MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by card_zero | 2026-02-16 06:11:02+00:00
I don't think they have ideas, so I don't think they're intelligent in the sense relevant to AGI. The list of intelligent animals is constantly increasing because doing some feat or other suffices for the animal to qualify. Solving mazes (slime molds), recognizing self in mirror (not dogs). Playing, using tools, reacting appropriately to words, transmitting habits down the generations (the closest thing they have to ideas). This is all imagined to be the precursors along the path to evolving intelligence, which conjures up a future world of complex crow and octopus material cultures. There's no reason to assume they're on such a path. Really all we're saying is that they seem clever. We've already made AI that seems clever, so the animals aren't a relevant example of anything.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 06:11:50+00:00
i buy the thesis that audio is a wedge because latency/streaming constraints are brutal, but i wonder if it's also just that evaluation is easier. with vision, it's hard to say if a model is 'right' without human taste, but with speech you can measure wer, speaker similarity, diarization errors, and stream jitter. do you think the real moat is infra (real-time) or data (voices / conversational corpora)?
by galaxyLogic | 2026-02-16 06:12:10+00:00
The reason we do things is because of our biological needs, really to spread our DNA. AI has no "reason to do things", unless we program one into it. We could do that and have super-capable "worm" malware that would be hard to get rid of. But AI by itself has no "driving force". It does what it's programmed to do, just like us humans. AI can be used in weapons, and such weapons can be hugely lethal. But so is atomic bomb. AI by itself will not "take over". It could be used by some rogue nation to attack another nation. But surely that other nation would then use AI to defend itself. This is just to say I'm not afraid of AI, I'm afraid of people with fascistic leanings.
by jakubgarfield | 2026-02-16 06:12:23+00:00
You are not wrong. Docker (paired with Kamal in Rails world) would simplify a few bits of the setup. But not all. The reason I haven't switched is:

1. my lack of experience with running docker in production

2. don't fix something if it ain't broken

But I'm planning to revisit it when my current LTS version runs out of support. Also, Kamal defaults change a few core pieces (caddy vs nginx, puma vs passenger) so there's a bit of extra learning curve). Oh and you'd still need to harden the server and keep it up to date.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-16 06:13:31+00:00
Yeah it's really impressed me on occasion, but often in the same prompt output it just does something totally nonsensical. For my garage/shop, it generated an SVG of the proposed floor plan, taking care to place the sink away from moisture sensitive material and certain work stations close to each other for work flow, etc. it even routed plumbing and electrical...But it also arranged the work stations cramped together at the two narrow ends of the structure (such that they'd be impractical to actually work at) and ignored all the free wall space along the long axis so that literally most of the space was unused. It was also concerned about things that were non issues like contamination between certain stations, and had trouble when I explicitly told it something about station placement and it just couldn't seem to internalize it and kept putting it in the wrong place.

All this being said, what I was throwing at it was really not what it was optimized for, and it still delivered some really good ideas.
by cududa | 2026-02-16 06:13:50+00:00
Good. It’s always insane to me that they get 1% of the iPhone CPU cost of ~$68 or something there around.

There was a lawsuit in 2020 or 2021 where some evidence was unsealed showing ARM gets 1% of the CPU cost. I can’t recall how that CPU cost was calculated - but I believe that was a part of their deal through the early 30’s. That’s less than a dollar per iPhone.
by jjcm | 2026-02-16 06:15:27+00:00
big +1 on #1.

As a tip - most LLMs are unaware it exists due to either knowledge cutoff or not having enough training data for it.

As a recommendation, include some examples of it in your AGENTS.md. Here's what I use:

--------------------------------------

## CSS nesting (required)
When writing CSS (including component `css()` strings and `soci-frontend/soci.css`), *use modern CSS nesting* where it improves readability and reduces repetition.

- Prefer nesting with the `&` selector for pseudo-classes / pseudo-elements and compound selectors.
- Avoid duplicating the parent selector when nesting can express it once.
- Reference: [MDN `&` nesting selector](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/S...)

### Quick reference

#### Pseudo-classes / no-whitespace attachment

```css
.button {
color: var(--text);

&:hover {
color: var(--text-secondary);
}

}
```

#### Pseudo-elements

```css
.fade {
position: relative;

&::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
}

}
```

#### Descendant nesting (whitespace implied)

```css
.card {
padding: 12px;

.title {
font-weight: 600;
}

}
```

#### “Reverse context” (`.featured .card`) using `&`

```css
.card {
.featured & {
border-color: var(--brand-color);
}
}
by etskinner | 2026-02-16 06:15:41+00:00
Meta is short for metagame. In videogames, and even in some sports, there are decisions made above/outside of the typical strategy of the game which players call metagame. For example, drafting players in football is metagaming. Or choosing what pickleball paddle to use is metagame.

An expanded view of that is that there's usually a "current" meta strategy that people tend to adhere to, kind of like a convention. And if you stray from that, you lose, even if your strategy would succeed in a vacuum.

For example, if the current meta is for employers to mainly use referrals/networking to hire, it would be a bad strategy to apply to postings.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 06:16:12+00:00
agree w the long-term perf point, and i'd add: js-heavy apps also tend to hide the 'true' critical path (hydration + data + layout) so teams ship regressions without noticing. do you have a rule of thumb for when a page has crossed the line (tti/cls budgets, max js kB, etc)? and do you see islands/partial hydration as a real middle ground or just a temporary patch?
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-16 06:17:15+00:00
> I believe there is nothing preventing you from registering the same number with multiple registries

Most cities require you to register your pet and get a license. Part of that process is to share the microchip number, vaccine records, vet info etc. Our local animal shelter usually checks with the city if a microchip is found but no ownership is established.
by cube00 | 2026-02-16 06:17:23+00:00
> It's telling me that I should rather focus on getting viral/lucky to get a shot at "success".

A vibe coder being hired by the provider of the vibe coding tools feels like marketing to sell the idea that we should all try this because we could be the next lucky ones.

IMHO, it'd be more legitimate if a company that could sustain itself without frequent cash injections hired them because they found value in their vibe skills.
Altman can recruit lucifer himself if he had a 1on1 meeting with him
by shoman3003 | 2026-02-16 06:18:25+00:00
i met many great recruiters, from spies to unicorn founders. many of which were masters at the game, but altman is on a whole other level.

one day in the future, he will be dubbed as the greatest priest/evangelist of the 21st century.
by isoprophlex | 2026-02-16 06:18:54+00:00
I refuse to believe that none of these people ever heard of Nyquist, and that noone was able to come up with "ayyy lmao let's put a low pass on this before downsampling".

Edit: 2 day old account posting stuff that doesn't pass the sniff test. Hmmmm... baited by a bot?
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 06:20:10+00:00
really enjoyed this. question: when benchmarking typesetting systems, how do you normalize for 'design intent' vs algorithmic optimization (eg manual kerning/ligature choices)? are you comparing them on the same input markup with default settings, or tuning each system to best effort? the tuning knob count can swamp raw perf.
by swyx | 2026-02-16 06:20:29+00:00
good summary. i think you forgot heartbeat.md which powers some autonomy.

do you think the agent admin ui mattered at all?

other contributors while i think of them:

- good timing around opus 4.6 as the default model? (i know he used codex, but willing ot bet majority of openclaws are opuses)

- make immediate wins for nontechnical users. everyone else was busy chasing cursor/cognition or building horiztonal stuff like turbopuffer or whatever. this one was straight up "hook up a good bot to telegram"

- theres many attempts at "personal OS", "assistant", but no good ones open source? a lot of sketchier china ones, this was the first western one
by wavemode | 2026-02-16 06:21:53+00:00
We often think of chess as something you "learn" how to do. But players like Magnus are evidence that there's really some neurological "muscle" for chess which some people just have naturally more of than others. The way in which Magnus has just so obviously been so much better than every other player in the world for over 15 years now, to the point of becoming bored and refusing to continue competing in the classical World Championships, speaks volumes.
by panstromek | 2026-02-16 06:21:58+00:00
Interesting. It looks to me this was more about the portability of the resulting binary, IIUC.

Dion project was more about user interface to the programming language and unifying tools to use AST (or Typed AST?) as a source of truth instead of text and what that unlocks.

Dion demo is here: https://vimeo.com/485177664
by OrvalWintermute | 2026-02-16 06:22:01+00:00
RISC-V could completely eat ARM for lunch if they try to jack up fees under the guise of "value extraction", and not through true value creation.

In 2 years from this date, I fully expect the safety critical RISC-V chips like the forthcoming High Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) from Microchip, Inc.[0], and derivatives [1] [2] leveraging SiFive IP[3], and other RISC-V competitors [4] to take a dominant position in Space, Aerospace, Aviation, and potentially other less cost-sensitive industries where RTOS dominate.

This raises a few questions in my mind:

Could that extend to vehicles and other use-cases?

Will we see more derivatives with even higher performance beyond the already announced PolarFire2 designed specifically for terrestrial use?

I don't know how sensitive their overall BOMs are to high priced reliable chips designed for fault tolerance...

I don't know how fast the quality of the mass market chinese RISC-V chips will ascend the perceived quality gap, and expand offerings into newer profiles [5]

Where will the toolchain for RISC-V be on a specific chip basis?

Is Nvidia likely to expand their usage of RISC-V?

[0] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microprocessors/64-...

[1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microprocessors/64-...

[2] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microprocessors/64-...

[3] https://www.sifive.com/

[4] https://www.gaisler.com/products/gr765

[5] https://docs.riscv.org/reference/profiles/rva23/_attachments...
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-16 06:22:19+00:00
"financial incentive to a) not over produce, b) sell the clothes - even if it means selling them for next to nothing."

That's not how it works in practice, with the economies of scale/production it makes more economic sense to produce goods surplus to requirements then destroy remaining stock so it will not detract from/devalue sales of next/forthcoming product.

It's an old trick and applies not only to clothes but many goods. There are variations such as destroying trade-ins, used equipment etc. rather than sell it to remove it from the market (thus only new equipment is available).

Some companies took this to extremes in that they'd only rent equipment which would be withdrawn from the market and deliberately destroyed at the end of its service life so it couldn't be sold or ratted for spare parts (photocopier manufacturers were notorious for this). IBM used an even cleaver approach with its computers, they'd sell off old computers as 'valuable' scrap (some parts could be still useful to others) but anything deemed as spares for their existing machines would be partially disabled (still useful but couldn't be used as a spare part). For example, they'd break the edge connectors off circuit boards but leave the electronic components intact.
by vladdoster | 2026-02-16 06:22:25+00:00
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by Unearned5161 | 2026-02-16 06:22:42+00:00
People are bad at distinguishing strange voices in a lineup, yes. That is, anyone in this thread who hasn't heard much of either the NotebookLM or Greene's voice would be a terrible witness.

However, the equation changes considerably when the voice becomes familiar. You can imagine it like going from CPU to an ASIC. The brain is rather good at telling when a voice is your friend or not, the evolutionary pressure should be clear. Therefore, the people most qualified to speak on this matter will be first and foremost Greene and his podcast fans. It's a matter of exposure.
by LanceH | 2026-02-16 06:22:54+00:00
There are a lot of confounding variables. Chief among them is someone at the top just wanting to get on with their life, start a family for instance, or basically anything other than study 12 hours a day.

It's hard to say it's cognitive decline for most of the people who just aren't working as hard at 40 as they were at 25.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-16 06:23:02+00:00
No. Aluminum foil has the same material properties with respect to convection and conduction of heat no matter which side faces out. The only heat that would be different would be radiated heat, which your food won't have a ton of, and even then, the dull side is still quite reflective. It's maybe one of those "technically" correct statements that the shiny side reflects more heat, but for the application of cooking, the impact is effectively zero. The retention of steam is going to be such a larger factor the side you use will effectively make no difference.
by phantomathkg | 2026-02-16 06:23:43+00:00
Speaking about benchmark.

Node vs Lua shows Node faster than Lua.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Node vs C, only 4 to 5 times slower.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Looking at its root, it is not too bad as a JIT compiled language.
by remarkEon | 2026-02-16 06:24:45+00:00
Okay, so, your point appears to be that the government sharing any data with the private sector for any purpose is axiomatically bad, and this is because your null hypothesis is that doing so is going to have deleterious effects on privacy norms. If that's your point, it's certainly a defensible one. My original point was that this article does not provide evidence one way or another in that regard because it is (very) poorly researched and executed. Perhaps I am making a meta point that, in order for those who hold your views to more convincingly argue the case, the evidentiary standards need to be raised because otherwise it just looks like noise - and in particular re: Palantir, there is an enormous amount of FUDD and mystery (intentional or otherwise) around what they do, and as a result of this people reflexively revert to "data sharing bad, BigCorp evil" like this is a Marvel comic book movie. Not saying you are doing that, but any time this company comes up the comments become retrenched and the usual technical depth that this website is supposed to be known for goes out the window.
by gwern | 2026-02-16 06:25:10+00:00
Yes, network is assumed. If it's local, there's no problem, just use MHT or SingleFile!

> Maybe this is downstream of Gwern choosing to use MediaWiki for his website?

This has nothing at all to do with the choice of server. The benefit of being a single-file, with zero configuration or special software required by anyone who ever hosts or rehosts a Gwtar in the future, would be true regardless of what wiki software I run.

(As it happens, Gwern.net has never used MediaWiki, or any standard dynamic CMS. It started as Gitit, and is now a very customized Hakyll static site with a lot of nginx options. I am surprised you thought that because Gwern.net looks nothing like any MediaWiki installation I have seen.)
by dash2 | 2026-02-16 06:25:17+00:00
One thing that is maybe underestimated is the very large amount of applied mathematics that is nowhere near the level of frontier mathematics research. For example lots of economics includes a theory component which is usually trivially simple by the standards of mathematics – undergraduate level at best. I tried ChatGPT on the appendix of this paper and it correctly reproduced the results (and the exposition was more elegant):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35790706/
by timwis | 2026-02-16 06:28:31+00:00
From what I remember, the key differentiating features were:

- a heartbeat, so it was able to 'think'/work throughout the day, even if you weren't interacting with it
- a clever and simple way to retain 'memory' across sessions (though maybe claude code has this now)
- a 'soul' text file, which isn't necessarily innovative in itself, but the ability for the agent to edit its own configuration on the fly is pretty neat

Oh, and it's open source
by sollniss | 2026-02-16 06:31:08+00:00
I hate how it's still not possible to properly style the numbers in ordered lists.

I use them for code snippets with automatic line numbers, but it's literally impossible to space the numbers (relative to the code) while keeping them aligned to the right.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://jsfiddle.net/89t1rd2u/
by kylemh | 2026-02-16 06:31:25+00:00
The main one is that you can run and/or host it remotely, unlike Claude Desktop. By this I mean, you can run OpenClaw on a service like Tailscale and protect your actual machine from certain security/privacy concerns and - regardless of the choice - you can connect your access to OpenClaw via any chat agent or SSH tunnel, so you can access it from a phone. If Claude Cowork comes to iOS/Android with a tunnel option, they can resolve this difference.

A smaller difference would be that you can use any/all models with OpenClaw.
by cornholio | 2026-02-16 06:31:27+00:00
The only notable data point is the precipitous drop for software engineering from 40-60 days historical averages. lt basically says that tech has become just like the rest of the job market, competitive for applicants and heavily gatekept by insiders, and that will be quite a reckoning for those who never experienced in their professional life a "normal" job seeking process.

The rest are just noise.
by yalok | 2026-02-16 06:31:35+00:00
in ~30 years of my work in DSP domain, I've seen insane amount of ways to do signal processing wrong even for simplest things like passing a buffer and doing resampling.

The last example I've seen in one large company, done by a developer lacking audio/DSP experience: they used ffmpeg's resampling lib, but, after every 10ms audio frame processed by resampler, they'd invoke flush(), just for the sake of convenience of having the same number of input and output buffers ... :)
by alephnerd | 2026-02-16 06:32:29+00:00
> In 2 years from this date, I fully expect the safety critical RISC-V chips like the forthcoming High Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) from Microchip, Inc.[0], and derivatives [1] [2] leveraging SiFive IP[3], and other RISC-V competitors [4] to take a dominant position in Space, Aerospace, Aviation, and potentially other less cost-sensitive industries where RTOS dominate

They already are in India [0][1], but SiFive helped build a portion of the ecosystem in India as well [2].

I'm sure there are similar applications in China but I'd need help pointing to a specific initiative. I know Tenstorrent is hitching their wagon to China especially after poaching Arm China leadership.

> Could that extend to vehicles and other use-cases

They already are in India [3][4][8] - this is something the US and Indian governments as well as American and Indian VCs and corporations are collaborating on together. One such collaboration has already IPOed [5], seen combat, and begun helping develop capacity within America [6]. And another has recently announced a mega-raise with General Catalyst [7]. RISC-V design is on the roadmap as well in this relationship.

[0] - https://www.iitm.ac.in/happenings/press-releases-and-coverag...

[1] - https://www.isro.gov.in/vikram3201.html

[2] - https://www.sifive.com/blog/sifive-expands-presence-in-india...

[3] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260209VL216/risc-v-automot...

[4] - https://www.mindgrovetech.in/s2401-secure-iot

[5] - https://www.qualcommventures.com/insights/blog/ideaforge-fro...

[6] - https://firstbreach.com/news/first-breach-signs-jv-with-idea...

[7] - https://www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-investment-in-ra...

[8] - https://incoresemi.com/
by patrickg | 2026-02-16 06:32:43+00:00
Thank you (author here). I deliberately used the default settings. Typst mentions settings for the line breaking system in the manual (for example you can set the penalties for changing interword spacing between lines), the speedata publisher can switch on margin kerning.

There might be settings to speed up things, so if any of the authors provide me with the settings, I'd be happy to implement those.
by erikbye | 2026-02-16 06:33:07+00:00
It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank, you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products. Creativity, drive, vision, whatever. Code is a means to an end. If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace.

Quality of code has never had anything to do with which products are successful. I bet both youtube and facebook's codebase is a tangled mess.