MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latency-guy2 | 2026-02-15 20:22:58+00:00
Bad actors like --

William Tong, Anne E. Lopez, Dave Yost, Jonathan Skrmetti, Gwen Tauiliili-Langkilde, Kris Mayes, Tim Griffin, Rob Bonta, Phil Weiser, Kathleen Jennings, Brian Schwalb, Christopher M. Carr, Kwame Raoul, Todd Rokita, Kris Kobach, Russell Coleman, Liz Murrill, Aaron M. Frey, Anthony G. Brown, Andrea Joy Campbell, Dana Nessel, Keith Ellison, Lynn Fitch, Catherine L. Hanaway, Aaron D. Ford, John M. Formella, Jennifer Davenport, Raúl Torrez, Letitia James, Drew H. Wrigley, Gentner Drummond, Dan Rayfield, Dave Sunday, Peter F. Neronha, Alan Wilson, Marty Jackley, Gordon C. Rhea, Derek Brown, Charity Clark, and Keith Kautz

--

Always operate under the assumption that the people serve the state, not the other way around. There are some names in that list that are outwardly infamous of this behavior, and none are surprising considering what type of person looks to be an AG. Maybe fighting fire with fire is appropriate - no such thing as a private life for any of these people, all their communications are open to the public 100% of the time and there are precisely 0 instances where it is not the case. It's only fair considering that is what their goal is for everyone not of the state.
by dctoedt | 2026-02-15 20:23:16+00:00
That's not how it looks to me. Her vehicle seems to come close and might even touch the agent's leg — maybe (the narration says no). But "hitting him" doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to describe it, even granting that the video clip is in slow motion.

https://youtu.be/D9R9dAmws6M?si=xdxZIHQGODS9fB3e&t=323
by Dove | 2026-02-15 20:23:35+00:00
That was my first thought, too. I and a couple of my kids have great affection for Minecraft. However, I don't think that affection really matches the absolute foaming-at-the-mouth excitement we felt for Descent.

I don't think it's that video games have gotten worse (though perhaps they have). I think it's more that it's impossible to recreate the way they impacted us back then. It wasn't just about the games, but also about the times. DOOM today is a fine game and even a classic, but back then it was the first time anyone had ever seen anything like it and we were inventing online play and fps tactics and amateur map design in real time. Descent had that same blockbuster feel, but that for me that feeling faded from new releases over the next few years. (Though I won't deny Minecraft caught something of that old bombshell energy.)

I suspect the way I feel about the video games I grew up with is a feeling my kids will never exactly have. Sure, they love their games, but the 90s were an incredible time for the art form. By analogy, I love the music I grew up with, but I don't feel about it the way my parents feel about the music from the 60's. Music is always special, but that was a particularly special time for music and if you weren't there, you weren't there. In time the absolute electricity of the British Invasion became "So what kind of music do you listen to?" So I think it will go with games.
by to11mtm | 2026-02-15 20:23:49+00:00
This is kinda the real thing at play here... and the 'wave' in the economics;

After all, the company could have arguably instead produced fewer product, sold what they have already sold for the same price, paid their workers the same amount of money to do less work, they wouldn't have to pay for the destroyed goods, and wouldn't have had to pay for the wasted input materials...

All in the name of profit FOMO.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-02-15 20:23:55+00:00
Yeah, but the problem is that by not making it clear that additional actions may be coming, they're barely restoring credibility at all, because the current course of action (pulling the article and saying sorry) is like the bare minimal required to avoid being outright liars - a far cry from being credible journalists. All they've done is leave piles of readers (including Ars subscribers) going "wtf".

If they felt the need to post something in a hurry on the weekend, then the message should acknowledge that, and acknowledge that "investigation continues" or something like that
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-15 20:24:14+00:00
> Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.

By submitting this work they warranted that it was their own. Requiring an explicit false statement to qualify as a lie excludes many of the most harmful cases of deception.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-15 20:24:30+00:00
> So there is no benefit to them behaving.

That's assuming they're deriving a benefit from misbehaving.

There is no benefit to immediately re-crawling 404s or following dynamic links into a rabbit hole of machine-generated junk data and empty search results pages in violation of robots.txt. They're wasting the site's bandwidth and their own in order to get trash they don't even want.

Meanwhile there is an obvious benefit to behaving: You don't, all by yourself, cause public sites to block everyone including you.

The problem here isn't malice, it's incompetence.
by ohmyai | 2026-02-15 20:24:56+00:00
Egregore (https://egregore.xyz). multiplayer cognition for Claude Code. been building this with my co-founder at curve labs.

there's a lot of good work happening on agent memory right now. but it's all single-player. your agent remembers what you did. it has no idea what your co-founder just spent four hours figuring out. we kept solving the same problems twice, or discovering decisions the other had made only when something broke.

the missing piece wasn't better memory. it was shared memory. not 'sync your notes,' but a layer where the act of one person working becomes context for the next person's session automatically.

egregore adds this shared cognition layer on top of claude code. your team shares tooling, knowledge, and skills that evolve with how you actually work. you get full visibility into what the organisation is doing, not through dashboards, but because the memory is right there when your agent starts a session. handoffs between team members, structured reflection on workflows, a knowledge graph that connects decisions to who made them and why.

we've been running on this internally for about a month and honestly the difference is hard to go back from. the organisation has its own continuity now. context stopped being something you maintained and became something that just accumulated from working.

terminal-first, git-native. we just launched and are looking for early alpha testers. if you're building with claude code in a small team, happy to give early access if you want to try it!
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-15 20:25:12+00:00
I can only provide articles in German:

An article about court decision by the EuGH from 2012:

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/EuGH-Gebrauchte-Softwareliz...

Another court decision from the BGH (the highest German civil court) from 2014 that builds on this EuGH decision:

https://www.heise.de/news/BGH-begruendet-Rechtmaessigkeit-de...
by mothballed | 2026-02-15 20:25:56+00:00
I'd argue it's more like KYC for the internet. Something HN users have brutally and ruthlessly defended for banking every time I argue it's a 4A violation (in fact, it's one of the most fiercely defended things anytime I bring it up).

Give in 20+ years and you'll be called a kook for thinking otherwise.
by compsciphd | 2026-02-15 20:27:05+00:00
yes, but it just moves the needle a bit, if you lose 1 of the 1GB parts in totality, you also can't recover, so it really depends in on your error model you are trying to protect from.

In practice a DVD like PI/PO model would be the best for many people (protect the 1GB parts like you said with 5-10% redundancy, and then protect all 100 1GB parts together with 5-10% redundancy. the PI will repair as much as it can at the 1GB size, while the PO will be able to repair 1GB blocks that can't be repaired otherwise.

It be interesting if Par2 or something like it could implement it natively without people having to hack together their own one off solutions.
by dang | 2026-02-15 20:27:14+00:00
Since the title is linkbaity and there have been objections to it as misleading*, I've taken a crack at replacing it with a more neutral, and hopefully more accurate, sentence from the article.

(* "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" -
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
by philwelch | 2026-02-15 20:27:36+00:00
They could, but it’s a tradeoff. Inventory costs money and if you cut production, that means laying off workers and possibly selling productive assets, at which point it becomes more expensive to scale production back up.

Every business decision is a tradeoff. Smart government interventions in the economy add weight to that tradeoff to reflect externalities not otherwise accounted for; this is how cap-and-trade on SO2 emissions works. Hamfisted government interventions set hard and fast rules that ignore tradeoffs and lead to unintended consequences.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 20:27:38+00:00
> I remember using the web on 25mhz computers. It ran about as fast as it does today with a couple ghz.

I know it’s a meme on HN to complain that modern websites are slow, but this is a perfect example of how completely distorted views of the past can get.

