MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mohsen1 | 2026-02-19 09:28:33+00:00
SWE-bench Verified is nice but we need better SWE benchmarks. Making a fair benchmark is a lot of work and a lot of money needed to run it continuously.

Most of "live" benchmarks are not running enough with recent models to give you a good picture of which models win.

The idea of a live benchmark is great! There are thousands of GitHub issues that are resolved with a PR every day.
by victormustar | 2026-02-19 09:29:00+00:00
This is a 3B parameter model from Nanbeige with surprisingly strong benchmarks. It beats Qwen3-32B on Arena-Hard and LiveCodeBench despite being 10x smaller. (Also be warned it thinks a lot).

I wrapped it in a simple browser demo using Transformers.js + WebGPU. It downloads the q4 ONNX weights (~1.7GB) and runs fully client-side. no server required. Falls back to WASM if WebGPU isn't available.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-02-19 09:31:08+00:00
> In politics, we engage in debates in our society using our real names and without visors. I expect the same from everyone else who critically examines our country and our society.

Whats the problem with this exactly? As a politician who is part of the government then every action by these people should be scrutinised intensely. We should know who they meet, when and what was agreed.

Nobody is forcing these people to become politicians but expecting transparency from people who govern us is the least we should expect from them.

We as citizens, get to criticise the decisions they take but we are not the ones in power so expecting the same transparency is completely unwarranted.

> Merz warned that liberal democracy was at risk and said he had underestimated the extent to which algorithms and artificial intelligence could be used for targeted influence campaigns.

What a bad take. As if governments would not use these same tools to shape opinions.

> He said such tools made it possible to manipulate opinion and to undermine the foundations of a free society.

Friendly newspapers and public funded news channels have been used by various governments to manipulate opinions just as much in the past.

To claim that suddenly anonymous comments on social media will bring the end of democracy as we know it is just pure fear mongering and speculation.

If Mertz feel so inclined to only engage with people who post under their real names, he can just sign up to a social media service that requires this from their users and see what happens.

Europe is really turning into a China light these days with their dreams of client side scanning of messages and the end of privacy on the internet.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-19 09:31:11+00:00
>Most of the world is conservative by Hollywood liberal standards.

Even most of America is conservative by Hollywood's standards, let alone the rest of the world. The writers in Hollywood (and Cali HN users too), forget, or intentionally omit, that the rest of the world is not like in their bubble, so they think they can change to fit their world view by injecting products and entertainment with their propaganda, and when they inevitably fail, call their customers nazis, racists and *fobes.

People want to consume entertainment for escapism from the outdoor problems, not to be lectured by them. They especially don't want to be lectured by wealthy, suburban, college educated people, living in white-majority gated communities.
by phoebusaicartel | 2026-02-19 09:31:18+00:00
This is tongue in cheek but my point is the behavior of these companies, their relentless PR, and the looming liquidity crisis they are causing seems like a coordinated plan. Consumer confidence is certainly being crystalized by rumors of all kinds and businesses are made up of consumers. If the fact checkers are LLMs themselves how does one even begin to figure out the truth?

This is just a little wikipedia adlib I did to illustrate my point. (double posted)

"The Phoebus.AI cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of computer components in much of Europe and North America between 2025 and 2039. The cartel took over market territories and lowered the useful supply and life of such computer components, which is commonly cited as an example of planned obsolescence of general computing technology in favor of 6G ubiquitous computing.
The Phoebus.AI cartel's compact was intended to expire in 2055, but it was instead nullified in 2040 after World War III made coordination among the members impossible."
by kristopolous | 2026-02-19 09:31:56+00:00
doubao (bytedance) seed models are interesting

Keep your eye on Baidu's Ernie
https://ernie.baidu.com/

Artificial analysis is generally on top of everything

https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

Those two are really the new players

Nanbeige which they haven't benchmarked just put out a shockingly good 3b model https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige - specifically https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B

You have to tweak the hyper parameter like they say but I'm getting quality output, commensurate with maybe a 32b model, in exchange for a huge thinking lag

It's the new LFM 2.5
by Dig1t | 2026-02-19 09:32:10+00:00
It’s extremely relevant. The Trump admin just facilitated the sale of TikTok to an ardent Zionist for an incredibly cheap price, and Netanyahu himself gave a talk saying it was the most important event in the “eighth front” of their war. Same just happened with CBS.

Larry Ellison (the new owner of TikTok) personally vetted Marco Rubio for fealty to Israel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1nww6cp/larry_ell...

The United States is days away from going to war with Iran on behalf of Israel, which makes this even more important.

