MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobofan | 2026-02-19 10:01:50+00:00
> If I'm paying for usage

You are not paying for usage. You are paying for usage via their application.

If their business plan is based on how quickly a human can enter requests and react to the results, and Claude Code is optimized for that, why should you be allowed to use an alternative client that e.g. always tries to saturate the token limits?
by brailsafe | 2026-02-19 10:01:58+00:00
Reminds me of how annoyed I am that Eddie Bower is closing, because there's very few other retailers that sell affordable medium-tall mens sizes with extra long arms. People who don't have anatomical size issues don't seem to understand how annoying it is to find clothing that doesn't fit some statistical average. I have to get lucky to find a medium that fits a bit thinner, but then usually I'm stuck if that company decides to change their product. If I need formal wear I need to find a niche company and pay niche prices. Feet larger than size 12? Sorry. Tall but not a rugby player? Sorry.

The of the only reasons I've been wearing the same pants is because I haven't found anything else that fits well
by __alberto | 2026-02-19 10:02:17+00:00
That's a fair point. Right now the logic assumes age equals trust, which is obviously a bit of a leap. It also has the side effect of flagging a real person who just created an account to make a legit contribution.

The goal here was just to catch the obvious burner accounts created yesterday. How would you handle this verification instead? Or would you just not use account age at all as an indicator? I'd love to make the logic more robust.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-19 10:02:34+00:00
Lots of apps like slack and discord will show you an opengraph preview of a website if you post a link. I could of course be wrong but expect you could craft an exploit that just required you to be able to post the link - then it it would render the preview and trigger the problem.

Secondly as a sibling pointed out lots of apps have html ads so if you show a malicious ad it could also trigger. I’m old enough to remember the early google ads which which google made text-only specifically because google said that ads were a possible vector for malware. Oh how the turns have tabled.
by kasabali | 2026-02-19 10:02:43+00:00
iPad 3rd gen can be downgraded to iOS 8 (which runs slightly better than iOS 9), and dual-booting to iOS 6 is also doable (and actually can run more apps than later versions thanks to the 3rd party mods).

There's a community around /r/LegacyJailbreak dedicated to running old iOS devices.
by saneshark | 2026-02-19 10:02:56+00:00
OpenClaw, NanoClaw, et al all use AgentSDK which will from now on be forbidden.

They are literally alienating a large percentage of OpenClaw, NanoClaw, PicoClaw, customers because those customers will surely not be willing to pay API pricing, which is at least 6-10x Max Plan pricing (for my usage).

This isn’t too surprising to me since they probably have a direct competitor to openclaw et al in the works right now, but until then I am cancelling my subscription and porting my nanoclaw fork with mem0 integration to work with OpenAI instead.

Thats not a “That’ll teach ‘em” statement, it is just my own cost optimization. I am quite fond of Anthropic’s coding models and might still subscribe again at the $20 level, but they just priced me out for personal assistant, research, and 90% of my token use case.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-19 10:03:00+00:00
> The best and most useful data is often inaccessible to crawlers.

Interesting point.

> ost open forums are dead because discussions happen on login platforms like Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, X, Discord, etc

Ironically isn't one of the reasons some of those platforms started to use logins was so they could track users and better sell their information to ad people?

Obviously now there are other reasons as well - regulation, age verification etc.

Does this suggest that the AI/ad platforms need to tweak their economic model to share more of the revenue with content creators?
by NanoCoaster | 2026-02-19 10:03:20+00:00
> Reality is that most women buy based on looks and not practicality. I really had not heard before your comment any women complaining about small pockets.

I've had the exact opposite experience. I've heard this complaint many, many times, and for good reason because it really is laughable.

> Reality is that most women buy based on looks and not practicality.

Well, it's a tradeoff, isn't it? As a man, I also wear a (fake) leather jacket that has some fake pockets and I complain about them, because they're dumb and unnecessary. Still like the look of it, which is why I bought it, because it's not a -huge- issue.

To put it another way, why couldn't you have both? Why not have good-looking clothes that also have proper pockets? That's the really ridiculous part about it.

Also, there's a third variable you didn't factor in at all: Comfort. It's not enough to produce clothes that look good, they need to fit as well...which is exactly what the article is about.

So now you need to find clothes that are at least mostly comfortable, look at least okay to you and have proper pockets. And that is the point where you're really going to have a hard time in women's clothing and that's why a lot of the time, women will take the more comfortable, better-looking option. 2 out of 3 at least. But the fact remains that the pockets are completely idiotic.
by Huppie | 2026-02-19 10:03:26+00:00
Funnily enough I've been using Codex 5.3 on maximum thinking for bug hunting and code reviews and it's been really good at it (it's just seem to have a completely different focus than Opus.)

I generally don't like the way codex approaches coding itself so I just feed its review comments back in to Claude Code and off we go.
by mmasu | 2026-02-19 10:03:34+00:00
I think that these companies are understanding that as the barrier to entry to build a frontend gets lower and lower, APIs will become the real moat. If you move away from their UI they will lose ad revenue, viewer stats, in short the ability to optimize how to harness your full attention. It would be great to have some stats on hand and see if and how much active API user has increased decreased in the last
two years, as I would not be surprised if it had increased at a much faster pace than in the past.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-02-19 10:03:47+00:00
True, but:

a) We can evaluate UIs on ('more') objective metrics too, like clarity, accessibility, etc. I think that, on most objective measures, the older UI would 'win' too.

b) Subjective doesn't mean 'useless'. If 99% of people prefer one thing over another, even for subjective reasons, it's probably a good idea.
by kryptokommunist | 2026-02-19 10:03:48+00:00
I have a problem. It’s 11 PM, I tell myself “just five more minutes of Reddit” and suddenly it’s 2 AM and I hate myself. Sound familiar? After years of failing to fix this with willpower alone (spoiler: willpower doesn’t work against billion-dollar engagement algorithms), I decided to solve it by using an openwrt router to block internet access at night with exemptions based on an LLM evaluation.
by birdsongs | 2026-02-19 10:04:49+00:00
Wow, thank you! This is really validating for such an odd experience.

That happened (and still does) with my second language, absorbed mostly through immersion/native exposure on a day-to-day basis.

When I go into that language mode and am having a conversation, my brain can pick a word and speak it, and I have no idea where I learned it, or even if it was correct? It will immediately sound strange and "unknown" to me. I would struggle to define the word, and if it was spoken to me I probably wouldn't understand it. It just felt correct to fit it there in the conversation.

Then I google translate it and find out "huh, yeah, that was actually correct and completely appropriate in that context".

It's so strange.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-19 10:05:00+00:00
What's the point you are trying to make here? That it is not possible to trivially clone good ideas?

Let's start with my actual claim - "It is now trivially possible for someone to clone your good idea".

I want to clarify your position: Do you think that the bar for cloning someone else's good idea is now:

1. Harder to do with AI,

2. Easier to do with AI,

3. Exactly the same level of difficulty it always was.

Because if you are arguing that #2 is an incorrect answer, there's no real point in continuing the argument, is there? I'm taking #2 as a given, and you appear to be arguing that it is a baseless assumption.
by vasco | 2026-02-19 10:05:44+00:00
Yeah but if he listened to a single wellness expert they'd probably tell him to shut down most or all of social media, so what's the point of articles like these. Unless it's unlawful and they get fined nothing changes.

But on this specific topic I'm curious what the wellness experts think about make-up, or even worse purely cosmetic plastic surgery. If digital filters are wrong, surgery should get the death penalty in comparison.
by neya | 2026-02-19 10:06:08+00:00
It's the most overrated model there is. I do Elixir development primarily and the model sucks balls in comparison to Gemini and GPT-5x. But the Claude fanboys will swear by it and will attack you if you ever say even something remotely negative about their "god sent" model. It fails miserably even in basic chat and research contexts and constantly goes off track. I wired it up to fire up some tasks. It kept hallucinating and swearing it did when it didn't even attempt to. It was so unreliable I had to revert to Gemini.
by bauruine | 2026-02-19 10:06:34+00:00
The NSA surely has ordered a backdoor.

>In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
by rsynnott | 2026-02-19 10:07:21+00:00
I mean, you realise that legal over the counter heroin used to be a thing, right? Cigarettes are still legal. There is a gap between “obviously harmful thing is legal” and “it is ethical to make great piles of money out of selling the obviously harmful thing (to children, at that)”. The CEO of Phillip Morris, say, isn’t doing anything illegal, but they are a _bad person_ who is knowingly harming society. Same for Zuckerberg.
by muzani | 2026-02-19 10:07:21+00:00
I don't think people mean to keep it a secret. It took me literally 2 hours to type my answer, because it's deeply ingrained as muscle memory and habit. It's probably much easier to explain in a two-way call, or better yet, a class.

Much of the time people don't even appreciate these answers; they get angry because what they really wanted to hear was that it's impossible.

But sometimes it's useful to rephrase thoughts and put it out for criticism.
by osener | 2026-02-19 10:07:45+00:00
There are fast fashion attempts at this like adding elastic material to every fabric so they can get away with having fewer sizes and cuts thus less unsold inventory and availability issues. But everything has a tradeoff. In this case the elastic material degrades MUCH faster than cotton so you have to throw away your jeans quite a bit earlier compared to a quality 100% cotton denim which can last you a decade. This is very unfortunate as most of the fabric in that piece of clothing is perfectly fine and this is pure waste.
by kojacklives | 2026-02-19 10:08:35+00:00
This data supports my viewpoint just as well. Older workers are taking
the lower effort higher reward jobs that Americans are healthy enough and happy enough to do. If we go by salaries a bunch of CEOs retiring would be
a massive blow to salaries and propping up the US economy. CEO
are paid by what the best CEO is worth as no one wants to believe they
hire dud CEOs.

There's no explanation to me as to why this years attrition from the labor
force is much more meaningful than any other years, but there is a
notable loss instead of gain of millions of workers willing and
able to do any job instead of any convenient job.
by neya | 2026-02-19 10:10:12+00:00
Anthropic is just doing this out of spite. They had a real scenario to win mindshare and marketshare and they fucked up instead. They could have done what Open AI did - hired the OpenClaw/d founder. Instead, they sent him a legal notice for trademark violation. And now they're just pissed he works for their biggest competitor. Throw all tantrums you want, you're on the wrong side of this one, Anthropic.
by adig_279 | 2026-02-19 10:10:15+00:00
Legal and compliance work is notoriously reactive and teams scramble to update contracts only after a new regulation drops. We built Doclair Sentinel to make this proactive.

Sentinel monitors the regulatory landscape based on your specific company profile, industry, and existing documents. When a relevant law changes, it doesn't just send an alert; it takes the first crack at the resolution.
by dgellow | 2026-02-19 10:10:27+00:00
I would counter your counter :)
I don't think vibe coding is about moving fast, shipping bugs, and not having reviews. That's the default state of pretty much all projects and is perfectly fine!

Vibe coding definitely has a different social meaning than just scrappy. I expect the term will die in some time as Claude Code equivalent becomes more popular, but right now I do find it pretty frustrating.

I do have a bunch of project prototypes done from scratch using Claude Code to explore ideas that I would qualify as vibe coded, but also some other projects that are done ~99% with Claude Code (I mean, the implementation, the design is mine), started as very scrappy prototypes, and evolved to something that is best in class in their specific somewhat niche domains (for things where I have expertise and feel confident I can judge). It's good software, reliable, strong focus on user experience, tested in prod, based on a few years of thinking what would actually fix once and for all a common issue in my niche at work. That's what makes me ask: at what point do you drop the vibe coded term?

It's not really about my personal perception of the project's value, more like... the idea that great software is rejected because it was written by an agent.

PS: congrats on sticking to your project for 5y, wishing you the best :)
by stackbutterflow | 2026-02-19 10:10:48+00:00
It's also trivially true that an AI has at least once been able to write a working hello world.