No, browsing the web in the early 90s was slooow. Even simple web pages took a long time to load. As you said, internet connections were very slow too. I remember visiting pages with photos that would come with a warning about the size of the page, at which point I’d get up and go get a drink or take a break while it loaded. Then scrolling pages with images would feel like the computer was working hard.

It’s silly to claim that 90s web browsers ran about as fast as they do today.
by kaffekaka | 2026-02-15 20:28:21+00:00
To me it seems you and many others are lost in the weeds of constantly evolving tooling and strategies.

A pretty basic Claude Code or Codex setup and being mindful of context handling goes a long way. Definitely long enough to be able to use AI productively while not spending much time on configuring the setup.

Staying on top of all details is not necessary but in fact counter productive, trust me.
by Saloc | 2026-02-15 20:28:49+00:00
Thanks for your comment, I'll give a full write up a try.

I think for deterministic control applications this concept has a sweet spot. While in conventional code the number of branch combinations can blow up easely, here you need to be able to guarantee worst case execution time which forces you anyway to be very carefull with branching.

On https://copapy.nonan.net/compiler.html is the how-it-works readme section extended with the generated machine code for stencils and a simple example.
by konsalexee | 2026-02-15 20:29:16+00:00
Hey Hackers,

We are building Cherry, a tool designd to solve the "spam crisis" currently hitting open-source maintainers.

With the rise of LLMs and agents, the volume of low-quality, automated PRs is making it impossible to find the good contributions.

How we want Cherry to work:
- Connects to your repo: We monitor incoming PRs.
- Whitelists the good bots: Dependabot, Linear agent etc., get a pass.
- Verifies the humans: We intercept new/unknown contributors and ask them to verify their intent and understanding of the code before the PR alerts the maintainers.
- Silences the rest: Low-effort scripts and drive-by spam get filtered out.

We are trying to walk the line between stopping spam and remaining open to new developers. It’s a hard problem.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on how to solve this without discouraging legitimate junior developers. What kind of heuristics do you currently use manually that we could automate?
by viktorcode | 2026-02-15 20:29:54+00:00
So nice to see another person being that enthusiastic about ray tracing! I didn't do a comparable level of work in this field, but as a hobby this fascinates me a lot!

One common misconception is that ray tracing is computationally prohibitive. It was, but no longer so; it's a target within our reach, especially so when there's GPU with hardware acceleration for ray casting.

Many games use ray tracing for partial scene processing, and of course they all work in real time. My favourite example is Metro Exodus with ray traced global illumination, which works on last gen graphics hardware pretty well. Not all games use the technology efficiently, but the trend is already obvious: with accessible real time ray tracing rendering the scene will become a much easier task.

P.S. I used "ray tracing" when more accurately I should have used "path tracing", but I prefer to use a single term to encompass the whole technology with all its variants.
by remix2000 | 2026-02-15 20:30:24+00:00
Ah, binary-only dependencies, right… That's very specific though, so unless you need to drive some proprietary hardware, why bother using stuff that forces you into MSVC hell lol? Also wouldn't LLVM based MinGW benefit from Clang's MSVC compat? Not sure about this at all, that's why I'm asking, heh… ^^"
by coffe2mug | 2026-02-15 20:30:57+00:00
This doesn't help. Your contact number is shared by 50 parents' phone..are you sure of their security measures.

Even if I keep everything safe many govts are using Microsoft cloudfor day2day operations. Recently my employer lost tons of data. Every CV you send to a company or recruitment is kept often unencrypted. Every other country is fingerprinting/face ID upon arrival. Are you sure about their security?

Things that I have dumped into my email are far less consequential compared to those.

The game is lost. Very few people can have privacy.
by deckar01 | 2026-02-15 20:31:25+00:00
3D printer beds have been getting bigger, but slicers don’t seem to account for curling as large prints cool. The problem is long linear runs on bottom infill and perimeters shrinking. I’ve been cutting my large parts into puzzle like shapes, but printing them fully assembled. This adds curved perimeters throughout the bottom layer, reducing the distance stress can travel before finding a seam to deform.

That said, a retro laptop this thick would look really nice in stained wood.
by rationalist | 2026-02-15 20:31:36+00:00
There is a U.S. federal law which gives warranty of merchantability among others (not sure about E.U.).

A major store sold me an expensive item that didn't work, and the store's return policy didn't cover it, so the store said file a warranty claim with the manufacturer. I just did a credit card charge back instead, because the store has to sell me something that works.

If for whatever reason the credit card charge back didn't work, I could use the store in (small claims) court and win.

AI: "The implied warranty of merchantability is a legal guarantee that a product will function as expected for its ordinary purpose, such as a toaster toasting bread. It is automatically applied to most consumer goods sold by merchants and does not need to be in writing."
by KronisLV | 2026-02-15 20:32:03+00:00
Not an org where everyone uses the tech to such a degree: also were late adopters of Docker for example, in large part got around to it due to my initiative (100-200 people org, so small).

But personally: yes and to an immense degree. The excuse “we don’t have the time for this” has pretty much evaporated when it comes to me. I do more than colleagues do and have gotten enough automation working that the AI will be made to iterate and fix its code to my desires before I ever see a line of it. I’ve added tests to entire systems thanks to it, fixed bugs across the codebase, added a bunch of additional quality control scripts and tools, improved CI, built and shipped not only entire features but systems. I can now work on about 3 projects in parallel, even if it can be super tiring.

But hey, I’m also working more on side projects outside of work and nice utilities I never had time for. I don’t really build in public sadly, but it very much is a force multiplier and makes me hate my job less sometimes (everyone has a horrible brownfield codebase or two).
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 20:32:15+00:00
The whitewashing of the past in this thread is something else.

Did everyone forget the era of web browsing when pages were filled with distracting animated banner ads?

The period when it was common for malicious ads to just hijack the session and take you to a different page?

The pop-up tornados where a page would spawn pop ups faster than you could close them? Pop unders getting left behind to discover when you closed your window?

Heavy flash ads causing your browser to slow to a crawl?

The modern web browsing experience without an ad blocker feels tame compared to the early days of Internet ads.
by like_any_other | 2026-02-15 20:32:57+00:00
How would term limits help? Without term limits, congressmen can be judged by their voting history. With them, we get always new batches of congressmen, while lobbyists stay the same and consolidate their power.

It's so easy to get rid of a congressman you don't like with term limits. But why do you think, on average, his replacement would be better? The replacement would only be more unknown.
by gertlex | 2026-02-15 20:33:32+00:00
I recently learned there's a massive gap in collection of fines relating to data handling violations, due to a (not covered) mix of non-collection and going through legal processes. (over the past 6 years: 4+ billion in fines; 20 million collected) Seems like a problem, and further changes might come partly from it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/12/data-protecti...
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-15 20:33:43+00:00
Humans have heuristic biases, and intuition often doesn't succeed with the unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

LLM are good at search, but plagiarism is not "AI".

Leonhard Euler discovered many things by simply trying proofs everyone knew was impossible at the time. Additionally, folks like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz simply invented new approaches to solve general problems.

The folks that assume LLM are "AI"... also are biased to turn a blind eye to clear isomorphic plagiarism in the models. Note too, LLM activation capping only reduces aberrant offshoots from the expected reasoning models behavioral vector (it can never be trusted.) Thus, will spew nonsense when faced with some unknown domain search space.

Most exams do not have ambiguous or unknown contexts in the answer key, and a machine should score 100% matching documented solutions without fail. However, LLM would also require >75% of our galaxy energy output to reach 1 human level intelligence error rates in general.

YC has too many true believers with "AI" hype, and it is really disturbing. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-15 20:33:51+00:00
> I see the primary issue with IPFS is a significant majority of all web users are on mobile. They can't act as content hosts or routers.

Is there any reason this has to be true? Probably some majority or significant minority of mobile devices spend some eight hours a day attached to a charger in a place where they have the WiFi password, while the user is asleep. And you don't need 100% of devices to be hosts or routers, 10% at any given time would be more than sufficient.
by otterley | 2026-02-15 20:34:00+00:00
This sort of nihilist/defeatist attitude serves no one.

People have good-faith disputes over whether their activities should be permitted or forbidden, and--like it or not--it's up to our judicial system to interpret the law, especially when it's unclear (which is rather often). The judges hear the arguments and, having heard both sides out fully, has to decide who has the strongest case. It's not an easy job, but in a vague, messy, and imperfect world, someone has to do it.

There are ways to reduce ambiguity, like passing new laws, clarifying existing ones, and even amending the Constitution. That requires we vote and press our representatives to do these things. This has the benefit of making it clear what we want, as opposed to leaving it to the unelected judiciary to try to figure it out and anger half the country who thought they decided wrong.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-15 20:34:30+00:00
I don't believe there is any greater journalistic malpractice than fabrication. Sure, there are worse cases of such malpractice in the world given the low importance of the topic, but journalists should be reporting the truth on anything they deem important enough to write about. Cutting corners on the truth, of all things, is the greatest dereliction of their duty, and undermines trust in journalism altogether, which in turn undermines our collective society as we no longer work from a shared understanding of reality owing to our inability to trust people who report on it. I've observed that journalists tend to have unbelievably inflated egos and tout themselves as the fourth estate that upholds all of free society, and yet their behaviour does not actually comport with that and is rather actively detrimental in the modern era.

I also do not believe this was a genuine result of incompetence. I entertained that it is possible, but that would be the most charitable view possible, and I don't think the benefit of doubt is earned in this case. They routinely cover LLM stories, the retracted article being about that very subject matter, so I have very little reason to believe they are ignorant about LLM hallucinations. If it were a political journalist or something, I would be more inclined to give the ignorance defense credit, but as it is we have every reason to believe they know what LLMs are and still acted with intention, completely disregarding the duty they owe to to their readers to report facts.
by Animats | 2026-02-15 20:34:32+00:00
Unsold apparel is a headache, but banning it probably won't work.
Something still has to be done with the stuff.

In the first dot-com era, I knew some startup people who were trying to create an online secondary market in used apparel, called Tradeweave. It flopped. You can see their web site on the Internet Archive up to 2004.[1] Then, suddenly, it's gone.
There's a Stanford Business School case for this company.[2] Amusingly, the Stanford case study is dated 2000, before the collapse, and makes it sound like a success.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040323045929/http://tradeweave...

[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/t...
by linehedonist | 2026-02-15 20:34:44+00:00
sure, though New York has gotten a real honest-to-goodness winter this year. There's been a foot on the snow on the ground continuously for the last month, and it's been cold enough that the pipes in one of my bathrooms froze. I think it's easier from the West Coast to bemoan the end of East Coast winters than to live through one :)
by maxbond | 2026-02-15 20:35:03+00:00
You don't announce that you're firing people or putting them on a PIP or something. Not only is it gauche but it makes it seem like you're not taking any accountability and putting it all in the employees involved. I assume their AI policy is fine and that the issue was it wasn't implemented/enforced, and I'm not sure what they can do about that other than discipline the people involved and reiterate the policy to everyone else.

What would you have liked to see them announce?
by apparent | 2026-02-15 20:35:15+00:00
In the case of hallucinated quotes, I think the more important aspect is to describe how this happened, whether the author is a regular contributor, how the editors missed it, and what steps are being taken to prevent it from happening in the future.

It's good to issue a correction, and in this case to retract the article. But it doesn't really give me confidence going forward, especially where this was flagged because the misquoted person raised the issue. It's not like Ars' own processes somehow unearthed this error.

It makes me think I should get in the habit of reading week-old Ars articles, whose errors would likely have been caught by early readers.