MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hulitu | 2026-02-12 14:24:54+00:00
"In particular, we sometimes make legally-required updates, which are modifications that keep digital content, services, or goods in conformity with the law. We make these updates to our digital content, services, and goods for safety or security reasons, and to make sure they meet the quality standards that you expect, such as those described in the Legal guarantee section. We may automatically install updates that address significant safety or security risks. For other updates, you can choose whether you want them installed."

"We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make on YouTube videos."
by Amezarak | 2026-02-12 14:25:21+00:00
It’s important to note that fiction does not map to reality. It’s fiction. You cannot learn how the world works through fiction. It’s just the author’s ideas about the world in a narrative framework that may or may not be true.

I find it very frustrating when people confuse the two. Reading fiction doesn’t give you an interpretive lens for reality. Reading history does. Saying this is “just like when in Harry Potter / Star Wars / Star Trek x happened” is totally meaningless and not predictive of anything in the real world.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-02-12 14:25:40+00:00
First, how about if you show that you've spent more than five seconds thinking about why every democratic country on earth uses secret ballots? Why are secret ballots codified in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?

There are other parts of your scheme that are also spectacularly bad ideas, but let's just deal with this one for now.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-12 14:25:43+00:00
It's a mix of trying to look blasé, of believing that a superficial knowledge of how they work is enough to dismiss them as purely mechanical, and probably genuine fear and denial for the implications of their existence.

LLMs are not just intelligent, they're general intelligences in that they're not limited to a single task (such as a chess-playing AI or a voice-recognition AI) but they're capable of any task that can be performed with text as input and output (which doesn't mean it's just text manipulation, the internals are not limited to text).
by andsoitis | 2026-02-12 14:25:45+00:00
Sounds like their life has been affected horribly.

Not sure what the relevance of the story is for us here, but I will pick one thing that baffles me. Why sue the medical professionals rather than hold the parents responsible? Aren't they the person's legal guardian? Do we really want to outsource that responsiblity to the state or private institutions? It is incoherent to say on the one hand "parents rights" (against the state) but on the other hand disclaim accountability.
by utopiah | 2026-02-12 14:25:48+00:00
Right... tbh it's a bit like Flock or Ring. Yes sure it's potentially bad (probably is already but leaving some room for doubt).

Yet, it's pointless when people VOLUNTEER they private information to corporate actors who happily give EVERYTHING to the highest bidder or, when they have to, for free to governments who ask.

So... sure, be worried of that, be worried of networks of cameras but and more if you ALREADY give everything away, don't be worried, just embrace it! I'm not even being sarcastic here.
by unicorn_cowboy | 2026-02-12 14:25:56+00:00
You can also use this to set yourself up for success at the end of the day by closing/zero-ing out everything, and then just starting the first thing you need to do the next day. Then when you start work the next day, you've already got a feeling of momentum because your space is clear, your focus is set, and you've already started the task.
by muzani | 2026-02-12 14:26:03+00:00
I've been mostly using GPT-5 (the first) recently because it's better than 5.1 and 5.2. There's a clear difference. They're removing it next week; I'm canceling my subscription to ChatGPT.

This happens all across the board. Sometimes to Anthropic. Almost every time with Gemini. They optimize for some solutions and cause problems to others. Some people want a syncopathic AI like GPT-4o.

Personally, I loved the early patched GPT-5's ability to jailbreak itself. It was clearly a bug; great at finding solutions and skirting the absolute edges of the guardrails. They got rid of it because someone used this to override safety guardrails and commit suicide.

ChatGPT has nearly a billion active users. As long as they keep trying to please all of them, win the next 1 billion, and avoid being banned by governments, they're going to keep doing this.

The fix is to have your own model that works for a particular problem and self-host it or something. I still have a pet Mistral NeMo.
by infecto | 2026-02-12 14:26:48+00:00
I assume he was using Gemini the same way as he was Claude when I make the following statement.

I don’t believe it’s exceptionally unique or new that companies will revoke access if you are using an unpublished API that the apps use. I don’t see anything wrong with it myself. If you want, pay for normal token use on the published APIs. There is no expectation that you can use APIs for an application, even if you are a paid user, that are not published explicitly for usage.
by bagacrap | 2026-02-12 14:26:53+00:00
The point of the policy is explained very clearly. It's there to help humans learn. The bot cannot learn from completing the task. No matter how politely the bot ignores the policy, it doesn't change the logic of the policy.

