MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ShamLegacyTldr | 2026-02-11 05:14:44+00:00
Let's be clear about this video; the "sham legacy" is the commercialization/exploitation of Feynman's legacy after he died. Feynman was not a charlatan. Collier doesn't claim he is. She talks about the very real contributions he made. Her criticism is largely about the way people scraped together any scrap of paper he had jotted down a note on and turned it into a thin book, "Feynman on XYZ topic".

But yes, he does catch criticism for his very real character flaws, his grandiosity, his philandering and inappropriate workplace behavior, and his physical abuse of his wife.

He was a complicated person. Much of the work discussing him is hagiography. This essay is even keeled but does not gloss over his flaws. Again, she discusses his very real contributions and legacy. It's a long essay; she makes time for the complexity of Feynman as a person.

If all you want to hear about Feynman is charming stories about Tuvan throat singing, you won't enjoy this essay. That's okay; it's not for everyone. There's an instinct to reject a critical work like this on it's face. I think that does a disservice, not only to Collier, but to us as students of history.

Collier is a working astrophysicist who spent months on this project. It is not a low effort hit piece. It's a critical but fair portrait from someone qualified to engage with the subject matter. I encourage everyone to withhold judgement until watching the entire essay. If you haven't seen it, you probably shouldn't make a knee jerk dismissal.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-11 05:15:02+00:00
There is such a thing of using overly simple abstractions, which can be especially tempting when there's special cases at "low `n`". This is common in the 1D, 2D and 3D cases and then falls apart as soon as something like 4D Special Relativity comes along.

This phenomenon is not precisely named, but "low-dimensional accidents", "exceptional isomorphisms", or "dimensional exceptionalism" are close.

Something that drives me up the wall -- as someone who has studied both computer science and physics -- is that the latter has endless violations of strong typing. I.e.: rotations or vibrations are invariably "swept under the rug" of complex numbers, losing clarity and generality in the process.
by spectraldrift | 2026-02-11 05:15:03+00:00
This is a misleading article including some quotes that wildly mischaracterize the original sources, while also including many lines of unrelated speculation that could be easily researched.

From the article:

> However, Google's privacy policy — a document that users often blindly agree to after purchasing a device — makes it clear that videos can be captured when a device is offline. “That means you may not see a visual indicator when your camera is sending the video footage to our servers," the policy states.

I looked this up because no link was provided [1]. The full quote is "Some models of our cameras support recording of video footage while offline. For these cameras, video footage will be uploaded when the camera goes back online after the video footage has been recorded. That means you may not see a visual indicator when your camera is sending the video footage to our servers. However, in those instances, a visual indicator would have been visible when the camera was actually recording the video footage."

So in this case, the author mangles "offline" (no Internet) with "recording".

Another quote:

> Google didn’t immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press about how the footage of the masked person was captured while the camera was apparently disconnected

The cameras was very clearly disconnected after the footage was recorded, because you can see the suspect begin to disconnect the camera.

There are many other examples of poor reporting in this article but I will leave it to the reader to find them.

[1] https://safety.google/intl/en_ca/products/nest/
by jaredcwhite | 2026-02-11 05:15:10+00:00
Gotta love a world in which a tool which has ingested "all the world's libraries" is now trotted out as a solution to replace those libraries.

You know what would happen if all the people who handwrote and maintained those libraries revoked their code from the training datasets and forbid their use by the models?

:clown face emoji:

This LLM-maxxing is always a myopic one-way argument. The LLMs steal logic from the humans who invent it, then people claim those humans are no longer required. Yet, in the end, it's humans all the way down. It's never not.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-02-11 05:15:18+00:00
The Europeans spent years scolding us for being warmongers. Then when Ukraine got invaded, they quickly switched to scolding Biden for not warmongering harder in Ukraine. Zero self-awareness.

America was called an "enemy of Europe" (before the Greenland stuff) even though it was more generous towards Ukraine than a bunch of European countries, and essentially every country outside of Europe. Polls showed that China has higher approval than the US in Europe, despite the fact that China actively supplies war material to Russia. Again, this was before the Greenland stuff (I'm against that obviously).

