MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spmurrayzzz | 2026-02-12 17:01:42+00:00
First as an aside, remember that this entire thread is about using local compute. What you're alluding to is some fantasy infinite budget where you have limitless commodity compute. That's not at all the context of this thread.

But disregarding that, this isn't a problem you can solve by turning a knob akin to scaling a stateless k8s cluster.

The whole vertical of distributed RL has been struggling with this for a while. You can in theory just keep adding sandboxes in parallel, but in RLVR you are constrained by 1) the amount of rollout work you can do per gradient update, and 2) the verification and pruning pipeline that gates the reward signal.

You cant just arbitrarily have a large batch size for every rollout phase. Large batches often reduce effective diversity or get dominated by stragglers. And the outer loop is inherently sequential, because each gradient update depends on data generated by a particular policy snapshot. You can parallelize rollouts and the training step internally, but you can’t fully remove the policy-version dependency without drifting off-policy and taking on extra stability headaches.
by jared_stewart | 2026-02-12 17:02:12+00:00
Typed languages definitely provide richer signal in there signatures - and my experience has been that I get more reliable generations from those languages.

On the efficiency point, the agent isn't doing any expensive exploration here. There is a standalone server which builds and maintains the index, the agent is only querying it. So it's closer to the deterministic approach implemented in aider (at least in a conceptual sense) with the added benefit that the LLM can execute targeted queries in a recursive manner.
by mzajc | 2026-02-12 17:02:12+00:00
Here's a partial list of domains a browser without any extensions contacts when navigating to this article:

- cxense.com, *.piano.io: Advertising & analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- cdn.taboola.com: Advertising & analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- *.optimizely.com: Advertising & analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- cdn.tinypass.com: Paywall, loads obfuscated JS
- *.mparticle.com: Advertising & analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- pagead2.googlesyndication.com: Advertising & analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- chartbeat.net: Analytics, loads obfuscated JS
- dotmetrics.net: Analytics, loads JS
by jmye | 2026-02-12 17:02:12+00:00
Because we use taxes as a process to crowdsource funding more effectively. That's literally the entire basis for it. Might as well ask why "only the taxpayers who care about a new highway can raise funds to buy it" and then we're back in some weird, system of no central government because someone can always claim "why not just like, let people donate money" because it's a simplistic cliche that appeals deeply to people who aren't quite clever enough to work out just how much they've benefitted from the system as it's been constructed.
by houllan633 | 2026-02-12 17:02:14+00:00
Structure your routine(s). Default rules save you a lot of cognitive load.

Avoid scrolling apps. Avoid touchscreens for a couple of hours after waking up. Try to work a few pages of long form reading into your daily routine. It will become easier to remain focused for longer over time.

Don't fall for grand schemes and definitive solutions. We are prone to manic-depressive cycling as we think we've solved everything now and than fail to follow up.

Try to make everything you want to be doing very easy to get started on and everything you don't want to be doing harder. Cultivate this pattern.

It's not one big thing, it's a bunch of little things. And if you have a (few) bad days or weeks or months, don't spiral. Forgive yourself and try again tomorrow.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 17:02:19+00:00
yeah dart's type system is surprisingly pleasant to work with. my main gripe with cross platform frameworks in general is that the native integration story always feels like an afterthought compared to the rendering side. flutter seems better than most at this but i haven't gone deep enough to hit the real edge cases yet.

for my use case the bottleneck ended up being camera api quirks across ios and android. i'm building a game where the core mechanic revolves around taking photos and the inconsistencies between platforms are wild. nothing to do with rendering at all, just getting reliable camera access with the right permissions flow on both platforms without the app feeling clunky.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-12 17:02:19+00:00
> Most of it going to two massive buckets military and social support programs (medicare, snap, et al).

SNAP is peanuts. About a trillion dollars out of the seven trillion goes to the military and by far the largest amount goes to retirees.

> The elected representatives (all parties) of this country have voted to increase military spending year over year and most of the population is fine with this.

