MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-17 21:16:52+00:00
> And there is another, emerging category, where developers don't have a full mental map as it was created by an LLM, and no one actually understands how it works and what does not.

Are the tokens to write out design documentation and lots of comments too expensive or something? I’m trying to figure out how an LLM will even understand what they wrote when they come back to it, let alone a human.

You have to reify mental maps if you have LLM do significant amounts of coding, there really isn’t any other option here.
by lithocarpus | 2026-02-17 21:17:02+00:00
I believe myopia is primarily caused by less use of the eyes to focus on a variety of distances and scenes. We mostly are indoors looking at books and now screens -> myopia goes way up. I also believe it can be reversed by using the eyes differently and this happened for me.

I had myopia from when I was a teenager. I didn't realize it till I was 21 and tried glasses and could suddenly see what I didn't know was possible to see. I then wore glasses from 21 to 27. Quit wearing glasses at 27 and left the office and computer to be mostly full time in the woods. Two years later my myopia had mostly reversed and I could see crisp detail at long distances without glasses for the first time. Six years now since I noticed the reversal and I still can see clearly at long distances. I love it.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-17 21:17:05+00:00
Hired assassins aren't a monoculture. Maybe a retired gangster visits Make-A-Wish kids, and has an excellent reputation for it. Maybe another is training FOSS SOTA LLMs and releasing them freely on the internet. Do they not deserve an excellent reputation? Are they prevented from making ethically sound choices because of how you judge their past?

The same applies to tech. Pytorch didn't have to be FOSS, nor Tensorflow. In that timeline CUDA might have a total monopoly on consumer inference. Out of all the myriad ways that AI could have been developed and proliferated, we are very lucky that it happened in a public friendly rivalry between two useless companies with money to burn. The ethical consequences of AI being monopolized by a proprietary prison warden like Nvidia or Apple is comparatively apocalyptic.
by tzs | 2026-02-17 21:17:11+00:00
> Robotaxi supevision is just an emergency brake switch

That was the case when they first started the trial in Austin. The employee in the car was a safety monitor sitting in the front passenger seat with an emergency brake button.

Later, when they started expanding the service area to include highways they moved them to the driver seat on those trips so that they can completely take over if something unsafe is happening.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-17 21:17:25+00:00
I think the main appeal of PoGo is just the collecting aspect, but some people are into the battling side of things. I'm not suggesting digial cock-fights, but maybe some sort of mini-games to use and show off 'rare finds' may go a long way. The comments here have many people comparing it to iNaturalist, maybe a good way to carve your own niche?
by gardnr | 2026-02-17 21:17:42+00:00
There was a plugin called "Off The Record" (OTR) which would do a pk exhange and then send cipher text over the channel. It was rad. You could have e2ee over Facebook Messenger. When you opened the chat in the Facebook web ui, all you could see was the cipher-text.

Then Facebook started blocking 3rd party clients and Pidgin et-al slowly faded away.

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
by pedalpete | 2026-02-17 21:18:03+00:00
As a Canadian, we don't think of travelling to the US as "international travel". It's more like going to a friends house.

I remember flying Alaska Airlines out of SFO and when I went to check-in at the International Terminal, the gate agent said "Canada isn't International" and looked at me like I was the dumbest human on the planet.

Either she was seeing Trump's future, or....
by wk_end | 2026-02-17 21:18:17+00:00
I guess "shitty" is in the eye of the beholder, but having a pretty vituperative screed written against me (accusing me of being "insecure", "threatened", fixated on "ego" and "control", "weak", "an obstacle", and "fucking absurd") would feel pretty fucked up and lousy I imagine, even if I knew it was machine-generated.
by class3shock | 2026-02-17 21:18:17+00:00
No, that's just on a salary basis.

If you want to go further into bringing other stuff in I would say, on average, the European folks are only slightly worse off money wise (owning a house there does seem harder overall) but with more security, time off, etc.

In the US there is a much broader range of experiences in the sector, partly because of personal circumstances (student and auto loans being the biggest) and alot because of where you live, as pay tends not to scale with COL. So someone could live like a king in rural Iowa or a pauper in Los Angeles doing the same job.
by estearum | 2026-02-17 21:18:23+00:00
Nah the relevant factor, which has been obvious to anyone who cared to think about this stuff honestly for years, is that Tesla's safety claims on FSD are meaningless.

Accident rates under traditional cruise control are also extremely below average.

Why?

Because people use cruise control (and FSD) under specific conditions. Namely: good ones! Ones where accidents already happen at a way below-average rate!

