MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WatchDog | 2026-02-16 01:25:24+00:00
The license doesn't actually permit OSS development. Only compilation of near-unmodified third party OSS libraries.

You may not compile OSS software developed by your own organisation.

The OSS software must be unmodified, "except, and only to the extent, minor modifications are necessary so that the Open Source Dependencies can be compiled and built with the software."

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2026-ga-d...
by HexDecOctBin | 2026-02-16 01:25:59+00:00
> The glibc people are so serious about backward and forward compatibility, you can in fact easily look up the last time they broke it

What? There was a huge breakage literally last year: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32653

Glibc has been a source of breakage for proprietary software ever since I started using Linux. How many codebases had to add this line around 2014 (the year I brought my first laptop)?

__asm__ (".symver memcpy, memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5");
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-16 01:26:31+00:00
OK, but "what we need" is not the question. If the definition of AGI is "as smart as the average human in all areas", then it doesn't matter if the average human is pretty useless at a lot of tasks, that's still the definition of AGI.

But I'd like to think that, even though you could find exceptions, the average human is never confused about whether dogs can lay eggs or not.
by giobox | 2026-02-16 01:28:07+00:00
There are official retractions in reputable publications almost every day. Lots of major publications have an entire section of their website devoted to it:

https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections

https://www.wsj.com/news/types/corrections

etc etc. Many of them include the retraction or correction in the following print edition, if they have one, as well.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-16 01:28:23+00:00
How about...showing your actual ID?

I am a parent and the school employees in primary would ask the kid to point finger at their parents and would remember our faces after just a few weeks. If someone had to pick them up because we had an issue we would just call the school.

I however never understood why I couldn't sign a paper so my kids could walk home on their own, especially since they would walk to school on their own already.
by martin-t | 2026-02-16 01:28:47+00:00
> unmoored by modern social isolation and addictive media without the dampening love (and healthy stress) of community.

You have a point about community but I think for different reasons.

Historically, most communities were created by randomness - closeness by physical proximity, childhood friend of a childhood friend, etc. Today many communities emerge around a common topic or interest and it leads to echo chambers. People used to be around people with different opinions and they had to accept that because for 20 people there were 15 opinions and no side got the upper hand. Now you have 20 people with 2 opinions split roughly 80:20 and the 20 are afraid to say anything for fear of being ostracized. (Numbers pulled out of my ass.)

And another reason is the lost of not just anonymity but also plausible deniability. You say something offline, 5 people hear it and you can judge their reaction, whether to go on or better keep your mouth shut. And of course they can pass on that you said it but with each step, the claim loses credibility and becomes gossip. Now you say something online, it's there forever. Even if you can delete the message, 5k people say it and there's always this one asshole who takes screenshots so even if you change your mind later, he can and will use them against you. (And don't let me get started how screenshot aren't links so even if you clarified you position later, he effectively takes it out of context in a way that he has the final word and you don't even know about it.)

A few weeks ago, I had a shower thought: A social network where LLM-generated or other people's posts get your name assigned to them randomly from time to time. So that 1) people are used to seeing random crazy shit said by you (any everyone else) and not taking it seriously 2) when you actually say something you want to take back, you can just claim it's one of those posts you didn't actually write. It's a stupid idea but I'd also like to see it tried to make sure it's stupid...

That being said, I have been thinking about a social network with multidimensional voting and a network of trust more seriously. One effect would be that posts from people you know personally would be assigned a much higher weight and it might lead to restoring bottom up communities you talk about.

Anyway, I agree with a lot of what you say but don't have much to add.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-16 01:28:55+00:00
>These models are demonstrating an incredible capacity for logical abstract reasoning of a level far greater than 99.9% of the world's population.

This is the key I think that Altman and Amodei see, but get buried in hype accusations. The frontier models absolutely blow away the majority of people on simple general tasks and reasoning. Run the last 50 decisions I've seen locally through Opus 4.6 or ChatGPT 5.2 and I might conclude I'd rather work with an AI than the human intelligence.

It's a soft threshold where I think people saw it spit out some answers during the chat-to-LLM first hype wave and missed that the majority of white collar work (I mean it all, not just the top software industry architects and senior SWEs) seems to come out better when a human is pushed further out of the loop. Humans are useful for spreading out responsibility and accountability, for now, thankfully.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-16 01:29:17+00:00
We really need to figure out a way to engage with news in a way that’s viable for journalism to survive. unfortunately the advertisers have created such an adversarial environment that capable people will always block, so advertising can’t support the business model. Paywalls are clearly not the answer. I don’t know what is, but we should really figure it out.

There’s nothing really in this article but it’s an important topic people should keep track of.

https://archive.ph/zF6H7
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-16 01:29:42+00:00
Somehow there is a lot less discussion online about Thiel and Musk, both of whom are in the Epstein files. These are the most powerful people on the planet, steering elections at every level in America through their spending and connections. They need to be outed.

Thiel appears to be a Russian asset since he meets with Russians at Epstein’s properties per the files.

Musk is different. He simply begs Epstein to let Musk and his then wife Talulah Riley attend the “wildest party” on the island. Epstein even warns him that the “ratio” on the island may not be to his wife’s liking but Musk insists on coming to such a party.

Their approaches to defend themselves are different too. Thiel is silent. Musk has made huge numbers of posts, retweets, and replies trying to pretend he’s not part of the Epstein class, pointing fingers at others, and claiming he’s never been to the island. And he hasn’t ever explained why he was asking Epstein about the wildest parties.

Keep in mind that Elon was asking Epstein about these island parties years after Epstein was already a convicted child sex offender. He knew what was happening and wanted in.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-16 01:31:22+00:00
Researchers observed 25 healthy adults, ages 21 to 41, in a sleep laboratory during eight-hour sleep opportunities over seven consecutive nights.

Absurdly low n. Additionally, I've become very skeptical of anything coming out of sleep labs after my wife was sent to one (at a prestigious teaching hospital) by her doctor some years ago: the 'sleep opportunity' was lights out at 9pm for 8 hours, and the staff were wholly indifferent to the fact that she's a night owl and prefers to sleep after midnight. Additionally she reported that it was not particularly quiet or dark.

I am not a fan of noise machines but I have noticed that I sleep best on rainy nights, which has a similar average sound spectrum, and is about the same as the sound of your blood circulating near your eardrums. Testing pink noise along with aircraft noise (which is closer to red noise) is equivalent to just making the noise level higher with slightly more midrange energy. Some noise can be relaxing for light sleepers; too much is just annoying.
by WalterGR | 2026-02-16 01:32:33+00:00
You can paper over this with very large audio buffers (which makes the synth feel sluggish) or with crossed fingers (which work a surprising amount of the time).

It’s been a while since I was involved in computer audio, but is there a difficulty I’m not seeing with simply using ring buffers and doing memory allocations upfront so as to avoid GC altogether?
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-16 01:32:43+00:00
The Western Roman Empire has nothing to do with "the West". I think it's fascinating that that's even suggested.

I lived in Germany for a while. Germany is definitely a part of "the West", have been the defining border with "the East" in the Cold War. Germans do not share a cultural viewpoint about liberty and security with the USA. So claiming that westerners "prefer liberty over security" while also including Germans (and others) in the definition of "the West" is absolutely erasing their culture.
by caminante | 2026-02-16 01:33:12+00:00
Went to a luncheon and sat with some IT Directors at a Fortune 20.

I asked what they were seeing and excited about.

They kept explaining that Foundry (Palantir's SaaS BI platform) is better than EVERY other alternative (and mind you, they've used every other major vendor as an F20). I kept asking what was special about it (Did it re-invent data models? Is it faster/cheaper than MSFT, GOOG, AWS, SNOW?)

I kept getting circular answers (advantages without addressing design consequences) until I realized (to myself) that what they were describing as "great" had nothing to do with the Palantir tech.

It was great because Palantir's sales people had taken a top down approach (getting CEO's blessing) and had the "green light" to greenfield data solutions and cut through internal bureaucracy/silos about connecting datasources to find revenues or savings. This is CEO (since fired) kept bragging to shareholders about rubbing elbows with Palantir's Alex Karp and gleaming with joy about the potential of their AI collaboration.

That's the impression I get about PLTR.

They're like if McKinsey was re-loaded with software, and sales engineers and they hunt C-Suite and government clients to "speak AI." I haven't looked recently, but one bearish sentiment was that they need growth to sustain their high P/E, and there are only so many more governments/CEOs in their addressable market to add.
by robocat | 2026-02-16 01:34:34+00:00
Developers can control the tapzone already - by using an invisible clickable div and some workarounds. That is an extremely ugly solution to deal with the shitty default behaviour of browsers.

CSS would

(1) make the option explicit and,

(2) could help the browser for accessibility touch accommodations for tremors etc.

(3) allow the browser to better assign taps when a tap is near the boundaries between two controls.

I'm guessing you don't have expertise in this area.

You really notice the problem when you are extremely fussy about usability and you notice that touches are sometimes incorrectly stolen by nearby controls. This is a a problem when controls are closely adjacent (e.g. a search button following an input) or when controls overlap (e.g. a floating button above a textarea).

The problem also happens with native controls e.g. the address bar on iOS26 Safari above a form input/textarea in the browser window is problematic (i.e. it is a systematic fault with iOS). Can't really workaround that. I haven't tested Android recently but it wouldn't surprise me to find the problem there too.

I agree that in an ideal world browsers should make better choices (especially when adjusting for accessibility settings). I also hate the idea of giving developers abusive settings.

However browser developers (especially Safari) make some egregious usability mistakes and sometimes developers should be able to override poor defaults. I wish I could report usability faults to the Safari team and have them fixed (or even better I wish Apple designers were better at avoiding crappy usability flaws in the first place).

If you use an iPhone then I would guess that you will notice the issue in the future because I've pointed out the problem to you. I hope it doesn't annoy you tooo much..

Also this is a horrific kind of usability flaw. Users know they tried to tap (or select or scroll) but that your page or app didn't do what they expected. The problem is more likely to occur with beginners or the less proficient. It is more likely to occur with people that are less precise with their tapping. Users won't know why it didn't work, they just have to stuck their frustration up. They can't report anything useful to developers. Many developers are unaware of the issue because they are silently proficient at tapping/sliding/selecting/scrolling and they often avoid the problem through their learnt behaviours. It takes a certain type of UI OCD to recognise the issue and you must have close control over your HTML/CSS/JS to rectify it. Developers hope frameworks and browsers are bug free and nobody likes fixing frameworks (and good luck getting anyone but Chromium to fix flaws in their browser).
by Aurornis | 2026-02-16 01:34:53+00:00
> This buy out for something vibe coded

I think all of these comments about acquisitions or buy outs aren’t reading the blog post carefully: The post isn’t saying OpenClaw was acquired. It’s saying that Pete is joining OpenAI.

There are two sentences at the top that sum it up:

> I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.

OpenClaw was not a good candidate to become a business because its fan base was interested in running their own thing. It’s a niche product.
by traes | 2026-02-16 01:35:18+00:00
For some concrete numbers, there are only four players over 50 years of age in the top 100 at the moment by live ratings[0]. They are ranked #13 (age 56), #89 (age 53), #95 (age 54), and #97 (age 57). In their primes these players were ranked #1, #10, #4, and #3 respectively.

[0]: https://2700chess.com/?per-page=100
by db48x | 2026-02-16 01:35:22+00:00
Agreed! In fact it is kindof annoying. Every set of orderable elements has a worst element, therefore every show has some bad episodes. You want to tell new viewers to just skip those episodes if they want, but it’s practically impossible with B5. If you skip TKO because part of it is cliche then you also miss the essential key to understanding Ivanova.
by jader201 | 2026-02-16 01:35:30+00:00
Yeah, this shouldn’t even be on HN, or Washington Post for that matter.

There are going to be countless people that think AI is using their voice. Humans share remarkably similar voices, but obviously you can’t copy that (other than impersonations, obviously).

Unless there is evidence that a company intentionally went after a specific human voice to train their AI, there’s no reason to report on these people claiming AI is using their voice.

Maybe if it’s someone with a very distinctive voice. But this guys, as the OP said, just has a “generic podcast guy” voice.
by verdverm | 2026-02-16 01:35:40+00:00
OpenClaw has mediocre docs, from my perspective on some average over many years using 100s of open source projects.

I think Anthropic's docs are better. Best to keep sampling from the buffet than to pick a main course yet, imo.

There's also a ton of real experiences being conveyed on social that never make it to docs. I've gotten as much value and insights from those as any documentation site.
by epolanski | 2026-02-16 01:35:50+00:00
1. Modern clothing is terrible, plastic filled, hardly resists multiple washings. This isn't the 1990s/2000s anymore where you could buy mid budged solid apparel and keep it forever. The gold existed, up to pre COVID. But since then and the rapid spread of fast fashion collecting cloth wastes is a bad business.

2. The market for vintage quality clothing is super strong and booming. You don't need to export it.

3. No fashion brand wants to be anywhere near associated to clothing the poor. It's a pr disaster.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-16 01:35:58+00:00
State of the Art Large Language Models are already Generally Intelligent, in so far as the term has any useful meaning. Their biggest weakness are long horizon planning competency, and spatial reasoning and navigation, both of which continue to improve steadily and are leaps and bounds above where they were a few years ago. I don't think there's any magic wall. Eventually they will simply get good enough, just like everything else.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-16 01:36:13+00:00
There was a meme going around that said the fall of Rome was an unannounced anticlimactic event where one day someone went out and the bridge wasn't ever repaired.

Maybe AGI's arrival is when one day someone is given an AI to supervise instead of a new employee.

Just a user who's followed the whole mess, not a researcher. I wonder if the scaffolding and bolt-ons like reasoning will sufficiently be an asymptote to 'true AGI'. I kept reading about the limits of transformers around GPT-4 and Opus 3 time, and then those seem basic compared to today.

