MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RoyTyrell | 2026-02-06 17:03:33+00:00
Nope, that's a very fair poke at MS. They've gone so far into AI adoption that it's become absurd.

- They have VPs posting on Linkedin about rewriting existing code using AI and adhering to arbitrary metrics of a x% rewrite and laying off y% of engineers that used to work on it.

- Renaming one of their major flagship product lines (MS Office) to (MS Copilot Apps 365).

- Forcing AI features on users despite not wanting it, and overriding OS configuration that should turn it off.

- Executives publicly shaming the general public for not wanting "all the AI all the time".
by seanieb | 2026-02-06 17:03:53+00:00
Not yet. My focus was getting the computer locked. I hope to add that or similar functionality that will remove the disk keys in the future.

Right now it looks difficult to implement. There's no instant "purge keys from RAM" command and shutdown is slow. Maybe aiming for a similar state to logout might be a good middle ground? Logout locks the keychain and kills apps.
by martinald | 2026-02-06 17:04:03+00:00
Hi, author here. Sorry if I skipped over the "evidence". If you read/watch financial news, every single outlet was claiming that it was caused by this legal tool launch. I was commenting on that - somewhat in jest. I'll update the article to make it clearer what I was trying to get at.

Thanks for the feedback, it was front page of the FT and I need to remember not everyone reads financial news!
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-06 17:04:50+00:00
They can and they do.

https://youtu.be/LFh9GAzHg1c?t=872

They've also built it into a full neural simulator.

https://youtu.be/LFh9GAzHg1c?t=1063

I think what we are seeing is that they both converged on the correct approach, one of them decided to talk about it, and it triggered disclosure all around since nobody wants to be seen as lagging.
by emilsedgh | 2026-02-06 17:05:01+00:00
We had an enterprise account on Heroku. We invested a little in Dokku and moved to self host it as of a few months ago.

We now have a kubernetes (k3s) backed Dokku self hosted on Hetzner. Significantly cheaper but pretty robust.

Just saying that it's not literally, but you are right, most people wouldn't be interested in self hosting.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-06 17:05:31+00:00
Yet if you advocate for regulation you are immediately attacked by billionaires and massive companies and people who think those two groups benefit them more than the regulations protecting them. These groups bring unbelievable sums of money to bear to influence policy and public perception to make sure they are as under-regulated as possible.

“Regulation” is a four letter word in the US. Look at the hostility we see on HN whenever it comes up with AI .
by rileymichael | 2026-02-06 17:06:19+00:00
> I don’t care what type of weird tricks the compiler did for optimizations.

you might not, but plenty of others do. on the jvm for example, anyone building a performance sensitive application has to care about what the compiler emits + how the jit behaves. simple things like accidental boxing, megamorphic call preventing inlining, etc. have massive effects.

i've spent many hours benchmarking, inspecting in jitwatch, etc.
by olex | 2026-02-06 17:06:38+00:00
I don't have a specific source, no. I think it was mentioned in one of their presentation a few years back, that they use various techniques for "ground truth" for vision training, among those was time series (depth change over time should be continuous etc) and iirc also "external" sources for depth data, like LiDAR. And their validation cars equipped with LiDAR towers are definitely being seen everywhere they are rolling out their Robotaxi services.
by eykanal | 2026-02-06 17:06:51+00:00
So playing "skeptic in a vacuum" for a minute—i.e., pretending that I don't know anything about this administration, and not having done any research beyond reading the linked article—this seems like a pretty good thing. Insurance companies negotiate tremendous discounts for pharmaceuticals, which means that people without insurance are often majorly screwed when trying to buy medicine. Having the government act as a negotiator with the drug companies to obtain similar discounts for the uninsured seems to be a positive move.

Happy to have someone explain to me why this is a bad take.
by SR2Z | 2026-02-06 17:07:01+00:00
Iran's leaders are caught in a trap of their own making. For decades they've held up America and Israel as villains and used that boogeyman to justify their military and police expenditure.

