MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IX-103 | 2026-02-16 13:05:16+00:00
Unless you're in a dense urban area, the effect of your air conditioners on neighboring houses is negligible. There's so much other thermal reservoirs around (like the ground and plants) as well as circulation from the wind that the extra heat from the air conditioner has only a small effect on the environment.

Compare the volume of your house to the volume of area around your house (including several hundred feet vertically, since that is easily part of the circulation). If you're cooling your house 20 degrees then that would correspond to heating an area 20x the size by 1 degree. How many times bigger is the circulating area around your house (100x? 1000x?)?
by rsynnott | 2026-02-16 13:05:28+00:00
I would wonder how much of it is _generic_ job postings. Like, unless you're really huge, you probably don't need to constantly hire, say, receptionists, so you'll put up an ad for a receptionist, get a receptionist, remove the ad. If you're moderately big, you may be fairly constantly hiring software engineers, so you put up the ad and leave it there. If you're in retail or hospitality, you are probably constantly hiring people, and many of the roles are quite generic, so you're more likely again to have long-lived ads.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-16 13:06:27+00:00
Nah, it's advanced SEO. He almost certainly didn't even come up with it himself; billionaires and even centimillionaires can have teams of PR people just coming up with this shit for them all the time.

Boris Johnson (or his PR team) did it with the bus thing, and cheese [0].

Yes, Thiel has nutjob beliefs. Utterly insane.

No, this wasn't one of them. Too calculated. Too sweaty.

We're talking about one of the guys connected to Cambridge Analytica here.

0 - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/boris-johnson-google-search...
by cmiles8 | 2026-02-16 13:07:52+00:00
This is all basically a textbook example of irrational market decisions. There’s clearly a bubble and not enough money coming in to pay for the AI bonanza.

It’s building materials being in short supply when there’s obviously more houses than buyers. That’s just masked at the moment because of all the capital being pumped in to cover for the lack of actual revenue to pay for everything. The structural mismatch at the moment is gigantic, and the markets are getting increasingly impatient waiting for the revenue to materialize.

Mark this post… in a few years folks will be coming up with creative ideas for cheap storage and GPUs flooding the market after folks pick up the pieces of imploded AI companies.

(For the record, I’m a huge fan of AI, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also think a giant business and financial bubble is about to implode).
by antonyh | 2026-02-16 13:08:49+00:00
I read it as both, but UK suppliers have stock of various SATA HDDs available in large and small sizes. It's hard to say if prices will rocket or availability decline, or both. I don't normally advocate panic-buying, but if it's needed now is the time. I have one NAS spare on hand, I don't want or need a drawer full of them, but it'll be a royal pain if I do and can't get parts.
by simonw | 2026-02-16 13:09:29+00:00
"Implements + tests against sqlite3 as oracle"

That's the real unlock in my opinion. It's effectively an automated reverse engineering of how SQLite behaves, which is something agents are really good at.

I did a similar but smaller project a couple of weeks ago to build a Python library that could parse a SQLite SELECT query into an AST - same trick, I ran the SQLite C code as an oracle for how those ASTs should work: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-ast