Tesla has always been able to publish the data required to really understand performance, which would be normalized by age of vehicle and driving conditions. But they have not, for reasons that have always been obvious but are absolutely undeniable now.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-17 21:18:25+00:00
At this point OpenAI seems to be scrambling to sustain its own hype and needs these kind of pure PR acquisition to justify themselves amid dense competition - otherwise, the bubble risks bursting. Hiring someone who built a product as secure as Swiss cheese that racked up "stars" from a wave of newly minted "vibe-coders" fits perfectly into their short-term strategy. It buys them another month or two of momentum before figures like S(c)am Altman and others can exit at the peak, leaving everyone else holding the bag.
by tastyface | 2026-02-17 21:18:30+00:00
You know what's insane? When Musk and his underage edgelords were breaking down the doors of government buildings, installing rootkits, and illegally exfiltrating data; when he "took a chainsaw" to USAID and directly caused the deaths of thousands of people in the third world; when he posted and retweeted explicit white nationalist rhetoric straight from the pages of Stormfront, to say nothing of his infamous salutes; and yet tech people kept talking about him like he was still a *totally normal CEO*, not one of the most despicable people in Western politics.

His companies are doomed by his own hand as his reputation is unsalvageable. Someday he'll end up in a well-deserved prison cell and everyone will pretend to never have supported him.
by MiddleEndian | 2026-02-17 21:18:38+00:00
It's not rose-tinted glasses IMO. Aside from cross-device continuous chats (which weren't really relevant at the time) and maybe being harder to send pics (can't recall), Adium was a far better messaging experience than anything modern.

* You could theme it however you wanted to an obscene amount. I had it display all messages right after each other in a small font without any linebreaks and I've never been able to have anything like that since then.

* The dock icon showed the names of the last few people who sent you unread messages

* It integrated with the OS X phone book app so you could it would display a single "John Smith" regardless of how many chat apps (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.) you had them on

* It was actually smooth and not clunky (unlike Pidgin at the time and maybe half of apps today).
by Gualdrapo | 2026-02-17 21:18:55+00:00
I remember I had a plugin that let you change your profile picture each <x> time. And I seem to recall with ubuntu's notify-osd you could reply to your incoming messages from within the notification itself. I loved using Pidgin.

"Modern" mainstream IM is completely misserable. I hate having to use one-app-per-each-protocol for the sake of "security" and "features".
by mertsatilmaz | 2026-02-17 21:19:02+00:00
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by webdevver | 2026-02-17 21:19:25+00:00
digital circuit design strikes me as a risky gambit for a career, given that almost everyone who ive bumped into in that industry was invariable not actually doing any design, but rather was tasked with writing test cases and verifying the functionality of some specific logical block.

tests are ofcourse very important, but fact of the matter is, bright smart and arrogant young engineers-to-be are very eager to show everyone how much better their version of the 'thing' is, and desperately want to write their version of the thing: they don't want to verify someone else's version of the thing.

if we're being honest, how many people do you really need to do the design of some hardware feature? realistically the design can be done by one person.

so you might have one lead designer, delegates each block to 10 guys, and everything else is basically 'monkey work' of writing up the state machine logic, testing it, and hooking it all up.

and now lets count the number of companies that can put up the capital for tape-out: amd, intel, arm, nvidia, meta, aws, google chips, apple, and lets say plus 50 for fintechs, startups, and other 'smaller' orgs.

so if you want to do design, you might be competing for... lets say 3 lead designers per org on avg, 3 * 50 = 150 silicon design spots for the entire globe. to add, a resource in such scarce supply will no doubt be heavily guarded by its occupants.

i did this calculation back when i was still in uni. i'll never know if it paid off, or if it was even rooted in logic, but i remember thinking to myself back then: "no way in hell am i gonna let these old guys pidgeon hole me into doing monkey work with a promise of future design opportunities." arrogant, yes, but i can't say i regret my decision judging from the anecdotes i get from friends in the hardware world.
by benzible | 2026-02-17 21:19:39+00:00
That's not what I said. I said it isn't cowardice you can blame on the network instead of the FCC, which is what the parent comment did by saying the fault lies "more with CBS." CBS deserves blame. The administration wielding the threat deserves more.

Resistance requires an active, costly choice. The entire structure of public companies, fiduciary duty, short-term shareholder pressure, regulatory dependency, incentivizes compliance. That's not an excuse, it's the point. The system is designed so that capitulation is the path of least resistance, which is exactly why the blame has to center on whoever is exploiting that structure rather than on each individual institution for failing to be heroic. The firms and universities that did fight back (Perkins Coie, Harvard, Jenner & Block) won in court every time, while the ones that cut deals (Columbia, Paul Weiss, Brown) gave up money and autonomy for nothing the fighters didn't get for free. But fighting required leaders willing to accept real personal and institutional risk. Expecting that as the default rather than addressing the coercion creating the dilemma is how you end up with a system where everyone folds and nobody's responsible except the victims.

