MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belter | 2026-02-05 20:55:08+00:00
I have the impression today you will be one of the 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

But you are correct, this entire site is full of idiots confidently spouting nonsense... :-)

"Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel" - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365...

"Classification of Spreadsheet Errors" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/0805.4224

"A study conducted by Coopers & Lybrand found errors in 90% of the spreadsheets audited."

"Impact of Errors in Operational Spreadsheets" - https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0715

"What We Don’t Know About Spreadsheet Errors Today" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02601
by varsis | 2026-02-05 20:55:13+00:00
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by Esophagus4 | 2026-02-05 20:55:31+00:00
Maybe, and you might be right. These might be one-off posturing things from the EU.

Sure, a few back office shifts to OpenOffice aren’t a big deal today, but I’m worried about where we are in 10, 20 years. There is no EU tech competition to us today, but who knows… tomorrow is a new day.
by nlh | 2026-02-05 20:55:38+00:00
Or the same number of tokens in less time. Kinda feels like the CPU / modem wars of the 90s all over again - I remember those differences you felt going from a 386 -> 486 or from a 2400 -> 9600 baud modem.

We're in the 2400 baud era for coding agents and I for one look forward to the 56k era around the corner ;)
by reify | 2026-02-05 20:55:40+00:00
nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?

Know what I mean, know what I mean. Say no more.

https://genius.com/Monty-python-nudge-nudge-annotated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ona-RhLfRfc
by matiasmolinas | 2026-02-05 20:56:00+00:00
What if your robot didn't just follow code, but wrote it?

We are building LLMos, an OS where AI agents are first-class citizens. They perceive, reason, and will soon collaborate using distributed world models (inspired by RSA-LLM) and dual-model architectures (LLM + JEPA).

We are moving from simulation to real-world synchronization, allowing agents to share their "mental models" of the environment to outperform individual units.

Building this alongside Ismael Faro has been a journey of constant innovation.
Read about the future of Physical AI
by IhateAI_2 | 2026-02-05 20:56:15+00:00
(I had to create a new account, because HN doesn't like LLM haters (don't mess with the bag ig)

the em dashes in your reply scare me, but I'll assume you're a real person lol.

I think your opinion is valid, but tell that to the C Suite who's laid of 400k tech workers in the last 16 months in the USA. These tools don't seem to be used to empower high quality engineering, only to naively increase the bottom line by decreasing the number of engineers, and increasing workloads on those remaining.

Full disclosure, I haven't been laid off ever, but I see what's happening. I think when the trade-off is that your labor is worth a fraction of what it used to be and you're also expected to produce more, then that trade-off isn't worth it.

It would be a lot different if the signaling from business leaders was the reverse. If they believed these tools empowered labor's impact to a business, and planned on rewarding on that, it would be a different story. That's not what we are seeing, and they are very open about their plans for the future of our profession.

Automation can be good overall for society, but you also can't ignore the fact that basically all automation has decreased the value of the labor it replaced or subsidized.

This automation isn't necessarily adding value to society. I don't see any software being built that's increasing the quality of people's life, I don't see research being accelerated. There is no economic data to support this either. The economic gains are only reflected in the values of companies who are selling tokens, or have been able to decrease their employee-counts with token allowances.

All I see is people sharing CRUD apps on twitter, 50 clones of the same SaaS, ,people constantly complaining about how their favorite software/OS has more bugs, the cost of hardware and electricity going up and people literally going into psychosis. (I have a list of 70+ people on twitter that I've been adding too that are literally manic and borderline insane because of these tools).

But hey, at least your favorite AI evangelist from that podcast you loved can afford the $20,000/night resort this summer...
by vamsirt24 | 2026-02-05 20:56:17+00:00
I worked on a messy integration where data moved across multiple systems and failures were silently cascading—broken retries, duplicated records, and zero visibility into where things went wrong. I mapped the full flow end-to-end, added idempotency and clear boundaries between systems, and replaced brittle chained logic with a more explicit, observable integration. That cut down failures immediately and made the setup easy to extend when new tools were added. This kind of work—owning real systems and untangling messy automations—is exactly what I enjoy.
by adventured | 2026-02-05 20:56:21+00:00
The bumbling dope is the default go-to characterization by the left, they always target intelligence first no matter what.

Bush 1 was a dope. Dan Quayle was a dope. Bush 2 was a dope (until they decided they liked him). Sarah Palin was a dope. Trump is a dope. Vance is a dope.

The left views intelligence as a top tier prize, so they start by first trying to dismantle someone's standing on that.

How likely is it that all of those people are actually stupid compared to the typical voter? Zero chance. They're more likely to be considerably smarter than the typical voter, above average intelligence across the board. Are Bill Clinton and Obama smarter than Trump? Yes imo. But you can't play at nuance in the propaganda game though, so the left always settles on: my opponent is stupid; and they push hard in that direction.
by CraigJPerry | 2026-02-05 20:57:04+00:00
There's an extended thinking mode for GPT 5.2 i forget the name of it right at this minute. It's super slow - a 3 minute opus 4.5 prompt is circa 12 minutes to complete in 5.2 on that super extended thinking mode but it is not a close race in terms of results - GPT 5.2 wins by a handy margin in that mode. It's just too slow to be useable interactively though.
by sbuttgereit | 2026-02-05 20:57:13+00:00
Well then... let's eliminate any due process and fourth amendment protections, maybe requiring something sensible like "officer suspicion", or maybe just a program of "random" searches.. you know keep everybody on their toes. I also bet that real crimes (whatever that means) goes down...

Just because something works doesn't make it right. Personally, giving up what the law is suppose to protect (individual rights) in the name of the law is something I can only see as a fool's bargain.
by techbro_1a | 2026-02-05 20:57:19+00:00
> With Codex (5.3), the framing is an interactive collaborator: you steer it mid-execution, stay in the loop, course-correct as it works.

This is true, but I find that Codex thinks more than Opus. That's why 5.2 Codex was more reliable than Opus 4.5
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-05 20:57:34+00:00
You're talking about that effective soft power, yes. There are some smarter authoritarians still maintaining it, but when things get overt it loses a lot of efficacy. We've swung from 1/2 to 1/3 support for Republicans, despite most people going about their lives more-or-less normally outside of one small city. So that swing is attributed to a failure of soft power. Check out opinions in Minneapolis to see what application of hard power looks like.
by ronsor | 2026-02-05 20:57:52+00:00
Well, they can try to enforce the rules; that's perfectly fair. At the same time, there are many methods of "trying" which I would not consider valid or acceptable ones. "Enforcing the rules" does not give a carte blanche right to snoop and do "whatever's necessary." Sony tried that with their CD rootkits and got multiple lawsuits.
by cbsks | 2026-02-05 20:58:05+00:00
Looks like Firefox is immune.

This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif...

On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension://<extension-UUID>/myfile.png" <extension-UUID> is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly generated for every browser instance. This prevents websites from fingerprinting a browser by examining the extensions it has installed. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
by jplusequalt | 2026-02-05 20:58:42+00:00
>A lot of us dismiss AI because "it can't be trusted to do as good a job as me"

Some of us enjoy learning how systems work, and derive satisfaction from the feeling of doing something hard, and feel that AI removes that satisfaction. If I wanted to have something else write the code, I would focus on becoming a product manager, or a technical lead. But as is, this is a craft, and I very much enjoy the autonomy that comes with being able to use this skill and grow it.
by superfrank | 2026-02-05 20:58:45+00:00
I only switched to using the terminal based agents in the last week. Prior to this I was pretty much only using it through Cursor and GH Copilot. The Anthropic models when used through GH Copilot were far superior to the codex ones and I didn't really get the hype of Codex. Using them through the CLI though, Codex is much better, IMO.

My guess is that it's potentially that and just momentum from developers who started using CC when it was far superior to Codex has allowed it to become so much more popular. Potentially, it's might be that, as it's more autonomous, it's better for true vibe-coding and it's more popular with the Twitter/LinkedIn wantrepreneur crew which meant it gets a lot of publicity which increases adoption quicker.
by kisamoto | 2026-02-05 20:58:49+00:00
Personally I've found Matrix significantly more user friendly than Threema work. Zulip I haven't used in anger so I can't comment on that but I've seen a few places that even open source they charge per user for things like notifications. Not ideal IMHO. There should be an option to replace notifications with a separate service.

It's hard to find a decent service that ticks all the boxes but I do sincerely hope that the EU can support Matrix to bring it up to the standard that we all deserve.
by mrandish | 2026-02-05 20:58:49+00:00
A key aspect of ARC AGI is to remain highly resistant to training on test problems which is essential for ARC AGI's purpose of evaluating fluid intelligence and adaptability in solving novel problems. They do release public test sets but hold back private sets. The whole idea is being a test where training on public test sets doesn't materially help.

The only valid ARC AGI results are from tests done by the ARC AGI non-profit using an unreleased private set. I believe lab-conducted ARC AGI tests must be on public sets and taken on a 'scout's honor' basis that the lab self-administered the test correctly, didn't cheat or accidentally have public ARC AGI test data slip into their training data. IIRC, some time ago there was an issue when OpenAI published ARC AGI 1 test results on a new model's release which the ARC AGI non-profit was not able to replicate some weeks later.
by joshvm | 2026-02-05 20:58:50+00:00
My gut feeling is that performance is more heavily affected by harnesses which get updated frequently. This would explain why people feel that Claude is somehow more stupid - that's actually accurate phrasing, because Sonnet is probably unchanged. Unless Anthropic also makes small A/B adjustments to weights, but I don't know what the cost-benefit is like for that.

It's worth checking different versions of Claude Code, and updating your tools if you don't do it automatically. Also run the same prompts through VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code in terminal, etc. You can get very different model responses based on the system prompt, what context is passed via the harness, how the rules are loaded and all sorts of minor tweaks.

If you make raw API calls and see behavioural changes over time, that would be another concern.
by tech234a | 2026-02-05 20:58:57+00:00
No. Firefox always randomizes the extension ID used for URLs to web accessible resources on each restart [1]. Apparently, manifest v3 extensions on Chromium can now opt into similar behavior [2].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
by RealityVoid | 2026-02-05 20:59:02+00:00
It's wild what the perception is in the right echo chamber right now. I was talking with my brother, who I love, but who, through his practicing Christian faith is essentially pulled into this right-wing cultural environment and propaganda machine. So he was making the point that the politics in the US have drifted so much more to the left that the right is actually the center. My jaw dropped off the floor. How do these thing even get propagated? It's borderline ridiculous and I don't know how this firehouse of bullshit can ever be countered.
by pinnochio | 2026-02-05 20:59:16+00:00
AFAIK, after all the hype around Bitcoin proved to be false, the last justification for owning it among people who can't think straight was as a systemic risk hedge, like gold, but this has also not borne out.

I don't doubt the faithful's ability to conjure up some other BS story for why it's worth owning, but there has to be something.
by jmward01 | 2026-02-05 21:00:24+00:00
Do they respect my data? Why do they get to track me across sites when I clearly don't want them to but someone can't scrape their data when they don't want them to. Why should big companies get the pass but individuals not? They clearly consider internet traffic fair game and are invasive and abusive about it so it is not only fair to be invasive and abusive back, it is self defense at this point.
by watwut | 2026-02-05 21:00:58+00:00
> Approximately nobody is against "antifa" because they're fighting "fascists".

So, I will say that far right, comservatives and fascists are against anti-fascism of any kind. Whether it is the boogeyman antifa or anything else. And there are a lot of people like that. Including in goverment.

They do take issue with anyone who openly opposes fascism.
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-05 21:01:04+00:00
I remember doing this too, a little bit later. It would churn on the disk for minutes on end, and usually fail. I think I got it to work once or twice.

Floppy disks and drives were plentiful, but scrap in those days. So of course those were the machines I got to play with as a kid at that time. Many of my disks were not in the best condition, or they were some of the post-2000s ones that were low quality to begin with.

I remember people were making various editions of "mini windows" 3.11 on a floppy disk around that time also.
by legulere | 2026-02-05 21:01:36+00:00
I don't think that the user you are responding to is anti-innovation, but rather points out that the usefulness of AI is oversold.

I'm using Copilot for Visual Studio at work. It is useful for me to speed some typing up using the auto-complete. On the other hand in agentic mode it fails to follow simple basic orders, and needs hand-holding to run. This might not be the most bleeding-edge setup, but the discrepancy between how it's sold and how much it actually helps for me is very real.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-05 21:01:38+00:00
> The point GP was making, which holds as a general rule, is that simply adopting a moniker does not necessarily mean that it accurately describes you.

I'm deeply curious why you think someone would identify as an anti-fascist if they were not, in fact, anti-fascist. Do you think they just really like the flag logo or...?
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-02-05 21:01:39+00:00
I was ignoring the language translation with excessive simplification while speaking of a framework.

To your specific point: no, grace abounds for those who remain in conversation and continue to repair the situation.

As for having a single 'yes', we backwater Americans have multiple versions including yeah, okay, yup, ya, yessssss, hell yes, yuppers, uh huh, right, right-o, got it, absolutely, and I am sure a dozen more.

I am speaking of intent. The intent, regardless of the language used, commnunicate in a way that both parties have no assumptions and if there is a miscommunication on anyone's part, both parties work to resolve it without blame. And I thank you for your reply, my dude, which I take as a verbal suffix of casual frustration. English is not my first language mind you.
by IhateAI_2 | 2026-02-05 21:01:59+00:00
I had to create a new account, because HN is protecting their investments and basically making it impossible to post for anyone who is critical of LLMs (said I was crawling, I'm on a dedicated proxy that definitely hasn't ever crawled HN lol).

Automation can be good overall for society, but you also can't ignore the fact that basically all automation has decreased the value of the labor it replaced or subsidized.

This automation isn't necessarily adding value to society. I don't see any software being built that's increasing the quality of people's life, I don't see research being accelerated. There is no economic data to support this either. The economic gains are only reflected in the values of companies who are selling tokens, or have been able to decrease their employee-counts with token allowances.

All I see is people sharing CRUD apps on twitter, 50 clones of the same SaaS, ,people constantly complaining about how their favorite software/OS has more bugs, the cost of hardware and electricity going up and people literally going into psychosis. (I have a list of 70+ people on twitter that I've been adding too that are literally manic and borderline insane because of these tools). I can see LLMs being genuinely useful to society, like helping with real time the blind, and disabled, but noone is doing that! It doesn't make money, automation is for capital owning class, not for the working class.

But hey, at least your favorite LLM shill from that podcast you loved can afford the $20,000/night resort this summer...

I recommend people read this essay by Thomas Pynchon, actually read it, don't judge it by the title: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/28/books/is-it-ok-to-be-a-lu...
by toss1 | 2026-02-05 21:02:06+00:00
Moments later (~1:13) he also said "we aren't forcing Flock on anyone"

False, he is forcing Flock on EVERYONE

No one has permitted themselves to be surveilled. And no, under the radar agreements with local cops and govts do NOT constitute my permission to be surveilled. If they want to go in with fully informed referendums in each community, then I'd accept it. But that is not Flock's business model.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-02-05 21:02:35+00:00
I know we're not supposed to talk about it, but what in the world is happening to this site? Mistaking 'Antifa' for 'the concept of opposing fascism' is not the kind of failure mode I expect here. And this kind of thing has become endemic lately- emotive noise and sarcastic dunks drowning out substance in every thread, especially since the beginning of December. Or am I just imagining this?
by breuleux | 2026-02-05 21:03:08+00:00
The point is that "predicting the next token" is such a general mechanism as to be meaningless. We say that LLMs are "just" predicting the next token, as if this somehow explained all there was to them. It doesn't, not any more than "the brain is made out of atoms" explains the brain, or "it's a list of lists" explains a Lisp program. It's a platitude.
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by learingsci | 2026-02-05 21:03:31+00:00
Slavery was ended for largely religious reasons so unless you think slavery is a good thing then that wouldn’t make sense. I was thinking more of rigid and highly dogmatic moral beliefs that cause people to condemn heretics. “Anyone who disagrees with me is a nazi/witch” sort of stuff. It’s a very American thing I would argue, but it seems to be spreading quite quickly.
by Gibbon1 | 2026-02-05 21:03:33+00:00
The Renesas RTC divides the 32khz clock by 256. And after waking up doesn't update the shadow registers till the next tick. So if you wake out of deep sleep you don't know what the time is for 8ms.

I know of one that draws 0.5uA in normal mode but 12uA in binary counter mode.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-05 21:03:44+00:00
Modern Greek speakers can NOT understand ancient Greek. And modern Hebrew is NOT mutually intelligible with Aramaic. The OP is correct and the two responses are nonsense. Also, in the 1500s when the Bible was translated to English, very few Europeans spoke Latin and if they did it was a very different Latin from the translations from the Roman era (pre 500 or so). Languages change over time and the Latin spoken by the aristocrats in the 1500s was very very different from the Latin spoken by the Romans.
by Torq_boi | 2026-02-05 21:04:04+00:00
Our preference for training in our own datacenter has nothing to do with wokeness. Did you read the blog post? The reasons are clearly explained.

The climate in Wyoming and Montana are actually worse in terms of climate. San Diego's climate extremes are less extreme than those places. Though moving out of CA is a good idea for power cost reasons, also addressed in the blog.
by zestyping | 2026-02-05 21:04:04+00:00
I don't think the same of them because they are not the same thing. Can you not see that the potential for harm is far greater? You can't simply ignore the potential uses of the technology you create. You have the choice to design your technology so it retains its usefulness while limiting the harm; have you given any time to thinking about how you could do that?

The alien is a diversion from the concern; I'm talking about realistic human avatars. Let's stay focused on that.

Let me suggest a worthwhile exercise. Just take ten minutes. What are some of the ways that realistic human avatars would make deception more effective or more scalable than previously possible?

Come up with three scenarios, and let's talk about them, honestly and thoughtfully.