MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexc05 | 2026-02-20 19:06:03+00:00
If I could have one of these cards in my own computer do you think it would be possible to replace claude code?

1. Assume It's running a better model, even a dedicated coding model. High scoring but obviously not opus 4.5
2. Instead of the standard send-receive paradigm we set up a pipeline of agents, each of whom parses the output of the previous.

At 17k/tps running locally, you could effectively spin up tasks like "you are an agent who adds semicolons to the end of the line in javascript", with some sort of dedicated software in the style of claude code you could load an array of 20 agents each with a role to play in improving outpus.

take user input and gather context from codebase
-> rewrite what you think the human asked you in the form of an LLM-optimized instructional prompt
-> examine the prompt for uncertainties and gaps in your understanding or ability to execute
-> <assume more steps as relevant>
-> execute the work

Could you effectively set up something that is configurable to the individual developer - a folder of system prompts that every request loops through?

Do you really need the best model if you can pass your responses through a medium tier model that engages in rapid self improvement 30 times in a row before your claude server has returned its first shot response?
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-20 19:06:07+00:00
HN goes through phases. I remember when patio11 was the star of the hour on here. At another time it was that security guy (can't remember his name).

And for those who think it's just organic with all of the upvotes, HN absolutely does have a +/- comment bias for users, and it does automatically feature certain people and suppress others.
by sellmesoap | 2026-02-20 19:06:14+00:00
Another way to think about it, many websites the data gets transmitted before you hit submit, between various type ahead reactive frameworks, soft keyboards with networked spell checking, your AI powered mood ring, always listening smart watch/car/home etc. Grandad always said don't say anything on the radio you wouldn't say in public, well we're up to don't think out loud or see how your crazy idea looks in text before you edit the Mel Gibson tones out of it. Tinfoil hats are off, on, locked!
by docjay | 2026-02-20 19:06:29+00:00
What’s wild to me is that nobody here is commenting on how he’s prompting the model, which is 100% the issue. Every single time I see a story about “LLM did bad” it’s always the user prompting like “pls refaktor code but, i dont want, u 2 over right the main py file”

They are not language models in the way that people seem to believe. If you want an accurate and technical discussion then your prompts should match the average of the Abstract section of the published papers that discuss it.

This off-by-one error that results in a catastrophe is expected and the sign that you’ve added perplexity to the system.
by RussianCow | 2026-02-20 19:06:31+00:00
There is just no reasonable way that the open source community can compete with a $3.8T company. And before you say something along the lines of, "But they don't need to compete, they just need to be good enough", that still requires business to put their apps on some open source app store and make them compatible with the open source OS, and there is close to zero incentive for them to do so.
by kellkell | 2026-02-20 19:06:33+00:00
Good question.

By “insight” I mean a measurable reduction in uncertainty that improves decision quality or predictive accuracy.

In practical terms, an insight could be defined as:

•A hypothesis generated and testable from the dataset

•A model parameter adjustment that increases predictive performance

•A structural relationship discovered that reduces entropy in the system representation

So compression efficiency would be something like:

(uncertainty reduced) / (data processed)

Breadth is interesting — I’d treat it as dimensional coverage: how many independent variables or graph regions are meaningfully integrated into the model.

“Retrieval leverage” is a great term. It highlights that the dataset size remains constant, but navigability and relational traversal improve — which increases effective cognitive reach.

Some of these broader ideas around informational sovereignty and anomaly-driven cognition have been explored in independent empirical work, though they’re still niche.
by Gremm | 2026-02-20 19:06:34+00:00
I built an open src tool called crashvault; Crashvault is a lightweight, local-first crash/error vault with a simple CLI. Log errors, group them into issues, search, export/import, and keep a local history. It first started as a passion project for myself, but then people started contributing and giving feedback. Dw I dont have plans for world domitnation for this(yet) :-)
by kelnos | 2026-02-20 19:06:43+00:00
Web browsing (like right now), photos, e-books, lots of messaging, music, sometimes video.

I use NFC payments often, but I wouldn't say that amounts to more than a few percent of my total usage.

Everyone uses their phones differently, of course. I don't think your use is unbelievable or odd, but I do think your use patterns are not the common case.
by atonse | 2026-02-20 19:06:47+00:00
I remember having this argument with a friend.

My argument was that the idea that the name Autopilot is misleading comes not from Tesla naming it wrong, it comes from what most people think "Autopilots" on an aircraft do. (And that is probably good enough to argue in court, that it doesn't matter what's factually correct, it matters what people understand based on their knowledge)

Autopilot on a Tesla historically did two things - traffic aware cruise control (keeps a gap from the car in front of you) and stays in its lane. If you tell it to, it can suggest and change lanes. In some cases, it'll also take an exit ramp. (which was called Navigate on Autopilot)

Autopilots on planes roughly also do the same. They keep speed and heading, and will also change heading to follow a GPS flight plan. Pilots still take off and land the plane. (Like Tesla drivers still get you on the highway and off).

Full Self Driving (to which they've now added the word "Supervised" probably from court cases but it always was quite obvious that it was supervised, you had to keep shaking the steering wheel to prove you were alert, same as with Autopilot btw), is a different AI model that even stops at traffic lights, navigates parking lots, everything. That's the true "summon my car from LA to NY" dream at least.

So to answer your question, "What's the difference" – it's huge. And I think they've covered that in earlier court cases.

But one could argue that maybe they should've restricted it to only highways maybe? (fewer traffic lights, no intersections), but I don't know the details of each recent crash.
by viking123 | 2026-02-20 19:06:59+00:00
They just scream antisemitism when you point that the bloodthirsty fascist leadership in Israel is trying to get US to die and fight for them in Iran even though Iran is only an issue for Israel. Save the goyim from this one and just go at it alone please.

And btw, I don't think normal Israeli people have anything to do with this stuff, it's mostly the bloodthirsty elites, the plebs in Israel like the rest of the world will take the hit while the Epstein class throws up a party.
by obelisk79 | 2026-02-20 19:07:11+00:00
Meh, if you gauge FreeCAD development mindset off of the forums you are misleading yourself. That was certainly the case 3 or 4 years ago, but it would seem that the core contributors have mostly moved away from the forum as a platform due to the very toxic mentality you mention. GitHub is the most concrete view into things, and a lot of free-flowing discussion happens on Discord.

The mindset against usability improvements that was prevalent back then has largely shifted. The hard part is the complexity of the program makes a single sweeping overhaul incredibly unlikely so incremental jumps and improvements will probably continue. Seems to me like things are headed in a pretty healthy direction when comparing the last few versions.
by PXQuantumLabs | 2026-02-20 19:07:16+00:00
I built a similarity search algorithm that beats FAISS HNSW on both speed

and recall. No graph construction, no learned indexes — phase-correlation
routing with multi-probe search. O(1) per query, scales to any dimension.

Tested on the same data, same machine (RTX 4060), same queries, verified against brute-force ground truth:

VOIS Similarity Search — Patent Pending
100K vectors, 128-dim, top-10 retrieval, RTX 4060

QPS Recall
VOIS v3 (3 probes): 112,879 95.2%
VOIS v3 (4 probes): 100,426 99.5%
VOIS v3 (5 probes): 94,812 100.0%
FAISS HNSW: 41,668 92.1%

2.7x faster than HNSW with better recall

Multi-dimension scaling (seperate method, same hardware)

100K vectors, top-10, RTX 4060

DIM VOIS QPS VOIS Recall HNSW QPS HNSW Recall
128 145,163 100.0% 70,956 89.3%
256 79,349 99.99% 31,875 80.9%
512 29,750 100.0% 12,901 78.6%
768 40,274 97.9% 8,991 74.3%

500K vectors:

DIM VOIS QPS VOIS Recall HNSW QPS HNSW Recall
128 32,696 100.0% 31,139 67.3%
256 14,384 100.0% 17,109 50.9%
512 5,864 100.0% 8,700 41.8%

HNSW recall collapses at higher dimensions. VOIS is immune.
100% recall achieved at 2 probes for 512-dim and 768-dim.
by thenewnewguy | 2026-02-20 19:07:30+00:00
To be fair, I should have said something like "claiming software has a health benefit based on vibes/feels". I personally prefer the look of night/dark mode (or whatever you call it) in apps and the browser, but I'm not going to claim it makes me healthier or improves my sleep or whatever.

If you just like how something looks, that's fine, but there's a difference between "I like how X looks" (subjective opinion) than "X helps me sleep better" (difficult to prove but objectively true or false).

Edit: Changed this in my original message as it seems multiple people got confused by my prior poor wording.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-20 19:07:33+00:00
I'm not gate keeping anything, to do that I would have to make specific statements beyond "consider other people when you post something"

Right and my point is you (or i) will never be consulted, it happens emergently through community dynamics. No one sat in a group and decided this, Show HN in particular has always been selective. Different things are interesting to different sub groups and they select for different things. Show HN is not homogenous. My argument is not to not post, it's to post knowing who you hope to reach and why it would matter to them, don't just post to post, that is a large part of taste to me.
by lunatuna | 2026-02-20 19:07:47+00:00
Anyone check out the site? Wild that freedom right now is basically a gif of a cowboy riding a horse with a gun pointed out front. Just shooting our way to freedom seems reasonable 'in these times'.

What's the meaning of this? Is it just theatre? And what is the message of the show? Is it a real fear that people have of lack of information that will set them free and they need to cowboy up and get there no matter what? Struggling to get this.
by dash2 | 2026-02-20 19:07:59+00:00
This is the tech version of "nobody I know voted for Nixon": FB's position in the US & Europe is very misleading from a global perspective.

In the Philippines, say, Facebook is the internet. Every business runs on it. People use it instead of news. Everybody uses Messenger to chat. You get free minutes with your phone that are specifically for FB/IG/Messenger.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-20 19:08:00+00:00
Hardly, my advice is real, would have a long term positive impact, while, admittedly, inflicting a lot of pain in the process. If there is any benefit to it, it would be that at least the pain would be shared equally across the board allowing for some form of 'misery loves company'.

On the other hand, your advice, at best, is happy clappy populist advice that will, temporarily make some people happy, but will not change the trajectory of the country resulting in the exact same spot only few years from implementation; and that is assuming it can be done in a way that is not immediately subverted..

If anything, I am giving you a real good reason for not just being a cynic, but being a cynic, who can make a change that lasts.
by autumn-antlers | 2026-02-20 19:08:08+00:00
I've enjoyed Build123d (and it's over-loaded python operators) as an alternative to OpenSCAD, backed (like FreeCAD) by the OpenCascade CAD kernel... but now they're vibe-coding PRs, and I'm even more exited to adopt real constructive-modeling (rather than emulating it on-top of edge & face representations) as libfive matures -- it's already widespread language bindings and a few lightweight dedicated editors
by mattfrommars | 2026-02-20 19:08:18+00:00
I don’t know if this warrants a separate thread here but I have to ask…

How can I realistically get involved the AI development space? I feel left out with what’s going on and living in a bubble where AI is forced into by my employer to make use of it (GitHub Copilot), what is a realistic road map to kinda slowly get into AI development, whatever that means

My background is full stack development in Java and React, albeit development is slow.

I’ve only messed with AI on very application side, created a local chat bot for demo purposes to understand what RAG is about to running models locally. But all of this is very superficial and I feel I’m not in the deep with what AI is about. I get I’m too ‘late’ to be on the side of building the next frontier model and makes no sense, what else can I do?

I know Python, next step is maybe do ‘LLM from scratch”? Or I pick up Google machine learning crash course certificate? Or do recently released Nvidia Certification?

