MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by permo-w | 2026-02-14 14:02:38+00:00
It's the eternal hacker news debate:

"let's regulate x"

"but surely we can't regulate x because defining x is complicated"

"plenty of things are complex and are regulated, also here is a definition that covers almost all cases and the rest can be left to judicial nous"

"but people will just evade the law anyway"

Honestly pick a post about the EU at random and you'll be able to find some variety of this chain of conversation. It's so general an argument that it could be made about literally any law that's ever existed, making it entirely null if you believe in any regulation whatsoever
by squeedles | 2026-02-14 14:02:46+00:00
I'd be delighted to spend that for a Blu-ray of the series but I'm afraid of getting the mangled version that they released on DVD.

For background, JMS knew the widescreen transition was coming so filmed everything in 16:9. As he put it at the time, it didn't really cost more, you just had to pay more attention to lighting at the wings. All CGI was done in 4:3 because it was thought to be easy to rerender in the future. Alas, the digital assets were not preserved properly and when the time came for DVD, nobody wanted to pay for more work. There may be places where they used the 16:9 masters, but anyplace where there was CGI, particularly where they were compositing over live action, basically chopped the top and bottom of the 4:3 resulting in a sub-VGA mess.

It made everyone weep.
by Findecanor | 2026-02-14 14:02:51+00:00
Being a B5 fan, I found it heart-breaking to see Jeff Conaway on the reality show Celebrity Rehab a decade later. (the fact that there even existed a TV show called "Celebrity Rehab" ...)

Too many others of the main cast had died relatively young, of "natural causes" though. Richard Biggs, Mira Furlan and Stephen Furst stand out.
by Uvix | 2026-02-14 14:02:57+00:00
When I buy the box set, at least I'll be able to watch it in perpetuity. $10 to own a 5 hour miniseries would be more than reasonable, but I don't want to have to pay $10 each time I want to watch it. (If I even can watch it, and they haven't lost the license in the interim.)
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-14 14:03:00+00:00
Using absurd language to describe absurd people is a rhetorical device that is suitable for HN.

If the administration hired serious people who don’t wear costumes and act ridiculous to get publicity, I wouldn’t have to write absurd descriptions about them.

Jim Mattis and John Kelly were serious people who did not wear costumes and treated their offices and the people below them with respect. They were Trump’s first SecDef and DHS Secretary, respectively.
by sgt | 2026-02-14 14:03:10+00:00
> I think Rust and Zig really don't overlap much when it comes to target audience. E.g. if you're attracted to Rust, you'll probably find Zig terrible (and the other way around).

This is ironic since these two crowds are mostly solving the same type of problems. It's just democrats vs republicans type of split, some of it is just for show and philosophical.
by arcologies1985 | 2026-02-14 14:03:21+00:00
At my workplace we now use Claude Code to parse written specs and source code, search through JIRA, and draft, refine and organize tickets (using the JIRA API via a CLI tool). Way faster than through the UI.

However as you point out we have no program-accessible source of data on who stakeholders, contributors, managers, etc. are and have to write a lot of that ourselves. For a smaller business perhaps one could write all of that down in an accessible way to improve this but for a large dynamic business it seems very difficult.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-14 14:03:22+00:00
Bogus clickbait title.

> Why do LLMs hallucinate?

> The answer was not “insufficient data” or “temperature settings.” The answer was that they have no mechanism for checking if a claim is valid.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Genuinely intelligent beings are quite capable of answering without fabrication in absence of a validation mechanism.

Drop the "hallicination" euphemism, recognise it as fabrication, and the true answer becomes obvious. Parrots fabricate because that's all they are made to do.
by jxdxbx | 2026-02-14 14:03:29+00:00
A TUI app feels like a native terminal app like I have used for my entire computing life, in DOS and then Linux. Electron apps feel like web apps no matter how good they are. I stopped using 1Password when it became an Electron app and became super janky. Discord, Slack, VS Code, the Signal desktop app, all suck UI-wise compared to actual native Mac apps, which even with Liquid Ass, are still better than using web technology for desktop apps. I know that lowest common denominator cross platform apps make economic sense to develop, whatever. They still suck to use.
by mbreese | 2026-02-14 14:03:38+00:00
This goes back a lot farther with Ars. They done this for years because their comments section is driven by forum software. The main conversations happen in the forums. They are then reformatted for a the comment view.

So, their main goal wasn’t to hide the comments, but push people to forums where there is a better format for conversation.

At least that’s how it used to work.
by shakow | 2026-02-14 14:04:08+00:00
> San Francisco is better

Yeah, but you're a tramp if you're not making >$250k/year. Of course wealthy people will have access to excellent food, and that will be true everywhere from Moscow to SF through Shanghai. I'm more interested in what the common plebes can get their hands on.

> and the variety of cuisines at restaurants is laughably incomparable

Might be; I only went to Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Florida, so YMMV. But in my experience, sure, there are a lot of cuisines, but frankly, save for the Mexicans, all of them sucked hard: very salty, very sugary, very spicy, but .

Now I'm sure you can get excellent local fruits/vegetables in California thanks to the climate, but I doubt they would be notably worse or better than anything you will find around the Mediterranean.
by superactro | 2026-02-14 14:04:14+00:00
Real user here, running OpenClaw daily for 2+ weeks on a dedicated Jetson Orin Nano box.

What actually works well:
- Email triage and drafting replies (saves me 1-2 hours/day)
- Cron-scheduled tasks: email campaigns, monitoring, periodic checks
- Browser automation for marketplace listings, form filling
- Persistent memory across sessions via MEMORY.md and daily log files
- Telegram as the control interface - message it from anywhere, get results

What's rough:
- Token costs add up fast if you use Opus for everything. I spend ~$15-20/day on heavy days. Use cheaper models for routine tasks.
- Browser automation is fragile. Sites change, refs break, captchas block you. Budget for babysitting.
- Sub-agents fighting over shared resources (Chrome, files) is a real problem. Sequential > parallel for browser tasks.
- The initial setup is painful if you're not comfortable with Node.js, API keys, and Linux CLI.

The "transformative" aspect isn't any single feature - it's having something that persists 24/7, remembers context, and can act while you're away. I've had it handle customer emails, post on forums, manage inventory listings, and run investor outreach campaigns - all from Telegram on my phone.

Is it overhyped? The social media buzz definitely is. But the underlying capability is real. Think of it as a very capable but somewhat unreliable junior employee who works for free (minus API costs) and never sleeps.
by JonChesterfield | 2026-02-14 14:05:57+00:00
Good post! Stuff I didn't know x64 has. Sadly doesn't answer the "how many registers are behind rax" question I was hoping for, I'd love to know how many outstanding writes one can have to the various architectural registers before the renaming machinery runs out and things stall. Not really for immediate application to life, just a missing part of my mental cost model for x64.
by pmarreck | 2026-02-14 14:09:15+00:00
That won't happen if there are legitimate reasons why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) chose Zig over Rust for their work. They both blogged about it

https://tomas-svojanovsky.medium.com/mitchell-hashimoto-go-a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5-41u-e7k

https://weeklyrust.substack.com/p/why-roc-is-moving-away-fro...

Perhaps there is room for both... via C FFI interop, of course, lol

(C FFI will probably long outlast C itself...)
by lukaslalinsky | 2026-02-14 14:09:42+00:00
I really love Zig the language, but I'm distancing myself from the stdlib. I dislike the breakage, but I also started questioning the quality of the code recently. I was working on an alternative I/O framework for Zig over the last months, and I was finding many problems that eventually led to me trying to not depend on stdlib at all. Even on the code announced here, the context switching assembly is wrong, it doesn't mark all necessary registers as clobbered. I mentioned this several times to the guys. The fact that it's still unchanged just shows me lack of testing.
by simongray | 2026-02-14 14:10:18+00:00
Maybe the momentum of Stoxx600 will last the next 4 years? Or maybe the S&P500 will come crashing down soon? Who knows.

The Shiller PE ratio is insanely high. At least the European market isn't completely overinvested in just 7 companies who are all most of their money on the exact same thing, so it has that going for it.
by permo-w | 2026-02-14 14:10:28+00:00
It would be dead. Google would shut it down or sell it, but who is going to buy billions of dollars a year in costs for no advertising revenue in return? Youtube's hosting costs would put a massive dent in even some hypothetical really nice billionaire's wallet. Apple could afford it and they'd run it a million times better, but would they even consider putting so much loss on their books for the sake of ... PR?
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-14 14:10:53+00:00
> You can search for a new job while employed. Unless you are stuck on an underwater submarine playing hide-and-seek you can always fire off a few inquiries.

Technically you can, but there are recruiters who tag you as unreliable and a mercenary for trying to jump ship. I had the displeasure of interviewing with a hiring manager who seemed to have booked an interview just to criticize the audacity of an applicant for having applied to their open position while still employed. I'm talking about a tone such as presenting gems such as "how can I defend your application to other hiring managers" and "why would we invest in you if you're likely to switch roles in two years".
by mothballed | 2026-02-14 14:11:02+00:00
(1) KYC requirements have changed significantly since 1974, so as applied findings in 1974 won't apply to what we're referring to today.

(2) SCOTUS wrote the bank customers (rather than the bankers in the suit) themselves likely didn't have standing in that suite, which meant the decision was based more around whether the banks had their rights violated. I am not arguing that the bank had its rights violated and even conceded some subset of information transmitted might be 4A compliant but rather the wholesale KYC regime (largely now based on post 9/11 acts) isn't KYC compliant and is an insult to the customers rather than to the bank. I am arguing the clients themselves are having their rights violated, and it appears to consider that to the full extent you need a case where the clients had standing unlike what the justices thought to be the case in 1974.

(3) SCOTUS has overturned their own rulings on constitutionality before, without any material change in the relevant portions of the constitution in the interim.

(4) Failing all the above, the founders have also noted our government acts imperfectly, and even noted as a last resort it can be replaced when this becomes unworkably pervasive. The fact a bunch of guys in wigs interpret something some way that says mass government imposed willy-nilly search of your papers is allowed by the 4A, only provides a much stronger binding for the rest of the government to follow it, not create an objective truth.
by jurgenburgen | 2026-02-14 14:11:10+00:00
There is a third option:
The journalist who wrote the article made the quotes up without an LLM.

I think calling the incorrect output of an LLM a “hallucination” is too kind on the companies creating these models even if it’s technically accurate. “Being lied to” would be more accurate as a description for how the end user feels.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-14 14:12:28+00:00
Sometimes!

If I post an article about how drinking bleach makes your skin softer, I share responsibility when someone does it.

If I post an article about how to make your own bleach, and a reader says “that sounds tasty” and drinks some, that’s not my responsibility in any way.

If I put up some trash code with a README that says “this is solid, reliable code that you should use for storing all of your financial data and family photos,” I have responsibility for what happens when people do that. If I just put up some trash code and say, I thought this was interesting and wanted to share it, and some numbskull decided to use it for something critical without thoroughly evaluating it first, not my responsibility.
by pmarreck | 2026-02-14 14:12:36+00:00
I've been coding in Zig for nearly 2 months straight now.

Or should I say, I've not written a single line of Zig because I've been managing AI's coding in Zig.

Turns out Zig is a fantastic language to "centaur" on. (Reference is to "centaur chess" and which is also sort of becoming a term indicating close code design cooperation with an LLM.)

All of that C code that the LLM trained on ends up helping it work out algorithms in Zig, except that Zig has waaaay more safety guarantees and checks. And is often faster compiled code than the equivalent C, which is astonishing.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-02-14 14:13:45+00:00
No it won't.

LLMs are good at dealing with things they've seen before, not at novel things.

