MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runjake | 2026-02-11 20:29:19+00:00
> “Read 3 files.” Which files?

> “Searched for 1 pattern.”

Hit Ctrl-o like it mentions right there, and Claude Code will show you. Or RTFM and adjust Output Styles[1]. If you don't like these things, you can change them.

Like it or not, agentic coding is going mainstream and so they are going to tailor the default settings toward that wider mainstream audience.

1. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles
by 650 | 2026-02-11 20:29:24+00:00
Which tech folks you respect are applauding the choice? (politically aligned) with is something you noted, which may be why they are applauding it. I am not slamming her technical ability, there is no representation of it online, and her roles are not technical at all and do not lend credence to the headline, or verbiage used in articles about her ability.
by lukan | 2026-02-11 20:30:27+00:00
Well, the term lacks clarity and a shift of meaning.

If you define "vibe-coders" as people who just write prompts and don't look at code - no, they ain't coders now.

But if you mean people who do LLM-assistet coding, but still read code (like all of those who are upset by this change) - then sure, they always have been coders.
by dheera | 2026-02-11 20:30:34+00:00
I feel utterly hopeless that any kind of mass user behavior or energy technology solves this problem. Sure, solar is plentiful and clean, but when stupid capitalism ups the price of solar until it literally matches dirty electricity, who wants to switch? It should be enforced for solar to cost 1/10 the cost of your bill and for solar panels to be $0, funded by taxes. Taxes should fund clean energy, not wars.

Plastic waste? Fucking ban it. Why do I order screws on Amazon and it comes in a plastic bag, wrapped in a plastic bag, wrapped in a bubble wrap bag? Why are wall hooks covered in a plastic membrane that I have to rip off? But no, the government is too chicken to ban it.

At this point though costs of living are so high that fewer people are having kids -- that IMO is the biggest current hope to solve the environmental disaster that is happening.
by ErneX | 2026-02-11 20:30:47+00:00
A similar issue happens with Apple Silicon macs and external monitors since long time ago. A fix I found online [1] is to disable GPU dithering using the Better Display app.

The flickering was so bad in my case that the pixels got stuck for some minutes when it happened.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/s/TDOa9Lb5rP
by minder-4001 | 2026-02-11 20:31:13+00:00
I retired a month ago at 74. Like you I've used languages in anger that few these days have heard of (S3 anyone?), and design techniques that somehow seem to be devalued.

Claude and it's kin remind me of junior "just out of university" developers with piles of knowledge but no appreciation of the real world impact of anything. Of long conversations about edge cases and why they matter, extensive error-checking and logging.

The last place I worked had (some) users eager to be their own developer to get things done that much quicker. These are often the same users unable to accurately define what they really want, assuming that the nearby BA will understand and the magic will happen. They haven't worked out, and may not be interested in learning that they will be their own BA and that the uncertainties in their vision will be baked into the final offering.

In reality, I'm glad to be out, the fossil suffering the effects of the tools whilst unable to influence anything.
by robomartin | 2026-02-11 20:31:16+00:00
The video was likely recovered from local flash memory on the camera itself. These kinds of devices are not uploading raw video to the cloud.

There are several reasons for that. The first is that you cannot rely on connectivity 100% of the time. Second, if you can have the camera run image processing and compression locally, you don't have to dedicate a massive amount of processing resources at the data center to run the processing. Imagine ten or a hundred million cameras. Where would you want the image processing to run? Right.

My guess is that they either went to Google to perhaps connect the camera to a sandboxed testing rig that could extract locally-stored video data or they removed the flash device, offloaded the raw data and then extracted video from that data. This last option could also have the advantage of having less compression (architecture dependent).

Decades ago I was personally involved in recovering and helping analyze surveillance video data for the prosecution in the OJ Simpson case. Back then, it was tape.

One of the techniques that was considered (I can't publicly state what was actually done) was to digitize raw data right off the read heads on the VCR's spinning drum. You could then process this data using advanced algorithms which could produce better results than the electronics in even the most expensive professional tape players of he era.

Once you step away from the limitations of a product --meaning, you are not engineering a product, you are mining for information-- all kinds of interesting and creative out-of-the-box opportunities present themselves.
by myko | 2026-02-11 20:31:40+00:00
> which means citizens are loosing their freedom to travel as they wish

Most of my European friends brag about how they can get anywhere via train and how much more comfortable it is to travel that way. When I visit Europe I have to agree. Just haven't really seen this viewpoint, though I do think I would feel this way as an American if I moved to Europe to some extent (though I'd be extremely happy to have viable mass transit).
by yndoendo | 2026-02-11 20:32:01+00:00
I would say the consolidation of small banks into the big banks has fostered this more the people want to admit.

Since banks like Wells Fargo bought up local ones, the equality distribution changes dramatically. Wells Fargo wants the big players while that little bank wanted local players. This causes the market to lack marbling in competition while creating a massive group think economic bubble.
by thinkingtoilet | 2026-02-11 20:32:17+00:00
The problem is that your advice doesn't work for 99% of the customer base. Go the average person "if you absolutely need surveillance cameras for your safety, use generic IP cameras connected to your own NVR (network video recorder), possibly with Frigate for offline AI processing and notifications." and see what they say. It's important to remember if you are on this site you are an extreme minority and the average person isn't even aware enough to think about these things, let alone set up their own offline AI video processor.
by munch117 | 2026-02-11 20:32:33+00:00
I was reading https://www.offsec.com/blog/cve-2026-24061/, which implies that precisely that single long string passes through getenv("USER") in the attack. The mystery is how that single long string in telnetd becomes two separate arguments for login. execv or posix_spawn certainly won't do that. So either there's a version of /usr/bin/login that parses arguments in some very sus way, or there's a shell involved somehow.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-11 20:32:55+00:00
None of the loops are open in the sense that it's all within the earth system as a whole. The issue is extracting carbon from geological deposits. Stuff about farming and methane is temporary and short term.

I don't mean to suggest we shouldn't compost or recycle things. Just that such measures are only indirectly related to carbon emissions.

We either stop extracting hydrocarbons from deep within the crust or else the problem will persist. (I guess technically we could industrially sequester the equivalent but that would almost certainly defeat the cost-benefit of extraction.)
by bayindirh | 2026-02-11 20:33:17+00:00
> It's not clear how much energy all of our AI systems will use, and while it's tempting to outright believe they'll simply use more and more, even that's not yet clear based on arguments presented.

For the last 20 years, power consumption of HPC is increased per cubic inch as systems are miniaturized and density increased. The computing capacity increased more than the power use, but this doesn't mean we didn't invent more inefficient ways to undo significant part of that improvement.

It's same for AI. Cards like Groq and inference oriented hardware doesn't consume as power as training oriented cards, but this doesn't mean total power use will reduce. On the contrary. It'll increase exponentially. Considering AI companies doesn't care about efficiency yet means we're wasting tons of energy, too.

I'll not enter into the water consumption debacle, because open-loop systems waste enormous amounts of water.

All in all, we're wasting a lot of water and energy which would sustain large cities and large number of people.

with regards from your friendly HPC admin.
by alphazard | 2026-02-11 20:33:34+00:00
There are individuals who have good taste for products in certain domains.
Their own preferences are an accurate approximation for those of the users.
Those people might add value when they are given control of the product.

That good taste doesn't translate between domains very often.
Good taste for developer tools doesn't mean good taste for a video game inventory screen.
And that's the crux of the problem.
There is a segment of the labor market calling themselves "product manager" who act like good taste is domain independent, and spread lies about their importance to the success of every business.
What's worse is that otherwise smart people (founders, executives) fall for it because they think hiring them is what they are supposed to do.

Over time, as more and more people realized that PM is a side door into big companies with lots of money, "Product Manager" became an imposter role like "Scrum Master".
Now product orgs are pretty much synonymous with incompetence.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 20:34:09+00:00
If a handsome crooner with a deep voice sings sweet love songs, their fans will consist of hetero women.

If a woman sings in a high voice with a girly-girl image, she will tend to attract men.

A singer or group with great falsetto/whistle register, or female tenor/contralto, ambiguous or hetero lyrics, and androgynous image or radio-only can effectively draw in a broadly mixed-gender audience.

See new wave, synth pop, hair metal, David Bowie, Concrete Blonde, Janis Joplin, Alison Moyet, et. al.

If a performer lands on the far side of the spectrum, the producers will inevitably hire backup dancers and singers to broaden their appeal.
by codethief | 2026-02-11 20:34:15+00:00
I know this is not to be taken too seriously but I don't even buy the premise: Why would those metrics predict the singularity?

Tokens will not suddenly become free (as in beer) – AI will still consume energy –, there will still be a finite amount of arXiv papers mentioning emergence (for not just one reason), release frequency of frontier models is not necessarily related to breakthroughs (model capabilities might also approach an asymptote), Copilot code share increasing will likely happen over time anyway even if all AI research stopped today. Etc.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-11 20:35:31+00:00
Don't want it. 18.7.3 appears to be the last iOS 18 available for iPadOS Pro (M4) by OS update rug-pull 6 months early to force everyone onto god-awful 26. 18.7.5 includes the same security updates as 26.3 but it's only available on a few devices while all other devices are left vulnerable.
by Gracana | 2026-02-11 20:35:43+00:00
Six months ago I'd have said EPYC Turin. You could do a heck of a build with 12Ch DDR5-6400 and a GPU or two for the dense model parts. 20k would have been a huge budget for a homelab CPU/GPU inference rig at the time. Now 20k won't buy you the memory.
by massysett | 2026-02-11 20:36:13+00:00
I used to use ad blockers.

One day I visited DistroWatch.com. The site deliberately tweaked its images so ad blockers would block some "good" images. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on. The site freely admitted what it was doing. The site's point was: you're looking at my site, which I provide for free, yet you block the thing that lets me pay for the site?

I stopped using ad blockers after that. If a site has content worth paying for, I pay. If it is a horrible ad-infested hole, I don't visit it at all. Otherwise, I load ads.

Which overall means I pay for more things and visit less crap things and just visit less things period. Which is good.
by SJC_Hacker | 2026-02-11 20:36:32+00:00
Its a case of prisoner's dilemma. Individuals making the proposed lifestyle changes in order to make a genuine dent in AGW amount to jumping on the tracks in order to stop a freight train.

This is the one issue where I feel some sympathy with the right. I hate "Virtue signaling" about as much as they do. I'm sorry, but if you are going to snap at people over eating beef, while you fly/drive all over the country/world unnecessarily, you are absolute full of shyte.
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 20:36:44+00:00
I just checked, and it's confirmed: I am definitely using a web browser. It seems my browser and this site have a different definition of web standards, however.

So exhausting to be surrounded by people with a paranoid, irrational fear of robots, who don't give a shit who they harm in their zeal to lash out and strike the evil bots.
by dotancohen | 2026-02-11 20:36:45+00:00
I believe that in some vehicles the backup camera actually runs on a separate (possibly real time, otherwise certainly heavily nice'ed) system. Tesla has a recall where they had to nice the backup camera software. The problem was if the display freezes or is delayed, then the driver is backing up and not aware that he doesn't see where he is going (he thinks that what he sees is representative of the area around the car currently).
by password4321 | 2026-02-11 20:37:06+00:00
20180907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929462 Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth

20190117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929943 Blood transfusion startup Ambrosia is now up and running

20190221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213938 FDA warning brings young-blood transfusion company to a halt

20191108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484203 Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business (0 comments)

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20230817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37163684#37164170 Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood (sub-discussion)
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-11 20:37:07+00:00
> "Read 2 files" is fine as a progress indicator but is too vague for anything else. "Read foo.cpp and bar.h" takes almost the same amount of visual space, but fulfills both purposes.

Now this is a good, thoughtful response! Totally agree that if you can convey more information using basically the same amount of space, that's likely a better solution regardless of who's using the product.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-02-11 20:37:18+00:00
> Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history.

And during those periods there were no human beings. And no agriculture, or unstable globalised economiies, or dense urban societies vulnerable to disruption.

It is, of course, interesting that our planet has this long, varied existence that pre-dates us. But it is of little use in understanding how to get us out of the hole we're in. And it is arguably dangerous, because it misleads people into thinking that we have the capacity to adapt to such conditions, when we manifestly don't.
by screye | 2026-02-11 20:37:52+00:00
2 reasons

Electronics and code ruined replaced pure mechanics. Components aren't physically maintainable or hot-swappable, because they aren't just physically connected.

Second is that maintenance is how dealerships make money, so there is a monetary incentive to make it seem esoteric.

For your purposes, the upcoming slate truck is closest analogue - https://www.slate.auto/en
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-11 20:37:54+00:00
I fully agree with you on almost everything you wrote in this thread, but I’m not sure this is the right answer. I myself currently spend a lot of time with CC and belong to that group of developers who don’t care about this problem. It’s likely that I’m not alone. So it doesn’t have to be the least professional audience they serve with this update. It’s possible that Anthropic knows what are they doing (e.g. reducing level of detail to simplify task of finding something more important in the output) and it’s also possible that they are simply making stupid product decisions because they have a cowboy PM who attacks some OKR screaming yahoo. We don’t know. In the end having multiple verbosity levels configured with granularity similar to java loggers would be nice.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-02-11 20:37:58+00:00
> not capital

Capital, and by relation the system that centers the idea of Capital as a method for moving around resources is at the very center of this.

Since Capital follows near-term incentive, if the "pollute the world" path has a greater near-term incentive, that's where the market will follow. If a single member of the system goes for long-term incentive(not cooking the earth), other near-term incentive chasers will eat their lunch and remove a player.

The system itself is a tight feedback loop searching for local maxima, and the local max is often the most destructive. With chasing the local maxima, also comes profit and capital that influence the political system.
by rorytbyrne | 2026-02-11 20:38:07+00:00
Why is "singing along" a relevant metric?

In Dublin's best music venues, nobody is singing along because it's brand new material from brand new artists. If you're singing along to well known songs in Temple Bar then I'm afraid you're missing some of the best music the city has to offer, in venues like Whelan's, Workmans, Sin É, The Grand Social etc.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-11 20:38:20+00:00
We're having a UI argument about a workflow problem.

We treat a stateless session like a colleague, then get upset when it forgets our preferences. Anthropic simplified the output because power users aren't the growth vector. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

The fix isn't verbose mode. It's a markdown file the model reads on startup — which files matter, which patterns to follow, what "good" looks like. The model becomes as opinionated as your instructions. The UI becomes irrelevant.

The model is a runtime. Your workflow is the program. Arguing about log verbosity is a distraction.
by xmok | 2026-02-11 20:38:43+00:00
Speaking of Alfred, there’s also a Raycast[0] extension for NetNewsWire allowing one to combine the two[1].

Disclaimer: I authored the extension but like most Raycast extensions, it’s open-source[2].

[0]: https://raycast.com
[1]: https://raycast.com/xmok/netnewswire
[2]: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/main/extensions/n...
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-02-11 20:38:43+00:00
That's a top-down organizational change mandating certain capabilities for all Amazon software. Unlike these AI mandates, it's not dictating the exact tools developers use to write that software, but rather what the software itself should do. For reference, here's the API mandate [0]:

1. All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

2. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

3. There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

4. It doesn’t matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols — doesn’t matter.

5. All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

6. Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.

This is very different from saying "any developer who doesn't use an IDE and a debugger will be fired," which is analogous to what the AI mandates are prescribing.

[0] https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
by Stagnant | 2026-02-11 20:39:15+00:00
chrome_screen_ai.dll is the name of the dll (libchromescreenai.so on linux) and yes it is proprietary. It isn't included by default, Chrome uses its component service to download it automatically when you open a PDF file that doesn't have pre-existing OCR'd text on it. You can download it separately from here: https://chrome-infra-packages.appspot.com/p/chromium/third_p...
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-11 20:39:20+00:00
Also, I guess we traded a ton of coax cable for somewhat more manageable single-mode fiber. :-)

I never fully understood why SDI over fiber remains so niche, e.g. UHD people would rather do four chunky 3G-SDI cables instead of a much cheaper and easier-to-handle fiber cable (when the standards very much do exist). But once your signal is IP, then of course fiber is everywhere and readily available, so there seems to be no real blocker there.
by BuildTheRobots | 2026-02-11 20:39:35+00:00
I've been using Win+R to paste it in the windows run box.

Amazingly still works on Win 11 and still seems to keep it local (bypassing the windows search), so I'm pleased to report consistent results for 30 ish years.

Of course, now I've mentioned it out loud, it'll be the next thing to go...

I don't know if it's just me being old and grumpy, but everything windows 8 and later (server 2003) seems like half-baked, unfinished enshittification. Trying to do something even vaguely "advanced" to a network adapter puts me back in windows 95 land along with the run box. The "manage" pane with device & disk manager and logs is from a totally bygone era yet it seems to still be the only way of getting that information. The worst bit is, I'm not complaining. All the bits that look and feel like they've been forgotten since Windows 2000 are the easiest, least infuriating bits of the system I interact with.
by gradientsrneat | 2026-02-11 20:40:00+00:00
I wonder to what extent these articles weren't written by principled tech freedom advocates and are just ads, because they can't seem to go more than a few paragraphs without mentioning the AI buzzword. It doesn't matter if the article is for or against AI, because AI doom makes the AI stock prices go up too. It's hardly relevant here; mass surveillance worked fine without the current hype.
by topaz0 | 2026-02-11 20:40:16+00:00
I think the problem with insisting on using "is" that way is that you then can't distinguish between two things you might reasonably want to express, i.e. "is isomorphic to"/"has the same structure as" and "refers to the same object". I totally agree that math is all about forgetting about the features of your objects that are not relevant to your problem (and in particular as the post argues things like R and C do not refer to any concrete construction but rather to their common structure), but if you want to describe that position you have to be able to distinguish between equality and isomorphism.

(Of course using "is" that way in informal discussion among mathematicians is fine -- in that case everyone is on the same page about what you mean by it usually)
by viking123 | 2026-02-11 20:40:19+00:00
Amodei has to be the most insufferable of all the AI hucksters, nowadays even Altman looks tame compared to him.

The whole company also has this meme about AI safety and some sort of fear-mongering about the models every few months. It's basically a smokescreen for normies and other midwits to make it look more mysterious and advanced than it really is. OOOOH IT'S GOING TO BREAK OUT! IT KNOWS IT'S BEING EVALUATED!

I bet there are some true believers in Anthropic too, people who think themselves too smart to believe in God so they replaced it with AI instead but all the same hopes are there, eg. Amodei preaching about AI doubling the human lifespan. In religion we usually talk about heaven.