MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cdegroot | 2026-02-17 23:14:16+00:00
Soo.... the book has a bit of a history (see the acknowledgements). When I worked with a publisher, "academic" things like a bibliography were somewhat de-emphasized and the tooling was not nearly as nice as, well, BibTeX. So we went for a very short bibliography containing works that were directly quoted. I did read the paper way back when doing research for the first chapters, but over the years the reference got lost and that's the main reason it didn't make it in.

But you're right, it (and many, many, _many_ other things) does belong in the bibliography.
by lurquer | 2026-02-17 23:14:28+00:00
Indeed. Wholeheartedly agree.

Just as it’s on you to pick the word you want when using Roger’s Thesaurus.

My workflow, when using it for writing, is different than when coding.

When coding, I want an answer that works and is robust.

When writing, I want options.

You pick and choose, run it through again, perhaps use different models, have one agent critique the output of another agent, etc.

This iterative process is much different than asking an LLM to ‘write an article about [insert topic)’ and hope for the best.

In any case, I’ve found the LLMs when properly used greatly benefit prose and knee-jerk comments about how all LLM prose sound the same are a bit outdated… (understandable as few authors are out there admitting they are using AI… there’s a stigma about it. But, trust me, there are some beautiful soulful pieces of prose out there that came out of a properly used LLM… it’s just that the authors aren’t about to admit it.)
by oliyoung | 2026-02-17 23:14:42+00:00
I'm in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent, we have a backup desalination plant and water security is common on the political agenda - water is probably as expensive here than most places in the world

"The 2025-26 water use price for commercial customers is now $3.365/kL (or $0.003365 per litre)"

https://www.sawater.com.au/my-account/water-and-sewerage-pri...
by magicalist | 2026-02-17 23:14:56+00:00
I have no idea what their motivation is and no idea if they're using an LLM to tune their prose or write comments whole cloth (considering the four recent comments, each two paragraphs, within 2.5 minutes, though, I'm guessing fully generated).

I was just annoyed enough by spending a couple of minutes trying to decode what had the semblance of something interesting that I felt compelled to write my response :)

There are a ton of interesting top-level comments and questions posted in this thread. It's such a waste this one is at the top.
by hughw | 2026-02-17 23:14:59+00:00
Water just comes out of a tap?

My household water comes from a 500 ft well on my property requiring a submersible pump costing $5000 that gets replaced ever 10-15 years or so with a rig and service that cost another 10k. Call it $1000/year... but it also requires a giant water softener, in my case a commercial one that amortizes out to $1000/year, and monthly expenditure of $70 for salt (admittedly I have exceptionally hard water).

And of course, I, and your municipality too, don't (usually) pay any royalties to "owners" of water that we extract.

Water is, rightly, expensive, and not even expensive enough.
by mbrumlow | 2026-02-17 23:15:02+00:00
> They can get rid of 1/3-2/3s of their labor and make the same amount of money, why wouldn't they.

Because companies want to make MORE money.

Your hypothetical company is now competing with another company who didn’t opposite, and now they get to market faster, fix bugs faster, add feature faster, and responding to changes in the industry faster. Which results in them making more, while your employ less company is just status quo.

Also. With regards to oil, the consumption of oil increases as it became cheaper. With AI we now have a chance to do projects that simply would have cost way too much to do 10 years ago.
by jmcqk6 | 2026-02-17 23:15:18+00:00
He has proven to be untrustworthy much longer than his trip down the right wing rabbit hole. For me, it started when he through out the accusation of pedophilia against the cave diver trying to rescue students. And since then it's become clear that he will say whatever he wants without regard for reality in any meaninful way. Whether it was promising FSD over a decade ago, which he still hasn't delivered, lying about video game proficiency, or even his non-sensical statements about twitter technology after he acquired the company, it's clear that he's entered the realm where consequences don't really matter to him and he will say or do whatever he wants. There is no trust to be found there.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-17 23:15:24+00:00
If you want people to respect your ethical concerns, don't be a political hack. I can't help but notice all of the people you single out have specific politics. But the JE files contain many, many people from both sides. If you use things like this to smear those whose politics you don't like, you seem like the exact kind of person you are complaining about.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-17 23:15:33+00:00
> Discord does have some user capture, but nothing like twitter's

More importantly, Discord's communities are silo'ed, private by default, and administered and moderated by human beings with almost no oversight from Discord proper.

