MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LukeHenderson11 | 2026-02-17 00:44:45+00:00
Author here. This post is about “invisible subscriptions”: recurring payments that stop feeling like an active choice (free trials, bundles, vague merchant names, small amounts). It includes a short “subscription reset” you can do from your bank app or email in one sitting.

I’m also building NeuroMoney (neurodivergent-friendly money admin tooling) and the public launch is planned for 28 Feb 2026. Sharing mainly for discussion/feedback on the problem + the reset—would love to hear what UX patterns you’ve seen that make subscription cancellation meaningfully better.
by nguyentran03 | 2026-02-17 00:45:21+00:00
the hardware diversification story here is more interesting than the speed numbers. OpenAI going from a planned $100B Nvidia deal to "actually we're unsatisfied with your inference speed" within a few months is a pretty dramatic shift. AMD deal, Amazon cloud deal, custom TSMC chip, and now Cerebras. that's not hedging, that's a full migration strategy.

1,000 tok/s sounds impressive but Cerebras has already done 3,000 tok/s on smaller models. so either Codex-Spark is significantly larger/heavier than gpt-oss-120B, or there's overhead from whatever coding-specific architecture they're using. the article doesn't say which.

the part I wish they'd covered: does speed actually help code quality, or just help you generate wrong code faster? with coding agents the bottleneck isn't usually token generation, it's the model getting stuck in loops or making bad architectural decisions. faster inference just means you hit those walls sooner.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-17 00:45:55+00:00
> Just because you were late to the party doesn't mean all of us were.

It wasn't a party I liked back in 2023. I'm just repeating the same stuff I see said over and over again here, but there has been a step change with Opus 4.5.

You can still it in action now because the other models are still where Opus was at a while ago. I recently needed to make small change to script I was using. It is a tiny (50 line) script written with the help of AI's ages ago, but was subtly wrong in so many ways. It's now become clear neither the AI's (I used several and cross checked) nor myself had a clue about what we were dealing with. The current "seems to work" version was created after much blood caused by misunderstandings was spilt, exposing bugs that had to be fixed.

I asked Claude 4.6 to fix yet another misunderstanding, and the result was a patch changing the minimum number of lines to get the job done. Just reviewing such a surgical modification was far easier than doing it myself.

I gave exactly the same prompt to Gemini. The result was a wholesale rearrangement of the code. Maybe it was good, but the effort to verify that was far lager than just doing it myself. It was a very 2023 experience.

The usual 2023 experience for me was ask an AI write some greenfield code, and get a result that looked like someone had changed variable names in something they found on the web after a brief search for code that looked like it might do a similar job. If you got lucky, it might have found something that was indeed very similar, but in my case that was rare. Asking it to modify code unlike something it had seen before was like asking someone to poke your eyes with a stick.

As I said, some of the organisers of this style of party seem have gotten their act together, so now it is well worth joining their parties. But this is a newish development.
by jerlam | 2026-02-17 00:46:01+00:00
When you inhale, the air within the N95 is quickly replaced by outside air, which means any high CO2 and humidity levels within the N95 is temporary. You are not breathing in a lungful of 5000 CO2 ppm air. Your lungs usually have a lot more volume than the space within an N95 (does not apply to children and people with lung issues).

The space within a respirator is known as "dead space" and should be minimized. There were a lot of novel ideas for respirators in 2020 that had to learn this the hard way, including some full-face snorkeling masks. Full-face respirators separate out the nose and mouth section for this reason.

Your pictures do not show a 3M 8210 N95 as you claim. They show an earloop KN95 of unknown manufacturer, which makes me doubt how scientifically this test was performed.
by stevenwoo | 2026-02-17 00:47:00+00:00
There's a short science book called Hidden Guests, it talks about why women have the potential to end up with microchimeric "incursions" from sexual partners and their own fetuses, fetuses can have microchimerism with each other (not just twins but prior fetuses from same mother) and fetal cells crossing into the mother and towards the end talks about the resemblance between this and transplants( someone else's cells thriving in one's body). So if organ transplants can potentially have that effect, it's already happening to sexually active women, with the caveat that for the fetal cells it wouldn't have much formed personality, yet.
by drooby | 2026-02-17 00:47:18+00:00
I just vibe coded a my own NaturalReader replacement. The subscription was $110/year... and I just canceled it.

