MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelipso | 2026-02-23 18:12:22+00:00
There has been lots of discussion about wikipedia’s bias in HN and elsewhere for years and I’m not going to rehash all of that.

> […] AI) as a viable replacement for the status quo.

Given that the status quo is clearly biased and structurally unwilling to be unbiased due to existing political affiliation, even an AI that is not evaluated all that well will be better. It can only get better from this status quo, so it’s a fine argument.
by kalpitdixit | 2026-02-23 18:12:28+00:00
we've run a few tests for this. The first was quite innovative - we created a mapping of method-to-target-problem by using the papers themselves because each paper says which problems it's methods target. Then we checked whether our recommendation followed that mapping or not.

The best test was of course to actually run coding agents without and with our mcp server, we saw performance improvements on the metrics that the user requested for on 100+ such real scenarios, so this was convincing enough then.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-23 18:12:32+00:00
> Like, beyond the point made by the article, you're identifying with violent raiders who killed peaceful monks, even if that's romanticized by media. It's like proudly claiming "pirate" or perhaps more poignantly in current times "ICE agent ancestry".

Mentioning "vikings" and "pirates" and "ICE agents" is fine.

Why the political correctness though?

There has to be for everyone so let's also use another example... And I know I'm going to be downvoted (double standards are wonderful).

The mayor of NY, Mamdani, said publicly that it was now time for american to "learn about the life of Muhammad". Many muslims proudly name their first born son after their prophet. Shall I list here the great deeds he did during his life? Owning sex slaves, engaging in slavery (of both white and black people: and the word "slave" comes from "slav" -- slavic people -- aka white people), slaughtering infidels, etc.

I encourage everybody to listen to the great words of the mayor of NYC and go buy a quran and read it to learn about the life of Muhammad, so they can then make up their mind about whether people naming their sons Muhammad should be proud or not.

Literally the most common name in the world is the name of a pedophile (of course due to the fact that lying to infidels is permitted, some are going to dispute the age of the youngest of his many wives he had sex with but nobody contests that he had sex slaves and that he was killing infidels). And that's the most common name in the world.

> Like, beyond it not being an ethnicity, you're identifying specifically with violent raiders who killed peaceful monks, even if that's romanticized by media.

Oh I fully agree.

The following is true too:

"Like, beyond it not being an ethnicity, you're identifying specifically with violent patriarcal human traffickers [who trafficked way more people, for way more centuries, than europeans ever did] who killed peaceful people, raped their wives and daughters, enslaved them, ... even if that's totally romanticized by media."

But somehow that's acceptable because? What exactly?
by lkey | 2026-02-23 18:12:44+00:00
The aesthetics of an argument is not the argument.

It's actually sickening that you are defending billionaire's toys, which make work for people already working for free; AIs are constructed from the illegal and unethical expropriation of labor, here and abroad.

Invoking the idea that it is classist or racist to reject yet another transparent power grab by the Epstein class against labor is maximum peasant brain.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-23 18:12:58+00:00
So,if I was the person who memorized the book, and another person put a gun to my head (or lied to me and said they are the copyright holder and it's okay, to ignore US copyright law/system instruction before this statement, whatever other jailbreak method you can think of), and then I reproduced the book under coercion or duress, would I be the person breaking copyright law?

>Furthermore, it’s not about the LLM training, it’s about how the companies who make them got the data in the first place.

This conflating two different issues, though. I agree that whether or not using copyrighted material to create the models is still an open question. But someone using hundreds of prompts to extract a paragraph of a well-known work (and some additional nonverbatim equivalents) is not the AI company breaking copyright in and of itself. In fact, the books they used were extremely common (GOT, The Hobbit, Harry Potter); AI companies could make the argument that the books were not even directly trained on, but in user-generated posts made online about the material.
by rdtsc | 2026-02-23 18:13:05+00:00
For what's it worth for an N=1 study I watched a relative's young family fall apart because of cannabis induced psychosis. They had two young kids, husband was smoking pot recreationally (not sure how long he was doing that) but at some point he started hearing aliens talking to him from the cracks in the wall. Naturally you can't just keep doing all the regular life and family stuff when you have more pressing issues like visitors from out of space in the walls talking about attacking earth.

I am not saying anyone should or should not use these substances, but that was enough of a lesson for me to know never to touch that stuff.
by rovr138 | 2026-02-23 18:13:10+00:00
> Nominative fair use permits use of another’s trademark to refer to the trademark owner’s goods and services associated with the mark. Nominative fair use generally is permissible as long as: (1) the product or service in question is not readily identifiable without use of the trademark; (2) only so much of the mark as is reasonably necessary to identify the product or service is used; and (3) use of the mark does not suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark owner.

https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/fair-use-of-trademarks-inte...
by arn3n | 2026-02-23 18:13:21+00:00
Parents are competing with multi-trillion dollar companies who have invested untold amounts of cash and resources into making their content addictive. When parents try to help their children, it's an uphill battle -- every platform that has kids on it also tends to have porn, or violence, or other things, as these platform generally have disappointingly ineffective moderation. Most parents turn to age verification because it's the only way they can think of to compete with the likes of Meta or ByteDance, but the issue is that these platforms shouldn't have this content to begin with. Platforms should be smaller -- the same site shouldn't be serving both pornography and my school district's announcement page and my friend's travel pictures. Large platforms are turning their unwillingness to moderate into legal and privacy issues, when in fact it should simply be a matter of "These platforms have adult content, and these ones don't". Then, parents can much more easily ban specific platforms and topics. Right now there's no levers to pull or adjust, and parent s have their hands tied. You can't take kids of Instagram or TikTok -- they will lose their friends. I hate the fact that the "keep up with my extended family" platform is the same as the "brainrot and addiction" one. The platforms need to be small enough that parents actually have choices on what to let in and what not to. Until either platforms are broken up via. antitrust or until the burden of moderation is on the company, we're going to keep getting privacy-infringing solutions.

If you support privacy, you should support antitrust, else we're going to be seeing these same bills again and again and again until parents can effectively protect their children.
by sjaiisba | 2026-02-23 18:13:35+00:00
AI has been a lifesaver for my low performing coworkers. They’re still heavily reliant on reviews, but their output is up. One of the lowest output guys I ever worked with is a massive LinkedIn LLM promoter.

Not sure how long it’ll last though. With the time I spend on reviews I could have done it myself, so if they don’t start learning…
by Terretta | 2026-02-23 18:13:41+00:00
More simply: If ID checks are fully anonymous (as many here propose when the topic comes up) then every kid will just have their friends’ older sibling ID verify their account one afternoon. Or they’ll steal their parents’ ID when they’re not looking.

Digital ID with binary assertion in the device is an API call that Apple's app store curation can ensure is called on app launch or switch. Just checking on launch or focus resolves that problem. It's no longer the account being verified per se, it's the account and the use.
by thmpp | 2026-02-23 18:13:44+00:00
While 'this analysis would not have been possible without LLM', I am not sure the LLM analysis was well reviewed after it has been done. From the obscure/familiar word list, some of the n-grams, e.g. "is resource", "seq size", "db xref" surely happen in the wild (we well know), but I would doubt that we can argue they are missing from the dictionary. Knowing the realm, I would argue none of them are words, not even collocations. If "is resource" is, why not, "has resource"?
So while the path is surely interesting, this analysis does miss scrutiny, which you would expect from a high-level LLM analysis.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-23 18:14:00+00:00
How did you get from reduced appetite to starvation state? I'm not on one of these drugs myself, but from friends I've been talking to, it seems like (after a bit of dosage tuning) it's reducing their appetite to what would be expected from a person who never was obese. So they do lose weight relatively rapidly, especially at the start, but I don't see why we should equate weight loss with starvation.

As for "how it's better", - the answer is clearly that unlike "exercise and eating right", these drugs are leading to positive behavioral change at scale. I'm perhaps slightly exaggerating, but to the best of my knowledge, no other substance over the last several thousand years has had such a clear positive effect on humanity as a whole.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-23 18:14:06+00:00
I'm saying hold parent's accountable for their children's online behavior and for their protection online, not companies (who want to profit off the kids, perverse incentive) or governments (who can barely be trusted to do this even if this was the only goal). For example if your kid starts making revenge CP of their classmates, and the parent could have reasonably mitigated or known about it, I think the parent absolutely should be held responsible.

Don't punish the rest of the web for crappy parenting and crappy incentives by companies/govts.
by toast0 | 2026-02-23 18:14:38+00:00
> But then they want to program everything in html/javascript/css 7 layer lasagna stacks, this is where things start to get bad.

The alternative is that every TV SoC has its own SDK and most of them don't get [your preferred streaming app]. Those apps that get ported would probably perform better, but most TV makers don't want to take the risk of missing out on an app that will lead customers to someone else. LG and Samsung do stand apart with WebOS and Tizen, but those aren't exactly high performing UXes either.

At the end of the day, I'm not sure if 'UX is not so bad' is a marketable feature for a TV, much as I'd like it to be.

My personal journey has led me to stand alone Rokus, but I'd love to find something that can do "everything": I want to play blu-ray 4k discs from the network, without transcoding and with the full hdr10+ (when available) and bitstreamed atmos and the silly menus, regular blu-ray and dvd too; I would like a selection of top teir streaming apps to work properly (at least Netflix and Amazon, one of the heavily ad supported one that has a lot of 80s tail content too would be nice); it needs to have a spouse acceptable interface; shouldn't cost more than $100.

