MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by km3r | 2026-02-12 06:37:21+00:00
Because it's so entirely reductive and misunderstanding of where the technology has progressed. Hello world is s computer program. So it Microsoft Windows. New levels of "intelligence" unlock with greater complexity of a program.

Like look at our brains. We know decently well how a single neuron works. We can simulate a single one with "just a computer program". But clearly with enough layers some form of complexity can emerge, and at some level that complexity becomes intelligence.
by coolandsmartrr | 2026-02-12 06:37:54+00:00
Funny you should mention social media in the context of Apple, because they seem to have been attempting that with iTunes Ping[1] and then Apple Music.

iTunes Ping was a Jobs-era attempt to create a social network for music. It seems that they were trying to rely on integrating with Facebook, who pulled out of the collaboration in the last minute before Ping's release.

Apple hasn't seem to have given up on social networks for music. Apple Music presents a nascent networking feature where users can see what their friends are listening to.[2] It seems that Apple has learned their lesson from Ping and does not rely on a third-party for a social graph, which is instead powered by iOS contacts.

While social media is not Apple's bread and butter, they have maintained their interest in having presence in this market. I would assume that this stems from Apple's overall desire to maintain influence over on-the-top services that define the iOS experience. If they let third parties flourish even further, thirds parties gain leverage that they can use during negotiations with Apple. If third parties successfully negotiate for more features that creates parity with apps on non-Apple devices, Apple loses its differentiation on the device markets, thereby losing revenue.

(I think Stratechery wrote about Apple's service strategy that was motivated by its past relationships with Adobe and Spotify. Couldn't find the link.)

> We’re not asking them to come up with a better social media, or a better Notion or a better Netflix.

You're right that we haven't asked them for better on-the-top services. But it seems to be in Apple's interest to compete with third party services providers and make sure they do not supersede Apple in terms of their influence over on-the-top experiences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphdf490a9e9/io...
by mirzap | 2026-02-12 06:38:28+00:00
Why are you all obsessed with this question when it comes to Chinese models? Here are some of the questions you should be asking Western governments and models instead: Who protects the pedophiles at the top of Western governments and corporations? How many people have been convicted in relation to the Epstein files? Who protects powerful politicians and Western oligarchs from pedophilia charges? Who did Epstein work for, and why (hint: it’s not Russia or China)?
by vidarh | 2026-02-12 06:38:42+00:00
I'm sure they have a vision of something but I also think the moat is narrow here. A lot of what these companies thinks will be "special sauce" will be unnecessary because the frontier models are advancing 6 months from now, and survival at that point will come down to extremely proficient execution to manage to stay ahead.

(And most of these companies will not be good enough at that)
by kalleboo | 2026-02-12 06:38:58+00:00
When I grew up in Sweden, soda was sold in standardized glass bottles. All brands used the same bottles and they just put paper labels on. You'd return the glass bottles for a deposit, they'd take them in, remove the label, wash then and refill them. You could tell how old the glass bottle you were drinking out of was by how scratched the label was.

In the 90's, they were all replaced by PET bottles. We were told at the time that this was because the oil used in the plastic bottles was still less than the extra oil used to ship the heavy glass bottles back and forth.
by mettamage | 2026-02-12 06:42:07+00:00
My secret was vibe coding my own jira type if system. It makes sense to no one, but it feels very intuitive to me. It has features like caching all my google docs shared with me so I can search by title. Ironically, it works better than google drive’s search.

Anyway I did this because our version of jira isn’t great, so all the features I found complicated, I put that in my system. For the rest, I use jira because with other things it’s really intuitive.
by raffraffraff | 2026-02-12 06:43:15+00:00
My wife is an artist and she absolutely hates this.

For a start, it's a lottery. 2000 randomers who call themselves artists will get no-questions-asked income regardless of their skill or importance as artists. We have people who are full time carers for family members who get less money in their allowance, and it's means-tested.

So you can be a millionaire heir / heiress, independently wealthy and still be eligible for it. One artist on Twitter bragged about getting it, and has been using the "extra money" to go on long holidays. It's basically free world travel for her.

Also, what is an artist? There's one guy on twitter who gets this income and really, he just seems to take bad semi pornographic photos. Like the world really needs more of that.

Another lady my wife knows personally is a terrible artist, never had any talent and doesn't make money. No sense of colour, no line skills, just paints awful blobs in awful colours. She's 100% in favour of this scheme and won't shut up about it on twitter.

My wife has been struggling to make an income from her art for decades, but has created a small business around it, wedding stationery, other print fits . Guess what? She actually doesn't qualify as "an artist" she "runs a small print business". And she can't even apply for any kind of government assistance because most of it is means tested and I make "enough money". (So that's great for her self esteem, to be a "kept woman")

I know exactly one "real" artist whose paintings will genuinely be hanging on walls for hundreds of years. He has no business around his art, he literally paints and holds exhibitions to sell his work. His name is famous in art circles and you can instantly recognise his style whenever you see it. His work is truly amazing. He has a wife and two kids and struggles sometimes. The long gaps between exhibitions, the worry that an exhibition won't go well. Anxiety, depression. Did he get this magic lottery? Did he fuck.
by csomar | 2026-02-12 06:44:53+00:00
They have a software issue (I mean who doesn’t) but Cook has tried his hand in lots of products. Some worked like the airpod, airtag and watch; and a particular one flopped: vision. It’s a marvelous tech device that unfortunately had no demand.

Also the m series can be attributed to him and it’s as good as innovation can get.
by osener | 2026-02-12 06:45:15+00:00
I understand your perspective. However, those trades, and most work in general, differ from art. Art is vital to our society, yet the current reward system optimizes for the worst art and the worst people.

We need more art that pushes boundaries and remains controversial. Instead, we favor the type of artist who attracts the most attention through their personality, whether because of their looks or a manufactured edgy image, while producing mundane, lowest-common-denominator work. We must support contemporary artists who move us forward rather than remaining stuck in popularity contests or constant nostalgia.

Under the current system, it is almost inevitable that influencers use their status to promote gambling ads and NFTs, ruining the lives of their fans. We need to break this cycle of rewarding increasingly poor behavior while making it harder for independent artists to earn a living.
by krisoft | 2026-02-12 06:45:49+00:00
> The frustrating thing about this program is that it is not possible to avail of this unless you are ALREADY an artist.

Frankly we don’t know the selection criteria for the program this year. It will be only released in April.

But we know the selection criteria for the pilot program, and for that this was not true.

> So if you gave up art because you had bills and kids and needed to support yourself or a family, you're SOL.

Again we don’t know the full program’s eligibility criteria yet. Under the pilot program there were two separate streams. Those who were recently trained, and those who were “practicing artist”.

Your hypothetical “artist who gave up art” might fall into the “recently trained” stream and thus be eligible.

Or if they gave up on art a long ago (more than 5 years), there are ways they can get back to it. They can start practicing their art on the side again, produce a portfolio of work and thus become eligible again. They don’t need to be full time artist for this.

> The only person I know getting this money

In the pilot program they randomly selected 2000 participants from those who where eligible. So to get the money in the pilot program you both needed to be eligible, have applied for it, and be lucky enough in the lottery.

Because of this lottery whoever is getting it today is not representative of who is all eligible for it.
by rmunn | 2026-02-12 06:47:34+00:00
Maybe, I don't know, not be based on a statistical model?

Come on. If you are actually entertaining the idea that LLMs can possibly be intelligent, you don't know how they work.

But to take your silly question seriously for a minute, maybe I might consider LLMs to be capable of intelligence if they were able to learn, if they were able to solve problems that they weren't explicitly trained for. For example, have an LLM read a bunch of books about the strategy of Go, then actually apply that knowledge to beat an experienced Go player who was deliberately playing unconventional, poor strategies like opening in the center. Since pretty much nobody opens their Go game in the center (the corners are far superior), the LLM's training data is NOT going to have a lot of Go openings where one player plays mostly in the center. At which point you'll see that the LLM isn't actually intelligent, because an intelligent being would have understood the concepts in the book that you should mostly play in the corners at first in order to build territory with the smallest number of moves. But when faced with unconventional moves that aren't found anywhere on the Internet, the LLM would just crash and burn.

That would be a good test of intelligence. Learning by reading books, and then being able to apply that knowledge to new situations where you can't just regurgitate the training material.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-12 06:48:00+00:00
This!

So much this!

Your code is literally[1] a spec for the solution to the problem your customers are paying to solve.

If you are small, you can't make it open-source.

Once you become big, then it doesn't matter if the source leaks.

If your customers need to trust you (when you're still small):

1. They are gonna require the code in escrow anyway!*, and

2. They'd be perfectly willing to sign an NDA to view the code.

Once you are big, some of the code leaks, well, you already have a beachhead of customers, you already have trust, etc.

But when you are small, your code is the step-by-step recipe for solving a problem that people are prepared to pay large amounts of money to solve. Why would you give that away?

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[1] And I do mean "literally", and not being hyperbolic.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 06:48:18+00:00
Neither nation promises universal income: 8,000 Irish artists applied, and 2,000 were accepted.

Likewise, with the NEA, since they offer grants, you'd need to qualify, apply, and justify your work, and probably renew on an annual basis.

Ireland selected the applicants randomly. I would suppose the 8,000 needed to meet qualifications first.

Ireland promises €325/week. The NEA grants seem to be on a project basis.

So neither of these programs are anything like UBI. UBI is the buzzword that sets us all atwitter with eager hopefulness and aspirations.

Artist grant programs are more like "publish or perish" research scholars. Most grant recipients view the application process as daunting and stressful, especially when it's not in their wheelhouse. "Grant writer" is a job title and a profession unto itself these days. Even charities and welfare organizations depend on grants themselves, so their recipients may be cut off if the grants don't come in on time and fill their budgets.

Ireland's program is like being on the dole. "Here's enough to subsist on while you do your art and try to establish yourself." After 3 years, they're cut off for 3 years, so the incentive exists to become self-sufficient in that time.

Subsidizing the arts has been the realm of religion, including Christianity, for thousands of years. Michelangelo and Bernini were among thousands and thousands of artists who were funded by the Church to create music, sculpture, architecture, images, and any other sacred object in their service. If socialism or communism are the first thing to spring to your mind, please rethink and consider that these philosophies sought to supplant the original collectives: religions; and the religious leaders and patrons were distributing wealth to every possible artisan and artist and composer and performer, in the service of truth, beauty, and goodness. Nobody knows the pain of shrinking churches like Ireland does, and so it really is incumbent on their secular government to pick up the tab here, lest the hands of artists become idle and restless.
by yusukekaizen | 2026-02-12 06:51:12+00:00
Hi HN,I spent years at Toyota Group trying to digitize the "intuition" of master craftsmen (Shokunin).We often hit a wall where a master could detect a defect but couldn't explain why.In one case (detailed in the post), a master inspected parts by hitting them with a hammer. Frequency analysis showed no difference between "Good" and "Bad" parts. The engineers thought he was guessing.But by applying a framework to extract his "Thinking Process" ($T$) rather than just his "Action" ($A$), we found out he wasn't listening to the pitch—he was listening to the reverberation time (decay rate).Once we changed the feature extraction to focus on the "tail" of the sound, the AI matched his accuracy.I believe we are too focused on training AI on "Action Data" (what they did) and missing the "Thinking Data" (what risk they simulated).I'd love to hear if anyone else has successfully digitized a "gut feeling" in a physical domain?
by dmitrygr | 2026-02-12 06:51:41+00:00
Seeing news reports on things that you yourself have personally witnessed, and seeing how distorted the reports are compared to what you saw yourself — it will radicalize you. I not only don’t want to pay for the “news”, I want to burn down most of the news establishments, and then make sure that no more than 5g of the ash is ever in one place at a time, on the off chance they try to pull a T1000 and recombine.
by shinycode | 2026-02-12 06:52:06+00:00
It’s maybe an ethical and identity problem for most people. The idea that something not grounded in biology has somewhat the same « quality of intelligence » as us is disturbing.
It rises so many uncomfortable questions like, should we accept to be dominated and governed by a higher intelligence, should we keep it « slave » or give it « deserved freedom ». Are those questions grounded in reality or intelligence is just decoupled from the realm of biology and we don’t have to consider them at all. Only biological « being » with emotions/qualia should be considered relevant as regards to intelligence which does not matter on its own but only if it embodies qualia ?
It’s very new and a total shift in paradigm of life it’s hard to ask people to be in good faith here
Ask HN: The role of trade unions in tech whistleblowing?
by bm371613 | 2026-02-12 06:52:10+00:00
It seems to me that tech trade unions could be where tech workers can safely discuss what worries them in the technology they are paid to build. With legal support and a whistleblowing platform.

Do you know of such success or failure stories of tech workers telling trade unions about unethical products?
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-12 06:52:37+00:00
Yeah but I mean it does make sense though right?

> Most people who enjoy making art should not try to make it their full time job. When you turn an avocation (hobby) into a vocation (job) you have to do new things you do not enjoy. Emails, events, meetings, accounting, and more. These are not only a drag but can actually strip the joy from the rest of your art practice.

You'll have to do things you do not enjoy if you want to treat it as a business, including changing your artistic vision if needed etc.

> Art is absolutely an expression of yourself. But your art is not you.

A pragmatic approach could be to work on commericially-proven styles for money and your own style just for yourself (and potentially others if you make a branding that's famous enough).

At the end, yeah, it's a job if you want to make a living with art. There will always be market forces and to extract value from that, you need to understand and conform with it. But that's only if you see yourself as a business and not purely as an "artist" which I think is what you're reffering to when you say "most artists don't want to change to popular art" etc.

Also I don't think it's true overall. Like you say the "person is making very popular art" and that's why they're successful but there's many like them who are also making popular art but are not successful at all. It's also the process they follow and how they approach their business that sets them apart. That part is valuable info/guidance for any artist that does want to be commercially succesful imo.
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-12 06:52:57+00:00
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by ismailcarlik | 2026-02-12 06:53:15+00:00
Hello HN,

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I built this because I found the workflow for combining documents on macOS frustrating. If I wanted to merge a receipt (web), an invoice (email), and a contract (Word), I had to "Print to PDF" each one to the desktop, open them in Preview, and drag them together.

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PrintStack runs a local virtual printer server on your Mac. You can hit Cmd+P in any app, select "PrintStack," and the job is captured by the server and sent to a background queue. It acts as a buffer—you can keep pushing jobs to the stack and then merge/export them all at once as a single PDF.

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by philwelch | 2026-02-12 06:53:50+00:00
> I don’t know what the fuck anyone means by bucket crabs.

If you put one crab in a bucket, it might climb out. If you put many crabs in a bucket, they will actually stop each other from climbing out. This is an extremely common metaphor.

> Living in space is essentially like living in the ocean with all the same environments challenges.

Maybe we’ll do that too someday.

> This planet will be habitable for tens of thousands of years at the bare minimum if we take care of it

With a very limited amount of space and resources. We got into this discussion because of concerns about overpopulation. The Earth has plenty of natural resources and can almost certainly handle a much higher population than it has now, but exploiting the rest of the solar system will make it last even longer and allow significantly more material wealth for every person alive even at a significantly higher total population.
by deaux | 2026-02-12 06:54:59+00:00
This seems.. wrong? From the director's mouth, confirming it's satire [0]

> Robert Heinlein’s original 1959 science-fiction novel was militaristic, if not fascistic. So I decided to make a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism. Robocop was just urban politics – this was about American politics. As a European it seemed to me that certain aspects of US society could become fascistic: the refusal to limit the amount of arms; the number of executions in Texas when George W Bush was governor.

I really have no idea why Wikipedia says what it does. Someone should edit it.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jan/22/how-we-made-...
by zo1 | 2026-02-12 06:55:03+00:00
> `For example, some of us have been regularly using the double hyphen since long before the LLM era.

This "emdash" and "double dash" discussion and mention is the first time I have heard of it or seen discussion of it. I've never encountered it in the wild, nor seen it used in any meaningful way in all my time on the internet these last 27 years.

And yes - I've seen that special dash character in word for many years. Not once has anyone said "oh hey I type double dashes and word uses that". No it's always been "word has this weird dash and if you copy-paste it it's weird", and no one knows how it pops up in word, etc.

And yes, I've seen the AI spit out the special dash many times. It's a telltale sign of using LLM generated text.

And now, magically, in this single thread, you can see half-dozen different users all using this "--" as if it's normal. It's like upside down world. Either everyone is now using this brand new form of speaking, or they're covering for this Claude code developer.

So yeah, maybe I've been sticking my head in the sand for years now, or maybe I just blindly ignored double-dashes when reading text till now. But it sure seems fishy.
by dboreham | 2026-02-12 06:55:34+00:00
I think we can conclude at this point that the guy yelling at engineers to "just stick ChatGPT into Siri" doesn't understand that the result is unusable, for whatever reason. That reason might be that the UE is bad, or because it grossly violates user privacy, but it might be that Apple would loose $$$$$ because LLM inference is expensive.