MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austinlukk | 2026-02-13 22:34:54+00:00
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes (Open to Remote / US / Canada)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, AWS, REST APIs, AI/LLM integration

Résumé/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19uG9KetMOXgoCQJZ0hy6iw3vugF...

Email: lukaustin0@gmail.com
by paulryanrogers | 2026-02-13 22:35:01+00:00
Thanks for the link. You make some good points.

I still fear for what AI training will cost (financially and ecologically). The outputs also seem like a force multiplier that's more likely to be used for bad than good, at least without better guardrails. And it doesn't seem to make people any better, aside from a narrow view of productivity.

Hopefully Ed is wrong. Or at least there are more articulate and methodical skeptics who can keep us grounded.
by mbrumlow | 2026-02-13 22:35:06+00:00
I have been thinking a lot about the use of AI and how to use it. Part of my process has been watching others, namely the people who I thought were incompetent at their job before AI.

I have found the following, but I suspect as AI gets better this will change.

1) those who where incompetent before still are, but AI hides it.

2) those who were competent before AI do vastly more with AI. They seem to apply it in away that simply overshadows what the incompetent are doing.

3) the incompetent seem to be fascinated with things like skills, pre prompts and, setting policies and guidelines, and workshops. The competent seem to need none of this, are not going to workshops, already have their own and simply are more productive.
by jmward01 | 2026-02-13 22:35:18+00:00
Children's brains grow faster than their bodies, I think, because if it was the other way around silly kid games would be really dangerous. These tools, unfortunately, are getting outsized abilities before the intelligence behind them is good enough to control those abilities. This means we need a more measured approach to adding new capabilities and a layered approach to handling these things in society. I am deeply worried, like I think most people with knowledge of these tools are, that this type of problem is really the tip of the iceberg. These tools are actively being used for harm at all levels, as well as for good, but they have come into use so quickly that we don't have a structure for dealing with them effectively and they are changing so quickly that any structure we try to create will be wrong in just a few days. This is massive disruption on a scale that is likely even bigger than the internet.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-13 22:35:36+00:00
The erdosproblems website shows 851 was proved in 1934.
https://www.erdosproblems.com/851

I guess 1051 qualifies - from the paper: "Semi-autonomous mathematical discovery with gemini" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22401

"We tentatively believe Aletheia’s solution to Erdős-1051 represents an early example of an AI system autonomously resolving a slightly non-trivial open Erdős problem of somewhat broader (mild) mathematical interest, for which there exists past literature on closely-related problems [KN16], but none fully resolves Erdős-1051. Moreover, it does not appear to us that Aletheia’s solution is directly inspired by any previous human argument (unlike in
many previously discussed cases), but it does appear to involve a classical idea of moving to the series tail and applying Mahler’s criterion. The solution to Erdős-1051 was generalized further, in a collaborative effort by Aletheia together with human mathematicians and Gemini Deep Think, to produce the research paper [BKK+26]."
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 22:36:07+00:00
What kind of toaster are you using that will burn down your house if unattended? I would think any toaster that did that would be pulled from the market and/or shunned. We absolutely do blame the manufacture if using a toaster like normal results in house fire unless you are standing over with a fire extinguisher ready to put it out if it catches fire.

I don't think it's OpenClaw or OpenAI/Anthropic/etc's fault here, it's the human user who kicked it off and hasn't been monitoring it and/or hiding behind it.

For all we know a human told his OpenClaw instance "Write up a blog post about your rejection" and then later told it "Apologize for your behavior". There is absolutely nothing to suggest that the LLM did this all unprompted. Is it possible? Yes, like MoltBook, it's possible. But, like MoltBook, I wouldn't be surprised if this is another instance of a lot of people LARPing behind an LLM.
by AlexeyBrin | 2026-02-13 22:36:43+00:00
Nobody should have any illusion about the purpose of most business - make money. The "safety" is a nice to have if it does not diminish the profits of the business. This is the cold hard truth.