Israeli mega donors Miriam Adelson, Larry Ellison, Ronald Lauder, etc, have given Trump literally hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations to facilitate this special treatment of Israel and to help transfer control of these media orgs to Israelis. They have all stated openly that this is the case.
by wafflemaker | 2026-02-19 09:33:50+00:00
Hey! Don't make fun of us!
You'd get used to the bottle caps too. Not really that unnoying, except for smoothies, where a bit of the smoothie drips down on the bottleneck and makes everything sticky.

And about the reaction time - politics is in a way expression of the will of the masses. And that depends on how they are informed. They are maybe not yet on point, but they are getting there.

Nowadays people are slowly realizing that Merkel's "all refugees welcome" idea was stupid and can't work. Both ineffective as a means to help people - that's cheapest/most effective closer to their homes. And as immigration policy - getting more hands to work doesn't work with people who refuse to work and refuse to integrate. Part of that refusal comes from locals that are "pro immigrants" on social media, but refuse to live in same neighbourhoods as immigrants or hire them.

More and more people are also realizing that carbon neutrality was often green washing. People are waking up to the fact that execution of good willing ideas with disregard for economic circumstances, or just reality in general, doesn't have good results.

Only the Russian threat is not being realized soon enough. It's not like during cold war, Russia doesn't have the conventional army to conquer even the westernmost tip of Spain.

Or we think it doesn't? Look at how two Ukrainian drone squads owned two NATO battalions of combined tanks & mechanized infantry in latest war exercises. With no losses on their side.
We can infer that russian capabilities are more or less similar.

But that drone event aside, the perception of threat in Europe is not uniform. Russia will likely only take everything east of Germany, (at least first, before rebuilding and attacking again). So Italy or Spain won't reduce their social spending to buy/ invest in defence to protect Poland, Czech or Romania.

There also is a slowly forming pro-russian coalition of Slovaks and Hungarians. Who still, to this day, keep buying Russian oil. Yeah, when Putin is laughing that Europe is still buying Russian oil, he's not mentioning that it's just the pro Russian Hungary. Whos prime minister, Orban, is now in threat of loosing next elections. But the USA support is there already, Rubio is helping Orban in campaign for 12th of april elections.

[sarcasm]So to sum up. Yeah, Europeans are waisting energy on bottle caps. But USA is funding pro-russian parties and helping pro-russian politicians. We in Europe can only hope that if Russia attacks, USA will not join the war, because it's becoming quite evident on whos side USA would fight. [/sarcasm]
by arjunchint | 2026-02-19 09:34:05+00:00
Honestly seeing throttling of AI usuage across all providers:

- Google reduced AI Studio's free rate limits by 1/10th

- Perplexity imposing rate limits, card filing to continue free subscriptions

- Now Anthropic as well

There has been a false narrative that AI will get cheaper and more ubiquitous, but model providers have been stuck in a race for ever more capabilities and performance at higher costs.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-19 09:35:24+00:00
The positive aspect is that there is plenty if venture capital for innovators; the negative one is that those innovations are stifled by various extraction techniques that allow VCs and other investors to get a return on investment.

Crypto is a good example of how the equilibria is hard to maintain, and if the last cycle saw many interesting new products come to life, they all got crushed by ruthless profit-taking from early investors and team members.
by chmod775 | 2026-02-19 09:35:27+00:00
One big issue is the "joints". It's always a trade-off between mass, strength, speed, precision, and dexterity. State of the art is matching or exceeding organic joints on 2-3 axis, while being an order of magnitude below human/animal performance on the two other axis.

Human individual fingers can withstand internal loads of hundreds of newtons, (possibly a thousand for brief periods if you're a star rock-climber), while at the same being capable of tasks such as writing, which require high speeds and (sub-)millimeter precision, while also enjoying 4 degrees of freedom (5 for the thumb), and they're stuffed full of sensory organs to boot. Oh and they're also self-healing, so taking some damage during use is no problem and they will actually adapt to the task they're used for over time. Everything we can make compared to this is laughably primitive.

If you make an agile robot big, it now weighs more, which means its joints now need to handle greater loads, which makes it necessary to make them much bulkier and heavier.

A lot of this is just inherent limitations of electric motors and having to convert rotational energy. This gets heavy fast.

Decent synthetic electrically-driven muscle fibers would go a long way.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-19 09:36:09+00:00
Running a 247GB model reliably on 100GB VRAM total is a very impressive outcome no matter what the performance. That size of model is one where sensible people will recommend at least 4x the VRAM amount compared to what you were testing with - at that point, the total bandwidth to your storage becomes the bottleneck. Try running models that are just slightly bigger than the amount of VRAM you're using and these tricks become quite essential, for a significantly more manageable hit on performance.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-19 09:36:18+00:00
Education doesn’t help here, what are you talking about?!

Educated people can read as many books as they want about manipulation and still be susceptible to it. The manipulation works on a much deeper emotional level. We can’t change who we are, no matter how much education we get.

