MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ignoramous | 2026-02-25 18:44:06+00:00
> You would be wrong

Well, looks like Leibowitz did not coin the term (much to his chagrin perhaps?), but I guess he was one of the more prominent Israelis to never apologize for using it.

May be Leibowitz spoke truth to power; may be he was a Soviet asset.

> quite stunning how similar all this is

Hm.

Michael S: Aren't you exaggerating when you use the term "Judeo- Nazi?" Do you truly believe that we are liable to decline to the level of the Nazis?

Yeshayahu L: When the nation (or in Nazi terminology, the race) and the power of its state become supreme values, human action is no longer inhibited. This mentality is also widespread among us. In the territories under our occupation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon, we are already behaving as the Nazis behaved in the territories under their occupation in Czechoslovakia and the west.

https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=jud-001%3A2018%3A...
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-25 18:44:10+00:00
AWS's answer to an AI-caused outage is mandatory peer review for AI-generated changes. So the solution is human oversight, the same humans they've been cutting by the thousands.

They took the human out, it broke, now the human goes back in. https://philippdubach.com/posts/a-bull-case/ gets into why domain expertise is going up in value, not down.
by duxup | 2026-02-25 18:44:46+00:00
Oh man we had a person leave unexpectedly who controls our Apple organization for our dev accounts. I'm several months into me making requests, getting responses at least a week later for each email where the responder ... didn't really read my message. Then they ask for documents ... but they forgot to send me the secure link ... another week+ for them to do what they said they were going to do. Now one of my documents didn't include a sentence they needed ...

One of the requests was for a business card ... I haven't had a business card made with my name on it in 20 years.

The amazing thing is that I bet scammers working this system can get through this faster than I can.

At this point they should just give me control because no way would some scammer fail this much at this ungodly process.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-25 18:44:47+00:00
Exactly.

The author's electricity bill went up and his cat got stolen in part because his colleagues working under the university incentive systems (i.e. don't publish stuff that pisses off the interests that fund your lab) created work that legitimized those policy decisions so that those decisions could be made and the funding interests, whatever they may be, could benefit from them.

One wonders if there are similar incentives in the university ranking, administration and consulting that legitimize the university's otherwise questionable decision to engage in these seemingly irresponsible ventures.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-02-25 18:45:01+00:00
Yeah I watched this a week or so ago and had a similar issue.

I'm super optimistic about green energy and in favor of expanding it.

But also acutely aware it's barely putting a dent on energy use despite year-on-year record levels of capacity install (>90% of new capacity is green), which far exceeds expert expectations every single year. Non-renewables keep growing, forecasts and ambitions were cut by the Trump admin, and it is expected that the latest economic revolution's (AI) main bottleneck is going to be energy by the end of the year.

We have essentially blown past the paris accord thresholds (we've seen months of +1.5c temperature, which was the limit we envisioned in 2015) and despite renewables far exceeding expectations, they completely fell short of what is necessary pre-2023. Post-2023 you have Trump derailing renewables wherever he can and AI increasing demand even further.

It really looks pretty hopeless and frankly it's sad that there is no real conversation about this, which seems to be an existential question for the generation living in 2100 and beyond.

You're also now getting to the point that adding new capacity is increasing the amount of renewable energy that is being curtailed (i.e. thrown away), meaning while renewables get cheaper over time, the rate of things getting cheaper will slow down as renewables must be increasingly paired with storage investments (which are also getting cheaper but introduce additional cost).

For example, sunny Cyprus curtailed 13%, 29% and 49% (!!) of its solar generation in 2023 to 2025 respectively. Yes last year half of the solar power that was produced, was thrown away, because of a lack of demand-supply balancing. Cyprus is uniquely poorly positioned (high solar potential, small country with a single small timezone, no interconnectors to offload surplus to other countries, no storage facilities etc) but it's still a sign of things to come. Further generation will increasingly need to be paired with significant storage, or it's partially wasted.
by heyitsmedotjayb | 2026-02-25 18:45:03+00:00
I mean yes. But it has more to do with the design and attitude of bus route planning than whether or not a single stop is mis-designed, or whether there are too many stops overall. A rail line wouldn't have this problem because its clearly ridiculous and impossible to route tracks into a tight loop - the built environment in that case would accommodate the limitations of the rail, and the station would be built 200 feet away from the door. Since busses have the freedom to loop around mindlessly, the built environment refuses to accommodate them.
Show HN: An agent that records Loom-style demos
by guico | 2026-02-25 18:45:18+00:00
Hey guys! While building another SaaS we got fed up with recording and, re-recording demos for help-center so decided to try and automate it using Playwright. Turns out it's not that easy, but we got it to a point that's usable, and quite useful for us already. Feel free to try and send feedback. Every new account gets some free credits so you can see what it can do. Thanks!

PS: Because this is heavy on infra we have a waitlist thing but I'm monitoring and will let you in within minutes/hours, just need to space people out a bit. Thanks
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-25 18:45:23+00:00
Technically this is a delusion and not necessarily psychosis. Delusions can exist without full blown psychosis or accompany it. Example: the unshakable belief that God is real is a delusion but not necessarily psychotic.

My pet theory is one of ontological conscienceness paredoila. Just like face paredoila is a heightened sensitivity to seeing faces in inanimate objects, we observe consciousness through behavior including language with varying sensitivity. While our face detection circuitight be triggered by knots on a tree, we have other inputs which negate it so that we ultimately conclude that it is not in fact a face.

The same principal applies to consciousness. The consciousness trigger is triggered, but for some people the negating input can't overcome it and they conclude that consciousness really is in there.

I've observed a number of negating reasons like, a disbelief in substrate independence and knowledge of failure modes, but I'm curious what an exhaustive list would look like. Does your consciousness circuit get triggered? I know mine does. What beliefs override it preventing you from concluding AI is conscious?
by jama211 | 2026-02-25 18:45:36+00:00
I mean I can make up any speculation too if you want. I seriously seriously doubt your claim. It’s extremely extremely rare to find “3-4 hours of maths textbook reading” levels of enthusiasm in 7 year olds.

I don’t doubt he’s talented too. But, it’s a chicken and egg problem and I’m sick of people pretending it isn’t.
by paxys | 2026-02-25 18:45:48+00:00
Given the "random" nature of language models even fully trusted input can produce untrusted output.

"Find emails that are okay to delete, and check with me before deleting them" can easily turn into "okay deleting all your emails", as so many examples posted online are showing.

I have found this myself with coding agents. I can put "don't auto commit any changes" in the readme, in model instructions files, at the start of every prompt, but as soon as the context window gets large enough the directive will be forgotten, and there's a high chance the agent will push the commit without my explicit permission.
by MysticBirdie | 2026-02-25 18:46:06+00:00
(Edit: Updated results + Windsurf coding demo showing same 40%→100% pattern in production AI workflows. Domain grounding > model scale.) Compositional Chaining Benchmark — by Chain Type

Chain Type

Triad: 81.8%

Raw: 72.7%

∆ (Triad–Raw): +9.1pp

FAULT_INJECTION

Triad: 100%

Raw: 71.4%

∆: +28.6pp

CROSS_CHARACTER

Triad: 50%*

Raw: 100%
*Triad cross-char losses were 100% rate limit timeouts (ERRORs), not model mistakes.

Depth Drift — Accuracy vs. Hops
Step | Triad | Raw
1⃣ 75% | 87.5%
2⃣ 75% | 75%
3⃣ 83.3% | 66.7% ← Raw degrades
4⃣ 100% | 100%
5⃣ 100% | 100%

Raw drops 21pp between steps 1–3, while Triad improves.

Fault Injection — The Key Result
Injected Error | Triad | Raw
Hadrian’s Wall as existing | PASS | FAIL
Julius Caesar as living | PASS | PASS
Paper money replacing coins | PASS | FAIL

Triad: 3/3. Raw: 1/3.