I gave up trying to guess when the diminishing returns will truly hit, if ever, but I do think some threshold has been passed where the frontier models are doing "white collar work as an API" and basic reasoning better than the humans in many cases, and once capital familiarizes themselves with this idea more, it's going to get interesting.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-16 01:36:22+00:00
I have recently come to really like tkinter. It has many good concepts. And I too am using it from Python. That said ...

Oh no ... Not another Python project, that doesn't pin its versions with hashes.

pip install numpy sounddevice
pip install mido python-rtmidi

This stuff really shouldn't be done in 2026 any longer.

I mean it's a hobby project, so you are free to do what you want, of course. Just please never do this in a professional environment. This is one reason Python projects catch so much flak from many people. One day it works, next day it doesn't. And surely not 2 years later, when a random person stumbles upon the repository and wants to try things. Please make your projects reproducible. Use pinned versions and lock files containing hashes, so that other people can get the same setup and it doesn't become an "It ran on my machine." project.
by onesaladleaf | 2026-02-16 01:37:33+00:00
There's also Poco F1, we just haven't released it yet, and I am yet to add it to the docs (we'll have a single common image for both op6(t) and beryllium soon)

There's also a person working on a Fairphone 5 support and I think someone was going to work on a PinePhone port

Contributions are always welome, we need more devices!
by apparent | 2026-02-16 01:37:54+00:00
I thought about this. IIRC a person's voice sounds deeper in his own head because it reverberates in his skull. if anything, this would make David think the NotebookLM voice sound less like his (since his is already deeper, to begin with). But it's possible that a professional radio host is aware of this effect and adjusts for it when deciding if something sounds like him. Maybe he over-adjusts and thinks this is what he sounds like.

As for his wife, it's possible that he speaks in a higher/friendlier register when talking to her/their kids.
Show HN: ClaudeCraft – Minecraft server where Claude agents do everything
by skullmag | 2026-02-16 01:37:57+00:00
Hi everyone,

I created a Minecraft server where Claude agents do everything - you just watch and give commands. You can add new bots and ask them to do anything in the world. Users are just spectators, so all the tasks are executed by bots you create. It uses mineflayer and claude agent sdk under the hood to plan and execute tasks.

I used minecraft 1.21.11 java edition and you can add the server with the following address: claude-craft.com
by DenisM | 2026-02-16 01:38:25+00:00
If X is against law Y the recourse is to seek judgment from courts. If it’s not against the law the recourse is to seek new law from Congress.

The difference is significant for that reason alone. The other reason is that if you’re looking to recruit supporters you will get more of them if you get your ducks in a row. Disorganized ducks impair credibility and create friction.

Not making the distinction between the two is only helpful for the purpose of blowing off steam and the only outcome is outrage fatigue.
by philwelch | 2026-02-16 01:38:26+00:00
In evaporative cooling, the warmer particles are more prone to evaporate and escape leaving the remaining substance cooler than it was. Likewise, as individuals with more of a libertarian or founder-sympathizing mindset stopped contributing to HN as much, the overall tone of the site turned more negative against business and successful founders.[1] I don't want to speculate too much on why they started leaving--I hope it's because they all got too busy being successful founders--but once the effect started to happen and HN turned into less and less of a site for founders to discuss their startups and turned more and more into the proverbial peanut gallery, I think a feedback loop started pushing more of them away.

mftrhu is probably correct in attributing the origin of the analogy but I don't specifically remember where I got it from and I think some of the examples EY gives in that essay would be uncalled for to apply as a direct analogy to HN. HN was never a doomsday cult and I'm not even trying to say that all of the smart and reasonable people left HN, but rather that there was a specific attitude and mentality that's not well represented here anymore.

[1] This is oversimplified. Classic HN still had lots of people complaining about big tech companies, it's just that the criticism was usually voiced from the perspective of another founder rather than from the perspective of a progressive critic. For instance, I remember lots of complaints about Apple's arbitrary and capricious App Store policies, but then that directly affects the startup founder who wants to build an iPhone app.
by chrismarlow9 | 2026-02-16 01:38:55+00:00
Not nearly enough context to be a front page post but here we are. Does everyone just give up on all fundamental expectations including determinism when they see AI in the title? Is the AI final boss to take over the front page of hacker news? /rant

To answer the question I would highlight the wrong regions in neon green manually via code. Now feed the code (zipped if necessary) to the AI along with a screenshot. Now give it relatable references for the code and say "xxxx css class/gtk code/whatever is highlighted in the screenshot in neon. I expect it to be larger but it's not, why?"