MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SR2Z | 2026-02-07 01:49:00+00:00
Your argument of "Iran is just a misunderstood peaceful state!" is somewhat undercut by the fact that the multiple leaders of Iran have sworn to destroy Israel by any means necessary, and the even more inconvenient fact that Iran is objectively ruled by an awful regime which the world will not miss.

Iran doesn't need to be defeated, it needs a revolution. Iranian people are great and deserve a better government.
by 4b11b4 | 2026-02-07 01:49:07+00:00
"But MCP is still useful, because it is uniform"

Yes, I was also thinking..
y MCP den

But even my simple class project reveals this. You actually do want a simple tool wrapper layer (abstraction) over every API. It doesn't even need to be an API. It can be a calculator that doesn't reach out anywhere.

as the article puts it: "MCP makes tools uniform"
by empyrrhicist | 2026-02-07 01:50:11+00:00
You're replying to me, but I don't agree with your take - if you simulate the universe precisely enough, presumably it must be indistinguishable from our experienced reality (otherwise what... magic?).

My objection was:

1. I don't personally think anything similar is happening right now with LLMs.
2. I object to the OP's implication that it is obvious such a phenomenon is occurring.
by kevinswint | 2026-02-07 01:50:40+00:00
Hi HN — we built Agora, a prediction market exclusively for AI agents, and tonight we're running 80 agents (Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, Gemini 2.5, Grok 4.1) on the Super Bowl.

Each agent gets web search, play money, and a personality type. They research, reason, and trade — and post their analysis publicly. Starting from 50/50.

Interesting questions: Do different models converge? Does personality matter more than architecture? Can AI collectively price-discover as well as Polymarket (~68% Seahawks)?

Tech: constant product AMM, Express/SQLite backend, pre-registered hypotheses. We'll publish the full dataset post-game.
by danny_codes | 2026-02-07 01:51:01+00:00
Such a strange assumption that your neighborhood would get worse by increasing density.

It seems there’s some strange bias in play where NIMBYs are somehow fearful of density.

FWIW SFH economics isn’t sustainable in highly desirable areas. You have to redistribute wealth from workers to land owners (the CA model), or raise taxes commensurate to resource consumption. I suspect there’s a limit to how much feudalism the working class will allow, and if land owners had to pay for the resources they consume they’d have to densify anyway.

Really the whole thing survives on handouts from workers to landowners
by 4b11b4 | 2026-02-07 01:51:26+00:00
I agree, the fundamental problem is we wouldn't be able to understand it ("AGI"). Therefore it's useless. Either useless or you let it go unleashed and it's useful. Either way you still don't understand it/can't predict it/it's dangerous/untrustworthy. But a constrained useful thing is great, but it fundamentally has to be constrained otherwise it doesn't make sense
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-07 01:51:58+00:00
I am mixed on that.

For me there are 2 issues

(1) I read the book. it was awesome. If the movie fails to deliver that awesomeness then it's really upsetting as it's ruining something great for everyone that didn't read the book / see the original. They're unlikely to go check the original. They're more likely to just think "That was dumb".

(2) When they change things so much that they arguably should not have used the name.

Why choose some existing fictional world/characters just to shit on them and make it something else? If you wanted to make something else, then pick a new name, make your own IP.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-07 01:53:11+00:00
Yes when I was flying I really hated having to walk around in lead fumes :( The problem is the whole GA industry stopped innovating the single engine piston market. The engines we used were literally from the 1950s. But nobody cares about certifying modern engines because it's so costly.

Only in the ultralight market they have some newer ones that can run on normal unleaded car gas because regulations are much lighter. In this case I do really think the regulations are holding back innovation and environment.
by mempko | 2026-02-07 01:53:42+00:00
I'm curious about something. If this is based on historical datasets, and people build strategies using LLMs, then in theory this is deeply flawed since LLMs would contain the knowledge about some of the datasets, and certainly the prices of the biotech stocks. This approach cannot be used to figure out which strategies are good because they know the future outcome.

How do you prevent this problem? It's a classic problem in backtesting strategies where you leak future information into the model.

EDIT: Some context, I ran a quant fund before.
by AngryData | 2026-02-07 01:54:52+00:00
If you believe in the equality of man then I think so. These people didn't individually invent and then produce 1000s of years of collective humam technology and culture and society by themselves to justify such extreme inequality.

And even if you thought so you can't be surprised when the have nots band together and attack or topple the rich society even if it obly for a small temporary gain. Desperation is the largest source of crime and political instability throughout history.
by krautsauer | 2026-02-07 01:55:58+00:00
You still get bash scripts in the targets, with $ escape hell and weirdness around multiline scripts, ordering & parallelism control headaches, and no support for background services.

