MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-20 17:24:44+00:00
Blaming the person running the program is the right thing to do and it's the only thing to do.

This is a really strained equivalence. I can't know for certain that the sun won't fall out of the sky if I drink a second cup of coffee. The "laws of physics" are just descriptions based on observations, after all. But it's a hilarious thing so unlikely we can call it impossible.

Similarly, we can have some nuance here. Someone running a program with the intention of it generating posts on the internet is obviously responsible for what it generates.
by dgroshev | 2026-02-20 17:24:53+00:00
I find SOLIDWORKS for Makers [1] a great middle ground between bait-and-switch "free" Fusion and the real, very expensive, deal. SW is one of industry standards, its interface is much better than FreeCAD's, and it's more powerful than both FreeCAD and Fusion. For example, both FreeCAD and Fusion struggle with G2/G3 smoothness [2] where SW doesn't even blink. Fusion doesn't allow to pattern features on sketch points (it's gated behind an expensive add-on [3]) when it's a built-in feature in SW.

[1]: https://www.solidworks.com/solution/solidworks-makers

[2]: https://www.printables.com/model/1490911-g0-g3-corners-visua...

[3]: https://www.autodesk.com/uk/products/fusion-360/design-exten...
by James_K | 2026-02-20 17:24:54+00:00
> This perception, for what it’s worth, runs counter to statistics: Between 2000 and 2022, the years for which data is available, only 0.5 percent of startup venture funding went to LGBTQ+ founders.

The article seems to admit that its central premise is entirely made up. If a conservative 3% of people are some flavour of gay, then they are 6-fold underrepresented, at least in this area.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-20 17:25:19+00:00
I am not big into going to bars but I'd say post-50 I have no problem talking to women and not being a "creep". Somehow I am really avuncular and rarely perceived a sexual threat. When I was younger I had more of that problem and was intimidated by beautiful people, a month ago I shook hands with a former Miss America.

Attraction does sometimes come up with women who are 10 years younger than me but otherwise I think it is a non-issue.
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-20 17:25:37+00:00
> An exoskeleton is something really cool in movies that has zero reason to be build in reality because there are way more practical approaches.

Sort of strange comment given that there are a large number of companies pursuing commercial exoskeletons literally right now.

SuitX

hypershell

Herowear

DNSYS

Moveo

Hell, even big companies like Hilti

I can buy a ton of different models of exoskeletons for anywhere from low hundreds to low thousands online right now...
by esseph | 2026-02-20 17:25:46+00:00
> This reads like tabloid writing, focusing on irrelevant personal characteristics rather than the universal social dynamics at play.

https://postscript1794.substack.com/p/is-the-most-shocking-m...

> Part of me wanted to ignore it in favor of other, more intellectual topics, and those topics are still the main focus of this Substack in general. However, I feel compelled to discuss this topic at least once. The thing about this particular rumor is just how frequently I have heard it over the years. Various iterations of the exact same story, but from very different people, with very different agendas, and at very different times. And it is striking to me how generally consistent it is.

> Instead of discussing it myself, I’m merely going to post some screenshots of what other people have posted on this topic and simply note that what all these people are saying very much echoes what I and others have also heard for years. Make of that what you will.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-20 17:25:52+00:00
Brilliant article.

Now consider Reddit.

On r/hacking people tend to understand the danger of mindlessness and support war against it: https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/1r55wvg/poison_fou...

In constrast r/programming is full of, let's call them "bot-heads", who are all-in on mindlessness: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r8oxt9/poison...
by isitcontent | 2026-02-20 17:26:11+00:00
Hi again! Some of you asked about Doom in my previous post about my BreezyBox shell for ESP32-S3. In my family, Celeste is more popular, so I ported it instead. Doom is left as an exercise for the reader.

Also, I extracted a few things as separate components (vterm, BT keyboard, display driver), because they have their own uses outside of BreezyBox, and some of them run on other chips, too.

I wonder if I could get the whole thing to run with some limitations e.g. on C6. Most of it compiles on RISC-V just fine (except my xcc700 compiler would be useless there). Having no PSRAM makes it tight. But some useful tiny apps can actually fit in just a few kilobytes.