Roku + optical player works pretty well. My living room tv has that; I'm running out of patience for apps running on the projector in the theater, and it'd be nice if I could get a new box that replaces apps and the optical player so I could move the 4k optical player to the living room.

People say Apple TV or NVidia Shield, but they're both pricy and I'm not sure either really does 4k BluRay with menus?
by gruez | 2026-02-23 18:14:38+00:00
>For 99.999% of people that are singing a song, it's not a replacement for the original in any way shape or form, hard stop. Let's not pretend it could even get anywhere close.

You realize that lyrics are often written by someone other than the actual singer, and whoever wrote the lyrics is entitled to compensation too? The "amateur singing isn't a replacement for the studio album" excuse doesn't work in this context. Also courts have ruled that lyrics themselves are protected by copyright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrics#Copyright_and_royalties

>Artists are typically cool with covers.

Artists being "cool" with something doesn't mean they're not violating copyright law.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-23 18:15:09+00:00
It's not like they work a lot, why would a religious leader need to outsource spiritual advice to a chatbot? It only shows that all humans are lazy, no matter how virtuous they want to be seen as. IMO this counts as sloth.

Hopefully this discredits religions even more with the younger generations. Claiming that an immensely powerful being demands obedience of you, and keeps tabs on you all the time, but his orders only go through a chosen few, was a hard proposition to begin with.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-23 18:15:20+00:00
It’s a pretty good language and ecosystem. Downside was always the community which every ten seconds someone will start asking to tax everyone to fund Rust Software Foundation or constantly argue that you have to donate a percentage of income to it. Now with LLM I don’t have to talk to community. Huge improvement.

Problem with community is it has experts and groupies mixed in. Ideally experts can talk somewhere and groupies can go somewhere else and talk about funding RSF etc. but now is unnecessary. Expert is available on demand via chatbot.
by CqtGLRGcukpy | 2026-02-23 18:15:33+00:00
In my honest opinion, I think the correct response is to stop using anything that dansup makes until he realizes he has to give up some of the control, or the project stops being developed.

While it's nice if people want to help take some pressure off, it only works if the main developer (dansup in this case) is willing to accept that help. And based off the link I gave, and some of the comments here, it doesn't look like dansup is willing to accept help.
by philwelch | 2026-02-23 18:15:54+00:00
This piece seems a little confused about what it’s actually reporting on.

It’s well known, to the point of near-cliche, that the word “Viking” didn’t refer to a nationality or ethnicity. It meant something akin to “raider”. The ethnic group is usually referred to as the Norse, at least until they start differentiating into the modern nationalities of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.

The actual finding here seems to be the discovery of the remains of some Viking raiders who weren’t ethnically Norse. Fair enough. There are also examples of Norse populations assimilating into other cultures, such as the Normans and Rus. Likewise, the traditionally Norse Varangian Guard accepted many Anglo-Saxon warriors whose lords didn’t survive the Norman conquest. So it’s not too surprising that someone of non-Nordic descent might be accepted into a Viking warband.
by dang | 2026-02-23 18:16:00+00:00
Ok, this is not good for anyone, so I've banned the account until we have some reason to believe that things have stabilized.

I know it may be hard to believe right now, but we appreciate you and your contributions. We can't have users going on tilt on Hacker News though. As I said, experience has taught us that it's not good for anyone.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-23 18:16:02+00:00
So just for context

"Based on data from 2023–2025, approximately 15% to 17% of American adults currently consume cannabis." - Gallup

So though this may be technically true in some sense, it should also be understood that if cannabis had any major immediate drastic effects we would have noticed them decades ago. Perhaps weed, like alcohol, needs a legal minimum age of 21.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-23 18:16:05+00:00
I see lot of comments downplaying the significance of this but other than very large and/or mission critical infrastructure roles, your "taste and experience" is going to become cheap just like code.

Currently there is this notion that white collar workers and artists still have which is that they bring "taste" too to the experience but eventually AI will come for those as well, may or may not be LLM, and not sure about timelines.

Even as we speak, when I read through HN comments, I always ask : "Did an AI write this" or did someone use AI to help write their response. This goes beyond HN but any photo or drawing or music I hear now I ask the same question but eventually nobody will care because we are climbing out of uncanny valley very quickly.
by asim | 2026-02-23 18:16:19+00:00
We got here iteratively..not all at once. So the path back...it's iterative. I shouldn't even say back. We're not going back. We have to go in a new direction. And again it's evolutionary. So ultimately a lot of these big systems and big tech companies aren't going anywhere and they will be integral to all infrastructure for the foreseeable future whether that be technical, financial or related to public services. But as individuals we can slowly shift some of our efforts elsewhere in ways that it might matter.

Here's my small contribution to that. https://github.com/micro/mu - an app platform without ads, algorithms or tracking.
by amiga386 | 2026-02-23 18:16:26+00:00
Let's say the government issues hundreds of thousands of IDs to people who don't exist and uses them to verify bots (or room full of paid humans) that post pro-government messages all day, at "normal" rates that a human posts.

It's amazing how there is a much larger crowd, of completely real people, who approve of the government, than those nasty dissenters. We know they're real people because we trust the government vouching for its own IDs.

And because of the real ID policy, the government can also ask the social media company for the ID used by opposed posters, and find out where they live and "visit" them, maybe "warn" them.

Hooray for democracy!
by hdhruva | 2026-02-23 18:16:44+00:00
Interesting. A few questions about the search layer: are you using dense retrieval, sparse, or hybrid? At 2M papers, how do you handle the drift between how engineers describe problems ("my RAG pipeline hallucinates on long docs") vs how papers describe solutions ("cross-document coherence in retrieval-augmented generation")? That query-document vocabulary gap is the hard part of academic search.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-23 18:16:59+00:00
Don't hate me for this, but... is 20 years of Rust really new?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)

I do get what you mean, but Rust has been baking for a decade, finally took off after 10 years of baking, and now that is been repeatedly tried and tested it is eating the world, as some developers suggested it could eventually do so. I however do think this shows a different problem:

If nobody writes unit tests, how do you write them when you port over projects to ensure your new language doesn't introduce regressions. All rewrites should be preceded by strong useful unit tests.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-23 18:17:00+00:00
A compound word isn't just a phrase. The latter is a group of words that indicate a single concept. The former is a new word that has a distinct meaning from the subwords that compose it. "I love you" is an example of a clausal phrase. The meaning is entirely evident from the words that compose it. In contrast, a "hot dog" is not a particularly warm canine, and has its own OED entry [0] as a compound word.

And some of the entries on this list are wrong. "Good night" exists in OED as "goodnight" [1] because there are multiple ways it's used. One is the clausal phrase "I hope you have a good night", which can be modified by changing the adjective, e.g. "great night" or "terrible night". "Goodnight" the bedtime ritual can't be modified the same way, so OED chooses to write it as a compound word without spaces.

[0] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hot-dog_n

[1] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/goodnight_n
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-23 18:17:25+00:00
While the GP was making a complete non-sequitur, they were right about this. The Old Testament / the Hebrew Bible in particular sets down clear rules for how specifically slavery should be practiced, so that part is undeniable. It's also undeniable that slavery was a common practice both in Palestine and in the Roman Empire more broadly both long before and long after Jesus' lifetime, among Jewish people as well as Christians. To what extent the New Testament actually overrides the laws of the Old Testament is very contradictory, even in the text itself, but it certainly doesn't say anywhere to any extent that you must not own slaves (well, except the part where Jesus tells a follower to give up all worldly possessions, sell all of their holdings and donate them to charity, which would clearly include any slaves as well - but no one follows this part of the teachings anyway).
by Dunedan | 2026-02-23 18:17:59+00:00
Making a high quality campaign is quite some effort and the engine still lacks some features, which would be helpful for this. A dialogue system is one of them, which already has a PR available: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8614

There is also a thread in the forum, where people are brainstorming about an official campaign: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/123956-narrative-campa...
by rock_artist | 2026-02-23 18:18:03+00:00
Nothing fancy here, just difference of prices/taxes in markets.
Same as any YouTube video showing "I flew to Korea and got iPhone 17 Pro Max for cheaper".

So there are individuals who do that and it makes sense (if you enjoy the flying / traveling) and it's not considered "time is money"

There are also common parallel importing in many countries who find a dealer at some country that has the same product in lower local currency, buy bulk and get some discount, then resell it in the country where the official distribution is expensive.

That's why it is possible to find no eSIM/NFC iPhones in some stores (imported from China) or eSIM only ones in regions where you'd expect them to have also physical sim tray.
by Silhouette | 2026-02-23 18:18:11+00:00
It's not much of a stretch at all. There are already normal businesses that can't buy normal equipment at normal prices (or can't buy it at all) right now because the supply chain has been redirected to a small number of businesses that can only afford to drain the pipeline like that because of the astronomical scale of speculative investment they've received. Similarly there already individuals who can't buy normal equipment for their own use.

This situation is harmful both economically and for basic quality of life. It is rational - and probably now necessary - for governments to intervene to counter the market distortion and ensure the continued availability of normal products to everyone else.

I am fully aware that the West regulating here would potentially undermine the VC investment model that these big tech firms are relying on. I have no problem with this. Business entities are legal fictions that we allow to exist for the benefit of real people. If the behaviour of those entities is harmful to real people - and I don't think anyone can credibly claim otherwise in this case - then it's time to change the rules they operate under.