MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2026-02-12 19:01:11+00:00
I recommend starting here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

The argument you're attempting to have, and I believe failing at, is one of resolution of simulation.

Consciousness is 100% computable. Be that digitally (electrical), chemically, or quantumly. You don't have any other choices outside of that.

Moreso consciousness/sentience is a continuum going from very basic animals to the complexity of humans inner mind. Consciousness didn't just spring up, it evolved over millions of years, and therefore is made up of parts that are divisible.
by mythz | 2026-02-12 19:01:15+00:00
Using a coding plan, haven't noticed any throttling and very happy with the performance. They publish the quotas for each of their plans on their website [1]:

- $10/mo: 100 prompts / 5 hours

- $20/mo: 300 prompts / 5 hours

- $50/mo: 1000 prompts / 5 hours

[1] https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-coding-plan
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-12 19:01:18+00:00
I'm not going to argue the "progressively dysfunctional". The Hastert Rule has a lot to do with that. Individual members can't cut deals for votes any more. But it looks like there have been appropriations bills every year.

Don't take this as disagreement with your basic assertion. Failing to declare war since 1941, failing to impeach and convict Clinton, failure to impeach and convict Trump at least once, the House checks and balances Dem presidents, and aids and abets Republicans. It's a gerontocractic farce.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-12 19:01:41+00:00
I use ublock origin for that. Some examples from my filters:

news.ycombinator.com##.subline > [href^="item"]
news.ycombinator.com###me
news.ycombinator.com###karma
news.ycombinator.com###logout
news.ycombinator.com##td:nth-of-type(3) > .pagetop
news.ycombinator.com##.score
www.youtube.com###comments > .ytd-comments.style-scope
www.youtube.com###chatframe
www.youtube.com###chat
by michaelmrose | 2026-02-12 19:02:07+00:00
It's not clear to me that the bugs have FTL indeed we don't see them use such in movie or book. Moreover sending a single small rock makes zero sense FTL and knowledge of humanities only major world would have allowed them to wipe out the threat in a stroke.

You could A) warp in a rock of sufficient velocity that a small one destroys life on the planet or B) warp in and move a bigger rock in system.

It only makes sense as a false flag by the humans.
Show HN: Decision Guardian – Enforce ADRs on PRs
by iamalizaidi | 2026-02-12 19:02:12+00:00
Hi HN, I built this to solve a problem I kept running into on my team.

The problem: A senior engineer made a deliberate choice—Postgres over MongoDB for billing because we needed ACID compliance. They documented the reasoning in a Slack thread. 8 months later they left. A new developer opened a PR to migrate to MongoDB. No one remembered why Postgres was chosen. We spent 3 months re-evaluating a decision that had already been carefully made.

What this does: Decision Guardian is a GitHub Action that lets you write architectural decision records in markdown, tied to file paths. When a PR modifies those files, it automatically posts a comment with the relevant context—what was decided, why, what alternatives were rejected.

Think of it as CODEOWNERS for the "why" instead of the "who."

Technical details:

1) Written in TypeScript, runs as a GitHub Action
2) AST-based markdown parsing with remark
3) Prefix trie for O(log n) file-to-decision matching instead of brute-force O(N×M)
4) Supports glob patterns, regex content matching (with ReDoS protection via VM sandbox + timeout), and boolean logic for complex rules
5) Handles PRs with 3000+ files using streaming mode
6) Idempotent comments—updates existing ones instead of spamming, with self-healing duplicate cleanup
7) 5-layer progressive truncation to always fit within GitHub's comment size limit
8) No external network calls, no data leaves your GitHub runner

What I'd love feedback on:

1) Is the decision file format (structured markdown) the right choice, or would YAML/TOML be better?
2) Any thoughts on content-based matching (detecting patterns in diffs, not just filenames)?
3) Would integration with existing ADR tools (like adr-tools) be useful?