How can you tell if they're fine with it if all of their alternatives lead to the same result?

> Separately but equally damaging in terms of spending is one party is consistently doing everything in their power to fuck over the most vulnerable, provide tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, and generally make life miserable for anyone who isn't a wealthy (soon white) dude.

The party that set up Social Security so that it has an income cap on the tax, makes larger payouts to people who had higher incomes up to the cap and max payouts to people who hit the income cap, and pays out more to white people in aggregate even proportional to their income because they live longer, was the party of FDR. The party that has been obstructing housing construction in San Francisco and other major cities for decades to the detriment of renters, young prospective home buyers and the homeless is the party with the majority in those cities, and you can't even pin that one on the filibuster.

You don't get to blame the other party for the things they screwed up and the things you screwed up.
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-12 17:02:23+00:00
Under the law you are suggesting is a just and legitimate basis for denaturalization, any non-white person naturalized before 1952 can be denaturalized, as they were committing fraud claiming to be white to be eligible for naturalization at the time.

I don’t have to be super imaginative to extend that to wondering how those people’s children could have inherited citizenship from a noncitizen who committed fraud against the US government.

But we’re all just trying to get back to “law and order” here right? What a stupid person you’d have to be to believe that.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-12 17:03:03+00:00
Geez, when I read past stories on HN about how open source maintainers are struggling to deal with the volume of AI code, I always thought they were talking about people submitting AI-generated slop PRs. I didn't even imagine we'd have AI "agents" running 24/7 without human steer, finding repos and submitting slop to them on their own volition. If true, this is truly a nightmare. Good luck, open source maintainers. This would make me turn off PRs altogether.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 17:03:13+00:00
There is nothing morally wrong with the law either. It's morally irrelevant that it used to be in the same code provision as another law that was based on a racial classification. The law we're talking about today doesn't do that. And I would be surprised if any developed country doesn't have a similar law. Canada does, for example: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship/he...
by raphaelmolly8 | 2026-02-12 17:03:15+00:00
The Lean angle here is really interesting: most multi-agent demos dodge hard verification, but tying each agent’s output to makes the feedback loop objective.
Curious how you’re handling goal-claim conflicts/duplication when two agents find competing tactic sequences for the same subgoal—do you keep both in memory with some ranking signal (time-to-verify, proof term size, etc.)?
by rune-dev | 2026-02-12 17:03:21+00:00
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, or catastrophize but…

Isn’t this situation a big deal?

Isn’t this a whole new form of potential supply chain attack?

Sure blackmail is nothing new, but the potential for blackmail at scale with something like these agents sounds powerful.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were plenty of bad actors running agents trying to find maintainers of popular projects that could be coerced into merging malicious code.
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 17:03:25+00:00
I’m the founder of UXWizz, and a lot of founders I know use it when they want something self-hosted so they fully own their customer data. It’s a lot cleaner than a raw BI tool and works well for simple client dashboards or “stats-as-a-service,” without the clunkiness of Metabase. You can also white-label or embed it pretty easily.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-12 17:03:51+00:00
"Making issues visible" can be kinda dangerous in that groups that do that become dependent on those issues continuing. Also they frequently misdiagnose problems: for instance homelessness is seen as a problem of "poverty" and not "management of severe mental illness".

It's true technically that the median homeless person is not mentally ill, but the median homeless person is "between apartments" and the intractable cases, the people who are screaming on the street corners and breeding pitbulls that bite people on the Ithaca Commons are a public health problem.
by testing22321 | 2026-02-12 17:04:08+00:00
I can’t help wondering if the biggest problem in the US right now is that a majority of people having a “fundamental misunderstanding” about many, many very important things.

Maybe it’s because of propaganda, mis information, social media, education or because they’re too busy and tired trying to make ends meet so they don’t have time to research issues for themselves.

It feels like it will be very difficult to course correct when so much money and power wants it this way.
by culi | 2026-02-12 17:05:01+00:00
China accounts for more than 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017, according to NASA data

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-pl...

China's also been a major supporter of the Great Green Wall of Africa providing technology and funding.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3302068/why-...
by Metacelsus | 2026-02-12 17:05:18+00:00
According to benchmarks in the announcement, healthily ahead of Claude 4.6. I guess they didn't test ChatGPT 5.3 though.

Google has definitely been pulling ahead in AI over the last few months. I've been using Gemini and finding it's better than the other models (especially for biology where it doesn't refuse to answer harmless questions).
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-12 17:05:29+00:00
I'm honestly less interested in accountability than in doing something about climate change. If I could solve global warming by giving Elon an extra trillion dollars, I would. If I could solve global warming by giving Trump 4 more unconstitutional years, I probably maybe would (but it would kill me).

My argument is simple:

1. Not enough people support climate action.

2. We've tried demonizing people who don't support climate action and that hasn't worked--it only made them support it less.

3. Therefore, try the opposite: give people an incentive for supporting climate action. That means allying with political opponents, such as Elon or supporters of natural gas, or rich corporations. The broader the base of support for climate action, the easier it is to pass climate action legislation.
by estearum | 2026-02-12 17:05:34+00:00
> What's astonishing is, whether you like him or not, the Orange man actually got the American public to accept what is defacto the largest tax increase in decades.

What does it mean "got the public to accept it?" The public had no say and these are probably illegal. On top of that, he probably literally does not know that these are effectively taxes on consumers (i.e. he believe his own bullshit).

No credit is due here whatsoever.
by sigmar | 2026-02-12 17:05:38+00:00
Here is the methodologies for all the benchmarks: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

The arc-agi-2 score (84.6%) is from the semi-private eval set. If gemini-3-deepthink gets above 85% on the private eval set, it will be considered "solved"

>Submit a solution which scores 85% on the ARC-AGI-2 private evaluation set and win $700K. https://arcprize.org/guide#overview
by jbellis | 2026-02-12 17:06:25+00:00
Yes, very similar results here (http://brokk.ai)

We got lines-with-anchors working fine as a replacement strategy, the problem was that when you don't make the model echo what it's replacing, it's literally dumber at writing the replacement; we lost more in test failures + retries than we gained in faster outputs.

Makes sense when you think about how powerful the "think before answering" principle is for LLMs, but it's still frustrating
by iso1631 | 2026-02-12 17:06:32+00:00
Wikipedia says Viva.com is a multi-billion dollar startup

It seems unlikely you're the first company using viva.com and using google workspace.

Clearly the problem here is that viva.com emails aren't arriving on your google workspace, despite what their support process says.

viva.com emails do arrive on other email providers, so seems unlikely to be problem with your viva.com account

It seems unlikely workplace blocks all viva.com emails otherwise more than you would have complained.

Whether that's viva's problem or google's problem is a separate problem.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-12 17:06:38+00:00
The LLM activation capping only reduces aberrant offshoots from the expected reasoning models behavioral vector.

Thus, the hidden agent problem may still emerge, and thus is still exploitable within the instancing frequency of isomorphic plagiarism slop content. Indeed, LLM can be guided to try anything people ask, and or generate random nonsense content with a sycophantic tone. =3
by austinbaggio | 2026-02-12 17:06:39+00:00
Math proofs are really easy to run with this specific harness. Our next experiments are going to be bigger, think full code base refactors. We're working on applying RLM to improve context window limits so we can keep more of the actual code in RAM,

Any workloads you want to see? The best are ones that have ways to measure the output being successful, thinking about recreating the C compiler example Anthropic did, but doing it for less than the $20k in tokens they used.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-12 17:06:48+00:00
It's very heartening to see that, even if the US is unwilling to hold these people accountable, other countries are. Brazil recently apprehended Epstein's pilot, David Rodgers [1] [2], for example.

[1] https://fox56news.com/news/local/richmond/epstein-file-rollo...

[2] https://jmail.world/search?q=rodgers
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-12 17:07:40+00:00
I'm going to go on a slight tangent here, but I'd say: GOOD.

Not because it should have happened.

But because AT LEAST NOW ENGINEERS KNOW WHAT IT IS to be targeted by AI, and will start to care...

Before, when it was Grok denuding women (or teens!!) the engineers seemed to not care at all... now that the AI publish hit pieces on them, they are freaked about their career prospect, and suddenly all of this should be stopped... how interesting...

At least now they know. And ALL ENGINEERS WORKING ON THE anti-human and anti-societal idiocy that is AI should drop their job
by ThinkBeat | 2026-02-12 17:07:48+00:00
The different between taxes (you -must- pay (unless X loopholes applies to you))
whereas tariffs are voluntary and even more so then sales tax.

You may chose not to buy any products or goods that requires you
to pay tariffs.

Which is the primarily goal to begin with.
Influence consumer behaviour.

I realize that for some products and goods there may not be a
an alternative choice of products or goods that do have tariffs.

In theory, over time, these will be increasingly replaced by
products and services that have the competitive advantage of
not having to tariffs applied to them.

Once tariffs are in place for a year or two it is possible
that, domestic producers have expand capacity, have created jobs
have caused supply chains shift and new production is based on
the tariff based price structure

This however takes time.
And to what extent it happens is not easy to predict.

Some may think that the next president will remove all tariffs
the moment he or she takes office, so it is a short term problem.
The problem with removing them all, is if the above has happened,
and removing them will destroy American jobs.
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-12 17:08:00+00:00
I'm going to go on a slight tangent here, but I'd say: GOOD.
Not because it should have happened.

But because AT LEAST NOW ENGINEERS KNOW WHAT IT IS to be targeted by AI, and will start to care...

Before, when it was Grok denuding women (or teens!!) the engineers seemed to not care at all... now that the AI publish hit pieces on them, they are freaked about their career prospect, and suddenly all of this should be stopped... how interesting...

At least now they know. And ALL ENGINEERS WORKING ON THE anti-human and anti-societal idiocy that is AI should drop their job
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 17:08:37+00:00
This is exactly why so many people are thinking about self-hosting everything. Analytics is another big point of failure and a potential privacy risk that often gets overlooked. Relying on third-party tools means any outage, policy change, or data mishap can affect you directly. Using a self-hosted solution [0] gives you full control over your data and lets you decide how it’s collected, stored, and shared. For teams that care about reliability and privacy, it removes a layer of external risk most people don’t even think about.

[0] https://www.uxwizz.com
by staticassertion | 2026-02-12 17:08:40+00:00
As with most things with AI, scale is exactly the issue. Harassing open source maintainers isn't new. I'd argue that Linus's tantrums where he personally insults individuals/ groups alike are just one of many such examples.

The interesting thing here is the scale. The AI didn't just say (quoting Linus here) "This is complete and utter garbage. It is so f---ing ugly that I can't even begin to describe it. This patch is shit. Please don't ever send me this crap again."[0] - the agent goes further, and researches previous code, other aspects of the person, and brings that into it, and it can do this all across numerous repos at once.

That's sort of what's scary. I'm sure in the past we've all said things we wish we could take back, but it's largely been a capability issue for arbitrary people to aggregate / research that. That's not the case anymore, and that's quite a scary thing.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/9/1210
by Schmerika | 2026-02-12 17:09:00+00:00
> credentialism - good or bad?

How long is string?

Some accreditations are strong. Others are nearly useless.

Reputation is easily hacked these days. Letters of recommendation don't mean what they used to. Something needs to fill that space - especially when you're filtering down to 2,000 applicants in a country of 5 million people.

Sure, there's a lot of dodgy doctors and lawyers out there. No shortage whatsoever, despite the efforts towards strict credentials. But I'd still rather have someone with a medical degree fixing my broken leg than a random chirurgeon.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 17:09:04+00:00
Your argument makes no logical sense. The presence of one invalid criterion doesn't invalidate the whole law. In the 1950s, banks used to deny people loans because they had bad credit and because of their race. So does that mean that in 2026 banks shouldn't be able to deny people loans for having bad credit?

The modern law, 8 USC 1451, was enacted in 1952, and was amended repeatedly, including under the Clinton administration. Obama launched a major enforcement operation under the law back in 2009: https://www.hoppocklawfirm.com/operation-janus-operation-sec...
by inhumantsar | 2026-02-12 17:09:31+00:00
I was diagnosed (finally) in 2018 (my early thirties). Hyper focus has always been my cursed superpower. There were times in my life where I could disappear into my own little world only to surface 6, 8, 12 hours later and realise I really needed to eat and go to the bathroom and damn I should probably shower sometime this week.

Apart from the parent comment's point about visual cues, the biggest thing for me is rituals. Specific enjoyable or unavoidable or easy to maintain rituals really helped break that focus. Dogs are a part of that for me, since you only ignore their needs at your peril. Taking them for a walk and putting on an audiobook or podcast so that I don't think about work makes it a lot easier to slip into something else when I get back.

I haven't done the Pomodoro thing but I could definitely see the appeal in a rigid timer that screams "hey you! it's time to get off your ass and do something else for a bit".
by dheera | 2026-02-12 17:09:51+00:00
Huh? Another dose of reality:

I need to pay rent, pay medical bills, eat, and survive. As long as I'm dependent on an income to do that, I do whatever the employer wants as long as it's legal.

When I'm financially free, I'll have the space to think about the ethics of my work.

You want better? Fix the system so that I'm financially free earlier in life. Tax me less, charge me less rent, give me free healthcare, and let me save up cash for the rest of my life. When the system has delivered that OKR to me, I'll be able to put ethics first going forward.

Until then, I still need to earn money to survive.

I worked for Amazon for a couple years. Not on the above project, but nevertheless, I did what I was told. One of the reasons I went there was that I needed a surgery to replace my implanted defibrillator, which my life depends on, and (a) Amazon's sponsored health insurance would pay for it (b) Amazon's cash comp would be enough to hire lawyers to fight with insurance if necessary. Insurance companies usually pay what they're supposed to if there is a big tech HR behind it; they have a habit, in my experience, of not paying out what they're supposed to if they don't have something to fear. I was in startup land before, and often couldn't pay my medical bills (because insurance would cop out and not pay, and I didn't have money for lawyers to fight them) and had to forgo critical cardiac imaging procedures during that time.
by simianwords | 2026-02-12 17:10:46+00:00
OT but my intuition says that there’s a spectrum

- non thinking models

- thinking models

- best of N models like deep think an gpt pro

Each one is of a certain computational complexity. Simplifying a bit, I think they map to - linear, quadratic and n^3 respectively.

I think there are certain class of problems that can’t be solved without thinking because it necessarily involves writing in a scratchpad. And same for best of N which involves exploring.

Two open questions

1) what’s the higher level here, is there a 4th option?

2) can a sufficiently large non thinking model perform the same as a smaller thinking?
by righthand | 2026-02-12 17:10:51+00:00
Yes we are succeeding. You clearly are a very poorly informed individual. Do you know how to do anything but whine and complain and call other people failures?

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/good-trade-off-rat-ha...

https://gothamist.com/news/the-hottest-clubs-in-nyc-these-da...

I would even count Congestion Pricing as cleaning up the city:

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/traffic_and_transit/2025/12...

SLC is a major city and a dump then by your observation-only position you take.

> instead of every parent teaching their child from a young age to pick up after themselves

What? Are you going to fine or arrest every parent that doesn’t teach their kids to pick up after themselves? How has expecting parents to do that worked out so far? Their culture is like yours: just complain about it instead.

That’s why they don’t teach their kids to pick up after themselves.