MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
by tardis_thad | 2026-02-12 20:50:21+00:00
Hi, i'm on codex pro plan and it silently routes to 5.2 today, WTF? Anyone else gets similar behaviour? I was working with it since morning (UTC) and afternoon sudenly it became much slower and got very different feeling, so I started digging and enabled codex logs and got:
2026-02-12T20:41:12.751950Z TRACE codex_api::sse::responses: SSE event: {"type":"response.completed","response":{"id":"resp_0fc56e20d02a6b5701698e3ae51fac8191a5bae8fc9962662c","object":"response","created_at":1770928869,"status":"completed","background":false,"completed_at":1770928872,"error":null,"frequency_penalty":0.0,"incomplete_details":null,"instructions":"...personality.\n...","max_output_tokens":null,"max_tool_calls":null,"model":"gpt-5.2-2025-12-11","

See also https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/11561
by godelski | 2026-02-12 20:50:55+00:00
> Seems like industry insiders passing responsibility for their bad practices on to consumers really means they want consumers to stay divided.

I think this is why they also encourage the old trope of "It's not just <X>".

It's a truth, but used in a way that makes people feel powerless. Like the war is already lost. It makes people apathetic, because it makes people overwhelmed. It causes the evangelists to quiet themselves as they become exhausted. It normalizes the behavior. It just becomes another one of the many things we're powerless to fight against, so why even try.

I'm not accusing the OP of doing this, but I do want to point out that it is a strategy being used. Not misinformation, not disinformation, but malinformation. Truths used in a specific way, often lacking context. It is the same way people dog whistle, hiding their true intent in normalized speech (it's not a dog whistle if everyone can hear it, that's just a whistle).
by silver_sun | 2026-02-12 20:51:05+00:00
Google has a library of millions of scanned books from their Google Books project that started in 2004. I think we have reason to believe that there are more than a few books about effectively playing different traditional card games in there, and that an LLM trained with that dataset could generalize to understand how to play Balatro from a text description.

Nonetheless I still think it's impressive that we have LLMs that can just do this now.
by askldfhalkdfh | 2026-02-12 20:51:21+00:00
It's not necessarily the support person's fault. I worked in support way back when. There were some long-standing issues that needed only minor work to fix that engineering management didn't get, didn't care about or just wouldn't prioritize. Engineers weren't free to work on what wasn't prioritized. Acknowledging a problem and leaving the ticket open doomed to be unsolved forever negatively affected my performance rating. I had to respond with this sort of cheery everything's fine message and write it off as a customer issue, even though I didn't believe it.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-12 20:51:24+00:00
I'm no professional choir composer/arranger by any means, but my impression from listening to and reading my fair share of choir music is that there's enough overlap between alto and tenor ranges for them to be able to cross over into one anothers' parts in a pinch. It's pretty rare for a composer to write a song with simultaneous use of the altos' upper range and the tenors' lower range, so there probably wouldn't be much need to rewrite anything to make that work.
Show HN: YOR – open-source bimanual mobile robot for <$10k
by jeffacce | 2026-02-12 20:51:26+00:00
Hi all! Excited to share our latest work, Your Own Robot (YOR), a fully open-source bimanual mobile robot for <$10k.

We designed YOR specifically for hackers and researchers who need a capable mobile manipulator without the proprietary lock-in or $50k+ price tag.

Features:

- Omnidirectional base

- Two 6-DoF arms + telescopic lift (large workspace)

- Onboard Jetson + ZED (SLAM and inference)

- Easy to assemble with off-the-shelf components

We've validated it on whole-body control and bimanual tasks. See more demos at the website below:

Website: https://www.yourownrobot.ai/

Docs: https://build.yourownrobot.ai/

Tech report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11150
by wat10000 | 2026-02-12 20:51:44+00:00
"Security by obscurity" does not mean "closed." It specifically means that obscurity is a critical part of the security. That is, if you ever let anyone actually see what was going on, the whole system would fall to pieces. That is not the case here.

If what you meant to say was "the system is closed and PR-heavy," I won't argue with that. But that's a very different statement.
by nkrisc | 2026-02-12 20:51:49+00:00
Judges should have some amount of biases. A cold, calculating, unbiased judge in a world where laws are written by fallible humans would be terrible.

Judges should be able to apply judgement, not be merely automatons that sentence according to only the exact letter of the law.

Laws are not perfect, we need human judges.

Finally, if we are to submit ourselves to judgement by others, I gives me some comfort to know that the being judging me is equally mortal and can be deposed if necessary, as they are flesh and blood like me.
by verdverm | 2026-02-12 20:52:07+00:00
1. It's not clear this is even legal in the first place

2. Who's reviewing the contract at 2am to make sure it's not going to cause the company harm?

3. When will existing providers like DocuSign or Google Workspace have both options for me? Generally, why two tools that do one thing instead of one tool that does both things?

4. Why not use computer-use in the meantime?
by xorbax | 2026-02-12 20:52:51+00:00
So what?

Are you fantasizing that they'll reduce the price of cars because of this and somehow benefit people?

And they'd have to take the time to redesign. And Democrats will (hopefully) reinstate it in a few years, and carmakers probably recognize that. Along with the threat of legal challenges by environmental groups.

And, further, if we eventually do get these inefficient polluting cars - who's going to want to buy them? They certainly wouldn't be able to sell them in same countries. Seems pointless overall for carmakers, generally.

Just a gift to polluting corporations and billionaires who want profit at our expense.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-12 20:53:05+00:00
Interesting, would you mind giving an example of what kind of moral judgement based on humanizing a cat you would find objectionable?

It's a silly example, but if my cat were able to speak and write decent code, I think that I really would be upset that a github maintainer rejected the PR because they only allow humans.

On a less silly note, I just did a bit of a web search about the legal personhood of animals across the world and found this interesting situation in India, whereby in 2013 [0]:

> the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests, recognising the human-like traits of dolphins, declared dolphins as “non-human persons”

Scholars in India in particular [1], and across the world have been seeking to have better definition and rights for other non-human animal persons. As another example, there's a US organization named NhRP (Nonhuman Rights Project) that just got a judge in Pennsylvania to issue a Habeas Corpus for elephants [2].

To be clear, I would absolutely agree that there are significant legal and ethical issues here with extending these sorts of right to non-humans, but I think that claiming that it's "plainly wrong" isn't convincing enough, and there isn't a clear consensus on it.

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/features/kids/dolphins-get-their-du...

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777301

[2] https://www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/judge-issues-pennsylvani...
by ttul | 2026-02-12 20:53:28+00:00
Great move by OpenAI. With coding agents, if you have access to a fast and cheap model, you can afford to let it rip, making lots of mistakes, and iterate until it gets things right. With the right scaffolding (AGENTS.md, SKILLS.md, etc.), a fast and light model can do great things. And when it's done, you can still have the heavyweight model come in to clean up any messes.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-12 20:53:35+00:00
The problem with optimizing for less lines of code is the same as optimizing for unit tests: the less robust your code is, the better off you are.

Meaning, it's trivial to write unit tests when your code is stupid and only does happy path stuff and blows up on anything else. So we say "you need 90% coverage" or whatever, people will write stupid frail code that barely works in practice, but that is easy to unit test.

Similarly, if we say "do it with the least amount of code", we will also throw any hopes of robustness out the window, and only write stupid happy path code.
by MarkusWandel | 2026-02-12 20:53:50+00:00
It took a bit of time to get used to this in our first car that has it. As an engineer, I hope they made the (completely ordinary ring and pinion) starter system to last the distance and not wear out prematurely from 10-100x as many starting cycles. As a driver, merely had to get used to allowing about 1/2 second after getting off the brake to expecting engine power. At least in this car (a Honda) if you even lightly let up on brake pedal pressure after the engine has been shut off, it restarts, and stays running for the rest of the stop.
by Conan_Kudo | 2026-02-12 20:54:14+00:00
SUSE used Teams for years (particularly under Melissa Di Donato, who made everyone use it). I used to participate in some of the community project meetings that wound up being on Teams because it was the approved solution they could use. It was the reason why the openSUSE Project deployed a Jitsi instance.

They do not use Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams anymore. They use Google Workspace just like everyone else now (the mail headers tell you that). I don't know anything about their workflows, though.
by JonJLevesque | 2026-02-12 20:54:24+00:00
Good catch on the SSD miscategorization! Just shipped a fix. Products from Best Buy were getting a hardcoded subcategory instead of being derived from the actual drive type. Should be correct now.

On the redirect issue... the links go through affiliate tracking (Amazon Associates, Rakuten for Newegg, Best Buy Creators). uBlock aggressively blocks affiliate redirects by default. Not much I can do about that without removing the affiliate tracking, which is how the site stays free.

If you whitelist the site or disable uBlock temporarily the links work fine.
by josephg | 2026-02-12 20:55:31+00:00
> … when dealing with ancient protocols

I’m doing some work with an email company at the moment. The company has been in the email space for decades. Holy moly email is just full of stuff like this. There is an insane amount of institutional knowledge about how email actually works - not what the specs say but what email servers need to actually do to process real emails and deal with real email clients and servers.

The rfcs try to keep up, but they’re missing a lot of details and all important context for why recommendations are as they are, and what you actually need to do to actually process real email you see in the wild. (And talk to the long tail of email software).

This conversation makes me think about cornering some of the engineers with a microphone. It’d be great to talk through the specs with them, to capture some of that missing commentary.
by kubeia | 2026-02-12 20:55:48+00:00
Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than a century ago, as part of a project to formalize inference rules in logic, and were later applied to studying mathematical properties of certain kinds of infinite sets. Their developer was the mathematician and logician Emil Leon Post, whose work was inspired by Clarence Irving Lewis and Cassius Jackson Keyser. Post also proved the first two theorems about what linguists now call generative capacity. The idea of deploying Post’s systems within linguistics was first suggested in 1950 by the logician Paul Rosenbloom. I review the relevant pre-1950 work, and explore the reasons for its having remained so little known among linguists.
by coffee-- | 2026-02-12 20:57:37+00:00
There was a subculture communicating on FIDOnet about collecting AOL installation media (3.5" disks) and reusing them. Somehow we ended up coining the term "bisk" to refer to AOL's given-away media, and much sadness was had when they moved to CDs.

So add one more to the list: a commercial disk reused for your custom .WAD files can be a bisk.
by godelski | 2026-02-12 20:58:05+00:00
Why should they pay?[0]

You point to the market but these market giants gain a lot of their stature from the free and open work done by others. The market is not the decider of the value of utility. If it was we'd not hear about donation campaigns for FOSS. We wouldn't hear stories of how there's a single developer working on critical software on nights and weekends. We wouldn't hear about yet another FFMPEG wrapper making millions while trying to demand free work from FFMPEG. We wouldn't hear that stuff because the market would be compensating them.

While there are some things where there is no alternative, you can get pretty far with FOSS, if you know where to look. I'm not trying to say people shouldn't be paid, but I am saying that just pointing to the market is too simplistic of an answer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
by rhrtah | 2026-02-12 20:58:07+00:00
Goldman Sachs recently stoked fear about software stocks due to claimed AI competition.

What if their strategy is this: slowly drive down software stocks, keep talking about AI, buy the downward market. Then cash in on the IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Then let OpenAI and Anthropic implode. Goldman Sachs had no problems underwriting webvan at the end of 1999, which then imploded in 2000.

Anyway, I just valued my dog at $1 billion post-money. You can buy it at pets.com.
by intended | 2026-02-12 20:58:09+00:00
The information pollution from generative AI is going to cost us even more. Someone watched an old Bruce Lee interview and they didnt know if it was AI or demonstration of actual human capability.
People on Reddit are asking if Pitbull actually went to Alaska or if it’s AI. We’re going to lose so much of our past because “Unusual event that Actually happened” or “AI clickbait” are indistinguishable.
by therealmarv | 2026-02-12 20:58:58+00:00
yes it's good. But you should also look at GLM 5 and Kimi K2.5 when looking at M2.5. It's amazing we have so many good and cheap open weight models now which are really not far behind the top models from the big US AI companies.

Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex plans are subsidised.

The Chinese open weight models hosted in US or Europe make more sense to use when you want to stay model agnostic and less dependent on a single AI company with relative expensive APIs.
by beklein | 2026-02-12 20:59:00+00:00
Not my normal use-case, but you can always fall back and ask the AI coding agent to generate the diagram as SVG, for blocky but more complex content like your examples it will work well and still is 100% text based, so the AI coding agents or you manually can fix/adjust any issues.
An image generation skill is a valid fallback, but in my opinion it's hard to change details (json style image creation prompts are possible but hard to do right) and you won't see changes nicely in the git history.
In your use case you can ask the AI coding agent to run a script.js to get the newest dates for the project from a page/API, then it should only update the dates in the roadmap on slide x with the new data.
This way you will automagically have the newest numbers and can track everything within git in one prompt. Save this as a rule in AGENTS.md and run this every month to update your slides with one prompt.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-12 20:59:24+00:00
I think you're doomed.

People who aren't crypto degens just want to "stop the insanity". Like drop you into a black hole and drop that black hole into another black hole.

It's kinda late to be into crypto, I mean, we are on internet time so in 2026 this is like the only music you listen to is Chuck Berry and Elvis.
by ppap3 | 2026-02-12 20:59:44+00:00
Au contraire
The guy is slick.
Sleight of hand trick.

A magician makes you look where they want while the magic happens elsewhere.

I would be surprised if he was not in charge in 2030 still. It seems everybody else ate too much plastic too be able to think straight.

At this point I would be surprised if he wasn't still there in 2036.

Unrelated, but it reminds me that he captured maduro, and Chavez and maduro were able to stay in charge by destroying the Congress, support of lobbying companies and accusing other parties of corruption and frauding the elections.
Because of that, like many others. He was able to push elections far from view and there was always a war to be fought or an enemy to defend against.
At some point, I kid you not, those guys accursed every single immigrant living in Venezuela of being a conspirator. All those who questioned any of this were accused of treason and the army was right there to defend the president. Sorry I mean country. Maduro lost too much gas to keep it going
by Yizahi | 2026-02-12 21:00:04+00:00
Depend on the definition of the "product". For example some banal cloud storage in which everyone competes. And it's an "old" product, despite being invisibly improved behind the scenes, just like at any other provider. Google has pretty competitive storage AND they are fully abusing Android integration for AND they have pretty good bundling of that storage with other products, including, you've guessed it - LLM Gemini. So say a person is not a professional user of LLMs like a developer burning tokens in a dozen accounts simultaneously. A person has a phone and eventually memory runs out, so he buys a one click Google storage for 4 bucks. And suddenly he has Gemini Pro included too. So why pay 20 bucks to Anthropic, when Google costs 1/5 of that AND has other stuff bundled too?

So maybe Google is lagging on truly new products (btw, does Gemini itself with its TPUs count as a new product? I'd say yes), but "old" products are entrenched enough to carry them and compete.
by spease | 2026-02-12 21:00:43+00:00
The original comment was complaining about backup cameras seemingly adding significant electronics requirements.

In practice, you’re not going to tie intimate knowledge of the matrix headlights into the infotainment system, that’s just bad engineering. At most it would know how to switch them on and off, maybe a few very granular settings like brightness or color or some kind of frequency adjustment, not worrying about every single LED, but I can’t imagine a budget car ever exposing all that to the end user. Even if you did, that would be some kind of legendarily bad implementation to require a gigabyte of RAM to manage dozens of LEDs. Like, is it launching a separate node instance exposing a separate HTTPS port for every LED at that point?

Ditto for the satellite radio. That can and probably is a separate module, and that’s more of a radio / AV domain piece of tech that’s going to operate in a world that historically hasn’t had the luxury of gigabytes of RAM.

Sensors - if this is a self-driving car with 3D LIDAR and 360-degree image sensors, the backup camera requirement is obviously utterly negligible.

Remember, we had TV for most of the 20th century, even before integrated circuits even existed, let alone computers and RAM. We didn’t magically lose the ability to send video around without the luxury of storing hundreds of frames’ worth of data.

Yeah, at some point it makes more sense to make or grab a chip with slightly more RAM so it has more market reach, but cars are manufactured at a scale where they actually are drivers of microcontroller technology. We are talking about a few dollars for a chip in a car being sold for thousands of dollars used, or tens of thousands of dollars new.

There is just no way that adding a backup camera is an existential issue for product lines.
by davoneus | 2026-02-12 21:00:54+00:00
I don't find that at all. At work, we've no access to the API, so we have to force feed a dozen (or more) documents, code and instruction prompts through the web interface upload interface. The only failures I've ever had in well over 300 sessions were due to connectivity issues, not interface failures.

Context window blowouts? All the time, but never document upload failures.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-12 21:02:01+00:00
Not an SVG, but I'm pretty impressed by what Gemini 3.0 Fast does: https://gemini.google.com/share/52c1229bd1d9

/imagine an svg of an octopus riding a bike. 1 arm shading its eyes from the sun, another waving a cute white flag, 2 driving the bike, 2 peddling the wheels, and 2 drifting behind in the wind
by staplers | 2026-02-12 21:02:17+00:00
The 8-8-8 rule (8 hrs work, 8 hrs play, 8 hrs sleep) that unions lobbied for during labor reforms helped establish a common sustainable work week. Something similar for land management could go a long way.

33% for farming, 33% for human development, 33% for forest/dense wild. Just an example, but you get the idea.