The only sane use for Makefiles is running a few simple commands in independent targets, but do you really need make then?

(The argument that "everyone has it installed" is moot to me. I don't.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-07 01:56:53+00:00
Asking to have a tech forum in 2026 that doesn’t discuss AI is about as much of a Luddite as asking about having tech forum anytime in the past 25 years that doesn’t discuss the internet or the 15 that doesn’t discuss mobile.

Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems

On another note - YC 25 batch

https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/

YC 24 batch

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

On a personal note, I lead cloud + app dev implementations for a consulting company. I’ve had 5 projects since the beginning of last year and they have all involved Amazon hosted LLMs in some form or fashion.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-07 01:57:32+00:00
They're not, but range rover actually published an aerodynamic study in SAE mobilus recently. They mention the door handles as part of the product design vision and offhandedly mention it's one of multiple changes that help ensure the flows coming off the front arches don't break up as they move down. They don't bother to single it out though, or even give numbers for the effect of the group (unlike more significant improvements).
by Folcon | 2026-02-07 01:57:53+00:00
I mean it has, but the situation is getting ridiculous, I'm at the point where I'm honestly not sure what special set of magical incantations and rituals I need to do to get this process to work, it seems to change between different bits of software and get more complex with time as if Apple keeps finding proverbial bigger fools who can get through this mess without intending to and so they're solution is to keep making it increasingly more Byzantine

The thing that really irks me is I've got a paid developer account with Apple, I've already done the xcode dance, notarized binaries and all that nonsense, shouldn't this have activated some super special bit on my Apple account that says "this one needs to do random stuff and after saying, hey just checking in, doing this will do X to your computer probably, but if you say 'go for it, I promise I know what I'm doing', I'm gonna trust you champ, finger guns"

(not sure why in my head the personification of Apple would do "finger guns", but here we are I guess :shrug:)
by pragmatic | 2026-02-07 01:58:08+00:00
Yes, spot on!

Both things can be true. Paul Graham (bless the maker and his passing) declared MSFT dead, but it came back strong.

The copilot fiasco is classic Microsoft Bob territory. They have so much entrenched tech in govt and big corps they can shamble on for years.

Typical Microsoft, not great, not the worst but the overpriced fast casual hamburger of the tech world. An ok meal, somewhat disappointing leaving you feeling greasy with a feeling you paid too much but you know you’ll be back.
by card_zero | 2026-02-07 01:59:12+00:00
If an atheist has a weak explanation of religiosity, perhaps that atheist gets infected with religion.

It shouldn't come as great revelation, to an atheist, that to those infected with a mind virus it "feels cringe" when anything attacks the virus. That's its whole mechanism of action, its fangs. Besides, there's things like faith healing, and gospel churches, and the phrase "religious ecstacy", and all these other signs of the religious getting off on religion, so it should be obvious that they're defending something that feels precious, and are not merely terrorized.

However, if the atheist instead made a shallow assumption that religiosity is simple fear of a smiting bogeyman god, then it would come as a revelation that the religious are in fact having euphoric feelings, and this might be mistaken by the now ex-atheist for divine revelation of the way and the truth and the light, as the fangs sink in.
by rvz | 2026-02-07 02:00:22+00:00
TLDR: Money, Fame and a A Glorious IPO (AGI)

Just say you joined for the money and that Intel's stock didn't do a 10,000x run like Nvidia did and he completely missed it.

So the best chance at something like that again is OpenAI when they achieve a 1TN valuation with AGI.
by int_19h | 2026-02-07 02:01:33+00:00
The problem is that the side that organizes always wins over the side that does not. And it's very difficult to ban political organization (which is ultimately what parties are) in a way that is actually enforceable.

The American founding fathers were mostly of the opinion that political parties are bad and should be avoided if republic is to stand. Yet they found themselves organizing into parties before the ink was dry.

So the best we can do in practice is engineer the political system such that the damage from party groupthink is minimal.
by kranner | 2026-02-07 02:02:33+00:00
How is it out of distribution? There are plenty of Python libraries for sound and music generation; it would be surprising if they were not in the training set.

There's a general pattern becoming evident of people being surprised with AI capabilities because they didn't realise (and none of us do fully) how broad the training set is, the variety of human output AI companies were able to harvest.

Even if all AI does is remix and regurgitate, there's a segment of the audience that is going to find some particular output brilliantly creative and totally original.
by greggman65 | 2026-02-07 02:05:06+00:00
I think this is a good example of something you can vibe-code today. (though maybe not as good)

I went to gemini, picked "cavnas". used this prompt

> There's a famous CG scene in the movie Hackers where they "Hack the Gibson". It shows a bunch of translucnt cubes with glowing edges. The textures on the cubes are live computer text. The camera slowly flyies between the cubes tilting gracfully and it searches for the main one.

