MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2026-02-19 20:19:30+00:00
I think that's enough goalpost moving for one discussion, we've gone from 'this is easy' to 'VIPs can have the rules bent, sometimes'. I've worked for a bank and I have seen some 'exotic Swift messaging' as well but I also know how rare it is. Joe average does not have access to this kind of feature through their telebanking interface, or any other means.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-19 20:20:12+00:00
The overwhelming majority of homes in Singapore are HDB flats built by the government. These are torn down and new, taller buildings fitting more people built in their place. It's called the Selective En-Block Redevelopment Scheme, or SERS[1]. People sell their flats to the government and are given new flats in other neighbourhoods, while their old homes are torn down and new ones rebuilt. So, yes, in some way, they are 'kicked out'.

[1]: https://www.hdb.gov.sg/residential/living-in-an-hdb-flat/ser...
by xienze | 2026-02-19 20:20:16+00:00
> Both things happen to a vanishingly small degree that it's not worth taking any action on either

Eh, small thing there. Ever notice how when discussion about voter ID laws in the US come up that commenters from other countries are absolutely blown away by the idea of not having to show an ID when you vote? Because it’s such an obvious thing to not just leave up to the honor system, like we do? Point being, everyone else seems to think this “thing that could never happen” is worth safeguarding against.
by notahacker | 2026-02-19 20:20:17+00:00
The Wright brothers were deeply immersed experts in flight like only a handful of other people other people at the time, and were obsessed with Lilenthal's tables to the point they figured out how aerodynamic errors killed Lilenthal.

The blog's actual point isn't some deference to credentials straw man you've invented, it's that stuff lazily hashed together that's got to "good enough" without effort is seldom as interesting as people's passion projects. And the Wright brothers' application of their hardware assembly skills and the scientific method to theory they'd gone to great lengths to get sent to Dayton Ohio is pretty much the antithesis of getting to "good enough" without effort. Probably nobody around the turn of the century devoted more thinking and doing time to powered flight

Using AI isn't necessary or sufficient for getting to "good enough" without much effort (and it's of course possible to expend lots of effort with AI), but it does act as a multiplier for creating passable stuff with little thought (to an even greater extent than templates and frameworks and stock photos). And sure, a founding tenet of online marketing (and YC) from long before Claude is that many small experiments to see if $market has any takers might be worth doing before investing thinking time in understanding and iterating, and some people have made millions from it, but that doesn't mean experiments stitched together in a weekend mostly from other people's parts aren't boring to look at or that their hit rate won't be low....
by agentifysh | 2026-02-19 20:20:49+00:00
I read this article as the CTO being the bottleneck if he's only seeing 10% productivity boost at his organization.

I dont think this is a purely AI problem more with the legacy costs of maintaining many minds that can't be solved by just giving people AI tools until the AI comes for the CTO role (but not CEO or revenue generating roles) too and whichever manager is bottlenecking.

I imagine a future where we have Nasdaq listed companies run by just a dozen people with AI agents running and talking to each other so fast that text becomes a bottleneck and they need another medium that can only be understood by an AI that will hold humans hand

This shift would also be reflected by new hardware shifts...perhaps photonic chips or anything that lets AI scale up crazy without the energy cost....

Exciting times are ahead AI but it's also accelerating digital UBI....could be good and bad.
by jawns | 2026-02-19 20:21:06+00:00
No, no, no! Micropayments are not the way.

We already know the way. It's the cable/streaming model.

You pay for a single monthly subscription and get access to substantially all of the major news content.

What would need to happen for this to be possible? Cooperation between most of the major news outlets. Not cooperation in an anti-competitive sense, but willingness to participate in this sort of business model.

I'm a former news editor and left the industry because the business side couldn't figure out a viable business model.

I realize and feel deeply the loss we experience (especially at the local and state level) when quality journalism dies out, and I would love for the industry to recover.

But they're not going to do it unless they recognize that single-site subscriptions (or micropayment transactions) aren't going to cut it.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-19 20:21:11+00:00
Fun technical note:

>"Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. ”"

GPT models generate tokens from left to right, they are causal. That prompt causes the model to lock in to an answer and then generate the explanation after the fact. This is why you can sometimes see the failure mode "The answer is X because the answer can't be X so the answer is Y"

Asking for the Yes/No to be placed at the end would put the CoT before and generate 100% objectively better results.

I used to think prompt engineering was a bullshit term like you don't need to be trained at all to use this thing. But apparently you need to a little bit.

So if the idea alone that an application is fed into chatgpt isn't dumb enough, consider that they failed to even use chatgpt correctly, which apparently is a thing.
by sanswork | 2026-02-19 20:22:07+00:00
Micropayments work for games because there is some specific outcome I know I want and know paying this money will move me closer to that goal in the immediate future.

That isn't the case for news content. In news it's "reading this might be interesting" or being generous "knowing this might improve my life at some point".

That delay in outcome will kill micropayments because it again goes from a very easy calculation in your mind to "too hard" like Clay talked about.
Show HN: OctoFlow – A GPU-native programming language
by mr_octopus | 2026-02-19 20:22:11+00:00
I built a general-purpose programming language where the GPU is the primary execution target, not an afterthought.

Most languages treat GPU as "write a kernel, dispatch it, copy results back." OctoFlow flips it — data lives on
the GPU by default. The CPU handles I/O and nothing else.

let a = gpu_fill(1.0, 10000000)
let b = gpu_scale(a, 2.0)
let c = gpu_add(a, b)
print("sum: {gpu_sum(c)}")

10 million elements. Data never leaves VRAM between operations.

It's early — there's a lot to improve — but it works today and I'd love feedback from people who try it.

What you can do right now:

- GPU compute with arrays up to 10M+ elements
- Statistical analysis, ML (regression, clustering, neural net primitives)
- CSV/JSON data processing, HTTP client
- Stream pipelines for image processing
- Interactive REPL with GPU access
- Import from 51 stdlib modules across 11 domains

What you need: any GPU with a Vulkan driver and the 2.2 MB binary. That's it.

I've been working on this solo and would genuinely appreciate people kicking the tires. What works, what breaks,
what's missing — all useful.

https://github.com/octoflow-lang/octoflow
by dajas | 2026-02-19 20:22:20+00:00
author here! i originally intended this to be a technical write-up on everything i learned building an ATS (as someone who's in HR). the original title was "how to build an ATS and why you probably shouldn't". i debated mentioning what i built, but it felt hollow to _ramble_ about schemas, architecture, components with nothing to show for it.

the more i wrote and reflected, the more i thought about why the market never corrects itself despite the tools being expensive and badly designed. i've worked with hundreds of recruiters and most use spreadsheets. that's not a workflow quirk but i think an indictment of something bigger which traces back to everything in the post -- the buyer who never uses the product, the integrations racket, the "AI-native" tools bolted on top of a broken foundation, etc. etc.

so i ended up writing the first half. it's drawn from my experiences frustratingly buying an ATS for a small business, and watching the dysfunction of procurement/integration/lack of adoption play out at the enterprise level.

admittedly, HR/recruiting tech is a very niche audience, so the technical section probably lands better with engineers who've been handed a recruiting project than with anyone actually working in HR. so i wanted to offer a resource from that perspective.
by d-us-vb | 2026-02-19 20:22:32+00:00
Iverson's point is more regarding semantics than syntax, though. The only mention of syntax suggests its better for it to be simple (presumably so that the semantics are closer to the surface). Every programming language is a notation for describing computation; notation is a catch all for all three levels: orthography, syntax, and semantics. APL is interesting because it not only uses an unconventional syntax, but also an unconventional orthography (obligate usage of special symbols), and its semantics are different as well from most languages (array programming). Iverson's point is that APL as a notation is valuable for making the structure of certain computations obvious, and that this point generalizes across programming languages.

GingerBill's article is making a narrower claim: that semantics are what determines a good notation usually, not syntax.
by dns_snek | 2026-02-19 20:22:42+00:00
> (d) “Three-dimensional printer” means a computer-aided manufacturing device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a three-dimensional digital model through an additive manufacturing process that involves the layering of two-dimensional cross sections formed of a resin or similar material that are fused together to form a three-dimensional object.

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-civ/division-3/...

I expect someone to get around this by modifying the slicing software to use a different algorithm that doesn't rely strictly on layering 2D cross sections.
by ryukoposting | 2026-02-19 20:22:51+00:00
The file format seems reasonable enough, it's the mechanics of actually deciding when to mark an edit as AI-generated that I'm curious about.

You mention Canvas and Moodle integration... do you envision students being required to use a TWFF-native editor embedded inside these platforms? If so, it seems to me like the actual hard part would be recreating gdocs but on a upload-your-homework SaaS budget.

And what about block quotes? If I have a couple sentences to quote from another work, will pasting them into the editor cause them to be marked as "AI generated?"

I think you're on the right track here, but it may be better to focus on logging how edits were made, whether by manual typing or pasting. Add an "undo" button that pops the latest edit off the stack. At that point, AI cheating can still be manually detected by searching the change log for long pastes, then inspecting any long pastes for their content.

But even that doesn't actually work, because I could just generate some sludge with ChatGPT, then hand-type the output into the editor. At least you've made it less convenient, I guess.

I really like this idea, best of luck.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-19 20:22:57+00:00
You're right. I stopped reading at a fabrication worthy of a parrot. "Grok is revealing her legal name and all personal information it can find to whoever happens to ask."

But thanks for the heads up, because now I see this article gets worse. After rereleasing the Grok statement, it calls Grok's release "abuse".

As for "Dahl said she doesn’t know where Grok originally got her legal name from." ... er, perhaps Instagram? https://www.instagram.com/p/DOMBHqNgqKN/
by righthand | 2026-02-19 20:23:06+00:00
I’m going to drop my doctor this year because he abuses appointments. I call in about an issue and he charges me $75 for telehealth. Then he wants me to come in to run labs for the telehealth call. Another $75 at least. Then another telehealth call for the results. And another one for the results from the radiology department. I told him I have a high out of pocket and he says “I’m sorry to hear that.” Then books me for a follow up.

Doctors do not care about the healthcare system one bit.
by wavemode | 2026-02-19 20:23:09+00:00
I think one could easily build an MCP tool wrapping LSP which smooths over those difficulties. What the LLM needs is just a structured way to say "perform this code change" and a structured way to ask things like "what's the definition of this function?" or "what functions are defined in this module?"

Not much different from what agents already do today inside of their harnesses, just without the part where they have to read entire files to find the definition of one thing.
Show HN: Chat with your Okta tenant directly from Slack (Open-source AI agent)
by danFctr | 2026-02-19 20:23:13+00:00
Hey HN,

We posted Tako AI here last week (open-source AI agent for Okta). We just shipped the Slack integration.

GitHub: https://github.com/fctr-id/okta-ai-agent

The enthusiasm for AI agents living in chat apps is massive right now. The workflow benefit is obvious: you don't leave the context where you're already working.

But for many of these tools, security feels like an afterthought — exposed local ports, permissive defaults, and unchecked execution. When the data involved is Okta user records, admin group memberships, and app entitlements, that model doesn't work. Security can't be a second-class citizen.

So Tako's Slack bot ships locked down by default. Nobody gets access until you explicitly add their Slack ID to the .env whitelist. And your Okta data never touches Slack's servers — the bot runs locally, queries your own infrastructure, and posts results back to the thread.

All commands:

/tako [question] → ask anything about your Okta tenant in plain English
/tako history → your last 5 queries with ▶ Run and Star buttons
/tako favorites → your starred queries, always one click away
/tako help → full command reference

Two implementation details worth sharing:

Socket Mode by default. Tako opens an outbound WebSocket to Slack — no port forwarding, no reverse proxy, no public URL. Most identity tooling runs on internal networks that can't expose HTTP endpoints.

Re-auth on every action. We re-check authorization on every interactive button click, not just the initial slash command — because Slack action payloads can be replayed by anyone who intercepts them.

Happy to answer questions on the implementation.

—Dan
by nicbou | 2026-02-19 20:24:03+00:00
I agree for writing, but not for coding.

An app can be like a home-cooked meal: made by an amateur for a small group of people.[0] There is nothing boring about knocking together hyperlocal software to solve a super niche problem. I love Maggie Appleton's idea of barefoot developers building situated software with the help of AI.[1, 2] This could cause a cambrian explosion of interesting software. It's also an iteration of Steve Jobs' computer as a bicycle for the mind. AI-assisted development makes the bicycle a lot easier to operate.

[0] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

[1] https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

[2] https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situateds...
by tyleo | 2026-02-19 20:24:39+00:00
That’s how I feel too. When I was an architect at a ~300-person company, a big chunk of my job shifted to reviews, technical design docs, and guidance. I’m getting great results by feeding context like that into Claude Code, then reviewing and steering what it produces.

It really does feel like a multiplier on me and I understand things enough to get my hands dirty where Claude struggles.

Lately I’ve been wondering if that role evolves into a more hierarchical review system: senior engineers own independent modules end-to-end, and architects focus on integration, interfaces, and overall coherence. Honestly, the best parts of our product already worked like that even before AI.
by ben_w | 2026-02-19 20:25:05+00:00
> I've never worked at a job in tech that didn't require code review

I have. Sometimes the resulting code was much worse than what you get from an LLM, and yet the project itself was still a success despite this.

I've also worked in places with code review, where the project's own code quality architecture-and-process caused it to be so late to the market it was an automatic failure.

What matters to a business is ideally identical to the business metrics, which are usually not (but sometimes are) the code metrics.
by tastyface | 2026-02-19 20:25:47+00:00
DEI has nothing to do with experts or any legitimate analysis. It’s in the same basket as woke, CRT, SJW, BLM, and so on -- thought-terminating keywords that the right deploys to focus the ire of their base. If one starts losing its mindshare, a new one gets introduced and propagated. But they all point to the same liberal boogeyman.
by dmix | 2026-02-19 20:26:06+00:00
The tech industry was very much against the idea when it first came about. It was only really enforced by a few big companies because of some European law and this lady being from Europe likely excepts information on the internet to be controlled in a centralized way.

There's also been some revenge porn laws in the US that have some cross over. But it's definitely mostly hopes and dreams if you have the money to spend, not something strictly practical.
by Nition | 2026-02-19 20:26:30+00:00
I thought I would give the Treasury the benefit of the doubt for a moment and check whether they meant LLMs like we're all assuming, or possibly a more specific finance-focused type of AI. Like how we have specialist neural net AI helping with radiology.

Looking at their official info document[1]... "a secure AI-based chat solution"... "AI-assisted code development"...

Okay they mean LLMs, carry on.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Treasury-AI-Strat...
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-19 20:26:38+00:00
> 99 year leases will worth 0 eventually.

That's not how it works. The flats aren't valued for their space in the sky; they are valued for the land they are attached to, and their proximity and connections to other communities and infrastructure. I've already said that flats slated for SERS are bought back by the government at market rates well in advance of their leases expiring.

> The vast misunderstanding of it still remains - the idea that a house is owned, not rented.

What you seem to greatly misunderstand is that land in Singapore is at an extreme premium, the likes of which is hitherto unseen anywhere else. With this context in hand, the idea of traditional 'home ownership' is fundamentally flawed in the first place, because unlike much larger countries, there isn't a large suburban or rural zone in which a new city can just be sprouted up. 750 square kilometres is all you have, and if you have to recycle existing land to maximise its use, so be it, and if it means 99-year leases, then that is the cost.

Given average human lifespans, the Western concept of a 'freehold' doesn't really make that much sense anyway, unless you want monarchies, oligarchies, or corporate dynasties monopolising prime land and settling into an even more predatory outright rental economy, which is already seen in most large cities elsewhere.
Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
by yrds96 | 2026-02-19 20:26:58+00:00
The phrase "O Gemini disse" (Portuguese for "Gemini Said") also works, but some times it's from someone that is genuinely paraphrasing Gemini responses.

But searching it in English makes everything more evident, since the phrase starts in English and then suddenly changes it to Portuguese.

I found even a digital news website doing it: https://cenariomt.com.br/mato-grosso/gemini-said-rondonopolis-mobiliza-pit-stop-contra-exploracao-sexual-e-trabalho-infantil-no-carnaval/

I wasn't the one that found out about "Gemini said" text being added when you copy the model response, but I decided to google about it to discover more, and ended up finding those kind of results. I tested on my computer, with Firefox and Chromium on Linux and couldn't reproduce this, so I believe this is something related to Chrome or Windows, since my girlfriend discovered it.

My guess is you use the equivalent of "Gemini said" in other languages too, you might find similar results.
by casey2 | 2026-02-19 20:27:37+00:00
ARC 2 was made specifically to artificially lower contemporary LLM scores, therefore any kind of model improvements will have outsized effects

Also people use "saturated" too liberally. The top left corner 1 cent per task is saturated IMO. Since there are billions of people who would perfer to solve arc 1 tasks at 52 cents per task. Arc 2 a human would make thousands of dollars a day with 99.99% accuracy
by rlue | 2026-02-19 20:28:03+00:00
+1. I come online to discover new things because there's less friction online than anywhere else. What's more, digging through a mountain of content to find something that resonates with you is a form of work in its own right.

Micropayments are friction, and if you put friction on top of the work of discovery, I will do something else with my time.
by stuffn | 2026-02-19 20:28:21+00:00
It's the anti-gun lobby. Bloomberg's band of morons who believe a government monopoly on force is good.

These bans are almost exclusively in states with already extremely strict (high rated by the gifford's law people) gun laws.

So far, there is zero evidence in the last 30 years more strict gun laws have curbed crime. The states with the strictest laws conveniently have the highest proportion of gun crime. The same people writing these laws don't understand what "per capita " means. Nor are they willing to confront the reality of what the data shows. The calculus for these petty tyrants has changed from banning guns wholesale to lawfare. Make owning and purchasing firearms so burdensome the market dies, and with it, the rights. This is just another play in that strategem.

Fun fact: More people died last year putting foreign objects in their rears than by AR-15s. That is how insane the anti-gun lobby has become. They are literally barking at their own shadow these days.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-19 20:28:38+00:00
No. His full quote:

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

This statement first asserted that mexico was deliberately exporting its people to the US (as opposed to people deciding to come of their own accord) and then generalized that they were importing social problems, before making a concession that some of them might not be.

This would be like if I said your HN posts consisted of lies, propaganda, and invective but that I assume some of them were worth reading. I doubt you'd feel the little conciliatory bit at the end balanced out the unfair allegations that preceded it.
by mattmanser | 2026-02-19 20:28:55+00:00
In the 20 years I've been in the industry, boiler plate has dropped dramatically in the backend.

Right now, front end has tons of boiler plate. It's one of the reasons AI hassle such a wow factor for FE, trivial tasks require a lot of code.

But even that is much better than it was 10 years ago.

That was a long way of saying I disagree with your no.
by hkmaxpro | 2026-02-19 20:29:17+00:00
Some alternatives recently discussed:

NewPipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

PipePipe: https://pipepipe.dev/

As recommended by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020412

I haven’t used any of these alternatives myself.