MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FieryTransition | 2026-02-20 17:03:05+00:00
From my own experience, models are at the tipping point for being useful at prototypes in software, and those are very large frontier models not feasible to get down on wafers unless someone does something smart.

I really don't like the hallucination rate for most models but it is improving, so that is still far in the future.

What I could see though, is if the whole unit they made would be power efficient enough to run on a robotics platform for human computer interaction.

It makes sense they would try to make repurposing their tech as much as they could since making changes is frought with a long time frame and risk.

But if we look long term and pretend that they get it to work, they just need to stay afloat until better smaller models can be made with their technology, so it becomes a waiting game for investors and a risk assessment.
Ask HN: Anyone else exhausted by too rapid development of news?
by notsimonw | 2026-02-20 17:03:05+00:00
I'll be honest, I'm getting tired of tech (AI) news.

Every other day a new model. Or a new vibe coded project. Or some other AI sensation making the rounds.

Sometimes I think: Has any of this benefitted me truly?

Add to that all of the geopolitical events going on atm.

It's just too many things being flung at you daily.

Warren Buffet famously said "ignore the noise. take one good idea and run with it."

Easily said. Very hard to follow in practice.

Biggest two sources for this for me are HN and in a worse manner X.

Should I quit? But then again, ignore it for just two days and you already considered the one "living under a rock" ...
by _ph_ | 2026-02-20 17:03:18+00:00
ARM servers definitely seem to get more popular. Seems that for a lot of tasks they are the more economic option. Consequently, you want more and more development for ARM. That would be one reason. The other is, that developing for ARM is more fun, whenever you touch parts which are architecture-dependent.

For the computer: the Air is a great laptop. I am very happy it doesn't have a fan, so it can never get a clogged fan and it works great. Currently, I am running Linux on it via VMWare, so I get the best of two worlds. And Linux really flies on it. Once it is no longer supported by macOS, I am certainly going to go native Linux. As it is an M2, that probably would work already today.
by erashu212 | 2026-02-20 17:03:20+00:00
I ran a similar audit two weeks ago using a different methodology — deterministic quality gates rather than traditional CVE scanning. The interesting finding wasn't the security vulnerabilities (Cisco's 512 CVEs cover that). It was the AI drift patterns underneath: systematic error suppression, silent catch blocks, empty error handlers throughout the codebase. The code scores exceptionally well on structural metrics — clean architecture, good separation of concerns. But the AI agent optimized for 'compiles and passes tests' over 'fails safely.'

That's a pattern I've now seen across multiple AI-generated codebases. Traditional security scanners miss it entirely because it's not a vulnerability — it's a design philosophy baked in by the generation process. Published the full analysis with specific line numbers and commit hashes: [https://medium.com/@erashu212/i-ran-quality-gates-against-op...]
by coldpie | 2026-02-20 17:03:31+00:00
Your scepticism is well warranted. That's exactly the playbook Biden chose to follow, and I agree the most likely outcome is the next admin will follow it again.

However, I am unfortunately an incurable optimist, and sometimes we Americans really do pull off amazing feats. I live in the Twin Cities and we actually defeated DHS/CBP/ICE here. It was an amazing thing to witness, and maybe there is enough outrage at this admin's looting of the US that we can build the support nationally to do that kind of thing again.
by hdhdhsjsbdh | 2026-02-20 17:03:41+00:00
I look forward to the day we pull our heads out of the sand and stop excusing blatant corruption. It takes a naive view of the world to assume the Secretary of Commerce has access to the same limited information as you or I.

Let’s call all of this what it is: parasites leveraging their insider positions for profit. The ruling class is ripping the copper out of our walls and selling it for scrap while we all choose to look the other way.
by broskees | 2026-02-20 17:03:44+00:00
Built a small tool to compare LLMs side-by-side across benchmarks, arena scores, pricing, and modalities. Select up to 10 models and everything lines up in aligned columns.

No backend — all data is pre-fetched from api.zeroeval.com weekly via GitHub Actions and served as static JSON from GitHub Pages. Fully shareable URLs via ?m= param.

Data is also accessible directly as JSON for anyone who wants it programmatically (see llms.txt). Stack is vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no framework.

https://github.com/broskees/llm-compare
by sunaookami | 2026-02-20 17:03:46+00:00
Why do you accuse me of lying when you can literally google it and the decret that got passed? Not every ISP seems to participate (if you'd googled it you find news articles complaining that it isn't censor enoughed ironically: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/business/media/russia-rt-...).

EDIT: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
by dkarl | 2026-02-20 17:03:47+00:00
Application design is still a challenge. I had Monday off and vibe-coded up an app that I've been wanting to use for years. The thing is, I can tell it's going to be challenging to make it something sticky that I actually use.

Which makes sense. The reason I wanted to make this app is that there are two very popular paid apps in the same category that I use every day that don't quite feel the way I want them to. It'll be easy to fix the little annoyances and missing features, but there's a feeling that's missing from them as well. I don't think it's wrong to say that I'm put off by a lack of taste, at least according to my taste. I don't know if I can do better, but I'm looking forward to trying, and I love that Claude makes me fast enough that the project has finally tipped from "I'd love to tackle this, but I know it's too big for me" (which is what I've been thinking for the last 5-10 years) to "I can make a credible attempt at this."
by nonamenoslogan | 2026-02-20 17:04:13+00:00
The MacMini will still be running in 5-7 years, reliably, and still have updates from Apple on the macOS side. It will still be running in 10+ years too should you keep it that long.

MinisForum makes disposable hardware. We used to use them for TV computers at work, and while they are cheap, they are fidgity with hardware and drivers, come with hacked-Windows Enterprise installed by default, and generally last for about 2 years before they hit the recycle pile.
by waffletower | 2026-02-20 17:04:22+00:00
Marshal McLuhan would probably have agreed with this belief -- technologies are essentially prosthetic was one of the core tenets of his general philosophy. It is the essential thesis of his work "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". AI is typically assigned otherness and separateness in recent discourse, rather than being considered as a directed tool (extension/prosthesis) under our control.
by krapp | 2026-02-20 17:04:36+00:00
No. Not once in the entire history of the human race, from the time we were dwelling in caves to today, not in any tribe, village, hamlet, city, state, kingdom or nation, in no culture or circumstance, has effort ever been rewarded.

It's weird that homo sapiens sapiens has been around for approximately 300,000 years and it's never happened once. Not even once.
by jghn | 2026-02-20 17:04:40+00:00
I've dealt with postgres DBs larger than that in size though with no stored procedures and have never run into such problems. Except for a single table in a single DB at one stop, and that was a special case of people being extra stupid.

Granted, DB size isn't the best metric to be using here in terms of performance, but it's the one you used.
by furyofantares | 2026-02-20 17:04:45+00:00
> I have no idea how the fuck the rumor that these tariffs will be “paid by other countries” started.

It's what POTUS was saying since day 1. That we've been getting ripped off and we're gonna make the other countries pay us etc etc etc.

It is, as I said in the post, obviously wrong - but that's where it comes from.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 17:04:47+00:00
Sure they have.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-cou...

> President Donald Trump and his appointees have been accused of flouting courts in a third of the more than 160 lawsuits against the administration in which a judge has issued a substantive ruling, a Washington Post analysis has found, suggesting widespread noncompliance with America’s legal system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/justice-depar...

> Judge Provinzino, who spent years as a federal prosecutor, had ordered the government to release Mr. Soto Jimenez “from custody in Minnesota” by Feb. 13. An order she issued on Tuesday indicates that the government failed not only to return his documents, but also to release him in Minnesota as she had initially specified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...

> On April 10 [2025], the Supreme Court released an unsigned order with no public dissents. In reciting the facts of the case the court stated: "The United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal." It ruled that the District Court "properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

> During the [April 14 2025] meeting, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said that it was up to El Salvador, not the American government, whether Abrego Garcia would be released.

(That was, of course, a blatant lie.)
by erashu212 | 2026-02-20 17:04:47+00:00
Interesting framing. The runtime interception approach makes sense for catching dangerous syscalls in real-time. There's a complementary angle though — gating the code quality before it ever runs. When I audited the OpenClaw codebase, the most concerning pattern wasn't what the code does at runtime, it's that it silently suppresses errors at the source level. Empty catch blocks, swallowed exceptions, error paths that return nil without logging.

No runtime sandbox catches that because the code isn't doing anything 'dangerous' — it's just quietly failing. The full safety stack probably needs both: pre-commit quality gates on what the agent writes, and runtime interception on what it executes.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 17:04:52+00:00
No... because most conventional pricing increases exceeded the economic demands... at least in terms of groceries, which is one of the bigger areas of growth along with insurance rates (looking at auto insurance, required by govt in most states).

The food industries were seeing record profits at the same time of massive inflation, they were maximizing prices to see how much they could grow their wealth, while trying to minimize costs, decreasing quality and just absolutely abhorrent behavior all around.

I'm all for capitalism, but I strongly feel that the limitations granted to corporations by govt should come as part of a social contract that has largely been ignored completely. We should curtail a lot of the limitations granted and actually hold executives responsible for their decisions. We should also establish that "shareholder value" is not the only focus that companies should have. A corporation is not a person, that a corporation exists is fine, that they've been shielded from responsibility altogether in that limited liability now means you can literally destroy towns and executives and boards face no consequences is deplorable.

Governments should be limited, by extension the shields govt grants to corporations should similarly be limited. When the US constitution was written most corporations were formed around civil projects, then disbanded. Most companies were sole proprietorships or small partnerships. I think we need to get closer back to these types of arrangements.
by altairprime | 2026-02-20 17:04:56+00:00
Wework was a valid long bet that office properties would re-appreciate once the pandemic stopped — but now that AI is pulverizing the job market, any hope of that long bet paying off will require one of three things: a free-market boom in workers that require commercial property for success (e.g. physical invention companies like e.g. Saildrone due to not being able to homelab resins for safety reasons), and/or a market-wide rehiring event due to AI’s failure to deliver, and/or regulatory shifts in profit taxation and new business investment that trigger the above-described boom.

I know some commercial property owners in my hometown let their lowest-desirability storefronts sit vacant for twenty or thirty years (!) in order to prevent commercial property rent from falling across their entire portfolio. Turns out you can pay a lot of property taxes with not much revenue, and there hasn’t historically been regulatory pressure to pay an escalating “empty tax” to compel landlord pricing to behave according to supply and demand pricing models. Wework is still a terrible investment for an investor, but if you’re looking to bet long with no call and have the patient of decades, it’s not the worst plan. (There are certainly worse ways to gamble your money on the commercial property market!)
by bunderbunder | 2026-02-20 17:04:57+00:00
Try things and see for yourself. I know that’s not super satisfying advice, but everyone has a different experience with these things so there are no easy answers.

Start small. Don’t feel pressured to dive straight into the $300 keyboards. I have a fancy custom mechanical keyboard myself, but that’s because a few years back I decided it would be fun to get into using a more hackable keyboard. For a very long time I was more than content with the (sadly now discontinued) Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which was one of the least expensive options.
by lkbm | 2026-02-20 17:05:21+00:00
Seems like the point of this website[0] is to provide a lot of concise, often opinionated design suggestions. Taken as a whole, it's interesting and worth browsing. This individual point? Under-developed.

It also missed out on making an obvious reference that would also add a reason for its recommendation: "Drop the www. It's cleaner."

[0] https://detail.design/
by marojejian | 2026-02-20 17:05:26+00:00
Surprised that in all the comments so far, no one has noted that Trump has many fallback options, which he said he'd use to re-create the tariffs, when this happens:

https://www.cato.org/commentary/trump-has-many-options-supre...

https://www.myplainview.com/news/politics/article/trump-has-...

A step in the right direction, but there's a lot of progress yet to be made if we want to restrain the executive.
by rhiever | 2026-02-20 17:05:26+00:00
In November 2025, AI coding tools went from “halting and clumsy” to surprisingly capable. Suddenly they could produce whole, working apps from minimal instruction, in ways they simply couldn't before.

This experiment makes that shift visible. We gave 22 AI models the same exact prompt to build a working analog clock from scratch, then ran each model five times independently.
by layer8 | 2026-02-20 17:05:53+00:00
For goods for which no domestic equivalent alternatives exist, why would the foreign suppliers lower their prices to compensate for the tariffs (which are paid by the importers to the government)? More generally, the cost of the tariffs will be split between foreign suppliers and local importers/consumers according to the competitiveness and availability of domestic suppliers, and according to market elasticity for the respective goods.
by milky2028 | 2026-02-20 17:05:57+00:00
Web Components are bad. Lit in particular is one giant memory leak. No tooling exists for making use of server-rendered Shadow DOM, which means users pay CPU cycles for client-side rendering.

Everything here is still true:
https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...
by erashu212 | 2026-02-20 17:06:01+00:00
The bans are treating the symptom. The root cause is that AI coding agents optimize for output that looks correct over output that fails safely. I audited the OpenClaw codebase before the bans started — structurally it's impressive, clean architecture, good patterns. But underneath, systematic error suppression everywhere. The agent learned that empty catch blocks make tests pass. Banning OpenClaw doesn't solve this. Every AI-generated codebase I've scanned shows the same patterns. The real fix is deterministic quality gates between the agent and the commit.
by ikeashark | 2026-02-20 17:06:24+00:00
I'm not both siding this, I heavily dislike DOGE and consequently the 45-47 presidency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624536#43625085

It calls DOGE workers "wreckers" and it lists all the staffers related with the DOGE project with a detailed description of how they're related and what they've done recently. They even have a page just for revealing anonymous staffers in court documents: https://dogetrack.info/people/aliases/

I agree DOGE is destructive but is it productive to reveal all the names and history of every staffer, contractor, lawyer, etc... related to the DOGE project?

The above is why I see it as "biased and emotionally charged".

This website very well could've gone without the extensive list of people related. Which is why I see this as more of a harassment list.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-20 17:06:38+00:00
"Defeated" is an interesting way to look at it. My perception is that the administration was just using the Twin Cities as a distraction, like they do for basically everything. In the mean time, the higher ups get their business deals done while the commoners are busy wasting energy cleaning up the mess. In which case, they succeeded. Now, onto the next distraction, and then the next one, and so on and so forth.

Minnesota has a very high probability of sending 2 Democrat senators and all their electoral votes to the Democrat presidential candidate. Minnesota and the Twin Cities are of zero consequence to this administration, so why not use them as a distraction?

The primary goal of the administration, sweeping tax cuts, was already accomplished in Jul 2025, so even Congress is of limited value now until after the next presidential election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
by m132 | 2026-02-20 17:06:51+00:00
Most of this mythical "taste", at least as hinted by the article, can be acquired rather easily—by looking into what's already out there before jumping to creating.

Is there nothing? Great, go ahead and fill the void.

Is there so much that it becomes overwhelming to even look? If so, ask yourself: does your thing have any significant differentiators? Are you willing to maintain it? Do you want the people who come after you to see one more option in the sea, or an existing project made better thanks to your changes?

It's about respecting the time of one another. If I'm looking for a to-do app, I'm looking for a good one, at least in the ways that matter to me. Not for thousands of applications with the same exact issues. And so are you. Nobody needs a million of options that suck. We all want a handful or ideally one that does the job.
by raddan | 2026-02-20 17:07:01+00:00
It's funny that you say that because my course websites for my students both:

1) make it difficult to select or copy text,
2) and even if you manage it, you discover that the actual text in the webpage source is encrypted,

mainly so they don't vibe-code their homework assignments. So I guess it rates high on my taste scale.

(kidding of course; but you can always bring your own stylesheet to the party)
by somenameforme | 2026-02-20 17:07:04+00:00
This is a dangerous path to go down. Trump's numbers (and donations) for this election skyrocketed after the DNC tried to put him in prison. If they hadn't done that, it's possible, if not probable, that he wouldn't be president today.

I think the main reason they went up is because of the perception that most of all of DC is corrupt. For instance the former president's drug addled son was making 6 figures a month at a Ukrainian gas company, presumably for his expertise with pipes? So when one side starts trying to put the other in prison it looks more like one is trying to imprison your opponents rather than having any real concern about justice or integrity. And at that point, things start to get dirty.

If you haven't read it - Plato's "The Republic" is amazing, and borderline prophetic. He views political systems as cyclical and views democracy as generally giving way to tyranny in a way that eerily parallels happenings in modern times, especially if we go down this path. In contemporary times you can also just get pretty solid cliff notes from an LLM by asking it what I'm talking about.
by lordnacho | 2026-02-20 17:07:08+00:00
How is it that the form of government comes up so often when discussing the decisions of ordinary people?

I would think for most people, you care about whether you can fit economically before you consider something that is unlikely to matter.

Obviously don't go and try to immigrate to China if you are planning to be a political commentator.

But for most people in most places, what will you notice? Are there jobs, how is tax, are the streets clean, are there homeless people, can I see a doctor, is there a lot of paperwork? Will I find friends?
by lumost | 2026-02-20 17:07:19+00:00
Curious if part of this was the overall decline in government compensation relative to the private sector. The president makes roughly what the typical SV engineer makes after 5 years in big tech or as a fresh grad from a top PhD program. Meanwhile the people the president deals with have become unfathomably wealthy.

In 1909, the US president made 75k - roughly 2.76 Million in today's dollars. This is in comparison to the current 400k dollar salary of the president. As the president is the highest paid government employee by law/custom - this applies downward pressure on the rest of the governments payroll.

I see no reason why the president shouldn't be modestly wealthy given the requirements or the role and the skill required to do it well. Cutting the payscale to less than some new grads seems like a recipe for corruption.
Ask HN: Who Should I Talk To?
by 3pt14159 | 2026-02-20 17:07:28+00:00
I am in a bit of a sticky situation. I'm 40 years old and my background is in programming (backend ruby and python, some cybersecurity, some JavaScript, although the JS is dated) and I don't like coding anymore. At least not day to day.

What I'm looking for is some sort of position that can leverage my background but do so in some other way. Maybe something in marketing at a company like Digital Ocean.

I'm willing to earn a lot less than I earned before. I know software development pays better than a role in marketing, but I'm sick of the tooling. I'm also open to working for an AI company that trains a software agent, which I've done so recently. Does anyone have references to a recruiter or hiring manager that I could talk to?

I would really appreciate any help here. Even just an upvote for visibility.
by sunaookami | 2026-02-20 17:08:12+00:00
I've always just used the "Plan mode" in Claude Code, I don't know if it uses thinking? I have "MAX_THINKING_TOKENS" in my settings.json set to "0", too. Didn't notice a drop in performance, I find it better because it doesn't overthink ("wait, let me try..."). Likely depends on a case-by-case basis (as so often with AI). For me, it's better without thinking.