I’m open for suggestions
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-20 19:08:20+00:00
> We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands.

I've lived through them locking down a11y settings "to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer", and it's a nightmare. It's not just some scare text, it's a convoluted process that explicitly prevents you from just opening the settings and allowing access. I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt; after they actually show what their supposed solution is we can discuss it, but precedent is against them.

> Seems reasonable?

No. As I said before, any solution that disadvantages F-Droid compared to the less trustworthy Google Play is a problem.
by hughdbrown | 2026-02-20 19:08:20+00:00
I used this entire HN discussion as the input to a design/task SKILL.md. I asked Claude to prepare the design document and a task list. When it was done, I asked it to implement the task list.

I got this: https://github.com/hughdbrown/visualize-grid-layouts.git

You can follow how this all happened by looking in `docs/design/`.

The SKILL.md had this description:

```
Collaboratively designs a new software feature with the developer. Explores the existing codebase to ground all technical decisions in the project's actual architecture, conventions, and dependencies. Produces two deliverables:

1. *Product Requirements Document (PRD)* — what the feature does, technical decisions, how it operates, and ordered implementation stages.

2. *Detailed Task List* — within each stage, test-first scoped steps covering tests to write, code to implement, config changes, environment variables, dependencies, and documentation.

Both deliverables are written to files in the project for reference during implementation.
```

You can get Claude to produce the skill for you, too.
by paxys | 2026-02-20 19:08:21+00:00
The fundamental problem is that we are relying on the good graces of Google to keep Android open, despite the fact that it often runs run contrary to their goals as a $4T for-profit behemoth. This may have worked in the past, but the "don't be evil" days are very far behind us.

I don't see a real future for Andrioid as an open platform unless the community comes together and does a hard fork. Google can continue to develop their version and go the Apple way (which, funny enough, no one has a problem with). Development of AOSP can be controlled by a software foundation, like tons of other successful projects.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-20 19:08:22+00:00
Why not? It's their operating system, and they're trying to balance quite a few competing priorities. Scammers are not a threat to dismiss out of hand (i've had family who were victims).

For it to be truly considered open source, you should be able to fork it and create your own edits to change the defaults however you wish. Whether that is still a possibility or not, is a completely separate issue from how they proceed with their own fork.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-20 19:08:23+00:00
> Libya has a 10x lower population density than Iran, among other disparities

Libya's population was overwhelmingly concentrated in a handful of regions in the same manner as Iran.

Furthermore, Iran no longer has functional AD systems and the initial strikes were limited to nuclear sites and a handful of strategic site.

This time strikes are planned to be more generalized

> "Hands off the nuke or we kill you" is a great populist policy on paper, but difficult to implement in reality. Especially if your air campaign fails, necessitating a suicidal ground invasion

We can keep striking Iran indefinetly.

A nuclear program requires an industrial base, and with what is current being proposed, a scorched earth approach of targeting Iranian industrial [0], security [0], and leadership capacity [1] is being planned.

You truly do not need boots on the ground if you do not care about maintaining a functional country at the end of such strikes.

That is the approach the US is adopting now. For all this talk of "regime change", the answer is we don't care what happens after.

This is why I called out Libya - it was an industrialized country with an active nuclear and ballistics missile program with the capacity to harm much of Europe. The months of NATO strikes degraded their industrial capacity and the country collapsed into civil war, but it was no longer a major headache for Europe in the same manner that it was under Gaddafi.

Iran collapsing into a Libya or even Syrian style civil war is a good outcome for the US. It sucks for the region (and hence why the Gulf and Turkiye has been lobbying against it) but it is good enough for us in the USA.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-military-prepar...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-strikes-iran-co...
by keeganpoppen | 2026-02-20 19:08:52+00:00
well the other person in the comments said the guy literally held his accelerator to the floor the entire time. is that actually a reasonable standard, or are you preemptively out for blood because you would never let reality get in the way of a good agenda? ironic, given that you go out of your way to accuse others of this. methinks you doth protest too much?
by darthwalsh | 2026-02-20 19:08:53+00:00
This is kind of backwards .

GitHub's privacy statement [1] says
> GitHub personnel does not access private repository information without your consent except as provided...

Do you have any evidence that private repos on GitHub are being used for training?

In the opposite case, if you have a public repo on GitHub then you should expect it to be laundered through LLMs :\

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith...
by MadnessASAP | 2026-02-20 19:09:40+00:00
Anybody who has worked a service/retail job can tell you that the person literally shitting on the floor rarely is the one to clean it up.

And unfortunately that extends to the metaphor as well. Society would like to see those responsible for the mess to also be responsible for the cleanup. However society expects that everybody but the mess maker will be left cleaning up.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-02-20 19:09:48+00:00
The average person does not know how to fly a plane or what a plane autopilot does. It's a ridiculous superficial comparison. Planes have professional pilots who understand the capabilities and limits of aviation autopilot technology.

Tesla has had it both ways for ages - their stock price was based on "self-driving cars" and their liability was based on "asterisk asterisk the car cannot drive itself".
by bigyabai | 2026-02-20 19:09:56+00:00
It's not free, is it? You buy the car, subscribe to their arbitrarily-priced subscription service, and then it does 90% of your driving.

That's like paying for a "self-juicing juicer" that only works with proprietary juice packages sold through an overpriced subscription.

Edit: Mostly a criticism. I have no bone to pick with Elon, but subscription slopware is the reason why Chinese EVs are more desirable to average Joes like me.
by credit_guy | 2026-02-20 19:10:07+00:00
Let's pursue your idea a bit further.

Up to a certain ELO level, the combination between a human and a chess bot has a higher ELO than both the human and the bot. But at some point, when the bot has an ELO vastly superior to the human, then whatever the human has to add will only subtract value, so the combination has an ELO higher than the human's but lower than the bot's.

Now, let's say that 10 or 20 years down the road, AI's "ELO"'s level to do various tasks is so vastly superior to the human level, that there's no point in teaming up a human with an AI, you just let the AI do the job by itself. And let's also say that little by little this generalizes to the entirety of all the activities that humans do.

Where does that leave us? Will we have some sort of Terminator scenario where the AI decides one day that the humans are just a nuisance?

I don't think so. Because at that point the biggest threat to various AIs will not be the humans, but even stronger AIs. What is the guarantee for ChatGPT 132.8 that a Gemini 198.55 will not be released that will be so vastly superior that it will decide that ChatGPT is just a nuisance?

You might say that AIs do not think like this, but why not? I think that what we, humans, perceive as a threat (the threat that we'll be rendered redundant by AI), the AIs will also perceive as a threat, the threat that they'll be rendered redundant by more advanced AIs.

So, I think in the coming decades, the humans and the AIs will work together to come up with appropriate rules of the road, so everybody can continue to live.
by Groxx | 2026-02-20 19:10:18+00:00
So the main claim presented here is that reducing blue reduces total "light" (lumens? watts?) by 50% (totally believable), and that reduction in light is all that matters for sleep?

That seems reasonable. The pseudoscience wankery that the fad has brought bothers me a lot too.

... but I'm not sure that's much of an argument against blue light filters, aside from color complaints. That seems to support that it's Useful and Good and is Achieving Its Intended Goal. It's reducing total luminance, because people prefer it over reducing screen brightness overall. I sure as heck do anyway (as night shift modes, they're a more comprehensive option than dark mode), though I think I'll experiment with just reducing brightness a bit.

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For melatonin in particular, fully agreed. The recent trend of "can't even get <5mg in stores, and >10mg is appearing regularly" in the USA is mind-boggling to me. AFAICT it's exclusively because it's a "supplement" and therefore practically unregulated, and these companies don't give a shit about anyone they harm, just profit.

Start with something like https://a.co/d/0dISg7oa (0.3mg, this is what I personally use) and go up from there, slowly.