MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cesarb | 2026-02-08 13:19:37+00:00
> Also it is almost impossible to guarantee two runs of an application will trigger the same machine code output

As long as the JIT is working properly, it shouldn't matter: the code should always run "as if" it was being run on an interpreter. That is, the JIT is nothing more than a speed optimization; even if you disable the JIT, the result should still be the same.
by Expurple | 2026-02-08 13:20:36+00:00
> Now they have a profit motive for slowing down the normal service.

Sure. But for now, this is a competitive space. The competitors offer models at a decent quality*speed/price ratio and prevent Anthopic from going too far downhill.

Actually, as I think about it... I don't enjoy any other model as much as Opus 4.5 and 4.6. For me, this is no longer a competitive space. Anthropic are in full right to charge premium prices for their premium product.
by cj | 2026-02-08 13:20:53+00:00
For me it’s things like boot speed. How long does it take to restart the computer. To log out, and log back in with all my apps opening.

Mac on intel feels like it was about 2x slower at these basic functions. (I don’t have real data points)

Intel Mac had lag when opening apps. Silicon Mac is instant and always responsive.

No idea how that compares to Linux.
by buildsjets | 2026-02-08 13:20:57+00:00
Given the times, these vehicles need a bumper sticker that says “This is not an IED.”

Jeff Lane has a few of these in the Lane motor museum in Nashville. Just about everything in the museum is in operating condition and he likes to show his collection off on weekend demo days, but I haven’t had a chance to see these run. Great car museum, all oddball cars, nothing normal. They recently finished building an accurate reproduction of the Fuller Dymaxion. https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/dymaxio...
by danaris | 2026-02-08 13:21:17+00:00
You said

> some other spot will, necessarily, become viable.

and provided no basis for that claim.

Not "some other spot may become viable." Not "the amount lost will be minimal." Not "we will be able to get by with less." You made an extremely strong claim, that for every lost place to fish, we will, definitely, necessarily, be granted another.

That is what I was responding to. Indeed, I quoted it in my first message here.
by sethev | 2026-02-08 13:21:39+00:00
I do think it's a crazy thing to say, but not because of the amount. I mean, if putting in more money produces more value, why not $10,000 a day or a million? Does adding more tokens after $1000 stop working for some reason?

Forget about agents or AI: the amount of money that it makes sense to spend on software engineering for a particular company is highly dependent on the specifics of that company.

Perhaps for them this number makes sense, but it's kind of crazy to extrapolate that to everyone as some kind of benchmark. It would be far more interesting to hear how they place a value on the code produced.

I have a harsher take down-thread, but the simulation testing (what they call DTU) is actually interesting and a useful insight into grounding agent behavior.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-08 13:22:49+00:00
Kid Rock has some pretty infamous, explicit lyrics I won’t be pasting here. Just look it up, there are dozens of articles about this right now. It’s not rumors or something ambiguous, he is a disgusting person with some pretty awful things to say. Given TP’s christian mission/focus and constant moral panic stance, coupled with the MAGA movement’s alleged concern for minors, “he is not appropriate” is an understatement.

Unfortunately he stays somewhat relevant because he drapes himself in an American flag.
by pandaman | 2026-02-08 13:23:58+00:00
You should care about other people, I think: the people who live in American cities and being harassed by homeless. Nobody is above the law, being on drugs or mentally ill is not an excuse. And if you cared about the homeless, you'd understand than continuing with shielding them from the law is not going to end with the people saying "Fuck the laws and the Constitution, let them be themselves!".
Show HN: Chaos Agents – Run chaos experiments with Agents
by linuxarm64 | 2026-02-08 13:24:06+00:00
I have been toying around with the idea of using agents for running chaos engineering experiments.

The idea of this project is as follow:

- There prebuild skills for different target systems. The idea is to test and maintain these skills
- You bring your own LLM
- You just specify the experiment in natural language, the agent determines the skills to be used, plans and executes the experiments, rolls back if any configuration changes were made.

An experiment might looks as follows:

```
chaos run "run resilience test on the database postgres://postgres:mysecretpassword@localhost:5432/postgres for 10s"
```
by Retric | 2026-02-08 13:24:26+00:00
Between 1954 and 1959, China supplied 160,000 tons of tungsten ore, 110,000 tons of copper, 30,000 tons of antimony, and 90,000 tons of rubber to the Soviet Union. That’s how they repaid a loan not through industrial production because their economy wasn’t producing significant high value output from raw materials, they couldn’t even smelt ore efficiently.

Re-education camps don’t generate value. They didn’t have a surplus of urban workers instead Mow just destroyed the economy. Killing off the educated doctors etc isn’t a free action, it has negative consequences.

China literally had net migration out of cities, so no this wasn’t over investment in industry or a distribution issue this was just abject failure and total economic collapse. Total Anarchy would have been better for the economy than Mao.
by stogot | 2026-02-08 13:24:35+00:00
It often takes years to show the effect of one administration’s policies? How do we know that Eisenhower’s policies didn’t “help” Kennedy job market ? Or that Obama’s policies didn’t “hurt” Trump job market? Picking two examples

This graph is too simple as there were also other macroeconomic situations at the time but this is interesting enough that I’d like to see a long article that expands on this one graph with other data
by throwa356262 | 2026-02-08 13:24:55+00:00
First of all, Apple CPUs are not the fastest. In fact top 20 fastest CPUs right now is probably an AMD and Intel only affair.

Apples CPUs are most powerful efficient however, due to a bunch of design and manufacturing choices.

But to answer your question, yes Windows 11 with modern security crap feels 2-3 slower than vanilla Linux on the same hardware.
Show HN: Team of agent researchers read things I don't have time to and brief me
by thomoliverz | 2026-02-08 13:25:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Read Fast (this is now V3, with a much better mobile app).

The problem: I see 1000+ things worth reading every week. I have time for maybe 10.

The solution: AI reads everything for me, creates a personalized briefing, sends it to my inbox whenever I want.

It's an MVP and rough around the edges, but it's working for me. Would love your feedback.

Try it here (7-day free trial): https://read-fast.replit.app

What are you using to manage information overload?
by nakedneuron | 2026-02-08 13:25:06+00:00
Agree. Gist of the FA is about "calm technology". Title should reflect it better.

Also agree on everything author mentions. I can't attest to all examples but I know what a UI is.

Author mentions center of focus of attention. We should hear more often about the periphery of our attention field. Its bandwidth so to speak is a magnitude lower compared to the center but it's still there and can guide some decisions quite unintrusively to flow.

(Major) eye movements are a detriment to attention, which itself should be treated like a commodity (in case of a UI thousands use, moreso like a borrowed commodity).
by Crestwave | 2026-02-08 13:25:10+00:00
The launcher itself is also very clean and minimal, with a text-only UI. You can pin up to 8 apps to the home screen and the rest are accessible through search. You trigger search with a swipe, and when only a single matching app remains for your query, it automatically opens it, making it pretty efficient.

E.g., if you don't have Firefox pinned, you can swipe and type "fir" (or any other unique substring) and it will open just like that. It's great for muscle memory.

My only complaint with it is that the developer sometimes sends messages (e.g., happy new year) and there doesn't seem to be any way to disable it. I don't see why a minimal launcher should have internet access at all.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 13:26:21+00:00
> the singularity is happening

[Citation needed]

No LLM is yet being used effectively to improve LLM output in exponential ways. Personally, I'm skeptical that such a thing is possible.

LLMs aren't AGI, and aren't a path to AGI.

The Singularity is the Rapture for techbros.
by graphpilled | 2026-02-08 13:26:22+00:00
Thanks! Here's the full list:
2001: A Space Odyssey, 8½, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, All That Heaven Allows, Apocalypse Now, Ashes and Diamonds, A Woman Under the Influence, Barry Lyndon, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless, Casablanca, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Chinatown, Chinese Roulette, Citizen Kane, City Lights, City of Pirates, Contempt, Daisies, Damnation, Dishonored, Earth, Electra My Love, El Topo, Eraserhead, Eyes Wide Shut, Film Socialisme, Fitzcarraldo, Fuego en Castilla, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Holy Motors, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, In a Year with 13 Moons, India Song, Inland Empire, Irma Vep, Koyaanisqatsi, La Dolce Vita, La Jetée, Late Spring, L'Eau de la Seine, Le Voyage dans la Lune, Lolita, Los Olvidados, Lost Highway, Lucifer Rising, Man with a Movie Camera, Metropolis, Mirror, Mulholland Drive, Night Music, Ordet, Orpheus, Persona, Pickpocket, Playtime, Psycho, Rebecca, Rosemary's Baby, Rumble Fish, Scarface, Seven Samurai, Sherlock Jr., Singin' in the Rain, Stalker, Sunset Boulevard, Taste of Cherry, Taxi Driver, Testament of Orpheus, The 400 Blows, The Blood of a Poet, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Color of Pomegranates, The Green Ray, The Holy Mountain, The Isle, The Lady from Shanghai, The Night of the Hunter, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Seventh Seal, The Spirit of the Beehive, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Tree of Life, The Turin Horse, Time of the Gypsies, Tokyo Story, Touch of Evil, Trans-Europ-Express, Ugetsu, Un Chien Andalou, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Vampyr, Videodrome, Wavelength, Werckmeister Harmonies, Wild Strawberries, Moonlight Sonata, Stellar, The Haunted House
Biased toward European art cinema, experimental work, and directors who broke conventional narrative rules.
by bagacrap | 2026-02-08 13:27:10+00:00
It doesn't necessarily enhance or detract from software quality. You could use it for quality assurance or code health initiatives, but you'd have to prioritize that. Obviously it is hard to find a lot of humans who will (be allowed to) choose that over adding some new feature to satisfy the sales guys. And since you measure quality basically on vibes (how many times has this app crashed lately?) it probably takes a while to diffuse from commit to your consciousness. But I have seen it used for the purpose of quality, so I am cautiously optimistic.
by onesandofgrain | 2026-02-08 13:27:23+00:00
Hi HN — wanted to share something I’ve been building.

I made a tool that lets you search podcast transcripts *by speaker*, so you can follow specific people across different shows.

You can look up quotes, filter by name (or the other way around), and see everything a person has said — complete with timestamps and a read-along transcript UI. There’s also the option to subscribe to *RSS feeds for individuals*, instead of entire podcasts.

I started this because I wanted to find episodes where certain speakers talked about topics I care about (longevity research, in my case). Keyword searches like “rapamycin” surfaced plenty of results — just rarely from the people I actually wanted to hear from.

I can see this being useful for journalists, researchers, hobbyists, or anyone interested in tracking what specific voices are saying across the podcast ecosystem.

Right now it’s a small proof of concept — indexing ~10 podcasts while I build out the pipeline and UI. Happy to hear feedback, ideas, or use cases I haven’t thought of.
by throwaway290 | 2026-02-08 13:27:30+00:00
The text below the youtube video is not a transcript of the video, it's more like a short summary. The video is much longer than that.

I didn't appreciate how he slid into a sponsored block without saying that he slid into a sponsored block. Not only that, he never says it's a sponsor, not within this 2 minute sponsor block, not before or after. The only way to know it is by looking at chapter titles or by guessing by the changed style of the video with graphics and "link below" stuff (so if you're just listening you'd never know). Even if it's relevant to what you're saying (you can pick your sponsors so that's a given) it should be explicitly marked. Even if you think they do a good thing (presumably you would think so, you picked them as a sponsor) it should be marked. Even if it was a non profit (it's not a non-profit).
by sd9 | 2026-02-08 13:28:05+00:00
The user posted the full chat history below in the thread; they literally just asked to turn on the lights with a voice command [1].

Concerning for sure. A jailbreak coming as a “system” message will have more force.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/1qyvl8b/comment...
by ushakov | 2026-02-08 13:29:53+00:00
just from looking at it

on Linux it runs Firecracker:
https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock/blob/main/pkg/vm/linu...

on macOS uses the Apple's Virtualization.Framework Go wrapper:
https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock/blob/main/pkg/vm/darw...
by sarchertech | 2026-02-08 13:29:59+00:00
That’s 100% correct, but importantly JIT compilers are built with the goal of outputting semantically equivalent instructions.

And the vast, vast majority of the time, adding a new line to the source code will not result in an unrecognizably different output.

With an LLM changing one word can and frequently does cause the out to be so 100% different. Literally no lines are the same in a diff. That’s such a vastly different scope of problem that comparing them is pointless.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-02-08 13:30:02+00:00
I have deep concerns surrounding LLM-based systems in general, which you can see discussed in my other threads and comments. However in this particular article's case, I feel the same fears outlined largely predate mass LLM adoption.

If you substitute "artificial intelligence" with offshored labor ("actually indo-asians" meme moniker) you have some parallels: cheap spaghetti code that "mostly works", just written by farms of humans instead of farms of GPUs. The result is largely the same. The primary difference is that we've now subsidized (through massive, unsustainable private investment) the cost of "offshoring" to basically zero. Obviously that has its own set of problems, but the piper will need to be paid eventually...
by man8alexd | 2026-02-08 13:30:35+00:00
> You seem to be very certain about that inevitable memory leak.

It is fashionable to disable swap nowadays because everyone has been bitten by a swap thrashing event. Read other comments.

> A memory leak does not lead to thrashing. By definition if you have a leak the memory isn't used, so it goes to swap and stays there.

You assume that leaked memory is inactive and goes to swap. This is not true. Chrome, Gnome, whatever modern Linux desktop apps leak a lot, and it stays in RSS, pushing everything else into swap.

> if the leak continues is swap eventually fills up, and then the OOM killer comes out to play

You assume that the OOM killer comes out to play in time. The larger the swap, the longer it takes for the OOM killer to trigger, if ever, because the kernel OOM-killer is unreliable, so we have a collection of other tools like earlyoom, Facebook oomd and systemd-oomd.

> I've logged into systems that were thrashing

It means that the system wasn't out of memory yet. When it is unresponsive, you won't be able to enter commands into an already open shell. See other comments here for examples.

> The OOM killer on the other hand leaves the system in some undefined state. Some things are dead. Maybe you got lucky and it was just Chrome that was killed, but maybe your sound, bluetooth, or DNS daemons have gone AWOL and things just behave weirdly.

This is not true. By default, the kernel OOM-killer selects one single largest (measured by its RSS+swap) process in the system. By default, systemd, ssh and other socket-activated systemd units are protected from OOM.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-08 13:30:59+00:00
If you look at the rapid acceleration of progress and conclude this way, well, de nile ain't just a river in egypt.

Also yes LLMs are indeed AGI: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

This was Peter Norvig's take. AGI is a low bar because most humans are really stupid.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 13:32:19+00:00
Some of us have a perfectly good game plan for that. It's called Universal Basic Income.

It's just that many powerful people have a vested interest in keeping the rest of us poor, miserable, and desperate, and so do everything they can to fight the idea that anything can ever be done to improve the lot of the poor without destroying the economy. Despite ample empirical evidence to the contrary.
by abcde666777 | 2026-02-08 13:32:41+00:00
Well, I didn't articulate it but behind my comment was a question - who's actually upvoting this stuff and why?

To me the claim of the article was silly on the surface of it, silly enough that I was surprised that folks consider it worthy of discussion.

Is there just a large number of upvoters here without even a basic understanding of the topic at hand? Or is there some other explanation beyond that?
by jmye | 2026-02-08 13:32:50+00:00
> Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable.

Fascinating how this is only ever used as bludgeon in one direction. Never used when people talk about immigrants eating pets or being “vermin”, or when someone asks that you call them she/her or they/them. I wonder why that is. Surely not an abject lack of moral consistency.

> What he does with his own money is none of anyone's business.

Nah, if I don’t like where my money flows after I spend it, I am perfectly free to spend it in other ways. I’m sorry people like you dislike my freedom of association.
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-08 13:33:07+00:00
I’ve actually had worse problems as recently as last week: Apps stopped showing up completely in spotlight.

Only a system reinstall + manually deleting all index files fixed it. Meanwhile it was eating 20-30GB of disk space. There are tons of reports of this in the apple forums.

Even then, it feels a lot slower in MacOS 26 than it did before, and you often get the rug-pull effect of your results changing a millisecond before you press the enter key. I would pay good money to go back to Snow Leopard.
by zfoong | 2026-02-08 13:34:21+00:00
This is my first PH launch, and I totally forgot about it until around 15 marketers reached out to my LinkedIn DMs.

That being said, I have built OneMinuteNews (https://www.producthunt.com/products/one-minute-news?launch=...) as a response to the clickbait. It delivers the news in straightforward language and ranks them by importance.

Because OneMinuteNews is a free site, I don't have anything to offer like the other PH launches.
But if you leave a comment on the product page, I will follow up and support your next launch.
by rngfnby | 2026-02-08 13:35:02+00:00
Too late. Apple has destroyed it.

I just got my first ARM Mac to replace my work Win machine (what has MS done to Windows!?!? :'()

Used to be I could type "display" and Id get right to display settings in settings. Now it shows thousands of useless links to who knows what. Instead I have to type "settings" and then, within settings, type "display"

Still better than the Windows shit show.

Honestly, a well setup Linux machine has better user experience than anything on the market today.
by berkes | 2026-02-08 13:35:09+00:00
Devstral¹ has very good models that can be run locally.

They are in the top of open models, and surpass some closed models.

I've been using devstral, codestral and Le Chat exclusively for three months now. All from misteals hosted versions. Agentic, as completion and for day-to-day stuff. It's not perfect, but neither is any other model or product, so good enough for me. Less anecdotal are the various benchmarks that put them surprisingly high in the rankings

¹https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
by perrygeo | 2026-02-08 13:35:14+00:00
For me it comes down to Language. They're LLMs after all. They pattern match on tokens, and if your tokens have muddled semantics, you've lost before you even started.

I have a codebase where variables are named poorly - nah that's too generous, variable names are insane; inconsistent even within a single file and often outright wrong and misleading. No surprise - the LLMs choke and fail to produce viable changsets. Bad pattern = bad code generated from that pattern.

Going through and clarifying the naming (not ever refactoring) was enough to establish the pattern correctly. A little pedantry and the LLM was off to the races.

If LLMs are the future of coding, the number one highest priority for the software industry should be to fix muddled naming, bad patterns, and obfuscated code. My bet is that building clean code foundations is the fastest way to fully agentic coding.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-08 13:35:29+00:00
The C++ std::string is both very complicated mechanically and underspecified, which is why Raymond Chen's article about std::string has to explain three different types (one for each of the three popular C++ stdlib implementations) and still got some details wrong resulting in a cycle of corrections.

So that wouldn't really fit C very well and I'd suggest that Rust's String, which is essentially just Vec<u8> plus a promise that this is a UTF-8 encoded string, is closer.
by etrvic | 2026-02-08 13:35:56+00:00
I went to Kyoto last year during what can be considered peak season. My accommodation was quiet central. I have to say I didn't have a problem with overturism. Sure if you visit what everyone markets on Instagram there are flocks of tourists everywhere. If you just randomly explore the city, you can find equally beautiful places that lack tourists and in my opinion are far more charming.

I think the problem is that since Japan has been trending on social media, everyone goes to the same 3 temples, eats at the same 5 restaurants and so on. And social media sure doesn't help in spreading the tourist flux evenly.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-08 13:37:01+00:00
I use pretty much all platforms and architectures as my "daily drivers" - x64, Apple Silicon, and ARM Cortex, with various mixtures of Linux/Mac/Windows.

When Apple released Apple Silicon, it was a huge breath of fresh air - suddenly the web became snappy again! And the battery lasted forever! Software has bloated to slow down MacBooks again, RAM can often be a major limiting factor in performance, and battery life is more variable now.

Intel is finally catching up to Apple for the first time since 2020. Panther Lake is very competitive on everything except single-core performance (including battery life). Panther Lake CPU's arguably have better features as well - Intel QSV is great if you compile ffmpeg to use it for encoding, and it's easier to use local AI models with OpenVINO than it is to figure out how to use the Apple NPU's. Intel has better tools for sampling/tracing performance analysis, and you can actually see you're loading the iGPU (which is quite performant) and how much VRAM you're using. Last I looked, there was still no way to actually check if an AI model was running on Apple's CPU, GPU, or NPU. The iGPU's can also be configured to use varying amounts of system RAM - I'm not sure how that compares to Apple's unified memory for effective VRAM, and Apple has higher memory bandwidth/lower latency.

I'm not saying that Intel has matched Apple, but it's competitive in the latest generation.