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Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•4m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•5m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
4•fliellerjulian•8m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•10m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
1•RickJWagner•12m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•12m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
4•jbegley•13m ago•0 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•13m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•14m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•14m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•17m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•17m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
1•XxCotHGxX•22m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•23m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•25m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
2•jandrewrogers•25m ago•1 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•30m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
3•bookofjoe•31m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•36m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•36m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•38m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•39m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
5•sleazylice•39m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Estimating the number of J programmers in HN

2•betasilly•7mo ago
In statistic you can estimate the population size by coloring fishes that you put in a lake and some time later you fish in that lake, the proportion of colored fishes allows you to estimate the size of the population.

Four month ago I posted some J identities and there was only one comment form a J programmer, yesterday I posted some J code and the only comment was from the same commenter (or colored fish), so there must be very few J programmers in HN, or more precisely, very few that post J related material.

Since many people dislike J code and downvote it that is equivalent to fishes that flee to not be captured, so this method of population size estimation could be biased, can you hint how to estimate it better?

Edited: My guess?, I should guess that there are less than 10 active J programmers in HN.