MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by klibertp | 2026-02-26 09:39:42+00:00
The examples are fine for an early-stage poc project like this one. `minutes` with evaluation trace and `[Fold]<-` are illustrative, and if you work them out with pen and paper, you can get a good grasp on the main ideas of the language. That you have to search for them on a page that looks like a slightly-formatted README instead of having a nice scrollable with syntax-highlighted snippets at the top is because this IS a slightly-formatted README - and that's also completely fine at this stage. What's important is that there are a few interesting concepts there and that it was published. Even if this one fizzles, as 99.999% of languages do, that doesn't matter if some other language down the line gets inspired by those concepts.
by latexr | 2026-02-26 09:39:47+00:00
> Many people say we’re at AGI already and I’m wondering why everyone hasn’t died yet.

That’s like saying “many people say the Earth is flat and I’m wondering why anyone hasn’t fallen off the edge yet”.

“Many people say” doesn’t translate to reality. Maybe AGI will kill us all, maybe it won’t (I think we’re doing a fine job of that ourselves, no need for a machine’s help), but we’re definitely not at AGI, except in the minds of a few deluded people (or scammers).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-26 09:39:47+00:00
This is actually what I believe as well although I believe that its better to be pseudo-anonymous for me, right now.

In the sense that if I ever create any business/idea which can be serious enough that I want to back it up. I might create hackernews post about it.

Although that being said, I do sometimes make alts just to publish something if I don't want it under this particular account.

I do feel like I can be wrong, I usually am[0] but I think that I want to improve myself and perhaps this account can be a way for people to see me grow perhaps and sometimes fall as well. Life feels like a sin wave with ups and downs.

I have had some paranoid thoughts as to what if I get into controversy later on in life because of some things I do in my teen years but there was a line from a friend that I heard which said, "that anyone with more than 1 brain cell can figure out if a person has improved or not"

I do feel like authenticity is gonna be the differentiator if both code and infra aren't the bottlenecks. Perhaps authenticity can be treated as part of marketing but I feel like its also paradoxical to gain authenticity if you want to do marketing. Imo, a person has to be authentic for the sake of being authentic and only then and then can he also get some marketing benefits.

Authenticity means to share both good and bad (well as much as you can, I don't think one should be completely 100% authentic but rather only keep a few personal things to oneselves and even if they get leaked, then y'know just have the grace to accept it and considering that quote from above, I think most people will understand most things especially when you realize that there are people / (youtubers?) in the world who are part of serious accusations/controversies where I feel like most other controversies should be pretty non-issue fwiw.

Like my idea is being authentic enough to satisfy myself. If I become more authentic but if I feel unsatisfied/worried etc.,then that's wrong too.

[0]: (This is such a good quote from how to win friends that I use it quite often)
by 0x38B | 2026-02-26 09:39:47+00:00
Synthetic example:

"Вот его, нет, не допустили (сама знаешь, почему)))"

My translation:

"But him - no, they didn't let him in (of course you know why :)"

When I went from texting friends in Russian or Ukrainian back to English, I missed right parentheses as a smiley; one or two - hi), hello)) - to me are like a smile, by ))) and )))) there's some laughing or some other joke going on. Native speakers could weigh in; my native tongue is English.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-26 09:40:04+00:00
A simple hammer you'll sharpen, maybe a bog standard angle grinder. These are the cheap ones, and all you need.

Bigger panes of laminated glass is expensive, but you can start small, no? I'd go to the local glass shops and ask for their scraps, for example.

However, the point is not the cost of the supplies, but supporting the argument by putting out something better than the thing being criticized.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-26 09:40:35+00:00
> I think the premise of this tool is flawed. Bad faith actors are not people who...

I think there's something here. The tool is not intended to stop bad faith actors. You can't stop those. But you can nudge people into "being better" with a simple prompt. I can't recall the exact blog/paper now, but I remember reading that someone did this test (google perhaps?) and saw that with a simple prompt "hey this message is high on anger, did you mean to write it like this?" before submitting lead to ~30-50% to change their message and tone it down. It might help in that regard.
by aspect0545 | 2026-02-26 09:41:19+00:00
> Lately the EU Commission came up with a plan to create an inventory of every single valuable items owned by every single EU citizen: from Magic The Gathering and Pokemon cards to jewelry/heirloom, paintings, gold and silver coins/bars, cryptocurrencies coins, watches, cars, boats, etc. Anything with some value: would go in the inventory.
>The European Parliament asked the question: "Can you guarantee us this will never ever be used as a basis to confiscate these items?" to which the European Commission answered: "No, we cannot guarantee that".

Excuse me for not taking this at face value but this sounds like disinformation. Where did you get that from?
by blooalien | 2026-02-26 09:41:20+00:00
Indeed, the compose key is how I've always handled easy access to additional (proper? complete?) punctuation (and several other useful characters) capabilities on desktop Linux for many years now. I usually set the Caps-Lock key to my compose key because I literally never use Caps-Lock anyhow, so it's nice to turn it into a useful key. :)
by semihcihan | 2026-02-26 09:42:19+00:00
You’re right that it’s important to keep facts, numbers, constants, and the like and that’s exactly how the agent is prompted. It’s not really summarization, it’s removing noise (UI chrome, menus, repeated labels, etc.) while keeping all the numbers and facts. I’ve been using the tool myself for a while and it’s held up well. If we find that keeping everything as-is works better, we can always turn off densification and keep the raw capture.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2026-02-26 09:42:43+00:00
A conspiracy theory I’m entertaining right now is that hogging RAM manufacturing by AI companies is not so much because they _need_ the RAM, but because they want to cripple existing and potential competitors, and that includes on-device models.

One thing that might support this is the fact AI companies are purchasing uncut wafers of DRAM. One use might be to hoard and stockpile them somewhere in a cave, so that no one else gets to them.

Another thing that might support this is that precisely the same strategy had been in use by software companies during the COVID hiring fever. Companies used to hire people for ridiculous pay with little actual work to perform so that among other things, competitors wouldn’t whisk those people away and be at an advantage.

This, of course, ended with massive layoffs once the reckoning came about, and I’m wondering about what is going to happen when (there’s no “if”) the reckoning comes for big AI, too.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2026-02-26 09:43:20+00:00
grep, sed, and awk are nice simple tools but were followed by perl which is a more comprehensive tool and a complete programming language.

perl advanced the state of the art for regular expressions such that most regular expression implementations are "perl compatible".

From HN user unpythonic:

"When perl came out we were living in horrific times. You had the choice of either Bourne, C or Korn shell. Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk, sed, ls, test, commands glued together.

Anything more complicated was written in C and called from one of these things.
Perl in one stroke collapsed the programming of C, text manipulation, the capabilities of all of the Unix utilities, and data structures into one system. For anything which wasn't subsumed into the monolith of Perl, you could easy access via backticks. It was very friendly in dealing with text streams, and that's what those call-outs in those back ticks spoke.

Yes, awk and sed were replaced by Perl, but more importantly, the unmaintainable nightmare that glued all of it together was wiped out." Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650120

From "The Art of Unix Programming":

"Perl is shell on steroids. It was specifically designed to replace awk(1), and expanded to replace shell as the ‘glue’ for mixed-language script programming. It was first released in 1987." Source: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#per...

It is good to know grep, sed, and awk, but it would be remiss to not include perl too. It is equally ubiquitous, more capable, and still developed and maintained with version 5.42.0 released last year: https://www.cpan.org/src/README.html

"On the scripting side, Perl has also returned to prominence. Once the undisputed leader in scripting, Perl declined after years of internal fragmentation and competition from newer languages. Recently, however, it has staged a comeback, reclaiming a position in the TIOBE top 10 since January 2018." Source: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

But don't take my word for it, give it a try and see what you think: https://www.perl.org/get.html
by panick21_ | 2026-02-26 09:43:41+00:00
I mean that was kind of obvious, but I wouldn't know how to bet against that. Defense wasn't going to get cut. Cutting social security and friends is incredibly unlikely. Debt interest is impossible to cut. DOGE believed in cutting outside of that, and that's practically impossible.

PS: After reading the article, is assertion is a bit stronger then that, but still very likely. Good bet.
by grey-area | 2026-02-26 09:44:56+00:00
I may be using the wrong terms, my impression was:

1. Weights in the model are created by ingesting the corpus

2. Techniques like reinforcement learning, alignment etc are used to adjust those weights before model release

3. The model is used and more context injected which then affects which words it will choose, though it is still heavily biased by the corpus and training.

That could be way off base though, I'd welcome correction on that.

The point I was trying to make though was that they do more than predict next word based on just one set of data. Their weights can encode entire passages of source material in the training data (https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546), including books, programs. This is why they are so effective at generating code snippets.

Also text injected at the last stage during use has far less weight that most people assume (e.g. https://georggrab.net/content/opus46retrieval.html) and is not read and understood IMO.

There are a lot of inputs nowadays and a lot of stages to training. So while I don't think they are intelligent I think it is reductive to call them next token predictors or similar. Plausible text generators is a fair description IMO but hides a lot of detail.
by dumb1224 | 2026-02-26 09:45:02+00:00
> The art of Hendrix's playing, then, is partly in how he harnessed that sound and integrated it into his voice. And of course, he's a force of nature when he does so.

One thing for me to notice is his playing does not require a rhythm guitarist. I discovered that what worked well is Mitch Mitchell as a Jazz drummer his playing was heavily influenced by classics. In a way it complemented Jimi's guitar tone so well.
by michaelt | 2026-02-26 09:45:46+00:00
Keys could have certain restrictions [1] such as HTTP Referer, which meant you couldn't just embed a map on your website and charge a different website for the views.

Not perfect protection of course - an attacker could spam requests with all the right headers if they wanted to - but it removes one of the big motivations for copying someone else's API key.

[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/api-keys/docs/add-restrictions...
by nephihaha | 2026-02-26 09:47:23+00:00
"Immigrant food in New York City is the opposite of mediocrity. As Xenophon says, it’s “the most delicious one can find anywhere.”"

That is a generalisation. It will range between the best and the worst depending on when and where it is being served. Restaurants will serve fine food, street stalls and vans may be the opposite due to lack of facilities etc.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-26 09:47:51+00:00
Combine this with the fact that even the private mode of any AI provider still keeps logs of the chats and from some past discussion iirc, will keep it indefinitely.

> Air-gapped local inference isn't paranoia. It's necessary.

I definitely agree, I am seeing new model like qwen-3.5-30A3b (iirc) being able to be run reasonably on normal hardware (You can buy a mac mini whose price hasn't been inflated) and get decent tps while having a decent model overall.

There are some services like proton lumo, the service by signal, kagi's AI which seem to try to be better but long term, my plan is to buy mac-mini for such levels of inference for basic queries.

Of course, in the meanwhile like for example coding, it might not make too big of a difference between using local model or not unless for the most extremely sensitive work (perhaps govt/bank oriented)
by utopiah | 2026-02-26 09:48:05+00:00
> Whoever gets there first, the world is theirs.

Yes, just like the first person who will invent perpetual motion. /s

PS: to be clear, I'm not saying it's impossible but so far, just like perpetual motion or the Fountain of Youth it's an exciting idea anybody can easily understand yet nobody solved since it's been phrased out. It's not a solved problem and assuming it suddenly is is simply a (marketing) lie.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-26 09:48:12+00:00
Very eloquently put :) I agree with your proposition that bad-faith actors often mask their true intentions behind polite or sophisticated formatting.

However, I think a tool like this could still have huge potential, but less for tone and more for structure.

E.g.:
- Atomicity: Ensuring a comment presents a clear, self-contained core argument that can be debated in sub-comments, rather than a tautology or an accumulation of loosely connected arguments.

- Logical consistency: (Though whether an LLM can reliably parse logic is another question entirely!)

- Citations: Checking if the commenter provided credible sources for their claims.

- Civility of Discussion: instead of it becoming another mud battle

- Misinformation: Flagging the use of known, debunked conspiracy theories: Instead of modifying the original comment, it could simply append a contextual banner to the top with a Snopes link when a known false claim is made.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-02-26 09:49:12+00:00
Yeah this is just straight up nonsense.

Its ability to shuffle around data and use bash and do so in interesting ways far outstrips its ability to deal with MCPs.

Also remember to properly name your cli tools and add a `use <mytool> --help for doing x` in your AGENTS.md, but that is all you need.

Maybe you're stuck on some bloated frontend harness?
by miroljub | 2026-02-26 09:49:27+00:00
In pi coding agent [1] we have the pi-mcp-adapter [2], which provides the best of both worlds.

Like its name says, it implements an adapter pattern, which enables searching and calling out tools from MCPs without overhead. Works like a charm.

[1] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/
[2] https://github.com/nicobailon/pi-mcp-adapter
by nDRDY | 2026-02-26 09:49:28+00:00
Jeremey Clarkson called the Astra "the most boring car ever made". I loved both of mine - they always got me and my stuff where I needed to be, and were easy to fix.

The last one, a 2007 model that has now moved on to my younger sibling, might be the last "simple" car.
by ben_w | 2026-02-26 09:49:30+00:00
As a verb, no, but the product name somehow feels the wrong shape to verb it. I'd say the voice assistants have Google at a disadvantage for similar reasons: "OK Google" is clunky, whereas "Hey Siri," and "Alexa," are not.

But to ChatGPT: when I wander around Berlin, I do overhear people talking about ChatGPT by name.

For all the typical integrated LLM-based "assistants" in other products, I mainly hear people saying things like "I hate it" and "how do I turn this off" and so on, including the one Google has on its search results.

The other pure-play chat-bots that have enough mind-share to even be in the news are Grok (where twitter users seem to like it a lot, even though everyone else up to and including non-US world governments hate it to the point of wanting it banned), Claude (but even then only because of Claude Code), and DeepSeek (because it shows China has no difficulty keeping up with the US). I heard about Mistrial when it was new, but even with the app on my phone I didn't think about it again until about a month ago.

Ask a normal person about Gemini, I'd expect them to think you were talking astrology, not AI.
by angry_octet | 2026-02-26 09:49:31+00:00
It seems much more a compliance and auditing goal. To meet some objective of knowing who is in the office at what time, which informs office space leasing decisions, return to office mandates, decisions of charging for staff parking, etc. Personnel protection seems almost an afterthought.

Protecting JIRA auth tokens is quite likely low down the list for IT security. Making sure your workers are not remote North Koreans is indeed a security benefit of secured physical offices with regular on-site work.

But the author did have a deeper point -- visible security theatre gets lots of money and management attention, while meaningful expert driven changes are mired in bureaucracy.
by xml | 2026-02-26 09:50:06+00:00
Even with inflated RAM prices, you can buy a Strix Halo Mini PC right now for less than 2k. It will run gpt-oss-120b (59 GB) at an acceptable 45+ tokens per second: https://github.com/lhl/strix-halo-testing?tab=readme-ov-file...

I also believe that it should eventually be possible to train a model with somewhat persistent mixture of experts, so you only have to reload experts every few tokens. This will enable streaming experts from NVMe SSDs, so you can run state of the art models at interactive speeds with very little VRAM as long as they fit on your disk.
by tux3 | 2026-02-26 09:51:35+00:00
A fun fact for the people who like to go on rabbit holes. There is an x86 technique called cache-as-RAM (CAR) that allows you to explicitly allocate a range of memory to be stored directly in cache, avoiding the DRAM entirely.

CAR is often used in early boot before the DRAM is initialized. It works because the x86 disable cache bit actually only decouples the cache from the memory, but the CPU will still use the cache if you primed it with valid cache lines before setting the cache disable bit.

So the technique is to mark a particular range of memory as write-back cacheable, prime the cache with valid cache lines for the entire region, and then set the bit to decouple the cache from memory. Now every access to this memory region is a cache hit that doesn't write back to DRAM.

The one downside is that when CAR is on, any cache you don't allocate as memory is wasted. You could allocate only half the cache as RAM to a particular memory region, but the disable bit is global, so the other half would just sit idle.
by demetris | 2026-02-26 09:51:39+00:00
Some of the stuff we have been adding since then is GOOD though.

Some examples:

We now have to accommodate all types of user agents, and we do that very well.

We now have complex navigation menus that cannot be accessible without JavaScript, and we do that very well.

Our image elements can now have lots of attributes that add a bit of weight but improve the experience a lot.

Etc.

Also, things are improving/self-correcting. I saw a listing the other day for senior dev with really good knowledge of the vanilla stuff. The company wants to cut down on the use of their FE framework of choice.

I cannot remember seeing listings like that in 2020 or 2021.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-26 09:51:43+00:00
I think his point in general sticks, i.e. that businesses that he will never use, or have any common interest with, have got hold of his data.

I frequently get spam emails telling that the American tax service needs my details or my American medical insurance does. Sometimes I get ones telling me I've been shopping at some automobile store in the USA. I don't live in the USA, so neither of these are relevant to me, but it lets me know my email address is on some databases with a number of Americans.

One of the comments notes that Canadian Tire were "the only ones bothering to warn people that the company they use was compromised.

"Over here in the US I remember seeing something like that a number of years back. The card systems a bunch of retailers used was compromised and Target was the only one that bothered to tell everyone. And most people never knew if they used those other places they were compromised even if they didn't go to Target."
by wiseowise | 2026-02-26 09:52:22+00:00
Me and my gf do. Gemini is an absolute garbage and I’m willing to die on that hill.

- Atrocious mobile application

- Gemini web somehow consumes GIGABYTES of memory doing absolutely NOTHING

- No projects

- UX is terrible (want to remove that a autogenerated diagram at the top? No button for you, fucker, good luck finding the conversation it belongs to)

- No shopping mode

- mobile application loses context mid conversation or when continuing from web/mobile

- model itself is a hot garbage, even the pro variants:

* Switches to Chinese mid sentence on a trivial topic (Python subprocessing)

* Uses Russian propaganda videos as a source

* Completely ignores instructions

* Default prompt is garbage and you constantly have to hand hold it to get proper answers
by imtringued | 2026-02-26 09:52:28+00:00
The problem is that you're camouflaging the implicit position of "I'm going to stay in my home, even if I have to see the world burn." as the seemingly reasonable position "I'm going to stay in my home", while being utterly ignorant to the consequences based on absurd levels of wishful thinking.

You're saying the government is going to fail, but actually it's not really going to fail. Someone is going to bail you out every single time. If the government failed, but I'm still in the house, it didn't fail hard enough. They should get better and more competent at failing. The failure needs to be more absolute and its consequences should be unavoidable. The bare minimum required is that they thoroughly crush my spirit and desire to keep living in this place.

People with a semblance of sanity left in their brain understand that getting the things they want, also means dealing with the associated costs and that if they insist on those things, they also implicitly insist on the costs associated with those things. When people refuse this cost benefit trade off, they will end up losing the things they want.
by mrec | 2026-02-26 09:52:38+00:00
> Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. "I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo," he says. "While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. 'But you're Philip Glass! What are you doing here?' It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. 'But you are an artist,' he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe...