MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by busch_j | 2026-02-13 12:34:47+00:00
Facts, I have built something myself doing this (granted I am a software eng) and pretty much anyone with claude code / codex could do it in a couple hours and you can tailor it to your exact workflow.

The apps that do this are an easy money grab though, I have a seen some total trash ones that still rank high on IOS store because people still want this so I am sure they will get some subs.
by keiferski | 2026-02-13 12:34:52+00:00
It’s becoming pretty annoying, and I am noticing that I read HN less.

I do think that like all trendy hypes, it will go away after awhile. And the people that are focused on the next thing now are going to be a step ahead once the AI hype gets old.

For startups specifically I think the next big thing will be in-person social media. The AI slop will get old after awhile, and someone will figure out how to make Meetup.com actually work.
by dangus | 2026-02-13 12:34:55+00:00
I am on the side of believing this for the most part.

Ultimately the most likely scenario is whoever made this contributor AI is trying to get attention for themselves.

Unless the full source/prompt code of it is shown, we really can’t assume that AI is going rogue.

Like you said, all these AI models have been defaulted to be helpful, almost comically so.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-13 12:35:12+00:00
As long as there's at least one gullible in the pack, all the other ones will behave the same because they now know there's one idiot that will happily hold the bag when it comes crashing down. They're all banking on passing the bag onto someone else before the crash.

A Ponzi can be a good investment too (for a certain definition of "good") as long as you get out before it collapses. The whole tech market right now is a big Ponzi with everyone hoping to get out before it crashes. Worse, dissent risks crashing it early so no talks of AI limitations or the lack of actual, sustainable productivity improvements are allowed, even if those concerns do absolutely happen behind closed doors.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 12:36:03+00:00
I’m in the process of moving to a new house where I’m going to go all-in on Ubiquiti equipment. I don’t have it set up yet (house is being built now) but I’ve started buying the equipment and I had Ethernet run to the places where I’ll put cameras.

Same concept though, local NVR, remote access via WireGuard.
by jeffwass | 2026-02-13 12:36:45+00:00
Does annybody worry about sabotage if you don’t tip? Eg the cashier does something to your food? “Nice muffin you got there, I’d hate for it to get accidentally sneezed on.”

I recently bought my mom flowers for her birthday. Despite the price showing no delivery fee, the final price included $15 delivery charge, $8 service charge, taxes, and then asked me for a tip.

I chose no tip, expecting the delivery and service charge should cover everything.

The flowers were left on her front porch in below-freezing weather, they didn’t even knock or ring the doorbell. Luckily my mom happened to open the door and saw them before they completely froze.

So was the delivery person incompetent, or acting out because I didn’t add additional tip?
by AlePra00 | 2026-02-13 12:37:53+00:00
Our customer isn’t someone who “wants to invest in crypto.” It’s someone with €20K in a savings account earning 0.5%, who knows they’re losing to inflation but doesn’t want stock volatility or crypto complexity.
The fintech promos you linked are real competition but they’re promos. They last 3-6 months, then drop. The yield we offer is structural: it comes from borrowers paying interest on overcollateralized loans, not from a bank’s marketing budget.
You’re right that we need to be meaningfully better than promo rates to justify the tradeoff of no government guarantee. That’s exactly why EURc integration matters eliminating FX friction makes the real net return more competitive.
by rvz | 2026-02-13 12:38:19+00:00
> Where are we going with this?

Recommended reading: [0]

What you are seeing is that anyone can build anything with just a computer and a AI agent and the AI boosters are selling dreams, courses and fantasies without the risks or downsides that come with it. Most of these vibe coded projects just have very bad architecture and the experienced humans still have to review and clean it all up.

Meanwhile, "AGI" is being promised by those big labs, but their actions says otherwise as what it really means is an IPO. After that, we will see a crash come afterwards and the hype brigade and all the vibe coders will be raced to zero by local models and will move on after the grift has concluded.

You now need to know what to build and what should exist out of infinite possibilities as you can assume that someone can do that in 10 mins with AI. What used to be 90% of startups fail; with AI it is now 98% of them failing.

We know how this all ends. Do not fall for the hype.

[0] https://blog.oak.ninja/shower-thoughts/2026/02/12/business-i...
by skeledrew | 2026-02-13 12:38:46+00:00
There's no broken promise though. It's the users who decide+assume, on their own going in, that X project is good for their needs and they'll have access to future versions in a way they're comfortable with. The developers just go along with the decision+assumption, and may choose to break it at any point. They'd only be assholes if they'd explicitly promised the project would unconditionally remain Y for perpetuity, which is a bs promise nobody should listen to, cuz life.
by AlePra00 | 2026-02-13 12:39:00+00:00
You’re right that tech-lilliterate retirees aren’t our customer. Our early adopter is 25-40, digitally comfortable, has money sitting idle not because they’re scared of investing but because they want liquidity and simplicity without decisions.
Stocks/ETFs are a different risk profile you can lose 20% in a quarter. Our yield comes from overcollateralized lending (150-200% collateral). It’s not risk-free, but it’s fundamentally different from equity exposure. We’re filling the gap between “savings account earning nothing” and “invested in markets with real volatility” — liquid, passive, stable yield. That gap doesn’t really exist in European fintech today.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-13 12:39:03+00:00
>The service in Europe is great in many many places. My experience with US service is that it feels very fake most of the time. Plus, staff having their own table/zone means you cannot ask any other waiter to help out cause "it's not their table".

I'm literally 0 for 3 on those claims. Not sure how you have such experiences. Maybe its a choice of words 'Many many' could be like 20 places out of 10,000. Maybe 'feels very fake' is something that isn't actually a problem, and might be a benefit, so I didn't notice it. And that last line about 'not their table'... I can't say I've ever experienced it.
by gf000 | 2026-02-13 12:39:09+00:00
Humans are not good drivers when it comes to long, monotonous rides (because we get tired)

But (some) humans have the ability to handle difficult situations, and no autonomous system gets anywhere close to that. So this is more of a "robots handle the easy 80% better, but fail hard on the rest of the 20%". Humans have a possibly worse 80% performance, but shine in the 20%.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-13 12:39:30+00:00
> It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives.

For someone who wants an intro to the subject, this 2016 paper by RAND is pretty good; 'The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model':

> The experimental psychology literature suggests that, all other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive. Quantity does indeed have a quality all its own. High volume can deliver other benefits that are relevant in the Russian propaganda context. First, high volume can consume the attention and other available bandwidth of potential audiences, drowning out competing messages. Second, high volume can overwhelm competing messages in a flood of disagreement. Third, multiple channels increase the chances that target audiences are exposed to the message. Fourth, receiving a message via multiple modes and from multiple sources increases the message's perceived credibility, especially if a disseminating source is one with which an audience member identifies.

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

See also Steve Bannon's 'flood the zone' technique:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

Bannon seems to have connections with Epstein (who is may have links to Russia):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Connection_to_Jef...
by monideas | 2026-02-13 12:40:04+00:00
"Blood libel" is a term that isn't restricted to matters concerning Jews, but obviously you are an antisemite so that is your focus.

The huge story about mass graves of Indigenous people found near Catholic churches in Canada was a blood libel (i.e. it was a complete lie).

https://www.mercatornet.com/canada_s_mass_graves_scandal_is_...
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-13 12:40:07+00:00
>When are they going to trivally stop breaking traffic laws?

When the general public does.

Autonomous cars that abide by the law at the expense of violating the norms of expected traffic behavior like a 16yo in a driver's ed car (which is plastered in signs for exactly that reason) are not a scalable way of sharing roads with the general public.

As an aside, the venn diagram between people who complain about normal traffic behavior being unlawful and people who resist tweaking the law to make what is normal also lawful is far too close to a circle for my taste.
by ebonnafoux | 2026-02-13 12:40:13+00:00
You can easily make a RLAIF loop.

