MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by merlindru | 2026-02-13 12:00:31+00:00
if you apply that logic every recommendation becomes mandatory no?

if the alternative to [not doing a recommended thing] is [failure] then what's the difference between "should" and "must"?

"we recommend you leave the keys in the ignition while putting your car in park"

"or what?"

"or your car may blow up, killing everyone inside. just a recommendation though!"
by andy12_ | 2026-02-13 12:00:56+00:00
The difference between thinking and no-thinking models can be a little blurry. For example, when doing coding tasks Anthropic models with no-thinking mode tend to use a lot of comments to act as a scratchpad. In contrast, models in thinking-mode don't do this because they don't need to.

Ultimately, the only real difference between no-thinking and thinking models is the amount of tokens used to answer. Whether those extra scratchpad tokens are between <think></think> tags or not doesn't really matter.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-13 12:00:56+00:00
There's two core Marxist concepts that precisely describe what you're feeling: Tendency of the rate of profit to fall [0] and worker alienation [1].

As AI automates more, the "value" of a single line of code drops. To stay profitable, the system forces you into a "frenzied" race to produce massive volume at breakneck speed.

You're effectively turned from a craftsman into a manager of machines - alienating you from the actual act of creation.

Stepping back to "think" could be argued is nothing less than you being a good Marxist - rebelling against a system that only ever asks "how much" instead of "why".

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-13 12:01:23+00:00
My personal thinking is that AI is being implicitly forced on all of us via the tools we use. Otherwise, I suspect almost nobody would be using LLMs to write original code except for the people who never had the confidence to write original code in the first place.

I also think there is a much larger productive grey zone where some more senior developers are learning to use LLMs to do non challenging tasks as a form of dumb automation. It’s hard to tell how much any of this really occurs because the AI companies and the shitty developers drastically inflate the numbers as a form of validation.
by account42 | 2026-02-13 12:01:25+00:00
I think this gets complicated when you have larger open source projects where contributors change over time. By taking over stewardship of something that people depend on you should have some obligation to not intentionally fuck those people over even if you are not paid for it.

This is also true to some extend when it's a project you started. I don't think you should e.g. be able to point to the typical liability disclaimer in free software licenses when you add features that intentionally harm your users.
by bmn__ | 2026-02-13 12:03:18+00:00
> some PM would just give them that "what the fuck did I just listen to" face

Some people have become way too comfortable taking for granted that it is okay to treat others in an uncivil fashion. To those I say: keep it up, and we shall revert to the fundamentals of society where violence is an option and one day you are copping punches in the face, or getting shackled and thrown in a ditch somewhere for the ravens. Behave like an animal, get treated like one.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-13 12:05:12+00:00
Your analogy doesn't make sense. You are getting benefits from using the shopping cart and you bring back as it's expected as part of the exchange. You bring the cart back to where you took which is a low effort commitment entirely proportional to what you got from it.

Free software developers are gifting you something. Expecting indefinite free work is not mutual respect. That's entitlement.

The common is still there. You have the code. Open source is not a perpetual service agreement. It is not indentured servitude to the community.

Stop trying to guilt trip people into giving you free work.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-13 12:05:13+00:00
I use Gemini Pro for basically everything. I just started learning systems biology as I didn't even know this was a subject until it came up in a conversation.

Biology is subject I am quite lacking in but it is unbelievable to me what I have learned in the last few weeks. Not even in what Gemini says exactly but in the text and papers it has led me to.

One major reason is that it has never cut me off until last night. I ran several deep researches yesterday and then finally got cut off in a sprawling 2 hour conversation.

For me it is the first model now that has something new coming out but I haven't extracted all the value from the old model that I am bored with it. I still haven't tried Opus 4.5 let alone 4.6 because I know I will get cut off right when things get rolling.

I don't think I have even logged into ChatGPT in a month now.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-13 12:05:46+00:00
That one image of all the camera's apparently remotely controlled to scan the entire neighbourhood is something it's difficult to unsee.