After this Israel-Gaza war, Iran's proxies who fought Israel on their behalf (Hamas, Hezbollah) are mostly destroyed. Their allies in the Gulf States (Qatar) have buckled to US pressure over the war. When they've tried to strike Israel directly, combined US-Israeli antimissile defenses stopped it dead in its tracks. Now hundreds of thousands of protestors are thronging the streets and the regime realizes it cannot kill or jail all of them.

In short, Iran has realized that its conventional military will not be able to prop up the regime if anyone decides to attack or arm a rebellion.

That's the motivation for this. The hateful theocratic rulers of Iran see the US as a bigger threat, and are chasing a nuclear weapon as the one they might actually get some protection with.
by wolfgarbe | 2026-02-06 17:07:09+00:00
Peter Norvig shows that an edit distance = 2 will cover 98.9% spelling errors.
https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/peter-norvigs-2...

That's the reason why the default maximum edit distance of SymSpell is 2.

Now, all your 6 out of 6 examples are chosen from that 1.1% margin that is not covered by edit distance 2, presenting a rather unlikely high amount of errors within a single word.

The third-party SymSpell port from Justin Willaby, which you were using for benchmarking, clearly states that you need to set both maxEditDistance and dictionaryEditDistance to a higher number if you want to correct higher edit distances. That you neither used nor mentioned. This has nothing to do with accuracy; it is a choice regarding a performance vs. maximum edit distance tradeoff one can make according to the use case at hand.

https://github.com/justinwilaby/spellchecker-wasm?tab=readme...

pronnouncaition IS within edit distance 3, according to the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance used by SymSpell. The reason is that adjacent transpositions are counted as a single dit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_di...
by cvoss | 2026-02-06 17:07:44+00:00
> people might overuse them ... cliffhangers and sequels

I once heard some try to understand pornography addiction by asking if it was comparable to a desire to eat a lot of lemon cookies. To quote Margaret Thatcher, "No. No. No."

> Where do we draw the line

Just because it's hard to find a principled place to draw the line doesn't mean we give up and draw no line. If you are OK with the government setting speed limits, then you're OK with lines drawn in ways that are intended to be sensible but are, ultimately, arbitrary, and which infringe on your freedom for the sake of your good and the public good.

> trust adults

Please do not forget the children.

> You can't legislate intelligence

Your implication is that people who are addicted to TikTok or anything else are unintelligent, dumb, and need to be educated. This is, frankly, an offensive way to engage the conversation, and, worse, naive.
by otikik | 2026-02-06 17:07:58+00:00
Hm. Have you actually read that wikipedia page? I don't think it serves to validate your claims.

It does say that the Trump administration and one police department claims that they are like you say. On the same page it also mentions that the Trump administration has been involved on several hoaxes trying to incorrectly portray it.

Most of all the other groups paint it in a positive light.

> [g]iven the historical and current threat that white supremacist and fascist groups pose, it's clear to me that organized, collective self-defense is not only a legitimate response, but lamentably an all-too-necessary response to this threat on too many occasions.

I would not mind being associated with the group portrayed on that page.

The article from Freddie deBoer is from 2021. He writes:

> The association of antifa with violence stems from the fact [in Europe] that these fascists or neofascists would often prowl the streets [...] Though many people would love to pretend that this isn’t the case, we are not in fact living in an America where Proud Boys wander through Chelsea randomly beating up gay people without resistance from the police

I think he would write something very different today. He does mention one case were a journalist was shot paint and mace and was thrown on the group by a group that could have been antifa. Or not.

Third link is from 2017. Black-clad anarchists swarm "anti-hate" rally in California, says the title. But it was an "anti-marxist" and "pro-trump" rally, which was cancelled(?). But people showed up anyway(?). And then:

> officers were told not to actively confront the anarchists

Come on. That reeks of being staged. The people in black were almost certainly proud boys. The wikipedia page mentions their leader employing this exact tactic:

> In posts on Parler, leaders of the Proud Boys had disclosed plans to attend the rally wearing "all black" clothing associated with antifa activists and arrive "incognito" in an apparent effort to shift blame for any violence on antifa

I did this analysis in a bit more than 10 minutes, no LLMs used.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-06 17:08:07+00:00
These requests to the Sentry company used to be sent over HTTP with no encryption

https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-ingestion-domains-updates/

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/using-sentry-t...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b12phf/plex_sending_...

There has never been any resource record for any sentry.io domain in the DNS that is used by computers I control. This DNS is local and I control it. I saw a request to an ingest.sentry.io domain once while experimenting with Firefox. It failed

The DNS used by me only contains addresses for servers that I find useful

But every user has their own preferences. It is possible that some end-users might see value in allowing their computers to automatically send requests to sentry.io while receiving nothing in return. I am not one of those users
by opo | 2026-02-06 17:08:30+00:00
>...I absolutely think I ought to be taxed a little more than I am, and would gladly pay that money to live in the better society I believe that would create.

The federal government does have a system to accept gifts which you might want to check out:
https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html

Whether your gift will make a better society, I can't know - much like your taxes you have very little control over what the money is going to be used for.

>...(there can be no such thing as a free market when such a small number of individuals control such a large proportion of the spending power).

A free market is generally considered a system where there are voluntary exchanges between buyers and sellers based on mutual benefit. It seems odd to claim that since there are some very wealthy people in the country that somehow a consumer can't buy bread from a baker, etc. Maybe you can expand a bit on how you are defining free market.
by anthk | 2026-02-06 17:08:39+00:00
Ironically aestheticically wise the best hackers (as in the original sense) would just depict a half busy and utterly boring plan9/9front desktop and tons of physical (and digital books). Forget about ricing (except for constrast and readability, such as using Zukitre instead of Adwaita for GTK). Usability first.
by Jensson | 2026-02-06 17:08:50+00:00
> The extractive profit seeking entities don't "out-compete" they just use their capital in unregulated conditions to strip mine economies and poison capitalism to become sociopathy

So they did out-compete them? You saying they won using unfair ways doesn't change the fact that they out-competed the other companies.

Capitalism will use any means available to out compete others, I don't understand why you try to argue against this. You just say "but if we restrict the means available its fine", that means you agree with me, so I am not sure what you disagree with.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-06 17:08:52+00:00
> Countries have the right to cultivate this feeling among their citizens.

I disagree, because what seems to always be the logical next step is "My monoculture is superior, and deserves dominion above your monoculture, which deserves eradication. And oh by the way, if you don't like our monoculture and try to escape it, we'll invade that place too."

That's kind of what the "mono" in monoculture implies. Multiculturalism isn't an asset because it's the most stable form of soceity, it's an asset because the alternative is bloodshed between warring tribes.
by RoyTyrell | 2026-02-06 17:08:56+00:00
Nope, not at all.

I read your comment as ignorant to AI's capabilities and their negative outcomes with relying on vibe coding.

The implication is that MS is forcing AI adoption on users at a point of absurd recklessness, and that they should not be trusted - especially not blindly trusted.

Perhaps the reason you're seeing comments similar to my original comment more frequently is because actual software engineers whom know the capabilities of AI and how much of a bad decision it is to assume it's as good as a competent engineer. Many engineers have had years of experience working with management, whom while have legit concerns about the capabilities of software as they are ultimately responsible for it and the financials, see them turning to vibe coding and relying on it. Non technical folks think software is kinda easy to do, and because LLMs can generate code that it just proves their assumptions.
by Johnny555 | 2026-02-06 17:09:01+00:00
It's a much different service that Costplus

Costplus manufactures and sells drugs at a small markup over manufacturing cost.

TrumpRX appears to be more of a central clearinghouse where drug makers can offer discounts to consumers. And at least so far, they seem to be the same discounts that they already offer, when you look up a drug on the site, it redirects you to the manufacturer's website.

