MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kalap_ur | 2026-02-03 14:43:00+00:00
Well, this sounds like a "no shit Sherlock" statement:
>>Finding 3: Natural "overthinking" increases incoherence more than reasoning budgets reduce it
We find that when models spontaneously reason longer on a problem (compared to their median), incoherence spikes dramatically. Meanwhile, deliberately increasing reasoning budgets through API settings provides only modest coherence improvements. The natural variation dominates.<<

Language models are probabilistic and not deterministic. Therefore incoherence _by definition_ increases as a response becomes lengthier. This is not true for humans, who tend to act/communicate deterministically. If I ask the human, to read a pdf and ask, is there a word of "paperclip" in the pdf? The human deterministically will provide a yes/no answer and no matter how many times we repeat the process, they will provide the same answer consistently (not due to autocorrelation, because this can be done across different humans). LMs will have a probabilistic response - dependent on the training itself: with a very well trained model we can get a 99% probabilistic outcome, which means out of 100 simulations, it will give you 1 time the wrong answer. We have no clue about the "probablistic" component for LMs, however, simulations could be done to research this. Also, I would be very curious about autocorrelation in models. If a human did a task and came to a conclusion "yes", then he will always respond with increasing amount of eyerolling to the same task: "yes".

Also, imagine the question: "is the sky blue?" answer1: "Yes." This has 0 incoherence. answer2: "Yes, but sometimes it looks like black, sometimes blue." While this answer seemingly has 0 incoherence, the probability of increased incoherence is larger than 0 given that answer generation itself is probabilistic. Answer generation by humans is not probabilistic.

Therefore, probability driven LMs (all LMs today are probability driven) will always exhibit higher incoherence than humans.

I wonder if anybody would disagree with the above.
by StillBored | 2026-02-03 14:43:04+00:00
At first glance that seems to be true, but when you look at the arguments at the time, who made them and how much of it was walked back, it just looks like the usual legislative panic, same as 911. It doesn't make the original intentions wrong, anymore than what happens when you release open source software and it takes on a life of its own under new maintainers. The failure to understand the long term reprocusion of basically ignoring the actual language of the original document puts one in a place where literally nothing matters except what you can ram through congress and get supreme court approval over during a time of panic or before the other side takes over again.

Thats not a constitutional democracy, thats just anarchy and rule by whoever can buy the most seats.
by Frannky | 2026-02-03 14:43:56+00:00
I started playing with skills yesterday. I'm not sure if it's just easier for the LLM to call APIs inside the skill — and then move the heavier code behind an endpoint that the agent can call instead.

I have a feeling that otherwise it becomes too messy for agents to reliably handle a lot of complex stuff.

For example, I have OpenClaw automatically looking for trending papers, turning them into fun stories, and then sending me the text via Telegram so I can listen to it in the ElevenLabs app.

I'm not sure whether it's better to have the story-generating system behind an API or to code it as a skill — especially since OpenClaw already does a lot of other stuff for me.
by ck2 | 2026-02-03 14:44:05+00:00
unless you live next to an airport or even remotely close to it

then lead is being sprayed all over you, your car and home, daily

for THREE DECADES NOW

no rush, not like it's poison or does permanent damage to your health/IQ

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by exitb | 2026-02-03 14:44:11+00:00
Separate devices for music make so much sense. Most devices people use today for listening have no mode of operation that guarantees that playback won't get interrupted or have another sounds overlaid. At some point Apple overhauled AirPlay to allow playing music to remote device AND have unrelated local audio, which sounds great, but it's not reliable, which ends up being just frustrating.
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by libraryofbabel | 2026-02-03 14:44:49+00:00
This has been a problem for us too. Sometimes they reach for skills, sometimes they don’t and just try to do the thing on their own. It’s annoying.

I think this is (mostly) a solvable problem. The current generation of SotA models wasn’t RLVR-trained on skills (they didn’t exist at that time) and probably gets slightly confused by the way the little descriptions are all packed into the same tool call schema. (At least that’s how it works with Claude Code.) The next generation will have likely been RLVRed on a lot of tasks where skills are available, and will use them much more reliably. Basically, wait until the next Opus release and you should hopefully see major improvements. (Of course, all this stuff is non-deterministic blah blah, but I think it’s reasonable to expect going from “misses the skill 30% of the time” to “misses it 2% of the time”.)
by throw627933788 | 2026-02-03 14:45:05+00:00
This is a common trope pushed by Iran and others, which is ridiculous if you just look at a map and zoom out until you can see all the Arab countries - Israel becomes barely visible.

