MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 22:06:36+00:00
I'm pretty sure it is widely known that the early 5.x series were built from 4.5 (unreleased). It seems more plausible the 5.x series is still in that continuation.

For some extra context, pre-training is ~1/3 of the training, where it gains the basic concepts of how tokens go together. Mid & late training are where you instill the kinds of anthropic behaviors we see today. I expect pre-training to increasingly become a lower percentage of overall training, putting aside any shifts of what happens in each phase.

So to me, it is plausible they can take the 4.x pre-training and keep pushing in the later phases. There is a lot of results out there to show scaling laws (limits) have not peaked yet. I would not be surprised to learn that Gemini 3 Deep Research had 50% late-training / RL
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 22:07:11+00:00
Graph Theory and AI have been forever linked because it turns out the human brain is ridiculously good at finding a path through a graph that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 97% optimal, and we can do it in minutes while a computer would take weeks or until the heat death of the universe to do it better.

It's vexatious how good we are at it, and it's exactly the sort of problem that Science likes. We know it's true, but we can't reproduce it outside of the test subject(s). So it's a constant siren song to try to figure out how the fuck we do that and write a program that does it faster or more reliably.

Traveling Salesman was the last hard problem I picked up solely to stretch my brain and I probably understand the relationship between TSP and linear programming about as well as a Seahawks fan understands what it is to be a quarterback. I can see the bits and enjoy the results but fuck that looks intimidating.
by 1123581321 | 2026-02-13 22:08:30+00:00
I like a TUI when I always want an app to run side by side with a CLI. It’s easier to do split windows in a terminal or tmux/zellij panes than to script two separate app windows to stay locked together as a pair. Although, I’d welcome advice as to how to do it better.

I also find TUIs are easier to program for the same reason they’re limited. Fewer human interface aspects in play and it’s not offensive to use the same UI across OSes. (There are still under-the-hood differences across OSes, e.g. efficient file event watching.)
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-13 22:08:50+00:00
You might also want to look into Dioxus Native as it's doing a lot of what you're interested in too, with taffy and vello for example. The gaps I see in the Rust UI ecosystem as you asked are that I want a true cross platform solution for mobile, web, and desktop while most focus only on desktop, as I use Flutter currently for this purpose but need to pull in Rust crates through an FFI layer like flutter_rust_bridge, as well as a backend server in Rust and having to share types with the frontend through some agnostic format like GraphQL, so it'd be nice to have everything in one language. Dioxus Native does in fact bill itself as "Flutter but in Rust" which I'm looking forward to a lot.

How was it like working at Zed? Any reason for leaving?
by InMice | 2026-02-13 22:08:52+00:00
I almost switched to pixel before getting my new 17 pro max. I feel like im just constantly fighting the ios keyboard or having to type so slowly and carefully but it still is screwing up. I have a pixel 8a and Im shocked how quickly I can type on it while constantly tip toeing and fighting the ios keyboard.

It's ironic because my first iphone i used was a 4s and i was pleasantly surprised how nice it was to type on after using samsung phones. Now it's like the tables have turned. Im constantly fighting the ios keyboard. Sometimes when i tap and get the wrong character i will move my thumb to where i would have had to type to get that wrong character and i know for sure i did not move my thumb that far away from the character i actually wanted and thought i tapped on. Im honestly shocked how bad typing on ios has become. i got a pixel 8a just to amuse myself and i was again totally surprised how fast and easy the typing was. something is going rotten inside apple.

even controlling when the keyboard appears and when you want it to go away is frustrating on ios. i find the little universal down arrow on the pixel phones much better.
by mothballed | 2026-02-13 22:09:02+00:00
There wouldn't be any identity linked for an anonymous bank account to 'access', were it not for the warrantless search of your papers required under KYC but done via private entity (sidestepping 4th amendment) to open an account. That part is done without even a subpoena.

That is, the US banking laws force private actors, under color of law, to systematically inspect the papers of those opening an account, which conveniently sidesteps the 4th amendment implication of the government searching the papers themselves at everyone opening an account at the bank. And then allows the government to act on the information of that forced search, even without a warrant.

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I'm referring to this:

>The government cannot have a third party take action on its behalf to do something that would be illegal for the government to do itself.

It is illegal for the government to violate the 4th amendment, whether or not a 'law' beyond what is written in the constitution is present.

Clearly the government would love to just take all your information directly when you open an account, as that would be even better for them, but due to the 4th amendment they can't do that. But just asking or without a warrant requiring the bank to act on it or reveal it is almost as easy, so they just sidestep that by just requiring via the law the bank to search your papers instead. It's effectively a government imposed search but carried out by a 3rd party.

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>This is just factually wrong. The Bank Secrecy Act specifically requires that banks to provide this info. The 4th amendment does not prohibit this. If a bank refused to provide this required information, the government would go in and get that information directly.

>Again, no law is being avoided. You just don't like the

This is not 'just factually wrong.' The bank is doing the search instead of the government. A blanket search of everyone, even without a subpeona, even without an individualized notice, even without any sort of event that would require reporting to the government under the BSA, even then they still are required to search the information even in the instances that it doesn't end up being required to be transmitted to the government. You're saying the portion of data the government collects might be 4A compliant, but that doesn't mean the private actor being forced to collect information that doesn't even get reported is 4A compliant if the government did it. You're just saying the subset of required KYC collected information that ends up transmitted to the government was 4A compliant, which isn't sufficient to establish the government could have collected all the information to begin with under the 4A as they have required the bank to do.

>the government would go in and get that information directly

A blanket sweep of everyone's information willy nilly by the government is not 4A compliant, that's why they've had the bank do it on their behalf.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-13 22:09:24+00:00
That doesn't address what I asked. The paper I linked proves undecidability for a much larger class of problems* which includes the case you're talking about of asymptotic optimality. In any case, I am certain you are unfamiliar w/ what I linked b/c I was also unaware of it until recently & was convinced by the standard arguments people use to convince themselves they can solve any & all problems w/ the proper policy optimization algorithm. Moreover, there is also the problem of catastrophic state avoidance even for asymptotically optimal agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03357v2.

* - Corollary 3.4. For any fixed ε, 0 < ε < 1, the following problem is undecidable: Given is a PFA M for which one of the two cases hold:

(1) the PFA accepts some string with probability greater than 1 − ε, or
(2) the PFA accepts no string with probability greater than ε.

Decide whether case (1) holds.
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-13 22:10:23+00:00
> average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets.

What do you mean by this? If a government conscripts "average citizens" into its military then they become valid military targets, sure.

I'm not why you think this implies that developers working for Palantir or Clearview would become military targets. Palantir builds software for the military. But the people actually using that software are military personnel, not Palantir employees.
by incanus77 | 2026-02-13 22:10:24+00:00
It looks to me to have:

- NEW

- GTO (GOTO)

- LST (LIST)

- END

- RUN

- FOR

- NXT (NEXT)

- LOD (LOAD)

- STP (STOP)

- RTN (RETURN)

All of which are BASIC commands, as well as GTS (go to subroutine, probably like GOSUB).

In addition, it would’ve lent itself well to loading programs from cassette (see TI-99 or TRS-80 of the era).

I have a 1984 Sharp PC-1246 handheld which is surprisingly programmable despite being about the size of a modern smartphone, an actual calculator form factor, and, you know, from 1984.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 22:10:38+00:00
> McDonald’s global CEO has famously stated that while they invest in "advanced kitchen equipment," full robotic kitchens aren't a broad reality yet because "the economics don't pencil out" for their massive scale.

> While a highly automated McDonald’s in South Korea (or the experimental "small format" store in Texas) might look empty, the total headcount remains surprisingly similar to a standard restaurant
by meowface | 2026-02-13 22:10:41+00:00
One of the most widely ridiculed and discredited AI skeptics, outmatched only by Gary Marcus.

Note the date, then imagine this take repeated every single month up to now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-a-i-bubble-is-burs...

Not to say all AI skepticism (especially concerning very short timelines) is necessarily unwarranted, but Zitron and Marcus are just professional contrarians selling a message to people who want their biases and priors affirmed.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-02-13 22:12:25+00:00
I don't know whether Ed Zitron is telling the truth.

I do know that Suleyman, Altman, and Amodei have lied, lied, and lied repeatedly, whether intentional or not.

For that matter, I do not believe AGI will happen in our lifetimes. https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/
by johnfn | 2026-02-13 22:12:25+00:00
I'm not sure what to say about calling someone a "liar" for stating that AI can work for hours unattended. I can prompt AI and have it run for an hour+ at a time and get good results out of it. I have no reason to lie; this is just a factual statement, sort of like saying that my test suite runs for an hour or something. Yes, you need to prompt it correctly and have the right environment and so forth, but it is absolutely not a "lie".
by ggm | 2026-02-13 22:13:32+00:00
I'm glad you're overt about this. And, my opposition here is not because of any issues with delivery of welfare by faith based organisations, the days of juice church to get the bums lunch is long gone. My concern is the ability of the state welfare budget to be cut because statutory rights to aide are replaced by voluntarism and discretionary spend which can be withdrawn at will.

The fight for the welfare state was a long battle in the UK, across the depression and war. Thatcher would have unwound it even more if it hadn't been electoral suicide and the same is true in the US, albeit diluted.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything here, really I'm just pleased this is overt and conscious.
by magicalist | 2026-02-13 22:14:05+00:00
> > Neither is there an expectation [...]

> Expectation is not law.

It is in this case.

Expectation of privacy is a legal test based literally on on what "normies would probably say". If, as a society, we're moving more and more of our private effects to the cloud, there is a point where there's an expectation of privacy from the government there, regardless of the shadiness of the company we trusted for it, and regardless of what's convenient for the government.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/expectation_of_privacy

Carpenter v. United States is a great example of this, where a thing once thought as obviously falling under the third party doctrine (cell tower location information) was put definitively within protection by the fourth amendment because of ongoing changes in how society used and considered cell phones.

And I forgot about this but just saw it referenced in the wikipedia article: it's notable that Gorsuch's dissent on the case argued for dropping the third party doctrine completely:

> There is another way. From the founding until the 1960s, the right to assert a Fourth Amendment claim didn’t depend on your ability to appeal to a judge’s personal sensibilities about the “reasonableness” of your expectations or privacy. It was tied to the law. The Fourth Amendment protects “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” True to those words and their original understanding, the traditional approach asked if a house, paper or effect was yours under law. No more was needed to trigger the Fourth Amendment....

> Under this more traditional approach, Fourth Amendment protections for your papers and effects do not automatically disappear just because you share them with third parties.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-402
by baobabKoodaa | 2026-02-13 22:14:23+00:00
It's really hard to take people like this seriously. They preach sermons about the perils of AI, maneuver themselves into an extremely lucrative position where they can actually do something about it, but they don't actually care. They came to get that bag. Now they got it, so instead of protecting the world from peril, they go off and study poetry. LOL. These are not serious people.
by tailnode | 2026-02-13 22:14:32+00:00
Yeah, he posted a low-resolution bitmap scan of it on Twitter a few days ago. I had to open it in Safari and rely on its OCR to actually paste the relevant passage that describes his reason for leaving, which only comes after four paragraphs of preamble.

> What comes next, I do not know. I think fondly of the famous Zen quote "not knowing is most intimate". My intention is to create space to set aside the structures that have held me these past years, and see what might emerge in their absence. I feel called to writing that addresses and engages fully with the place we find ourselves, and that places poetic truth alongside scientific truth as equally valid ways of knowing, both of which I believe have something essential to contribute when developing new technology.* I hope to explore a poetry degree and devote myself to the practice of courageous speech. I am also excited to deepen my practice of facilitation, coaching, community
building, and group work. We shall see what unfolds.

:eggplant_emoji:
by christophilus | 2026-02-13 22:14:42+00:00
What’s shocking about it? Seems like the usual culprit— a bad config rollout. Took a long time to identify, so maybe that’s shocking. But I can attest that sometimes, you get into fight or flight mode and miss the obvious when trying to diagnose a disruption like this.

That said, nowadays, the first thing I do is spawn an agent to look through the most recent commits and try to identify something that could be the cause of a service outage.

This one seems like something Claude Code or Codex would have quickly flagged.
by dakolli | 2026-02-13 22:16:13+00:00
Yes, all of these stories, and frequent model releases are just intended to psyop "decision makers" into validating their longstanding belief that the labour shouldn't be as big of a line item in a companies expenses, and perhaps can be removed altogether.. They can finally go back to the good old days of having slaves (in the form of "agentic" bots), they yearn to own slaves again.

CEOs/decision makers would rather give all their labour budget to tokens if they could just to validate this belief. They are bitter that anyone from a lower class could hold any bargaining chips, and thus any influence over them. It has nothing to do with saving money, they would gladly pay the exact same engineering budget to Anthropic for tokens (just like the ruling class in times past would gladly pay for slaves) if it can patch that bitterness they have for the working class's influence over them.

The inference companies (who are also from this same class of people) know this, and are exploiting this desire. They know if they create the idea that AI progress is at an unstoppable velocity decision makers will begin handing them their engineering budgets. These things don't even have to work well, they just need to be perceived as effective, or soon to be for decision makers to start laying people off.

I suspect this is going to backfire on them in one of two ways.

1. French Revolution V2, they all get their heads cutoff in 15 years, or an early retirement on a concrete floor.

2. Many decisions makers will make fools of themselves, destroy their businesses and come begging to the working class for our labor, giving the working class more bargaining chips in the process.

Either outcome is going to be painful for everyone, lets hope people wake up before we push this dumb experiment too far.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 22:16:34+00:00
> and the on-premise employees do little else than heat it up

This is correct. This also is a lot more complex than it sounds and creates a lot of work. Cooking those products creates byproducts that must be handled.

> and the cashiers have largely been replaced by self-order terminals so that employees no longer even need to speak rudimentary English

Yet most of the customers still have to interact with an employee because "the kiosk won't let me". Want to add Mac sauce? Get the wrong order in the bag? Machine took payment but is out of receipt paper? Add up all these "edge cases" and a significant amount of these "contactless" transactions involved plenty of contact!

> It will happen to you.

Any labor that can be automated should be. Humans are not supposed to spend their time doing meaningless tasks without a purpose beyond making an imaginary number go up or down.
by meowface | 2026-02-13 22:17:00+00:00
The person predicting the recession. Even if the government were preventing each new recession through historically unrivalled foresight, the predictor should eventually start incorporating that into the prediction.

If the prediction is "there will be a recession within the next 20 years", then, okay. If it's https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-a-i-bubble-is-burs... every single month...
by dang | 2026-02-13 22:17:22+00:00
Related. Others?

Open Source Is Not About You (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39905557 - April 2024 (1 comment)

Open source is not about you (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957554 - July 2022 (205 comments)

Open Source Is Not About You (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27003713 - May 2021 (5 comments)

Open Source is Not About You - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538123 - Nov 2018 (277 comments)
by bloomingeek | 2026-02-13 22:18:07+00:00
<It ignored contextual information and presented hallucinated details as truth. It framed things in the language of oppression and justice, calling this discrimination and accusing me of prejudice.>

So in other words, the "person" who caused this to happen is dishonest. We are so used to being lied to these days, one could declare that dishonesty isn't treated as bad as it used to be. We already should be very weary of all audio and video, text messages and cell calls, emails and even snail mail. Why not AI?

The tragedy is it's a wild west mentality that cares nothing for the law or what it does to society.
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-13 22:18:08+00:00
Right, but the point is, no law is being avoided. The comment I responded to wrote:

> Always easier when you can avoid the law and just buy it off the shelf. (Emphasis mine)

No law is being avoided, neither in your banking example nor in the situation with Clearview. To be sure, people can have whatever opinion on the law that they want. But I do want to make it clear the the government is not "avoiding" any law here.
by empath75 | 2026-02-13 22:18:48+00:00
I was working on a fairly niche thing, a library of crossplane compositions written in KCL and thought it would be nice to have a TUI so i could browse through them and see the rendered yaml as claude was working on it. I asked claude code to write it with python and textual and it one shotted it in about two minutes including a test suite.
by grogenaut | 2026-02-13 22:19:01+00:00
In the past week I made 4 different tasks that were going to make my m4brun at full tilt for a week optimized down to 20 minutes with just a few prompts. So more like an hour to pay off not decades. average claude invocation is .3 wh. m4 usez 40-60 watts, so 24x7x40 >> .3 * 10
by dang | 2026-02-13 22:19:09+00:00
Related. Others?

Lena - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994642 - May 2025 (3 comments)

"Lena" isn't about uploading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166425 - Jan 2024 (2 comments)

Lena (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38536778 - Dec 2023 (48 comments)

MMAcevedo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32696089 - Sept 2022 (16 comments)

Lena - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835 - Feb 2021 (218 comments)
by solarkraft | 2026-02-13 22:19:19+00:00
> The narrative from AI companies hasn’t really changed, but the reaction has. The same claims get repeated so often that they start to feel like baseline reality, and people begin to assume the models are far more capable than they actually are.

This has been the case for people who buy into hype and don’t actually use the products, but I’m pretty sure people who do are pretty disillusioned by all the claims. The only somewhat reliable method is to test the things for your own use case.

That said: I always expected the tradeoff of Spark to be accuracy vs. speed. That it’s still significantly faster at the same accuracy is wild. I never expected that.
by keybored | 2026-02-13 22:19:56+00:00
> The difference is that a government can take personal liberty away from people in the most direct way. A private company can't decide to lock somebody away in prison or send them to death row. (Hopefully anyway.) So we put a higher standard on government.

We put higher standards on the government because companies have the biggest propaganda coffers.

It’s not some rational principle. Money goes in, beliefs come out.
by qingcharles | 2026-02-13 22:20:01+00:00
Gemini built a nice TUI for me for a DHT scraper project I was coding:

https://imgur.com/a/u3KHbDT

It was like two-shot, cos the first version had some issues with CJK chars.

I was impressed as it would have taken me a bunch of screwing around on lining up all the data etc when I wanted to concentrate on the scraping algorithm, not the pretty bits.