Of course, increasing the cost of capitulation is one place where consumers actually have power. Disney suffered 1.7 million streaming cancellations after suspending Kimmel, and Kimmel was back on the air within five days. That works. But notice what it required: massive organized public pressure aimed at the company and political pressure aimed at the FCC. Not just finger-wagging for being cowards.
by aaplok | 2026-02-17 21:20:24+00:00
It depends how you define "good writing", which is too often associated with "proper language", and by extension with proper breeding. It is a class marker.

People have a distinct voice when they write, including (perhaps even especially) those without formal training in writing. That this voice is grating to the eyes of a well educated reader is a feature that says as much about the reader as it does about the writer.

Funnily enough, professional writers have long recognised this, as is shown by the never-ending list of authors who tried to capture certain linguistic styles in their work, particularly in American literature.

There are situations where you may want this class marker to be erased, because being associated with a certain social class can have negative impact on your social prospects. But it remains that something is being lost in the process, and that something is the personality and identity of the writer.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-17 21:20:26+00:00
Oh, I've been meaning to ask! Do you have a timeline posted somewhere? Reporting very quickly loses timelines. Even people just reading along can quickly mix up cause and effect. It's finicky!

For instance, my initial impression was that the apology was autonomous and you showed up afterwards. If you're in there on the timeline with correct causality, I need to tell people a different story.

(this is not helped by the number of people posting to that blog attempting prompt injections and such. I don't really dare have a regular ai help with analysis)
by notnullorvoid | 2026-02-17 21:21:04+00:00
I don't see the utility of async on the GPU.

> Async splits the ecosystem. I see it as the biggest threat to Rust staying a useful tool.

Someone somewhere convinced you there is a async coloring problem. That person was wrong, async is an inherent property of some operations. Adding it as a type level construct gives visibility to those inherent behaviors, and with that more freedom in how you compose them.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-17 21:21:08+00:00
The worst case scenario for a broadcaster is that the FCC commissioner will fabricate an excuse to illegally yank their license, which both he and his boss have explicitly threatened to do to any broadcaster which won't agree to stop criticizing Donald Trump. I agree that one could imagine a reasonable system of broadcast regulation where opinionated talk shows don't host political candidates, but that's not what's going on here.
Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code with self-hosted Qdrant and Ollama
by elvismdev | 2026-02-17 21:21:25+00:00
I built an MCP server that gives Claude Code long-term memory across sessions, backed by infrastructure you control.

Every Claude Code session starts from zero, no memory of previous sessions. This server uses mem0ai as a library and exposes 11 MCP tools for storing, searching, and managing memories. Qdrant handles vector storage, Ollama runs embeddings locally (bge-m3), and Neo4j optionally builds a knowledge graph.

Some engineering details HN might find interesting:

- Zero-config auth: auto-reads Claude Code's OAT token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json, detects token type (OAT vs API key), and configures the SDK accordingly. No separate API key needed.
- Graph LLM ops (3 calls per add_memory) can be routed to Ollama (free/local), Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (near-free), or a split-model where Gemini handles entity extraction (85.4% accuracy) and Claude handles contradiction detection (100% accuracy).

Python, MIT licensed, one-command install via uvx.

https://github.com/elvismdev/mem0-mcp-selfhosted
by nwienert | 2026-02-17 21:21:31+00:00
After a month of obliterating work with 4.5, I spent about 5 days absolutely shocked at how dumb 4.6 felt, like not just a bit worse but 50% at best. Idk if it's the specific problems I work on but GP captured it well - 4.5 listened and explored better, 4.6 seems to assume (the wrong thing) constantly, I would be correcting it 3-4 times in a row sometimes. Rage quit a few times in the first day of using it, thank god I found out how to dial it back.
by stockresearcher | 2026-02-17 21:21:40+00:00
All the major Canadian airports also have the US customs and immigration on-site. You go through it as part of the standard airport security process and then the airplane goes to a domestic terminal when it lands, as if the flight had originated within the US. You get off the plane, grab your luggage and leave, no additional lines, security, talking to officials, etc.

The only European airport that does this is Dublin, last I checked.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:21:54+00:00
GrapheneOS is based on the latest release of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) which is Android 16 QPR2. It looks nearly the same as the stock Pixel OS also based on the same AOSP release. The main UI differences are user-facing portions of the many privacy and security features added by GrapheneOS. There are minor differences such as the stock Pixel OS having a few different fonts than AOSP. The main thing to show would be the UI for features such as Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes, per-app exploit protection controls, etc. It looks like the stock Pixel OS without the Google app/service integration not present in AOSP with added privacy and security controls.

There are many useful videos about GrapheneOS here:

https://www.youtube.com/@sideofburritos/videos

Any of the videos older than December 2025 will be prior to Android 16 QPR2 so the overall UI will be outdated. That's part of why we don't focus on screenshots or videos because many would need to get updated every 4 months. We'd mainly be using them for our own features which often improve more frequently than that.
by phil21 | 2026-02-17 21:21:55+00:00
I have found there is really no practical way to predict the bathtub curve for hard drive failures.

