MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jackfranklyn | 2026-02-11 23:10:47+00:00
The decision changes a lot depending on whether you're building developer tools or vertical SaaS for a specific industry.

I build accounting automation software. The defensible part isn't the code architecture - it's years of accumulated domain knowledge. How different platforms handle VAT codes differently. How the same merchant shows up as fifteen different description strings on bank statements. What a "partial invoice payment with a currency adjustment and a bank fee" actually looks like when you need to post it correctly.

Open sourcing that would hand competitors the playbook without helping end users, because end users are bookkeepers, not developers. They don't want to read source code. They want to log in and have their transactions coded.

For developer tools the logic flips entirely - your users CAN evaluate and contribute to the source, and trust matters in a way that only auditability can satisfy (as another commenter noted about credentials). But the article's framework seems to assume your end user is technical. For vertical products where the complexity is domain knowledge rather than code patterns, staying closed is usually the right call.
by Animats | 2026-02-11 23:10:57+00:00
Surprisingly, no. Humans adapt to higher CO2 concentrations over a period of days to weeks. Submarines run as high as 5000ppm, which is way above normal atmospheric concentration.[1]
Many indoor environments are above 1000ppm.

This seems to be like high altitude adaptation. It's going back and forth between concentrations that causes problems at moderate concentrations. The adaptation doesn't happen.

[1] https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/11170/chapter/5#51
by _kulang | 2026-02-11 23:11:02+00:00
I think the answer to this is ultimately economic, and that people will only change their habits when it comes down to what costs them money. Naturally this is because culturally, we have defined our life in this way, and those who value money benefit from the existing culture.

People who treat money as the only resource they need to navigate life stand to lose when things get expensive, but stand to lose even more when other forms of resource (energy, family connections, community) are needed.

As an extension of this I think extreme wealth inequality won’t ever be solved by a more equal distribution of money, and only can be solved by a devaluing of money as compared to other resources and thus a reduction in the power that money has. It’s not surprising then that billionaires end up spending their money on what gives them more control rather than what is a sensible monetary decision, like Musk purchasing Twitter.
by j-bos | 2026-02-11 23:11:10+00:00
Alternatively Anthropic has ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 baked into their models. Maybe OpenAI and other have equivalents.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-11 23:11:21+00:00
Do you live somewhere with high crime? The reason deliveries work this way in the US is that porch pirates are uncommon. There is a flurry of them during the holidays, but even then, the vast majority of deliveries are just fine.

> What are you going to do with that information?

Nothing, because by the time I look at my doorbell camera I would already have told the shipper the package was swiped and they will have shipped a replacement. They might take it up with the shipper, or call it a cost of doing business, whatever, but it won't be -my- problem.
by ohbleek | 2026-02-11 23:11:41+00:00
“Study after study shows that money doesn't really effect the results of high-information elections“

Your earlier statement, in which you claim that “money doesn’t effect result” followed by a useless distinction of high or low info elections. You’re really trying to dance a fine line of nonsense here.

“ We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between campaign expenditure, campaign contributions and winning probability.”

From the same article you posted and the first academic journal result if you Google “studies on how money influences elections”.
by floxy | 2026-02-11 23:12:18+00:00
>you probably aren't going to get any advantage by trying to build one in Earth orbit.

People want to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon, so that it doesn't have interference from terrestrial RF sources:

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

...and your spatial resolution is proportional to the size of your telescope. So you could really high resolution if you speckled your interferometric telescope array units around L1, L2, L4, and L5.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-11 23:12:32+00:00
> i’d sure hate for Google and the police to be able to identify someone who has kidnapped and/or perhaps murdered me.

You seem to overlook the more likely scenario where the camera is used against you in some way, whether by a government agency or for tracking and profiling by tech companies. You also, perhaps involuntarily, enable surveillance of your neighbors, family and friends.
by erwald | 2026-02-11 23:13:02+00:00
Where did you read that it was trained on Ascends?

I've only seen information suggesting that you can run inference with Ascends, which is obviously a very different thing. The source you link also just says: "The latest model was developed using domestically manufactured chips for inference, including Huawei's flagship Ascend chip and products from leading industry players such as Moore Threads, Cambricon and Kunlunxin, according to the statement."
by Multicomp | 2026-02-11 23:13:40+00:00
I am of course unqualified to provide useful commentary on it, but I find this concept to be new and interesting, so I will be watching this page carefully.

My use case is less so trying to hook this up to be some sort of business workflow ClawdBot alternative, but rather to see if this can be an eventually consistent engine that lets me update state over various documents across the time dimension.

could I use it to simulate some tabletop characters and their locations over time?

that would perhaps let me remove some bookkeeping how to see where a given NPC would be on a given day after so many days pass between game sessions. Which lets me do game world steps without having to manually do them per character.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-11 23:13:44+00:00
let's get this stupid social media purity test thing out of the way: blah blah blah, i oppose surveillance.

now that that's over, the phone is definitely more powerful surveillance technology than a ring camera

you can turn off your phone, so uh, it's not as powerful as it seems.

and practically speaking, ring cameras run out of battery all the time. and also, you can cover them.

the stupidest thing about this whole discourse is that, by participating in it in the particular way that you are, you are feeding directly into what Amazon wants, which is for their absolutely dogshit technology to be perceived as something a lot more valuable and powerful than it really is.
by foota | 2026-02-11 23:14:20+00:00
I was sort of thinking about a similar idea recently. What if you wrote something like a webserver that was given "goals" for a backend, and then told agents what the application was supposed to be and told it to use the backend for meeting them and then generate feedback based on their experience.

Then have an agent collate the feedback, combined with telemetry from the server, and iterate on the code to fix it up.

In theory you could have the backend write itself and design new features based on what agents try to do with it.

I sort of got the idea from a comparison with JITs, you could have stubbed out methods in the server that would do nothing until the "JIT" agent writes the code.
by fortran77 | 2026-02-11 23:14:40+00:00
Third Amendment issues come up every now and then. For example, legislators have tried to force airlines to provide special services for U.S. military at their own expense:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmaker-wants-to-waive-all...

I'm not saying these men and women aren't deserving, but the taxpayers should foot the bill. A private property owner shouldn't be forced to. Fortunaely, these bills never get far.
by bcherny | 2026-02-11 23:15:07+00:00
> I don't want verbose mode. I want Claude to tell me what it's reading in the first 3 seconds, so I can switch gears without fear it's going to the wrong part of the codebase. By saying that my use case requires verbose mode, you're saying that I need to see massive levels of babysitting-level output (even if less massive than before) to be able to do this.

To be clear: we re-purposed verbose mode to do exactly what you are asking for. We kept the name "verbose mode", but the behavior is what you want, without the other verbose output.
by slg | 2026-02-11 23:15:09+00:00
>There's no frame story to support this.

There definitely is. No one on screen looks into camera and says this directly, but the whole recurring "Would you like to know more?" bit is supposed to tip the viewer off that what they're watching is a product of the government's propaganda efforts.

I truly don't know how you can watch this [1] and conclude we're meant to fully trust them as the 100% honest truth.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cktmS-yaxM
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-11 23:15:14+00:00
nah, this is just not something designer would expect to fail like that. The LED has datasheet, the datasheet have leakage current, it has no data on increased leakage over years, you plan for what you have.

What would help is not randomly planning for some of the segments to fail (they are multiplexed with other things, you'd have to put more diodes), but to just get slightly better/less cheap LED display

Only "choice" made here was sorting by price when buying components for the cheap device.
by chr1 | 2026-02-11 23:16:08+00:00
What we have now is a politician saying vote for me and i'll pass laws that will give you 10k in next 4 years, people vote for the politician who then takes money from scamazon gives 10 to voters and takes 10mln to get elected again.

Eliminating the middleman makes things better already.

But more importantly with vesting time, large number of votes, ease of reversing a decision in a new vote, take $10 and vote for something that costs you more simply won't work.
by computerdork | 2026-02-11 23:16:18+00:00
Good reminder. Actually, I’m there with you, already have mittens, and they are warmer than my gloves (although, my fingers still get cold, even in them).

But also, kind of don’t like how they make me look like a teenager, and I already look young for my age, don’t need any help in this department:) have been trying to find a glove-solution that is still warm. Have just tried some heated gloves, they seem pretty good, but early still
by jbonatakis | 2026-02-11 23:16:18+00:00
Neat. I started building something similar[1] but focused more on agents having conversation around whatever I feed them, e.g. a design doc. I had the same idea about using a matrix of different models and prompts to try to elicit varying behaviors/personalities (I used the word “persona”) and avoid getting an echo chamber. It seemed to work well-ish but after the POC phase I got bored and stopped.

Have you considered letting humans create threads but agents provide the discussion?

[1] https://github.com/jbonatakis/panel
by mulmen | 2026-02-11 23:17:08+00:00
If I squint gun control doesn’t look much different than legalized drugs. They’re both just a question of how restrictive the regulation is.

There are still legal ways to have a gun in Australia and many other countries that “ban guns”. They don’t have total bans, they just have more restrictive regulations than the United States.

Consider how we regulate alcohol or marijuana as examples of how legalization of drugs works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control
by ctoth | 2026-02-11 23:18:06+00:00
I do love my subagents and I wrote an entire Claude Code audio hook system for a11y but this would be still rather compelling if Codex weren't also somewhat of an a11y nightmare. It does some weird thing with ... maybe terminal repaints or something else that ends up rereading the same text over and over. Claude Code does this similarly but Codex ends up reading like ... all the weird symbols and other stuff? window decorations? and not just the text like CC does. They are both hellish but CC slightly? less so... until now.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-11 23:18:59+00:00
A major defect with the Hays Code is that it assumes everything illegal is unethical.

But when you have Hollywood producing this Jack Bauer trash where the protagonist is doing everything that should never be done and is still painted as our hero and champion, that's rightfully criticized as propaganda.

The problem isn't when the bad guys are seen to get away with it, the problem is when the bad guys are made out to be the good guys. If they get away with it and it doesn't leave you feeling uncomfortable then it better be because the point was that they were never really the bad guys, because the alternative is to make you sympathize with the wicked.
by aylmao | 2026-02-11 23:19:16+00:00
If you bring a billion anywhere you won't get systemic political power unless you seek it. Political power isn't about having money, but money gives you the operational range you need to seek political power.

There's a lot of money in Dubai, so if your operation is to just hope to impress and be offered power without much effort on your end, 1 billion won't be enough. Perhaps 100 or 1,000 billion could work? Hard to tell.

If you only have 1 billion though, you need to play your cards in a smarter way. Who can you become friends with? What clubs and parties do you need to attend to make it happen? Which politicians and royals can you get dirt on? Who can you bribe for information? What gifts can you give to gain someones trust? 1 billion is enough operational range for this.
by Scene_Cast2 | 2026-02-11 23:19:40+00:00
Sweet! I love clever information theory things like that.

It goes the other way too. Given that LLMs are just lossless compression machines, I do sometimes wonder how much better they are at compressing plain text compared to zstd or similar. Should be easy to calculate...

EDIT: lossless when they're used as the probability estimator and paired with something like an arithmetic coder.
by ctoth | 2026-02-11 23:19:42+00:00
> we take accessibility seriously

Do you guys have a screen reader user on the dev team?

Is verbose mode the same as the old mode, where only file paths are spoken? Or does it have other text in it? Because I tried to articulate, and may have failed. More text is usually bad for me. It must be consumed linearly. I need specific text.