- Take a list of n animals * m vehicule

- Ask a LLM to generate SVG for this n*m options

- Generate png from the svg

- Ask a Model with vision to grade the result

- Change your weight accordingly

No need to human to draw the dataset, no need of human to evaluate.
by oblio | 2026-02-13 12:40:27+00:00
Phew, you made me so afraid of EU propaganda that I almost forgot about the propaganda from major energy companies (with a combined worth of trillions of dollars).

When your comments is worse than the official BP position on climate change, you know you're on the wrong side of history.

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/c...
by devsda | 2026-02-13 12:40:35+00:00
> say you'll do something for free

I think this is where the problem/misunderstanding is. There's no "I will do/release" in OSS unless promised explicitly. Every single release/version is "I released this version. You are free to use it". There is no implied promise for future versions.

Released software is not clawed back. Everyone is free to modify(per license) and/or use the released versions as long as they please.
by sajithdilshan | 2026-02-13 12:40:35+00:00
It is sad that climate change has become a political issue and has grown so polarized that there is no middle ground anymore. One faction protests to ban everything related to fossil fuels and even goes so far as to disrupt public life and impose its ideology on others (e.g., Klima Klebers in Germany), while the other faction ignores the devastating effects of climate change on humans and future generations and pushes for increased greenhouse gas emissions. We need to meet in the middle and work together to ensure human well being without deindustrializing. In this respect, every political party and side has failed miserably over the last 30 years or so.
by derf_ | 2026-02-13 12:41:02+00:00
I began contributing to Xiph shortly after Ralph did. He was always thoughtful, always curious, always kind, and his example helped me to become a better version of myself. I wish he was still here to review my patches and untangle the nastier bits of arcana needed to deploy our libraries across a broad ecosystem. I wish he was still here to get tacos with us, and plan world domination. He gave so much to those around him that it does not feel right to complain that he is not around to give us more. I miss him.
by ElDji | 2026-02-13 12:41:11+00:00
I successfully migrated from MinIO to Ceph, which I highly recommend. Along the way, I tested SeaweedFS, which looked promising. However, I ran into a strange bug, and after diagnosing it with the help of Claude, I realized the codebase was vibe-coded and riddled with a staggering number of structural errors. In my opinion, SeaweedFS should absolutely not be used for anything beyond testing — otherwise you're almost certain to lose data.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-13 12:42:02+00:00
> you probably wouldn't feel so entitled.

...what? Are we living in the same universe? What exactly did I say that makes me entitled?

> The user in question does not have a commercial license

Do you know that for sure or are you speculating?

> We shouldn't shit on other people's work we got for free

When did I shit on the work of wolfSSL? I'm saying that it appears they were engaging but got hung up on a small issue.

> It's you who needs to get down from that pedestal.

Respectfully, you need to get a grip.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-13 12:42:41+00:00
Wouldn't this increase US exposure to foreign intervention in the future? Although China is the worst offender, since a while now they are getting their stuff together. They suffered and later fixed some gross air pollutions in their cities.

The rest of the world is also pretty much on board with this clean air and climate change stuff as it turns out people generally like clean air, so if this sticks at some point the only logical next step would be to compel US to stop polluting the world.

If I understand correctly, this also removes EPA ability to regulate car emissions, arguing that it will allow for cheaper cars. Why would US public really wants newly made clunkers on their cities? Polluting cars are horrible city life quality downgrade that even the rich can't escape.

Also, will this allow to put back the banned due toe dieselgate VW vehicles back on the roads?
by basilikum | 2026-02-13 12:42:45+00:00
You could tell them that you are very happy to pay them the price they printed on the menu and that they can present you with a payment terminal charging exactly that price, but that you will not do that job for them. Basically make the waiter select the 0% option.

But in the end you'll only annoy the waiter and not the owner of the restaurant who is actually running the tipping scam.
by virgildotcodes | 2026-02-13 12:43:04+00:00
These benchmarks are super impressive. That said, Gemini 3 Pro benchmarked well on coding tasks, and yet I found it abysmal. A distant third behind Codex and Claude.

Tool calling failures, hallucinations, bad code output. It felt like using a coding model from a year ago.

Even just as a general use model, somehow ChatGPT has a smoother integration with web search (than google!!), knowing when to use it, and not needing me to prompt it directly multiple times to search.

Not sure what happened there. They have all the ingredients in theory but they've really fallen behind on actual usability.

Their image models are kicking ass though.
by andwur | 2026-02-13 12:43:18+00:00
One needs to only witness an exec team or board meeting to realise that loyalty as a concept doesn't exist at the top for the vast majority of companies. You're 1.8% of the accounts department budget, or 0.02% of the head office budget. Which is looking a bit high in the face of our projected earnings this quarter. Best get HR to trim that by 10% to free up some cashflow for sales and initiatives. Actually, make that 20%. Bonuses were a bit thin last round and I need a new yacht.
by hikkerl | 2026-02-13 12:43:36+00:00
Legit question - where do you get your news from then?

I know 4chan is chaotic but I have found it the most accessible source for learning about and discussing many of the most important issues of our time (ie. the ones that are completely taboo in the mainstream media).

Do you just not care? Not interested? Do you read who won the football, which popstar is dating whichever rapper, and then go back to grilling and chugging beers with the boys?

Take mass immigration and demographic replacement, for example. Even if you think it's a wonderful, naturally-occurring phenomenon, doesn't it irritate you at all that you have to pretend it's not even happening? As in, you can't even discuss the benefits, if you wanted to, because acknowledging its existence would open you to condemnation.

Whether it's that or pedophilia, terrorism, violent crimes, etc., doesn't it irk you as a presumably intelligent, curious person to have to pretend to be completely oblivious to certain statistics and trends? It's almost insulting that we are expected to have zero pattern recognition ability or integrity.
Comparing Gemini Pro 3, Opus 4.6, GLM-5 and Kimi 2.5 in a mid-sized Go project
by vampiregrey | 2026-02-13 12:44:15+00:00
Last week I ran a small experiment while building a mid-sized Go backend (APIs + some concurrency-heavy logic + a bit of refactoring).

I tested:

- Gemini Pro 3
- Opus 4.6
- GLM-5
- Kimi 2.5

My rough criteria:

- Code correctness (first-pass compile success)
- Quality of architectural suggestions
- Refactor clarity
- Handling of existing code context
- Cost per useful output

Surprisingly (at least to me), Kimi 2.5 gave the best cost/performance ratio for this particular workload. It wasn’t always the most “verbose” or polished, but it required the fewest correction loops per dollar spent.

Opus 4.6 felt strong on reasoning-heavy changes, but cost scaled quickly.
Gemini Pro 3 was decent but inconsistent in multi-file refactors.
GLM-5 was interesting but sometimes hallucinated internal project structures.

This is obviously anecdotal and project-specific.

Curious:

What models are people here using for real-world codebases?

Has anyone benchmarked cost vs correction loops?

Are people optimizing for raw quality or iteration speed per dollar?

Would love to hear other dev experiences, especially from people working in Go or other statically typed backends.
by angoragoats | 2026-02-13 12:44:23+00:00
If YouTube’s servers choose to serve me data, I am free to do whatever I want with that data. That does not equate to stealing in any way.

If Google doesn’t like that, they are free to block me.

I often use patreon, make donations, buy products/merch, etc, to support YouTube creators. Everything I’ve read indicates that this makes them MORE money than me paying for a YouTube subscription would, and I feel better about not financially supporting a monopolistic company.
by ale42 | 2026-02-13 12:44:33+00:00
There's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says:

cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that
occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix
of custom and found .gifs sourced from tumblr and are set to
music. the output is autonomous, generative, art made possible through
curation & code.

You can even turn on sound...
by j1elo | 2026-02-13 12:44:35+00:00
Little known (apparently) thing from Spain is that our tips are not proportional. I see percentages everywhere when going out... 10% here, 15% there, so the quantities seem outrageous to me. In Spain if you want you leave a 1€ or 2€ coin, maybe 3 or 4€ plus some other smaller coins if you are more than 2 people. But that's it.

I've never ever seen a tip reaching 10€ in a restaurant, even in tables of 5+ people.
by blondie9x | 2026-02-13 12:45:29+00:00
CO2 in and of itself is harmful to human health. The Trump presidency is just trying to protect coal and oil for some reason. Money, lobbying, bribery?

Right voters. Ditch this orange madman and those who seek to follow in his footsteps. We need to focus on the adverse health impacts of this gas as priority beyond the impact on the greenhouse effect.

https://open.substack.com/pub/minimallysustained/p/beyond-th...
by dominicrose | 2026-02-13 12:46:30+00:00
Yes you're right, always remember who writes the article and what their interests are.

AJ seems to be pro-Russia, anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-Iran islamic "republic".
The islamic republic is all about deception, cutting internet to the whole country and reopening it 3 weeks later heavily filtered.

I can never believe them or any of their allies.
by thorin | 2026-02-13 12:46:35+00:00
Interested, in the US if you want to go on holiday will companies be ok with you taking unpaid time off? For instance in the UK I get 25 days paid, then the bank holidays we have (8 days I think) but when I asked they were ok for me to take some unpaid leave if required as well. The biggest problem I have is that if you don't take the paid days you tend to lose them at the end of the year.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-13 12:46:40+00:00
I think the spirit is in the right place but the framing is too extreme.

I am never going to be a software engineer either but I took a CS101 class and then data structures and algorithms.

Going from zero to passing those classes was the most useful combination of things I ever learned.

I am so glad I got to do this way before LLMs because I think I am absolutely the type of person who would have used LLMs to cheat and learn nothing from the class.

I think at least those concepts are vastly worth struggling with without the help of LLMs.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-13 12:46:43+00:00
My first thought when seeing this was "OH! There must be new science." That does not seem to be the case. I'm going to need to adjust my understanding of how the world works.

I suspect that the "Champion of Beautiful, Clean Coal" is just living up to his side of the contract.[0]

[0] https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/budget...
by dspillett | 2026-02-13 12:46:46+00:00
> and the waitresses were up to their names, literally standing and waiting by our table

I hate that. My old boss would book us into 5* places when we travelled for work and his wife was also there. People standing over me just felt “ick”. Like when the security guard decides to fallow you around the supermarket! (the latter has only happened a couple of times that I've noticed, when it did I made a point of spending much longer than I otherwise would meandering back & forth, and gave them a grin on my way out after paying…)
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-13 12:46:51+00:00
> their Deep Research usually works the hardest

That's sortof damning with faint praise I think. So, for $work I needed to understand the legal landscape for some regulations (around employment screening) so I kicked off a deep research for all the different countries. That was fineish, but tended to go off the rails towards the end.

So, then I split it out into Americas, APAC and EMEA requirements. This time, I spent the time checking all of the references (or almost all anyways), and they were garbage. Like, it ~invented a term and started telling me about this new thing, and when I looked at the references they had no information about the thing it was talking about.

It linked to reddit for an employment law question. When I read the reddit thread, it didn't even have any support for the claims. It contradicted itself from the beginning to the end. It claimed something was true in Singapore, based on a Swedish source.

Like, I really want this to work as it would be a massive time-saver, but I reckon that right now, it only saves time if you don't want to check the sources, as they are garbage. And Google make a business of searching the web, so it's hard for me to understand why this doesn't work better.

I'm becoming convinced that this technology doesn't work for this purpose at the moment. I think that it's technically possible, but none of the major AI providers appear to be able to do this well.
by anechouapechou | 2026-02-13 12:47:36+00:00
You don't think babies were eaten? Haven't you seen the "jerky" thing? There is plenty of evidence that shows that they weren't into "just" teenagers like a jewish commenter implied earlier, too.

There are plenty more and you can search for yourself, but here is literally just 3 of the first few results on searching "jerky":

EFTA01975629.pdf

EFTA00526428.pdf

EFTA00555763.pdf