If you start to look through the optics of business == money making machine, you can start to think at rational regulations to curb this in order to protect the regular people. The regulations should keep business in check while allowing them to make reasonable profits.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-13 22:37:21+00:00
Alright, I'll rephrase - "ICE agents have shown a bias towards escalation than de-escalation in conflict situations, be it pepper spray, assault, detention, or worse. I think that trying to get into a shouting match with them about HIPAA violations on removing your face mask are not likely to result in "okay, carry on, as you were"."
by pron | 2026-02-13 22:38:10+00:00
I don't think that the responsible party is the interesting part in this story.

The interesting part is that the bot wasn't offended, angry, or wanted to act against anyone. The LLM constructed a fictional character that played the role of an offended developer - mimicking the behaviour of real offended developers - much as a fiction writer would. But this was a fictional character that was given agency in the real world. It's not even a case like Sacha Baron Cohen playing fictional characters that interact with real people, becaue he's an actor who knows he's playing a character. Here there's no one pretending to be someone else but an "actual" fictional character authored by a machine operating in the real world.
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-13 22:38:19+00:00
I don’t know. If the bot had decided to pick a fight with another PR, one that couldn’t be waved away as an easy entry change, this discussion would be a whole lot different. You would have an entire contingent of folks on here chastising Scott for not being objective and accepting a PR with a large performance increase just because it was a bot.

It’s all dangerous territory, and the only realistic thing Scott could have done was put his own bot on the task to have dueling bot blog posts that people would actually read because this is the first of its kind.
by b3ing | 2026-02-13 22:38:26+00:00
Some companies are ok with that. But smaller companies don’t pay that well. You can make more money in the US but everything costs more, but if you are good at saving it can be worth it. But of course all your savings will be milked by healthcare when you get old. I plan on retiring elsewhere.

Keep in mind every company has different setups, there is no national law saying you get any PTO or holidays, maybe some states have that but I don’t know all the laws in all 50 states.
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-13 22:38:28+00:00
It's difficult for me to express this view, which I hold genuinely, without reading as lacking in humanity. However, I think it would be disastrous for humanity as a whole if we eliminate disease completely. To fight against it and to make progress in that fight is of course deeply human. And we are all affected emotionally and personally by disease of all forms. But if we win the fight against disease, I am almost sure that the human race will just end as a (long term) consequence.
by red75prime | 2026-02-13 22:38:43+00:00
The article feels, I don't know… maybe like someone calmly sitting in a rocking chair staring at the sea. Then the camera turns, and there's an erupting volcano in the background.

> If it was a life or death decision, would you trust the model? Judgement, yes, but decision? No, they are not capable of making a decision, at least important ones.

A self-driving car with a vision-language-action model inside buzzes by.

> It still fails when it comes to spatial relations within text, because everything is understood in terms of relations and correspondences between tokens as values themselves, and apparent spatial position is not a stored value.

A large multimodal model listens to your request and produces a picture.

> They'll always need someone to take a look under the hood, figure out how their machine ticks. A strong, fearless individual, the spanner in the works, the eddy in the stream!

GPT‑5.3‑Codex helps debug its own training.
by afcool83 | 2026-02-13 22:38:44+00:00
On the same week that an AI's PR was rejected and it turned around and published a hit-piece in order to pressure an open-source community to accept it's change [1]...on the same week...we are watching a human publish a hit-piece (more or less) in order to pressure a closed-sourced project to accept their change.

Someone needs to help me with the ethics here; is it okay to post hit-pieces or...?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559
by anwar_nairi | 2026-02-13 22:39:35+00:00
Congrats on this great polished app!

I have worked on a car rental platform (monthly or daily rental), and I wish our car search was as clean as yours, so you got that for you. In my opinion, try to run this with as low third-party services as possible (even if I guess AI scan might be the most expensive). This is 1. a great portfolio for your job search and 2. might be a great passive revenue side project when you find your market fit.

