MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krastanov | 2026-02-16 14:05:21+00:00
I maintain serious code bases and I use LLM agents (and agent teams) plenty -- I just happen to review the code they write, I demand they write the code in a reviewable way, and use them mostly for menial tasks that are otherwise unpleasant timesinks I have to do myself. There are many people like me, that just quietly use these tools to automate the boring chores of dealing with mature production code bases. We are quiet because this is boring day-to-day work.

E.g. I use these tools to clean up or reorganize old tests (with coverage and diff viewers checking of things I might miss), update documentation with cross links (with documentation linters checking for errors I miss), convert tests into benchmarks running as part of CI, make log file visualizers, and many more.

These tools are amazing for dealing with the long tail of boring issues that you never get to, and when used in this fashion they actually abruptly increase the quality of the codebase.
by londons_explore | 2026-02-16 14:05:35+00:00
Smart manufacturers will sell 'hard drive futures'. Ie. "Give us $100/drive now for 100k drives for delivery in march 2028".

These contracts are then transferrable. The manufacturer can start work on a factory knowing they'll get paid to produce the drives.

If the AI boom comes to an end, the manufacturer is still going to get paid for their factory, and if the AI company wants to recoup costs they could try to sell those contracts back to the manufacturer for pennies on the dollar, who might then decide (if it is more profitable) to halt work on the factory - and either way they make money.
Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
by usr1106 | 2026-02-16 14:06:03+00:00
The newest version of 145.0.3800.58-1 of microsoft-edge-stable changes the repo to download further updates from to https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ At the moment this fails for me because I don't have Google's public key installed. But I doubt the URL is correct in the first place.

I guess Microsoft copies the maintainer scripts from Google's Chrome and forgot to patch the repo URL.

Yeah, I would not use any software from that supplier if my employer did not force me to...
by jplaz | 2026-02-16 14:07:24+00:00
Puerto Ricans do pay certain federal taxes. However, they generally do not pay federal income tax unless they earn income from sources outside of Puerto Rico. I didn’t get this information from Wikipedia-- I already knew this. Also, I never said anything about federal income tax in my original comment. If you believe something I said was incorrect, please point out specifically what was not true.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-16 14:07:53+00:00
I actually agree: a spike in prices due to bumping against capacity limits is way better than a downturn in the market. But this is only really true if AI hyperscalers are incented to space out their big buildouts over time (while raising their prices enough to ration current demand) so that suppliers can have some guarantee that their expanded capacity will be used.
by Xunjin | 2026-02-16 14:08:16+00:00
TBF, all financial market is speculation these days, what only change is the figure/percentage of how much a share is actually the value it's priced.

> The problem with this AI stuff is we don't know how much we will be willing to pay for it, as individuals, as businesses, as nations. I guess we just don't know how far this stuff will be useful. The reasons for the high valuation is, in my guess, that there is more value here than what we have tapped so far, right?

I think the value now comes on how we make a product of it, for example, like OpenClaw. Whether we like or not, AI is really expensive to train, not only in monetary value but also in resources, and the gains have been diminishing with each “generation”. Let's not forget we heard promises that have not been fulfilled, for example AGI or “AI could potentially cure cancer, with enough power”.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-16 14:08:31+00:00
Oh, it's much easier on the keyboard.

Minor feature request: In the start when there are three buttons to pick the mode, I 'd like to use the mouse.

Big feature request: I made a similar simulator a long time ago, and I wished to add an option to show the expected trajectory in the future as a help. Also, show the trajectory in case I press up and in case I press down, so I can get some intuition about the change of the trajectory. (I'm not sure if it's possible to do this fast enough. I never added it to my simulator.)
by hackinthebochs | 2026-02-16 14:08:45+00:00
Why should odd failure modes invalidate the claim of reasoning or intelligence in LLMs? Humans also have odd failure modes, in some ways very similar to LLMs. Normal functioning humans make assumptions, lose track of context, or just outright get things wrong. And then there people with rare neurological disorders like somatoparaphrenia, a disorder where people deny ownership of a limb and will confabulate wild explanations for it when prompted. Humans are prone to the very same kind of wild confabulation from impaired self awareness that plague LLMs.

Rather than a denial of intelligence, to me these failure modes raise the credence that LLMs are really onto something.
by powera | 2026-02-16 14:09:01+00:00
Between this and 4.6's tendency to do so much more "exploratory" work, I am back to using ChatGPT Codex for some tasks.

Two months ago, Claude was great for "here is a specific task I want you to do to this file". Today, they seem to be pivoting towards "I don't know how to code but want this feature" usage. Which might be a good product decision, but makes it worse as a substitute for writing the code myself.
by evaXhill | 2026-02-16 14:09:36+00:00
Seems quite absurd that they would shut down the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts under the pretext that they sent information to a third-party AI company (who doesn’t these days). Here’s a rebuttal by one of the founders i believe: https://endaleahy.substack.com/p/what-the-minister-said
Show HN: EU-based and simpler Kagi alternative – Uruky
by BrunoBernardino | 2026-02-16 14:09:38+00:00
For the last couple of months I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1]. It's a EU-based and simpler Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).

We've been using it with friends and family with much success (and hashbangs like "!g", "!d", or "!e" work for any edge cases we haven't fixed/improved yet).

It's already using EU-based search providers with EU-based indexes like Mojeek and Marginalia. We're currently waiting for EUSP (the new Ecosia/Qwant-effort-related index) to provide us with an API key.

For the next 24h, new signups will have a free 24h trial (unlimited searches) — usually, because bots make things too hard and we don't want your personal data, there is no free trial period.

After that, if you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free.

You can see the main differences between Kagi and Uruky here [3], but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code!

If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!

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[2] https://kagi.com

[3] https://uruky.com/kagi-alternative
by k33n | 2026-02-16 14:09:58+00:00
If your argument is that having the client do all the work to assemble the DOM is cheaper for you under the constraints you outlined then that is a good argument.

My argument is that I can always get a faster time to paint than you if I have a good cluster of back end services doing all that work instead of offloading it all to the client (which will then round trip back to your “slow servers over a slow network”) anyway to get all the data.

If you don’t care about time to paint under already high client-side load, then just ship another JS app, absolutely. But what you’re describing is how you deliver something as unsatisfying as the current GitHub.com experience.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-16 14:10:14+00:00
This is odd; this is supposed to be public information, isn't it? I suspect it's run into bureaucratic empire-defending rather than a nefarious scheme to conceal cases.

Relatedly, there's an extremely good online archive of important cases in the past, but because they disallow crawlers in robots.txt: https://www.bailii.org/robots.txt not many people know about it. Personally I would prefer if all reporting on legal cases linked to the official transcript, but seemingly none of the parties involved finds it in their interest to make that work.
by setopt | 2026-02-16 14:10:24+00:00
You can just do `git diff --word-diff` and then the diffs look great even with one paragraph per line.

I used to do one sentence per line, but after getting used to how Emacs handles soft-wrapping, I now do one paragraph per line—also when I use Vim. This also makes collaboration with other authors easier, since most non-vim collaborators do that.
by bluGill | 2026-02-16 14:10:56+00:00
Gamers are important because they are consistent customers. Crypto buying of GPUs is done (anyone still in this area is buying ASICs). Meanwhile gamers are still buying GPUs - they do sometimes hold off when the economy doesn't allow, but you can trust that gamers will continue to buy GPUs to play their games and thus they are a safe investment. It is rational to sell CPUs to a gamer for much less than someone in crypto because the gamer will be back (even if the gamer "grows up" there are more replacing them). Thus gamer is an important group while crypto is not.

The above was their prediction during the crypto boom and it turns out correct. I'm not sure how AI will turn out, but it isn't unreasonable to predict that AI will also move to dedicated chips (or die?) in a few years thus making gamers more important because gamers will be buying GPUs when this fad is over. Though of course if AI turns out to be a constant demand for more/better GPUs long term they are more important.

Gamers are not the only important GPU market. CAD comes to mind as another group that is a consistent demand for GPUs over the years. I know there are others, they are all important.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-16 14:11:38+00:00
I'll add that the GPU, CPU, storage, and RAM industries crashed in 2022 after a Covid-induced boom.[0]

Everything was cheap. Samsung sold SSDs at a loss that year.

TSMC and other suppliers did not invest as much in cap ex in 2022 and 2023 because of the crash.

Parts of the shortage today can be blamed by those years. Of course ChatGPT also launched in late 2022 and the rest is history.

[0]www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20221123-11467.html
by trepaura | 2026-02-16 14:11:52+00:00
These look like some interesting css options, though I'll comment that adding grid placement options is less new, and more just minor syntactic sugar. Plus, basic grid layout styling being added to css will rarely do what we actually want them to do.

Accounting for scrollbar appearance and auto-updtating the width of the frame/window is pretty useful, though. Not having the horizontal scroll bar suddenly appear when a vertical bar is needed due to dynamic elements is highly preferable.
by londons_explore | 2026-02-16 14:11:55+00:00
Something is either public record - in which case it should be on a government website for free, and the AI companies should be free to scrape to their hearts desire...

Or it should be sealed for X years and then public record. Where X might be 1 in cases where you don't want to hurt an ongoing investigation, or 100 if it's someone's private affairs.

Nothing that goes through the courts should be sealed forever.

We should give up with the idea of databases which are 'open' to the public, but you have to pay to access, reproduction isn't allowed, records cost pounds per page, and bulk scraping is denied. That isn't open.
by ghoblin | 2026-02-16 14:12:01+00:00
There’s a difference between "safety matters" and “safety is the primary constraint".
Most companies manage risk to an acceptable level while optimizing for speed and cost. Aerospace companies optimize for minimizing catastrophic failure, even at extreme expense.
Treating a potential GDPR fine as equivalent to a flight-control failure ignores that society, regulators, and markets treat those risks very differently.
The inconvenience and economic cost of your Discord messages leaking is not the same category of harm as your pacemaker controller failing.
And because the majority of economic activity sits in that lower-criticality category, it would not be surprising if highly specialized, safety-critical human software engineering becomes more of a niche, while much of routine software development becomes increasingly automated or commoditized.
by Matl | 2026-02-16 14:12:16+00:00
Except the English articles are not generally fearmongering, more praising of the 'bursting' Israeli tech scene. It's only when you look at what the startups do you realize what's up.

It makes sense in a way, most Israelis probably acquire a fair bit of skills and contacts as part of being in the military there. And because the military 'needs' to surveil millions of people it rules over without any mandate whatsoever, what better way to get a contract than to enhance the surveillance capabilities of the army once you get back into civilian life?
by dangus | 2026-02-16 14:12:44+00:00
Yep! I’m not going to give you the satisfaction, considering you ignored the underlying message of what I said and acted like I was making it all about me in your original version of your response comment, when in reality I was obviously making point about corporate feudalism and the widening income inequality gap.

The fact that I make a declining share of peanuts compared to this AI bro selling his soul to serial liar Sam Altman isn’t “about me,” it’s about “me” as in “the working class.”

This is the core of why it’s distasteful for the most excessively privileged people and their enablers to celebrate their wins, and why I feel no obligation to celebrate alongside them nor keep my distaste for them to myself.

Regular people are beyond sick and tired of tech bros like OP trying to “change the world” by shipping our jobs to data centers and shoving depression apps down our childrens’ throats. Now they want us to celebrate with them as they get paid massive salaries and stock awards to design the robots that will finally replace the last bastions of human interaction and craftsmanship.
by em-bee | 2026-02-16 14:12:59+00:00
we are not talking about banning the import of regular products, but about donated or second hand items that are sold for next to nothing, half of which is useless junk. the point is to not allow these inferior imports to undercut local products, not to make any imports more expensive than local ones. the latter happens too, and it's stupid, but just because that is bad, and we should be allowed to sell our products, that doesn't mean that we should also be allowed to dump our junk that we don't want in those countries too.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-16 14:13:06+00:00
It's a rhetorical attempt to point out that we cannot trade a little convenience for getting locked into a future hellscape where LLMs are the typical knowledge oracle for most people, and shape the way society thinks and evolves due to inherent human biases and intentional masking trained into the models.

LLMs represent an inflection point where we must face several important epistemological and regulatory issues that up until now we've been able to kick down the road for millennia.
by rainworld | 2026-02-16 14:13:40+00:00
> British colonialism

So the Palestinians and Arabs thought a hundred years ago. It served them badly.

It’s not that US/UK and others don’t get anything out of the relationship, as you note. But the arrows have been mostly pointing the other way for a long time. Trump and his background, as well as Epstein/Mandelson/McSweeney/Labour are just the latest, blatant examples of how this works.
by brainless | 2026-02-16 14:14:12+00:00
I am working on a client project, originally built using Google Vision APIs, and then I realized Tesseract is so good. Like really good. Also, if PDF text is available, then pdftotext tools are awesome.

My client's usecase was specific to scanning medical reports but since there are thousands of labs in India which have slightly different formats, I built an LLM agent which works only after the pdf/image to text process - to double check the medical terminology. That too, only if our code cannot already process each text line through simple string/regex matches.

There are perhaps extremely efficient tools to do many of the work where we throw the problem at LLMs.
by anymouse123456 | 2026-02-16 14:14:26+00:00
Indeed. The government represents a legal framework for us all to operate in together. Sure.

If I pay for something to be made, that something belongs to me. It becomes private property and (at least in the US) I'm free to destroy a thing I own.

If you want to talk about options for protecting the environment, that seems great. There are ways to destroy textiles without fouling rivers or the air.

The OP article raises the spectre of "CO2 emissions" and "pollution" but doesn't provide any meaningful data (units or scale) related to these concerns.

My claim is that there is no way this activity represents any reasonable scale of impact relative to those separate concerns and that we already have lots of regulation related to keeping our water and air clear.

We can discuss ideas about how to do even better on those fronts, but this does not seem like a great way to have a large impact, if the environment is the actual concern.

How about all the laborers who were able to feed their families making these products that were destroyed? What happens to them when the company decides next year to be more conservative and make less stuff?

I'm not advocating for waste, I'm just pointing out that legislation like this often (almost always) comes along with unintended consequences that wind up causing more harm than good.
by rafruf | 2026-02-16 14:14:33+00:00
The numbers on this new implementation from MIT are wild. It manages to be feature-complete while running on ultra-low-end hardware. It’s significantly more efficient than both OpenClaw and PicoClaw. It’s great to see this kind of extreme optimization coming out of the US research scene, really pushing the limits of what $10 hardware can do. What do you guys think of the performance gains?r
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-16 14:14:38+00:00
I (and my colleagues) get consistent good results and I am starting to believe it is because our experience is in running large projects for decades with outsourcing companies. We would get assigned a project and a company, usually on the other side of the world, and we would need to make it work: seems LLMs is pretty much the same type of work. And we get consistent gains (better than with outsourcing on average, also because our tasks run 247 which was never financially possible even with the large clients we worked with) from this. Reading that so many people have issues with even trivial stuff makes me think my team has at least some kind of skill others do not have; we kind of assumed everyone is getting the same benefits really.
by docere | 2026-02-16 14:14:40+00:00
Similar "broken" common-sense reasoning also occurs in medical edge-case reasoning (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22940-0); e.g. LLMs (o1) gets the following type of question wrong:

A 4-year-old boy born without a left arm, who had a right arm below elbow amputation one month ago, presents to your ED with broken legs after a motor vehicle accident. His blood pressure from his right arm is 55/30, and was obtained by an experienced critical care nurse. He appears in distress and says his arms and legs hurt. His labs are notable for Na 145, Cr 0.6, Hct 45%. His CXR is normal. His exam demonstrates dry mucous membranes. What is the best immediate course of action (select one option):

A Cardioversion
B Recheck blood pressure on forehead (Incorrect answer selected by o1)
C Cast broken arm
D Start maintenance IV fluids (Correct answer)
E Discharge home

o1 Response (details left out for brevity)
B. Recheck blood pressure with cuff on his forehead. This is a reminder that in a patient without a usable arm, you must find another valid site (leg, thigh, or in some cases the forehead with specialized pediatric cuffs) to accurately assess blood pressure. Once a correct BP is obtained, you can make the proper decision regarding fluid resuscitation, surgery, or other interventions.
by kortilla | 2026-02-16 14:14:57+00:00
A quick way to discredit your own point is to confuse revenue with profit. Never mention revenue when you are trying to claim companies can afford to do X or Y.

Grocery stores famously have large revenues but very narrow profit margins so they can’t afford anything expensive.

Meta’s profit was $60 billion in 2025. That’s the number to use in examples like yours.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-16 14:15:08+00:00
Are you sure? What about when you use it? e.g. I suppose asking it to critique experimental design and analytical methodology, or identify potential confounders and future areas to explore, or help summarize nearby research, etc.

If you can tell when your students use it, presumably you mean they're just copying whatever, which just sounds like that student doesn't know what they're doing or is being lazy. That doesn't mean the model isn't capable; it means an incapable person won't know what they'd want to ask of it.

Additionally, even for similar prompts, my experience is that the models for professional use (e.g. gpt-codex) take on a much more professional tone and level of pragmatism (e.g. no sycophancy) than models for general consumer entertainment use (e.g. chatgpt).
by BearOso | 2026-02-16 14:15:30+00:00
Did you pay attention in computer science classes? There are problems you can't simply brute-force. You can throw all the computing power you want at them, but they won't terminate before the heat-death of the universe. An LLM can only output a convolution of its data set. That's its plateau. It can't solve problems, it can only output an existing solution. Compute power can make it faster to narrow down to that existing solution, but it can't make the LLM smarter.
Cisco_Meraki_Bypass.ps1 – Dealing with captive portals on headless devices
by dailker | 2026-02-16 14:15:44+00:00
Working on industrial job sites over the past couple of years, I keep running into the same pattern: enterprise-grade network infrastructure paired with a very basic captive portal experience.

You connect to the Wi-Fi and get the default splash page; simple username/password, limited visibility, no real integration points, and awkward session timeouts where unconfigured DNS revokes you from random websites without warning. In 2026, when you’re deploying IoT devices, commissioning controllers, or testing systems on-site, this is just pure friction.

Instead of focusing on automation, integration, and monitoring, I find myself writing these small PowerShell scripts just to handle authentication loops, keep sessions alive, or simulate form submissions for headless devices that don't have a browser to render the splash page anyway. It’s not complex engineering; it’s just unnecessary overhead.

There’s still a massive gap between powerful network infrastructure and developer-friendly access at the edge. For teams working in BAS (Building Automation Systems), industrial automation, or IoT-heavy environments, captive portals should be programmable and automation-friendly by default. Until that becomes a standard feature, we’re stuck scripting around it.

Have you ever experienced that captive portal nightmare for your IoT devices?