Being told by a brand “you’re fat” hurts no matter how many papers you’ve read or published and “you’re still thin and beautiful and desirable!” feels amazing.
by dv_dt | 2026-02-19 09:36:20+00:00
"just look at viewer ratings, total views and cinema turnouts of Hollywood movies in the last 10 years compared to for example 1999-2005. The decline in quality is obvious and measurable."

I attribute this to the self organized dismantling of of movie studio industry in their anti-union fight, the rise of streaming, and the fear of primary investments that drives enshittification same as many other industries in the west.

One thing that the multiple entertainment industry unions did is raise quality by ensuring continuity by ensuring livable pay. Now the studios are systematically dismantling and moving major production stages, and they're applying silly metrics and "risk" based production decisions - see the endless remakes. What little art and pride of production value that was in the industry is tightly squeezed out today.
by sevenseacat | 2026-02-19 09:36:40+00:00
> * If you want a better fit, go physically to a store instead of shopping online and try them on.

Cool. If you don't have an hourglass shape, none of them will fit you properly. They'll either be way out in the hips, or the thighs, or the waist, or the length (for pants), or the waist, the length, the shoulders, the bust, or the arms (for shirts), and don't get me started on shoes. What now?
by mopsi | 2026-02-19 09:37:06+00:00
> only like 3% of that program was spent on actual AID, like food and medicine for the third world, but most of it went to funding media, news and journalists across LatAm, Asia, Africa dn EE

Source please. This doesn't pass the smell test, because the largest expenses in international aid programs are usually related to healthcare and agriculture. Propaganda is very cheap compared to producing and distributing malaria drugs or grain to the most remote corners of the world or building water sanitation plants in places that have no roads and no electricity.
by thinkingemote | 2026-02-19 09:37:18+00:00
Nice website and a good exercise! We really are living in a golden age when we can identify most LLM written stuff. Longer from posts are currently easier to identify than shorter. (I ended early got 4/5 The long dashes and general questions to the audience not the commenter were a tell)

Very soon we won't be able to tell any difference or identify any signs.
by shawnreilly | 2026-02-19 09:37:37+00:00
I would recommend to keep working on this. I'm interested in this space, and also contributing. Are you looking for collaborators? I think if you continue to iterate on this, there will be value, because these problems do need to be solved.

I would also recommend to create Standards for the new Protocols you are developing. Protocols need standards, so that others can do their own implementations of the protocol. If you have a Standard, someone else could be building in a completely different language (like rust or go), and not use any SDK you provide, but still be interoperable with your AAP and AIP implementation for smoltbot. (because both support the Standards of the AAP and AIP Protocols).

I also want to note, you cannot trust that the LLM Model will do what your instructions say. The moment they fall victim to a prompt injection or confused deputy attack, all bets are off the table. These are the same as soft instruction sets, which are more like advice or guidance, not a control or gate. To be able to provide true controls and gates, they must be external, authoratative, and enforced below the decision layer.
by hashmak_jsn | 2026-02-19 09:37:56+00:00
I discourage coding sqlite in Rust, Here are the reasons that sqlite developers mentioned:

- Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring.
- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can be used to create general-purpose libraries that are callable from all other programming languages.
- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can produce object code that works on obscure embedded devices, including devices that lack an operating system.
- Rust needs to pick up the necessary tooling that enables one to do 100% branch coverage testing of the compiled binaries.
Rust needs a mechanism to recover gracefully from OOM errors.
- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can do the kinds of work that C does in SQLite without a significant speed penalty.

https://sqlite.org/whyc.html#why_isn_t_sqlite_coded_in_a_saf...
by thoughtpeddler | 2026-02-19 09:38:09+00:00
This person needs to study Ronald Coase's Theory of the Firm in order to not make incorrect assertions like 'the only moat left is money'. There's many other criticisms to level at this piece, but this is the one I'll use my reply/comment on. If the author was right, then the entities with the most money, or ability to print money, a.k.a. the government, would be in charge of all economic activity. They are not. Empirically, what we observe about human economic activity is that it's not about who has the most money. Money helps, and certainly there's economic structures that are a tier below government but definitely far larger than a small business that can use money as a weapon to stay entrenched or gain other advantages in the market, etc, but it's not the only thing. Empirically it is just not. There has been, is, and will continue to be room for what other commenters have called 'creativity' broadly speaking, and that even includes creatively recruiting other people to your cause/company versus another's, etc, that 'the one with the most money' has not alone shown to be decisive.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 09:38:25+00:00
There have been a very large number of CSPRNGs for which there does not exist any known practical method to distinguish them from TRNGs.

For all of them there are theoretical methods that can distinguish a sequence generated by them from a random sequence, but all such methods require an impossible amount of work.

