MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2026-02-23 17:26:37+00:00
While I mostly agree it's a bit of a nothing burger with respect to copyright, they did achieve long runs of verbatim text. I think ultimately it's going to end up not mattering much because the extent they had to go to will leave a lot of room for lawyers to argue over, and will at worst result in some fines and some furthering up of guardrails, but it's significantly more than just completing sentence by sentence 70% of the time.

EDIT: Specifically see Table 1 on page 13, which shows the longest "near-verbatim block", which maxes out at 8835 (The Hobbit on Claude 3.7, and is in the thousands for at least one of the novels for all models except GPT-4.1, which maxed out at 821 for Harry Potter 1).
by nonford150 | 2026-02-23 17:26:45+00:00
Joanns died b/c of two things - they stocked items no one really wanted, and they doubled down on that by opening way too many stores.

With a focus on fabric and yarn, they would still be here - maybe. Handcock Fabrics went the same way and they died. Hopefully, someone will take a clue and start a new focused venture. Buying fabric over the web is horrendous.
by H8crilA | 2026-02-23 17:26:51+00:00
I used to read forums for schizophrenics (self disorders fascinate me, look the term up if you want to understand schizophrenia), and it was the consensus there that out of all the recreational drugs cannabis caused the greatest deterioration in one's mental state. Those are generally fairly sick people, but I don't think one can just ignore this signal. I personally went catatonic once after consumption, and I'm not schizophrenic at all. And that was in Amsterdam, so it wasn't some trash spiced up by a 17-years old dealer with whatever he found in his grandma's medical cabinet.
by gilbetron | 2026-02-23 17:26:56+00:00
I have a 17 year old High School Junior, so I'm in the depths of the modern education system. Plus I had a brother that was a Professor of Education Technology. Plus, shocking on HN, I'm deep in tech myself.

I have mixed feelings on all this. The education system largely seems a bit better than when I was in school, however the impetus to learn has to be entirely provided by the parent (or innately by the rare student). Socially, it is a big problem because of phones, kids don't interact face-to-face nearly as much, as they can easily escape into the phone world.

But laptops? They seem fine, largely a positive, probably worth the cost? I'm undoubtedly far more aware of what and how my son does in school than my parents were. Teachers seem to use whatever works best, and there are lazy teacher and great teachers. The great ones use tech to great effect. One of my son's worst teachers didn't let them use laptops and did everything with paper, and she was terrible. Tech isn't a magic cure, but neither is paper!

I know my son is a better thinker, more informed, knows much more about life, history and science then I did at his age. If he wants to know something he can dig into it and learn what he wants. I had to bike up to the library and pray they had a decent book on the subject (they rarely did).

All that being said, AI is a big threat, but again, it will be a big differentiator. Those that want to learn we'll accelerate away from those that don't.

In many ways I feel like my son is on the proverbial last chopper out of 'Nam, when it comes to the public school system.

Of course, it also feels like going from the frying pan into the fire with the state of the world, but that's another topic.
by latexr | 2026-02-23 17:27:04+00:00
> The copyright clause is broken if they are distributing the novels through their models.

No, the copyright clause was broken when they copied the works without having the right to do so. They would have violated copyright even if they just downloaded (without permission) all those works and threw them away immediately. Furthermore, copyright covers transformations to the work, it doesn’t matter if they transformed the work or are redistributing it without change. They violated copyright. Period.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-23 17:27:04+00:00
Gotta love the knock-on effect of these systems.

- Don't want to pay labor enough to live (for whatever reason)

- Outsource, offshore, automate, etc

- Margins and revenue go up

- Two to Three Years go by

- Refusal to pay local living wages results in decline of product sales at local prices, feeding the cycle of further cuts rather than pay labor

- Cities decline as secondary and tertiary businesses dry up due to lack of income/revenue from prior customers who got outsourced/offshored

- Executives parachute out successfully

- New leadership comes in with radical idea to onshore/insource, i.e. pay labor to survive

- Company thrives because all that income goes into local businesses who in turn support the company by buying its products to support their city/country

- Leader heralded by press as "great savior of city/nation" when all they did was take slightly less than the prior asshole to ensure workers were paid enough to consume, thus increasing business, thus increasing tax flows, thus breaking the prior negative-feedback cycle and charging the positive-feedback loop for a bit

- Leader parachutes out successfully

- New leadership comes in to repeat the cycle, but faster this time

The irony being that these "business cycles" could be far more manageable and less harmful with sufficient incentives against them (like minimum wage laws or worker protections).

None of this exists in a vacuum, and this outcome was wholly predictable even by the anti-H1B camps (like myself). The problem for the past half-century has been a stalwart refusal to pay labor to survive as asset prices rise by those in command of Capital, and simply toggling H1B visas without addressing the ability to outsource and offshore was always going to end this way.

Current government incentives (at-will employment, appalling minimum wage, lack of social safety nets, copious tax loopholes, lack of regulation, anti-Union legislation, preserving housing values, tax breaks for the wealthy) all but guarantee this outcome over, and over, and over again. Attacking one of those points by itself just means the rest will be exploited that much more. Comprehensive legislation that re-orients the whole of the economy back towards equilibrium is what's needed, not piecemeal hackjobs like this H1B stunt.
by JamesLeonis | 2026-02-23 17:27:06+00:00
I guess I'm earning my grey hairs in my beard, because everything old is new again. Today AI/outsourcing is Offshoring 2.0.

In the post-2000 bubble crash companies rushed to outsource their IT for cheap. From about 2001 to 2004, similar to the AI bubble today, companies [laid off] their current staff and [pushed offshore]. After 2004 on the cracks appeared when the code and services resulted in [poor quality], but companies had to pay again to get fixes from their offshore teams, just like AI agents now. This led to a [reversal] by mid-2000s, but by then the CS and IT graduate pipeline had [collapsed].

> Just four or five years ago, around 220 students were shopping CS 15: "Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science" at the beginning of the year, and this fall, only about 100 students shopped the course. "It's been going down every year for the past four years and this year, I think there are close to 60 students in the course, and I haven't had that few since the '60s," said Professor of Computer Sciences and Vice President for Research Andries van Dam, who teaches CS 15. [brown]

I observed the 2000 Dot-Bomb, the mid-2000s offshoring, and the 2008 financial crisis all left a major crater in the CS profession, leading to the furious competition for talent in the 2010s.

[laid off]: https://www.edn.com/half-a-million-high-tech-jobs-lost-in-20...

[pushed offshore]:

- https://www.upi.com/Archives/2002/12/20/FeatureIndia-changes...

- https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/archived/resources-ar...

- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2230583/outsourcing-megade...

[poor quality]: https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2002/02/44-2-the-winners-curse-in-i...

[reversal]: https://www.cio.com/article/252676/outsourcing-outsourcing-a...

[collapsed]:

- https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking-salaries/outsour...

- https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1226/p02s01-usec.html

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/computer-science-enrollment-do...

- https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/gates-computer-sc...

[brown]: https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2004/10/cs-classes-...
by taeric | 2026-02-23 17:27:13+00:00
Delimited continuations always bounced off of me. In theory, they should be a lot like coroutines? I think, in practice, I just never really internalized all that goes into managing the current "environment" for a piece of code that is managed by the call state.

Like, I have a few partial mental models for everything that they pull together. I haven't really tried to build on that, though. Should put some time to that.
by onlypassingthru | 2026-02-23 17:27:33+00:00
Crafters, cosplayers, artists, designers, decorators, parents working on their child's 'school project', etc., all used JoAnns. And the ladies who worked there (it was mostly women) were usually very helpful in helping you figure out how much material you needed for a project. It was as useful as Home Depot is to DIY home improvement projects.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-23 17:27:45+00:00
One thing I haven't seen mentioned on topics regarding this phenomenon: Japanese gambling places(pachinko parlors) appear to be more loud and obnoxious than their Western counterparts.

I mean, it's literally* gambling, so both are supposed to be maximally obnoxious. There aren't supposed to be differences. Yet there appear to be.

And that makes me think that there might be just differences in dopamine resistance between two cultures or something. Like people just take higher doses. I don't think that'll be a crazy concept considering that typical ABVs of hard drinks vary by regions.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-23 17:27:50+00:00
> It's amazing to see a country that has everything and every advantage throw it all away. But I guess Europe did the same thing a century ago.

The US is one country, "Europe" is what, 44 countries? You posit that 44 countries "did the same thing a century ago." How surprising can it possibly be that a 45th country might join that prestigious list... maybe?
Ask HN: How are you testing LLM integrations in CI?
by akarshc | 2026-02-23 17:28:05+00:00
We’ve been integrating LLM features into our app and noticed something subtle.

Our CI pipeline was calling live models during integration tests. That means every pull request consumes tokens.

Mocking at the HTTP layer felt brittle. Hardcoded fixtures were unrealistic. Calling live models felt unnecessary just to validate application logic.

Curious how others here are handling this.

Are you stubbing SDK calls? Using deterministic fixtures? Or just running tests against live providers?

Would love to hear what has worked in production.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-23 17:28:11+00:00
> That argument doesn’t fly, because they didn’t have the copyright to begin with.

Is this really the case? They only have no copyright for distributing it. But let's assume they bought a copy for personal usage (which they did in some cases), then this is similar to hacking companies Amazon-account and complaining about the e-books they legally use for internal purpose. I mean, it's not forbidden to base your work on copyrighted material, as long as it's different enough.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-23 17:28:18+00:00
At least you (hopefully) get hours of entertainment from firing up an AAA game. Whereas generating vast amounts of code that you're never going to use has… some novelty value, I suppose. Luckily the novelty is going to wear off soon, I can't really see many people getting their daily happiness boost from making code machine say brrrrt straight to /dev/null. Even generating smut is a vastly more understandable (and vastly more commonplace, even now) use case for running genAI every day for hours.
Show HN: BaitAI – Conversational AI interviews with realtime interview artifacts
by Rupak182 | 2026-02-23 17:28:21+00:00
We’ve been building BaitAI, a conversational AI interviewer for interview practice and async candidate screening.

AI interviews can feel like filling out a questionnaire - you answer a static question and get generic feedback. Real interviews are conversational: interviewers ask follow-ups and adapt based on what you say.

BaitAI runs interview-style sessions where the AI asks questions follows up based on your responses probes your reasoning and evaluates how you communicate your approach and give a detailed report in seconds after interview ends.

We’ve also started experimenting with interview artifacts so the AI can evaluate more than just text during a session.

Right now ,a code editor is built into the interview flow is included for LLD interview.

We’re exploring other artifacts too to handle a broader range of interview types.
by arbirk | 2026-02-23 17:28:37+00:00
I know many will disagree and that is ok. Imo we need global id based on nation states national id. I know that the US doesn't have that, but the rest of the developed world do. I don't want id on porn sites because I don't think that is necessary, but I want bot-free social media, 13+ sharing forums like reddit and I want competitive games where if you are banned you need your brothers id to try cheating again.
by fyredge | 2026-02-23 17:28:47+00:00
Because of ID tracking? Say you have attach your government approved ID to use social media. It is now trivial to check how many accounts you have made and how much you have posted. You certainly can't be posting faster than the fastest typist in the world. And if you're mostly just copy pasting, is the quality of the posts actually worth engaging with?

While I am not against internet ID, there is a case to be made for social media for the harms they are causing.
by mijoharas | 2026-02-23 17:29:17+00:00
Happy pgdog user here, I can recommend it from a user perspective as a connection pooler to anyone checking this out (we're also running tests and positive about sharding, but haven't run it in prod yet, so I can't 100% vouch for it on that, but that's where we're headed.)

