MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickthegreek | 2026-02-04 19:30:17+00:00
At my work, I am not an engineer, but work in the operations side. Our managers have a hard time getting engineering resources to do similar stuff like you were discussing.

I have been empowered to be the quick and dirty build guy for small local apps instead of fighting for engineering resources. Now our managers regularly hit me up on slack with small little items that if built, could increase productivity for their teams. I love it. I'm mostly building systems that work with google workspace (docs/sheets/forms/email). So its a lot of little appscripts, or single html file apps made available via google sites. Most of our operations staff dont have all the required underlying expertise to quickly pull this kind of thing off, and are not interested in strengthening those talents. It has allowed me to shine bright while also providing much needed relief to many teams.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-04 19:30:19+00:00
I think it's pretty simple:

1. Ads are mind cancer.

2. The better a platform is at delivering ads, the worse it is for your mental well-being.

Point (2) is not just because of the ads themselves, but also all the incentives created by ad-monetized platforms. So much slop, misinformation, clickbait, and ragebait is caused by people fighting for attention to get that sweet, sweet ad revenue.

There's a reason "peak TV" happened after TV shows were freed from the need to bend their structure around several ad breaks. This stuff is not just a "monetization strategy", it infects the surrounding (non-ad) media and fundamentally changes it for the worse.

Edit: One last point - ad delivery requires taking control away from the viewer/user. A platform that's good at delivering ads is necessarily one that makes it hard to block/skip/remove the ads because most users would if they could. This same mentality of control then informs the rest of the design. So you have endless A/B tests you can't opt out of and "I'll enable it later" dialog boxes instead of allowing the user to control their experience.
by dbgrman | 2026-02-04 19:30:45+00:00
100%. Love this approach by Anthropic. The Meta "monetization league" is assembling at OpenAI and doing what they've done best at Meta.

However, I do think we need to take Anthropic's word with a grain of salt, too. To say they're fully working in the user's interest has yet to be proven. This trust would require a lot of effort to be earned. Once the companies intends to or becomes public, incentives change, investors expect money and throwing your users under the bus is a tried and tested way of increasing shareholder value.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-04 19:30:59+00:00
I guess that what I'm saying is I'd love to see an LLM actually have it's attention mechanism replaced with this and get benchmarked on real world tasks in comparison to quadratic attention. They don't seem to have done that here. They claim that's it's close to being the same, but my experience tells me that it needs to do better than get "pretty close."

They also haven't' tried to write a high performance kernel for triton yet. If it goes the way my last experiment with Taylor did they're in for some bad news.

I'm just a hobbyist though, it's certainly possible that people with more time/resources could outperform me without much effort. I just want to see it tested on something familiar and benchmark-able.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-04 19:31:34+00:00
I meant the companies.

For example, Apple Developer costs 99 USD a year, and you are forced to develop on a physical Mac. Google Developer has a free tier, and lets you develop on Windows/Linux/MacOS/VM.

This is just one of the little ways where Google products prioritize developers, while Apple products prioritize market share and consumers. Both companies have abusive practices, can't argue that, but Apple has more needless friction for developers.
by wduquette | 2026-02-04 19:31:49+00:00
Memory has always been measured in binary units.
Storage vendors have always measured capacity in decimal units, going back at least to the 80 MB (!) hard drive I paid about $800 for back in the late '80s. It was the first time I ran into a megabyte of storage as 1 million bytes, and gosh I felt cheated.

As a programmer, I think in the binary units.
by tombrossman | 2026-02-04 19:32:03+00:00
GNOME Desktop users can put this in a Bash script in ~/.local/share/nautilus/ for more convincing looking fake PDF scans, accessible from your right-click menu. I do not recall where I copied it from originally to give credit so thanks, random internet person (probably on Stack Exchange). It works perfectly.

ROTATION=$(shuf -n 1 -e '-' '')$(shuf -n 1 -e $(seq 0.05 .5))

for pdf in "$@";
do magick -density 150 $pdf \
-linear-stretch '1.5%x2%' \
-rotate 0.4 \
-attenuate '0.01' \
+noise Multiplicative \
-colorspace 'gray' \
"${pdf%.*}-fakescan.${pdf##*.}"
done
by conductr | 2026-02-04 19:32:45+00:00
Idk, brainstorming and ideating is my main use case for AI

I use it as codegen too but I easily have 20x more brainstorming conversations than code projects

Most non-tech people I talk to are finding value with it with traditional things. The main one I've seen flourish is travel planning. Like, booking became super easy but full itinerary planning for a trip (hotels, restaurants, day trips/activities, etc) has been largely a manual thing that I see a lot of non-tech people using llms for. It's very good for open ended plans too, which the travel sites have been horrible at. For instance, "I want to plan a trip to somewhere warm and beachy I don't care about the dates or exactly where" maybe I care about the budget up front but most things I'm flexible on - those kinds of things work well as a conversation.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-02-04 19:33:18+00:00
> not just contain the execution environment.

See, my typical execution environment is a Linux vm or laptop, with a wide variety of SSH and AWS keys configured and ready to be stolen (even if they are temporary, it's enough to infiltrate prod, or do some sneaky lateral movement attack). On the other hand, typical application execution environment is an IAM user/role with strictly scoped permissions.
by noncentral | 2026-02-04 19:33:39+00:00
Hallucination, drift, and long-horizon reasoning failures are usually treated as
engineering bugs — issues that can be fixed with more scale, better RLHF, or new
architectures.

RCC (Recursive Collapse Constraints) takes a different position:

These failure modes may be structurally unavoidable for any embedded inference system
that cannot access:
1. its full internal state,
2. the manifold containing it,
3. a global reference frame of its own operation.

If those three conditions hold, then hallucination, inference drift, and
8–12-step planning collapse are not errors — they are geometric consequences of
incomplete visibility.

RCC is not a model or an alignment method.
It is a boundary theory describing the outer limit of what any inference system can
do under partial observability.

If this framing is wrong, the disagreement should identify which axiom fails.

Full explanation here: https://www.effacermonexistence.com/rcc-hn-1
by stopbulying | 2026-02-04 19:33:48+00:00
I am not being denied. They are being excluded from consideration for contracts there.

Fascist isn't fair. I shouldn't have said that. Fascism is when the government controls but does not actually own any or enough shares to control the means of production.

What a shame though. Should US exclude foreign firms (France,) from consideration for contracts for the same reason?

No doubt the tariff master has made this all better with cruel tit-for-tat leverage that caused loss for these US firms.

(EU just canceled aspects of GDPR etc, so it's not new privacy law?)

(Edit: Kushner is currently ambassador to France. Why wouldn't they trust US-based communication firms over there all of a sudden?)
by noncentral | 2026-02-04 19:34:27+00:00
I’m the author.
If anyone thinks the core claim is wrong, I’d love to know which axiom fails.

RCC doesn’t argue that current LLMs are flawed —
it argues that any embedded inference system, even a hypothetical future AGI,
inherits the same geometric limits if it cannot:
1. access its full internal state,
2. observe its containing manifold,
3. anchor to a global reference frame.

If someone can point to a real or theoretical system that violates the axioms
while still performing stable long-range inference,
that would immediately falsify RCC.

Happy to answer technical questions. The entire point is to make this falsifiable.
by cope123 | 2026-02-04 19:34:38+00:00
I’ve been digging into image metadata recently and was surprised how often GPS location data is still embedded in photos people share publicly.

Even when users are aware of EXIF data in general, GPS coordinates seem to be treated as “probably not there” or “harmless”, especially when sharing images outside social networks (forums, blogs, marketplaces).

I’m curious how people here think about this in practice:
– Do you assume photos you share still contain location data?
– Have you ever seen real-world privacy issues caused specifically by GPS metadata?
– Do you rely on platforms stripping metadata, or do you clean images yourself before sharing?

Interested in hearing perspectives from people who’ve worked with journalism, security, OSINT, or just learned this the hard way.
by Edman274 | 2026-02-04 19:34:51+00:00
> My job running the website and twitter has always been to give the people a voice. I think that's important, don't you?

Do you truly believe in your heart of hearts that people posting neo-MOASS wish fulfillment suffer from a lack of a voice, and no place for them to be heard? Take this seriously. More important than "a voice" is consistency and clarity of communication. The people involved in occupy wall street in 2011 weren't occupying it because they wanted to eventually join it, and I don't think that their form of economic justice would be for Wall Street to lose money in a gigantic market crash that again would result in taxpayer-funded bailouts that spurred the first protests. For transparency's sake, what are your market positions today?
by aeneas_ory | 2026-02-04 19:34:55+00:00
It‘s really hard to read this article, it smells of LLM generated slop once you get past the first couple of paragraphs - lots of negative parallelisms and lots of words without adding value to the sentence:

> To validate the thesis that the Yen unwind is the primary driver of volatility, we must examine the sequence of events. The crash did not happen in a vacuum; it followed a precise timeline …

> It wasn't just about rates anymore; it was about the stability of the U.S.-led global order

> The unwinding of a carry trade is not a monolithic event; it is a cascade that ripples outward

It‘s like almost in every paragraph. I don’t understand why this gets to be on the frontpage to be honest. It just reads horrible even if some of the points may be true (or hallucinated, who knows)
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-04 19:35:00+00:00
> I'd rather have unabused kids than the technological breakthroughs he has contributed to

I'd rather have both. Hawthorne doesn't get nuked if Elon Musk goes to jail.

> Children were exploited

Abuse. Exploitation. CSAM. We're mushing words.

