MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by appreciatorBus | 2026-02-12 23:09:31+00:00
Depends whether or not the city allows other neighbourhoods to exist/grow/change. If the total floorspace in the city is fixed in regulations, then ofc anything done to improve conditions will hurt people on the bottom. The people who can afford a "revitalized neighbourhood" would happily live in brand new housing built on top of land in the nearby mansion district, displacing no one, but city planners do not allow that - new apartments can only be added to the city stock by destroying old ones, new store floorspace can only be added by destroying old etc. This forces everyone to play musical chairs with too few chairs and the only winners are those who own the chairs.
by amluto | 2026-02-12 23:09:59+00:00
> And sometimes it changed the existing code base to make its new code "pass", when it actually should fix its own code instead.

I haven’t tried MiniMax, but GPT-5.2-Codex has this problem. Yesterday I watched it observe a Python type error (variable declared with explicit incorrect type — fix was trivial), and it added a cast. (“cast” is Python speak for “override typing for this expression”.) I told it to fix it for real and not use cast. So it started sprinkling Any around the program (“Any” is awful Python speak for “don’t even try to understand this value and don’t warn either”).
by jsheard | 2026-02-12 23:10:00+00:00
It covers more than that, but it's not strictly mandatory.

> Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting.

> Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.

> Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users.

> Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know.

> Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.
by thwarted | 2026-02-12 23:10:53+00:00
> "You’re better than this" "you made it about you." "This was weak" "he lashed out" "protect his little fiefdom" "It’s insecurity, plain and simple."

Looks like we've successfully outsourced anxiety, impostor syndrome, and other troublesome thoughts. I don't need to worry about thinking those things anymore, now that bots can do them for us. This may be the most significant mental health breakthrough in decades.
by Joker_vD | 2026-02-12 23:10:54+00:00
My apologies, it should've been (if you insist on indentation)

let a, b, c = 0, 1, 0
fb_start:
writen(a)
b +:= a
a :=
b - a
c +:= 1
if c < 100 do
goto fb-start

Would you care to elaborate about brackets helping with tracking the order of execution? I'm really curious about that part.
by Based-A | 2026-02-12 23:11:11+00:00
In the immediate order of things yeah, tenants aren't going to receive any relief from taxing land. The benefit lies in the second, or maybe even third order of effects that LVT produces.

Do we want the landlords to just sit on all of that value they're accumulating or do we want to take in more tax revenue (not a higher tax rate) as their land value increases and then do something for the common good with that additional tax revenue? Maybe tax relief for businesses, or social programs that reduce the cost of living for the workers. Or even better, encourage the landowner to further develop their land to get a better return, potentially benefitting tenants and the nearby community? Because that's what LVT does, or at the very least enables.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-02-12 23:11:16+00:00
I appreciate that answer, it makes sense that it is based on the country. What I'm hoping to avoid is having to give my actual identity to all services on the internet. It will just allow terrible monitoring and oversight that isn't helpful for democracy. I don't trust the current us administration to know everything I say, everything I do, I don't really trust any government to have that power (and I want to stop crime and abuse..). I like some privacy. We are heading to that already with the Texas and Florida age requirements on the internet today.

This matrix discussion here is missing the point - many people don't want ubiquitous tracking of everything we do on the internet. You and matrix are seemingly not honestly addressing that point, because matrix doesn't seem different discord (in the requirements).
by austinbaggio | 2026-02-12 23:11:39+00:00
For most tasks, I agree. One agent with a good harness wins. The case for multiple agents is when the context required to solve the problem exceeds what one agent can hold. This Putnam problem needed more working context than fits in a single window. Decomposing into subgoals lets each agent work with a focused context instead of one agent suffocating on state. Ideally, multi-agent approaches shouldn't add more overall complexity, but there needs to be better tooling for observation etc, as you describe.
by strogonoff | 2026-02-12 23:11:56+00:00
There’s a lot of ground between “imitate” and “understand the subject from its first assumptions”. Arguably, the former is how all learning happens at first. We imitate to get a taste for it and start enjoying it (humans are mirrors), then we can dig deeper if we become sufficiently interested. You can hardly become truly interested in music if you are presented with all the music theory up front and don’t get to have fun playing the instrument; same with math.

Even if someone never becomes sufficiently interested to dig deeper into some academic subject and sticks to imitating, I wouldn’t say they are somehow worse and have no awareness. They may have other interests and joys in life, there’s many fulfilling things outside academia. Why would you expect everybody to be like you?
by pc86 | 2026-02-12 23:12:02+00:00
> Retailers take on all the risk, put in the work to revitalize a neighbourhood, and their reward is that when lease renewal comes up in 10 years, it spikes and they're faced with a choice of being displaced or handing over an enormously increased part of their margins to the landlord which has done literally nothing.

This happens on the personal side as well, where property tax rates are artificially depressed - or more accurately, subsidized - until the property changes hands. When we bought our nearly 30 year old house that had had zero improvements, additions, or renovations since initial construction, our property tax bill increased 300% and has since "stabilized" to +10% a year.

What is truly insidious about this is that it's impossible to guess or estimate until you've already purchased the home, and by then it's too late to do anything about it except complain at the courthouse, which might get you a year's abatement if you're lucky.

If we let property taxes just be whatever they "should" be without penalizing home-buying in the process you could at least know what you'd be paying rather than having to factor in a 3-5x increase.
by bojan | 2026-02-12 23:12:02+00:00
The EU and the UK took over aiding Ukraine almost completely in 2025 [1]. So not as unthinkable as you'd think.

> That's why euro leaders have been kowtowing to Trump despite him being a deranged lunatic.

Less to do with economy, more with security. Europe still needs a credible deterrent against Russia, and the US is still its best bet.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fl...
by worldsayshi | 2026-02-12 23:12:20+00:00
Yeah, I mean that is definitely an additional hard nut to crack.

I also think it has potential (partial) solutions. I'm thinking that there are many ways to prove identity information. You could use something like tlsnotary to prove that you can log in to a certain web page (i.e. you are an employee of corp X). You can prove that you know someone that know person Y given certain encrypted data.

I just think that Zero-knowledge-proofs are very under explored. As I understand it, and I am not an expert - more or less anything that can be proven algorithmically can be turned into a zkp. Any question that algorithmically can have a yes or no answer can also avoid leaking further information if handled in a zkp way.

I just learned like a few basic examples of zkp and I realized that so many proofs can be made this way.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-12 23:13:05+00:00
I think we'll always have multiple options providing similar levels of service, like we do with Uber and Lyft.

Unlike Uber and Lyft, the price of inference continues to go down as datacenter capacity comes online and compute hardware gets more powerful.

So I think we'll always have affordable LLM services.

I do think the obsession with prices of the entry-level plans is a little odd. $20/month is nothing relative to the salaries people using these tools receive. HN is full of warnings that prices are going to go up in the future, but what's that going to change for software developers? Okay, so my $20/month plan goes to $40/month? $60/month? That's still less than I pay for internet access at home.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-12 23:13:06+00:00
It's almost never a coincidence. Before digital switching everything was done mechanically, and before mechanical switching everything was done by people with plugs. If you have a big enough industry like telephone switching equipment then you're bound to see a lot of suppliers expand their market by selling the same parts outside of their home industry. Current flow is a nice signalling mechanism because you can tell the difference between short, open, and functional circuit. So I'm guessing it got used in telephone switching equipment and then preserved because there was no reason to change.
by appreciatorBus | 2026-02-12 23:13:12+00:00
The physical store is not the "means of production" in urban areas, but a closer analog is the piece of paper that allows a given square foot of floorspace (for any use) the right to exist within the city for a given period of time. You could call this piece of paper a floorspace factory, since it's the limiting factor. Somehow we have decided it's best to have as few floorspace factories as possible.
by gigatexal | 2026-02-12 23:13:55+00:00
Nick Offerman wants to have a word with you. Given the choice of building my own furniture and things or IKEA and I had the skills I’d go the build it myself route. It’s doable. It was before. And it still is. All we got now is super duper capable auto correct and text completion. Use it for what it is. Don’t let it replace you.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-12 23:14:05+00:00
how many retail storefronts do you think Phil Levin and Ben Southwood have started?

how many retailers do you think they've talked to? rents could drop to zero, and people would still be buying more shit off amazon than from stores. i can't comprehend how they can go from talking about amazon being the cause of foot traffic reductions, and then the non sequiter comes, "We risk losing something that makes cities what they are, because we don’t have a good model for letting retail capture the value it creates."

hospitality is a different thing entirely. rents could drop to zero, and restaurants and hotels will still be going out of business due to reduced conference tourism. and anyway, they are alcohol (drugs) businesses. they make profit from alcohol. the food, the concept, all that stuff is a hook for alcohol.
by stock_toaster | 2026-02-12 23:14:06+00:00
> I'll want to communicate something to my team. I'll write 4 bullet points, plug it into an LLM, which will produce a flowing, multi paragraph e-mail. I'll distribute it to my co-workers. They will each open the e-mail, see the size, and immediately plug it into an LLM asking it to make a 4 bullet summary of what I've sent. Somewhere off in the distance a lake will dry up.

All while both sides were charged per token for processing. This is _the dream_ of these AI firms.
by Bender | 2026-02-12 23:14:12+00:00
I use link [1] all the time. It comes pre-compiled for many Linux distributions but not installed by default. And yeah like I said it needs cipher updates like was recently performed in OpenSSH. HN has a handful of cryptographic nerds that could update OTR in their sleep if they so desired maybe even rewrite in Rust but being cryptographic nerds they probably have no need. If the same is true with cryptographers as is with car mechanics and plumbers they probably only use plain text as mechanics have broken down cars in their yards and some plumbers have old leaky pipes due to burn out.
by therobots927 | 2026-02-12 23:14:14+00:00
Here you go. “Supreme Court said ICE can stop you based on race, accent, job and location.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/10/immi...

Your vocabulary indicates that this information will go right above your head and I anticipate a lot of illogical rationalization in response so this is more for the edification of others reading.
by mrbungie | 2026-02-12 23:14:19+00:00
My late grandma learnt how to use an iPad by herself during her 70s to 80s without any issues, mostly motivated by her wish to read her magazines, doomscroll facebook and play solitaire. Her last job was being a bakery cashier in her 30s and she didn't learn how to use a computer in-between, so there was no skill transfer going on.

Humans and their intelligence are actually incredible and probably will continue to be so, I don't really care what tech/"think" leaders wants us to think.
by gpm | 2026-02-12 23:14:51+00:00
The invite-tree they discuss is likely an effective measure. It provides a way of tracking back influxes of bots to responsible pre-existing account(s) and banning them too. And if someone is responsible for inviting many of the pre-existing accounts them too... Making the game of whac-a-mole winnable.

I'm assuming it's equivalent to lobste.rs implementation: https://lobste.rs/about#invitations

The cost of this is adding a ton of friction to joining.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-12 23:14:54+00:00
>Professionals said they wanted lighter tools (and that's true), but the constraint they experienced as a result of weight was the impacts that had. So you can solve for weight, or you can solve for improved usability.

"I want a lighter hammer, smaller bags of concrete, etc" Drake turning away --> "I want a heavy hammer with a long handle, and big bags plus a dolly/block & tackle" Drake nodding in approval
by tamimio | 2026-02-12 23:14:56+00:00
Assuming this platform ever get popular, it will succumb to the same problems that we see everyday on social media, botting, shilling, manipulation, fear tactics, celebrity following, you name it, and I am not sure we can get rid of these on a technical level, rather, on culture and education levels.

Also, the graph feature, it seems a bit suspicious, it feels like it will be used to see where the majority of opinions about something then used by candidates to manipulate the public about the XYZ popular opinion, which is affirming our current politics right now, instead of actual leadership that changes the public opinion. It’s similar to those YouTubers who usually start with decent contents only later to change it to title clickbait cringy ones because they are following the audience.
by sanyam-khurana | 2026-02-12 23:15:10+00:00
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by not_your_vase | 2026-02-12 23:15:30+00:00
What is not clear for me, is the purpose of this project. What I could find is that it wants to be a drop-in replacement of PanVK. But since PanVK exists, I fail to see the point. Is PanVK similar to xserver, that is not salvageable? Or is it just RiiR? That's also a fine reason, but I'd expect that more for personal hobby projects.
by srinifromsalem | 2026-02-12 23:17:03+00:00
Nice work on the speech-to-speech pipeline! You're absolutely right that it has to go through the text intermediate step - that's actually where a lot of the interesting processing can happen.

I've found that the speech->text->speech approach gives you much more control over the output quality. The text intermediate step lets you clean up transcription errors, adjust tone, and even restructure the content before converting back to speech.

Have you experimented with different text processing steps in between? I've been building something similar at voicevoyage.io focused on that middle text processing layer - turning raw transcriptions into polished content before the final output.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-12 23:17:26+00:00
My point isn't about blame, it's about what should we do differently. And I'm focusing on the left because the left is the side that cares most about climate change. I'm suggesting that the things the left has done to fight climate change have not only not worked but have made things worse (in the sense that the electorate is so polarized).

If blaming Elon or Trump or conservatives in general could solve climate change, then it would have been solved. That's why I'm not interested in blame--not because they don't deserve it but because it's not going to help.
by splix | 2026-02-12 23:17:37+00:00
That may sound strange, but it turns out I don't use WASM as well. Last time I touched this part was ~8 month ago, and WASM was just one of the experiments, and I forgot about this. Just remember it was hard to find a right approach initially, on how to execute JS without NodeJS environment. But with a right set of polyfills it works now.

Anyway, I see we have a bit different approaches on how to handle JS part, and I could get some ideas from that.
by hobofan | 2026-02-12 23:18:05+00:00
> The raison d’être of SEC is to protect regular mom-and-pop investors

That's not the sole reason. They (should) also enforce a fair even playing field by preventing market manipulation (e.g. how Elon was tweeting about stock prices) and a few other things to "facilitate efficient markets and the formation of capital".

> Why should SEC rules apply?

Because private companies still fall under the jurisdiction of the SEC? See e.g. Theranos.

> On what legal basis can you force a private company to divulge its financial details?

On the to-be-created legal basis that aims to prevent bubble formation and the resulting fallout to the wider society?

> Would you be happy if you, as an individual, have to divulge your account statements if your own net wealth reaches one million?

Sure, why not? It's not a totally unheard of idea. In Norway everyones salary can be looked up.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 23:18:37+00:00
What Trump proved was that prior administrations simply chose not to enforce the immigration laws. Last year was the lowest number of border crossings since 1970, a nearly 90% reduction compared to 2022: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/02/migrant-e... https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/02/migrant-e.... It was accomplished by simply choosing to enforce the law.
by Spivak | 2026-02-12 23:18:39+00:00
It's not rationalizing, this is what they mean. It's always been meat, specifically beef. And policy wise it's opposed to laws and initiatives that end subsidies for beef, seek to discourage red meat consumption, or account for the environmental impact of beef production.

They framed it as a the war on protein so that any bill concerned with beef could be countered with, "so you're against protein rich diets for Americans?!" Not only are the liberals going to take away your steak but now they're also responsible for the health crisis as well as why our men aren't tough and strong.

Don't accept bad faith framing.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 23:18:54+00:00
i think what you're describing is actually the more interesting problem this tool accidentally surfaces. it's not really about comments being good or bad, it's about the gap between what you want to be doing and what you find yourself doing.

most tools in this space treat it as a willpower problem: block the bad thing, problem solved. but the compulsion you're describing is a signal, not a bug. the boredom and loneliness without comments suggests the underlying need is real, it's just being met in a low quality way.

i've been thinking about this a lot in the context of attention generally. the tools that actually help aren't the ones that block things, they're the ones that make you more aware of the pattern so you can consciously choose. realizing you've been reading youtube comments for 20 minutes is fundamentally different from having youtube comments blocked. one builds a skill, the other is a crutch you'll uninstall in a week.
by chr1 | 2026-02-12 23:19:03+00:00
That is the same argument proponents of planned economy use. It doesn't work in reality because no one knows what other people need and no one cares. Representatives care about being reelected, but they have a very hard time figuring out what people want of them because vote ones in 4 years, or angry people on social media is too unreliable channel of communication.

More direct voting allows representatives to better represent people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy so it is a part of the first issue too.
by movedx | 2026-02-12 23:19:19+00:00
I’m going to do a video on this soon, but I was able to get Ergo IRCd and TheLounge up and running pretty quickly; https://chat.crilly.au/

I’ll be building a new platform on these two technologies and using Zoom or something else like Jitsi on the side for video/audio sharing.

It’s time accept the loss of “features” and go back to something simpler but also something that can still be here in 38 years — like IRC has been.
by dcre | 2026-02-12 23:19:35+00:00
Not a serious test, but I tried M2.5 briefly in OpenCode on a very simple task equivalent to the last commit or two here[0] and it was really, really bad. This is a 250 line self-contained standalone script and what it does is very simple. M2.5 would have required far more detailed prompting to get me the result Opus 4.6 can do with the vaguest hints.

[0]: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/console/pull/3070/commits
by kjksf | 2026-02-12 23:19:53+00:00
Tesla never had lidar so they didn't abandon it.

Also, Tesla started FSD in 2016. The very core of their strategy was (and is) to sell $40k car with hardware capable of running FSD.

Cameras are super cheap, FSD chip is reasonably inexpensive. Lidar is not. Maybe today the cost isn't completely prohibitive (I think it still is, because you need multiple lidars) but it certainly was for the first 8 years of FSD program.

Tesla just didn't have the luxury of adding $50k to the cost of the car for the hardware, the way Waymo did. And they didn't have sugar daddy (Google) willing to burn several billions a year for many years.

So the Waymo approach was not an option for Tesla.

And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly.