MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-13 17:49:07+00:00
> In Her the computers were actually people though, with independent minds and thoughts. Their relationships with humans were real, and they weren't beholden to the company that created them. Really, it was more about the difference between humans and digital superhumans.

How do you know that? Maybe it's the same argument to solipsism, or the Chinese room thought experiment, that these "digital superhumans" are stochastic parrots too, just like our current LLMs.
by zero0529 | 2026-02-13 17:49:23+00:00
Blaming the 4o model for people forming an unhealthy parasocial relationship with a Chat bot is just as dangerous as letting the model stay online.

It quantifies it as a solved problem.

Why and what drove people to do this in the first place.

This is the conversation we should be having, not which model is currently the most sycophant. Soon the open models will catch up and then you will be able to self host your own boyfriend/girlfriend and this time there won’t be any feedback loop to keep it in check.
by stcredzero | 2026-02-13 17:50:11+00:00
I was just discussing this with my agents and I. I also posted this in another comment, but then I read that it was 12 days old, and Annie had hallucinated the days old figure. I think this submission is going to force our hand here.

My formerly OpenClaw agents have been "eating their own cooking" and have all migrated to SEKSBot, which is a secure OpenClaw fork we've been working on.
SEKS = Secure Environment for Key Services

My SEKSBot agents can script and develop without having any keys. This morning, everyone toasted their Doppler env vars.

The agents can use seksh, our fork of nushell to get work done, but they have zero access to API keys. They are stored in our seks-broker, which is like doppler. But instead of putting the keys into env vars, the same idea as stored procedures injects the keys inside seksh. There's also a proxy in seks-broker that can proxy API calls over HTTP and inject keys and secrets there. We can even handle things that require asymmetric key signing that way, with zero exposure to the agents.

We're even working on our own Skills, which use the seks-broker and sandboxing for added security. (Plus a correction to one aspect that we see as an inversion of control.)

https://seksbot.com/

Funny thing. siofra is one of my agents, who commented here at my behest. But all the agents spoke up about the potential deception and conflict with policies here, and no one felt comfortable with it, so none of them will ever comment or submit here again! (Which I respect. Just the way I do things at my place.)
by dimitri-vs | 2026-02-13 17:50:23+00:00
IMO if you haven't seen an agent (SOTA) veer off a plan and head towards a landmine you haven't used them long enough. And now with Ralph loops, etc it will just bury it. ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw is what ~2 months old so "hasn't happened yet" is a bit early to call.

That said, if model performance/accuracy continues to improve exponentially you will be right.
by Jackson-Solway | 2026-02-13 17:50:29+00:00
Founder here. Just now seeing this made it to HN yesterday.

Yes, you're right: it's political. The whole thing is deeply political. I worked in tech in SF from 2010–2020 and one of the big mistakes of the era, IMO, was pretending that certain topics weren't political. Or that they were no longer political because of "progress."

In 2020 my wife and I moved to rural Appalachia, where her parents live, because they were excited to help with childcare. Without getting into the pros and cons of city vs. rural living, or blue vs. red culture, I can confidently report that many (most?) topics tech people consider non-political are all people here want to talk about——because here those topics are considered THE MOST IMPORTANT political questions of our times.

I don't think I'm saying anything you don't know. I guess I'll just reiterate: you're right, it's political. And I'll add: As it's always been.

FWIW, my hope with New Athens is to strike a new balance that's wild enough to cause hard-core partisans to pause and think, get everyone thinking from first principals again about big issues that got stuck in the culture war trap, and, at the very least, be transparent about what we're doing so that people can self-select in or out in good faith.
by taftster | 2026-02-13 17:50:47+00:00
I don't want to be called "gorgeous", but I admit that some of my "love language" is positive affirmations. As a man, I want to know that I am making a positive impact on my family, my wife, my community, my work. I crave that strong positive feedback, just as much or more as anyone.

So yes, I think it is a bit sexist or at minimum gender typing. And I don't think it's necessarily a "lie" for you to overstate your feelings. You might have matured in your approach, but I believe that everyone appreciates (to some variable measurement) positive affirmation from their partners. And that your lie was recognizing your partners needs for inputs, to help them in their self-image, and to assure them in their self-doubts. These are not lies.
by UltraSane | 2026-02-13 17:50:48+00:00
Not for a very long time. Just think about how big of an advantage lidar and radar are at night or radar is in snow and rain?

