MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonlotito | 2026-02-09 01:49:37+00:00
That's 100% not what I'm saying or claiming and you are 100% lying and making stuff up.

At best you are a troll. At best.

I do agree with what you, denuoweb, said though, you are a mentally ill person.

Edit: Oh, I see, you are trying to circumvent a ban or something and creating multiple sock puppet accounts or something? No.
by almostlikelying | 2026-02-09 01:50:10+00:00
Grifters gotta grift.
There is so much money on the line and everyone is trying to be an influencer/“thought leader” in the area.

Nobody is actually using AI for anything useful or THEY WOULDNT BE TALKING ABOUT IT. They’d be disrupting everything and making billions of dollars.

Instead this whole AI grift reads like “how to be a millionaire in 10 days” grifts by people that aren’t, in fact, millionaires.
by sublinear | 2026-02-09 01:50:18+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I understand. Why does replacement matter so much? Where do these anxieties come from?

I'm saying that this type of employment is a necessary diffusion layer for making decisions, and isn't about "productivity". Payroll for these kinds of jobs is even considered capex. Efficiency misses the point entirely and is tripping over dollars to pick up pennies.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-09 01:51:07+00:00
I was obviously talking about conscious and unconscious processes in humans, you are attempting to transport these concepts to LLMs, which is not philosophically sound or coherent, generally.

Everything you said about how data flows in these multimodal models is not true in general (see https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms-2025), and unless you happen to work for OpenAI or other frontier AI companies, you don't know for sure how they are corralling data either.

Companies will of course engage in marketing and claim e.g. ChatGPT is a single "model", but, architecturally and in practice, this at least is known not to be accurate. The modalities and backbones in general remain quite separate, both architecturally and in terms of pre-training approaches. You are talking at a high level of abstraction that suggests education from blog posts by non-experts: actually read papers on how the architectures of these multimodal models are actually trained, developed, and connected, and you'll see the multi-modality is still very limited.

Also, and most importantly, the integration of modalities is primarily of the form:

use (single) image annotations to improve image description, processing, and generation, i.e. "linking words to single images"

and not of the form

use the implied spatial logic and relations from series of images and/or video to inform and improve linguistic outputs

I.e. most multimodal work is using linguistic models to represent or describe images linguistically, in the hope that the linguistic parts do the majority of the thinking and processing, but there is not much work using the image or video representations to do thinking, i.e. you "convert away" from most modalities into language, do work with token representations, and then maybe go back to images.

But there isn't much work on working with visuospatial world models or representations for the actual work (though there is some very cutting edge work here, e.g. Sam-3D https://ai.meta.com/blog/sam-3d/, and V-JEPA-2 https://ai.meta.com/research/vjepa/). But precisely because this stuff is cutting edge, even from frontier AI companies, it is likely most of the LLM stuff you see is largely driven by stuff learned from language, and not from images or other modalities. So LLMs are indeed still mostly constrained by their linguistic core.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-09 01:51:34+00:00
Oh yeah... every day half the mail I receive at work is flagged as "unsafe," and then the banner that tells you this in Outlook presents a button to "manage safe senders."

So I press it and add (for example) OUR OWN JIRA SERVER to the whitelist... which HAS NO EFFECT. Every goddamned day, every Jira message is flagged as dangerous and has blocked content.

I complained to Microsoft, who made up some pathetic excuse about how that's not what that button does... and how every person at my company should contact OUR IT department to have the senders of every E-mail they receive added to some OTHER whitelist, one at a time. Seriously.

The stupidity level at Microsoft today isn't funny. It's sickening. It's also offensive, wasting paying customers' time to the tune of thousands of man-hours daily (and that's probably just at my company).
by jasonlotito | 2026-02-09 01:53:09+00:00
I wouldn't bother. denuoweb2 is trying to circumvent bans or something I don't know by creating second accounts or more. I don't know why or maybe they know they are losing karma or something, I don't know, but they are lying and acting 100% like a troll. I wouldn't engage and just flag them. They aren't worth investing time or energy in.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-09 01:53:49+00:00
A phone conversation, like an in-person one, is verbal communication, and therefore plausibly deniable -- even when it can be recorded or transcribed. Corporations continue to treat verbal conversations as unique.

Voice telephone, at least before TTS and LLM, also gives the humans a fighting chance at discerning emotion and lies.

Like it or not, the PSTN is still king in many regards. I find myself using telephone for contact more often than ever.

For example, medical offices, despite demanding all our contact info, will use all at their disposal to remind us of appointments, bills, test results, etc. Voice telephone is probably still the best way to negotiate and schedule an appointment, and if you really need to speak to a specific nurse about those labs, it's not going to be email.

You know all those Chat Buddy LLMs that corps have put on their websites as front-line CSR? They are usually worthless, because once you glitch out and need unique care or something, the chat LLM or the human chat CSR is disempowered and unable to help. I can't count how many times I thought I'd use the website or chat for convenience (or after-hours) and they wasted 30+ minutes of my time before admitting I must use a voice telephone number for contact for that particular issue. Even with Waymo, or my e-Bank with no branches: calling via voice is the only way to connect the two parties who are empowered to work issues and solve problems.

In fact it is even more pervasive, as there is more WFH and the mobile phone is ubiquitous. Your contact in a company may have an extension and a cell number. They may not be at their "desk" but picking up the kids, so they're on their cell, and hands-free, they're using voice. So the PSTN is still the primary channel within the company, as well as with the outside world. Sure, set up a Zoom call, or a Google Meet. It's not for everyone. Requires software infrastructure, advance consent and planning. Won't replace PSTN.

PSTN is like IPv4. While there are plenty of new modes of communication, the PSTN is still universal, rather mandatory, and indispensable, so I do not see PSTN-voice going away, but the telecom standards are still developing, such as STIR/SHAKEN, to combat the fraud and spam.
by efromvt | 2026-02-09 01:54:08+00:00
Experimenting with visual/audio combinations to explore aspects of a space dataset I’ve been having lots of fun with. Added in a LLM chat view with Duck DB WASM as well to try out tool use - text to SQL seems to be relatively solved with a light semantic layer; some interesting optimization around what tools to expose and result handling that need some more iteration.

https://greenmtnboy.github.io/space_reporting/
by jmyeet | 2026-02-09 01:54:45+00:00
US law enforcement kill over 1000 people every year, way more than any comparable country [1]. The raw data of incidents on Wikipedia has to be broken down by month [2]. And here's a chart showing the number has been going up basically every year for at least a decade [3].

What "historic lows" are you talking about?

[1]: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/policekillings_total.htm...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor...

[3]: https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-people-are-...
by zamadatix | 2026-02-09 01:54:57+00:00
Between all of the "banter" (which is more than just anti-AI banter, it's just everyone wanting to dunk on each other) you may not have caught I was one of the first 10 comments on that very issue 3 days ago https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1#is...

The onslaught of 200+ additional responses hitting my inbox which ignored all previous conversation to take some kind of dunk about it (one way or the other) was precisely what made me nope out of looking at any more discussion there.
by martin-t | 2026-02-09 01:55:21+00:00
This just shows that the models (not AI, statistical models of text used without consent) are not that smart, it's the tooling around them which allows using these models as a heuristic for brute force search of the solution space.

Just last week, I prompted (not asked, it is not sentient) Claude to generate (not tell me or find out or any other anthropomorphization) whether I need to call Dispose on objects passed to me from 2 different libraries for industrial cameras. Being industrial, most people using them typically don't post their code publicly, which means the models have poor statistical coverage around these topics.

The LLM generated a response which triggered the tooling around it to perform dozens of internet searches and based on my initial prompt, the search results and lots of intermediate tokens ("thinking"), generated a reply which said that yes, I need to call Dispose in both cases.

It was phrased authoritatively and confidently.

So I tried it, one library segfaulted, the other returned an exception on a later call. I performed my own internet search (a single one) and immediately found documentation from one of the libraries clearly stating I don't need to call Dispose. The other library being much more poorly documented didn't mention this explicitly but had examples which didn't call Dispose.

