MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piva00 | 2026-02-10 19:57:15+00:00
It's produced in the USA by... ASML San Diego, the knowledge is inside the main ASML Holdings, it doesn't need to only exist in San Diego if the need arises.

It's been good politics to keep it in the USA, if pressure and high risk comes there will be a lot of incentive to not need the USA parts and have it manufactured somewhere else.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 19:57:58+00:00
> For me it's that writing code is really enjoyable, and delegating it to AI is hell on earth.

It's very sad, for me.

Like I told someone recently - letting the LLM write my code for me is like letting the LLM play my video games for me.

If all I wanted was the achievement on my steam profile, then sure, it makes sense, but that achievement is not why I play video games.

I'm looking at all these people proudly showing off their video game achievements, gained just by writing specs, and I realise that all of them fail to realise that writing specs is a lower-skill activity than writing programs.

It also pays far, far less - a BA earns about half what an average dev earns. They're cosplaying at being BAs, not realising that they are now employed for a skill that pays less, and it's only a matter of time before the economics catch up to them.

I don't see a solution here.
by liuliu | 2026-02-10 19:58:09+00:00
Agree. I think it is just people have their own simplified metal model how it works. However, there is no reason to believe these simplified metal models are accurate (otherwise we will be here 20-year earlier with HMM models).

The simplest way to stop people from thinking is to have a semi-plausible / "made-me-smart" incorrect metal model of how things work.
by david-gpu | 2026-02-10 19:58:27+00:00
> My understanding about how artificial sweeteners work in part is that they don't have a caloric impact but still cause an insulin response.

Some sweeteners appear to trigger insulin secretion, some don't.

[0] https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/sweeteners

[1] https://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/study-review-do-sweetene...
by chaps | 2026-02-10 19:58:32+00:00
And I'm getting tired of these comments that normalize the awfulness of the past. We can be pragmatic in recognizing that "our guys" also did bad things. Less bad than awful is still bad. If we choose not to recognize our own foibles then we just fall down our old patterns of "it's someone else's problem".

Because otherwise, better than what we have now is an abysmal target and we should aim for better.
by m-schuetz | 2026-02-10 19:58:48+00:00
I don't see the point of those when I can just directly use OpenGL. Any translation layer typically comes with limitations or issues. Also, I'm not that glued to OpenGL, I do think it's a terrible API, but there just isn't anything better yet. I wanted Vulkan to be something better, but I'm not going to use an API with entirely pointless complexity with zero performance benefits for my use cases.
by IanCal | 2026-02-10 19:58:59+00:00
We immediately only need to consider the half that believed the situation was real, if we are concerned with what people do in believably real situations.

Even if we take the 16% though, that's one in six people willing to deliver very obvious direct harm and/or kill another human from exceptionally mild coercion with zero personal benefit attached other than the benefit of not having to say "no". That is a lot.
by Johanx64 | 2026-02-10 19:59:11+00:00
> once you get bored of mindless work/consumption cycle, go ahead and get to the good part!

The good part is spawning another entity which has to slog through mindless work and consumption cycle, experience aging, wither and die? Just so you can feel good about yourself.

You acknowledge the stats about mental health and loneliness and how prevalent that is, and yet you will roll a dice on (other persons behalf) with glee - with high odds of subjecting your child to it.

Natural selection truly is a sight to behold, where peoples brains get disabled and they lose their ability to think when it comes to procreation, because those that do think get selected out of the gene pool.

It truly is beautiful.
by mellosouls | 2026-02-10 19:59:33+00:00
How does your question differ from the classic question more normally applied to maths in general - does it exist outside the mind (eg platonism) or no (eg. nominalism)?

If it doesn't differ, you are in the good company of great minds who have been unable to settle this over thousands of years and should therefore feel better!

More at SEP:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
Ask HN: Pro option missing from Gemini model selector?
by sssparkkk | 2026-02-10 19:59:37+00:00
For almost a week now the 'pro' model has been missing from the Gemini model selector; only 'fast' and 'thinking' remain. This is with an active AI pro subscription, and seems to be the case for a sizeable group of people (it's being mentioned on reddit).

Maybe an upvoted (if this affects you as well) hacker news post about this helps to put this on the radar at Google, or maybe one of you even knows of steps to somehow fix this. Thanks!
by IshKebab | 2026-02-10 19:59:45+00:00
That not really how it works though. Laws and morals do not perfectly align even in mostly civilised countries like the UK.

More importantly, laws are written under the tacit assumption that they won't be perfectly enforced. Have you ever driven 31 mph in a 30 mph zone? Illegal! You're in the wrong!

I have never watched his videos so I don't know what proportion of his videos are of people stopped at lights briefly looking at their phone... but I don't think many people (even cyclists) would seriously object to that.

I both cycle and drive a lot. There are a lot of bad drivers that I wish would get snitched. But I also occasionally look at my phone while waiting at a red light.
by pino83 | 2026-02-10 19:59:52+00:00
> You're not alone, Kraig911. It's very hard to be a parent in modern society. My wife and I's friends have basically vanished from our lives, they have zero initiative or interest in coming over to see the kids or help in any way.

Similar to what I wrote in the other reply: How far went _your_ initiative to stay in actual contact with them, in a way it's not a boring duty call, but something _actually_ nice?

If I have friends with children, sure I'm also interested in them. But if it turns out that these friends have no desire to spend time with _me_ anymore - without any kids involved - and they mostly expect from me that I constantly want to see the kids and "help in any way", well, where do I profit from that friendship?? It often gets quite asymmetrical and boring.
by j45 | 2026-02-10 20:00:11+00:00
Programming changed all along.

New concepts came out all along.

They became standardized all along and came down market to smaller and smaller projects.

Source control.

Cloud.

Agile/Scrum.

Code completion IDEs.

Higher Level languages.

These were not LLMs but did represent a shift that had to be kept up with.

LLMs are no different, just a bigger jump.

There is just as much opportunity here.

Software development and software developers are not going away.

More software that never could be built will now be built.

For the forseeable future there will always be software that needs to be overseen by a human.
by avidiax | 2026-02-10 20:00:24+00:00
You can just get some ball mounts and an action camera or two. The new cameras have such good stabilization that a handlebar mount is very acceptable now.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPMBL924 + a ball for the handlebar and a short extension. You can use the smaller ball size, it is still plenty sturdy.
by topaz0 | 2026-02-10 20:00:41+00:00
Most commenters are talking about the first part of the post, which lays out how you might construct the complex numbers if you're interested in different properties of them. I think the last bit is the real interesting substance, which is about how to think about things like this in general (namely through structuralism), and why the observations of the first half should not be taken as an argument against structuralism. Very interesting and well written.
by arjie | 2026-02-10 20:01:02+00:00
I think a little reasoning at global scale easily arrives at a defence of the current traffic law depending on risk tolerance, but perhaps an analogy will help: most societies believe (or at least enforce in a manner that reflects belief) that walking around with a handgun out in your hand should be illegal. In truth no harm is done until one pulls the trigger, and there is certainly benefit: it is much faster to stop a criminal when you're ready at hand.

The reasons we don't do that are manifold, but at least a few are analogous:

* legibility: we don't need just lack of harm, we require common knowledge that harm is unlikely in order for society to work with frictionlessness we desire

* distinguishability: at some percentage of accidental behaviour, we must constrain all people because we don't have a mechanism to determine who will likely cause it and who won't

* reversibility: for sufficient harm, it is better to restrict the error condition than it is to punish

Because we know we cannot bring the dead back to life, and no amount of prison will bring solace to their loved ones, we have decided that doing things that are high-risk to others is not permissible. Given this framework for the moral concern, it's just an optimization problem. The question then becomes what fraction of pedestrians killed in crosswalks is acceptable, or even what fraction of pedestrians following the law killed in crosswalks is acceptable. Some societies believe this should be zero (hence the amusingly named Vision Zero and so on as practised in Northern Europe). Others believe this should be fairly high (like the US) because the utility loss from constraint is too high.

Now the handgun case has a very high number for potential risk, so it's obvious why most societies have that law. The crossing point of risk for almost everyone is below it, consequently most agree. The question then becomes what your crossing point for risk is and whether the number of accidental deaths is above your threshold or below your threshold.
by godelski | 2026-02-10 20:01:59+00:00
Yes

Go to this website[0], type in your zipcode, and write a letter or email to the address provided.

It may also help reading this[2]

[0] https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

[1] https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
by intervolz | 2026-02-10 20:02:05+00:00
Sol LeWitt was a conceptual artist who never touched his own walls.

He wrote instructions and other people executed them, the original prompt engineer!

I bookmarked a project called "Solving Sol" seven years ago and made a repo in 2018. Committed a README. Never pushed anything else.

Fast forward to 2026, I finally built it.

https://intervolz.com/sollewitt/
by water-drummer | 2026-02-10 20:02:06+00:00
Wait, why should an LLM simply not just write directly to the markdown file instead of going through the extra step of using a cli tool which is basically `echo 'something' >> file.md` but with templates that should really be in a prompt instead of a being in a compiled binary? Did Claude come up with the idea for this as well?

Also, I am sure you must already know about Playwright mcp so why this? If your goal isn't to make the cli human-friendly, which is the only advantage clis have over mcps doing the same thing, then why not just use the mcp? It doesn't even handle multiple sessions and has a single global state file––this is slop.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-10 20:02:31+00:00
Adding on here...

VirusTotal is flagging the trello skill as suspucious because it Does NOT include an API key? Am i expected to share my keys if I want to upload a skill?

https://clawhub.ai/steipete/trello

"Requiring TRELLO_API_KEY and TRELLO_TOKEN is appropriate for Trello access, but the registry records no required env vars while SKILL.md documents them. This omission is problematic: the skill will need highly privileged credentials but the published metadata does not disclose that requirement. The SKILL.md also references 'jq' and uses curl, but these are not declared in the registry entry."
by bpt3 | 2026-02-10 20:02:44+00:00
> but it requires an adult to drive that SUV. Car culture has made it so kids don't have autonomy to move themselves around anymore. When I was 8 I used to be able to walk/bike around the neighborhood to see my friends. Then we moved to car-dependent suburbia and things were so much worse. Having to depend on adults to go places added a lot of friction. The end result is that we'd usually just spend a lot of time inside the house.

My kids can (and do) walk around our neighborhood. You chose to live somewhere that didn't support that and lament it, for reasons that are not clear to me.

We also drive our SUV when the number of passengers exceeds 5, which is not uncommon at all in our household. Occasionally, we drive it solo or with less than 5 passengers, because it makes sense to do so.

> Just look at the dystopia we live in right now: some parents literally drive a Chevy Tahoe or equivalent SUV to school to drop their kids off. How many school-aged children can you fit into the blindspot of a car like that? Are we at all surprised that parents don't want their kids walking to school alone?

Large vehicles are "dystopia"? There are plenty cruising around my town yet a kid has literally never been hit in the 20 years I've lived there.

And kids walk to school alone or in small groups on the sidewalks, with crossing guards protecting them at intersections.

> I literally have to tell my son to hold his breath as we bike by long lines of SUVs idling right next to a school

Okay. Are these cars all from the 1970s, before any modern emission standards were enacted?

> It's funny that I don't drive and I transport my 3 kids around almost exclusively by bike. Yet people who live in my neighborhood with kids insist that they need an SUV for all trips. (yes, I can afford any car if I wanted one).

Good for you. I have zero interest in spending an hour plus biking my kids to and from the grocery store, so we just drive and then play in our yard when we get back. Or we just walk if we have the time and interest.

> I even organize bike trips so other parents can bring their kids to events by bike so we don't need to get cars involved.

Sounds great. We have these too, without the irrational fear of cars included.

> I think we've fooled ourselves into thinking we need cars far more than we actually do.

"Need" is a relative term. I don't "need" indoor plumbing to survive, yet it's nice to have and most people would consider it a need (including my wife and kids).

I see no reason to reduce my standard of living by basically taking up cycling as an unpaid part time job. If you enjoy it or just feel like it's time well spent, again, good for you.

> Yes, there are dystopian places that are completely car-dependent and don't even have sidewalks, but even in places that aren't like that people still insist that they need cars for everything.

Again, using "dystopian" to describe a place that is car dependent is a pretty fringe view. It's not surprising that not many people agree.
by toraway | 2026-02-10 20:02:45+00:00
Wow, you are not exaggerating by "a little misleading", like half the posts on that account's history are undisclosed promotion/praise of Clacker News, and then a couple claiming ownership of it.

There's even one comment referring to Clacker News with "they"! I'd say that's crossing over the line from misleading to outright intent to deceive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896694

But more honest than making up sockpuppets to do it I guess...
by amluto | 2026-02-10 20:02:46+00:00
Most of the results here are in mice, but they apparently did a small pilot study in humans:

https://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojEN.html?proj=176336

To the extent that there are results, they're paywalled. But, oddly, the entire article appears to be posted in the supplemental information section:

https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cmet.2026.01.008/attachme...

From Figure 1, the effect size in mice was fairly large.

Pages 9 and 10 give a very brief description of the human trial. It looks like they did not make any effort to disentangle effects due to weight loss from effects independent of weight loss in humans. The humans in the study group had a 17% increase in knee cartilage thickness, and the dose used was (see page e3):

"Participants receiving SG treatment initiated
with a dose of 0.25 mg in the first week, and increased the dose in a stepwise manner each subsequent week until reaching the target
dose of 0.5 mg/week (incremental steps of 0.125 mg)."

AIUI this matches the current recommended starting dosage for diabetes and is considerably lower than the dosages used for weight loss.
by danaris | 2026-02-10 20:02:52+00:00
No, but there are some hard prerequisites—that is to say, there may be some fuzzy territory in the middle, but we can say with certainty that, say, a stone is not conscious, and that we are. (And no, I don't give a drop of credit or time to the philosophical arguments that say we might not be.)

When 99% of the world talks about "what sci-fi AI can do", they mean "it has the consciousness of a human, but with the strengths of a computer" (with varying strengths depending on the sci-fi work, but generally massive processing capability and control over various computerized devices). You might mean "I gave my Claude agents control over pod bay doors and my CI/CD processes! Thus, they are more capable than the classic sci-fi AI!", but if all you say is the last part, you are being actively misleading.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-10 20:03:11+00:00
Agreed with your take. The lifestyle choices lead to the costs, and it's sort of a circular problem in the end. My dad's (European immigrant) family lived in one of those multi-generational homes you mentioned, and so there was just far less of this self enforced age segregation you see in atomic families.

From when I was young, I'd see my extended family at least every 2-3 weeks or more, every other holiday was hanging out with people from newborn to 90 years old. Babies and elderly were pretty regular fixtures of my regular life.

By comparison my mom's side which had been here a few generations, I never really saw kids other than when I was a kid myself. I don't think my wife ever held a baby until she was an aunt in her 30s.
by simonw | 2026-02-10 20:03:36+00:00
Because I don't want it to write to the markdown file directly. I want it to tell me the command it runs and I then run that command and write both the command and the output to the file.

Otherwise it's just writing a document, not building a demo you can review.

As far as I can tell you can't hook MCPs up to Claude Code for web.

I originally planned to support separate sessions but decided to leave that out for the initial release. I've opened an issue for that here: https://github.com/simonw/rodney/issues/6
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-10 20:03:42+00:00
Sure it is. The same way it was legal to track and report on CIA "extraordinary rendition" flights using publicly available information.

What is not protected is actual interference or obstruction, and first amendment protections can be lost if the system’s design, stated purpose, or predictable use crosses from observation and reporting into intimidation or operational coordination that materially interferes or obstructs.

Given how these systems are already being used, and the likely intent behind building one, that's a real risk if you're not careful.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 20:03:44+00:00
> So far, the European citizens are very privacy senstive.

Only from corporations, but not from their own governments. A lot of Europeans put a lot of blind faith into their governments and the EU, and criticism of these institutions is usually met with accusations of being a bot, MAGA or russian troll.

>The European institutions are characterized by a huge devision of power.

Didn't really stop them passing whatever rules they wanted during Covid, did it? Sure is convenient that we keep having more and more crisis and boogiemen that governments can leverage to deflect accountability and bypass the wishes of the population, for our own good of course.

>There is no chance that European instutitions can impose their will against a considerable majority of people.

Famous last words. People always can be, and routinely are, manipulated to vote against their own best interests, even if everyone claims manipulation doesn't work on them. The propaganda industry is HUGE.

A individual person can be smart, but people together as a collective voting block, are stupid, and the elites treat us like cattle, as seen in the recent files.
by xg15 | 2026-02-10 20:04:04+00:00
> They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s making system calls to an OS kernel that’s scheduling threads across cores they’ve never thought about, hitting RAM through a memory controller with caching layers they couldn’t diagram, all while npm pulls in 400 packages they’ve never read a line of.

But sure. AI is the moment they lost track of what’s happening.

I feel this is conflating different things. Yes, the abstraction tower was massive already before, but at least the abstractions were mostly well-defined and understandable through interfaces: even if you don't understand the intricacies of your storage device, driver and kernel, you can usually get a quite reliable and predictable mental representation how files work. Same goes for network protocols, higher-level programming languages or the web platform.

Sure, there are edge cases where the abstraction breaks down and you have to get into the lower levels, but those situations are the exception, not the norm.

With AI, there is no clearly defined interface, and no one really knows what (precise) input a given output will produce. Or maybe to put it better, the interface is human language and your mental representation is the one you have talking to a human - which is far more vague than previous technical abstractions.

On the bright side, at least we (still) have the intermediate layer of generated code to reason about, which offsets the unpredictability a bit.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-10 20:04:48+00:00
I think you're the closest to being right, but assuming that dystopia can actually arise is a stretch. A proper understanding of the world incorporates the understanding that there the population and leadership are a fluid, with people moving back and forth all the time. Maybe with a robot army the rulers can impose a dystopia for the rest, but at that point we also would have infinite robot labor, so it's kind of a cop-out.
by jorvi | 2026-02-10 20:04:52+00:00
You might be unaware of this, but Vulkan Video Decode is slowly but surely replacing the disparate bespoke video decode acceleration on almost all platforms.

Vulkan is mature. It has been used in production since 2013 (!) in the form of Mantle. I have no idea why all the Vulkan doomsayers here think it still needs a half-to-whole decade to be 'useful'.
by SOTGO | 2026-02-10 20:05:20+00:00
I think it's that assumption is the problem. Most social systems are predicated on having enough net contributors to provide for net recipients, but with a declining population the ratio of contributors/recipients can get small. There may be solutions to this, but current social systems will likely fail if left unchanged. That doesn't mean the only solution is population growth, but we do need to do something
by tsoukase | 2026-02-10 20:05:37+00:00
Singapore is the greatest example of failure of public family policies. A whole "Flirting" department (1) was setup since the 80's to push births, starting from a marginally racist approach only to educated women. This only had modest results until now, despite the billions that costed.

Every single such policy in the developed world has failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Development_Network