MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-13 00:04:02+00:00
I used to use discord for games a long time ago, but then I noticed it was being used for more serious stuff. For example, LLVM moved their chats from mailinglists to discord, as did a lot of open source projects. These are big, important projects, and now their chats are not discoverable and will soon be behind ID checks.

It really bothered me that so many important projects were relying on a proprietary chat technology instead of using mailinglists or IRC which were more decentralized and under the control of the local admin.

I would like to get back to a situation in which you can participate in group chats for open source projects without these being hosted on closed platforms, but if this results in major open source projects shifting from discord to telegram or whatsapp, then nothing will have been learned.
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-13 00:04:09+00:00
8 USC 1451

>It shall be the duty of the United States attorneys for the respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause therefor, to institute proceedings in any district court of the United States in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside at the time of bringing suit, for the purpose of revoking and setting aside the order admitting such person to citizenship and canceling the certificate of naturalization on the ground that such order and certificate of naturalization were illegally procured

It would have been illegal for, as a random example, a Bangladeshi immigrant to become a citizen until 1952. As in that citizenship was illegally procured.

So I’ll ask you directly, should we use these two laws to denaturalize everyone who, as you put it, “committed fraud”?

And what of the children of these “fraudsters”, why should they inherit citizenship from someone who never had it legally?

You are the one willfully misunderstanding the things you yourself are quoting.

> Nobody is talking about enforcing that provision.

You are. You brought up this 1906 law. You are defending its use today to denaturalize citizens.
by Insanity | 2026-02-13 00:04:40+00:00
I don’t think it’s different. Recoverable == Reversible to an extend. Unless you take reversible in the strictest sense of “undo” it’s different. But you can’t “undo” a leadership decision, all you can do is later correct it and recover.

So imo it’s splitting hairs over the same outcome.

An example - say you introduce 5 day return to office. Half you staff leaves and you now go back to a flexible work from home model. You don’t “undo” the damage done, but you can recover. It was a costly 2-way door.
by pjeide | 2026-02-13 00:05:01+00:00
Very unimpressive issue reporting.

"The issue identified it as a problem"... what?

--

Elevated 500 Errors in Some US Regions

Update - We are still investigating the root cause for this incident. us-east-2 region isn’t receiving any network traffic at this point. We are also seeing some API request errors in other US regions, but not as high as us-east-2.
Feb 12, 2026 - 23:58 UTC

Update - We continue to see increased levels of 500 errors across US-West and US-East regions. Our engineering team is investigating the issue.
Feb 12, 2026 - 22:57 UTC

Update - The issue identified it as a problem in US-West with some impact in US-East and the impact seems to be primarily on reads rather than writes.
Feb 12, 2026 - 22:37 UTC

Investigating - We have identified increasing 500 errors in some US regions and are actively investigating the cause.
Feb 12, 2026 - 21:32 UTC
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-13 00:05:08+00:00
> if you're illegal and get caught doing something you should not have done, then there's grounds for deportation.

So, the act of crossing the border without permission is fine?

> That's interesting. Where do you draw the line?

I draw the line in this particular case (and I have not spent time to learn more about his legal troubles, but assuming it was an honest mistake and he was careless w.r.t. hiring proper legal help to know implications on his immigration status) that this person served in the military and had a permanent residency that he lost due to a plea + his age, then yeah.

However, a random person crossing the border? No, they should be deported, and it does not matter if they are black, brown, or a tall Scandinavian blond.

> There's purposely looking for people to deport

Isn't it the whole purpose of the agency? Are there countries with functioning governments that have no ICE-like agency that is responsible to find and deport illegal immigrants?

> Again, if the tactics they're using causes US citizens to carry their own documentation, there's something seriously wrong.

I agree. That being said, I would think we have to examine how we got to this point, and I am not sure the answers and the conclusions would be good for both sides of the isle.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-13 00:05:26+00:00
The term “model” is one of those super overloaded terms. Depending on the conversation it can mean:

- a product (most accurate here imo)

- a specific set of weights in a neural net

- a general architecture or family of architectures (BERT models)

So while you could argue this is a “model” in the broadest sense of the term, it’s probably more descriptive to call it a product. Similarly we call LLMs “language” models even if they can do a lot more than that, for example draw images.
by gcanyon | 2026-02-13 00:05:45+00:00
> And they didn't have sugar daddy (Google) willing to burn several billions a year for many years.

Tesla's market cap is $1.3 trillion. Granted the company itself doesn't have access to all of that, but surely if they wanted to spend, say, $10 billion per year on something big like FSD, they could have.

> didn't have the luxury of adding $50k to the cost of the car for the hardware

A little more extreme, but: Tesla has sold something like 8.5 million cars total. If they simply dumped an extra $50K of material into every single one of those cars without raising the price a dime, that would be only $425 billion. That's a ridiculous sum of money, but still <checks notes> substantially less than $1.3 trillion.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-13 00:05:52+00:00
> You poor summer child.

Being condescending doesn't help your case.

Link-bombing me with stories about Bitcoin scammers and South Korean telegram scams has nothing to do with your claim that politicians are using Discord to blackmail people about their porn habits.

If state-level spy agencies wanted to spy on someone's porn habits, they do not need to kindly ask Discord to collect that person's ID.
by iib | 2026-02-13 00:06:01+00:00
This is really nice to know. I remember trying to compile pandoc to Wasm after finding out that ghc had Wasm support, hitting all kinds of problems and then realising that there was no real way to post an issue to Haskell's gitlab repo without being pre-approved.

I guess now with LLMs, this makes more sense than ever, but it was a frustrating experience.
by danny_codes | 2026-02-13 00:06:34+00:00
We must differentiate between capital and land. They aren’t the same thing. OP is saying that his landlord is profiting off land. This is indeed doing nothing, and has nothing to do with the time value of money, in the sense that the time value of money is due to capital, not land.

This is a common misunderstanding. Henry George made it very clear in the 1890s where the distinction lies.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-13 00:06:37+00:00
Or perhaps those who saw this blog post by Waymo itself:

Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles

Much like phone-a-friend, when the Waymo vehicle encounters a particular situation on the road, the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to contextualize its environment. The Waymo Driver does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times. As the Waymo Driver waits for input from fleet response, and even after receiving it, the Waymo Driver continues using available information to inform its decisions. This is important because, given the dynamic conditions on the road, the environment around the car can change, which either remedies the situation or influences how the Waymo Driver should proceed. In fact, the vast majority of such situations are resolved, without assistance, by the Waymo Driver.

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

In other words, much like Waymo tries to put a nice spin on it, their cars are not fully autonomous and despite the wording of the article above, they are not "operating a fully autonomous service". Nor can the Waymo Driver "confidently navigate the "long tail" of one-in-a-million events" it "regularly encounter[s] when driving millions of miles a week".

They have remote safety drivers. Not fully autonomous. "Fully autonomous" is their aspiration marketing, but not their current reality.
by ramblenode | 2026-02-13 00:06:53+00:00
Most of China's large projects are actually some type of competition with the US. The Tianjin Grand Bridge was basically built to eclipse the Causeway and showcase China's engineering prowess. The massive Shanghai subway buildout was a direct challenge to New York City's subway hegemony. Those 20+ story pig towers? Totally unnecessary way to do farming, but a source of national pride when compared to the already impressive scale of US factory farming. China is building record numbers of both solar and coal plants, which seem to be at environmental cross-purposes, but it makes sense when you consider they are trying to beat the US at both clean AND dirty energy. It's in the five-year plan.
by sitole | 2026-02-13 00:07:57+00:00
Support for nested virtualization has been added to the main SDKs. In the us-west-2 region, you can already see the "Nested Virtualization" option and use it with the new M8id, C8id, and R8id instance types.

This is really big news for micro-VM sandbox solutions like E2B, which I work on.
Show HN: Promptscout a local prompt enricher for Claude Code
by obsfx | 2026-02-13 00:07:59+00:00
I use Claude Code daily and got tired of repeatedly listing relevant files in prompts. So I built promptscout: a small local tool that takes your prompt + repo file tree and enriches the prompt with the most relevant files/paths, so Claude has a better starting point.

It uses a quantized Qwen 3 4B model and runs fully on your machine. I also added a Claude Code plugin via UserPromptSubmit that calls the CLI and swaps in the enriched prompt before the request goes to Claude.
by troad | 2026-02-13 00:09:05+00:00
Why would you have to switch languages? There are no languages with 'no GC', there are only languages with no GC by default.

Take C - you can either manually manage your memory with malloc() and free(), or you can #include a GC library (-lgc is probably already on your system), and use GC_malloc() instead. Or possibly mix and match, if you're bold and have specific needs.

And if ever some new revolutionary GC method is developed, you can just replace your #include. Cutting-edge automatic memory management forever.
by batteryphil | 2026-02-13 00:09:22+00:00
[Technical Explainer] Project PRIMAL: Shadowless 4-Bit TrainingI’ve spent the last few weeks trying to solve the "Shadow Weight Tax." Standard Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) is often a memory lie—it claims to be 4-bit, but it keeps a hidden FP32 master copy to accumulate gradients. This doubles VRAM requirements and kills the dream of training on consumer-grade legacy hardware like the GTX 1080 Ti.Project PRIMAL is an attempt to delete shadow weights entirely and train a 0.1B parameter model directly on a discrete integer grid.1. The Core Hack: The Prime-Harmonic GridInstead of linear INT4, I’ve implemented a 13-value grid derived from prime reciprocals ($\pm 1, \pm 1/2, \pm 1/3 \dots$).The Logic: This concentrates precision around zero, creating a "natural" bell curve that mimics the weight distribution of dense models without the overhead of floating-point math.Efficiency: Stored in 4-bit nibbles, this allows for high-precision "Fine" layers without the memory footprint of FP16.2. The "Poltergeist" OptimizerTo solve Stochastic Thrashing (the oscillation caused by gradients being smaller than the discrete weight steps), I developed Decoupled Flipping:Vote Buffering: Gradients cast a "Vote" into an int8 buffer rather than touching the weights.Consensus: We only flip a discrete bit once the buffer shows a strong net signal (e.g., +4 net votes over multiple micro-batches).Adaptive Probability: Weight magnitude determines "flip-resistance," stabilizing the model as it converges.3. Telemetry on a GTX 1080 Ti (11GB):Throughput: ~5,800 - 6,000 Tokens/Sec.VRAM Health: 10.37 GB (94% saturation) with zero leakage over 18+ hours.Semantic Emergence: The model has progressed from random noise to forming complex concepts like "evaluate video system damages" at Step 11,650.4. Process & AI DisclosureI am a solo researcher using AI as a force multiplier. I collaborated with Gemini 3 Flash for CUDA kernel refinement, documentation structuring, and logic stress-testing. The "Poltergeist" consensus logic and the Prime-Harmonic math are the core of the research, while AI assisted in accelerating the low-level implementation.
by jimmymcgee73 | 2026-02-13 00:09:31+00:00
If LLMs truly cause widespread replacement of labor, you’re screwed just as much as anyone else. If we hit say 40% unemployment do you think people will care you own your home or not? Do you think people will care you have currency or not? The best case outcome will be universal income and a pseudo utopia where everyone does ok. The “bad” scenario is widespread war.

I am one of the “haves” and am not looking forward to the instability this may bring. Literally no one should.
Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
by MatiasLaudonio | 2026-02-13 00:09:53+00:00
I’ve been thinking about a product/feature idea for social media apps and I’d love feedback from builders and product people.

The core concept is adding context-based modes to the feed. Instead of one mixed algorithmic feed, users could intentionally switch modes depending on what they want to do at that moment:

Sports mode: only sports-related content, with the ability to select specific sports (e.g. soccer, gym, running) or general sports.

Study mode: users select topics they are studying (e.g. programming, digital marketing, design), and the feed shows only content related to those topics.

Work mode: users choose professional interests (e.g. sales, automation, finance, entrepreneurship) and see only work-related content.

News mode: choose countries/regions or worldwide

Entertainment mode: for casual browsing and relaxation.

Kids mode: a protected mode for children, showing only age-appropriate, curated content with strong filtering and parental controls.

Friends mode: a feed focused only on friends’ posts, or content related to what your friends like and interact with.

Users could also:
Combine modes
Create custom modes
Switch back to the normal mixed feed anytime
The goal is to reduce distraction, feed fatigue, and cognitive overload, and make social media more intentional depending on the user’s current context (focus, learn, relax, family, social).
Many people avoid social media during work or study because the mixed feed is too distracting. Parents also struggle with giving kids safe access. This approach would let users stay on the platform while aligning the feed with their current goals and responsibilities.
From a product and technical perspective,
Would you personally use something like this?
Do you think this would improve retention and long-term satisfaction, or conflict with engagement-based algorithms?
What challenges (UX, ML, safety, business incentives) do you see with this approach?
Appreciate any honest feedback.
by BeetleB | 2026-02-13 00:10:14+00:00
Nope, it's exactly what it says: RECOMMENDED.

Any time any document (standards or otherwise) says something is recommended, then of course you should think it through before going against the recommendation. Going from their verbiage to:

> SHOULD is effectively REQUIRED unless it conflicts with another standards requirement or you have a very specific edge case.

is a fairly big leap.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-13 00:13:10+00:00
It can be reasonable to be skeptical that advances on benchmarks may be only weakly or even negatively correlated with advances on real-world tasks. I.e. a huge jump on benchmarks might not be perceptible to 99% of users doing 99% of tasks, or some users might even note degradation on specific tasks. This is especially the case when there is some reason to believe most benchmarks are being gamed.

Real-world use is what matters, in the end. I'd be surprised if a change this large doesn't translate to something noticeable in general, but the skepticism is not unreasonable here.
by netsharc | 2026-02-13 00:13:13+00:00
> However, I just don't see that kind of attitude coming out of China.

And if it was the US? Well I don't see that attitude from the US of 2025-present, or 2017-2021.

And what about the Europeans? https://geopolitique.eu/en/2026/02/12/the-unravelling-of-the...

At least the Chinese rulers saw how smog was choking Beijing, and maybe they decided to try to technology their way into breathable air, compared to the US ruling class, who'd rather take oil/coal lobbyist money. Or EU ruling class, who liked BMW, VW and Mercedes-lobbyist money...

As a nice side effect, the Chinese tech will be needed all over the world. If you can't rule the world by controlling the oil (by bombs or being friends with Saudis), why not look at the next tech and try to rule that.. Paul Krugman was writing during Dubya's dumb regime how the US was surrendering the lead on climate technology to China...
by titanomachy | 2026-02-13 00:14:15+00:00
I think it makes a lot of sense. Like if you have a $100k empty lot taxed at 1% of total value, and you build a $200k house on it, then your taxes go from $1k to $3k, which somewhat disincentivizes building. You might feel pretty comfortable sitting on the lot at $1k/year, especially if values are increasing at more than a few % per year. But if you tax only the land at 3%, then your taxes are already $3k. There’s no disincentive to build, and it’s a lot more uncomfortable to sit on that empty lot, so you develop it or sell it to someone who will.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 00:14:17+00:00
>Choosing to go and exterminate the local population in response is not defense.

The Mormons were not the United Citizen Federation, they were an independent group. The bugs indiscriminately attacked all humans in response.

>exterminating the native population to make room

The problem with this comparison is the bugs aren't humans. Extending human-like moral weight to even non-human mammals is a rare idea (most people aren't vegans). Extending it to non-mammals is even more rare (most vegans don't care about the insects killed in farming). Extending it to literally alien bugs, that don't even share the evolutionary history of Earth bugs with us, is an incredibly niche idea. And this situation is symmetrical, so the alien bugs almost certainly have the same attitude toward humans. There's no reason to think that peaceful coexistence is possible.
by themanmaran | 2026-02-13 00:14:53+00:00
Github doesn't show timestamps in the UI, but they do in the HTML.

Looking at the timeline, I doubt it was really autonomous. More likely just a person prompting the agent for fun.

> @scottshambaugh's comment [1]: Feb 10, 2026, 4:33 PM PST

> @crabby-rathbun's comment [2]: Feb 10, 2026, 9:23 PM PST

If it was really an autonomous agent it wouldn't have taken five hours to type a message and post a blog. Would have been less than 5 minutes.

[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecom...

[2] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecom...
by duskwuff | 2026-02-13 00:14:56+00:00
> Things like [...] are now considered table stakes.

One other feature that's absolutely considered table stakes now is persistent server-side history, with the ability to edit and delete messages. Modern chat services are less like IRC, and more like a web forum with live updates.

(Yes, you can poorly emulate server-side history on IRC with a bouncer. That's not enough, and it's a pain for users to set up.)
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-13 00:14:57+00:00
There is something wrong with the thinking machines, I don't disagree... this is the new reality. I aim now to understand it.

the AI gave me a solution that works for since I'm using Windows primarily these days (granted, the latest nonsense has me wanting to install linux, but every time I give in and go that route, I'm playing the meta game of managing linux. That was fine when I was a kid learning, but now I just want a machine that works. I evolved to just accept the defaults from windows, so I could move faster and adapted myself to that world.

I was fairly content with my setup using IntelliJ and WSL2 except Microsoft crapped the bed and ruined performance for how disk access works between folders shared between Windows and Linux. This was the perfect set up for me, I got the OS that mostly works without too much headache or meta games plus a nice server-like environment that I'm comfortable with.

Still, I had a situation that worked well enough and I could muddle on as the #1 reason I use IntelliJ is that that JVM is a magic box. I love the fact that I can run a unit test in IDE, and get code coverage like a junkie. Now, the cool kids will all go "eew, Java" or "eew, IDE" which I find hilarious because Java and the IDE let me retire doing infrastructure work, so I don't fit in to the zeitgeist with all the things that seem to break all the time.

The key problem I was solving was more of matter of convenience where I wanted the titles of my terminals to stop changing since I was forgetting the context of each claude window. Combine that with claude using a tremendous amount of memory. I decided to rent a server to offload my work to a better machine with real linux, and then on a lark... I gave claude a single prompt that was like three paragraphs, and it popped out the first version of crank that worked the first time.

It was eye opening. Now, was it great, no... but it worked and after a few prompts it shaped up into something usable. This, to me, is amazing. I have not read the code at all, and I have solved a pain point that I was having. Now, I do have new pain points, but for just working across 15 claude code instances all scoped to working directories for me, it's kind of amazing. I have a dashboard that gives me a new command view, and I'm blown away. I can annotate each terminal with some ideas of what I want to do. Does it have bugs? yes, but has it improved my velocity and made life easier. Yes!

The game that I've spent my entire life playing has changed. Software can be extremely personal. Software can be tailored to me rather than learning another persons config or setup. I can have my own camp rather than buying in to some popular what ever or what not.

My mind is blown on so many fronts, and I'm going to release everything I do. I'm going to vibe code an entire mountain of garbage with exactly one customer in mind: me.
by asdff | 2026-02-13 00:15:44+00:00
It is difficult to simply raise prices when your business is not a necessity but a luxury, because there is a tipping point where customers will decide they can just do without whatever you have on offer. Customers can be awfully price sensitive beyond even what would be economically rational. They might balk at a pint of beer going up by $3 while they pull down four or five figures of income a month.
by WJW | 2026-02-13 00:16:35+00:00
I don't even know how you got to "used twice" tbh. Both your own comment AND the post you quoted from only have a single "must".

The only thing that text demands is understanding and carefully weighing the implications. If, having done that, you conclude that you don't want to then there is absolutely nothing in the spec stopping you. Maybe the spec would have been better off putting more stuff in SHALL and less in SHOULD, but as written that is definitely not the case.