MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alex43578 | 2026-02-12 10:28:20+00:00
Definitely room for multiple approaches, including local LLMs.

But I just don't think for most users that local LLM capabilities will be a deciding factor in either hardware or OS choices.

A cloud subscription model will be the premium offering ($20 for consumers, $100 to $1000 or pay-per-token for businesses), and inevitably something ad-supported at a lower price or free for low-end consumers.

Once Joe Consumer has access to that subscription ChatGPT or free tier, are they really going to run a far-less-powerful model on their laptop? Outside of a few simple tasks like semantic search in your email, notes, photos; or localized transcription, local models will just be too far behind the curve for the public to make much use of them.
by zimpenfish | 2026-02-12 10:28:28+00:00
> [the iPhone 16e] used an old chip

What? It has the same RAM size, same RAM speed, and same chip[0] (minus one (1) GPU core [6c, 4g, 16n]) as the iPhone 16 [6c, 5g, 16n] (and almost the same as the A18 Pro [6c, 5g, 16n] minus the enhanced memory bandwidth and video encoding, afaict.)

(I mean, sure, it's an old chip compared to the 17 but then it's a generation older and saying "they used an old chip" is a nonsense truism.)

[0] https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-16...
by arcadia_leak | 2026-02-12 10:28:59+00:00
You'd be surprised to see how active the D community is, despite your fair point that it's noticeably smaller than in the "competing" (in quotes because it's not a competition, actually) languages.

The latest release [1] was on Jan 7th, and it contains more updates than, say, the latest release of Dart, which has one of the largest corporations behind it.

1. https://dlang.org/changelog/2.112.0.html
by Folcon | 2026-02-12 10:29:20+00:00
Ok that's fair, he's a pretty unusual or at least he's a writer that cares a great deal about his writing, he's talked in the past about his writing gets getting passes from people so there's at least a quality bar there

Thanks for clarifying, in this case it might be comparing apples to oranges as I'd be surprised if most people approach they're writing like he does
by croes | 2026-02-12 10:29:38+00:00
>> LLMs are the eternal September for software

>Cliche.

Too early to tell, so let's wait and see before we brush that off.

>> in that the sort of people who couldn’t make it through a bootcamp can now be “programming thought leaders”

>Snobbery.

Reality and actually a selling point of AI tools. I see pretty often ads for making apps without any knowledge of programming

>> the sort of people who breathlessly announce

> Snobbery / Cliche.

Reality

>> There’s no longer a reliable way to filter signal from noise.

> Cliche.

Reality, or do you destinguish a well programmed app from unaudited BS

>> There’s utility in these tools, but 99% of the content creators in AI are one intellectual step above banging rocks together

>Cliche / Snobbery.

99% is to high, maybe 50%

>> their judgement of progress is not to be trusted

> Tell me, timr, how much judgement is there is in snotty gatekeeping and strings of cliches?

We have many security issues in software coded by people who have experience in coding, how much do you trust software ordered by people who can't jusge if the program they get is secure or full of security flaws?
Don't forget these LLMs are trained on pre existing faulty code.
by toofy | 2026-02-12 10:29:42+00:00
being “worth it” and being “a hit” are two different things. the parent is trying to point out they made songs knowing full well those particular song would never be a hit, but they definitely thought it was “worth it.”

many artists do things often knowing they won’t make money from that piece. and some artists believe money should never drive why you create a piece of art, different reasons should be at the forefront, should be the driving force, some force other than widespread success.

the beatles were well known for making thing they did not water down for the masses, knowing it would likely not be a commercial success. and conversely they were also known for intentionally watering things down so the masses would take it. it’s one part of why they have stood the test of time.
by gnl | 2026-02-12 10:30:20+00:00
Yeah that one's too much for me too, I used to do this years ago, but not anymore. Especially since I found out Brave supports network blocking for extensions, which is something you generally set up once and then forget about it. I'm just giving people tools and ideas I didn't see mentioned elsewhere in the comments, it's up to everyone to figure out their particular threat scenarios and tradeoffs individually.

This could probably be automated though if someone wanted to tackle it. git pull, agentic code review, auto-build from source, install.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-12 10:30:40+00:00
Great work on open-sourcing the orchestrator. Full-duplex and barge-in are definitely the hardest parts to nail—getting those audio buffers cleared and the LLM stream killed in sub-500ms makes or breaks the "human" feel.

Curious about how you're handling VAD in noisy environments—do you find the RMS-based approach holds up well for telephony, or are you considering a more robust model-based VAD (like Silero) for the future?

We're tackling similar low-latency orchestration challenges at eboo.ai. It's great to see more Go-based tools in this space. Subscribed to the repo!
by spwa4 | 2026-02-12 10:31:17+00:00
Have they? Nvidia's moat is very different.

TLDR: For now, everyone is sold out of tokens: a ridiculous percentage of every Nvidia card is selling every token it's generating, every token generated by Google's TPUs sells, Amazon's Trainium, Groq's silicon giants (they don't really name their chips and the chips are like 30 cm in diameter, so let's go with giants), ... and Nvidia B200s are the cheapest way, by far, to generate tokens and are being sold at something like double the speed they can be produced.

Once the AI craze slows, the most surprising thing is going to happen: Nvidia sales will go up. Why? Because it's older cards that will get priced out first, and it will become a matter of survival for datacenter companies to fill datacenters that currently run older hardware with the newest Nvidia hardware ...

That's the bull case. Under unlimited token demand, Nvidia wins big. Under slowing token demand, Nvidia actually wins bigger, for a while, and only then slows. For now, everything certainly seems to indicate demand is not slowing. Ironically, under slowing demand, it's China that will suffer in this market.

And the threat? Well it is possible to beat Nvidia's best cards in intelligence, in usefullness, because the human mind is doing it, on 20W per head (200W for the "full machine"). And long story short: we don't know how, but obviously it's possible. Someone might figure it out.
by prohobo | 2026-02-12 10:31:36+00:00
In this thread people talking about a civilization-scale collective action problem that we've never come close to solving, and telling us to use paper straws or regulate the oil industry.

The only even theoretical solutions are:

- A magically effective totalitarian state that watches everyone inside a panopticon.

- Magically undo the damage with a technological breakthrough.

- Immediately leave Earth.
by cassepipe | 2026-02-12 10:32:32+00:00
I agree with you in the general but both-siding at the present time when one side is engaging in egregious behavior and lies constantly to make the other side as crazy as they are themselves sounds like an attempt at avoiding accountability.

It's not the few green militant's fault if one side is denying and attacking science, the same way it's not a few crazy leftists' fault if one side is trying to undermine the rule of law and the constitutional order in order to cling to power.

See what I am doing ? I admitting that there are a few nutcases on my side. You ? You are just issuing a blanket defense of everyone on your side (in another comment) including the most egregious (Musk) while pretending to be in the center.

I am tired of all those fake centrists. "Sure he led a conspiracy to overturn the result of an election but on the other hand remember when Hillary called us deplorables ?"

Can't wait for accountability to make a come back
by fransje26 | 2026-02-12 10:34:37+00:00
It can rub a reader the wrong way because it is written in a sarcastic tone to self-reflect on things the author did wrong or didn't do.

Every piece of "advice" and patronizing questioning, such as "You did that, right? Right?", is a self-reflection by the author on things she should have done but didn't do, and learned that the hard way. It is not meant to be a patronizing statement to the the reader, but it is rather self-depreciation.
by rafaelmn | 2026-02-12 10:35:23+00:00
> C# or Java don't have this, nor can they compile C code and seamlessly interoperate with it — but in D, this is effortless.

C# C interop is pretty smooth, Java is a different story. The fact that C# is becoming the GC language in game dev is proving my point.

>Furthermore, if you dig deeper, you'll find that D offers far greater control over its garbage collector than any other high-level language, to the point that you can eagerly free chunks of allocated memory, minimizing or eliminating garbage collector stops where it matters.

Yes, and the no-gc stuff was just attempts to backpedal on the wrong initial decision to fit into the use-cases they should have targeted from the start in my opinion.

Look D was an OK language but it had no corporate backing and there was no case where it was "the only good solution". If it was an actual C++ modernization attempt that stayed C compatible it would have seen much better adoption.
by amarble | 2026-02-12 10:37:23+00:00
As a counterpoint, I also tried writing something with Claude last weekend: a Google docs clone[1]. I spent $170 on Anthropic API credits, and got something that did mostly what I asked but was basically useless. It seems that for simple interfaces for which there is an exact specification, like the recent compiler and web browser examples, it's possible to write bigger projects that "work" as a demo although not in a way they'd be viable alternatives. For anything that requires taste and judgment, we've still got a long way to go. There are lots of great demos out there but few if any real examples of vibe coded (or whatever you want to call it) software standing alone as an alternative to project people wrote.

[1] https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html
by gnl | 2026-02-12 10:37:27+00:00
I don't know, but if there were, I wouldn't expect them to do anywhere near as good a job or – perhaps somewhat counterintuitively – be anywhere near as reliable. Static rules only go so far when it comes to this stuff. And assuming that you're starting from a trustworthy base, and Claude Code (or similar) can focus its attention on recent changes to the repo in particular, I imagine sneaking actual malware in there would be pretty hard without throwing up a bunch of red flags.

See also:

- [0-Days \ red.anthropic.com]( https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/ )

EDIT: The main challenge here is more likely to be the noise, as the LLM is more likely to flag too much than too little, so I'd recommend putting together a prompt that has it group whatever it finds by severity and likelihood of malicious intent.

EDIT 2: Re Anthropic link above – worth pointing out that finding intentionally introduced malware when you have access to the source code and git history is a hell of a lot easier than finding a 0-day. The malware has to exfil data eventually or do ransomware stuff, good luck hiding that without raising the alarm, plus any attempt at aggressive obfuscation will raise the alarm on its own. I'm not saying it's impossible, I am saying that I think it's very very hard.
by close04 | 2026-02-12 10:37:29+00:00
Are you sure a tool that a tool that

> failed hilariously in many instances, is currently not private, and crashes all the time, a (not yet) walking, talking CVE

Is actually doing a better job than not doing any of that at all? This isn’t a life or death situation where something is better than nothing out of desperation. Sometimes if you can’t do it right it’s better to not do it at all. Better to wait for the full meal instead of having a “slop snack”.

I can do a terrible job at transplanting brains in robotic bodies. Terrible. Which is more than any company can do so yay?

Some things are worse than nothing in terms of quality or liability.
by scandox | 2026-02-12 10:39:01+00:00
Some instinct, waking at these memories, stronger than education or piety, quickened within him at every near approach to that life, an instinct subtle and hostile, and armed him against acquiescence. The chill and order of the life repelled him. He saw himself rising in the cold of the morning and filing down with the others to early mass and trying vainly to struggle with his prayers against the fainting sickness of his stomach.
by rvz | 2026-02-12 10:39:18+00:00
> This post is happening because I’ve waited long enough. The vulnerability is still there, the report is still sitting at P5, and nobody from OpenAI has acknowledged the escalation. I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to do here.

So, this is a serious RCE 0day in Codex and the disclosure is now released to the world.

And yet no-one cares. (When everyone including vibe-coders and moltbots should care.)
by meindnoch | 2026-02-12 10:40:16+00:00
Sure, you can say that complex numbers are 2-tuples with a special rule for multiplication (a, b) * (c, d) = (ac - bd, ad + bc). Same way you can define rationals as 2-tuples with a special rule for addition (a, b) + (c, d) = ((ad + cb) / gcd(b, d), bd / gcd(b, d)).

But I think this way you'd lose insight as to where these rules really come from. The rule for complex multiplication is the way it is, precisely because it gives you an algebra that works as if you were manipulating a quantity that squared to -1.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-12 10:40:56+00:00
I'm not claiming that the text at issue changes whether sexting in that relationship is criminalized, just that it is criminalized,† which should disqualify the law as a piece of model legislation.

It's true in a technical sense that where sexting is legal anyway, the "model" text wouldn't make it illegal, but that isn't an interesting observation, because where sexting is legal anyway, the text has no effects at all.

† Here's a citation from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminalize:

Many freedoms Americans take for granted -- like education, art, association, speech -- are criminalized or tightly controlled in Iran.

I suggest to you that making a change in the legal status of something is not a necessary part of the meaning of criminalize.
by lxgr | 2026-02-12 10:41:03+00:00
If your high-profile misses become the subject of both memes and major news stories I'd say you are still the benchmark in UX, yes.

Even "Apple design has peaked" is a meme if you've been following this stuff for more than just one decade. (Sure, one day it'll most likely be true, but that doesn't make everyone predicting it now a prophet retroactively.)
by manuelmoreale | 2026-02-12 10:41:38+00:00
We have a similar system in Italy so the age verification process itself doesn't personally concerns me that much since the verification process is done by the government itself and they obviously already have my information.

I'm personally more interested in the intuition people have when it comes to squaring rejecting age verification online while also accepting it in a multitude of other situations (both online and offline)
by ShamLegacyTldr | 2026-02-12 10:42:19+00:00
You just think my perspective is invalid and so you read manipulative or deceptive intent into my actions.

> The focus should be solely on the Science and nothing else.

You don't get to decide how the discussion goes. You don't get to decide that the focus should be narrow and restricted to the topics you're comfortable with.

The person who is actually attempting to steer the conversation is you. I'm just here to share my thoughts. You don't like that? You don't see the relevance in discussing Feynman in a thread about Feynman? Noted.
by deaux | 2026-02-12 10:42:27+00:00
> I am also an ardent user of AI - but sometimes I do feel guilty when I use so many tokens - because I know I am burning energy, and feeding part of this mission. If there is a solution, I would like to be a part of it.

This is by far the best article I've seen on it [0]. Which leads me to conclude: if you use coding agents, then yes, it's definitely a concern. Yet if you drive daily, even an EV, it's very small compared to that. Let alone flying. Personally, even if my "AI emissions" are at 10x his estimated usage (they almost certainly aren't), the other sacrifices I make to reduce emissions have such an impact that I'd still be multiple times below the national average.

Note how the above measures energy usage (kWh), not emissions. For anyone taking fossil fuel transit regularly, whether ICE car/taxi/airplane, AI usage is all but guaranteed to be meaningless compared to their transport emissions. One hamburger is at least 5x more emissions than his "median say with Claude Code", so there's another one. If you're feeling guilty, track how much beef you're eating, cut it down by 20% and use agents to your hearts content.

Now of course, a different form of AI usage like image generation and especially video generation is incomparably more energy-intensive per query. We'd need separate math on that.

[0] https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/
by ben_w | 2026-02-12 10:43:17+00:00
A dramatic factor within itself, not a dramatic quantity compared to everything else.

I'm not sure exactly how much aviation fuel China burned in 2025, nor mass to orbit, but a quick search suggests that in 2024 they burned 38.2 million tonnes of aviation fuel[0], and launched 174.4 tonnes to orbit[1]. For the sake of a Fermi approximation, round that up to 40 MT aviation emissions and 200 tonnes to orbit, and assume a 20x factor of propellant CO2 emission mass to payload mass:

200 * 20 = 4e3 tonnes of CO2 from space launches

40e6 / 4e3 = 10,000 times more comes from aviation

So, space could go up by a factor of 100x (compared to 2024) and still be a literal rounding error compared to just aviation.

As per article, graph shows the nation as a whole is just over 12,000 million tonnes "from fossil fuels and cement".

12e9 / 4e3 = 3,000,000

If I download the image to get the full resolution, there's 586 pixels between the lines for 10,000 million and 12,000 million tonnes, so each pixel on that graph represents 2e9 / 586 ~= 3.4 million tonnes, and 3.4e6 / 4e3 = 850, so even if space launch grew by a factor of a thousand it would only shift that graph by one pixel. One and a bit, but closer to one.

[0] Search for "38.2": https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=7427

[1] Page 13: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space24.1.0.pdf
by BojanTomic | 2026-02-12 10:43:27+00:00
The em dashes are fair. I use Claude to edit and tighten my writing. I also used a calculator to do my taxes, but that doesn't mean I don't understand my finances.
On the tokenomics, $14 billion projected losses in 2026 alone, $1.4 trillion in compute commitments against $20 billion in revenue.
by arcadia_leak | 2026-02-12 10:44:47+00:00
> C# C interop is pretty smooth

True, but you still need to either generate or manually write the bindings. In D, you just import the C headers directly without depending on the bindings' maintainers.

> If it was an actual C++ modernization attempt that stayed C compatible it would have seen much better

Any D compiler is literally also a C compiler. I sincerely don't know how can one be more C compatible than that.

> Yes, and the no-gc stuff was just attempts to backpedal on the wrong initial decision

I think that it was more of an attempt to appease folks who won't use GC even with a gun to their head.
by lxgr | 2026-02-12 10:45:53+00:00
Yes, it's significantly better than nobody doing any of this for me, and the important thing for the purpose of this prediction is that the error rate still seems to be going down exponentially with time.

> This isn’t a life or death situation where something is better than nothing out of desperation.

That's exactly where it would make sense to try a new thing then, no?

> I can do a terrible job at transplanting brains in robotic bodies.

Sounds like a much more high stakes activity than telling me factoids around my travel itinerary, so I agree that we shouldn't have you run the neurosurgery department yet, yes.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-12 10:46:01+00:00
Touche!

I will say that we don't use those limey flavoured spellings over here across the pond, nor do we allow such things in our adverts either, even if we're filling our caravans up with petrol.

It's an honour to be singled out for this, especially as I was whinging about it. ;)

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=labor
by knbknb | 2026-02-12 10:46:10+00:00
Seems that I cannot use GLM-5 via the API yet, because I am on the Coding-Lite Plan, the most basic paid tier.

I have also realized that I get faster and correct answer to the ascii_downcase question (even from GLM-4.7) when I submit to open.bigmodel.cn endpoint rather than the z.ai API endpoints (using the same API key). I get a mix of Chinese and Western characters in error responses from open.bigmodel.cn though, while the z.ai endpoint does only contain Western Characters.

(Just assuming that both websites are operated by the same company).
by extraduder_ire | 2026-02-12 10:46:46+00:00
Various variants of english diverted quite a bit since the US became its own country. Like how the US constitution mentions "freedom of speech", which includes many things that aren't just speech as we'd call it, whereas many other countries call the same concept "freedom of expression" because they committed it to writing later.

Another funny difference is the word "corporation" meaning the government in some cases. Like someone living in Belfast could go home from their corporation job to their corporation flat, if they lived in public housing and were employed by Stormont.
by interloxia | 2026-02-12 10:47:31+00:00
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

>Our investigation found that between September 2021 and September 2025, MediaLab processed the personal information of children using Imgur in ways that breached the UK GDPR.

-Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine (express.co.uk) 717 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services

>The code took effect on 2 September 2020, so you must conform with the code from 2 September 2021.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
by eviks | 2026-02-12 10:47:39+00:00
> think it looks better (on Mac and iOS) than any other Liquid Glass app

what a weird comparison, the baseline is the previous version of the app

> standout features of the app is just being native, not trying to re-invent the wheel with custom GUI, and taking advantage of built-in platform features

Since the previous GUI isn't custom you don't lose your standout features