What other apps do you think would be a great fit for this platform? I already noticed many people interested in ssh; I'll have a look what it takes.

Git repo with the updated demo firmware: https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

Celeste port repo: https://github.com/valdanylchuk/ccleste

Youtube demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufOQWBmwpk
by loudmax | 2026-02-20 17:26:14+00:00
It really depends what kind of time frame we're talking about.

As far as today's models, these are best understood as tools to be used as humans. They're only replacements for humans insofar as individual developers can accomplish more with the help of an AI than they could alone, so a smaller team can accomplish what used to require a bigger team. Due to Jevon's paradox this is probably a good thing for developer salaries: their skills are now that much more in demand.

But you have to consider the trajectory we're on. GPT went from an interesting curiosity to absolutely groundbreaking in less than five years. What will the next five years bring? Do you expect development to speed up, slow down, stay the course, or go off in an entirely different direction?

Obviously, the correct answer to that question is "Nobody knows for sure." We could be approaching the top of a sigmoid type curve where progress slows down after all the easy parts are worked out. Or maybe we're just approaching the base of the real inflection point where all white collar work can be accomplished better and more cheaply by a pile of GPUs.

Since the future is uncertain, a reasonable course of action is probably to keep your own coding skills up to date, but also get comfortable leveraging AI and learning its (current) strengths and weaknesses.
by abeppu | 2026-02-20 17:26:33+00:00
I think the gap is, if they're building hybrids with _forward_ AR and diffusion, they risk giving up the cool part of diffusion which is reasoning back.
I may be imposing unreasonable human biases on to this, but I really think it would be interesting to have the model engage with the structure of the text, rather than just being either a sequence or an array of tokens.
E.g. "I'm going to _ tomorrow." If the _ is not just a token but an expansion in context, which might be a noun phrase, a verb phrase etc, it could be filled in with "the mall", "practice guitar".
In code "if (_1) { return _2; }", _1 could be an expression whose type is bool, and which makes sense as a check to confirm that some process is finished. I don't care specifically how many tokens either of those is, but I do care that it makes sense in context.
by archy_ | 2026-02-20 17:27:02+00:00
Full tweet (since it wouldn't fit in the title): Sam Altman: Superintelligence probably by end of 2028. So we got roughly 2 years left. Enjoy your job while you still can. Time is ticking.

Non-Nitter link: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2024502735584780593
by tempest_ | 2026-02-20 17:27:14+00:00
"human reviewed"

"LGTM..."

I feel like code review is already hard and under done the 'velocity' here is only going to make that worse.

I am also curious how this works when the new crop of junior devs do not have the experience enough to review code but are not getting the experience from writing it.

Time will tell I guess.
by hnuser123456 | 2026-02-20 17:27:34+00:00
The 300MHz, 400MHz, and 500MHz points requiring only 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5v and with only the last point getting slightly above body temperature, even with no cooling, seem like something that should maybe not be "officially" supported, but maybe mentioned somewhere in an official blog post or docs. Getting 3x+ the performance with some config changes is noteworthy. It would be interesting to run an experiment to see if there's any measurable degradation of stability or increased likelihood at failure at those settings compared to a stock unit running the same workload for the same time.
by throwaway5752 | 2026-02-20 17:27:38+00:00
It isn't "so deadly", it's just unhealthy, and it's made worse by culture and business encouraging excessive consumption and serving sizes.

Ultraprocessed foods aren't great, but it's yet another manufactured crisis to serve as a distraction from the Epstein files scandal and coverup, like the attack Iran will be next Thursday. What a horrible time.
by keernan | 2026-02-20 17:28:23+00:00
>apparently so ill defined in law that 9 justices can't agree on it

That is not how the Supreme Court works. SCOTUS is a political body. Justices do one thing: cast votes. For any reason.

If they write an opinion it is merely their post hoc justification for their vote. Otherwise they do not have to explain anything. And when they do write an opinion it does not necessarily reflect the real reason for the way they voted.
by burnte | 2026-02-20 17:28:36+00:00
Why would that happen? Extremely little will happen to the US economy if OAI fails. The government has absolutely no reason to bail them out beyond pure corruption.

