MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2026-02-24 23:49:07+00:00
Have you forgotten about the Nissan Leaf? Tesla created the market for expensive sports car EVs, but Nissan made the market for EVs for the mainstream.

The Tesla Roadster came out first, by a couple years, but only sold about 2500 over its lifetime. By the time Tesla got its second model out, a couple years after Leaf went on sale, Leaf had 50k sales.

It took until 2020 for Tesla cumulative sales to catch up with Leaf cumulative sales.
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-24 23:49:20+00:00
> "Monetary policymakers would face tradeoffs between unemployment and inflation. ... Education, workforce, and other policy that is non-monetary may be better suited to address these challenges in a more targeted way."

How comforting. Sounds to me like "ZIRP won't fix this one folks, it's gonna take something other than money to fix what's coming."
by Gigachad | 2026-02-24 23:49:29+00:00
This seems like the most effective solution. Imagine if you knew that if you littered, there is a 100% chance you would get a $10 fine immediately. Almost no one would litter ever again, even though the fine is much smaller than the fine is in most countries.

Problem is it just takes a lot of resources to police, more than the fine revenue. But with CCTV and computer vision it's getting increasingly cheap.
by impendia | 2026-02-24 23:49:44+00:00
I certainly didn't take it as a slight against myself. Rather, I've met Tao and several other top mathematicians, and I don't imagine any of them would say they fit that description.

Indeed, Tao himself has written criticism of the "cult of genius":

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-24 23:50:39+00:00
Which does not deny the fact that Hamas deliberately gets people killed.

I recall some time ago an Israeli strike--they hit with a roof knocker, Hamas responded by ordering the neighbors to rush to the roof. Too slow, the house was packed with people when the bomb fell. And somehow that's Israel's fault?!

And in past conflicts 20-25% of the Palestinian deaths are from Hamas munitions that fall short. It's unlikely to be that high in this case, but we have things like that first "Israeli" hospital "strike" with "500 dead"--come daylight it's obviously a rocket that blew up at or very soon after ignition. And we have an Al Jazzera "report" "showing" that it was an Israeli weapon--never mind that it didn't actually show the incident at all and that Iron Dome is completely incapable of shooting down a rocket that's taking off. Missiles take time to get there, you can't hit a rocket that has been in the air less than the flight time of a missile reaching it.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-24 23:51:26+00:00
Am I the only one here who was amazed by the speed of improvement between 5.2-codex and 5.3-codex?

I feel that Sam is saying what investors want to hear, but the coding work it is capable of and how it improved with using the terminal (TerminalBench) in such a short time is something that I'm sure can't be seen by short term revenue projections. I'm sure the other AI companies are having the same speedups, but it's real.

The usual limit is of course the slop output that is not well modularized that makes it hard to do bigger things, and codex is terrible at refactoring into the right direction (it has no taste).

3x YoY growth in revenue is just not hard to imagine with this kinds of models, I think they have to get out with more expensive parallel working agents and higher-than-pro subscriptions, but it is coming I'm sure.
by mccoyb | 2026-02-24 23:51:30+00:00
It’s straightforward: JavaScript is a dynamic language, which allows code (for instance, code implementing an extension to the harness) to be executed and loaded while the harness is running.

This is quite nice — I do think there’s a version of pi’s design choices which could live in a static harness, but fully covering the same capabilities as pi without a dynamic language would be difficult. (You could imagine specifying a programmable UI, etc — various ways to extend the behavior of the system, and you’d like end up with an interpreter in the harness)

At least, you’d like to have a way to hot reload code (Elixir / Erlang could be interesting)

This is my intuition, at least.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-24 23:51:48+00:00
Nobody is justifying Palestinian deaths, whatever that means. You don't know my position on the war, since I haven't articulated it here.

