MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smokel | 2026-02-12 06:13:08+00:00
While this advice may work for some, I would like to point out that this person is making very popular art. This type of art is most likely easier to sell than what most contemporary artists produce.

Also, this remark is giving away a fairly limited view on art appreciation:

> While you can learn from failures, only sales strengthen the muscle because only they show that someone actually cares about what you are making

This is obviously not the case for art projects that target only a few people, or art practices that do not result in tangible objects. (Although there are some exceptions, such as Marina Abramovich, but those are very limited.)

Great for them, but this is not about all art. It just is impossible to live of most art forms. This type of art fits well with our economy, and therefore makes a living. That fit is more important than all the business advice put on top.

The article does point out exactly this problem, but glosses over the fact that most artists don't want to change to popular art. Only a few can, and most don't want to.
by diath | 2026-02-12 06:14:19+00:00
Easier said than done, I have 700k requests from bots in my access.log coming from 15k different IP addresses.

:: ~/website ‹master*› » rg '(GPTBot|ClaudeBot|Bytespider|Amazonbot)' access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | wc -l

15163
by eoncode | 2026-02-12 06:15:14+00:00
Sorry if this is just for giggles and doesn't add anything of value to the discussion, but I couldn't resist and asked Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6 to analyze the github issue that was opened.

Funnily enough, both independently sided with the users, not the authors.

The core problem: --verbose was repurposed instead of adding a new toggle. Users who relied on verbose for debugging (thinking, hooks, subagent output) now have broken workflows - to fix a UX decision that shouldn't have shipped as default in the first place.

What should have been done:

/config
Show file paths: [on/off]
Verbose mode: [on/off] (unchanged)

A simple separate toggle would've solved everything without breaking anyone's workflow.

Opus 4.6's parting thought: if you're building a developer tool powered by an AI that can reason about software design, maybe run your UX changes past it before shipping.

To be fair, your response explains the design philosophy well - longer trajectories, progressive disclosure, terminal constraints. All valid. But it still doesn't address the core point: why repurpose --verbose instead of adding a separate toggle? You can agree with the goal and still say the execution broke existing workflows.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-12 06:16:01+00:00
> This dev is clearly writing his reply with Claude

> You can even see the emdash attempt (markdown renders two normal dashes as an emdash)

He says he wrote it all manually.[0] Obviously I can't know if that's true, but I do think your internal AI detector is at least overconfident. For example, some of us have been regularly using the double hyphen since long before the LLM era. (In Word, it auto-corrects to an en dash, or to an em dash if it's not surrounded by spaces. In plain text, it's the best looking easily-typable alternative to a dash. AFAICT, it's not actually used for dashes in CommonMark Markdown.)

The rest is more subjective, but there are some things Claude would be unlikely to write (like the parenthetical "(ie. progressive disclosure)" -- it would write "i.e." with both dots, and it would probably follow it with a comma). Of course those could all be intentional obfuscations or minimal human edits, but IMO you are conflating the corporate communications vibe with the LLM vibe.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982418
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-12 06:16:17+00:00
>but were filled with loopholes and deductions in that the effective tax rate that was actually paid was much lower.

Yes, thanks for reiterating my main point.

Now if we use that same mindset and apply it to a wealth tax...

Hence my main point. Taxes aren't all about extraction of money, they also help to nudge people to do things they normally wouldn't do. So nudging them to actually help the area they are in is really powerful.

Or they can leave. If so: good. Make room for those who do want to innovate and not extract money from the people (and more beach space).

Not all billionaires are "job creators", especially given the actions taken the last few years. That's why some of the legitimate "millionaire flights" that do happen don't necessarily impact the way that's predicted on paper.
by mschild | 2026-02-12 06:16:38+00:00
Should've clarified in that case. I used models as a general stand-in for AI.

To provide a bit more context:
- We use VS Code (plus derivatives like Cursor) hooked up to general modals and allowing general context access to the entire repository.
- We have a MCP server that has access to company internal framework and tools (especially the documentation) so it should know how they are used.

So far, we've found 2 use-cases that make AI work for us:
1. Code Review. This took quite a bit of refinement for the instructions but we've got it to a point where it provides decent comments on the things we want it to comment on. It still fails on the more complex application logic, but will consistently point out minor things. It's used now as a Pre-PR review so engineers can use it and fix things before publishing a PR. Less noise for the rest of the developers.
2. CRUD croft like tests for a controller. We still create the controller endpoint, but providing it with the controller, DTOs, and an example of how another controller has its tests done, it will produce decent code. Even then, we still often have to fix a couple of things and debug to see where it went wrong like fixing a broken test by removing the actual strictlyEquals() call.

Just keeping up with newest AI changes is hard. We all have personal curiosity but at the end of the day, we need to deliver our product and only have so much time to experiment with AI stuff. Nevermind all the other developments in our regulatory heavy environment and tech stack we need to keep on top off.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-12 06:16:39+00:00
Yes LLMs are always lossy, unless their size / capacity is so huge they can memorize all their inputs. Even if LLMs were not resource-constrained, one would expect lossy compression due to batching and the math of the loss function. Training is such that it is always better for the model to accurately approximate the majority of texts than to approximate any single text with maximum accuracy.
by stephantul | 2026-02-12 06:16:45+00:00
The speed comparison is weird.

The author sets the solver to saga, doesn’t standardize the features, and uses a very high max_iter.

Logistic Regression takes longer to converge when features are not standardized.

Also, the zstd classifier time complexity scales linearly with the number of classes, logistic regression doesn’t. You have 20 (it’s in the name of the dataset), so why only use 4.

It’s a cool exploration of zstd. But please give the baseline some love. Not everything has to be better than something to be interesting.
by reverius42 | 2026-02-12 06:17:20+00:00
It's kind of inexplicable though, unless AI being the reason for layoffs is a lie, because it's true that historically there has always been way more demand for software than people who can make it (hence the decades of rising salaries relative to other professions).

It seems like too much of a coincidence that the AI got good enough to replace humans at exactly the same time that humans in general don't need as much software made.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-12 06:19:27+00:00
To a large extent both "hallucinations" and "plagiarism" can be addressed with the same training method: source-aware training.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01019

At the frontier of science we have speculations, which until proper measurements become possible, are unknown to be true or false (or even unknown to be equivalent with other speculations etc. regardless of their being true or false, or truer or falser). Once settled we may call earlier but wrong speculations as "reasonable wrong guesses". In science it is important that these guesses or suspicions are communicated as it drives the design of future experiments.

I argue that more important that "eliminating hallucinations" is tracing the reason it is or was believed by some.

With source-aware training we can ask an LLM to give answers to a question (which may contradict each other), but to provide the training-source(s) justifying emission of each answer, instead of bluff it could emit multiple interpretations and go like:

> answer A: according to school of thought A the answer is that ... examples of authors and places in my training set are: author+title a1, a2, a3, ...

> answer B: according to author B: the answer to this question is ... which can be seen in articles b1, b2

> answer ...: ...

> answer F: although I can't find a single document explaining this, when I collate the observation x in x1, x2, x3; observation y in y1,y2, ... , observation z in z1, z2, ... then I conclude the following: ...

so it is clear which statements are sourced where, and which deductions are proper to the LLM.

Obviously few to none of the high profile LLM providers will do this any time soon, because when jurisdictions learn this is possible they will demand all models to be trained source-aware, so that they can remunerate the authors in their jurisdiction (and levy taxes on their income). What fraction of the income will then go to authors and what fraction to the LLM providers? If any jurisdiction would be first to enforce this, it would probably be the EU, but they don't do it yet. If models are trained in a different jurisdiction than the one levying taxes the academic in-group citation game will be extended to LLMs: a US LLM will have incentive to only cite US sources when multiple are available, and a EU trained LLM will prefer to selectively cite european sources, etc.
by ceteia | 2026-02-12 06:20:05+00:00
I think there are some smaller Rust ecosystems where they try to have some kind of ABI stability or dynamic linking. For instance, Bevy has some support for dynamic linking.

