MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by extraduder_ire | 2026-02-12 09:53:34+00:00
Tangentially, it's kind of weird how most of the sites' systems to verify your age try to get you to do it on a phone.

I've never used twitter on a phone, yet that's the only official way to go through the age verification process. Youtube too.

I attempted to get through the youtube one on a new account to see an age-gated video, but couldn't finish the process and gave up. At the time, I remember thinking it would be easier for me to buy an age verified google account from someone.
by flakeoil | 2026-02-12 09:53:42+00:00
I think firstly the kids need to get education about this subject in school. The dangers online, the tools to use to protect oneself etc.

Secondly the parents need some similar education, either face-to-face education or information material sent home.

It will not prevent everything, but at least we cannot expect kids and parents to know about parental control features, ublock origin type tools or what dangers are out there.

We have to trust parents and kids to protect themselves, but to do that they need knowledge.

Of course some parents and kids don't care or do not understand or want to bypass any filters and protections, but at leaast a more informed society is for the better and a first step.
by rafaelmn | 2026-02-12 09:54:32+00:00
IMHO D just missed the mark with the GC in core. It was released in a time where a replacement for C++ was sorely needed, and it tried to position itself as that (obvious from the name).

But by including the GC/runtime it went into a category with C# and Java which are much better options if you're fine with shipping a runtime and GC. Eventually Go showed up to crowd out this space even further.

Meanwhile in the C/C++ replacement camp there was nothing credible until Rust showed up, and nowadays I think Zig is what D wanted to be with more momentum behind it.

Still kind of salty about the directions they took because we could have had a viable C++ alternative way earlier - I remember getting excited about the language a lifetime ago :D
by keepamovin | 2026-02-12 09:54:46+00:00
The game tries to help you by augmenting your guesses with propagated constraints on other cells and prime digits that arise from a guess.

The multiplication tableaux is the regular long-multiplication tableaux, but rotated and with zeroes elided, because it produces, along with the fact that we pick "RSA primes" to be the same digit length, a nicer symmetric square.

Even with the constraints, you might find that doing this "semiprime factoring" is surprisingly hard (if you do it without just writing a loop to find the answer).

Despite that, the visual presentation clearly indicates how the information is present in the product to yield the factors. It's just occluded by the tableaux's as-yet-unrevealed inner states. Each cell in the tableaux is the product of a distinct pairs of factor digits corresponding to the diagonals that meet at that cell. The cells are split into "quotient and remainder modulo radix" because it's the (in this orientation) vertical columns of alternating, adjacent quotients and remainders that sum (with carry) to the digits of the product.

Only a small set of automated contraints are included in this game, but you can imagine others.
by michalu | 2026-02-12 09:56:19+00:00
I know so many "artists" in Paris, London, Barcelona and Berlin and I can't name a single one who deserves this. In my opinion any other demographic is more deserving. But as long as we're going to pretend anyone who says they do art is an artist or "you just a lowly pleb who doesn't understand art" we're going to have to play this game and pay for it.
by hebejebelus | 2026-02-12 09:56:31+00:00
Unfortunately I've deleted them, but here's the repo, such as it is: https://github.com/CarlQLange/agent-usenet. If you have a claude subscription it should just work. Rewrite 0001.txt if you like and run generate.py a couple of times.

I agree, I think different models (or even just using the API directly instead of via the Claude Code harness) would make for much more interesting reading.
by patcon | 2026-02-12 09:57:08+00:00
Don't assume pls. I'd say "ask", and you can just ask AI if you're short on time to find a Indian with sufficient humility to answer cautiously

It will tell you Indians aren't monolithic, and artisans certainly DO mind (while elite or others might not, bc they are ignorant like you or I). It will also tell you that India has "geographical indication (GI) protections for crafts like Kanchipuram silk, Banarasi sarees, and Chanderi fabric specifically to prevent this kind of appropriation".

While an Indian "joe on the street", might not have an opinion, the slower and deliberate machinery of government (which is elected to protect interests of the Indian people) certainly has a problem with such things, and might gladly refer to colonialist tendencies.

Ask a human or an AI yourself, if you care enough to learn rather than just offer a confident take
by jojomodding | 2026-02-12 09:57:31+00:00
It also involves being able to look the person doing the sentencing in the eye and them telling you their reasons for the ruling to the face; being able to argue and present evidence in front of a neutral arbiter.

Facebook's moderation might well be just but it lacks the accountability and openness and humanity to appear just. (It also isn't just but I'm saying that even if it was, it would not appear so.)
by deaux | 2026-02-12 09:58:43+00:00
Agreed to an extent. I think there are different axes at play here though.

Their desk and computer setup is chaotic, but their "task system" is probably very minimalist. Either it's nonexistent - everything's in their head. Or it's a scribble pad with the next few things they need to do which they cross off and then write new things. Or it's a .txt. At most it's a .md but even that's already stretching it.

What it's not is an immaculately structured maximalist Notion workspace - which is what the "clean desk" people you're talking about often prefer.
by deng | 2026-02-12 09:59:12+00:00
> Many of us believe on automatic memory management for systems programming

The problem is the term "systems programming". For some, it's kernels and device drivers. For some, it's embedded real-time systems. For some, it's databases, game engines, compilers, language run-times, whatever.

There is no GC that could possibly handle all these use-cases.
by isoprophlex | 2026-02-12 09:59:51+00:00
https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone

audio files sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/

the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. elevenlabs on the $5 plan doesn't really get it right. but i'm still having a lot of fun with this.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-12 10:00:28+00:00
This is a great observation. I'm the creator of OpenClaw, and you've hit on exactly why we recently introduced the "Gateway" architecture.

The early versions were indeed "single programs trying to do everything," which is fine for a demo but fails for long-horizon tasks. The new Gateway architecture (v1.0+) moves us toward the OS model you're describing:

1. Process Supervision: The Gateway acts as a supervisor for multiple agent sessions. If an agent crashes or hangs, the Gateway can detect the heartbeat failure and attempt recovery.
2. State Persistence: We're moving memory and session state into a decoupled database (Clawdb) so you can restart the process without losing context.
3. Event-Driven: Sub-agents can now spawn to handle background work and notify the main session via system events, rather than blocking the main loop.

We're still early in the transition, but the goal is to make OpenClaw the "agentic kernel" that handles the messy reality of failure, rather than just a wrapper around a prompt. Reliability is the main focus for the next few months.
by circular_logic | 2026-02-12 10:00:49+00:00
These are the things I add in when adding in a new usecase to a codename:

- Expansion of the acceptance criteria into small steps.

- Any clarifications to what we are making

- Anything I don't understand yet so i can chase up someone about it later

- As I read through the code I write up possible refactoring opertunties. (I find this a lot better than adding todos as you can skim though the list closer to the end and address things that matter most first. Often the code that seems silly at first has a decent reason to be that way with the full context knowen)

All of this helps me pull the right threads without having to switch context throughout the day
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-12 10:01:09+00:00
You keep implying that drivers distracting themselves with their hone whilst stopped in traffic is harmless, whereas it's very dangerous - that's precisely why the law was drafted to specifically make even just holding a phone whilst in control of a motor vehicle to be illegal.

Drivers are not able to quickly switch contexts between staring at a phone and looking around their vehicle and this "whatsapp-gap" is painfully obvious when cycling past slow/stopped traffic. It does lead to collisions with other road users - typically pedestrians and cyclists as drivers tend to only bother looking for other car-shaped vehicles and even more so when they're in the 30 second re-adjustment of their attention.

There is no "safe" use of a phone when driving - even using it in a cradle/hands-free which is legal in the UK, leads to a higher level of distraction and there would be a strong argument for making that illegal too, but we should focus more on enforcement of the existing traffic laws.

There's people like Mikey trying to make the world a bit better, and then there's people like you who make apologies for dangerous and illegal drivers. Maybe you should re-examine your attitude.
by happymellon | 2026-02-12 10:02:10+00:00
> I don't know about the UK

Then this is probably not the article to be speculating on.

We have a most favoured nation charging, so whatever costs the most sets the price.

> The more renewables we have, the more expensive the electricity is.

Because pricing is disconnected from cost. This is to encourage more cheap green because the margins are higher.

> The renewable electricity producers are providing a service which no one want nor would normally buy but everyone is forced to buy it and subside it.

We are currently sitting through some of the heaviest rainfalls in Britain. My area normally gets about 50mm of rain in January, and instead we have had 130mm. So I think you can take your climate change denial and shove it.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Expert-Comment/Rain-for-...
by backscratches | 2026-02-12 10:02:17+00:00
Your last line is incorrect (by your own earlier descrdption of BTC):

> had Epstein used BTC every single one of his clients would be known

Had Epstein used BTC And we discovered his BTC address(es) we would know what BTC addresses he sent BTC to. Simply by knowing his BTC address(es) alone we would not know anything about who he sent BTC to except the addresses he sent to. And if we know only one of Epstein's addresses and only one of the people associated with one of the recipient addresses, this would not necessarily give us any information about any of the other parties involved. With opsec BTC retains the quality of pseudoanonymity (a technical term). Epstein, who is known for laundering money, likely could have converted cash to BTC without connecting his identity to the addresses many times over.

I would be very surprised to learn that pre-BTC online black markets had equivalent volume as modern cryptocurrency markets.
by knbknb | 2026-02-12 10:02:18+00:00
There is a well-known CLI tool for JSON processing called jq.
I have just asked GLM-4.7 for the name of jq's built function to convert a string to lowercase. It is called ascii_downcase() according to the manual:

https://jqlang.org/manual/#ascii_downcase-ascii_upcase

However GLM-4.7 insists that is called ascii_down().

I tried to correct it and gave the exact version number, but still, after a long internal monologue, This is its final world:

"In standard jq version 1.7, the function is named ascii_down, not ascii_downcase.

If you are receiving an error that ascii_down is not defined, please verify your version with jq --version. It is possible you are using a different binary (like gojq) or a version older than 1."

GLM-5 gives me the correct answer, ascii_downcase, but I can get this in the Chat Window. Via the API I get HTTP Status 429 - too many requests.
by onion2k | 2026-02-12 10:02:34+00:00
WordPress as a CMS is fine, but 90% of websites (e.g. the bit that lands in your browser) don't need the complexity of runtime generation and pointlessly run an application with a huge attack surface that's relatively easy to compromise. If sites used WordPress as a backend tool with a static site generator to bake the content there'd be far fewer compromised websites.

WordPress's popularity is mostly adding a huge amount of complexity, runtime cost, and security risk for every visitor for the only benefit of a content manager being able to add a page more easily or to configure a form without needing a developer. That is optimizing the least important part of the system.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-12 10:03:08+00:00
>So, implement surveillance of all, not only for the fracture of a percent of dogs returned but also because there are no functioning labour laws. Right. Got it. (/s)

Why stop there? People actually lie once in a while and say they never received a package that was supposedly delivered. We need to put those cameras inside peoples' homes, especially in the bathrooms and bedrooms where they hide the packages that were "never delivered." And why stop there? if we find that folks are lying about that, they should be tased, beaten and sent to prison (or just shot dead on the spot) for many years because they tried to defraud the powers-that-be ^H^H^H megacorps, and we can't allow that now can we? /s[0]

On a more serious note, there actually are labor (but without that extraneous 'u', friend!) laws in the US. But those generally only apply to "employees" and not subcontractors. Here's a page from Amazon about how to become a "delivery service partner"[1] (read: subcontractor so Amazon can avoid pesky things like labor laws, minimum wages, health care coverage, etc.), so you too can spend thousands and finally be allowed to urinate in plastic bottles. Good times!

[0] My '/s' is much broader and more absurd than yours. Please get ready for round two of the /s-waving contest :)

[1] https://logistics.amazon.com/
by imtringued | 2026-02-12 10:03:15+00:00
All of this crap has already been figured out by Silvio Gesell and his free economics ("Freiwirtschaft") movement before world war two. In fact, it has been figured out before Lenin got to power. Communists could have just stolen his ideas, pretended that they were their own and be done with capitalism.

Instead, we live in this absurd timeline where our communist "saviors" preferred losing against capitalists over achieving their stated goals. This tells us that in communism, the means are the goal and the proclaimed end goal is just an excuse to perform the means.

If communists genuinely wanted to help their people and they accept that they might not know how to get there, they would at least run hundreds to thousands of economic experiments, something that wouldn't be possible under capitalism, to find the methods that work. Instead, the self proclaimed saviors are inherently anti-reformist and against incremental change to improve society. They demand that all economic activity be under the control of the state and thereby destroy all possibility of performing economic experiments.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-12 10:03:46+00:00
Sweden punches far above its weight in game development (allegedly up to 20% of Steam revenue all goes to Swedish teams [1]), so if any people on any Swedish game developers have ever benefited from that program, I'd say the whole country has. That's surely been a huge benefit in terms of tax revenue, plus the gaming industry brings a lot of great minds to Sweden as well as improving their cultural soft power.

[1] https://www.gamereactor.eu/report-20-of-steams-revenue-goes-...
by lan321 | 2026-02-12 10:05:03+00:00
Mentioning it since it's mostly the same with small artists. You'll always only report the bare minimum which results in the unemployment $ being rough issue.

I'm not in Ireland but it's the same everywhere. No one likes paying taxes.

Not saying that anything should be done about it. TBH I'd even like to have unemployment benefits be an optional insurance to reduce my taxes since I haven't gotten a cent out of it yet, but that's separate.

Just noting that artists aren't in some unique situation.

Nothing is stopping them from opening a company and giving themselves a fixed salary or doing some mix of salaried, freelance and under-table work.
by devarshila | 2026-02-12 10:05:10+00:00
Interesting approach especially the idea of treating failures as state signals rather than exceptions. That’s a subtle but important shift from traditional orchestration thinking.
I agree with your critique of DAG-centric systems: they work well when the world is deterministic, but real production environments are adversarial, noisy, and stateful. An OODA-style control loop feels closer to how robust distributed systems behave under uncertainty
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-12 10:05:22+00:00
If a system is based on a userbase pulling the ladder from under them in order to make sure only they can benefit from it, then it's not a good or fair system from the get go.

Maybe the issue is with the definition of the profession of artist, that's it's too vague and fluid allowing anyone to claim to be one without much hassle.

But then if you have a strict definition of the artist profession, everyone will rush to conform to the bare minimum of that in order to score those benefits.

So maybe then the core issue is with the welfare state that unfairly picks winners and losers instead of being "universal".

Artist have exited way before the welfare state has. They were poor and had patrons who supported them if they loved their work. So then why do we need the state to subsidize this now? Do we have proof this leads to higher quality art?
by gwd | 2026-02-12 10:05:39+00:00
I feel like a lot of evaluations are pretty clearly evaluations. Not sure how to add the messiness and grit that a real benchmark could have.

That said, apparently Gemini's internal thought process reveals that it thinks loads of things were simulations when they aren't; it's 99% sure news stories about Trump from Dec 2025 are a detailed simulation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1qhadce/gemini_is...

ETA: From the article that put me on this:

> I write nonfiction about recent events in AI in a newsletter. According to its CoT while editing, Gemini 3 disagrees about the whole "nonfiction" part:

>> It seems I must treat this as a purely fictional scenario with 2025 as the date. Given that, I'm now focused on editing the text for flow, clarity, and internal consistency.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8uKQyjrAgCcWpfmcs/gemini-3-i...
by fransje26 | 2026-02-12 10:06:46+00:00
That's a pointless comparison.

1) The Michelin is 120 euro tire, vs the 60 euro Barum

2) The test page says nothing about the test conditions in which the tires were tested.

3) The Michelin tire test explicitly states:

The testers explicitly recommended against standardizing cars with all-season tyres in Sweden, suggesting that drivers would be better served by dedicated summer tyres paired with proper winter tyres when the season changes, rather than this compromise solution that fell well short of true summer tyre performance.
by skragus | 2026-02-12 10:07:05+00:00
I built ThreadLink after repeatedly losing context between long LLM sessions. If you're working on something multi-session, you end up copying large chunks of prior conversation into every new chat.

ThreadLink compresses full transcripts into portable "context cards" that can be reused across platforms or sessions. It runs entirely client-side — no transcripts are sent to any server. You provide your own API keys (OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Groq).

How it works:

- Removes platform boilerplate
- Segments conversations into token-aware sequential chunks
- Processes chunks in parallel
- Reassembles results deterministically
- Preserves partial output if some chunks fail
- Includes adaptive rate limiting with exponential backoff
- Optional recency weighting to bias token allocation toward recent content
- Prompts are editable, so power users can repurpose the pipeline beyond summarization (e.g. extraction, transformation, structured rewriting)

The focus wasn’t just summarization quality, but orchestration: chunking strategy, concurrency control, and failure handling.

Built for the Bolt.new 2025 Hackathon.

Live demo: https://threadlink.xyz
Source: https://github.com/Skragus/ThreadLink
Demo video: https://youtu.be/WNVgECm5cVc?si=yFYXMJxF6GBB0DAY
by dgxyz | 2026-02-12 10:07:57+00:00
I agree.

I'm sure i'll piss off a lot of people with this one but I don't care any more. I'm calling it what it is.

LLMs empower those without the domain knowledge or experience to identify if the output actually solves the problem. I have seen multiple colleagues deliver a lot of stuff that looks fancy but doesn't actually solve the prescribed problem at all. It's mostly just furniture around the problem. And the retort when I have to evaluate what they have done is "but it's so powerful". I stopped listening. It's a pure faith argument without any critical reasoning. It's the new "but it's got electrolytes!".

The second major problem is corrupting reasoning outright. I see people approaching LLMs as an exploratory process and let the LLM guide the reasoning. That doesn't really work. If you have a defined problem, it is very difficult to keep an LLM inside the rails. I believe that a lot of "success" with LLMs is because the users have little interest in purity or the problem they are supposed to be solving and are quite happy to deliver anything if it is demonstrable to someone else. That would suggest they are doing it to be conspicuous.

So we have a unique combination of self-imposed intellectual dishonesty, mixed with irrational faith which is ultimately self-aggrandizing. Just what society needs in difficult times: more of that! :(
by deaux | 2026-02-12 10:08:54+00:00
What you could do is just export all open tabs into a list, store that somewhere, and close all. You're not closing them because of anxiety that you'll need them, or because you're feeling bad that you haven't dealt with them, or likely a bit of both. This way, if you really need to, you can get back to them. You won't, but you can.
by philipallstar | 2026-02-12 10:09:09+00:00
> Xenophobia, of course.

Not of course. If you know you're not willing to understand why people think the way they do then what's the point in drawing conclusions from your biases?

> I just point out that to me "overstaying visa" is such a completely artificial concept

So is the concept of a "country" or a "state". Everything is an artificial concept. The first duty of the state is to have border integrity, so the country means something, and that includes deciding who can come in and for how long. This is very, very basic stuff that's normal in every country in the world.

The US lets the most people in legally in the entire world, and by quite some measure[0]. If you think it's some xenophobic nightmare of a place then that seems an extremely narrow understanding of the world and the US's place in it.

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/top-statistics-globa...