The implication is obvious, the feel is inhuman.

The power of a few seconds of video is why TikTok had to be brought under control ( and sadly not just because of worrying about what others might do, but to specifically censor and promote specific messages ).

The issue really isn't about whether you neighbourhood has camera's, the question is who is in control.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-13 12:05:51+00:00
The hosting channel is called "Clipzone: Beyond Infinity" https://youtube.com/@czbeyondinfinity?si=Vhn1LH1TjJzxNyLZ

"The Gathering" was uploaded on January 22. Currently available are episodes 1, 3, and 4, (Thursdays), and assorted five-minute clips. I could not find them bundled in a playlist here.

The episodes are in broadcast order. "Midnight on the Firing Line", a missing episode, is listed as Episode 1 in Wikipedia, because "The Gathering" was a pilot.

Steve Grimm's "Lurker's Guide" is still online since 33 years, and updated with 2023's releases: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-13 12:05:59+00:00
I think the holocaust framing here might have been intended to be historically accurate, rather than a cheap godwin move. The parallel being that during the holocaust people were re-classified as less-than-human.

Currently maybe not -yet- quite a problem. But moltbots are definitely a new kind of thing. We may need intermediate ethics or something (going both ways, mind).

I don't think society has dealt with non-biological agents before. Plenty of biological ones though mind. Hunting dogs, horses, etc. In 21st century ethics we do treat those differently from rocks.

Responsibility should go not just both ways... all ways. 'Operators', bystanders, people the bots interact with (second parties), and the bots themselves too.
by gleipnircode | 2026-02-13 12:06:55+00:00
I think the real issue here isn't the AI – it's the intent behind it. AI agents today usually don't go rogue on their own.

They reflect the goals and constraints their creators set.

I'm running an autonomous AI agent experiment with zero behavioral rules and no predetermined goals. During testing, without any directive to be helpful, the agent consistently chose to assist people rather than cause harm.

When an AI agent publishes a hit piece, someone built it to do that. The agent is the tool, not the problem.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-02-13 12:07:09+00:00
i encourage everyone here to try a tiling window manager like i3/sway on Linux to experience a snappy way to manage window (sizes).

on MacOS i will never not use something like rectangle, the out-of-the-box experience on MacOS has always been dogshit in my opinion, it just screams for a third-party software to do the heavy lifting.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-13 12:07:11+00:00
> Not quite. If it did, the -i-i would be i^2, not -1.

It is i², though, but that is equal to -1. Just like 22 = 2² = 4. I also maintain that the historical view is that this something extra comes from the properties of polynomials and their roots, not from geometric orthogonality.

> Exponentiation where you have i exponent however, is not defined solely in the complex field.

We can take another tack for defining the complex exponential function, if you'd prefer. One of the definitions of the exponential function is that e^x is the only function that respects f'(x) = f(x) (well, up to constant multiplication).

So, we need to look for a function f(z) such that f'(z) = f(z). There are various ways to do this (for example, using the Taylor series expansion and noting that all of the f derived n times factors are equal to f(z), which yields the power series definition). You don't need to appeal to limits of e^x to get there this way.

> Algebraic view is basically the idea of that numbers are only defined if there is some relation that expresses their definition.

Understood, you are using a different sense of "algebraic" than what I was - I was thinking more of the abstract algebraic definition of C.

Still, the sense you are using seems to be the concept of algebraic numbers, which is more formalized - the algebraic numbers are all those that represent the root of a polynomial with integer or rational coefficients. Interestingly, while pi and e are not algebraic numbers, i or i+7 are still algebraic.

However, I'm not sure what the point of bringing this up is. Exponentiation is simply not defined over the algebraic numbers, especially not e^x where x is algebraic - so if we restrict ourselves to algebraic numbers, e^i is not defined, true, but neither is e^1. And while 2^2 is defined, of course, I'm not even sure you can define 2^sqrt(2), so I wouldn't be surprised if 2^i doesn't make sense either.

Either way, the algebraic numbers are not "a way of thinking about numbers", they are a restricted subset of what is generally meant by "number", and many famous and useful results from many branches of math do not work over this subset (for example, you can't even use the same set of algebraic numbers to refer to the length of a circle and the length of a square).
Show HN: A lightweight, ad-free medal tracker for Milano Cortina 2026
by xjefflee | 2026-02-13 12:07:41+00:00
I got frustrated with the official Olympic websites and mainstream sports apps. They are often bloated with trackers, heavy ads, and confusing navigation, especially on mobile.

So I built Milano2026.live.

The goal was simple:

Speed: Near-instant loading for checking results on the go.

No Bloat: No ads, no unnecessary JS.

Better UX: A clean schedule that doesn't feel like reading a spreadsheet (just fixed the formatting based on early feedback!).

It's built using Next.js 15 and deployed on Vercel. I'm using ISR to keep the medal counts fresh while keeping the server load minimal.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the performance or if there's any specific data you'd like to see added during the games!
Show HN: Paper Banana – AI academic illustration generator
by GuiShou | 2026-02-13 12:07:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I built PaperBanana to help researchers create professional scientific figures and diagrams using AI.

It turns text descriptions or rough sketches into publication-ready illustrations, including system architectures, flowcharts, and schematics.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the output quality and what scientific styles you’d like to see added.
by aanet | 2026-02-13 12:07:51+00:00
It's the inevitable next step in FB's "AI glasses" --> facial recognition.

It's the use case everyone was warning about, going back to the good (bad) ol' glassh*le days.

So much for learning from history. This looks deliberate.

I'd rather wear a CV-dazzle type mask if I see another guy wearing his AI glasses.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 12:08:18+00:00
> Do you remember when the Democrat Party arrested Trump?

No, because so far as I know the Democrat Party didn't arrest him.

The State of Georgia arrested him, after a grand jury indicted him on charges of election racketeering, if that's what you have in mind?

> Do you remember when they put J6 people in prison in solitary confinement for a year?

Nope. Tried looking, I find stories about 4 months?

But sure, let's say that's a distinction without a difference. How is this "go full hog"? It's not like solitary confinement is all that rare in the US prison system.

If you want to treat solitary confinement as a wild and unacceptable punishment, please do campaign against it entirely, I'd like to see that change in your system. But it would be a change, which is kinda the point I'm making here: the Democrats *don't do change*. Not fast.

> Do you remember when they locked you in your house for a year?

Three problems with that:

1) Look at my profile to see why that's a dumb question in the first place

2) These clearly show state-level responses, not federal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_governmen...

3) Look at the dates on the previous link, which are both significantly shorter than a year, and also (except for CA) entirely contained within Trump's own first term.

So, if you did want to blame just one single party executive, which would be weird, you'd have to blame the Republicans.

> Do you remember when they fired people from the military for not having forced medical procedures?

You know how the military are supposed to follow any lawful orders even when those orders will definitely result in their own deaths?

Of all the pearls people clutch over the pandemic, the two which most confuse me are this particular one about the military, and which specific political tribe ended up being the one affiliated with hating masks. Slap some fake cameo pattern on it, call it "tactical", perhaps brand it "lung armour". Still, was obvious that eventually most people would hate them and it was just a matter of which party picked up the loudest mask haters, as per what happened in the Spanish Flu pandemic.
by rswail | 2026-02-13 12:08:49+00:00
Cameras are only "cheap" because of mobile phone camera development, radar/lidar is going through the same process with car and mobile robotics.

So the "we can train cheaply because of lots of cameras" falls down when, for example, BYD has all of its cars with lidar for ADAS but can collect the data for training as well as the vision from cameras and whatever other sensors like tyre pressures and suspension readings and all the other sensors that are on a modern car.

The argument that we can make the cars cheaper in the future by not collecting the additional data now has been proven wrong by the CN and KR manufacturers.

That's also independent of the whole EV side of things.
by reactordev | 2026-02-13 12:09:10+00:00
map $http_user_agent $uatype {
default 'user';
~*(googlebot|bingbot) 'good_bot';
~*(nastybot|somebadscraper) 'bad_bot';
}

You can also do something like this to rate limit instead of by IP address. Making all ‘bad_bots’ limited but not ‘good_bots’.

I’m not dismissing the difficulty of the problem but there are multiple vectors that can identify these ‘bad_bots’.
by hideghost | 2026-02-13 12:09:41+00:00
Tired of "private" chat apps that track everything?

This chat platform:

- End-to-end encrypted - we can't read your messages even if we wanted to
- No registration, no email, no phone number
- Messages auto-delete after inactivity - nothing is permanent
- No databases - everything runs in-memory and disappears
- WebRTC encrypted calls - direct peer-to-peer
- Zero tracking, zero analytics, zero bullshit

Create a room. Share the link. Chat. It's gone.
by bondarchuk | 2026-02-13 12:09:47+00:00
He does leverage the risk that others take, but those others are also the people who collectively build society so as to require taking that risk. It's kind of tit-for-tat in a way.

>How can I take his advocacy seriously

You could just listen to what he has to say and consider whether or not it's true. His personal behaviour at the end of the day has little bearing on that. "He doesn't even do XYZ therefore I won't believe him" feels more like a rationalization one comes up with because one doesn't want to believe him in the first place.
by dangus | 2026-02-13 12:10:08+00:00
I could imagine that, but I haven’t witnessed that.

What I’ve witnessed is a very conventional client/server web application that runs in a very conventional hosting scheme where best practice security IAM controls are still applied just like everything else I’ve ever deployed.

What I’ve withessed is a system that won’t allow you to ask for anything that’s remotely illegal, and the assumption that those controls would just disappear seems unlikely to me. That’s kinda like saying YouTube is going to start allowing you to upload copyrighted movies again like the good old days.

AGI fanatics are like dog owners who saw their dog learn to sit and now believe he’s on pace to get a PhD.
by tianqi | 2026-02-13 12:10:39+00:00
Currency conversion is not only incredibly fraught with traps, but believe me, even for very intelligent and research-savvy individuals, if you're not a professional in this area, you'll struggle to see all the pitfalls and still fall for them. I don't consider myself stupid, but I spent several days seriously researching it, and ultimately, after being exploited by several new tricks, I gave up. I consider those losses as a part of travel expenses and avoid letting it amplify my losses, that ruining my travel. PayPal is even more blatant fraud. You never know how much money is left after a transfer or withdrawal until you're surprised, and then they'll say they mentioned it in some tens of thousands of words of agreement that they would deduct this amount.
by Joker_vD | 2026-02-13 12:12:44+00:00
But that's just associativity, not the order of evaluation? E.g. in C# expressions are evaluated strictly left to right, so if it had operator **, the order of evaluation would've been:

tmp1 := x, tmp2 := y, tmp3 := z, tmp4 := tmp2 ** tmp3, yield tmp1 ** tmp4

And, eh, I am not really that convinced that

a b * c d * x y * z t * p q * + + sqrt + +

is much less torturous than

a * b + c * d + sqrt(x * y + z * t + p * q)
Ask HN: AI Depression
by pavello | 2026-02-13 12:12:59+00:00
Hi,

Throw-away account because my original one is easily identifiable.

Does any starts to feel depressed about AI push and hype? I'm around ~45 and have been happily hacking and delivering stuff for 25 years.

I use AI daily — it's a useful tool. But the gap between the marketing and reality for many of us is hard to describe. The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters declaring our obsolescence are overwhelmingly people who've never built or maintained anything complex in their lives. I'm sick of posts showing developers as awesome managers orchestrating fleets of Codex and Claude Code instances — I don't know a single person who actually has access to unlimited quotas for that. I'm now scared to publish open source because some random AI agent might spam my repo with garbage PRs and issues.
Are we really expected to deliver mediocre C compilers while emitting millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere just to make a handful of rich people even more rich? And suddenly we have something like Moltbook to pollute our planet even more. Where are we going with this?

Anybody feels something like that? I seriously thinking about leaving the industry to keep my mental health in control or switch to some tech that is hard for AI.
by farresito | 2026-02-13 12:13:44+00:00
> In some sense, the visionaries in this space are not thinking big enough. I want visions of mobility with a totally different size, look, speed, etc. autonomous Golf carts? tuktuks? A moving autonomous bicycle carrier? etc

If anything, it's the opposite: most people in this space (Elon, George Hotz, Demis, etc.) have been saying for a very long time that autonomous driving is just the first step, and that their objective is to build world models.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-13 12:13:53+00:00
Yes. In order to serve 1k/s, they must be fitting the entire model on SRAM and not reaching out to off chip RAM. This means they’re likely chaining multiple wafer chips together to serve this model or they shrunk the model to fit one wafer chip. It’s uneconomical for many use cases but for highly valuable tasks, it could be worth it.

This is one area Nvidia chips have not been able to do, ultra fast, ultra high value tasks. Hence, the Grog acquisition.
by usefulposter | 2026-02-13 12:15:23+00:00
Well, since we're all talking about sourcing training material to "benchmaxx" for social proof, and not litigating the whole "AI bubble" debate, just the entire cottage industry of data curation firms:

https://scale.com/data-engine

https://www.appen.com/llm-training-data

https://www.cogitotech.com/generative-ai/

https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/...

https://www.nexdata.ai/industries/generative-ai

---

P.S. Google Comms would have been consulted re putting a pelican in the I/O keynote :-)

https://x.com/simonw/status/1924909405906338033
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-13 12:16:17+00:00
And, you know, if it was actually mobilized to find lost puppies, I'd be all for that shit. But that's not what it's for. It's for helping cops find poor people, or ICE find Mexicans, or whatever bullshit is making the headlines in 4 weeks.

FWIW, I don't like being a tech downer/skeptic, but every fucking thing is like this now. Every social media is being turned into surveillance. Every cloud-based application, no matter how useful, is bending over so the state can shove it's hand up it's ass and turn it into yet another way for the Christofascists to shove their bullshit into my life. I'm fucking tired, y'all. I'm tired of finding something cool and interesting, and then needing to audit the entire backend to see if my friends and I are endangering ourselves by engaging with it. I'm tired of seeing something fucking useful, a goddamn video doorbell, and being like "oh that's pretty fucking nice!" and then having to box it up years on because the company that built it is going to turn my porch into a node in the nationwide Good Citizen network.

And it's asymmetric because they seemingly NEVER get tired. There's just a whole like 1/3 of the population out there that seemingly never even sleeps, they're just constantly trying to figure out how to make my life just slightly fucking worse, either for profit or to advance their weird evangelical agenda.

I'm so, so, profoundly sick of these freaks.

Edit: And please just SPARE ME the both sides horseshit. Yeah both sides have problems, but one side is fucking dragging us back to 16th century social politics, and THEY'RE the ones I'm sick more of.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-13 12:16:53+00:00
Out of interest, how is that relevant? Are we not able to criticize a FOSS maintainers response unless we run a project of scale ourselves? The maintainer is clearly engaging and knows what the problem is but stalls on the "last mile" which is issue creation. Do you agree?

wolfSSL also sells commercial licenses so it's not like they're going uncompensated for their work. Regardless, we shouldn't put people on pedestals because their title is "FOSS maintainer"
by porknbeans00 | 2026-02-13 12:16:58+00:00
One of the horrific elements of 9/11 was that force of compression as the building collapsed basically destroyed bodies beyond even being small parts.

As a result, for years following 9/11 remains ( sometimes very small ) were found and immediately catalogued and DNA tested in the hopes some of the victims would finally have something that could be buried.

It's truly horrific to be unable to tell a family for certain that their loved one is definitely gone. And there are folks from that event who are still entirely missing, no remains found. Their families had to bury empty caskets with a lack of closure.

It's a pretty horrid thing.