MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phatfish | 2026-02-15 21:53:21+00:00
Like the real world there a services online that need age verification, unless we want kids to continue to be exploited by social media and freely access porn.

We aren't living with the internet of the 90's any more, it's now owned by corporations and bad actors. Yes, i know it's impossible to stop those that are determined to circumvent restrictions (just as can happen with alcohol or movies) but clear restrictions give parents that want to do the right thing cover when setting rules in their own family.

In the end society raises children not just individual parents, and society need to take some responsibility too.

Personally i don't see how an API call to complete a government ID verification could be used to create a giant "metadata silo", unless the companies using the API are voluntarily sending more data than some sort of one-time challenge token. If the companies are coerced into feeding the government with your account activity history, what is stopping the government forcing that to happen now without bothering to draw attention via a digital ID?
by zmj | 2026-02-15 21:53:33+00:00
Try this:

* have Claude produce wireframes of the screens you want. Iterate on those and save them as images.

* then develop. Make sure Claude has the ability to run the app, interact with controls, and take screenshots.

* loop autonomously until the app looks like the wireframes.

Feedback loops are required. Only very simple problems get one-shot.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-02-15 21:54:01+00:00
I have a feeling the days of patent encumbered video codecs will come to an end soon and be replaced with some kind of autoencoder, or at least the decoder part. It should be possible to match or exceed the compression achieved by H.265, although the decoder would probably consume more energy and cost more. The cool thing about autoencoder compression is that at high compression rates it'll still look like a high resolution image, it'll just be of the wrong scene!
by apsurd | 2026-02-15 21:54:10+00:00
react can be pure functions that take in props. Given a set of props, ideally data primitives, the outputted view is guaranteed. it's nice.

In practice, the entire JS ecosystem enjoys flying off the rails, every season, but it's not strictly react's fault.

To answer your question, however those props get into the component is up the the M & C. can be async server, or shoved in as json in the script tag.
by asdff | 2026-02-15 21:55:03+00:00
As others have said, the goal is the surveillance. But this notion goes further than that. So many ills people face in life can be solved by just not doing something. Addicted to something? Just stop. Fat? Stop eating. Getting depressed about social media? Stop browsing.

Some people have enough self control to do that and quit cold turkey. Other people don't even consciously realize what they are doing as they perform that maladaptive action without any thought at all, akin to scratching a mosquito bite.

If someone could figure out why some people are more self aware than others, a whole host of the worlds problems would be better understood.
by onetimeusename | 2026-02-15 21:55:12+00:00
There's no evidence it's just speculation. Microsoft has a contract with the same exact orgs. So does AWS. Anyone with a little bit of common sense would know that. Palantir's CEO and Peter Thiel are not particularly well liked so presumably people are speculating without any evidence at all. Could there be an issue? Yes, absolutely but not just with Palantir but let's not let facts get in the way of a narrative. In any event I think the question of data being shared with the government could be a problem even if the software was made in house and then open sourced by the hospital (which is itself ridiculous to expect but this is HN) because the hospital themselves could provide the data to the government. At this point someone might say "no that won't happen because hospitals are nice and Palantir is evil" or "there are laws" but I am not sure why Palantir would be exempt unless anyone has proof or anything besides a vibes based argument but then we're back to square one.
by metalman | 2026-02-15 21:55:28+00:00
I cant wait till I get a job building the, cue mega volume, echo, monster reverb,
IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS esss essss esssss

first we need an artilery range to test varios types of construction, or perhaps it will be faster to hire mercinaries and attack the other billioniars fortresses and take notes, it's just pen testing right ,we can get paid from both sides :)
by kkfx | 2026-02-15 21:56:11+00:00
The Sinicization of the West continues, yet people still aren't pushing back; there are no indefinite general strikes, nor is there anyone foaming at the mouth demanding the arrest of the coup plotters in power...

I suggest to (re)read

- https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Global%20Trends_Mapping%...