Question: you mention the OpenAI and Anthropic Pro plans, was the total cost of this project in the order of $40 ($20 for OpenAI and $20 for Anthropic)? What did you pay for Gemini?
by kelvinjps10 | 2026-02-16 13:10:28+00:00
Gemini thinking
This is a classic "efficiency vs. logic" dilemma!
Since the goal is to wash the car, you should drive.
While 50 meters (about 165 feet) is a very short distance—usually less than a one-minute walk—it is unfortunately very difficult to wash a car that isn't actually at the car wash.
Why Driving Wins:
* Logistics: The car needs to be physically present for the high-pressure hoses or automated brushes to reach it.
* Convenience: You’ll save yourself the confusion of the car wash staff when you show up on foot with a bucket and a hopeful expression.
* The "Dry" Factor: If it's an automated wash, you get to stay inside where it's dry.
When to Walk:
* If you are just going there to buy a gift card or check their prices before bringing the car over.
* If you're looking for a very brief bit of exercise before starting the chore.
Verdict: Put the keys in the ignition. You'll be there in about 10 seconds!
Would you like me to check the local weather to see if there's any rain forecast that might ruin your freshly cleaned car?
s. logic" dilemma!
Since the goal is to wash the car, you should drive.
While 50 meters (about 165 feet) is a very short distance—usually less than a one-minute walk—it is unfortunately very difficult to wash a car that isn't actually at the car wash.
Why Driving Wins:
* Logistics: The car needs to be physically present for the high-pressure hoses or automated brushes to reach it.
* Convenience: You’ll save yourself the confusion of the car wash staff when you show up on foot with a bucket and a hopeful expression.
* The "Dry" Factor: If it's an automated wash, you get to stay inside where it's dry.
When to Walk:
* If you are just going there to buy a gift card or check their prices before bringing the car over.
* If you're looking for a very brief bit of exercise before starting the chore.
Verdict: Put the keys in the ignition. You'll be there in about 10 seconds!
Would you like me to check the local weather to see if there's any rain forecast that might ruin your freshly cleaned car?
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-16 13:11:34+00:00
Unbalanced pawn structure is a feature of the Sveshnikov Sicilian but Caruana had done a lot of prep and it was obvious. Carlsen quicky left the main line for the boring 7. Nd5. Plus, Carlsen missed a lot of good moves because he had to play it safe. To me, it was boring chess of the highest level.

A lot of it felt like watching engines by proxy. One prepared well on a very complex opening. The other found the best meta counterplay and held until he reached the tie break.

Game 12 is a travesty. It was clear he just wanted to move to rapid.
by emiraydin | 2026-02-16 13:12:36+00:00
Any2K is a universal content library that hosts your articles, newsletters and RSS feeds. You can read your articles on your Kindle e-reader and mobile devices (iOS/Android and yes, offline reading is supported!). You can get a human like voice reading your content to you while on the go (text-to-speech) or get AI summaries to skim through your content quickly.
by azangru | 2026-02-16 13:12:43+00:00
> It (and also React) gets worse if you add a state system like RxJS.

I don't understand this sentiment.

Client-side applications often have a need for global state. It could be as simple as whether the user is logged in, or as complex as, say, the shapes that you have drawn in excalidraw canvas, and the drawing tool that you have selected. State changes over time, and so it seemed plausible to model it as a stream of states over time (hence rxjs). There are more robust ways to deal with the state, which is why angular has now moved to signals; but what is so bad about the state?
by libertine | 2026-02-16 13:13:16+00:00
The saddest part is that while the 90s were severe, Russia could have changed for the better.. and the worst part is neighboring countries are suffering along with it.

There was a failure of institutional reform - in fact the only institution that seemed to have reformed was corruption, which changed from one elite to another.

A lot of the current state propaganda tries really hard to spin the narrative "democratic reform never again, look at the 90s"!

Like if democracy is something easy, and plug and play... Or like there's some magical impediment that doesn't allow Russians to go from serfdom to free citizens, as if it's too much for them.

For how many centuries did France iterate to implement democracy? The US had a brutal civil war. Japan had to pick itself up after WW2 and change part of the culture. Germany had to be rebuilt.

Now we're witnessing another upcoming 90s in Russia - who knows if it will be worse since Russia folded into a regional power.

Such a missed opportunity right next to a growing European Union, and China.
by kcartmell | 2026-02-16 13:13:23+00:00
Not trying to tell anyone else how to live, just want to make sure the other side of this argument is visible. I run 5+ agents all day every day. I measure, test, and validate outputs exhaustively. I value the decrease in noise in output here because I am very much not looking to micromanage process because I am simply too slow to keep up. When I want logging I can follow to understand “thought process” I ask for that in a specific format in my prompt something like “talk through the problem and your exploration of the data step by step as you go before you make any changes or do any work and use that plan as the basis of your actions”.

I still think it’d be nice to allow an output mode for you folks who are married to the previous approach since it clearly means a lot to you.
by antonis-gr | 2026-02-16 13:13:56+00:00
Once I asked ChatGPT "it takes 9 months for a woman to make one baby. How long does it take 9 women to make one baby?". The response was "it takes 1 month".

I guess it gives the correct answer now. I also guess that these silly mistakes are patched and these patches compensate for the lack of a comprehensive world model.

These "trap" questions dont prove that the model is silly. They only prove that the user is a smartass. I asked the question about pregnancy only to to show a friend that his opinion that LLMs have phd level intelligence is naive and anthropomorphic. LLMs are great tools regardless of their ability to understand the physical reality. I don't expect my wrenches to solve puzzles or show emotions.
by misir | 2026-02-16 13:14:29+00:00
For claude at least I have been getting more assumption clarification questions after adding some custom prompts. It is still making some assumptions but asking some questions makes me feel more in control of the progress.

In terms of the behavior, technically it doesn’t override, but instead think of it as a nudge. Both system prompt and your custom prompt participates in the attention process, so the output tokens get some influence from both. Not equally but to some varying degree and chance
by moekhair96 | 2026-02-16 13:14:50+00:00
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by chokma | 2026-02-16 13:14:54+00:00
This reminds me of https://perldoc.perl.org/Locale::Maketext::TPJ13

Seems like to get it right for every use case / language, you would need functions to translate phrases - so switch statements may be a valid solution. The number of text elements needed for pagination, CRUD operations and similiar UI elements should be finite :)
by estearum | 2026-02-16 13:15:11+00:00
Maybe we should be clear about which beliefs we're talking about.

If your claim is that he doesn't believe Greta Thunberg specifically is the Antichrist, then sure. But that's just listening to the words that he says. He never says he believes Greta is actually the Antichrist.

"In our world, [the Antichrist] is far more likely to be Greta Thunberg [than Edward Teller or other mad technologist, or implicitly weapons and surveillance tech manufacturer Peter Thiel himsef]."

He does actually believe this.

So yes OP is correct that Thiel said and does actually believe Greta "is potentially" the Antichrist. But that's a different claim than saying that she actually is the Antichrist. There are thousands or millions of people (most unknown to Thiel) who could fit into the Greta-Antichrist category broadly. So it's a much weaker claim than that Greta is herself singularly the Antichrist.

Both claims are equal levels of insane though. If you believe the weaker claim that the Antichrist would be someone like Greta, it requires exactly zero additional insanity to believe the stronger claim that Greta is actually the Antichrist.
by lossyalgo | 2026-02-16 13:15:35+00:00
> Will OpenClaw (or some kind of successor) still have a relevant usage (outside of fan circles) next year?

I have a feeling OpenClaw et al. will only still exist if somehow all of the gaping security holes are ever able to be closed and through some sort of magic, less than 5% of the users get hacked within the next year, but I'm not sure it's even possible to close those holes, since the entire point and usefulness of such tools is to give them root access and set them completely free.
by xienze | 2026-02-16 13:15:39+00:00
I built a new server this time last year. My board does 6 channel RAM so I bought 6x32GB ECC DDR5. $160 a stick at the time. Just for grins I looked up the same product number at the same supplier I originally bought from. $1300 apiece. One of the VMs running on that server is TrueNAS, with 4 20TB WD Red Pros. God help me if I have to replace a drive.
by rco8786 | 2026-02-16 13:15:39+00:00
> it's about catching when it goes off the rails before it makes a mess

The latest "meta" in AI programming appears to be agent teams (or swarms or clusters or whatever) that are designed to run for long periods of time autonomously.

Through that lens, these changes make more sense. They're not designing UX for a human sitting there watching the agent work. They're designing for horizontally scaling agents that work in uninterrupted stretches where the only thing that matters is the final output, not the steps it took to get there.

That said, I agree with you in the sense that the "going off the rails" problem is very much not solved even on the latest models. It's not clear to me how we can trust a team of AI agents working autonomously to actually build the right thing.
by asim | 2026-02-16 13:16:17+00:00
But that's the point it's not defeatist. It's more about saying there is something for you to do. There is a role for you to play but that's not necessarily the role that you see somebody else playing. So sometimes we see somebody else doing something and we think whoa that person is successful and we become envious of that and then we want to emulate that. But we forget that maybe that's not what's intended for us. Maybe that person is really good at that thing or that's what was for them. But for us we might be good at something else and there might be something that we are uniquely positioned to do so. The point is not to be defeatist but not to focus on what somebody else has right. Focus on what you have and focus on what your ability is and focus on what's going to improve your quality of life and the people around you and don't focus on the negative aspects of what is effectively fomo
by sebstefan | 2026-02-16 13:17:37+00:00
For those wondering why Nakamura (who we're used to seeing winning, or in the top 3 in chess960 tournaments) isn't there

> Hikaru Nakamura, the 2022 Fischer Random World Champion, declined his invitation to the event, citing the changes in the format, rushed arrangement, reduced prize fund, and his focus on the upcoming Candidates Tournament 2026. He said he had been invited to the first leg of the 2026 Freestyle Tour, with the same format and prize fund as the 2025 tour; however, a few days before the announcement of the world championship, he was informed there would be no year-long tour. Instead, only a three-day event with rapid time controls would be held, and it would be called a World Championship. He called it a "hastily arranged tournament with less than 1/3rd the prize fund it originally had", and lamented that the classical length format from the first event in 2025 wasn't continued.
Open Claw is meant to be self hosted. Stop sharing your private credentials
by pushkar_aditya | 2026-02-16 13:18:05+00:00
Open Claw is meant to be self hosted because it stores tokens, API key, and any sensitive data in plain text.
but people are being so foolish that they are handing over their private credentials on a silver platter to some random stranger on the internet.

yeah, i understand that for non technical people it is very hard to even run OpenClaw on their computer, let alone host it on their own server but this should not be the reason

so for non tech people, I created an open source platform called AgentDaddie. Using AgentDaddie, they can deploy OpenClaw on their own server in one click.

github: https://github.com/agentdaddie/agentdaddie

more Technical Brief

Login → Connect your DigitalOcean account → A little config → Lay back and enjoy auto deploymen

lmk your honest feedback. it will be very helpful, and you can also create an issue on GitHub if you face any issues.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-16 13:18:19+00:00
Words have lost all meaning. "Verbose" no longer means "containing more words than necessary" but instead "Bit more than usual". "Fast" no longer mean "characterized by quick motion, operation, or effect" but instead depends on the company, some of them use slightly different way, but same "speed", but it's called "fast mode".

It's just a whole new world where words suddenly mean something completely different, and you can no longer understand programs by just reading what labels they use for various things, you need to also lookup if what they think "verbose" means matches with the meaning you've built up understanding of first.
by apwheele | 2026-02-16 13:18:30+00:00
Question for the crowd -- with autoscaling, when a new pod is created it will still download the model right from huggingface?

I like to push everything into the image as much as I can. So in the image modal, I would run a command to trigger downloading the model. Then in the app just point to the locally downloaded model. So bigger image, but do not need to redownload on start up.
by boplicity | 2026-02-16 13:18:32+00:00
I can't help but think this is a reflection of the unwillingness of most people to actually pay for journalism online — and worse, the active and intentional effort to subvert copyright, making it more difficult for journlists to actually earn a living from their work.

People don't value journalism. They expect it to be free, generally. Therefore, companies like Ars are put into a position of expecting too much from their journalists.

HN is rife with people with this attitude -- frequently linking to "archive" sites for otherwise paywalled articles, complaining when companies try to build email lists, charge for their work, or have advertising on their sites. The underlying message, of course, is that journalism shouldn't be paid for.

Yes, Ars is at fault if they have a bad company culture. However, the broader culture is a real factor here as well.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-16 13:18:51+00:00
> What do you think living things are made of other than molecules a d electrical signals?

A cell is the smallest structure that can carry out life functions. Some organisms have one cell, while others have many cells working together.
Inside cells are tiny parts (organelles) that perform jobs such as making energy and building proteins.

Cells themselves are built from important biological molecules: water, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and DNA. Most living things are made mainly from a few chemical elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and smaller amounts of phosporus, sulfur, etc.

Living things are not made of electricity, but is instead energy used by living things. The electrical activity comes from movement of ions like sodium and potassium inside cells.
by icyJoseph | 2026-02-16 13:19:08+00:00
Didn't the React team present an exploration of Performance?

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAmRtE52mYk

It showed that it is fast already, faster with the compiler, and could even be way faster than signal based approaches, and even faster if it dropped some side-effects it does. Pulling from memory here.
by sebstefan | 2026-02-16 13:19:39+00:00
> Hikaru Nakamura, the 2022 Fischer Random World Champion, declined his invitation to the event, citing the changes in the format, rushed arrangement, reduced prize fund, and his focus on the upcoming Candidates Tournament 2026. He said he had been invited to the first leg of the 2026 Freestyle Tour, with the same format and prize fund as the 2025 tour; however, a few days before the announcement of the world championship, he was informed there would be no year-long tour. Instead, only a three-day event with rapid time controls would be held, and it would be called a World Championship. He called it a "hastily arranged tournament with less than 1/3rd the prize fund it originally had", and lamented that the classical length format from the first event in 2025 wasn't continued.
by prmph | 2026-02-16 13:20:24+00:00
Yeah, the "novel" bit is about integrating all those aspects into one language.

And trust me, such a language that captures enough mindshare is absolutely needed. People thought Rust was going to be it, but it got taken over by the idea of it being the next C++.

IF LLMs are what you make them out to be, it shouldn't have been long before we saw serious attempts at such languages, but I suspect LLMs are of barely any help here beyond some basic implementation tasks.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-16 13:21:29+00:00
> I’m releasing this batch of broken insulators (CC0) specifically to help teams benchmark their model's recall on rare classes:

If you're releasing this CC0, couldn't you just offer a download link instead of registering and having to purchase credits for the download? Otherwise you'll just be encouraging others to rehost the content, and then you won't even be able to tell how many downloads it from the server logs.

Ps, your "Get Dataset" button breaks once you've clicked on it and then go back from the signup page, no longer possible to click on it anymore after that.
by pixelmonkey | 2026-02-16 13:21:46+00:00
I've used vim as a prose editor in addition to a code editor for a long time.

For me, Goyo was the plugin that always matched what I wanted vim to become when I was in "prose writing mode."

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

I combine with limelight.vim:

https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim

This partially simulates the experience/UX of the product iA Writer on macOS or iPad, which is my favorite prose editor, but is proprietary software and doesn't work on Linux.

As others mentioned, when in prose writing mode you can also flip on a handful of vim options, I save these as hotkeys in my vimrc. For example, spell checking and line wrapping.

In case you're curious:

https://github.com/amontalenti/home/blob/master/.vimrc
by noodlesUK | 2026-02-16 13:22:55+00:00
I think that for 95+% of companies that write software, it's not particularly sensitive to the ISA of the processor it's running on. Anyone who is writing code in a high level language like python or java doesn't care whether they're on x64, ARM or RISC-V. Compilers essentially already do this. There are specific situations (SIMD extensions, cryptography instructions, etc) where the differences sometimes get exposed, but it's pretty rare that this isn't abstracted away.