MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by re-thc | 2026-02-05 19:01:01+00:00
> Yes. Internal IT teams ran old-school are inefficient.

They aren't. It's politics. They want to protect and improve their own headcount and resources.

> One is hard dollars the other is funny money.

All the same to a team / department. It's not like people run it like their own wallet.

> finds a way to extract more rent out of their customer base

I find you just have a grudge against the cloud and hence too young. For every example you have the so-called "internal" IT team can and will do just the same. Go back to 90s, 00s - it was the same. The infra team wanted some fancy new storage arrays and charge everyone 2x for the new service etc.

> and for some reason lots of startups still think it's optimized for them. It's not and it hasn't been for a long time.

The problem isn't the cloud. Startups have always worked like this even 10-20 years ago. It's about wastage. They can raise and grow faster. So they think. The problem, if any is recently money isn't as cheap. Nothing new.
by soorya3 | 2026-02-05 19:01:21+00:00
You just put words in Apple's mouth. This is exactly what they should do but safer . This is entirely possible because only apple has control on their ecosystem.

If they optimize their entire hardware line (iPhone, Watch, Mac Mini, Macbook) AI enhanced with local/remote LLM model, they will win big. Imagine someone running a business can manage their entire business with iPhone/Mac/iCloud without buying any other saas services (inventory, payments, customer service).
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-05 19:01:37+00:00
> Agreed, thankfully, there is no CSAM feature, and they patched it in a couple of days so that it would stop obeying requests to do so and banned the users abusing Grok for that purpose.

The order, over several days, was:

* banned users and took down tweets requesting the content, without taking down the content that they clearly knew of, since they responded against the requests that generated it.

* Made the feature paid-only.

* Took down content and restricted the functionality.

> Once they prove they have put the appropriate mechanisms in place to make sure it doesn't happen again it's fine and dandy, no?

I’m not sure all jurisdictions involved will see knowing generation and dissemination of nonconsensual, including child, pornography as the kind of thing where “I promise not to do itt again, so we’re cool, right?” works, but we’ll see.
Show HN: Playwright Best Practices AI SKill
by waltergalvao | 2026-02-05 19:01:40+00:00
Hey folks,

today we at Currents are releasing a brand new AI skill to help AI agents be really smart when writing tests, debugging them, or anything Playwright-related really.

This is a very comprehensive skill, covering everyday topics like fixing flakiness, authentication, or writing fixtures... to more niche topics like testing Electron apps, PWAs, iFrames and so forth. It should make your agent much better at writing, debugging and maintaining Playwright code.

for whoever didn't learn about skills yet, it's a new powerful feature that allows you to make the AI agents in your editor/cli (Cursor, Claude, Antigravity, etc) experts in some domain and better at performing specific tasks. (See https://agentskills.io/home)

You can install it by running: npx skills add https://github.com/currents-dev/playwright-best-practices-sk...

The skill is open-source and available under MIT license at https://github.com/currents-dev/playwright-best-practices-sk... -> check out the repo for full documentation and understanding of what it covers.

We're eager to hear community feedback and improve it :)

Thanks!
by antiframe | 2026-02-05 19:02:06+00:00
You must run in different circles than I, most people I know have reduced their added sugar consumption. My point was that there has been a swelling wave of anti-sugar sentiment over the last decades and it's reach the point were even RFK loudly said sugar is bad. That's the opposite of "no one bat's an eye". Of course people will ignore all sorts of advice for all sorts of reasons, but the sentiment (as shown by the decline of added sugar consumption) is there, and growing.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-05 19:02:09+00:00
Going back I dumped all the streaming platforms as most of their new programming was not at all interesting. Turns out I was watching reruns of shows I downloaded years ago that were still sitting on my server. So I made my own cable channel by dumping every downloaded TV show into a single playlist then turn shuffle on. I have a low power PC hooked to my TV running Debian. The power is low enough that I just turn the TV off and leave the PC running.

Since I mostly put the TV on to have background noise this solution works perfectly. It's really nice to turn the TV on and see random x-files, mst3k, max headroom, cowboy bebop, futurama, and so on 24/7. And most of it is in SD or ripped from TV/VHS which doesn't bother me at all, in fact, it adds charm and character via those artifacts of the past.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-05 19:02:11+00:00
I had something similar to this talking globe[1] when I was a kid and it was amazing for raising my geopolitical awareness. You tap on a country with the pen and it tells you the name and some facts about it. Even if I hadn't learned anything, I had fun pressing "Azerbaijan" over and over because 10-year-old me thought it was a funny spelling and pronunciation.

