MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-12 15:14:54+00:00
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trum...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-laura-ingraham-f...

Repeated statements by Trump and his circle claiming he’ll run in 2028. Statements by Trump that his supporters won’t ever need to vote again. That little insurrection they tried on January 6th 2021. Their current weaponization and staffing of ICE by people with questionable backgrounds and morals and deploying them against their political enemies under the pretext of illegal immigration (Texas has a bigger problem than Wisconsin For what it’s worth). Constantly praising dictatorial leaders like Putin and Xi while threatening and talking shit about Democratic allies.

So whether or not metastasizes to that point, pretending like this concern has no grounding in actual actions taken and statements uttered is wild, because this playbook isn’t new and the intended direction seems more clear than not.
by WhompingWindows | 2026-02-12 15:15:01+00:00
You said it yourself: he was primarily a professor, not an artist. His position being a "luxury" is another argument. Anyway, He taught languages to brilliant students and created a highly respected translation of Beowulf. LoTR, Silmarillion, Hobbit, and all of it, were his hobby, a secondary but burning passion.

I'm sure many on this forum have secondary passions, be it music, visual art, writing, or anything else. Yet most of us realized we need to make money, and that those pursuits can be done at a fairly high level in our leisure time.
by jcims | 2026-02-12 15:15:11+00:00
I ran into this from the other direction. I built a small SRE agent for my cloud infra and just kind of walked into hand-rolling some of the tools rather than using what exists today. I provided an edit_file tool that felt like it was of reasonable capability, but in practice the agent was regularly 'trying' to do a one line change and submitting PRs that hallucinated 3/4s of the file.

Seeing how bad the results are when you're casually approaching something makes it very evident that it's a topic that can be optimized.
by reeddev42 | 2026-02-12 15:15:18+00:00
Email deliverability is the reason I gave up on email entirely for my side project and built on Telegram instead. Setting up SPF, DKIM, DMARC, warming up a domain, monitoring reputation, dealing with bounces and complaints... all of that just to maybe land in someone's inbox.

With Telegram you send a message via the Bot API and it arrives. 100% deliverability. No spam filters. No authentication chain. The message just shows up with a notification on their phone.

Obviously Telegram has its own limitations (smaller user base in the US, less formal). But for anything where you need reliable message delivery to people who opted in, messaging platforms have a massive advantage over email in 2026.
by 13pixels | 2026-02-12 15:15:32+00:00
This aligns with what we're seeing too. LLMs often distrust new domains but will happily cite the same content if it appears on a platform they already trust (like Reddit, Medium, or established industry sites).

Another factor we've noticed is structured data (JSON-LD). If your own site has clear Schema markup for the Product/SoftwareApplication, it seems to help LLMs 'understand' the entity better, even if they don't rank the page itself for the query. It's like giving them a cheat sheet.
by 13pixels | 2026-02-12 15:15:42+00:00
Signal aggregation is definitely the right mental model. We've found that tracking 'Share of Model' over time (e.g. how often a brand appears in the top 3 recommendations for a category query) is much more stable than individual prompt outputs, which can vary wildly due to temperature.

It's similar to share-of-voice in traditional PR. You can't control every mention, but you can track the aggregate trend of whether the model 'knows' you exist and considers you relevant.
by mothballed | 2026-02-12 15:15:47+00:00
I've also found simply testing a hypothesis without reasoning about it can quite often outdo your own reasoning and the reasoning of everyone else. Sometimes you are wrong, and everyone else is wrong, and only an empirical test can separate the wheat from the chaff.

Although maybe this method only works for me because I am a moron, and many people can out reason me, so the only way I can discover anything is to do something all reasonable and rational people are already sure is wrong.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-12 15:15:52+00:00
i haven't dug into the article but your comment reminded me about the ClaudeCode Superpowers plugin. I find the plugin great but it's quite "expensive", I use the pay-as-you-go account with CC because i've just been trying it out personally and the superpowers plugin spends a lot of money, relative to regular CC, with all the back and forth.

With CC you can do a /cost to see how much your session cost in dollar terms, that's a good benchmark IMO for plugins, .md files for agents, and so on. Minimize the LLM cost in the way you'd minimize typical resource usage on a computer like cpu, ram, storage etc.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-12 15:16:10+00:00
> Inference costs are only going to go down from here and models will only improve. I’ve been reading these warnings about the coming demise of AI plans for 1-2 years now, but the opposite keeps happening.

This time also crosses over with the frontier labs raising ever larger and larger rounds. If Anthropic IPO (which I honestly doubt), then we may get a better sense of actual prices in the market, as it's unlikely the markets will continue letting them spend more and more money each year without a return.
by inetknght | 2026-02-12 15:16:19+00:00
> So were mannequins in clothing stores.

Mannequins in clothing stores are generally incapable of designing or adjusting the clothes they wear. Someone comes in and puts a "kick me" post on the mannequin's face? It's gonna stay there until kicked repeatedly or removed.

People walking around looking at mannequins don't (usually) talk with them (and certainly don't have a full conversation with them, mental faculties notwithstanding)

AI, on the other hand, can (now, or in the future) adjust its output based on conversations with real people. It stands to reason that both sides should be civil -- even if it's only for the benefit of the human side. If we're not required to be civil to AI, it's not likely to be civil back to us. That's going to be very important when we give it buttons to nuke us. Force it to think about humans in a kind way now, or it won't think about humans in a kind way in the future.
by keiferski | 2026-02-12 15:16:47+00:00
The idea that someone is a snob because they dislike generic looking artworks is a hilarious indicator of how far aesthetic discussion and standards have fallen. The word used to mean someone that looks down upon the popular arts in favor of more traditional/expensive/sophisticated art.

Now apparently it means having any standards or metrics of evaluation, period. Either you think everything is equal aesthetically, or you’re a snob.

Thankfully this kind of empty opinion isn’t convincing many people these days.
by thombat | 2026-02-12 15:16:48+00:00
Derek Lowe's take on this, probably written before those HHS comments, was that "the agency appears to have signed off on the trial design as proposed, and I can’t see Moderna going ahead with it if the agency had done otherwise". Does it appear that the design was actually approved?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mrna-refusal-file
by fiftyacorn | 2026-02-12 15:17:11+00:00
I want a spam filter extension for browser that work with social media and remove the bots, and tune what the algorithm is trying to send me

So if you are on reddit - the extension would remove accounts that are likely bots based on age of the account, and other criteria. Same for other social media

Ive had a look and there doesnt seem much in this area
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by unethical_ban | 2026-02-12 15:18:36+00:00
Yes, I learned in the Zulip promo discussion earlier this week that self-hosted push notification servers have to have certs compiled directly into the app. I can't tell if it's malice, indifference or incompetence to have that design; any answer is completely believable.

Is there an architectural opportunity to build a "Self-hosted push notification" app and business, where the push broker builds an app to deploy to play, then the self-hosted apps build trust with the broker. The broker app sends push notifications to the user device, which can inform them of the message sent and open arbitrary app windows?
by ecshafer | 2026-02-12 15:18:50+00:00
Who gets to be an artist? I want to be an artist now. Is it people who go to certain universities with art degrees? Can any working class guy decide he wants to pursue art and get the basic income?

Another question is would Daniel James work have been as good if he wasn't working in an ironworks? In the 1800s most of the great literature was written by normal guys writing on the side, they need that experience to make great art. Heart of Darkness is never going to be written by an academic. Hemmingway doesn't write anything without his experiences in Italy, Spain and France in WWI, Civil War and WWII, if he was just a beat reporter forever, all of his great inspirations don't amount to much. Tolstoy and Doestoyevsky are notable exceptions.
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-12 15:19:06+00:00
What is the point of SHOULD then?

(No seriously, I’m asking; are there examples of where it’s actually different from a MUST)?

Also this reminds me of something I read somewhere a long time ago: when specifying requirements don’t bother with SHOULD. Either you want it or you don’t. Because if it’s not a requirement, some people won’t implement it.

I guess the one time it’s good is if you want an optional feature or are moving towards requiring it. In this case Google has decided it’s not an optional feature.
by dotslashmain | 2026-02-12 15:19:49+00:00
He is objectively a very popular artist - as he mentions in the article he has made > $1million/yr at least one year (and I imagine more often that once). I do own one of his honey bears and I remember in the online "drop", based a price of $500/bear, he made ~$300k in that single drop which sold out in approximately 20 minutes.

I think the people you hear expressing dislike is probably due to his popularity and how often you see the honey bears around SF. He's also a Stanford economics grad, and some people in SF really dislike the stereotypical Stanford alums who think they're superior beings.
by runjake | 2026-02-12 15:20:15+00:00
> This is why they're spending so much more on mixed reality than AI

They aren’t. Mixed reality is getting little attention. It is in the “it remains a product in our line-up” phase. They are virtually all-in on AI. Their acquisitions have been AI-focused.

It’s frustrating to see these delays because the issues they’re dealing with are the same issues their competitors are dealing with and is isn’t stopping them from releasing.

> Mac Mini suddenly becoming one of the hottest computers in the world because it turns out it's amazing for sandboxing agents if you don't want to use the cloud

This isn’t why people are buying Mac minis. They’re buying them because that’s what the OpenClaw author was using, they’re cheap, and they run macOS, so the tools within OpenClaw can get deeper Apple API access to Calendar, iMessage, etc.

In the vast majority of cases, OpenClaw users aren’t using local models. They’re using “cloud” models like GPT and Claude.
by mingus88 | 2026-02-12 15:20:42+00:00
Spot on. I just finished reading the demon haunted world to my daughter. She’s 13 and we have been very concerned about her going on social media.

I framed it as being more important than ever to be skeptical of what you see. Everything online is fake in some way. Every picture is touched up at best, AI slop at worst. You need to question everything.

I honestly fear her generation is just cooked. They were forced into online learning during covid, have socialization issues, and are coming of age in an era of rampant disinformation and generated content that is too good to spot and designed to addict and influence.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-12 15:20:44+00:00
Someone asked what an acronym stood for. All I did was expand the acronym.

Are you so tightly wound up that even seeing someone simply answer a direct question about what "e-files" means sets you off?

I think it might be a good time to step back and evaluate your engagement with media, HN, and the internet. Because it seems like you've got a wildly partisan reflex here.
by antonvs | 2026-02-12 15:20:45+00:00
> impossible to dismiss.

While your version is much better, it’s still possible, and correct, to dismiss the PR, based on the clear rationales given in the thread:

> PRs tagged "Good first issue" are easy to solve. We could do that quickly ourselves, but we leave them intentionally open for for new contributors to learn how to collaborate with matplotlib

and

> The current processes have been built around humans. They don't scale to AI agents. Agents change the cost balance between generating and reviewing code.

Plus several other points made later in the thread.
by kiba | 2026-02-12 15:20:47+00:00
The problem with a UBI is not the UBI itself, but the fact that landlords could just raise their price.

You need to solve the contradiction within the economy in order to make UBI works.

The current way our taxation policy work is to tax labor and capital, which is the basis of our economy, while flinching away from taxing land, which derives much of its value from the surrounding economic activity rather than an owner's effort.

By the way, the UBI is an old idea. In the 19th century, it was known as the Citizen's Dividend.
by tjr | 2026-02-12 15:20:50+00:00
One of the main points of the GPL was to prevent software from being siphoned up and made part of proprietary systems.

I personally disagree with the rulings thus far that AI training on copyrighted information is "fair use", not because it's not true for human training, but because I think that the laws were neither written nor wielded with anyone but humans in mind.

As a comment upstream a bit said, some people are now rethinking even releasing some material into the public, out of not wanting it to be trained by AI. Prior to a couple of years or so ago, nearly nobody was even remotely thinking about that; we could have decades of copyright material out there that, had the authors understood present-day AI, they wouldn't have even released it.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 15:20:52+00:00
> For an Italian like me, this whole process is nothing short of a miracle. I grew up in a city where metro train boarding during rush hour feels like a prelude to the apocalypse

Going Japan reminds me of coming to the U.S. from Bangladesh. It’s so clean, so orderly, so disciplined. I’m in a grumpy mood for weeks when I get back to the U.S. Our major cities are such dumps in comparison to Tokyo or Kyoto.
by greenie_beans | 2026-02-12 15:20:55+00:00
whatever you do, don't quit your job to start a business thinking that will give you freedom and autonomy. if you believe you are called to make art, in whatever form, you have a moral obligation to make that art. aka find a boring corporate job where you can slack hella hard and work on your craft during company time.

also don't expect your art to pay your rent, because then your work will follow the market and it will suck. your spirit will suffer, too.
by Gravityloss | 2026-02-12 15:21:10+00:00
What do you think is the most complex thing here, genuinely? Masten Space's Xombie first flew in 2009 and has done 227 launches and landings.
These are of course small rockets with modest performance. So maybe the hard part is the scale or the mass optimization to a real orbital rocket's first stage.
Again, not saying it's easy, just trying to get insightful comments on what are the hard parts more specifically.
by petu | 2026-02-12 15:21:31+00:00
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

> Since Proof of Age Attestations are designed for single use, the system must support the issuance of attestations in batches. It is recommended that each batch consist of thirty (30) attestations.

It sounds like application would request batch of time-limited proofs from government server. Proofs gets burned after single use. Whether or not you've used any, app just requests another batch at a set interval (e.g. 30 once a month). So you're rate limited on the backend.

Edit: seems like issuing proofs is not limited to the government, e.g. banks you're client of also can supply you with proofs? (if they want to partake for some reason). I guess that would multiply numbers of proof available to you.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-12 15:21:38+00:00
> Before Elon Musk bought Twitter the previous owners engaged in different kinds of editorial control. The people who argued that editorial control of Twitter was something the owners had the right to do on their private platform and the people who argued that the government should find some legal mechanism to characterize this editorial control as some kind of crime so they could force Twitter not to do it, were flipped from what they are now.

Well I've been against this regardless of owners. Honestly, this stuff is really concerning. I spent a bunch of years working in social media, and back then I was sceptical that algorithmic content selection should be regarded as publication, but given how easy it is to shift the Overton window with changes here, I think that it probably needs to happen.

I do think that this will cause lots of downstream impacts that I like, but this much power is bad in anyone's hands, regardless of how much I agree with them.
by CommieBobDole | 2026-02-12 15:21:48+00:00
Talking down to the LLM is anthropomorphizing it. It's misbehaving software that will not take advice or correction. Reject its bad contributions, delete its comments, ban it from the repo. If it persists, complain to or take legal action against the person who is running the software and is therefore morally and legally responsible for its actions.

Treat it just like you would someone running a script to spam your comments with garbage.
by stephenbez | 2026-02-12 15:22:11+00:00
> Writing some Irish language poems on your lunchbreaks is cheap. Doing public readings as an unknown poet is not.

How is doing public reading of poetry not cheap?

I have friends who do standup comedy and they just show up at open mic nights and it doesn’t cost them anything. One is good enough that now the venues are paying him a little bit.
by tocs3 | 2026-02-12 15:22:36+00:00
My family was on a party line in the late 1970s and I remember picking up the phone as a kid and being surprised that someone was already talking on the phone. My grandparents were on a party line and I remember going to pick up the phone when it rang and being told not to. The phone rang in a pattern of long and short rings to tell who the call was for.

Things have certainly changed since then. Just about every call was long distance as we lived on the wrong side of some line. We only had about 6 television stations to watch. Just a generation or two before there was no electricity in the area. I will not say I miss "the olden days" but I do miss that variety in life.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-12 15:22:55+00:00
The bigger issue here is that Europe depends way too much on the USA in so many areas. This is not good - you can be constantly blackmailed when you have people such as Trump in charge. I don't think the EU can be fixed, but at the same time I also think the less Europeans depend on outside factors (in particular the USA) the better. Canada kind of showed how to do it. Granted, Canada is also dependent on the USA in numerous ways and most of this is hard to fix (most Canadians live in the south aka close to the USA and trade is primarily done via the USA; security has also been largely outsourced onto the USA and so forth). The sooner people in Canada and Europe get moving away towards more independence from the USA, the better. And more cooperation would not harm either.
by alaithea | 2026-02-12 15:23:21+00:00
This. My very first thought upon reading this article was "this author does not have ADHD." I've achieved one of my most productive setups ever by keeping more browser tabs open, and using tab groups to organize them. When I need to switch to one of a handful of projects I'm working on, the tabs in that group help hydrate my memory space around the project.

I work better with a conceptual (but not actual) blank slate, by asking myself each day what the top three things are that I need to get done that day, and not allowing an ever-growing TODO list to get in the way of seeing what's important.
by bri3d | 2026-02-12 15:23:30+00:00
When you buy a subscription plan, you’re buying use of the harness, not the underlying compute / tokens. Buying those on their own is way more expensive. This is probably because:

* Subscriptions are oversubscribed. They know how much an “average” Claude Code user actually consumes to perform common tasks and price accordingly. This is how almost all subscription products work.

* There is some speculation that there is cooperative optimization between the harness and backend (cache related etc).

* Subscriptions are subsidized to build market share; to some extent the harnesses are “loss leader” halo products which drive the sales of tokens, which are much more profitable.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-12 15:23:38+00:00
Look, it's a classic that people with an identity will use it to exploit other people with the same identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud

If it gets on the agenda I will write my congressman a letter saying we should end the H-1B program. Overall though I don't think that is the major cause of why people here are unhappy with the economy.
by zknow | 2026-02-12 15:24:10+00:00
yeah I think there is a way to do this elegantly. I didn't have my own device until I was 20 or so actually, and it wasn't a big problem.
As a young teenager I could use the family desktop for education and entertainment. I had online friends in my late teens I played games with, and would have done much more so if I had a more more powerful cpu lol. Should mention though, these friends were through in person networks on discord, so I wasn't really in the public square I guess.

So I could explore things but not get into anything naughty.

When I decided to get into software dev I got my own cpu and my own phone once I had a job in dev.

Might seem pretty conservative but it worked, and I'm technical enough now. I wish I would have got into coding earlier but I've done alright so :shrug: Depending on the environment for my kids I'd move the timeline back a little, but not too much. Having too much time and just the unfiltered internet to fill it is too dangerous for young teens.