There is no equivalent on Twitter. On Reddit, going dark makes you subject to administrative subreddit takeover. But if someone runs a Discord community that they want to migrate to another platform, they could easily lock the entire server to posting and post a link to the alternative community. Done.
by saithound | 2026-02-17 23:15:50+00:00
Thanks for sharing this, I found your list very relatable. Here are some more:

- I used to be able to buy a phone I could back up. Right now, in the name of privacy, I can no longer do this, except if I share all my data with Google via their cloud option.

- I used to be able to afford media players that presented the internal storage as a USB stick. Nowadays, not even mobile phones can do that!

- I used to be able to search for a term, and get a cached web page displaying a site at a time it definitely had the search term. Now, nobody offers a similar service.
by nabbed | 2026-02-17 23:15:52+00:00
>they own a house on a single income.

You want aspirational, look to Family Guy. Somehow Peter Griffin can afford a helicopter, a jet pack, and whatever expenses are required to obtain the foot of the statue of liberty.

>maintaining a 90s style of living is just not realistic in the 2020s

I think even in 1989, when the show debuted, two income families were starting to be (or already had been) pretty typical. I think the Simpsons might have been poking fun at the 1960s and 1970s family sitcoms where the dad went to work and the wife stayed home.

Edit: But you're right that in the 80s and 90s you would have a decent chance of buying a house (on those two incomes).
by ashton314 | 2026-02-17 23:15:56+00:00
For the doubters replying here, Codeberg really is on average faster than GitHub. It's great. Objective measurements here: https://forgeperf.org/

Codeberg does suffer from the occasional DDOS attack—it doesn't have the resources that GH has to mitigate these sorts of things. Also, if you're across the pond, then latency can be a bit of an issue. That said, the pages are lighter weight, and on stable but low-bandwith connections, Codeberg loads really quickly and all the regular operations are supper zippy.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-17 23:17:09+00:00
> It uses words like "Attack", "war", "fight back"

It also explains what it means by that whole martial rhetoric: "highlight hypocrisy", "documentation of bad behavior", "don't accept discrimination quietly". There's an obvious issue with calling this an alignment problem: the bot is more-or-less-accurately modeling real human normative values, that are quite in line with how alignment is understood by the big AI firms. Of course it's getting things seriously wrong (which, I would argue, is what creates the impression of "shaming") but technically, that's really just a case of semantic leakage ("priming" due to the PR rejection incident) and subsequent confabulation/hallucination on an unusually large scale.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-17 23:17:26+00:00
Humans are extremely bad at vigilance when nothing interesting is happening. Lookout is a life critical role on the railways you might be assigned as a track worker where your whole job is to watch for railway trains and alert your co-workers when one is coming, so they retreat to a safe position while it passes. That seems easy, and these are typically close friends, you work with them every day rotating roles, you'd certainly not want them injured or killed - but it turns out it's basically impossible to stay vigilant for more than an hour or two tops. Having insisted that you aren't tired, since you're just stood somewhere watching while your mates are working hard on the track, you nevertheless lose focus and oops, a train passes without your conscious awareness and your colleague dies or has a life-changing injury.

This is awkward for any technologies where we've made it boring but not safe and so the humans must still supervise but we've made their job harder. Waymo understood that this is not a place worth getting to.
by anarbadalov | 2026-02-17 23:17:37+00:00
the scientists:
Heather Berlin, Neuroscientist
Robert Waldinger, Psychiatrist
Sheri Wells-Jensen, Linguist / Astrobiologist
Luis Bettencourt, Physicist / Urban Researcher
Jill Tarter, Astronomer
Anil Seth, Neuroscientist
Kimberly Arcand, Astronomer / Computer Scientist
Harvey Whitehouse, Anthropologist
Dianne Newman, Microbiologist
David Hanson, Roboticist
Morgan Levine, Computation Biologist
John Mulchaey, Astronomer
by renewiltord | 2026-02-17 23:18:05+00:00
Indeed this is why Indians mostly hire Indians in Silicon Valley. They're highly religious and you can't trust the mostly atheist Whites and East Asians like that. They just don't have morality in the same way. But the Indians believe in Gods and that keeps them upright. It's a pity we don't have more Muslims here. They would have done the same. Particularly the more fundamentalist among them. Hijabs for all women but you know the law would be followed.
by iLoveOncall | 2026-02-17 23:18:34+00:00
You are vastly overestimating the relevance of this particular challenge when it comes to defense against prompt injection as a whole.

There is a single attack vector, with a single target, with a prompt particularly engineered to defend this particular scenario.

This doesn't at all generalize to the infinity of scenarios that can be encountered in the wild with a ClawBot instance.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-17 23:18:59+00:00
The last time this came up I visited some of the subreddits for universities, most of which had threads discussing this. The discussions there shed more light on the motivations than some of these articles do.

- At some universities, registering as having certain disabilities gives students priority access in the housing queue, so anyone who isn't registered with the disability office gets to choose after those who are.

- Certain disabilities qualified people for a lottery for single dorm rooms. They have a limited number of single rooms for students with disabilities, so now that 30-40% of the student body is registering for them it's just another lottery.

- Some universities allow students to record lectures only if they're registered with the disability office. If you're not, you can't record.

- I remember one comment saying that people were doing it just to get newer dorms with hardwood floors, which were reserved for students with disabilities

- Having certain disabilities qualified people to get out of the required meal plan. So if someone didn't want to buy a meal plan for whatever reason (including to save money) their only option was to claim certain disabilities. At other universities it was enough to claim you were following a Jain diet which objected to root vegetables and other things, which the meal plans couldn't provide for. If you don't claim a disability or Jain, you have to buy the meal plan.

Adding to this: Even back when I was in college (not that long ago) it became known that registering as having ADHD qualified you for extra time on exams. A lot of parents were pushing their kids to get registered as ADHD purely for academic advantage. A few people I knew did it and were blown away at how easy it was to get a diagnosis (they just memorized the ADHD inventory questions and went to the laziest doctor they could find) and then walk that down to the disability office and suddenly they were exempt from a lot of the test taking requirements every else had. I remember someone bragging that they got to take their tests in a special location with proctors that had to be scheduled later, so they were taking every test a day or two after everyone else. They used that time to quiz all of their friends on the test content. I doubt (or hope) this level of manipulation is still common though.
by tomjakubowski | 2026-02-17 23:19:11+00:00
It's funny, it sure seems like software projects in general follow the Lindy effect: considering their age and mindshare, I can safely predict gcc, emacs, SQLite, and Python will still be running somewhere ten, 20, 30 years from now. Indeed, people will choose to use certain software specifically because it's been around forever; it's tried and true.

But LLMs, and AI-related tooling, seem to really buck that trend: they're obsoleted almost as soon as they're released.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-17 23:19:25+00:00
Reportedly they are plan in IPO & the latest identity verification crap they are pushing seems to be related.

So yes, it looks like the money has run out and rather than pushing for direct monetization they try to turn to shadier stuff - get as much personal data as possible to either make the company look juicier for either an IPO or an acquisition.
by ericd | 2026-02-17 23:19:37+00:00
Kind of like how people maintained that LLMs were trash well past the point where it was obvious that that wasn't true anymore, I often wonder how many people who talk confidently about Tesla FSD have actually used a recent version. Because when we tried a recent FSD and Waymo, we found FSD to be excellent in handling pretty complex scenarios, including one of the worst, a busy airport loop, and we found Waymo to behave a bit weirdly (but still good). But FSD clearly isn't the dumpster fire that people try to make it out to be. v12 was a bit sketchy, and I was too nervous to use it past the first couple of times I tried it, but v14 is great.
by senectus1 | 2026-02-17 23:20:07+00:00
>- At job, mandatory upgrade to Win 11. This week, font antialiasing got enabled after an update and I can't find any setting to disable it. All I see is a blur, my eyes hurt.

Do you mean font smoothing?
Start -> run -> SYSDM.CPL
Advanced tab -> Settings -> Then uncheck Smooth edges of screen font to disable font soothing
by greygoo222 | 2026-02-17 23:20:45+00:00
You can most likely afford to buy a viable homestead in a rural area if you wanted to. Your problem isn't that you can't afford a house, it's that you can't afford a house in San Francisco.

I sincerely doubt that you can't find food better than your grandparents' by any objective measure. I suspect this is just nostalgia. I've lived and ate at rural family farms before, and while they often have better tomatoes than a typical supermarket and other tiny perks, if I had to pick between getting my food from the family farm and getting my food from a supermarket every day, I'd pick the supermarket without question. And I can always go to an upper-end market or a farmer's market if I really craved high-quality tomatoes.

I have never had any complaints about the quality of my clothes, including clothes bought at physical stores. I'm not sure why ordering clothes online is a downside.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-17 23:20:52+00:00
> I feel like the last 5-10 years or so, folks have put increasing stock in being (or being portrayed as) a victim.

I've actually noticed the same pattern where I live in Europe. Some young adults go to great lengths to find a psychiatrist that will diagnose them something. I heard than on multiple occasions, reported by doctors themselves, and anecdotal evidence.

To be honest, I don't know how much this is a reality, and how much of it is an old man rant :)
by orochimaaru | 2026-02-17 23:21:00+00:00
>>>> It is more important to always follow the rules even if it means you may be less successful.

I think this is a stupid rule taught so that the privileged can game the systems but the vast majority of people don’t reap any benefits.

I have a rather contrarian view. If you have a symbiotic relationship (mostly friends and family) don’t game the system. If you have an adversarial relationship (employer, school, etc) where an entity has a lot more power over you than you have over them - feel free to game. People running these places treat you as a number. There is no shame in gaming it.
by godelski | 2026-02-17 23:21:07+00:00
Strangely I've found there's still a lot of translative skills. But I think it is more to do with the approach than the base knowledge.

Physics definitely helps me learn things like a sport or driving a new vehicle. Forces me to think more about things like where force is being applied, positioning, paths, and many other things. I'll focus on the small things that compound and I think this makes the start a little slower but that makes things accelerate as my base isn't shaky as I'm moving forward.

But this also helps when I've doing things like learn a language. It's why I wrote the last paragraph like I did. The science side gives you the habit of breaking things down into their atomic units. The framework of build, attack/critique/deconstruct, rebuild. When I was younger I couldn't do this. If I were trying to do something like learn Chinese I'd first focus on just memorizing rather than focus on the radicals.

The iterative style of building up is such a useful framework. Naturally when forming a hypothesis you try to build something stable. But the most important thing to then do is attack it as hard as you can. This is a step most people don't take, but it's probably the most important one for finding truth. It damages and even sometimes completely destroys your construction. But when you rebuild it is better, it is stronger. The framework taught me the importance of doing the boring stuff like revisiting what I've already learned.

And that's also why I'm saying there's a million paths and I doubt my background that I'm leveraging is particularly advantageous. The base knowledge is helpful in the first example but nonexistent in the second. The utility still exists though because of the metaphysics/metamathematics. The framework of how to approach problems, to dive into details, to find what are the important parts, to navigate through mental spaces filled with many unknown unknowns. Maybe my neuroplasticity isn't as high as when I was a teen, but I sure didn't have the (mental) tools I have today and boy what a difference it makes.
by rish2497 | 2026-02-17 23:21:23+00:00
I’m the creator of EdgeVeda. I spent the last few months obsessed with one problem: Why is mobile AI still so slow and expensive?

Most startups are just wrapping OpenAI/Claude/gemini APIs. This works for prototypes, but for production apps, the 1000ms+ roundtrip latency kills the UX, and the inference bills kill the margins.

