MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tom_ | 2026-02-15 04:15:22+00:00
The point of my post was that the title is editorialized. Am I allowed to say "Did you click the link"? Probably not. But, still, let me suggest that you click the link. Once you've clicked the link, compare the title of the page you find yourself on to the title posted here. Now you've compared them, ask yourself: are they the same? I just did this experiment myself, and the answer was: no. The title of the page at time of my click is this: "NewPipe - a free YouTube client". The title of the HN submission at the time I'm composing this message is this: "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed".

We are oft implored, not only by our famous and much-valued dang, but also the other guy (whatever his name is. He does a great job too though), not to editorialize the titles by submitting submissions with titles other than the actual title. How can you tell if the submitted title is other than the actual title? That's easy. You read the one and read the other and compare the two and see if they're different. (Which is another way of restating the previous paragraph.) In this case: they are. (Or at least were at time of writing! Since you'll be reading this in the future.) Hence my complaint.

The vertical video thing? That was just my little joke. OF COURSE I KNOW THAT VERTICAL VIDEO MEANS PORTRAIT VIDEO. And, yes, I have visited youtube.com, and have had a big pile of portrait shorts shit up the feed, same as everybody else. I am not completely... wait, hang on. I am completely stupid. Because I thought it would be so obvious that it was a joke, that nobody would bother to quibble. They'd just chuckle at my attempt to amuse the reader, or roll their eyes at it and ignore it, and then go on to moan at me about some other part of my post. Though, reading my post again, more fool me perhaps. I guess I didn't leave people enough other material to complain about.

Sorry. I'll try to do better in future.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-15 04:16:15+00:00
This is sad and I wonder if it is an action motivated by pressure from the Trump administration. For those who don’t know, UpScrolled is an alternative to TikTok, which Trump just forced a sale of (to his friends like Larry Ellison). The grew quickly and then became a target of hate speech and other things, likely from people trying to get it banned.

Meanwhile Twitter isn’t banned by Google or Apple. Let that sink in.
by Insanity | 2026-02-15 04:16:57+00:00
+1, customers want their problem solved but at times they struggle to articulate that.

When a customer starts saying “we need to build X”, first ask what the actual problem is etc. It takes actual effort, and you need to speak their language (understand the domain).

But if you have a PM in the middle, now you just start playing telephone and I don’t believe that’s great for anyone involved.
by tzs | 2026-02-15 04:20:25+00:00
Wouldn't that just stop it from considering castling, en passant, and promotion on the first move of the position you are analyzing? It's still going to consider those in the tree search, and the static evaluation neural net was trained on positions where they are allowed.

For castling you should be able to fix this by specifying that castling rights have been lost in the positions you give it.

For the others I think you would need to filter not just when giving it the list of allowed first moves. You'd also have to make it not consider en passant and promotion in the search, by modifying its move generation.

The static evaluation would still be off a bit, but that probably would not have much effect most of the time.

From what I've read it is feasible to train a new neural net on a decent home computer in maybe around a week, but that's probably overkill for your use of figuring out how strong your engine is at no castling/no promotion/no en passant chess.
by AYBABTME | 2026-02-15 04:21:11+00:00
For some reason, I always found the arguments for "it's better to not know" for these tests to be strange and slightly infantilizing. But of course this must not be the end of it, and there might be some more well thought out arguments from bioethicists that go beyond "the patient can't handle the truth". Because this argument seems like it's doing a lot of heavy lifting without much evidence.
by vidarh | 2026-02-15 04:22:05+00:00
Because very few knows how to use AI. I teach AI courses on the side. I've done auditing supervised fine tuning and RLHF projects for a major provider. From seeing real prompts, many specifically from people who work with agents every day, people do not yet have the faintest clue how to productively prompt AI. A lot of people prompt them in ways that are barely coherent.

Even if models stopped improving today, it'd take years before we see the full effects of people slowly gaining the skills needed to leverage them.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-02-15 04:23:22+00:00
I am waiting for the day when they permanently turn off the channels rss feeds. Recently, after years of smooth sailing, they had a couple of outages, first selective, with only about 50% of my feeds effected and yesterday again with 100%, returning 404s. I am concerned given this development and alphabets apparent plan to kill as much interop as possible.

For the uninitiated, afaik, some feedreaders can auto discover the rss url when you add the channels url. Otherwise you have to manually search the channel page source for 'RSS' or 'channel_id='.
by milchek | 2026-02-15 04:25:17+00:00
It comes down back to that whole discussion around intelligence becoming cheaper and more accessible but motivation and agency remaining stable.

I’ve worked with a few folks who have been given AI tools (like a designer who never coded in his life, a or video/content creator) who have absolutely taken off with creating web apps and various little tools and process improvements for themselves thanks by just vibecoding what they wanted. The key with both these individuals is high agency, curiosity, and motivation. That was innate, the AI tooling just gave them the external means to realise what they wanted to do with more ease.

These kinds of folks are not the majority, and we’re still early into this technological revolution imo (models are improving on a regular basis).

In summary, we’ve given the masses to “intelligence” but creativity and motivation stay the same.
by vidarh | 2026-02-15 04:25:47+00:00
This is definitely the case. I have a project that while not wildly profitable yet, is producing real revenue, but that I will not give details of because the moat is so small. The main moat is that I know the potential is real, and hopefully not enough other people do, yet. I know it will disappear quickly, so I'm trying to make what I can of it while it's there. I may talk about it once the opportunity is gone.

It involves a whole raft of complex agents + code they've written, but that code and the agents were written by AI over a very short span of time. And as much as I'd like to stroke my own ego and assume it's one of a kind, realistically if I can do it, someone else can too.
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-15 04:27:44+00:00
i dropped spotify because i saw how terrible the non paid version of spotify is between payments, and was offended at how much i felt they used my library to hold me hostage.

Im not interested in being held hostage to pay a company xx$ a month for literally my entire life. At least when a netflix subscription is over, its not crafting up ways to torture its users into feeling obligated to resubscribe. Not that i like the streaming video services much either...
by dangus | 2026-02-15 04:27:54+00:00
I don't think this is really what's going on, or, at the very least, we can't just reach this conclusion by correlation.

For one thing, I don't think Grok actually lets you go that far with turning real people into porn based on news articles I've found on the subject. Maybe I'm wrong, and I certainly won't find out for myself since I refuse to use any Elon Musk products nor would I try to make such a request.

Either way, I don't think the porn aspect is a significant part of this trend. I just don't believe that it's a significant driver of overall marketshare, especially since the article itself shows that Grok is gaining a lot of female users versus the early male tech enthusiast users (and women statistically view pornography far less often than men).

I think the more obvious answer is just that the general public is starting to use AI more, and Grok has a huge install base via Twitter to bring users in just like Google brings in their ecosystem into Gemini.

The people who used ChatGPT are the early adopter types who didn't use AI based on an existing company they interact with pushing them toward it, they actively sought out ChatGPT since they are connected with new tech developments and heard about it.

To me, the most interesting part of this article is the marketshare chart.

First of all..is Copilot really not in there? Or literally anything else in some kind of "Other" marketshare category? Surely there are more than 3 competitors in this market. I realize that Cursor and Claude "don't count" in the sense that they aren't used in the same way as general purpose chat. But Copilot can be used as general purpose on a website just like ChatGPT.

Second of all, is ChatGPT really losing their ass this badly? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it really makes OpenAI look even more doomed. If their sliver of marketshare continues to shrink they could have an earlier userbase plateau than their competitors.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-15 04:28:11+00:00
LOL great example. There are tons of articles on this topic:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/is-water-wet
https://centreforinquiry.ca/keiths-conundrums-is-water-wet
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-17...
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=6097
https://parknotes.substack.com/p/is-water-wet-or-does-it-jus...

...etc. Turns out, it's not a solved question!
by rockskon | 2026-02-15 04:28:43+00:00
I never said "multiple". Just the leader in the jurisdiction you live in.

And I'm genuinely not sure how to interpret your last sentence. In the US we have a President that is increasingly going after people for their speech, in quite a few cases by using the laws and policies put in place to go after dissent. He is going after colleges and businesses who have "bias against whites" using policies put in place to punish hate speech against minorities and women.
by jtolmar | 2026-02-15 04:30:22+00:00
I watch things from unknown-to-me creators in a private window, then copy the URL over to logged in window if it's any good. Same idea, might be an easier workflow.

Absurd that we have these sorts of workarounds, but of course the view numbers are better if it keeps fishing for just the right kind of clickbait trash that you'll wolf it down endlessly.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-02-15 04:30:53+00:00
It's not.

It's a tradeoff people make between ease of integration - just download the .h file into your project folder and #include it in your source file instead of worrying about source build system vs target build system, cross compiling headaches etc...

And compilation times: any time you change any of your source files, your compiler also has to recompile your dependencies. (Assuming you haven't used precompiled headers).
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-15 04:30:54+00:00
You recommended I look at the erdosproblems website.

But evidence that it was posed after 1934 is not really evidence it was not solved, because one of the things we learned from LLMs was that many of these problems were already solved in the literature, or are relatively straightforward applications of known, yet obscure, results. Particularly in the world of Erdos problems, the majority of which can be described as "off the beaten path" and are basically musings in papers that Erdos was asking -- many of these are in fact solved in more obscure articles and no one made the connection until LLMs allowed us to do systematic literature searches. This was the primary source of "solutions" of these problems by LLMs in the cited paper.
by skissane | 2026-02-15 04:31:23+00:00
> This is the beefiest SPARC I have ever seen

My sarcasm detector came defective from the factory, and I've always struggled with getting it to work effectively.

So, if you aren't being sarcastic: 20 years ago, place I worked had a Sun Fire 15K. They supported max 576GB of RAM. Don't remember how much ours had, it probably wasn't a maxxed out config, but I'm sure it was a lot more than 1GB. The machine cost over $1 million dollars.
by otaviogood | 2026-02-15 04:31:54+00:00
Like many have said, start with Arduino-like boards + servos. You can get servo driver boards that let you plug in multiple servos to your Arduino without power problems. Get those from Adafruit. Then you can graduate to the "bus" style servos like Feetech if you want to load up on servos.

If you want to learn to make PCBs, this tutorial shows you how to design them in open source software and then get them made cheaply (highly recommend):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDOnSHkX2c

Get a CAD program like Onshape (I love Onshape). Learn how to use it to design 3d printed components. Get a 3d printer. Maybe Bambu Lab. Now you should be able to make nice form factors for your robots. If you want to graduate from 3d printing to Aluminum, then you can send your designs to a place like PCBWay or JLCPCB and get the aluminum parts reasonably cheap.

At some point when you want to make a more "real" robot, read this guy's thesis and try to understand almost all of it:
A low cost modular actuator for dynamic robots
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/118671
It goes over so many things that are useful, like types of actuators, how they're designed, controlled, etc. I wish I had read that earlier. Then if you want to make something like that, I highly highly recommend MJBots.
https://mjbots.com/

Make something amazing!!!
by wpm | 2026-02-15 04:31:58+00:00
I can sympathize a bit with YouTube trying to boost engagement to increase ad views, like, love it or hate it, thats the game they have to play hosting and serving petabytes of video.

But all of that shit should disappear the moment I start paying for it out of pocket. Like, I'm already paying, getting me to watch more videos costs them more money that it would to leave me the fuck alone!
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-15 04:33:01+00:00
Youtube could vanish from existence tomorrow and I'd probably just be upset that there isn't a place that might show me a 180p 20 year old video of how to properly clean my old dishwasher. I don't really know what these super high value videos are other than those. I really don't know why they must all exist on this one platform either.
by rainmaking | 2026-02-15 04:33:13+00:00
> my best ideas often happen when knee deep in some codebase

I notice that I get into this automatically during AI-assisted coding sessions if I don't lower my standards for the code. Eventually, I need to interact very closely with both the AI and the code, which feels similar to what you describe when coding manually.

I also notice I'm fresher because I'm not using many brainscycles to do legwork- so maybe I'm actually getting into more situations where I'm getting good ideas because I'm tackling hard problems.

So maybe the key to using AI and staying sharp is to refuse to sacrifice your good taste.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-15 04:34:15+00:00
I mostly don't agree that the paper isn't matching the reality. The Trump regime does a lot of terrible things, and works hard to create the impression that this means they're omnipotent and can do whatever terrible things they want to anyone who steps out of line. But it's not so. A guy yelled to Trump's face that he's a pedophile protector last month (https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/ford-worker-keeping-job...), and Trump could not do anything in response other than impotently flip him off.
by ignoramous | 2026-02-15 04:36:25+00:00
> To this end, they have been building mosques all over the world, increasing their population and weaponizing immigration ... Now, is this applicable to all Muslims? Of course not. But don't be naive and think that no one has an agenda.

As opposed to the Catholic Church never ever building Basilicas and Cathedrals? Places of worship are social and political centers given how Abrahamic religions work.

> There is a reason Muslim countries don't allow Christians, Jews and other faiths to flourish in their homes.

Met a Copt the other day: Seemed content and had no complains. Spoke to a Rūm a while ago, and despite the recent turn of events, they seemed optimistic about the Levant. The only Assryian I know complained about the US-led war on Iraq uprooting their lives more than any previous regime. That isn't to say there aren't issues, but which society is without them? Especially when exaggerators & hypocrites are in no short supply, regardless of their socio-religious allegiance.
by somat | 2026-02-15 04:38:10+00:00
It is only backwards compatible two generations, occasionally something slips at the LTO trust (or wherever those things are designed) and you get three generations. But if I have a basement full of LTO1 tapes no currently manufactured drive will read them. I would have to buy a used drive and the drives were never really made all that well. Better than the DAT drives one company I worked for used for some of their backups. But still mechanically very complex with many many small delicate plastic parts that wear out quickly. Those DAT drives were super delicate and also suffered from the same generational problems LTO does. We had a bunch of DAT1 tapes somebody wanted data from but had no working drives to do so. All our working drives were newer DAT3 and 4

That was always the hard part to justifying tape backup. the storage is cheap. but the drives are very expensive. And never seemed to last as long as their price would warrant.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-15 04:38:43+00:00
And Google whines when people install ad-blockers. It's pathetic.

I was willing to watch ads. But then Google introduced NEVER-ENDING ads, when the program is interrupted frequently and will never return unless you herd it along periodically by clicking Skip. Screw you, Google. I'm cooking, with my hands covered with who knows what, and now I can't watch the program.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-15 04:40:14+00:00
It's not entirely surprising. You can prompt the AI to write code to pretty much any level of detail. You can tell it exactly what to output and it will copy character for character.

Of course at a certain point, you have to wonder if it would be faster to just type it than to type the prompt.

Anyways, if this was true in the sense they are trying to imply, why does Boris still have a job? If the agents are already doing 100% of the work, just have the product manager run the agents. Why are they actively hiring software developers??

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4816198008
by _delirium | 2026-02-15 04:40:18+00:00
Economy-wide productivity can be measured reasonably well, although there are a few different measures [1]. The big question I guess is whether AI will make a measurable impact there. Historically tech has had less impact than people thought it would, as noted in Robert Solow's classic quip that "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics". [2]

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/measuring-producti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
Show HN: Repy – Terminal ePub reader with built-in TTS and dictionary lookup
by dawdler-purge | 2026-02-15 04:41:14+00:00
I built repy because I wanted to read EPUBs over SSH and in tmux without leaving the terminal. It started as a Rust reimplementation of epy (a Python CLI ebook reader), but has grown well beyond that.

Features: vim-style navigation (hjkl, /, n/N, Ctrl+o/Ctrl+i jump history), bookmarks, table of contents, visual mode with yank-to-clipboard, regex search across chapters, and per-book width/position persistence via SQLite.

Two features I'm particularly happy with:

- Text-to-speech: Press ! and it reads the book aloud, sentence by sentence (~300-400 chars per chunk), with the current passage underlined. Uses edge-playback (Microsoft Edge TTS) by default, configurable to espeak, say, or any custom command. Smart scrolling keeps the spoken text visible without jumping around unnecessarily.
- Dictionary lookup: Select a word in visual mode and press d for dictionary (auto-detects wkdict/sdcv/dict) or p for Wikipedia summary. Configurable to any custom command.

Full disclosure: this project is almost entirely AI-built. I don't know Rust — I described what I wanted and Claude Code wrote the implementation. The fact that a
non-Rust-programmer can build and iterate on a 5000+ line Rust TUI application through conversation is, honestly, kind of amazing. Every feature, bug fix, and refactor in this project went through that workflow.
by lioeters | 2026-02-15 04:42:56+00:00
> make it a native library that can compile to the web (using actual DOM/HTML elements there, not canvas/WebGL/WGPU)

How interesting to hear. I've been exploring a way to write cross-platform GUI apps in C, using the Sokol library and possibly DearImgui. It's very convenient how it can build to WebAssembly and run the same way as the native app. But for larger canvas sizes it does eat more processing power, more than a typical website, and I was considering using DOM elements instead of canvas.

Good point about better accessibility too, and leveraging the feature set of modern web browsers.

A cross-platform GUI library that works with native and the web, so that the same application can be built for these targets with minimal changes. With the maturity and adoption of Wasm, I expect we'll see growing development in this direction. And some people have cautioned that treating the web as a blob of canvas and compile target to deploy opaque binaries is a step back from the potential of the web, like seeing the source (or source map at least), consistent handling of text, scrolling, accessibility features.

So I like your idea to "flip the script", I think in my own way I'm finding a similar approach.
by ineedasername | 2026-02-15 04:43:20+00:00
These days productivity at a macroeconomic scale is usually cited in something like GDP per hour worked.

Most recent BLS for the last quarter ‘25 was an annualized rate of 5.4%.

The historic annual average is around 2%.

It’s a bit early to draw a conclusion from this. Also it’s not an absolute measure. GDP per hour worked. So, to cut through any proxy factors or intermediating signals you’d really need to know how many hours were worked, which I don’t have to hand.

That said, in general macro sense, assuming hours worked does not decrease, productivity +% and gdp +% are two of the fundamental factors required for real world wage gains.

If you’re looking for signals in either direction on AI’s influence on the economy, these are #s to watch, among others. The Federal Reserve, the the Chair reports after each meeting, is (IMO) one of the most convenient places to get very fresh hard #s combined with cogent analysis and usually some q&a from the business press asking questions that are at least some of the ones I’d want to ask.

If you follow these fairly accessible speeches after meetings, you’ll occasionally see how lots of the things in them end up being thematic in lots of the stories that pop up here weeks or months later.
Show HN: I got tired of applying to ghost jobs, so I built a BS detector
by viveknar | 2026-02-15 04:45:10+00:00
A lot of "Urgent" job postings are actually months old and just reposted to look fresh. I built a tool that looks past the PR to see if the company is actually hiring or just pooling candidates.

Check your "Ghost Score" before you write that cover letter