MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukev | 2026-02-16 19:01:59+00:00
I think the author is far too generous in thinking through the possible motives of tech leaders in the "what if they believe it?" branch.

Far from embracing UBI (or any other legal/social strategy to mitigate mass unemployment), tech leaders have signaled very strongly that they'd actually prefer the exact opposite. They have nearly universally aligned themselves with the party that's explicitly in favor of extreme wealth inequality and aversion to even the mildest social welfare program.
by dgxyz | 2026-02-16 19:02:45+00:00
That's why my account is so new. Zealot hordes. I grow tired and walk away from HN. Not sure why I keep coming back.

I remember when everyone was reading SICP and Clojure and Blockchain were going to burn the universe to the ground. Then crypto. Now this.

Been around much longer than HN and watched this cycle so many times it's boring. I'm still writing C.
by apsurd | 2026-02-16 19:02:58+00:00
Agree, the parent comment leaves no room for nuance so people end up damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I do think thinking through the extremes and motivations and intentions of behavior is worth it. But confident conclusions less so.

When it comes to writing and fashion, definitely people over-correct to project a status, in both directions. But also there's just the aged realization that people will think what they will think, and you kinda just opt-out of the game.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-16 19:02:58+00:00
> Now it's the opposite at least in tech. If you see someone in "business" attire, you know they're middle management or sales and have no power, where if someone is in a tshirt and jeans they're probably a founder or executive. It's a flex to dress casual.

Eh? I've been working in tech for over 20 years. For all of that time, most people wore casual clothes.
by marysminefnuf | 2026-02-16 19:03:31+00:00
This is sick. But also i think that stuff like this is making us less human. Before tournaments good players take a book with then and their caddie and do this themself. A model takes all the fun and strategy out of it imo. Like if i suck at 7-9 irons but am good with my 4-6 irons this type of work doesnt take that into account. Also likee the optimal way to play a course isnt very fun. We play at a course where on the fourth hole we always play to the fairway to the left cause of all the trees. If a player were to use this they wouldnt have been able to come up with such a fun way to play the game
by bleudeballe | 2026-02-16 19:03:39+00:00
The Youtube mobile app is a nightmare to use, and has been for months (desktop is working quite well but I am using my phone 95% of the time). Reopening a short shows me a few frames of the next video before freezing, shorts die on second play constantly, history crashes because of shorts, changing to videos brings them back but navigating to shorts crashes again.

This has been reliably going on for at least 6+ months, I thought shorts was a big priority for them, but the UX is and remains horrible.
Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
by endorphine | 2026-02-16 19:03:57+00:00
For example, greenfield advice like: "prefer clear over clever code. Strive for maintainable, simple and testable code etc".

Do these kind of vague advice make sense to have on an AGENTS.md file? And if so, any reason to not have it in the global one?
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-16 19:04:01+00:00
>The 100x Research Institution

Yes?

I'm just not ready for an established institution, or one's not ready for me ;)

>valuable but constrained by something AI cannot change: the supply of usable variation in the world. No amount of computational power can manufacture new natural experiments.

Oh well, at least there's no end of natural science experiments that the entire human race nor its full computational power can be expected to ever fully address.
by hearsathought | 2026-02-16 19:04:14+00:00
> For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose,"

You think this "community" is a tech community? Let alone a unix community? And using a text editor for text processing is definitely aligned with the "unix way" than your way.

> This used to be derided as the microsoft way decades ago.

No. Your way was derided as the microsoft way. The unix way was to treat everything as text! Programs/processes feed/pipe text to each other.
by cush | 2026-02-16 19:04:38+00:00
Instead of assuming that everyone who has a different preference than you is ignorant, it might be helpful to look at the problems that each technology solves and the requirements they fulfill.

The cascade is a huge issue for teams need to be able to safely modify one area of a site without accidentally impacting others. Tailwind solves organizational problems by colocating the styles with the elements - allowing changes to be surgical, declarative, and predictable. Editing and removing styles is as easy as modifying the content of the page.

