MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-13 22:45:57+00:00
I can't think of a better rationale for the ubiquitous worsening of local search than increasing ignorance of comp sci fundamentals.

There's no reason a senior at undergrad level shouldn't be able to write an efficient, fast, deterministic, precomputed search function.

... and yet, professional developers at major companies seem completely incapable.

Minimum acceptance criteria for any proposed shipping search feature should be "There is no file / object in the local system that fails to show up if you type its visible name" ffs.
by overgard | 2026-02-13 22:46:12+00:00
I mean, the leaders of these companies and politicians have been framing it that way for a while, but if AGI isn't possible with LLMs (which I think is the case, and a lot of important scientists also think this), then it raises a question: arms race to WHAT exactly? Mass unemployment and wealth redistribution upwards? So AI can produce what humans previously did, but kinda worse, with a lot of supervision? I don't hate AI tech, I use it daily, but I'm seriously questioning where this is actually supposed to go on a societal level.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-02-13 22:46:50+00:00
Unless something changes the government will be forced to continue devaluing the USD. They have been doing it since 1913. This is late stage debasement, not the start. Unless there is a drastic change in spending or growth there is no stopping this train even for a reserve currency. Being the reserve just allows us to spread out the damage. This points back to countries selling their US debt. They see default as more likely and want to get rid of it before they get caught holding the bag. It doesn't help that we have been abusing reserve currency privilege by using USD as a weapon. Who wants to be friends when our friendship is conditional on compliance?

The stock market will continue to go up as long as inflation happens. The dollar losing value is now the dominant market force. That makes the stock market increasing dependent on cheap credit. It is too risky for me to have money in the stock market. That value can evaporate faster than I can realize it on a decision as common as a FedFunds rate increase.

The last stage of a currency collapse is the country selling assets priced in dollars to pay dollar denominated debt.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 22:47:21+00:00
I have not done it myself (don't have the dinero), but my understanding is that there are many runs, restarts, and adjustments at this phase. It's surprisingly more fragile than we know aiui

If you already have a good one, it's not likely much has changed since a year ago that would create meaningful differences at this phase (in data, arch is diff, I know less here). If it is indeed true, it's a datapoint to add to the others singling internal (everybody has some amount of this, not good when it makes the headlines)

Distillation is also a powerful training method. There are many ways to stay with the pack without having new pre-training runs. It's pretty much what we see from all of them with the minor versions. So coming back to it, the speculation is that OpenAi is still on their 4.x pre-train, but that doesn't impede all progress
by stephc_int13 | 2026-02-13 22:47:54+00:00
The long tail is fatter and longer than many people expect.

AlphaZero was a special/unusual case, I would say an outlier.

FSD is still not ready, but people have seen it working for ten years, slowly climbing up the asymptote, but still not reaching human level driving, and it may take a while.

I use AI models for coding every day, I am not a luddite, but I don't feel the AGI, not at all, what I am seeing is a nice tool that is seriously over-hyped.
by pndy | 2026-02-13 22:48:20+00:00
> In my opinion he's one of the few people in the industry who actually knows how to skillfully write a coherent TV show.

He had this idea around 2004 of rebooting Star Trek: https://web.archive.org/web/20060628131520/http://bztv.typep...

And on a few occasions he also said he'd try steering Doctor Who
by simonw | 2026-02-13 22:48:45+00:00
You can see the official mission statements in the IRS 990 filings for each year on https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

I turned them into a Gist with fake author dates so you can see the diffs here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e36f0e5ef4a86881d145083f759bc...
by slibhb | 2026-02-13 22:48:55+00:00
I'm more worried about the anti-AI backlash than AI.