In short: Triad consistently maintains compositional reasoning under stress and even strengthens across depth
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-25 18:46:22+00:00
That's like asking "why is the train still moving even though the brakes are on"?

Not very long ago not only was consumption increasing every year, it was increasing at an increasing rate every year. And that increasing rate was itself increasing not so much time before that. We've reversed the 3rd derivate, and we've reversed the 2nd derivative. If the 2nd derivative is negative for sufficient time, the 1st derivative will itself go negative. Looks like it'll happen this year, but the year's not over yet.

The first derivative is consumption. The 0th derivative is amount of carbon in the air. For that to go down would require a carbon negative economy which I don't have much hope for.
by bombela | 2026-02-25 18:46:25+00:00
I never had issues with work accounts created via google workplace.

Google forbids you to have multiple identities. It's stated clear in their term of service. Any account you create must be linked to the same identity.

This means that it is trivial for them to ban all your accounts at once.

This also means that the 2factor is difficult to separate. Somebody with an unlocked access to my phone can hijack all my Google accounts by starting a password recovery.

Even though I made sure to never share my phone number to the new account, and I never loggued with it on my phone, and used a different browser session on desktop, it still forcefully sends a notification to my phone when I login because my login is suspicious it says. There is still no phone registered on the new account.

During reinstation of the banned accout I also got a scary msg essentially saying that if they denied my appeal, they might also ban my main account. Chilling.
by djoldman | 2026-02-25 18:46:33+00:00
> Mozee went into detail comparing slow concrete curb accessibility work to the faster asphalt street work. Per Mozee, “there’s approximately 14 ramps in a mile.” So for “one crew to build out those 14 ramps will take approximately three months.” In contrast, he said, “a paving crew on a good day … could pave that same mile in a weekend or one week, at most.”

Why don't they asphalt curb to curb for a mile and then come back and do the ramps one at a time?
by dheera | 2026-02-25 18:46:39+00:00
> We need to know if the email being sent by an agent is supposed to be sent and if an agent is actually supposed to be making that transaction on my behalf. etc

At the same time, let's not let the perfect be the enemy of good.

If you're piloting an aircraft, yeah, you should have perfection.

But if you're sending 34 e-mails and 7 hours of phone calls back and forth to fight a $5500 medical bill that insurance was supposed to pay for, I'd love for an AI bot to represent me. I'd absolutely LOVE for the AI bot to create so much piles of paperwork for these evil medical organizations so that they learn that I will fight, I'm hard to deal with, and pay for my stuff as they're supposed to. Threaten lawyers, file complaints with the state medical board, everything needs to be done. Create a mountain of paperwork for them until they pay that $5500. The next time maybe they'll pay to begin with.
by Ross00781 | 2026-02-25 18:46:48+00:00
The diffusion-based approach is fascinating. Traditional transformer LLMs generate tokens sequentially, but diffusion models can theoretically refine the entire output space iteratively. If they've cracked the latency problem (diffusion is typically slower), this could open new architectures for reasoning tasks where quality matters more than speed. Would love to see benchmark comparisons on multi-step reasoning vs GPT-4/Claude.
by alt227 | 2026-02-25 18:47:07+00:00
In the UK we call this 'Surface Dressing' and is a typical money saving meaasure to avoid the full cost of paving the road properly. It looks terrible and doenst last very long, so peronsally I dont see the point.

https://www.somerset.gov.uk/roads-travel-and-parking/surface...
by JamesLeonis | 2026-02-25 18:47:08+00:00
Ignorance is a Weapon.

Much of the US media is captured, so virtually nothing is fed back to us Americans. This also builds on top of US gunboat diplomacy going all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine. Keeping Americans ignorant allows our government and corporations a free hand in foreign affairs. The limited information allowed through is heavily sanitized and depicts US actions as the Good Guys attacked by the Evil X, which is why so many of our wars start with a ship "under attack" (USS Maine, RMS Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin incident), or supposed WMDs (Iran, Iraq)

A great example is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Ask any American and they can call up all kinds of minute details about the attack. However if you ask them about the US trade embargoes and blockades against Japan in the months leading up to the attack, the vast majority of Americans will draw a blank. That is on purpose.

When stuff does break through to us, raw and unfiltered, most will react with horror. The self image of Americans as the Good Guys cracks. This happened in the Viet-Nam conflict when journalists had a free hand to show what was happening. Massive protests and a near mutiny by the US Army caused the Pentagon to get far more involved in how wars are presented in future conflicts. More recently Americans were so horrified when they witnessed the Israeli genocide after October 7th that it completely inverted both public sentiment and support for Israel, causing the forced sale of TikTok to Oracle and under US control to clamp down on the coverage.
by RealityVoid | 2026-02-25 18:47:12+00:00
As the Technology Connections dude highlighted, yearly, there are about 50 000 square miles used for ethanol fuel cultivation. We do much bigger and less efficient things for fuel. Distributing this all over the country seems much less pipe dreamy than you assert.

Distributed production is super doable. Of course you won't just put a big square somewhere.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-25 18:47:25+00:00
> In a presentation at the Jan. 28 City Council Public Works Committee (audio, slides), General Manager Keith Mozee attributed the shift to large asphalt repair to cuts to StreetsLA workforce. In the current and past year, StreetsLA’s staffing budget was cut 26 percent.

At least they're admitting to the general public that the cause for the dysfunctionality is budget cuts. People can then vote accordingly for someone who campaigns on increasing the tax base.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-25 18:47:27+00:00
I am in no way an AI apologist. I’m actually quite critical of the value, investment, products. But I’m also not blind and I’m offended by crap like this.

Claude code is 90% better than previous coding assistants as of weeks ago.

So either your data is invalid or your logic is.

(Such a strong claim only requires one contrary example to disprove, but for everyone at home here are a few more)

Robots can do most manufacturing tasks right now, but can’t move around. Recent advances allow them to move around (but not yet to do the specialized tasks of their fixed location brethren). This advancement is largely due to the flexibility of current model training techniques.

Humanoid robots powered by LLMS + some ten thousand lines of code will be able to move and converse as well as a human and therefore do human level work within 5 years (big stumbling block is literal stumbling which is on a trajectory to solved on the order of months)

LLM + 10,000 lines of code can do most white collar work today. (I now orchestrate 90% of my work with little time commitment) also, did you know that you can orchestrate 10k lines of code in a weekend?

LLM + evaluation of success criteria can solve most repetitive work today.

Even if foundational models have plateaued (They haven’t) the technology percolation will take months and years for the effects to be seen.

If I could be bothered, I’d look up your fund’s bets and bet the other side — I’ve rarely seen someone betting so wrongly. But also I don’t have time to dignify every yahoo out there by betting against them so this note will have to do.
Show HN: Rediflow – SSR project management, one source of truth, no spreadsheet
by janipaijanen | 2026-02-25 18:47:43+00:00
I wanted to try AI-assisted software development, so I built Rediflow: a server-rendered project management app. The kind of thing that would have been useful around the turn of the millennium — when plans lived in one spreadsheet, capacity in another, and everyone kept asking "where am I allocated?" — but didn't really exist in a simple, integrated form.

I spent many evenings and weekends building it. It's done* now, and I enjoyed making it.

Core features:
Single source of truth — Project flow, portfolio flow, and capacity in one place. No Excel sprawl.
Update once, flows everywhere — Change a figure once; it propagates to charts, reports, and views.
Demand chart — Project plan (PROJPLAN), Estimated (EST), and Actual as monthly bars and cumulative lines.

Work packages, tasks, milestones, deliverables — All in one project view.

Capacity dashboard — Demand vs capacity across projects and people.

My allocations — Staff see their rolling 12 months of capacity and project assignments.

Audit logging — Who changed what and when.

Data quality checks — Built-in validation.

Schema migrations — Alembic, version-controlled schema.

Backup procedures — Documented (pg_dump, volume backup, WAL).

Self-hosted — Podman or Docker.

