MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by npunt | 2026-02-11 22:38:29+00:00
Taste is pretty transferable, I think what you're talking about is intuition. The foundations of intuition are deeply understanding problems and the ability to navigate towards solutions related to those problems. Both of these are relatively domain-dependent. People can have intuition for how to do things but lack the taste to make those solutions feel right.

Taste on the other hand is about creating an overall feeling from a product. It's holistic and about coherence, where intuition is more bottom-up problem solving. Tasteful decisions are those that use restraint, that strike a particular tone, that say 'no' when others might say 'yes'. It's a lot more magical, and a lot rarer.

Both taste and intuition are ultimately about judgment, which is why they're often confused for one another. The difference is they approach problems from the opposite side; taste from above, intuition from below.

I agree with your assessment otherwise, PM can be a real smoke screen especially across domain and company stage.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-11 22:39:15+00:00
> Too late now that they awarded Siri to Gemini

Apple won't ever allow anyone else to own and control their core technologies (as we saw with Google Maps back in the day). We can safely assume their deal with Gemini is for Google to sell them a model-as-a-service component that can be swapped out at any moment, with either another model like Claude, or with Apple's own future models.
by extr | 2026-02-11 22:39:21+00:00
FWIW I mentioned this in the thread (I am the guy in the big GH issue who actually used verbose mode and gave specific likes/dislikes), but I find it frustrating that ctrl+o still seems to truncate at strange boundaries. I am looking at an open CC session right now with verbose mode enabled - works pretty well and I'm glad you're fixing the subagent thing. But when I hit ctrl+o, I only see more detailed output for the last 4 messages, with the rest hidden behind ctrl+e.

It's not an easy UI problem to solve in all cases since behavior in CC can be so flexible, compaction, forking, etc. But it would be great if it was simply consistent (ctrl+o shows last N where N is like, 50, or 100), with ctrl+e revealing the rest.
by Epa095 | 2026-02-11 22:39:39+00:00
But with power the final product it's the same, the production method is different.

So it's more like this: I make a product for 5 and sell it for 6. My production facility is maxed, but there is still much demand. So I (or someone else) sets up another factory, making them for 8 and selling for 9 (there is demand enough). Now, will I keep selling at 6? No, my prices will also increase (to maximise my profit), and the final price will be where the demand curve crosses the supply curve.

I am wind, the new one is gass. We both make the same product, we sell at the same price, but I make a larger profit.
by akdev1l | 2026-02-11 22:41:03+00:00
0 days exist and they are exploited in the wild sometimes

An ad-blocker /is/ security software. You don’t have to take it from me, you can read from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

> AT-A-GLANCE RECOMMENDATIONS

> Standardize and Secure Web Browsers

> Deploy Advertisement Blocking Software

> Isolate Web Browsers from Operating Systems

> Implement Protective Domain Name System
Technologies

Literally their second recommendation on this pamphlet about securing web browsers: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Capaci...

Moreover you don’t even need a 0-day to fall for phishing. All you need is to be a little tired or somehow not paying attention (inb4 “it will never happen to ME, I am too smart for that”)
by danny_codes | 2026-02-11 22:41:11+00:00
I want the emitter to be taxed however much it would cost the market to put the carbon back.

Obviously in such a system there wouldn’t be any fossil fuel companies so it’s a moot point.

But this isn’t purely economic. Fossil fuel companies are paying top dollar to ensure we destroy the climate. Just look at all the batshit propaganda around climate change. People genuinely believe it’s not a problem. It’s wild how effective the fossil fuel industry has been in convincing people the sky isn’t falling
by siofra | 2026-02-11 22:41:19+00:00
What strikes me is how the boundary between transcription and co-authorship was always blurry, and always politically convenient to keep blurry. If you call it typing, you don't have to share credit or pay more. If you call it editing, the myth of singular genius gets complicated.

Bosanquet didn't just transcribe James — she learned to anticipate his rhythms, suggest phrasings, shape the final text. That's creative labor by any honest definition. But the typewriter gave everyone a convenient fiction: she's operating a machine, therefore it's mechanical, therefore it doesn't count.

We're watching the same pattern replay right now with a different machine.
by jaggederest | 2026-02-11 22:41:44+00:00
https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/snow-statistics

Upwards of 80cm in finnish lapland, so quite a bit of snow, but not the ~2-3 meters common in the high sierras and cascades. This is mostly because the elevation is low and the sea exposure is smaller (wind blows from the pacific over the mountain and dumps snow). The Paradise Snowtel on Ranier, for example, routinely has 3-6 meters / 10-20 feet of snow in winter, and is one of the snowiest places on earth. The only place I'm aware of that has more is Aomori Prefecture in Japan and they have similar geography.
by rorylaitila | 2026-02-11 22:42:01+00:00
I dabbled in my own open source projects over the years. I learned that I really just like serving my customers directly. I don't enjoy managing PRs or responding to feedback from strangers. I think "who you enjoy to serve" is a useful frame for deciding how to go to market. Each type of go-to-market approach has it's own type of 'customer.'
by mcswell | 2026-02-11 22:42:08+00:00
I hadn't heard the "rot" one, but I imagine it's referring to composting. We have a county-run composting site (https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/departments-offices/en...), and apparently when done right it produces a whole lot less methane than letting organics get buried and decompose in landfills.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 22:42:15+00:00
Open source is not intended to be for everyone or to benefit everyone, it is intended to be a type of "digital commons" where programmers can go and learn from each other and take existing code and build ontop of it. Obviously this benefits primarily developers and those who can understand the code or who need to use it, which will include many businesses but also hobbyists and self-taught programmers as well as students.

Before open source, even things like compilers and C libraries were closed source, and you needed to buy them from a vendor and were in trouble if the vendor went out of business. The original C compiler and library by Bell Labs were only licensed for $20,000 in the early 1970s. That's over $100,000 today. Imagine living in a world where it cost you $100,000 to access a c compiler. The effect of that is that only very large businesses and universities had access. Everyone else was locked out.

Now, we don't need to worry about that, we have a large library of tooling, we have operating systems, we have compilers and frameworks, all open source. That is the purpose of open source code and it has worked remarkably well.

But if you want to "benefit everyone", then look for something like universal basic income, as software licensing models aren't the tool to accomplish that.
by dhruv3006 | 2026-02-11 22:42:42+00:00
I believe we need to have a fundamentally different approach so as to solve this problem here;I think Voiden does justice to that.

You may check out : https://voiden.md

We opensourced sometime back.Voiden is offline and markdown based.

I believe we check all the boxes of
>What the Ideal API Tool Would Look Like

You can check our blog to know how voiden is designed here:https://voiden.md/blog/api-testing-with-reusable-blocks
by codingdave | 2026-02-11 22:42:44+00:00
SaaS didn't disrupt spreadsheets, it just gave people the opportunity to get the processes out of spreadsheets that never should have been there in the first place. What we are seeing today from LLMs is another flavor of how SaaS fixed overloaded spreadsheets: LLMs are fixing SaaS solutions that never should have been SaaS in the first place.

Yet neither spreadsheets nor SaaS is defunct. They are just getting refined down to their actual use case. AI also has finite use cases, but are currently in the part of the hype cycle where all kinds of crap in thrown in regardless of whether or not it is really the correct solution.

Some day in the future, something new will come along and diminish LLMs in this same way, when everything that never should have been LLM-driven in the first place will move along to the new thing and get its chance to be done correctly.
by Denzel | 2026-02-11 22:42:48+00:00
Weird, I broke Opus 4.5 pretty easily by giving some code, a build system, and integration tests that demonstrate the bug.

CC confidently iterated until it discovered the issue. CC confidently communicated exactly what the bug was, a detailed step-by-step deep dive into all the sections of the code that contributed to it. CC confidently suggested a fix that it then implemented. CC declared victory after 10 minutes!

The bug was still there.

I’m willing to admit I might be “holding it wrong”. I’ve had some successes and failures.

It’s all very impressive, but I still have yet to see how people are consistently getting CC to work for hours on end to produce good work. That still feels far fetched to me.
by zerocrates | 2026-02-11 22:43:06+00:00
I would say there's a couple aspects.

The crawlers for the big famous names in AI are all less well behaved and more voracious than say, Googlebot. Though this is all somewhat muddied by companies that ran the former "good" crawlers all also being in the AI business and sometimes trying to piggyback on people having allowed or whitelisted their search crawling User-Agent, mostly this has settled a little where they're separating Googlebot from GoogleOther, facebookexternalhit from meta-externalagent, etc. This was an earlier "wave" of increased crawling that was obviously attributable to AI development. In some cases it's still problematic but this is generally more manageable.

The other stuff, the ones that are using every User-Agent under the sun and a zillion datacenter IPs and residential IPs and rotate their requests constantly so all your naive and formerly-ok rate-based blocking is useless... that stuff is definitely being tagged as "for AI" on the basis of circumstantial evidence. But from the timing of when it seemed to start, the amount of traffic and addresses, I don't have any problem guessing with pretty high confidence that this is AI. To your question of "who are the customers"... who's got all the money in the world sloshing around at their fingertips and could use a whole bunch of scraped pages about ~everything? Call it lazy reasoning if you'd like.

How much this traces back ultimately to the big familiar brand names vs. would-be upstarts, I don't know. But a lot of sites are blocking their crawlers that admit who they are, so would I be surprised to see that they're also paying some shady subcontractors for scrapes and don't particularly care about the methods? Not really.
by Cieric | 2026-02-11 22:43:18+00:00
Door knob seems to return a bunch of chess pieces and analog sticks, I did get a few doors and a few knobs, but nothing I recognized as a door knob. I didn't spend a super long time looking though so that might have been the problem there. Also suggestion, giving the ability to link to specific models might be useful (I tried a few things on mobile, url doesn't change and searching for a specific model ID doesn't return the model).
by ajross | 2026-02-11 22:44:07+00:00
I dunno about "demand". But sure, I think most of us would prefer people prioritize like we do. And in particular many of us would view this kind of hobby project as tone deaf and tell people about that in public.

My freedom to tell Tan (or you) that he's being an idiot stems from the same place as his freedom to spend his own money on what he wants.
by lacker | 2026-02-11 22:44:09+00:00
It doesn't surprise me that Siri continues to be bad - Apple's current plan is to use a low-quality LLM to build a top-quality product, which turned out to be impossible.

What does surprise me is that Google Home is still so bad. They rolled out the new Gemini-based version, but if anything it's even worse than the old one. Same capabilities but more long-winded talking about them. It is still unable to answer basic questions like "what timer did you just cancel".
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 22:44:16+00:00
I'm learning to sing in German with Nena.

I especially like the way she rhymes "Captain Kirk" with "Feuerwerk".

https://genius.com/Nena-99-luftballons-lyrics

In other news, Director Gabbard and Secretaries Noem, Hegseth, and Kennedy met with Secretary Leavitt for her big Gender Reveal Party in El Paso...
by kstrauser | 2026-02-11 22:44:19+00:00
It would be literally impossible to know whether a user disabled JavaScript on another site, so I'm going to say that they meant that for their own sites.

> you say that as if they've done some harm to you or anyone else.

I was literally responding to someone referring to themselves as "collateral damage" and saying I'm playing into "Big Adtech's playbook". I explained why they're wrong.

> the correct course of action is to act like they don't exist.

Unless someone is making a site that explicitly targets users unwilling or unable to execute JavaScript, like an alternative browser that disables it by default or such, mathematically, yes, that's the correct course of action.
by bcherny | 2026-02-11 22:44:23+00:00
Yes totally. ctrl+o used to show all messages, but this is one of the tricky things about building in a terminal: because many terminals are quite slow, it is hard to render a large amount of output at once without causing tearing/stutter.

That said, we recently rewrote our renderer to make it much more efficient, so we can bump up the default a bit. Let me see what it feels like to show the last 10-20 messages -- fix incoming.
by kdumont | 2026-02-11 22:44:38+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Checking my notes, it looks like you didn't enter your information in our payments system, invoiced us via email 8 months after your contract started/ended (in violation of our contract agreement), lost your hourly log book, and had some discrepancies on work location. In addition to not completing the MVP for the project we aligned on. I have your last email pulled up and have replied to you to resolve. I apologies, it shouldn't have taken a HN post for me to resolve this.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-11 22:44:51+00:00
You've got it wrong. It doesn't have to be HTTP[S] traffic.

Reverse proxies can disambiguate based on the SNI. I could run telnetd on port 23, but have port 23 firewalled off, and have my reverse proxy listening on port 443 with TLS forward anything going to telnet.mydomain.com to telnetd. Obviously, my client would need to support that, but a client-side proxy could easily handle that just as well.
by kn0where | 2026-02-11 22:45:11+00:00
Yes, weight alone is not that important for fuel economy at highway speeds. Aerodynamic efficiency of a vehicle is determined by the cross section area + drag coefficient. A 90s Honda Civic has a worse drag coefficient but a vastly smaller cross section than the Rivian, so it needs to move less air out of the way to drive forward. Smaller EVs can go farther with smaller batteries, but the American consumer has decided for one reason or another that cars must be tall, and therefore less aerodynamically efficient.
by d3Xt3r | 2026-02-11 22:45:12+00:00
Can't speak for others, but this one is a fairly obvious vulnerability for someone who's in this field - similar bugs have existed back in the day in web browsers, and even somewhat recently on other platforms like Android (messages app) etc. Basically anything that displays clickable links, or renders web content etc - there's a high probably of there being a vulnerability, you just need to test a few well-known scenarios (and there are automated test suits for these things too).

The moment Microsoft started adding crap to Notepad, we knew that it was only a matter of time before such a vulnerability cropped up.
by Animats | 2026-02-11 22:45:18+00:00
Space-X wants to be regulated under the Railway Labor Act? [1] They should be careful of what they ask for. Some anti-union activities such as fussing with the bargaining unit definition don't apply under the RLA. Space-X is going to end up as a union shop.

Airlines are under the Railway Labor Act because Congress put them there in 1932, and they are almost totally unionized.

[1] https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/R...
by danny_codes | 2026-02-11 22:45:42+00:00
Seems China is cooking atm. If solar power and battery tech continues at this speed and their nuclear ambitions pan out, fossil fuels will be economically non-competitive (if they aren’t already). China EV momentum is incredible.

So still some hope I think! And it’s possible the populist “dumb dumb bricks” crew will decline in popularity when the inevitable lack of tangible improvements continues. Though since we are dealing with dumb dumb it may take a while
by HiPhish | 2026-02-11 22:46:09+00:00
> porch pirates

It absolutely boggles my mind that it's legal in the US for a deliverer to just leave a package out in the open for anyone to pick up and consider it "delivered". Might as well just throw it out of the window of your car, it has the same chance of getting picked up by the recipient. Where I live the package has to be handed over to the recipient. If the recipient is not available it will be handed over to a neighbour and this will be noted on a little card that's placed in the recipient's mail box. If that is not possible it will be taken back to the mail office and the recipient can pick it up in person.

Adding video surveillance is no solution. OK, so you saw a random stranger pick up your package. Now what? What are you going to do with that information? Are the police going to start a manhunt because of your 50$ Amazon order?
by leecommamichael | 2026-02-11 22:47:14+00:00
I understand what your intent is in saying this, and I agree with the intent, but for onlookers, you don't really need a lot to make a good game and this would likely be just fine. I don't actually know if it's possible to ship GL games on modern consoles now that it's in-fashion to have your own proprietary graphics library. That said, the way Google has factored the back-end of the renderer, it won't take a PhD to target one of those GPU APIs.

Aside: GL is still a good practical choice for games built by small teams.
by dewey | 2026-02-11 22:47:29+00:00
Indeed, based on all the “look at that, you can’t even read xyz” screenshots around release time I thought it will be really bad. Upgraded and…it’s fine. After a week you don’t notice anything and the old OS will look dated. Just like every design change and any product that causes a lot of noise in the first week.

On the Mac it’s much rougher than on iOS.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-11 22:48:06+00:00
Agreed about peer following conservatism as well re: RTO. What is interesting though is how few of these supposedly meritocratic winners fail to have any level 2 thinking.

CTO friend at what you might call a smaller tier 2/tier 3 shop told me about some recent C-suite debates. CEO/COO types concerned that "the office is too empty". One notes that "our compensation costs are very high" and "maybe if we made everyone RTO, productivity would be higher and we wouldn't need as many developers".

One could just as easily & more logically argue - you are a smaller shop that pays less than market, your flexibility re: remote is a "free" benefit you can offer to get senior talent that might not otherwise be able to attract. Enforcing the same RTO as your higher paying and larger competitors opens you up to adverse selection your best talent trading up.

Of course telling your peers that your firm is a scrub is a different challenge.
by k5jhn | 2026-02-11 22:49:05+00:00
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by johnsmith1840 | 2026-02-11 22:49:07+00:00
I don't think the elite think all voters are dumb more like they think they're easy to manipulate to vote for something (which is largely true). Anecdotally I easily get manipulated by the type of information I consume. I occassionally catch it after the fact or a conversation with others but there's no telling how much I've just accepted that's manipulated.

From that angle it's a game of who has the money, power, and diatribution to enact this manipulation.

Twitter being a prime example. Is Elon "right"? Maybe but the main point is it doesn't matter as he has the distribution.

If you have money but low to no distribution -> you do what gary is doing. Maybe he'd be interested in removing rights to vote but someone like Zuck would NOT because he has outsized ability to influence as he sees fit.
by JoeBOFH | 2026-02-11 22:49:15+00:00
I am a newer iPhone user (2 years now) and I am of the same opinion as you. I see so many people crying foul, that their phone is now unusable, but I’m just hear going “eh it’s uglier” and continuing. Curious what OP thinks is fundamentally broken.

Now I have heard about issues on MacOS and things but not really anything around the phone.
by triceratops | 2026-02-11 22:49:34+00:00
Makes sense. But in a normally functioning market, production at 5 will rapidly ramp up to capture the excess profits to be made by selling at 8. Eventually this will drive everyone's prices to 6 and the ones stuck producing at 7 (natural gas) will be driven out of business.

According to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982118 there's additional "treasury" (is that the tax authority in the UK?) weirdness that prevents renewables from capturing these profits.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-11 22:49:52+00:00
What if his prompt was a dump of his thoughts and a request to condense them to a coherent article? I guarantee you wouldn't have seen that version of the article, and if you did you'd probably still be shitting on it.

There's no way to win (except to human wash the article, which ironically usually involves making it less coherent/clean), so why bother trying to please people like you?
by gruez | 2026-02-11 22:49:54+00:00
> Image noise does NOT come from high ISO, it comes from low exposure [...] changing the ISO on a digital camera will NOT introduce any more noise (except for at the extremes of the range, where, for example, analog readout noise may play a role).

Sounds like you're saying that setting higher ISO does cause noise, but as long as you don't go too high you won't really notice the difference?
by Fnoord | 2026-02-11 22:49:59+00:00
Because it discriminates a marginalized group which is by tradition very important to the FOSS community: students

Also, no it wouldn't kill spam. The spam would be moved to pwned machines where the owner would suddenly have an incentive (financial) to fix the system, if they know.

What remains is people who would be so rich that $1 means nothing to them. Ie. white collar criminals who are already rich enough to not care.
by delichon | 2026-02-11 22:50:03+00:00
Under US law, the NLRB excludes employers subject to the Railway Labor Act. xAI and X would need their own classification. It does not propagate automatically through ownership or mergers.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/nlrb-general-counsel-wants...

https://www.hunton.com/hunton-employment-labor-perspectives/...