MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by resfirestar | 2026-02-23 04:57:45+00:00
>They are also addicted to the gambling mechanics baked into these LLM powered tool's UX. "If I write this prompt this way, I'll get better results" is the equivalent of a gambler being superstitious about how people behave while the cards are being dealt, or in which order they press the buttons on a slot machine.

I realize this feels good to write and that's why people say it, but I can't help chuckling at seeing it combined with "stochastic parrot" in the same comment since the two descriptions are mutually exclusive...
by plaguuuuuu | 2026-02-23 04:58:03+00:00
I don't think a popular audience is buying a book on mathematics.

But, the world is huge. Even if this is kind of niche (people who didn't really get into maths in school or college, but now have a strange impulse to pick it up for shits and giggles) the audience is still thousands of people. Or just, people who want to see how Tao connects everything up, because the way he sees and explains stuff is amazing.

There are levels to what's worth publishing or working on in general. Hardly anyone is going to be the next Steven Hawking but this obsession with the most popular or successful celebrity creators ultimately leads to this highly homogenised global media landscape. The most exciting thing about the internet for me was always accessing the long tail of truly unusual shit that you wouldn't find in book/record stores, tv, etc.
by defrost | 2026-02-23 04:58:20+00:00
Also Sierra Leone in Africa with a homicide rate a third that of the USofA.

Both Ghana and Sierra Leone are gated communities, just as the USofA, the UK, and Australia are.

I'd suggest that Woodmore fails to meet you particular bias, hence you rule it out.

Woodmore likely meets your four intended criteria depending upon the level of internal surveillance .. I suspect it's not surveillance that prevents Woodmore occupants from killing each other.
by 1659447091 | 2026-02-23 04:58:55+00:00
> Imagine if you have a human personal assistant, what would you ask them to do?

Those are not good examples for why people have a human assistant, you have human assistants to do in-person or person-to-person things that you don't have the time or desire to do yourself. They are simply not the same as releasing a 24/7 ai roulette process on the internet with all your payment and account info.

The online monitoring examples can be done with current automation tools and scripts; that you can have your human assistant set up for you if you like
by overgard | 2026-02-23 04:58:59+00:00
Yikes!! This is really unfortunate, because Google's models seem very good but there's no way I'm using a google service for this kind of thing with those policies. I don't even want to run OpenClaw, but that's scary! Plus, I have my google account tied to authenticating so many things that if my account were to be suspended or something that would be a nightmare.

I haven't tried Antigravity but I remember on release it had huge UX issues. Is this product just not ready for primetime?
by CqtGLRGcukpy | 2026-02-23 05:00:01+00:00
It's worth keeping in mind that Loops is made by dansup which has also made and runs Pixelfed, FediDB, and has a history of being hostile to developers.

You can see the recounting of his hostility at https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/appendix/

(I'm not a signature of the open letter)
Ask HN: Does This Make Sense?
by piratesAndSons | 2026-02-23 05:00:14+00:00
One of the most popular pieces of advice in tech is, before you build a product and release it to the public, talk to people.

What do they mean exactly?

I think this advice is one of those things people repeat because at the surface level it makes sense. You have a solution for a problem, so find those who have the problem. But when you think about it, it does not make any sense. It is more like it sounds like "I got a small loan of one million dollars from my father." Technically correct, but what is left out is actually what defeats any merit the statement might ever have.

In my life, I have never said "I wish there was a place I could go, or someone I could talk to so that I am sold to." The adblock industry is a testament to my experience. People hate ads so much that advertisers were forced to create programming useful enough that ads would merely be a side effect.

So what exactly do people mean by "talk to people"? At bare minimum, the statement must be qualified first. Talk to your network. If you do not have one, do something else.
by MilkMp | 2026-02-23 05:00:29+00:00
Found the problem, the total regex doesn't handle magnitude suffixes:

2018: total: 17,856,024 → parses as 17856024 (correct raw count)
2020: total: 18.17 million → parses as 18.17 (WRONG - drops "million")
2025: total: 39.3 million → parses as 39.3 (WRONG)
So the chart jumps from ~18 million down to ~18, making it wrong. The fix is to handle "million/billion/trillion" after total.

Just deployed a new bug fix.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
by refurb | 2026-02-23 05:01:12+00:00
I find it hilarious when people who are pro censorship bring up Karl Popper and the Paradox of Tolerance.

You can tell they've never read his work because his conclusion in the end is that you should tolerate intolerance up and until it promotes specific violence.

So total freedom of speech up and until it starts inciting violence. It's basically the same stance the US Constitution has.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-23 05:02:22+00:00
> Offering goods or services below the cost of their production is often illegal, though. It's called "dumping"

No.

Dumping is an international-trade term. It doesn’t even require pricing below cost, just aiming “to increase market share in a foreign market by driving out competition and thereby create a monopoly situation where the exporter will be able to unilaterally dictate price and quality of the product” [1].

Loss leaders are common in commerce and entirely legal, as are free trials. I struggle to think of a competent jurisdiction that bans them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
by erxam | 2026-02-23 05:04:35+00:00
I do, yes. I won't call it a hobby because I don’t create anything, I'm just a mindless rabid stupid cunt of a consoomer who doesn't know how to differentiate his ass from a hole on the fucking ground, but I do spend a lot of time listening to music. I've spent a lot of money on audio equipment.

Even so, if you wanted to bring up time signatures, microtonality or something like math rock… I'm aware of those, but I still think the only thing that matters is that they're tools meant to allow you to express a certain message in the most appropriate ways, not so much an end in themselves.
by ggm | 2026-02-23 05:05:59+00:00
In 1986 I briefly lived in a squat in North London, and the gas had been disconnected. We cooked everything in the Microwave, and we ate nutritious and completely unexpected (to me) normal meals, like Lasagne made with dried pasta, which uses cottage cheese to boost the moisture content so the sheets of Pasta soften. I appreciate at this point some people are saying "normal??" but truly, compared to the alternatives, using a more liquid cheese to make a meal which conforms in all other respects to your expectations, was huge.

(gas reconnection was hard. Electricity, for reasons I never entirely understood, was easy to get reconnected to squats, at the time)

My co-occupants had a lot more experience than I of this life on the edge. I learned a lot.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-23 05:06:24+00:00
> If I write a program that downloaded fitness data from my Garmin smartwatch and mentioned "compatible with Garmin smartwatches" on the project's GitHub, am I suddenly infringing their trademark?

Not necessarily, but you'd have to be careful. Depending on exactly where and how you say it, a lawyer might be able to ethically argue that a reasonable consumer could think you're claiming to have a partnership with Garmin. In particular, it would be very risky to use their logo, which it sounds like the OP may have.

(This isn't an actual legal test, but something to drive the intuition why it could be a legitimate trademark issue: if a consumer buys your product and it doesn't actually work with their Garmin, will they blame you or blame Garmin?)
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-23 05:07:23+00:00
I'm confused why the presence (or lack of) a limit is relevant to the pretty simple analogy...

A buffet is saying "pay $X to eat food one plate at a time [up to 100 lbs of food]", and you show up and start shoveling the food into your bag. Does not really matter if we remove the 100lbs part.

Could you technically eat the same amount of food one plate a time? Sure. But if everyone does this, $X needs to be significantly more: even for the people who eat one plate at a time.

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You could also argue they're playing a mean trick and deceiving people because technically someone could eat the same amount of food 1 plate at a time...

But they priced $X based on how much the average person can eat, not how much food they can carry in their arms. If the limits are so high that people don't leave hungry eating 1 plate at a time, it still seems like a fair deal.

I'm not exactly the type to jump for joy at siding with a corporation, but I really don't get why people are in a hurry to ruin a good thing.
by zapzupnz | 2026-02-23 05:08:01+00:00
Do you think you're really changing anybody's mind raving like this, copy-pasting the same garbage on every AI-related post? Do you genuinely believe you're penetrating hearts and minds, causing people to reevaluate their choices?

Put another way: do you truly see insulting people's sense of agency with cutesy misspellings of other people's names as an effective way to making the world a better place?

Your messages read like the ravings of those who think putting a dollar sign in Micro$oft was really sticking it to the man. Nothing short of an irritating, rumbling, moaning noise.
by 1659447091 | 2026-02-23 05:08:43+00:00
There is a github of the factbook for anyone that just wants JSON or markdown files:=> https://github.com/factbook

"A cache for datasets for the country profiles from the World Factbook in the original (1:1) format from the cia.gov website"

https://github.com/factbook/cache.factbook.json
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-23 05:08:59+00:00
That's why I gave the example of solar: we've been able to utilize solar for a long time yet only now is it become a serious source of energy. Windmills have existed for probably 200 years but have not been taken seriously as a source of energy.

I'm not talking about mining asteroids, I'm talking about other sources of energy that have been known to us but which we don't utilise because of self-interest of oil companies - not money or cost, self interest. Money & cost are regulated by us not money.

So to say these other sources of energy weren't viable from a financial PoV might be correct but it goes against our own self-interest.

> I do suspect they'll be using renewables pretty dang heavily

That's like saying "in any case, the future will be better". As humans have shown, worse comes before better in history. Howabout making the present better first?
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-23 05:09:22+00:00
> "And on top of that, you may get really obedient children, excelling at following what they know to do... but creativity? Thinking outside the box? Going against the script? Thrown into unfamiliar situations? Whoops."

Usual Western racism, reassuring themselves they're better than those "uncreative" Asians, even as Asia continues to eat away at the West's technology lead in a variety of sectors.

One wonders if the Europeans ever told themselves that the backwards folk of the colonies could never catch up to the technological or scientific achievements of the continent's great centers of learning and industry.
by boyter | 2026-02-23 05:09:43+00:00
Not familiar with that tool. What follows is my best guess based on what I am seeing.

Serena looks to be a precision tool. Since it uses uses LSP its able to replicate a lot of what a IDE would allow and IDE for LLM's.

cs by contrast is more of a discovery tool. When you're trying to find where the work actually happens it can help you, and since there is no index involved you can get going instantly on any codebase while they are index.

You could use cs for instant to find where the complexity lies, and then use Serena to modify it.
by LAKSzero-I | 2026-02-23 05:10:23+00:00
Where this differs from AI training is the core idea ofA key motivation for GenLoop is that human memory and culture can replace part of what we currently use massive data centers for. If AI trains people deeply and we retain only distilled playbooks and essential archives, we don’t need to store every raw interaction and log forever. The living knowledge in humans becomes a major part of civilization’s long‑term “storage system,” which reduces the pressure to grow database storage and data centers without limit.
by cal_dent | 2026-02-23 05:10:26+00:00
but doesn't this implicitly assuming the reduction in labour cost and household income is like for like price reduction. When there's probably just as likely (& if not more) that the reduction in household income is lopsided so overall ability to purchase is reduced. You'll then need fewer people to buy more to make up for the loss of some buyers which is unlikely for many goods.

I do think the idea that AI is good for economic growth is for the fairies personally under the current model. I cant square the circle of a consumer based economic model will see higher growth by the apparently significant reduction in said consumers income.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-23 05:12:24+00:00
This is great, but I was wondering: Where can I get access to the work that you do? For free, I mean.

Don't get me wrong -- I think it's great if someone else wants to pay you for doing that work. It's good for you, and it's probably connected somehow to you doing that work in the first place. It's just that, for me personally, I'm not really into that whole side of it.

For me personally, I just want the value.
by srean | 2026-02-23 05:12:33+00:00
Sounds a damn good hobby to me.

I don't think hobby requires building anything. Spending time actively engaged is enough.

On the other hand if you do want to make something, and you happen to know related math then suddenly you can use it.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112418

Building these are neither my hobby, not did I learn the relevant math for the exclusive purpose of making it. But once you acquire a few math razors you start seeing inviting fluffy yaks that were invisible before.
by DavidPiper | 2026-02-23 05:12:37+00:00
Sorry to be that guy, but given how often Google has done this for lesser infringements (some reported here on HN), is anyone really "shocked" by the permabans?

The apparent shock around this sort of thing always feels like cope for the fact that we (myself included) understand the power imbalance between Google and its customers but don't want to admit it.

There's plenty of evidence at this point, and I feel like we should be using that emotional energy to actually do something about it (like switching providers for critical personal services, for example).
by nradov | 2026-02-23 05:13:31+00:00
Deciding is one thing, carrying out the decision is another. The Mexican government and security forces have been heavily compromised by the cartels for years. Some of the smaller law enforcement actions are a form of "kayfabe". Even if President Sheinbaum gives the order, there may not be enough honest and loyal personnel to carry it out.

Mexico is a failed state. We can argue about who bears responsibility but that is the reality today.
by anonymousiam | 2026-02-23 05:14:01+00:00
It sounds like we've had some similar experiences, but you must be about 10 years younger than me. I got my ham license because I was interested in packet radio. 1200 baud AFSK was all that there was for the my first few years. (Of course there were still some people doing AFSK FM RTTY in the VHF bands then too.) I did both HF and VHF packet and had a lot of fun. Later, when 9600 baud started to become a thing, I modified my Kenwood TM-721A and got on the air with it. I was pretty proud of the mod. I put a new mini-DIN connector on the rear panel, and it looked like it came that way from the factory. The insides were not as clean, because when I drilled the new hole in the back for the mini-DIN, the drill bit went in too far and tore out a bunch of wires. It was "fun" to repair it. I picked up a Tiny-2 TNC that supported 9600 and I went mobile with my TRS-80 Model 102. I left the Kantronics KAM Plus connected to my base stations. (It could support both HF 300 and VHF 1200 at the same time!) My base stations used a Kaypro II (CP/M) for the packet terminal.

When I first started out with packet, everybody was doing unproto AX.25 through a digipeater on Mt. Wilson. (I think it was on 145.09 MHz.) I met a lot of people and made some new friends. It became less fun when more and more people were getting on the air, because of the limited bandwidth available. To help with the congestion, people began putting up "nodes", which you would "connect" to instead of operating unproto. I remember when APRS started, and it was also gobbling up a lot of precious bandwidth.

As the first common standard for AX.25 used AFSK (on a 16 KHz FM channel with 5KHz deviation), we were pretty much stuck at 1200 baud. To make the move to 9600, you had to switch to pure FM and ditch the AFSK layer. Pure FM is far less efficient than all of the modern modulation and coding techniques available today (in the DSP era). Once a bunch of people begin to use a particular frequency with a particular type of modulation, it's pretty hard to get them all to change, and you cannot really have more than one type of modulation on an FM channel, because the users of each type will see the opposing type as harmful interference.

I'm vaguely aware of a bunch of far more efficient coding techniques that some people are using today, LoRa is a good example of one, and you don't even need a ham license to use it. (See top level post in this thread.)
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-23 05:14:15+00:00
Colonisation and industrial revolution have reduced the harm? For whom?

Looking it from a white, western male perspective, you're right. From other perspectives this might well not be the case.

A lot of technology has short term benefits but are, in the long term, net negative to either us as species or the environment around us - which is the life support system for us. We as a society have not got a "undo" button for much of this technology, since once the damage has been done in real life, it stays in real life.

So we develop technology, see it fail, and try to fix the issues with more technology not realising that technology might be the problem. Or perhaps it's because we don't have the simplicity of an "undo" button.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-02-23 05:14:25+00:00
> Amazon has shipped what I genuinely believe to be the single most complicated unified user experience in human history

OK, I shop at Amazon, am a Prime member, all that stuff, but their web site is horrible. Just pathetic.

I appreciate that they are huge and sell a pretty much incomprehensible number of things, and that what it takes behind the scenes to make it all happen is hugely complex and very impressive on its own terms, but still: the web site is horrible.
by naillang | 2026-02-23 05:14:27+00:00
The skepticism in this thread is fair, but I think it misses the more interesting question: what changes about software engineering verification when the author is an AI rather than a human?

When a human writes code, you can reason about intent. When an AI writes it, the cognitive overhead of understanding the output is higher, not lower. This makes formal guarantees at the output level more valuable -- not less. The interesting work in "agentic SE" isn't coordination patterns, it's: how do you specify what correct looks like in a way that's verifiable at generation time?

Most current AI coding tools solve the wrong problem: they help AI write human-readable code. But if the human is primarily reviewing, not writing, the bottleneck shifts to verification, not readability.
by CJefferson | 2026-02-23 05:14:35+00:00
Having taught in schools for years? Treat companies that make addictive products the same way we treat drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Kids want them, particularly teenagers. We aren't perfect at stopping their access. But we can make a best attempt.

It would be hard, and it would be 'anti-capitalosm', but, I think we have done real long term damage to a generation, and I think in 20 years, like Tobacco, it I'll turn out the companies knew how much they were damaging children and covered it up.
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by hattmall | 2026-02-23 05:19:27+00:00
I don't think that's possible in Mexico. There's too much power in the logistical networks that move things into the US. The demand is too great. Even if you kill every drug trafficker and gang member alive today and create huge prosperity the void will be filled by someone and they will be adversarial to the government and they will have to use extra judicial violence to enforce their position.

The cartel's presence in Mexico is extremely muted relative to their power.
by freakynit | 2026-02-23 05:21:33+00:00
To the author:

In case you are patching fields/bugs in database (like country codes for example), would it be possible for you to share that database as well with us so we can build on top?

This is actually an excellent dataset to test GraphRAG capabilities.

Also, a world simulation game, embodied with real data and real changes, can be built based off this data.

Thanks..
by MisterBiggs | 2026-02-23 05:21:35+00:00
For writing with an LLM you really have to be precise and honest with your AI usage and I don't think the disclosure here does a good job at that. If you sample a few random pages there are huge shifts in style and tone.

The future where your AI expands your sentence into a few paragraphs that my AI distills down into a sentence sucks just send me your rough draft
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-23 05:22:01+00:00
They’re overdue. Sheinbaum and other administrators probably didn’t act until now because they’re serving at the cartel’s pleasure. Now with America pressuring them, they’ve finally acted. But if they can’t bring the country under control, it’s going to sink the country and its legitimacy. You can’t have criminals burning airports, school buses, and grocery stores (things I saw videos of earlier).