MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 20:15:04+00:00
> They would need to have massive accounting fraud and lose public support. Unlike Enron, Nvidia actually sells tangible goods at a massive profit, and hasn't appeared to gloat over people getting screwed over.

But what happens if they can no longer sell those tangible goods at a massive profit, and they gave return to their roots selling to gamers? When the boom ends is when massive accounting fraud could happen.
by kazinator | 2026-02-20 20:15:14+00:00
OK, but then, in this regard, left to right generation is hardy better:

Once you get to "British cats <next-token-here>" you can't get to "British munchkin cats <next-token-here>"; the tokens to the left are done and dusted.

It's kind of a feature. Diffusion is used for images, right? It's like saying, once the image of a door has started to form right next to a kitchen counter, it cannot insert a refrigerator there any more. Well, maybe it doesn't "want to" because that layout is already settled by that time.
by shimman | 2026-02-20 20:15:26+00:00
Expecting Google to give up control of one of the only alternative operating systems is right up there with believing in the tooth fairy.

What you're saying should happen, but it will only happen when the government legislates it happens; which frankly they should be doing (along with nationalizing a few other software projects to be fair).

A trillion dollar transnational corporation with massive monopolistic tendencies will never ever do the right thing. Expect to force feed it down their throats.
by projektfu | 2026-02-20 20:15:27+00:00
Another comment says the situation was fake. I don't know, but to avoid running afoul of the authorities, it's possible to document this without actually accessing user data without permission. In the US, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and various state laws are written extremely broadly and were written at a time when most access was either direct dial-up or internal. The meaning of abuse can be twisted to mean rewriting a URL to access the next user, or inputting a user ID that is not authorized to you.

Generally speaking, I think case law has avoided shooting the messenger, but if you use your unauthorized access to find PII on minors, you may be setting yourself up for problems, regardless if the goal is merely dramatic effect. You can, instead, document everything and hypothesize the potential risks of the vulnerability without exposing yourself to accusation of wrongdoing.

For example, the article talks about registering divers. The author could ask permission from the next diver to attempt to set their password without reading their email, and that would clearly show the vulnerability. No kids "in harm's way".
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-20 20:15:29+00:00
The moral justification is that I am a citizen, and can demand the laws I want. When enough people think like me, we can actually make it a law. By holding the smartphone OS oligopoly these companies hold a lot of power on the people. I do not like that. Hence I like laws that try to change that.

> especially as engineers who make their living by creating intellectual property and probably wouldn’t want to see control of it seized randomly

If these people try to use their intellectual property to control my device and hence my ability to do things, I want to have a say what they do. Yes, that is what software is: directions to machines. I own the machine, hence I want a say what it does. You are free to keep your intellectual property for yourself, if you want to.
by abustamam | 2026-02-20 20:15:31+00:00
> In 3 months, you will only remember that AI fixed some issue for you.

That's not exclusive to AI. I've solved plenty of bugs pre-AI that I would go down similar rabbit holes to fix again without AI. I've spent days hunting down bugs like this in the past while only remembering that I spent days on the bug, not anything meaningful. It's not something I enjoy repeating.

> Also, anyone could be plugged into your job when it works this way. All they need is someone who can type into a prompt.

Maybe. The reality is that my coworkers of varying experience levels do attempt to vibecode/debug and are never happy with the results. I don't know what they're prompting, but it just goes to show that it's just as easy as just "typing into a prompt."

> you fixed the bug, it ships, boss makes money

Yeah, that's how it's always been, no? Boss doesn't care how it got fixed as long as it got fixed, and added points if it got fixed quickly so I can work on other features. I may not win long-term if I do use AI, but I certainly don't win short-term if I don't use AI, because I can't afford to spend days to fix a bug that AI can fix in an hour.
by cyberax | 2026-02-20 20:15:42+00:00
> But for anyone with an option, why would you buy an Android?

How the heck this is true?!? iOS is just bad.

Its usability is bad, its interface is bad, its apps are just a ton of crap, and it _will_ keep getting worse.

I'm not even talking about its "walled concentration camp" app model.
by microtonal | 2026-02-20 20:15:47+00:00
There are no absolute morals. But I think in general healthy societies are arranged around the ideas that people should have: the basics of living (housing, food, vacation, and some luxory), agency, and equal opportunities.

It should be clear that having a small number of companies murder all competition and personal freedoms (like doing what you want to do with something you own like a phone) are in contrast to these basic values.

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Or the alternative, more blunt answer: it does not require a moral justification. EU citizens directly elected the EP, the EP ratified the DMA. So Google can either comply or leave the EU as a market (which they wont do because it's too large and others would be happy to take it).
by Naulius | 2026-02-20 20:15:48+00:00
Thanks! You're right that there's a resemblance to RL. The original approach was proposed by Antithesis, and in Part 1 we map it more directly to a mutation-based Genetic Algorithm: stored paths are the population, the x-position scoring is the fitness function, and bit-flip input generation is the mutation operator. There's no recombination and no learned policy but just evolutionary selection pressure on input sequences.

Interesting point about the RL cold start, one could definitely use the paths discovered first through the evolutionary exploration to seed an RL agent's initial experience which could help skip the early random flailing phase.

The key difference from RL is the goal. We're not trying to learn an optimal policy for playing the game and instead we're trying to explore as much of the state space as possible to find bugs. In Part 2 we plug in a behavior model that validates correctness at every frame during exploration (velocity constraints, causal movement checks, collision invariants). The combination is where it gets interesting: autonomous exploration discovers the states, and the behavior model catches when the game violates its own rules. For testing, the main reason we even care about completing each level is that a completed path serves as the base for more extensive exploration at every point along it. If the exploration can't reach the end, by definition we miss a large part of the state space.
by zipping1549 | 2026-02-20 20:16:06+00:00
I think it’s unlikely he’ll be pardoned, at least for quite a long time. Lawmakers are actively concerned about this and will soon ban pardons for insurrection charges.

It’s also a heavy burden to let a political figure die in a cell, but given how things are going, I’m fairly sure he’s going to spend a long time there.
by StilesCrisis | 2026-02-20 20:16:07+00:00
Facebook still knows what websites you've been visiting, even if you haven't logged in for eight years. The Facebook Pixel tracks page visits, and it's easy to join your Facebook account to your browsing history if you ever log into any website using your email address. Assuming you are usually using the same computer or IP, the user profile could be pretty detailed. It's actually surprising they don't do better here.
by michaelmrose | 2026-02-20 20:16:07+00:00
Often comments are sufficiently poorly reasoned or defecient that it makes more sense to downvote than reply.

For instance complaining about downvotes always draws more as does collectively insulting the community you are participating in.

As to the original question the problem is that it suggests confusion on a basic topic that was decided here centuries ago and taught in elementary school. If someone said what even is addition in an adult forum would you teach them addition or would you assume that they actually know addition and are arguing in bad faith because they feel math really ought to work differently?

Also when you can divide a particular topic into clearly delineated camps appearing to disagree or question the basic premises that one camp holds is oft taken for disagreement and alignment with the opposing camp even when you are just debating a side issue and may in fact be mostly or entirely aligned with the people who feel like you are opposed to them. This shortcut as far as identifying motive and perspective can misfire but it's often correct and "just asking questions" is often underhanded opposition.

Lastly a legitimate tax is one that is passed by Congress in the normal fashion and not overturned by the courts.
by ikmckenz | 2026-02-20 20:16:08+00:00
That’s almost what we already have with the CVE system, just without the legal protections. You report the vulnerability to the NSA, let them have their fun with it, then a fix is coordinated to be released much further down the line. Personally I don’t think it’s the best idea in the world, and entrenching it further seems like a net negative.
by MiddleEndian | 2026-02-20 20:16:25+00:00
The default experience probably sucks, but I aggressively block anything even mildly annoying on my Facebook newsfeed, and I like what's left:

Mostly Simpsons memes, Seinfeld memes, Pro Wrestling memes, Sopranos memes, and then intersections of those memes (Seinfeld Pro Wrestling, Simpsons Pro Wrestling, etc.). Some nerd shit. Stuff from the handful of friends of mine and local groups I interact with who still post on Facebook. Maybe <1% total garbage like what the article describes but I immediately block any groups or users who post anything even slightly annoying. I almost never watch any video content at all. It's unironically better passive content than anywhere else left on the web, probably because all the people trying to be hip have gone somewhere else lol

However whatever their UI is sluggish as hell and I'm surprised this wasn't discussed. You'll click block user/group and it will respond multiple seconds later (on my symmetric 1GBPS FIOS connection) and UI elements will jump around. FB messenger is slow as shit and occasionally will fail to decrypt/load messages entirely, even though it works fine on my phone (don't have regular FB on my phone so can't make that comparison). There's an anti-performance cargo-cult among web devs. Perhaps their metrics only show what it saves them on server costs. But if I did not already use the site it would be impossible to convince me to start.
by sanketsaurav | 2026-02-20 20:16:51+00:00
FWIW Claude Code Opus 4.5 ranks ~71% accuracy on the OpenSSF CVE Benchmark that we ran against DeepSource (https://deepsource.com/benchmarks).

We have a different approach, in that we're using SAST as a fast first pass on the code (also helps ground the agent, more effective than just asking the model to "act like a security researcher"). Then, we're using pre-computer static analysis artifacts about the code (like data flow graphs, control flow graphs, dependency graphs, taint sources/sinks) as "data sources" accessible to the agent when the LLM review kicks in. As a result, we're seeing higher accuracy than others.

Haven't gotten access to this new feature yet, but when we do we'd update our benchmarks.
by Hoodedcrow | 2026-02-20 20:16:59+00:00
I'd feel very ripped off because it gives a directly worse experience than free tools. Not only does it not turn off Shorts, as previous commenters mentioned, but the most offensive scam in my eyes are downloads. I'd need to use yt-dlp for them anyway, as the paid downloads are directly inferior - DRMed and expire without online checks. Worthless for archival that I'm currently doing a lot.
by Atlas667 | 2026-02-20 20:17:34+00:00
They have the incentive to never chose this.

If we force it upon them by begging politicians, corporations still have the incentive to find a way to remove it or circumvent it.

Youre playing the cat and mouse game because you've been taught that solving it is too extreme (thats not a coincidence).

We dont need to endlessly fight a whole class of people, capitalists, for them not to use the things we require against us. Only socialism can solve that.
by littlekey | 2026-02-20 20:17:35+00:00
I agree with the people saying that the product is a lot better once you're actively engaging with pages that align with your interests, so that the algorithm can feed you better content.

That being said, it's still sad that this is the default new/returning user experience. Imagine a world where a new user was met with real posts about a variety of interests, rather than a psychic barrage of insane AI posts.
by tinyhouse | 2026-02-20 20:17:53+00:00
Yes, they depend on AWS for compute and Amazon also owns a big chunk of Anthropic (it used to be close to 30%, probably less now with the recent raises). I think it's a good partnership since for the most part they focus on different things and I don't see Anthropic going after AWS - they are an AI company first and foremost. Amazon has their own AI stuff for enterprise but no one uses it so I don't think they take it seriously. They know they cannot compete here.

I think that OpenAI and Microsoft is a more challenging partnership with much more overlap.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-20 20:17:56+00:00
I have an IG account that I barely use, whereas my Facebook account I do (regrettably) still spend time on, and have put in the effort to silence/hide the worst of the baity type content that it wants to throw at me.

But interestingly my experience of IG when I do occasionally go on it is similar to what TFA describes: lots of engagement-bait / thirst trap content that I never asked to see but also haven't been around to hide, so I guess the baseline algorithm is just matching me to what others in my demographic bracket have found, um, engaging.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-20 20:18:16+00:00
this is the spot i'm in too, i can move my 401k and IRAs around fine but ye'old brokerage account is a different story. Unless my losses are greater than the capital gains i'm going to pay then i'm better off just staying put. That brokerage account is dedicated to funding college for my two boys. I have enough now for about 6 years of undergrad. The bills start coming in 2 years, idk if that's enough time to recover from a dot-com level crash...
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-20 20:18:20+00:00
To amplify:

It's also potentially lethally stupid. What if an industrial robot arm decides to smash a €10000 expensive machine next door, or -heaven forbid- a human's skull. "It didn't really decide to do anything, stop anthropomorphising, let's blame the poor operator with his trembling fist on the e-stop."

Yeah, to heck with that. If you're one of those people (and you know who you are); you're overcompensating. We're going to need a root cause analysis, pull all the circuit diagrams, diagnose the code, cross check the interlocks, and fix the gorram actual problem. Policing language is not productive (and in the real life situation in the factory, please imagine I'm swearing and kicking things -scrap metal, not humans!- for real too) .

Just to be sure in this particular case with the Openclaw bot, the human basically pointed experimental level software at a human space and said "go". But I don't think they foresaw what happened next. They do have at least partial culpability here; but even that doesn't mean we get to just close our eyes, plug our ears, and refuse to analyze the safety implications of the system design an sich.

Shambaugh did a good job here. Even the Operator, however flawed, did a better job than just burning the evidence and running for the hills. Partial credit among the scorn to the latter.

(finally, note that there's probably 2.5 million of these systems out there now and counting, most -seemingly- operated by more responsible people. Let's hope)
by liquidise | 2026-02-20 20:18:34+00:00
The Gorsuch concurring is quite the read, but wish more Americans internalized its final paragraph (excerpts below).

Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. ...
But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today’s result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.
by CrazyStat | 2026-02-20 20:18:37+00:00
The CBO estimates [1] that foreign exporters bear 5% of the burden of the tariffs, with American consumers bearing the remaining 95%:

> [T]he net effect of tariffs is to raise U.S. consumer prices by the full portion of the cost of the tariffs borne domestically (95 percent)

This is a serious document written by a bunch of serious economists. You can find a list of them at the bottom of the page. That you have written their conclusion off as "transparently false" should give you pause.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62105#_idTextAnchor050
by decidu0us9034 | 2026-02-20 20:18:45+00:00
People use whatever tools are the most effective and they have plenty of incentive not to talk publicly about them. I think the era of openness has passed us by. But why does stature matter anyway? If I look at chromium or MSRC bug reports, scarcely any of the submitters are from Europe/US and certainly don't have anything resembling stature. That guy hasn't done anything of note in the field in a long time from what I know, he's kind of boomer (you too, no disrespect).
by spankalee | 2026-02-20 20:19:42+00:00
Web components are just a way for developers to build their own HTML elements. They're only a "framework" in as much as the browser is already a framework that wires together the built-in HTML elements.

I don't see any reason to lock away the ability to make nodes that participate in the DOM tree to built-in components only. Every other GUI framework in the world allows developers to make their own nodes, why shouldn't the web?

> too many mechanics and assumptions backed in, rendering them unusable for anything slightly complex.

Do you have any concrete examples there? What "mechanics" are you referring to. Given that very complex apps like Photoshop, Reddit, The Internet Archive, YouTube, The Microsoft App Store, Home Assistant, etc., are built with web components, that would make the claim that they're unusable seem silly.

With your other specific complaints about the community, I think I can guess you are. That person come into our discord server, was so mean and rude to everyone that they had to be told by multiple people to chill out. Had one very specific proposal that when multiple people thought it was a bad idea, threw a fit and said we never listen. You can't just come into a place and behave badly and then blame the community for rejecting you.
by pfix | 2026-02-20 20:20:49+00:00
At some point free markets become fiction. There's no financially viable way to start competing businesses in markets as entrenched as mobile OSes. Otherwise this would have happened. And if that becomes anti consumers, then the consumers start changing the rules the companies operate under. Because in a democracy we have more consumers than CEOs,so they vote with majority.

(This obviously simplifies things, but ultimately we as humans still haven't found the one and only true philosophy or moral, and maybe that's not possible (I'm no philosopher))
by bsimpson | 2026-02-20 20:20:55+00:00
Waymo drives better than most people.

Tesla Autopilot seems to mostly drive hubris. The fine print says you're still supposed to maintain control. They don't have as sophisticated sensors as competitors because Elon decreed "humans don't have LiDAR, so we don't need to pay for it."

Nobody is saying it has to be perfect, but Tesla hasn't demonstrated that it's even trying.
by microtonal | 2026-02-20 20:21:05+00:00
I see your point, but it all hinges on when you consider the changes to be a patch set and when a fork. I don't think there is a very clear definition, except I don't think most of these projects would call themselves AOSP forks.

At any rate, this particular Google anti-feature does not require a large patch (or maybe none at all).
by bentcorner | 2026-02-20 20:21:10+00:00
Personally I stopped using Facebook because even in the before-AI days it started becoming a glamour photo book of everyone you ever knew (and probably lots of people you only kind of sorta know), and while people certainly deserve to do and see great things, seeing it all shoved in your face every day becomes exhausting in a keeping-up-with-the-joneses kind of way.

I totally get that not everybody is like that, but I am, and so I stopped going to Facebook.

These days I'm in private Whatsapp groups for my direct family and so I learn about what they do, and not the random stuff that my neighbors and 20-years-past classmates did.

My wife is still active on Facebook and I actually do still visit occasionally to boost her posts but that's about it.
by paxys | 2026-02-20 20:21:47+00:00
Pretty neat.

FYI if you are sad that you can't participate in this index (for Goldman customers only), replicating it is pretty easy on your own.

- Pull up a list of companies in the S&P 500.

- Do a quick pass and decide if they are "AI" or not, or use an LLM to help you (ironic).

- Use a direct indexing platform (Frec, Wealthfront, Fidelity, Schwab, Parametric among others) to build your own index with those funds and adjust it maybe quarterly.

As a bonus the fees will be significantly lower than what Goldman will want for the same end result.
by grolly | 2026-02-20 20:21:56+00:00
Limited preview for researchers, who will be hand picked to write positive reviews.

Enough of this frontier grifting. Make it testable for open source developers at no cost and without login or get lost. You won't of course, because you'd get an unfiltered evaluation instead of guerilla marketing via blog posts, secrecy, and name-dropping researchers that cannot be disclosed.
by greatgib | 2026-02-20 20:22:07+00:00
Even restricting the mitigation to "students and hobbyists" is bad.

I should have the right to have parents, friends or anyone use a "free" store that is not under control of Google if the user and app developer wish so. But also, somehow there should be something done to avoid the monopoly forcing to use the Google services. Like major institutions like bank, gov and co being forced to provide alternatives like a webapp when they provide app tied to the Google play store.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-20 20:22:16+00:00
It's a shame that they won't ship to the US at all (and apparently Japan's post office won't even accept packages to the US) because of the tariff stuff. Here's hoping today's SCOTUS ruling overturning almost all the tariffs fixes this soon.

The last thing I ordered from Japan, I had chatted with the vendor who had a friend in South America who was traveling to the US for vacation in December.

So they shipped the package to the friend, who took it on vacation to the US and shipped it domestically to me just because of this tariff fuckery.