Edit:

Redox OS might be a better example, though its dynamic linking is for its Rust implementation of the C standard library.

https://www.redox-os.org/news/release-0.9.0/

> Relibc is also now key to our “stable ABI” strategy. The plan is for files to dynamically link against Relibc, which will provide a stable ABI for the dynamic linker. New POSIX functions will be added to Relibc, but none will be removed. That will leave us free to change the implementation of the services as Redox evolves, but still be able to run binaries compiled for older Redox versions.
by hdra | 2026-02-12 06:20:25+00:00
Maybe I'm being thick here, but i still dont quite get how does he earn money from his artwork?

For example, how does he earn from the Honey Bear murals? does the city or building owner commission him for the murals? If so, does he do some kind of outreach or sales call to the building owners or is it the other way round?

Not an artist and nor am I in the art world, just curious how does business work in there
by phibz | 2026-02-12 06:20:42+00:00
I got a keyboard.io when they first came out. On staggered layouts i was >85 wpm. But switching to ortholinear knocked me down to 25 wpm with excessive errors. It took several months before I got back up to about 60wpm. I stayed at that speed for a year or two before finally edging back up to 80wpm.

It did hurt my ability to use staggered but only at first. I was able to switch freely after about 3 months.

Those sound like huge trade offs. And they are. But for me carpal tunnel was quickly becoming a problem. Switching to ortholinear completely resolved my carpal tunnel pain. And that is priceless.

I still find the top row reach on my Model 100s a bit much, but I've gotten the hang of lifting my palms forward a little, especially for my pinkies.

Also the palm keys are amazing.
by TFYS | 2026-02-12 06:21:55+00:00
It's not enough to only look at elections. The topics that the media discusses, and therefore the options that people are aware of and the issues people base their vote on are decided by mostly privately owned and increasingly consolidated media companies. Nobody will know about candidates that are not approved by some part of the elite in this media landscape. Any opinions that go against the interests of the media owning elite will not see much coverage. Sure, maybe money during elections does not matter that much, but elections are the very last step of the process of picking leaders, and the preceding steps matter as well.

Also, if money did not matter during elections, I doubt we'd see so much spending on them. Studies are being funded by companies and the wealthy as well, so a study or two saying money doesn't matter is not definitive proof.
by abustamam | 2026-02-12 06:22:27+00:00
> If someone in the country illegally, then unless they commit a crime, or stopped by law enforcement, they should not be deported?

Sure, I can see why they should be deported. I don't think it's necessarily a good reason to be deported, but I concede that if you're illegal and get caught doing something you should not have done, then there's grounds for deportation. Like Al Capone got caught because he didn't do his taxes.

> from a humanitarian perspective, IMO, he should not get deported

That's interesting. Where do you draw the line?

> I mean, if you are doing an investigation into drug trafficking, make an arrest, and then discover that one of the arrestees is also committed another crime. Would you charge this person with the newly discovered crime, or not?

Sure, and there's tons of precedent for this (see Al Capone). But this isn't what's happening. ICE is not investigating crimes. There's purposely looking for people to deport, and employing filthy tactics to do this.

Again, if the tactics they're using causes US citizens to carry their own documentation, there's something seriously wrong.
by boundedreason | 2026-02-12 06:25:03+00:00
Most of the language I use in my prompting is structured around weeding out hallucinations. At each step along the way I ensure I'm asked to confirm the previous step's output.

The balance I have been trying to find is between "show me all you work" so you know the math is all there and correct (and perfect for enterprise) and then trying to tell friends or my parents who don't care to see the math (the background) that it needs to be there for this to work right. I have seen scores "ballparked" by ChatGPT. The rankings didn't change in the end, but the scores were a couple tenths off.

I've used ChatGPT 5.2, Claude and Gemini, but have never switched between steps which sounds interesting! I have found the same as you with Claude. ChatGPT is a close second and Gemini doesn't give me the type of response I'd prefer to keep things smooth and traceable. I'm looking to buy a new car right now and each of the 3 models has given me the same top 3 each time so I find that as re-assurance.
by epistasis | 2026-02-12 06:25:55+00:00
Political topics are censored en masse on HN, and this entire thread is all political, not scientific. It's so political that somebody replied to me with "kill yourself" which is something I've never experienced in my years on the internet. Much less on HN which is more buttoned up than other areas.

If you think I was "coming out swinging with personal accusations" please realize that I had very mild criticism, and I honestly do not understand how you can consider anything I said personal. It is a very inflammatory and incorrect framing! That is not a personal attack in any way. Preemptively complaining about downvotes is without a doubt playing a fake victim, which is discouraged by the guidelines.

Maybe you are not used to having your ideas challenged, but you came to a scientific subject with very political and emotional framing and inapt comparisons and saying "oh aren't I brave for making this comparison which is inapt."

This is a great science article, but seeing the exceptionally low quality political nature of the discussion here, it's quite appropriate that it was flagged. Apparently this topic is a honeypot for bad-faith and pointless political discussions that are not based in reality with parties coming in pre-aggrieved.
by cbsmith | 2026-02-12 06:26:49+00:00
Except that there are tremendous advantages to constant-time execution, not the least of which is protection from timing security attacks/information leakage (which admittedly were less of a concern back then). Sure you can get the one instruction executed for the <6 case faster, but the transistor budget for that isn't worth it, particularly if you pipeline the execution into stages. It makes optimization far more complex...
by Anujsharma002 | 2026-02-12 06:28:07+00:00
Impressive work by the Aden team!

Hive stands out as one of the most thoughtfully designed agent frameworks I’ve seen. The goal-driven approach, automatic graph generation, and self-healing adaptation loop make it genuinely production-focused—not just another demo-style agent system.

Highlights that really shine:

Outcome-first agent design (no hardcoded workflows)

Built-in observability, HITL, and cost controls

Strong CLI + TUI experience for real-world debugging

Clean docs and excellent open-source hygiene

This is a solid foundation for teams building long-running, autonomous AI systems at scale. Excited to explore more and potentially contribute—great job pushing the agent ecosystem forward!
by tyre | 2026-02-12 06:29:37+00:00
> Discord seems to have intentionally softened its age-verification steps so it can tell regulators, “we’re doing something to protect children,” while still leaving enough wiggle room that technically savvy users can work around it.

...source?

I sincerely doubt that Discord's lawyers advocated for age verification that was hackable by tech savvy users.

It seems more likely that they are trying to balance two things:

1. Age verification requirements

2. Not storing or sending photos of people's (children's) faces

Both of these are very important, legally, to protect the company. It is highly unlikely that anyone in Discord's leadership, let alone compliance, is advocating for backdoors (at least for us.)
by ILoveHorses | 2026-02-12 06:30:23+00:00
The sad part? This is just one piece of heritage among countless which have already been lost or haven't got a voice to save them. Just like Kancheepuram, nearly every district has a rich heritage in cuisine and fabric which is hundreds of years old. A lot of it was just lost to history because it became commercially nonviable to preserve and so much of it is disappearing in front of our eyes while we do nothing :(
by tarsinge | 2026-02-12 06:30:48+00:00
The problem is not that individual action is not useful, it’s that governments and companies are actively discouraging it, because every success for climate change is a bad news item. People buying less cars? Climate change win, economic problem. People buying less stuff, consumption down? Huge climate change win, very bad economic news. Even on progressive news outlets they’re doing it.

Here in Europe even before Trump’s second mandate it was clear governments didn’t really want individual action to take off. And it’s even worse now. Because short and mid term it’s a choice between climate and GDP. And western governments and companies are fundamentally incapable of long term action that is painful short term.
by a_t48 | 2026-02-12 06:30:55+00:00
Some interesting context here is that fnnch is disliked as an artist by many - https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896327/fnnch-honey-bears-street-...