- https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Reports%20and%2...

These predictions have largely come true.
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-15 21:56:27+00:00
PC's are 1000x faster than they were 20 years ago yet cloud services still makes a relatively larger share of Microsoft's revenue each year.

Your premise makes sense if the benefits of an AI model topped out at something that a person's personal computer could run. However scaling laws seem to have no limit yet (perhaps due to the general nature of intelligence itself not having a "limit"), thus the labs will still have a significant advantage due to scale and hosting models with a distinct comparative advantage to even the best local models.
by typerandom | 2026-02-15 21:56:28+00:00
I align with your thinking.

I find the question of the existence of god a nonquestion. Invented looking for an answer in a space without one.

I think it stems from our incredible ability to learn, and struggle to unlearn.

However, I think we are on the verge of having an understanding of the universe in which learning will be seen as a fundamental part of physical reality.

Where gods are to the people who have them as real as they think they are. Only that they are real in the space of their minds, and no where else.

Given this, I think we’ll soon see the gap between our incoherent internal reality and coherent external reality narrow.
by rvz | 2026-02-15 21:56:42+00:00
This is an Anthropic fumble and Clawdbot could have been theirs a long time ago instead of going to OpenAI who cleverly outdone them on marketing this fumble.

Anthropic just made themselves look incredibly bad with the way they handled that when they sent a cease and desist to OpenClaw which that back-fired right in their faces.

Mistakes have been made.
by gdulli | 2026-02-15 21:56:43+00:00
It's not really important whether it's a one-off thing with this one guy, he's not relevant in the big picture. To the extent that he deindividualizes his labor he's just one more fungible operator of AI anyway.

People are making a bigger deal about it than this one article or site warrants because of ongoing discourse about whether LLM tech will regularly and inevitably lead to these mistakes. We're all starting to get sick of hearing about it, but this keeps happening.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-15 21:56:52+00:00
Commodore 64 and Ataris had intelligent peripherals. Commodore’s drive knew about the filesystem and could stream the contents of a file to the computer without the computer ever becoming aware of where the files were on the disk. They also could copy data from one disk to another without the computer being involved.

Mainframes are also like that - while a PDP-11 would be interrupted every time a user at a terminal pressed a key, IBM systems offloaded that to the terminals, that kept one or more screens in memory, and sent the data to another computer, a terminal controller, that would, then, and only then, disturb the all important mainframe with the mundane needs or its users.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-15 21:57:02+00:00
My philosophy is to try and model the trajectories of these systems and build rigging around where the curve is flat (e.g. models have been producing big balls of mud since the beginning and this hasn't improved meaningfully). Models also have a strong mean bias that I don't expect to go away any time soon.

Trying to outsmart the models at core behaviors over time is asking to re-learn the bitter lesson though.
by throw_a_grenade | 2026-02-15 21:57:16+00:00
I don't, I'm Polish. Can't say for sure for Ukrainians, don't know Ukrainian that well, but my reading of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B... and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81#Ukrainian suggests that пес must be male, but собака is either male or female. I might be wrong.
by vunderba | 2026-02-15 21:57:32+00:00
It's not a perfect analogy but I often compare the advent of LLM development to the Battle of Crécy [1], where the introduction of the longbow meant that a common peasant with minimal training could potentially bring down a knight who had spent his entire life mastering the art of combat.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crecy
by lateforwork | 2026-02-15 21:58:23+00:00
M stands for Model layer. This layer handles business logic and knows nothing about UI. It does not have any html or CSS.

V stands for View. This layer handles HTML and CSS. You can use React here.

C stands for Controller. Controllers know about Views and Models and which model objects to instantiate for which view. It makes REST API calls and does caching, and handles errors. Controllers know about the application state and decide what page to display next.

For an application written in this style see: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Clie...