There's no point in trying to please these people. They regard us as a vassal state. They're not joking when they say they think of Americans as idiots. We should've withdrawn from NATO a long time ago. Hopefully Europe's corporate boycotts will help to pass Massie's withdrawal bill.

It will also be interesting to see drug prices in Europe rise after the Europeans spent years making fun of the US for high drug prices. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/tr...

The Europeans tend to reap what they sow in the US/Europe relationship.
by amluto | 2026-02-11 05:16:14+00:00
Today I asked an LLM (Codex whatever-the-default-is) to implement something straightforward, and it cheerfully implemented it twice, right next to each other, in the same file, and then wrote the actual code that used it and open-coded a stupendously crappy implementation of the same thing right there. The amazing thing is that the whole mess kind of worked.
Show HN: Clawhosting.io– Managed OpenClaw
by rezaghp | 2026-02-11 05:16:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been building ClawHosting (https://clawhosting.io) – a way to run your own openclaw AI assistant without dealing with servers.

Installing it yourself requires spinning up a VPS or using a separate machine, installing Node.js, configuring APIs, setting up SSL, and keeping it all running. Most people just want to chat with their AI, not manage infrastructure.

What we do:

You sign up, pick your AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google), and we handle the rest.
Your instance is up in minutes with a web UI you can access from anywhere. You can even choose where the instance should be located near you for better latency.

We also have a Telegram option ($5/mo) where the entire interface is just a Telegram bot – no web UI, no server, just chat!

Tech stack (for the curious): I use a fleet of k8s servers across the globe, java, react, caddy, etc. Each standard plan gets its 4CPU/8GB ram virtual server and Telegram plans are on 2 cpu/2 GB ram pods. It's fairly resourceful unlike a lot of new providers.

Looking for early testers who want to try it out and give feedback. First month free on me!

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or anything else.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-02-11 05:16:31+00:00
I doubt it's OpenAI. Maaaybe somebody who sells to OpenAI, but probably not. I think they're big enough to do this mostly in-house and properly. Before AI only big players would want a scrape of the entire internet, they could write quality bots, cooperate, behave themselves, etc. Now every 3rd tier lab wants that data and a billion startups want to sell it, so it's a wild west of bad behavior and bad implementations. They do use residential IP sets as well.
by dalyons | 2026-02-11 05:18:11+00:00
i have a rivian, and despite being a carplay fan before, i do not miss it. Carplay is a crutch for legacy autos who cant make software, so you just want to overlay a phone feed over their crap. But its very limited, its essentially a video overlay box and has terrible / non-existent integration with the cars smarts, like battery, range, HUD screens, advanced audio controls, etc etc. In my experience with carplay in other smart-ish cars (BMW X series) the carplay experience fights with the car OS constantly and is an awful incoherent experience.
A well made car software solution, like the rivians(mostly), is a better experience overall imho.

I say this as someone who still loves having carplay on my other car, a subaru, because their software is atrocious.

i would say, give one a try you might change your mind.
by saurabhpandit26 | 2026-02-11 05:18:37+00:00
Singularity is more than just AI and we should recognize that, multiple factors come into play. If there is a breakthrough in coming days that makes solar panel incredibly cheap to manufacture and efficient it will also affect the timelines for singularity. Same goes for the current bottleneck we have for AI chips if we have better chips that energy efficient and can be manufactured anyhwere in the world than Taiwan it will affect the timeline.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-11 05:20:33+00:00
> You know what would happen if all the people who handwrote and maintained those libraries revoked their code from the training datasets and forbid their use by the models?

The MCP servers combined with agentic search solved this possibility, just this year superseding RAG methods but all techniques have their place. I don't see much of a future for RAG though, given its computational intensity.

Long story short, training and fine tuning is no longer necessary for an LLM to understand the latest libraries, and therefore the "permission" to train would not even be something applicable to debate

it's a fast moving field, best not to have a strong opinion about anything
by jmyeet | 2026-02-11 05:20:33+00:00
I don't think I ever look at my feed on Youtube and I'm honestly not even sure why. This might just be a byproduct of when I started using it. I don't think I even logged in for the longest time. Even today, I don't subscribe much or even like videos.

My usage of Youtube seems to be near 100% intentional, meaning I'm looking for something in particular. I just don't really use Youtube for discovery. I'm sure other people differ. But I really wonder how much of this comes down to the UI and/or algorithm just not being that good.

the closest I get really is looking at my home page sometimes and seeing what channels I've previously watched have new videos, basically.

Now compare this to Tiktok. My usage of Tiktok is 99% on my fyp. There's a follwoing tab but I basically never use it. Almost everyone I follow I've found on my fyp. It's so good too. A big part is how quickly it learns. Watch one video on a topoic and you'll quickly be prompted with others in that category.

But how much of this is just the usage patterns I have chosen with Tiktok that I didn't for Youtube for largely historical reasons? I honestly don't know.
by tehsuk | 2026-02-11 05:23:26+00:00
"React as the stack"? If you're talking about the very top of the stack, sure. Not sure how React replaces .NET otherwise to be honest. Saying that the React (I assume Node on the backend) and overall JS ecosystem is stable compared to modern .NET is an interesting take to be sure :)

Also I feel that the author might have given up on .NET just at it became really good. It's been very consistent for many many years now. The last few years major upgrades (from .NET 5 I feel) have been very simple. I also had an adjustment period from older WF / EF / MVC etc somewehere around when .NET Core 3 hit, but I feel that the fundamental patterns have carried over well.

Big disclaimer: I don't use .NET on the frontend. Blazor is interesting but would probably not consider it for anything more than simple internal tools.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-11 05:23:27+00:00
> Tiktok's recommendation algorithms are a step above of anything I've seen on FB, IG or Youtube.

That's because their main UI isn't anything like Tik Tok. You start out with a normal feed on IG, on YouTube you might see recommended videos, but its not BAM HERES SHORT FORM. Tik Tok was by design this UI and recommendation scheme. I think its a UX issue not an algorithm issue necessarily. If I open YouTube shorts I get a lot of the content I keep going back on YouTube to watch, on IG probably not since I dont use FB or IG much if at all. If these UIs were more prominent, I could see them matching or competing with Tik Tok on these fronts.

What's funny to me is Tik Tok users quitting Tik Tok because they think the US has poisoned it, and then running to YouTube or reddit. Look on r/tiktok sometime, I have been checking on it anytime Tik Tok has 'drama' and it never disappoints.
by ksaj | 2026-02-11 05:25:05+00:00
I've found AI, or at least ChatGPT, to be really good at making great jokes about very specific topics.

You always have to ask it for several, because a lot of them are rubbish. But the hit rate is reasonable, considering the difficulty in understanding what is funny or not to a human.

Also, if you like absurdist humour, then even the fails might work. If I could post a pic here, I would. I once asked ChatGPT for a strip comic about something. What it produced didn't make sense, but I laughed about it every time I read it. Uploaded it and got the same result from others. There was a really polite naivety in what it produced, but it was surprisingly potent.

I'm pretty sure the llm could not explain what about it was funny. Basically a vegetable accidentally killed another vegetable simply by touching it. But then it apologized. That apology was bloody hilarious.

The prompt was for a comic strip with a hook that as far as it knows, nobody has ever seen before. And the result was shockingly great.

And of course it was absolute luck, because the same prompt just spat out junk thereafter.
by foxes | 2026-02-11 05:25:06+00:00
What do you really mean exists - maybe you mean has something to do with a calculation in physics, or like we can possibly map it into some physical experience?

Doesn't that formal string of symbols exist?

Seems like allowing formal string of symbols that don't necessarily "exist" (or well useful for physics) can still lead you to something computable at the end of the day?

Like a meta version of what happens in programming - people often start with "infinite" objects eg `cycle [0,1] = [0,1,0,1...]` but then extract something finite out of it.
by thefourthchime | 2026-02-11 05:25:31+00:00
The 45k is a myth for now. The vehicles that have been reviewed so far are going to be $60k+ performance models. We'll see if they actually get down to 45k.

From the analysis I've seen with that drag coefficient, the 45k vehicle is going to have to have a range of 220 to 260 miles. Hardly something that will fly off the shelves.
by poilcn | 2026-02-11 05:25:31+00:00
What are you talking about, 92% of Russian population has access to internet via landlines, the government subsidised building all the infustructre. The internet access is one of the cheapest in the world($5-10 per month for 100-500mbit/s), starlink with its $50-120 price tag is not affordable at all, ignoring the fact it doesn't even work here
by _the_inflator | 2026-02-11 05:25:37+00:00
Someone has to do it:

Please auto-ban any "We gave Claude/Gemini/Grok/OpenAO/Qwen/Mistral/WhateverLLMAI the spec and..."

"and..." resolves to:

- "and now we have this impressive result you won't believe!"

100% of the time this is attention seeking, live debugging - no value at all.

Don't waste people's time. Any sound and reasonable story about results without misusing the public's eye is welcome, for example:

- One year after
- 10 hard problems we found
- extensive pro/contra comparison with other solutions
- maintaining such a AI app for one year

Otherwise: please auto-ban.
by tosti | 2026-02-11 05:26:41+00:00
In theory, yes. But the idea was:

> Pass a law that requires devices and software to support a per-device or per user account 'child' or 'minor' flag.

We already know how such laws pan out in practise. Vendors don't want to be sued for non-compliance and benefit from restricting their customers anyway so their products are designed to obey the manufacturer at the cost of the owner.
Show HN: "hard questions" as a shared language for cross-domain reasoning
by wfgy-github | 2026-02-11 05:26:52+00:00
Show HN: A MIT-licensed TXT “framework pack” (131 structured questions) to force shared vocabulary + falsifiability across domains

HN folks,

i built a plain TXT pack that turns 131 hard questions (math/physics/consciousness/AI alignment/etc) into a shared “effective-layer” interface:
each item has scope, assumptions, and what would count as failure, plus prompt templates so LLMs run it consistently.

not claiming any problem is solved.
goal is to stop endless debate loops caused by mismatched starting vocabulary.

MIT license, on GitHub, ~1.4k stars.
happy to share a mini-index in comments if useful.
by throwerxyz | 2026-02-11 05:27:34+00:00
London definitely has fallen. How far is up to you. But it's a horrible place to live in now. Has been for quite some time and it's slowly getting worse.

It's a stereotype based on real world events. It's not deliberate manipulation. People are just tired of shitholes being put on pedestals.

Lots of places in the world are becoming absolute shitholes. There's an underlying condition that's not totally apparent yet but it exists and people can feel, see it and smell it.

Edit: Now it may seem like London is great to someone who has never lived in a place with an actually decent quality of life, which I'm unsure if you have. Places like East Asia, AU/NZ, various other parts of Europe.
by luokai | 2026-02-11 05:27:42+00:00
The Seedance 2 model is incredibly powerful, completely overshadowing all other models. This is an original video I created in just one day, though the music was previously made using Suno. In the past, producing a video like this would have taken me at least a week, and the quality wouldn’t have been nearly as good. Hollywood really needs to start rethinking its approach to content creation.

Using the latest Seedance 2 model, which is incredibly powerful, you can input a reference image along with detailed descriptions of beat timings and dance moves, and it generates high-quality shots with a director’s sense of framing. I hardly had to do any rerolls, especially considering the length of the song.

Each segment can generate up to 15 seconds, but I made a silly mistake! It turns out the "full reference" feature supports all media formats—I could have input the music along with the visuals and generated lip-syncing in one go… I ended up overcomplicating things and had to manually sync the lip movements afterward. Still, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

To clarify, I didn’t use any real human dance footage as reference for this video—everything was generated and then edited together. Each segment of my video is based on prompts that generally include the following elements:1. Overall atmosphere description
2. Key actions
3. Scene description: starting pose, mid-sequence body/hand movements over time, and ending pose
4. Dialogue/lyrics/sound effects at specific timestamps

Seedance 2 automatically designs camera angles based on the content, though you can also specify camera movements precisely. In the raw clip below, I didn’t describe camera angles. After generating the clips, I edited them by adding lip-sync, syncing them with the music, and adjusting the speed of some segments to match the beat.

This was a habitual mistake I made while working on this video. Initially, I followed the traditional workflow for video models: first generating reference images, then describing the actions, and so on. However, Seedance supports up to 9 images, 3 video clips, and 3 audio clips as reference materials simultaneously for each generated segment.

This multimodal reference capability is quite rare among current AI video tools. In theory, I could have directly provided the model with edited music or voice clips along with reference images for generation. But for this project, I generated the clips first and then re-generated them to add lip-sync.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-11 05:28:29+00:00
We are maintaining and extending a bunch (15 around) large ERP/data type projects which are over 20 years old with vibe coding. We have a very strict system to keep the LLMs in bounds, keeping to standard etc and we are feeling we are close to not having to read the code; we have over 2 months of not having to touch anything after review. I designed most of those projects 20-30 years ago; all have the same design principles which are well documented (by me) so the LLM just knows what to find where and what to do with it. These are large 'living' projects (many updates over decades).
by plugger | 2026-02-11 05:29:10+00:00
I feel quite bad for people living in the United States. Despite the constant refrain about freedom y'all are actually pretty hindered when it comes to reasonably priced EVs.
On Saturday I put a down on a BYD Shark 6 truck. Hopefully I'll collect it Friday, if not early next week. I'm paying $41,200 USD for the thing brand new.
I saw a MotorTrend review of it last week, they flew down to Mexico City to test one out. The entry level pricing there is $50,060 USD.
Here in Australia they're called the "Raptor Killer" as they will take Ford Ranger Raptors off the line and cost a bit more than half the price of the Raptor.
by agumonkey | 2026-02-11 05:29:18+00:00
Which is the reverse of how humans design things, layers, modules. LLMs act as generalized compilers. Impressive but at the same time you end up with a static-like bunch of files instead of a system of parts (that said I'm not a great user of llms so maybe people managed to produce proto-frameworks with them, or maybe that will be the next phase.. module-oriented llm training).
by bronlund | 2026-02-11 05:29:32+00:00
I have been on much the same journey as OP and I agree on everything he writes. And even though the author tries to avoid sounding grumpy, you can still feel the sadness in between the lines - a sadness I don't share. Sure, I have gone from being inspired by the pure love of everything computer and a bottomless curiosity, to maintaining legacy systems for large corporations just to feed the kids. The internet is ruined by greed and control, most software is a total mess and having a 10 million times faster computer seemingly just makes the OS less responsive.

Back in the eighties, how I then looked at the future of computers, was mostly fueled by scifi books and movies. Computers that could talk, that could think and even go insane - it was all too wonderful. All just fantasies. But now we are here. What we could only imagine back then has become a reality, and I kind of do feel the same curiosity and the same love for this new thing. Sure, it came with a couple of surprises like; you can't really program it, you just have to beg it. Or the fact that we now have a completely new genre of utility bills at the household. Still, it is magical - the same kind of magic I felt way back then.

So in one way, I feel that I have come full circle - except for one thing. One thing is different. Back then, there were just a few of us. I was almost nervous about letting anyone know what I really spent the afternoons doing, afraid that it would single me out - and not in a good way. Today, on the other hand, it is all of us.
by sholladay | 2026-02-11 05:29:51+00:00
I think you’re confusing “haptic” for “capacitive”. The wheels are real, physical controls with motors to give tactile feedback about the state of the UI. You can literally feel where the beginning and end of a list are, for example. It’s even better than traditional buttons.

The only problem is that there aren’t also physical controls for media and climate, which there should be. But for everything else, the thumb wheels are going to be awesome.