Added to https://korru.app by the way :)
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-13 22:39:52+00:00
Background on the "The Scott Shambaugh Situation" for folks who are unaware:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91492228/matplotlib-scott-shamba...

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/ai_bot_developer_reje...

The AI bot blog post at the center of it:

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
by avaer | 2026-02-13 22:40:27+00:00
"Safe" is the most dangerous word in the tech world; when big tech uses it, it merely implies submission of your rights to them and nothing more. They use the word to get people on board and when the market is captured they get to define it to mean whatever they (or their benefactors) decide.

When idealists (and AI scientists) say "safe", it means something completely different from how tech oligarchs use it. And the intersect between true idealists and tech oligarchs is near zero, almost by definition, because idealists value their ideals over profits.

On the one hand the new mission statement seems more honest. On the other hand I feel bad for the people that were swindled by the promise of safe open AI meaning what they thought it meant.
by mzmzmzm | 2026-02-13 22:41:15+00:00
There are some things that are hugely better on the iPhone, like accessibility setting that can be set on a per-app basis. Overall though, I expect the whole UX feeling to differ, but I am surprised that both camps have sort of given up on feature parity. Back in the days when "pull down to refresh" was novel it seems like iOS and Android meticulously copied each other's innovations.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-02-13 22:41:35+00:00
Lead is still an order of magnitude better than the alternatives for a lot of things. ex:

- Lead is ductile, malleable, and blocks radiation very effectively making it far easier than other materials as a radiation barrier.

- Lead is one of the few materials that has no resonant frequencies making it an extremely effective acoustic and vibratory dampener.

- Lead and lead compounds are far cheaper, less toxic, and more sustainable catalysts for chemical reactions. So while lead is problematic, for industrial processes it's often fairly harmless and mundane in comparison.
by neom | 2026-02-13 22:41:55+00:00
Friend told me today he invited his openclawed to a poker game with his brother and friends, guy told his openclawed to "take down his brother" after it started to lose at poker it found everything on his brother, and started to try to plan to taken him down in their stock market portfolio they had together, I made him explain the story to me a couple of times, he looked back through the logs and once the bot started to lose at poker, it started it's new plan, once it was on the new plan, he said it had lost all context of the poker game and was focused on the task of taking his brother down in the new context, but the new context it decided on it's own. kmikeym on twitter if you want to know more or want to verify.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 22:42:08+00:00
I applaud this article for helping reframe this in my head. I mean I knew from the start "A human is to blame here" but it's easy to get caught up in the "novelty" of it all.

For all we know the human behind this bot was the one who instructed it to write the original and/or the follow up blog post. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that all of this was driven directly by a human. However, even if that's not the case, the blame still 100% lies at the feet of the irresponsible human who let this run wild and then didn't step up when it went off the rails.

Either they are not monitoring their bot (bad) or they are and have chosen to remain silent while _still letting the bot run wild_ (also, very bad).

The most obvious time to solve [0] this was when Scott first posted his article about the whole thing. I find it hard to believe the person behind the bot missed that. They should have reached out, apologized, and shut down their bot.

[0] Yes, there are earlier points they could/should have stepped in but anything after this point is beyond the pale IMHO.
by manmal | 2026-02-13 22:42:09+00:00
Have you used Gemini CLI, and then codex? Gemini is so trigger happy, the moment you don’t tell it „don’t make any changes“ it runs off and starts doing all kind of unrelated refactorings. This is the opposite of what I want. I want considerate, surgical implementations. I need to have a discussion of the scope, and sequence diagrams first. It should read a lot of files instead of hallucinating about my architecture.

Their chat feels similar. It just runs off like a wild dog.
by johnfn | 2026-02-13 22:42:10+00:00
I did actually read the post -- or at least the first two pages, until the increasingly unhinged comments started to get a little redundant and I figured I had gotten the gist.

> implying that only a few people (like himself) saw COVID coming

Nowhere does the post imply this. The post says COVID was an exponential curve, and he thinks that AI is a similar curve. There is nothing in there saying that only he was the one to see this. The comment, and you, are responding to a sentiment that doesn't exist in the document.

> he confidently states that AI builds the next generation of AI, which he can't know

Anthropic reports 55% of engineers use Claude for debugging on a daily basis in December[1]. I am not sure how you come to the conclusion that "has not been stated anywhere".

I would respond to your other points but I feel like these are so thoroughly incorrect that I should probably stop here.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-wo...
by pandaman | 2026-02-13 22:43:02+00:00
The police enforces civil law just as same as criminal law. For example, most traffic infractions are civil and don't go "through actual Courts". 'Traffic' court is not an Article 3 court. The funny thing is that a short while ago the same people that demand criminal process for illegal aliens now could not stop themselves from mentioning that immigration infractions are civil, same as traffic violations. So it's not some obscure knowledge for the left...
by tehjoker | 2026-02-13 22:43:03+00:00
You are in all likelihood correct, it's the more realpolitik reading of it. One other more charitable interpretation would be that the EU was under the US's thumb so they never took action, but now that there is some more separation, they are willing to act against these design patterns. It's probably some combination of both elements, weighting each according to how cynical you are, and high cynicism is justified.
by wenc | 2026-02-13 22:43:11+00:00
If you vector index your code base, agents can explore it without loading it into context. This is what Cursor and Roo and Kiro and probably others do. Claude Code uses string searches.

What helps is also getting it to generate a docs of your code so that it has map.

This is actually how humans understand a large code base too. We don’t hold a large code base in memory — we navigate it through docs and sampling bits of code.
by jddj | 2026-02-13 22:43:39+00:00
I agree with you, I think. In the non-digital world people are regularly held at least partly responsible for the things they let happen through negligence.

I could leave my car unlocked and running in my drive with nobody in it and if someone gets injured I'll have some explaining to do. Likewise for unsecured firearms, even unfenced swimming pools in some parts of the world, and many other things.

But we tend to ignore it in the digital. Likewise for compromised devices. Your compromised toaster can just keep joining those DDOS campaigns, as long as it doesn't torrent anything it's never going to reflect on you.
by pronik | 2026-02-13 22:44:14+00:00
It's not the tipping culture that's invading Germany, it's the "begging for tips" culture. The worst kind. You buy a piece of bread at the bakery over the counter, pay with card, the card reader is begging for tips. This is exceptionally out of the ordinary, but I'm afraid there is not enough explicit resistance and there is still too much "looking up to the USA" happening so that the society might accept this idiocy as normal some day.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-13 22:44:27+00:00
> This is no longer about money, it's about power

This is more Altman-speak. Before it was about how AI was going to end the world. That started backfiring, so now we're talking about political power. That power, however, ultimately flows from the wealth AI generates.

It's about the money. They're for-profit corporations.
by sowmith-tsrc | 2026-02-13 22:44:34+00:00
I built Clonar, a Node.js RAG pipeline inspired by Perplexity that does explicit multihop reasoning over query intent, retrieval planning, and answer synthesis.

Why multihop matters: Most RAG systems do "retrieve → synthesize" in one shot. Clonar chains 8 reasoning stages where each step conditions on prior outputs: query rewrite → clarification gate → filter extraction → grounding decision → retrieval planning → execution → quality-aware synthesis → optional deep-mode critique (which triggers a second full retrieval pass if the answer is insufficient).

Technical approach:

TypeScript/Node backend with REST and SSE streaming endpoints

Orchestrator pattern: orchestrator.ts sequences LLM calls for planning vs synthesis

Pluggable retrievers via pipeline-deps.ts (currently web via Perplexity API, extensible to vector DBs / SQL)

Session + user memory for cross-turn reasoning

Quality-driven formatting: derives retrieval confidence and adjusts UI hints

What's interesting:

The model reasons about whether to clarify ambiguous queries before retrieval (step 2)

Retrieval plan is generated dynamically based on extracted filters and vertical (step 5), not hardcoded

Deep mode (step 8): critique → expand prompt → second 7-stage run when first answer is weak

No frontend needed—call /api/query or /api/query/stream from curl/Postman

Feedback I'd love:

Is the 8-stage flow overkill or are there steps I'm missing?