Chatterbox TTS (from Resemble AI) does the voice generation, WhisperX gives word-level timestamps so you can click any word to jump, and FastAPI ties it all together with SSE streaming so audio starts playing before the whole thing is done generating.

There's a ~5s buffer up front while the first chunk generates, but after that each chunk streams in faster than realtime. So playback rarely stalls.

It took about 4 hours today... wild.
by tptacek | 2026-02-17 00:47:33+00:00
You both need to take this stuff to hn@ycombinator.com instead of hashing it out here. I think you're wrong, but either way: stop crudding up the threads when all you've got to say is "this person submitted their own post". People do that all the time.

Again: if you think they've crossed the line, the guidelines specifically ask you not take to the threads with it. Mail Dan and Tom. They'll get back to you quickly.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-17 00:47:43+00:00
A key excerpt:

> Administration officials speaking to media late last week hinted that something like that might eventually be possible, with one unnamed federal official telling reporters on a conference call that Moderna might have more luck with a second, narrower request for approval if the company showed some “humility” when it made the submission. But the idea that approval of a vaccine might depend—even a little bit—on whether the manufacturer says ‘pretty please’ speaks volumes about what role scientific judgment is now playing in the approval process.
by MichaelDickens | 2026-02-17 00:48:05+00:00
> On the positive side of this, research papers by competent people read very clearly with readable sentences, while those who are afraid that their content doesn't quite cut it, litter it with jargon, long complicated sentences, hoping that by making things hard, they will look smart.

I often find that to be true. Another important factor is that research skill is correlated with writing skill. Someone who's at the top of their field is likely to be talented in other ways, too, and one such talented is making complex topics easier to understand.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-17 00:48:08+00:00
> I only generate skills _after_ I've worked through a problem with the model.

This is the correct way vast majority of the time. There are exceptions. When I know for certain that the models do not have enough training material on a new library or one that isn't often used or an internal tool. In those cases I know I will have struggle on my hand if I don't start out with a skill that teaches the model the basics of what it does not know. I then update the skill with more polish as we discover additional ways it can be improved. Any errors the model makes are used to improve existing skills or create new ones.
by pembrook | 2026-02-17 00:48:24+00:00
Yea every other use case beyond feeding the hysterical Epstein conspiracy machine has been totally worthless. All the consumers and companies paying real money for this tech must just be stupid.

On the other hand, providing more fuel for sweaty basement dwellers to invent fake stories about elite lizard people while trashing the civil liberties of thousands of random innocents contacted by this dude? I can think of no better use case.

/s
by heliographe | 2026-02-17 00:48:35+00:00
You absolutely can:

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1156653713048409...

(taken with BayerCam.app, not Halide, but Halide can capture the same raw Bayer data)

It's not an amazing photo by any means. But it is a photograph of the moon - the seas are all well delineated, Copernicus/Kepler/Aristarchus/Grimaldi are visible/recognizable.

A test that smartphones did not pass a few years ago.
by vunderba | 2026-02-17 00:48:42+00:00
Yeah character walking (and honestly any animation) is still a real pain. I've seen some people try to use video models almost like a rotoscoping tool but it always looks kind of sus honestly.

Maintaining consistency across a set of loopable frames still takes a fair amount of manual work. Here's an example I put together using controlnet and openpose.

https://mordenstar.com/other/hobbes-animation
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-17 00:49:36+00:00
At least Claude is nice and short, but only the Extended Thinking model got it right.

Opus 4.6 Extended Thinking:

> At 50 meters, that's basically a short walk — just under a minute on foot. But since you need your car at the car wash, you'll want to drive it there.

Opus 4.6:

> Walk. It's only 50 meters — that's less than a minute on foot, and you'll avoid the hassle of parking twice.

Sonnet 4.5:

> For just 50 meters, you should definitely walk! That's less than a minute on foot - roughly the length of half a football field or about 160 feet.

> Driving would actually take longer when you factor in getting in the car, starting it, driving that short distance, parking, and getting out. Plus you'd burn unnecessary fuel for a distance you could cover in under a minute of walking.

Haiku 4.5:

> Walking is the better choice here. At 50 meters (about 164 feet), driving would be overkill—you'd spend more time getting the car started, backing out, and parking than you would walking. Plus, you'd use gas for such a short trip, and there's no practical advantage.

> Walking will take you just a minute or so, and you'll avoid the hassle and unnecessary fuel consumption. It's also good for a quick bit of exercise!
by jmward01 | 2026-02-17 00:49:48+00:00
I was pointing out humans and LLMs have this failure mode so in a lot of ways it is no big deal/not some smoking gun that LLMs are useless and dangerous, or at least no more useless and dangerous than humans.

I personally would stay away from calling someone, or an LLM, 'stupid' for making this mistake because of several reasons. First, objectively intelligent high functioning people can and do mistakes similar to this so a blanket judgement of 'stupid' is pretty premature based on a common mistake. Second, everything is a probability, even in people. That is why scams work on security professionals as well as on your grandparents. The probability of a professional may be 1 in 10k while on your grandparents it may be 1/100 but that just means that the professional needs to get a lot more phishing attempts thrown at them before they accidentally bite. Someone/something isn't stupid for making a mistake, or even systemically making a mistake, everyone has blind spots that are unique to them. The bar for 'stupid' needs to be higher.

There are a lot of 'gotcha' articles like this one that point out some big mistake an LLM made or systemic blind spot in current LLMs and then conclude, or at least heavily imply, LLMs are dangerous and broken. If the whole world put me under a microscope and all of my mistakes made the front page of HN there would be no room left for anything other than documentation of my daily failures (the front page would really need to grow to just keep up with the last hour worth of mistakes more than likely).

I totally agree with the language ambiguity point. I think that is a feature and not a bug. It allows creativity to jump in. You say something ambiguous and it helps you find alternative paths to go down. It helps the people you are talking to also discover alternative paths more easily. This is really important in conflicts since it can help smooth over ill intentions since both sides can try to find ways of saying things that bridge their internal feelings with the external reality of dialogue. Finally, we often really don't know enough but we still need to say something and like gradient descent, an ambiguous statement may take us a step closer to a useful answer.
by rainsford | 2026-02-17 00:49:56+00:00
This example and others like it really reinforce for me the idea that LLMs fundamentally don't "understand" things the same way humans do and it's not a problem that's going to be fixed by more training or more GPUs. Generative AI is cool and can do impressive stuff, but despite being many generations into the models now with ever improved capabilities, we're constantly given little reminders like this that they're not actually intelligent. And in my opinion, they're unlikely to ever get there absent some fundamentally disruptive change in how they work rather than just iteratively better models.

This is probably OK...LLMs don't have to be AGI to be useful. But it is worthwhile being realistic about their limitations because it's often easy to forget without seeing examples like this. And as you point out, the impact of those limitations is often not as obvious.
by Havoc | 2026-02-17 00:50:03+00:00
I find that my iPhone is a bit of a barrier to this. Don’t really want a tunnel/vpn due to battery so mTLS auth would be good but that doesn’t seem well supported by apps like matrix etc. Similar issue with trying to get access to openclaw. Would love a self host interface like mattermost but can’t find a mTLS/open combo that can also do notifications
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-17 00:50:04+00:00
It's been over a decade. He's been impeached twice, lost an election once - and it sounds like the lesson he took from that is "get rid of elections" - been convicted on thirty-four felony counts, charged with even more, mismanaged a pandemic, "shot at", wiped his ass with a number of strategic alliances, sent thugs out on America's streets to harass people for being Latino, and been linked to a cabal of child-trafficking sex offenders.

A few hundred bucks a year ain't gonna move the needle at this point.
by hungryhobbit | 2026-02-17 00:50:18+00:00
Have you actually read a research paper, ever?

They are FILLED with jargon (that just as easily could be an ordinary English word instead) ... and giant paragraphs made up of ten sentences all combined into one with semi-colons ... and with all sorts of other butchering of the English language.

Scientific research papers follow their own grammar, which is specific to the research community ... and that grammar is atrocious!
by NickC25 | 2026-02-17 00:50:18+00:00
>We should be asking how in the fuck there are so many children with unsupervised access to devices that this is a real problem.

Post of the day right here.

Reason is that parents, especially young millennial parents, are overworked, underpaid, and struggling, and they grew up in a world where technology wasn't as invasive, so they are willingly naive. They get home from work and their kid won't stop crying until they put a phone/tablet in front of him/her, and if it works, it works. short term wins for long term losses.
by milesvp | 2026-02-17 00:51:07+00:00
You joke, but this is the very problem I always run into vibe coding anything more complex than basically mashing multiple example tutorials together. I always try to shorthand things, and end up going around in circles until I specify what I want very cleanly, in basically what amounts to psuedocode. Which means I've basically written what I want in python.

This can still be a really big win, because of other things that tend to be boiler around the core logic, but it's certainly not the panacea that everyone who is largely incapable of being precise with language thinks it is.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 00:51:13+00:00
“We find evidence that drivers experienced more unpaid idle time and longer distances driven between tasks…Using a simple model of the labor market for platform delivery drivers, we show that our evidence is consistent with free entry of drivers into the delivery market driving down the task-finding rate until expected earnings return to their pre-reform level.”

I thought the effect would be take-home pay remaining constant because hours worked fell. This is sort of worse, unless idling isn’t really an issue for a gig worker.
by jibal | 2026-02-17 00:51:25+00:00
Reading notes is only necessary because of how lossy human memory is. Reading notes doesn't give you new information, it just reinforces memory paths ... which will fade and you'll have to read the notes again later unless you frequently apply the knowledge, which again reinforces those paths (but lossily, so the bits of information not repeatedly used will fade, and you will again have to read the notes if you need those bits ... or just to re-mind yourself what they were).
by ryandrake | 2026-02-17 00:52:14+00:00
The sad reality is that 80-90% of us are simply no longer economically relevant to $Trillion dollar companies. Even if we were paying customers, each of our total lifetime values is a rounding error on these guys' balance sheets. An individual could swear off Company X, and it wouldn't even be noticed, not even by someone deliberately looking for the economic impact of losing a customer.
by ggm | 2026-02-17 00:52:34+00:00
American pharma has an overhang on the world unequal to its size as a population. 350m consumers isn't nothing, but set against the world, its not everything either. So you would hope "the market" manages just fine with Canada, Europe, Inda, China, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea..

The problem is that so much of the R&D is tied up in the US markets cash, as IPR value to supply services to that market.

We used to do drug design by charities, funded by the state through tertiary education and research labs. Thats how things like Insulin emerged from Canada. Welcome trust in the UK similarly.

I liked that model. I'd like to think the EU drug funding, and Indian pharma production and Canadian (Apotex) models of manufacture and distribution have a role to play here.

Novo Nordisk was a drug to investors. It single handedly rose Danish GDP by significant digits, and then .. it went away again. Thats a rush, a financial high.

People need to stop drinking sugary caffiene drinks, and sip tea. It's healthier. We need to stop chasing the US drug market for instant billions, and instead focus on making mRNA production faster, safer and scaleable. Outside of the USA.

I wish the american vaccine market wasn't in disarray, but I don't see this as necessarily harming anyone but Americans, IFF (and its a big IF and only IF) the rest of the world behaves rationally and reaches into their pockets.

So yes, that does sort-of acknowledge America was "bankrolling" a lot of the worlds pharma development, but not without benefit. it was not zero sum, its not a trumpean problem. It was (within limits) win-win but none of us outside America like the market as much as that, and the downsides are now huge and apparent: American changes in habit will cost us global health, unless we wean ourselves off american drug money. We should buy vaccines from Moderna at european and asian market norms, not at US market norms, and they (Moderna) should be glad we're consistent in buying, not resentful we don't want to pay US inflated prices.

I feel sorry for Moderna investors.
by dgacmu | 2026-02-17 00:52:38+00:00
My mental model of cerebras is that they have a way of giving you 44GB of SRAM (and then more compute than you'll probably need relative to that). So if you have applications where the memory access patterns would benefit massively from basically having 44GB of L3-ish-speed SRAM, and it's worth $1-3m to get that, then it's a win.

Honestly not sure what else fits that bill. Maybe some crazy radar applications? The amount of memory is awfully small for traditional HPC.
by clcaev | 2026-02-17 00:52:41+00:00
It was a lovely discussion and made consider other approaches, thank you. Sadly, I’m must leave the conversation now. I’m very ill these past few years and am unlikely to recover.

I suggest reading Elinor Ostrom’s book, Governing the Commons. It describes fundamentals of successful cooperative organization. Specifically, successful cooperatives don’t grow bigger, they replicate bright spots while staying local and small, using umbrella organizations to coordinate similar or intertwined activities. This seems much more aligned with historical, decentralized hacker values. Ostrom describes democratic and expressly voluntary ways of organizing inherently monopolistic economic activity. For some industries, those with overwhelming network effects, I think it provides a model that is neither privately held nor government controlled, and when collaborative and nested, a workable decentralization.
by ujjwalvivek | 2026-02-17 00:53:10+00:00
Thanks for checking it out!

You are spot on. The rendering pipeline is fully optimized for mobile and should be hitting 60FPS, but the Input System is currently wired to physical events (WASD/Gamepad).

I prioritized the wGPU rendering performance for this release, so touch controls are the next thing on my backlog for v0.3.0. Appreciate the feedback!
by gwern | 2026-02-17 00:53:46+00:00
But that's a reason you should expect it to stop working soon, just like all the older tricks like "my grandmother will die". If you have a universal 'blind' prompt which can increase performance a little bit... the AI labs can just toss that into the training loop to teach the model to do it automatically, whatever 'it' was, like 'trying harder' or 'writing down a useful idea'. And then the prompt stops working because the next generations do it by default.

(This also suggests that you should expect them to generally be bad at judging novel self-generated prompts/skills - if they could judge those, they would already be using them! There is a generator-verifier gap, but it is already exploited heavily during post-training and not much low-hanging fruit left there.)
by lirbank | 2026-02-17 00:54:08+00:00
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more exciting this idea gets. The walkthrough in the article shows exactly why - I intentionally (to later show why that is wrong) place the barrier between the SELECT and UPDATE, which deadlocks instead of triggering the race. Getting the placement right requires reasoning about where the critical interleaving point is. An exhaustive approach would surface both outcomes automatically: this placement deadlocks, this one exposes the bug, this one passes. That would remove the hardest part of writing these tests.
by matiasmolinas | 2026-02-17 00:54:58+00:00
We're building an OS for AI-powered robots where every component — agents, skills, memory, kernel rules — is a markdown file that LLMs can read, rewrite, and evolve.

Two LLMs, two jobs: Claude Opus at dev time creates and evolves agents. Qwen3-VL-8B at runtime handles vision and navigation. The robot builds an occupancy grid from camera frames, uses A* for pathfinding. LLM picks strategy, math handles execution.

Same HAL runs on Three.js simulation and ESP32 hardware.

Alpha now, all TypeScript, Apache 2.0.

GitHub: https://github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llmos