MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hansmayer | 2026-02-16 14:23:46+00:00
> So saying "it predicts the next word" is a nothing-burger. That a program calculates its output one token at a time tells you nothing about its behavior.

Well it does - it tells me it is utterly un-reliable, because it does not understand anything. It just merely goes on, shitting out a nice pile of tokens that placed one after another kind of look like coherent sentences but make no sense, like "you should absolutely go on foot to the car wash". A completely logical culmination of Bill Gates' idiotic "Content is King" proclamation of 20 years ago.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-16 14:24:05+00:00
> The only durable moats will be compute, energy, and data

"Compute" is capital investment; normal and comprehensible, but on a huge scale.

"Data" is .. stolen? That feels like a problem which has been dodged but will not remain solved forever, as everyone goes shields-up against the scrapers.

"Energy" was a serious global problem before AI. All economic growth is traded off against future global temperature increases to some extent, but this is even more acute in this electricity-intensive industry. How many degrees of temperature increase is worth one .. whatever the unit of AI gain-of-function is?
by krona | 2026-02-16 14:24:12+00:00
Along with the attempt to prevent jury trials for all but the most serious criminal cases, this is beginning to look like an attempt to prevent reporting on an upcoming case. I can think of one happening in April, involving the prime minister. Given he was head of the CPS for 5 years, would know exactly which levers to pull.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20dyzp4r42o
by surajrmal | 2026-02-16 14:24:15+00:00
I wouldn't say most. Google is known for constantly iterating on its code internally to the point of not getting anything done other than code churn. While there is use of raw pointers, I'd argue it's idiomatic to still use raw pointers in c++ for non owning references that are well scoped. Using shared pointers everywhere can be overkill. That doesn't mean the codebase is pre c++11 in style.

Rewriting a codebase in another language that has no good interop is rarely a good idea. The need to replicate multiple versions of each internal library can become incredibly taxing. Migrations need to be low risk at Google scale and if you can't do it piecewise it's often not worth attempting either. Also worth noting that java is just as prevelant if not moreso in core products.
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by cowboylowrez | 2026-02-16 14:24:50+00:00
I got your point because it seemed that you were precisely avoiding the anthropomorphizing and in fact seemed to be honing in on whats happening with the weights. The only way I can imagine these models are going to work with trick questions lies beyond word prediction or reinforcement training UNLESS reinforcement training is from a complete (as possible) world simulation including as much mechanics as possible and let these neural networks train on that.

Like for instance, think chess engines with AI, they can train themselves simply by playing many many games, the "world simulation" with those is the classic chess engine architecture but it uses the positional weights produced by the neural network, so says gemini anyways:

"ai chess engine architecture"

"Modern AI chess engines (e.g., Lc0, Stockfish) use
a hybrid architecture combining deep neural networks for positional evaluation with advanced search algorithms like Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) or alpha-beta pruning. They feature three core components: a neural network (often CNN-based) that analyzes board patterns (matrices) to evaluate positions, a search engine that explores move possibilities, and a Universal Chess Interface (UCI) for communication."

So with no model of the world to play with, I'm thinking the chatbot llms can only go with probabilities or what matches the prompt best in the crazy dimensional thing that goes on inside the neural networks. If it had access to a simple world of cars and car washes, it could run a simulation and rank it appropriately, and also could possibly infer through either simulation or training from those simulations that if you are washing a car, the operation will fail if the car is not present. I really like this car wash trick question lol
by easytiger | 2026-02-16 14:24:53+00:00
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by londons_explore | 2026-02-16 14:25:15+00:00
No. Open is open. Beyond DDoS protections, there should be no limits.

If load on the server is a concern, make the whole database available as a torrent. People who run scrapers tend to prefer that anyway.

This isn't someone's hobby project run from a $5 VPS - they can afford to serve 10k qps of readonly data if needed, and it would cost far less than the salary of 1 staff member.
by skerit | 2026-02-16 14:25:31+00:00
> Most of my contacts made the switch, and I’m now at roughly 95% Signal for day-to-day conversations

Years ago, I set up a Matrix server. I got some people to migrate, but ultimately even my husband stopped using it because the UI and accessibility of all the applications was so poor (and he has very bad eyesight, so this was a dealbreaker)

Looking for another alternative, I ended up with Telegram. It was pretty open, easy to work with, had great UI and even a ton of funny stickers and emojis, so I got nearly all my friends to migrate. I did NOT go for Signal because I do not need end-to-end encryption all the time, and having all the same conversations available on my desktop as well as on my phone was important, and still is. Unfortunately, it's also run by a severe weirdo.

So yeah, I'm not really sure what to use now.
by barnabee | 2026-02-16 14:25:52+00:00
> Developers should consider that most people value things by how much they pay and if they aren't paying anything then you and your work can't have much value.

Most people in most situations pay as little as they can get away with not as much as they value the product or service.

The only time this is arguably somewhat untrue is when the point of having the thing is to signal wealth, but even someone buying e.g. a Rolex wants to do so as cheaply as possible, so it's only really true when they're directly spending the money in front of people (think bar, restaurant, nightclub, etc.)

I agree that right now it's mostly developer tools that are doing best in terms of open source. But browsers, operating systems, 3D modelling software, image/photo editing, and many others are not so far behind either.

My assertion/belief[0], though, is that the direction of travel is for open source to become dominant in more and more classes of software, especially as AI reduces the cost of contribution and collaboration, and disincentivises closed, proprietary software.

[0] Based on what I and others around me have been able to do with AI already and how fast it is moving.
by whizzter | 2026-02-16 14:25:58+00:00
Open to research yes.

Free to ingest and make someones crimes a permanent part of AI datasets resulting in forever-convictions? No thanks.

AI firms have shown themselves to be playing fast and loose with copyrighted works, a teenager shouldn't have their permanent AI profile become "shoplifter" because they did a crime at 15 yo that would otherwise have been expunged after a few years.
by microtonal | 2026-02-16 14:26:15+00:00
That's only part of it. That all security issues would be gone after writing code in a memory-safe language is a fairytale (though it does help a lot).

The other parts layered defense, reducing the number of privileged/non-sandboxed applications/processes, not shipping spyware/adware, etc.

Only Apple/GrapheneOS and to a slightly lesser extend Google Pixel are good at this. Many phone manufacturers still use the TrustZone TEE on the main CPU (rather than a separate security processor), isolated radios, hardware memory tagging, and dozens of other defense-in-depth features.
by belter | 2026-02-16 14:26:29+00:00
You should look at Israel deal for the F-35. They got the only F-35 unlocked and non dependent on the US software lock. They were never part of the development program like Norway, Denmark, Italy or the Netherlands so did not have to bear those costs. Norway, Denmark, Italy or the Netherlands, still had to pay for their F-35...

Israel paid 2.3 Billion for their F-35, but the US committed to buy 4 Billion from Israel defense firms, so concluding with a net positive of +1.25 Billion for Israel economy....all at the cost to the US tax payer. :-)

"F-35I Adir: Israel’s Custom F-35 That No Other Nation Has" - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/04/f-35i-adir-israels-custo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
by thesz | 2026-02-16 14:26:35+00:00
I took a look.

Their system allow for intermediate state with errors. If that erroneous state can be stored to disk, they using a storage representation that is equivalent to text. If erroneous state cannot be stored, this makes Dion system much less usable, at least for me.

They also deliberately avoided pitfalls of languages like C. While they can do that because they can, I'd like to see how they will extend their concepts of user interface to the programming language and unifying tools to use (Typed) AST to C or, forgive me, C++, and what it'll unlock.

Also, there is an interesting approach of error correcting parsers: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150FP/archive/doaitse-swierstr...

Much extended version is in Haskell at Hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/uu-parsinglib

As it allows monadic parsing combinators, it can parse context-sensitive grammars such as C.

It's interesting to see whether their demonstration around 08:30 of Visual Studio unable to recover from an error properly can be improved with error correction.
by m0llusk | 2026-02-16 14:26:51+00:00
That is some nasty garbage right there. The Israeli tech startup scene is very large and dynamic with including basic software development tools, wireless infrastructure, and so on. If anything it is more like 90% either consumer infrastructure or non-LLM developer tools. Whether it is politically advantageous to talk about or not, a very large fraction of all economic activity is still down the chain near the child needs bowl of rice level. Grandiose claims without support only obfuscate the situation instead of focusing on what needs to be done to protect people.
by mbreese | 2026-02-16 14:27:00+00:00
The question isn’t if the demand is real or not (supplies are low, so demand must exist). The question is if the demand curve has permanently shifted, or is this a short-term issue. No one builds new capacity in response to short term changes, because you’ll have difficulty recouping the capital expense.

If AI will permanently case an increase in hard drives over the current growth curve, then WD, et al will build new capacity, increasing supply (and reducing costs). But this really isn’t something that is known at this point.
by kamaal | 2026-02-16 14:27:09+00:00
>>It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank

Competitive coding is oversold in this generation. You can log in to most of these sites and you will see thousands of solutions submitted to each problem. There is little incentive to reward situations where you solved some problem which a thousand other people have solved.

To that end its also a intellectual equivalent of video game addiction. There is some kind of illusion that you are indulging in a extremely valuable and productivity enterprise, but if you observe carefully nothing much productive actually gets done.

Only a while back excessive chess obsession had similar problems. People spending whole days doing things which make them feel special and intelligent, but to any observer at a distance its fairly obvious they are wasting time and getting nothing done.
by folbec | 2026-02-16 14:27:12+00:00
there is a bug in the CSS :

explicit border:2px solid var(--border); on the input which takes priority over the class :

.demo-uv-input:user-invalid {
border-color: var(--red-muted);
background: rgba(239,68,68,.04);
}

YMMV but when corrected it works for me on latest Edge, Chrome, Firefox (Windows versions)
by loudmax | 2026-02-16 14:27:30+00:00
If you mean that they're benchmaxing these models, then that's disappointing. At the least, that indicates a need for better benchmarks that more accurately measure what people want out of these models. Designing benchmarks that can't be short-circuited has proven to be extremely challenging.

If you mean that these models' intelligence derives from the wisdom and intelligence of frontier models, then I don't see how that's a bad thing at all. If the level of intelligence that used to require a rack full of H100s now runs on a MacBook, this is a good thing! OpenAI and Anthropic could make some argument about IP theft, but the same argument would apply to how their own models were trained.

Running the equivalent of Sonnet 4.5 on your desktop is something to be very excited about.
by twobitshifter | 2026-02-16 14:27:37+00:00
This is neat, but I think I would avoid it given the speed with which I can make edits in Vim.

One thing I’ve learned about writing prose vs. code is that you should not be quick to edit your prose and instead continue writing and finish the complete draft. This is why studies show that typewriters and pen and paper give a better creative process. I can’t foresee me looking for things like autocomplete or pure speed when trying to put thoughts to paper.
by epolanski | 2026-02-16 14:27:43+00:00
I've learned from a former college colleague that got into cyber security that Israeli intelligence facial recognition is virtually error free.

It has been trained on decades of Palestinians crossing check points, some being Hamas camouflaging with beards, glasses and what not.

Also the data it's fed for third party customers is as flawless as it can be: if you ever took an international flight your biometrics are fully recorded and available to virtually every agency in the world.

If you're walking in a random mall on the other end of the world, even if you have no phone, you have covered your tracks and you're wearing a hat and glasses, etc, you are going to be recognized by the software if a camera gets even a mediocre shot at you.

Compound this with all the information people put online on their own on socials, you're gonna be tracked and recognized, whether you want it or no.
by hk1337 | 2026-02-16 14:28:11+00:00
The one I don’t see that often used is color-scheme and light-dark. Both of those with css variables are so helpful with theming and having light and dark themes. Plus it works in all of the main browsers and the effect happens immediately, so you have your page up and switch your system from light to dark, you see it transition without having to refresh.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-16 14:28:19+00:00
> > That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

> I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.

Clarity of thought does not make you a good communicator to business people. People, for example, say about me that I am really good at communicating to people who are in deep love of research, but when I present arguments of similar clarity to business people, my often somewhat abstract considerations go over their heads.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-16 14:28:24+00:00
Nope - here's is an AI summary of the 2023 law.

The Key "Exclusionary" Mechanism
The Funding Clause: The law authorizes the Interior Minister to revoke citizenship or residency only if the person was convicted of a terror offense and it is proven they (or someone on their behalf) received monetary benefits from the Palestinian Authority in connection with that act.

Practical Effect: Because only Palestinian prisoners/families receive these specific PA stipends, the law does not apply to Jewish citizens who commit acts of terror, even if they are convicted of the same offenses.

ie It's if you are a terrorist and receive money ( like a pension,wage, benefit ) from the PA.
It's quite clearly constructed to not include Jewish right-wing terrorist acts.

This was openly discussed, as the intent, in the Knesset when the law was passed.

See: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/12/how-israel-used-dis...

None of this is surprising if you look at what the key political players have said in public - they are openly supremacist.

There is a reason for the ICC,ICJ cases.
by trashb | 2026-02-16 14:29:15+00:00
No I think I wrote something in C (it was written a while ago) accepting the and then discarding the connection in such a way the RST/FIN was never send, making sure to clean the socket server side.

I guess a timeout will need to be adjusted/implemented on the bot's end I remember fixing a similar bug at work and it was quite involved. At any rate the very least the connection was made and discarded.

I guess the iptables solution would also work well and you would have a correctly working serverside.
by masfuerte | 2026-02-16 14:29:49+00:00
It wasn't a hack. The company used an external AI service.

ETA: They didn't ship data off to e.g. ChatGPT. They hired a subcontractor to build them a secure AI service.

Details in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035141

leading to this:

https://endaleahy.substack.com/p/what-the-minister-said

The government is behaving disgracefully.
by mapt | 2026-02-16 14:30:02+00:00
Your sentence seems to imply that we will delegate all AI decisions to one person who can decide how he wants to use it - to build or destroy.

Strong agentic AIs are a death sentence memo pad (or a malevolent djinn lamp if you like) that anyone can write on, because the tools will be freely available to leverage. A plutonium breeder reactor in every backyard. Try not to think of paperclips.
by NoiseBert69 | 2026-02-16 14:30:18+00:00
RISC-V is eating the "low power low performance"-niche alive right now. ARM-licensed microcontrollers (like STM32C0) cannot keep up with this price class. That's a huge business.

Have a look at WCH. If you are used to the ST-HAL style you get that stuff running within a hour. They stuff works will fully opensourced compilers.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-16 14:30:19+00:00
> The fact that the US can continue to economically do so well relative to others despite currently being run by some of the stupidest and most abhorrent people possible is... sad.

It's not sad, it's strong evidence (I hesitate to call it proof, but...) that a federated model of governance with limited regulation is the most resilient and successful form of government.

All the EU states need to do is learn that regulation is not the solution to every theoretical problem any bureaucrat can imagine, and they too can experience meaningful economic growth.
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by WarmWash | 2026-02-16 14:30:36+00:00
Prompting is definitely a skill, similar to "googling" in the mid 00's.

You see people complaining about LLM ability, and then you see their prompt, and it's the 2006 equivalent of googling "I need to know where I can go for getting the fastest service for car washes in Toronto that does wheel washing too"
by nonethewiser | 2026-02-16 14:30:49+00:00
>That is the entire point, right? Us having to specify things that we would never specify when talking to a human.

But the question is not clear to a human either. The question is confused.

I read the headline and had no clue it was an LLM prompt. I read it 2 or 3 times and wondered "WTF is this shit?" So if you want an intelligent response from a human, you're going to need to adjust the question as well.