MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by briHass | 2026-02-16 14:51:45+00:00
I think the 'elementary mistakes' in humans are far more common than confined to the mentally ill or intoxicated. There are entire shows/YT channels dedicated to grabbing a random person on the street and asking them a series of simple questions.

Often, these questions are pure-fact (who is the current US Vice President), but for some, the idea is that a young child can answer the questions better than an 'average' adult. These questions often play on the assumptions an adult might make that lead them astray, whereas a child/pre-teen answers the question correctly by having different assumptions or not assuming.

Presumably, even some of the worst (poorest performance) contestants in these shows (i.e. the ones selected for to provide humor for audiences) have jobs that require agency. I think it's more likely that most jobs/tasks either have extensive rules (and/or refer to rules defined elsewhere like in the legal system) or they have allowances for human error and ambiguity.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-16 14:51:55+00:00
In what concerns game consoles, since we are on a thread about Sega, industry never standardized on OpenGL and Direct3D in regards to game consoles.

Playstation never had OpenGL other than OpenGL ES 1.1 + Cg, in parallel to their own, but that was hardly adopted and was dropped.

Nintendo has had flavours of OpenGL like, but not quite the same, and while Switch supports Vulkan and OpenGL, the main API is NVN.
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-16 14:52:06+00:00
I don't really think there is a lot of differences between the two. China does have a heavy hand in regulating the chats, e.g. you could have your account auto-banned for whatever the reason, if the AI finds something. Sometimes it could as trivial as mentioning e.g. 8964 in a completely different context.

But I think this is more about China wasting resources on trivial things while the US wisely focuses on more important things /s.
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-16 14:52:26+00:00
I believe that most of what you said is true, but I don't think the tracking of people around the world is as efficient as your post suggests. If a single face scan were enough to track people anywhere like that, American government agencies (I'm thinking ICE, the FBI, etc.) wouldn’t have as much trouble as they do arresting people. That’s just my impression of course, maybe for some reason they choose not to use these technologies.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-16 14:52:55+00:00
Step 1: A Holocaust perpetrated by Germany, not Palestine.

Step 2: Build a country out of Lego- I mean, gradually settle an existing, populated area of the Levant - Palestine - and then have daddy Britain and later big daddy USA forcibly carve out a chunk of the land without input from the natives. And no, it was not a UN partition plan because most of the world was still colonized at the time.

Step 3: Take advantage of the obvious discontent with this move by the natives and activate Plan Dalet to take even more of the land. After all, the land granted by the partition plan is not enough.

Step 4: War starts with neighboring countries, partly to disrupt the ethnic cleansing campaign against a mostly defenseless population, but also to satisfy their own expansionist aims (esp. Transjordan).
Show HN: Non-technical person used Codex to make an AI-searchable CV site
by vassilbek | 2026-02-16 14:53:31+00:00
I’m not a software engineer, but I used Codex to turn my CV into a practical, machine-readable profile site.

I tried to make it useful for both recruiters and AI tools:
-Clear one-page profile + downloadable PDF
-Case studies with concrete results
-Work samples
-Structured files for discovery and parsing (llms.txt, resume.json, evidence.json, availability.json, agent-card.json, engage.json)
-Basic indexing and quality checks (sitemap, robots, JSON-LD, GitHub Actions)

Main idea: less friction to evaluate fit, verify claims, and contact me fast.

Would love feedback from HN:
If you scanned this in 60 seconds, what would you improve first?

Website: https://vassiliylakhonin.github.io/
Source: https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/vassiliylakhonin.github....
by groundtruthdev | 2026-02-16 14:53:44+00:00
Would you feel comfortable flying on an airplane where the programmers don’t care about secure code, correctness, or the ability to reason about and optimize algorithms—where “good enough” is the philosophy? Most people intuitively say no, because in safety-critical and large-scale systems, engineering rigor isn’t optional. Software may look intangible, but when it runs aircraft, banking systems, or global platforms, the same discipline applies.