OAI's most valuable assets are hardware that will be worthless in 6-8 years. The second most valuable assets are the code which other companies are doing just fine with their own. The third is the hype halo that keeps them getting these deals that are disconnected from reality. Nothing there is holding up the economy.

They only have 4,000 employees. If they all lost their jobs, it would barely be a blip in a monthly jobs report. It's not as though millions of people will lose their jobs disrupting the economy like COVID.

The only downside is some imaginary money vanishes and some investors take a haircut on the imaginary money.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-20 17:28:38+00:00
You’re drawing the exact wrong conclusion. Building an old boys network was acknowledged by society as a problem. If I, as a straight white male, started a men’s club, excluded women, and conducted my company’s business there, I would (rightfully) be exposed to a claim of discrimination.

The behavior is the problem. The exclusionary nature of these networks happens to be illegal in many US states, as sexual identity is a protected class. Doing the same nonsense at the Harvard club is equally noxious, not not illegal.

There’s a number of very significant, very problematic power brokers wielding authority in tech companies now. The fact that a significant part of the cohort is gay is irrelevant - the fact they have a clique that is insular and possibly corrupt is. That commonality is no less relevant than the PayPal Mafia.
by user205738 | 2026-02-20 17:29:45+00:00
It looks like you're part of a mechanism for spreading lies)

Everyone starting from school knows that 22 June 1941 The Great Patriotic War began (Великая отечественная война). This is not the beginning of the WW2.

And what is the lie in the fact that Ukraine glorifies nazi criminals? You can see this for yourself.
by laichzeit0 | 2026-02-20 17:29:47+00:00
In The Laws you find: strict supervision of marriage age, mandatory procreation windows, state monitoring of reproduction, penalties for bachelors, public scrutiny of household conduct, drinking regulation, limits on wealth and inheritance,
formal theology enforced by law, criminal penalties for impiety, special prisons for “atheists”, etc. it goes on and on. The Laws makes The Republic look like Disneyland to be honest.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-20 17:29:52+00:00
How sad for you. Whenever I hear people proudly announcing how arbitrarily and illogically and performatively they decide what's worth reading, I don't think what you write is worth reading either.

I'm much better off reading diverse opinions and deciding what to believe based on what they actually say, instead of imposing petty rules and self-censoring what I read, and self-cultivating ignorance.

You'd be much better off, mentally healthier, and subjected to less propaganda if instead you ignored what "Scam Altman" and "Elmo Musk" and "Orange Man" write instead of what people who criticize them write, since they have such asymmetrically bigger platforms and pro-oligarchy biases than their critics, and they also regularly call people childish names themselves.

TL;DR: you're choosing to ignore the wrong people.
by mattas | 2026-02-20 17:30:01+00:00
The idea of getting a refund for mischaracterized tariffs is actually fairly common (it's called a duty drawback and there's a cottage industry around this). It's generally used when an importer incorrectly categorized their import under an HS code that has a higher duty than the correctly categorized HS code.

The difference this time is the scale is orders of magnitude larger. Will be interesting to see how they (importers and CBP) work through this.
by cracki | 2026-02-20 17:30:02+00:00
Autodesk should have started their own ECAD from scratch. They have mountains of CAD know-how in house. Their acquisition of EAGLE did nobody any favors.

I am not sad to see it go. The only ones I know of who used to use EAGLE were those who got hooked on it when it was either free or the cheapest option for hobbyists and small businesses. It didn't win any UI/UX competitions, certainly not against the joy that is modern programs for solid CAD.
by epistasis | 2026-02-20 17:30:07+00:00
My main problem is defining "ultra-processed," such that I could take action on this in my life.

> From this perspective, homemade jam on pain de Gonesse would be fine; Smucker’s on Wonder Bread would not, even if it contained less sugar and fat. “The thesis is that we’ve been focussing too strongly on the individual nutritional components of food,” Hall told me. “We’re starting to learn that processing really matters.”