The solution is just a lot of redundancy for larger disk arrays whenever practical. I currently have a 15x1TB 7200 RPM zpool in raidz2 I use for "scratch space" for some automation projects. It writes about 500GB-1TB or so a day and has for... over 18 years. I have had exactly one drive fail from that pool, under heavy abuse. That one failed a year or two in. Prior to my personal use it was beat on (mostly reads) as backing storage for uploaded images for a large website where the drives operated at 90% or higher I/O utilization pretty much 24x7.

I have other pools of disks where I have replaced over 50% of them 6 years in, with batches of failures seemingly at random. You start to notice patterns with various drive models - but not until well after the point of purchase where it's far too late to predict based on anything like vendor reputation or whatnot. I've had batches of various WD, Seagate, Toshiba, and HGST all both be incredibly reliable and some incredibly not so. Some of the same model series just different drive sizes have wildly different reliability characteristics.

I don't bother pulling "old" drives out of production preemptively any more. The only thing I do preemptively now is pull drives with very critical SMART prefailure warnings such as a consistently growing number of unrecoverable sector errors. That one and a couple other attributes are worth watching trends for, but the rest are pretty pointless and really do not seem to correlate much. And again, it varies by drive model for which times to pay attention to a particular SMART attribute and which not to.

I simply treat drives as wear items that fail with little to no notice, and just make sure I can survive a number of simultaneous failures at once. Make sure to regularly test your monitoring!

Not power cycling drives is huge as well, as you note. For example these old 1TB spinners:

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 078 078 000 Old_age Always - 158328
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 13
by ncallaway | 2026-02-17 21:22:24+00:00
> They need to be around parity.

I don't think so.

The deaths from self-driving accidents will look _strange_ and _inhuman_ to most people. The negative PR from self-driving accidents will be much worse for every single fatal collision than a human driven fatality.

I think these things genuinely need to be significantly safer for society to be willing to tolerate the accidents that do happen. Maybe not a full order of magnitude safer, but I think it will need to be clearly safer than human drivers and not just at parity.
by nightski | 2026-02-17 21:22:42+00:00
My thought is that it just doesn't make sense to have a product which serves both communities of 1,000+ people and a small group of <50 friends. You end up making far too many compromises.

I used to just engage with my friends. Now it feels like a really noisy reddit. Sure I could leave all of them, but that is kind of my point. There is an identity crises for the product.
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2026-02-17 21:23:14+00:00
My views on this, which are mature and have been held for many years now, are mostly informed by the results obtained by Kenneth Regan and Guy Haworth in their paper “Intrinsic Chess Ratings” which, unless you have intelligence to the contrary, is the only rigorous treatment of this issue that has yet been performed and is yet the only argument that has any persuasive hold over me.

You say that ratings drift over time to such an extent that to use them in comparisons across long time spans is meaningless yet their analysis determined that chess ratings as a measure of intrinsic quality of move choice (which must be highly correlated with playing strength) is stable over several decades with only some indications that a small amount of deflation has occurred.

Your argument in comparison amounts to informal speculation. If I were to share my own I would say that those potentially error-inducting considerations, are statistically insignificant compared to the sheer number of games, that is to say corrective and informative exchanges of points, that occur. Further, I would add that the absolute values of ratings were defined by the playing strengths of the original players and that this definition has been well preserved even as the player pool has evolved.

I have heard many such arguments in my time yet not a single proponent cares to demonstrate them. What I find amusing is that those same proponents will often readily accept a comparison across time of a single player (often themselves) across similar time spans without controversy, as evidence of their progress as a player, for instance using Carlsen’s rating today and comparing it with one from early in his career, say from 2003 or 2004, which at this point was more than 20 years ago.
by runarberg | 2026-02-17 21:24:26+00:00
I think you might be underestimating human-to-dog interactions. Interacting with dogs require a whole lot of empathy and thought.

But really this is beyond the point. I didn’t provide dog interactions as an analogy, rather, I provided it as a counter point. We speak differently to dogs then we speak with each other, and have done so for thousands of years. I see no reason why LLM’s would have any more profound effects on our language. We will continue to speak with each other in a normal manner just like before.
by recursive | 2026-02-17 21:24:41+00:00
What is the tool supposed to be used for?

If I sell you a marvelous new construction material, and you build your home out of it, you have certain expectations. If a passer-by throws an egg at your house, and that causes the front door to unlock, you have reason to complain. I'm aware this metaphor is stupid.

In this case, it's the advertised use cases. For the word processor we all basically agree on the boundaries of how they should be used. But with LLMs we're hearing all kinds of ideas of things that can be built on top of them or using them. Some of these applications have more constraints regarding factual accuracy or "safety". If LLMs aren't suitable for such tasks, then they should just say it.