MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2026-02-12 00:13:17+00:00
If you want to KNOW the chain of custody for all of your OS and software, from the bootloader to the switch chip, and you want to run this virtualization platform airgapped, buying at rack-scale, you want Oxide. They are making basically everything in-house. That's government, energy, finance, etc. Customers that need descretion, security, performance, and something that works very reliably in a high-trust environment, with a pretty high level of performance.

Also check this out: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bryan-cantrill-b6a1_unbeknown...

If you need a basic "vm platform", VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, etc. all fit the bill with varying levels of feature and cost. Nutanix has also been making some fairly solid kubernetes plays, which is nice on hyperconverged infrastructure.

Then if you need a container platform, you go the opposite direction - Kubernetes/OpenShift and run your VMs from your container platform instead of running your containers from your VM platform.

As far as "hyperconverged"...

"Traditionally" with something like VMware, you ran a 3-tier infrastructure: compute, a storage array, and network switching. If you needed to expand compute, you just threw in another 1U-4U on the shelf. Then you wire it up to the switch, provision the network to it, provision the storage, add it to the cluster, etc. This model has some limitations but it scales fairly well with mid-level performance. Those storage arrays can be expensive though!

As far as "hyperconverged", you get bigger boxes with better integration. One-click firmware upgrades for the hardware fleet, if desired. Add a node, it gets discovered, automatically provisions to the rest of the configuration options you've set. The network switching fabric is built into the box, as is the storage. This model brings everything local (with a certain amount of local redundancy in the hardware itself), which makes many workloads blazing fast. You may still on occasion need to connect to massive storage arrays somewhere if you have very large datasets, but it really depends on the application workloads your organization runs. Hyperconverged doesn't scale compute as cheaply, but in return you get much faster performance.
by swisniewski | 2026-02-12 00:13:29+00:00
The premise seems flawed.

From the paper:

“we find that the LLM adheres to the legally correct outcome significantly more often than human judges”

That presupposes that a “legally correct” outcome exists

The Common Law, which is the foundation of federal law and the law of 49/50 states, is a “bottom up” legal system.

Legal principals flow from the specific to the general. That is, judges decided specific cases based on the merits of that individual case. General principles are derived from lots of specific examples.

This is different from the Civil Law used in most of Europe, which is top-down. Rulings in specific cases are derived from statutory principles.

In the US system, there isn’t really a “correct legal outcome”.

Common Law heavily relies on “Juris Prudence”. That is, we have a system that defers to the opinions of “important people”.

So, there isn’t a “correct” legal outcome.
by 0907 | 2026-02-12 00:13:30+00:00
I think that the inverse thesis is true, you make websites more accessible (a11y, wgac, aria labels etc) for humans, then the interaction heuristics are clearer for agents functioning off browser-use or similar. If a screen reader can understand your site, then an agent can. Reinventing the wheel to facilitate the current state of agents makes the web worse for everyone, it's not a preemptive move, it's actually a decline in almost objective and measurable quality, and potentially one which removes access to the internet by people who just want to.. use the internet.
by VirgilH2Oss | 2026-02-12 00:13:45+00:00
Just published a Lemma you might find interesting. Would love feedback. You can get it here with the Z3 theorem audit, a CAS audit and an audit for the Heisenberg's derivation. -Abstract Observation is performed using light or its physical equivalent. Light is also what is being observed. Lorentz worked with fields, mathematically inheriting the limitations of field-based assumptions; treating light as a physical object forces the same transformations from geometry alone. Light itself propagates as a finite physical boundary that defines the act of observation. When inertial frames are related by linear reciprocal transformations, the requirement that this boundary propagate consistently in all frames forces a single invariant speed and a specific coupling between space and time. From these constraints, the Lorentz transformation follows. A finite invariant boundary volume then fixes how spatial dimensions scale under relative motion. No spacetime metric, invariant interval, clock construction, nor postulated symmetry is assumed. Lorentz transformations are not assumed but mathematically derived from these requirements. Promoting it to theorem from a dangling assumption https://zenodo.org/records/18522790
by 7952 | 2026-02-12 00:14:27+00:00
Renewables are heavily effected by capital costs. So a renewable energy scheme selling at wholesale prices may sometimes be ridiculously profitable. But it will also have higher interest rates that could wipe out that benefit for the developer. The more successful renewable energy is the lower the average wholesale price is likely to be. And the temporary peaks are likely to correlate with times where the weather conditions will reduce renewable output.

All these reasons make CfD's positive for both consumers and developers. The fact that schemes can be developed outside of this just shows how good the technology is.
by 1f60c | 2026-02-12 00:14:58+00:00
Thariq (who's on the Claude Code team) swears up and down that they do not do this.

Honestly, man, this is just weird new tech. We're asking a probabilistic model to generate English and JSON and Bash at the same time in an inherently mutable environment and then Anthropic also release one or two updates most workdays that contain tweaks to the system prompt and new feature flags that are being flipped every which way. I don't think you have to believe in a conspiracy theory to understand why it's a little wobbly sometimes.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-02-12 00:15:52+00:00
Is there any data on what kind of hits to enrollment were taken by facebook, gmail etc when they added requirements like a phone #? Maybe it's buried in their sec filings. Anyway, this "cat and mouse" game is probably irrelevant. They're not looking for and don't need a perfect system. Bc 99% of the public couldn't care less about handing over their information.
by KittenInABox | 2026-02-12 00:15:52+00:00
I disagree with this sentiment. It is entirely possible that there will be people who are regulars on one platform who are just unable (actually unable or perceives themselves unable) to migrate and the morale lost from losing their regulars is huge. Or a subset who insist on staying, forming their own sub-community, and neither the migrating group nor the people who insist on staying produce enough engagement for the members and so the community as a whole fizzles out. This is all squishiness. There is a reason why deplatforming appears to work in reducing the effectiveness of political groups, even if the people who remain in the community post-deplatforming are hardened in their loyalty to the political policy of the group.
by timmytokyo | 2026-02-12 00:15:59+00:00
How coincidental that I was just reading something related [0] before seeing this post.

"Silicon Valley is bad at politics. If nothing else during Trump 2.0, I think we’ve learned that Silicon Valley doesn’t exactly have its finger on the pulse of the American public. It’s insular, it’s very, very, very, very rich. [...] I expect it to play its hand in a way that any rich 'degen' on a poker winning streak would: overconfidently and badly."

And...

“People don’t take guillotines seriously. But historically, when a tiny group gains a huge amount of power and makes life-altering decisions for a vast number of people, the minority gets actually, for real, killed.”

[0] https://substack.com/home/post/p-187592016

Nate Silver often annoys the hell out of me, but I think he's right about some of the possible political impacts of AI.
by analog31 | 2026-02-12 00:16:18+00:00
Amusingly, I tried. Your job is safe. ;-) I'm a scientist. I tried using a couple of free 3d modeling tools that are programmable in Python, using Claude within VS Code to design a part according to my prompts. It was a simple plate with some holes for electrical connectors, switches, etc. Of course it let me make some noobie design mistakes, such as making the hole exactly the same diameter as the thing that went into it, plus or minus of course. And I would have had to really scrutinize the Python code to notice that I got one of the diameters wrong altogether.

Just judging from this experience, the effort would rise exponentially with the complexity of the part, not to mention assemblies. The designers earn their keep. I get really bad eyestrain with any task that requires staring at the screen while doing fine mouse work, so I just can't use CAD. On the other hand, I can code all day because I'm not closely focused on the screen when I'm typing.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-12 00:16:30+00:00
I don't know how to say this but either you haven't written any complex code or your definition of complex and impossible is not the same as mine, or you are "ai hyper booster clickbaiting" (your words).

It strains belief that anyone working on a moderate to large project would not have hit the edge cases and issues. Every other day I discover and have to fix a bug that was introduced by Claude/Codex previously (something implement just slightly incorrect or with just a slightly wrong expectation).

Every engineer I know working "mid-to-hard" problems (FANG and FANG adjacent) has broken every LLM including Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, and GPT-5.2-Codex on routine tasks. Granted the models have a very high success rate nowadays but they fail in strange ways and if you're well versed in your domain, these are easy to spot.

Granted I guess if you're just saying "build this" and using "it runs and looks fine" as the benchmark then OK.

All this is not to say Opus 4.5/6 are bad, not by a long shot, but your statement is difficult to parse as someone who's been coding a very long time and uses these agents daily. They're awesome but myopic.
Show HN: Publish Markdown to a shareable URL from your terminal
by mcone | 2026-02-12 00:17:38+00:00
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by noncentral | 2026-02-12 00:17:48+00:00
The thing is, all the assumptions you’d need for anything like a “normal user curve” basically fall apart the moment you look at real developer workflows.
1. People change how they work depending on what the tool shows them.
2. The tool changes its behavior depending on what people do.
3. There’s constant feedback, drift, hidden state, weird edge cases — all the stuff that makes the distribution wobble around.
4. And because of that, the whole thing never sits still long enough for an “average user” to even make sense.

Once those pieces go, you don’t get a nice clean Gaussian.
You get a heavy tail. And heavy-tail systems behave completely differently. If you design for the mean in a heavy-tail environment, you basically end up breaking the exact people who generate most of the actual usage.

That’s why this Claude change feels so off. It’s not just “oh they hid some file paths.”
It’s that they optimized for a user who doesn’t really exist, while cutting visibility for the users who actually push the tool hard enough to matter.
by joegibbs | 2026-02-12 00:17:59+00:00
Crazy to have a company like this with perhaps the most revolutionary product in the last 20 years decide that they want to pivot to porn and ads. Whose idea is this? They're supposed to be the superintelligence company. There's not even that much money in it. What about automating jobs, making a model that can predict the stock market, anything that would meet the hype?
by phil21 | 2026-02-12 00:18:39+00:00
> The gas plants could be 1% of given moment, yet still set price

Makes sense. Since no one would build that last 1% (or then, last 10%) of needed capacity due to it being wildly unprofitable. Then you are dealing with rolling blackouts or even worse.

The cost of a watt is not fungible. Reliable electricity is worth many multiples more than an unreliable grid no one can rely on being there when they need it.
by ajkjk | 2026-02-12 00:19:13+00:00
I guess we are talking about different things. It seems to me that it's trivial to imagine then conceptually. They go on forever and most of them never repeat? Sounds good to me. Sqrt(2) never repeats? sure, whatever. I never found the proofs of this stuff very interesting.

Now, I am a skeptic of their use in physics / science. But that's a different question, and more about pedagogy than the raw content of the theories.
by chaps | 2026-02-12 00:19:19+00:00
Ooh, totally. Many years ago I was doing some analysis of parking ticket data using gnuplot and had it output a chart png per-street. Not great, but worked well to get to the next step of that project of sorting the directory by file size. The most dynamic streets were the largest files by far.

Another way I've used image compression to identify cops that cover their body cameras while recording -- the filesize to length ratio reflects not much activity going on.
by evannotfound | 2026-02-12 00:19:46+00:00
I use Opencode as my main driver, and I don’t experience what you have experienced.

For instance, opencode has /undo command which allows you to scroll back and edit a prior prompt. It also support forking conversations based on any prior message.

I think it depends on the set up. I overwrote the default planning agent prompt of opencode to fit my own use cases and my own mcp servers. I’ve been using OpenAI’s gpt codex models and they have been performing very well and I am able to make it do exactly what I ask it to do.

Claude code may do stuff fast, but in terms of quality and the ability to edit only what I want it to do, I don’t think it’s the best. Claude code often take shortcuts or do extra stuff that I didn’t ask.
by drdeca | 2026-02-12 00:19:49+00:00
Asking what it “is made of” seems like a somewhat ambiguous question to me. Still, the answer would not be “mathematical abstractions that fit the data”, but “these mathematical abstractions”. (And, there is a lot of meaning behind these “abstractions”. For example, there is a close correspondence between the Higgs mechanism for mass and superconductivity.)

Really, what possible answer could you ask for that wouldn’t be of this form?

When you describe an idea sufficiently precisely, you do mathematics; that’s almost what mathematics is.

It feels to me like complaints like yours tend to derive from an unwillingness to believe that things aren’t at their core made of solid objects or fluids or other stuff which behaves like macroscopic objects we have everyday experience with.

Can you describe an explanation that wouldn’t be like that but which (if it were true) you would find satisfying?

If you can’t describe how an explanation could (if it were true) satisfy you without being like that, then, if the universe isn’t like that, you have to be disappointed. And, in that case, again, I have to say, take it up with God.

On the other hand, if you can describe how an explanation (if it were true) could possibly satisfy you without saying “at its core, the universe works based on [behavior that you have plenty of physical intuition for based on your everyday interactions with macroscopic stuff]”, I would very much like to hear it.
by sowbug | 2026-02-12 00:20:15+00:00
I found corroborating articles but am still looking for a primary source.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-offers-exit-packages-...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/google-is-handing...

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-asks-...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/g...

https://www.ndtvprofit.com/technology/google-offers-voluntar...
by plasma | 2026-02-12 00:20:23+00:00
Yes, moved to GitHub Codespaces and generally has been good.

Pros: one click setup for devs jumping between projects after you get the devcontainer setup process working, takes some fiddling, trial and error.

Has felt good for some older projects to be wrapped in the devcontainer and once it’s working feel comfortable the environment is stable, and also moving everyone to new environments has been easy.

Keeping a haywire dev/npm script away from your main machine is also good, but I know it’s not foolproof.

Cons: Codespaces CPUs are usual cloud slow so you need to pay more and single threaded perf won’t be as good as your laptop, a real shame. I think GitHub competitors would have better CPUs.

Very rarely but Codespaces can have a technical issue and you can't do your work (inaccessible), and to avoid it sleeping during the day due to inactivity you may leave it running most of the day but it demands a shutdown after 12 hours or so, so very long dev sessions can be interrupted.

GitHub also dropped support for using JetBrains IDEs which was not cool, so it’s just vscode which is usable but would have preferred other IDEs.

If Codespaces team is reading would love to see some improvements here.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-12 00:20:42+00:00
"The Universal Commerce Protocol is now letting U.S. shoppers buy items from Etsy and Wayfair, from within Google’s AI Mode in Search and the company’s Gemini app"

I wonder if they'll be new coins coming out centered around this protocol or around specific commerce-oriented AIs or agents?

Also, it sort of makes putting ads in chat windows less enticing if direct sales can be generated in them instead. Revenues through commissions or a new "shopping coin" pre-mine.
by AndrewStephens | 2026-02-12 00:21:00+00:00
I find some parts of Liquid Glass to be an improvement over the previous flat style that lasted far too long. A lot of it seems really well thought out.

On mobile that is.

On larger screens with desktops and overlapping windows it looks kind of bad. Not unusable, just annoying. I am hoping this will change as more apps update their design.
by zippyman55 | 2026-02-12 00:21:51+00:00
I had a situation where a tree limb fell on to an early morning garbage truck. The truck transported the limb a few hundred feet. It then
Slid off and smashed thru my van window. It started to rain. I appeared shortly after trying to figure out how a 10’ heavy limb would smash thru my window, things are just starting to get wet, and there are no trees around.
by tgrowazay | 2026-02-12 00:22:00+00:00
Close

> Ireland rolled out a permanent basic income scheme for the arts on Tuesday, pledging to pay 2,000 creative workers 325 euros ($387) per week following a trial that participants said eased financial strain and allowed them to spend more time on projects.

> The randomly selected applicants will receive the payments for three years, after which they would not be eligible for the next three-year cycle. O'Donovan said he would like to increase the number of recipients over time.

> Over 8,000 applicants applied for the 2,000 places in the pilot scheme.

> A report on the trial found it lowered the likelihood of artists experiencing enforced deprivation, and reduced their levels of anxiety and reliance on supplementary income.
by esseph | 2026-02-12 00:22:00+00:00
802.11bf WLAN Sensing Task Group

https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm

Task Group bf is expected to develop an amendment that defines modifications to the IEEE 802.11 medium access control layer (MAC) and to the Directional Multi Gigabit (DMG) and enhanced DMG (EDMG) PHYs to enhance Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) sensing (SENS) operation in license-exempt frequency bands between 1 GHz and 7.125 GHz and above 45 GHz.

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- Stations to inform other stations of their WLAN sensing capabilities

- Request and setup transmissions that enable WLAN sensing measurements to be performed

- Exchange of WLAN sensing feedback and information
by dangus | 2026-02-12 00:22:42+00:00
This sounds sensible in isolation, but the real analogy is that the drug dealers have spent billions of dollars convincing the general public that drugs are healthy and better than the alternative of sobriety.

And also, when I go to the store to buy my daily needs like food and soap, they’re all packaged in the drugs.

Oh and I have to consume the drugs to get to the store because there’s no safe way to get there on foot or on a bike, and there’s no bus or train service because someone at GM/Ford paid my representatives to not fund that.

Then when I take my used drugs to the drug recycling center, they don’t actually get recycled because it isn’t profitable. But my recycling agency tells me that all my drugs get reused.

Seriously, just watch a paper towel ad or something. They act like it’s impossible to clean up a spill with something reusable.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-12 00:22:56+00:00
Really good read (and thanks for the mention of the book "The Dispossessed" that I just now bought on libro.fm). The article covers a general theme that those who cause harm should be responsible.

There are so many people on the web who I probably won't meet but I feel close to because of years of interactions - the most valuable kind of community, and available once you discover a few hundred or more contacts.

Nothing particularly wrong with platforms as long as there are always 'plan B' replacements, and of course not too much value is placed anywhere out of our direct control.
by jochesch | 2026-02-12 00:23:39+00:00
I worked at Observe ~2 years ago in a field engineering role, and have also been in/around the Snowflake ecosystem since 2018ish.

No current affiliation with either company.

Can't comment on the demand-side of the acquisition due to confidentiality, but on the supply-side, i.e. what Snowflake gets from Observe as a product - I think it has much more to do with underlying architecture than anything directly related to AI.

But architecture doesn't sound as sexy as AI...
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-12 00:24:06+00:00
This is doable using high end stuff like Runway with a draft quality.

Your better bet would be to generate a face as an image and then you can easily generate that same face in different expected poses and conditions. You can then use existing models where you get to select the starting image and the ending image. Add some filters and noise to just make it look like normal crappy low light camera.

As for the color that's another expected condition and can be overlayed or pre-generated.