Child rape. These men raped children. Others not only stayed silent in full knowledge of it, but supported it directly and indirectly. More than that, they arrogantly assumed–and, by remaining in the United States, continue to assume–that they're going to get away with it.

Which category is Elon Musk in? We don't know. Most of the people in the Epstein files are innocent. But almost all of them seem to have been fine with (a) partying with an indicted and unrepentant pedophile [1] and (b) not saying for decades–and again, today–anything to the cops about a hive of child rape.

A lot of them should go to jail. All of them should be investigated. And almost all of them need to be retired from public life.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220224113217/https://www.theda...
by jammcq | 2026-02-04 19:35:28+00:00
I've loved programming my whole life. Something happens inside my brain when I'm solving a problem. I think it's a release of endorphins or something that has a calming effect. When I was younger, it came easier. I used to be able to get "into the zone" and stay there for hours. Almost a constant stream of endorphins, almost a euphoria. Other things give me a similar feeling. Anything with numbers. I used to really love playing blackjack. Something about figuring out how to get to 21 just really did it for me. Or playing dominoes or other games that require me to solve something. I'm almost 65 now and it's just much more difficult to get there. I think I've been slow to adopt AI partly because I'm afraid it's going to take me further away from what I've loved. Friends tell me it's just a new tool to add to my toolbox. I'm giving it a try but I'm still skeptical.
by deanCommie | 2026-02-04 19:35:45+00:00
i'm curious, how do you think other large companies operate with regards to reporting progress/status/results up the management chain?

At least at companies where the upper management is aware enough of the details to make good judgements, and the business is critical enough for some reason that low level management can't just be entrusted to yeet/yolo-things into production?
by necovek | 2026-02-04 19:36:05+00:00
This is becoming futile: this is not even about proof, but there not even being a full account of two cases you are basing your opinion on.

Obviously, you can derive any opinion you want out of that, but while I am used to terms like "probability" being misused like this, I've generally seen a higher standard at HN.

To each their own, though. Thank you for the discourse and have a good day.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-04 19:36:09+00:00
How do you get from occupy to the tea party is the link this hypothesis is missing.

Tea party was the clear predecessor to the maga movement, with its nucleation point being simple racist backlash against obama and trump being personally & directly involved in stoking that racism. In retrospect it obviously laid the groundwork for trump's movement, and I can't see any direct link from occupy to tea party other than perhaps some individuals like tunney.
by browningstreet | 2026-02-04 19:36:45+00:00
I've tried twice now to install it.. once in a docker container, and the second time in a droplet. Couldn't get any of the setup stuff configured properly, couldn't get any of the API keys registered, couldn't get the Telegram bot approved either.

Some of the commands seem to have drifted from the documentation. The token status freaks out too and then... whatever, after 2 hours I just gave up. And it only cost me $1.19 in Anthropic API tokens.
by phamilton | 2026-02-04 19:37:01+00:00
Not as much upfront. I had plenty of opportunities to adjust and correct along the way. With AI, the cost of not thinking upfront is high and the cost of being wrong in upfront decisions is low, so we bias towards that.

But beyond that, I have been thinking deeply about AI itself, which has all sorts of new problems. Permissions, verification, etc.
by breakpointalpha | 2026-02-04 19:37:15+00:00
1. Deploy ICE agents wearing milsim gear to key Dem voting locations.

2. Allow the crowd to yell at them.

3. Use the crowd agitation as an opportunity to escalate and go "hands on".

4. Cause a ruckus.

5. Use the ruckus as justification for closing the polling location for the rest of the day.

6. Count the Republican votes, discard the Dem votes.

7. Declare landslide victory.

8. Ignore calls for extended voting or recounts.
by xg15 | 2026-02-04 19:37:16+00:00
Yes, but 1300 victims per day, which is absolutely horrible, but still less than 6000 - 50.000 victims per day.

Or as another point of comparison (according to Wikipedia) : The bombing of Dresden went over three days and cost 25.000 lives. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually resulted in 100.000 immediate deaths.

All those locations - the Donbas, Gaza, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were complete wastelands afterwards.

This makes it hard to believe for me. That being said, 3000 would still be absolutely gruesome.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-04 19:38:01+00:00
What’s your definition of white?

It must be so convenient to have one overarching theory to explain all of the complex geopolitical and socioeconomic phenomena in the world, and it just so happens to be something that’s easily observable!

God I would love to have a beer with someone like you for once, and just have an honest conversation without you feeling pressured to lie about what you really think. It would be so interesting to me. Similarly for flat earthers.
by italhakhanpro | 2026-02-04 19:38:20+00:00
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by turtlesdown11 | 2026-02-04 19:38:37+00:00
It's kind of wild to not consider that Peter Thiel pays a business to monitor mentions of him online. This is a very common thing in industry. Thiel is well known for being extremely thin skinned. He's also funded surveillance tech businesses. It's very unlikely Peter spends his time looking for internet references, but that someone he pays does so. From everything the public knows about him, he's absolutely someone who compiles and reviews lists of "enemies".

As for speaking French, it's trivial to translate languages.

The evidence that a company is profitable or large has zero relation to it's decisions around dropping a customer?

You've created a strawman of suppositions that are not accurate, and then casually blow away the strawman.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-04 19:38:41+00:00
Yes, this is the nature of Brandolini's Law.

> I would assume the people designing this are "very careful" with everything they put in the data center

Which is very nice for Musk, who can spend 30 seconds running his mouth, and people jump to assuming that a) it's being designed, b) by skilled people, c) the math and finances works out already, d) that 'completely obvious' problems must simply be your lying eyes, and contort themselves to put all the effort into defending it.

Even though Musk has a history of lying announcements and not being able to deliver and the 'completely obvious' problems were actually problems that nobody solved. Where is the 2017 full self driving car? Where is the Vision-over-LIDAR success? Where is the Hyperloop that "would be able to whisk passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in just 35 minutes"? Where are the 2025 orbital refuelling test flights for the Moon and Mars schedule, and the plans for how to keep cryogenic liquid Hydrogen cold in Space? Where was the "funding secured" Musk lied about for taking Tesla stock private in 2018 when judges found there wasn't any funding and fined him $20M? Where's the person Musk said in 2011 he could "put on Mars in a decade"? Where's the uncrewed Mars ship in 2022 he announced in 2017? The human voyage in 2024?

> "I'm a physicist myself"

And if someone tells you they have found a quantum zero-point free energy room temperature superconducting over-unity perpetual motion machine, do you jump to their defense because you assume the speaker must be very careful and smarter than everyone else? Or do you say "sounds unlikely; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"?

> "I suppose they could make something like the International Space Station, which would get regular traffic back-and-forth exchanging and servicing hardware as needed."

The ISS cost 100-150 billion, is "larger than a 6 bedroom house", and its solar panels can generate 250 kW. NVidia says their AI datacenter costs $50-60 billion, needs 1GW of electricity, and look at the size of it: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nvidia-worth-5-trillion-...

You're looking at that multiple-warehouses-structure which could sink the output of an entire nuclear power station, and going with "it would be cheaper if we launched that into space"?
by rob | 2026-02-04 19:38:50+00:00
Comment 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873799
2026-02-03T17:12:55 1770138775

Comment 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873809
2026-02-03T17:13:40 1770138820

Comment 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873820
2026-02-03T17:14:25 1770138865

All detailed comments in different threads posted exactly 45 seconds apart, unless the HN timestamps aren't accurate.

That's very impressive if the account is not "generated comments", even using speech-to-text via AI. I'll leave it at that.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-04 19:39:43+00:00
I have to ask - I like some of the paradigms of Functional programming (IMO it makes concurrent programming a lot easier because state is never shared)

Why hasn't it cut through, like OO did?

and

Beam has been around since the 90s, had a good marquee project (RabbitMQ) but still has low adoption
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-04 19:39:44+00:00
I think by "third world mentalities" he just means devolving into "fuck you, I got mine" low trust societies where everyone is stealing and scamming everyone else because there's no upwards mobility, no social contract where hard work and honesty gets you ahead, it's either scam or be scammed by unscrupulous people who will take advantage of your hard work and trust in the system against you, so that they can get ahead and then rug-pull you.

I see the same sentiment from his comment on young people everywhere in the developed west US, Canda, EU, Australia, etc.
by ddddazed | 2026-02-04 19:39:48+00:00
Yes, I actually discovered that C++ implemented reflection after working on the project, but at the moment I'm too busy to follow up on this with the attention it deserves. However, this is definitely something I need on my TODO.

As for the details, the scheme I started with is “simple” and, as already mentioned, it is valid for all memory-managed languages.

The desktop application starts up and, at the entry point, does the following:

engine.Ingnite(this)

The “engine” library now has the application instance in its belly, and a listener is created for each application, waiting for commands.

On the “chat” side, the prompt to the model starts, and here both the prompt and the classic json that I built with the methods I decided to expose are sent.

When the chat receives the response, it sends the token to the listening listener:

engine.Execute(method.json)

From here, first deserialize the json by creating the objects. At this point, you have both the application instance and its method, as well as the arguments with which it must be called:

method.Invoke(instance, parameters)

I find this interesting, and it breaks with the classic way we are used to communicating with wrapper APIs.

I think that, since it has probably been an established method for decades with the advent of the web, it was natural to move in this direction. However, coming mainly from a desktop environment, I wonder if this is the “easiest” and “smartest” way to handle these cases.

I hope this can help.