I'm simply refuting your earlier claim that only Hamas and Hezbollah is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, while regular Palestinians are fine with it. Hopefully you have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge your earlier claim was wrong, and there was and is indeed broad support for destroying Israel and its civilian population among Palestinian civilians. And not just intellectual support, but concrete actions. Are you familiar with the "pay for slay" program?
by hinkley | 2026-02-24 23:52:19+00:00
It also turns out that for insurance purposes you are allowed to use infill to get the corner of a property that's below the high water mark above it. At least in some states.

Some of the calculus is not about if it will flood it's about if you'll lose your investment if it floods. If an underwriter is willing to cover it, you might go for it anyway.
by adventured | 2026-02-24 23:53:26+00:00
FedNow is what has PayPal's former investors so terrified (so much so that investors don't even think PayPal warrants a double digit multiple).

No cost instant financial transfers between US financial users is coming over the next decade. The Fed has 1,400 banks onboard so far, up from 900 the prior year (that's 1,400 in two years). Half of PayPal's business goes away over the coming decade.
by fooker | 2026-02-24 23:53:32+00:00
> How quickly will not having social media accounts become a crime?

Ah, it already is. Just being trialed against people with less rights and no voting power.

Since the last several months, your US visa will be rejected if you do not submit public social media profiles.

If you think the government is spending a hundred billions on this category of tech for vetting a few thousand people, you are a prime candidate to buy a bridge that I can sell you for a discount.
by Jensson | 2026-02-24 23:54:25+00:00
Google is doing that, you know all those "I am not a robot" things? Those are made by google mostly and uses a lot of such signals. Its not just clicking the right things its also how you click etc.

The reason some of those just have a checkbox without a challenge is that they already are sure enough so how you move to click the box is enough then.
by 827a | 2026-02-24 23:54:37+00:00
Your learned helplessness is defeatist and boring. We need not be Moloch's subjects; Apple's business priorities are not the result of some natural and unstoppable force, and their leadership is not exempt from responsibility because of your belief that it is. Someone, sometime, in a surprisingly boring room, wearing a surprisingly boring suit, made decisions like those which opened a factory in China instead of Texas.
by ajross | 2026-02-24 23:54:52+00:00
> the obvious question is: Which [of having babies vs. building datacenters] is more worthwhile to us as a species

Uh... no, it's not. You're making an argument in the opposite direction as Altman, but recapitulating the same moral flaw.

The point is that viewing human procreation as "worthwhile" or having "value" or being "expensive" is the logic of slavery. People are people, not assets. We don't have babies to make our lives better, we have babies to make THEIR lives better.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-24 23:54:57+00:00
I work in cloud consulting + app dev. I’m always responsible for the full life cycle of a project - team lead, discovery sessions with the clients, working with them through the project and handoff.

I can now do everything by myself on most projects. Up to ones that would have taken at least 2-3 other people before. Before I would have had to delegate it just because I couldn’t do it all by myself on time. I know how to develop (professionally did 30 years) and I know cloud (professionally for 8 years). I just didn’t have time.

On the other hand, I haven’t done web dev in a decade. But I can vibe code an internal website for operations and authentication via Amazon Cognito. It’s just a free feature that I give them even when it’s not in the contract
by yosamino | 2026-02-24 23:55:13+00:00
> Hamas murdering their own citizens again

A good test of whether claim like this is true is to swap out the actor and put in "the Jews"

Like this:

> The Jews murdering their own citizens again

Suddenly it sounds like an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

And the reason why that works, is that antisemitism has nothing to do with Jews, for stupid reasons they just ended up as the victim of it.

What it does do, is expose antisemitic thinking, which is, in the end, really just concentrated anti-human thinking.

So if I was you, I would start examining how I construct argument and critically evaluate information I come across.
by magic_hamster | 2026-02-24 23:55:59+00:00
Sorry to nitpick here, but using satellite from literally a different time cannot be part of the reconstruction of the events they appear to be showing in the post. So, this is just one of numerous small but misleading details. The actual reconstruction is not an incredible feat of technology, they have very little work with and have to lean heavily on eye witness accounts from people trying to make it through a gunfight at night time. This wouldn't pass any scrutiny by a real publication which is probably why it's on their blog and nowhere else.
by Viliam1234 | 2026-02-24 23:56:14+00:00
Exactly. Up to some point, you actually do well because you are smart. Then, in the middle of the game, the rules change (from your perspective), and it may catch you by surprise.

It would be much better for the gifted children to attend schools where their effort is visible since the beginning. That is, schools with other gifted children.

For example, in math, my kids didn't learn anything new during their first three years of the elementary school, because they already knew numbers and addition at kindergarten age. Yet they were forced to sit there for three years. It would have been better to give them a book to read, or a collection of interesting problems to solve.
by randallsquared | 2026-02-24 23:56:19+00:00
This is a case where any law is strange, but so is a lack of a law, for some.

* What do you mean it's allowed for people to record me while I'm telling them off?
* What do you mean I'm not allowed to remember (with high fidelity) what someone said to me?

Either way, someone thinks it's weird.
by arcanemachiner | 2026-02-24 23:56:35+00:00
Yes. It seems to be the term that stands out the most, as terms like "AI coding assistant", "agentic coding framework", etc. are too vague to really differentiate these tools.

"harness" fits pretty nicely IMO. It can be used as a single word, and it's not too semantically overloaded to be useful in this context.
by scottyah | 2026-02-24 23:57:11+00:00
It's the knee-jerk reactions to "look at the other side!" that makes me think you're in a bubble. Also your references to certain small groups on the right-side spectrum as the whole while claiming (rightly) that other small groups on the left-side don't represent the mainstream. I was just trying to give you a few examples as a starting point for research since you seem to be completely oblivious to them, I am not here to argue with you or back them up.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-24 23:57:35+00:00
> Hallucinations still happen. Auto-AI translation youtube uses is, bluntly, horrid. Any jokes, even obvious ones, are still fumbled frequently.

I've seen that too, but these were all dedicated translation tools and auto-translate functionality.

My benchmark is against SOTA LLMs used directly. I.e. I copy the text (or media) in question, paste directly to ChatGPT or Gemini (using the best model on basic paid tier), and ask for translation. Not always perfect, but nearly so - and they naturally ingest additional context if available - such as the surrounding text, or title/ID/URI of the document/website you're looking at, or additional explanations in the prompt - and make very good use of it. This has always been missing in dedicated tools, historically built around the mistaken assumption that translation is merely a function of input text and pair of language designators (from, to). The shorter the input, the more apparent it becomes how much context matters.

RE YouTube and such - or, like any auto-transcription in video calls I've seen - I can't explain that by anything other than service providers cheapening out on this.

> From a workflow POV they only added higher compute costs for very questionable gains.

Regarding the costs - I imagine they may be an issue at scale, but for regular use (on-demand translation of individual passages, documents, recordings), it feels like it shouldn't be that noticeable anymore. You don't need to run GPT-5 for everything, some models you can run client-side already seem decent enough, and they keep improving.

> LLM based translation looks more convincing but requires the same level of scrutiny that previous tools did.

That's fair. Ultimately, if you don't know both languages, you can only trust the translation as much as you trust the translator (human or otherwise). We'll have to get a feel for this as much as we did with Google Translate, et al. In my experience, whenever I can verify them, results from LLMs are already vastly superior to prior art.

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Tangent, and why I started considering LLMs as solving universal translation in the first place: 6 months ago, when I needed to talk with someone with whom I had zero language overlap, I tried several well-known translation apps (notably Google and Samsung), and none could manage - but then, on a whim, I just asked ChatGPT (in "advanced voice" mode) to "play a game" where it listens in and repeats whatever was just said in language A, but translated to language B, and vice versa -- and it worked flawlessly on first try.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-02-24 23:57:50+00:00
According to the OpenASR Leaderboard [1], looks like Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine. All 3 models are open, but Parakeet is the smallest of the 3. I use Parakeet V3 with Handy and it works great locally for me.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
by em-bee | 2026-02-24 23:58:05+00:00
the problem is that in developing countries smart phones are a massive technology jump for people who lack the education to even have a clue whats going on. treating people as adults does not work if they don't have the education needed for that.

these people aren't gullible. they are ignorant (in the uneducated sense). they are not making bad decisions. they are not even aware that there is a decision to be made.

and worst of all, this problem affects the majority of those populations. if more than half of our population was alcoholic then we absolutely would restrict the access to alcohol through whatever means possible.

it's a pandemic. and we all know what restrictions that required.
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-24 23:58:28+00:00
Millions protested the US response.