So the pain de Gonesse goes through lots of processing to get it's unique attributes, but is not "ultra processed" yet Wonder bread is. Or is it the Smucker's jam that makes it ultraprocessed? Is home made jam ultra-processed?

Or this distinction:

> “Preparing a day’s worth of ultra-processed meals might take an hour,” he said. “Unprocessed meals could take three or four times as long.” He brought his knife down forcefully, cleaving a carrot in two, and continued: “If I’m swamped, I’d rather make the ultra-processed menu. But if I had to pick one to eat for the rest of my life? Unprocessed, no question.”

As somebody who cooks a good chunk of my family's meals, cleaving a carrot in two and taking the example earlier of making a meal of vegetables and grilled chicken is not that time consuming compared to, what exactly? What takes 3-4 hours to prepare here?

Vagueness in articles like these reinforce the idea that there's no definiton of "ultra-processed" that a regular person can use, and that it's just based on vibes and vague feelings of "quality" that are at best defined by traditions rather than by choices that are made. Even the start of the article, that the immigrant noticed that American meals had far larger portions, more salt, and more sweetness than French food, does not comport to the definitons used here.

Maybe the definition is: the food can go bad in a short amount of time, except for staples like rice or flour. Would that work? I don't know. Can I simply switch to dry kidney beans rather than the canned kidney beans, because the canned kidney beans are "ultra-processed"?

I've read sooooo much about ultra-processed food but still don't know how to use it in daily life.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-20 17:30:20+00:00
This is what my family told me. They may not have been his exact words but he believed it had a very strong possibility to go into complete remission. This was after they had gone through other therapies like HIPEC, where they told me it'd buy them a few years (they got 8). The problem is CRC will often metastasize into areas current treatments can't really get at and that tends to be where the cancer comes back. Apparently this procedure got right in there.
by Refreeze5224 | 2026-02-20 17:30:28+00:00
> I asked AI to help and it told me why it was broken and how to fix it, and also fixed it for me.

This is just it, you didn't learn anything here. In 3 months, you will only remember that AI fixed some issue for you. You will have none of the knowledge and experience that struggling and thinking and googling and trying things out until it works provides. You may as well have asked some other person to fix it, and they would at least have learned something.

Also, anyone could be plugged into your job when it works this way. All they need is someone who can type into a prompt. Which is much easier to find than someone who actually knows the what and how and why of the code. But hey, you fixed the bug, it ships, boss makes money, the company wins. But you sure don't...
by c22 | 2026-02-20 17:30:45+00:00
When my kids were young and I took a break from regular employment to be a stay-at-home dad I still ran a non-profit on the side. There might have been a couple stressful nights where both the wife and I had some deadline and we let the kids watch too much TV in the evening, but largely having kids didn't impact my ability to do this at all.

When I regained regular employment I did find I needed to pass the torch on the non-profit to keep my sanity, so there's something to the idea that society loses out when everyone needs a full-time job.
by vunderba | 2026-02-20 17:31:01+00:00
This is eerily similar to something I do with Hacker News stories that hit the front page. I run the post against a couple of LLMs (Mixtral, GPT-OSS, Qwen3, etc.) with the directive to produce a set of 20 of the most likely top-level replies.

I then wait a few days, and then use a couple of systems (embeddings, deBERTa, etc.) to rank comments by novelty against the LLM-produced replies.
by tfehring | 2026-02-20 17:31:06+00:00
It's true that a volatile environment in general is good for certain types of investment banking business, including this trade. I nevertheless think it's unlikely - honestly, a galaxy brain take - that Cantor Fitzgerald or other investment banks with influence in the Trump administration would push for policies like unconstitutional tariffs just to drive trading revenue. Maybe the strongest reason is that other, frankly more lucrative investment banking activities, like fundraising and M&A, benefit from a growing economy and a stable economic and regulatory environment.
by wvh | 2026-02-20 17:31:07+00:00
It's important to keep cortisol low, and over-exercise can cause cortisol to spike – as does depression in general, hence the sleeping difficulties many depressed people experience. Likely that's why resistance training and HIIT are more helpful in this case as there is less built up of stress hormones.

I've been diagnosed with moderate to severe depression, and I'm a trial runner and do CrossFit. It's a balancing act to find strength and feeling capable through sport without increasing insomnia and early waking, likely because of cortisol spikes.

Sport does more for me than antidepressants, which have little effect than making me feel tired all the time. I've gone through a whole battery of them with little success and I've become quite critical of them. But I'm lucky to generally like sport and eat pretty healthily; I can imagine for others that can be an extra stressor they really don't need.
by de46le | 2026-02-20 17:31:38+00:00
Mine's this-ish (nushell, but easily bashified or pwshd) for finding all merged, including squashed:

let t = "origin/dev"; git for-each-ref refs/heads/ --format="%(refname:short)" | lines | where {|b| $b !~ 'dev' and (git merge-tree --write-tree $t $b | lines | first) == (git rev-parse $"($t)^{tree}") }

Does a 3-way in-mem merge against (in my case) dev. If there's code in the branch that isn't in the target it won't show up.

Pipe right to deletion if brave, or to a choice-thingy if prudent :)
by athrowaway3z | 2026-02-20 17:32:27+00:00
I've seen this played out 3 times with none devs i know personally. Somebody had an idea, starts vibing and feeling like they're making insane progress and cool stuff, but what can most generously be summarized as: a big Meh.

> Most of all, there is now an illusion of a lower barrier to entry.

Arguably, there has never been a higher barrier to entry.

The benefits accrue to the skilled. We all got X% more powerful, and those who were already skilled to begin with get a proportionally better outcome.
by AngryData | 2026-02-20 17:32:33+00:00
Almost 20 years ago now paypal stole my $15 for no cause, I bought a videogame with it once off a major website, had $15 in it sitting around for 6 months, tried to use it to buy something off ebay and got locked out instantly. Then demanded all sorts of hoop jumping to get it back with notarized license and crap. Ive been saying screw them ever since, and not once have I regretted it. Every year there is some more shit showing that was the right move.

How many millions of dollars have they seized without cause? I can't believe they are still going, I can only hope someday somebody with a bit of money can sue their pants off in court and get them shut down.
by runarberg | 2026-02-20 17:32:49+00:00
I did indeed miss something. I learned after posting (but before my EDIT) that there are anchor engines that they play.

However these benchmarks still have flaws. The two illegal moves = forfeit is an odd rule which the authors of the benchmarks (which in this case was Claude Code) added[1] for mysterious reasons. In competitive play if you play an illegal move you forfeit the game.

Second (and this is a minor one) Maia 1900 is currently rated at 1774 on lichess[2], but is 1816 on the leaderboard, to the author’s credit they do admit this in their methodology section.

Third, and this is a curiosity, gemini-3-pro-preview seems to have played the same game twice against Maia 1900[3][4] and in both cases Maia 1900 blundered (quite suspiciously might I add) mate in one when in a winning position with Qa3?? Another curiosity about this game. Gemini consistently played the top 2 moves on lichess. Until 16. ...O-O! (which has never been played on lichess) Gemini had played 14 most popular lichess moves, and 2 second most popular. That said I’m not gonna rule out that the fact that this game is listed twice might stem from an innocent data entry error.

And finally, apart from Gemini (and Survival bot for some reason?), LLMs seem unable to pass Maia-1100 (rated 1635 on lichess). The only anchor bot before that is random bot. And predictably LLMs cluster on both sides of it, meaning they play as well as random (apart from the illegal moves). This smells like benchmaxxing from Gemini. I would guess that the entire lichess repertoire features prominently in Gemini’s training data, and the model has memorized it really well. And is able to play extremely well if it only has to play 5-6 novel moves (especially when their opponent blunders checkmate in 1).

1: https://github.com/lightnesscaster/Chess-LLM-Benchmark/commi...

2: https://lichess.org/@/maia9

3: https://chessbenchllm.onrender.com/game/6574c5d6-c85a-4cb3-b...

4: https://chessbenchllm.onrender.com/game/4af82d60-8ef4-47d8-8...