MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ms-J | 2026-02-10 04:51:13+00:00
It's hilarious that the Chinese, plus a whole boat load of other countries, plus a bunch of individuals and groups, all have access to the communications spying system.

At this point the only person without access to it is you!

It blows my mind that some individuals have allowed politicians to put these systems in place to spy on everyone.

The only purpose for these spy devices is to collect blackmail and wait until the person either becomes either important or the government wants to do parallel construction on a court case.

There is absolutely no need for anyone to spy on another persons conversation. We have had encrypted messaging for many years and the world keeps turning.
by Klaus23 | 2026-02-10 04:51:26+00:00
If you are referring to the alert stage of the emergency braking system, triggering it should be rare if you drive reasonably well. It is also most likely a situation in which you could benefit from a little more braking force.

If you decide to swerve, the additional weight at the front will help you to initiate the turn, and good systems will then reduce the braking force at the right moment to give you the most traction when cornering.
by BalinKing | 2026-02-10 04:51:51+00:00
There are various theories about what's actually happening in quantum mechanics. Some theories have hidden variables, in which case the issue is simply one of measurement (i.e. there really is an "objectively correct" value, but it only looks to us like there isn't).[0] However, this is not known to be the case, and many theories really do claim that position and momentum fundamentally cannot both be well-defined at once. (The "default" Copenhagen interpretation is in the latter camp; AFAIK it's convenient in practice, and as a result it's implicitly assumed in introductory QM classes.)

[0] Well, and the hidden variables are non-local, which is a whole 'nother can of highly non-intuitive worms.
by dataflow | 2026-02-10 04:52:13+00:00
FYI, very recently (as in this has been in the news the past few days, and the article is from December) an article was published that suggested we might already have experimental evidence for dark matter being primordial black holes, though there are reasons to doubt it as well.
I just posted the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955545

But this might be easier to read: https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/did-astronomers-...
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-10 04:53:27+00:00
> all it did was lure western companies to move their production over and "learned" by copying

Yeah, and they fell for it. Handed over all their intellectual "property" to the chinese on a silver platter. Moved all their production to China, thereby deindustrializing their countries and impoverishing their fellow citizens to the point of nearly wiping out the middle class.

I wonder if it's even possible for the west to save itself at this point.
by articulatepang | 2026-02-10 04:54:13+00:00
One technical point about resonance: the fourth-power law only applies when the driving frequency (i.e., the frequency of visible light) is far below the resonant frequency (which is in the UV region of the spectrum). The approximation breaks down the closer you get to the resonant frequency and also above.

I was confused about how a monotonic function (f^4) could possibly describe a resonance phenomenon (which ought to have a strong local extremum), and this is the answer.
by skinnymuch | 2026-02-10 04:54:16+00:00
“Used for a specific thing”. Democracy doesn’t mean liberalism. You can’t take a word and make up a meaning. Democracy is a govt that is the will of the people. China is quite literally democratic per that definition. While Europe and the west are not at all.

Also electoralism isn’t democracy. The west is not the entire world. What the west says does not make things so.
by albatross79 | 2026-02-10 04:55:21+00:00
Why are we even trying to look deeper? To fit our mathematical curves better? Abstract spacetime, fields, virtual particles, wave function collapse, quantized energy, wave particle duality, etc. This is all BS. And I'm not disputing the theories or the experimental results. These concepts are unintelligible. They are self contradictory. They are not even abstractions, they are mutually exclusive paradigms forced together into a bewilderment. I'm not disputing that the math fits the observations. But these are not explanations. If this is what it's come to, all we can expect from here on is to better fit the math to the observation. And in the end, an equation that tells us nothing about what we really wanted to know, like "what is it really"? Nobody is going to be satisfied with an equation, so why are we still funding this enterprise, for better lasers to kill bad guys?
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-10 04:55:51+00:00
A key aspect is being able to read the geology of the ore body. That is still more of an art than a science. If you are a nerd, it is actually super-interesting. Not too hard to pick up if you have the interest. It isn’t for the casual investor though. In the US there is a regulatory thicket you have to get through to develop it, and it often isn’t cheap, which factors into the value of the minerals.

I built a small catalog of ore deposits primarily by hiking deep into areas of the US mountain west that no one has gone into, albeit not for the purposes of prospecting. There is still quite a bit out there. Mostly gold-copper ores in my case.
by vo2maxer | 2026-02-10 04:55:54+00:00
It’s frustrating to the point that I have considered inserting grammatical errors, but that would go against my principles, which I have attempted to inculcate in my children. Yes, a significant amount of what’s posted is copied and pasted AI slop. But what in the world preceded this? Barely legible slop? I would much rather have someone craft their thoughts, run them through their preferred model, and write something coherent that is not marred by punctuation or basic elementary grammar errors. And you know what, the hell with the AI slop police. Yes, if we choose to use em dashes, we will.
by deaux | 2026-02-10 04:56:19+00:00
> Hilariously, both great places to raise kids if you stick to the main attractions.

I haven't heard of many examples of people having profoundly positive impacts on the world being raised in either of those two countries. Of course, this will be impacted by their size and in the case of Dubai, it's recent ascendancy. Still, it makes me very wary of that claim.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-10 04:56:20+00:00
Sometimes code review is so fast it's literally instant (because people aren't actually reading the code).

I think it's one of those sort of, dunno, wink wink situations where we all know that doing real in depth code reviews would take way more time than the managers will give (and generally isn't worth it anyways) so we just scan for obvious things and whatever happens to interact with our particular speciality in the code base.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-10 04:56:30+00:00
And the name of the company which is doing this?

The Li that comes out of the process you describe wouldn't be recycled. It would still be mostly exhausted. Specifically, something we don't understand about the structure of their electrons causes the batteries made with such material to have a far lower capacity than if you used freshly mined Lithium. My source is a Material Engineering class at MIT.
by jaggederest | 2026-02-10 04:56:31+00:00
You're describing existing behavior of codex and claude at the moment, for what it's worth. They don't always catch every edge case (or even most) in depth or discuss things thoroughly, depending on the prompt, but if you say "ask questions and be sure to clarify any ambiguity or technical issues" they'll run right through many of the outstanding concerns.
by HorizonXP | 2026-02-10 04:56:59+00:00
If folks are interested, @antirez has opened a C implementation of Voxtral Mini 4B here: https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c

I have my own fork here: https://github.com/HorizonXP/voxtral.c where I’m working on a CUDA implementation, plus some other niceties. It’s working quite well so far, but I haven’t got it to match Mistral AI’s API endpoint speed just yet.
by epsilonsalts | 2026-02-10 04:57:08+00:00
Yeah that's the outcome theorized by Gödel.

Incompleteness is inherent to our understanding as the universe is too vast and endless for us to ever capture a holistic model of all the variables.

Gödel says something specific about human axiomatic systems, akin to a special relativity, but it generalizes to physical reality too. A written system is made physical writing it out, and never complete. Demonstrates that our grasp of physical systems themselves is always incomplete.
by ggm | 2026-02-10 04:57:12+00:00
I'm not qualified to say. But, because of inductive reasoning, I have some concern that underneath the next level of "oooh we found the hidden variable" will be a Feynman moment of saying "yea, thats defined by the as-yet unproven hidden-hidden variables, about which much conjecture is being made but no objective evidence exists, but if you fund this very large machine...."
by mpalmer | 2026-02-10 04:57:14+00:00
I'm very puzzled at the positive comments it's getting. It's insanely, discourteously long for the number of distinct ideas in it. There's banal LLM-ish smirking quips, very little personality and a lot of repetition.

There's certainly no personal anecdotes of difficult problems which would go a long way to show the author actually knows their stuff.
by dakolli | 2026-02-10 04:58:54+00:00
I promise you you're just going to continue to light money on fire. Don't fall for this token madness, the bigger your project gets, the less capable the llm will get and the more you spend per request on average. This is literally all marketing tricks by inference providers. Save your money and code it yourself, or use very inexpensive llm methods if you must.

I think we are going to start hearing stories of people going into thousands in CC debt because they were essentially gambling with token usage thinking they would hit some startup jackpot.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-10 05:00:12+00:00
This is a long thread of people talking past each other. The bottom line is simply this: if you want to drive with a larger-than-average following distance (call it whatever you want, a safety buffer, a "proper" following distance, the point is it is a distance less than the average following distance of the other drivers on the road) then you have to accept that you will not be able to drive at the same speed as the other traffic on the road. It's physically impossible. It can be psychologically frustrating because you see all the cars around you moving at X mph but your self-imposed constraints mean you can only make way at (X minus Y) mph. But them's the breaks, no pun intended
by colechristensen | 2026-02-10 05:00:12+00:00
Classical physics was indeed "good enough for all practical purposes" as well at the time... but those didn't include electronics, nuclear power, most all basic understanding of materials, chemistry, and just a tremendous amount of things.

The point being it's not at all clear what we might be missing without these impractical little mysteries that so far are very distant from every day life.
by thayne | 2026-02-10 05:00:29+00:00
So that argues against including CAs that don't issue server authentication cerificates. That's somewhat reasonable, although it does put non-browser use cases in an awkward position, since there isn't currently a standard distribution channel for trusted CAs that is independent of browsers.

But prohibiting certs from being marked for client usage is mostly unrelated to that goal because:

1. There are many non-web use cases for certificates that are only used for server authentication. And

2. There are use cases where it makes sense to use the same certificate used for web PKI as a client with mTLS to another server using web PKI, especially for federated communication.
by deaux | 2026-02-10 05:01:16+00:00
You quoted "reasonable", but nothing what you said has any effect on reasonableness.

If someone warns you that they're going to murder you if you post another 5 comments on HackerNews, and keeps you up-to-date with every comment you make, nothing about those warnings makes the subsequent murder after your 5th comment more reasonable than if they hadn't given those warnings.
by bitwize | 2026-02-10 05:01:23+00:00
StrongDM is doing it. In fact, their Attractor agentic loop, which generates, tests, and deploys code written as specs, has been released—as a spec, not code. Their installation instructions are pretty much "feed this into your LLM". They are building out not only complete applications, but test harnesses for those applications that clone popular web apps like Slack and JIRA, with no humans in the loop beyond writing the initial spec and giving final approval to deploy.

We're witnessing a "horses to automobile" moment in software development. Programming, as a professional discipline, is going to be over in a year or two on the outside. We're getting the "end of software engineering in six months" before we're getting a real "year of the Linux desktop". Or GTA VI.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-10 05:02:38+00:00
>I'd follow the drivers in front of me too closely

Best trick for managing this is to "drive through" the car in front of you. That is, judge your following distance based not on the car in front of you, but on the car in front of THEM.

And you don't have to "drive through" all the way down the road - it only takes one car/one level of abstraction for this approach to yield really great benefits, try it if you don't believe me.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-02-10 05:02:47+00:00
Handy is awesome! and easy to fork. I highly recommend building it from source and submitting PRs if there are any features you want. The author is highly responsive and open to vibe-coded PRs as long as you do a good job. (Obviously you should read the code and stand by it before you submit a PR, but I just mean he doesn't flatly reject all AI code like some other projects do.) I submitted a PR recently to add an onboarding flow to Macs that just got merged, so now I'm hooked
by stryan | 2026-02-10 05:04:10+00:00
Steam Group Chats are sort of there; no video chat but text chats and drop-in voice chats like Discord. On the other hand they're basically ephemeral, with messages disappearing from history at some given point.

I also can't figure out a way to access them outside of the Steam client and in DOTA where I believe they're tied to the in-game guild system.
by gmurphy | 2026-02-10 05:04:17+00:00
When we designed Chrome, since minimalism was our thing and screens used to be small, A LOT of time was spent on the total vertical space - thin titlebar, slightly bigger tabstrip, and a large toolbar. Lots of discussion, lots of questions

Telling people the height ratios between them followed the golden ratio was a very convenient way to shortcut the bikeshedding and get to "aha, very nice"

The trick was it didn't follow the golden ratio at all because the golden ratio is not some magic number that leads to balance and peace - lighting, rounding, color, and visual strength all dramatically outweigh it
by voidhorse | 2026-02-10 05:04:27+00:00
Of course. But while the lawmakers hash out the details it's good to have companies that err on the safe side rather than the "get rich quick" side.

Formal restrains and regulations are obviously the correct mechanism, but no world is perfect, so whether we like it or not ourselves and the companies we work for are ultimately responsible for the decisions we make and the harms we cause.

De-emphasizing ethics does little more than give large companies cover to do bad things (often with already great impunity and power) while the law struggles to catch up. I honestly don't see the point in suggesting ethics is somehow not important. It doesn't make any sense to me (more directed at gp than parent here)
by thomaspeterson | 2026-02-10 05:04:32+00:00
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by cookiengineer | 2026-02-10 05:05:07+00:00
The problem with XMPP is that it's a suite of RFCs.

It's like describing DNS, which is a conglomerate of RFCs so complex that it's unlikely to be implemented correctly and completely.

XMPP is a design fail in that regard, because if you have to tell your chat contacts to download a different client that fulfills OMEMO or XEP-whatever specs, then yeah, ain't gonna happen for most people.

(I am still a proponent of XMPP, but the working groups need to get their shit together to unify protocol support across clients)
by refactor_master | 2026-02-10 05:06:04+00:00
I think it's meant to be taken more in the abstract. Yes, LLM can refuse your request, and yes you can ask it to prepend "have you checked that it already exists?", but it can't directly challenge your super long-range assumptions the same way as another person saying at the standup "this unrelated feature already does something similar, so maybe you can modify it to accomplish both the original goal and your goal", or they might say "we have this feature coming up, which will solve your goal". Without proper alignment you're just churning out duplicate code at a faster rate now.
by hakken306 | 2026-02-10 05:06:39+00:00
In space, there is only direct sunlight. On Earth, you have to consider illumination from the whole sky.

On Earth, the sun's disc at noon appears yellow-ish due to being white minus some blue light scattered away by the atmosphere. But there is also the rest of the sky illuminating the ground, as you can still easily see in shadowed areas. That is blue light from the sky hemisphere.

It very approximately adds back up to white overall for something exposed to direct sun and the whole sky, depending on the sun's position in the sky.
by wamatt | 2026-02-10 05:07:22+00:00
Annnd I’m old enough to remember last weeks Superbowl ad controversy :)

It’s not like “OpenAI == AI”

One could possibly make the case that currently that is the public perception (outside the SV bubble). But is it really true?

Last time I checked Dario staked Anthropic’s future and reputation, on paid subscription.
by iterance | 2026-02-10 05:08:31+00:00
Platforms lose momentum when these events strike, and momentum loss is the death knell for social platforms. Reddit's missteps have put it on a downward spiral. They may hang on, even for an impressively long time, but recovery from this point is very difficult and usually involves transforming or re-forming the vision.

It can be done. It takes the right leaders. Most are unfit for this particular challenge.
by oehpr | 2026-02-10 05:08:35+00:00
err... really?

Soooo youtube premium costs $13 CAD, You're saying that google would make MORE money off me if I cancelled that, turned off my ad blocker and just watched videos with the ads?

For things like LLM the inference cost is higher than it is to deliver a video.

What you just said was shocking to me. Absolutely shocking. Where can I find more information?
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by OneMorePerson | 2026-02-10 05:09:20+00:00
This is a case of a list of facts that are pretty meaningless.

For most countries they say you get leave, but it doesn't count for part time workers, or contractors obviously, or people like farmers who are outside the typical work system. Further in reality enforcement is incredibly spotty, some countries have a history of making laws without any intention of enforcement just for show.

Most every white collar job in the US that I've ever heard of has ~2+ weeks vacation per year, it's necessary to get any employees so there's no need to make a law about it.

Meanwhile certain countries on that list work 6-7 days a week, so the 5-10 mandated days off really aren't what they seem.

It's incredibly obvious that places like the EU handle vacation stuff way better than the US and it's well known around the world for that, but pretending that the US has the worst working conditions is insulting to places where people are putting up with way worse conditions.
by hibikir | 2026-02-10 05:10:16+00:00
it's also a good opportunity to find yourself something that doesn't actually help the company. My unit has a 100% AI automated code review KPI. Nothing there says that the tool used for the review is any good, or that anyone pays attention to said automated review, but some L5 is going to get a nice bonus either way.

In my experience, KPIs that remain relevant and end up pushing people in the right direction are the exception. The unethical behavior doesn't even require a scheme, but it's often the natural result of narrowing what is considered important.If all I have to care about is this set of 4 numbers, everything else is someone else's problem.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-10 05:10:35+00:00
This. My mental image of Singapore was always boring guys in suits working for soulless banks. At least Wall Street bankers go wild on drugs and know how to party. Singapore bankers are men who, when feeling adventurous, have a sip of wine here and there and women who push dogs in strollers.

Having been to Singapore many times, I've realized my mental image was pretty accurate. There's no real art scene and even mentioning anything that slightly goes against the grain of Singapore's tight, tidy, and strict regimens doesn't just not appeal to the people, it'll actively infuriate them. A hint of rebellious nature defines cool. Singapore doesn't have a single drop of that within its entire national borders.

It's like North Korea with money and good PR. At least a lot of North Koreans sneak in a little rebellion when they know nobody is watching, even if it's minor stuff like watching illegal foreign TV shows. Singapore is the type of place where your neighbors would report you if such a thing became illegal, instead of saying "Hey bro, let me borrow those DVDs after you're done." It's a great place to make money. Then once you have it, leave to live a little.

The country is so against cool it even has a designated free speech corner that doesn't allow free speech and had its usage hours limited from 7 AM to 7 PM and limits speech to 4 languages only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner,_Singapore
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-10 05:10:43+00:00
I can cherry pick a worse republican run city easily, despite you picking pretty much the worst example of Democratic run city, that despite its problem is also is home to many tech companies with a strong economy.

I dunno why you guys even try to argue against Dems at this point tbh. Even if I am wrong on that point, there are a thousand others that demonstrably show that Republican policies and politicians, especially during this administration, are many times worse.
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-10 05:10:58+00:00
Honestly for research level math, the reasoning level of Gemini 3 is much below GPT 5.2 in my experience--but most of the failure I think is accounted for by Gemini pretending to solve problems it in fact failed to solve, vs GPT 5.2 gracefully saying it failed to prove it in general.