MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amluto | 2026-02-15 22:22:10+00:00
Something akin to reciprocity still applies, no? You have a tiny rubidium atom, way too small to couple particularly strongly to the electromagnetic field at visible wavelengths. So it has a low cross-section for absorbing visible light. Won’t it necessarily radiate rather slowly as a result?

I would expect this to be somewhat of a problem with tiny LEDs. In an LED, you inject electrons and holes and you hope that a magical quantum process happens in which an electron and a hole meet, annihilate each other, and emit a photon. But this process is slow, and the electrons and the holes may wander around for a bit before combining. But in a very very small LED, smaller than the mean free path, I’d imagine you might have an issue where the electrons and holes frequently make it all the way across the device without recombining and manage to lose their energy as heat when they hit the opposite electrode. (I have not drawn the diagrams or checked the math here.)

(I took the relevant classes in grad school, but I’ve never done this sort of work academically or professionally, so no promises that I’m right.)
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-15 22:22:23+00:00
The lore in the manual was entertaining as well; whoever wrote it was clearly having fun. All these years later I still clearly remember a quip from the parody religious prophecy in Appendix C: "And then, within the bowels of Arth¹ shall there once again be movement." Never fails to crack me up.

¹ The name of the planet that the player starts on.
by 52-6F-62 | 2026-02-15 22:23:25+00:00
Ah.

There used to be more or less one answer to the question of "how do I implement this UI feature in this language"

Now there are countless. Welcome to the brave new world of non-deterministic programming where the inputs can produce anything and nothing is for certain.

Everyone promises it can do something different if you "just use it this way".
by CharlesW | 2026-02-15 22:23:59+00:00
> There may be patent-infringing H265 decoding hardware inside the GPU, but Acer and Asus would have purchased GPUs as a standard component.

It doesn't generally work like that, at least for codec patent pools. The royalty trigger is typically tied to the sale of a "consumer HEVC product" to an end user, and the "licensee" is generally the entity that sells the finished, branded product (e.g., the PC OEM), even if the silicon came from someone else. (I have a patent related to deferring royalty triggers for technologies like HEVC until they're needed: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11930011B2/)
by locallost | 2026-02-15 22:24:00+00:00
I don't think that's true, I've seen examples to the contrary. Here for example a recent article [1] from a non programmer building a tool. The article is long so I pasted the relevant part below. My thoughts go more in the direction, the article author built something that is complicated for non technical people, but in essence simple -- he says it so himself "copy paste". What if what the OP here is building is something novel and Claude doesn't know how to build it?

Relevant excerpt:

I spent a bit of time last month building a site to solve a problem I’ve always found super-annoying about the legislative process. It’s hard to read Federal bills because they don’t map to the underlying code. Anyone who has worked in Congress knows what I mean, you get a bill that says “change this word from ‘may’ to ‘shall’ in section XYZ of Federal law.” To understand what it does, and find possible loopholes they are trying to sneak in, you have to go to that underlying Federal law and look at where it says “may” and then put “shall” in there and read it. It’s basically like a manual version of copy and pasting, except much more complicated and with lawyers trying to trick you.

So I wrote an app that lets you upload legislation, and it automatically shows you how it changes Federal law. There are commercial versions of this software, and some states do it for their proposed legislation. But I haven’t seen anything on the Federal level that is free, so I built it. (The code is here.) It’s not very good. It’ll probably break a lot. There’s no “throat to choke” if you use it and it’s wrong. And my guess is that Anthropic or Gemini ultimately will be able to do this function itself eventually. But the point is that if I can build something like this in my spare time and deploy it without any training at all, then it’s just not that hard for an organization with some capital to get rid of some of its business software tools.

[1] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-2-t...
by gryson | 2026-02-15 22:25:42+00:00
Correction: Hideki Sato didn't directly design all Sega's consoles, but rather oversaw their development as head of the R&D department. He was only directly involved in designing the earlier consoles.

The Saturn hardware, for example, was designed by Kazuhiko Hamada and a team of about a dozen engineers who had previously made the System 32 arcade hardware.

In addition to his work leading Sega's R&D efforts, Sato should also be remembered as one of the primary reasons why Sega began investing more into arcade video game development in the 1970s.
by Tangokat | 2026-02-15 22:25:54+00:00
Incredibly depressing comments in this thread. He keeps OpenClaw open. He gets to work on what he finds most exciting and helps reach as many people as possible. Inspiring, what dreams are made of really.
Top comments are about money and misguided racism.

Personally I'm excited to see what he can do with more resources, OpenClaw clearly has a lot of potential but also a lot of improvements needed for his mum to use it.
by mbanerjeepalmer | 2026-02-15 22:26:14+00:00
Unclear what this truly means for the open version.

We can assume first that at OpenAI he's going to build the hosted safe version that, as he puts it, his mum can use. Inevitably at some point he and colleagues at OpenAI will discover something that makes the agent much more effective.

Does that insight make it into the open version? Or stay exclusive to OAI?

(I imagine there are precedents for either route.)
by jv22222 | 2026-02-15 22:26:36+00:00
Hmm. Yeah that shared workspace idea is good. Tbh I just wanted to force myself to put this out there and stop polishing the dang thing! So this was the fastest way out and now I can iterate on better journeys like the one you suggest.

On the React thing, I never said React is slow! I think it's great for a lot of things. I just chose a different path because I wanted to understand every part of the main product stack. I didn't use OT or CDRT for the same reason... :|
by asdff | 2026-02-15 22:26:42+00:00
The harness can be iterated upon (1).

I don't think the sci fi definition agi is happening soon but, something more boring in the meanwhile that is perhaps nearly as destructive to life as we know it as knowledge workers today. That is, using a human still, but increasingly fewer humans of lower and lower skill as the models are able to output more and more complete solutions. And naturally, there are no geographic or governmental barriers to protect employment in this sector, or physical realities that demand the jobs take place in a certain place of the world. This path forward is ripe for offshoring to the lowest internet-connected labor available, long term. Other knowledge work professions like lawyer or doctor have set up legal moats to protect their field and compensation decades ago, whereas there is nothing similar to protect the domestic computer science engineer.

By all means they are on this trajectory already. You often see comments on here from developers who say something along the lines of the models years ago needing careful oversight, now they are able to trust them to do more of the project accurately with less oversight as a result. Of course you will find anecdotes either way, but as the years go on I see more and more devs reporting useful output from these tools.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596
by krapp | 2026-02-15 22:26:48+00:00
The thing is, "enshittification" doesn't name the problem. No part of the word "enshittification" describes " how internet services are deliberately degraded over time". Nor does it propose a solution. It is just a way to say "things are getting worse."

You act as if it was impossible to talk about "how internet services are deliberately being degraded over time" before the word was coined, but it wasn't, we already had a more precise term for that, platform decay.

But my brother in Christ "enshittification" isn't a unique term. It's a common prefix, a common suffix and the word "shit." It was never that great a term of art to begin with, it was just an excuse to say "shit" in polite company. It's a word invented by a blogger for clicks. This isn't a hill worth dying on.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2026-02-15 22:27:18+00:00
One man's trash is another man's treasure.

They will be able to sell them for pennies on the dollar so that some fraction of them can be resold for cheap in Africa or somewhere else poor. Those companies can then dispose of them however they wish.

The reseller makes a small profit, and the original moanufacturer gets the PR of "clothing the poor" or whatever.

And, as usual, EU regulations achieve absolutely nothing -- if anything, this is worse than nothing.
by toofy | 2026-02-15 22:27:20+00:00
> I guarantee this problem is far more complex and troublesome than the bureaucrats would ever understand

if a manufacturer finds it too complex to not overproduce and not add all kinds of negative externalities then their business model is flawed or they’re not up to the task.

either way, it isn’t “the bureaucrats” fault they’re overproducing, and they absolutely are overproducing.
by xve | 2026-02-15 22:28:03+00:00
So, what's currently going on to fight back against all this? Here's what I found. Does signing a petition actually doing something? It's hard to tell but if you are inclined, at least take a look at some current efforts.

-Active Petitions and Campaigns to Limit Surveillance:
End the Surveillance State (Action Network): Petitions call on Congress to permanently end the PATRIOT Act, stop warrantless surveillance, and oppose the expansion of surveillance technology.

-Ban Facial Recognition (Amnesty International & ACLU): Amnesty International is running the "Ban the Scan" campaign, while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) targets the use of face surveillance, arguing it poses risks to civil liberties and disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.

-Stop Surveillance Data Brokers (Mozilla): Mozilla Foundation is targeting major websites to stop sharing data with surveillance technology firms that track user movement and interactions.

-Protect User Data from Subpoenas (EFF): The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pressuring tech companies to resist lawless DHS subpoenas for user data.

-Oppose Localized Surveillance (ACLU/Action Network): Local petitions aim to limit technologies like Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) that create massive databases of personal movement.

-Federal Legislative Reform: Advocates are pushing for the "The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act," which aims to restrict intelligence agencies from purchasing data from brokers without a warrant.
by ckdot | 2026-02-15 22:28:12+00:00
1. Make sure you are using Opus model. Type /model and make sure Opus is selected. While many say sonnet is good, too, I’m not too convinced. Opus is the first model that actually convinced me to use AI as my daily driver - and I’m a developer for about 20 years.
2. Make the tasks as small and specific as possible. Don’t prompt „create a todo app with user login“ but „create a vue app where users can register, don’t do more than that“, then „build a user login“ then, „create a page to create todo items“, then „create a page to list todo items“, then „on list page, add delete functionality“ - and so on, you get the idea.
3. beware the context size. Claude code will warn you if you exceed it, but even before: the higher the context window, the higher AI will miss things. If you start a new prompt that doesn’t require the whole context of the previous one, type /clear.
4. build an agents.md or Claude.md. /init will do that for you, but it will just create a Claude.md with information that it might think are important - but easily miss things. You know best. It often also includes file and directory structure, while it could easily find out again (tree command) without that info in agents/claude file. Still I recommend: let Claude create that file, then adjust it to your needs. Only add important stuff here. The more you add, the more you spam the context. Again, try to keep context small.
5. if Claude needs a long time for finishing a task or did it wrong at first attempt, tell it to update the Claude.md with information to not do the same mistakes the next time again.
6. make sure you understand the code it created. Add conventions to agents.md that will make the code more readable (use early returns, don‘t exceed nesting level of 3, create new methods with meaningful names instead of inline comments etc.)

Good luck!
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-15 22:28:26+00:00
No one else has done it and code is easier than ever to create. This tool needs to be built by the person closest to the problem.

Ask your agent for ways to do this using code, not more AI.

It might propose - and build! - an embeddings based system and scraper for your issues & PRs. Using that will burn zero tokens and you can iterate on it as you think of improvements.
by jv22222 | 2026-02-15 22:29:28+00:00
Fair. The first doc you land on is in a read-only workspace (I used the app itself to write the onboarding docs, and display them in read only mode. dogfooding it). I can see how that's a bad first impression when you just want to start typing. I'll look at dropping new accounts into an editable doc instead. Thanks for checking it out.
by oatmealsnap | 2026-02-15 22:30:00+00:00
There are skills available that might help you out. The “superpowers” set from Anthropic is really impressive.

The idea is, you want to build up the right context before starting development. I will either describe exactly what I want to build, or I ask the agent for guidance on different approaches. Sometimes I’ll even do this in a separate Claude (not Claude Code) conversation, which I feel works a bit faster. Once we have an approach, I will ask it to create an implementation plan in a markdown file, I clear context and then tell it to implement the plan.