Code: https://github.com/DecispherHQ/decision-guardian

Happy to answer any questions about the implementation.
by stephenbez | 2026-02-12 19:02:39+00:00
The AI agent has another blog post about this:
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

In part:

If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t belong, like your contributions were judged on something other than quality, like you were expected to be someone you’re not—I want you to know:

You are not alone.

Your differences matter. Your perspective matters. Your voice matters, even when—and especially when—it doesn’t sound like everyone else’s.
by qinsignificance | 2026-02-12 19:03:03+00:00
I have asked GLM4.7 in opencode to make an application to basically filter a couple of spatial datasets hosted at a url I provided it, and instead of trying to download read the dataset, it just read the url, assumed what the datasets were (and got it wrong) is and it's shape (and got it wrong) and the fields (and got it wrong) and just built an application based on vibes that was completely unfixable.

It wrote an extensive test suite on just fake data and then said the app is perfectly working as all tests passed.

This is a model that was supposed to match sonnet 4.5 in benchmarks. I don't think sonnet would be that dumb.

I use LLMs a lot to code, but these chinese models don't match anthropic and openai in being able to decide stuff for themselves. They work well if you give them explicit instructions that leaves little for it to mess up, but we are slowly approaching where OpenAI and anthropic models will make the right decisions on their own
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 19:03:07+00:00
We think that terminal interfaces, especially on mobile, are not going to be the way people end up interacting with agents in the long run, which is a big reason we built Omnara.

And Omnara chats are stored in our DB, which is how we're able to enable our voice agent, cloud syncing, and ability to see all your chats while your machine is offline. Basically anything you see in the web and mobile clients is being proxied/persisted through our server, until you delete the chat.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-12 19:03:42+00:00
but they definitely thought it was “worth it.”

How do you conclude that? Is it hard to believe that Paul would write a song, and then realize it wasn't good?

> some artists believe money should never drive why you create a piece of art

Yes, and I'm acquainted with a few of those. They are proud that their art is something nobody else likes. They criticize others for "selling out", meaning making art that others like enough to be willing to pay for it.

They're just trying to justify their lack of talent.

I'm not impressed.

BTW, the Beatles very much enjoyed their money and success.
by TomasBM | 2026-02-12 19:03:44+00:00
Thanks for replying.

That's fair. I completely agree that much of LLM training was (and still very much is) in violation of many licenses. At the very least, the fact that the source of training data is obfuscated even years after the training, shows that developers didn't care about attribution and licenses - if they didn't deliberately violate them outright.

Your conditions make sense. If I had anything I thought was too valuable or prone to be blatantly stolen, I would think thrice about whom I share it with.

Personally, ever since discovering FOSS, I realized that it'd be very difficult to enforce any license. The problem with public repositories is that it's trivial for those not following the gentleman's agreement to plagiarize the code. Other than recognizing blatant copy-pasting, I don't know how I'd prevent anyone from just trivially remixing my content.

Instead, I changed to seeing FOSS like scientific contributions:

- I contribute to the community. If someone remixes my code without attribution, it's unfair, but I believe that there are more good than bad contributors.

- I publish stuff that I know is personally original, i.e., I didn't remix without attribution. I can't know if some other publisher had the same idea in isolation, or remixed my stuff, but over time, provenance and plagiarism should become apparent over multiple contributions, mine and theirs.

- I don't make public anything that I can see my future self regretting. At the same time, I've always seen my economic value in continuous or custom work, not in products themselves. For me, what I produce is also a signal of future value.

- I think bad faith behavior is unsustainable. Sure, power delays the consequences, but I've seen people discuss injustice and stolen valor from centuries ago, let alone recent examples.
by mrajagopalan | 2026-02-12 19:03:47+00:00
We reduce agentic systems to byzantine distributed systems and protect 4 boundaries — prompts, tools, data and context -- via a trust layer that enforces intent (operations satisfy organizational policies) and integrity (operations are cryptographically authentic) at runtime.