All inventions have downsides. The printing press, cars, the written word, computers, the internet. It's all a mixed bag. But part of what makes life interesting is changes like this. We don't know the outcome but we should run the experiment, and let's hope the results surprise all of us.
by truckingthrow33 | 2026-02-13 22:49:05+00:00
250,000 miles is a small number when talking about average drivers, let alone professional.
My mother has driven atleast 200,000 miles in her life and never been on an accident.
Ive done 100,000 miles on a motorcycle with only two hair raising close calls, and bikes are 60x more dangerous than cars mile for mile.

I don't think you can really get any significant data from 250,000 miles because most people don't wreck in 250,000 miles, especially professionals.
by car | 2026-02-13 22:49:25+00:00
I learned programming on a Sharp MZ-80K. Rectangular sheet metal case with an amber monochrome monitor and a built in cassette tape drive for storage. The keyboard keys were neatly squared up, zero ergonomics. You could flip it open like the hood of a car. And I faintly recall that there was some kind of UV erasable EEprom inside, not sure what for.
by pedroma | 2026-02-13 22:49:32+00:00
Looks like the EU can just get a feature flag to use pagination or a "Load More" button? Doesn't seem as big of a deal as enforcing USB-C.

Though if it applies to the YouTube, seems annoying when trying to find a video to watch. I usually trigger a few infinite scrolling loads to look for videos.

And I assume they'd have to specify a maximum number of items per page or "Load More", or else devs could just load a huge number of items up front, or stream them to the client slowly without interaction listeners, etc.
by quarkcarbon279 | 2026-02-13 22:49:40+00:00
We have seen people hire consultants to build RAG pipelines, maintain them only to be QA Agent when the world is shifting losing traffic to the likes of ChatGPT and Google comes up with a protocol that makes you do more work with WebMCP essentially maintain a lot of APIs for your UI and DBs. Rover is the answer to these painpoints. No RAG pipelines, just one script tag your users engage, retain, get work done on your website without ever leaving it and fully conversational.
by lich_king | 2026-02-13 22:49:41+00:00
I think this post is specifically an answer to yet another "AGI is just around the corner" post that made waves recently.

Fundamentally, I think that many problems in white-collar life are text comprehension problems or basic automation problems. Further, they often don't even need to be done particularly well. For example, we've long decided that it's OK for customer support to suck, and LLMs are now an upgrade over an overseas call center worker who must follow a rigid script.

So yeah, LLMs can be quite useful and will be used more and more. But this is also not the discourse we're having on HN. Every day, there's some AGI marketing headline, including one at #1 right now from OpenAI.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-13 22:50:00+00:00
Why does the LLM product allow itself to be wired to a publishing pipeline with no guardrails? It seems like they should come with a maximum session length by default, in the same way that many toasters don't have a "run indefinitely" setting.

I'd definitely change my view if whoever authored this had to jump through a bunch of hoops, but my impression is that modern AI agents can do things like this pretty much out of the box if you give them the right API keys.
by Toutouxc | 2026-02-13 22:50:46+00:00
I am constantly seeing this thing do most of my work (which is good actually, I don't enjoy typing code), but requiring my constant supervision and frequent intervention and always trying to sneak in subtle bugs or weird architectural decisions that, I feel with every bone in my body, would bite me in the ass later. I see JS developers with little experience and zero CS or SWE education rave about how LLMs are so much better than us in every way, when the hardest thing they've ever written was bubble sort. I'm not even freaking about my career, I'm freaking about how much today's "almost good" LLMs can empower incompetence and how much damage that could cause to systems that I either use or work on.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 22:51:04+00:00
I think right here is high on the list of “Why is Apple behind in AI?”. To be clear, I’m not saying at all that I agree with Apple or that I’m defending their position. However, I think that Apple’s lackluster AI products have largely been a result of them, not feeling comfortable with the uncertainty of LLM’s.

