MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krackers | 2026-02-13 07:38:10+00:00
Aside from the ads/no-ads, they're also trying to lampoon chatgpt (especially the "sycophantic" 4o style), since Claude is supposed to be a more "human" LLM (or at least Anthropic likes to think so given their focus on constitutional rlaif, "soul doc" and whatnot).

But it's not a good ad when the only people who will get the reference are those plugged into "ai twitter". But association by implication doesn't work, the only thing most people will end up associating is the creepy guy with "Claude"
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by em-bee | 2026-02-13 07:38:20+00:00
i saw a flagged comment and thought who the hell would flag that? it makes no sense. was going to vouch for it, but i always check the comment history which is where i noticed that all comments had a suspiciously similar pattern, and i found this thread.

some indicator that an account is banned would be nice for those who have showdead active.

one thing that is disturbing is that the comments of the bot are all lowercase. is that a bot feature now? are they doing that to appear less like a bot?

do i have to change my style to avoid looking like a bot? or is changing my style going to make me look like a bot?

i feel trapped.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-13 07:38:31+00:00
The monetary system under capitalism is not the same as direct democracy.

A planned economy under direct democracy would be at least as bad as a planned economy under a representative democracy because the average voter has even less knowledge about economics and business than a government planner.

The best thing about direct democracy is that, unlike representative democracy, we don't have it and therefore cannot instantly think of its flaws.

The average person reads under a sixth grade level, cannot perform long division, and quite possibly couldn't tell you how many years have passed since Jesus was born.

Whether a direct vote is appropriate for an issue depends on which is a greater danger: the corruption of a politician, or the ignorance and flakiness of the average voter.
by joha4270 | 2026-02-13 07:38:41+00:00
More or less, yes. Of course, defects are not evenly distributed, so you get a lot of chips with different grades of brokenness. Normally the more broken chips gets sold off as lower tier products. A six core CPU is probably an eight core with two broken cores.

Though in this case, it seems [1] that Cerebras just has so many small cores they can expect a fairly consistent level of broken cores and route around them

[1]: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...
by fergie | 2026-02-13 07:38:53+00:00
> The reason Message-ID is SHOULD rather than MUST? Mail clients

> sometimes send messages without one to their submission server, which

> adds it on their behalf. As for why Google enforces it anyway:

> spam. Messages with minor RFC violations are far more likely to be

> spam, so rejecting them is a reasonable heuristic. In practice, Google

> and Microsoft have become the de-facto standards bodies for email —

> what the RFCs say matters less than what their servers accept.

Surely the problem is on Google's end? And a metaproblem is that we are allowing corporations to change or ignore standards for critical infrastructure?
by andai | 2026-02-13 07:39:54+00:00
Well it's an amusing exercise I suppose, if you're into that sort of thing. I certainly enjoy it!

My meaning, rather, is that there's people whose full time job is to build these things who seem to have forgotten what everyone in the field knew 3 years ago.

More likely they think, ahh we don't need that now! These are all solved problems! In my experience, that's not really true. The stuff that worked 3 years ago still works, and much of it works better.

Some of it doesn't work, for example, if the codebase is very large, but that's not difficult to account for. Poking around blindly, I say, should be the fallback in such cases, rather than the default in all of them!
by nickvec | 2026-02-13 07:40:18+00:00
I think this is the first instance of AI misalignment that has truly left me with a sense of lingering dread. Even if the owner of MJ Rathbun was steering the agent behind the scenes to act the way that it did, the results are still the same, and instances similar to what happened to Scott are bound to happen more frequently as 2026 progresses.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 07:40:25+00:00
Window management isn't macOS' strong suit, but external monitors make it act absolutely crazy. Connecting monitors will do anything from keeping all windows in the same position to restoring previous positions to launching them across screens, sometimes completely outside visible screen space, seemingly arbitrarily.

I get why Apple wants you to make every window either a small tile or a full screen application now, their window manager simply can't cope with anything else.

Whatever they're doing is somehow worse than both Windows and the major Linux desktop environments. Maybe there's some obscure preference among old school macOS users that like having their windows placed so that only a small corner pokes out of the bottom left when attaching an external monitor?
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-13 07:40:30+00:00
Lena is no longer used as a test image because it's porn. It's banned from several journals because it's porn. As in they will reject any paper that uses Lena no matter the technical content.

The reasons usually given for choosing this image are all just rationalisations — Lena is used the most because it's porn and image compression researchers are all male. It belongs as part of a test set, sure, but there's no reason it should be the single most used image. Except because its porn.
Show HN: Own the Void – a trillion-cell infinite canvas
by sneezydwarf | 2026-02-13 07:41:04+00:00
I’ve been building a project called Own the Void.

It’s a 1,000,000 × 1,000,000 logical grid (1 trillion possible cells).

Each cell can be permanently claimed. Cells only exist in storage once purchased — the empty space is implicit.

Tech stack:

• Cloudflare Workers (monolith)
• D1 (SQLite)
• Stripe for one-time payments
• Canvas rendering (React does not render the grid)

Frontend:

• Infinite pan & zoom
• Tile-based viewport queries
• Only occupied cells are fetched
• DevicePixelRatio-aware rendering
• No full-canvas redraws

Each claimed cell stores:

• A curated background color
• Up to 32 characters of text
• Optional HTTPS link

No images, no ads, no NFTs.

The idea was to explore permanence and ownership at absurd scale while keeping the system simple and low-cost.

Curious about:

• Scaling D1 for viewport queries long term
• Moderation approaches for minimal text content
• Whether the €1 per cell model is viable at scale

Would appreciate feedback from people who’ve built large canvas or map-style systems.
by icepush | 2026-02-13 07:41:46+00:00
The fact is that, if there were only one AGI that were ever to be created, then yes it would be quite unlikely for that to happen. Instead, what we are seeing now is you get an agent, you get an agent, etc. Oprah style. Now just imagine that a single one of those agents winds up evil - you remember that an OpenAI worker did that by accident from leaving out a minus sign, right? If it's a superintelligence, and it becomes evil due to a whoopsie, then human extinction is now very likely.
by torginus | 2026-02-13 07:42:49+00:00
I don't think it worked well for Rust - in fact one of the core issues of Rust imo, is that it somewhat encourages this OOP style which can cause major headaches when you design an app in a traditional OO way - object compostion, complex and stateful, non-copyable objects full of 'smart' behavior, necessitating clones, and state that needs to be reconciled.

The whole concept of OOP is a major conceptual regression in how it treats aliasing, which is a major headache for compiler writers, necessitating either whole program analysis or JIT like techniques.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-13 07:46:07+00:00
No I'm not, but not because I don't want to. To safely use an AI agent, it needs a ton of safety guardrails that (afaict) are difficult to set up. A lot of the safety guardrails we need don't even exist yet.

I'm working on all that currently. Trying to set up local systems to do practical and secure orchestrated AI work, without over-reliance on proprietary systems and platforms. Turns out it's a buttload of work. Yegge's own project (Gas Town) is a real world attempt to build just the agent part, and still many more parts are needed. It's so complicated, I don't think any open source solution is going to become dominant, because there's too much to integrate. The company that perfects this is going to be the next GitHub and Heroku rolled into one.

I get why people question all this. It's a completely different way of working that flies in the face of every best practice and common-sense lesson you learn as a software developer. But once you wrap your head around it, it makes total sense. You don't need to read code to know a system works and is reliable. You don't need to manually inspect the quality of things if there's other ways to establish trust. Work gets done a lot faster with automation, ironically with fewer errors. You can use cutting-edge technology to improve safety and performance, and ship faster.

These aren't crazy hypothetical ideals - what I just described is modern auto manufacturing. If it's safe enough for a car, it's safe enough for a web app.
by asdff | 2026-02-13 07:46:25+00:00
This is what I struggled with after grad school. You have so many decent ideas. So many people you know in the domain also with their own good ideas. Everyone looking for their next gig. It could all be so easy to get a couple people together and start building. But, alas, money, that must come from people who expect more money back before long, which severely limits the scope of ideas that will get investor funding. No moonshots, no sci fi future, just same old looking for low hanging arbitrage or rent seeking opportunities. Kinda sad when you realize that is pretty much all private tech investment because funding is driven by investors ultimately, and not scientists like what you see on grant review panels for basic research. Money must make more money, which again limits severely what money can do.
by torginus | 2026-02-13 07:47:01+00:00
Very few OO languages track reference mutability with any level of rigor. In C/C++ most devs don't even know what restrict is or how to write code using it correctly (which is very difficult an bug prone), const is unfortunately not enough.

In fact I don't even know of any production language that handles variable mutability with any rigor other than Rust.
by olvy0 | 2026-02-13 07:47:09+00:00
I've been using Perplexity for small, fast queries almost exclusively for the last year or so. Their Sonar model is Llama running on top of a Cerebras chip, and searches the internet in an incredible speed. Its results are astonishingly good (for a Llama model), although in more niche areas it still makes mistakes, so in those areas I usually double-check its sources or do an extra ddg search myself.

Actually I've never used chat gpt, I went straight to Perplexity after having discovered it. Their free tier is extremely generous (not even requiring an account). Not affiliated.