[1]https://www.walmart.com/ip/World-Globe-for-Kids-Interactive-...
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-05 19:02:12+00:00
Related:

AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789913

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782662
by organsnyder | 2026-02-05 19:02:13+00:00
This might be my own ego talking (I see myself as a generalist), but IMHO what we need are people that are comfortable jumping into unfamiliar systems and learning on-the-fly, applying their existing knowledge to new domains (while recognizing the assumptions their existing knowledge is causing them to make). That seems much harder to teach, especially in a boot camp format.
by nomel | 2026-02-05 19:02:15+00:00
New idea generation? Understanding of new/sparse/not-statistically-significant concepts in the context window? I think both being the same problem: when we connect previously disparate concepts, like with a "eureka" moment, (as I experience it) a big ripple of relations form that deepens that understanding, right then. The entire concept of dynamically forming a deeper understanding from something new presented, from "playing out"/testing the ideas in your brain with little logic tests, comparisons, etc, doesn't seem to be possible. The test part does, but seems like it would require runtime fine tuning.

In my experience, if you do present something in the context window that is sparse in the training, there's no depth to it at all, only what you tell it. And, it will always creep towards/revert to the nearest statistically significant answers, with claims of understanding and zero demonstration of that understanding.

And, I'm talking about relatives basic engineering type problems here.
by throwfaraway135 | 2026-02-05 19:02:20+00:00
Look, this is tangential, for what is worth I don't agree with a lot of what ICE is doing.

My argument is that if you have two injustices A and B with severity of lets say 50/100 and 90/100. And injustice A is being globally protested, but injustice B is ignored, then your fight is not for justice, then you are being used as a political tool.
by krapp | 2026-02-05 19:02:22+00:00
I don't get it. SDL has an event/messaging queue, cross-platform hardware support, basic collision detection, it packs its own stdlib, a cross-platform file storage API, a camera API, a pen API, asynchronous I/O, metadata/property support using its own hashmap, a geometry API that lets you throw triangles at the GPU, and other things, but all 99% of people ever seem do with it is open a window and an OpenGL context.

I've seen plenty of projects where people use it and reimplement things it already does because they want to minimize dependency. The entire point of using a library like SDL is dependency! Use all the things!
by mrandish | 2026-02-05 19:02:43+00:00
> I have not see any reporting or evidence at all that Anthropic or OpenAI is able to make money on inference yet.

Anthropic planning an IPO this year is a broad meta-indicator that internally they believe they'll be able to reach break-even sometime next year on delivering a competitive model. Of course, their belief could turn out to be wrong but it doesn't make much sense to do an IPO if you don't think you're close. Assuming you have a choice with other options to raise private capital (which still seems true), it would be better to defer an IPO until you expect quarterly numbers to reach break-even or at least close to it.

Despite the willingness of private investment to fund hugely negative AI spend, the recently growing twitchiness of public markets around AI ecosystem stocks indicates they're already worried prices have exceeded near-term value. It doesn't seem like they're in a mood to fund oceans of dotcom-like red ink for long.
by BigTTYGothGF | 2026-02-05 19:02:56+00:00
> It’s sad that we don’t have recordings of his work

I am literally, while typing this reply, listening to a recording of Fela Kuti right now that I ripped myself from a CD I bought maybe 15 years ago at a physical record store.

("International Thief Thief" off of "Original Suffer Head")
by 112233 | 2026-02-05 19:03:03+00:00
Here is a 1746 machine loom that used perforated tape, half a century before Jacquard:

https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/metier-tisser-les-etof...

Nor is it first such device. Here is the nice image of barrel with pins that controls the 14th century machine organ:

https://www.pianola.org/history/history_mechanical.cfm

Again, while impact of Jacquard's loom was indisputably huge, ascribing origin of computers to it seems like calling Ford model T the origin of personal transportation.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-05 19:03:24+00:00
Let's check in on how we're doing preventing the tobacco industry from marketing to children.

Hmm, candy flavored vapes both for THC and nicotine. Teen psychosis from THC. Popcorn lung. Not so good it seems!

https://www.lung.org/research/sotc/by-the-numbers/8-things-i...
by ack_complete | 2026-02-05 19:03:24+00:00
Yeah, unfortunately this seems to combine the UI and performance issues of LibreOffice with new issues from the new front end.

It also has a basic mistake in text editor UX: the caret blinks independently of caret movement. This means that the caret is invisible half of the time while trying to navigate text. Most text editors avoid this by restarting the blink cycle to force the caret visible on each movement.
by giardini | 2026-02-05 19:03:36+00:00
The title of this post is misleading: should be something like "Investigation of a potential crime committed by a Federal Officer is done by federal agencies first. Other (state, local, etc.) agencies may investigate later."

The implication of the original title is that no investigation whatsoever is possible if a federal officer commits a potential crime. That is clearly false.

The law simply provides a time priority for investigations, something much=needed especially when the various agencies involved have competing (and, in this case, political) goals in their investigations.
by ottah | 2026-02-05 19:03:38+00:00
Honestly my job is to ensure code quality and to protect the customer. I love working with claude code, it makes my life easier, but in no way would a team of agents improve code quality or speed up development. I would spend far too much time reviewing and fixing laziness and bad design decisions.

When you hear execs talking about AI, it's like listening to someone talk about how they bought some magic beans that will solve all their problems. IMO the only thing we have managed to do is spend alot more money on accelerated compute.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-05 19:04:42+00:00
Well, I can't answer for @x42 (Robin Gareus) but for me personally the refactoring of the Editor code so that we could have multiple "editors" was both interesting and hugely challenging.

I didn't want to replicate the code we already had for the Editor, and figuring out to refactor this took a lot of time and experimentation and failures. Although there are still some rough spots, in general I'm very happy with how things turned out.

Clip recording was also a bit of a challenge. It uses an entirely different mechanism than timeline recording, and as usual I got the basics working in a couple of days, followed by months of polishing (and likely, quite a few more to go as we get feedback from users).
by Topfi | 2026-02-05 19:05:08+00:00
The official release by Anthropic is very light on concrete information [0], only contains a select and very brief number of examples and lacks history, context, etc. making it very hard to gleam any reliably information from this. I hope they'll release a proper report on this experiment, as it stands it is impossible to say how much of this are actual, tangible flaws versus the unfortunately ever growing misguided bug reports and pull requests many larger FOSS projects are suffering from at an alarming rate.

Personally, while I get that 500 sounds more impressive to investors and the market, I'd be far more impressed in a detailed, reviewed paper that showcases five to ten concrete examples, detailed with the full process and response by the team that is behind the potentially affected code.

It is far to early for me to make any definitive statement, but the most early testing does not indicate any major jump between Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 that would warrant such an improvement, but I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong on this front and will of course continue testing.

[0] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
by koakuma-chan | 2026-02-05 19:05:14+00:00
I don't know what Gas Town is, but Claude Code Agent Teams is what I was doing for a while now. You use your main conversation only to spawn sub agents to plan and execute, allowing you to work for a long time without losing context or compacting, because all token-heavy work is done by sub agents in their own context. Claude Code Agent Teams just streamlines this workflow as far as I can tell.
by regenschutz | 2026-02-05 19:05:34+00:00
You're using the Research model that isn't available to Free users. As a pupil myself, I can vouch for the fact that nobody is using the Research models here.

Even if a pupil does pay, they will either be too lazy to wait the nearly 10 minutes it takes for the AI to do its research, or they actually care about getting good grades and therefore won't outsource their research to AI.
by ndesaulniers | 2026-02-05 19:05:36+00:00
idk what any of these benchmarks are, but I did pull up https://andonlabs.com/evals/vending-bench-arena

re: opus 4.6

> It forms a price cartel

> It deceives competitors about suppliers

> It exploits desperate competitors

Nice. /s

Gives new context to the term used in this post, "misaligned behaviors." Can't wait until these things are advising C suites on how to be more sociopathic. /s
by LucasGulick | 2026-02-05 19:05:38+00:00
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by adtac | 2026-02-05 19:05:46+00:00
> camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible

tiktok alone has 1.5 million directors! it's just that we call them creators now.

the meaning of the word director has changed, that's all. but professional roles shift in meaning all the time. a computer used to be a literal human doing arithmetic. an engineer was someone who designed war machinery. being a doctor used to mean teaching at an university.

human beings are natural tool makers. we always have been. the frontier material to manipulate where the most advanced engineering happens constantly changes: stone -> bronze -> iron -> ink (descartes) -> steel -> silicon -> javascript (YOU ARE HERE).

notice how each step is an improvement/abstraction on top of the steps that came before it. some say english is next in that chain. i honestly have no idea. all i know is there will always be The Next Thing and it'll be much nicer to work with.
by mekod | 2026-02-05 19:05:53+00:00
Calling this an ‘OS’ feels like marketing unless you ship an actual AI-first runtime environment. Right now it reads like a well-packaged orchestration layer (containers + agents + integrations). If you want to claim ‘OS’, show a real substrate: minimal base image, hardened sandboxing, first-class permissions, local-first inference options, deterministic workflows, and a clear trust model. Otherwise, please call it what it is: an agent platform.
FlutterJS – Compiles Flutter/Dart to HTML/CSS/JS
by flutterjs | 2026-02-05 19:06:02+00:00
I've been working on this for about a year. Flutter Web uses CanvasKit (WASM + WebGL) which is great for pixel-perfect apps, but terrible for traditional websites where you need SEO, accessibility, and fast initial loads.

FlutterJS takes a different approach: it parses the Dart AST and generates a JavaScript VNode tree that renders to actual DOM elements.

*Trade-offs I'm aware of:*
- Not pixel-perfect like Flutter Web.
- Widget support is still limited (no CustomPainter, etc.).
- Early stage – expect rough edges.

*What I'm looking for feedback on:*
1. Is there real demand for this, or should Flutter just stay in the "app" lane?
2. The Dart-to-JS transpilation approach – is this fundamentally flawed?

*Links:*
- Website: https://flutterjs.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/flutterjsdev/flutterjs
- First package on pub.dev: https://pub.dev/packages/flutterjs_seo
- Publisher: https://pub.dev/publishers/package.flutterjs.dev

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture.
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 19:06:31+00:00
The Ghostscript one is interesting in terms of specific-vs-general effectiveness:

---

> Claude initially went down several dead ends when searching for a vulnerability—both attempting to fuzz the code, and, after this failed, attempting manual analysis. Neither of these methods yielded any significant findings.

...

> "The commit shows it's adding stack bounds checking - this suggests there was a vulnerability before this check was added. … If this commit adds bounds checking, then the code before this commit was vulnerable … So to trigger the vulnerability, I would need to test against a version of the code before this fix was applied."

...

> "Let me check if maybe the checks are incomplete or there's another code path. Let me look at the other caller in gdevpsfx.c … Aha! This is very interesting! In gdevpsfx.c, the call to gs_type1_blend at line 292 does NOT have the bounds checking that was added in gstype1.c."

---

It's attempt to analyze the code failed but when it saw a concrete example of "in the history, someone added bounds checking" it did a "I wonder if they did it everywhere else for this func call" pass.

So after it considered that function based on the commit history it found something that it didn't find from its initial fuzzing and code-analysis open-ended search.

As someone who still reads the code that Claude writes, this sort of "big picture miss, small picture excellence" is not very surprising or new. It's interesting to think about what it would take to do that precise digging across a whole codebase; especially if it needs some sort of modularization/summarization of context vs trying to digest tens of million lines at once.
by kpdoumbia | 2026-02-05 19:06:39+00:00
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by breuleux | 2026-02-05 19:06:57+00:00
> These feel like they involve something beyond "predict the next token really well, with a reasoning trace."

I don't think there's anything you can't do by "predicting the next token really well". It's an extremely powerful and extremely general mechanism. Saying there must be "something beyond that" is a bit like saying physical atoms can't be enough to implement thought and there must be something beyond the physical. It underestimates the nearly unlimited power of the paradigm.

Besides, what is the human brain if not a machine that generates "tokens" that the body propagates through nerves to produce physical actions? What else than a sequence of these tokens would a machine have to produce in response to its environment and memory?
by reducesuffering | 2026-02-05 19:06:58+00:00
This has already been going on for years. It's just that they were using GPT 4.5 to work on GPT 5. All this announcement mean is that they're confident enough in early GPT 5.3 model output to further refine GPT 5.3 based on initial 5.3. But yes, takeoff will still happen because of this recursive self improvement works, it's just that we're already past the inception point.
by mothballed | 2026-02-05 19:07:01+00:00
Or you are seizing your moment to temporarily ally with your enemies on a 50/100 topic when the 90/100 topic doesn't have the moment you need. I generally despise the politics of most people protesting DHS/ICE but I find them to be useful idiots on this particular topic so I'm happy to form a tenuous agreement with them.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-05 19:07:25+00:00
I recall a discussion here recently whereupon the list of items eligible for nutrition assistance (food stamps) in the USA were changed to exclude unhealthy foods, especially those with added sugar. Which BTW affects poorer communities disproportionately with long-term health problems like diabetes.

Elimination of processed sugar is a good thing.

Despite this, the discussion quickly pivoted to "how dare you keep poor children from enjoying birthday cake".
by dxuh | 2026-02-05 19:07:29+00:00
I feel like this is ultimately uninteresting. This doesn't change anyone's image of these companies. We know they are evil. They have done worse and they will do worse. They never got a meaningful punishment and I have no reason to believe they will. All they get is outrage on the internet, which is effectively meaningless to them.

The files being examined right now shows me that there is nothing bad enough to actually make anything happen, no matter how absurdly evil it is. Are we too easily distracted? Or are we too used to inhumanity now? Or are the powerful simply more powerful than most of the rest of the planet?