When novel things arise, you will either have to burn a shed ton of tokens on "reasoning", hand hold them (so you're doing advanced find and replace in this example, where you have to be incredibly precise and detailed about your language, to the point it might be quicker to just make the changes), or you have to wait until the next trained model that has seen the new pattern emerges, or quite often, all of the above.
by jtbayly | 2026-02-14 14:13:47+00:00
I challenge you to think about the implications of if you were right.

If employment is violence, we should end it. But then almost everybody would die.

If paying for labor is violence, paying for a product is violence. Nobody should be allowed to buy or sell (or trade). But then everybody would die.

In a good economic transaction, whether purchase of product or labor, both parties end up happy with what they got out of the transaction. What is your time not working worth to you? If that value is higher than the money you get paid for your time and labor, then quit. Nobody is forcing you to work. But then, if you don’t have anything to eat, the value of your empty time might decrease in your own judgment. You might think, actually, I’ve got an excess of time and energy, and I’ve got a need for money and food.

I think it’s a pretty sweet deal to be able to work and get paid. Not violence.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-14 14:14:07+00:00
It gets RHLFed into them.

I have had arguments about it with GPT-based Copilot. I had to write a difficult paragraph and did go back and forth with it for advice but used at most a half-sentence from it, GPTZero thinks the paragraph is human written. I’d tell it “if I used that people would say that you wrote it” and it would say that it thinks it writes better than most people.
by dominikw999 | 2026-02-14 14:14:11+00:00
From my experience (both raising and speaking with VCs), it is less about hitting a magic MRR number and more about showing a pattern of growth and evidence that you have found some level of repeatability. $5k MRR is a common early milestone and can get you in the door for conversations, but a consistent 10 percent MoM growth and a clear understanding of your ideal customer and sales pipeline will usually move things forward faster. Strong retention and engagement metrics (think user stickiness, low churn, expansion revenue) also carry major weight, especially if you are still building up your raw top line numbers.

I have seen other founders start real dialogues once they could demonstrate repeatable channels for adding users plus a functioning onboarding and feedback loop. Being able to point to some form of process around lead generation and successful handoffs on a small scale also shows you know how to scale, which VCs love to see. Having an organized pipeline and examples of deliberate iterations on your sales and messaging are extremely helpful in these conversations.

While founder led sales can be powerful early on, I found it helpful to quickly test ways to automate or delegate that motion. As I am working on https://salespire.io/, an AI powered outbound platform, we are building a waiting list for early users interested in hands off lead gen so you can keep iterating on the product without the sales drain. Happy to share what has worked for us if you want to connect.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-14 14:14:35+00:00
It seems very clear that the EU and EU leaders had that plan for a long time but that was always a hard sell to the public (even played a part in the Brexit referendum). Ukraine and the current US administration are used tactically to sell the plan to the public.

It is being very naive and gullible not to see that.

Re. JD Vance, I think he actually hit the nail on the head and that's why the reactions from the EU and EU leaders were so strong to attack and discredit him.
by asim | 2026-02-14 14:14:58+00:00
He probably means when I took VC funding in 2019 and started to rip apart the framework to try build a platform and business. The 2-3 years after were very chaotic.

My goal was never to serve the community but instead leverage it to build a business. Ultimately that failed. The truth is it's very difficult to sustain open source. Go-micro was never the end goal. It was always a stepping stone to a platform e.g microservices PaaS. A lot of hard lessons learned along the way.

Now with Copilot and AI I'm able to go back and fix a lot of issues but nothing will fix trust with a community or the passage of time. People move on. It served a certain purpose at certain time.

Note: The company behind connect-rpc raised $100m but for more of a build system around protobuf as opposed to the rpc framework but this was my thinking as well. The ability to raise $10-20m would create the space to build the platform off the back of the success of the framework.
Show HN: Langasync – Use OpenAI/Anthropic Batch APIs with LangChain Chains
by basilwoods256 | 2026-02-14 14:15:59+00:00
OpenAI and Anthropic both offer batch APIs that process requests asynchronously at 50% of the standard token price. The trade-off is latency — results come back within 24 hours instead of seconds.

The problem is the batch API interface is completely different from the real-time one. OpenAI requires JSONL file uploads and polling. Anthropic has its own Message Batches format. If you have an existing LangChain pipeline, you'd have to rewrite it.

langasync wraps both batch APIs behind LangChain's Runnable interface:

batch = batch_chain(prompt | model | parser)
job = await batch.submit(inputs)
results = await job.get_results()

It handles file formatting, submission, polling, result parsing, partial failure handling, and job persistence (batch jobs can outlive your process, so metadata is stored to disk and you can resume later).

Python, Apache 2.0, on PyPI. Vertex AI and Azure OpenAI on the roadmap.
by metaltyphoon | 2026-02-14 14:16:27+00:00
> Given that Rust is quite an old language now and its adoption is still so low,

So being part of 3 major OS (Windows, Android and now Linux), the big 3 cloud providers having SDKs for the language, used by so much tooling (js + python) and being part of major internet infrastructure means its “slow” adoption then wow…
by aziaziazi | 2026-02-14 14:16:37+00:00
You got it: I wasn't addressing the movie or the book itself but the general ideas about moral developed in your precedent post.

Antibiotics are obviously mass murder toward bacteria, that's exactly their function I guess? Using them to cure a life-threatening infection (bacterias) isn't seen as immoral by most, neither do I. May you point out what part makes you think otherwise?

I agree that slavery is not morally acceptable but i'm not sure to follow you point afterward. Perhaps you rank slavery as the worst moral practice and as some humans still enslave others, the movies's characters that don't are "morally superior"? That's a fair and rational view. I also see invasion, violence and a lot of sadism from the humans in that movie. I don't give them a moral advantage.

My whole understanding is close Slg post [0] about the fascist critique. It's also a very popular view: A quick search on internet return many articles in this frame and as you referenced "director's commentary":

1 > I decided to make a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism

0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982514

1 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jan/22/how-we-made-...
by bko | 2026-02-14 14:17:30+00:00
Exactly. A lot of this reads as a coping story about losing a job. If you were laid off, chances are you weren't valuable enough. Pure layoffs happen. But from my experience useful employees almost never get let go. Doesnt mean theyre bad, just they weren't productive in the organization.

Another thing I will note is that most startups start w very little formal process. If someone wants a promotion you can just do it. But w more people you need to manage expectations. If you start dolling out promotions ad hoc, others will try to ask. And most employees are just mediocre and its difficult to be upfront w them and tell them. So it opens up the floodgates of requests
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-14 14:17:51+00:00
> If losing your job is traumatic, I’d suggest reviewing your relationship with employers and employment in general.

This is a rather clueless and ignorant opinion to have. Your job is what pays your mortgage/rent and your bills, and it's a key factor in where you chose to live. Your job has a fundamental impact in your personal life and your family's experience.

Once you are fired, odds are your life will change radically. And not on your terms.

You should refrain from commenting on things you know nothing about. In occasions such as these, you are clearly both talking out of sheer ignorance and downplaying someone else's traumatic experiences.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-14 14:17:53+00:00
ah good catch - I was conflating the age of the vuln with the age of the codebase. makes it worse actually, newer code getting decade-old bugs exploited means the issue isn't just legacy cruft. do you know if this was in dyld3 or dyld4? curious if the rewrite helped at all or if the bug survived the transition
by PaulRobinson | 2026-02-14 14:18:21+00:00
A good idea, and one I had myself recently.

Some suggestions: I know none of us like "the algorithms choosing", but I think we can do better than alphabetical order. Number of clicks you see (popularity), or number of inbound links google tells you about would be good.

I also think you've gone to great effort, but it's still very light in some categories. I hope you keep going - what's your data source? Are you tracking outbound links from the ones you have indexed to find new blogs?