I’m somewhat of two minds of the whole thing. I don’t blame the guy for making an income, but yeah, the honey bears are kind of boring, and especially w/ this post he comes off as a bit of a sellout. Art is weird.
by mschild | 2026-02-12 06:31:21+00:00
Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time right now. [0]

They sold more than 17 million units in less than a year. The Wii U only sold 13 million over its entire lifetime. The Switch 1 took 2 years to reach 20 million, and the Switch 2 will very likely reach that number in less than half the time.
Nintendo may have expected even higher sales numbers but saying that

> The Switch 2 isn't selling well

is simply not true.

[0] https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-s...
by kibwen | 2026-02-12 06:31:48+00:00
Almost by definition, you have ABI stability as long as all artifacts are compiled with the same version of the same toolchain on the same platform with all the same compiler flags. That's not enough to let you generally ship pre-compiled artifacts with the intent for users to dynamically link them, but it might be enough to let you leverage dynamic linking for hot-reloading within a single developer's workflow.
by franze | 2026-02-12 06:34:50+00:00
interesting question, near perfect triangles

07:18:18
16:41:41
09:23:23

but non of them are mathematically perfect triangles.

well 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 are

for a perfect triangle all three hands need equal distance from center. hours range 0 to 23, minutes and seconds 0 to 59, so you need

h(divided by) 23 to equal

m(divided by) 59 to equal

s(divided by) 59.

since 23 and 59 are both prime, bad luck.
by tetha | 2026-02-12 06:34:53+00:00
I've setup my ~/Stuff, ~/CurrentStuff and mkstuff some time ago and it's extremely useful to keep clutter under control for me. I use this as temporary working directories for small stuff that's not a real project yet. `mkstuff ticket-123-team-db-troubleshooting` creates me a directory `~/Stuff/2026-02/12-ticket-123-team-db-troubleshooting` and drops the shell into that. ~/CurrentStuff is just a link to current months stuff.

This way I have everything about a ticket in a place and if someone is like "uhh, you did something to something some 3 months ago or so?" - ~/Stuff/2025-1{0,1,2} probably knows, I certainly don't. I can find things again like this :)

I'll eventually have to setup some automated archiving for it, but so far it's not using too much space.
by fcatalan | 2026-02-12 06:36:14+00:00
Spanish ID cards have had an X. 509 cert inside them for more than 10 years, I use it all the time to sign documents and access government sites.
There is already legislation and a push for an EU-wide digital identity wallet that should be up and running this year, look up eidas 2.0 and the EUDI wallet.

That looks like it should make things like privacy compatible age verification "trivial".
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 06:36:40+00:00
Now look at them yo-yos,

that's the way you do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain't workin',

that's the way you do it

Money for nothin'

and your chicks for free

We got to install microwave ovens,

custom kitchen delivery

We got to move these refrigerators,

we got to move these Color TVs...

Dire Straits, Money for Nothing, 1985

Guest artist: Sting

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Dire-Straits/Money-for-Not...
Stripe HK: Approved, paid small sum, withheld $12k via dissolved entity
by poontszho | 2026-02-12 06:37:13+00:00
I am a merchant in Hong Kong documenting a systemic failure in Stripe's compliance logic.

The Inconsistency:
1. Two years ago, my stripe account Funds are frozen. Recently, I re-appealed.
2. On Jan 12, 2026, Support (Bruce) wrote: "We have completed a review... we can enable payouts for your account."
3. Stripe then released funds for my smaller sub-account, confirming my identity/KYC is valid.
4. However, for my main account (HKD 93,397 / ~$12k USD), the payout remains blocked.
5. Support is now ignoring the Jan 12 approval and re-sending the rejection template from 2 years ago.

The Legal Anomaly:
I searched the HK Companies Registry and found:
- "Stripe Payments HK Limited" (CR 63355701) was DISSOLVED in Dec 2022.
- Yet, payouts are still being processed via a local HongKong bank account (Code: HK2BT...).

Who is legally holding my $12k? A dissolved ghost entity?

Case ID: sco_TmEhDs7XRiRsv4
@patrickc @collision - Is this how Stripe handles compliant merchants?