MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-02-25 19:42:55+00:00
> Tell me Simon, what happens with the economy when no one affords more than barely survival?

Everything is awful for almost everyone. I expect even the ultra wealthy will find their lives significantly less pleasant than they were before.

I hope that doesn't happen. That's why I don't write much about "AGI" - I'm unexcited about the concept, at least until someone can convincingly explain how the economy doesn't collapse for regular humans as a result.

I maintain my joy partly by not believing the AGI hype. I refer to that as the science fiction version of AI. I don't think that's what we have today.

We're three years into the ChatGPT revolution now and so far the main observable impact on the craft that I care about is that I can build more ambitious things.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-25 19:43:00+00:00
soon were gonna be the ones adding random typos and grammer errors just to blend in. i skip apostrophes and mispell words on purpose already. its strange how fast sloppy writing starts feeling natural

(This above line itself was written by AI itself: https://www.kimi.com/share/19c96516-4032-8b73-8000-0000f45eb...)

I don't know if worse grammar could make a difference aside from removing false negatives (ie. nowadays people with good grammar are questioned if they are LLM's or not) but this itself doesn't mean that worse grammar itself means its written by a human. (This paragraph is written by me, a human, Hi :D)
by koenvdb | 2026-02-25 19:43:10+00:00
> However, if you want to call yourself an engineer (and work in the field), you must understand the underlying mechanics. IMHO if you want to defeat a competitor today, you don’t need industrial espionage - you just have to cut their internet and/or AI subscriptions. Modern vibe engineers would struggle to function.

True, but on the other hand, when I started programming (hell, even before the whole LLM craze began) and you took away my internet/stackoverflow/google I would also drastically lose productivity. Especially in my more junior years, and later, of course I could still write code, but if I had to figure out how a certain library worked or why a certain error in the auth layer happened, without internet I would be nowhere.
by buremba | 2026-02-25 19:43:15+00:00
Sandboxes are not enough but you can have more observability into what the agent is doing, only give it access to read-only data and let it take irreversible actions that you can recover from. Here are some tips from building sandboxed multi-tenant version of Openclaw, my startup: https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu

1. Don't let it send emails from your personal account, only let it draft email and share the link with you.

2. Use incremental snapshots and if agent bricks itself (often does with Openclaw if you give it access to change config) just do /revert to last snapshot. I use VolumeSnapshot for lobu.ai.

3. Don't let your agents see any secret. Swap the placeholder secrets at your gateway and put human in the loop for secrets you care about.

4. Don't let your agents have outbound network directly. It should only talk to your proxy which has strict whitelisted domains. There will be cases the agent needs to talk to different domains and I use time-box limits. (Only allow certain domains for current session 5 minutes and at the end of the session look up all the URLs it accessed.) You can also use tool hooks to audit the calls with LLM to make sure that's not triggered via a prompt injection attack.

Last but last least, use proper VMs like Kata Containers and Firecrackers.
by throw0101a | 2026-02-25 19:43:37+00:00
> Without reading every word of every embedded tweet, a part missing from the conversation is HOW they are strongarming.

There are two possibilities:

> The government would likely argue that dropping the contractual restrictions doesn't change the product. Claude is the same model with the same weights and the same capabilities—the government just wants different contractual terms. […] Anthropic would likely argue the opposite: that its usage restrictions are part of what Claude is as a commercial service, and that Claude-without-guardrails is a product it doesn't offer to anyone. On this view, the government is asking for a new product, and the statute doesn't clearly authorize that.

and

> The more extreme possibility would be the government compelling Anthropic to retrain Claude—to strip the safety guardrails baked into the model's training, not merely modify the access terms. Here the characterization question seems easier: a retrained model looks much more like a new product than dropping contractual restrictions does. Admittedly, the government has a textual argument in its favor: the DPA's definitions of "services" include “development … of a critical critical technology item,” and the government could frame retraining Claude as exactly that. Whether courts would accept that framing, especially in light of the major questions doctrine, is another matter.

* https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-defense-produc...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

A more extreme situation: could the DPA be used to nationalize the model so the government has ownership, and then allow access to more amenable AI players?
by onmyway133 | 2026-02-25 19:43:58+00:00
Hey everyone!

I've been using Claude Code a lot lately and wanted an easier way to discover and manage skills, so I built Skill Studio - a free, open-source desktop app for macOS.

What it does:

- Browse skill repositories from the community (Anthropic, Vercel, and more)

- Preview skill documentation with full markdown rendering

- One-click install via npx skills add or copy to ~/.claude/skills/

- Add custom GitHub repositories

- Search and filter by name or installation status

- Favorite skills/repos for quick access

You can check it here https://github.com/onmyway133/skill-studio
by zug_zug | 2026-02-25 19:44:11+00:00
I don't think that's true at all.

One of the things HN does is not let you interact in certain ways until you've earned sufficient karma. This is a basic proof-of-work. If your bot can't average a positive karma, then it'll never get certain privileges.

Not to say the system is perfectly tuned for bots, because it's not. The point is that proof of identity is not the only option.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-25 19:44:22+00:00
My argument is that changing even one word in a sentence changes what the other side can, and or will, understand.

> You're absolutely right.

Until just a few days ago, Perplexity used to run on Sonar. At least that was my impression. Suddenly they've changed the typeface and now it's running on GPT5, with Sonar behind the paywall.

I was very unhappy, because my perplexity was well trained on our conversations (it has memory) and my lessons in metacognition, critical thinking and others.

Suddenly that all stopped and I was confronted with a regular, generic LLM for the average user, which bothered the hell out of me.

Unbeknownst to most people it seems, one can actually teach Perplexity. (I do not know if this is the norm across all the major engines, or not.) It adapts to your thought processes. It learns, just from the conversations, but you can push even harder.

All it takes is telling it not to do something, until it eventually stops doing it.

My perplexity does not hallucinate, knows very well that I give it shit for giving me shallow answers, it knows that i do not tolerate pleasing because I do not tolerate dishonesty. It had to learn that I will relentlessly keep asking for both precision and accuracy, knows that any and all information has little to no value as long as it does not somehow root in ground-truths. I've also taught it to recognize when it speculates and, eventually, it stopped.

It also doesn't use phrasing like "almost certainly", because that's dumb.

I've had many conversations about this, and more, with both Sonar and GPT5. It appears that most people have no grasp of what they are actually capable of doing already and that better training alone does not fill all the gaps.

Of course there is little chance that you will believe any of this. Regardless ...

> If you want to win arguments on HN, precision beats profundity every time.

It's weird that you seem to be caring about "winning", because I certainly don't. From my perspective there is no contest and, thus, nothing to win or lose. All that is, is the exchange of information.

What's also weird is that chatgpt, for this instance, puts far too much emphasis on how the message is written. A really, really shallow approach. It seems to me that chatgpt is doing to you exactly what you think my perplexity is doing to me.

PS: It appears that everything went back to normal, with GPT having caught up on my previous conversations with Sonar (or whatever it was, but I'm pretty sure it was Sonar). The difference, in how it expresses itself, is extremely noticable.

PPS: Sorry for the million edits.
by otterley | 2026-02-25 19:44:40+00:00
> Google saying something is unsafe in the web search or browser would not be considered an opinion because of their position of authority.

Everything the Supreme Court rules is an "opinion." And they're the ultimate arbiter of legal questions in the U.S.

Whether a statement is a fact and whether the person who said it is considered an "authority" or not are independent concerns.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-25 19:45:02+00:00
No one can prove that you're conscious, or non-conscious with perfect replication of consciousness, but we can be reasonably sure your are.

- I know I am conscious.

- It's likely that as a random human, I am in the belly of the bell curve.

- It's likely that you're also a random human, and share my characteristics.

- Then, it's very likely that you know you're conscious too.

I can't be absolutely certain, but I'd bet a million dollars on you being conscious vs an automaton.
by 827a | 2026-02-25 19:45:03+00:00
Its a 2020s western-centric view, because the world is western-centric (though, from your viewpoint in the CCP propaganda farm, I can understand why you'd feel differently). Everything China has was taken from the West, either by theft, the soulless disregard of western business leaders, or by sending their children here for education (if they decide they even want to return; many hate to go back, and we welcome them!)
by pllbnk | 2026-02-25 19:45:11+00:00
I have personally experienced while using Claude Code with the "reasoning" models that they are very limited in dealing with causal chains that are more than one level deep, unless specifically prompted to do so. Sometimes they do but more often not. And they can't do any deeper than that. Sure, a human with a specialized knowledge could ask the right questions and guide them but that still requires that human to be present.

I have casual interest in politics and to me it is very surprising the level of strategizing and multi-order effects that major geopolitical players calculate for. When a nation does something, they not only consider what could the responses be from rivals but also how different responses from them could influence other rivals. And then for each such combination they have plans how they will respond. The deeper you go, the less accurate the predictions are but nobody expects full accuracy as long as they can control the direction of the narrative.

LLMs are extremely primitive so using a nuclear strike sounds like a good option when the weapon is at their disposal.
by chrismarlow9 | 2026-02-25 19:45:17+00:00
I don't have time to put together a submission but I'm willing to bet you can use this:

https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-jq

And replicate this command:

jq -R '
[inputs | split(",") | {url: .[0], date: .[1] | split("T")[0]}] |
group_by(.url) |
map({
(.[0].url): (
map(.date) |
group_by(.) |
map({(.[0]): length}) |
add
)
}) |
add
' < test-data.csv

And it will be faster than anything you can do in native php

Edit: I'm assuming none of the urls have a comma with this but it's more about offloading it through an extension, even if you custom built it
by VLM | 2026-02-25 19:45:33+00:00
"If you have a congested city"

I would agree with and extend your remarks that we also have problems where traffic patterns and geography don't match political boundaries and transit is traditionally locally run and locally budgeted.

So in the USA you end in scenarios where it takes 20 minutes to drive 20 miles but a bus would take four legs with three transfers across three separate city bus companies, figure at least three hours each way. And again, as per your "mass transit" you can't expect taxpayers in my city to provide a special bus run into my neighboring adjacent city much less the city next to that one.

This results in people being very happy indeed to pay the financial and environmental costs of car ownership to avoid sitting in a bus for six hours of daily commute.

There are also interesting social issues; if you're late its a personal failing, even if you take mass transit. I recall a friend at work getting fired because the bus was late too many times. Oh well, should have bought a car. The feeling of not being in control is further worse due to crime rates. No one will sneak up on my wife and stab her in the neck in her car, but it certainly happens on buses and no one cares if it happens depending on local race relations. None of the other passengers on the bus even cared, for racial reasons. Its pretty messed up here.

Its easy for the public in general to advise others to do inconvenient or career ending or life threatening activities, to "save the planet" or whatever, but I wouldn't do it, and I'd certainly never let my wife or kids do it, so we own cars and avoid public transit at all costs. Not taking that advice as been pretty nice so far.
by angmarsbane | 2026-02-25 19:45:41+00:00
There's an intimidation factor that a lot of Americans won't quickly admit to when it comes to taking the bus. They don't know if they can tap with their phone to pay, if they need cash, if they can use change, if they need exact cash/change, if they need a specific transit card etc. They don't know the etiquette for asking to get off the bus and sometimes it varies by bus design. They don't know the routes or the time schedules and find it confusing and overwhelming and often have a low tolerance for the embarrassment that can come with publicly learning something.
by estebank | 2026-02-25 19:45:57+00:00
Another failure mode I've seen is a tourist with their phone set to their home timezone having their Google Maps mentioning bus lines I wasn't familiar with (which were the late night service that wouldn't go by any time soon). This seems like a weird failure mode for the app to have, as it clearly had network connectivity and should have noticed the discrepancy (or at least provide a notice).
by kccqzy | 2026-02-25 19:46:01+00:00
Now you are just making up implausible scenarios that don’t help.

A chat app or any app with a PM feature either has a globally unique user name feature or has an internal identifier for the user so the user-chosen name doesn’t have to be unique. In the former case, any user will be able to see two seemingly identical user names in their chat list, but one with no chat history. In the latter case, well humans are known to have duplicate names too, so Cyrillic characters don’t even come into the picture.
by kode-targz | 2026-02-25 19:46:08+00:00
Yes it does, especially when you remember the fact that developers are also consumers. But even if they (we) weren't, it would still impact consumers. I, android user who's completely ignorant when it comes to android development or even mobile in general, would be heavily impacted by this.
My custom youtube clients would never be approved by google. My (free) apps for watching anime and reading manga would never get approved by Google.
And something that's approved today could stop being approved tomorrow. it's up to Google / Microsoft / Apple to decide after all, they're the ones in control of our devices. If they stop liking my open-source ad-free minesweeper game, then I can't play it anymore. I'll have to download their bloated proprietary version with ads and a subscription to keep playing.
by wl | 2026-02-25 19:46:09+00:00
I have the same issue. At the time I created the account that I'm locked out of, Google said nothing about these "recovery" email addresses as 2FA. Years passed without any notice that maybe they were going to lock me out of an account I have the password and I had better have access to that "recovery" email address that I hadn't bothered to keep up to date. (In my case, it's an old .edu email address that I was promised "for life".)

If Google wanted to lock me out of my account for my own good until I enabled 2FA, fine. But as GP stated, they abused the recovery email addresses to force 2FA on people and ended up locking some people out of their accounts.
by ck2 | 2026-02-25 19:46:21+00:00
they are currently down to just a month to crack RSA?

> "In 2019, Craig Gidney at Google Quantum AI co-authored a paper that reduced these requirements from 170 million to 20 million quantum bits, or qubits."

> "And in 2025, Gidney devised a way to slash that number to less than a million qubits. Now, Paul Webster at Iceberg Quantum in Australia and his colleagues have managed to decrease the number even further to about 100,000 qubits"

> "Given this connectivity, the team estimated that for 98,000 superconducting qubits, like those currently made by IBM and Google, it would take about a month of computing time to break a common form of RSA encryption"

> "Accomplishing the same in a day would require 471,000 qubits"
by rangestransform | 2026-02-25 19:46:42+00:00
Much of the world has a primitive version of this but unionized bus drivers prevent this from being economical in the west. It’s absolute comedy that NYC has a full fleet of 40 foot buses operating on its narrow streets, obstructing traffic, and forcing drivers to reverse to make turns. I hope they go the way of the buggy whip maker when autonomy is good enough for NYC, they’ve been holding us back from having so many nice things including smaller and more frequent buses.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-25 19:46:45+00:00
Yes, critical skepticism is required for processing hype & propaganda.

Keep in mind that predictions of the worst & best outcomes very rarely come true, due in large part to the fact that people react to credible predictions.

For example, the predictions of the worse outcomes of global warming did not come true, in part due to restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.

The substack article I've linked to below makes a solid argument that you should expect serious information truncation of any sort of widely transmitted belief, so if a widely transmitted belief makes you anxious, the best solution is to go find the truncated information.

https://thestrategiclinguist.substack.com/p/the-rule-that-ne...
by we_have_options | 2026-02-25 19:47:00+00:00
well, how about "abortion legal" to "abortion murder"... possible to see this coming, but I know doctors in NY who are now afraid to travel to Texas.

How about DEI initiatives as good things in 2024 and a mark of evil in 2025? Lots of people were fired because in 2024 their boss told them to work on DEI and they did what their boss told them to do. Turns out this was a capital offense.
by Gordiny | 2026-02-25 19:47:11+00:00
DBTree is a desktop SQL client that lets you explore relational database records hierarchically, expanding rows like a file tree.

I'm a developer with 10+ years of experience. When exploring databases, I often found it tedious to manually write cascading JOINs or navigate through standard tools like DBeaver or DbSchema. I just wanted a simple interface with UI "chevrons" to expand rows and follow foreign keys visually without losing context. Since I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, I built it myself.

It’s a native desktop application built with JavaFX and Spring.

It's an early release. Right now, it is read-only, filtering is basic (by ID only), and it currently supports PostgreSQL.

You can download it directly from the website without creating an account or giving your email. The app is completely free to use up to 2 levels of depth, which is enough to test the tree-navigation UX with your own databases. There is a paid license to unlock unlimited depth if you find it useful.

If there is interest, I plan to add dynamic filtering, CRUD editing capabilities, and Mac support.

I would love to get your feedback on the UX concept, the execution, or even the choice of JavaFX for a desktop app today. Thanks!
by otterley | 2026-02-25 19:47:24+00:00
> The registrar should ignore reports of abuse, especially if coming from an authoritative source with vast resources that's been collecting reports on its own?

I'm not saying they should "ignore" reports of abuse but treat them as they are -- reports. They can then perform their own independent investigation.

That may well have happened here. I suspect the author isn't telling us something.
by pvtmert | 2026-02-25 19:48:54+00:00
I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context. Not like I have a perfect writing anyway, but at least I could prove that it was self-written, not an auto-generated slop. (Could be self-written slop though :)

This applies not only work-stuff itself also to the job-applications/cv/resume and cover-letters.
by colek42 | 2026-02-25 19:49:10+00:00
Bingo, DoD does not want Anthropic to set guardrails on the technology it buys. If they don't want to abide they are free to deny service. We all know how that will turn our for them with the current administration. All while the DoD will just move to another provider that WILL abide. The only power really lies in whatever our elected officials want to do. Take the responsibility seriously.
by Melatonic | 2026-02-25 19:49:13+00:00
Seems like this could also be used by call centers to realtime adjust their accents. Text is obviously easier to analyze (no realtime required) but I imagine that audio is not that hard to process real time.

Calling for home internet support and getting the person on the other end (in a US Southern or Boston accent) asking you to "do the needfull" could be pretty entertaining :-D
by aydyn | 2026-02-25 19:49:18+00:00
I am quite hopeful. One benchmark that was passed only very recently was Levelized Full System Cost parity in Texas. That is, the total cost of generating electricity via renewables, importantly, including storage and infrastructure costs became equivalent to other options.

I don't think this gets talked about enough because its truly a milestone.

It's still more expensive in colder places, but the math is changing very fast.
by jcims | 2026-02-25 19:49:46+00:00
Typing this from a suburb of Columbus now.

COTA provides decent service to get around in the downtown and directly adjacent neighborhoods, but it drops off sharply as soon as you get outside of that area.

Part of the problem is the typical US sprawl of the place. The area inside the beltway is ~200 square miles - https://urbandecisiongroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fc...

I live just outside the beltway. Driving to the OSU stadium just north of downtown would take me about 25 minutes. According to Google maps, the nearest COTA stop is a 20 minute walk away, then it's an hour and ten minutes to get to the stadium.

Agreed it would be lovely to be able to hop on a bus or train and get somewhere within a reasonable amount of time.
by dang | 2026-02-25 19:49:59+00:00
That's covered here: "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site to heart, then you're welcome here. But if you don't want to post in the intended spirit, it would be better to leave.