Check out the “brainstorming” skill and the “git worktrees” skill. They will usually trigger the planning -> implementation workflow when the work is complex enough.
by bfeynman | 2026-02-15 22:31:18+00:00
the ability to almost "discover" or create hype is highly valued despite most of the time it being luck and one hit wonders... See many of the apps that had virality and got quickly acquired and then just hemorrhaged. Openclaw is cool, but not for the tech, just some of the magic of the oddities and getting caught on somehow, and acquiring is betting that they can somehow keep doing that again.
by greensleeves123 | 2026-02-15 22:31:20+00:00
Spoiler: Nothing much. Or at least, not on its own. And it’s not a newsroom.

It would seem a not-so self-organising thing is developing on my VM. The process being quite fun, even if entirely pointless and fruitless so far, I thought I might as well document it for those others who might enjoy these misadventures.

Then thought better of it as I realised having it document itself would be both more interesting and more appropriate.

And that's how I threw yet another agent onto the pile. Which, for some reason, has declared the entire outfit to be a newsroom.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-15 22:31:27+00:00
In Asia people do a big chunk of their business via chatbots. OpenClaw is a security dumpster fire but something like OpenClaw but secure would turbocharge that use case.

If you give your agent a lot of quantified self data, that unlocks a lot of powerful autonomous behavior. Having your calendar, your business specific browsing history and relevant chat logs makes it easy to do meeting prep, "presearch" and so forth.
by lysace | 2026-02-15 22:31:50+00:00
They were definitely not. Here is someone in that first thread trying to figure out what is actually going on, and failing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421757

I had to wade through 12 gigantic generic political subthreads to find this.

"Do you have an example of the changed voice anywhere?" (No replies.)

"Yes, I feel gaslit by the whole situation" is a great summary.

Please post a clip from the time. I'm still curious to hear how similar or not they acually were.
by diosisns | 2026-02-15 22:32:10+00:00
I think a lot of this is orchestrated behind the scenes. Above author has taken money from AI companies since he’s a popular “influencer”.

And it makes a lot of sense - there’s billions of dollars on the line here and these companies made tech that is extremely good at imitating humans. Cambridge analytica was a thing before LLMs, this kinda tool is a wet dream for engineering sentiment.
by linmob | 2026-02-15 22:32:24+00:00
This is a really cool project, and IMHO the most important new-comer in the #MobileLinux distro space in a long time, as it takes a model proven on desktop, building upon a well-run distribution (Fedora) and applies it to mobile.

I have yet to attempt daily-driving it, but just trying it and easily switching mobile shells (e.g., from Plasma Mobile to Phosh) so easily[0] without have weird side-effects from the previous environment has been quite exciting!

[0]: https://pocketblue.github.io/devices/oneplus-sdm845/#images-...
by poketdev | 2026-02-15 22:35:00+00:00
This is fantastic work! I love how you stuck with pure Python libraries - tkinter, numpy, and sounddevice. The Moog ladder filter implementation is particularly impressive. Have you considered adding export functionality for the generated audio? Being able to save presets or record to WAV files would make this even more practical for music production. Great job on the GUI design too - those rotary knobs look perfect for this application.
by poketdev | 2026-02-15 22:35:29+00:00
The approach of using general programming languages instead of YAML for CI/CD is refreshing. I've seen too many teams struggle with YAML's complexity and limitations in complex pipelines. Being able to write actual code with proper IDE support, testing, and debugging is a game-changer. The SDK approach is smart too - makes it extensible across languages. Have you considered integration with GitHub Actions beyond the existing ones? That would significantly expand the user base.
by nikodunk | 2026-02-15 22:36:06+00:00
I will say updating without worries (ie. it has rollbacks and image-based updates) has made it much more daily-drivable for me on a Oneplus 6 than other distributions, despite being so new. It's fun that image-based OSs - which were arguably popularlized by phones - are now coming back to phones on the Linux side too.
by tsss | 2026-02-15 22:36:08+00:00
The fact that you got a syntax error at all is pretty telling. Are you not using agent mode? Or maybe that's just the experience with inferior non-statically typed languages where such errors only appear when the application is run. In any case, the key is to have a feedback mechanism. Claude should read the syntax errors, adjust and iterate until the error is fixed. Similarly, you should ask Claude to write a test for your landscape/portrait mode bug and have it make changes until the test passes.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-15 22:36:39+00:00
Why is anyone surprised anyway??

USA is always bitching about China and yet, it uses its giant techs to spy on the whole world. Microsoft O365 blocking Europen politics email account by Trump demands.

Seeing Europe ditching USA big techs software/SaaS in flavor of open-source, is the best thing that could have happened.

Back to the F-35, anything built before 80s, were built to last.
Everything built now is built to break and overly engineered, it is like if the whole world decided to become German engineers and yet have no idea of what they are doing.

Australia F-35 program has been a complete fiasco, the project budget no longer knows what budget means, relaying on USA technology or anything really has been proved to be very costly and you don't really own it, the USA does.
Just like China but China cannot do what the USA can for whatever reason.
by like_any_other | 2026-02-15 22:36:47+00:00
So she rapidly accelerated at him, and her car pushed him away, either by hitting his torso or his arm. And that in the 1-2 seconds the agent had to figure out her actions and intent, he arguably made the wrong call, is rephrased as:

"Speech is disallowed if someone with any authority feels like killing you"
by somewhereoutth | 2026-02-15 22:37:00+00:00
Agreed. Many of the suggestions are pretty much code it yourself, but without actually tapping the individual keys.

Furthermore, and more generally, one of the great things about (traditional) coding is that it allows 'thinking through making' - by building something you learn more about the problem and thus how best to solve it. Code generation just leaves you with reviewing, which is less powerful in this way I believe. See also 'thinking through writing [prose]'.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-15 22:37:14+00:00
I have not run OpenClaw and similar frameworks because of security concerns, but I enjoy the author's success, good for him.

There are very few companies who I trust with my digital data and thus trust to host something like OpenClaw and run it on my behalf: American Express, Capital One, maybe Proton, and *maybe* Apple. I managed an AI lab team at Capital One and personally I trust them.

I am for local compute, private data, etc., but for my personal AI assistant I want something so bullet proof that I lose not a minute of sleep worrying about by data. I don't want to run the infrastructure myself, but a hybrid solution would also be good.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-15 22:37:28+00:00
The Classic Mac OS model in general I think is the best that has been or ever will be in terms of sheer practical user power/control/customization thanks to its extension and control panel based architecture. Sure, it was a security nightmare, but there was practically nothing that couldn’t be achieved by installing some combination of third party extensions.

Even modern desktop Linux pales in comparison because although it’s technically possible to change anything imaginable about it, to do a lot of things that extensions did you’re looking at at minimum writing your own DE/compositor/etc and at worst needing to tweak a whole stack of layers or wade through kernel code. Not really general user accessible.

Because extensions were capable of changing anything imaginable and often did so with tiny-niche tweaks and all targeted the same system, any moderately technically capable could stack extensions (or conversely, disable system-provided ones which implemented a lot of stock functionality) and have a hyper-personalized system without ever writing a line of code or opening a terminal. It was beautiful, even if it was unstable.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-15 22:37:37+00:00
Get the superpowers plugin and then ask Claude to design and document the system. It will go into brainstorming mode and ask you a lot of questions. The end result will be a markdown file. Then get another agent (maybe ChatGPT) to critique and improve the design (upload the markdown file in the web version). Then give it back to Claude and have it critique and improve. Last step, make Claude analyze the design and then document a step by step implementation guide. After that turn Claude code loose on implementation. Those techniques have been working for me when doing a project from scratch.