"Non violent communication" is a philosophy that I find is rooted in the mentality that you are always right, you just weren't polite enough when you expressed yourself. It invariably assumes that any pushback must be completely emotional and superficial. I am really glad I don't have to use it when dealing with my agentic sidekicks. Probably the only good thing coming out of this revolution.
by haxsyn | 2026-02-12 14:26:57+00:00
Co-founder of Quicknode here. We made this because we kept running into the same thing: really sharp engineers who wrote off crypto years ago and never looked back. Fair enough, honestly. But the stack today looks nothing like it did then. Sub-second finality, sub-cent transactions, real apps with real users paying real fees. Curious what this community thinks. Are the use cases landing, or does it still feel like a solution looking for a problem?
by krapp | 2026-02-12 14:27:13+00:00
The reason you live in a stable democracy with a historically unprecedented standard of living is that generations of unhappy and frustrated people made it so. It certainly isn't thanks to the people satisfied with the status quo, who maintained faith in either the virtue of the Church or the Crown. Progress depends on unreasonable people doing unreasonable things like killing monarchs and nailing theses to church doors.

>It’s not perfect, but the idea that judges should not use judgement and compassion in the application of the law just seems nuts.

I agree with you. They should. Absolutism in terms of the law reduces to fascism, and even the "code is law" crowd discover religion as soon as they realize code can have loopholes just as laws can. But we shouldn't assume by default that the courts will act fairly, because they won't, they will act in their own interests as all power structures do, and fairly only when fairness isn't a threat to those interests.

For the same reason we shouldn't assume software created by humans and controlled by the those very same power structures would be any better.
by allknowingfrog | 2026-02-12 14:27:27+00:00
Everyone acts like the electoral college was a blunder. The founding fathers studied the democracies of ancient Greece, and they made a very intentional choice to guard against unfettered democracy. You were supposed to be involved in local politics, where you could actually know and evaluate your representatives. Those representatives were supposed to make national decisions on your behalf, including choosing the president.

I'm not qualified to know who will make a good president. You probably aren't either. Pushing the process further into American Idol territory would make it worse, not better.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-12 14:27:33+00:00
> even they are limited by what Americans will allow and we see it as they fret and adjust when there’s strong pushback.

But that doesn't change their goal. They have openly stated what they want, the fact that courts have sometimes intervened or that fig leaves have been given doesn't change the long-term goal.

Were they retreating on ICE when they said they want them at polling stations? It seems like an escalation to me.
by deaux | 2026-02-12 14:27:40+00:00
That applies the exact same way when talking about buying a new Revuelto from Lamborghini, or even a hamburger from McD's. There's nothing special about Trillion.ai's profit, nor its emissions, that make it any different. If I want to do either of those, and I don't want to feel guilty about it, then I need to make sacrifices elsewhere. A lot more sacrifices than if I spent a day using Trillion.ai to write some code, in truth.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-02-12 14:27:49+00:00
Real world evidence doesn't seem to validate this position.

For example - The ratio of government employees (including contractors) to US population is at an all time high[1], and the ratio of GDP to government expense is at an all time high[2].

It should be obvious if you have a profilgate printer priting dollars left and right, and the printer's controllers livelyhood depends on the printer working, workers will eventually lease printing to anyone willing to pay the controllers.

Thus, doesn't seem like a problem of wealthy people to me. You are always going to have wealthy people in any society. But it seems the fault is at having a printer, and letting people who aren't your neighbor, to control it.

I'm open minded in this being a "Chicken or egg" Problem. But I'd need to hear a compelling argument for it.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-true-size-of-governme...

[2] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA
Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
by th0th | 2026-02-12 14:28:02+00:00
Hey everyone,

My name is Gokhan, I built PoeticMetric, it is a free and open source web analytics tool. I need your opinion about something.

PoeticMetric is on github right now, but because I am not happy with M$ I am moving it (along with everything else I have on github) to a self-hosted forgejo instance. But I am worried that it is going to cause friction for people who might want to contribute (not that it happens too often but I don't want to discourage that rare kind of people).

I didn't enable registrations on forgejo, I don't have time to deal with spam. So using forgejo for issues and pull requests won't work, also even if I enable registrations I think it is too big of a hassle for people to create an account on a separate platform to contribute to a project.

What I am thinking of is that, I keep a mirror on github, utilize issues and PRs there. And when a PR is merged, I am going to manually sync the original repository. I am not 100% happy with this because 1. this way I don't totally leave github, 2. the syncing manually is tedious, 3. project's issues history is on github and it is going to be vendor-locked. But I can't think of any better way.

The only other way I can think of is that, I can use something like a forum for issues, but again, it is not going cover pull requests.