(This app doesn't use React, but does use TSX, and you could use React as well).
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-15 21:59:14+00:00
So it's not a proof space then. It's some computable graph where the edges are defined by standard autoregressive LLM single step execution & some of the vertices can be interpreted by theorem provers like Lean, Agda, Isabelle/HOL, Rocq, etc. That's still not any kind of space of proofs. Actually specifying the real logic of what is going on is much less confusing & does not lead readers astray w/ vague terms like proof spaces.
by XorNot | 2026-02-15 21:59:31+00:00
Except they're right. No one is using your personal data against you. Instead they're just going door to door demanding you show your papers.

People point out IBM and the Nazis, but then forget that Hitler's rise started with the Bier Hall Putsch (an armed coup attempt with guns, in the streets of Munich), and the Nazis got voted in partly by just beating up and murdering people who probably opposed them.

There were plenty of very private German citizens who got equally placed under the Nazi regime, it's wars, or were just executed anyway because they might've been Jewish sympathizers.

No authoritarian regime is interested in accurate targeting, because that would only their authority is somehow limited.
by vant1 | 2026-02-15 21:59:34+00:00
> Approval voting is cheap and easy to implement, dead simple to explain, count, and audit.

Not so dead simple to vote, though. If you're a sincere voter and you prefer Alice to Bob and Bob to Charlie, do you approve of Alice, or both Alice and Bob?

That choice has to be either strategic or very noisy.

There seems to be some unavoidable complexity to voting methods: letting the voter deal with the complexity leads to a method with a very simple algorithm but that's tricky to use. Letting the method itself deal with it leads to more complex algorithms, but makes it easier to vote.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-02-15 21:59:44+00:00
> Also: isn't the Arch wiki the new Gentoo wiki? Because that was the wiki early 2000s and, again, I've never used Gentoo!

man came here to say the same.

used gentoo for all of 5 minutes in 2005 but the wiki was amazing and I referenced it repeatedly for other things.

generally heard the same about the arch wiki, too
by compsciphd | 2026-02-15 21:59:48+00:00
Google leadership failed in chat because they forgot the most important thing. Metcalf's law. the value of a network is scales to the square of the number of users.

when they wanted to create new chat apps, they had a choice. do we force all of our users to move to the new app or do we figure out a way to bridge the apps. They chose to force users to move.

The problem is, when you force people to move, you also give them the chance to leave and try new things. Instead of figuring out how to make the new chat app more valuable to users it was meant to appeal to by giving them access to google's entire chat userbase without forcing anything on those users, they killed their existing user base on the hope of forcing them to move to the new app. They didn't and now google's an afterthought in the chat space.

They did the same thing with google+ in general. They had a community of committed users sharing data with each other and commenting on stories on google reader. Instead of figuring out how to leverage that user base to contribute "content" to google+ and users that would prefer to use this new interface, and thereby make that new interface more valuable, they killed google reader in an attempt to force those users to migrate to google+. They didn't and went elsewhere.

Google has repeatedly made the mistake of forcing their users to migrate from what they were used to, and every time they do they open the gates for those users to migrate outside of google.

Facebook has learned this lesson relatively well. They don't force users to migrate to Instagram/facebook or whatsapp/messenger. In the Instagram / facebook case they seem to be improving the ability of users to use their Instagram account to add content to facebook (though not in the reverse). While in the whatsapp/messenger case, they haven't forced anyone to migrate, but they also haven't had any interoperability. One would think the apps would have even more value if they could communicate with each other.
by garciasn | 2026-02-15 22:00:25+00:00
I find this to be an odd statement. No; I don't have enormous trust in this or any piece of software; that would be naive. But; I'm not a luddite and I'm not going to eschew something just because there are potential downsides or risk involved. Instead, I am going to do what I can to limit those risks while going in eyes wide open, just like I do with anything I do.

Feel free to choose your own car analogy that may work best for you, if that helps.
by getnormality | 2026-02-15 22:00:41+00:00
You're presupposing an answer to what is actually the most interesting question in AI right now: does scaling continue, and if so, how?

The models have already ingested the whole internet and reoriented economic growth around data center construction. Substantial improvements must now come from algorithmic efficiency, which is bottlenecked in part by human ingenuity. AI-assisted coding will help somewhat, but only with the drudgery, not the hardest parts.
by em-bee | 2026-02-15 22:00:48+00:00
through demand at first. clothes designers are hopefully going to demand smaller batches to avoid getting punished for overproducing. but if that doesn't work, then yes, maybe regulation is necessary. tricky though because manufacturing is often outside of the EU.

overproduction needs to be made more uneconomical than smaller batches. if that is really the issue. i really doubt that large batches of production are actually the problem here.
by neilk | 2026-02-15 22:00:53+00:00
You're right that it's become a stock phrase, and I probably used it without thinking. I strive to avoid such stock phrases (see Orwell's Politics and the English Language), so I thank you for drawing my attention to that.

I don't think it's a dog whistle. A dog whistle is when you signal something to a subgroup of your audience, using language that only they will understand.

I have not seen "lived experience" used that way. I have seen it used to contrast official or elite discourse with what happens in one's daily life. For example, official statistics may show that crime is down in your area, but that does not comport with how you are now avoiding certain areas of town completely. Or a woman might be told that their company does not penalize them for taking maternity leave, but in practice they see they are sidelined and trusted less.

According to my very some brief research, it seems to have entered English from German, in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir. It has become more prominent in online speech since the 2010s.
by jecel | 2026-02-15 22:01:09+00:00
We were stuck with 33MHz PCBs for a long time as people kept trying and failing to get 50MHz PCBs to work. Then Intel came out with the 486DX2 which allowed you to run a 50MHz processor with an external 25MHz bus (so a 25MHz PCB) and we started moving forward again, though we did eventually get PCBs to go much faster as well.

The Transputers (mentioned in other comments) had already decoupled the core speed from the bus speed and Chuck Moore got a patent for doing this in his second Forth processor[1], which patent trolls later used to extract money from Intel and others (a little of which went to Chuck and allowed him to design a few more generations of Forth processors).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(microprocessor)
by apsurd | 2026-02-15 22:02:02+00:00
In my lived experience, shared components just become another problem. Especially in a fledgling company, the iteration velocity is actually negatively affected by shared libs because there's always overhead to (not) break legacy. so shared components bloat to address every evolving need.

And now with AI generated code i see so many wrapper patterns that forward endless props down, it's crazy!

TLDR: i almost always end up branching out into evergreen "reusable" components anyway.

Very unlikely the component library the CTO asked claude to DRY up the code with, is the one to rule them all.
Show HN: Uncloned Math – A catalog of original mathematical game mechanics
by UnclonedMath | 2026-02-15 22:02:15+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm a mathematician who's spent 15+ years designing game mechanics. Lately I've been focused on what I call "Uncloned Math" — original systems where the core mechanic comes from a mathematical model, not from copying what already exists in the industry.

I've built over a dozen of these. Each is based on a different idea: graph propagation, topological transforms, cascade dynamics, constraint growth, verifiable physics engines.

https://constarik.github.io/UnclonedMath/

Some highlights:

• PADDLA — a physics arcade with provably fair outcomes. Every result is mathematically verifiable. Playable now.

• Dominake — a domino snake puzzle: place all unique dominoes on a grid and connect them into a chain where touching ends must match. Playable now.

• Samurai Welfare — two overlapping graphs where node activation on one layer propagates through both, creating interference.

• Chain Lightning — electric arcs cascade across a grid, each hop reshaping the path for the next.

• Rising Towers — columns grow with neighbor-based height constraints, producing emergent structures.

Most are experimental slot/puzzle hybrids. PADDLA and Dominake are the ones you can play right now.

Curious what HN thinks:
— Which mechanics seem worth exploring further?
— Does this kind of catalog have value for designers or researchers?

Thanks!
by b00twhy | 2026-02-15 22:02:35+00:00
Citizens want conformity among each other as well. We just use semantics that obfuscate; get a job, make money, be useful to local economy, pay taxes, follow laws, close tickets in a queue, etc etc

Submit your thoughts for social media to approve or shadow ban !

Submit your source code for validation

Submit your time for validation

"Ignore your eyes and ears; your agency has not been co-opted by some rando who has given themselves authority. You're a happy employee and we're family here until the company needs to pivot and we unceremoniously fire you, and keep your work for our profit." - middle management everywhere

You're just arguing semantics when the ground truth is right in front of our faces. In America obligation is everywhere for no guarantee of healthcare. The American public shows it's true colors by not protesting 24/7 for comprehensive single payer; platitudes, obfuscated euphemisms for "thoughts and prayers", but happy to keep themselves off the hook.

See YouTube videos full of doctors wasting time and training on the phone with insurance employees "just following orders" denying care for treatable conditions.

American public is a joke and collectively useless. Trained to be helpless VHS cassette tapes of "knowledge" regurgitating whatever language they memorized at university.
by lifestyleguru | 2026-02-15 22:02:59+00:00
Again, all progress in medicine goes into private sector even in most of the EU countries, or is available only through some form of bribes and connections. I read about the progress in medicine the same as I read science fiction about extraterrestrial life and faster-than-light travel because the only healthcare available to me is 100 EUR for 5 minutes of doctor's attention.
by reaperducer | 2026-02-15 22:03:13+00:00
His voice doesn't sound that distinctive to me.

It doesn't matter whether it sounds distinctive to you. What matters is whether it's close enough to the real person's voice to be an infringement.

Just like it doesn't matter if you used a machine to duplicate a painting. It's still an infringement.

You can't publish a Harry Potter novel and then throw up your hands and say, "It wasn't me. The AI decided to name the characters Hargid and Hermione and Snape."

Google says it paid a voice actor. If it provides proof of that, good. But like with a lot of AI things, we're in new territory here.

Seems like there's a market for a tool that can compare an AI voice to a library of known famous voices so that companies like Google can tweak their machines to not sound too much like someone who can be harmed by a sound-alike.
by okanat | 2026-02-15 22:03:14+00:00
They all have to use MSVCRT or UCRT to stay compatible with other Windows programs and APIs like COM. And AFAIK nobody has developed a C library that's purely dependent on Win32 system APIs (it is possible just really hard). The difference is that Cygwin is trying to create this semi-isolated Unix environment to programs to think they are running under a complete Unix system like Wine does.

MSYS2 is there to just provide the basics so you can develop programs that are Windows native but use some of the tools that have really strong Unix dependence like shells or Make. They depend on the existence of syscalls like `fork` or forward slash being the directory seperator.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-15 22:03:23+00:00
CPU cores are still getting faster, but not at the 1980/90s cadence. We get away with that because the cores have been good enough for a decade - unless you are doing heavy data crunching, the cores will spend most of the time waiting for you to do something. I sometimes produce video and the only times I hear the fans turning on is when I am encoding content. And even then, as long as ffmpeg runs with `nice -n 19`, I continue working normally as if I had the computer all to myself.
by yial | 2026-02-15 22:04:07+00:00
The type of wire I suggested is easily found in the U.S. (apologies for my bias there) as large as 6g. 10-12g would be in the right range I believe.

The shielding might not be needed, the low cost for single conductor wire is why I mentioned it.

The person I was responding to was mentioning they can’t find appropriate “main power” cable. (So probably not in the USA )
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-15 22:04:33+00:00
I'm not. Read their comment and mine. This was always, and will always be a thing. It's not a burden, just a marginal cost of business. Instead of paying a European company a €40k to destroy your broken products, you can pay an African one €10k to "recycle" your product. Best of all, you're legally forced to. I can see hundreds of companies lobbying for this because it completely takes them off the hook. "The law says we must do this. Please contact your representatives you dumb fucks"