MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayindirh | 2026-02-25 11:34:28+00:00
One of the factors I was able to pinpoint was the speed difference between typing and writing affects this "evaluation" process. I'm not a fast typer by any means. ~70 WPM or so, however, this effortless typing reduces how I think while typing vs. how I think while writing. Writing is always deeper, and creates more sparks or lead for new ideas. Also what I write comes out more refined since my mind has to wait for my hand more, hence re-evaluate or evaluate further down into the path before my hand can write out what I have thought in the beginning.

Another thing is, even though I have a very good to-do system backed by a nice software and allows me to see what I'm doing forward in time (application is called Pagico, BTW), I always keep a notepad nearby and automatically offload some information onto it. I tried tons of fast-note applications. On-screen sticky notes, notational velocity and friends and whatnot. I always return back to pen and paper and live better with it.

Well, the notepad I'm currently using is labeled "#14", and this is after the fact that I started numbering them to be able to index them. So, by both trial/error and intuition/insight, I always return to pen and paper.

Same for my diaries. I have an encrypted diary on my computer, yet I still use my paper one(s), and the digital one is a backup in case I really need it, and I don't have the paper one with me.

Hope this answers your question. If you want to chat further into this, you can find ways to contact me starting with the profile page here.
by tkrn | 2026-02-25 11:35:08+00:00
Nice, pretty much what I had in mind. I think there could be some interesting potential there tooling wise. Combining a highly dynamic interactive environment with a good statically typed language sounds fascinating to me and it's something that at least to my knowledge has never been seriously tried. Only Strongtalk comes to mind but I have no idea how it was like in practice, and I assume the type system was something closer to Java.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 11:35:14+00:00
> The society was split about this idea

Yes, this is how democracy works. Then a decision is made and the society rolls with it. See the UK for example: a decision was made to leave the EU, they left, it cost them a lot of money and goodwill, but it works, worse than being in the EU but works. The EU did not invade, did not bomb their cities, did not rape their women and did not steal their children. And crucially the EU did not blame the citizens of the UK exercising their free will for mass murdering them.

Now look at the sad Russia you are worshipping.
by thecupisblue | 2026-02-25 11:35:34+00:00
Honestly, writing and wiring infra feels more like an overhead than anything else these days.

The core idea of deriving the infra from my app always sounds great, but also kind of gives me a "yuck" feeling the same way infrastructure as code does.

Feel like there has to be a better, common way to resolve all of these issues, so that it's an extensible, plug and play IFC/IAC, derived infra file from your code that you can then manually modify, that can be easily just pointed in the right direction for where to host it in.

This is one of the steps in the right direction deff, just can't figure out if they have it open-sourced or not.
by umanghere | 2026-02-25 11:36:20+00:00
Fascinating article, and I am surprised how well peer pressure works on LLMs.

Somewhat tangential though, but I find the amount of perl clutching from the AI industry about writing malware code a bit ridiculous. Most of the examples cited in the article are just a Google search away. I do not think that the LLM generating malware for you lowers the bar one bit.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-25 11:36:55+00:00
I once worked for a company that had a bad habit of not announcing employee departures (for both firing or quitting). At one point they let the VP of sales go and told practically no one. It came out that he was no longer with the company in an All Company meeting, not even on purpose. Someone asked “Where is X?” and the CEO was like “they are no longer with the company”.

After that I lobbied, successfully but not easily, to have them send out an email that just said “X is no longer with the company” regardless of how/why they left.

The “winning” argument was that if that VP had emailed me (or probably any of the developers) and asked for an export of data (our client list, stats, etc) we would have sent it to him. Probably even with him reaching out from a personal email address or via sms. What IC is going to tell a VP to “follow procedure”? Same deal with if he had followed me to the keycard door and told me he forgot his key card. No one is going to thank the IC who tells the VP they can’t let them in.
by wattsy2025 | 2026-02-25 11:37:15+00:00
The most important part of AI safety is AI alignment: making sure AI does what we want. It's very hard because even if AI isn't trying to deceive you it can have bad outcomes by executing your request to the letter. The classical example is tasking an AI to make paperclips, training the AI with a reward for making more paperclips. Then the AI makes the most paperclips possible by strip mining the Earth and killing anything in its way.

Sometimes you see this AI alignment problem in action. I once asked an older model to fix the tests and it eventually gave up and just deleted them
by kubanczyk | 2026-02-25 11:37:45+00:00
Yeah. Maybe we only need:

BATCH=yes (default is no)

--batch (default is --no-batch)

for the unusual case when you do want the `route print` on a BGP router to actually dump 8 gigabytes of text throughout next 2 minutes. Maybe it's fine if a default output for anything generously applies summarization, such as "X, Y, Z ...and 9 thousand+ similar entries".

Having two separate command names (one for human/llm, one for batch) sucks.

Having `-h` for human, like ls or df do, sucks slightly less, but it is still a backward-compatibility hack which leads to `alias` proliferation and makes human lifes worse.
by b112 | 2026-02-25 11:37:56+00:00
quick ai query

AI halucination is well known, and output is non-repeatable.

There is also no indication of what timeframe, what industry, how it is calculated and more.

AI responses are starting points, and should never be considered factual without verification.

If you want to have any trust in youe numbers, find real stats, from a reliable source.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-25 11:38:14+00:00
> Copenhagen and Aarhus, which previously announced plans to abandon Microsoft software, citing financial concerns, market dominance and political tensions with Washington.

That's not going to happen, their infrastructure is completely tied to Microsoft Active Directory, it's going to be incredibly expensive to just plan a migration out of that. Trump will be out of office before anything serious can even get startet, and depending on the next US administration, someone will decide that it's not worth the spending.

Plus you'd need to re-train and army of Windows administrators to run, what... Linux and OpenLDAP?
by XorNot | 2026-02-25 11:40:33+00:00
You're missing the part about layered controls which is what elevator access control is.

Limiting the number of people who can incidentally travel to and loiter outside your primary office entrance is one level of control - it raises the visiibility of interlopers, and creates an initial barrier to even being near the objective.

Everything else you've listed though is also just a big list of additional breaches and crimes someone would have to commit before they can even get near to the target in the first place - i.e. they're relevant, but if you're ingress plan is "steal a bunch of elevator access keys" then you've already excluded a whole host of simple crimes of opportunity.
by hebejebelus | 2026-02-25 11:40:34+00:00
I've been thinking about this lately too. I think we're going to see the rise of Extremely Personal Software, software that barely makes any sense outside of someone's personal context. I think there is going to be _so_ much software written for an audience of 1-10 people in the next year. I've had Claude create so much tooling for me and a small number of others in the last few months. A DnD schedule app; a spoiler-free formula e news checker; a single-use voting site for a climbing co-op; tools to access other tools that I don't like using by hand; just absolutely tons of stuff that would never have made any sense to spend time on before. It's a new world. https://redfloatplane.lol/blog/14-releasing-software-now/
by msyea | 2026-02-25 11:40:37+00:00
You can make standalone Garmin Wifi Apps for free (you only have to pay if you want to charge).

Do note that it's very janky. By default web requests proxy via the phone - if you want to try wifi you have to switch into a "modal wifi mode" - do a batch of web requests and logic - then switch back into "normal" mode and then do something with the saved data.

You cannot push notifications from wifi but you could do:

1. request to open the app using a background service

2. toggle wifi mode

3. fetch the data and close the app

4. create watch notifications from the background service.

You may need to acknowledge the request to open the app with a button press - but I've also see examples of it just opening (not sure of conditions though).

If your Garmin is already paired with a wifi AP turn off your phone and give https://apps.garmin.com/apps/78a3fa7c-6f78-4d0e-94cd-b9bd874... a go to see the UX (needs Gemini API key).
by apothegm | 2026-02-25 11:40:45+00:00
Most startups that hold patents in very early stages are actually built around something originating in academia, which they’ve been working on patenting in parallel with working on commercializing it.

The vast, vast, vast majority of early stage startups create absolutely nothing even vaguely patentable. The startup pressure cooker and focus on finding something that sells is not an environment that encourages the invention of anything meaningfully novel. If you think you’ve created something patentable, go consult with a patent lawyer. They will almost certainly tell it’s not.

And if you do create something patentable and it’s not truly central to your value proposition or competitive advantage, let the world have it. Pursuing a patent is a distraction and a waste of time for the startup unless you’re going to pivot to selling this new invention.
by n4r9 | 2026-02-25 11:42:48+00:00
Carlson has never been that strongly pro-Israel as I understand it. He's carefully toed a line that maintains a solid right-wing fanbase. See e.g. this [0] from 2012 and this [1] from 2019.

[0] https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/01/tucker-carlson-...

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/archbishop-pelosi-says-walls...
by mokyio8 | 2026-02-25 11:42:48+00:00
Hey HN,

I built RendrKit (https://rendrkit.dev) - a Design API for AI agents. One API call with a text prompt, and you get a production-ready image back.

How it works:

• 50+ HTML/CSS templates (social posts, banners, infographics, cards)
• GPT picks the best template and fills in the slots from your prompt
• Playwright renders it to PNG
• Or skip GPT entirely with Direct Render mode - pass templateId + slots yourself ($0.001/image)
Why I built it:
AI agents can write text, but they can't make visuals. Every agent that needs a social post, a banner, or an infographic hits a wall. RendrKit fills that gap.

Stack: Next.js, Playwright, GPT-4o-mini, Supabase, Vercel

Integrations: REST API, npm SDK, MCP server, OpenAI function calling

Free tier: 50 images/month. Paid starts at $19/mo.

Would love feedback on the template quality and API design.
by Frieren | 2026-02-25 11:43:04+00:00
Antitrust laws exist for a reason, when judges and goverment stopped enforcing them it created the age of mega-corporations. AT&T did not had the level of control of the economy that modern tech companies have, and yet got split to make room for competition and a healthy economy.

The world knows how to fix this problem the rich pay to not allow it.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-25 11:43:15+00:00
Because the BBC has been shown to be heavily biased towards the 'metropolitan' and 'liberal' sides - where London goes, so does the BBC. Trusting the BBC on its word is just as unwise as trusting e.g. NPR/PBS or CNN/MSNBC/FOX (USA), ARD/ZDF/NDR (Germany), NOS (Netherlands) or SVT/SR (Sweden). In short, trusting any of the media - whether legacy or new - on their word is unwise, verification is needed. Unfortunately it is getting harder to trust verification videos as well since the advent of generative AV-models.

If this is commonplace as the BBC claims it should be possible for other outlets to find more soldiers - in Ukraine or in Russia - who are willing to share these stories. If only Russia had independent media - https://novayagazeta.ru/ claims to be independent, maybe it is and maybe it is not but I find it hard to believe that an organisation which is housed at 101000, Moscow, Potapovsky lane, 3, building 1 (address taken from the footer of their page) can remain independent for long - it would be something for Russian media to pick up.
by dakolli | 2026-02-25 11:44:54+00:00
Yay, I love how we just keep coming up with magic tricks, like toddlers playing with velcro.. These magic tricks do nothing but convince people who don't know any better that LLMs are the real deal, when they simply aren't.

This is just free propaganda for Anthropic && OpenAI who will leverage these (useless) capabilities to convince your boss to give your salary to them, or at least a substantial portion of it.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-25 11:45:26+00:00
The graph you linked seems to compare different OpenAI models in terms of "price per million tokens".

I am very skeptical of any financial information that comes from OpenAI. I have no idea how truthful those numbers are, or how creatively they can be collected to paint a rosier future for them.

Even if the numbers are truthful, I have no idea how the calculate price there. Is it in terms of cost of compute they rent? Is this cost subsidized or not?

Also, I don't know this "epoch.ai" website, I don't know their stance. The website name itself does not inspire my confidence on their reporting of anything related to AI. "Eat meat, says the butcher" vibes and all.

You can claim that the AI bleeds money because training is expensive, but inference is cheap. So it will only be financially viable when they stop training models? So they would need to stop improving their capabilities entirely for it to make any sense, is that your claim?

Even if I take this claim at face value (and that would take a lot of faith I don't have to give), it doesn't sound as good as you think it does.
by tovej | 2026-02-25 11:45:27+00:00
If you really need that, the easy solution here is to get a list of errors using an LSP (or any other way of getting a list of errors, even grep "Error:"), and only giving that list of errors to the LLM if the build fails. Otherwise just tell the LLM "build succeeded".

That's an extremely simple solution. I don't see the point in this LLM=true bullshit.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-25 11:45:49+00:00
The big problem, and I say this as someone that appreciates some of the Microsoft technologies, is that it is always first and foremost about Office, and nothing else.

Forgotten are Windows, XBox, DirectX, VC++, C#, F#, TypeScript, Github, VSCode, Azure, Teams, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics,....

Ah but some of those are FOSS, they are, pity that most money and project steering only flows from one place.

Repeat the same listing exercise for every US big tech company and their influence on the computing industry at large, and possible geopolitcs, that is how we end up with HarmonyOS NEXT with ArkTS.
by watwut | 2026-02-25 11:45:52+00:00
> Oops, said the quiet part out loud that it’s all about money. “I mean, if all of our competitors are kicking puppies in the face, it doesn’t make sense for us to not do it too. Maybe we’ll also kick kittens while we’re at it”.

I mean, yes, that is actually how world works. That is why we need safety, environmental and other anti-fraud regulations. Because without them, competition makes it so that every successful company will fraud, hurt and harm. Those who wont will be taken over by those who do.
by orandaio | 2026-02-25 11:46:22+00:00
This was great and way too relatable! For me, the biggest reason for the frustration is the disconnect between what authority figures (and Reddit) claim AI currently is (e.g. PhD Level) and what it actually is... an "artificial" thing that doesn't neatly map to human intelligence. The push for "you must be prompting wrong" and assuming the AI is actually more intelligent than the user causes cognitive dissonance for me. If I'm being socialized into thinking you're God, then be God!!
by b0bbi | 2026-02-25 11:46:43+00:00
You are 100% right about pre-2014 BTC. Any suggestion where to download trusted prices?

Regarding the date format - it can really cause confusion. Let me explaine. The "calculator" date format is "YYYY-MM-DD" (ISO 8601). But the input field's date format adapts based on your device settings. For better UX.
by harperlee | 2026-02-25 11:46:46+00:00
Surprised that no comment mentioned that there is a standard term (not a word :P) for the set of words that denominates a particular concept: nominal syntagm. Such as "boiling water" and also "that green parrot we saw yesterday over the left branch".

Also the slider examples are abysmal. "I love you", "Go home" and "How are you" are not words by any stretch of imagination. For someone who makes word games, I don't see a particularly deep love of words here.

Edit: Obligatory reference to Borges's Tlön: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
by lugao | 2026-02-25 11:46:54+00:00
To be clear I never said custom vibe coded personal software is bad. But clearly that's not the point from OP. Quoting directly:

> you download a skill file that tells a coding agent how to add a feature

This is suggesting a my_feature.md would be a way of sharing and improving software in the future, which I think is mostly a bad thing.
by guerrilla | 2026-02-25 11:46:58+00:00
> This is symbolism

I don't think so. It's more complicated than that. The state is not a monolith. Different heads are doing different things and it's a enormous bureaucracy. The divisions pumping out Android will eventually catch up to what's going on and the vulnerability they're exposing themselves to. These things take time. It doesn't all happen at once. People (who are not very technical, barely knowing what a computer is) need to understand what's going on and that can take a while. Let's just hope they figure it out before it matters.
by bpavuk | 2026-02-25 11:47:28+00:00
I am not that familiar with audio codecs, yet I think it's exciting if it means "music files will get smaller while keeping as much information". I keep ~50GB of FLAC music on desktop, but mostly I use MP3 320Kbps "mirror" of the music library, which is easier to sync to phone with Syncthing. the quality loss is... noticeable at best.
by linesofcode | 2026-02-25 11:48:02+00:00
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by KeplerBoy | 2026-02-25 11:48:15+00:00
Very interesting project. I'm a bit confused about the lack of hardware specification. The rules make it clear that one's bot has defined deadlines:

> Make sure that each onframe call does not run longer than 42ms. Entries that slow down games by repeatedly exceeding this time limit will lose games on time.

But I'm missing something like: "Your program will be pinned to CPU cores 5-8 and your bot has access to a dedicated RTX 5090 GPU." Also no mention about whether my bot can have network access to offload some high-level latency insensitive planning. Maybe that's just a bad idea in general, haven't played SC in ages.
by npodbielski | 2026-02-25 11:48:55+00:00
That is awesome! I wish I had a friend like that in my twenties.
Yes that kind of connections wearies you down. It is better to have contribution but people always were lazy and will be lazy.

I was organizing few parties here and there myself. I was organizing movie Thursdays for example. People were complaining but attending. We did watched few good movies like Nebraska. When I stopped organizing them they did not were organizing anything like that themselves.
This is just how people are.
by bigDinosaur | 2026-02-25 11:48:57+00:00
You can spin up any idea and claim it increases brand loyalty, but you have to have actual evidence that that either happens or actually matters in some way, and in this case it probably doesn't and isn't worth the expense once the scale exceeds >1 employee spending more than a few minutes a day. If you've got the data to prove otherwise so that you can actually make someone money, go ahead and sell people on the idea.
by mbh159 | 2026-02-25 11:48:58+00:00
I'm not a deep security expert but I'm assuming the skill of the agents will continue to get better, so not saying there AI's can do to this task as reliably as humans. There's likely utility for non-adversarial triage/internal audit with human review.
However with better ai apple pickers during sunny conditions you need less human pickers during night conditions. I think measuring the progress of the said apple picking is what's interesting.
by LatencyKills | 2026-02-25 11:49:19+00:00
This technology exists. It isn’t just a toy. I think it is amazing to see people use it for interesting things even if it isn’t groundbreaking.

I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do.

Like it or not, young people will not know a world where this technology doesn’t exist. It is just part of their toolset now.
Show HN: InferShrink – Cut LLM API costs 10x with automatic model routing
by doronp | 2026-02-25 11:49:40+00:00
I built this to solve my own problem — paying for GPT-4/Claude on prompts that Gemini Flash handles fine.

InferShrink wraps your existing OpenAI/Anthropic/Google client in 3 lines. It classifies prompt complexity and routes to the cheapest model that can handle it. Same provider, no surprise switches.

The pipeline: classify → compress (LLMLingua, optional) → retrieve (FAISS, optional) → route → track. When all stages combine, 10x+ cost reduction on mixed workloads.

Key design decisions:

• Same-provider routing only. If you use OpenAI, it stays on OpenAI. No cross-provider surprises.
• Sub-millisecond classification overhead
• Optional FAISS retrieval + LLMLingua compression for RAG pipelines
• 539 tests, Semgrep + Trivy scanned

pip install infershrink

Blog post with the reasoning: https://musashimiyamoto1-cloud.github.io/infershrink-site/bl...

Happy to answer questions about the routing heuristics or compression tradeoffs.