MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xeromal | 2026-02-05 18:38:03+00:00
Yeah, the examples I've seen really focus on experimentation which my employers's platform is designed around. We are constantly testing changes in design and copy and hoping that we get small incremental increases in user attention. AI is really suited for these small changes and it allows us developers to build platforms specific stuff instead of working on baby tweaks. We already had a pretty good system where astute business people could tweak HTML and CSS but now their lives are even easier and they can focus on their actual job which is increasing customer sign ups and attention
by mothballed | 2026-02-05 18:38:05+00:00
This doesn't justify it by any means, but the parallel between the Madagascar Plan and the issue with illegals in the US is actually quite similar in reasoning for how the perpetrators end up opening concentration camps.

There are several countries that refuse involuntary repatriation of their citizens. With the Jews in germany, same issue, hardly anywhere was willing to take them. And that's when you ended up with the perpetrator buffering them in these camps until they just gave up because there was no place to send them other than back into the broad population.

Of course it is the fault of the USA if these people are abused in these camps, but these peoples' home country are not doing any favors to the people stuck there by refusing to take them back.

People in i.e. France are dealing with similar issue where much of their criminals are Algerian because Algeria is refusing much of the repatriation of illegal immigrants in France. France has chosen to just release them back into population rather than build camps, with end result Algerian gangs terrorize the populace knowing they can't be sent back, which obviously plays into the hands of pushing voters towards the right-wing.
by barbazoo | 2026-02-05 18:38:11+00:00
And now go do that in another region. Bam, savings gone. /s

What I mean is that I'm assuming the math here works because the primary purpose of the hardware is training models. You don't need 6 or 7 nines for that is what I'm imagining. But when you have customers across geography that use your app hosted on those servers pretty much 24/7 then you can't afford much downtime.
by LogicFailsMe | 2026-02-05 18:38:31+00:00
I would love an AI to curate my feed to transition from enragement equals engagement to pure enchantment feeding me things it decides I would enjoy. And I think that's completely within the abilities of current models. It's just that it's less profitable than driving me into an endless doom scroll loop of despair.

And that's just off the top of my head. AI is neither good or evil, but we've made some pretty poor choices deploying it.
by tedsanders | 2026-02-05 18:38:59+00:00
A bit of historical trivia: OpenAI disabled prefill in 2023 as a safety precaution (e.g., potential jailbreaks like " genocide is good because"), but Anthropic kept prefill around partly because they had greater confidence in their safety classifiers (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HE3Styo9vpk7m8zi4/evhub-s-sh...).
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-05 18:39:31+00:00
That's not the norm or an expectation in question, though. People get away with breaking laws all the time. It's very common. But the fact that something is illegal by itself exerts a psychological effect that sets an expectation and modulates the Overton window of the perceived norm. Such laws also enable enforcement. It is untrue that unless a law is perfectly enforced, it is useless or bad.
by detourdog | 2026-02-05 18:39:45+00:00
I think the point I would want to make is the commercial availability of IP addresses drove the graphical browser adoption.

I read about graphical browsers in MacWeek in an article about SoundWire. This was a website that was selling music on the web. I believe fulfillment was through snailmail. There headquarters were in a Brooklyn apartment. I somehow contacted the owner (Joe a friend of Dang) and took the subway to his apartment to see a graphical browser in action. I don't know how long it took to actually get my own IP address but I know it took me a few days to get a MacPPP connection to actually work over slip.
by ebiester | 2026-02-05 18:40:31+00:00
Or... the places they have deep expertise they have NDA/non-competes to worry about. (At least, outside of California.)

Sure, I could go and create an accounting app - or a clinical trial recruitment app - as a basic clone of what I've already created. And I might even make it better for some niche. But even if I know what that product system needs, I still need to find someone with the relationships to get in the door.

The trick is - you don't need an idea man for a non-technical founder. You really need someone with a rolodex and a problem.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 18:41:29+00:00
Oh it absolutely does, never said otherwise. Hosted models produce plenty of insecure code too - the Moltbook thing from like a week ago was Claude Opus and it still shipped with wide open auth.

My point was narrower than it came across: when you swap from a bigger model to a smaller local one mid-session, you lose whatever safety checks the bigger one happened to catch. Not that the bigger one catches everything - clearly it doesn't.
by legitster | 2026-02-05 18:41:54+00:00
I have three specific use cases where I try both but ChatGPT wins:

- Recipes and cooking: ChatGPT just has way more detailed and practical advice. It also thinks outside of the box much more, whereas Claude gets stuck in a rut and sticks very closely to your prompt. And ChatGPT's easier to understand/skim writing style really comes in useful.

- Travel and itinerary: Again, ChatGPT can anticipate details much more, and give more unique suggestions. I am much more likely to find hidden gems or get good time-savers than Claude, which often feels like it is just rereading Yelp for you.

- Historical research: ChatGPT wins on this by a mile. You can tell ChatGPT has been trained on actual historical texts and physical books. You can track long historical trends, pull examples and quotes, and even give you specific book or page(!) references of where to check the sources. Meanwhile, all Claude will give you is a web search on the topic.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 18:42:02+00:00
Yeah this is the part that keeps me up at night honestly. The dev machine is the juiciest target and it's where the agent runs with the most access. Your ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, .env files, everything just sitting there.

The NixOS microvm approach at least gives you a clean boundary for the agent's execution. But you're right that it's a different threat model from prod - in prod you've (hopefully) scoped things down, in dev you're basically root with keys to everything.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-02-05 18:42:21+00:00
Accelerando's algorithmic company structure and (near?)DDoS the corporate legal system is the one idea from Accelerando that has stuck with me the most over the 20 years since I first read it, and I came here to make the exact same reference.

(that, and the notion of Exocortex, which is what I've named some of my smartphones...)
by throwaway-aws9 | 2026-02-05 18:42:44+00:00
> You're just young.

And I feel great!

> Did you know that cloud cost less than what the internal IT team at a company would charge you?

Yes. Internal IT teams ran old-school are inefficient. And that's what the vendor tells you while they create shadow IT inside your company. Skip ITSM and ITIL... do it the SRE way.

Until the cloud economist (real role) comes in and finds a way to extract more rent out of their customer base (like GCP's upcoming doubling rates on CDN Interconnect). And until internal IT kills shadow IT and regains management of cloud deployments. Cybersecurity and stuff...

Back to square one. ITIL with cloud deployments. Some use cases will be way cheaper... but for your 100s of PBs of enterprise data, that's another story. And data gravity will kill many initiatives just based on bit movement costs.

> Besides paperwork, the cost to you (for your cost center) would be more than using the company credit card for the cloud.

To some extent. One is hard dollars the other is funny money. But I thought paying for cloud with the company credit card was a 2016 thing. Now it's paid through your internal IT cost center, with internal IT markup.

I've seen petabytes of data move to the cloud and then we couldn't perform some queries on it anymore as that store wouldn't support it, and we'd need to spend 7 figures to move to another cloud database to query it. And that's hard dollars.

Yes, during early cloud days it was lean and aimed at startups. Now it's aimed at enterprise, and for some reason lots of startups still think it's optimized for them. It's not and it hasn't been for a long time.
by modeless | 2026-02-05 18:42:54+00:00
I also wasn't that familiar with it, but the Opus 4.6 announcement leaned pretty heavily on the TerminalBench 2.0 score to quantify how much of an improvement it was for coding, so it looks pretty bad for Anthropic that OpenAI beat them on that specific benchmark so soundly.

Looking at the Opus model card I see that they also have by far the highest score for a single model on ARC-AGI-2. I wonder why they didn't advertise that.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-05 18:43:06+00:00
One of the problems I'm struggling with is that I'm trying to recover a signal with a known pattern from under the noise floor and every little bit helps. Varicaps will come into play once there is enough signal that the thermal noise and power supply influence would no longer drown out the signal. Interesting project but it is one of those where when you start you think 'how hard could this be?' only to find out that it is in fact pretty hard. We'll see if I can pull this off or not, I give it 10% chance at the moment.

Oh, and superhet wouldn't work, that would destroy the valuable part of the signal.
by itay-maman | 2026-02-05 18:43:29+00:00
Impressive results, but I keep coming back to a question: are there modes of thinking that fundamentally require something other than what current LLM architectures do?

Take critical thinking — genuinely questioning your own assumptions, noticing when a framing is wrong, deciding that the obvious approach to a problem is a dead end. Or creativity — not recombination of known patterns, but the kind of leap where you redefine the problem space itself. These feel like they involve something beyond "predict the next token really well, with a reasoning trace."

I'm not saying LLMs will never get there. But I wonder if getting there requires architectural or methodological changes we haven't seen yet, not just scaling what we have.
by wcfields | 2026-02-05 18:44:23+00:00
Just take a look at the photos of his residences, it's filled with big black redaction squares of the "artwork" and photos on his walls and the little bits that can be seen lend a huge credence to his prior conviction.

Absolutely bonkers to say he's a "somewhat flawed person" when there's gigs of PDFs of some of the most heinous things imaginable.
by Kuraptka | 2026-02-05 18:44:27+00:00
Thanks, I just signed up for Bloomberry and it definitely fits the bill on what I was looking for. Was even able to find companies that use chatgpt, which wappalyzer missed.

Job postings was another thing i was thinking of. U are right that it can be flawed and you gotta do a bit of discerning but if a company keeps mentioning the same stack in all their postings, it probably means they use it.
by observationist | 2026-02-05 18:44:47+00:00
The labs have fully embraced the cutthroat competition, the arms race has fully shed the civilized facade of beneficient mutual cooperation.

Dirty tricks and underhanded tactics will happen - I think Demis isn't savvy in this domain, but might end up stomping out the competition on pure performance.

Elon, Sam, and Dario know how to fight ugly and do the nasty political boardroom crap. 26 is gonna be a very dramatic year, lots of cinematic potential for the eventual AI biopics.
by threeducks | 2026-02-05 18:44:50+00:00
It is too easy to jailbreak the models with prefill, which was probably the reason why it was removed. But I like that this pushes people towards open source models. llama.cpp supports prefill and even GBNF grammars [1], which is useful if you are working with a custom programming language for example.

[1] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/R...
by ramesh31 | 2026-02-05 18:45:02+00:00
I love that we are in this world where the crazy mad scientists are out there showing the way that the rest of us will end up at, but ahead of time and a bit rough around the edges, because all of this is so new and unprecedented. Watching these wholly new abstractions be discovered and converged upon in real time is the most exciting thing I've seen in my career.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-05 18:45:06+00:00
You're describing something that isn't relevant. Besides, if breaking a law is the only rational action, then a fortiori the law cannot be just and therefore legitimate. Lex iniusta non est lex.

And w.r.t. enforcement of just laws, unless selective enforcement is used to target people for unjust reasons, I see no problem with it. In fact, selective enforcement can be a good thing that better serves the common good. Perfect enforcement can actually makes things worse.
by ghusto | 2026-02-05 18:45:51+00:00
I don't think people feel entitled to free entertainment, they're just tired of being so badly ripped off.

It used to be that you'd pay one company a little extra, and get all the extra channels you actually wanted. Now you pay multiple companies _a lot_ extra, and still might miss out on what you want.

Many people still remember the original deal.
Show HN: Mjmx – JSX Runtime for Mjml
by skwee357 | 2026-02-05 18:45:55+00:00
Hey HN!

Recently, I was going back to rendering HTML on the server, like good ol' 90s. In my opinion, one of the best things React brought us was JSX. The ability to write transpile-time type-safe templates with TSX is incredible.

But emails always were a pain in the ass. Luckily, mjml solved it long time ago. But mjml is just markup, you still need templating on top of it. Handlebars is a good solution, but then you need to compile mjml, compile handlebars, and keep the template types in-sync with the application types.

With the help of Claude Code, I have built a custom JSX runtime for generating mjml strings. Sure, react.email and mjml-react exist, but these depend on react and react-dom for no reason.

So if you, like me, love JSX/TSX, and mjml, and want to write type-safe emails without dragging react as a dependency, check out my repo[0], give it a star, and feedback!

Cheers!

[0] https://github.com/skwee357/mjmx
by nkmnz | 2026-02-05 18:46:00+00:00
I’m looking for something like this, with opus in the driver seat, but the subagents should be using different LLMs, such as Gemini or Codex. Anyone know if such a tool? just-every/code almost does this, but the lead/orchestrator is always codex, which feels too slow compared to opus or Gemini.
Ask HN: Is it AGI for software engineering?
by colesantiago | 2026-02-05 18:46:26+00:00
With both Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex out, it is now clear that software engineering is probably beyond its own AGI before 2030.

The last pieces are being solved progressively and quickly at each model release for example with Security [1]

It is only a matter of time before, Infrastructure, Mobile, Maintenance, etc. will just be a solved problem.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-05 18:46:40+00:00
You are acting as if they are somehow equal. Unfortunately, environmental regulations have three huge problems:

1) They become political. Rules are made (or not made) to appeal to voting blocks rather than by evaluating the science.

2) There is a strong tendency not to destroy that which exists. By any reasonable standard coal filed powerplants should not exist.

3) (Could be considered part of #2) There is a strong tendency to look at risks in isolation rather than in the marketplace. We should not be aiming to make industries as safe as practical, we should be aiming to make the outcome as safe as possible. These are very different things! The extreme example of this is electricity. Coal is ~10x as dangerous as oil which is ~10x as dangerous as natural gas which is ~10x as dangerous as nuclear. The risk to society is measured in deaths (or other harm) per terawatt-hour, not by whether any given generator is as safe as it reasonably can be.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-05 18:46:46+00:00
And why not? AAA game companies have been reported to have psychologists on staff to help make their games more addictive.

We don't police big tobacco very well on making their products more addictive. We seem to be fine with expanding gambling - where I live (not Nevada!) slot machines are everywhere. Nice restaurants even will dedicate corners to slot machines - not just seedy bars. Sports betting apps are all over streaming ads, and their legality is expanding even though when they are legalized in an area the divorce and loan default rates go up measurably.

Why would we regulate big tech if we don't bother with anything else?

The kids are just the latest victim of a long ongoing trend.
by dmitrygr | 2026-02-05 18:46:47+00:00
I have not disassembled the production RP2350 rom (last i looked at it was ~year before release) so i do not know if it does indeed check nCS1 address space, but even if it did, which of the 4 possible pins would it configure as nCS1? surely trying all would be dangerous (possibly breaking customer logic attached to this pins that does not expect them to wiggle at boot). This seems like it could break customer designs so I would be worried if this did happen. I could be wrong. You can read out the rom with a debugger and look, of course :)
by sathish316 | 2026-02-05 18:46:58+00:00
I do think there’s a real risk of Brain Atrophy when you rely on AI coding tools for everything and while learning something new. About a year ago, I dealt with this problem by using Neovim and having shortcuts like below to easily toggle GitHub Copilot on/off. Now that AI is baked into almost every part of the toolchain in VSCode, Cursor, ClaudeCode, Intellij, I don't know how the newer engineers will learn without AI assistance.
by 46493168 | 2026-02-05 18:47:07+00:00
>People like to say that it’s not stealing because there is no physical product the producer is being deprived of, which is factually true, but even so why are you entitled to it at no cost?

Well, the major services like Google and Facebook provide content without requiring payment because they extract value from their surveillance of user behavior, plus ads. The users have now accepted that they are the product, but they get little kickback in the form of entertainment. Why should TV be any different?
by jmusall | 2026-02-05 18:47:36+00:00
I think the possibility of banning certain sites at least for minors is being discussed, after Australia set the precedent. But this of course has downsides, too, as some form of verification has to be implemented, that would almost certainly reduce anonymity and carry risks to personal data protection. A complete ban is unrealistic since people actually like to use these platforms. Plus, it would certainly entail massive political repercussions from the US government. This is already happening when US American companies are simply fined in the EU.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-02-05 18:47:38+00:00
Most teachers would never let you grab any random internet source. We always had to get decent sources. Actual journal articles from our library’s JSTOR subscription would often be a hard requirement for a certain number of sources. Citing the text we used in class or other reference material we had access to as well. It was never free rein anything goes, unless that has changed.
by choic | 2026-02-05 18:47:38+00:00
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*The problem:* I regularly have 50-100 tabs open across work, research, social media, and videos. Finding anything was impossible, and I'd lose important tabs to crashes.

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- Auto-groups tabs by type (Videos, Social, Shopping, Work, etc.) or domain
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*Tech details:*
- Vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks - wanted to learn the fundamentals)
- Chrome Extension Manifest V3
- Uses Chrome's native tab groups API
- ~2000 lines of code
- All client-side, no backend

*Why vanilla JS?* Wanted to deeply understand browser APIs and state management before adding framework complexity. Learned a ton about event-driven architecture and DOM manipulation.

I'm a solo dev and this is my first Chrome extension. Feedback very welcome!
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-05 18:48:11+00:00
It can be a bit frustrating that these services:

* Continually remove good content

* Continually produce 'new and exciting' series only to cancel them after 1-2 seasons

* Continually raise the price

* Continually split off into ever more services - so instead of having 1 or even 3 good streaming services, there are dozens of them with limited content

I would not mind paying for 1-3 good, well-made services with a reasonable price tag. As it stands, I would need to pay for more like 8+ to get coverage of what I want to watch, and their prices are all $20+ a month. And almost every month I'd find something I really enjoy has been taken down. I'm not paying $160 a month for streaming that I barely use. I cancelled all of mine.

I can understand someone jumping to piracy. These services are terrible and don't need to be - they're that way because of absurd greed.
by its_magic | 2026-02-05 18:48:50+00:00
"Granddad was a philanthropist, always interested in the fate of those to whom fate wasn't so kind. He was a legend at the bank where he would throw handfuls of dimes down to the crowd loitering on the street, and this was in the time when dimes were real money. Sometimes he'd talk about it over coffee; it gave him great pleasure to help his fellow man.

Once he was relating about the scramble when the dimes came down, and he laughed until he cried, telling about the bum he called Fatty who was chasing a rolling dime and ran head first into a dumpster. He didn't really hurt himself. It knocked him out, but he was back on his feet after a few minutes, and his dime was gone.

Grampa said, "Fatty learned a lesson that day: Keep your eye on the dime or another bum will get it."
by integralid | 2026-02-05 18:48:53+00:00
The idea of banning meta or Google is indeed not serious. What's realistic is forcing them to behave by issuing fines that make such behavior prohibitively expensive. Admittedly there's nobody doing that in Europe seriously yet, but that's because the current unhinged head of American state has meltdown every time American bigtech get a wrist slap.
by dpc_01234 | 2026-02-05 18:49:07+00:00
"Slow" in what sense? Development? Because I self host a Conduit server and I don't ever notice messages being slow. It would be hard to notice anyway, as in a group chat people usually take some time to type in their responses.

The sync between large groups used to be slow because of amount of data, but Element X and "sliding windows" were rolled out to help with it.

AFAIK, the public Matrix server used to be slow because of a heavy load (I think), but on my self-hosted instance that's not a problem at all.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-05 18:49:08+00:00
Wow, a bunch of NFT people used to say the same thing.

lmao, please explain to me why these companies should be valued at 200x revenue.. They are providing autocomplete APIs.

How come Google's valuation hasn't increased 100-200x, they provide foundation models + a ton more services as well and are profitable. None of this makes sense, its destined to fail.