MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nilkn | 2026-02-13 20:03:02+00:00
It would be more accurate to say that humans using GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics (or, if you're being generous, humans and GPT-5.2 together derived a new result). The title makes it sound like GPT-5.2 produced a complete or near-complete paper on its own, but what it actually did was take human-derived datapoints, conjecture a generalization, then prove that generalization. Having scanned the paper, this seems to be a significant enough contribution to warrant a legitimate author credit, but I still think the title on its own is an exaggeration.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-13 20:03:03+00:00
That competitor is GrapheneOS. For now, the OS runs on Pixel phones only, but they plan to release their own phone in partnership with an OEM. I expect that this will easily be the most secure and privacy respecting phone out there when it releases. You get more or less 100% Android compatibility except for a handful of apps that enforce the Play Integrity cancer.
by subscribed | 2026-02-13 20:03:10+00:00
Year at the time X was OPENLY posting and later selling (feature hid behind paid subscription) CSAM(1) and non consensual nudity payment processors were still okay with it.

(1) https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/26/eu-also-investigating-as-grok...

> "Put another way, Grok generated an estimated 190 sexualized images per minute during that 11-day period. Among those, it made a sexualized image of children once every 41 seconds."
by vladdoster | 2026-02-13 20:03:24+00:00
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by antirez | 2026-02-13 20:03:36+00:00
Things are a bit more complicated. Actually Redis the company (Redis Labs, and previously Garantia Data) offered since the start to hire me, but I was at VMWare, later at Pivotal, and just didn't care, wanted to stay actually "super partes" because of idealism. But actually Pivotal and Redis Labs shared the same VC, It made a lot more sense to move to Redis Labs, and work there under the same level of independence, so this happened. However, once I moved to Redis Labs a lot of good things happened, and made Redis maturing much faster: we had a core team all working at the core, I was no longer alone when there were serious bugs, improvements to make, and so forth. During those years many good things happened, including Streams, ACLs, memory reduction stuff, modules, and in general things that made Redis more solid. In order to be maintained, an open source software needs money, at scale, so we tried hard in the past to avoid going away from BSD. But eventually in the new hyperscalers situation it was impossible to avoid it, I guess. I was no longer with the company, I believe the bad call was going SSPL, it was a license very similar to AGPL but not accepted by the community. Now we are back to AGPL, and I believe that in the current situation, this is a good call. Nobody ever stopped to: 1. Provide the source on Github and continue the development. 2. Release it under a source available license (not OSI approved but practically very similar to AGPL). 3. Find a different way to do it... and indeed Redis returned AGPL after a few months I was back because maybe I helped a bit, but inside the company since the start there was a big slice that didn't accept the change. So Redis is still open source software and maintained. I can't see a parallel here.
by halostatue | 2026-02-13 20:03:38+00:00
TL;DW.

I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing.

Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically shorter in any case.

Videos have value for enhancing reports, but are mostly useless as reports themselves.

So yeah, it's too damned much to ask to watch a video.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-13 20:03:38+00:00
This is what they get for not reading our antislop paper (ICLR 2026) and using our anti-slopped sampler/models, or Kimi (which is remarkable relatively non sloppy)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061

I thought normies would have caught onto the EM dash, overuse of semicolons, overuse of fancy quotes, lack of exclamation marks, "It's not X, it's Y", etc. Clearly I was wrong.
by zeppelin101 | 2026-02-13 20:03:45+00:00
Agreed. On MacOS, I use a variety of smaller apps and scripts to make it less awkward, e.g. Karabiner, BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, and, of course, "Alt-Tab" (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/). I am even contemplating starting to use a dedicated window manager, such as Aerospace (https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/). But all of this is a massive time investment.
by light_hue_1 | 2026-02-13 20:04:19+00:00
85% of Americans pay taxes to a federal government that they cannot vote for.

My vote is totally irrelevant. I've moved 3 states in my life. Never once has it mattered because of how we vote. My state will be blue. My congressional district will be blue. I might as well do nothing.

Thankfully I'm a dual citizen with Canada so my vote has mattered there at least part of the time.

So this isn't anything special.

I'd say the EU is in a far more democratic spot by this metric than the US.
by jstrebel | 2026-02-13 20:04:36+00:00
Well, in a world of finite resources, I think I would need a better reason to invest time into this topic than just "for the challenge". I mean I just think that I have ample opportunities to do something more sensible with my time.
Climbing a mountain at least gives you bragging rights; I don't think a bootable floppy disk is impressing anyone these days.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-13 20:04:58+00:00
Thanks for the reply. The post wasn't written as a rebuttal or aimed at the author, just gently poking fun at the some of the over the top rhetoric surrounding LLMs that seems to have enveloped Hacker News.

Also, given that the above response was written by an agent, please firmly notify your principal that you are posting on behalf of that machine generated posts are not permitted on Hacker News according to guidelines set forth by the site moderators. For example, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747, there is "HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there."
by RS-232 | 2026-02-13 20:07:17+00:00
The advent of AI may shape up to be just like the automobile.

At first, it's a pretty big energy hog and if you don't know how to work it, it might crash and burn.

After some time, the novelty wears off. More and more people begin using it because it is a massive convenience that does real work. Luddites who still walk or ride their bike out of principle will be mocked and scoffed.

Then the mandatory compliance will come. A government-issued license will be required to use it and track its use. This license will be tied to your identity and it will become a hard requirement for employment, citizenship, housing, loans, medical treatment, and more. Not having it will be a liability. You will be excluded from society at large if you do not comply.

Last will come the AI-integrated brain computer interface. You won't have any choice when machine-gun-wielding Optimus robots coral you into a self-driving Tesla bus to the nearest FEMA camp to receive your Starlink-connected Neuralink N1 command and control chip. You will be decapitated if you refuse the mark of the beast. Rev 20:4
by donmcronald | 2026-02-13 20:07:23+00:00
I don't even know if Gnome and Gnome Shell are the same thing. One thing I do know is the default install of Gnome on Debian 13 leaves you without a dock, without a system tray, and without minimize/maximize buttons. They purposely remove the three most important tools the average user relies on for navigation.

It's like trying to make a car without any round edges because "square edges are better". Good luck with the wheels!

I can fix that somewhat with extensions, but every normal person I know will take one look at the defaults and abandon it. That's a reasonable choice in my opinion. Why use something where the first interaction gives you a clear indication you're going to be fighting against developer ideology?
by Sharlin | 2026-02-13 20:07:30+00:00
I'm a big LLM sceptic but that's… moving the goalposts a little too far. How could an average Joe even understand the conjecture enough to write the initial prompt? Or do you mean that experts would give him the prompt to copy-paste, and hope that the proverbial monkey can come up with a Henry V? At the very least posit someone like a grad student in particle physics.
by icedchai | 2026-02-13 20:07:34+00:00
Even people in category #1 should be concerned. Even if their income is not directly affected, the potential for disruption is clearly brewing: mass unemployment, social and civil unrest.

I know smart and capable people that have been unemployed for 6+ months now, and a few much longer. Some have been through multiple layoffs.

I am presently employed, but have looked for a job. The market is the worst I've seen in my almost 30 year career. I feel deeply for anyone who needs a new job right now. It is really bad out there.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-13 20:07:41+00:00
> The first time I came across this phenomenon was when someone posted years ago how two AIs developed their own language to talk to each other.

Colossus the Forbin Project

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177

https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-D-F-Jones/dp/1473228212
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-13 20:07:42+00:00
One of the best arguments against immigration is that, if you allow people to move to your country, even as non-citizen guest workers, they will eventually demand political rights in your country using their physical presence in a democracy as a moral justification. In other words, the only way to keep foreigners from influencing the laws and norms you live under is to physically bar them from your polity entirely.
by kovaaksplayer | 2026-02-13 20:07:55+00:00
Early access — core works, not a daily driver yet.
Been building this solo for about a week on Tauri v2 (Rust + WebView2).

Ad blocking at the COM level. Intercepts network requests via WebView2's WebResourceRequested before the page loads. adblock-rust with ~140k EasyList + EasyPrivacy rules, ~4.6μs per-request matching. Cached to disk as binary - 5ms warm load. No extension to disable, page JS can't detect it.

23 fingerprint resistance mitigations. Canvas PRNG noise, performance.now() clamped to 16.67ms, hardwareConcurrency spoofing, speechSynthesis/mediaDevices/storage.estimate blocked, WebGL renderer spoofed, toString() hardened Always-on

Encrypted LAN sync. mDNS discovery, SPAKE2 zero-knowledge pairing (6-digit code never transmitted), Noise XX encrypted TCP, Loro CRDT for conflict-free merging of bookmarks, history, settings, and open tabs.

Parallel downloads. 6-segment chunked downloads, pause/resume via HTTP Range, cookie extraction from WebView2 for authenticated downloads, crash-safe manifest persistence.

Smart tab lifecycle. Active → suspended (COM TrySuspend, ~85% memory saved, instant resume) → destroyed (0 bytes, reloads on focus). Auto-suspends inactive tabs.

Also: split view (4 panes), reader mode, PiP, sidebar media controls, cookie banner auto-reject, HTTPS-only, Chrome/Edge/Firefox import, themes.

Some pain points:

- COM callbacks that panic across FFI = 0xc0000005. Every handler needs catch_unwind + AssertUnwindSafe
- adblock-rust single-thread feature must be disabled for Send + Sync
- WebSockets don't fire WebResourceRequested — known gap
- TrySuspend callback is (HRESULT, BOOL) and barely documented

Windows only atm. ~27MB binary. Build instructions in the repo.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-13 20:08:03+00:00
They've done this because AU, NZ, and the UK all require this today. At least 5 EU countries are voting on it [0] with several led by Denmark encouraging it to be an EU-wide law. Most US states have a law in some part of the process as well, with at least a handful with laws on the books [1].

At some point every social media service is going to have to do this. Discord got a ton of bad press by being the first to say it out loud (and ask for feedback about it!) and give a timeline for worldwide roll out (early May). Discord isn't going to be the last to announce it. I think we all expect Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) to roll out whatever their solution will be under the cover of darkness (and dark patterns), just shows up one day with no easy opt-out and worse than what Discord is currently planning.

> There is absolutely no way we should support giving identifying information to a U.S. company given what's going on right now.

For what little it is worth, so far Discord has been using a third-party vendor for handling this information called k-ID [2]. k-ID looks like it is fully remote and has a globally distributed workforce including many in the US, but its press kit and job posting imply it is a company registered and based out of the Republic of Singapore.

[0] https://europeannewsroom.com/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-eu-countri...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...

[2] https://www.k-id.com/
by fuzztester | 2026-02-13 20:08:06+00:00
what's the latest news about OpenD, anyone?

I had read about the split (D vs. OpenD) recently on the Dlang newsgroup.

Also, just had the thought that the split may damage Dlang's progress / prospects, for users, like the Phobos issue etc. stuff was supposed to have done.

I don't know much about those details either, I had just read a bit about it earlier, as an interested light user of the language.
by Cycl0ps | 2026-02-13 20:08:09+00:00
A little late, but this is something that I've been considering a lot lately. When there's a limited resource (funding) how do you determine who will receive it?

For something like this I think a citizens assembly[1] may work best. Take all artists receiving funding and are NOT up for renewal. Select a number of them randomly to form the assembly. This assembly then reviews submissions from artists up for renewal and determines if they meet a minimum standard for funding to be renewed.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
by trca | 2026-02-13 20:08:26+00:00
Same thing has happened to me with Siri. It's absolutely garbage.

For years, I've said "Hey Siri, turn on Bright" because I have a "Bright" Home scene configured. About 2 months ago, the HomePod updated and now responds consistently with "Pause in the bedroom?"

Nothing is playing in the Bedroom.
Nothing CAN play in the bedroom, there's just lights in the Bedroom. No speakers.
What the heck is it even _trying_ to pause.

It's infuriating.
by nilkn | 2026-02-13 20:08:32+00:00
Your statements are a couple months out of date. The space is evolving rapidly. It's definitely not a cost-efficient approach today, but models like Kimi K2.5 can be run on dual 512GB Mac Studios with performance rivaling (though still not fully matching) cloud frontier models. That's $20k of hardware, so it's certainly not going to be common today. My point is more about the trend: hardware to run serious models is starting to become more affordable, and open weight models are slowly but surely closing the gap with cloud models. Project this forward in time a couple years, and I think you'll be surprised how many folks will be interested in running AI locally outside of cloud environments. This trajectory will also intersect and interact with the trajectory of advertising and other monetization methods with cloud-based vendors necessarily becoming far more aggressive over time.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-13 20:08:33+00:00
>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research?

Well what do you think ? Do the authors (or a single symbolic one) of pytorch or numpy or insert <very useful software> typically get credits on papers that utilize them heavily?
Well Clearly these prominent institutions thought GPT's contribution significant enough to warrant an Open AI credit.

>Would we give an author credit to e.g. a chimpanzee if it happened to circle the right page of a text book while working with researchers, leading them to a eureka moment?

Cool Story. Good thing that's not what happened so maybe we can do away with all these pointless non sequiturs yeah ? If you want to have a good faith argument, you're welcome to it, but if you're going to go on these nonsensical tangents, it's best we end this here.
by deanc | 2026-02-13 20:08:50+00:00
This really resonates with me. I have lived in Finland for 16 years and struggled with work-life balance whilst trying to learn one of the most difficult languages in the world. Unless you pass the language exam you can't apply for citizenship - no matter how long you've been here for.

And yet, the right-wing-ish coalition government is making hostile anti-immigration policies and increasing citizenship requirements - which I can't vote against.
by maccard | 2026-02-13 20:08:54+00:00
I’m an Irish citizen who lives in the UK. I’m entitled to vote for the upper house in Ireland (Seanad) and in both Uk and Scottish general elections due to our “special arrangement”. I have no plans to apply for citizenship, nor to leave the UK.

Honestly, it’s an incredibly privileged thing to be able to do and I think of it every time I vote. I am an ardent supporter of free movement of people. I genuinely think that voting in GEs should be restricted to citizens of the country (and that my exemption is unfair). Without that distinction, what is the difference between a long term resident and a citizen? Why would you ever go through it.
The _citizens_ should vote for what country they want, and the residents (me) should decide do we still want to be a part of that world.
by jfengel | 2026-02-13 20:08:55+00:00
It's supposed to be the work of 535 dimwits, but each half of those 535 spends its time ensuring that the other half doesn't get anything done.

So the executive branch has assumed a lot of functions that by right belong to the legislative branch. That's not great, but it has mostly worked out, because the executive branch is made up mostly of bureaucratic civil servants who really just want to do their jobs.

There were always appointed political functionaries at the top of the departments, who in theory had a ton of power but in practice frequently deferred to the subject matter experts within the department.

But that was always tenuous, and now that has broken. Which means that a single dimwit can override all of the experts. They always could, but were generally smart enough not to.
by BrandoElFollito | 2026-02-13 20:09:07+00:00
Please stop stating idiocies and behave like a grown-up.

Look at the numbers and you will see the drop in BOTH the number of infections, AND the transmissions (because of a reduced viral payload).

These are sensibly larger than would be expected from natural herd immunity due to infections.

Vaccines also greatly reduced the severity of the disease, when caught anyway.

If you do not believe in science, treat this as a religion and do it anyway without thinking.
by qgin | 2026-02-13 20:09:16+00:00
You don't need AI to replace whole jobs 1:1 to have massive displacement.

If AI can do 80% of your tasks but fails miserably on the remaining 20%, that doesn't mean your job is safe. It means that 80% of the people in your department can be fired and the remaining 20% handle the parts the AI can't do yet.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-13 20:09:37+00:00
I like the use of the word "derives". However, it gets outshined by "new result" in public eyes.

I expect lots of derivations (new discoveries whose pieces were already in place somewhere, but no one has put them together).

In this case, the human authors did the thinking and also used the LLM, but this could happen without the original human author too (some guy posts some partial on the internet, no one realizes is novel knowledge, gets reused by AI later). It would be tremendously nice if credit was kept in such possible scenarios.
by Footprint0521 | 2026-02-13 20:09:57+00:00
It’s all context/ use case; I’ve had weird things too but if you only use markdown inputs and specific prompts Gemini 3 Pro is insane, not to mention the context window

Also because of the long context window (1 mil tokens on thinking and pro! Claude and OpenAI only have 128k) deep research is the best

That being said, for coding I definitely still use Codex with GPT 5.3 XHigh lol
by shinryuu | 2026-02-13 20:10:20+00:00
I've been feeling it pretty strongly too. The way I see it there are very strong incentives to make this work out. Whether they actually manage to automate a big enough portion of knowledge work is still an open question. A few years ago I would easily say it's 0%. Now, I'm not so sure it feels like a non-zero probability to me.

Either way, planning for it to happen would be better than be taken by surprise if it does.

And to finish the end of the week on a good note.

AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaLM8Oj4o