MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-13 15:32:32+00:00
I’ve implemented LLM based “intent processing” instead of old school “give it a list of every possible phrase that someone could use to activate an intent” for call centers for a couple of states and a couple colleges - I worked for AWS ProServe directly in the pub sec division and now work for a third party consulting company.

Think of an intent as something like asking Siri for driving directions, setting an alarm etc.

One of my specialties is Amazon Connect for hosted call centers - based on the same service that Amazon uses internally. Think of the difference between how Google Assistant and Alexa worked pre LLM and how Siri works today compared to tool calling that modern LLMs used.

That’s just using an LLM in a product.

As far as how I use it everyday? I am a staff consultant and in the previous times, I needed at least a couple of developers under me just to get the grunt work done on time. Now I can just treat Claude Code and Codex as faster, more accurate ticker takers.

Of course I’m not going to dox myself (more than I probably already have) or break any NDAs

And before the gate keeping starts about “I must be inexperienced”. My first time coding was on a 1Mhz Apple //e in assembly and BASIC in 1986. During the first decade and a half of my professional career, I programmed in C targeting everything from mainframes to PCs to Windows CE ruggedized devices.
by nu11ptr | 2026-02-13 15:34:18+00:00
While unfortunate, to me this just says any user requested features aren't going to get merged anytime soon. As is, it already runs on windows/linux/mac, and will need to do so maturely for Zed to function. Therefore, to me, this isn't that big of a deal, and when they need things like web support (on their roadmap), they will then add that.

I'm curious... does anyone have any PRs or features that they feel need merging in order to use GPUI in their own projects? (other than web support)
by zainalpour | 2026-02-13 15:34:29+00:00
I built a ZIO-native wrapper around the OpenFeature spec for feature flag evaluation in Scala. It integrates with ZLayer for DI, uses typed errors, and bridges Java SDK provider events into ZIO streams. Works with any OpenFeature-compatible provider (LaunchDarkly, Flagsmith, etc.). Cross-compiled for Scala 2.13 and 3.

https://github.com/EtaCassiopeia/zio-openfeature
by TheDong | 2026-02-13 15:34:39+00:00
In most countries, the most used messenger app is Whatsapp or Wechat or LINE or KakaoTalk or whatever.

In the USA, the most common messenger is iMessage. Unfortunately, unlike all the other apps I named, there's no Android app for it. Instead, if you try to iMessage an android recipient, suddenly iMessage turns into your phone's SMS app (not really sure why, feels like that should be a separate app), and half the features go away.

You can no longer remove people from group chats (if any 1 of them has an android), you get strange messages sometimes, you don't get typing indicators. If they use RCS, and then go on a vacation to a country without RCS, suddenly your chat can break in very strange ways.

As a result, it's very common in the US for people to be ostracized from iPhone friend groups due to not having an iPhone.

When you use dating apps, if eventually you trade numbers and your partner is a green bubble, that's usually enough to end any chances at a relationship. Your family will remove you from the family group chat after the first low-resolution group photo.

A company made a solution to this called Beeper Mini, allowing people to have blue bubbles while using android phones, and Apple of course immediately shut it down because Apple wants the iOS club in the US to have this tangible social benefit, of you being able to have a wider dating pool, being able to talk to your family, and so on. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/10/apple-confirms-it-shut-...

It's a truly bizarre state of affairs.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-13 15:34:42+00:00
The simple reality with remote controllers is that there is a lot of extra network latency that pretty much makes any real time controlling of the car impractical. Most of this stuff happens over mobile networks too so there might be package loss, low resolution video. Maybe the video freezes for a second or two occasionally. Etc.

Even if human controllers actually could pay attention 100% of the time, they'd struggle to respond in time to a lot of dangerous situations. Most accidents happen when one of the cars (or their drivers) fails to react in time with what is effectively a split second decision.

Autonomous driving (with or without a controller) means a computer takes essentially all of those decisions for the simple reason that any human controller would probably be too late way too often.

Once you accept that simple logical reality, the role of that controller becomes more clear: they are there to step in and provide instructions to the car when it encounters some challenging situation and slows down, pulls over, or stops in a safe place. This probably doesn't involve any joysticks or steering wheels.

Controller responses are not real time critical. They can't be. It would fail to work too often. Also, most controllers probably need to monitor more than one car. Which only makes the problem worse. And they might have to juggle two stuck cars at once.

Mostly autonomous cars are pretty good at object detection and not crashing into stuff (all the real time stuff). It's object classification and interpreting complex situations where cars get stuck or might sometimes still do dangerous/illegal/sub optimal things. Getting stuck or slowing down is fine. The human controller can fix that. Doing the wrong thing is more problematic.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-13 15:34:50+00:00
> I've not seen the HN source code, but superficially it seems quite bare-bones (which I appreciate!). Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a harder target?

Yeah, I think it'd suffice. It's less about if it's possible or not (as apparently building something resembling of a browser "from scratch" isn't that hard), and more about exactly how it ends up being built, as that's the "software engineering" part that I'm arguing is still the hard part, and LLMs aren't that great at it (yet?).

A smaller test case would also be faster to execute, rather than spending 3 days of an engineers time, but I guess ultimately that's less important, just a happy side effect.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-13 15:34:53+00:00
Taxis used to expect tips, black cab drivers often still do.

People used to play this whole unpleasant game of saying "round it up to £30 if you do me a receipt", and the driver providing a fistful of blank receipts in return - almost as if expenses fiddling was less shameful than tipping.

Thankfully, the likes of Uber and mandatory card payment terminals in cabs have ended all that.
by fodkodrasz | 2026-02-13 15:35:01+00:00
Also add Liquid Glass, it strains the eyes.

Even siri got worse, when I say call <nickname of my gitfriend> now it does some location based search, and calls sonebody, when near home it is a doctor, when on the other side of the river it is a flower shop, at othe rplaces other random non-contacts, with a contact having the sting it used for search, as her nickname is always part of the called person… It used to work flawlessly as expected…

I would be fine with Siri actually if if could handle simple fixed phrase based task, no AI, as it could a few years ago.
by susanwicks26 | 2026-02-13 15:35:15+00:00
Stability is a non-negotiable factor for UK households, particularly those with children or pets. A chest of drawers bedroom unit, when loaded, shifts its centre of gravity forward. To mitigate the risk of forward-toppling, these units are supplied with a dedicated anti-tipping device. This hardware secures the frame to the wall, masonry or studwork, ensuring that even if multiple drawers are extended, the unit remains structurally immovable.
by cykim8811 | 2026-02-13 15:35:26+00:00
A CPython 3.11 bytecode VM that runs entirely inside PostgreSQL. No extensions, no foreign languages — just PL/pgSQL stored procedures and tables.
Every Python object is a row in a table. Type slots (tp_call, nb_add, sq_length, etc.) are stored procedure references. The interpreter loop is a single PL/pgSQL function that reads 2-byte wordcode instructions and dispatches to per-opcode handler functions.
It supports int, float, str, list, dict, set, tuple, classes with inheritance, closures, try/except, and 80+ opcodes. There are 87 test suites covering these.
The Python-side script (pgthon.py) just compiles source to CPython 3.11 bytecode and sends it over — the actual execution happens in SQL.
by squeefers | 2026-02-13 15:35:30+00:00
>Apart from the accountability part, knowing the operator is essential for FLOSS copyright management. Accepting patches of unknown provenance in your project means opening yourself up to potential lawsuits if it turns out the person submitting the patch (i.e. the operator in this case) didn't own the copyright in the first place.

so then dont accept PRs from random humans either? or is it anti-ai bias?
by kevincloudsec | 2026-02-13 15:35:54+00:00
The Harvard students who did this with PimEyes and Ray-Bans in 2024 proved the tech already works. What Meta is actually doing here isn't building facial recognition, it's removing the friction. Right now you need technical knowledge and a third-party service to pull this off.

Meta is turning it into a feature you get for free with your glasses. That's the pattern with surveillance tech. It starts as something only motivated actors bother doing, then it gets productized and suddenly everyone has it. The quote about launching while civil society groups are distracted is just them saying the quiet part out loud.
by Kovah | 2026-02-13 15:35:57+00:00
I recently tested Swiftkey after Typewise is sadly abandoned. It's sooooo much better than the stock keyboard. Not only is the auto-correct working incredibly well (garbage like witjoit is correctly transformed to without, which Apple Keyboard can't), Swiftkey also manages multi-language typing astonishingly well. Last but not least, I can customize it. I am also not signed in to my account, so no settings or whatever is stored on Microsoft servers.
by throwaway5752 | 2026-02-13 15:36:00+00:00
It was a system in a critical state and the freeze and well telegraphed upcoming layoffs led to a controller covering two roles and work done by supporting staff. This pushed the system over the edge.

Then they tried to baselessly blame DEI, then they tried to shift blame to the controller.

The collision was January 29. On Jan 20, a hiring freeze was hastily rolled out including the FAA. They were in the process of laying off staff, which was finalized in February with 400 probationary staff. These were largely rolled back that year after the impact to the civil aviation system, including substantially contributing to the deaths of these 67 people. The NIST report was produced under pressure. I stand by what I wrote. They threw an overloaded system into chaos with little care for the consequences and this was one of the results.

DOGE was working hand in hand with then new administration the entire time.
by angiolillo | 2026-02-13 15:36:24+00:00
> Nannies are obviously not making more than the vast majority of Americans.

Experienced nannies in high-cost-of-living areas do. Many charge $35 to $55 per hour [1][2][3] and at 45 hours a week, that is $82k to $129k a year or $6,825 to $10,725 a month.

> What was your experience with bad nannies?

Not wanting to pay the aforementioned prices and dealing with strong cigarette smoke smell on clothing, strong perfumes, buying them age-inappropriate toys, issues with timeliness, general messiness in our home, questionable unemployment claims, even a DUI. All the problems of an employee and roommate rolled into one.

All of them had prior experience, first aid training, and loved children so in retrospect I may have been overly harsh to refer to them as "bad nannies". But I still think it was absolutely worth the time and effort it took to find a good nanny.

[1] https://www.lighthouse-careers.com/blog/complete-nanny-salar...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/NannyEmployers/comments/1irv28o/nyc...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Nanny/comments/urmmqj/its_apparentl...
by kevincloudsec | 2026-02-13 15:36:42+00:00
I built a commercial product that competes with open source alternatives in my space, and this tension is constant. People ask why they should pay me when they could use the open source version. And the honest answer is: if you have the time and expertise to run, maintain, and interpret the open source tool yourself, you absolutely should.

I'm not owed your money any more than Rich is owed your contributions. But most people asking that question are really asking 'can someone else do the hard part for free,' which is exactly the entitlement he's describing, just pointed at a different target.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-13 15:36:49+00:00
If it helps explain where my comment was coming from, my friend I advised to take a break from the files was neck deep in every single new speculation because he himself was a survivor of CSA. He sent me a lot of stuff and was on the "believing in cannibal pedophiles" track for sure, and by the videos I was sent, lots of other people are on that track too.

It was especially bad for his mental health, all of these new speculative theories.
by retired | 2026-02-13 15:37:15+00:00
I’m honestly not sure which is more dystopian: the American blue/green bubble divide, or the situation in Spain where my doctor sends blood test results over WhatsApp, delivery drivers call me on WhatsApp, and couriers ask me to share my live location because they can’t find my building. Nearly all day-to-day communication is funnelled through a single Meta-owned channel.
by FrankWilhoit | 2026-02-13 15:37:17+00:00
"...anyone can build impactful software..."

The next thing will be a swiftly deepening differentiation between "impactful" software and software that gives the right answer. The latter may only be wanted in a few places, but by the same token, they will have more and more trouble finding it and at least some of them will pay whatever is asked for it.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-13 15:38:12+00:00
They've already talked about this new hardware many times, this is just announcing that said new models are starting fully driverless operations.

Waymo announcements tend to be very incremental, each one is only a small change from a prior known state. They seem to operate an attitude of least possible surprise, probably to avoid spooking anyone about scary robocars.
Show HN: 7-day jam became a 14-month build. satirical gun dating SIM (free)
by seainthetrees | 2026-02-13 15:38:35+00:00
It's political satire about American gun culture, toxic masculinity, and radicalisation pipelines, built by a distributed async dev team across multiple continents. The project started as a 7-day game jam entry and spiralled into 14 months of development. Whoops.

It hit #2 on Steam's Upcoming Releases page before launch with 6,400+ wishlists.

Some things that might interest this community:

The scope creep from 7 days to 14 months is a case study in how small projects grow
Unity, yarn
We literally named the team Scope Creeps after this.. crept scope.
We recorded 3+ hours of original in-game podcast content as a narrative delivery system
The game features an original song from The Stupendium (YouTube creator, hundreds of millions of views)
It's free — no microtransactions, no catch
by modeless | 2026-02-13 15:40:10+00:00
Here is what the original paper for ARC-AGI-1 said in 2019:

> Our definition, formal framework, and evaluation guidelines, which do not capture all facets of intelligence, were developed to be actionable, explanatory, and quantifiable, rather than being descriptive, exhaustive, or consensual. They are not meant to invalidate other perspectives on intelligence, rather, they are meant to serve as a useful objective function to guide research on broad AI and general AI [...]

> Importantly, ARC is still a work in progress, with known weaknesses listed in [Section III.2]. We plan on further refining the dataset in the future, both as a playground for research and as a joint benchmark for machine intelligence and human intelligence.

> The measure of the success of our message will be its ability to divert the attention of some part of the community interested in general AI, away from surpassing humans at tests of skill, towards investigating the development of human-like broad cognitive abilities, through the lens of program synthesis, Core Knowledge priors, curriculum optimization, information efficiency, and achieving extreme generalization through strong abstraction.
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 15:40:20+00:00
I upvoted your comment. Love the confidence. I’ve self funded full venture studios - so I have a pretty good take on costs of innovation. You might say I was poor at deploying innovation capital; you might be right!

Anyway 100k is hyperbolic. But I’d argue just one order of magnitude. Claude max can do many things better than my last (really great) team, and is worse at some things - creative output, relationship building and conference attending most notably. It’s also much faster at the things it is good at. Like 20-50x faster than a person or team.

If I had another venture studio I’d start with an agent first, and fill in labor in the gaps. The costs are wildly different.

Back to you though - who hurt you? Your writing makes me think you are young. You have been given literal super power force extension tech from aliens this year, why not be excited at how much more you can build?
by randycupertino | 2026-02-13 15:40:46+00:00
> Duarte, Bottenhorn and their co-conspirators created fake customer and driver accounts on the DoorDash platform and used the fake customer accounts to place orders for delivery. The orders were then assigned to fraudulent driver accounts.

> According to prosecutors, the defendants had insider access to DoorDash’s computer systems and manipulated them to cause the company to pay the fake driver accounts “as if individual orders had been delivered hundreds of times.”

> The scheme resulted in fraudulent payments exceeding $2.5 million.
by randerson | 2026-02-13 15:40:54+00:00
I can think of a many possible reasons offhand:

1. They've been in Growth mode, where it's common for companies to prioritize capturing the market over being profitable.

2. They've had no problems with money since proving their effectiveness. They can raise capital at favorable valuations (and hold secondary sales) whenever they want. It has been one of the hottest private stocks that people clamor to own.

3. As a private company whose dominant shareholder is the CEO, nobody can pressure them to raise prices. This typically changes after an IPO.

4. Previous government administrations would likely have resisted paying them much more than they charge the private sector or other governments. The new administration has proven they will do favors for companies that are friendly to them.

5. For awhile it seemed they might soon have viable competition for manned space flight (e.g. Starliner) but only in 2024 did we see how bad those are.

6. The low cost is a point of pride for Musk who liked to prove how much more efficiently he could do spaceflight than NASA.
by gglitch | 2026-02-13 15:41:04+00:00
Lot of good, standard-issue advice in your replies already, so I think all I'll add is: (1) Everybody's mind is a little different, so you're likely to need to experiment with many things for a long time before you start converging on stable insights into what your specific needs are, and they're likely to be somewhat context-dependent, so they're likely to evolve over time; so above all else, be patient and go easy on yourself and focus on your long-term progress rather than your short-term frustrations; (2) ...I forgot (not joking)
by b112 | 2026-02-13 15:41:47+00:00
This is an insane perspective.

I just gave them live, vs death. I just gave a little of myself, so they don't starve, aren't going to freeze to death, and are safe. Yes, I don't want them comfortable. You think this means I wish suffering, when I just helped them?

Absurdly selfish. "Why not give more!! How dare you only prevent starvation, giving housing, and ensure safety!! What's wrong with you!", you say?!

Blathering on about wealth and the rich is an absurd tact to take. We're talking about the fact that a person toiling every day, is giving to another who isn't. No hand wavy gibberish, will change that the house was built be a human being, one that isn't wealthy, and is paying a portion of their daily work (it's called taxes) to house someone.

If you want to donate your own effort and work to help people beyond that, no one is stopping you. But don't walk around complaining to others that giving basic necessities aren't enough.

You need to get your head on straight.

If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working?

Keep that real.
by Kovah | 2026-02-13 15:41:57+00:00
The sad part is, that Apple used to make somewhat stable, functional software. I started with the iPhone 3 and a bit later with Mac OS Snow Leopard.
It all started when Mr Cook decided to serve the shareholders, instead of focusing on Apple's core values. The software went downhill in such a speed in just a few years. And moving out of the ecosystem is a painful, if not unbearable, task that barely anyone loves to do. At least I can't even think about moving back to Android.
by BenjaminBarwo | 2026-02-13 15:41:58+00:00
Yeah, but it's not really their software that's the moat they rely on. It's a lot more to that. They have incredible branding, Devices may be MID, but at least they make good commercials guys..... Plus, everyone's like sheep. If everyone's getting the latest iPhone, they're going to continue to get the latest iPhone because everyone else is getting the latest iPhone. *Sending dis off of a MacBook with my iPhone 16 in my left pocket btw*
by TheDong | 2026-02-13 15:42:00+00:00
I think the least dystopian is a semi-government owned app, like WeChat in china.

iMessage is also controlled by a private company, and by my estimate, one of the most evil ones. Apple and Google are the two companies most complicit in feeding highly addictive and exploitative gambling apps to kids via their app stores, and they both profit massively off of it via 30% cuts.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-13 15:42:02+00:00
"Readers, whatever you're doing right now is what you would be doing during the rise of Nazi Germany..."

That is true.

If you're in the US and you're not in the signal chats or whatever that would alert you when ICE is working then you're not doing all the things that you could do to prevent this pronounced move towards fascism that will impact you personally and deeply.

This is not activism as charity- people need to understand that we are still in a spot where we may be able to push back, and that should be understood as simple self-interest.

Even if you're not in a place "under siege" they are working where you are living.

Consider that if you're in some rural place or even a place where they feel "at home" your work is going to be more impactful by definition:

- find your local immigrant's rights group that is watching out for ICE
- get trained by them how to be a "responder"
- slot in and help where you can.