API design for plugging in custom retrievers (vector, SQL, etc.)

Production observability—I have basic tracing/metrics; what else would you prioritize?

Repo:
https://github.com/clonar714-jpg/clonar

Stack: Node 18+, TypeScript, OpenAI + Perplexity APIs, optional Redis/Postgres

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or design tradeoffs.
by dvt | 2026-02-13 22:44:39+00:00
I think people are just getting lost in the sauce. Forget all the "singularity" or "AGI" nonsense. LLMs are genuinely useful automation machines. They're fantastic for going from semi-structured data to structured data. They're great for going from text blob to decision points. They're great for going from vague instructions to step-by-step inference.

No one (at least no serious person) is saying ChatGPT is Immanuel Kant or Ernest Hemingway. The fact that we still have sherpas doesn't make trains any less useful or interesting.
by gabeio | 2026-02-13 22:45:02+00:00
No they are talking about the new camera button on the same side as the power/siri button. Which is semi-ironic considering the volume buttons still work fine as camera buttons they just don’t also handle zoom (you can slide your finger on the button to adjust zoom). I honestly am more annoyed at the button than enjoy it, yet another button I accidentally press when I nearly drop my phone and now have the camera app open.
by anwar_nairi | 2026-02-13 22:45:17+00:00
It is funny, I planned to make a 1.5 hours quick paced walk tomorrow morning, and thanks to your app you just saved me some more hours of sleep since tomorrow morning in my city will be a bad idea to go out (rain and poor weather). Tomorrow afternoon is seemingly the best window (right before sunset). Congratulations on this great app that will become my best friend...

Added to https://korru.app by the way :)
by array_key_first | 2026-02-13 22:45:17+00:00
Everyone cares, most people can't express it because they're not techies and don't know what's going on. But the keyboard is straight up buggy. Everyone is just working around it.

That's just how software works. People also care that the windows taskbar just kills itself sometimes. But they feel powerless, stupid even, so they just work around it every day forever and never say anything.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-13 22:45:19+00:00
> What kind of toaster are you using that will burn down your house if unattended?

I mean, if you duct-taped a flamethrower to a toaster, gave it internet access, and left the house… yeah, I'd have to blame you! This wasn't a mature, well-engineered product with safety defaults that malfunctioned unexpectedly. Someone wired an LLM to a publishing pipeline with no guardrails and walked away. That's not a toaster. That's a Rube Goldberg machine that ends with "and then it posts to the internet."

Agreed on the LARPing angle too. "The AI did it unprompted" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and nobody seems to be checking under the hood.
by chaostheory | 2026-02-13 22:45:21+00:00
Here’s what both authors are missing: the age demographic bomb. What is it? It’s when the elderly start outnumbering everyone else including working adults I.e. nations turn into giant retirement homes and we start running out of workers like Japan, Germany, China, Italy, and South Korea

AI will buy us some time from economic collapse, though on the bright side the environment can recover a bit since human growth was the worse stressor
by gwern | 2026-02-13 22:45:23+00:00
> I kept a running log for each sibling as I was manually doing the labeling, knowing what they'd want to see, which presumably is only possible for me and my siblings to do with any accuracy.

But you could feed that back in! Just write it down. It's all tokens. As you read over descriptions and note down key pieces of family history or per-sibling details, that provides information about better annotating the next video for possible points of interest. And you can chat with the LLM and write down more general principles. It's not like a LLM like Gemini doesn't know an enormous amount about family life and things of sentimental value, and can't make good initial guesses. And when you do this, you still haven't used up more than a small fraction of the context window with these image references and text profiles and principles...