When someone claims that AI can't generate working code I assume that it means consistently generating working code. We're talking about a tool. It has to work more often than not and on codebases that we tend to work with, i.e legacy code.

Personally I don't claim that because I'm using everyday to generate working code.
by _trampeltier | 2026-02-19 10:10:59+00:00
People change, not just since the 90s. Just look an old movie, like Dirty Harry, or look pictures from athletes in the 70s, 80s.
It does not so much plays a role, as long you try in a store. But online it sucks very much right now. Recently I ordered a pair of pants, and it was something like 3 sizes smaller, than the same model in another color. I'm not sure, if online stores and factorys think people would not return the item and just order a size larger or smaller again. I think thats also a point where the EU should push, a true size with cm.
by anentropic | 2026-02-19 10:11:47+00:00
> 51.0% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, proving its ability to handle sophisticated, long-horizon tasks with unwavering stability

I don't know anything about TerminalBench, but on the face of it a 51% score on a test metric doesn't sound like it would guarantee 'unwavering stability' on sophisticated long-horizon tasks
by librasteve | 2026-02-19 10:11:48+00:00
> Writing and reading are asymmetrical, and that's why it's important to write code that is as simple as possible.

I 100% agree with your statement. My case is that a simple language does not necessarily result in simpler and more readable code. You need a language that fits the problem domain and that does not require a lot of boilerplate to handle more complex structures. If you are shoehorning a problem into an overly simplistic language, then you are fighting your tool. OO for OO. FP for FP. and so on.

I fear that the current fashion to very simple languages is a result of confusing these aspects and by way of enforcing certain corporate behaviours on coders. Perhaps that has its place eg Go in Google - but the presumption that one size fits all is quite a big limitation for many areas.

The corollary of this is that richness places an burden of responsibility on the coder not to write code golf. By tbh you can write bad code in any language if you put your mind to it.

Perhaps many find richness and expressivity abhorrent - but to those of us who like Larry's thinking it is a really nice, addictive feeling when the compiler gets out of the way. Don't knock it until you give it a fair try!
by thesumofall | 2026-02-19 10:12:15+00:00
Beyond all, I think cost is a major driver. A key difference in cheaply made clothing vs more expensively made clothing is the sophistication of the tailoring. However, the interesting side effect is that cheaply made clothing sort of fits everyone badly while more expensively made clothing either fits you really well or not at all. If(!) you care about well-tailored clothing you're either lucky that one of the brands fits your body or you need to go the custom-tailoring route. Custom tailoring wasn't anything special for a long time but we sacrificed it to our desire for cheaper clothing (which isn't necessarily a bad thing!)
by SolubleSnake | 2026-02-19 10:12:26+00:00
I now see groups of people just meandering between buzzwords and sort of calling it a career. Honestly I know people who were 'crypto developers' 3 years ago who are now 'senior AI implementation architects' and similar..and they have a 'bootcamp' etc....I am a software engineer who qualified in cs but after working around engineering and manufacturing a lot I'm also qualified in CAD...thinking to get into more physical engineering and become a chartered engineer finally and just get away from the bandwagon boosterism. Or become a nurse or teacher.

i'm enjoying making games on the side and I'd like to monetize one soon, but I look at 'tech' careers and I just rapidly lose the will to live now. 30 minutes on linkedin is enough to make most people feel nauseous and need to lie down.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-19 10:13:08+00:00
Ah. You will also like another story that popped up here some time back.

A Canadian science-fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, made an Archive available complete with extensive resources on how to use it. In addition, fully text-searchable PDFs of the original manuals, totaling over 1,000 pages, were also available. He is a dedicated WordStar user.

https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm
by recursivecaveat | 2026-02-19 10:13:28+00:00
Yeah, you're discarding almost all permutations, but in an unbiased manner. It seems to imply not only an attack, but that your experimental results rely strongly and precisely on some extremely esoteric (otherwise it would've been found already) property of the randomization algorithm. If you can only detect the effect of television on turkeys when using a PRNG whose output is appropriately likely to have a high dimensional vector space when formated as a binary square matrix then I think you should probably go back to the drawing board.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-19 10:13:48+00:00
> An LLM can go from outline to "article" in one step. I can't.

But the point is that the results tend to be very grating.

> I'm not confident in my writing and it looks clunky to my eye.

AI writing is clunky!

> I don't write often, so revising and rewriting is very slow for me.

This is totally fair, but maybe consider editing the AI output once it's given you a second draft?
by keybored | 2026-02-19 10:13:50+00:00
Assuming large-scale automation[1]: workers have in aggregate automated themselves. It takes labor to automate. And yet those former workers are now a “burden”? We’re assuming automation, so was the making of the food stuff, the transportation of the food stuff, the automation of the infrastructure maintenance... was that done or not? Where is the burden being felt?

You’re gonna call the people that built everything a burden?

Either we are talking in terms of propagandistic guilt assignment, or we’re talking realpolitics. Either:

1. we can trivially support the “burden” because of automation (no burden); or

2. billionaire resource hoarders (a burden?) do not need the vast majority of their underlings (maybe just a few for Epstein 2.0) and can let them fend for themselves or die off. (It’s literally not even a question of whether they have a big red Automation Button that would sustain the “burden” indefinitely. What incentive do they have to press it?)

[1] I notice scale is a favorite buzzword now
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-19 10:14:00+00:00
This is sort of true!

Spotify in particular is just patently the very worst. They released an amazing and delightful app sdk, allowing for making really neat apps in the desktop app in 2011. Then cancelled it by 2014. It feels like their entire ecosystem has only ever gone downhill. Their car device was cancelled nearly immediately. Every API just gets worse and worse. Remarkable to see a company have only ever such a downward slide. The Spotify Graveyard is, imo, a place of singnificantly less honor than the Google Graveyard. https://web.archive.org/web/20141104154131/https://gigaom.co...

But also, I feel like this broad repulsive trend is such an untenable position now that AI is here. Trying to make your app an isolated disconnected service is a suicide pact. Some companies will figure out how to defend their moat, but generally people are going to prefer apps that allow them to use the app as they want, increasingly, over time. And they are not going to be stopped even if you do try to control terms!

Were I a smart engaged company, I'd be trying to build WebMCP access as soon as possible. Adoption will be slow, this isn't happening fast, but people who can mix human + agent activity on your site are going to be delighted by the experience, and that you will spread!

WebMCP is better IMHO than conventional APIs because it layers into the experience you are already having. It's not a separate channel; it can build and use the session state of your browsing to do the things. That's a huge boon for users.
by FeepingCreature | 2026-02-19 10:14:05+00:00
You are free to not use it. You are not free to use the API provided specifically for the product, which you are not explicitly paying for, for a different product.

You can of course use OpenCode or any other project with the API, which is also offered as a separate product. People just don't want to do that because it's not subsidized, ie. more expensive. But the entire reason it's subsidized is that Anthropic can use the data to improve their product.
by Meekro | 2026-02-19 10:16:38+00:00
A product can be helpful to one person and harmful to another. Most products are like that. All sorts of things can be addictive to some people, from potato chips to video games.

There was a major public campaign in the 1950s to ban rock & roll music, and in the 1980s to ban heavy metal. In each case, there were legions of "experts" calling those genres "harmful", and they were taken seriously -- congressional hearings were held, etc.

Point is, "promoting a harmful product" is very much in the eye of the beholder, and doesn't work as an objective moral standard.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-19 10:16:49+00:00
>One thing that the multiple entertainment industry unions did is raise quality by ensuring continuity by ensuring livable pay.

Was the pay not livable back then for the people who made the likes of The Matrix, The Gladiator, The Dark Knight, LoTR trilogy, Tropic Thunder?

> the rise of streaming

Streaming still needs workers to make movies and shows. Rise of streaming means an increased demand for movies and shows. Does not explain the fall in quality.