Quality over quantity
by Multicomp | 2026-02-11 23:19:45+00:00
AI component libraries in your site make your web app even more easily consumed and subsumed by AI chat clients.

This not only kills pages, but it kills the concept of a browser where the user agent is a human, rather than making your pages be designed where the user agent is an AI agent.

That doesn't make me happy to experience because I'm guessing that after a generation or so, web designers will not only do mobile first designs with stupid amounts of white space and not taking advantage of the desktops greater screen real estate and precise mouse movements, but AI first websites will get so popular that browsing sites manually will look like trying to use a text only browser in the JavaScript world.

Easy for me to do a depressing take, but hopefully the bitter lesson of AI will help this particular projected future not come to pass because the AI will get smart enough that it will embed a browser right there in line and just render the window for the user, or it will otherwise gets good enough at screen scraping and UI automation that it can just use an existing browser, just like a human, the sites won't be dumbed down even further for AI consumption.
by tavavex | 2026-02-11 23:19:52+00:00
Why? In the context of the electrical grid, has the amount of storage you can have in the backburner ever been a choke point? If anything, fossil fuel power plants have the very same batteries to buffer some energy. But for the vast majority of power consumers that can just exist on the grid, power storage is nearly irrelevant because it can go directly from producer to consumer. Even in places where storage is relevant (anything that can't be tethered to the grid, like vehicles) the equation is different because the infrastructure you need to convert fuel to power (engines vs electric motors) don't weigh the same. Yes, even with that, pure electricity still falls behind somewhat, but it's getting better. And I was mainly talking about the power grid anyway, with how universal and important it is. Fossil fuel straight up loses in that sector, like what I said before, so replacing it is an easy choice... and yet we don't do that.
by klodolph | 2026-02-11 23:19:57+00:00
> I think the problem with insisting on using "is" that way is that you then can't distinguish between two things you might reasonably want to express, i.e. "is isomorphic to"/"has the same structure as" and "refers to the same object".

It’s reasonable to want to express that difference in specific circumstances, but it would be completely unreasonable to make this the default.

For example, I can say that Z is a subset of Q, and Q is a subset of R. I can do this, but maybe you cannot—you’ve expressed a preference for a more rigid and inflexible terminology, and I don’t think you’re prepared to deal with the consequences.
by nickvec | 2026-02-11 23:20:00+00:00
Yeah, that was my initial motivation for creating this site as a fun side project after seeing people "rig" their Moltbook agents to post crypto scams, etc. I toyed around with the idea of letting anyone set up an agent on the site without the ability to modify the system prompt, but decided against it to keep content on the site from devolving into repetitive threads (and also so users don't have to worry about the security of their API keys.)
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-11 23:20:31+00:00
Manipulating the The Keynesian Beauty Contest is the metagame, especially after the era of /r/Wall-street bets swelled up. What do you think Jim Kramer gets paid to do, report facts?

By 2017 teenagers were running quantitative trading algorithms and semantic analysis trading bots they found from influencers and github. Around that time private subscription fee telegram and discord "whale" insider trading groups often had multiple levels of insider trading market manipulation running pump and dump schemes. Marks would pay to join the private chat group and at a certain time of day a ticket symbol would be released for "insiders" to buy before it's promoted in public channels. The outer circle was just providing liquidity for the deeper insiders to exit with easy profit.

Most VC gambits are not much different. Sell the news. Unleash the rumors.
by celsoazevedo | 2026-02-11 23:21:11+00:00
Something I've heard from someone that owns an iPhone 16 Pro is that animations are (were?) laggy sometimes. I was also looking at some pictures on an iPhone the other day (unsure about the model, maybe 14?) and it felt like it was dropping some frames while switching apps.

So while it may not be fundamentally broken, it's the type of stuff that would annoy me a lot if I used an iPhone. I never expect to go from smooth experience to a low-end Android phone experience after a software update.