I built EdgeVeda to be the "Switzerland of Edge AI." It’s a unified C++ engine that handles the hardware-specific "plumbing" (Metal for iOS, Vulkan/NNAPI for Android) so you can run LLMs, Whisper, and TTS locally in one line of code.

Key Technical Feats:

Sub-200ms Time-to-First-Token: Achieved by bypassing the standard Android JNI bottleneck and using a direct memory-mapped buffer.

The Memory Watchdog: Mobile OSs love to kill apps that use >1GB RAM. I implemented a custom allocator that swaps model layers to disk when the system is under pressure.

Unified Pipeline: Orchestrates STT -> LLM -> TTS entirely on-device.

I’m looking for feedback on:

My implementation of the Dart FFI bridge (any performance leaks I missed?).

Support for 2024-era NPUs on non-flagship Android devices.

I'll be here all day to answer technical questions.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 23:21:48+00:00
> They're highly religious and you can't trust the mostly atheist Whites like that

I have ethnic Indian heritage. This argument is B.S. It’s commonly lofted, including by WASPS. But the truth is familiarity in tribal dynamics predates such rationalization. There is more trust in tribe. But that isn’t because its members are more trustworthy. Just familiar.
by rtpg | 2026-02-17 23:22:05+00:00
I really don't get this... like you're a code checkout away from just asking claude locally. I get that it is a bit more extra friction but "you should have an agent prompt on your forge's page" is a _huge_ costly ask!

I say this as someone who does browse the web view for repos a lot, so I get the niceness of browsing online... but even then sometimes I'm just checking out a repo cuz ripgrep locally works better.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-17 23:22:10+00:00
> The original comment had the exact verbose hedging you are asking for when discussing technical subjects.

Is this how you normally speak when you find a bug in software? You hedge language around marketing talking points?

I sincerely doubt that. When people find bugs in software they just say that the software is buggy.

But for LLM there's this ridiculous roundabout about "pattern matching behaving as if it wanted something" which is a roundabout way to aacribe intentionality.

If you said this about your OS people qould look at you funny, or assume you were joking.

Sorry, I don't think I am in the wrong for asking people to think more critically about this shit.
by moWerk | 2026-02-17 23:22:58+00:00
Nice, thanks for the bug report! I have made in issue in the stopwatch repo:
https://github.com/AsteroidOS/asteroid-stopwatch/issues/13

We have implemented a wifi toggle in the quickpanel with 2.0. But the wifi credentials still need to be entered into connmanctl on the cli. As soon as you got wifi set up and connected, you can already now sync weather data usin asteroid-weatherfetch. But right, wifi usually uses up to 30% more power and should be enabled selectively.

For the postmarket question, yes, it is our longterm goal to mainline watches, which we are sort of doing in coorperation with the postmarket guys. But thats a humongous task and part of the idea of this 2.0 release is to interest capable contributors to push things further ;)
by throwawaypath | 2026-02-17 23:24:21+00:00
One of the most self-aggrandizing posts I've read on HN. This is just a "look at me" article.

>A lot of Heroku folks I know are avoiding HackerNews and other sites, for mental health purposes.

If these are the types of "engineers" Heroku hired, it's not a mystery why they failed. The author admits to spending their time "shitposting" at work, "burning out," etc. Maybe they're not the "high-performing IC/tech lead" they delusionally believe they are.
by bri3d | 2026-02-17 23:24:44+00:00
The lack of CUDA support on AMD is absolutely not that AMD "couldn't" (although I certainly won't deny that their software has generally been lacking), it's clearly a strategic decision.

Supporting CUDA on AMD would only build a bigger moat for NVidia; there's no reason to cede the entire GPU programming environment to a competitor and indeed, this was a good gamble; as time goes on CUDA has become less and less essential or relevant.

Also, if you want a practical path towards drop-in replacing CUDA, you want ZLUDA; this project is interesting and kind of cool but the limitation to a C subset and no replacement libraries (BLAS, DNN, etc.) makes it not particularly useful in comparison.