MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2026-02-05 19:54:41+00:00
The estimation I did 4 months ago:

> there are approximately 200k common nouns in English, and then we square that, we get 40 billion combinations. At one second per, that's ~1200 years, but then if we parallelize it on a supercomputer that can do 100,000 per second that would only take 3 days. Given that ChatGPT was trained on all of the Internet and every book written, I'm not sure that still seems infeasible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455786
by mountain_peak | 2026-02-05 19:55:02+00:00
Interestingly (or possibly not), since my very first computers had ~4K of RAM, I became adept at optimizations of all kinds, which came in handy for my first job - coding 360 mainframe assembly. There, we wouldn't be able to implement our changes if our terminal applications (accessing DB2/IMS) responded in anything greater than 1s. Then, the entire system was replaced with a cloud solution where ~30s of delay was acceptable.

I think the Internet made 'waiting' for a response completely normalized for many applications. Before then, users flew through screens using muscle memory. Now, when I see how much mouse clicking goes on at service counters, I always think back to those ultra-fast response time standards. I still see a few AS/400 or mainframe terminal windows running 'in the wild' and wonder what new employees think about those systems.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-05 19:56:28+00:00
> You can tell you're in trouble on this thread when everybody starts bringing up the curl bug bounty. I don't know if this is surprising news for people who don't keep up with vuln research, but Daniel Stenberg's curl bug bounty has never been where all the action has been at in vuln research. What, a public bug bounty attracted an overwhelming amount of slop? Quelle surprise! Bug bounties have attracted slop for so long before mainstream LLMs existed they might well have been the inspiration for slop itself.

Yeah, that's just media reporting for you. As anyone who ever administered a bug bounty programme on regular sites (h1, bugcrowd, etc) can tell you, there was an absolute deluge of slop for years before LLMs came to the scene. It was just manual slop (by manual I mean running wapiti and c/p the reports to h1).
by falcor84 | 2026-02-05 19:56:39+00:00
> literally a text book task

Generating a 99% compliant C compiler is not a textbook task in any university I've ever heard of. There's a vast difference between a toy compiler and one that can actually compile Linux and Doom.

From a bit of research now, there are only three other compilers that can compile an unmodified Linux kernel: GCC, Clang/LLVM and Intel's oneAPI. I can't find any other compiler implementation that came close.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-05 19:56:48+00:00
> Are you saying that Microsoft is more wealthy than all of “Europe”?

"In 2024, the EU spent €403 billion on research and development" [1]. In 2024, Microsoft spend $29.5bn on R&D [2]. So about 20 Microsofts makes up the entire EU's R&D expenditure.

Alphabet, meanwhile, spent $49.3bn on R&D in 2024 [3]. It earned $350bn that year. So it would be correct to say that Microsoft and Alphabet's revenues, alone, rival the total amount Europe spends on research and development. (Non-EU non-British spending is insignificant.)

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/

[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204425...
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-05 19:57:08+00:00
I think for many/most programmers = 'speed + output' and webdev == "great coding".

Not throwing shade anyone's way. I actually do prefer Claude for webdev (even if it does cringe things like generate custom CSS on every page) -- because I hate webdev and Claude designs are always better looking.

But the meat of my code is backend and "hard" and for that Codex is always better, not even a competition. In that domain, I want accuracy and not speed.

Solution, use both as needed!
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 19:57:30+00:00
Ha, pretty accurate in my experience. Though I'd say it's more like 1.5x the PRs - Claude does the initial PR, then you do half a PR fixing the subtle stuff it got wrong, and then you spend the other half wondering if you missed something.

The security fixes are the worst because the code looks correct. It's not like a typo you'd catch immediately - it's an auth check that works for 95% of cases but fails on edge cases the model never considered.
by burakemir | 2026-02-05 19:58:22+00:00
The approach described here - model things as graph - can really be applied to model any domains.

If you are into this type of modelling, you may find value in Mangle, a datalog-based logic programming language and deductive database library. You do not need to invent dozens of DSLs but can do it all in one. And without all the RDF trouble.

https://github.com/google/mangle

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756800

Talk at REBASE 2025 "From Facts to Theories" https://youtu.be/UjOEHSZDBH8?si=qAjnkBQfPKMVaOPW
by zephen | 2026-02-05 19:58:50+00:00
> no need for such misleading statements.

Frankly, and everybody's talking about it, a lot of brilliant people are saying there is an unbelievably massive need to let people know the amazing Claude did this all by itself, with no help from those hateful dishonest cyber morons who are viciously getting away with murder the likes of which we've never seen before, ever.
by theideaofcoffee | 2026-02-05 19:59:14+00:00
These wretched wastes of skin that contribute to the surveillance system need to have the full brunt of that same surveillance apparatus turned toward them full time, published for all to see. This should include elected officials that voted for and paid for these systems as well. You don't want a system that allows more anonymous movement? You want that data collected and stored and collated and analyzed without end? Ok, pull down your pants and have yourselves offered up as the first and most prominent ones to be tracked and then see if you change your tune.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-05 19:59:37+00:00
> adding: “perhaps you will know Jeffrey and his background and situation."

This is the most-interesting bit. The introducer put this up front. Maybe it's Nigerian-prince scame logic? Or maybe there really is that much sympathy for pedophiles in Silicon Valley [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/business/epstein-investme...
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 19:59:42+00:00
It's true that the traditional venture capital model doesn't align with the co-op structure, making fundraising for product development a unique challenge. We've seen this exact scenario before, where the inability for investors to take a stake creates a significant hurdle. This usually comes down to navigating alternative financing structures or finding investors who understand and are willing to work within the co-op framework. There's usually a path through this, often involving creative debt financing or community-based investment models. Happy to offer a sanity check on potential approaches if it helps.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 20:00:02+00:00
It's a common observation that while retries with backoff are standard practice, in high-concurrency systems with fan-out or shared dependencies, they can indeed exacerbate issues like 429s or timeouts, leading to retry storms and cascading outages. We've seen this exact scenario play out where the intended solution amplifies the problem. This usually comes down to the retry mechanism not being sufficiently aware of the global system state or the specific failure mode. There are typically two or three things causing this, often related to how the rate limit is enforced versus how the retries are configured. Happy to sanity-check some of the patterns we've seen if it helps.
by elAhmo | 2026-02-05 20:00:07+00:00
I mostly used Sonnet/Opus 4.x in the past months, but 5.2 Codex seemed to be on par or better for my use case in the past month. I tried a few models here and there but always went back to Claude, but with 5.2 Codex for the first time I felt it was very competitive, if not better.

Curious to see how things will be with 5.3 and 4.6
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 20:00:20+00:00
It sounds like you're grappling with a common challenge: the friction between capturing information and actually acting on it, especially with the sprawl across different tools like Notion and Twitter. We've seen this exact scenario before, where the sheer volume of notes and tasks leads to an 'execution gap.' This usually comes down to the limitations of existing tools in providing a unified, intelligent layer for project management and task automation. Happy to offer a sanity check on how an AI agent could bridge that gap for you.
by starkeeper | 2026-02-05 20:00:22+00:00
omg yes and it is totally 1000% fake. He's using "Vocal Fry" to sound like the weirdo he is. (google vocal fry if you have not heard of it.... Teen girls this manner of changing their voice back in the 0'10s. His version is even more intense like he swallowed a broken motor boat.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 20:00:39+00:00
Managing secrets for AI agents, especially when they need to interact with external services via API keys, is a common challenge we've seen. The issues you're describing with `env` variables, `.env` files, and even the operational overhead of proxy processes are exactly what teams run into when trying to secure these workflows. There are typically two or three things causing this, often related to the agent's execution environment and the need for dynamic, secure credential access without exposing them directly. We've helped teams navigate these exact scenarios.
by sonofhans | 2026-02-05 20:00:57+00:00
I’ll always upvote Bradbury; what a master. Isaac Asimov used to talk about “the big 3” of science fiction of his era: himself (natch), Arthur C Clarke, and Ray Bradbury. The more I read of all those cats, and boy have I read them, I came to see that Asimov was wrong, and that Bradbury was a different and better writer altogether.

Bradbury’s stories are about people, deeply real and deeply feeling people. This thread is young and already comments are about how Bradbury made folks feel. He was a humanist, like Ursula LeGuin, and less interested in exactly how the ray guns worked. Frank Herbert seems like this to me as well, very humane, opposite of Greg Bear and Kim Stanley Robinson and (later stage) Neal Stephenson.

If you love Bradbury then take a look at Ian McDonald. When I read “Rainmaker Cometh” for the first time I had to do a double-take, so sure I was that it was a new Bradbury story.
by Rperry2174 | 2026-02-05 20:01:26+00:00
Whats interesting to me is that these gpt-5.3 and opus-4.6 are diverging philosophically and really in the same way that actual engineers and orgs have diverged philosophically

With Codex (5.3), the framing is an interactive collaborator: you steer it mid-execution, stay in the loop, course-correct as it works.

With Opus 4.6, the emphasis is the opposite: a more autonomous, agentic, thoughtful system that plans deeply, runs longer, and asks less of the human.

that feels like a reflection of a real split in how people think llm-based coding should work...

some want tight human-in-the-loop control and others want to delegate whole chunks of work and review the result

Interested to see if we eventually see models optimize for those two philosophies and 3rd, 4th, 5th philosophies that will emerge in the coming years.

Maybe it will be less about benchmarks and more about different ideas of what working-with-ai means
by tptacek | 2026-02-05 20:01:47+00:00
I did some triage work for clients at Latacora and I would rather deal with LLM slop than argue with another person 10 time zones away trying to convince me that something they're doing in the Chrome Inspector constitutes a zero-day. At least there's a possibility that LLM slop might contain some information. You spent tokens on it!
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-05 20:01:48+00:00
> UX is a problem that is almost immune to money.

Unfortunately this is very well-put.

But on the other hand, I think it's reasonable to hope that the "clear vision" for Matrix can largely be cribbed from all the other nigh-indistinguishable team chat apps like Slack, Discord, Mattermost, et al. In that case money to actually make the obvious fixes might be enough.
by uniq7 | 2026-02-05 20:01:51+00:00
Devices and networks can be configured with parental controls, and the blockage doesn't need to be 100% effective. The kid accessing Facebook from a friend's phone 15 mins a day is tolerable, while giving them access to drugs or a gun 15 mins a day is not.

There is also the education part that for some reason we are ignoring. Kids are going to be able to access drugs in locations where they are unsupervised, they are going to be subject to peer pressure, etc. The job of the parents is to prepare them for that, as they should prepare them for the negative effects of social media.
by bityard | 2026-02-05 20:02:02+00:00
When MP3 became popular, people were amazed that you could compress audio to 1/10th its size with minor quality loss. A few decades later, we have audio compression that is much better and higher-quality than MP3, and they took a lot more effort than "MP3 but at a lower bitrate."

The same is happening in AI research now.
by palmotea | 2026-02-05 20:02:05+00:00
> The internet has provided tremendous access to news outside of the NYT.

It also provided tremendous access to the NYT, but most of those outlets are unhealthy or dying.

> I have not seen the NYT editorial board doing anything to improve their status. Didn’t Paul Krugman leave the times for integrity reasons?

Who cares about them? Anyone can write an opinion column. That's not what we need newspapers for.
by washadjeffmad | 2026-02-05 20:02:23+00:00
I recently dated someone in her 30s with a DMA, and she she told me how proud she was to know me because I was the first non-musician friend she's ever had. It's a very deep and insular world.

Pablo Casals famously replied when asked why he was still practicing in his 70s that he "felt like we was making progress", so don't let yourself feel inadequate.
by namibj | 2026-02-05 20:02:25+00:00
A related mode is "11.3.12 .PSS: Periodic Steady State Analysis" in [1], though that's arguably "light mode"; the heavy mode is "HB (Harmonic Balance Analysis)
Calculates steady states of nonlinear circuits in the frequency domain.
General Form .HB <fundamental frequencies>" as implemented in Xyce[0]:

Harmonic balance (HB) is a technique that solves for the steady state solution of nonlinear circuits in the frequency domain. In harmonic balance simulation, voltages and currents in a nonlinear circuit are represented by truncated Fourier series. HB directly computes the frequency spectrum of voltages and currents at the steady state solution. This can be more efficient than transient analysis in applications where a transient analysis may take a long time to reach the steady state solution. In particular, HB is well suited for simulating analog RF and microwave circuits.

HB supports an unlimited number of independent input tones for driven circuits in both serial and parallel builds of Xyce. The output of HB analysis is the real and imaginary components of voltages and currents in the frequency domain. Xyce also provides time domain responses of a circuit. By default, the numbers of samples in both time and frequency domain outputs are the same. However, the number of time domain samples can be much larger than the number of frequency domain samples by setting numtpts in .options hbint. This enables the users to use a small number of harmonics for each tone and produce well-resolved results in time domain.

[0]: https://xyce.sandia.gov/documentation-tutorials/
[1]: https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/docs/ngspice-html-manual/manu...
by m101 | 2026-02-05 20:02:53+00:00
I think actually working out whether they are losing money is extremely difficult for current models but you can look backwards. The big uncertainties are:

1) how do you depreciate a new model? What is its useful life? (Only know this once you deprecate it)

2) how do you depreciate your hardware over the period you trained this model? Another big unknown and not known until you finally write the hardware off.

The easy thing to calculate is whether you are making money actually serving the model. And the answer is almost certainly yes they are making money from this perspective, but that’s missing a large part of the cost and is therefore wrong.
by bgirard | 2026-02-05 20:03:00+00:00
Thank you. There's a demo save to get the full feel of it quickly. There's also a 2D-ASCII and 3D render you can hotswap between. The 3D models are generated with Meshy. The entire game is 'AI slop'. I intentionally did no code reviews to see where that would get me. Some prompts were very specific but other prompts were just 'add a research of your choice'.

This was built using old versions of Codex, Gemini and Claude. I'll probably work on it more soon to try the latest models.
by mindslight | 2026-02-05 20:03:28+00:00
What do you mean? State governments administer voter rolls. One of the general requirements for registering to vote is proving you are a citizen [0]. What is your exact claim here? Going above and beyond to steelman this, I can think of two possibilities:

Is it that illegal immigrants are showing up to polling places and standing in the shoes of actual citizens? And they've managed to be organized enough while doing this that there aren't a bunch of citizens that show up right before polls close being told they've already voted? [1]

Or is it that states are not verifying citizenship, contrary to their plainly-stated procedures and straightforward identity databases? If so, where is the evidence of this? Not occasional instances of fraud, but indications of large-scale illegality on the part of any state?

Or is there a specific claim of something else I have missed?

As I'm always seeing this sweeping general indictment but never any elaboration on what the specific claim it is, it seems like another bit of simplistic FUD that preys on intellectual laziness to undermine trust in our public institutions. And vague half-formed claims like "How can you know this though?" seem right in line with this.

[0] the only exceptions I can find are a few rare municipalities for local elections only (not even state elections!)

[1] and if this was a problem, why would the focus be specifically on illegal immigrants rather than including citizens doing the same thing to vote more than once?
by sathish316 | 2026-02-05 20:04:19+00:00
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by aerhardt | 2026-02-05 20:04:35+00:00
I'm coding about 6-9h per day with Codex CLI on the $20 Plus sub, occasionally switching to extra-high reasoning and feeding it massive contexts, all tools enabled, sometimes 2-3 terminal sessions running in parallel and I've never hit limits... I operate on small-ish codebases but even so I try to work in the most local scope possible with AGENTS.md at the sub-directory levels.

Are you really hitting limits, or are you turned off by the fact you think you will?
by xoa | 2026-02-05 20:04:52+00:00
I dabbled earlier but started using 1Password in earnest in 2010 or so with 1PW3. There are plenty of things that could be argued about when it comes to the switch from a native Mac application to Electron, degradations in the GUI etc, some of us may be more sensitive then others. But one major objective thing you're apparently missing was the shift to a forced subscription, including deactivating previous supported sharing methods, and with the typical-for-VC-driven-feudalism-model eye wateringly, outrageously expensive and inferior multi-user support. Pure, proud rent seeking. And then naturally as well the artificial segregation of simple features like custom templates began too.

I hope someday that's made illegal. In the meantime there's Vaultwarden.
by trhway | 2026-02-05 20:05:17+00:00
>Scott Aaronson was born on May 21st, 1981. He will be 30 in 2011. The conference could follow a theme of: “hurry to think together with Scott Aaronson while he is still in his 20s and not yet a pitiful over-the-hill geezer in his 30s.” This offers another nice opportunity for celebration.

may be somebody would train a model on the Epstein and his associates emails/etc. which would allow to research the workings of the such psychopaths' minds
by falcor84 | 2026-02-05 20:05:23+00:00
I'm struggling to even parse the syntax of "WHATEVER LEADS TO REWARD COLLECTIVE HUMANS TO SURVIVE", but assuming that you're talking about resource allocation, my answer is UBI or something similar to it. We only need to "reward" for action when the resources are scarce, but when resources are plentiful, there's no particular reason not to just give them out.

I know it's "easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", but to quote another dreamer: "Imagine all the people sharing all the world".
by antirez | 2026-02-05 20:05:38+00:00
The LLM does not contain a verbatim copy of whatever it saw during the pre-training stage, it may remember certain over-represented parts, otherwise it has a knowledge about a lot of things but such knowledge, while about a huge amount of topics, is similar to the way you could remember things you know very well. And, indeed, if you give it access to internet or the source code of GCC and other compilers, it will implement such a project N times faster.
by moralestapia | 2026-02-05 20:05:43+00:00
Excerpt from one of the related emails (written by JE):

"great proposal„ however, it needs to be more around deception alice -bob. communication. virus
hacking, battle between defense and infiltration.. computation is already looked at in various
fields. camoflauge , mimickry, signal processing, and its non random nature, misinformation. ( the
anti- truth - but right answer for the moment ).. computation does not involve defending against
interception, a key area for biological systems, if a predator breaks the code, it usually can
accumulate its preys free energy at a discount . self deception, ( necessary to prevent accidental
disclosure of inate algorithms. WE need more hackers , also interested in biological hacking ,
security, etc."

Damn! I once worked with a guy that was exactly like this. Not just writing but his style of speech irl was like that, incoherent loosely bound ideas around one topic. Ironically, the harder he tried to appear smart the more idiotic were the things that spewed out of his mouth.

We were working with GPUs, trying to find ways to optimize GPU code, he called the team for an informal meeting and told us dead serious, "Why can't you just like, ..., remove the GPUs from the server, then crack them open, turn them outside out and put them back in to see if they perform better". :O

I don't know if this has a name, I just thought the guy had schizophrenia. So glad I moved on from that place.
by realo | 2026-02-05 20:06:28+00:00
Give the guy a chance.

Me too I was "Speechless, shocked, unbelievable, insane, speechless" the first time I sent Claude Code on a complicated 10-year code base which used outdated cross-toolchains and APIs. It obviously did not work anymore and had not been for a long time.

I saw the AI research the web and update the embedded toolchain, APIs to external weather services, etc... into a complete working new (WORKING!) code base in about 30 minutes.

Speechless, I was ...