Maybe it's useful for people without insurance that don't know how to search look for discount programs to help them buy drugs and maybe some manufacturers will offer discounts on the site that aren't available otherwise, but it's not a competitor to Cuban's site.
by jbstack | 2026-02-06 17:09:19+00:00
Now there's a related problem in the premise: it pre-supposes that the company has an unlimited amount of valuable work to be done. If that were the case, all companies would simply expand their workforce as much as possible all the time, only constrained by money running out (which itself would be an exponential increase since "valuable" work presumably leads to more money in future). In reality, companies do not prioritise expansion above all else. In fact any time a company pays a dividend to its shareholders, or otherwise refrains from spending cash reserves on new hires, it's recognising that it cannot invest profits in an effective way into its labour force.

When framed correctly (there's effectively an unlimited labour supply for most companies, and effectively a limited demand for staff) then the question becomes "shall we hire an engineer to fix security bugs when we don't need an engineer for anything else?".
by throw0101a | 2026-02-06 17:09:39+00:00
For those that want to nerd out old school:

> The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots written and illustrated by the American sailor and artist Clifford W. Ashley. First published in 1944, it was the culmination of over 11 years of work. The book contains 3,857 numbered entries and approximately 7,000 illustrations.[1] The entries include knot instructions, uses, and some histories, categorized by type or function. It remains one of the most important and comprehensive books on knots.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots

There is some duplication/variations in that count, e.g.:

> ABoK #176, #355, #364, #430, #1188, #1189, #1249, #1250, #1251, #1252, #2052, #2097, #2489, #2560, #3441, #3700, #3853

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrictor_knot
by josefcub | 2026-02-06 17:09:57+00:00
I am! I moved from a shoebox Linux workstation with 32MB of RAM and a 12GB RTX 3060 to a 256GB M3 Ultra, mainly for unified memory.

I've only had it a couple of months, but so far it's proving its worth in the quality of LLM output, even quantized.

I generally run Qwen3-vl at 235b, at a Q4_K_M quantization level so that it fits, and it leaves me plenty of RAM for workstation tasks while delivering tokens at around 30tok/s

The smaller Qwen3 models (like qwen3-coder) I use in tandem, of course they run much faster and I tend to run them at higher quants up to Q8 for quality purposes.

The gigantic RAM's biggest boon, I've found, is letting me run the models with full context allocated, which lets me hand them larger and more complicated things than I could before. This alone makes the money I spent worth it, IMO.

I did manage to get glm-4.7 (a 358b model) running at a Q3 quantization level; it's delivery is adequate quality-wise, although it delivers at 15tok/s, though I did have to cut down to only 128k context to leave me enough room for the desktop.

If you get something this big, it's a powerhouse, but not nearly as much of a powerhouse as a dedicated nVidia GPU rig. The point is to be able to run them _adequately_, not at production speeds, to get your work done. I found price/performance/energy usage to be compelling at this level and I am very satisfied.
by AstroBen | 2026-02-06 17:10:34+00:00
> I guess your premise is mass unemployment is not worth worrying about, so okay then

My point wasn't that it's not a big deal. My point there is that if AI ends up taking a large % of white collar work you're going to have a huge portion of the population in the same boat. Maybe an overly optimistic view but that'll end up forcing change through politics

..I also think this is a ridiculously low % chance of happening and it would take something close to AGI to bring about. I don't know how you can use AI regularly and think we're anywhere close to that

Contracting an incurable illness that renders me blind and thus unable to work is just as likely and not something I spend time worrying about

> Marginal changes in productivity can make huge impacts to industries employment rates

Maybe? We also have Jevon's paradox. Software is incredibly expensive to build right now - how many more applications for it can people find if the cost halves?
by scarmig | 2026-02-06 17:10:47+00:00
"Exactly" is impossible: there are multiple Lidar samples that would map to the same camera sample. But what training would do is build a model that could infer the most likely Lidar representation from a camera representation. There would still be cases where the most likely Lidar for a camera input isn't a useful/good representation of reality, e.g. a scene with very high dynamic range.
by hbn | 2026-02-06 17:10:58+00:00
Everyone's gonna give you shit for this answer and there's a hundred things I could tell you about their software that pisses me off, but the bar is so low for software these days, their stuff is still in the high end of quality (they need to do a lot to get back to where they were 10 years ago though)

Only other software I regularly use that I think is overall high quality and I enjoy using are the JetBrains IDEs, and the Telegram mobile app (though the Premium upselling has gotten kinda gross the past few years)
by terminalshort | 2026-02-06 17:11:02+00:00
Well they aren't free from hallucinations with human authors. Not to long ago there was an outbreak of articles in the "reputable" mainstream press claiming that there was a foiled terrorist plot against the UN which was actually (and obviously) a garden variety SMS fraud operation. Why should I care if it's AI lying to me next time rather than the constant deluge of humans lying to me?
by jerlam | 2026-02-06 17:11:50+00:00
It's an ironic comment because this article mostly talks about California, which is already one of the most expensive places to live and the most NIMBY. Every other state in the US is generally cheaper to live in. The places that are cost as much as California are just as NIMBY and heavily influenced by Californians (Hawaii) or is the cultural and financial center of the country (NYC).
Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements
by dchu17 | 2026-02-06 17:11:52+00:00
Hi HN,

My friend and I have been experimenting with using LLMs to reason about biotech stocks. Unlike many other sectors, Biotech trading is largely event-driven: FDA decisions, clinical trial readouts, safety updates, or changes in trial design can cause a stock to 3x in a single day (https://www.biotradingarena.com/cases/MDGL_2023-12-14_Resmet...).

Interpreting these ‘catalysts,’ which comes in the form of a press release, usually requires analysts with previous expertise in biology or medicine. A catalyst that sounds “positive” can still lead to a selloff if, for example:
the effect size is weaker than expected

- results apply only to a narrow subgroup

- endpoints don’t meaningfully de-risk later phases,

- the readout doesn’t materially change approval odds.

To explore this, we built BioTradingArena, a benchmark for evaluating how well LLMs can interpret biotech catalysts and predict stock reactions. Given only the catalyst and the information available before the date of the press release (trial design, prior data, PubMed articles, and market expectations), the benchmark tests to see how accurate the model is at predicting the stock movement for when the catalyst is released.

The benchmark currently includes 317 historical catalysts. We also created subsets for specific indications (with the largest in Oncology) as different indications often have different patterns. We plan to add more catalysts to the public dataset over the next few weeks. The dataset spans companies of different sizes and creates an adjusted score, since large-cap biotech tends to exhibit much lower volatility than small and mid-cap names.

Each row of data includes:

- Real historical biotech catalysts (Phase 1–3 readouts, FDA actions, etc.) and pricing data from the day before, and the day of the catalyst

- Linked Clinical Trial data, and PubMed pdfs

Note, there are may exist some fairly obvious problems with our approach. First, many clinical trial press releases are likely already included in the LLMs’ pretraining data. While we try to reduce this by ‘de-identifying each press release’, and providing only the data available to the LLM up to the date of the catalyst, there are obviously some uncertainties about whether this is sufficient.

We’ve been using this benchmark to test prompting strategies and model families. Results so far are mixed but interesting as the most reliable approach we found was to use LLMs to quantify qualitative features and then a linear regression of these features, rather than direct price prediction.

Just wanted to share this with HN. I built a playground link for those of you who would like to play around with it in a sandbox. Would love to hear some ideas and hope people can play around with this!
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-06 17:11:57+00:00
I agree that local communities are best at determining their own line when disputes arise between protecting the freedoms of one party versus another, which is a stance also held by the supreme court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_standards

In this case though, it's not someone going to a non-local city council or school board meeting and arguing for or against some policy that is up to that local board, but it is someone pointing out a policy that has been set at the state level. Any arguments for or against that policy need to take place at the state level, because that is the only place where it can be changed.