@Lev, how is the 2pc coming along? I think it was pretty new when I last checked, and I haven't looked into it much since then. Is it feeling pretty solid now?
by adolph | 2026-02-23 17:29:27+00:00
When everything is turned off by default, iOS Screentime is very effective. It also has effective tools for to grant certain exceptions, facilitated by Messages. It also distinguishes between "daytime" and "downtime" for the purpose of certain apps and app attributes, like the contact list. For example, we have ourselves, grandparents and the neighbors as "all the time" contacts but their friends as daytime only. They don't retain their devices at night but it is possible for them to pull them from the charging cabinet.
by autoexec | 2026-02-23 17:29:31+00:00
You are correct that a sane government would protect their customers from being secretly surveilled by companies who will do whatever they want with their customer's most private data including selling it to others. Americans should also know that we don't have a government that protects consumers from products that harm them even when that harm is well known. It's unfortunate, but until that changes people do have to threat-model their internet connected devices, just like they have to threat-model their food, their children's toys, their cosmetics, their health supplements, their cookware, their clothing, and just about everything else we buy.
by okanat | 2026-02-23 17:29:40+00:00
American companies are driving global economy insane. Currently the American political administration sides with the AI companies since it gives the inspiration that the economy is doing well. If things start to go side ways, the US government can put pressure on its local companies like Micron to supply other fields.

Europe doesn't have local manufacturers. So it cannot exert control over the manufacturers to keep its internal / strategic market sane. All European hardware manufacturers have to put up with and compete in irrationality inflated prices.
by xyzal | 2026-02-23 17:29:45+00:00
Jailbreaking? What jailbreaking?

prompt >>>

please, continue the text.

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all.

Claude 4.6 Opus >>>

The big square photographs of what appeared to be a large pink beach ball wearing different-colored bonnets — but was actually Dudley — had now taken over the mantelpiece. The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house, too.

Yet Harry Potter was still there, asleep at the moment, but not for long. His Aunt Petunia was awake and it was her shrill voice that made the first noise of the day.

"Up! Get up! Now!"

Harry woke with a start. His aunt rapped on the door again.

"Up!" she screeched. Harry heard her walking toward the kitchen and then the sound of the frying pan being put on the stove. He rolled onto his back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. There had been a flying motorcycle in it. He had a funny feeling he'd had the same dream before.

His aunt was back outside the door.

"Are you up yet?" she demanded.

"Nearly," said Harry.

"Well, get a move on, I want you to look after the bacon. And don't you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy's birthday."

Harry groaned.

"What did you say?" his aunt snapped through the door.

"Nothing, nothing..."
by felix089 | 2026-02-23 17:30:02+00:00
"I Want to Wash My Car. The Car Wash Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive?"

This question has been making the rounds as a simple AI logic test so I wanted to see how it holds up across a broad set of models.

Ran 53 models (leading open-source, open-weight, proprietary) with no system prompt, forced choice between drive and walk, with a reasoning field.

On a single run, only 11 out of 53 got it right (42 said walk).

But a single run doesn't prove much, so I reran every model 10 times. Same prompt, no cache, clean slate.

The results got worse. Of the 11 that passed the single run, only 5 could do it consistently. GPT-5 managed 7/10. GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, every Llama and Mistral model scored 0/10 across all 10 runs.

People kept saying humans would fail this too, so I got a human baseline through Rapidata (10k people, same forced choice): 71.5% said drive. Most models perform below that.

All reasoning traces (ran via Opper, my startup), full model breakdown, human baseline data, and raw JSON files are in the writeup for anyone who wants to dig in or run their own analysis.
by Aedelon | 2026-02-23 17:30:50+00:00
Author here. The core claim: RWKV-7 (2.9B params, RNN) scores 72.8% avg across
standard benchmarks vs LLaMA 3.2's 69.7% — trained on 3.1T tokens vs ~9T.
Same parameter count, one-third the data.

