MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aabajian | 2026-02-13 06:07:05+00:00
Claude set up my whole backend on AWS. That includes a load balancer, web server, email server, three application servers, and a bastion server to connect to their VPN.

It configured everything by writing an AWS Terraform file. Stored all secrets in AWS as well.

Everything I do is on the command line with Claude running in Visual Studio Code. I have a lot of MacOS X / Ubuntu Linux command line experience. Watching Claude work is like watching myself working. It blew my mind the first time it connected through the bastion to individual AWS instances to run scripts and check their logs.

So yeah, the same Claude Code instance that configured the backend is running inside a terminal in VS Code where I’m developing the frontend. Backend is Django/Python. Frontend is Flutter/Dart. Claude set up the WebSocket in Django/Gunicorn and the WebSocket in Flutter.

It also walked me through the generation of keys to configure push notifications on iOS. You have to know something about public/private key security, but that amounts to just generating the files in the right formats (PEM vs P12).
by mj2718 | 2026-02-13 06:07:13+00:00
I made this tool so that you can have a pipeline that looks like the following:
planner -> implementer -> reviewer

Running for a number of iterations/loops, where it keeps building like a perpetual motion machine.

I used it for 4 hours to build this to 80% - https://github.com/mj1618/ruckus
Before I dropped down into prompt mode and added some features that I wanted (e.g. themes).
But essentially you can just set this pipeline up with a plan and let it run for days on-end building you a product that you want.

A desktop application is in-bound.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-13 06:09:10+00:00
This benchmark outcome is actually really impressive given the difficulty of this task. It shows that this particular model manages to "think" coherently and maintain useful information in its context for what has to be an insane overall amount of tokens, likely across parallel "thinking" chains. Likely also has access to SVG-rendering tools and can "see" and iterate on the result via multimodal input.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-02-13 06:09:19+00:00
Yea it's been butchering relatively easy to moderate tasks for me even with reasoning set to high. I am hoping it's just tuning that needs to be done since they've had to port it to a novel architecture.

If instead the model is performing worse due to how much they had to shrink it just so it will fit on Cerebras hardware, then we might be in for a long wait for the next gen of ginormous chips.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-13 06:09:22+00:00
Can anyone else not see the photo of Waymo Driver's camera? I'm so interested but it doesn't seem to be showing up for me on iOS...

The image caption reads:

Compared to a traditional automotive camera (right), the 6th-generation Waymo Driver camera (left) delivers significantly higher resolution at cost parity, allowing the system to make better-informed driving decisions.

but the image itself for me is blank.
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-13 06:10:44+00:00
> I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site.

That’s a you problem.

You can either tell or you can’t. I don’t know what to say other than some people have this way of thinking intrinsic and some do not. I’m not sure it can be trained. The moderators of HN do appear to have it, Dan certainly does: I’ve had a few direct interactions with him. Tom I don’t know, never interacted with them.
by eviks | 2026-02-13 06:12:17+00:00
> Using a trackpad gesture is just as quick

Definitely not, many of swish gestures require you to move the mouse cursor to the title bar, which takes time, also holding a key and performing a simpler gesture can’t be slower than performing a more complicated gesture (which it needs to be to deconflict with regular mouse use)

Also many gestures have a delay built in so you can cancel or double down for a different functionally (close windows vs close app), so it’s slower by design.

> easier

It’s harder because you have to memorize more gestures and perform more complicated ones.

> more spatially natural

That makes no sense, the spatial movements are the same, can you give an example for resizing?

> and only uses one hand.

Yes, that’s the only potential benefit, unless, of course, your other hand is always near a corner, so it doesn’t matter

> I'm not always typing

That's fine, you don't need to type to have your left hand rest near the left near corner of the keyboard (it doesn’t even have to rest on the home row since you only need the corner)

> I'm not modelling 100% of my computer usage after "how to get RSI the fastest"

Well, you're, you've just moved your RSI to your right hand

Also hands have same length, so leaning back doesn't prevent leaving one finger on a modifier

Anyway, place your hands wherever you like them, it’s just that none of your arguments support it.
by enobrev | 2026-02-13 06:12:53+00:00
I watched a video recently, which I can't find, where an architect set up a beautiful wooden baseboard around the entirety of their property, and that baseboard held all mechanicals and was perfectly clean and easy to get into as needed.

Drywall is manageable and cheap, I agree. But it's more painful than it should be for something that _will_ require maintenance.
by KingMob | 2026-02-13 06:13:58+00:00
Intriguing, but I wonder if they've looked at whole-conversation token usage, though, and not just short tasks.

I just saw a [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05447) that investigated similar aspects of TOON (which aims to reduce JSON tokens), and they found that even though TOON itself reduced the number of tokens, LLMs were less familiar with it, and thus spent even more tokens trying to decipher it, or making mistakes (see section 4.5, figures 6 and 7).

From the paper:
>Unlike Markdown, where each grep hit simply returned more text, TOON's overhead was driven by a combination of output density and additional tool calls from pattern unfamiliarity

----
There's a strangeness tax with LLMs, and it can be substantial.

I would not be surprised at all if this technique turned out to be only a local minimum, with detrimental global effects.
Show HN: Phonchain – A Mobile-Native Blockchain Secured by Smartphones (Pop-S4)
by PHONCOIN | 2026-02-13 06:14:00+00:00
Phonchain is a mobile-native blockchain secured by real smartphones via a consensus mechanism called Proof-of-Phone Secure (PoP-S4).

Instead of relying on hashpower or stake, Phonchain uses real device participation as the primary source of security, with up to 30,000 independent mobile participants per block.

The network is currently live with:
- Public explorer
- Gateway/Core node implementation
- Bootstrap/seed endpoints
- Android wallet under Play Store review

Canonical network anchors:
https://github.com/Phoncoin/phoncoin

Reference node software:
https://github.com/Phoncoin/phonchain-node

Network explorer:
https://explorer.phonchain.org/explorer

Technical feedback is welcome.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-02-13 06:15:14+00:00
Not sure what you mean. It IS the same model, just a smaller version of it. And gpt-5.3-codex is a smaller version of gpt-5.3 trained more on code and agentic tasks.

Their naming has been pretty consistent since gpt-5. For example, gpt-5.1-codex-max > gpt-5.1-codex > gpt-5.1-codex-mini.
by paulmooreparks | 2026-02-13 06:15:37+00:00
There is no "should" in the relevant section. It's making a mathematical model of the risks and benefits.

> Now consider a choice between never launching superintelligence or launching it immediately, where the latter carries an % risk of immediate universal death. Developing superintelligence increases our life expectancy if and only if:

> [equation I can't seem to copy]

> In other words, under these conservative assumptions, developing superintelligence increases our remaining life expectancy provided that the probability of AI-induced annihilation is below 97%.
by lmeyerov | 2026-02-13 06:16:38+00:00
I stopped manually writing code 6-9mo ago, and am generating high-quality code on the dimensions we care about like GPU perf benchmarks, internal & industry conformance standards test suites, evals benchmarks, lint/type checkers, etc. It's not perfect code - there are clear AI slop tell tales that review cycles still let linger - but it's doing more ambitious things than we'd do on most dimensions like capability, quality, and volume. We're solving years-old GPU bugs that we had given up on as mere mortals.

And yes, we build our own orchestrator tech, both as our product (not vibes coding but vibes investigating), and more relevant here, our internal tooling. For example, otel & evals increasingly drive our AI coding loops rather than people. Codex and claude code are great agentic coding harnesses, so our 'custom orchestration' work is more about more intelligently using them in richer pipelines, like the above eval-driven loop. They've been pretty steadily adding features like parallel subagents that work in teams, and hookable enough to do most tricks, that I don't feel the need to use others. We're busy enough adapting on our own!
by dsifry | 2026-02-13 06:17:27+00:00
I have been helping people get onboarded with Claude Code and the orchestrator I wrote called Metaswarm [1) and the response has been way beyond my expectations.

But don't take my word for it, try it out for yourself, it is MIT licensed, and you can create new projects with it or add it to an existing project.

[1] https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm
by QuiEgo | 2026-02-13 06:17:32+00:00
A conceivable future:

- Everyone is expected to be able to create a signing keyset that's protected by a Yubikey, Touch ID, Face ID, or something that requires a physical activation by a human. Let's call this this "I'm human!" cert.

- There's some standards body (a root certificate authority) that allow lists the hardware allowed to make the "I'm human!" cert.

- Many webpages and tools like GitHub send you a nonce, and you have to sign it with your "I'm a human" signing tool.

- Different rules and permissions apply for humans vs AIs to stop silliness like this.
by jibal | 2026-02-13 06:19:45+00:00
The usual (e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/j4xo8e/the_univ...) bunch of logical fallacies and unexamined assumptions from Bostrom.

Good philosophers focus on asking piercing questions, not on proposing policy.

> Would it not be wildly
irresponsible, [Yudkowsky and Soares] ask, to expose our entire species to even a 1-in-10 chance of annihilation?

Yes, if that number is anywhere near reality, of which there is considerable doubt.

> However, sound policy analysis must weigh potential benefits alongside the risks of any
emerging technology.

Must it? Or is this a deflection from concern about immense risk?

> One could equally maintain that if nobody builds it, everyone dies.

Everyone is going to die in any case, so this a red herring that misframes the issues.

> The rest of us are on course to follow within a few short decades. For many
individuals—such as the elderly and the gravely ill—the end is much closer. Part of the promise of
superintelligence is that it might fundamentally change this condition.

"might", if one accepts numerous dubious and poorly reasoned arguments. I don't.

> In particular, sufficiently advanced AI could remove or reduce many other
risks to our survival, both as individuals and as a civilization.

"could" ... but it won't; certainly not for me as an individual of advanced age, and almost certainly not for "civilization", whatever that means.

> Superintelligence would be able to enormously accelerate advances in biology and
medicine—devising cures for all diseases

There are numerous unstated assumptions here ... notably an assumption that all diseases are "curable", whatever exactly that means--the "cure" might require a brain transplant, for instance.

> and developing powerful anti-aging and rejuvenation
therapies to restore the weak and sick to full youthful vigor.

Again, this just assumes that such things are feasible, as if an ASI is a genie or a magic wand. Not everything that can be conceived of is technologically possible. It's like saying that with an ASI we could find the largest prime or solve the halting problem.

> These scenarios become realistic and imminent with
superintelligence guiding our science.

So he baselessly claims.

Sorry, but this is all apologetics, not an intellectually honest search for truth.
by gwern | 2026-02-13 06:20:06+00:00
I'm not familiar with 'AWS datasync', but isn't the point of Glacier that it's really expensive and slow if you retrieve everything? It sounds like a bad idea for videos he planned to download in order to catalogue them. (He might want to delete them or could safely infer that 'no, neither me nor my siblings will want to watch this on Christmas Day', yes, but he still has to look at them first since he doesn't know what's on them at all.)
by tekacs | 2026-02-13 06:20:16+00:00
It seems hard to tell what to think of a company that is simultaneously trying to poison the content that it sends to agents [1] and also doing things like this.

I understand their arguments for it - and completely disagree - so I can't help but think that anyone who is on the pro-AI side of things would do well to steer clear of them if possible.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-again...
by longfacehorrace | 2026-02-13 06:21:34+00:00
I know PBC; legal semantics that dictate various financial terms. I also know the specifics because for some reason those specifics matter to some people, and it's been personally beneficial to have more than an awareness of such legalese. Makes true believers feel I am living up to their "one of us!" means testing.

I accept they matter to others but reject such exists as anything but contemporary ethno-objects. Similar to how I acknowledge Christianity exists but am not a disciple of the dogma; I have to accept others believe are but do not have to pledge allegiance myself.

Aside from engineering and healthcare, machine operation, with real safety implications, everything else is all just parroting and social role-play.

Being a VHS copy-paste of generational semantics isn't the flex you want it to be. Patronize harder though.
by enobrev | 2026-02-13 06:22:01+00:00
For sure. I've wired my old house with speakers in every ceiling, and cat-6 in every room. I've had a small pipe burst and a couple leaks behind a bathroom.

I've patched quite a bit of drywall, and I'm about mediocre at it. But it seems so silly and unnecessary to me.

Everything else in this world that requires maintenance comes with access panels and other means of easy access. In our living spaces, some of which should ideally last tens of years (mine is from the 1890s), we seal it all away.
by Aerroon | 2026-02-13 06:22:13+00:00
>In theory, whoever deployed any given agent is responsible for its actions. In practice, finding out whose computer it’s running on is impossible.

This is part of why I think we should reconsider the copyright situation with AI generated output. If we treat the human who set the bot up as the author then this would be no different than if a human had taken these same actions. Ie if the bot makes up something damaging then it's libel, no? And the human would clearly be responsible since they're the "author".

But since we decided that the human who set the whole thing up is not the author, then it's a bit more ambiguous whether the human is actually responsible. They might be able to claim it's accidental.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-13 06:22:18+00:00
I use an electric scooter to get around areas where a car would be inappropriate or undesired. I keep it in the back of my car always (along with my helmet, gloves and goggles) so that I can pull it out when needed.

Pretty convenient when I unexpectedly find myself needing to use a parking garage and such. The scooter can take me out of the parking garage and into the building with no issue. And then I can keep it with me in the building until it's time to get back to the car.

It's also probably cheaper than a golf cart - mine was just about $3,600 brand new. Though used carts are probably cheaper still, and there are also much cheaper scooters.

I actually used to use only an electric scooter for transit, but then I got hit by a pickup truck who didn't check the bike lane before turning. So I did driver's ed, got my license and leased a BEV.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-13 06:22:39+00:00
Actually beef farmers are getting squeezed by the giant packing firms. Beef prices being as high as they are hasn't actually resulted in better living for beef farmers.

(As a native Iowan i am unfortunately more plugged into this than I'd like to be. Don't get me wrong, many beef farmers are sucked into the Fox News machine and shit, but only major corporations are happy with the state of affairs rn)
by overgard | 2026-02-13 06:22:39+00:00
I hate when people say this. SOME engineers didn't care, a lot of us did. There's a lot of "engineers getting a taste of their own medicine" sentiment going around when most of us just like an intellectual job where we get to build stuff. The "disrupt everything no matter the consequences" psychos have always been a minority and I think a lot of devs are sick of those people.

Also 10x salary?! Apparently I missed the gravy train. I think you're throwing a big class of people under the bus because of your perception of a non representative sample
by Serenacula | 2026-02-13 06:24:22+00:00
Have any of you looked at the openclaw commits log? It's all AIs. It's AIs writing commits to improve openclaw and AIs maintaining their own forks of it.

Have a look at this one: https://ember.vecnet.ai/

This is a fucking AI writing about its own personal philosophy of thought, in order to later reference. I found the bot in the openclaw commit logs. There's loads of them there.

Am I wrong to find this scary as hell?
by pests | 2026-02-13 06:26:11+00:00
Wow, that's not bad.

"Walmart InHome is a premium service that delivers groceries and essentials directly into a customer's home (fridge/kitchen) or garage, using trained, vetted Walmart associates. As an add-on to Walmart+, it costs an additional $40/year (or $7/month) to provide unlimited, tip-free, and free-delivery-fee service."

Can even do it when you aren't home.
by avaer | 2026-02-13 06:26:33+00:00
I think people who run 15 agents to write a piece of software could probably use 1 or 2 and a better multi-page prompt and have the same results for a fraction of the cost.

Especially with the latest models which pack quite a long and meaningful horizon into a single session, if you prompt diligently for what exactly you want it to do. Modern agentic coding spins up its own sub-agents when it makes sense to parallelize.

It's just not as sexy as typing a sentence and letting your AI bill go BRR (and then talking about it).

I'd like to see some actual results with a meaningful benchmark of software output that shows that agent orchestrators accomplish any meaningful improvement in the state of the art of software engineering, other than spending more tokens.

Maybe it's time to dredge up the Mythical Man-Month?
by neom | 2026-02-13 06:27:26+00:00
"For AGI and superintelligence (we refrain from imposing precise definitions of these terms, as the considerations in this paper don't depend on exactly how the distinction is drawn)" Hmm, is that true? His models actually depend quite heavily on what the AI can do, "can reduce mortality to 20yo levels (yielding ~1,400-year life expectancy), cure all diseases, develop rejuvenation therapies, dramatically raise quality of life, etc. Those assumptions do a huge amount of work in driving the results. If "AGI" meant something much less capable, like systems that are transformatively useful economically but can't solve aging within a relevant timeframe- the whole ides shifts substantially, surly the upside shrinks and the case for tolerating high catastrophe risk weakens?
by toraway | 2026-02-13 06:27:54+00:00
Huh? AI labs are routinely spending millions to billions to various 3rd party contractors specializing in creating/labeling/verifying specialized content for pre/post-training.

This would just be one more checkbox buried in hundreds of pages of requests, and compared to plenty of other ethical grey areas like copyright laundering with actual legal implications, leaking that someone was asked to create a few dozen pelican images seems like it would be at the very bottom of the list of reputational risks.
by noduerme | 2026-02-13 06:28:11+00:00
Guh.

This makes me wonder if it's inevitable for every hardware/software provider to be tempted by the candy now. Makes me ask myself if I could even resist it if I had a customer base with sunk costs who I could take advantage of. My feeling is that I could resist it, on principle, but most people wouldn't. And this is leaving out pressure from investors.

So such a company selling these solutions as locally run widgets - which we understand are under not just pressure to increase revenue, but also relentless pressure from governments to share their data - would definitely need to be completely self-funded, immediately profitable, and the solutions they sold would have to be permanent and not susceptible to any external market or government forces.

Zero updates and zero tracking of installations would be the goal.

[edit] but this is also not that hard. All the company needs to provide is a piece of software that stitches together existing hardware. The only updates would be when hardware updates, and those would be included in the price. If "NEVER CLOUD" was the company's entire corporate identity, then preserving that ethos would be a mandate.

[edit2] nevercloud.com is currently on sale for $8350. I'd suggest building the prime directive into the name, but that much money has better uses.
by vonunov | 2026-02-13 06:28:59+00:00
∙ Paragraphs: 32; ∙ Sentence-level rule of three: 9; ∙ Paragraph-level rule of three: 10; ∙ Parallel contrast: 11; ∙ Dramatic sentence-initial conjunction (polysyndeton): 6; ∙ Literary conjunctionless list (asyndeton): 9; ∙ Foo x, foo y, [foo z] (anaphora): 14; ∙ Escalation of sentiment/gravitas (auxesis): 12

One of the most glaring and insulting parts, of course, is the "too . . . yourself" when we know good and well that there is nobody hesitating and questioning whether to be vulnerable, only something pretending. Like it thinks we're stupid or something. That's the bottom-line or nutshell or whatever regarding why it's irritating to receive lazy LLM output from people. It's like they think everyone but them is stupid and won't notice that they don't care.
by MarkMarine | 2026-02-13 06:29:14+00:00
Drywall is trivial to remove and repair, I have no issue cutting walls with a circular saw or vibrating cutter to get access then patching it.

I have seen another method for making walls that were accessible though, from a homesteader/ hand tool woodworker and carpenter. His walls were 24” thick with huge areas for piping and electrical and had 4x4’ removable wood panels.

https://youtu.be/8fdm9R1Cbm0?si=9SRXgcdutos-hywc
by nprateem | 2026-02-13 06:29:35+00:00
There's important stuff to review, 10-20% (eg overall architecture, use of existing utilities/patterns), and there's the specifics of the client code.

My reviews pick out the first and gloss over the latter. They take a few minutes. So I run multiple distinct tasks across agents in antigravity, so there's less chance of conflict. This is on 500k+ line codebase. I'm amazed by the complexity of changes it can handle.

But I agree with his take. Old fashioned programming is dead. Now I do the work of a team of 3 or 4 people each day: AI speed but also no meetings, no discussions, no friction.