MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nwah1 | 2026-02-11 16:50:04+00:00
Good article. The entirety of the "epidemic" is explained by:

- Expanding diagnostic criteria for an illness with no mechanistic explanation

- Increasing access to mental healthcare

- Overmedicalization of traits that aren't causing actual dysfunction

- Rampant non-reproducibility and pseudoscience in the field of psychology

- Weird online trends of self-diagnosis where mental illness provides clout

- Anti-vaccine paranoia trying to find some kind of mysterious epidemic to pin on vaccines

Of course, a war on authentic neurotoxins is warranted even if autism rates are declining. But only in a manner informed by science and sober cost/benefit analysis.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-11 16:50:10+00:00
> Neither should be censoring objective reality.

100% agree!

But Chinese model releases are treated unfairly all the time when they release new model, as if Tianmen response indicates that we can use the model for coding tasks.

We should understand their situation and don't judge for obvious political issue. Its easy to judge people working hard over there, because they are confirming to the political situation and don't want to kill their company.
by JakubCwi | 2026-02-11 16:50:35+00:00
Author here. TL;DR:
• Paradigm asymmetry: Classical impossibility proof holds only under same-paradigm assumption — drop it and it doesn't apply
• Complexity gap: BPP ≠ BQP → quantum gatekeeper states are computationally opaque to any classical agent, regardless of intelligence
• Pain mechanism: Barrier is embedded in the agent's substrate — breach attempts cause decoherence in the attacker's own reasoning, not in some external wall
• Formal model: Seven theorems, six attack vectors, defense-in-depth → P(breach) ≈ 10⁻²³
• Standard physics only: No exotic QM, no speculative extensions — complexity-theoretic assumptions + standard decoherence dynamics

Summary:
https://redact-app.com/publications/quantum-containment.html

Full paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400670258_Self-Refe...
by c0balt | 2026-02-11 16:50:36+00:00
It is nice to see more work on renovate but your comparison, especially the points on filtering, license keys and discovery, seems misleading for at least GitLab.

Both work with mend's renovate WITHOUT a license key, see also https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner. As it is just a scheduled pipeline then you can also adjust frequency, timeouts and more.
by bugglebeetle | 2026-02-11 16:50:43+00:00
I tested this pretty extensively and it has a common failure mode that prevents me from using: extracting footnotes and similar from the full text of academic works. For some reason, many of these models are trained in a way that results in these being excluded, despite these document sections often containing import details and context. Both versions of DeepseekOCR have the same problem. Of the others I’ve tested, dot-ocr in layout mode works best (but is slow) and then datalab’s chandra model (which is larger and has bad license constraints).
by triceratops | 2026-02-11 16:51:18+00:00
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/12/01/all-wheel-drive-d...

FTA:

"If anyone gets an AWD vehicle “for safety” but uses it with all-season tires, they have performed a Consumer Sucka Fail. A front wheel drive vehicle with snow tires would have more grip.

According to this Consumer Reports test (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXjzYbpt9Ow) on snow tires vs. AWD, the tires were by far the most important factor. And only 12% of AWD vehicle owners bothered to put snow tires on their vehicle, meaning 88% of all-wheel-drive vehicle purchases were wasted, because the drivers could have achieved better performance at lower cost in a front-wheeler with snow tires."
by vintagedave | 2026-02-11 16:51:28+00:00
Multiple services are receiving SIGTERM or shutdown signals. See dozens of support messages here: https://station.railway.com/questions/services-down-799f7bc1

Here's a sample log entry:

> 2026-02-11T14:35:11.916787622Z [err] 2026/02/11 14:35:03 [notice] 1#1: signal 15 (SIGTERM) received, exiting

I've had about one third of my Railway services affected. I had no notification from Railway, and logging in showed each affected service as 'Online', even though it had been shut down.

I'm pretty annoyed. I am hosting some key sites on Railway. This is not their first outage recently, and one time a couple of months ago was just as I was about to give our company owner a demo of the live product.
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-11 16:51:35+00:00
Briefly in the mid 2010s the NYC Department of City Planning tried to build some stuff in house and hired some good people, but the old ghouls in the city ruined it by obstruction and everyone left by the end of 2017.

City government in most US cities is so fucked, it's really wild. Another guy I know who graduated from NYU Wagner as a planner got hired by the city to do some mapping work but his boss miscoded his job in a way that precluded him from ever being promoted, so he quit.

As of 2023 at least there were people working in city planning who didn't have computers and refused to use them, professional staff.
by TheEzEzz | 2026-02-11 16:51:53+00:00
The problem with censorship isn't that it degrades performance. The problem is that if the censorship is unilaterally dictated by a government then it becomes a tool for suppression, especially as people use AI more and more for their primary source of information.

A company might choose to avoid erotica because it clashes with their brand, or avoid certain topics because they're worried about causing harms. That is very different than centralized, unilateral control over all information sources.
by miyoji | 2026-02-11 16:52:02+00:00
If you try to contact me with a phone call, you might as well send your message into outer space. You'll have better luck getting a response from aliens.

99% of incoming calls to my phone are spam. I won't pick up an unknown number unless someone has already contacted me and told me to be expecting a phone call, or it's a call from someone I already know (people I already know don't call me either).

That is to say, your mileage may vary on what counts as a "suitable medium".
by muyuu | 2026-02-11 16:52:05+00:00
you have 128GB strix halo machines for US$ ~3k

these run some pretty decent models locally, currently I'd recommend GPT-OSS 120GB, Qwen Coder Next 80B (either Q8 or Q6 quants, depending on speed/quality trade-offs) and the very best model you can run right now which is Step 3.5 Flash (ubergarm GGUF quant) with 256K context although this does push it to the limit - GLMs and nemotrons also worth trying depending on your priorities

there's clearly a big quantum leap in the SotA models using more than 512GB VRAM, but i expect that in a year or two, the current SotA is achievable with consumer level hardware, if nothing else hardware should catch up with running Kimi 2.5 for cheaper than 2x 512GB mac studio ultras - perhaps medusa halo next year supports 512GB and DDR5 comes down again, and that would put a local whatever the best open model of that size is next year within reach of under-US$5K hardware

the odd thing is that there isn't much in this whole range between 128GB and 512GB VRAM requirement to justify the huge premium you pay for Macs in that range - but this can change at any point as every other day there are announcements
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-11 16:52:10+00:00
It's not a question of what's the most common. It ought to be a question of what capabilities do you think of when you think of "a computer". Most people do not think of their phone as "a computer", even though us tech heads all know that it is literally just that.

We need to follow the lead of most people here, and recognize that the phone is a deliberately limited device and its capabilities do not define what "a computer" is or should be or could be.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-11 16:53:02+00:00
No, they don't. That's the UN prediction, because they assume that somehow, magically, all countries below replacement will simultaneously, near-instantly increase in fertility rate by huge amounts over the next couple of years. Look at the graphs, they're nonsensical.

If you look at the actual trends of those rates, peak population is ~2050, maybe sooner.
by NamTaf | 2026-02-11 16:53:14+00:00
I’m a mech engineer and project manager.

It translates PDFs for me and gives me a good enough text dump in the console to understand what I’m being told to do. If the PDF is simple enough (a letter, for example). It doesn’t give me a structured English recreation of the PDF.

I’ll give it credit that it’s probably underpinning improved translation in e.g. google translate when I dump a paragraph of English and then copy the Chinese into an email. But that’s not really in the same ballpark.

The only other professional interaction I’ve had with it was when a colleague saw an industry-slang term and asked AI what it meant. The answer, predictably, was incredibly wrong but to his completely naive eyes seemed plausible enough to put in an email. As in, it was a term relating to a metallurgical phenomena observed by a fault and AI found an unrelated industry widget that contained the same term and suggested it was due to the use of said widget.

I don’t even really see the telltale AI writing signs of people using it to summarise documents or whatnot. Nor could I think how I could take what I do and use it to do it faster or more efficiently. So I don’t even think it’s being used to ingest and summarise stuff either.
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-11 16:53:23+00:00
The idea would be to share the clipboard between mac and iOS, and have a "clipboard keyboard" on iOS, so in an app, I can easily access my favorite clips and paste them (at least for text ones)

Obviously, this would be even better if you could have different "paste lists" where I can "pin" some of my clips to a given list, and select which list I want in the keyboard

That's how other "shared clipboard" apps work (at least Copy'Em, etc)
by imglorp | 2026-02-11 16:53:35+00:00
Consumers have the option to "refuse" products from irresponsible or predatory vendors: ones which brick or obsolete devices.

Vendors should at a minimum open source APIs for abandoned hardware and allow unlocking it. "Refuse" to buy from those that don't. Ask for legislation forcing it.

I have a wonderful old ipad mini that's useless. I'd love to jailbreak it and put my OS on there but Apple wants a new sale instead.
by yesfitz | 2026-02-11 16:53:35+00:00
Previous discussions:

3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590900

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29977176

People have seemed critical of the presentation, scope, and goal of this program. (e.g. It's not "universal" basic income, the number of recipients is limited to 2,000, and why are artists being subsidized instead of essential workers?)

Now it seems that we'll get some real world answer to those questions/concerns.
by ej88 | 2026-02-11 16:54:01+00:00
i mean llms

happy to be corrected but im not aware of any direct improvements llms bring to ultra low latency market making, time to first token is just too high (not including coding agents)

from talking to some friends in the space theres some meaningful improvements in tooling especially in discretionary trading that operate on longer time horizons where agents can actually help w research and sentiment analysis
by illright | 2026-02-11 16:54:06+00:00
I disagree that this submission has no value at all or that it should be auto-banned — there is a difference between thoughtless vibe-coding and spec-driven coding, guarded by tests. It seems from the next thread that this project is hopelessly outmatched by the sheer complexity of taking on something as the Docx spec, but this project has value, and for someone, it may be all that they need.

However, I do agree with your point about live debugging. In light of that, I prefer to treat this submission as a curiosity about current model capabilities, and let the authors keep improving this project if they find it worth their time.

Let's be more respectful to the differing goals of people
by hulitu | 2026-02-11 16:54:20+00:00
At the current state of AI, some centuries.

As far as I underestand from the comments, Anthropic released a "compiler" that translates C code to some assembly, which might or might not be valid input for a linker.

They claimed they were able to compile the Linux kernel (which version ? which config) and boot it (was the boot successfull ? were all devices correctly initialized ? Is userland running without problems ?)

At the moment it really looks like a political farce with no real outcome except some promisses.

Is there a code repository so i can test it ?

What is the licence of this compiler ?
by toraway | 2026-02-11 16:54:20+00:00
Okay, I use OpenCode/Codex/Gemini daily (and previously Opus 4.5 but cancelled CC given GPT 5.3 High/XHigh being better value) and have found it can provide value in certain parts of my job and personal projects.

But the evangelist insistence that it literally cannot be a net negative in any contexts/workflows is just exhausting to read and is a massive turn-off. Or that others may simply benefit the same way with that different work style.

Like I said, I feel like I get net value out of it, but if my work patterns were scientifically studied and it turned out it wasn't actually a time saver on the whole I wouldn't be that surprised.

There are times where after knocking request after request out of the park, I spend hours wrangling some dumb failures or run into spaghetti code from the last "successful" session that massively slow down new development or require painful refactoring and start to question whether this is a sustainable, true net multiplier in the long term.

But, I enjoy the work style personally so stick with it.

I just find FOMO/hype inherently off-putting and don't understand why random people feel they can confidently say that some random other person they don't know anything about is doing it wrong or will be "left behind" by not chasing constantly changing SOTA/best practices.
by sharikhahmed | 2026-02-11 16:54:38+00:00
Hi,we run Beneath The Tree with — a dev agency that ships AI-powered productsfor startups. We've built full-stack systems with the exact tools you listed: Next.js, Django, Python, and LLM APIs.

I'm not looking for a full-time seat. Here's what I'm proposing instead.

Share your vision for the clinic workflow automation — under NDA,of course. I'll build a working prototype you can actually test. Fast. If you like what you see, my team and I can own this end-to-end.If you don't, you keep the prototype free.

We've shipped production systems at two startups and currently building another from zero. Healthcare workflow + AI is exactly where our skills hit hardest.

Take a look at our work: https://beneathatree.com/
My Upwork profile: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01bb556a1c4505523e

No pitch decks. No proposals. Just working software.

Sharikh Ahmed
sharikh.beneathatree@gmail.com
by wpm | 2026-02-11 16:54:56+00:00
Uhhh, what? No it isn't.

Having a sharp knife is safer than a dull one.

Having a massive heavy steel box that weighs thousands of kilos that can accelerate that quick, that you can operate in public with little to no useful training is not safer. I'm sorry, no car outside of a race track needs to accelerate that quick. It's absurd.
by tflinton | 2026-02-11 16:55:45+00:00
I did my thesis on using medioni's tensor voting framework to reconstruct noisy, blurry, low-res and the like images. It was sponsored by USGS on a data set that I thought was a bit of a bizarre use case. The approach worked pretty well, with some reasonable success at doing "COMPUTER ENHANCE" type computer vision magic. Later on talking with my advisor about the bizarrely mundane and uninteresting data sets we were working on from the grant he quipped that "You built a reasonable way of unblurring and enhancing unreadable images, the military doesn't care about this mundane use case." It then occurred that i'd been wildly ignorant to what I just spent 2 years of my life on.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-11 16:55:48+00:00
Bio degradable packaging is not really suitable for composting yourself. Most of it takes a really long time to break down naturally or requires high composting temperatures that can be hard to achieve in a home compost pile. This is true even for basic stuff like cardboard and paper. You also need a lot of "green"[1] (high nitrogen) composting material to balance out cellulose from packaging.

The net result is that this is still an industrial process. Though probably less energy-intensive than recycling.

Source: we have a compost pile and it's not all sunshine and roses.

[1] https://www.thespruce.com/composting-greens-and-browns-25394...
by jerf | 2026-02-11 16:55:50+00:00
Goals aren't results. It was a goal for Markdown to be simple and universal. It is not a result.

You may be struggling a bit because you are reading some sort of moralization into the statement, some sort of emotional judgment, but there isn't any. It is clear that there does not exist a function that takes a span of "Markdown text" in and emits an abstract syntax tree that everyone agrees upon [1]. That's a fairly mathematical way of putting it, but even from an engineering point of view, the differences matter. Very quickly. It's not like you need to reach deep into crazy syntax to get to real, concrete disagreements between systems, you can hit problems with something as simple as

"_hello world _"

between the systems where they will do substantially different things.

There are literally dozens of markdown formats now.

How we got there, why such a thing exists, as interesting as those questions may be none of them change the reality on the ground. There is no universal markdown to be appealed to. The closest is CommonMark, and that explicitly exists precisely because there was no consensus in the first place. If markdown was a format, CommonMark would never have been created.

[1]: Nor does its inverse, which at times is more frustrating to me than this. I have in mind what I want to do and either can't figure out how to do it or it simply can't be done.
by paul7986 | 2026-02-11 16:56:13+00:00
Dublin's Grafton Street with it's buskers is and was so unique to this American. I wondered if anywhere else in the world matches the musicianship heard on that street and in Dublin's bars? Music is engrained in it's culture in a way I have not experienced before(tho the weird looks I received wearing my baseball cap in Dublin was off putting as I had not experienced that in Berlin, Paris, Reykjavik, Amsterdamn, etc).

Overall It's a bit sad going to American bars and not hearing the whole bar singing along to the musician up on stage. Amercia's culture I feel is way more focused on celebrity then musicianship.
by nindalf | 2026-02-11 16:56:21+00:00
What?

> America’s economy added 130,000 jobs in January, almost double the number that analysts had been expecting, indicating that the labour market might have picked up after months of apparent stagnation. Unemployment also fell to 4.3%, a slight dip from the previous month. The figures may put off the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates as quickly as Donald Trump would like.
by assemblyman | 2026-02-11 16:57:12+00:00
My point is that it's really the storytelling/gregarious nature character. There is no shortage of people who were at the Manhattan project and won Nobel prizes or were prominent. A partial list: Oppenheimer, Bethe, Rabi, Teller, von Neumann, Compton, Fermi, Segre, Ramsey, Alvarez. There are easily many more. Schwinger was at Rad lab.

Schwinger was considered a tremendous educator. I think he had ~90 PhD students and four won Nobel prizes. His lectures were often described as Mozart symphonies. I have studied parts of his books and the experience was always eye-opening. But, his education was focused on students, mostly graduate students. He was also a shy character.

In any case, I still love reading Feynman and Schwinger's works. I would also include Sommerfeld, Pauli, Landau, Weinberg in that list.
by heathrow83829 | 2026-02-11 16:57:16+00:00
>>> "Still, Wednesday’s report also shows that not nearly as many jobs were added in 2025 as thought and last year will go down as the worst year for hiring since 2020, or since 2003 outside of a recession."

Almost no jobs were added net and the few that were, were all in health care, 131K i think the article said.

what i find interesting is that unemployment percent still looks low. is it accurate? even if it's wrong, shouldn't it be correct on a relative basis? why isn't this number climbing?
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 16:57:52+00:00
So were you able to learn the skeumorphism eventually and equate the operation with the frying pan?

If I were in E.U. I would be afraid of needing to learn enough of 2 dozen assorted languages vs. learning an icon interface once. It would seem that human languages are not as inclusive or universal as icons.

You can do all the l10n you want, but who translates all of them and keeps current?
by justjake | 2026-02-11 16:58:08+00:00
Hello! Railway founder here

We'll have a post mortem for this one as we always write post mortems for anything that affects users

Our initial investigation reveals this affects <3% of instances

Apologies from myself + the Team. Any amount of downtime is completely unacceptable

You may monitor this incident here: https://status.railway.com/cmli5y9xt056zsdts5ngslbmp
by dzonga | 2026-02-11 16:58:15+00:00
it's almost telling how Super Bowl commercials tell the mood of the country's population and economy

latest edition was A.I, prediction markets, GLP-1s -- all indicative of a "Casino" economy where you know the odds are against you but you gamble anyway so you might become one of the few winners

the US is caught up in a weird middle - where its lacking labor capacity for essential manufacturing & other positive contributions while also lacking job making capacity

because all the money has gone into casino economy not capacity building
by icegreentea2 | 2026-02-11 16:58:33+00:00
You can still do this in W11 notepad. Firstly, there's a global setting for having formatting/markdown being enabled at all, and secondly it only does the rendering for .md files. Finally, while formatting is enabled, and editting a markdown file, you have the option to toggle between formatted and "syntax" view (ie raw text).
by galsapir | 2026-02-11 16:58:38+00:00
I've been writing about how I use AI tools as an researcher working in health AI — specifically the tension between leveraging them and staying engaged enough to catch when they're wrong.
This post is about a specific version of that problem: the models have gotten good enough that my default is to trust the output, and the threshold for "worth checking" keeps drifting upward. So I built a simple Claude Code skill that sends high-stakes work to a different model family for a second opinion — one call, not a multi-agent debate.
The honest result: the first real test (reviewing an architecture spec) scored maybe 6/10. It caught one genuine security finding and missed the deeper domain questions entirely. That gap maps onto something I keep running into in evals — tools can check structural form (missing error handling, security anti-patterns) but struggle with essence (does this actually work the way the spec assumes? are the clinical guardrails robust?).
Still worth it as a lightweight intervention against the drift toward not checking at all. The skill is open source if anyone wants to try or improve it.