MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2026-02-05 01:37:11+00:00
Exactly, Apple is entirely too conservative to shine with LLMs due to their uncontrollability, Apple likes their control and their version of "protecting people" (which I don't fully agree with) which includes "We are way too scared to expose our clients to something we can't control and stop from doing/saying anything bad!", which may end up being prudent. They won't come close to doing something like OpenClaw for at least a few more years when the tech is (hopefully) safer and/or the Overton Window has shifted.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-05 01:38:06+00:00
And this is the broken mindset tanking multiple large companies' products and services (Google, Apple, MS, etc). Focus on the stock. The product and our users are an afterthought.

Someone linked to a good essay on how success plus Tim Cook's focus on the stock has caused the rot that's consuming Apple's software[0]. I thought it was well reasoned and it resonated with me, though I don't believe any of the ideas were new to me. Well written, so still worth it.

0. The Fallen Apple - https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/
by ankit219 | 2026-02-05 01:38:39+00:00
> And they would have won the AI race not by building the best model, but by being the only company that could ship an AI you’d actually trust with root access to your computer.

and the very next line (because i want to emphasize it

> That trust—built over decades—was their moat.

This just ignores the history of os development at apple. The entire trajectory is moving towards permissions and sandboxing even if it annoys users to no end. To give access to an llm (any llm, not just a trusted one acc to author) the root access when its susceptible to hallucinations, jailbreak etc. goes against everything Apple has worked for.

And even then the reasoning is circular. "So you build all your trust, now go ahead and destroy it on this thing which works, feels good to me, but could occasionally fuck up in a massive way".

Not defending Apple, but this article is so far detached from reality that its hard to overstate.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-05 01:38:59+00:00
I think it's a pretty strong condemnation of the CIA that they can't find something more important to flamboyantly kill though.

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/03/13/budget-pol... (you can stop reading after the first couple paragraphs, it goes into federal budget politics circa 2013)
by pcthrowaway | 2026-02-05 01:39:02+00:00
> I can say that humans aren't very good at it

You're assuming the people making accusations of posts being written by AI are from humans (which I agree are not good at making this determination). However, computers analyzing massive datasets are likely to be much better at it , and this can also be a Werewolf/Mafia/Killers-type situation where AI frequently accuses posters it believes are human, of being AI, to diminish the severity of accusations and blend in better.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-05 01:39:20+00:00
When the effectiveness of vibe coding an internal workflow was measured, only 5% of efforts worked. That's pretty rare and bad. And those are the early adopters who tend to be more adaptable and effective with new technology. That's a big part of why people don't believe the (your) hype. Its great at simple things with a low cost of failure. Problem is, its rare to pay a good wage for simple things with a low cost of failure. Also, writing new code isn't a big part of most engineers jobs. To put it more simply, vibe coding optimizes the wrong things about engineering.
by tptacek | 2026-02-05 01:40:22+00:00
Those aren't comparable jobs. Reporters report; they go to locations, they develop sources, they make phone calls. Columnists opine, or synthesize other people's reporting.

I'm not bullish on the future of newspapers generally but this is the thing you're afraid of when you think about how they're receding: people conditioned to think that random Substacks or Engadget or whatever were ever doing serious first-draft-of-history journalism. A huge percentage of everything people read online is based on reporting work that's done at a pace of 2-3 articles per month. You'll definitely miss it when it's gone!
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-05 01:40:49+00:00
Honestly, it's about creating guardrails, and forcing the machine to stay within them.

You create the pattern. You describe the constraints. And then make it do the gruntwork.

If it's starting from nothing, and you let it be "creative" you will hate the results.

It's just a tool like any other. Hold the power drill firmly in hand and make sure you have your safety goggles on when playing with the band saw.
by dwd | 2026-02-05 01:41:02+00:00
No mention of platform hosting lock-in.

Options like Wix, you are completely locked into their ecosystem. You can't host a Wix site anywhere, and if you stop paying them, your website will be gone.

Have used both Wix and Elementor, I found Wix to be just as frustrating to learn and use as first starting with Elementor. My biggest problem with Elementor at the time was actually just with using custom CSS which they eventually made a lot easier and predictable. Divi, another WordPress WYSIWYG builder also was bad for adding custom CSS for a long time.

I have used Elementor extensively; when it falls short you can fall back on rolling your own WordPress plugin or custom Elementor element. If an update breaks everything, you can roll back a version or fix it yourself. The recent update that introduced a reliance on mbstring (usually not enabled for PHP 8.3) is a good example.
by Telemakhos | 2026-02-05 01:41:59+00:00
Apple's niche product, consisting of like 1-4% of computer sales compared to its dominant MacBook line, is now flying off the shelf as a highly desired product, because of a piece of software that Apple didn't spend a dime developing. This sounds like a major win for Apple.

The OS maker does not have to make all the killer software. In fact, Apple's pretty much the only game in town that's making hardware and software both.
by piva00 | 2026-02-05 01:42:20+00:00
A supremely weak move, perhaps sama didn't learn anything from being on reddit and watching how online discourse doesn't ever favour the defensive ones.

There was absolutely no need to come out publicly with such whiny remarks, it's marketing, as the CEO I'd expect much better than that, he should know that it doesn't help at all. Even more since the ad was funny, coming out with dry remarks about the obvious misrepresentation made as a joke is frankly a bit pathetic.

Losing move but the interesting part is: why? Something hit a nerve, maybe it's a sign of some buildup of stress from overcommitments? I cannot understand...
by oxag3n | 2026-02-05 01:42:49+00:00
There are two extremes and spectrum in between:

* AI can replace knowledge workers - most of existing software engineers, managers of all levels will loose their job and have to re-qualify.

* AI requires human in the loop.

In the first scenario, I see no reason to waste time and should start building plan B now (remaining job markets will be saturated at that point).

In the second scenario, tech-debt and zettabytes of slop will harm companies which relied on it heavily. In the age of failing giants and crumbling infrastructure, engineers and startups that can replace gigawatt burning data center with a few kilowatt rack, by manually coding a shell script that replaces Hadoop, will flourish.

Most probably it will be a spectrum - some roles can be replaced, some not.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-02-05 01:43:55+00:00
Wow, where did these come from. these are great alternatives, especially the youtube. I like using the duck player but that's only in that browser.

For example duck://player/fqtK3s7PE_k where the video id in youtube url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqtK3s7PE_k

But it doesn't have that overview page like inv.nadeko.net does
by simonw | 2026-02-05 01:44:19+00:00
Right, World Factbook single issue voters probably don't exist.

That aside, something that frustrates me about US politics is that I rarely see any evidence of consideration given to taxpayers who want value for their money as opposed to having their taxes cut.

I pay taxes here. I like it when those taxes spent on wildly ROI-positive initiatives like the World Factbook.

The Trump lot appear to be killing off a huge range of useful things that I like getting in exchange for the taxes I pay.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-05 01:44:21+00:00
If you can’t see why something like OpenClaw is not ready for production I don’t know what to tell you. People’s perceptions are so distorted by FOMO they are completely ignoring the security implications and dangers of giving an LLM keys to your life.

I’m sure apple et al will eventually have stuff like OpenClaw but expecting a major company to put something so unpolished, and with such major unknowns, out is just asinine.
by Kiboneu | 2026-02-05 01:44:26+00:00
“ we believe access creates agency”

Whose agency? Ads are designed to reduce agency. It’s a red queen’s race from there. It leads to a high level of optimized manipulation and intrusiveness.

That was one of the core points of anthropic’s article.

sama is right that anthropic’s and openai’s businesses are differently shaped. Thank goodness for that.
by K0balt | 2026-02-05 01:44:32+00:00
Mmmm, not really. I have both a4x 3090 box and a Mac m1 with 64 gb. I find that the Mac performs about the same as a 2x 3090. That’s nothing stellar, but you can run 70b models at decent quants with moderate context windows. Definitely useful for a lot of stuff.
by secretballot | 2026-02-05 01:45:38+00:00
I played a bunch of that too, was that a cited source for it? Don’t remember. I do recall that the very-early-90s geopolitics simulation game Shadow President contained large portions of the fact book in its in-game information system (with citations, which is my first recollection of ever knowing of the thing by name)

I later leaned on the Web version of the factbook quite a bit for basic country stats in undergrad.

I don’t know of a replacement of comparable quality. Damn good resource. Not that you can necessarily trust a government source, and especially one from an intelligence agency, but most of what it covered wasn’t exactly useful for the kind of propaganda you’d expect the US government to push, so you could expect it to broadly be a sincere attempt at describing reality (it didn’t hurt that it wasn’t a super-widely-known resource outside certain academic disciplines, so lying about e.g. the major exports of Guyana or whatever wouldn’t have much effect anyway, lowering the likelihood that anyone would bother)
by camillomiller | 2026-02-05 01:45:55+00:00
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

Steve Jobs
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-05 01:46:32+00:00
> And this is probably coming, a few years from now. Because remember, Apple doesn't usually invent new products. It takes proven ones and then makes its own much nicer version.

Except this doesn't stand up to scrutiny, when you look at Siri. FOURTEEN years and it is still spectacularly useless.

I have no idea what Siri is a "much nicer version" of.

> Apple can integrate it with hardware and software in a way no other company can.

And in the case of Apple products, oftentimes "because Apple won't let them".

Lest I be called an Apple hater, I have 3 Apple TVs in my home, my daily driver is a M2 Ultra Studio with a ProDisplay XDR, and an iPad Pro that shows my calendar and Slack during the day and comes off at night. iPhone, Apple Watch Ultra.

But this is way too worshipful of Apple.
by drdaeman | 2026-02-05 01:47:01+00:00
Looks like this is only useful for empty databases. Which severely limits possible use cases.

Schema management is only a small part of the problem, and I don’t think this tool handles data migrations. E.g. if I reshape a JSONB column into something more structured, I don’t think it would be able to handle that. Or if I drop a column the backwards migration it generates ADD COLUMN … NOT NULL, which is obviously unusable if the table has any data in it already.
by kingstnap | 2026-02-05 01:47:17+00:00
Not for moving sideways at a constant altitude.

If you think about what a plane does to keep itself up, it sweeps through a curtain of air which ends up blowing downwards.

In a second it must blow down a large volume of air with enough speed to equal the impulse created by gravity in a second.

Basically m_air × v_down = m_plane × gravity × time

The energy you need to do this is the same quadratic, 1/2 m_air × v_down^2

A larger volume of air with a smaller v_down (a huge curtain of air of a fast plane with very wide wings) is more efficient then the smaller disk of air with high velocity of a helicopter.

But if the plane isn't moving forward the curtain has no volume and the plane stalls and falls. But helicopters have no trouble lifting off vertically.
by nomel | 2026-02-05 01:47:24+00:00
> and inefficient

Well acttshually, it's 100% efficient. If you put 1W in, you will get exactly one watt out, steady state. The resulting steady state temperature would be close to watts * steady state thermal resistance of the system. ;)

I don't think you could use the "efficiency" here? The math would be based on thermal resistance. How do you get a percentage from that? If you have a maximum operating temperature, you end up with a maximum operating wattage. Using actual wattage/desired wattage doesn't seem right for "efficiency".
by oldmanhorton | 2026-02-05 01:48:44+00:00
Sure, but this is based on a fundamental trust in governments ability to spend money effectively. The ineffective spending has been in the news way more than the effective spending, so some people take this to mean all of the spending is ineffective.

I don’t know how to square this skepticism of government against very vocal “patriotism” coming from the trump camp, but humans can contain multitudes, I guess?
by btown | 2026-02-05 01:48:57+00:00
> What they don’t know, though, is that a poorly architected system will fail, eventually. As every senior programmer (eventually) understands, our job is complex because we have to understand the relationships in the real world, the processes involved, and the workflows needed, and representing it in a robust way to create a stable system. AI can’t do that.

I have a strong feeling the future's going to look like this:

Company vibe codes to replace a SaaS.

Little do they know this creates a time bomb: fragile systems where fundamental architectural defects are papered over by humans who knew the underlying dynamics but didn't articulate them well enough during the initial "vibe-architecture," so they're forced to patching the "impedance mismatches" with data entry or with even more vibe coding.

Those humans are eventually laid off, because of course they are. Data quality rapidly deteriorates. Operational mishaps deteriorate relationships with human counterparties. Defects begin to cost thousands to millions.

Suddenly, there's demand: not for SaaS, but for actual service businesses. Consultancies that can parachute in, do actual domain-driven design, and un-vibe that code. They do have a stronger-than-ever pool of out-of-work engineers (many from the failed SaaS companies).

The SaaS companies that survive understand that the first S no longer stands for Software; it stands for Solutions.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-05 01:50:52+00:00
> What revelations

His relationship with Epstein and the alleged secret dosing of his wife with antibiotics to clear an STD he gave Melinda from the escorts.

I hadn’t seen Bill’s denial of the STD claim when I made my comment and what went on there is murky according to the below. Bill denies and Melinda expresses sadness. What actually happened?

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

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/business/melinda-bill-gat...
by karteum | 2026-02-05 01:51:01+00:00
I am not native english so maybe it's just me, but I think the title is misleading because it suggests that Debian could be struggling with a situation where developers would massively drift away (my first reaction was "what ?? is there really a significant amount of devs that are leaving Debian now, and why ?"), while actually it's more a discussion on how to bring awareness to a team and encourage developers to better communicate with colleagues when they have a life change that would lower their commitment (which can happen to anyone, and in any project), so that the project can better handle when a developer "drifts away".
by spenvo | 2026-02-05 01:51:19+00:00
"One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path."

OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M
https://www.techmeme.com/260102/p10#a260102p10
by andyferris | 2026-02-05 01:51:21+00:00
The output is the program behavior. You use it, like a user, and give feedback to the coding agent.

If the app is too bright, you tweak the settings and build it again.

Photography used to involve developing film in dark rooms. Now my iPhone does... god knows what to the photo - I just tweak in post, or reshoot. I _could_ get the raw, understand the algorithm to transform that into sRGB, understand my compression settings, etc - but I don't need to.

Similarly, I think there will be people who create useful software without looking at what happens in between. And there will still be low-level software engineers for whom what happens in between is their job.
by panarky | 2026-02-05 01:51:42+00:00
I don't know how to quantify "national appeal", but the Post had about 2.5 million paid subscribers in 2023 and ~800 newsroom staff, while The Atlantic had about 1.1 paid subscribers and ~200 newsroom staff.

Now the Post is down to ~2 million paid subscribers and 500 newsroom staff.

I don't think the Post was known as a slanted project for "the political opposition" during red or blue administrations, but it's got that reputation now.

My claim is that this new slant is responsible for the bulk of the paper's loss of paid subscribers. There's a market for rigorous, fact-checked reporting. Degrading that makes the business worse, not better.
by RyanShook | 2026-02-05 01:51:49+00:00
In terms of useful AI agents, Siri/Apple Intelligence has been behind for so long that no one expects it to be any good.

I used to think this was because they didn’t take AI seriously but my assumption now is that Apple is concerned about security over everything else.

My bet is that Google gets to an actually useful AI assistant before Apple because we know they see it as their chance to pull ahead of Apple in the consumer market, they have the models to do it, and they aren’t overly concerned about user privacy or security.
by huwsername | 2026-02-05 01:52:10+00:00
I don’t believe this was ever confirmed by Apple, but there was widespread speculation at the time[1] that the delay was due to the very prompt injection attacks OpenClaw users are now discovering. It would be genuinely catastrophic to ship an insecure system with this kind of data access, even with an ‘unsafe mode’.

These kinds of risks can only be _consented to_ by technical people who correctly understand them, let alone borne by them, but if this shipped there would be thousands of Facebook videos explaining to the elderly how to disable the safety features and open themselves up to identity theft.

The article also confuses me because Apple _are_ shipping this, it’s pretty much exactly the demo they gave at WWDC24, it’s just delayed while they iron this out (if that is at all possible). By all accounts it might ship as early as next week in the iOS 26.4 beta.

[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/delaying-personalized-s...
by jongjong | 2026-02-05 01:52:56+00:00
Whenever a government offers loans at an interest rate which is below the risk premium, that difference essentially represents the government giving the borrower free money paid for by all citizens through loss of buying power.

So when Japan offered 0% interest loans to traders who used it to buy USD bonds, it represents the Japan government offloading the cost of the risk premium to its citizens and giving the difference to the traders for free... But then the traders give that free money to the US government where it helps to inflate the USD currency supply to make American asset-holders richer.

The traders aren't actually profiting from the carry trade because the 4% return on US bonds doesn't cover the real inflation (loss of buying power) of the US dollar; their net worth in terms of buying power is actually the same or dropping. US asset holders are the ones actually reaping the benefit.
by Cohesix | 2026-02-05 01:53:08+00:00
One small clarification up front, since this tends to get misread:

Cohesix isn’t trying to be a better Linux, a lighter Kubernetes, or a new ML runtime. It’s intentionally not a workload OS.

The problem it’s aimed at is the authority boundary: where control, policy, leases, and revocation live once you already have large, fast-moving OSS stacks on the host. That’s why the VM is aggressively constrained (no_std, no POSIX, no daemons) and why everything reduces to file-shaped operations with explicit budgets and failure modes.

Most of the “use X instead” answers assume you want more power inside the boundary. This goes the other way: remove power there so the remaining behavior is auditable and explainable.

If that tradeoff doesn’t resonate, it’s probably the wrong tool—and that’s OK.
by aboardRat4 | 2026-02-05 01:53:47+00:00
Well, none of the implementations of Marxism in the XX century worked like this, so I dare to disagree.

Of course, you can always say that America is exceptional, and she will have "Marxism with American characteristics", just like China switched from true socialism to "socialism with Chinese characteristics", but would still recommend avoiding the word which associates with GULAG and mass starvation.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-05 01:53:58+00:00
I think there is a contradiction between

> the open-source framework that lets you run Claude, GPT-4, or whatever model you want to

And

> Here’s what people miss about moats: they compound

Swapping an OpenAI for an Anthropic or open weight model is the opposite of compounding. It is a race to the bottom.

> Apple had everything: the hardware, the ecosystem, the reputation for “it just works.”

From what I hear OC is not like that at all. People are going to want a model that reliably does what you tell it to do inside of (at a minimum) the Apple ecosystem.
by thaianhsoft | 2026-02-05 01:54:03+00:00
Today, I decided to burn the boats. I cut off a toxic client who played games with my livelihood. I am selling my motorbike and returning my rented laptop to scrape together the last bit of runway.

For the next 14 days—during the Lunar New Year when everyone rests—I will be living in a local internet café. I told my wife and kids I’m on a business trip so they can enjoy the holiday in peace. In reality, I am going into the trenches.

My plan is clear:

Isolate and ship the "Streamer Bot" module from the DNA architecture immediately for revenue.

Execute the final interviews with local tech firms (Monday is D-Day).

Build in public from the net café.

I don't know if I have a high IQ or if I'm just stubborn. I missed the easy paths (Microsoft/Nvidia) years ago. But right now, my mind is dangerously calm. Hunger clarifies things.

This is my graduation exam. If I fail, I fail trying. But I intend to "cross the mountain ranges"