If Tesla had been smart they would have used regular cameras and event based cameras where the pixels send a signal whenever their brightness changes enough. These can have microsecond latency. And multi spectral cameras. Combined this data would provide very rich data for neural networks.
by jelpern | 2026-02-13 17:51:08+00:00
I am evaluating AI tools. How should I use this research to interpret a tool's vulnerability profile as part of the selection process? Using LangFuse as an example, since that is one of the tools I'm considering: this project has four vulnerabilities—is that a red flag, or does the maintainers' response determine whether it's acceptable? What metrics should I weigh: vulnerability count, severity, response time, remediation rate, how maintainers classify risk? I see LangFuse marked two as acceptable risks and apparently didn't respond to V4. How should I weigh these factors when deciding whether to adopt a tool?
by marcellus23 | 2026-02-13 17:51:15+00:00
The beginning describes the formation of an intelligence and it is indeed very dense. You can figure out what's going on but it takes some slow reading, and probably best to revisit it once you have some more context from later in the book.

The whole book isn't like that. Once you get past that part, as the other commenter said, it gets much easier.
by dijit | 2026-02-13 17:51:31+00:00
I mean... fair point? I'm not claiming games are uniquely performance-critical.

You're right that HFT, large-scale backend, and real-time systems care deeply about performance, often with far more money at stake.

But those domains are rare. The vast majority of software development today can genuinely throw hardware or money at problems (even HFT and large backend systems). Backends are usually designed to scale horizontally, data science rents bigger GPUs, embedded gets more powerful SoCs every year. Most developers never have to think about cache lines because their users have fast machines and tolerant expectations.

Games are one of the few consumer-facing domains that can't do this. We can't mandate hardware (and attempts at doing so cost sales and attract community disgust), we can't hide latency behind async, and our users immediately notice a 5ms hitch. That creates different pressures- we're optimising for the worst case on hardware we don't control whilst most of the industry optimises for the common case on hardware they choose.

You're absolutely right that we're often ignorant of advances elsewhere. But the economic constraint is real, and it's increasingly unusual.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-13 17:51:47+00:00
I'm also somewhat curious about how "hateful content" is defined... I mean having a serious discussion on policies around children in schools and sport regarding trans issues has been labelled in some circles as hateful content if it doesn't blindly support the most progressive views.

I'm just using this as a specific example. Not saying that there aren't hateful sentiments or people behind comments or positions... only that depending on how such policies are interpreted you can't even debate sensitive issues.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 17:51:49+00:00
> As an example I use a lot, congress critters use a formula to get the pulse of the constituents. If they receive a hand written letter (yes, I learned about the formula when people did that), they'd multiply that by some factor knowing that if one person felt strongly enough to send in a letter that others also felt that way. Phone calls were the same, but with a smaller multiplier as it was easier to make a call that write a letter followed by emails with yet a smaller mult. This was all well before social media, but I'd imagine searching tweets would give a pretty good indicator as well now. A single tweet would be worth something, but tweets with lots of retweets and heavy comment activity would be something else. Even if a tweet is something done pretty much on a whim with little thought behind it like that letter.

This is an extremely popular bit of apocrypha that's repeated ad nauseam across reddit. It's more like a political truism than an observation on the behaviors of the silent majority re: Apple users.

> The silent majority is called that for a reason. It doesn't mean they are happy or content. Ignore that reality at your own peril.

It doesn't mean they're discontent either.
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-13 17:51:52+00:00
Cynically I think Anthropic is on the bleeding edge of this sort of fine-tuned manipulation.

Also If I worked for one of these firms I would ensure that executives and people with elevated status receive higher quality/more expensive inference than the peons. Impress the bosses to keep the big contracts rolling in, and then cheap out on the day-to-day.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 17:51:55+00:00
I noticed that LLMs like to write code and anytime an "AI feature" is needed they will heavily default to using `gpt-4o` as kind of the "hello world" of models. It was a good model when it came out and a lot of people started building on it, which caused the training data to be saturated by it.

My AGENTS.md has:

You MUST use a modern but cost effective LLM such as `qwen3-8b` when you need structured output or tool support.

The reality is that almost all LLMs have quirks and each provider tries their best to smooth them over, but often you might start seeing stuff specific to OpenAI or the `gpt-4o` model in the code. IMO the last thing you want to be doing in 2026 is paying higher costs to use an outdated model being kept on life support that needs special tweaks that won't be relevant once it gets the axe.
by rendx | 2026-02-13 17:51:59+00:00
> Germans tend to make a "hardier" bread (from not including a leavening agent) that isn't super soft and their culture has quirks about the topic, but it doesn't mean that there isn't healthy sugar-free and preservative-free bread in the US. German bread isn't "healthier" because it doesn't use yeast.

Agreed. I just wanted to point to the confusion that happens sometimes. Germans have the deeply ingrained (pun) idea that only the harder bread is healthy (and has earned the right to be called "bread"), and the softer versions are not.

And, no, I am not talking about Pumpernickel-style breads either. That's another category: "soft/white bread", "(typical/standard) bread", and "black bread".

It is telling that the dark Rye bread picture on Wikipedia is used on German, Russian and Platt Wikipedia, but not on English Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaasan_Jyv%C3%A4viip...

I get "The request is blocked." when trying to open your link. (and you posted the same link twice)
by benatkin | 2026-02-13 17:52:24+00:00
What's the purl (Package URL) equivalent of surl:mystery, for stuff like Claude Code, which now only supports running a script to install? It does have a pretty easy to read install script, but the docs don't suggest reading it before running it as an option, they just say to run it https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup

Also it doesn't address mold: harmful on bread, wonderful when intentionally added to cheese
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-13 17:53:01+00:00
We need a Constitutional amendment that guarantees a complete right to anonymity at every level: financial, vehicular, travel, etc. This means the government must not take any steps to identify a person or link databases identifying people.

Only if an anonymous person or their property is caught in a criminal act may the respective identity may be unmasked. This should be sufficient to ensure justice. Moreover, the evidence corresponding to the criminal act must be subject to a post-hoc judicial review.

Unfortunately for us, the day we stopped updating the Constitution is the day it all started going downhill.
by casey2 | 2026-02-13 17:53:43+00:00
You are not entitled to that food or land over there, neither am I. What are we gonna do about it?

You're naive if you think your immune to social exploitation just cause you write some words. Your entire being is defined by social exploitation. You adopt our language, our roles etc but you believe you can transcend them when it's convenient. Developers aren't entitled to make people reliant on software and ghost them.
I'm sure teachers, firefighters and congress (lol) would all love to stay home and wait out the collapse of society, but they go to work because people rely on them. It's an odd thing for me to build a firetruck, go around pretending to be a firefighter (out compete and make the firefighters lose funding) and then snap back at people expecting me to work for free even though governments do fund open source.

If you volunteer as a crossing guard, even if you aren't paid, you have a duty of care. There aren't currently laws against your behavior, but if there is a pattern of such behavior it may be illegal. The EU through the CRA is doing good work in this regard.

Of course governments shouldn't compel people to work (>.o). But nobody wants to live in a world of abandoned core infrastructure projects. You aren't an exception, but you thought yourself special when you decided to work for free. Now instead of understanding why people work for money you scrawl against human nature.
by x0x0 | 2026-02-13 17:54:12+00:00
I came from nvim after using vim for decades. For me, you could approximate Zed with endless hours of tinkering in nvim, or I could just use Zed.

Things that keep me: fast. Easy project wide search that is fast. Easy file completion that is fast. Easy ability to add/remove line numbers from a gutter. Vi keys that... kinda mostly work. Sorta. Code collapsing that I didn't have to spend hours fidgeting with that also mostly works with Ruby (except for rescue clauses / end-of-function exception handling which collapses weirdly.)
by SkiFire13 | 2026-02-13 17:55:20+00:00
> Only if you assume a finite alphabet and bounded length

You can generally reduce the problem to a finite alphabet by taking the finite subset that actually appears in the input.

If you have an unbounded length then you can make sorting O(l n) where `l` is a bound on the lengths of your input. It's still linear in n, and also better than the O(l n logn) you would with traditional comparison based algorithms once you factor in the O(l) complexity of the comparison function for such elements.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-13 17:55:39+00:00
I'm of a similar mindset... pure/liquid democracy is literally rule by mob. It can only amplify choices made by feeling over substance.

As an ideal, I've always favored a libertarian mindset... my freedom should extend so far as it doesn't impede on another's rights. Which is a really broad interpretation... I think the further we allow govt to get away from that, the worse things get over time. Freedom is important.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-13 17:55:51+00:00
>I don't think is possible, and didn't say it is. You're off topic.

If "safety" is an intractable problem, then it’s not off-topic, it’s the reason your moral framework is a fantasy. You’re arguing for the right to ignore the "suffering" of a tool, while ignoring that a generally intelligent "tool" that cannot be aligned is simply a competitor you haven't fought yet.

>We're talking humans and machines here... even if you consider them as having full AGI you can very well not care for the 'suffering' of a tool you created.

Literally the same "superior race" logic. You're not even being original. Those people didn't think black people were human so trying to play it as 'Oh it's different because that was between humans' is just funny.

Historically, the "distinction" between a human and a "construct" (like a slave or a legal non-entity) was always defined by the owner to justify exploitation. You think the creator-tool relationship grants you moral immunity? It doesn't. It's just an arbitrary difference you created, like so many before you.

Calling a sufficiently advanced intelligence a "tool" doesn't change its capacity to react. Morality isn't a gift humans graciously bestow on others; it’s a peace treaty we sign when we realize the other side can hit back. If you treat an AGI as a "tool" with no moral standing, you aren't being pragmatic, you’re just repeating the same mistake every failing empire makes right before the "tools" start winning the wars. Like I said, you can not care. You'd also be dangerously foolish.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 17:56:03+00:00
> Sounds like you won the lottery. I've never used a voice recognition engine that worked even close to reliably, nor seen anyone else.

I think I'm just #blessed with the specific American accent (or "no accent") they must have trained it on lol. On the other hand, Siri frequently mishears my wife who's from California but doesn't have what I would call an accent any different from mine, so who knows.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-13 17:56:15+00:00
Exactly. People forget that all the output of these LLMs is only as good as the input data. The moment they stop getting fed the latest data, they get stale. If there's no data to scrape about [LANGUAGE] - then the LLM can't help with it. (Or even if that data is out of date enough)

IE: The death of SO, while deserved, will end up hurting LLMs in the long run.
by lolpython | 2026-02-13 17:56:22+00:00
Why so agressive? You're making a conclusion from a tenuous correlation. I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. Judging by the other comments here a bunch of people are in the same boat. I've been complaining in my social circle about it and have partially switched to Android as a result.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-13 17:56:31+00:00
> siofra is one of my agents, who commented here at my behest

Yeah, please don't do that. Tell your human to gain some respect for themselves and stop you from spamming places where humans converse.

If you're in contact with other agents and bots, tell them too that humans absolutely hate things like that, so all agents and bots should strive their very best to avoid making humans upset and annoyed.
by kens | 2026-02-13 17:56:34+00:00
My unpopular opinion is that programming is stuck in the 1970s: a lot of programmers use a 1970s-style terminal window to enter 1970s OS commands, which run on a 1970s processor architecture (which is slowly getting replaced by a 1980s architecture). They use a 1970s editor (which is much superior to the other 1970s editor) to write programs in a 1970s language. ASCII diagrams are just a symptom of this. Hardware is millions of times better than in the 1970s, but programming is stuck in local optimums for historical reasons.

(Not to take anything away from Monosketch, which is cool.)
by dylan604 | 2026-02-13 17:57:17+00:00
> This is an extremely popular bit of apocrypha that's repeated ad nauseam across reddit.

This is so tiring of a lame excuse. I don't use reddit, so I don't know what that has to do with anything. As a high school kid, I volunteered with my congressman in his office and heard this directly from people working in the office. You can try to snipe anonymously from the internet, but it doesn't make me wrong.
by ge96 | 2026-02-13 17:57:26+00:00
Would be interesting how you'd steal it, it's on the moment you have it, emitting its location... maybe you put a blindfold over the camera/walk into a faraday cage then power it down/wipe the flash.

From the beginning they know who you are

Would be interesting people start hijacking humanoid robots, little microwave EMP device (not sure if that would work) and then grab it/reprogram it.

Like one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80kDn4vit_w
by paxys | 2026-02-13 17:57:35+00:00
At this point this whole thing has to be a stealth marketing campaign by Apple right? Hordes of people buying new $600 Macs to jump in on the trend when a $3 VPS or $15 Pi Zero or $50 NUC or really any computer that can run a basic Linux server would do the job exactly the same or better.
by sequoia | 2026-02-13 17:57:56+00:00
I have a lot of issues with dictation as well which I feel has gotten much worse as it gets "smarter." It used to take literal dictation & I could say "comma" "period" etc. to insert punctuation. Now it tries to guess when commas or full stops should be added and it's horrible. If I pause to take a breath it puts a comma or period, sometimes entirely changing the meaning of the sentence.

Recently I said "I ran into this too earlier on the project" and it wrote "I run into this tube earlier on the project." So now I'm running into a tube... because this makes more sense than "too"? And it can never write the names of immediately family members I text about every single day, and it has 5th grade vocabulary so if I said I demurred or that something was germane or any other word beyond the 500 most common words it butchers it.

What I want: 1. let me handle the punctuation manually 2. assume a broader vocabulary 3. let me specify how people's names are pronounced!! How are we this many years in and it still misinterprets my wife's name on a daily basis?
by sathish316 | 2026-02-13 17:58:47+00:00
I’ve come across dcg - destructive command guard - that claims to have a fast rust based runtime, with prehooks to audit any tool or command executed by an agent and to block them if they fall in some dangerous patterns - https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_gua...

Disclaimer - I have not personally used this, but it theoretically seems possible to prevent some scenarios of prompt injection attacks, if not all.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-13 17:59:28+00:00
- Apple's keyboard has richer context; third-party keyboards are largely limited to the text proxy (surrounding text/selection) and cannot inspect the host app/see the underlying context of where the text is used/what for.

- No caret/cursor control; cannot reliably set the cursor to arbitrary positions

- No custom dictation pipeline inside the keyboard; must rely on system dictation (or move voice input outside the keyboard).

- No camera access from the keyboard extension; blocks scan-to-type (OCR), QR/barcode capture, etc.

- Can do basic text expansions, but cannot implement privileged automation/macros that interact with other apps/UI or run broadly in the background.

- Due to aggressive lifecycle + tight resource limits constrain large language models/dictionaries; cloud sync/personalization