Stack: Flask + PostgreSQL 18+, server-rendered, minimal JS. OIDC (Authentik) optional.
Docs: https://rediflow_eu.gitlab.io/rediflow · Repo: https://gitlab.com/rediflow_eu/rediflow

Self-financed, no external funding or benefits received.

* Yeah, software is ready when it is so decided. Until the next revisit.
by lebovic | 2026-02-25 18:47:55+00:00
I don't hold the belief that it's better to have influence in a group where you don't trust leadership – in this case, those who decide at the metaphorical table – vs. trying to affect change through a different avenue.

It's probably naive, but it's also the reasoning that drove many early employees to Anthropic. Maybe the reasoning holds at smaller scales but breaks down when operating as a larger actor (e.g. as a single person vs. a large company).

> of course money > all else

Many employees signed a legally binding pledge to donate 50% or more of their equity to a non-profit / DAF, and they did this before it was clear it would be a wild financial success. On this point, I might be foolishly idealistic or in an atypical subculture, but most of my friends at Anthropic have taken actions which serve as high cost signals that they're not prioritizing money over all else.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-25 18:47:59+00:00
> We need to know if the email being sent by an agent is supposed to be sent and if an agent is actually supposed to be making that transaction on my behalf. etc

Isn’t this the whole point of the Claw experiment? They gave the LLMs permission to send emails on their behalf.

LLMs can not be responsibility-bearing structures, because they are impossible to actually hold accountable. The responsibility must fall through to the user because there is no other sentient entity to absorb it.

The email was supposed to be sent because the user created it on purpose (via a very convoluted process but one they kicked off intentionally).
by neilv | 2026-02-25 18:48:11+00:00
And the US is much richer for them (monetarily, and culturally).

But what if home countries had said, "We can give you the resources you need for your work and home life, and it will be for purposes you can believe in and feel good about; not for crypto rug pulls, nor for surveillance capitalism, nor for stunting and manipulative social media"?
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-25 18:48:12+00:00
You'll just only point out the Israeli war crimes?

I'm so tired of this conflict. Both sides can eff off. The Israelis under Netanyahu are basically ever bad stereotype of Jewish people made real, and the Palestinians are the "woe is me we are innocents" while being controlled by murderous thugs and just siphoning the aid they beg for.

Nobody actually wants peace, well, those that would be at the negotiating table don't. The Israelis want the Palestinians dead, the Palestinians want the Israelis dead.

Arafat has the last shot at peace. He allegedly walked away because of access to some religious shrines. That should tell you everything you need to know about this region. Just a bunch of religious nutheads going at it, and the rest of the world gets suckered into spending billions on it, which ultimately just goes to the religious nut heads.

And all of it only appears in headlines because of oil.
by miltonlost | 2026-02-25 18:48:37+00:00
> I live in Chicago with the third-closest stop spacing per the article. I'm personally able to walk a block or two further to a bus stop no problem. Bus stop consolidation would save me a lot of time over the course of a year!

Until there' a snowstorm, and no one shovels. And you have a broken leg, or are elderly, or disabled. Sure, it might save you personally some time, but we live in a society and should try to help out the one's who need help.
by satisfice | 2026-02-25 18:48:42+00:00
Claims of consciousness are untestable, since it is an undefined concept.

We think of ourselves as conscious because it is our lived experience— but we are always wrong to some degree. My mother has dementia and cannot be made aware of her situation, except momentarily.

We think of other humans as conscious not as the outcome of any test, but rather because we each share with other humans a common origin which suggests common mechanisms of experience.

Treating other humans as equivalent to ourselves is a heuristic for maintaining social order— not an epistemological achievement.
by jedberg | 2026-02-25 18:48:51+00:00
I just saw a video on instagram which basically portrayed a rich racist southerner using all the same phrases they used to use for slaves, but for their robot.

"We treat this one better because it's a house clanker instead of a field clanker"

"If the clanker acts up it knows that it gets stuck in the box"

It was meant to be funny but definitely highlighted exactly what you are saying.