For instance, a known distinguisher for the Keccak function that is used inside SHA-3 requires an amount of work over 2^1500 (which was notable because it was an improvement over a naive method that would have required an amount of work of 2^1600).

This is a so ridiculously large number in comparison with the size and age of the known Universe, that it is really certain that nobody will ever run such a test and find a positive result.

There are a lot of other such CPRNGs for which the best known distinguishers require a work of over 2^100, or 2^200, or even 2^500, and for those it is also pretty certain that no practical tests will find statistical defects.

There are a lot of CSPRNGs that could not be distinguished from TRNGs even by using hypothetical quantum computers.

Even many of the pretty bad cryptographic PRNGs, which today are considered broken according to their original definitions, can be made impossible to distinguish from TRNGs by just increasing the number of iterations in their mixing functions. This is not done because later more efficient mixing functions have been designed, which achieve better mixing with less work.
by CrossVR | 2026-02-19 09:40:05+00:00
You're absolutely right, but the line between acting in the interest of the company and acting to maximize profits is so thin it might as well not exist.

It can be in the company's interest to act for the good of society and a CEO can claim that it is his fudiciary duty to act in the interest of society.

But when society's interests are in direct conflict with the interests of the company you cannot expect a CEO to act in the interest of society.

Even if a CEO is perfectly within their rights to act against the interests of the company, it doesn't change the fact that investors might replace him if the CEO does so consistently.
by rglullis | 2026-02-19 09:40:47+00:00
> people rarely pay for increased performance.

I wasn't using "Performance" in the sense of "how fast does it go?", but it the sense of "how well does it do what I need to do?"

> Mozilla, Blender, Signal, Android, etc.

First, this is selection bias. I'm sure we can find plenty of cases of software that failed even when designers were around, and I can certainly point to software/services that have horrendous "UI" but were still incredibly useful/valuable: Craigslist and Bloomberg Terminal come to mind.

Second, you are confusing cause and effect. The examples you gave only employ designers now because they were valuable even without designers working on it.

Anyway, you did not address the core point of my argument: no one is going to pay more for a run-of-the-mill SaaS offering because the website was handcrafted.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-19 09:41:34+00:00
Yeah but it's the job of the elected governments to build and maintain housing, education, social and welfare systems that keep up with the challenges of the times, not the responsibility of the private sector to hold back progress and inefficiency just so more people can stay in employment even if they're not needed anymore.

The governments however have been and continue to be ill prepared to the rising increases of globalisation labor offshoring and automation.

There was a news article yesterday in my EU country about a 50 year old laid off CEO of a small company that continues to be unemployed after a year because nobody will hire him anymore so he lives off welfare and oddjobs and the government unemployment office has no solution.

What happens in the future when AI and offshoring culls more white collar jobs and there will be thousands or tens of thousands of unemployable 50 year old managers with outdated skills that nobody will want to hire or re-train due to various reasons, but they still need to keep working somehow till their 70s to qualify for retirement? Sure you then go to re-train yourself to become a licensed plumber or electrician, but who will want to hire you to gain experience when they can hire the 20-something fresher rather than the 50 year old with bad knees?

Governments are not prepared for this.
by tw1984 | 2026-02-19 09:41:56+00:00
> the smartest thing China ever did was to limit speculation in the markets. So many human capital in America is wasted pumping up valuations instead of actually building stuff

there was this Chinese company named Baofeng that built a stupid media player by "re-using" open source FFmpeg code, it managed to get itself publicly listed, then had its valuation went up like 50x for doing nothing other being accused for stealing FFmpeg code.

there were lots of discussions at that time how that happened and why the same level of speculation didn't happen on other public tech companies listed on Chinese market, the consensus was pretty sad - tech companies suitable for speculation are listed in the US by default, those listed on Chinese markets are 2nd tier or 3rd tier to start with, they don't offer any meaningful room for speculation.
by kitd | 2026-02-19 09:42:29+00:00
Blog post written with an LLM

What makes you say that?

a project that went Go -> Rust -> Node?

The DB went from Go to Rust. The Node part is the Node DB driver

Does it not bind to your already built Rust tool?

It's in the 3rd paragraph.

I guess I'm a bit confused but don't want to read AI fuzz further

Personally, I'd learn to get used to it.
by sevenseacat | 2026-02-19 09:43:29+00:00
You realize clothes are more than just waist sizes? Pants, for example, need to account for waist, hips, thighs, and length. All of these are very very different ratios on women of different body shapes.

And what you've said actually confirms that what I said is accurate - women can't walk into _any_ clothes shop and find clothes that fit, which is what the poster I replied to said.

Plus, some of the data there is not consistent globally. I don't know a lot of the brands there, but Uniqlo is one we do have and they do not do 3XL in women's clothing here in Australia.