OP currently doesn't look it will affect that, seems like Open AI touts it for agentic coding only, not as an alternative to chat gpt, although that will probably change.
by andai | 2026-02-13 07:47:11+00:00
As an addendum... The base/text models which have fallen out of style, are also extremely worth learning and working with. Davinci is still online, I believe, although it is deprecated.

Another lost skill! Learning how things were done before instruct tuning forces you to structure things in such a way so the model can't do it wrong. Half a page of well crafted examples can beat 3 pages of confusing rules!

(They're also magical and amazing at writing, although they produce bizarre and horrifying output sometimes.)
by trhway | 2026-02-13 07:47:19+00:00
to get some feeling of it one can watch footage from Ukraine where drones with IR hunt soldiers at night. At the beginning of war, when soldiers didn't yet started to take it into account, there would even be whole groups walking like they would be at night feeling invisible, and that would be the last seconds before the explosion lights up the screen.

These days there is more experience with it, and for example to get "invisible" in IR one of the tricks used by the stormtroopers there is to put on an IR-protective coverall (it works to some extent and for short time) and to walk over warm asphalt.

In general even without IR the regular camera sensors these days are very sensitive, and you can pull a pretty good image out from the darkness by shifting dynamic range well down.
by OldSchool | 2026-02-13 07:47:38+00:00
"99 red balloons" sounds almost quaint and innocent, even ironically a bit darkly refreshing, with its portrayal of the relatively clear threat of cold war nuclear annihilation.

Compare it to the constant flux of threats we now face, all given similar coverage today, large or small, sometimes plausibly real, but often ultimately fictional: brought on for distraction, by deception, incompetence, poor communication, ego, and/or other unethical agenda.
by harperlee | 2026-02-13 07:48:10+00:00
I actually think it was quite prescient and still raises important topics to consider - irrespective of whether weights are uploaded from an actual human, if you dig just a little bit under the surface details, you still get a story about ethical concerns of a purely digital sentience. Not that modern LLMs have that, but what if future architectures enable them to grow an emerging sense of self? It's a fascinating text.
by seec | 2026-02-13 07:48:19+00:00
Local AI is very limited and mostly a waste of time/capital compared to subscribing to access the good stuff provided by the key players.

But by all means, throw more money at Apple for a problem they can't even solve themselves.

If AI was that good on Apple hardware, they wouldn't need to buy access from their competitors to finally make Siri not completely useless.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 07:49:03+00:00
Gnome had a scroll speed setting but it broke and disappeared somewhere around the switch to Wayland without getting replaced.

Gnome says libinput should deal with scroll speed. Libinput says GTK+ should deal with it. Patches have been lying around for both but neither has gained any traction.

I like Gnome's DE in general but this issue showcases the rough edges of open source collaboration the Gnome project is infamous for.

Even KWin's (original?) implementation of the feature wasn't great and caused issues with applications, apparently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4672#not...
Broken as though it might be, at least they're trying something, which I appreciate more as an end user than the complete lack of scroll settings.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-13 07:49:46+00:00
No need to be pedantic about it, obviously you need capital concentration to do stuff. The difference is what this stuff is, in Apple and Google's case its even more from the same but for Anthropic its this new thing.

The gist is, world beating(in profit and market cap terms) tech giants who made their money with innovation are now just the roadblocks to innovation. If succeeds, Anthropic will eventually be like that but until then Anthropic is the innovator. The contemporary US is able to concentrate wealth but not able to turn it into innovation or life quality improvements as efficiently as EU or China, since they are getting better outcomes with less. So it is a systematic issue.
by tieanderson | 2026-02-13 07:50:50+00:00
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by alister | 2026-02-13 07:50:57+00:00
I want to mention another infection happening at payment terminals and ATMs if you're using your credit card in a foreign country: You get a message saying "Would you like to pay in your own currency? Click [Accept] or [Decline]", and there's fine print that says there's a 12-15% currency conversion markup.

To give a concrete example, if you're an American traveling in Brazil withdrawing cash from an ATM or buying something for BRL 500, you'll be presented with an option to pay BRL 500 or pay just US$110.58 in your own currency (with text saying conversion includes 15%).

But the typical American (and Canadian) credit card adds at most 2.5% to the Visa or Mastercard exchange rate, which is at most 0.5% higher than the interbank rate. So basically by clicking the wrong button, you're paying an extra 12% to the payment processor. In the example above, your credit card would have charged you about US$99.04 had you declined the conversion, and saved you $10.

I can't imagine a situation where it's to your benefit to accept the "conversion service" they're offering. I wonder if the payment processor is kicking back some of the profit back to the merchant because this swindle is spreading everywhere.

The worst part is that a couple of people that I've tried to warn don't get it. They still think that they should pick US$ (or whatever their own currency is) because that's what their credit card uses.
by cess11 | 2026-02-13 07:51:03+00:00
If intelligence, whatever is meant by that, was the dominating factor in the emergence of power and social orders, then it ought to be quite trivial to show that this is the case by enumerating powerful people from the last century or so and making the case that they were generally very intelligent.

I don't think this is the case. And if Bostrom and whoever else in his clique actually wanted to empower intelligence, how come they aren't viciously fighting for free school, free food, free shelter, free health care and so on, to make sure that intelligent people, especially kids, do not go to waste?
by elC0mpa | 2026-02-13 07:51:11+00:00
I recently built and shared aws-doctor, a Go-based CLI to identify "zombie" resources in AWS accounts (orphaned EBS volumes, unattached IPs, old snapshots) because I was tired of clicking through the AWS Console/Cost Explorer.

It’s gaining some traction, but I want to take it from "hobby project" to "standard toolkit." I would love your feedback on what makes a CLI tool actually useful in your day-to-day Ops/DevOps workflow.

My specific questions for the community:

1 - Missing Checks: What is the one "hidden cost" resource in AWS that you always forget to delete and is not currently added to the tool?

2 - Interactivity vs. Scriptability: Right now it doesn't have that much interactivity, I have been thinking about adding some interactivity and make it look more like, for example, gemini cli, but I am not really sure about this

3 - Currently, this tool can run with a profile that has a ReadOnly aws managed policy, but in the future will add some features that allows to delete the resources directly from the terminal.

4 - Besides adding more checks to the waste flag, can you think about any other feature that will add real value to this tool, I have been thinking about adding PDF reports, but maybe there is something more you can suggest

The project is written in Go and I'm looking for feature requests or contributions to make it more robust.

Repo: https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor
Docs: https://awsdoctor.compacompila.com/
Thanks for the feedback!
by alexhans | 2026-02-13 07:51:42+00:00
Congrats on the journey and desire to learn.

There's different books or approaches to learn more depending on your needs.

It's usually useful to tailor things to whatever you already produce for others or consume for yourself because then you get the most of your feedback loop.

Can you share more about what you've tried so far, with what tools, or what feels the most fun or useful ?

Depending on your answers one might recommend things like

- https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

- land of lisp (comics and games with functional programming to intentionally separate you from vibe coding traditional tools)

- web related dev with different viz or presentation tools

useful concepts regardless will be, in my mind, unit testing and how to approach problems and breaking them down but it all depends on where you want to go.
by bnlxbnlx | 2026-02-13 07:51:53+00:00
> Yudkowsky and Soares maintain that if anyone builds AGI, everyone dies.
One could equally maintain that if nobody builds it, everyone dies. In fact, most people are
already dead. The rest of us are on course to follow within a few short decades. For many
individuals—such as the elderly and the gravely ill—the end is much closer. Part of the promise of
superintelligence is that it might fundamentally change this condition.

wtf? death is part of life. is he seriously arguing that if we don't build AGI people will "keep dying"? and suggesting that is equally bad as extinction (or something worse, matrix-like)?

i don't think life would be as colorful and joyful without death. death is what makes life as precious as it is.
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-13 07:52:16+00:00
> Basically Yudkowsky invented AI doom and everyone learned it from him. He wrote an entire book on this topic called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. (You could argue Vinge invented it but I don't know if he intended it seriously.)

Nick Bostrom (who wrote the paper this thread is about) published "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" back in 2014, over 10 years before "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" was released and the possibility of AI doom was a major factor in that book.

I'm sure people talked about "AI doom" even before then, but a lot of the concerns people have about AI alignment (and the reasons why AI might kill us all, not because its evil, but because not killing us is a lower priority than other tasks it may want to accomplish) come from "Superintelligence". Google for "The Paperclip Maximizer" to get the gist of his scenario.

"Superintelligence" just flew a bit more under the public zeigeist radar than "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" did because back when it was published the idea that we would see anything remotely like AGI in our lifetimes seemed very remote, whereas now it is a bit less so.
by glitchinc | 2026-02-13 07:52:19+00:00
Ring still partners with Axon [1] as part of the Community Requests feature [2]. Since terminating the partnership with Flock is solely a PR play, the answer to your question will likely depend on if consumers en masse use this opportunity to educate themselves on the gravity of the “loss of control (of your data) in exchange for convenience” paradox of cloud services and advocate for additional changes to be made to the Ring platform, or if Amazon’s PR capability will find a way to improve consumer sentiment towards Ring products and services without addressing privacy and surveillance concerns.

[1]:https://www.axon.com

[2]:https://ring.com/support/articles/uds27/Community-request