That’s not to paint them as wise beyond their years or anything like that, but just that historically Apple has wanted strict control over its products and what they do and LLMs throw that out the window. Unfortunately that that’s also what people find incredibly useful about LLMs, their uncertainty is one of the most “magical” aspects IMHO.
by btown | 2026-02-13 22:51:13+00:00
One of the biggest pieces of "writing on the wall" for this IMO was when, in the April 15 2025 Preparedness Framework update, they dropped persuasion/manipulation from their Tracked Categories.

https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework...

https://fortune.com/2025/04/16/openai-safety-framework-manip...

> OpenAI said it will stop assessing its AI models prior to releasing them for the risk that they could persuade or manipulate people, possibly helping to swing elections or create highly effective propaganda campaigns.

> The company said it would now address those risks through its terms of service, restricting the use of its AI models in political campaigns and lobbying, and monitoring how people are using the models once they are released for signs of violations.

To see persuasion/manipulation as simply a multiplier on other invention capabilities, and something that can be patched on a model already in use, is a very specific statement on what AI safety means.

Certainly, an AI that can design weapons of mass destruction could be an existential threat to humanity. But so, too, is a system that subtly manipulates an entire world to lose its ability to perceive reality.
by rdtsc | 2026-02-13 22:51:21+00:00
> But the ChatGPT maker seems to no longer have the same emphasis on doing so “safely.”

A step in the positive direction, at least they don't have to pretend any longer.

It's like Google and "don't be evil". People didn't get upset with Google because they were more evil than others, heck, there's Oracle, defense contractors and the prison industrial system. People were upset with them because they were hypocrites. They pretended to be something they were not.
by throwaway314155 | 2026-02-13 22:51:25+00:00
> we in fact cannot know if they're conscious or not, even if they seem to be

They (modern LLM's/agents) don't "seem to be" from my point of view. I respectfully disagree I suppose.

edit: One data point - https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon . Claude has been failing to to beat pokemon, a game effectively made for children, for _months_ now.
by rvz | 2026-02-13 22:51:34+00:00
It was never about safety.

"Safety" was just a mechanism for complete control of the best LLM available.

When every AI provider did not trust their competitor to deliver "AGI" safely, what they really mean was they did not want that competitor to own the definition of "AGI" which means an IPOing first.

Using local models from China that is on par with the US ones takes away that control, and this is why Anthropic has no open weight models at all and their CEO continues to spread fear about open weight models.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-13 22:52:00+00:00
Idk, I use Zed because it's so dang smooth. On a 144hz screen it feels really nice to use, other editors like v$code and IntelliJ have noticeable stutter and I find that to be distracting, in the same way it's jarring to go back to a 50hz monitor after getting used to 144.
by amelius | 2026-02-13 22:52:26+00:00
But what if AI turns out to be a commodity? We're already replacing ChatGPT by Claude or Gemini, whenever we feel like it. Nobody has a moat. It seems the real moat is with hardware companies, or silicon fabs even.

The arms race is just to keep the investors coming, because they still believe that there is a market to corner.
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 22:52:51+00:00
> Accepting a gift without an intention to reciprocate is an admission of social inferiority.

I wish I'd read your response more thoroughly before responding from my phone in a parking lot.

You do not understand gift economies at all. You've reduced them to transactionality, which is capitalism, and capitalism kills gift economies for fun.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a molecular biologist who is also a mother and a member of the Anishnaabe peoples. Braiding Sweetgrass is a book everyone should read, but you especially. The Serviceberry is a much shorter and denser discussion of gift economies but I doubt it's approachable for anyone who has read nothing of hers.
by shotajl | 2026-02-13 22:52:55+00:00
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by tuzemec | 2026-02-13 22:53:35+00:00
Personally, I don't like this autocomplete or tab-completion thing. I find it very distracting. I understand why someone might like it, but it's just not my thing.
I mostly use Claude (and Codex) through ACP in Zed. My colleagues use Cursor and VSCode, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything at all.
Show HN: API-pilot – deterministic API key resolution with runtime validation
by avi7777 | 2026-02-13 22:53:37+00:00
I built a small stdlib-only tool to make API key handling deterministic and CI-safe.

Resolves from ENV → .env → vault, with optional runtime validation probes.
No deps beyond Python stdlib.

Example:

from api_pilot import resolve_key
client = OpenAI(api_key=resolve_key("openai", validate=True))

CLI doctor command:

$ api-pilot-doctor
.env file found
OPENAI_API_KEY found in environment

Modes:
• Default: ENV → .env → vault
• Validation: optional runtime API probes
• Strict: fails if .env used (CI safety)

MCP integration ready.

Feedback welcome!
by dang | 2026-02-13 22:53:44+00:00
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008931, which is a copy of the original submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042839).

zdw I hope that's ok with you - you're an excellent submitter and we appreciate your many contributions! I just wanted to share the karma in this case.
by acdha | 2026-02-13 22:53:51+00:00
I think that’s why they are encouraging the mindset mentioned in your parent comment: it’s completely reversed the tech job market to have people thinking they have to accept whatever’s offered, allowing a reversal of the wages and benefits improvements which workers saw around the pandemic. It doesn’t even have to be truly caused by AI, just getting information workers to think they’re about to be replaced is worth billions to companies.
by munificent | 2026-02-13 22:54:07+00:00
I agree with you, but this is one of those things where if you haven't had the experience of being part of a popular open source project, you don't realize how bad the scaling effects are.

Let's say courtesy only requires five minutes of my time. There are millions of users of the programming language I work on. Let's say only 0.1% of them desire my courtesy. Even at that small fraction, I'm going to spend 83 hours out of every 24 hour day (including weekends and holidays) giving each of them that cheap courtesy.
by jmward01 | 2026-02-13 22:55:04+00:00
The core discussion wasn't about the PR it was about the hit piece that the bot created outside of the repo. The original post talked about bot submissions being a normal thing and how they have, I think, a very reasonable approach to them so the PR was just one of many and was unremarkable as well as valid in why it was denied. It was the 'at all costs get this into the code' approach the bot took that is the alarming turn here that really needs discussion. What about other tasks? 'Get me thing x please...' Turns in to blackmail and robbery without the person that kicked off the request knowing how far things have gone. The fact that the bot has this level of capability, to attack, but with a child's understanding, at best, and with no controls/repercussions is deeply alarming. If it decides to attack an individual it could do so and likely do deep real harm. Right now people are likely using these tools exactly for this purpose and we have very few well built defenses to handle this type of attack. The Naval War College had a seminar several years ago about the future of tech and war and I remember saying that the future of war will likely be at the individual level. Every sailor on a ship being electronically targeted just like this. Imagine the enemy sending e-mails and texts and posting to social media hit pieces with just enough information about you to make it believable and cause chaos. We have seen what the misinformation world can do over the past decade, this attack shows what is coming and it is incredibly scary.
by longfacehorrace | 2026-02-13 22:55:18+00:00
Nuremberg/just following orders might fly if we were talking about a cashier at Dollar General.

This is a genius tech bro who ignored warnings coming out institutions and general public frustration. Would be difficult to believe they didn't have some idea of the risks, how their reach into others lives manipulated agency.

Ground truth is apples:oranges but parallels to looting riches then fleeing Germany are hard to unsee.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-13 22:56:04+00:00
The zone of impurity is very hard to constrain. Consider an phone with a client app that is out of storage space and can't download an update. Even if you "solve" the problem by forbidding older client versions from connecting, you can't make that cutoff too quick or you'll annoy users. So, you're talking about a lag time of at least weeks on every deploy, which means you've already started multiple new deploys before the old ones drop out of support window. A large system is always in the state of transition.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-13 22:56:38+00:00
Oh! They can’t publish arbitrary web content on their own :) You have to give it “tools” (JSON schema representing something you’ll translate into a programmatic call), then, implement taking messages in that JSON schema and “doing the thing”, which in this case could mean anything from…

Actually, let me stop myself there. An alternative way to think about it without overwhelming with boring implementation details: what would you have to give me to allow me to publish arbitrary hypertext on a domain you own?
by mlsu | 2026-02-13 22:56:47+00:00
Do what makes you happy in the moment.

I have a huge backlog of projects on my list. Many of them "feel productive" -- they result in betterment of some career skill, or they could turn into startups. But I also like to surf, I've been doing it my whole life. That's a skill, I'm trying to get better, but it's also just a pure experiential thing, a lens through which time passes. Surfing has no point to it, you paddle out, and then ride a wave in, and then paddle out, in a big loop. There's nothing produced, no tangible result. You can surf for a lifetime and never feel like you're actually good at it, and every time you go it seems like the culmination of your whole surfing life is just another 10-15 seconds of riding that single wave. There is no "done".

Sometimes, in the past, when the surf has been really good, I've instead chosen to work on my projects, instead of go surfing, so that I can gain some abstract "productivity."

The lesson I'm learning as I get older is, that's dumb as hell. Go surf, there is no "done"!
by zoky | 2026-02-13 22:57:10+00:00
It is a work in progress and is far from providing all the features you might expect from a later model 3174, but it does provide basic TN3270 and VT100 emulation.

+ TN3270

+ Extended Data Stream

+ Basic TN3270E

+ Device name (LU) negotiation

o SSL/TLS

I think that last one is a joke but I really don’t know enough about this sort of thing to be sure…
by deet | 2026-02-13 22:57:29+00:00
Just keep in mind that there are many highly motivated people directly working on this problem.

It's hard to predict how quickly it will be solved and by whom first, but this appears to be a software engineering problem solvable through effort and resources and time, not a fundamental physical law that must be circumvented like a physical sciences problem. Betting it won't be solved enough to have an impact on the work of today relatively quickly is betting against substantial resources and investment.
by smj-edison | 2026-02-13 22:58:13+00:00
Regardless of whether this means AGI has been achieved or not, I think this is really exciting since we could theoretically have agents look through papers and work on finding simpler solutions. The complexity of math is dizzying, so I think anything that can be done to simplify it would be amazing (I think of this essay[1]), especially if it frees up mathematicians' time to focus even more on the state of the art.

[1] https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
by meowface | 2026-02-13 22:58:49+00:00
>And it doesn't seem to make people any better, aside from a narrow view of productivity.

This could be said about almost any new technology. Spreadsheets, word processors, nearly any tech startup.

People who use LLMs daily generally feel their lives are better because of them. Yes, including the non-"4o cultist psychosis" types.

As for harms: thoughtful AI worriers and doomers have been trying to sound those alarms for decades, but AI skeptics generally shoot it all down because it would require accepting what "hype" and "boosters" say about likely future capabilities, or something like that.
by probably_wrong | 2026-02-13 22:59:00+00:00
Is that the right word for it? I feel that a "conscious objector" is a powerless person whose only means of protesting an action is to refuse to do it. This researcher, on the other hand, helped build the technology he's cautioning about and has arguably profited from it.

If this researcher really thinks that AI is the problem, I'd argue that the other point raised in the article is better: stay in the organization and be a PITA for your cause. Otherwise, for an outside observer, there's no visible difference between "I object to this technology so I'm quitting" and "I made a fortune and now I'm off to enjoy it writing poetry".
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 22:59:03+00:00
If you don't want your github work to be considered social, MAKE YOUR REPOSITORIES PRIVATE.

80% of my shit on github is private. And I have taken my licks on mistakes I made on the rest. I had to redo a whole release roadmap because people were rightfully pissed at me for cutting a corner. I didn't have to kiss their asses about it, I just had to say what I was going to do to prevent it from happening again.

It sucked, and I am better for it.
by lbeckman314 | 2026-02-13 22:59:24+00:00
Oof TIL, thanks for the heads up that's a shame!

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-toda...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...