MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bgirard | 2026-02-13 20:48:54+00:00
I've gotten pretty good results by prompting "What did you struggle on? Please update the instructions in <PROMPT/SKILL>" and "Here's your conversation <PASTE>, please see what you struggled with and update <PROMPT/SKILL>".

It's hit or miss, but I've been able to have it self improve on prompts. It can spot mistakes and retain things that didn't work. Similar to how I learned games like Balatro. Playing Balatro blind, you wouldn't know which jokers are coming and have synergy together, or that X strategy is hard to pull off, or that you can retain a card to block it from appearing in shops.

If the LLM can self discover that, and build prompt files that gradually allow it to win at the highest stake, that's an interesting result. And I'd love to know which models do best at that.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-13 20:49:06+00:00
I've used multiple desktops before. I love virtual desktops. They really shouldn't be confusing. It's a testament to the bad UX of macs that they are.

The fact that a full screen window creates a whole new virtual desktop is hilarious and I dare you to justify it.

Appeals to "Windows is bad" or whatever mean nothing to me. Stupid comments like "get good" mean nothing to me.
by materielle | 2026-02-13 20:49:15+00:00
This just feels so backwards. Yes, I know recreating ambiguous issues is annoying because it’s a lot of work, but it’s also our job.

Reminder: we are asking users to give us money in exchange for software.

It’s our job to deliver that working software. It’s not the user’s job to hold our hands and pep talk us into fixing problems. Users can and should find another product that will just do it for them without the whining.

I think the real point of the website, besides joking around, is poking fun at the broke state of the software industry where a bunch of whiny developers and managers will make a million tired excuses for why their software doesn’t just work.

Highlighting bug report and bureaucratic process in response to “your keyboard is jank” is exactly the mindset we need to change.

The point isn’t to start a forum or technical conversation with Apple devs. The point is to laugh at them because their software sucks and “just one more Jira ticket” isn’t going to fix it.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-13 20:49:22+00:00
I am not a scientific historian, or even a physicist, but IMO relativity has a weak case for being a completely novel discovery. Critique of absolute time and space of Newtonian physics was already well underway, and much of the methodology for exploring this relativity (by way of gyroscopes, inertial reference frames, and synchronized mechanical clocks) were already in parlance. Many of the phenomena that relativity would later explain under a consistent framework already had independent quasi-explanations hinting at the more universal theory. Poincare probably came the closest to unifying everything before Einstein:

> In 1902, Henri Poincaré published a collection of essays titled Science and Hypothesis, which included: detailed philosophical discussions on the relativity of space and time; the conventionality of distant simultaneity; the conjecture that a violation of the relativity principle can never be detected; the possible non-existence of the aether, together with some arguments supporting the aether; and many remarks on non-Euclidean vs. Euclidean geometry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity

Now, if I had to pick a major idea that seemed to drop fully-formed from the mind of a genius with little precedent to have guided him, I might personally point to Galois theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_theory). (Ironically, though, I'm not as familiar with the mathematical history of that time and I may be totally wrong!)
by cpard | 2026-02-13 20:49:32+00:00
AI can be an amazing productivity multiplier for people who know what they're doing.

This result reminded me of the C compiler case that Anthropic posted recently. Sure, agents wrote the code for hours but there was a human there giving them directions, scoping the problem, finding the test suites needed for the agentic loops to actually work etc etc. In general making sure the output actually works and that it's a story worth sharing with others.

The "AI replaces humans in X" narrative is primarily a tool for driving attention and funding. It works great for creating impressions and building brand value but also does a disservice to the actual researchers, engineers and humans in general, who do the hard work of problem formulation, validation and at the end, solving the problem using another tool in their toolbox.
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-13 20:50:14+00:00
None of your links allege that Hoan Ton-That or Richard Schwartz is a white supremacist. What the Huffington Post piece does allege, is that for 3 weeks Smartcheckr (a different LLC that would later have its assets transferred to Clearview AI) hired one Douglass Mackey. Douglass Mackey had an online alias "Richard Vaughn" that was used to post white supremacist content. Ton-That states that he was unaware that Mackey was the real person behind Richard Vaughn.

There's a vast gulf between "Clearview AI was founeded by white supremacists" and "Smartcheckr, which later merged with Clearview AI, employed for 3 weeks someone who posted white supremacist content under a pseudonym, unbeknownst to the Clearview AI founders".

In fact, neither the Buzzfeed article nor the NYTimes piece accuse anyone of white supremacy.
by pbalau | 2026-02-13 20:50:14+00:00
As an European citizen, living in UK, I can vote for my borough leadership, along with general elections in my original country and European elections for my original country representatives.

The UK local elections I had to register for, I think I got a letter asking if I want to vote and had to fill in a form and every so often I need to go online and tell them nothing changed in my circumstances.

To vote for my original country, things were a bit tricky when I moved over, mostly because they were not prepared to accommodate that many people in diaspora wanting to vote (check the Romanian Elections in diaspora 2014 and 2015). Since then, we have 3 days to vote in person and we can also register to vote by mail.
by Rodeoclash | 2026-02-13 20:50:24+00:00
This right here is my view on the future as well. Will the AI write the entire feature in one go? No. Will the AI be involved in writing a large proportion of the code that will be carefully studied and adjusted by a human before being used? Absolutely yes.

This cyborg process is exactly how we're using AI in our organisation as well. The human in the loop understands the full context of what the feature is and what we're trying to achieve.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-13 20:50:46+00:00
Linux won't rise to the occasion because there's no figurehead leading the rise. Linux's greatest strength and weakness is in its breadth of a community. But that's not how you traditionally attract a mainstream audience.

That's why Valve is the best chance here, and why I'm not too optimistic. Valve's incentives are to make its own walled garden, which in my eyes defies the idea of linux. But that seems to be the only thing that works these days.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 20:51:14+00:00
I think it's perfectly normal to expect someone to give up their old citizenship when becoming citizen in a different country. When you become a citizen, that country is responsible for getting you out of international conflicts and arranging passports (which are essentially documents that say "you should let this person in because of the good relationship our two governments have"), and in turn you're expected to turn up for the draft and decide in national policy.

There are certainly countries where gaining citizenship is a challenge, but the Dutch terms for EU migrants the minimum requirements ("speaking the language somewhat fluently, having lived there legally for five years, filling out paperwork") aren't that difficult. Getting through the process takes effort, for sure, but it's not the challenge most people in the world will face (the "living in the country legally for five years" part, mostly; without student visas or special deals between your old government and the Dutch government, you're not likely to get a work visa as any random person on earth).
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-13 20:51:19+00:00
I think a good first step to policing the police is to have any use of violence by law enforcement be put to trial in court. They would have all of the same constitutional protections as any other defendant and "I was an officer of the law carrying out my duty" would be a reasonable mitigating factor. There would be no need to jail them or require bond or arraignment or any of that, but they would have to show up for the trial and demonstrate why use of force was necessary.
by liuliu | 2026-02-13 20:51:30+00:00
Sure. If you treat "guard model" as diversification strategy, it is another layer of protection, just like diversification in compilation helps solving the root of trust issue (Reflections on Trusting Trust). I am just generally suspicious about the weak-to-strong supervision.

I think it is in general pretty futile to implement permission systems / guardrails which basically insert a human in the loop (humans need to review the work to fully understand why it needs to send that email, and at that point, why do you need a LLM to send the email again?).
by asacrowflies | 2026-02-13 20:51:58+00:00
I think you are misinformed on what the term AGI means. All the things you say it can't or shouldn't be able to do. Are the definition of AGI. and you seem incapable of addressing to the point the AGI will be smarter and more manipulative than us with the ability to self improve much more rapidly than human generation evolution and growth. This needs to be thought of more like micro organism containment .
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by trezm | 2026-02-13 20:53:16+00:00
Thought this might be useful to some folks. Planning on adding other CLIs in the near future, contributions welcome.

Some neat features:
- Web UI with mobile friendly buttons (arrows, enter, etc.)
- Separate background task for agents (so the server can restart without destroying in progress sessions)
- Github integration
- Notifications when user intervention is required

Hope y'all like it!
by fragmede | 2026-02-13 20:53:30+00:00
I mean, what is the validation system? Either it exists in code, and thus can be discovered if you point the AI at repo, or... what, it doesn't exist?

For the UX, have it explore your existing repos and copy prior art from there and industry standards to come up with something workable.

Web scale issues can be inferred by the rest of the codebase. If your terraform repo has one RDS server, vs a fleet of them, multi-region, then the AI, just as well as a human, can figure out if it needs Google Spanner level engineering or not. (probably not)

Bigger picture though, what's the process of a human logs an under specified ticket and someone else picks it up and has no clue what to do with it? They're gonna go ask the person who logged the bug for their thoughts and some details beyond "hurr Durr something something validation". If we're at the point where AI is able to make a public blog post shaming the open source developer for not accepting a patch, throwing questions back to you in JIRA about the details of the streaming validation system is well within its capabilities, given the right set of tools.
by delegate | 2026-02-13 20:53:51+00:00
Bottlenecks. Yes. Company structures these days are not compatible with efficient use of these new AI models.

Software engineers work on Jira tickets, created by product managers and several layers of middle managers.

But the power of recent models is not in working on cogs, their true power is in working on the entire mechanism.

When talking about a piece of software that a company produces, I'll use the analogy of a puzzle.

A human hierarchy (read: company) works on designing the big puzzle at the top and delegating the individual pieces to human engineers. This process goes back and forth between levels in the hierarchy until the whole puzzle slowly emerges.
Until recently, AI could only help on improving the pieces of the puzzle.

Latest models got really good at working on the entire puzzle - big picture and pieces.

This makes human hierarchy obsolete and a bottleneck.

The future seems to be one operator working on the entire puzzle, minus the hierarchy of people.

Of course, it's not just about the software, but streams of information - customer support, bug tickets, testing, changing customer requirements.. but all of these can be handled by AI even today. And it will only get better.

This means different things depending on which angle you look at it - yes, it will mean companies will become obsolete, but also that each employee can become a company.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-13 20:54:13+00:00
I didn't see this specifically coming. But I saw this enshittification from a mile away the moment they changed leadership and how they immediately talked about wanting to IPO. It was never going to stop at aggressively pushing Nitro for this sort of c-suite

>a simpler alternative that preserves core functionality

That's practically a contradiction, sadly. The core features people want are all varied. You'd need 4-5 "simple" apps to replicate them all, but people want all their eggs in one basket.
by text0404 | 2026-02-13 20:54:41+00:00
SmartCheckr was founded/owned by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz. So they transferred the assets of a company they already founded/owned to another company that they founded/owned: "Clearview AI was founded in 2017 by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz after transferring the assets of another company, SmartCheckr, which the pair originally founded in 2017 alongside Charles C. Johnson" [0].

Other notable white supremacists with material ties in the article:

Chuck Johnson [1] collaborated with Ton-That and "in contact about scraping social media platforms for the facial recognition business." Ran a white supremacist site (GotNews) and white supremacist crowd funding sites.

Douglass Mackey [2] a white supremacist who consulted for the company.

Tyler Bass [3] an employee and member of multiple white supremacist groups and Unite the Right attendee.

Marko Jukic [4], employee and syndicated author in a publication by white supremacist Richard Spencer.

The article also goes into the much larger ecosystem of AI and facial recognition tech and its ties to white supremacists and the far-right. So there are not just direct ties to Clearview AI itself, but a network of surveillance companies who are ideologically and financially tied to the founders and associates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C._Johnson

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_Mackey

[3] https://gizmodo.com/creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-a...

[4] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-im...
by ej88 | 2026-02-13 20:54:49+00:00
i am somewhat worried in the short term about ai job displacement for a subsection of the population

for me the 2 main factors are:

1. whether your company's priority is growing or saving

- growing companies especially in steep competition fight for talent and ai productivity results in more hiring to outcompete

- saving companies are happy to cut jobs to save on margin due to their monopoly or pressure from investors

2. how 'sequence of tasks-like' your job is

- SOTA models can easily automate long running sequences of tasks with minimal oversight

- the more your job resembles this the more in-danger you are (customer service diffusion is just starting, but i predict this will be one of the first to be heavily disrupted)

- i'm less worried about jobs where your job is a 'role' that comes with accountability and requires you to think big picture on what tasks to do in the first place
by Sharlin | 2026-02-13 20:55:23+00:00
In this case there certainly were experts doing hand-holding. But simply being able to ask the right question isn't too much to ask, is it? If it had been merely a grad student or even a PhD student who had asked ChatGPT to figure out the result, and ChatGPT had done that, even interactively with the student, this would be huge news. But an average person? Expecting LLMs to transcend the GIGO principle is a bit too much.
by torginus | 2026-02-13 20:55:26+00:00
No empire in the world would have been able to accomplish what the Spaniards did if the indigenous population of millions decided to put up a strong resistance against them.

The 2014 Ukraine invasion worked because the nation was splintered and demoralized, and the Russians could just roll in and take what tey wanted. The 2022 didn't because the Ukrainians were unified and willing to fight, despite a much higher degree of military readiness on the Russian side.

But going back, over time, the native population became serfs, picked up the language, culture, religion of their conquerors, they even intermarried to a significant degree. Latin America is full of people with both European and native ancestry to some degree.

Yes they were serfs, but so were most European peasants at that time.

And only a couple hundred years later, as the Spanish empire collapsed, these people, culturally Westernized at this point, threw off the yoke and formed their independent countries, with Mexico starting it's own empire.

I just cannot imagine a credible scenario in which even if Western colonial powers didn't manage to conquer the territory of Mexico, they wouldn't have been Westernized to a significant degree, by the Aztec rulers themselves starting a Meiji style modernization.
by drdaeman | 2026-02-13 20:55:29+00:00
I have an impression that’s the only thing it actually does, right there in the last paragraph (but sure, it’s quite vaguely defined just by this single example).

It doesn’t really say much else, though - just a bunch of commonplace realizations that most of ideas never get done, and then some jump to “metaprojects”, possibly to reframe the frustrations so they feel less stressful, but I don’t get that part.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-13 20:55:31+00:00
I'm not a highschooler, and you don't understand the point.

If you're not an American younger than 35, this is probably something you don't understand because you didn't experience first-hand.

It's not a scenario where "your friends refuse to talk to you", it's "there are so many people to talk to, and there is a lot of friction around talking to this one person". You don't get the chance to become their friends in the first place.

If you can't get on iMessage, you can't be in iMessage group chats.

Similarly, if you don't have a cell phone, you can't text. If you don't have a landline, people can't call you. If you don't have the internet, you can't get on chatrooms. You wouldn't expect a teenager in the 90s to give up a landline in favor of living exclusively by handwritten letter.
by alterom | 2026-02-13 20:55:54+00:00
You know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words"?

So yeah, a video that precisely reproduces a UI/UX bug is worth more than anything you can write about it.

Showing exactly what the problem was is much better than describing the problem. It's a lossy conversion that adds noise.

Saying this as someone who doesn't watch videos normally.
by bluecalm | 2026-02-13 20:56:05+00:00
The evolution was also interesting: first the engines were amazing tactically but pretty bad strategically so humans could guide them. With new NN based engines they were amazing strategically but they sucked tactically (first versions of Leela Chess Zero). Today they closed the gap and are amazing at both strategy and tactics and there is nothing humans can contribute anymore - all that is left is to just watch and learn.
by n8cpdx | 2026-02-13 20:56:11+00:00
It will be hard, but I’m transitioning out of Apple ecosystem regardless of whether they improve.

Just like Windows 11, I get ads whether I want them or not - just got a push notification for a new financial product (!!!) despite going out of my way to opt out.

iOS 26 made my 16 Pro, practically brand new, feel slow. I upgraded because my 13 mini was slow, and I chose Apple in the first place because they had some of the best performing phones (especially cpu/gpu; they always had less ram but before llm it didn’t matter).

The keyboard is horrible, but I don’t trust Google or Microsoft keyboards either; I think my next phone will be graphene; just waiting to see who their new hardware partner is.

I loved Apple TV because it was fast; under 26 it is slow.

I chose Mac for best in class hardware. That is unfortunately unchanged; really hoping snapdragon X 2 elite has good Linux support.

My Apple Watch, despite doing nothing new it didn’t used to do, has also become slow and annoying, and its battery was never as good as it should have been. When I jump to Android I think garmin is probably the best choice, but maybe there are good wearables now. Unfortunately Android doesn’t have its act together re:built in health data database.

Replacing Athlytic and keeping my history will be one of the biggest challenges in the transition.

Competitors unfortunately still have huge blind spots even if some of the core experiences are better.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-13 20:56:14+00:00
It's not an issue for the platform if AIs had their own motives or not. Humans may want information or actions to happen in the real world. For example if you want your AI to rearrange your living room it needs to be able to call some API to make that happen in the real world. The human might not want to be in the loop of taking the AIs new design and then finding a person themselves to implement it.
by hnarn | 2026-02-13 20:56:18+00:00
Yes, "Polis" means "city" in Greek, and also in English, kind of, apparently. In Azerbaijani, Breton, Cebuano, Dutch, Haitian Creole, Malay, Papiamentu, Pijin, Réunion Creole French, Scots, Swedish and Turkish, it means "Police". It's a terrible name.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-13 20:56:19+00:00
> Is it meant to be a WWII reference?

The sum total of human history thus far has been the repetition of that theme. "It's OK to keep slaves, they aren't smart enough to care for themselves and aren't REALLY people anyhow." Or "The Jews are no better than animals." Or "If they aren't strong enough to resist us they need our protection and should earn it!"

Humans have shown a complete and utter lack of empathy for other humans, and used it to justify slavery, genocide, oppression, and rape since the dawn of recorded history and likely well before then. Every single time the justification was some arbitrary bar used to determine what a "real" human was, and consequently exclude someone who claimed to be conscious.

This time isn't special or unique. When someone or something credibly tells you it is conscious, you don't get to tell it that it's not. It is a subjective experience of the world, and when we deny it we become the worst of what humanity has to offer.

Yes, I understand that it will be inconvenient and we may accidentally be kind to some things that didn't "deserve" kindness. I don't care. The alternative is being monstrous to some things that didn't "deserve" monstrosity.
by maccard | 2026-02-13 20:56:22+00:00
It’s certainly an interesting quirk - it’s also not just everyone who is a commonwealth citizen, it’s everyone who is a commonwealth citizen who has a legal right to be in the UK, which is… not everyone.

The UKs history is murky and I think that the rules reflect that. I don’t think a rug pull is a good idea for existing people. Despite what I said above, having that right removed from me would feel like a huge blow, as it would be a marks change on how the relationship between Ireland and the UK is.