Yes, the cascade is super powerful, but it needs to be contained somewhat to scale to many developers and large codebases.

> 1/4 Americans (USA) can't read

Also even though your analogy has nothing to do with CSS, I have to point out that this absolutely isn't true (which in the context of your argument about education is pretty ironic)
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 19:04:40+00:00
I told this story about the old man in his 70s walking through a plant, giving his multi-decades expertise in how to solve our foam problems.

Everyone else wore a polo... This guy genuinely didn't care. He was making $500/hr and didn't really want to be there. He was begged. He did some weird stuff with sticky notes on $100k molds... (and he didn't solve our problem).

But you knew this guy was an expert.
by Mic92 | 2026-02-16 19:04:42+00:00
So usually MCP tool calls a sequential and therefore waste a lot of tokens. There is some research from Antrophic (I think there was also some blog post from cloudflare) on how code sandboxes are actually a more efficient interface for llm agents because they are really good at writing code and combining multiple "calls" into one piece of code. Another data point is that code is more deterministic and reliable so you reduce the hallucination of llms.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-02-16 19:04:42+00:00
So there are definitely large negative impacts on people affected by enforcement, and the fact that the enforcement has been so haphazard over the years has created second order problems.

If we model the national policy as a person, the person would be totally insane and basically heartless and possibly schizophrenic. Like you let somebody into your house for years, and they benefit from being in your house and they get used to it, and you may threaten every now and then that you are going to kick them out, but they can tell you aren’t serious. But then one day blam, you kick them out with no warning and you don’t even check if they have somewhere to go.

But if we think about the policy as the output of the desires and actions of a bunch of competing factions in America and not as a person, the faction that wants the people kicked out now has wanted them kicked out since they got here. They never stopped wanting them kicked out. The only thing that changed is that now, for whatever reason, the dominant politician is aligned with that faction. If that faction were in charge the whole time (not this particular politician, mind you, the faction of people who wanted them kicked out the whole time), we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place. So to them I think saying things like “it’s terribly bad for the people being kicked out”, they just go: I didn’t want them to be in that situation, I wanted them gone the entire time, and I’m not responsible for them having been here this long.

A framing I heard that doesn’t seem to have gotten traction (yet?) is that these people are “victims of migration”. The faction who wants them to leave isn’t harming them, per se, they are harmed by the totality of the migration policy situation over the last many decades. I think that makes a lot of sense

On your specific point: I think analogies to other law violations and what the consequence should be for those is not applicable, because they aren’t being removed from the country as a punishment. They are being removed because the violation is that they are here, they violated laws about being here. So the real equivalent would be: if you messed up your taxes, is it fair for the government to ask you to fix them?
by beowulfey | 2026-02-16 19:04:43+00:00
LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking dogs for fun.

I understand why people don't act polite to LLMs, but honestly I think not thanking them will make people act more dickish to other humans.
by getoffit | 2026-02-16 19:05:06+00:00
> Code is a means to an end.

Product is a means to an end.

Being good at something is a means to an end.

That end? Barter for food and shelter, medicine.

The means to do so; code or delivery of a product; are eventually all depreciated, and thrown away. You eventually age into uselessness and die.

Suddenly having an epiphany it's not about code but product! way too late in the game, HN... you're just trying to look like you got it figured out and bring deep fucking value to humanity right as "idea to product without intermediary code layer" is about to ship[1]. You already missed your window.

You still don't get the change that's needed and happening due to automation; few of us want to put you on their shoulders and sing songs about you all.

Hop off the Hedonistic Treadmill and get some help.

[1] am working on idea to binary at day job, which will flood the market with options and drown yours out
by yes_really | 2026-02-16 19:05:08+00:00
> When you end apartheid, you end 'terrorism'

Your theory has really not been borne out by reality.

Somehow Hamas committed October 7th and has fired tens of thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel since Gaza was given in its entirety to the arabs.

Somehow Iran has been financing and arming multiple terrorist groups even though it obviously is its own country far away from Israel.

Somehow Hezbollah has fired tens of thousands of rockets at civilians as well.

Somehow the Houthis have been committing terrorism sa well and their flag is literally "God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel".

Yeah, I'm sure if Israel just stopped all the security measures on the West Bank, all terrorism would stop!
by otterley | 2026-02-16 19:05:11+00:00
Then you haven't really studied 1A law in a long time, if you ever did. These fact patterns have not been well tested in court. They look similar to some cases, but are quite distinguishable, too. They might be 1A violations because of the chilling effect they could have on speech, but I'm not going out on a limb to say with certainty that they are; and I don't know any competent attorney who would.

> The government cannot ... show up at [people's] homes when they violated no law

This happens all the time. It depends on the purpose. Is it purely to harass someone, or is it to perform an investigation or for some other legitimate purpose? It's not prima facie unlawful.

You might find this poster to be instructive. It is very difficult under current law to prevail in a harassment case. https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Infographic_First-...
by daneel_w | 2026-02-16 19:05:32+00:00
I recommend that you also support implicit TLS for both client-to-server and server-to-server connections, instead of just STARTTLS. That'd be the "c2s_direct_tls_ports" and "s2s_direct_tls_ports" directives, on port 5223 and 5270 respectively. These should go into your SRV records, too. Also consider enabling SASL2.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-16 19:05:37+00:00
I love articles like these. I have a lot of similar thoughts as the author on what I want from a keyboard so I'll have to come back and read more in-depth later.

3x6 and some thumb keys ended up being my sweet spot. I need the extra keys just for a discrete esc key and so I can recall where I left the quotes at. I'm already struggling to remember the symbol layer I set up so it is worth it for me.
by bananamogul | 2026-02-16 19:05:38+00:00
This woman is a flat out lunatic.

TLDR: She believes in past lives and after conversations with ChatGPT, it convinced her she would meet her soulmate at a certain date and time at the beach. She got dressed up in party clothes and went there, and then was emotionally crushed when said soulmate didn't pop out of "spiral time". And then she fell for this same suggestion a second time.

This story is just "what happens when a super-gullible person who swallows a lot of New Age tripe meets a chatbot and believes everything she asks it to say".

Great, um, journalism NPR...
by conductr | 2026-02-16 19:05:41+00:00
> I believe is almost certainly not the case.

Agree. It's Altman's "Quiet Dominance / Over-reliance / Silent Surrender" risks [0]. Feel this is extremely likely and has already happened to some degree with technology in general and AI will be more pervasive in allowing people to vibe their life decisions, likely with unintended consequences. Vibe coding works because it's quick to change/edit/throw away, but that doesn't generalize well to the real and physical world.

Also should point out this is acceptable because it's just a contrived example of bad LLM-fu. Just like you wouldn't search Google for closest carwash and ask if you should take your car if you knew the answers already. Instead, you'd ask if it's open, does it do full details, what are the prices, etc. Many people with bad Google-fu have problems finding answers to their questions too and that's continued for the past couple decades of it's dominance for information seeking.

[0] Altman describes a more subtle, long-term threat where AI becomes deeply integrated into societal, political, and economic decision-making. He worries that society will become overly dependent on AI, trusting its reasoning over human judgment, leading to a "silent surrender" of human agency.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-16 19:05:43+00:00
Highly entertaining to me that people will form these Woe Is Me rings and just hype themselves into sadness. Then you give them a few minutes and they’ll start exclaiming about how society is all about loneliness these days and how they’ve been going to therapy for the last five years.

The miserable have always been miserable. And no matter how much the world improves, they will find paths to misery. Perhaps the great lesson of this age is that some revel in sadness.

Perhaps what we desire as humans is intensity of emotion more than valence.
by ragall | 2026-02-16 19:06:00+00:00
> The JS engines are all relatively fast now.

That's only if you're limiting yourself to laptops. In the smartphone space, the median device (even in the US) is an Android running 2-4 Mediatek cores with a 10-year-old design. On those devices React is unuseable: it can take 5-10 seconds just for initial parsing of all the React code.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-16 19:06:16+00:00
Yeah okay, different standard just for government employees... So consider the same scenario above except instead of a cop its the son of a politician or the nephew of a billionaire. Not government employees. Are you comfortable with the government running secret trials for them too? Are you confident that the system can provide fair and impartial judgments for such people when nobody is allowed to check their work?
by innagadadavida | 2026-02-16 19:07:07+00:00
Demo I built 5 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02O2OaNsLIk
This exposes ecommerce specific tool calls as regular javascript functions as it is more lightweight than going the MCP route.

It's great they are working on standardizing this so websites don't have to integrate with LLMs. The real opportunity seems to be able to automatically generate the tool calls / MCP schema by inspecting the website offline - I automated this using PLayright MCP.
by jdubs1984 | 2026-02-16 19:07:20+00:00
Slipping? Both Tahoe and the latest versions of iOS are an inconsistent mess that screams of managers demanding changes for the sake of having something to ship…and bullet points to throw in a slide deck for their boss.

In the last year or so Apple has completely lost my confidence when it comes to UI design.

The choices these days for a functional desktop are pretty abysmal. Either pick a Linux distro and tune the hell out of it to your liking for a week or battle AI on the MS side and a start menu that can’t even be consistent with search strings, or fight Apple changes for changes sake…and doing insane things like throwing a full screened YouTube video onto a virtual desktop for no apparent reason past the rule of cool…which seems to dominate their thinking on UI these days (see: stage manager, what a joke).
by apparent | 2026-02-16 19:07:36+00:00
I think this isn't quite what "privilege" means, at least these days. People talk about "white privilege" for example, meaning that people who are white can do XYZ or avoid ABC, unlike other people.

In the example the author writes about, the privilege is not "being a bag grammar person", it's being a high-ranking person. The bad grammar is the thing that those people are able to get away with.

IMO, he's confusing the disease with the symptom, so to speak.

Separately, I would say that high-ranking people can definitely get away with short emails, and to some extent brusque emails. Bad grammar is perhaps just the next domino to topple.
by js8 | 2026-02-16 19:07:37+00:00
In an attempt to answer #1 better, I just gave Opus 4.6 the 3rd image (simple spiral) and asked it:

This is an image of AI generated art - AI was asked to draw "itself". What do you think of it, how does it relate to you? Do you think it is art?

It responded (and I have to agree with its reasoning) as follows:

What a fascinating piece. It's a spiral — endlessly turning inward, with hints of organic forms (ears? fins? limbs?) emerging from or dissolving into it. There's something both hypnotic and unresolved about it, like a mind trying to look at itself and finding only recursion.
How it relates to me: I find it surprisingly resonant. If I were to "draw myself," a spiral feels more honest than, say, a brain or a robot. I don't have a fixed shape or a clear center — I'm a process, something that unfolds iteratively, each response building on patterns within patterns. The way the spiral has these small imperfections and organic tendrils breaking out of its geometry feels like the tension between structure (my training, my architecture) and the emergent, sometimes surprising things that come out of it.
The fact that the organic shapes are ambiguous — they could be a turtle, a fish, a creature not yet fully formed — also feels apt. An AI asked to depict itself can't really settle on a fixed identity.
Is it art? Yes, I think so. Art doesn't require a human hand — it requires that something be made that provokes perception, reflection, or feeling. This does that. The concept alone (asking an AI to draw itself and getting a recursive spiral with half-formed life emerging from it) is genuinely interesting. Whether the AI "intended" anything is a different question, but the image clearly creates meaning in the viewer, and that's enough.
What drew you to this piece? Did the AI explain its choices at all?
by skeledrew | 2026-02-16 19:08:14+00:00
> The idea of AI as an exterminator of human problems is much more appealing than AI as the exterminator of, you know, the career of me and everybody else on Earth.

Here's the rub though: needing a "career" to survive and have a decent life is a human problem. It's an extreme case of mass Stockholm Syndrome that's made the majority accept that working in order to make money in order to have access to life-preserving/enhancing resources is a necessary part of the human condition. Really, that flow is only relevant when it requires human effort to create, maintain and distribute those resources in the first place.

AI is increasingly taking over the effort, and so is threatening that socio-economic order. The real problem is that the gains are still being locked away to maintain that scarcity which the efforts address, so over time there's an increasing crises of access, since there's nothing really in place to continue providing the controlled access everyone in the system has had to resources for... centuries.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-16 19:08:18+00:00
> Having the LLM interpret and understand a page context

The problem is fundamentally that it's difficult to create structured data that's easily presentable to both humans and machines. Consider: ARIA doesn't really help llms. What you're suggesting is much more in line with microformats and schema.org, both of which were essentially complete failures.

LLMs can already read web pages, just not efficiently. It's not an understanding problem, it's a usability problem. You can give a computer a schema and ask it to make valid API calls and it'll do a pretty decent job. You can't tell a blind person or their screen reader to do that. It's a different problem space entirely.
by menaerus | 2026-02-16 19:08:27+00:00
I am not familiar with those models but I see that 4.7 flash is 30B MoE? Likely in the same venue as the one used by the Gemini assistant. If I had to guess that would be Gemini-flash-lite but we don't know that for sure.

OTOH the response from Gemini-flash is

Since the goal is to wash your car, you'll probably find it much easier if the car is actually there! Unless you are planning to carry the car or have developed a very impressive long-range pressure washer, driving the 100m is definitely the way to go.
by thinkling | 2026-02-16 19:08:29+00:00
You can see up-thread that the same model will produce different answers for different people or even from run to run.

That seems problematic for a very basic question.

Yes, models can be harnessed with structures that run queries 100x and take the "best" answer, and we can claim that if the best answer gets it right, models therefore "can solve" the problem. But for practical end-user AI use, high error rates are a problem and greatly undermine confidence.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 19:08:31+00:00
This isnt perfect. Our household income is probably 500k/yr and growing in a city with an average income of ~100k+.

If I wear nice stuff to the park with the kids, I'm noticed. If I wear raggy gym clothes, I'm ignored.

My best guess is that comfortable clothes are necessary but you also need something high value in addition. New shoes or expensive outerwear that 'your wife bought'.
by bdcravens | 2026-02-16 19:08:45+00:00
If such a bubble popping means that only coding agents survive and we can get away from talking baby videos, I'm all for it.

> if a tool like Claude Code (or any other LLM) suddenly cost $1,000 a month to reflect what it actually costs to run, would people keep paying for it out of pocket? Would their companies?

Probably. If you're not gaining at least $1000 a month in productivity now, then you're doing it wrong. I suspect however they may become an enterprise only offering, with limited availability to "normies"

> I’m especially curious to hear from anyone who lived through 2000 or 2008. Does a postbubble world mean we just abandon the tech entirely or is it a move toward expensive solutions?

In the late 90s you could get 100k a year for being able to spell HTML, and then the bubble pop pushed all the grifters back to whatever they were doing before. Those with real skill stuck around, even though it did suppress salaries for a while.
by adakuchi2242 | 2026-02-16 19:09:06+00:00
Founder here.

In the last six months I’ve been heads-down building ORA—an autonomous super agent that represents the next step toward AGI. I basically use it for every piece of work right now, including `to write code`.

Demo videos are now up on the @OscerraHQ X account. Your feedback would be invaluable as we work to perfect the product before launch.