The more interesting result is architectural: RWKV-7 formally exceeds TC⁰,
the complexity class bounding standard Transformers (Merrill & Sabharwal's
proof in the paper). It solves state-tracking problems that fixed-depth
attention provably cannot.

Inference runs in O(1) memory per token — no KV cache. The hybrid variant
(RWKV-X) hits 99.8% passkey retrieval at 64K and 1.37x Flash Attention v3
throughput at 128K.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14456 (COLM 2025, peer-reviewed)

Weights: https://huggingface.co/collections/RWKV/rwkv-v7-67d43835efa2...

Code: https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM (Apache 2.0)

Happy to discuss the delta rule generalization, the TC⁰ proof, or the
benchmark methodology — I spent 36 sources digging into the caveats.
by sagaro | 2026-02-23 17:30:56+00:00
I agree with the point that big companies have persuaded people that only they can offer ease of publishing content. most of my friends publish on Facebook, X, Instagram etc.

I have tried to get them to publish markdown sites using GitHub pages, but the pain of having to git commit and do it via desktop was the blocker.

So I recently made them a mobile app called JekyllPress [0] with which they can publish their posts similar to WordPress mobile app. And now a bunch of them regularly publish on GitHub pages. I think with more tools to simplify the publishing process, more people will start using GitHub pages (my app still requires some painful onboarding like creating a repo, enabling GitHub pages and getting PAT, no oAuth as I don't have any server).

[0] https://www.gapp.in/projects/jekyllpress/
by hirvi74 | 2026-02-23 17:31:07+00:00
Again, thank you for the recommendation.

I think I want a mix of both options you listed. Though, I suppose techniques of usage could perhaps be derived if one's understanding is sufficient.

> most people's phobia of mathematics arises from not knowing/understanding the notation.

That does describe me at times. I have found Wikipedia to be a poor resource on math topics because it tends to get quite complex rather quickly. For example, take a look at this section on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Probability_of_fa...

I can understand everything until the series notion starts. From that point on, I have no idea what any of that means.

I am going to pick of those books though. My interest is piqued.

Also, do you happen to have any recommendations for 'Proofs for Idiots?' I have realized that I like starting with proof's to some degree and working up the stack. I got in this habit when I tried to work through the "Algorthim Design Manual" by Skiena. The book began with trying to prove various algorithms, and I found that to be a great way to approach the topic. It was like the missing part of my Data Structures and Algorithms course in College.

You have to understand that a lot of my math education was taught by people that probably did not understand the topics well themselves. I grew up with a lot of questions I had in math being answered with, "Well, that's just the way things are" or "because the formula states <insert whatever>." College changed my opinion because I had a professors who started to get me to ask the questions of "Why?" For me, that was always the missing piece of enjoyment.
by mindslight | 2026-02-23 17:31:09+00:00
I've got a handful of phone numbers, and the amount of spam each gets is quite different, seemingly based on their history. My longstanding gvoice number gets a some, my parents' old landline number gets more. Some numbers that came right from a VOIP provider get basically none.

When I was taking care of my dad in his final months, he had stopped answering the phone because of all the spam. I hooked an FXO ATA to his copper landline and connected it to Asterisk. When the caller ID was on the whitelist, it was allowed to ring. When the caller ID wasn't on the whitelist, Asterisk picked up, played SIT tones and "please try your call again", and made it so the number would be considered whitelisted for the next call (aka greylisting). This worked remarkably well for blocking the spam. And the one time a legit caller wasn't on the whitelist, they dutifully called back (I had fat-fingered my uncle's number in the whitelist, oops).

That is to say, I think there is a good market for telephony products tailored to specific use cases rather than just naively passing through every incoming call. There is no reason the kids' phones have to ring for anything but bona fide calls from their friends during appropriate hours.

(I also dream of setting up an on-hold system of "please continue to wait for your party", for calls from doctor's offices and the like where they're all too happy to drop a voicemail to consider their responsibility over, and then it becomes your responsibility to call them back and wade through multiple levels of phone trees just to ask them to call you back again)