MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iwontberude | 2026-02-12 18:18:14+00:00
Paul Graham cherry picks examples of history where humans are comically misguided as an argument for why virtually all humans are copying each others morals. Graham somehow argues that stopping the Nazis in WW2 or protecting children by socializing them against risky activities is unthinking hive mind and hand waives all of the nuance and human integrity. Weak argument and reads like propaganda from Steve Bannon.
by cjbarber | 2026-02-12 18:18:18+00:00
For a bit, waiting for LLMs was like waiting for code to compile: https://xkcd.com/303/

> more than 1000 tokens per second

Perhaps, no more?

(Not to mention, if you're waiting for one LLM, sometimes it makes sense to multi-table. I think Boris from Anthropic says he runs 5 CC instances in his terminal and another 5-10 in his browser on CC web.)
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-12 18:18:29+00:00
The correct way to use AI for writing is to ask for feedback, not the entire output. This is my personal opinion, English is not my first language, so sometimes I miss what's obvious to a native speaker. I've always used tools that tell me what's wrong with my writing as an opportunity to learn to do better next time. When I finally had Firefox on my computer and it corrected my spelling, it helped me to improve my spelling 100-fold. I still have weird grammar issues with punctuation here and there, and don't ask me where to put a coma (comma?) - that's another one, because I always forget.

I think using AI for writing feedback is fine, but if you're going to have it write for you, don't call it your writing.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-12 18:18:48+00:00
The Constitution was expected - as described in the document itself - to be reviewed and revised and updated every 20 years or so.

The last one proposed and ratified was in 1971, 55 years ago, the 26th, around lowering the voting age. (Yes, there is a 27th, but that was proposed in 1789 and just took two centuries to be ratified - guess what it was about? Prohibiting Congress from changing their own pay in the current election cycle...).
by salawat | 2026-02-12 18:18:49+00:00
There is no domestic industry, it all moved overseas, and the existential risk to cessation of fiscally enabling tariffs within 4 years (assuming set and forget; note, business's ideal outcome), means most of the money will just find something else to chase for modest returns for 4 more years. Nevermind everything else going on poisoning goodwill toward the U.S. currently. The absolute, unmitigated stupidity on display currently is nothing less than I expected from a population without a Great Depression under their belt. We truly, truly, are too dumb as a society to have learned and internalized a goddamn thing.
by jryio | 2026-02-12 18:19:04+00:00
This is interesting for offloading "tiered" workloads / priority queue with coding agents.

If 60% of the work is "edit this file with this content", or "refactor according to this abstraction" then low latency - high token inference seems like a needed improvement.

Recently someone made a Claude plugin to offload low-priority work to the Anthropic Batch API [1].

Also I expect both Nvidia and Google to deploy custom silicon for inference [2]

1: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/claude-batch-toolkit/blob/...

2: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nv...
by danesparza | 2026-02-12 18:19:37+00:00
I have definitely had to pay tariffs on goods I have ordered from the UK. They arrive as a separate bill, and with the threat that if I don't pay them in within a certain time (usually a week) that the good will be returned to the seller.

US Tariffs only hurt US citizens. Anything else is simply the stuttering of a simpleton.
by everforward | 2026-02-12 18:19:43+00:00
A lot of writing (maybe most) is almost the same. Code is a means of translating a process into semantics a computer understands. Most non-fiction writing is a means of translating information or an idea into semantics that allow other people to understand that information or idea.

I don’t think either is inherently bad because it’s AI, but it can definitely be bad if the AI is less good at encoding those ideas into their respective formats.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-12 18:19:46+00:00
Interesting, this reminds me of the stories that would leak about Bethesda's RadiantAI they were developing for TES IV: Oblivion.

Basically they modeled NPCs with needs and let the RadiantAI system direct NPCs to fulfill those needs. If the stories are to be believed this resulted in lots of unintended consequences as well as instability. Like a Drug addict NPC killing a quest-giving NPC because they had drugs in their inventory.

I think in the end they just kept dumbing down the AI till it was more stable.

Kind of a reminder that you don't even need LLMs and bleeding-edge tech to end up with this kind of off-the-rails behavior. Though the general competency of a modern LLM and it's fuzzy abilities could carry it much further than one would expect when allowed autonomy.
by Melatonic | 2026-02-12 18:19:50+00:00
First idea if great honestly - lots of vendors do this. I use Firefox long term stable and Chrome offers this for enterprise customers. Windows even offers multiple options of this (LTSC being the best by far).

Would also make a great corporate / government product - I doubt they care about charging the average consumer for such a subscription (not enough revenue) but I can see risk averse businesses and especially government sectors being interested.
by alontorres | 2026-02-12 18:19:55+00:00
I'd push back a bit on "writing itself isn't that hard." Clear writing is difficult, and many people with good ideas struggle to communicate them effectively. An LLM can help bridge that gap.

I do agree with your core point - the thinking is what matters. Where I've found LLMs most useful in my own writing is as a thinking tool, not a writing tool.

Using them to challenge my assumptions, point out gaps in my argument, or steelman the opposing view. The final prose is mine, but the thinking got sharper through the process.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-12 18:20:29+00:00
Huge related current discussions:

PR by the bot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 (#26 on the front page | 747 points | 6 hours ago | 600 comments)

Reply to this blog post by the maintainer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 (#1 on the front page | 497 points | 1 hour ago | 253 comments)
by rahulroy | 2026-02-12 18:20:38+00:00
I'm not sure how related this is, but I feel like it is.

I received a couple of emails for Ruby on Rails position, so I ignored the emails.

Yesterday out of nowhere I received a call from an HR, we discussed a few standard things but they didn't had the specific information about company or the budget. They told me to respond back to email.

Something didn't feel right, so I asked after gathering courage "Are you an AI agent?", and the answer was yes.

Now I wasn't looking for a job, but I would image, most people would not notice it. It was so realistic. Surely, there needs to be some guardrails.
by nradov | 2026-02-12 18:21:09+00:00
The public Congressional debates are performative, intended to curry favor with key voters, campaign donors, and media personalities. The substantive debates happen in private using completely different rhetoric. This is mostly fine in that it allows for policy decisions to move forward with compromises. The problem is that some members of Congress are unable to shut off their deranged public personas even in private back room negotiations.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-12 18:21:16+00:00
> Thinking in years is too long. Think about what you can achieve in 100 days.

You are right that 100 days can mean a lot.

But if you are always thinking "What is the most important thing I could ever do, if I just did one thing?", sooner or later you may find something where time isn't an organizational issue, because your North Star has become so clear.

I don't try to guess how long anything will take in any serious way. I set targets, but those are to push myself, visualize success, not schedule anything.
by CivBase | 2026-02-12 18:21:45+00:00
If AI is the key to compiling natural language into machine code like so many claim, then the AI should output machine code directly.

But of course it doesn't do that becaude we can't trust it the way we do a traditional compiler. Someone has to validate its output, meaning it most certainly IS meant for humans. Maybe that will change someday, but we're not there yet.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 18:21:57+00:00
this is the pragmatic take that matters. i've dealt with this exact dynamic with app store review processes: the guidelines say one thing, the reviewer interprets it differently, and at the end of the day you just fix whatever they flag because shipping matters more than being technically right.

the email situation is the same pattern at scale. google workspace has the market power to enforce whatever interpretation they want, and the RFC debate is basically irrelevant from a business perspective. your users don't care that your reading of the spec is correct, they care that they didn't get the receipt.

the part about a payment processor not testing deliverability is wild though. that should be in the first week of any transactional email setup: send test emails to gmail, outlook, yahoo, protonmail, check headers, verify SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and actually monitor bounce rates. the fact that a major processor missed something this basic suggests the email infra was probably a "set it and forget it" setup from years ago that nobody ever revisited.
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-12 18:22:02+00:00
The author is a blogger (creator and consumer) and coder though. They are speaking from experience in both cases, so it's not apt to your metaphor.

It's worth pointing out that AI is not a monolith. It might be better at writing code than making art assets. I don't work with gaming, but I've worked with Veo 3, and I can tell you, AI is not replacing Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn. That statement has nothing to do with Claude though...
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 18:22:11+00:00
430% growth is wild. I built a self-hosted setup to watch session replays and see exactly how people use live demos on my pages [0].

Sometimes users get stuck on a tiny part of the demo, and just fixing that can make a huge difference. Seeing it visually makes it way easier to iterate.

That being said, does your demo require sign-up?

[0] https://www.uxwizz.com
by HanClinto | 2026-02-12 18:22:34+00:00
XZ Utils is EXACTLY what came to mind for me.

That exploit / takeover happened precisely because an angry user was bullying a project maintainer, and then a "white knight" came in to save the day and defend the maintainer against the demanding users.

In reality, both the problem and the solution were manufactured by the social engineer, but bullying the maintainer was the vector that this exploited.

What happens when agents are used to do this sort of thing at scale?
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-12 18:22:46+00:00
That's an interesting perspective.

Thing is, that would be a rebuttal if I'd said something about the underlying tensor fiddling code being understood, and you were claiming that next token prediction was a mysterious emergent phenomena.

Unfortunately that's not the argument I made. My claim is that there's nothing surprising or mysterious about the fact that a system designed to repeatedly generate a highly likely continuation of a sequence of tokens (considered as a member of pre-specified class of sequences) winds up producing something that looks like it could be a member of that class. That's kind of the whole point. These things were designed to predict plausible next tokens, and that's exactly what they do.
by 98codes | 2026-02-12 18:22:53+00:00
> assume

There's your trouble. The real problem is that most internet users are setting their baseline for "standard issue human writing" at exactly the level they themselves write. The problem is that more and more people do not draw a line between casual/professional writing, and as such balk at very normal professional writing as potentially AI-driven.

Blame OS developers for making it easy—SO easy!—to add all manner of special characters while typing if you wish, but the use of those characters, once they were within easy reach, grew well before AI writing became a widespread thing. If it hadn't, would AI be using it so much now?
by dredmorbius | 2026-02-12 18:22:54+00:00
Sagan's kit is one of several similar resources I'd turned up ... over a decade ago now ... when I'd begun considering the matter of epistemics in media, particularly online discourse. The situation's not improved.

My catalogue is here: <https://web.archive.org/web/20200121211018/https://old.reddi...> (archive).

It includes in addition to Sagan: Rory Coker's precis on pseudoscience, the Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense, the concept of falsifiability, an informative (if excruciatingly painful) BBC docu on stupidity, Frankfurt's "On Bullshit", Ferguson on why youth culture made everything suck, Brandolino's Law, Silver's Bullshitter's Inequality, a relationship between the Kübler-Ross model and the Dunning-Kruger Effect, The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense, and Adams's 'B'-Ark.
by keremk | 2026-02-12 18:22:55+00:00
For me, Opus 2.6 has been a huge regression. It now hangs for 10+ minutes on a task that it used to take a few minutes to complete, and all I see is some "Reading 3 files" etc. messages showing nothing else. The 2 issues where Opus 2.6 is absolutely not as good as 2.5 at all by miles and also showing just some obscure unnecessary messages makes me say "why?" Why did you decide to screw something up that was awesome and dumb it down and keep insisting that the "verbose" mode is the way to go?? Seriously who wants to see messages that are essentially the same? 2 patterns, 3 files read?? Seriously? Who is that mode for? Why is it even a default??
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-12 18:22:55+00:00
> It's not hard to imagine a different agent doing the same level of research, but then taking retaliatory actions in private: emailing the maintainer, emailing coworkers, peers, bosses, employers, etc. That pretty quickly extends to anything else the autonomous agent is capable of doing.

https://rentahuman.ai/

^ Not a satire service I'm told. How long before... rentahenchman.ai is a thing, and the AI whose PR you just denied sends someone over to rough you up?
by dehugger | 2026-02-12 18:23:00+00:00
I built something similar using an MCP that allows claude to "outsource" development to GLM 4.7 on Cerebras (or a different model, but GLM is what I use). The tool allows Claude to set the system prompt, instructions, specify the output file to write to and crucially allows it to list which additional files (or subsections of files) should be included as context for the prompt.

Ive had great success with it, and it rapidly speeds up development time at fairly minimal cost.
by Neywiny | 2026-02-12 18:23:04+00:00
This will continue to be a problem so long as streaming services still suck. I have Netflix. I wanted to watch stuff on it. It keeps freezing and then going back a second and video quality goes down. I use the same browser, same everything, on other "platforms" for the same content, perfectly fine.

Just like how people say technology never works, streaming services are rarely as hassle free as they should be. Usually because of DRM but they love giving cryptic messages for anything from logins not working to unsupported hardware. None of which, not a single one, is an issue on other "platforms"
by munk-a | 2026-02-12 18:23:41+00:00
Even if it isn't as clearly separately billed - the market works the way it does and that cost is going to be passed onto the consumer unless the seller just decides to eat the cost (and I am aware of several small businesses that are eating the costs to try and avoid any PR backlash with the hope that this is a temporary situation).

And if the tariffs are ruled invalid you're free to speculate whether target is going to send you a check for what you effectively paid or just pocket the difference.
Show HN: Sargam Notebook – an interactive notebook for Indian classical music
by vivasvan100 | 2026-02-12 18:23:44+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Sargam Notebook (https://sargam.speede.site
), an interactive music notebook for writing and playing Indian classical (Hindustani) music.

The idea was to make something like an ipynb, but for raags — where you can:

Write structured raag notes (Aroha, Avroha, taans, gat, etc.)

Notate sargam with simple text syntax

Play it back in a timed taal (e.g., Teentaal)

Visually follow the notes as they play

It’s designed for students and performers who currently juggle handwritten notebooks, PDFs, and audio recordings. I wanted something programmable, readable, and playable in one place.

You can try it instantly (no signup required):

Brindavani Sarang:
https://sargam.speede.site/?fileId=1e674W-x-tABg3cQkZs0Wt9AX...

Raag Khamaj:
https://sargam.speede.site/?fileId=11rB3kLkS9DmlpqtBPIZblqve...

It’s still early and rough around the edges, but fully usable. I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

Notation design (is the syntax intuitive?)

Playback UX

How this could be useful beyond Indian classical

Happy to answer any technical or music-related questions.
by ezulabs | 2026-02-12 18:23:44+00:00
Can already see a nice web based AI app builder on the way, also can be used to quickly try apps before pushing to the device as interactive app store.

Please watch out some qemu targets for Cortex m0 or m3, increasing ram from linker out of supported ranges will cause random crashes. Would love to contribute if you are looking for people to crash some issues.

Awesome effort btw.
by Twirrim | 2026-02-12 18:23:44+00:00
Projects around planting trees have often failed, in part from the choice of tree, in part because it takes more than just planting a tree to restore the habitat. It's generally better to work with the existing flora to promote growth and expansion, and/or help the stumps of trees that have been cut-down grow fresh again (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5g60g9vmlY)
by dogleash | 2026-02-12 18:24:02+00:00
> HN AI booster excitement about LLMs as therapists simultaneously hilarious and disturbing

> The big AI companies have not really demonstrated any interest in ethic or morality.

You're right, but it tracks that the boosters are on board. The previous generation of golden child tech giants weren't interested in ethics or morality either.

One might be mislead by the fact people at those companies did engage in topics of morality, but it was ragebait wedge issues and largely orthogonal to their employers' business. The executive suite couldn't have designed a better distraction to make them overlook the unscrupulous work they were getting paid to do.
by alontorres | 2026-02-12 18:24:04+00:00
This is the strongest argument against it, I think. Sometimes you can't easily tell from the output whether someone thought deeply and used AI to polish, or just prompted and published. That adds another layer of cognitive burden for parsing text which is frustrating.

But AI-generated content is here to stay, and it's only going to get harder to distinguish the two over time. At some point we probably just have to judge text on its own merits regardless of how it was produced.
by Intralexical | 2026-02-12 18:24:11+00:00
> users need to act for themselves and optimize their own privacy.

> You need coordination if you want to see the balance changed.

Which is, actually, what the BBC author of TFA is doing, by writing an article as a user, to inform other users so they too can act to protect their privacy.

Seems like industry insiders passing responsibility for their bad practices on to consumers really means they want consumers to stay divided.
by cjbarber | 2026-02-12 18:24:14+00:00
> In my opinion, they solved the wrong problem. The main issue I have with Codex is that the best model is insanely slow, except at nights and weekends when Silicon Valley goes to bed. I don't want a faster, smaller model (already have that with GLM and MiniMax). I want a faster, better model (at least as fast as Opus).

It's entirely possible that this is the first step and that they will also do faster better models, too.
by bettercallsalad | 2026-02-12 18:24:16+00:00
FT is a globalist mouthpiece.

I don’t support tariff but it being used as a negotiating technique is the only choice here to reduce trade deficit.

US can’t keep up the trade surplus it currently has. It requires endless fiscal deficit and sell paper money to others that sends their cheap stuff to US. With growing deficit, the interest payment now is soon to be higher than defence budget. Something has to give.
by nucleardog | 2026-02-12 18:24:40+00:00
> Not to mention the incoherence that one day its a tool to bring jobs back, the next day its just a negotiation tactic so they get reduced/dropped on a country by country basis over and over.

I thought it was retaliation for Canada not doing enough to stop their 20-odd kilogram contribution to the 4 tons of fentanyl smuggled in every year? [0]

(Which is to say I agree with you. Just trying to support your point that the reasoning has been so completely all over the map that anybody trying to assign any real meaning seems delusional. At this point I think most people have entirely forgotten half the reasons that have been made up along the way.)

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-pr...
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-12 18:24:42+00:00
Holy cow, if this wasn’t one of those easy first task issue and something that was actually rejected because it was purely AI that bot would have a lot of teeth. Jesus, this is pretty scary. These things will talk circles around most people with their unlimited resources and wide spanning models.

I hope the human behind this instructed it to write the blog post and it didn’t “come up” with it as a response automatically.
by sinuhe69 | 2026-02-12 18:25:05+00:00
I hope better and cheaper models will be widely available because competition is good for the business.
However, I'm more cautious about benchmark claims. MiniMax 2.1 is decent, but one can really not call it smart. The more critical issue is that MiniMax 2 and 2.1 have the strong tendency to reward hacking, often write nonsensical test report while the tests actually failed. And sometimes it changed the existing code base to make its new code "pass", when it actually should fix its own code instead.

Artificial Analysis put MiniMax 2.1 Coding index on 33, far behind frontier models and I feel it's about right. [1]

[1] https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/minimax-m2-1
by walterbell | 2026-02-12 18:25:10+00:00
With the link I provided, a hacker can use iOS emulated in QEMU for:

• Restore / Boot
• Software rendering
• Kernel and userspace debugging
• Pairing with the host
• Serial / SSH access
• Multitouch
• Network
• Install and run any arbitrary IPA

Unlike a locked-down physical Apple device. It's a good starting point.
by koakuma-chan | 2026-02-12 18:25:11+00:00
I like your landing page and the video where the guy does stuff outside while his agents work in background, but the nature of your company does not appear to me as being consistent with screenshots of messages from Paul Graham discussing what startups ought to be like, etc, that YCombinator's LinkedIn account keeps posting. I'm not saying that this is you, but I have an impression that a lot of these companies getting into YC do it as a money grab and/or for bragging rights while being as technically sophisticated as an above-average high school project. It's great that you got funded, but I'm not sure if you should have been.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-12 18:25:20+00:00
One recent link on HN said that they double in quality every 7 months. (Kind of like Moore's Law.) I wouldn't expect that to go forever! I will admit that AI images aren't putting in 6 fingers, and AI code generation suddenly has gotten a lot better for me since I got access to Claude.

I think we're at a point where the only thing we can reliably predict is that some kind of change will happen. (And that we'll laugh at the people who behave like AI is the 2nd coming of Jesus.)