MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-13 20:19:41+00:00
I get the impression that is part of Discord's intent they are signalling here and a lot of the response has been maybe a bit overly vitriolic in the face of that seeming message of "we are complying with the laws because we have to, but we are doing a bare minimum to do that". Especially relating those parts of the press release to the call for a Council of Teens and increased feedback.

It feels like a modern iteration of the game of way most bars check IDs: it's a bit of an honor system most nights and for most people. On days or events of increased scrutiny they put a bouncer out front. They make a show of doing it, but at the end of the day they want to sell product and not do paperwork, so it will be the bare minimum to keep the (international) law of of Discord's back. Discord seems to want just enough CYA much more than strict "we know the age of every user". This is the "we're going to put a bouncer out front" stage of the game, not the "police are at the back door and about to raid the bar" stage. It is interesting to me how many have read this PR and jumped to believing it to be the bar raid scenario.
by Morromist | 2026-02-13 20:20:18+00:00
Yeah, although in the "Something big is happening" Shumer did say at the end "Eventually, robots will handle physical work too. They're not quite there yet. But "not quite there yet" in AI terms has a way of becoming "here" faster than anyone expects."

Being the hype-man that he is I assume he meant humanoid robots - I think he's being silly here, and the sentence made me roll my eyes.
by mattlondon | 2026-02-13 20:20:25+00:00
Jobs that require physical effort will be fine for the reasons you state

Any job that is predominantly done on a computer though is at risk IMO. AI might not completely take over everything, but I think we'll see way fewer humans managing/orchestrating larger and larger fleets of agents.

Instead of say 20 people doing some function, you'll have 3 or 4 prompting away to manage the agents to get the same amount of work done as 20 people did before.

So the people flipping the burgers and serving the customers will be safe, but the accountants and marketing folks won't be.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-13 20:20:32+00:00
I always imagine employees from the vendor (in this case Apple) reading the blog or this thread. They’re here, lurking. I see you! I see you in the shadows!

Anyway, they know things we don’t, for both good (real constraints that users don’t see) and bad (fake constraints from bad internal decisions).

But dear Apple employee reading this: if you have fought the good fight, I appreciate your attempt, please keep it up. If you didn’t, we’re having a keyboard experience that you shouldn’t be proud of, no matter what the internal corporate logic maze you are caught up in.
by square_usual | 2026-02-13 20:20:33+00:00
It's interesting to me that whenever a new breakthrough in AI use comes up, there's always a flood of people who come in to handwave away why this isn't actually a win for LLMs. Like with the novel solutions GPT 5.2 has been able to find for erdos problems - many users here (even in this very thread!) think they know more about this than Fields medalist Terence Tao, who maintains this list showing that, yes, LLMs have driven these proofs: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...
by diputsmonro | 2026-02-13 20:20:42+00:00
Every social justice type I know is staunchly against AI personhood (and in general), and they aren't inconsistent either - their ideology is strongly based on liberty and dignity for all people and fighting against real indignities that marginalized groups face. To them, saying that a computer program faces the same kind of hardship as, say, an immigrant being brutalized, detained, and deported, is vapid and insulting.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-02-13 20:21:06+00:00
That is the problem. Reigning in debasement is what needs to happen or the dollar is dead. But, reigning in debasement means spending less. Spending less means people can't be reelected for "bringing federal money home". So, there is no incentive for Congress to cut anything. But, the piece that makes me pretty sure that debasement is the goal, is that by debasing the currency it makes it possible to pay off dollar denominated debt. I can't be the only one that sees it. Nations have been divesting of US Bonds for years now.

I'll say it another way. The government can pay off its debt by making your money worthless.

I changed my investment habits as soon as I recognized it. I am already happy I did.
by bityard | 2026-02-13 20:21:06+00:00
> Even OpenAI had to pivot away from its original non-profit, open principles to survive and scale.

Uh, no, OpenAI didn't pivot from being open in order to survive.

They survived for 7 years before ChatGPT was released. When it was, they pivoted the _instant_ it became obvious that AI was about to be a trillion-dollar industry and they weren't going to miss the boat of commercialization. Yachts don't buy themselves, you know!
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-13 20:21:15+00:00
>I hear this a lot about B5, and I get a _sense_ of it myself,

The series creator and chief writer, J. Michael Straczynski was explicit about that: The Earth Government story arc is lifted straight from the fascist regimes of the 1930s and 1940s.

A significant amount of which we're seeing rebranded as MAGA in the US and other far-right movements elsewhere.

A good example would be the "anti-alien" frenzy in Babylon 5 as compared with the far-right's ridiculous tropes about the undocumented in the US.

There are a bunch more like Trump's obsession with personal loyalty and lack of any empathy is quite similar to Babylon 5's President Clarke.

As I mentioned, that story arc is based upon the fascist regimes of the '30s and '40s, they even have a "Neville Chamberlain"[0] analog[1] who loudly proclaims "Finally, we will at last know 'peace in our time'."

The biggest difference is that in the Babylon 5 universe, the fascist scum are much more competent than those IRL today.

There's lots more, and I'll echo the plaints of others here that Season 1 is uneven and appears meandering, but many of the plot points brought up in Season 1 end up paying off much later in the series.

I heartily recommend watching the series, not just for the parallels with some of our current circumstance, but because it's a good story with the entire five season story arc fleshed out from the beginning, with good character development and character driven story lines.

It was also the first live-action Sci-Fi series that made use of CGI for the space scenes, which was both very cool, but was also limited compared to today's SFX given that 30 second segments could take hours to render on the Unix workstations of the mid 1990s.

Is it perfect, no. But it's worth the effort to watch it IMNSHO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain

[1] https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Frederick_Lantze
by chmod775 | 2026-02-13 20:21:16+00:00
I might have a bridge to sell you.

What says a lot is that you had to dredge up some up to 7 years old posts on reddit, on which replies still overwhelmingly call the idea silly. This smells like an attempt to manufacture consent, but it'd be pretty low effort for even that.

As a rule, if something sounds stupid to you, it will probably be just as silly to most people you should give a damn about. Certainly don't let some posts that look like the lowest-effort FUD imaginable tell you what other people think.
by nroets | 2026-02-13 20:21:28+00:00
He says nothing about the language barrier that migrants face in the EU.

He went to The Netherlands where it's extremely easy for migrants to integrate: Not only is English widely spoken, but Dutch is also one of the easiest languages to read if you know English and/or German.

So it's unsurprising that he felt he understood enough of politics that he wanted to vote there.
by thingification | 2026-02-13 20:21:37+00:00
I think I've been waiting since the 90s hoping somebody will figure out how to make this a real thing (or was it the early 2000s?)

As I recall it seemed to be just one guy, David Chaum, who did so much to show how so many of these things could work, but the rest of us have somehow managed to do very little with his ideas. What are we missing?
by fpgaminer | 2026-02-13 20:21:37+00:00
> Is every new thing not just combinations of existing things?

If all ideas are recombinations of old ideas, where did the first ideas come from? And wouldn't the complexity of ideas be thus limited to the combined complexity of the "seed" ideas?

I think it's more fair to say that recombining ideas is an efficient way to quickly explore a very complex, hyperdimensional space. In some cases that's enough to land on new, useful ideas, but not always. A) the new, useful idea might be _near_ the area you land on, but not exactly at. B) there are whole classes of new, useful ideas that cannot be reached by any combination of existing "idea vectors".

Therefore there is still the necessity to explore the space manually, even if you're using these idea vectors to give you starting points to explore from.

All this to say: Every new thing is a combination of existing things + sweat and tears.

The question everyone has is, are current LLMs capable of the latter component. Historically the answer is _no_, because they had no real capacity to iterate. Without iteration you cannot explore. But now that they can reliably iterate, and to some extent plan their iterations, we are starting to see their first meaningful, fledgling attempts at the "sweat and tears" part of building new ideas.
by almostdeadguy | 2026-02-13 20:22:11+00:00
I'm legitimately terrified by these people, and seriously worried now that this is not just hype and that they truly don't care about what will happen. And that they may use these models to insulate themselves from the consequences when that time comes.

The fact that Nick Land has taken hold as a philosopher in some circles in Silicon Valley truly scares me: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-faith-of-nick-land/
by dysoco | 2026-02-13 20:22:28+00:00
> This license will be tied to your identity and it will become a hard requirement for employment, citizenship, housing, loans, medical treatment, and more. Not having it will be a liability. You will be excluded from society at large if you do not comply.

That's just an American thing, I've never owned a car and most people of my age I know haven't either.
by DontForgetMe | 2026-02-13 20:22:31+00:00
I also took it as a joke; I'm glad at least one person validated my sense of humour, I was getting a bit worried reading all the replies.

At this point, I assume 90% of complaints about the apple keyboard are either tongue in cheek, explicitly humorous, a detailed, qualitative study with new information, or written by someone who is very new to apple, the internet, and technology in general.

I don't see how else anybody could seriously think 'The apple keyboard is bad, and the world needs to know about it! I'll make my opinion known, and surely that will solve the issue', let alone following it with 'no more Mr Nice Guy: I'm going to threaten Apple, the company, with consequences that will force them to act. It's high time somebody held these mega-corps to account and I'm willing to put myself on the line!'

Like, even if the article was written by the United Nations or the EU, there are very few actual threats they could include that might realistically spur apple to finally sort out the keyboard.

'If Apple don't sort it out, I'm going to fine them 75% of their revenue,' might be logical but seems a little deluded: terrorism or personal violence would be... unadvisable... and 'I'll switch to android' is also comically unthreatening, while also being hugely overplayed and almost always played straight, empty, and uninspired.

Everyone knows the keyboard sucks. Everyone knows that's not going to stop people buying iOS devices. It's the equivalent of 'fast food isn't nutritious but companies pretend it is' - in the year of our lord 2026, a multi paragraph article to that effect can probably be assumed to be numerous, new, surprising, ironic, or insanely naive.

The fact that a realistic, honest assessment of one's probable future purchasing decisions reads as a joke is maybe a little dark, but hey. It's a dark world, and it won't be lightened by yet another 'I'm totally gonna boycott if they don't stop!'
by webdevver | 2026-02-13 20:22:57+00:00
a hot take i don't often see:

'voting' is a humiliation ritual that allows politicians to offload the moral burden of their incompetent governorship onto the powerless citizenry, via the insidious veneer of candidate optionality.

the constitution should forbid any politician, or statesperson, to hold a 'popular vote', and subversively weasel out of their responsibilities in this manner.

statespersons should be selected by the current government, and if they screw up, they should have absolutely zero leeway to say "well you all voted for me!"
by rmah | 2026-02-13 20:23:18+00:00
Your statement doesn't make sense to me, perhaps you could clarify it? Did you mean that 85% of the population didn't vote for the current leader of the executive branch? If so then perhaps "that 85% [...] did not vote for" might be more appropriate. Or were your referring to the electoral college used to elect the POTUS?

For the first, 100% of citizens cannot vote for the federal government representatives (children, most felons, etc do not have the franchise), and about 1/2 of citizens who are eligible to vote do not. The vast majority of adult citizens can vote.

For the electoral college, that only applies to the POTUS. I agree that the electoral college is deeply flawed. But both senators and congressmen are elected directly. They are the ones who make the laws. The executive branch just enforces and executes those laws. The responsibility for the many vague laws that hand over power to the executive is on congress.

IMO, to say "85% of Americans pay taxes to a federal government that they cannot vote for" is misleading at best.
by buttered_toast | 2026-02-13 20:23:21+00:00
I would interpret it as implying that the result was due to a lot more hand-holding that what is let on.

Was the initial conjecture based on leading info from the other authors or was it simply the authors presenting all information and asking for a conjecture?

Did the authors know that there was a simpler means of expressing the conjecture and lead GPT to its conclusion, or did it spontaneously do so on its own after seeing the hand-written expressions.

These aren't my personal views, but there is some handwaving about the process in such a way that reads as if this was all spontaneous involvement on GPTs end.

But regardless, a result is a result so I'm content with it.
by tech_ken | 2026-02-13 20:23:24+00:00
That's exactly the point of the essay though. The way that you're implicitly modeling labor and collaboration is linear and parallelizable, but reality is messier than that:

> The most important thing to know about labor substitution...is this: labor substitution is about comparative advantage, not absolute advantage. The question isn’t whether AI can do specific tasks that humans do. It’s whether the aggregate output of humans working with AI is inferior to what AI can produce alone: in other words, whether there is any way that the addition of a human to the production process can increase or improve the output of that process... AI can have an absolute advantage in every single task, but it would still make economic sense to combine AI with humans if the aggregate output is greater: that is to say, if humans have a comparative advantage in any step of the production process.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 20:23:38+00:00
If you're not a citizen, you can't vote for the national government. The solution: become a citizen. If you've lived somewhere long enough to lose track of your home country (legally at least), getting citizenship shouldn't be all that hard.

The voting pass handed to the author to vote on someone else's behalf clearly states the requirements. A Dutch passport, ID, or driver's license is required. Polling booths are run by volunteers and they have hard enough of a time already checking the validity of Dutch ID, adding 27 other forms of ID will only make it easier to bypass the electoral protections we have.

Schengen, the EU, and the EEA may have made working abroad exceptionally easy, but working abroad you're still a guest in another country. If you've lived somewhere long enough to forget to vote in your home country, maybe it's time to reevaluate what your home country really is.
by lovecg | 2026-02-13 20:23:39+00:00
I’m guessing, would love someone who has first hand knowledge to comment. But my guess is it’s some combination of trying many different approaches in parallel (each in a fresh context), then picking the one that works, and splitting up the task into sequential steps, where the output of one step is condensed and is used as an input to the next step (with possibly human steering between steps)
by hintymad | 2026-02-13 20:24:22+00:00
I don't know. I lost all my trust to the democrats when the Biden government used a bulldozer to tear open the barbwire to allow people to enter our border freely, and his spokesperson told us the border was fine. At that moment, the democrats are like the Bush who started war by lying. I'd rather give republicans the benefit of the doubt and see them crush democrats for decades.
by floxy | 2026-02-13 20:24:40+00:00
>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research?

For a datum of one, the mathematician Doron Zeilberger give credit to his computer Shalosh B. Ekhad on select papers.

https://medium.com/@miodragpetkovic_24196/the-computer-a-mys...

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/akherim/EkhadCredit...

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/pj.html
by b65e8bee43c2ed0 | 2026-02-13 20:24:58+00:00
>ByteDance should immediately cease its infringing activity.

the whole time during 2023-2024 AI safety/ethics/regulations discourse by Western politicians, journalists and other glorified nobodies, I desperately hoped that China would catch up and wrecking ball the shit out of those deluded attempts to hamper technological progress. and all this impotent rage brings a smile to my face.
Show HN: Ghost – Session memory for Claude Code (local, qmd, Git-integrated)
by notkurt | 2026-02-13 20:25:10+00:00
If you’ve used Claude Code on anything non-trivial, you’ve hit the wall. The project gets big enough that context falls apart between sessions. You start a new chat, re-explain the architecture, and watch it make the same mistake it made last week. Every session starts with this painful bootstrap where you’re trying to get the model back to where it was yesterday.

This obviously assumes Claude Code is doing most of the heavy lifting on your codebase. If you’re only using it for the occasional function, you probably don’t need this.

I spent a few days hacking on workarounds for this and eventually pulled them together into Ghost. It hooks into Claude Code sessions, summarises them, and indexes everything into QMD https://github.com/tobi/qmd for semantic search.

Next session, relevant context gets injected automatically. What you were working on, what decisions were made, what already failed.

It also keeps a mistake ledger. Things that went wrong get tracked and surfaced as warnings so you stop walking into the same walls.

Sessions are stored as markdown in .ai-sessions/ (gitignored).

Summaries get attached to commits as git notes so context travels with the code. Everything runs locally, nothing leaves your machine.
Built with Bun. Hooks run under 100ms.

It’s early and rough but anecdotally it feels like it actually works.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-13 20:25:12+00:00
> …The final level in his AI
> Coding chart reads: "Level 8:
> you build your own orchestrator
> to coordinate more agents"…

Yegge revealed [1] what's necessary to get to that level…

____

…How do you avoid getting tired? Dude, I take naps throughout the day. I'm exhausted…

…

…which is why I mentioned in one of my last blog posts that I'm taking naps all the time…

____

Yegge's productivity sounds impressive. I'll give you that. But it doesn't sound practical or sustainable for the everyday dev.

I doubt that even Google — with all its famous perks — offers employees ad hoc nap times while they're on the clock.

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/Napster2026
by jefc1111 | 2026-02-13 20:25:19+00:00
This is what I was referring to in my original comment.

My suggestion is that had you endured S1 fully, you might have felt S4 had risen to a higher level than "ok". That's not to say I begrudge you skipping through S1 ... I'd probably have done the same if I'd come across it in recent years as opposed to however many years ago it was.

I'm not trying to change your mind really, but yeah - I think the value that you hear about in the characters and plot arise from the many small nuances which build up slowly over time.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-02-13 20:25:28+00:00
This promotes impractical version pinning. That leads to spoilage unless the lockfiles are updated every few hours. Freshness should be checked at build time, and the resolved version for each ingredient recorded in the SBOM but a lockfile SHOULD NOT be used for perishable ingredients. Bacteria will result in Spoilage Vulnerabilities if versions are locked inappropriately.
by Morromist | 2026-02-13 20:25:40+00:00
I belive the black plague actually caused a massive labor shortage and wages increased. When a huge amount of people die and you still need to have people build bridges and be soldiers and finish building the damn cathedral that's been under construction for the last 400 years then that is what will happen.

Here's an article:

https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...
by sixsevenrot | 2026-02-13 20:25:48+00:00
There are two distinct issues:

1) Addictive design of many social networks (doom scrolling et al.)
2) Privacy & age verification

On 1) most parents would support a legal limit on digital media use by age. But it's not a realistic requirement.
Next best thing is to outlaw social media that results in addictive scrolling behaviour. Treating it the same way as smoking is not ideal, but no better solutions have been proposed. Many people on HN wouldn't mind if FB, TikTok and Insta were treated the same way as cocaine. I.e. only available for a lot of money to people who are happy to break the law.

On 2) there are ways to implement technical solutions, that would allow the government to provide a privacy conscious service that would allow businesses to check if someone is 16+ or 18+ without collecting any other information. These services can be gamed. But that's not the point. A 14 year old could become addicted to cocaine and we wouldn't usually blame the policy for it.
The problem is the government tries to solve problem 1) now, while the solution for 2) is being discussed.

Again, a law that limits social media use for under 16 year olds is necessary. But so is a toolset that would enable a plausible age check, and limit the desire of FANG (and their Chinese competitors) to target minors.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-13 20:25:50+00:00
It's a challenge for sure. The problem is that some EU countries aren't that big, and moving the government in one direction or another is entirely possible if you can just move a small amount of people to that country, which they are free to do. E.g. moving 50.000 Hungarians to a Nordic or Baltic country can change governments.

If we assume the best, there should not be a problem in letting people vote for the government in the country their reside, if we assume the worst, it's a massive problem.