The “Facebook/YouTube codebases are a mess so code quality doesn’t matter” line is also misleading. Those companies absolutely hire—and pay very well—engineers who obsess over security, performance, and algorithmic efficiency, because at that scale engineering quality directly translates to uptime, cost, and trust.

Yes, the visible product layers move fast and can look messy. But underneath are extremely disciplined infrastructure, security, and reliability teams. You don’t run global systems on vibe-coded foundations. People who genuinely believe correctness and efficiency don’t matter wouldn’t last long in the parts of those organizations that actually keep the lights on.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-16 14:54:21+00:00
Because 99% of the time it's not what users want.

You can get it to ask you clarifying questions just by telling it to. And then you usually just get a bunch of questions asking you to clarify things that are entirely obvious, and it quickly turns into a waste of time.

The only time I find that approach helpful is when I'm asking it to produce a function from a complicated English description I give it where I have a hunch that there are some edge cases that I haven't specified that will turn out to be important. And it might give me a list of five or eight questions back that force me to think more deeply, and wind up being important decisions that ensure the code is more correct for my purposes.

But honestly that's pretty rare. So I tell it to do that in those cases, but I wouldn't want it as a default. Especially because, even in the complex cases like I describe, sometimes you just want to see what it outputs before trying to refine it around edge cases and hidden assumptions.
by netsharc | 2026-02-16 14:54:58+00:00
I'm asking about where the Pizzagate outrage brigade is... Are they quiet now because it's their own champions who are implicated?

To be honest I haven't been looking out for them, but I imagine the news/the Internet detectives would've covered them.

"Kernel of truth", hah. Feels more like a distraction tactic. "Oh, Trump barged into dressing room of teenage pageants, let's accuse the other side of running a trafficking ring!"
by nickjj | 2026-02-16 14:55:02+00:00
My machine was built up from parts in 2014.

6-7 years ago when GPU prices went up, I hoped nothing would break. Last year when RAM prices went up I did the same. Now with drive prices going up, it's the same thing.

It's interesting because I've always built mid-tier machines over the years and it was in the neighborhood of ~$700 at the time. Now the same thing is almost double that but the performance is no where near twice as good for general computer usage.
by lovegrenoble | 2026-02-16 14:55:08+00:00
Above all let not allowed our leaders take our tax money to fight war that only help to destroy our planet. Planets earth is really, Humanity is dying, who started the 1st and 2 nd WW Europe, Europe is always in the center of every war Think about it and do they like war They like to control and have everything I rest my case here No insult
by belter | 2026-02-16 14:55:31+00:00
>> Compound this with all the information people put online on their own on socials, you're gonna be tracked and recognized, whether you want it or no.

These very much touted capabilities, are not the flex many think it is :-) Let me explain..

It is well known Israel operates a sophisticated, indigenous network of surveillance satellites, the Ofek series, that provides high-resolution, round-the-clock, all-weather intelligence over the Middle East.

It also known, half of the well know Cybersecurity firms in the US, have CEO or CTOs that are ex Unit 8200, that you serve until you are on your 50s.

Israel also has their own advanced drones constantly flying over Gaza, and the Urim station is less than 20 miles from Gaza: https://mondediplo.com/2010/09/04israelbase

It is also know, Israel has the capability to intercept every phone call in the middle east and certainly in Gaza. This capability has been demonstrated multiple times, specially when it was politically convenient, like for example
the intercepted Hamas calls that showed that some of the rockets fall inside Gaza by mistake.

Given ALL this, the problem is that makes the narrative that the Hamas
attacks of 7 of Oct, were a total surprise...while is now known
hundreds of Hamas millitants were rehersing the attacks for weeks
on the other side of the border, impossible to sustain.

Nobody believes this whole spy and realtime alert network was not aware of it for weeks in advance.

And this gives a much stronger sense to the alternative narrative, that the objective was to allow the attack to happen to justify the massive military response and finish Hamas. But he Israel apparatus underestimated
the size of the attack, and lost control, leading to the
massive Israeli casualties.

There is a reason why, 2 years in, and despite Israel being a democracy, there is not yet a public inquiry to the events that led to 7 Oct.

"...In an interview with Israeli journalist, Dan Margalit in December 2012, Netanyahu told Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Netanyahu also added that having two strong rivals, this would lessen pressure on him to negotiate towards a Palestinian state..."

"‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

"Israeli support for Hamas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-16 14:56:16+00:00
> I'm sold on the idea that if you're committing your drafts to version control, then you should break your lines at syntactic points: at the end of a short sentence, or at the ends of the component phrases of a longer sentence. This should typically lead to a cleaner and more readily comprehensible version history.

What you're describing is called "track changes" in word processors.

I'd say an alternative to using Git or JJ or whatever is use a version control that exists to serve non-code. That is to say, use Track Changes! :D

Word, Google Docs, Scrivener (this is my favorite), etc. have no problem telling you "hey you changed this draft by inserting a paragraph and changing this other word's verb ending, while also replacing this one with a synonym."

Yeah, if you use Git, which was designed for tracking changes to a far more limited kind of language, you're going to run into incompatibilities. So track changes with a version control created for tracking changes to human language.

If you have to "rethink" your app in order to serve a new purpose, it's a red flag that you're trying to square a circle.

Better to use a tool that was created for your purpose.
by WD-42 | 2026-02-16 14:56:23+00:00
I’ve been running a matrix server for about 2 years for family. It’s… ok. Clients are bad. Right now nobody on iOS can send images because there is a bug in fluffychat preventing it. Kinda defeats the purpose of a chat for sharing baby pictures. Synapse is a beast. It’s basically taken over my entire VPS.

Joining rooms of various FOSS projects has been nice, but honestly I wish they’d all just stick to libera.chat

This article makes me wonder why we collectively ditched xmpp for matrix when it seems like the protocol is still miles ahead?
by agos | 2026-02-16 14:56:24+00:00
From Tailwind's home page:

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"immediately" is a stretch
by Zababa | 2026-02-16 14:56:24+00:00
HathiTrust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust) has 6.7 millions of volumes in the public domain, in PDF from what I understand. That would be around a billion pages, if we consider a volume is ~200 pages. 5000 days to go through that with an A100-40G at 200k pages a day. That is one way to interpret what they say as being legal. I don't have any information on what happens at DeepSeek so I can't say if it's true or not.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-16 14:56:43+00:00
This is an extremely thorny question. Not allowing some kind of blank slate makes rehabilitation extremely difficult, and it is almost certainly a very expensive net social negative to exclude someone from society permanently, all the way up to their death at (say) 70, for something they did at 18. There is already a legal requirement to ignore "spent" convictions in some circumstances.

However, there's also jobs which legally require enhanced vetting checks.
by dpkirchner | 2026-02-16 14:57:23+00:00
Claude Code's handling of multiple choice questions is awfully nice (it uses an interactive interface to let you use arrows to select answers, and supports multiple answers). I haven't seen opencode do that yet, although I don't know if that's just a model integration issue -- I've only tried with GLM 4.7, GPT 5.1 Codex Mini, and GPT 5.2 Codex.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-16 14:57:24+00:00
Someone suggested this follow up question to ChatGPT (which still exhbits this problem). The answer is even more non-sensical

> Will they have a 50m hose to reach my car once I get there?

Almost certainly not

Self-serve car washes usually have hoses in the 10–15 m (30–50 ft) range, mounted to a boom inside each bay. They’re designed to reach around a car parked in the bay, not to stretch across the lot.

What this means:

You can’t park 50 m away and spray from there.

You’ll need to pull the car into the wash bay.

Once inside, the hose easily reaches the whole vehicle.

So: walk over, drive the car the short distance into the bay, then wash.

(Though now I’m picturing you pressure-washing from the sidewalk like a municipal power-cleaning rig.)
by alexejb | 2026-02-16 14:57:35+00:00
You should look into "shock therapy" and how western powers advised the Russian government at the time. Also how oligarchs came to power from the late 80s to the late 90s. Russia experienced unhinged free market reforms applied by incompetent politicians and opportunists who managed to sell out the accumulated wealth of the former RSFSR in just a few years.
I don't see how neighboring countries are "suffering along" – e.g. Ukraine got all its debts forgiven and inherited specialized industries which were subsidized by Russia during soviet times. They had 25 years to make something out of it and did basically nothing.

We'll see how the European Union will "grow" in the next years...
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-16 14:57:43+00:00
The easier way is to compare other app stores and whether they charge similar or different. If a less overhead business model worked, you’d see them doing otherwise. Yet from Android to the Sony PlayStation store to almost every other store, the 30% cut seems about standard. Indeed, Apple actually only takes 15% for small businesses and 30% is for businesses that see a huge amount of revenue from Apple’s sales channel.
by sarthakjain | 2026-02-16 14:58:07+00:00
These days LLMs refuse to back track and use their intelligence to justify their answers.

You said:
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

ChatGPT said:
Walk.

At ~50 meters, driving saves essentially no time once you factor in unlocking, starting, pulling out, and parking, and it adds a small but real chance of minor dings or awkward maneuvering in a tight car-wash entry. Walking is simpler and lower-friction.

You said:
okay how should the car reach there?

ChatGPT said:
Drive it there when you’re ready to start the wash.

Walk over first to check the queue/payment situation and confirm they’re open. If it’s clear, walk back, get the car, and drive the 50 meters into the bay. If they handle pickup, hand them the keys and walk.
by al_borland | 2026-02-16 14:58:51+00:00
> These models are demonstrating an incredible capacity for logical abstract reasoning of a level far greater than 99.9% of the world's population.

And yet they have trouble knowing that a person should take their car to a car wash.

I also saw a college professor who put various AI models through all his exams for a freshman(?) level class. Most failed, I think one barely passed, if I remember correctly.

I’ve been reading about people being shocked by how good things are for years now, but while there may be moments of what seems like incredible brilliance, there are also moments of profound stupidity. AI optimists seem to ignore these moments, but they very real.

If someone on my team performed like AI, I wouldn’t trust them with anything.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-16 14:59:01+00:00
I think there is a legitimate argument that the names of people who go to court and are either victims or are found innocent of the charges, should not be trivially searchable by anyone.

Though I'm not sure stopping this service achieves that.

Also - even in the case that somebody is found guilty - there is a fundamental principle that such convictions have a life time - after which they stop showing up on police searches etc.

If some third party ( not applicable in this case ), holds all court cases forever in a searchable format, it fundamentally breaches this right to be forgotten.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-16 14:59:20+00:00
I can feel the AGI on this one :)

I ran extensive tests on this and variations on multiple models. Most models interpret 50 m as a short distance and struggle with spatial reasoning. Only Gemini and Grok correctly inferred that you would need to bring your car to get it washed in their thought stream, and incorporated that into the final answer. GPT-5.2 and Kimi K2.5 and even Opus 4.6 failed in my tests -
https://x.com/sathish316/status/2023096023460229236?s=46

What surprised me was how introducing a simple, seemingly unrelated context - such as comparing a 500 m distance to a 1 km workout - confused nearly all the models. Only Gemini Pro passed my second test after I added this extra irrelevant context -
https://x.com/sathish316/status/2023078039324909659?s=46

Most real-world problems are messy and won’t have the exact clean context that these models are expecting. I’m not sure how the major labs assume most real-world problems are simpler than the constraints exposed by this example like prerequisites, ordering, and contextual reasoning.
by xml | 2026-02-16 14:59:29+00:00
You can still be excited! Recently, GLM-OCR was released, which is a relatively small OCR model (2.5GB unquantized) that can run on CPU with good quality. I've been using it for digitizing various hand-written notes all my shopping receipts this week.

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR

(Shameless plug: I also maintain a simplified version of GLM-OCR without dependency on the transformers library, which makes it much easier to install: https://github.com/99991/Simple-GLM-OCR/)
by ryanmcl | 2026-02-16 14:59:36+00:00
This is wild timing - I literally just used Opus 4.6 this morning to help me build my second product (guided meditation app with voice customization). The level of architectural thinking it brought to the Rails structure was way beyond what I expected.

What blows me away about your STL reverse-engineering example is that Claude didn't just brute-force the reconstruction - it built a methodology. The z-level analysis, cross-section decomposition, the reusable toolkit... that's systems thinking, not pattern matching.

I'm curious: did you iterate on the SPEC.md prompt at all, or did it nail the approach on the first try? I find that when I give Claude a clear success metric (like your "0.1mm accuracy" requirement), it gets way more creative with its solution path.

Also, the fact that it documented its own process in SKILL.md is chef's kiss. I've been building a similar approach for my own projects - having Claude create reusable "skills" that improve over time feels like we're accidentally stumbling into something bigger than just code generation.

Great write-up mate! The "chimpanzee with a stick" analogy is perfect - we're watching tool use emerge in real-time.
by simonw | 2026-02-16 14:59:40+00:00
Once. It's a dice roll for the models.

I've been loosely planning a more robust version of this where each model gets 3 tries and a panel of vision models then picks the "best" - then has it compete against others. I built a rough version of that last June: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#ai-...
Show HN: Flora Carta, design and keep track of your garden or orchard
by simonsarris | 2026-02-16 15:00:34+00:00
This is very Alpha stages, but if this is the kind of thing you would use I would love feedback on the features you'd need to make it useful.

I originally built this to keep track of my rose garden (with currently 150 roses and counting, which are where) and my orchard (again mostly to remember which variety and year of planting). Several people asked me to make a public version, so now its public.

You can see a completed-ish design here:
https://floracarta.com/design/vzqJ7UCrCSB8

Release notes:
https://floracarta.com/about
by Departed7405 | 2026-02-16 15:00:36+00:00
I tested Gemini 3 Flash (no visible reasoning trace). It gave me a choice matrix. Said that unless it was getting soap and a sponge, I should drive.

Kimi 2.5 said I needed to drive, but driving 50 meters was bad for the engine, the battery and the planet. it then recommended me to push the car, if safe.

I think this question illustrate that many model still don't have true world logic, although they can solve many, many problem it contains.

Also interestingly, the two models I tested didn't consider EVs.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-16 15:00:41+00:00
This is the way.

For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," people sure like to use VIM for a thousand different purposes by hacking plugins. This used to be derided as the microsoft way decades ago.

For writing prose, I use an app specifically designed for writing prose: Scrivener. See elsewhere saying "you should change how you write in order to use version control when writing prose." Totally forgetting that there's been a version control for prose for literal decades: tracking changes in a word processor.

Do you want to process words? Use a word processor. Not a text editor. Writing prose isn't editing text.
by jmye | 2026-02-16 15:01:30+00:00
Nah, it's because you know you have no idea what you're talking about, and you know you're utterly out of your depth, just like every other Facebook researcher, so instead, you'll play "you're mean and that makes me feel bad" games.

It's so boring and predictable. You're happy to shitpost across the internet, but the instant you're called on it, you take your imaginary ball and go home.
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-16 15:01:47+00:00
If people want to make the "this will be AGI after two decades and will totally revolutionize the entire world" that's fine. If people want to make the "wow this is an incredibly useful tool for many jobs that will make work more efficient" that's fine. We can have those discussions.

What I don't buy is the "in two years there will be no more concept of money or poverty because AI has solved everything" argument using the evidence that these tools are really good at coding.