I am sure if I used LLMs "properly" "agentically", then they would have triggered the tooling around them to build and execute the code, gotten the same results as me much faster, then equally authoritatively and confidently stated that I don't need to call Dispose.

This is not thinking. It's a form of automation but not thinking and not intelligence.
Show HN: We built a tool to track the millions of dollars I ignore during ads
by k0ba | 2026-02-09 01:56:00+00:00
The economics of the Super Bowl (sorry, "Big Game") are absurd.
$8M for 30 seconds of airtime.

We wanted to quantify what happens when you ignore it with this infotainment app.

The Big Flush lets you clock out during commercial breaks and gives you a receipt for the ad value you "destroyed" by being in the bathroom, going for snacks etc.

It was built in a 3-4 days for a hackathon. We tried to make the UI feel "luxury absurd."

Would love feedback on the Three.js performance on mobile :shy:!

https://bigflush.base44.app
by radius89 | 2026-02-09 01:56:18+00:00
https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been slowly improving it since, with little marketing. Planning a re-launch here soon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398
by kcexn | 2026-02-09 01:56:30+00:00
Maybe. I'm not sure its that different though? If one person can do the work of two because of power tools, then why keep both? Same with AI. How people feel about it doesn't seem relevant.

Maybe the right example is the role of tractors in agriculture. Prior to tractors you had lots of people do the work, or maybe animals. But tractors and engines eliminate a whole class of labor. You could still till a field by hand or with a horse if you want, but it's probably not commercially viable.
by keyshapegeo99 | 2026-02-09 01:56:32+00:00
Obvious AI tells abound in the text and in the GitHub repo, which is clearly 100% vibe coded. There is absolutely minimal human authorship here. If you cannot see this, then I don't know what to tell you.

Actually, I do. For the text of the paper, paste any section after the "Introduction" section into https://gptzero.me/
by dsajfhsdkjhfk | 2026-02-09 01:56:49+00:00
Whats most amazing is that these people are putting in 12 hours a day 6 days a week for the goal of putting hundreds of millions of people out of a job, including themselves. The only people who will benefit in the end are their billionaire bosses they're slavishly working to make even wealthier and they'll all be hung out to dry in the end with everyone else.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-09 01:57:43+00:00
This isn't correct. This is only true when the battery is first manufactured just like with Li-ion. Once the battery starts functioning, it is ionized metallic Sodium. All the volatility of Na but with corrosion too. There is no Chlorine nor any other halogen in there to engage in an ionic bond. In short, once the battery is functioning, the trick used to keep the Na in an ionic bond stops working (by design). After all, the ionic bond would prevent the battery from functioning.

It should be noted that most manufactures aren't doing pure Na-ion. They are mixing in a little Na with the Li to stretch Li supplies and gather data on the impact of the increased volatility on safety. I wouldn't expect their first use to be in cars. I would expect them to be in grid stabilizing batteries.
by JamesTRexx | 2026-02-09 01:57:58+00:00
Mine does have OneUI 8 already indeed, and I'm not that worried about it because I don't expect there will ever be an alternative OS for it.
I don't use it for much else than occasionally calling and messaging and have disabled what spyware I could, so it's fine enough for me. Also, I don't have any un-unistallable telecom provider crap on it. :-)
Seedance 2.0 preview: The best video model of 2026, outperforming Sora 2
by Alisaqqt | 2026-02-09 01:58:10+00:00
ByteDance quietly shipped Seedance 2.0. The interesting part isn't the usual text-to-video upgrade — it's the reference/conditioning system.