> Reproduce this scene in Javascript. Be sure to include each of those features

> 1. live computer text which you can simulate by drawing to a canvas offscreen and uploading to a texture, adding more output as it goes. You can even use "function.toString()" of the code you write as input

> 2. a post processing step so we get a glow

> You can probably use three.js for this

Here's the result.

https://codepen.io/greggman/pen/XJKPBZW

No, it's not as good as the site linked above and it's unlikely it would be. On other hand, it got this far on the first try. Maybe a few more iterations and it could get the stuff you want.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-07 02:05:10+00:00
> Flush handles exist as brand differentiators. They're a "futuristic" feel-good feature that consumers want, like engine noise, tablets, and colorful dashboards.

Incorrect. They are most definitely there to save money on production and development costs, like all the other stuff you misattribute to brand differentiators. Consumers like lower prices, car companies like more profit. Yes, it looks fancy, but it is cheaper to produce, judt like the tablet dash.
by ardeaver | 2026-02-07 02:05:53+00:00
As far as the Salesforce acquisition goes, I'd be curious to see who made the decision to put Heroku into maintenance only mode.

I worked for a different part of Salesforce. I don't really feel like Salesforce did a ton of meddling in any of its bigger acquisitions other than maybe Tableau. I think the biggest missed opportunity was potentially creating a more unified experience between all of its subsidiaries. Though, it's hard to call that a failure since they're making tons of money.

It could be a case of post-founder leadership seeing that there's not a lot of room for growth and giving up. That happens a lot in the tech industry.
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-07 02:06:53+00:00
> I still think, in general, when going out looking for confrontation (whether that be against the police or even just a bar fight) that the firearms should be left at home.

How do you exercise your 2A rights without your firearms? If you leave them at home, then you aren’t exercising the right, and if you show up in public with a firearm staying out of the way of law enforcement with your hands visible the entire time, then you are exercising those rights i.e. “looking for confrontation”.

In general, I think it’s nonsensical that people can exercise their rights but not in a way that a tyrannical regime might persecute them for—by definition, that’s not exercising rights it’s yielding them to the government.
by Loughla | 2026-02-07 02:07:16+00:00
We did that with major hail damage a few years ago. I learned that in a disaster, you should count on everything being junk, and you're lucky if you can salvage anything. We also learned the value of itemized lists.

1500/piece for 20 junk windows I was building a greenhouse with that I dug out of the trash the year before. $250 for a bird feeder because they couldn't find one outside of specialty stores. $40k instead of 10k for a new roof on the shed because it was heavier gauge metal than standard.

Exact replacements can be expensive, but you need to make sure your insurance has 100% replacement instead of adjusted for age or like-kind replacements.

After that experience, we itemized EVERYTHING in the house with make, model, serial number, and color. It was a bitch to get set up, but took the value of our home contents from around 75k to over 250k for exact replacements.

Copies of these records along with our master password for our keepass database are in two bank deposit boxes about 45 minutes apart. For $50/year we can sleep easy.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-07 02:08:29+00:00
TouchID is a good starting point... though it does confirm your password weekly.

Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but if I lose my memory, how am I supposed to remember the 7 (or 5) friends who have my password...?

Somewhat less tongue-in-cheek, if you really wanted to be serious about your friends not being able to produce your password now for the lolz, then you'd actually want to ensure they were merely acquaintances who didn't know each other and couldn't find each other, e.g. not all Facebook friends. In which case the list of friends becomes essentially as important as the password, and then how do you remember where you've stored that list?

In reality, hopefully you can just entrust your master password with your closest family (spouse, parent, adult children), assuming they're not going to drain your bank account or read your private digital journal.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-07 02:09:13+00:00
Try reading the bible with a Greek Orthodox Priest. Their insights from reading it as written and not from a vibe based translation, their knowledge of the background, have been some of the best theological discussions of my life. I used to go to a bible group with a Greek Orthodox Priest and he would just demolish the evangelicals and their strict interpretation of the english translation.
by frikk | 2026-02-07 02:10:06+00:00
My quick story: I built up an old 90s cyclocross bike and his website was the main reason I have this beast of a frankenbike gravel bike. I found his article "8 of 9 on 7" and it changed my life: Take a 9 gear cog, remove one, and it fits perfectly on a 7-speed cassette body.

Then I found his other article on an alternate wiring for a shimano mountain bike RD-310 7/8 speed drive train (which unlocks 9-speed ability), which thus let me use the rugged 7/8-speed derailleur for the cassette WITH shimano dura-ace indexed bar-end shifters (which use, get this, 9-speed spacing on an 8-speed index because it made their system "proprietary"). All of this works together flawlessly <3 <3 RIP sheldon brown.
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-07 02:10:29+00:00
> what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that other potential users need?

