MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by claytongulick | 2026-02-20 00:04:42+00:00
Honestly, I really did do this for a while, mostly in response to comments like this, with some degree of excitement.

I've been disappointed every time.

I do use the LLMs for summarization and "a better google" and am constantly confronted with how inaccurate they are.

I haven't tried with code in the past couple months because to be completely honest, I just don't care.

I enjoy my craft, I enjoy puzzling and thinking through better ways of doing things, I like being confronted with a tedious task because it pushes me towards finding more optimal approaches.

I haven't seen any research that justifies the use of LLMs for code generation, even in the short term, and plenty that supports my concerns about mid to long term impact on quality and skills.

So the TL;DR version is: nah.
by WillPostForFood | 2026-02-20 00:05:06+00:00
0.03% is ten times less than 0.3%, so I agree it is not even close. The money to manufacturers from smuggling is a rounding error. The numbers are from anti-gun activists, so they are incentivized to over state, not understate the smuggling.

The fact that supposedly every American owns 4 or 5 guns should hint at how bad the smuggling problem is

I think it shows how disconnected non-gun owners are from people who own guns. None of my liberal gun owning friends in California have fewer than 4-5 guns. My conservative gun owning friends in Texas have 20-30 guns. I've never met a gun owner that had 1-2.
by abeyer | 2026-02-20 00:05:20+00:00
> Not even being ironic. I don't understand the point

Because there is a significant part of the country that would love to ban guns completely but they currently don't, and perhaps won't ever, have quite enough support to make a change to the constitution to allow them to. In the absence of that, and given they do have plenty of support to create local law many places, the strategy seems to have become to create a regulatory regime that technically still allows guns while making it as impractical as possible for anyone to actually do so.
by dekhn | 2026-02-20 00:05:39+00:00
The reason we correct vision is for safety and convenience. My guess is that we have a distribution of vision capabilities due to the inability of complex biological systems to ensure that the precise geometry of the cornea and lens is subject to statistical variations that can't be controlled. There are probably also tradeoffs associated with near and far vision.

Now, you could have restated this in a better way IMHO. I'd put it like this: are there any evolutionary advantages to having worse-than-average near or far vision? For example, we can imagine that people who had extremely good long range vision would be more successful in hunting, and perhaps- this is where I'm speculating heavily- having poor long vision is compensated by having better detail vision for fine tool work. However, what I've learned after many years is that attempting to perceive the true nature of the evolutionary fitness function is challenging.

As for your bit about suicide: please be a lot more thoughtful in speculating about suicide.
by akst | 2026-02-20 00:06:20+00:00
I would love the option for pay for usage for many products I am forced into paying a subscription for.

I think one legitimate difficulty with micropayments for a news site (that has a few options to solve) is the reservation price of most readers for a single article might be lower than the cost of handling the transaction. The best option I can think of is the user needs to add credit their account or a credit card or something, which isn’t uncommon but I think some people might see it as a grift where they pay for more than they’re initially getting.

I think one benefit of it or shortcomings is it’ll probably kill off portions with smaller readership, but if that’s not you -you’re no longer paying for something you weren’t reading.
by aarush-prakash | 2026-02-20 00:06:31+00:00
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by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 00:07:37+00:00
I'm a very experienced developer with a lot of diverse knowledge and experience in both technical and domain knowledge. I've only tried a handful of AI coding agents/models... I found most of them ranging from somewhat annoying to really annoying. Claude+Opus (4.5 when I started) is the first one I've used where I found it more useful than annoying to use.

I think Github Co-Pilot is most annoying from what I've tried... it's great for finishing off a task that's half done where the structure is laid out, as long as you put blinders keeping it focused on it. OpenAI and Google's options seem to get things mostly right, but do some really goofy wrong things from my own experiences.

They all seem to have trouble using state of the art and current libraries by default, even when you explicitly request them.
by c22 | 2026-02-20 00:07:41+00:00
I haven't had my firearm rights restored since I caught my (non-violent, bullied into a plea deal) felony over 20 years ago because I have not yet managed to fully pay restitution to a large insurance company. Despite having paid more than the original judgement, interest is a killer and my current balance stands at over $130k (original judgement for $33k).
by pie_flavor | 2026-02-20 00:08:07+00:00
HTML requires you to understand symbolic representations, where <> means something special. It is more verbose, but no more structurally complex, than Markdown. It does not require you to understand imperative dynamic logic. Getting the hang of symbolic representations is easy, and getting the hang of imperative programming is very hard and most people can't do it. That's why the dividing line is where it is. Making a static bulleted list isn't a 'capability' in HTML if you weren't thinking it was one in Markdown, and inventing your own precisely crafted definition with no purpose other than to include HTML then calling all others unreasonable doesn't convince anyone.
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-20 00:08:23+00:00
>we still have a useless appendix

This was believed in the 20th century, but we now believe the appendix is actually useful, and is basically a fail-safe in case the intestinal flora are wiped out; some will survive in the appendix and repopulate the intestine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_(anatomy)#Functions
by jfengel | 2026-02-20 00:08:40+00:00
I agree about the guns. The second amendment doesn't say "except felons". It says "shall not be infringed".

Possibly, if there are enough armed felons running about, we might be able to get both sides to the table and admit that maybe there should be some limits. Until then it does us no good to exclude some groups just because we don't like them, while still enduring school shootings.
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-20 00:08:45+00:00
I dont think everyone would charge. I think everyone who currently runs ads would charge but there would still be purists who host without ads and without micro transactions. It would still cost to implement the processing on your website and simple sites would not want to do this. It might lower the barrier to donation so sites funded by donation could receive more donations but still keep it optional.

Internet archive is not funded on donations from viewers. Its funded off government grants and corporate donations. individual donations make up a tiny %. Micropayments would make Internet archive less reliant on charity from government and corporations and it would not impact peoples ability to spin up a mirror. people can already spin up a mirror but its expensive and would remain expensive.

Anna's archive is whale pricing, a tiny % of people are willing to pay that $5 and the hope is that they subsize costs for the rest of users. I hate this type of monetization and will always oppose it as its highly risky and unfair.
by quink | 2026-02-20 00:08:56+00:00
Crazy suggestion, just connect two normal keyboards. Particularly if the left one is numpad-less you’ll get much of the idea for sure.

They might be a smidgeon further apart than might be ideal, there’s some ugly duplication… which happens to enforce a minimum distance… just get that shoulder opened up and start evaluating. It’s certainly likely to be more optimal than the status quo.

Might need Karabiner on macOS to keep shortcuts working.
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-02-20 00:09:53+00:00
lol no it's Europe dude for the same reason they are lagging in everything they will lag in this why would you think otherwise.

On a more serious note any of the freedoms people are talking about disappearing in the USA were either already long gone or a decade further down the road of dying in Europe. Hell they are routinely jailing people for speech now.
by kouru225 | 2026-02-20 00:10:19+00:00
>The reality is there is very little non-individualistic art (algorithmic, AI generated etc) that has much qualitative merit

Big opinions there. A large amount of art that you think comes from individual expression is often not. There are countless examples of artists that secretly used algorithmic processes. A great example is Vermeer: https://youtu.be/94pCNUu6qFY?si=M6UQ-XuHNtoj2-3a.

This is what I mean about how this individualistic philosophy of creativity actually just results in artistic gatekeeping and manipulation of the audience

It’s very common for artists to add on individual expression narratives at the end of the process just so they can market the art, and the reality is that the individualism was never there to begin with. It’s just manipulation and advertising, and it sucks because the success of advertising like this actually undermines the quality of the art world. Because audiences are so susceptible to advertising narratives, artists are forced to spend more time on advertising more than art

> Art for the most part has always been the expression of an individual, even art tightly bound to a cultural context.

This is also not true. This idea mostly comes from the Romantic period. Modern day versions of it are often really just referencing a single book from the 1930s called The Principles of Art by a guy named R.G. Collingwood. It’s a very recent way of seeing art. Historically, art was connected to religion, and therefore thought to be valuable because it was universal rather than individualistic and personal
by 1zael | 2026-02-20 00:10:36+00:00
The order of priority for most people is: 1\ output quality 2\ latency 3\ cost. I will always pays more money if output quality is significantly better and latency is worth the tradeoff. There's also enough cost optimization strategies for applied AI applications that token cost rarely outweighs unless it's a SIGNIFICANT difference (e.x. 100-200% more).
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-20 00:10:53+00:00
There are substantial indirect costs not accounted for in that ratio. Anywhere close to 1:1 is a large net loss to the government. Your mental model of the cost effectiveness of audits completely ignores large second-order effects.

The Federal government has a century of empirical data on this. They set their targets accordingly, which as a heuristic is roughly optimal at around 10:1. This may not be intuitive to you. It wasn’t to me either until I worked at a Federal audit agency. Most of it actually makes sense once you understand the bigger picture.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-02-20 00:10:54+00:00
If it had a practical impact, then it would imply that such statistical tests could be used as a distinguisher to attack the RNG. They fail as distinguishers, even with absolutely enormous amounts of data, so the bias is too small to have any influence in any practical experiment. You'd expect to need to observe 2^128 states to detect bias in a 256-bit CSPRNG, which means you'll have to store 2^128 observed states. That's around 10^20 EiB of storage needed. Good luck affording that with drive prices these days!
by arthurofbabylon | 2026-02-20 00:11:10+00:00
1. This is a compelling argument beyond the author’s scope (code). For example, consider cognition, consider language. LoD is the crucial variable.

2. It has been a long time since most of us were bottle-necked by producing more code. Maybe that happened during my first year programming, but pretty quickly the crucial variable became organization and architecture (including LoD choices). That has not changed. While yes there is value to code composition and understanding becoming more liquid, the fundamental dynamics are largely unchanged since pre-LLM days (again, for MOST of us). LLMs are game-changers at the edges (emerging transformational dynamics almost only ever appear at edges), and far less relevant where the intersections are not being redefined.
by lordofgibbons | 2026-02-20 00:11:16+00:00
I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide the same thing.

I've come to the conclusion to rely more on Zellij because I can SSH into my desktop from my laptop remotely to continue my dev session exactly where I left off.

So, these days I don't even use "native" terminal tabs anymore.
by MattGrommes | 2026-02-20 00:11:28+00:00
The problem we have is that there are a ton of sites all asking for $5+. With PBS people can choose to give once at whatever they're comfortable with and aren't dealing with an ever increasing number of $5 charges. Some guy's Medium blog probably isn't worth $5 just like I wouldn't pay $5 for any random show on PBS. But donating to PBS once makes me feel like I'm supporting Frontline, Ken Burns, lots of people I like.
by claytongulick | 2026-02-20 00:11:34+00:00
Yep, agreed.

If you aren't able to see how the issue is much broader than any specific politician, it's difficult to move a conversation forward.

You may want to take a serious and critical look at how these problems have been a part of all politics throughout history.

If your viewpoint is that the current team is the bad guy, but some other team is the good guy, it just means that their propaganda has been effective with you.
by sublimefire | 2026-02-20 00:11:55+00:00
What limits? You can do pretty much what you want but make sure you can defend yourself in the court. I feel there is a bit of a disconnect in terms where people get the news where in US you kind of expect biggest news providers to be biassed, eg Fox, hence reliance on social media. In Europe gov media is quite strong and objective, and the idea that it restricts something is odd. A great example is the banning of RT, they lost licenses IMO in multiple countries, but the agency was spreading a lot of lies. IMO what we all want is objective news reporting.
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by orbital-decay | 2026-02-20 00:12:12+00:00
Yes, this was the case with Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview's CoT which was in a subtle "bird language". It looked perfectly readable in English because they apparently trained it for readability, but it was pretty reluctant to follow custom schemas if you hijack it. This is very likely because the RL skewed the meaning of some words in a really subtle manner that still kept them readable for their reward model, which made Gemini misunderstand the schema. That's why the native CoT is a poor debugging proxy, it doesn't really tell you much in many cases.

Gemini 2.5 and 3.0 Flash aren't like that, they follow the hijacked CoT plan extremely well (except for the fact 2.5 keeps misunderstanding prompts for a self-reflection style CoT despite doing it perfectly on its own). I haven't experimented with 3.1 yet.
by ggreer | 2026-02-20 00:12:14+00:00
> I'm not aware of any gun laws that have seriously effected the people who just want to shoot deer, because the tool you use to shoot an animal that isn't even aware you're there is pretty fundamentally different than those you to shoot someone who doesn't want to be shot.

If you talk to hunters, they'll give you a long list of annoying laws.

California requires a background check to buy ammunition and prohibits state residents from importing ammunition. If you are a non-resident, you can bring ammunition in, but you cannot give it to your hunting buddies and you cannot buy ammunition in California. This is such a common problem that many hunting organizations have guides explaining the issue.[1] When I lived in California, I was unable to buy ammunition despite legally buying several firearms. Around 1 in 6 legal gun owners in California are incorrectly denied when purchasing ammunition.

California (along with several other states) bans civilian ownership of silencers. Hunters need to be able to hear when searching for game, and they rarely have time to don hearing protection before taking a shot. So the net effect of this restriction is to give hunters hearing damage and create more noise pollution. It's also a problem for anyone in rural areas who wants to dispatch pests, as gunshots annoy neighbors and can even result in the police being called.

California requires that long guns be unloaded when transported, but the definition of "unloaded" states that ammunition be stored separately. If ammunition is readily available near the firearm, California counts that as loaded, and you are committing a crime. If you have cartridge holder loops on your rifle's stock, they must be empty during transport even if the firearm is in a locked case.

California requires that hunters use lead-free ammunition. Lead-free ammo is more expensive and less available than typical lead ammunition, especially if you're not hunting with a common caliber. Many hunters zero their rifle using leaded practice ammo, and are generally less experienced with their hunting ammo. This makes hunters more likely to miss an animal's vitals, prolonging its suffering. Lead-free birdshot makes sense, but considering how few rifle rounds are expended while hunting, and how it's legal to use leaded ammo for target shooting in the wilderness, the lead restriction on rifle ammo serves no useful purpose.

It's been years since I lived in California, so I'm probably forgetting some other laws that annoy hunters. But believe me: hunters are not happy with the current laws.

1. https://calwaterfowl.org/navigating-californias-new-ammuniti...
by pvtmert | 2026-02-20 00:12:19+00:00
I have couple of questions and suggestions;

Q1: Can this be a replacement/drop-in for $GIT_EDITOR?

Q2: On the issue ID #1, it is already mentioned but, can it use the existing $EDITOR / $VISUAL ?

Q3: Feature request / differentiating factor: Many similar tools exist, but if you can/could create a "snapshot" feature, that may be the killer factor here. As I see this is already a plain-C code, _tar_'ing `.git` directory and restoring after; essentially doing-bunch-of-things-but-cancelling-them-after use-case.

S1: Bit nit-picky but all strings are hard-coded within various places. Although it's easier to find where is something, will be difficult to translate for different languages.

S2: I think the title may need CLI/TUI in it. For some reason I expected yet-another Electron-based app. Maybe it's just me though...

S3: Adding to Homebrew (at least as a CASK even) should be relatively straightforward. As I (usually) don't want to manually maintain some binaries I downloaded from random-github-releases-link. Not to mention auto-updates are handled by the Brew.sh itself...
by spartanatreyu | 2026-02-20 00:12:27+00:00
FYI: Deno includes:

1. The web standard APIs themselves
2. It's own standard library inspired by Go's standard library (plus some niceties like TOML minus some things not wanted in a JS/TS standard library since they're already in the web standard APIs)
3. Node's standard library (AKA: built-in modules) to maintain backwards compatibility with node.

Bun has 1 and 3, and sort of has it's own version of 2 (haphazard, not inspired by go, and full of bun-isms which you may like but may not, but standard database drivers is nice).
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-20 00:12:36+00:00
> In the real world, 99.9% of systems aren't used 24/7/365. Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep

"Real world" being something that covers max what, 10 hours of a day? What about things that are used by the entire world? I think there is more than you realize of those sort of services underpinning the entire internet and the web, serving a global user base.
by nabbed | 2026-02-20 00:12:45+00:00
100% agree!

The other day I was thinking how pleasant it was to read a newspaper (26 years ago) compared to reading the news online today.

With a newspaper, the paragraph you are currently reading doesn't suddenly jump out of view just because some ad finally loaded or was replaced by a different sized ad. The ads were static and so inoffensive back then, but they still made the newspapers lots of money.

There are downsides to newspapers, of course: they are unwieldy on the train, they kill trees, and they get out-of-date really fast.

If some decent publication could replicate the good parts of a newspaper for a modern tablet device ($0.50 or whatever per issue, the ads are static images and never replaced after the page is loaded, and no jumping content), I think I would pay.
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-20 00:13:21+00:00
I think we can all look forward to China leading the world in 100 years, and Chinese being the dominant language. They're making all the right moves, while western and other democratic nations are just increasing their xenophobia and electing far-right-wing leaders, and doubling down on stupid policies while refusing to invest sufficiently in future technologies.

Of course, the US epitomizes the stupidity, but we don't see the EU for instance picking up the slack much. If they were smart, they'd be doing everything they can to take advantage of a brain drain from the US to their own countries, but they aren't (but China is).