MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MBCook | 2026-02-17 20:39:20+00:00
Then stop deploying camera only systems until that time comes.

Waymo could be working on camera only. I don’t know. But it’s not controlling the car. And until such a time they can prove with their data that it is just as safe, that seems like a very smart decision.

Tesla is not taking such a cautious approach. And they’re doing it on public roads. That’s the problem.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-17 20:39:28+00:00
>This is technically true but substantively false.

Only for a certain mindset of people, who feel entitled to every possible bonus ever mentioned. We might even guess your age from that alone.

>which are removable for poor behavior with minimal process,

Once convicted you are subject to administrative punishments. Don't be convicted.

>So, technically, its not an “increased sentence” for

You misspelled literally. It's literally not an increased sentence.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-17 20:39:29+00:00
> digital designers tend to push back in favor of vendor tools.

Which is fair in my experience because Verilator has serious limitations compared to the other three - no 4-state simulation (though that is apparently coming!), no GUI, no coverage, UVM etc. UVM is utter shite tbf, and I think they are working on support for it.

Also it's much slower than the commercial simulators in my experience. Much slower to compile designs, and runtime is on the order of 3x slower. Kind of weird because it has a reputation for being faster but I've seen this same result in at least two different companies with totally different designs.

I gave up on Verilator support in a previous company when we ran into a plain miscompilation. There was some boolean expression that it simply compiled incorrectly. Difficult to trust with your $10m silicon order after that!

It's definitely nice that it doesn't require any ludicrously expensive licenses though.
by cyberax | 2026-02-17 20:39:41+00:00
Small block ciphers are great for some use-cases!

32-bit block ciphers are a good way to create short opaque IDs because they provide a bijection between two sets of integers. And even if your ID is slightly shorter than 32-bit you can easily shave off a few bits with cycle walking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format-preserving_encryption#F... E.g. if you want to make sure your IDs can be mapped into 31/63 bits.

I especially like the RC-5 cipher for these kinds of uses. It can be implemented in just a few lines of code and there are standard test vectors for it.
by squarefoot | 2026-02-17 20:40:16+00:00
> It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as.

That's the result of well known disinformation tactics by certain media in concert with police forces: wait or provoke a violent outburst in a otherwise peaceful protest, often triggered by carefully planned repetitive police charges, then be ready to film when protesters discharge their frustration against what they have nearby like shops windows and cars, make a enraging video out of it and show only that in prime time to families dining.
by ctoth | 2026-02-17 20:40:37+00:00
For me it's the ... unearned confidence that 4.5 absolutely did not have?

I have a protocol called "foreman protocol" where the main agent only dispatches other agents with prompt files and reads report files from the agents rather than relying on the janky subagent communication mechanisms such as task output.

What this has given me also is a history of what was built and why it was built, because I have a list of prompts that were tasked to the subagents. With Opus 4.5 it would often leave the ... figuring out part? to the agents. In 4.6 it absolutely inserts what it thinks should happen/its idea of the bug/what it believes should be done into the prompt, which often screws up the subagent because it is simply wrong and because it's in the prompt the subagent doesn't actually go look. Opus 4.5 would let the agent figure it out, 4.6 assumes it knows and is wrong
by alephnerd | 2026-02-17 20:40:46+00:00
> I'm guessing this isn't part of most curricula anymore

My sibling is a CS@UIUC grad and they as well as CS+X were still required to do that.

In other universities such as Cal it's a different story. Systems programming and computer architecture course requirements have either been significantly reduced or eliminated entirely in CS programs over the past decade.

I've documented this change before on HN [0][1][2]. The CS major has been increasingly deskilled in the US.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413516

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404647

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397327
by dakolli | 2026-02-17 20:40:49+00:00
I called this many times over the last few weeks on this website (and got downvoted every time), that the next generation of models would become more verbose, especially for agentic tool calling to offset the slot machine called CC's propensity to light the money on fire that's put into it.

At least in vegas they don't pour gasoline on the cash put into their slot machines.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-17 20:40:49+00:00
A couple of things come to mind:

1) Zero is basically never the best error rate, effort isn't infinite and spending too much of it on one defect ends up meaning spending less on other issues.

2) Look at what he's saying. This is a classic pattern for providing a fake proof of evil.

a) Point to evil. For example, CSAM

b) Expand the definition of that evil in ways that are often not even evil. Here, include scantily clad in your definition of "sexual". Note that swimsuits qualify.

c) Point to examples of evil in your expanded pool.

d) Claim this points to evidence of the original definition. Note that nothing about their claims precludes their "CSAM" being nothing more than ordinary beach or pool scenes. Their claim includes the null and when the null is a possible answer it should be assumed.
by mattfrommars | 2026-02-17 20:40:49+00:00
As a grown adult in this mid 30s, I wonder when the transition happens in kids who are passionate about certain subject or career turn into becoming lawyers or accountants in adulthood… it’s like encounters in life changes people to pursue a career which they never imagined they’d do in their childhood

You won’t find a kid who’d say, “I want to be accountant when I grow up…” instead you’d find people want to be pilots or police officer….
by Stefan-H | 2026-02-17 20:41:03+00:00
But it is not a layer on top of sqlite_vec, so your logic seems to be:
If the tool uses sqlite_vec (which it doesn't)
Then it should say so in the readme.
You didn't find evidence sqlite_vec in the readme, so your conclusion was that it should be added.

This is seemingly based off of your not liking the author mentioned that it would be the "sqlite of RAG" (which, notably, does not at all imply the use of sqlite, in fact, it suggests this is an alternative to sqlite).

To address your other questions about if the file format is actually a sqlite database, the readme does address that: https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax?tab=readme-ov-file#...

The fact that the format is append-only seems to rule out that it is sqllite, but I could be wrong.
by quinncom | 2026-02-17 20:41:05+00:00
Screen sharing to any remote API is a nonstarter for me. I don’t care if the API claims ZDR; Snowden’s revelations are still echoing. So, I appreciate that the app supports a custom endpoint for local models.

Which local models did you try? GLM-OCR seems like it would excel at this: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-OCR
by irickt | 2026-02-17 20:41:14+00:00
I think not "ideally" in any case.
Rather "practically" could be banned, for what badness?

It doesn't claim it was authored by humans.
It is clearly the work product of human who transparently is using AI.

The work product if it works as claimed is rather amazing.
Maybe even an inflection in AI use, if it would be sustainable.
by Morromist | 2026-02-17 20:42:28+00:00
Whether or not its true, we only have to look at Peter Steinberger, the guy who made Moltbook - the "social media for ai", and then got hired amist great publicity fanfare by OpenAI to know that there is a lot of money out there for people making exciting stores about AI. Never mind that much of the media attention on moltbook was based on human written posts that were faking AI.

I think Mr. Shambaugh is probably telling the truth here, as best he can, and is a much more above-board dude than Mr. Steinberger. MJ Rathbun might not be as autonomous as he thinks, but the possibility of someone's AI acting like MJ Rathbun is entirely plausable, so why not pay attention to the whole saga?
by dakolli | 2026-02-17 20:42:33+00:00
You "agentic coders" say you're switching back and forth every other week. Like everything else in this trend, its very giving of 2021 crypto shill dynamics. Ya'll sound like the NFT people that said they were transforming art back then, and also like how they'd switch between their favorite "chain" every other month. Can't wait for this to blow up just like all that did.
by WolfeReader | 2026-02-17 20:42:51+00:00
The Ars Technica journalist's account is worth a read. https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

Benji Edwards was, is, and will continue to be, a good guy. He's just exhibiting a (hopefully) temporary over-reliance on AI tools that aren't up to the task. Any of us who use these tools could make a mistake of this kind.
by realusername | 2026-02-17 20:42:56+00:00
The #1 security problem your average Android user face isn't an attack by some Israeli firm but data leaks by advertisers and unless I missed something, GrapheneOS does not have an equivalent of ublock origin built into the OS which I'd consider step 1 of fighting the problem.

The "ideal android" in my head would just have a dynamic ruleset to wipe/nop tracking libraries as the app loads, which as far as I know, nobody does that, eOS doesn't either. Kind of like Revanced but on steroids and built into Android.

I feel like you can't really fix android anyways, the design is just broken and if you care about security / privacy, you should just use everything in a browser or a Linux distribution.

Sure the work GrapheneOS does is valuable but it's like removing water from a lake with a bucket.

I feel like shielding the mess that Android is into something like an improved Waydroid with a mindset of "yeah let's keep it there and the sane stack for the rest" sounds a better approach to me.
by varun_ch | 2026-02-17 20:43:11+00:00
I was surprised to see that Beeper actually has support for ‘local bridges’ that connect to services on-device (which reduces the risk of bans and removes Beeper as the middleman).

I was unsurprised to see that (at least with the local Instagram bridge), Beeper is extremely inconsistent with push notifications and sometimes has messages missing in the chat.
by potsandpans | 2026-02-17 20:43:16+00:00
Ai hype bots are bots, and don't need to go to therapists.

> who have single-handedly ballooned the stock market (mostly Nvidia) into a massive bubble, are also histrionic, milking things for engagement, need to talk to a therapist?

I find your read to be clearly biased for whatever cause you're clearly championing. There's no right answer in the way you're framing it, you obviously just want to dunk on me.

You accuse me (using modern parlance to insinuate I'm commiting a social transgression) of "victim blaming" and being "weird". Interesting strategy. _shame_ me.

That's fine.
by nearbuy | 2026-02-17 20:43:27+00:00
Claude was used by the US military in the Venezuela raid where they captured Maduro. [1]

Without safety features, an LLM could also help plan a terrorist attack.

A smart, competent terrorist can plan a successful attack without help from Claude. But most would-be terrorists aren't that smart and competent. Many are caught before hurting anyone or do far less damage than they could have. An LLM can help walk you through every step, and answer all your questions along the way. It could, say, explain to you all the different bomb chemistries, recommend one for your use case, help you source materials, and walk you through how to build the bomb safely. It lowers the bar for who can do this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/us-milita...
by hfavlr | 2026-02-17 20:43:55+00:00
Open source developer is slandered by AI and complains. Immediately people call him names and defend their precious LLMs. You cannot make this up.

Rathbun's style is very likely AI, and quickly collecting information for the hit piece also points to AI. Whether the bot did this fully autonomously or not does not matter.

It is likely that someone did this to research astroturfing as a service, including the automatic generation of oppo files and spread of slander. That person may want to get hired by the likes of OpenAI.
by jMyles | 2026-02-17 20:44:01+00:00
> but with more people having more capability to what they want.

Well, yeah I think that's a very reasonable worldview: when a very tiny number of people have the capability to "do what they want", or I might phrase it as, "effect change on the world", then we get the easy-to-observe absolute corruption that comes with absolute power.

As a different human species emerges such that many people (and even intelligences that we can't easily understand as discrete persons) have this capability, our better angels will prevail.

I'm a firm believer that nobody _wants_ to drop explosives from airplanes onto children halfway around the world, or rape and torture them on a remote island; these things stem from profoundly perverse incentive structures.

I believe that governments were an extremely important feature of our evolution, but are no longer necessary and are causing these incentives. We've been aboard a lifeboat for the past few millennia, crossing the choppy seas from agriculture to information. But now that we're on the other shore, it no longer makes sense to enforce the rules that were needed to maintain order on the lifeboat.
by devman0 | 2026-02-17 20:44:05+00:00
Businesses can use deposit management services to spread cash among many banks. Bonus points they also are less impacted by the poor business practices of one bank.

Individuals can do this too with investment brokers or wealth management providers.

Alternatively we could just made FDIC coverage unlimited, but then that creates poor risk taking incentives, which is the whole point of not setting the expectation of the a bailout by making exceptions.
by doomslayer999 | 2026-02-17 20:44:34+00:00
Great article and exactly why I use AI less and less. I basically find it to be rotting my brain towards the middle of the distribution. It's like all the nuance and critical thinking that actually goes into things gets stripped out.

Once a company perfects an agent that essentially performs condensed search and coding boilerplate making, that is probably where LLMs end for me. Perplexity and Claude are on the right track but not at all close.
by nzoschke | 2026-02-17 20:44:57+00:00
Go and its long established conventions and tools continues to be a massive boon to my agentic coding.

We have `go run main.go` as the convention to boot every apps dev environment, with support for multiple work trees, central config management, a pre-migrated database and more. Makes it easy and fast to dev and test many versions of an app at once.

See https://github.com/housecat-inc/cheetah for the shared tool for this.

Then of course `go generate`, `go build`, `go test` and `go vet` are always part of the fast dev and test loop. Excited to add `go fix` into the mix.
by UltraSane | 2026-02-17 20:45:11+00:00
"Every single robotaxi in Austin doesn't have a driver behind the wheel."

Almost ALL of them do. And NO waymo's need them.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...

Robotaxis is checkers compared to Waymo Chesss
by meowface | 2026-02-17 20:45:13+00:00
While I agree with much of what you say, there are a lot of urban, educated, socially left, economically right people (including myself) who complicate some of this analysis. Many economically right-wing people believe a free market is the most effective and helpful path to improve the standard of living for the working class and the poor. ("Progressive neoliberal social democracy", one might call it.)

The issues with Republicans right now go far, far, far beyond "they care more about the wealthy than the poor" (though that is definitely one of their core problems). They're basically destroying the rule of law, the country's internal and international reputation and credibility, all of our most important institutions, our ability to discern what is true, our sense of decency, our civil liberties, our basic respect of human rights... The class stuff is secondary or tertiary to the bigger issues, in my opinion.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-17 20:45:20+00:00
Okay, so rereading it as pedantically as you seem to insist:

You "invented" ("Designed") a "device" "using physics", and nobody has designed that "device" before, making it novel.

"From first principles" is a fun statement because people like Aristotle also thought they were reasoning from "first principles" and look how far it got them. The entire point of science is that "first principles" are actually not something we have access to, so we should instead prioritize what literally happens and can be observed. It's not possible as far as we know to trick mother nature into giving us the answer we want rather than the real answer.

Did you ever actually build or test this "device"?
by AustinDev | 2026-02-17 20:45:27+00:00
Likewise, I feel like it's degraded in performance a bit over the last couple weeks but that's just vibes. They surely vary thinking tokens based on load on the backend, especially for subscription users.

When my subscription 4.6 is flagging I'll switch over to Corporate API version and run the same prompts and get a noticeably better solution. In the end it's hard to compare nondeterministic systems.
by alexhans | 2026-02-17 20:45:34+00:00
The website is great as a concept but I guess it mimics an increasingly rare one off interaction without feedback.

I understand the cost and technical constraints but wouldn't an exposed interface allow repeated calls from different endpoints and increased knowledge from the attacker based on responses? Isn't this like attacking an API without a response payload?

Do you plan on sharing a simulator where you have 2 local servers or similar and are allowed to really mimic a persistent attacker? Wouldn't that be somewhat more realistic as a lab experiment?
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-17 20:45:34+00:00
Well, see, the problem is that the race is currently at the primary election stage. So both candidates are Democrats.

So, if you give coverage to one candidate, that is favoring that candidate over the other. That doesn't seem fair.

But if you give both candidates air time, then you're giving air time to two Democratic candidates and zero Republican candidates. That can also be viewed as unfair (never mind that the Republican candidate is not in an election until November).

The only other option is to give neither candidate air time. That results in a less-informed electorate, and that's not a good outcome either.

All in all, the "give both candidates air time, even if they're both from the same party, as they will be in a primary" seems like the best answer, especially if it's applied to primary candidates from both parties. But it's not quite as straightforward a question as it appears at first glance.
by screye | 2026-02-17 20:45:56+00:00
Yep. Especially when one of the brands is Tesla.

Once Elon put himself at the epicenter of American political life, Tesla stopped being treated as a brand, and more a placeholder for Elon himself.

Waymo has excellent branding and first to market advantage in defining how self-driving is perceived by users. But, the alternative being Elon's Tesla further widens the perception gap.
by deelayman | 2026-02-17 20:46:46+00:00
With Canada testing the waters with Chinese EVs, I'm expecting a related question to be thrown around a lot - How will consumers access warranty service and repair for imported EVs?

Regulation maybe? Regulate the honest and straightforward disclosure of risk at a minimum.

Opening up the market so that we're not forced to choose between a select few car brands lets consumers weigh the risks themselves, based on their own appetites and tolerance levels. Give them the information.

In the longer term, the introduction of risk opens up new markets where companies like comma.ai (open pilot) could flourish and fill gaps for EV companies that go under or fail to deliver on the service side.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-17 20:47:20+00:00
>you can be California which in terms of population and GDP will surpass most of central America combined and it still just gets two representatives

Doesn't California have 54 reps, out of 485? And 90 out of ~800 Article III judges (lifetime appointment). It also collects $858 billion a year in state and local taxes that it gets to do mostly what it wants with
by aerhardt | 2026-02-17 20:47:31+00:00
Low? Put it this way. You work in a company or go to class with 45 people. Do you really think that 14 crashes in the last ~9 months is low?

In terms of miles driven, which is the fair comparison, from the article:

> Electrek analysis found that the vehicles have traveled roughly 800,000 paid miles in that time period, amounting to a crash every 57,000 miles. According to the NHTSA, US drivers crash once every 500,000 miles on average.
by random3 | 2026-02-17 20:47:35+00:00
I think META like many other "service providers" don't yet realize, that it's becoming trivial to roll your own and all we need is a protocol. And arguably there are many. You can then use your existing social graph (anyone remembers this term? lol) to chat.
Your mom and granddad won't roll their own, but publishing an open service that uses FB openID and API while delegating to the open protocol is really not that hard. Browser local storage may not be ideal, but it's a good placeholder until something better can be implemented.
by cedws | 2026-02-17 20:47:36+00:00
I think you overestimate the capability and willingness of the average Discord user to go through that. Majority are not technical, they have no idea what self hosting is, what a VPS is, etc.

Also self hosting creates an issue of balkanization. Everybody will have to join everybody else’s server. Too much effort. The closest we can probably get is the Mastodon model.
by pragma_x | 2026-02-17 20:47:45+00:00
My workaround here is/was:

- Install browser that lets you run plugins

- Change user-agent to a desktop browser - any will do

- (optional) run social fixer while you're at it

I completely understand that iOS probably won't let you do this. I've been doing this on Android and Firefox, and the web experience on a phone is... functional. Since it thinks its a desktop, the page layout doesn't always gracefully fit into a portrait form-factor. Landscape mode helps in those cases.
by themafia | 2026-02-17 20:48:17+00:00
> achieved the abilities they have with great safety numbers.

Driving around in good weather and never on freeways is not much of an achievement. Having vehicles that continually interfere in active medical and police cordons isn't particularly safe, even though there haven't been terrible consequences from it, yet.

If all you're doing is observing a single number you're drastically under prepared for what happens when they expand this program beyond these paltry self imposed limits.

> Some of us call them out.

You should be working to get their certificate pulled at the government level. If this program is so dangerous then why wouldn't you do that?

> And they seem to keep providing evidence we may be right.

It's tragic you can't apply the same logic in isolation to Waymo.