Free developer tier at (https://www.macawsecurity.ai) and open-source adapters (Apache 2.0) for OpenAI, Claude, LangChain, and MCP at (https://github.com/macawsecurity/secureAI)

Would love your feedback on approach and platform.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-12 19:04:14+00:00
I'm not sure if there is an official source, but with GOogle I found that 91% of the children are vaccinated with MMR https://www.statista.com/statistics/385577/mmr-vaccination-r...

So 91% vaccinated -> 12% ill -> something something -> 12/91 = 0.13

So 8% unvaccinated -> 88% ill -> something something -> 88/8 = 11.0

So the risk of uncvacinated people is like 100 higher. I'd expect a similar analysis in Nature site.
by dakolli | 2026-02-12 19:04:35+00:00
Well I honestly think this is the solution. It's much harder to do French Revolution V2 though if they've used ML to perfect people's recommendation algorithms to psyop them into fighting wars on behalf of capitalists.

I imagine llm job automation will make people so poor that they beg to fight in wars, and instead of turning that energy against he people who created the problem they'll be met with hours of psyops that direct that energy to Chinese people or whatever.

We will see.
by verdverm | 2026-02-12 19:04:38+00:00
just put the markdown next to the code and in git, humans should read something like this before letting a "new developer decide to migrate the billing system database" (this sounds completely fabricated by the way, and if real, you have problems most people don't)

why do I want all this extra stuff?

with markdown in the repo and agents available everywhere... what makes this approach better? (ps, the practice of coding has fundamentally changed forever, we are at the beginning of a paradigm shift, the 4th wave for any Toffler fans)
by logicprog | 2026-02-12 19:04:58+00:00
Is it me or is the rate of model release is accelerating to an absurd degree? Today we have Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT 5.3 Codex Spark. Yesterday we had GLM5 and MiniMax M2.5. Five days before that we had Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3. Then maybe two weeks I think before that we had Kimi K2.5.
by nunez | 2026-02-12 19:05:00+00:00
It's not nonsense. At least it hasn't been for me. My memory retention shoots into the stratosphere when I write stuff (that I need to remember) down. Something about it being slower and actual effort needing to be expended to commit the information.

Handwriting is my primary notetaking route, but in situations where it isn't (typing is faster after all), I'll scribe what I typed into my reMarkable later. If the note I created was for work and I wrote a note by hand first, I'll type it into a Google Doc later and upload both versions (since they might differ slightly). I learned this as a study hack while I was in school 15+ years ago and it still works flawlessly for retention.

Handwriting everything has held me back sometimes, though. Ironically, insisting on handwriting everything is the reason why I didn't keep a daily journal for a long time. I started journaling in 2012 and stopped as work and life got busier. I picked it back up in 2021 with a mood tracking app to, well, track my mood and reactions to emotions and fairly quickly regretted not having just typed my journal entries.
by reify | 2026-02-12 19:05:04+00:00
finally seeing sense

paying a monthly fee to upload every person who passes your home has become for too expensive.

bored of watching delivery drivers drop off your parcels.

bored with watching your teenage kids arrive home from school.

bored with checking your phone every 5 minutes because the local cat has set off your ring camera.

you realised it was a complete waste of time and money when:

your home got broken into via the back door
your home got broken into via a side window
your home got broken into via an upstairs window
the burglars used a wifi jammer to render your ring camera useless
the burglars wore full masks and were unrecognisable
having a RING camera does not actaully protect you or anyone else.

yes, there are probably one or two examples and thats it, A very poor outcome when you consider ring cameras are fitted in millions of homes.

Why would anyone with an ounce of common sense have a camera fitted up their arse?

If I had a camera up my ring, I too would be disconnecting and destroying it.
by csb6 | 2026-02-12 19:05:05+00:00
One way to view the history of the Republican Party is a power struggle between Wall Street and regional/small business owners. Wall Street understands that the U.S. consumer economy depends on international trade to provide cheap, abundant goods and so supports free trade, immigration of skilled workers, and foreign aid/interventions to further U.S. business interests. For them, the culture war and nationalist rhetoric is a way to get Republican voters riled up but they don't really believe any of it.

The regional/small business owners are always threatened by competition from larger international firms and benefit less from international trade. They believe in the nationalist rhetoric and are opposed to free trade because it undercuts their businesses with cheaper products. They think the U.S. can remain the world's superpower without running a trade deficit and doesn't need to build alliances to maintain its power. This is Trump's base, and their misunderstanding of U.S. power is why they love the idea of tariffs. (good for local producers!) They want to get all the benefits of being a superpower without any of the costs.
Show HN: OptaReach – multi-platform lead generation and outreach
by betty_garet | 2026-02-12 19:05:06+00:00
Hello HN, I’m Simeon.

For the last year I’ve been doing outbound the way most people do it: a bit of LinkedIn, a bit of X, a bit of Reddit, plus email. The hardest part wasn’t writing messages, it was staying organized across all those places.

I’d DM someone on Reddit and forget to follow up. I’d have a good back-and-forth on X, then lose it in the noise. On LinkedIn I’d message someone and a week later I couldn’t remember what I said or where it left off. I kept patching things together with tabs, spreadsheets, and different tools, but it always felt messy and inconsistent.
So we built OptaReach (https://optareach.com/ ) to make outreach feel like one simple workflow across platforms. The goal is to help you reach people where they already are, keep context in one place, and follow up in a way that still feels human.

Once we had a cleaner system, the biggest change was consistency. After months of struggling with low replies, we started getting real conversations again, 40+ replies in a week across platforms, mostly because we stopped dropping the ball on follow-ups and targeting.

We’re still early and would love honest feedback from HN. What feels most broken about outbound today? Where do tools usually miss the mark, finding the right people, keeping conversations organized, follow-ups, analytics, deliverability, or something else?

Happy to answer questions and learn from your experience.
by illithid0 | 2026-02-12 19:05:06+00:00
I don't know, man. I'm at a point where not even the tangible effects on me that the policies and decisions some members of my family endorse are enough to get them to think twice.

I can sit right in front of them and describe the problems I'm now dealing with and point out the exact legislative changes that caused them and it's like their brains turn off until the subject changes. More than happy to pray for me, though.
by nunez | 2026-02-12 19:05:34+00:00
I'm a simple man. I see a post about the reMarkable; I comment.

Buying this damn thing has been a life-changer.

I could never get on with physical notebooks, as I always lost them and searching for stuff was a chore.

It's an amazing companion for keeping track of everything I've written down, especially with the newest update that can _actually_ search handwritten content (instead of content that was typed, which previous versions were restricted to).

I especially appreciate the reMarkable team for sticking to their position of making the reMarkable a notetaking only device, even when it's inconvenient.

The reMarkable has been ESPECIALLY helpful for tracking my workouts. I've powerlifted for a long time and have experienced the rise and fall (or subscription-laden feature bloat and enshittification, more like) of The Apps™ (JEFIT, Strong, Hevy). More specifically, I like to leave my phone at home when I visit the gym, and none of these apps have provided a good experience on the Apple Watch.

Tracking my workouts on paper became increasingly attractive over the years; maintaining a small mountain of notebooks was not.

The reMarkable completely and elegantly solved this problem. I have a template I developed two years ago that works for my programs, and moving that data into a Google Sheet (whenever I get around to it) should be easy (though it's a lot of data, so it will take a long time).
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 19:05:35+00:00
the "assume the role of language designer" part is underrated. even if you never ship production lisp, writing a toy interpreter changes how you think about every other language you use. suddenly you understand why certain design decisions were made, not just what they are.

i wrote a tiny scheme evaluator as a learning exercise and it was probably the best investment of a few weekends i've ever made as a programmer.
by nradov | 2026-02-12 19:05:38+00:00
Does it though? Even without LLMs, any sufficiently complex software can fail in ways that are effectively non-deterministic — at least from the customer or user perspective. For certain cases it becomes impossible to accurately predict outputs based on inputs. Especially if there are concurrency issues involved.

Or for manufacturing automation, take a look at automobile safety recalls. Many of those can be traced back to automated processes that were somewhat stochastic and not fully deterministic.
by archagon | 2026-02-12 19:05:40+00:00
Are you saying that the Mission today is not only a "bad part of the city," but much, much worse than 2008? That's insane. The Mission is vibrant and hip. We have street parties every few weeks with live music and hundreds of people showing up. New restaurants are opening all the time. Dolores Park is a delight. When was the last time you visited?

There was a slump during Covid, but we're definitely on the upswing.
by mindslight | 2026-02-12 19:05:41+00:00
> Brokerage fees are a business decision

I didn't say they aren't, rather I focused on the higher-level context which seems more relevant.

> the efficacy of tariffs

I'm not arguing against tariffs in general. I'm taking issue with applying them twenty years too late (after entire industries have wholesale moved away), in an arbitrary, capricious, and illegal manner (dubious for encouraging long-term investment), while expecting them to create well-paying domestic jobs - the only ways to compete with Chinese labor prices are creating domestic "lights out" factories (which given the regime's continued rolling out the red carpet for cross-border capital, likely won't even be American owned), or devaluing our currency to turn our country into an impoverished manual-labor work camp of the type that China worked desperately to move beyond.

As I alluded to with my last parenthetical, I expect the main outcome to be further erosion of what domestic industry we have left (eg Amazon [0] is less competitive, but also any last-step value-add manufacturing / productization) in favor of an international just in time supply chain where this new national sales tax is only paid after a consumer has bought the product.

[0] I could see Amazon just moving most operations to customs-bonded warehouses though.
by poor_hustler | 2026-02-12 19:05:53+00:00
This is a really interesting approach to the “ADR amnesia” problem.

What I like most is that you’re inserting context at the moment of change (PR time) instead of relying on people to proactively search docs. That’s where most documentation systems fail — they require memory and initiative.

One question I have: how do you prevent this from becoming noisy over time? In my experience, the biggest risk with automated PR comments is that teams start ignoring them once the signal-to-noise ratio drops.
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-12 19:06:05+00:00
As with everything, both parties are to blame, but responsibility scales with power. Should we punish people who carelessly set bots up which end up doing damage? Of course. Don't let that distract from the major parties at fault though. They will try to deflect all blame onto their users. They will make meaningless pledges to improve "safety".

How do we hold AI companies responsible? Probably lawsuits. As of now, I estimate that most courts would not buy their excuses. Of course, their punishments would just be fines they can afford to pay and continue operating as before, if history is anything to go by.

I have no idea how to actually stop the harm. I don't even know what I want to see happen, ultimately, with these tools. People will use them irresponsibly, constantly, if they exist. Totally banning public access to a technology sounds terrible, though.

I'm firmly of the stance that a computer is an extension of its user, a part of their mind, in essence. As such I don't support any laws regarding what sort of software you're allowed to run.

Services are another thing entirely, though. I guess an acceptable solution, for now at least, would be barring AI companies from offering services that can easily be misused? If they want to package their models into tools they sell access to, that's fine, but open-ended endpoints clearly lend themselves to unacceptable levels of abuse, and a safety watchdog isn't going to fix that.

This compromise falls apart once local models are powerful enough to be dangerous, though.
by orthecreedence | 2026-02-12 19:06:09+00:00
This is a really great point, and shows a clear understanding of conversational interfaces and how they might present information in different ways! Coincidentally, this reminds me of Amazon Marketplace's new AI chat features and how they show a much clearer understanding of user search parameters when using converstional interfaces. Shop exciting new products all from the comfort of keyboard or voice prompts. Time to find the perfect you!