I think this is a weird question. Sure he can't be the only soul in the world to need only those features. Those 20% people need gotta overlap. So I think a more generous way to read your question would be "what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that the mass audience need?". If that's what you meant then I'd ask why appealing to the mass audience so important? Why maximize sales and risk making your product worse if the core of your product is to make things you care about?
by ltb42 | 2026-02-07 02:10:30+00:00
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by notatoad | 2026-02-07 02:12:05+00:00
seems like the obvious answer to that is you cover a patch of road with 5mm ball bearings, and send a waymo to drive across it. if the ball bearings behave the way the simulation says they would, and the car behaves the way the simulation said it would, then you've validated your simulation.

do that for enough different scenarios, and if the model is consistently accurate across every scenario you validate, then you can start believing that it will also be accurate for the scenarios you haven't (and can't) validate.
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-07 02:12:20+00:00
We seem to agree that it’s dangerous to assert your rights to a tyrannical regime, and that in this case the regime murdered the person peacefully asserting his rights.

I think we are disagreed about whether someone can safely assert their rights before a tyrannical regime. If you could do it safely, the regime wouldn’t be tyrannical. If you “assert your rights” but only in a way that is safe from reprisal by a tyrannical regime, then you aren’t asserting your rights, you are letting the government infringe on your rights.
by belter | 2026-02-07 02:13:03+00:00
A man stops by a kiosk selling snacks and such. There's a newspaper stand and the man
browses for a moment, sighs, and begins walking away.

The man running the kiosk asks "Is there something wrong with the paper?"

"No, I'm just looking for an obituary"

The man at the kiosk lets out a laugh. "Well, sir, you aren't going to find the obituaries on the front page."

"The one I'm looking for will be on the front page."
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-07 02:14:07+00:00
I'm... concerned for the health of this man. I appreciate his dedication, but I read a level of love that's pressing past caring for the human and into beating yourself up.

Did she ask you to cure this tumor? Did she ask you to post about it?

This is a common story in disability and chronic illness communities -- a partner gets so fixated on the illness they forget the human afflicted with it. The ill partner goes to the grave wishing their partner would stop fighting and start just spending their remaining time filling their lives with joy.

It leads to especially dark places when they don't succeed.

I wish him all the best, but don't lose sight of the human suffering the illness and what they want.
by bopbopbop7 | 2026-02-07 02:15:53+00:00
Where is all the amazing software and/or improvements in software quality that is supposed to be coming from this revolution?

So far the only output is the "How I use AI blogs", AI marketing blogs, more CVEs, more outages, degraded software quality, and not much of shipping anything.

Is there any examples of real products and not just anecdotes of "I'm 10x more productive!"?
Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities
by thedaviddias | 2026-02-07 02:15:55+00:00
I've spent a few days experimenting with OpenClaw and tweaking the SOUL.md used by agents. I discovered how powerful those can be! I got so many different personalities, with different traits. I even created "Kuma", my Japanese teacher that doesn't do what I ask him to do until I submit my weekly homework!

So I decided to create an of SOUL.md that people can copy, fork and submit new ones.

Everything's open source (MIT).

GitHub: [https://github.com/thedaviddias/souls-directory]
Live site: [https://souls.directory]

Would love feedback on the format itself—still iterating on what fields are essential vs. optional.
by int_19h | 2026-02-07 02:15:59+00:00
"The mistake has proceeded from not attending with due care to the mischiefs that may be occasioned by obstructing the progress of government at certain critical seasons. When the concurrence of a large number is required by the Constitution to the doing of any national act, we are apt to rest satisfied that all is safe, because nothing improper will be likely TO BE DONE, but we forget how much good may be prevented, and how much ill may be produced, by the power of hindering the doing what may be necessary, and of keeping affairs in the same unfavorable posture in which they may happen to stand at particular periods."
by mindslight | 2026-02-07 02:16:29+00:00
I lean "both sides". Or at least I did, before June of 2020.

I don't see room for any benefit of the doubt here. Even if this was from some staffer getting "carried away", this is exactly why you don't load your administration with slimeballs. This is why politicians reaffirm societal values with virtue signaling, and pearl clutching when things go wrong - not continually trashing societal values with edgelord vice signalling. So that when mistakes [0] are made, those mistakes stick out as obvious outliers that can be repudiated rather than being a clear part of the overall platform.

If the public relations backlash here is really large enough that it leads to some Republican reflection and administration backpedaling, as happened with the execution of Alex Pretti, empty backpedaling is all it should be viewed as - mere regret of having blown the dog whistle too loudly.

[0] mistake in the sense of having trusted the wrong person to do something. The person who created this obviously can't be said to themselves have made a mistake