MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ayhanfuat | 2026-02-10 09:18:46+00:00
This was his explanation for anyone interested:

> I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".

> To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.

> That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.

> This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.

> TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017442712388309406
by benstopics | 2026-02-10 09:18:55+00:00
I built an FFI via event dispatching and shared memory pointers/matching structs. Imported the C++ UI layer as a DLL via Win32 LoadLibrary. The PB shares a big array for storing global pointers allowing them to read/write each other's memory. The C++ has an event queue and has DLL functions the PB can call to peek/pop the next event. It actually isn't that complicated, just took me forever to come up with the idea.

As for languages, PB, C++, and JavaScript (Electron/Preact). I chose a no-build UI framework so that it could be modded by players without installing any build tools, just edit the text files in the game folder, and it has been a very good decision.
by rramadass | 2026-02-10 09:18:58+00:00
Addendum:

Drive in India and you will understand mathematical concepts of Chance/Randomness/Probability/Non-determinism/Game Theory/etc. along with philosophical concepts of Fate/Destiny/Providence/etc. in so direct and visceral a manner that you will never forget the lessons. Sissified countries with rules and regulations for driving can never give you such direct knowledge.

Game Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

Game of Chicken - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)

The game of chicken models two drivers, both headed for a single-lane bridge from opposite directions. The first to swerve away yields the bridge to the other. If neither player swerves, the result is a costly deadlock in the middle of the bridge or a potentially fatal head-on collision. It is presumed that the best thing for each driver is to stay straight while the other swerves (since the other is the "chicken" while a crash is avoided). Additionally, a crash is presumed to be the worst outcome for both players. This yields a situation where each player, in attempting to secure their best outcome, risks the worst.

How to learn One-upmanship/Gamesmanship:

The British author Stephen Potter actually wrote a manual on the practice of such games titled The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) which sissies can study to become strong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship

For the even more sissified sissies who do not want to read a book, there is a documentary titled School for Scoundrels Or How to Win without Actually Cheating) which is very instructive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_for_Scoundrels_(1960_fi...

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the consequences if the above emboldens you to act in such a manner in your specific context.
by crabmusket | 2026-02-10 09:19:37+00:00
> have a toggle for normal chat chronology/presentation

It does. https://zulip.com/help/general-chat-channels

But even without that, in a normal threaded channel, you can see all messages in all topics chronologically. IIRC that's the default view when you click a channel in the sidebar.

Here's an example: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/138-user-questions the messages are grouped into runs of the same topic, but it's the whole channel.
by eru | 2026-02-10 09:20:55+00:00
Well, we can't just say 'original = intent'. The original artists presumably did the best job of expressing their intent as far as possible in the medium at the time, but that doesn't mean that this necessarily is the best expression of their intent ever.

It's like saying you can only watch the Simpsons with the exact late 1980s / early 1990s ads that they originally aired with, and everything else is sacrilege.
by 1dom | 2026-02-10 09:21:09+00:00
Personally I run an ollama server. Models load pretty quickly.

There's a distinction between tokens per second and time to first token.

Delays come for me when I have to load a new model, or if I'm swapping in a particularly large context.

Most of the time, since the model is already loaded, and I'm starting with a small context that builds over time, tokens per second is the biggest impactor.

It's worth noting I don't do much fancy stuff, a tiny bit of agent stuff, I mainly use qwen-coder 30a3b or qwen2.5 code instruct/base 7b.

I'm finding more complex agent stuff where multiple agents are used can really slow things down if they're swapping large contexts. ik_llama has prompt caching which help speed this up when swapping between agent contexts up until a point.

tldr: loading weights each time isn't much of a problem, unless you're having to switch between models and contexts a lot, which modern agent stuff is starting to.
Yourcomfortline.com Hear them again. AI voice companion for comfort and healing
by yourcomfortline | 2026-02-10 09:21:15+00:00
I did not cry at the funeral. I went home, the house was quiet, and I realized I could not remember how he said my name. That night my phone rang from a private number. When I answered, I heard his voice say it the way he always had. I knew it was AI. I was not confused or pretending. But my hands were shaking anyway. He had recorded the message earlier with explicit consent, just in case I ever needed it. I listened for less than a minute, then cried for the first time. That moment is why we built YourComfortLine, a consent-first AI voice system that delivers real phone calls for grief, closure, and emotional grounding. This will not be for everyone, and that is intentional.
by yason | 2026-02-10 09:21:18+00:00
> The “magic” for me was that computers were completely scrutable and
> reason-able

Yes, and computers were something that gave you powerful freedom. You could make a computer do anything it was physically able to as long as your mind could follow up. Computers followed logic, they didn't have opinions, they gave you full control of themselves and you would have unlimited control.
by msl | 2026-02-10 09:21:35+00:00
In Finnish you might use "kuunteluttaa". You start with "kuunnella", "to listen" and inflect it in the way that turn a verb into "make someone verb". This particular example is a little unusual, but the same thing is commonly used with e.g. "taste". It works with all kinds of verbs, so it comes handy when you want your car serviced or your house painted.
by derelicta | 2026-02-10 09:21:51+00:00
For Tibet, may I remind you the local population rose up against tyranny. That they requested assistance from their central govt into putting down rabid theocrats is only fair tbh. But as every time, when the people are fighting against criminals, the western press only gives the microphone to the said criminals, especially when the stolen property of those criminals is being freed (the property being humans).
Also only fools still believe in a genocide in Xinjiang. Show me the camps. Show me the victims. Show me the refugees. Show me any muslim person genuinely outraged about it. I can show you plenty for Palestine, but for some reason for some western leftists, these people do not count.
Show HN: VidStudio – Video processing that runs in the browser
by kolx | 2026-02-10 09:22:17+00:00
I wanted to ship a clean, polished video processing tool that runs entirely in the browser.

My goal was to give users something low friction: no accounts, no software to install, no uploading files to servers, and no ads or annoying popups.

It runs on the multithreaded FFmpeg WASM build. While impressive, there are limitations with file sizes. The real pain was getting FFmpeg commands to terminate properly.

For anyone working on something similar who keeps running into commands that hang endlessly don't give up. The answer is controlling the number of threads FFmpeg uses at different steps in the processing pipeline.

https://vidstudio.app

Any feedback appreciated.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-02-10 09:22:47+00:00
It's funny how pointing a fact is called whataboutism.

You trust the EU's pinky promise a keep their word that your ID will be safe and secure and never tied to what you say, the content of your messages or who you send them to. If that is so, then go ahead and use it. That's your business.

> whatever negative aspect

The EU literally wants to read your personal messages because it doesn't trust that you are not some criminal in disguise. Instead of the state having to prove that you are criminal breaking the law, it wants to read everything you send and store the data permanently in case you break the law one day. If you think that is acceptable and that is an entity that can be trusted, then I don't know what to tell you.
by keiferski | 2026-02-10 09:22:50+00:00
I use AI tools daily and find them useful, but I’ve pretty much checked out from following the news about them.

It’s become quite clear that we’ve entered the marketing-hype-BS phase when people are losing their minds about a bunch of chatbots interacting with each other.

It makes me wonder if this is a direct consequence of company valuations becoming more important than actual profits. Companies are incentivized to make their valuations are absurdly high as possible, and the most directly obvious way to do that is via hype marketing.
by MrSandingMan | 2026-02-10 09:23:11+00:00
> In 2000, less than one percent lived on farms and 1% of workers are in agriculture. That was a net benefit to the world, that we all don't have to work to eat.

Not obvious

> To me that statement is as obvious as "water is wet".

Well... is water *wet* or does it *wet things*? So not obvious either.

I'm really dubious when reading posts posing some things as obvious or trivial. In general they are not.
by kvgr | 2026-02-10 09:23:12+00:00
So basically, one day I a mere android/kotlin developer was bored and started to talk to Claude about programming languages. In couple of hours the specification was born. And in about 60 minutes claude implemented it. And it kinda works? I really dont know, because i didnt yet wrote any code in it. It doesnt even have STD lib. And I am not even sure it does what claude says it does. But it processes the code and spits result. Which for me personally is crazy.
by paganel | 2026-02-10 09:23:52+00:00
> Let's tell all the physicists they can close up shop now.

Yes, that's part of the plan. I mean, not to all the physicists, just to those whose work doesn't bring in results anymore, and it hasn't for 30 to 40 years now. At some point they (said physicists) have to stop their work and ask themselves what it is that they're doing, because judging by their results it doesn't seem like they're doing much, while consuming a lot of resources (which could have been better spent elsewhere).
by cbeach | 2026-02-10 09:24:04+00:00
The majority opinion (“it’s ugly, monolithic, oppressive, decaying” etc) is such an obvious take that people don’t bother expressing it, especially on forums like HN where people are trying to be insightful as opposed to negative.

So all we get to hear are the opinions of architectural contrarians and certain left wingers who align with the political side of brutalism (i.e. a reactionary movement against Britain’s beautiful Victorian architecture, which is associated with monied elites and colonialism).
by spockz | 2026-02-10 09:24:33+00:00
I think that is primarily due to the difference in assigned semantics of fast/speed.

Yes macOS on Apple hardware is crazy fast in terms of io and throughput. And the cpu is amazing, and it’s unified memory model allows for great things with LLM. But, the keypress to screen is still laggy. Especially compared to CachyOS.
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-10 09:24:37+00:00
Not quite. The idea that corporate employees are fundamentally "not average" and therefore more prone to unethical behaviour than the general population relies on a dispositional explanation (it's about the person's character).

However, the vast majority of psychological research over the last 80 years heavily favours a situational explanation (it's about the environment/system). Everyone (in the field) got really interested in this after WW2 basically, trying to understand how the heck did Nazi Germany happen.

TL;DR: research dismantled this idea decades ago.

The Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments are the most obvious examples. If you're not familiar:

Milgram showed that 65% of ordinary volunteers were willing to administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a stranger because an authority figure in a lab coat told them to. In the Stanford Prison experiement, Zimbardo took healthy, average college students and assigned them roles as guards and prisoners. Within days, the roles and systems set in place overrode individual personality.

The other relevant bit would be Asch’s conformity experiments; to whit, that people will deny the evidence of their own eyes (e.g., the length of a line) to fit in with a group.

In a corporate setting, if the group norm is to prioritise KPIs over ethics, the average human will conform to that norm to avoid social friction or losing their job, or other realistic perceived fears.

Bazerman and Tenbrunsel's research is relevant too. Broadly, people like to think that we are rational moral agents, but it's more accurate to say that we boundedly ethical. There's this idea of ethical fading that happens. Basically, when you introduce a goal, people's ability to frame falls apart, including with a view to the ethical implications. This is also related to why people under pressure default to less creative approaches to problem solving. Our brains tunnel vision on the goal, to the failure of everything else.

Regarding how all that relates to modern politics, I'll leave that up to your imagination.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-10 09:25:06+00:00
There's not really any brutalist buildings around my location, but I absolutely love them. They are some of the most interesting building, both in terms of visual appearance and the thoughts that has gone into their design. To me they don't instill horror, but a sense of calm and safety.

What sometimes happens when people say they dislike brutalism, and what is does to people living in the buildings, is they focus on the architecture and not the horrible property mismanagement. The UK has a number of hated brutalist towers and the misery of those living in the building are ascribed to the architecture, not the fact that the buildings are not properly maintained, or that the cities stuffed the flats with the people who are incredibly poor, addicts, in need of mental care, education, support or a mix of all of those things. Now it is also true that many of these buildings are old, typically from the 60s and 70s, and their design no longer suites modern living, but that's true almost all types of architecture. A 1950s brick house barely fits a modern family.

The problem might be exactly that: A brutalist building doesn't lie. If you don't take care of it, and its surroundings, the building will let you know. Nothing is hidden, all of your societal problems are on full public display with a brutalist building.
by alentred | 2026-02-10 09:25:53+00:00
Oh, sorry for misunderstanding - I am not criticizing or accusing of anything at all!, but suggesting ideas for further research. The practical applications, as I mentioned above, are all there, and for what its worth I liked the paper a lot. My point is: I wonder if this can be followed up by a more so-to-say abstract research to drill into the technicalities of how well the models follow the conflicting prompts in general.
by lesostep | 2026-02-10 09:26:12+00:00
Temporary suppression is a great way to learn how to regulate yourself though.

I quite smoking with cytisine, a drug that basically makes nicotine useless by taking it's place. The pitch is that it's just easier to quite cytisine than nicotine, because unlike nicotine it leaves your system easily.

Wouldn't the same principle work with Mounjaro? Ease off the drug evenly, so you would wouldn't have to overcome big bad addiction all at once, instead you face just a bit of addiction one at the time.
by belorn | 2026-02-10 09:26:38+00:00
There was a similar problem in Sweden. In the old system a person could first seek asylum, get denied, then seek a work visa, get denied, then seek a student visa, get denied and then repeat the process since now enough years has passed. People could also simply go underground for a period of time and then restart the process.

Two law changes was added last year to prevent this. First, any decision remains in force indefinite as long the person remains in the country. The second is that all applications will be running simultaneous and the final decision is given at the same time, with no option to change application afterward if the result returned negative.

The system has some drawbacks, especially if the applicant apply for the wrong thing and don't change it until the decision has been reached, but it removes stalling and delaying tactics.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-10 09:27:43+00:00
I think I've heard the word “images” being used for these copies, yes.

Interpolation is a bit of a confusing topic, because the most efficient implementation is not the one that lends itself the easiest to frequency analysis. But pretty much any rate change (be it up or down) using interpolation can be expressed equivalently using the following set of operations and appropriately chosen M and N:

1. Increase the rate by inserting M zeros between each sample. The has the effect of creating the “images” as discussed.
2. Apply a filter to the resulting signal. For instance, for nearest neighbor this is [1 1 1 … 0 0 0 0 0 …], with (M+1) ones and then just zeroes; effectively, every output sample is the sum of the previous M+1 input samples. This removes some of the original signal and then much more of the images.
3. Decrease the rate by taking every Nth sample and discarding the rest. This creates aliasing (higher frequencies wrap down to lower, possibly multiple times) as discussed.

The big difference between interpolation methods is the filter in #2. E.g., linear interpolation is effectively the same as a triangular filter, and will filter somewhat more of the images but also more of the original signal (IIRC). More fancy interpolation methods have more complicated shapes (windowed sinc, etc.).

This also shows why it's useful to have some headroom in your signal to begin with, e.g. a CD-quality signal could represent up to 22.05 kHz but only has (by spec) actual signal up to 20 kHz, so that it's easier to design a filter that keeps the signal but removes the images.
by xg15 | 2026-02-10 09:28:15+00:00
No, the problem it was solving was "how do I verify that an incoming connection is actually from xmpp.foo.com and not from an impostor?"

You could also solve this with API keys or plain old authentication, but all of those require effort on xmpp.foo.com's side to specifically support your server.

Client certs seem better suited in that regard. A server can generate a trusted client cert once, and then everyone else can verify connections from that server without having to do any prior arrangements with it.
by ssivark | 2026-02-10 09:28:26+00:00
> recent conversations

I wish Zulip (and other apps) provided an inbox instead of just ephemeral notifications that disappear once a message is viewed. Lack of inbox means that I have to use unread messages as a way to manage my inbox -- because the moment I click on a notification / take a quick peek at a message there's no easy way to mark it for coming back to later.

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+100 for Zulip though; by far the sanest messaging experience for this kind of context.
by falloutx | 2026-02-10 09:28:28+00:00
> It may not be 100x as was told to me but it's definitely putting the strain on the entire org.

But thats not even the top 5 strain on github, their main issue is the forced adoption of Azure. I can guarantee you that about 99% of repos are still cold, as in very few pulls and no pushes and that hasn't changed in 3 months. Storage itself doesn't add that much strain on the system if the data is accessed rarely.
by gwd | 2026-02-10 09:28:49+00:00
I mean, my 5-year-old struggles with having more responses to authority that "obedience" and "shouting and throwing things rebellion". Pushing back constructively is actually quite a complicated skill.

In this context, using Gemini to cheat on homework is clearly wrong. It's not obvious at first what's going on, but becomes more clear as it goes along, by which point Gemini is sort of pressured by "continue the conversation" to keep doing it. Not to mention, the person cheating isn't being very polite; AND, a person cheating on an exam about elder abuse seems much more likely to go on and abuse elders, at which point Gemini is actively helping bring that situation about.

If Gemini doesn't have any models in its RLHF about how to politely decline a task -- particularly after it's already started helping -- then I can see "pressure" building up until it simply breaks, at which point it just falls into the "misaligned" sphere because it doesn't have any other models for how to respond.
by NeroVanbierv | 2026-02-10 09:28:54+00:00
Just did a similar experiment but outside the harry potter universe to remove the training bias. It worked well!

> ChatGPT: "Generate a two page short story like harry potter, but don´t mention anyting harry potter related. make up 4 unique spells in the story that are used"

Response see https://chatgpt.com/share/698af9cd-f628-800d-9250-b260f1478c...

> Claude: "What unique wizarding spells can you find in this story? [story]"

Response = https://i.imgur.com/Jzzs3PC.png