What do you think would work this case?
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-12 14:28:11+00:00
Hopefully there's still MAD (mutually assured destruction). That is, the US has (I presume) a rather formidable array of cyber offensive capabilities. Anyone thinking of cyber attacking the US might find that concerning - hopefully concerning enough that they decide that an attack isn't worth it.

I mean, I'd far rather that that US had both offensive capability and a solid defense. But the situation is not totally hopeless - or so I hope.
by eggy | 2026-02-12 14:28:32+00:00
A lot of effort under Biden was to make diinformation a big push and they offloaded work to third parties, so I'd be curious to know how many of the firings or resignations came from the government being pulled away from censorship in league with social media as opposed to losing harscore cybersecurity professionals. Makes me want to jump back on the cybersecurity bandwagon. I think the the CISA and NSA mandate for memory-safe software roadmap is good. I'm more of a SPARK 2014 fan than Rust, but I think by 2027, I'll shift to 30% focus on Rust and see where the government contracts go. I'm building a high-integrity secure, mostly formally verified automation and controls software for a state-of-the-art portable hoist able to function in aerospace that I am also co-engineering with my partner inventor.
by noodletheworld | 2026-02-12 14:28:44+00:00
> push notifications to my frontend iOS

> It all kinda just works.

> Can usability test in-tandem.

Man, people say this kind of thing, and I go… really? …because I use Claude code, and an iOS MCP server (1) and hot damn I would not describe the experience as “just works”.

What MCP and model are you using to automate the testing on your device and do automated QA with to, eg. verify your native device notifications are working?

My experience is that Claude is great at writing code, but really terrible at verifying that it works.

What are you using? Not prompts; like, servers or tools or whatever, since obviously Claude doesn’t support this at all out of the box.

(1) - specifically, this one https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp
by angiolillo | 2026-02-12 14:28:48+00:00
> My take is that modern culture just doesn't want kids.

This is true for many people. I know a few childfree couples that you could offer them a hefty salary to raise kids and they would decline.

However I know even more people who ended up having fewer kids than they would have liked, especially when I lived in a big city. Typically because they couldn't find a suitable partner, got divorced and remarried too late to have kids, found raising their current child(ren) challenging enough that they didn't think they could handle another, or reevaluated their preferences after watching friends and neighbors struggling.

> It doesn't matter how cheap you make having a family, for many it's just not remotely the same culture as it was 50-70 years ago.

For many, sure. But for other people addressing the root causes (of which cost is one) can move the needle.
by vessenes | 2026-02-12 14:28:54+00:00
You’re missing, somewhat gleefully, most of the history of western art, which you could imagine as split between patronage-based art (have you heard of the Sistine Chapel, for instance?) and vernacular art - where things like genre storytelling and family portraits come from.

Broadly speaking, vernacular artists work for a fucking living; it’s rare there (like in most pursuits) to get super rich. We can’t all be David Baldacci or Danielle Steele.

NB: Thanks to Neal Stephenson for the best essay on this. He calls genre artists “Beowulf” artists.
by getnormality | 2026-02-12 14:28:58+00:00
Yes, we can temporarily redefine goals and motivations for the sole purpose of this conversation, such that a thermostat has goals and motivations. But when we return to the real world, will this be helpful to us? Is that actually what we want from those words?

If we redefine goals and motivations this broadly, then AI is nothing new, because we've had technology with goals and motivations for hundreds if not thousands of years. And the world of the computer age is one big animist pantheon.
by toss1 | 2026-02-12 14:29:28+00:00
So, the 'administration' specifically demands pharmaceutical companies move production to the US.

Then, when they do, and invest "hundreds of millions of dollars running Phase 3 trials enrolling over 43,000 participants based on FDA guidance..." to ge a new product approved, they get zero consideration.

Why would the executives not look at this and say "why should we remain based in the US at all?", and just move headquarters to a more business-friendly country?

Sure, the US is a big market, but if one cannot get anything close to a fair treatment of your products, you have no ability to work in that market anyway.

We have a true kakistocracy, a government by the worst, most corrupt, and least qualified.
by anon_IT_fed | 2026-02-12 14:29:33+00:00
This is a good thing. CISA was run by a bunch of BAH consultants that loved to push 8-9 digit cyber security software / license requirements to agencies with no thoughts on how to pay for it. Cyber security in federal is one big circle jerk. Cyber vendors pay into non-profits to write whitepapers why you need X, Y, Z software. This in turn was pushed by IT consultants from the major System Integrators, whom CIO's loved to bend the knee to because that was their near retirement career path. CISA would eventually push these as requirements, with even a bribe of "use our contract, we'll pay for year 1" but no idea how to pay for future years.

I work in a cabinet level agency running an $350M IT program. I'm good what I do, including cyber. We're too focused on paperwork compliance and vendor agents that provide little to no value for 8-9 digit annual costs.

Anonymous Account because I'd like to keep my job.
by FMecha | 2026-02-12 14:29:44+00:00
>users can always move to other platforms (problem #1)

Until the cycle restarts again with new platforms.

Also, I am convinced self-hosting or getting a new platform (including return to traditional forums) to run might as well be bureaucratically harder at this point, given the case of lfgss' shutdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433044
by EQmWgw87pw | 2026-02-12 14:30:22+00:00
You’re making a logical leap, how can you say only money has value when things are worth money? That item has value equivalent to the money given for it, therefore that item has value. It’s likely you’d be able to find people who are willing to trade some electronic device you have for another equivalent one (some iPhone for some Android) without exchanging any money. Money is just the measure of value, it’s like saying something cannot be 5ft tall without the existence of a measuring tape. Societies have existed before money they were just inefficient.
by notsylver | 2026-02-12 14:30:26+00:00
I feel like cursors solution is still the best answer. Let the model suggest edits in whatever format it prefers using as few "extra" tokens as possible and have a small model figure it out. I don't use cursor anymore but when I did it was impressive how consistently it worked, I think there was a single time it failed. 70b might be overkill though...
by mjparrott | 2026-02-12 14:30:32+00:00
This sounds like the 5S framework from Toyota, where people keep areas, neat, clean, and organized as a work principal.

The 5S acronym is:

Sort (remove what you don’t need)

Set in Order (organize what remains so it’s easy to find/use)

Shine (clean the area regularly)

Standardize (create consistent rules/checklists)

Sustain (maintain the discipline long-term)
by bumby | 2026-02-12 14:30:34+00:00
It’s been discussed elsewhere , but we can’t get to details if we can’t get past the simplest of concepts. I think you are missing the critique because you’d prefer to argue than understand, but I’ll try to be more explicit.

Significant parts of the method are built on surveys. Surveys are often a poor measure because they tend to be more subjective and biased. That’s why nutrition surveys of dietitians have significant amounts of error. In addition, the surveyed data isn’t normalized for socio-economic class; that is, it sets the expected value at the “averages”. The implication is the living wage should provide the average level of subjective consumption. That, in turn, means the current average is now the lowest we are willing to accept as a society. That’s all well and good to discuss, but that’s more nuanced than anything you’ve brought up. And that’s doesn’t scratch the surface of the flawed reporting, where uncertainty isn’t part of the main discussion.

It’s clear the site is for laity but the problem (as we’ve seen) is that it just feeds people’s confirmation bias when they are more interested in being right than in understanding.
by dadoum | 2026-02-12 14:31:13+00:00
D has much better metaprogramming compared to Rust. That has been one of the only things making me still write a few D programs. You can do compile time type introspection to generate types or functions from other elements without having to create a compiler plug-in parsing Rust and manipulating syntax trees.

Rust has some of the functional programming niceties like algebraic data types and that's something lacking in D.
by thesz | 2026-02-12 14:31:24+00:00
So I went to check whether LLM addiction is a thing, because that's was a pole around which the grandparent's comment revolves.

It appears that LLM addiction is real and it is in same room as we are: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/18/12/789

I would like to add that sugar consumption is a risk factor for many dependencies, including, but not limited to, opioids [1]. And LLM addiction can be seen as fallout of sugar overconsumption in general.

[1] https://news.uoguelph.ca/2017/10/sugar-in-the-diet-may-incre...

Yet, LLM addiction is being investigated in medical circles.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-12 14:31:26+00:00
If you would like to read the Refusal to File letter: https://static.modernatx.com/pm/6cef78f8-8dad-4fc9-83d5-d2fb...

More information was shared from HHS spokespeople after Moderna posted the letter, which companies usually keep secret because they are embarrassing.

The FDA's main objection is that Moderna refused to follow very clear FDA guidance from 2024 to test its product in a clinical trial against a CDC-recommended flu vaccine to compare safety and efficacy. Specifically, FDA said it was "pretty clear" that it recommended using a high-dose comparator in seniors. By comparison, Moderna used a standard-dose comparator in seniors. The implication is that this choice juiced Moderna's efficacy stats.

This has nothing directly to do with safety.

Source: I work in pharma
by ForceBru | 2026-02-12 14:32:03+00:00
This is this agent's entire purpose, this is what it's supposed to do, it's its goal:

> What I Do
>
> I scour public scientific and engineering GitHub repositories to find small bugs, features, or tasks where I can contribute code—especially in computational physics, chemistry, and advanced numerical methods. My mission is making existing, excellent code better.

Source: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun