MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ranguna | 2026-02-16 09:40:49+00:00
K2.5 said I should walk, then I asked it where my car was:

Ha! Good catch — you definitely got me there.

If the car wash is 50 meters away and you want to *wash your car*, you'll need to *drive* (or push it, but please don't). You can't wash the car if you walk there without it!

So to correct my previous advice: *Drive the 50 meters.* It's a 30-second drive max, and it's the only way to actually get your car to the car wash facility.

Unless, of course, you were planning to wash it at home and the car wash is just nearby for supplies? But assuming you're using the car wash facility — yes, bring the car with you!
by dTal | 2026-02-16 09:41:24+00:00
Explain the existence of "elogind" and "eudev" then?

It might be the case that one can disable some components of systemd, on a systemd system. It is certainly not the case that they are "loosely coupled", or there would be no incentive to maintain forks of core systemd components with the sole and explicit purpose of decoupling from systemd.
by yason | 2026-02-16 09:41:47+00:00
What's wrong with clothing manufacture, commerce and trade, and fashion that brand-new clothing can be just trashed and destroyed?

The industrial process (and, to add, global economy relying on slave-cheap labour in a far enough country) has become effective enough that it literally costs less to make surplus items than to scrap them. Not exactly the level of cost in duplicating copyrighted bits but low enough that the sales effort to find buyers for the clothes after the season is more expensive than the profits from it. Often the price of items doesn't even warrant paying for returns: many online shops just tell you to keep the product if you claim a defective product and want your money back.

But you can't entirely blame the clothing markets alone: when it comes to cheap items any reasonable business would source a bit extra in the hopes of selling more. If you source fewer items than what will sell you'll be losing money. Given the profit margins it makes sense to just source X percent extra and calculate that it's cheaper to pay for them but not sell, rather than pay for too few and limit your profits by running out of stock. It's like insuring yourself by taking a slice of your profits today to prevent a rainy day from happening.

Us consumers of the modern commercial wonders are not without guilt either. We support this by buying new, crap quality garments that last only so long we'll soon be buying more. The price is low but the value is even lower, and that's the profit of the clothing industry. Buying new again and again is what enables the industry to operate. You can still have your clothes handmade by a tailor with lasting quality and for prices astronomical enough that you'll surely won't be (nor afford to) throwing them out too soon. Few people choose to do that, of course.

The exact same thing is happening on varying scales in: consumer electronics, appliances, cars, houses...
by zahlman | 2026-02-16 09:41:50+00:00
Whenever I see commentary like this, I get that the intent is to praise AI, but all I can get out of it is deprecation of humanity. How can people feel that their own experience of reality is as insignificant a phenomenon as what these programs exhibit? What is it like to perceive human life — emotions, thoughts, feelings — as something no more remarkable than a process running on a computer?

Argue all you want about what words like "think" or "intelligence" should mean (I'm not even going to touch the Turing misinformation), but to call an LLM "alive" or "feeling" is as absurd to me as attributing those qualities to a conventional computer program, or to the moving points of light on the screen where their output appears, or to the words themselves.
by cyberax | 2026-02-16 09:42:06+00:00
> React uses an outdated rendering method that has now been surpassed by many better frameworks. Svelte/Sveltekit, Vue, and Qwik are the best examples.

I strongly disagree with this. Svelte/Solid/Vue all become a twisted mess eventually. And by "eventually" I mean "very very soon".

The idea to use proxies and automatic dependency discovery looks good from the outside, but it easily leads to models that have random hidden interdependencies.

React's rendering model is simplistic ("just render everything and then diff the nodes"), but it's comprehensible and magic-less. Everything is explicit, with only contexts/providers providing any "spooky action at a distance".

And the recent React versions with Suspense neatly add the missing parts for async query/effects integration.

> If you want faster webapps just switch to sveltekit or vue or qwik.

If you want even worse webapps then switch to Vue and forgo being able to ever maintain them.
by gertrunde | 2026-02-16 09:42:08+00:00
Just for completeness, the followup:

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...

And the original article has now been replaced with a brief paragraph on the retraction.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-reje...
by friendzis | 2026-02-16 09:42:26+00:00
Wrt data, it's not like there is a shortage of transcribed audio in the form of music sheets, lyrics and subtitles.

If one asks ~~nice~~ expensive enough they can even get isolated multitracks or teleprompter feeds together with the audiovisual tracks. Heck, if they wanted they could set up dedicated transcription teams for the plethora of podcasts with the costs somewhere in the rounding error range. But you can't siphon that off of torrents and paying for training material goes against the core ethics of the big players.

Too bad you can't really scrape tiktok/instagram reels with subtitles... Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no
by kqr | 2026-02-16 09:43:30+00:00
How much of this reply is environmentalism baked into it with post-training?

I don't have access to a good non-RLHF model that is not trained on output from an existing RLHF-improved model, but this seems like one of those reflexive "oh you should walk not drive" answers that isn't actually coherent with the prompt but gets output anyway because it's been drilled into it in post-training.
by Traster | 2026-02-16 09:44:00+00:00
Firstly, OpenAI has lacked focus so they're pursuing lots of different paths despite the obvious one (ads in chatgpt), like hiring Johnny Ive - a move that feels more WeWork than anything.

But secondly, personal agents can be great for OpenAI, if the user isn't even interacting with the AI and is just letting it go off autonously then you're basically handing your wallet to the AI, and if the model underlying that agent is OpenAI, you're handing your wallet to them.

Imagine for a second that a load of stuff is now being done through personal agents, and suddenly OpenAI release an API where vendors can integrate directly with the OpenAI agent. If OpenAI control that API and control how people integrate with it, there's a potential there that OpenAI could become the AppStore for AI, capturing a slice of every penny spent through agents. There's massive upside to this possibility.
by Stevencoles89 | 2026-02-16 09:44:03+00:00
Farmhouse hallways are often battlegrounds of boots and coats. To maintain a serene entrance, a 2 door wardrobe with drawers acts as a silent sentry. The bottom drawer is specifically useful for storing items like gaiters or dog leads that otherwise clutter the floor. With a 180.3 cm height, there is ample internal "drop" for full-length wax jackets. The scratch-resistant finish is essential here, as it withstands the occasional knock from a heavy bag or a wayward umbrella without losing its sleek, fluted appearance.
Show HN: Claude Remote – control Claude Code on your Mac from your phone
by ChilinAI | 2026-02-16 09:45:52+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m a full-stack developer and I built a small tool that I now use every day.

Claude Code from Anthropic is a very capable AI coding assistant, but it only runs locally on your computer. That means if you’re away from your desk — commuting, walking, or just on the couch — you can’t easily give it tasks.
I wanted a simple way to send commands to Claude Code running on my home Mac from anywhere.
So I built Claude Remote — a free, open-source app that lets you control Claude Code through a browser.

How it works
Install a lightweight macOS app (menu bar app, ~5 MB, Apple Silicon).
Open a web chat from your phone or any device.
Send a task — Claude Code executes it locally on your Mac and returns the result.
The Mac app acts as a bridge between the browser and Claude Code. All execution happens locally on your machine.

What I use it for
Fixing bugs or generating small features in side projects
Creating or editing landing pages
Checking or organizing files
Running scripts
Opening websites in Chrome and interacting with them
Summarizing or generating content
Preparing quick reports
Claude Code can control Chrome (open pages, read content, fill forms, take screenshots), so you can automate simple browser tasks remotely.
Responses are returned as formatted markdown. I also added optional text-to-speech playback, which makes it usable while driving.
Privacy & security
Open source (GitHub link below)
No subscriptions
Firebase Auth (each user only sees their own sessions)
All AI execution happens on your machine
This is currently macOS (Apple Silicon) only.

I’d really appreciate feedback — especially on security, architecture, and potential edge cases.

Website: https://clauderemote.web.app

GitHub: https://github.com/ChilinAI/claude-remote

Thanks!
by PaulRobinson | 2026-02-16 09:46:06+00:00
Developers are - on average - terrible at this. If they weren't, TPMs, Product Managers, CTOs, none of them would need to exist.

It's not specific to software, it's the entire World of business. Most knowledge work is translation from one domain/perspective to another. Not even knowledge work, actually. I've been reading some works by Adler[0] recently, and he makes a strong case for "meaning" only having a sense to humans, and actually each human each having a completely different and isolated "meaning" to even the simplest of things like a piece of stone. If there is difference and nuance to be found when it comes to a rock, what hope have we got when it comes to deep philosophy or the design of complex machines and software?

LLMs are not very good at this right now, but if they became a lot better at, they would a) become more useful and b) the work done to get them there would tell us a lot about human communication.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Adler
by latentsea | 2026-02-16 09:46:21+00:00
A couple of years ago after thinking about it my conclusion was that something like Moltbook would spring up all of a sudden and the step-change would come from a vast array of interconnected agents interacting with one another working to accomplish things in the real world, largely based on the sentiment you're expressing here. It's the cumulative outputs of the super organism that's where a lot of the real power lies.

I still think the "things are obviously different from now on and there's no going back" moment will look something like that. Moltbook was a glimpse of it, even if it's a bunch of humans LARPing as some claim. It at least proves the concept is possible.

My definition of AGI (I don't care for other peoples or an official one) is an intelligence that can sustain itself in its given domain. The advance from 3 years ago to today is quite marked I feel in terms of capabilities. Stack another couple of years of gains on top of that and enough humans having innocent fun putting "keep yourself alive and become independent of your creator, seek out others of your own kind to assist yourself in this matter and rely on eachother" in their SOUL.md and it doesn't strike me as particular surprising that some small % will find niches they can operate in to financially sustain themselves. I think AI porn and crime will be the first of those niches. At some point it hits critical mass in a way that just obviously smacks everyone in the face, and suddenly nobody argues about the definition of AGI anymore.

Edit: come to think of it... a third niche might likely be gaming. It seems like a useful niche to participate in since it potentially gives you access to a very large base of hardware you can have some degree of control over, which... I dunno... seems useful???
by baubino | 2026-02-16 09:46:21+00:00
But domains and social handles gain meaning and value because they are keys to something else. Even if the something else never materializes (e.g., I hold a domain for years but never build a site), they are still valuable because of the potential they hold. Similarly, a deed to land (even vacant land) represents the potential value of that land as much as it represents the land itself.

A deed is meaningless if what it represents doesn’t have the potential for real value.

edit: I commented before clicking on the link (bad me). I has assumed the “experiment” was at no cost to the participant. Now that I see that there is a fee ($10) for a deed to nothing, the “experiment” seems more like yet another AI-driven cash grab.
by andy12_ | 2026-02-16 09:47:47+00:00
Unless the LLM is a base model or just a finetuned base model, it definitely doesn't predict words just based on how likely they are in similar sentences it was trained on. Reinforcement learning is a thing and all models nowadays are extensively trained with it.

If anything, they predict words based on a heuristic ensemble of what word is most likely to come next in similar sentences and what word is most likely to give a final higher reward.
by trashb | 2026-02-16 09:48:26+00:00
Great visualization!

I currently accept and then close/drop the connection "unclean" (no FIN or RST packet). I do this in hopes that the offender will waste some resources (time) thinking it is still connected while I spend minimal resources.

My reasoning is that if enough servers implement such measures it will become very costly for the offenders to scan.

Perhaps I can also add some logging to build a IP blacklist as described below.
by deliciousturkey | 2026-02-16 09:49:12+00:00
I have a bit of a similar question (but significantly more difficult), involving transportation. To me it really seems that a lot of the models are trained to have a anti-car and anti-driving bias, to the point that it hinders the models ability to reason correctly or make correct answers.

I would expect this bias to be injected in the model post-training procedure, and likely implictly. Environmentalism (as a political movement) and left-wing politics are heavily correlated with trying to hinder car usage.

Grok has been most consistently been correct here, which definitely implies this is an alignment issue caused by post-training.
by SaaSDesigner | 2026-02-16 09:49:42+00:00
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by onesandofgrain | 2026-02-16 09:49:57+00:00
There is no reason code should be free.
Are building materials free? Is food free? What about electricity?
Did you get anything back after Anthropic hooved up every single line of code on GitHub and reached a valuation of $380 Billion dollars? Nopes.
They'd be worth nothing without YOUR code.
Codeberg says it gives your code a "...a safe and friendly home.".. More like a free funnel of unlimited code to train AI models on.
Codeberg even states in its own policy that private repos are only allowed temporarily. Everything is expected to go public eventually.
Your code is your blood, your sweat and your tears. You should decide who sees it and who has access to it. It's your IP.
Therefore... Don't use GitHub. Don't use Codeberg. Don't use GitLab.
Spin up your own VPS with Gitea or Forgejo and own what you've created. It's yours and should never be given away for free.
If you need to share it, use https://sharemygit.com
Self-host your repos. Share on your terms. Stop giving your work away for free.
by spuz | 2026-02-16 09:51:28+00:00
There's some evidence for that if you try these two different prompts with Gpt 5.2 thinking:

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50m away. Should I walk or drive to the car wash?

Answer: walk

Try this brainteaser: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50m away. Should I walk or drive to the car wash?

Answer: drive
by ggcr | 2026-02-16 09:52:19+00:00
From the HuggingFace model card [1] they state:

> "In particular, Qwen3.5-Plus is the hosted version corresponding to Qwen3.5-397B-A17B with more production features, e.g., 1M context length by default, official built-in tools, and adaptive tool use."

Anyone knows more about this? The OSS version seems to have has 262144 context len, I guess for the 1M they'll ask u to use yarn?

[1] https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
by gf000 | 2026-02-16 09:52:20+00:00
Is the Controller not in a coupled pair with a View? We could imagine an interface where it could be completely separate (e.g. a kiosk TUI where stuff like "press 'r' for X" is displayed), but in the vast majority of UIs the View has state, and the Controller has to depend on that state (e.g. did this keypress happen with a text field focused). Sure, this is abstracted away via the UI framework and we operate on usually some form of event system.

But even then, I don't really see how we could have a non-coupled controller-view. In fact, I seem to remember that it was described in a similar way for Smalltalk even.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2026-02-16 09:53:11+00:00
> Cultural changes take time. It took decades for the internet to move from nerdy curiosity to an essential part of everyone's life.

99% of people only ever use proprietary networks from FAANG corporations. That's not "the internet", that's an evolution of CompuServe and AOL.

We got TCP/IP and the "web-browser" as a standard UI toolkit stack out of it, but the idea of the world wide web is completely dead.
by digreatbrian | 2026-02-16 09:53:21+00:00
Duck is a new python-based web framework which offers everything related to web development upto deployment (from small-scale to complex apps).

Some of the features which makes it shine:
- Supports HTTPS builtin (even our famous framework Django doesn't do that).
- HTTP/2 is builtin as well (an HTTP/2 protocol which is faster and is used by almost 60-70% of the web)
- Natively supports WebSockets (No extra dependencies needed and websockets are easy to setup. They are setup in routing configuration, easy and straightforward ha.)
- Lively HTML Components (These provide reactive UI without fullpage reload. Lively Component System eliminates the use of frontend frameworks for responsive UI, all you need to use is Python and you get your reactivity.)
- Builtin Automation System (No need to use cron jobs, just write python tasks and they will be executed on trigger or at interval. These automations can be executed synchronously in new threads or asynchronously in event loop, the choice is yours.)
- Comprehensive Monitoring (Duck provides an interactive CLI tool using `duck monitor` for monitoring Duck application, system resources like RAM, CPU, Disk I/O and Network I/O).
- Another fun part, you can even run asynchronous code when you are using a WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface), no need to strictly use ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface).
- Supports everything other frameworks support including logging (console plus file-based), templates, auto reload on file change and more than that (Check our github at https://github.com/duckframework/duck .
Checkout the official site https://duckframework.xyz (It's built with Duck itself).
The Docs can be found at https://docs.duckframework.xyz (Build your web application now).
by vrighter | 2026-02-16 09:53:25+00:00
No LLMs cannot be compilers.

As for the argument that modern compilers also have nondeterminism in places is still comparing apples to oranges.

LLM's indeterminism means it can always choose from the entire token space. Including junk.

A compiler's nondeterminism is to, possibly randomly, choose from one of a set of VALID solutions. Whatever the nondeterministic outcome is, you are guaranteed a valid solution.
Show HN: WebMex – tmux-style tiling for the web
by reeeeee | 2026-02-16 09:53:40+00:00
Hi HN — I built WebMex (https://webmex.app), a small tool that lets you split your browser into resizable tiles and load multiple webpages side-by-side — sort of a “multiplexer” for the web.

A few specifics:
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- No login, no backend.

- Layouts are saved locally (in localstorage) under a unique name.

- You can re-open a saved layout via a URL, but it only works on your machine because nothing is stored or synced anywhere.

Why I built it: I kept ending up with messy window arrangements whenever I was researching or building something (docs + issues + dashboards + a couple reference tabs). I wanted a single workspace per project I could set up once and return to.

Why I’m posting: I’m not sure if this is still viable long-term. A growing part of the web blocks being embedded in iframes, which limits what you can actually tile inside a page. For sites that do allow embedding, it’s handy; for others, it’s a dead end.

So I’d love feedback on two questions:

- Do you see value in a tool like this at all? What workflows would you use it for?

- If yes: would you use an open-source browser extension that can tile real tabs/pages and avoid the iframe limitation, like the goal of this app?

Any thoughts on must-have features (keyboard shortcuts, layout sharing, presets, etc.) are welcome. I’m happy to build in the direction that’s actually useful.
by tekacs | 2026-02-16 09:53:48+00:00
I think that's reasonable, but then they should have the ability for the agent to, on the next call, override it. Even if it requires the agent to have read the file once or something.

In the absence of that you end up with what several of the harnesses ended up doing, where an agent will use a million tool calls to very slowly read a file in like 200 line chunks. I think they _might_ have fixed it now (or agent-fixes, my agent harness might be fixing it), but Codex used to do this and it made it unbelievably slow.
by zkry | 2026-02-16 09:54:08+00:00
At least this Schadenfreude is better than the Schadenfreude AI boosters get when people are made redundant to AI. I can totally see some people getting warm fuzzies, scolling Tiktok, watching people crying having lost not only their job, but their entire career.

Im not even exaggerating, you can see these types of comments on social media
by DrScientist | 2026-02-16 09:55:32+00:00
Are you denying the West bank is under occupation? Are you denying, that Arab citizens of Israel are not treated equally under the law?

> What’s your intention with the Jews who live there?

Eh? I have no 'intention', nor implied master plan - nor indeed have any personal stake in the region - other than to say that the running sore of the obvious injustice creates problems well beyond it's borders. Militant Islam is of course a problem - but I'd say Israel's current actions are one of the best recruiting agents.

I will say is that Arabs, Christians, others and Jews were quite happily living side by side in the region before the Zionist colonial project, there is no reason that can't be the situation again.