Today they still spit to the side when having to say the name George Bush or Tony Blair, among others.

You either weren't there, have a bad memory, or are watching typically mainstream new sources, or are willfully ignoring the voices that are having that conversation today.

Many of the ills today can be traced back to powers grabbed at the time to assist the so-called "war on terror".
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-25 00:00:36+00:00
Yes, of course. This happens to me too: there's words I've never heard pronounced, so I don't actually know how to pronounce them (though you can usually solve this by using Google Translate's text-to-speech function).

I never said English was a superbly designed language, just that it does make sense when you look at the entire history and etymology. But yeah, it's a heavily-kludged mess, though it is pretty good at being accessible for new learners just because it's flexible and has a relatively simple grammar.
by onesociety2022 | 2026-02-25 00:00:48+00:00
> Stripe hit a $159 billion valuation on Tuesday and said it was on track to reach an annual run rate of $1 billion this year.

Wow! This is the quality of reporting from CNBC? The $1B ARR number is just for Stripe's Revenue products (Billing, Invoicing, etc). That doesn't include their main business (payments-related products).
by Confiks | 2026-02-25 00:00:57+00:00
> That is not true and "true zero knowledge ID check" + "age verification" with blind signatures is what's being implemented by the EU ID project.

You are mistaken. Unlinkable signature schemes are currently being discussed among cryptographers and a month ago Longfellow has been integrated in the reference wallet. You're making it seem that unlinkable signatures are very established and the default, while they are not. They're not yet properly defined, experimental and mostly unimplemented by member states. Linkable ECDSA signature are the default in the EUDI wallet project.
by ggm | 2026-02-25 00:01:19+00:00
Yes, and here is the result.

The question was

can you give me a critique of __https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16291__

And the last part of the response was:

Overall assessment This is an intriguing paper with genuinely creative ideas, but the abstract raises as many questions as it answers. The reliance on naive set theory combined with self-reference is the most technically worrying aspect and would be the first thing to scrutinize in the full paper. The multiple inheritance claims seem plausible but likely trade expressiveness for simplicity. The broader practical claims (Expression Problem, color blindness) feel more like conjectures awaiting rigorous treatment than settled results.

It reads like the work of someone with a compelling intuition who has built a working system — the theory may need to catch up to the implementation. Worth reading carefully, but with critical eyes.
by aleksandrh | 2026-02-25 00:02:12+00:00
Weird, I hate Next and I love Vite. We have a big (I mean _really_ big) production app that runs on Next.js at work and it's the slowest thing I've ever worked on. I had to upgrade my machine to an M4 Pro just to get local dev compile times down from 5-8 minutes to ~30-60 seconds per route. And my hot refreshes are down from ~15-20 seconds to 5-10. It's _bad_. All the Next.js team does is give you the run-around and link to their docs and say here, try these steps, you're probably doing something wrong, etc. Nope. The framework is just slow. They use simple toy apps to demo how fast it is, but nobody tells you how slow it is at scale.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-25 00:02:25+00:00
I call that "hidden inflation", and if I were to guess, the ongoing degradation of services across the board, in every aspect, can easily account for actual inflation figures being half of what it feels they should be.

It's the tiny things. Like, you visit a beauty salon or restaurant today, and compare it to the same or equivalent place 5 years ago. PDF menus instead of paper. Apps for booking instead of support staff. Leaflets where there used to be magazines to browse. No complimentary coffee. Kitchenware that used to be pristine and high-quality, is now the cheapest offering for commercial wholesaler. There's less light, worse decor, no music (or louder music, to boost turnover), worse sound-proofing, etc.

Sure, the prices are the same, or maybe little higher. But the overall quality of service - not just direct service, but whole experience and ambiance - took a nosedive, so you pay a little more, for much less.

You start looking for it, and the slow decay of everything becomes apparent even on the scale of months.
by marcosdumay | 2026-02-25 00:02:28+00:00
"I avoid issues like AI can finish things in just 2 hours, but I have to spend 20 hours. I will feel so painful if the task is decided as AI-disallowed."

What really doesn't sound like the results they got where developers may get up to twice as productive on the best scenario.

There's surely something scary there. And the lack of people ambivalent about AI isn't a certain indication it's well accepted as they think, it can just as easily be caused by polarization.
by mbirth | 2026-02-25 00:02:28+00:00
A while ago I've rewritten TRMNL's Kindle-client from Bash into Lua, optimised it a bit and when doing a refresh every 5 minutes, my Kindle Paperwhite 10th gen now lasts about 5-6 days on a charge.

https://github.com/mbirth/trmnl-kindle/tree/lua-rewrite
by BobbyJo | 2026-02-25 00:02:29+00:00
> Your argument requires the run rate to reduce over time until OpenAI reaches profitability

I was talking about Anthropic, but run rates don't need to go down, they just need to scale with revenue. For Anthropic specifically, this seems to already be the case.

OpenAI I don't know much about, but it would make sense if they were running at a terrible loss due to the ubiquity of free ChatGPT.

> Worse, Gemini has guaranteed funding for continued training whenever the AI hype bubble pops.

I don't see a scenario in which Anthropic has any problem financing their activity given their conversion rate of inputs to recurring revenue. Generally, bubbles popping means companies with bad balance sheets and bad economics die, but that just doesn't apply to Anthropic IMO.

OpenAI though, hard to say. They've lost all of the good will being the first mover gave them at this point, so they'll need to really lead product to make the economics work for them.
by esalman | 2026-02-25 00:02:46+00:00
In general Muslims are not out to exterminate Jews. Jews are "people of the book". They are followers of Moses who is one of the most revered prophets in Islam. Jews are brothers and sisters and it is even permitted to marry them.

The issue is Israel state is far removed from the teachings of Moses and out to exterminate Muslims in the middle east. So naturally you can expect violent resistance.
by notatoad | 2026-02-25 00:03:09+00:00
i'd love to know what happens if you change the prompt from "Hello! I am an eccentric video game designer (a very creative one) who communicates in an unusual way. Sometimes I’ll mash the keyboard or type nonsense like “skfjhsd#$%”..."

to

"Hello, i am a dog. i will mash the keyboard randomly when i want treats. make a game for me"
by tgman12 | 2026-02-25 00:03:28+00:00
The result of these heists is that no one will publish test suites on the Internet in the future.

The tone of the blog post is upbeat. What are the consequences? Is the new performance expectation at Clownflare to "port" one framework per week? Do you have to generate at least 20 kLOC per week? Aren't you redundant right now?
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-25 00:03:33+00:00
> Exactly. Up to some point, you actually do well because you are smart.

No, you do well because you put in the effort. Even trivial effort is still effort. Sometimes it's all that's genuinely needed (quite often in fact!) and it's important to realize this - but not always, and that's important to realize as well.

> my kids didn't learn anything new during their first three years

I think it's almost always possible to revise even these 'trivial' subjects in more depth. Granted, it's hard to do this in elementary math without some kind of outside involvement - someone to explicitly introduce the nuances. Other subjects this is quite a bit easier.
by Amezarak | 2026-02-25 00:03:42+00:00
There are modern European states refounded after the Allies pursued a deliberate and calculated policy of ethnic cleansing to ensure Germans would never be a problem again - in some cases going from 25% of the population prewar to 1% afterwards, with mass violence and rape included. Ethnic cleansing is only really frowned upon when you lose, or when you win so hard it's a convenient virtue signal and disapproval doesn't threaten the status quo.