What's different from the typical T2V model:

Accepts 4 input modalities simultaneously: text, images (up to 9), video clips (up to 3, ≤15s total), and audio (up to 3, ≤15s total). Mixed input cap is 12 files.
Reference-driven generation: you can use an image to lock composition/character appearance, a video clip to specify camera movement and motion dynamics, and an audio track to drive rhythm and tempo. Outputs include generated SFX/BGM.
The key claim is "audio-driven video" rather than "video with audio attached" — meaning motion is actually synced to the audio input's beat structure, not just overlaid.
Supports video continuation/extension with shot-to-shot coherence, and editing operations (character swap, segment insertion/removal) on existing clips.
Output: 4–15s, selectable. Comes with built-in sound.
Why this matters technically:

Most current video models treat audio as a post-processing step. Seedance 2.0 appears to condition the diffusion process on audio features directly, which would explain the beat-sync behavior. The multi-reference @ tagging system (@image1 for composition, @video1 for motion, @audio1 for rhythm) suggests a mixture-of-conditions architecture rather than simple concatenation.

Haven't seen an official announcement yet. Docs are up on Dreamina (ByteDance's creative platform). Curious if anyone has more details on the architecture.

If you want to test them after launch, here are a few good platforms depending on your use case:
- For developers (API): https://www.atlascloud.ai/
- For creators: Higgsfield, ImagenArt

More info of the Seedance 2.0: https://www.reddit.com/r/SoraAi/comments/1qxdv5u/seedance_20_teaser_better_than_sora_2_true/
Subreddit of Seedance 2.0 for discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seedance_AI
by bobbiechen | 2026-02-09 01:58:56+00:00
Neat demo. I work in this space of bot detection and unfortunately it is trivial to write scripts (or prompt AIs) to insert human-like keystroke and mouse movements. I did so in this demo with about 5 seconds of Cursor use (around 4:25): https://stytch.com/blog/combating-ai-threats-stytchs-device-...

At the same time, I'm sure this still helps against drive-by attackers (and to be fair, I didn't test it against your demo site). For more motivated attackers, it's one more hoop for them to jump through, though you'd want to do some hardening on the client-side script since it's easy to manipulate the Javascript environment.
by mattgreenrocks | 2026-02-09 01:58:56+00:00
It’s not about perfectly architected code. It’s more about code that is factored in such a way that you can extend/tweak it without needing to keep the whole of the system in your head at all times.

It’s fascinating watching the sudden resurgence of interest in software architecture after people are finding it helps LLMs move quickly. It has been similarly beneficial for humans as well. It’s not rocket science. It got maligned because it couldn’t be reduced to an npm package/discrete process that anyone could follow.
by djif | 2026-02-09 01:59:29+00:00
#AgenticAI is one of the most exciting shifts in software we’ve seen in a long time.

But its real power isn’t “autonomy everywhere”. It’s knowing where to apply it.

I wrote a short piece on how I think about , framing it as a spectrum: from flexible interfaces, to adaptive orchestration, to open-ended reasoning.

Used intentionally, agents unlock things that were previously impractical or even impossible to build. Used indiscriminately, they can add complexity where simplicity would win.

What do you think?
by GurbinderGill | 2026-02-09 01:59:34+00:00
It feels like we’re moving away from treating an LLM as “the application” and toward using it as one part of a larger system.

In practice, a lot of real-world complexity seems to live outside the model: data processing, retrieval strategies, graphs, tools, orchestration, observability, and reliability. The LLM mostly acts as a reasoning or interface layer on top of structured intelligence.

Instead of building monolithic LLM apps, teams appear to be assembling intelligence from composable parts.

Curious how others here are thinking about this shift, especially in production systems.
by patrick4urcloud | 2026-02-09 02:00:10+00:00
Hi,
I’m splitting my time between multi-cloud governance and optimizing my "vibe coding" workflow:
Kexa (https://kexa.io)

An open-source multi-cloud governance framework powered by a YAML rule engine. We just reached a milestone by adding Database (DB) support.

The goal is to allow developers to audit configuration and compliance directly within DB instances, alongside standard cloud resources (AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s). We’re focusing on keeping the YAML rules as agnostic as possible so the same logic can apply across different environments without rewriting everything.
rtk (https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk)

This is a "scratching my own itch" project born from using Claude-code. While vibe coding, I got frustrated watching the agent spam ls -al or cat repeatedly just to "orient" itself.

It creates two main issues:

The Token Tax: It burns through tokens for info the agent already has.

Context Pollution: The context window fills up with redundant noise.

rtk acts as a CLI wrapper/filter to make LLM interactions more signal-to-noise efficient. It silences or summarizes redundant outputs so the agent only receives the necessary "delta." It’s a simple attempt to keep the context clean and make sessions last longer before the agent loses the plot.
by r721 | 2026-02-09 02:00:10+00:00
Some more details from the recent CBS article:

>Thomas told investigators he discovered Epstein in his cell shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Aug.10 and that he "ripped" Epstein down from the hanging position.

>Investigators asked what happened to the noose.

>"I don't recall taking the noose off. I really don't," he replied. "I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck."

>Noel, who remained standing at the cell entrance, told investigators she saw Thomas lower Epstein to the floor but did not see a noose around his neck.

>The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been definitively identified. According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-jail-cell-death-v...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-09 02:00:21+00:00
> Each job ad contains a warning: "Please don't join if you're not excited about… working ~70 hrs/week in person

If a company is going to demand long weeks, this is the only way to do it: Be up front and explain it in the job listing so nobody is surprised or wastes time interviewing for a job they’re not compatible with.
by planckscnst | 2026-02-09 02:00:41+00:00
I'm working on lots of projects. My favorite is what I call "context bonsai" where I'm giving LLM harnesses the ability to surgically edit the context. It's available as a tool. You can say "remove that failed debugging session and write a summary of what we learned." Or you can take a more hands-on approach and say "remove messages msg_ID1 through msg_ID2". The removal leaves a summary and keywords, and the original messages can be pulled back into context if the LLM thinks they're useful.

I would really like people to try it out and report bugs, failures, and successes.

https://github.com/Vibecodelicious/opencode/blob/surgical_co...
by ej88 | 2026-02-09 02:00:49+00:00
fwiw i think there's a balance here

at my current company i happen to work 70hrs/week but it doesn't feel like a ton of work, i'm having fun and let's be honest a chunk of the "work" is meetings & hanging out with my coworkers who are also my friends. the vast majority of people's productivity drops off after 4-6 hours of focused work. if i wanted to rest and vest there's plenty of companies to do that but your upside is capped hard

a company that 'requires' 996 doesn't understand why people work that hard in the first place.
by mannanj | 2026-02-09 02:01:13+00:00
I think unpopularly there's some fake comments in the discourse led by financial incentives, and also a mix of some fear-based "wanting to feel like things are OK" or dissonance-avoiding belief around this thats leading to the opinions we hear.

It also kinda feels gaslightish and as I've said in some controversial replies in other posts, its sort of eerily mass "psychosis" vibes just like during COVID.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-09 02:01:56+00:00
The value proposition for automation and industrialization is always along the lines that, as unskilled workers lose jobs and are displaced by machinery, more jobs will be created for skilled workers to design, supervise, and maintain that machinery.

So if you install kiosks at McDonald's and 3 cashiers lose their jobs, you've created 9 jobs in the R&D and maintenance industries for techies to manufacture and support those kiosks. Win/win, right?
by zabzonk | 2026-02-09 02:01:58+00:00
Be like the Romans - make them all straight lines :-)

Of course the Romans didn't give a shit who's property rights they might be violating. I live in Lincolnshire UK, where Roman roads are still used. The last one that got changed was years ago when they had to put a kink in Ermine Street (now the A15) at RAF Scampton when they extended the runway to accommodate Vulcan bombers.
by rmonvfer | 2026-02-09 02:02:04+00:00
Yeah, it’s pretty much ready, I’m just squashing a few last bugs. Launching this week, trying to move fast for exactly that reason.

Good call on the examples, I’ll add some that show off browser automation and more complex workflows.

Memory at launch is what’s baked into OpenClaw, but I’m planning to upgrade it to vectors + a continuously updated doc shortly after (similar to what Claude Web does)

If you want early access I’d be happy to get you set up personally, just shoot me an email at ramon <at> agentmode.co