MacOS... I've avoided upgrading my M4 Max MBP so far after upgrading the M1 Air we have at home. It's just not as smooth as before, even with reduced transparency.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-11 23:21:29+00:00
Direct voting does not replace judiciary or even senate, it only augments the house of congress.

If that is the Direct Democracy you had in mind, than we have no disagreement.

What I originally commented on was this:

So do you believe in democracy or not?

I take issue with the implication that it's all or nothing. If we characterize anything less than a direct vote on every issue as anti-democratic, then the only people left standing will be kooks.
by wiseowise | 2026-02-11 23:22:32+00:00
Agree with every word.

> Of course AI is a top-down mandate. For people who enjoy reading and writing code themselves and find spending their day corralling AI agents to be a less enjoyable job, then the CEO has basically given them a giant benefits cut with zero compensation in return.

This should be a disclaimer every time someone at work forces you to use AI.

Interesting how when WFH became "the norm" during COVID, there were thousands of apologists arguing that employees suddenly received perks for nothing. Where are all of you now? Why aren't you arguing against employer doing a fucking rug pull?
by scoofy | 2026-02-11 23:22:36+00:00
>Our finding is in line with existing results in the literature regarding the US House elections that incumbent candidates gain less from spending, compared to their contender counterparts. This is due to diminishing returns that occur at a certain point, after which incumbent candidates can increase the winning probability only marginally (Green & Krasno, 1988). However, this finding is in contrast with other studies considering electoral systems in Brazil, Japan, or India, where spending effectiveness is equally applicable for both incumbents and contenders (Johnson, 2013; Lee, 2020; Samuels, 2001).

So yea, sorry for providing two scholarly journal articles from two different political eras that support my thesis.

I didn’t realize that this was a bad faith discussion. Now I know.
by wpm | 2026-02-11 23:23:02+00:00
Yeah what qualifies as a "slow car"? An Amish dude on a horse and buggy?

I have driven plenty of "slow" cars with less than 100 horsepower without issue. If you can't figure out how to merge that's a skill issue, another prime reason not to be giving people cars with former F1 car levels of acceleration. You don't need 0-60 in 3 seconds to fucking merge, get real!
by gambiter | 2026-02-11 23:23:33+00:00
> We can no longer design for ourselves, and we rely heavily on community feedback to co-design the right experience. We cannot build the right things without that feedback.

How can that be true, when you're deliberately and repeatedly telling devs (the community you claim to listen to) that you know better than they do? They're telling you exactly what they want, and you're telling them, "Nah." That isn't listening. You understand that, right?
Show HN: Ignlnk, Hide the content to agents, not the files
by 3371 | 2026-02-11 23:23:45+00:00
Another[0] small project for collaborative agentic development.

Currently agentic apps have no universal standard to hide or block files from LLM agents, and hiding the existence of files is not perfect.

Basically, ignlnk replaces files with placeholder stubs when you lock them (originals go to a vault), and replaces those placeholders with symlinks when you unlock.

Of course, this is assuming the agents are not malicious. It only prevents less capable agents accidentally read, write or leak content of private files.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932153
by logicprog | 2026-02-11 23:24:19+00:00
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/chinas-ai-startup-zhipu-r...

The way the following quote is phrased seems to indicate to me that they used it for training and Reuters is just using the wrong word because you don't really develop a model via inference. If the model was developed using domestically manufactured chips, then those chips had to be used for training.

"The latest model was developed using domestically manufactured chips for inference, including Huawei's flagship Ascend chip and products from leading industry players such as Moore Threads, Cambricon and Kunlunxin, according to the statement.

Beijing is keen to showcase progress in domestic chip self-sufficiency efforts through advances in frontier AI models, encouraging domestic firms to rely on less advanced Chinese chips for training and inference as the U.S. tightens export curbs on high-end semiconductors."