Since 1967 the total area under control by Israel has shrunk significantly, with the return of Sinai to Egypt in exchange of lasting peace - that hasn’t been broken in 40 years.

In 2005, Gaza was ethnically cleansed from Jews and all settlements dismantled by Israel.

So the idea that Muslims have to fear an ever expanding Israel is ridiculous.
by ericmay | 2026-02-03 14:45:11+00:00
It's not very helpful if we "pull back from technology" but fail to pull back from social media usage, since that's the primary addiction mechanism. It's like yea I sold my super cool blue torch cigarette lighter and exchanged it for a classic Bic like they used in the 90's. If you didn't quit smoking it's pointless.

Plus, how many people are still buying Alexa devices, iPhones, Nintendo Switches, and trying to automate their home with Raspberry Pi and Arduino and such?

I agree with your goal - a more tactile world, but I am not sure the evidence supports us heading that way. Maybe I'm wrong though.
by tom_m | 2026-02-03 14:46:01+00:00
You can get it to type for you. I don't really type the code myself anymore. I review it and then have it make corrections. Very rarely I will jump in and type and probably should more because the token cost, but it's novel that I can make it change the code exactly how I want, so I do that instead.

It's nice to brainstorm with too, but you have to know what you're doing.

It gets stuck on certain things for sure. But all in all it's a great productivity tool. I treat it like an advanced auto complete. That's basically how people need to treat it. You have to spend a lot of time setting up context and detailing what you want.

So does it save time? Yea, it can. It may not in every task, but it can. It's simply another way of coding. It's a great assistant, but it's not replacing a person.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-03 14:46:03+00:00
Brainwashing has the connotation of going through cult programming. Captain Planet doesn't involve the kind of tight control over your interpersonal relationships that requires. To the extent any of us were "brainwashed" it would have been because the people around us were largely in agreement with the messaging in that show. I submit that many people still are.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-03 14:46:04+00:00
FreeBSDs Wayland support is pretty good, it supports Plasma perfectly and most wlroots based compositors. OpenBSD is more experimental, I know Sway (and presumably other simple wlroots based compositors) work alright but I wouldn't hold my breath for KDE support. I haven't heard anything from NetBSD or DragonflyBSD
by Bender | 2026-02-03 14:46:12+00:00
Ive been playing around with Bazzite on an sortof-old laptop. I have not run into any major bugs. There is an oddity when the shell terminal exits in that there is a long suspicious delay. I have not dug into it yet. There are also randomly long delays on the OS startup. Bazzite is otherwise fairly responsive and a well structured OS.

Bazaar, the tool that installs by default to manage flatpacks has sexual preference options which is always concerning to me. As a side note it is also a very restrictive set of preferences. I would just leave that stuff out of the OS/apps. I could be wrong but there always seems to be some correlation between apps that have such things and unnecessary drama on their teams that eventually leads to the teams and thus the OS falling apart with time.

I will probably re-image the laptop with CachyOS as I have always been impressed with Arch documentation.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 14:46:14+00:00
I see. I am not claiming, that it is your job to fix that.

On that page though, the same issues are present. The pip install does not make use of any lock file.

pip install anki

Isn't a command we should be seeing in 2026. Unless it is a one-off experiment setup. There should be proper lock files, not just version numbers, especially in the Python and JS ecosystems this has become less and less acceptable.

SYNC_USER1=user:pass ~/syncserver/bin/python -m anki.syncserver

Leaks username and password to shell command history. Again, can be fine for a one-off quick hack, but is not a great practice, since the shell command history is not the most secure place to store ones credentials in. This could be easily mitigated by adding leading " " (space), at least in environments I am familiar with, but better would probably be putting the credentials in a config file, so that they never hit the shell command history.

The repo already has a lock file for uv. It would be better to make use of that lock file, when using Python to install. And in fact, when one downloads a release of Anki for desktop and runs it the first time, it does make use of uv, creating a venv, and (unconfirmed) hopefully makes use of the uv lock file.

I see these kinds of issues very frequently in Python projects. As someone, who has previously worked on providing docker images for data science workflows, enabling reproducible research, I am quite sensitive to this. But also I hear from friends, that they are traumatized by Python projects installing things in system python and other shenanigans. In general there seem to be tons of people doing Python projects, who don't have a clear idea of how to make things safe and reproducible, which is giving Python projects in general a bad reputation. All while good solutions to these problems exist and existed for years.
by garrjo | 2026-02-03 14:46:21+00:00
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by nh2 | 2026-02-03 14:46:46+00:00
Somebody made a claim that TCP isn't high performance without specifying what that means, I gave a counterexample of just how high performance TCP is picking some arbitrary notion of "high performance".

Almost like it makes the point that arguing about "high performance" is useless without saying what that means.

That said:

> you're not going to measure how multiplexing multiple data streams onto one TCP connection

Of course not: When I want to argue against "TCP is not a high performance protocol", why would I want to measure some other protocol that multiplexes connections over TCP? That is not measuring the performance of TCP.

I could conjure any protocol that requires acknowledgement from the other side for each emitted packet before sending the next, and then claim "UDP is not high performance" when running that over UDP - that doesn't make sense.
by qsort | 2026-02-03 14:47:26+00:00
I'm conflicted about this. I hate smartphones, all of them. On the other hand I'm not really nostalgic for 100 stupid devices with AA batteries and weird failure modes. With a basic consumer device you can browse the web, listen to music, read, pay, get directions, take photos, make calls, increasingly importantly access AI services and even develop your own software. I feel like problems mostly come with the social pressures and expectations phones create rather than the technology itself.
by noodletheworld | 2026-02-03 14:47:35+00:00
Is it just me, or do skills seem enormously similar to MCP?

…including, apparently, the clueless enthusiasm for people to “share” skills.

MCP is also perfectly fine when you run your own MCP locally. It’s bad when you install some arbitrary MCP from some random person. It fails when you have too many installed.

Same for skills.

It’s only a matter of time (maybe it already exists?) until someone makes a “package manager” for skills that has all of the stupid of MCP.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-03 14:47:36+00:00
Wayland needs... I think some EGL stuff to create OpenGL or Vulkan contexts in Wayland apps and a kernel API for graphics modesetting (resolution and refresh rate + misc related stuff). Also input support in libinput. Modesetting is perhaps the biggest piece of work, but I dare say not a huge one compared to having drivers for modern GPUs in the first place.

What's going to suck is that every major compositor +wlroots for the non-major ones is also going to need patches to use the BSD modesetting API - something that the BSD guys don't have direct control over and which is maybe a little out of their traditionalist(?) comfort zone.

Or are the BSDs simply going for a copy of the Linux KMS (kernel modesetting) API? Wouldn't be the worst idea, Linux finally seems to have something robust there after earlier attempts that were considered problematic.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-03 14:47:54+00:00
I really want to see elimination of lead (projectiles, lead styphnate primers, etc.) in firearms next.

When I go to the range, every once in a while, I'll see one of the older marksmen who's there with his squirrel hunting rifle, chambered in .22 LR. I've noticed that he seems to have a tremor in his hands when he's loading his magazines. Essential tremor is linked to lead exposure [0]

Most .22 LR projectiles are either just lead or have a copper "wash" over the lead, not a proper jacket like you see on other rounds.

I wonder, if you shoot those loads for long enough, and breathe in enough gunsmoke, do you get that problem?

As for the proof being in our hair... well, not mine. Chrome dome over here XD

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1241711/
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-03 14:48:06+00:00
> > Boeing is an anemic company that doesn’t innovate

The public is very afraid of innovation in anything aviation related, same goes for nuclear reactors.

If you are in those businesses you have your hands tied behind your back.

Still you'd buy the stock if the only way to get miles aboard Boeing planes were to own the stock and get paid dividends and capital gains in the form of miles.

This underscore how essential and vital Boeing is to the world whereas if you disappeared Tesla nothing would really happen
by zbentley | 2026-02-03 14:48:10+00:00
> the reality is that we are mixing instruction and data in the same context window.

Absolutely.

But the history of code/data confusion attacks that you alluded to in GP isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison to the code/data confusion risks that LLMs are susceptible to.

Historical issues related to code/data confusion were almost entirely programmatic errors, not operational characteristics. Those need to be considered as qualitatively different problems in order to address them. The nitpicking around buffer overflows was meant to highlight that point.

Programmatic errors can be prevented by proactive prevention (e.g. sanitizers, programmer discipline), and addressing an error can resolve it permanently. Operational characteristics cannot be proactively prevented and require a different approach to de-risk.

Put another way: you can fully prevent a buffer overflow by using bounds checking on the buffer. You can fully prevent a SQL injection by using query parameters. You cannot prevent system crashes due to external power loss or hardware failure. You can reduce the chance of those things happening, but when it comes to building a system to deal with them you have to think in terms of mitigation in the event of an inevitable failure, not prevention or permanent remediation of a given failure mode. Power loss risk is thus an operational characteristic to be worked around, not a class of programmatic error which can be resolved or prevented.

LLMs’ code/data confusion, given current model architecture, is in the latter category.
by coredog64 | 2026-02-03 14:48:35+00:00
Not a hijacking, but also maybe a reason not to give all Sikhs a pass on airport security.

> The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history and was the world's deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001. It remains the deadliest aviation incident in the history of Air India, and the deadliest no-survivor hull loss of a single Boeing 747

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
by bdavbdav | 2026-02-03 14:49:06+00:00
Is that not because people are generally unwilling to spend money on better solutions and take the path of least resistance?

Way back when, I’d imagine your average micro hifi was more than the average BT speaker someone would buy to stick in the kitchen.

Google home / Alexa on the cheap end, BluOS / Sonos / Heos on the more expensive end all do a great job of bridging that gap. People just don’t bother as it’s not enough of a problem to care about, they don’t have the knowledge (technical or otherwise), or it’s cheaper to use a £50 Bluetooth speaker and done with.
by Sheeple1 | 2026-02-03 14:49:14+00:00
I had a similar experience! My grandfather worked at a paper company for years and years as a chemical engineer. He was a hot head, but lightened up as I got older. We started to connect well later in life because I was the only other "engineering type" in my family.

He gave me his slide rule probably a year or so before he passed away. I've got it sitting on my desk and always makes me think of him. Like you, I've got no idea how to use it (even though he tried to explain it to me), so maybe the other comments here can fill in the gaps for me :)
by zeitgeistcowboy | 2026-02-03 14:49:25+00:00
I used them in high school in the late 1990s... just to get an extra challenge. I had my dad's and grandfather's and I picked up a couple at garage sales. I still have a collection, but haven't really used them in years. I'll probably break them out again when my kids get in middle school / high school math for fun. They are great for learning the rules of logs.
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by lucasguimaraes | 2026-02-03 14:49:57+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called AxonASP to bring cross-platform support to Classic ASP. I still believe the "old" ASP model has value due to its incredibly low barrier to entry and ease of use, so I decided to rewrite the runtime environment using Go with some help of AI, as I'm not an expert developer.

This allows legacy apps (or new simple ones) to run on Linux or macOS without needing Windows Server or IIS.

I’m sharing this here because I want to make this a robust tool for the community. If you are a Go developer, I’d love your help optimizing the engine. I’m also specifically asking for feedback on security — if you spot anything risky in how I’m handling the execution or file access, please let me know so I can patch it.

It’s open source and ready for some testing: https://github.com/guimaraeslucas/axonasp

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by acabezas | 2026-02-03 14:50:08+00:00
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by glkindlmann | 2026-02-03 14:50:32+00:00
A big 6-foot K&E sliderule hung at the front of my high-school chemistry classroom, but was never used. At graduation ('91) I asked the teacher if I could have the slide rule and she said "sure".

I keep it now in my office, and once a year I bring to the data visualization class I teach at UChicago, to show how it works, and to show it as an example of a visual device in aid of computational thinking (nomographs being another great example).