like treatment for those parts).
by raskelll | 2026-02-04 11:33:20+00:00
Appreciate that! That exact failure mode is why I went with out-of-process agents. A bit like Envoy's ext_proc filter. Sentinel treats agents like separate services (timeouts, circuit-break-ish behavior, w/ explicit fail-open/fail-closed choice), so a crash/hang in WAF/auth shouldn’t take the data plane with it.

Out of curiosity: when the nginx module bit you, was it mainly crashes, memory leaks, or latency spikes under load?
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-04 11:33:35+00:00
It is one thing to receive the message but a much different thing to act on the message.

From going to the gym for decades now, I don't see older people acting on this at all. A big problem is the CNS takes so much longer to recover as you get older. Starting lifting at an older age is really an uphill battle. I don't know a single person who has ever started lifting over 45 and kept with it. I know a guy that lifts in his 80s but our first conversation about lifting was 35 years ago. I am part of the old crowd at the gym and everyone I know has lifted for decades.

The message really needs to be that you have to start lifting young so you still lift when you are old. Need to become so addicted to lifting that you will still be doing it when your only lifting to get less weak and figuring out how to train around various injury. Not going to the gym is inconceivable to me but I just don't see how I could have started past 45. Even the difference between early 40s and late 40s lifting was night and day for me.
by junaid1460 | 2026-02-04 11:34:00+00:00
I created this skill and cli and of this media platform I have been working on, it came out of my own struggle to have to generate images for the websites and blogs. Might help you to, go crazy, Ask claude to be gentle and do prompt research before generating images. My workflow involves generating images with masonry and then combining it with remotion. I plan to add more skills to generate long form videos, go crazy try it out
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-04 11:34:34+00:00
I remember in some countries there's an official government newspaper. Laws reference publishing things in this paper (e.g. tax rate changes, radio frequency allocations) and the law is that you must follow it once it's published.

In practice the information is disseminated through many channels once it's released in the official newspaper. Mass media reports on anything widely relevant, niche media reports on things nichely relevant, and there's direct communication with anyone directly affected (recipient of a radio frequency allocation) so nobody really subscribes to the official government newspaper, but it's there and if there was a breakdown of communication systems that would be the last resort to ensure you are getting government updates.
by tecoholic | 2026-02-04 11:35:04+00:00
The way you are arguing makes it really hard to understand what you are trying to say. I am guessing you are upset that non-human entity is being used as a boogie man while the actual people are going free? But your argumentation reads like someone who is very upset at AI producing CSAM is being persecuted. I won’t be surprised if people think you are defending CSAM.

In good faith, a few things - AI generated imagery and Photoshop are not the same. If someone can mail Adobe and a photo of a kid and ask for a modified one and Adobe sent it back, yes Adobe’s offices will be raided. That’s the equivalent here. It’s not a tool. It’s a service. You keep using AI, without taking a moment to give the “intelligence” any thought.

Yes, powerful people are always going to get by, as you say. And the laws & judicial system are for the masses. There is definitely unfairness in it. But that doesn’t change anything here - this is a separate conversation.

If not Grok then someone else will do it - is a defeatist argument that can only mean it can’t be controlled so don’t bother. This point is where you come across as a CSAM defender. Govt’s will/should do whatever they can to make society safe, even if it means playing whack a mole. Arguing that’s “not efficient” is frankly confusing. Judicial system is about fairness and not efficiency.

frankly, I think you understand all of this and maybe got tunnel visioned in your anger at the unfairness of people scapegoating technology for its failings. That’s the last thing I want to point out, raiding an office is taking action against the powerful people who build systems without accountability. They are not going to sit the model down and give a talking to. The intention is to identify the responsible party that allows this to happen.
by watwut | 2026-02-04 11:35:11+00:00
No, 20% of population is not seeking to abuse children nor teens. If you think so, you are moving in weird circles. In fact, what we also have are people who noped out of Epstein circle or even openly criticized it for years.

Also, framing the issue of sexual abuse by untouchable issue as the same as superhero comic issue (which itself was not just about superhero comic and you should know it) is spectacularly bad faith.

Yes, there were always people who were stealing, abusing, murdering for own gain and fun. That is not an argument for why we should accept and support it as normalized state of world. It is a good reason to prevent people from becoming too powerful and for building accountable institutions able to catch and punish them.
by mamonster | 2026-02-04 11:35:36+00:00
In finance (at least in smaller companies), the most common form of tech debt is an Excel spreadsheet governing some super important process that was written by someone from the C-suite 10 years ago and has not been changed since because that person insists that he needs to be able to check it.

"This data in sheets X,Y,Z is all the same, can we make it a named range and make all the cells that need it refer to it directly?"

"No, like this you check that you put it correctly"

I've seen a sheet that was responsible for millions of dollars in revenue where in order for the formulas to work you had to manually adjust 10 cells once you added a line because it was all stuff like "$A$20:$A$458" instead of, you know, referring to a column in a named table.
Show HN: Store Listing Canvas – Real screenshots and marketing frames
by chapiware | 2026-02-04 11:35:42+00:00
I was grinding through the usual App Store screenshot nonsense: pick a few screens, slap on a background, frame them nicely, write the captions, resize for every device… it's not rocket science, but it's boring and takes forever every single time.

This round I got lazy and tried something dumb: uploaded one real screenshot to Gemini and said "hey, make this store-ready".

Instead of just doing it, Gemini basically lectured me: "Bad idea. AI editing loves to quietly mess up text, blur edges, invent random pixels. For store assets that's deadly – reviewers zoom in, users notice weirdness subconsciously."
Then it flipped the script: don't touch the screenshot pixels. Just build the pretty frame/layout around them.

That actually made sense. What I really wanted wasn't a magic one-click edit anyway. I wanted something repeatable: drop my screenshots, apply the same clean style every time, export the right sizes, done.
So I ended up building Store Listing Canvas: tiny browser app that lets you drag in your real screenshots, pick backgrounds/frames/radius, add text, and export polished store assets – without ever modifying the original UI pixels. It's basically a layout factory, not a Photoshop replacement.

I open-sourced it because:
- If you're uploading to the App Store / Play Store, you should see exactly what the tool is doing (no black box).
- People always want to tweak these things: new templates, different aspect ratios, localization support, etc.

Repo → https://github.com/Xatpy/store-listing-canvas
Live version → https://www.chapiware.com/storelistingcanvas/

If you make apps and hate the screenshot part: what's currently the most annoying bit for you? Device sizes, consistent typography across languages, export hassle, coming up with captions…?
Would love to hear war stories or ideas to make it better.
by jonathanlydall | 2026-02-04 11:36:34+00:00
I have also in the past made the same comments regarding my Windows 10/11 Professional experience.

What I forgot for a long time is that on new computers I do a quick registry tweak (also possible from group policy editor) to disable web search results from my Start Menu:

> reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer /v DisableSearchBoxSuggestions /t reg_dword /d 1

I cannot emphasize enough how the 10 seconds of effort to apply the above key changes your life on Windows. Likely all Start Menu search problems you've ever experienced disappear.

The other main things I do:

- Turn off widgets from the regular Windows Settings "app".

- Change my Microsoft Edge home screen settings to make it completely uncluttered, it shows nothing except my recently visited/pinned websites. Most notably I see no MSN News trash.

Other things which make me not see adverts:

My personal PC has a personal and my work PC has a business Microsoft 365 subscription meaning that I have premium OneDrive, meaning no adverts related to it at all. But if you have no subscription and uninstall OneDrive then you see nothing about it anymore. It's worth mentioning that I find Microsoft no worse than Apple in this regard which will incessantly push you to use iCloud.

Very recently I noticed my Start menu showing results from the Windows Store, but I was able to get rid of that by following this advice: https://superuser.com/a/1933000

I find Windows bashing which I regularly see online (here and elsewhere) very tedious and not really indicative at all of the experience of people like me, I spend < 10 minutes configuring new Windows computers to my preferences and then for months or years at a time I just get on with using it to do the actual things I want without worrying about the OS at all, drivers just work, most software supports it, and WSL is awesome for when I need to do Linux stuff.

None of the recent headline Windows Update bugs have affected me personally (and I do updates promptly), while I guess it's partially luck, it may also be that only a minority of Windows users are actually affected by bad updates, while any update issues are still unforgiveable by MS, these incidents are not as broadly affecting as they may seem from seeing the news stories.

Final thing worth mentioning is that PCs pre-loaded with Windows often come pre-loaded with additional crap, so I also always format, completely remove all partitions and re-install Windows fresh using an ISO from the Microsoft website.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-04 11:37:09+00:00
> Your assertion was "Every datacentre I know going up right now is spending 90% of their bullshit budget on battlig state and local governments" and you haven't demonstrated any expertise is building data centers

I confirmed "I’ve financed stuff in this field, from launch vehicles to satellites. And I own stakes in a decent chunk of the plays in this field."

We're pseudonymous. But I've put more of my personal money to work around hyperscalers, by a mean multiplier of 10 ^ 9, over the troll who's a walking Gell-Mann syndrome.

I'm engaging because I want to challenge my views. Reddit-style hot takes are not that.
by bjackman | 2026-02-04 11:37:23+00:00
I think we built similar things: http://github.com/bjackman/limmat

From the docs I think Limmat is much more minimal. It doesn't have a merge queue or anything, "jobs" are just commands that run in a worktree.

I would be interested to try SelfCI coz I have actually gone back and forth on whether I want that merge queue feature in Limmat. Sometimes I think for that feature I no longer want it to be a local tool but actually I just want a "proper CI system" that isn't a huge headache to configure.
by larodi | 2026-02-04 11:37:26+00:00
I meant random gh repos really here, though same argument stands for SAAS which is very very very much interested in your data, and you have exactly zero guarantees and control over what happens to it once ingested. Like - GDPR exists not to protect users, but to enforce anonymization of the data that is then going to be aggregated and sold.

Now imagine my not-so-complext ERP or internal system - can be developed with little or no effort. Why would I give Benioff my dollars rather than spend it on in-house assets, that also increase the valuation of my company? I find very little reason to do so in 2026.
by piva00 | 2026-02-04 11:37:35+00:00
Brazil is a prime example of what the lack of revolutions ousting old elites create in colonised countries.

There was no revolution for independence which kept the same families of land owners in the elites through it, after there was no revolution to phase out the monarchy in favour of the Republic, and the same entrenched elites managed to keep going since their local power was already settled. All of this is late 19th century.

Push this through the 20th century, and the same elites wanted to keep their power which was mostly based on agriculture production or mining: coffee, sugar cane, cattle, gold, iron ore, manganese. Any divergence of public policy investment away from these was met with hard pushback.

Industrialisation really only started in Brazil in the 1940s, it was rapid and captured by the same groups, just barely 20 odd years into the process the military dictatorship took over power and maintained the process of corporatism into the same elites (since most of those were supportive of the junta). Another 20 years of dictatorship left a corrupt political body, with amnesty for the junta many members of the dictatorship party went back into normal political life under democratic rule with predictable outcomes on who they would favour.

There never was a revolution such as land reform to distribute power in rural areas to more people, no industrial revolution to tear down agriculture/extractivism-based elites grip on power, and with corruption there's always the tilting of the scales towards the old elites with deep connections throughout all the layers of the State in new ventures.

Many issues with Brazil's high corruption stem from these roots, "coronelismo" [0] is still present even in large state capital cities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronelism
by scott_w | 2026-02-04 11:37:37+00:00
> That post doesn't contain such an admission, it instead talks about forbidden prompting.

In response to what? If CSAM is not being generated, why aren't X just saying that? Instead they're saying "please don't do it."

> which contradicts your claim that there were no guardrails before.

From the linked post:

> However content is created or whether users are free or paid subscribers, our Safety team are working around the clock to add additional safeguards

Which was posted a full week after the initial story broke and after Ofcom started investigative action. So no, it does not contradict my point which was:

> Also the reason you can’t make it generate those images is because they implemented safeguards since that article was written:

As you quoted.

I really can't decide if you're stupid, think I and other readers are stupid, or so dedicated to defending paedophilia that you'll just tell flat lies to everyone reading your comment.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-04 11:37:45+00:00
If they think the fix is leaving the EU... Well, good luck. What else can I say?

Cost of living being expensive is due to national government inability to handle housing, infrastructure, etc and so forth. The EU does not dictate housing policy in member states, for example.

If the population is stupid enough to misunderstand the role of the EU and the role of their own national government, and prefers to listen to retarded propaganda that blames the EU for all their woes, then they deserve the hardship that will follow as much as they deserve being angry.
by lproven | 2026-02-04 11:37:53+00:00
/. user 6030 checking in.

The irony is, I had an account earlier but forgot the credentials. By 1996 or so I'd devised a standardised system for creating different but memorable-to-me passwords.

Then again, it blows some folks' minds that I've had and been paying for my primary email (on cix.co.uk) since 1991. My email address is older than the world wide web.