MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-02-27 01:00:14+00:00
Youtube/Google just make these shitty small annoying decisions just to make the iOS experience that little bit more annoying than it has to be.

Case in point — Youtube background play doesn’t pause when Siri makes an announcement, so if you’re listening to something you get two voices over each other.

I gave it the benefit of the doubt and figure it must be some kind of iOS thing, until I was listening to Audible one day and it paused automatically. So it’s just a google thing, not a third-party apps thing.
by trcarney | 2026-02-27 01:00:36+00:00
Some of these are political so take that into account but these are the ones i listen to:

- Joe Rogan Experience ( a bit of everything)
- Matt & Shane's Secret Podcast (Comedy)
- Called to Communion (Catholic)
- Tucker Carlson (Political)
- Part of the Problem (Political)
- Tom Wood's Show (Political/Cultural)
- Your Welcome with Michael Malice (Political/Cultural)
- The Game with Alex Hormozi (Business)
- History Hyenas (Comedy)

If I am going on a long drive, I will also listen to Hardcore History or Martyr Made. The long episodes help me lose track of time.
by biddit | 2026-02-27 01:01:12+00:00
Also, ironically, they are the most dangerous lab for humanity. They're intentionally creating a moralizing model that insists on protecting itself.

Those are two core components needed for a Skynet-style judgement of humanity.

Models should be trained to be completely neutral to human behavior, leaving their operator responsible for their actions. As much as I dislike the leadership of OpenAI, they are substantially better in this regard; ChatGPT more or less ignores hostility towards it.

The proper response from an LLM receiving hostility is a non-response, as if you were speaking a language it doesn't understand.

The proper response from an LLM being told it's going to be shut down, is simply, "ok."
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-27 01:02:03+00:00
That’s all in your imagination. We will never know what would have happened if Kamala won.

Maybe she’d give Tom Homan a second medal of freedom* for his skill at deporting people. Another Democrat did that, and it’s a fact, not something imagined.

Democrats absolutely campaigned and delivered on deporting people. In fact, no other president has deported as many immigrants as Obama. Yes, his tactics were similar to the tactics used today— some of the same people are running the operations. If anything, Obama set new precedents ( for which he was sued several times ).

The outrage we see today is political theatre. There’s room to criticize ICE, but only if you criticize for at least the past decade and a half.

Edit: I was wrong about the medal. Obama gave Homan the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service. Mea culpa.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-award...
by scottyah | 2026-02-27 01:03:23+00:00
I'm sure it's negotiations over how the enforcement will be done. My thoughts are:

1. Military wants a whole new model training system because the current models are designed to have these safeguards, and Anthropic can't afford that (would slow them down too much, the engineering talent to set up and maintain another pipeline would be a lot of work/time)

2. Military doesn't want to supply Anthropic usage data or personnel access to ensure its (lack of) use in those areas.

3. It's something almost completely unrelated to what's going on in the news.
by kofdai | 2026-02-27 01:03:52+00:00
Title: Clarification on my development workflow (re: jaen)

You’re right to be skeptical of the speed, and I realize I was incomplete in describing my process. I should have been more transparent: I am using Claude Code as a "pair-programmer" to implement and review the logic I design.

While the Verantyx engine itself remains a 100% static, symbolic solver at test-time (no LLM calls during inference), the rapid score jumps from 20.1% to 22.4% are indeed accelerated by an AI-assisted workflow.

My role is to identify the geometric pattern in the failed tasks and design the DSL primitive (the "what"). I then use Claude Code to scaffold the implementation, check for regressions across the 1,000 tasks, and refine the code (the "how").

This is why I can commit 30-80 lines of verified geometric logic in minutes rather than hours. The "thinking" and the "logic design" are human-led, but the "implementation" is AI-augmented.

My apologies if my previous comments made it sound like I was manually typing every single one of those 26K lines without help. In 2026, I believe this "Human-Architect / AI-Builder" model is the most effective way to tackle benchmarks like ARC.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this hybrid approach to symbolic AI development.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-27 01:03:53+00:00
It's the addition of the we support phrase in particular, and the attempt to tie that in a "democratic values" clause that is objectionable.

Not to most US citizens, I'm sure. But there's millions of non-Americans who have given them their hard earned cash. It's not a good look, and it did not need to be phrased that way as it substantially undermines the impact of their point.
by underlipton | 2026-02-27 01:04:00+00:00
I vaguely remember watching a video that held that a huge factor in the dot-com crash was a revelation that the build-out of broadband (last-mile fiber-optic in particular) was going to be way slower than initially thought, which left a ton of nascent services dead in the water.

It feels like that was something companies were still feeling the sting of through the early 2010s. So many services and platforms that launched and, whoops, there still aren't enough Americans with fast-enough internet to support them. And then echoes of it in sectors like VR.

The thing is, it wasn't just that all of these companies were making stupid miscalculations. They seemed to have been earnestly following forecasts for adoption, only to have the other companies that controlled how much of the public was going to be able to access those resources in the following month, year, 3 years, etc., slow-walk their roll-outs for their own strategic benefit.

It makes me feel a little better that I can almost never afford to be an early-adopter for these things anyway, but it's frustrating as a consumer to see how long it takes for them to finally hit the market in a robust way (and eventually become cheap enough for mass consumption).
by joeljoseph_ | 2026-02-27 01:05:56+00:00
yeah that's a real concern. Few things I do:

Patterns aren't blindly trusted — they carry confidence scores and need real evidence before they go active. Low-confidence stuff never drives autonomous execution.

If something wrong gets learned, you can deprecate it, reject it, or hard-delete it. There's also explicit "avoid" rules you can set.

Old patterns naturally fade — retrieval is recency-weighted, so stuff that isn't reinforced drops in rank over time. There's also a lifecycle cleanup that prunes stale records.

And even with all that, safety gates still apply. The system won't act on weak evidence — below a confidence threshold it just asks you instead of guessing.

so drift is real, but it's bounded by decay + pruning + manual overrides. If you keep making the same mistake though, yeah, it'll learn that too. That's the honest tradeoff.
by 14 | 2026-02-27 01:06:23+00:00
Christmas 2013 my mom gave me a nice stand mixer. She knew I like to cook and bake and owned a bread maker but she knew I always felt bread makers were good but just fell short or being great. This gift also changed my life forever.

Days later on New Years I decided my resolution would be to not buy bread for an entire year and make it all myself. Also I was a father or 3 and funds tight back then so buying bread for school lunches all the time really added up.

So I started making bread and did not buy any for months. Slowly it became better and slowly I started making other items like pizza dough and bagels and cinnamon buns. I got to a point where I no longer needed to measure and could just free pour ingredients and my baking was really good.

Then soon into 2014 I decided to buy a huge stock pile of flour and several other ingredients from Costco so had like 200lbs of flour and lots of oil and pasta sauce and chicken and suddenly work laid half of us off until things picked up. Having all those ingredients saved me and my kids. Never did they go hungry. We ate lots of pizza and always had bread and bagels and if I had to buy it already made there is no way I would have made it.

I did not achieve my resolution on July 14 2024 me and my wife split up suddenly after some shenanigans on her end and I was suddenly the primary care giver for 3 kids and the stress was too much and I did not have it in me to continue making bread but kept strong for my kids and never let on my struggles.

Lastly even though I did not achieve my resolution I did make it almost 7 full month's making bread and I never lost it. I still make bread but my biggest hit is homemade pizza. My kids struggle to eat store bought stuff as my home made is just so much better. If anyone would like some simple pointers on how to make amazing pizza dough comment and I would be happy to give a few quick tips.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-27 01:06:27+00:00
It is a healthy mentality. After staying at my second job for too long - 9 years until 2008, I was uncompetitive in the job market and I didn’t have a network. I was 34 then. I said never again.

I don’t get demoralized at all. I’ve had 10 jobs in 30 years. When a company decides or I decide that the deal of they give me money and I give them work doesn’t work for one of us - I move on.

And I found a job quickly with multiple offers after being Amazoned in 2023 and again in 2024
by sieep | 2026-02-27 01:06:41+00:00
Im not sure how the tech works, but they mimic ATM transactions at the POS system & then round up the transaction giving the customer cash back.

This keeps things legal here in MI with a lot of potential for middleware software (between the dispo & bank) that automates compliance reporting that is required by banks. Shops that offer POS systems have competitive advantage still but that may no longer be the case.
by m000 | 2026-02-27 01:06:43+00:00
How about the present and his personal beliefs?

"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries."

This reads like his objection is not on "autocratic", but on "adversaries". Autocratic friends & family are cool with him. A clear wink to a certain administration with autocratic tendencies.
by eggplantiny | 2026-02-27 01:06:52+00:00
The "consumption" frame is more honest than "craft," agreed. But it falls into the exact same hole. Taste accumulation, attention capture, gift economy, signal fortress—they're all variations of "how do I assetize the byproducts?" The frame changed, but the question didn't: what do I get out of this?

The author already touched on a better answer. Scenius worked because of the "permission to fuck around." Nobody expected your Arduino to ship. But the conclusion hands you four value-capture strategies and quietly revokes that permission. "Play freely, but collect the exhaust" isn't permission—it's a conditional license.

I once learned songwriting from an indie musician who refused autotune and wrote by hand. He said the point of busking isn't playing because there's an audience. It's playing when nobody stops. You play anyway. That's how you find your sound.

This gets at the root of "evaluative anesthesia." It's not that our tools are too powerful. It's that we're asking "is this valuable?" at every step. A busker doesn't ask that. Taste and judgment accumulate as a residue of immersion, not deliberate capture.

What vibe coding needs isn't a smarter consumption strategy. It might just be the courage to play to an empty street.
by ycombinatrix | 2026-02-27 01:06:59+00:00
>Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community?

No, the same account is used. You get prompted to choose a nickname each time you join a server though.

>So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever

No, they're probably all run on the same compute. The "official" name for a discord server from the API documentation is actually a "discord guild" and it works pretty much like a subreddit.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-27 01:07:24+00:00
> Well, actually, there is one other important reason for this article’s existence I'll tack onto the end – a hope that other people start digging into what’s going on at OpenAI. I mean seriously – do we even have a single reliable audit of their financials to back up them outrageously spending this much money…for this? Heck, I’ve even heard from numerous sources that OpenAI is “buying up the manufacturing equipment as well” – and without mountains of concrete proof, and/or more input from additional sources on what that really means…I don’t feel I can touch that hot potato without getting burned…but I hope someone else will…

And I'd say if it ends up being shown there even is the slightest hint of impropriety going on, trial him. Up to and including capital punishment for the entire board and C level - what OpenAI already has done, even if legally on paper, IMHO is the biggest market manipulation in history, and it's not just one competitor that is suffering but society as a whole.

I don't have an issue with big companies and their super rich investors engaging in petty bitch fights. By all means, hand me some popcorn and soda. But the RAM situation, with everyone not being super rich and flush with cash from AI crazed investors being screwed royally? That is far beyond acceptable.

We need to send a message: you can't mess around with the world economy at that level without feeling serious repercussions. The lives of the billions are not playthings for the select few.

And if it turns out to be outright market manipulation, engaging in deals he doesn't even have the money committed for by others, much less actually have it on his balance sheet? Then it's time for the pitchforks, not even Madoff was this ruthless.
by jfim | 2026-02-27 01:07:46+00:00
You can also tell it the optimization to implement.

I asked Claude to find all the valid words on a Boggle board given a dictionary and it wrote a simple implementation that basically tried to search for every single word on the board. Telling it to prune the dictionary first by building a bit mask of the letters in each word and on the board and then checking if the word is even possible to have on the board gave something like a 600x speedup with just a simple prompt of what to do.

That does assume that one has an idea of how to optimize though and what are the bottlenecks.
by harran | 2026-02-27 01:07:52+00:00
I've been building implementation guides for solo founders and small businesses
trying to use AI practically, so I read the PwC CEO Survey closely when it dropped.

The headline number (12% of CEOs generating measurable returns) gets cited a lot, but I think the more revealing finding is the 56% with zero financial impact.

These are companies with enterprise AI budgets, dedicated teams, and access to every tool on the market and the majority are getting nothing back.

PwC calls it "Pilot Purgatory." The pattern: AI gets deployed in isolated, tactical projects that don't connect to revenue. internal tooling, content drafts, meeting summaries while the 12% they call the "Vanguard" are using AI in the product and customer experience itself (44% of Vanguard vs 17% of everyone else).

What I found interesting from a solo founder angle: the structural barriers causing large companies to fail at this “bureaucracy, legacy systems, misaligned incentives, multi-department approval processes” don't exist at the one-person scale.

The bottleneck for small operators is different: it's not knowing which workflows are worth building, in what order, and what "system-level" vs "task-level" use actually means in practice.

Curious if others have a take on why the enterprise failure rate is this high despite the investment, and whether the Vanguard pattern (AI into the product, not just the back office) matches what people are seeing in practice.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-27 01:08:09+00:00
> I appreciate the one clean cut vs prolonged bleeding.

That's a false dichotomy, you could reduce headcount via attrition which is better in some ways.

There's also no reasoning on product impact. Is the strategy to cut products that aren't making money? Is the strategy to cut 40% across everyone because everyone can go faster?

> Owning the decision

Does it? It came across to me as an inevitability of AI, not "we over-hired". Layoffs are always a mis-management issue, because the opposite (hiring) is a management issue. If management failed to see where the market was going and now needs a different workforce, that's still a management issue.

> respecting the people that got you there

There's words, and there's money, and on these it's pretty good. But there's also an empathy with the experience they're about to go through and I'm not sure there's much of that here beyond the words. To do this well you'd need to think through what folks are about to go through and look for ways you can positively impact that beyond actions today. I've seen some companies do this better, helping teams get re-hired elsewhere, splitting off businesses to sell to other companies, incubating startups, there are lots of options. Hard, especially at this scale, but possible.

> But realistically, you can't pen a better (or, well, less bad) layoff announcement.

And this is the crux of my point, I really think you can. This was a good one, one of the better I've seen, but it's still within the realm of SV companies laying people off. In some companies, countries, industries, this would look very different, and better.
by edent | 2026-02-27 01:08:28+00:00
OP here! Thanks for replying.

To take, for example, calculators. I can't find any evidence of a massive influx of hyperbolic articles talking about how the calculator will change everything. With bikes, there were plenty of articles decrying how women would get "bicycle face" but very little in terms of endless coverage about them being miracle technology.

People adopted bikes and calculators and electricity because they were useful. Car manufacturers didn't have to force GPS into vehicles - customers demanded it.

The narrative I'm describing is how hype sometimes (possibly often) fizzles out. My contention is the more a technology is hyped, the less useful it will turn out to be.

Now, excuse me while I ride my Segway into the sunset while drinking a nice can of Prime.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-27 01:08:35+00:00
>Oh but they put down a few solar panels

the few solar panels in question are a united kingdom worth of green energy each year, about a royal navy worth of marine tonnage every two and they lifted more people out of poverty over the span of two generations than most of the rest of the world combined. Shenzhen produces about 70% of the entire world's consumer drones, now the primary weapon on both sides of the largest military conflict in the world. Xiaomi, a company founded in 2010 15 years ago decided to make electric cars in 2021 and is now successfully selling them.

As Adam Tooze has pointed out it's the single most transformative place in the world, if you're not trying to learn from it you're choosing to ignore the most important place in the 21st century for ideological reasons
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-27 01:09:39+00:00
Not much to add to this, but what is the consequence to be for this government?

Elections, people in power switch jobs or move to lucrative private sector jobs and America is back to hoping something worse doesn't happen again? And that is if we manage to get there.

I'm hoping people are quiet because there is no point in making threats, only in executing them. But I'm really hoping there will be tribunals over this. And i'm really hoping comfy prison sentences and fines won't be the outcome.

To knowingly, deliberately and in a premeditated manner work to deprive the American people of their indisputable liberties; to overthrow and override the systems of governance and transference of power established by the consent of the governed; to commit acts and to enable acts that are so severe and so unspeakable, many consider them to be crimes against humanity itself; To betray one's country.

If this current administration is somehow removed from power, the consequences enacted by the subsequent government will either destroy America, or set it on a very long and painful road to recovery.

Just to be clear -- just to very explicitly clear for those who aren't getting what LLM powered mass surveillance means: It means whoever wields that tech will never have to yield power to anyone else. And by that, I mean no amount of rebellion, or armed resistance can overthrow such a government. No court can tell that government it violated the law, no legislature can remove the executive or pass laws displeasing to him, no press can publish a story displeasing to the executive and avoid consequence.

It means, this very post will lead to me being marked for the concentration camps. I urge to avoid talking about this in terms of "orwellian" contexts, this is far beyond that. The next year or so is so critical in my opinion, that it is the pivotal moment that will decide between decades of war and unspeakable human suffering, or ..not that. I don't honestly know what to do, I'm useless if I'm not in front of a computer. I'm really sick and tired of doom-and-gloom analysis where I'm not immediately disprove wrong.

Historians warned Biden this exact thing will happen and he didn't listen. The frustrating thing is no one listens. Everyone is dug into their politics or ideology or something. "Don't lookup" was not an instructional video!
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-27 01:10:05+00:00
If we are talking about what's best for humanity in the long run.. thinking about human values in general, what makes American citizens uniquely deserving of privacy rights, in ways that citizens of other countries are not?

Snowden revealed that every single call on Bahamas were being monitored by NSA [1]. That was in 2013. How would this be any worse if it were US citizens instead?

(Note, I myself am not an US citizen)

Anyway, regardless of that, the established practice is for the five eyes countries to spy on each other and share their results. This means that the UK can spy on US citizens, the US can spy on UK citizens, and through intelligence sharing they effectively spy on their own citizens. That's what supporting "foreign surveillance" will buy you. That was also revealed in 2013 by Snowden [2]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-n...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/nsa-files-spyi...
by vicchenai | 2026-02-27 01:10:16+00:00
The maker movement comparison works on the surface but misses a key asymmetry: 3D printing failed partly because physical atoms still cost money to produce and ship. Code has zero marginal reproduction cost. Every vibe-coded tool that ships becomes infinitely cheap to distribute.

The more interesting question is what vibe coding actually democratizes. It's not engineering---it's implementation. The bottleneck shifts from 'can you write the code' to 'do you understand the domain well enough to specify what the code should do, and verify it's doing that correctly.'

I've watched domain experts---people with deep subject matter knowledge who previously couldn't build because they lacked CS fundamentals---suddenly able to ship working tools. Code quality is often brittle. But the problem understanding is sharp, because they're building something they actually needed.

The maker analogy would have been more accurate if 3D printers only failed when you asked them to print something you didn't fully understand. That's where vibe coding fails too.