MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smeej | 2026-02-20 16:53:46+00:00
I think a shockingly high number of people really do type Z with their little finger, X with their ring finger, and C with their middle finger. It's the only way I can explain how they end up that way in columnar layouts so often.

This is madness to me. That would wreak havoc on a wrist. Type Z with the ring finger, X with the middle finger, and C and V with the index finger, just like you type M with your right index finger.

I cannot for the life of me understand the claims by ortholinear fans that fingers travel in a straight line as they expand. Mine don't. My fingers are much farther apart when I extend them than when I pull them in, and I think I have a fairly ordinary set of hands.
by FloorEgg | 2026-02-20 16:53:53+00:00
Building a successful startup is very hard, and not just in the "it's a lot of hard work" sense, but also in terms of making good decisions. For the average person who went to school and worked in some other industry/capacity, the good decisions are very counterintuitive.

Most VCs have no idea how to accuratly judge startups based on their core merit, or how to make good decision in startups (though they may think they do), so instead they focus on things like "will this founder be able to hype up this startup and sell the next round so I can mark it up on my books".
by aytigra | 2026-02-20 16:54:00+00:00
I'd say it is quite opposite, a deep understanding of what you like and consequently understanding what will make a creation into exactly what you like. (Well I guess some people can create without understanding, just directly expressing their likes)

Since many of our likes are driven by our shared culture and physiology, many other people will appreciate such creation (even if they don't understand why exactly they like it). Others will appreciate depth of nuance and uniqueness of your creation.

Opposite to taste is approximated "good" average which is likeable but just never hits all the right notes, and at the same time already suffering from sameness fatigue.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 16:54:09+00:00
The difference is in cases where the parliament chooses the executive is it leads to it's own collusion and corruption in terms of excessively growing govt... not that it's barely held the US from doing so. The point is to be in an adversarial context in order to resist overreach of govt.

For better or worse, our system today isn't quite what it was originally designed as... The Senate was originally selected by the state govts, not direct election... the Vice President was originally the runner-up, not a paired ticket and generally hamstrung as a result. The VP didn't originally participate in the Senate either, that came after WWII.

The good part about the constitution is there is a reasonable set of ground rules for changing said constitution with a minimum that should clearly represent the will of the majority of the population. (corrupt politicians not-withstanding)
by tombert | 2026-02-20 16:54:19+00:00
What an odd thing to say.

The businesses in the other countries are, you know, businesses. Even if it were Chinese companies that were paying the tariffs, that will be baked into the cost of the good.

This is literally first-day economics. No such thing as a free lunch. The cost of the item that the end user pays should reflect all costs associated with production and distribution to that end user.

I have no idea how the fuck the rumor that these tariffs will be “paid by other countries” started. If there are suspicions that the tariffs are temporary then they might be willing to eat the cost temporarily so it’s not passed onto the consumer immediately, but that’s inherently temporary and not sustainable especially if it would make it so these companies are losing money.
by sho_hn | 2026-02-20 16:54:20+00:00
I think freeopinion is right, though. I don't think "Make internals" is off by default only because the developers are conservative, but because the meaning and behavior of it changed a few times recently around the merger of the RealThunder forks and the TNP work. I did a casual search and 2025 comments are full of it doing nothing.

So a more productive specific thing would perhaps be indeed to strike up a "It seems to work nicely now, why isn't it default?" convo.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-20 16:54:24+00:00
As someone who used to use native RSS readers a ton back in the day, the limited web browser usually isn't a problem for just reading a few articles.

I like native apps for things, even link aggregators, because my I want to use my OS's native window management and app management instead of just shoving everything into a browser tab, of which I already have too many. Because then it's just CMD+Tab to Chrome, and then figure out which of the 20+ tabs I'm trying to get to instead of CMD+Tab directly to that specific app.

Anyway, just a bit of old man yelling at cloud but I've always disliked the proliferation of "web app all the things." Might as well not even use a desktop OS at this point and just have a full screen browser window and call it a day.
by gymbeaux | 2026-02-20 16:55:10+00:00
I've heard anecdotally that Stryker is really bad about this (throw it over the wall mentality) and I remember thinking when I heard that, how the fuck are employees of a company getting away with being assigned work and just reassigning it to someone else? But then I think about my Allstate days and I can see it. I think you're being downvoted because people reading your comment haven't witnessed that sort of dysfunction in a company, but to anyone reading this- it is how some companies operate. The execs at these companies will deadass hire garbage people (usually offshore) and then brag about how much money they saved the company vs hiring U.S. citizens. Either the bill comes due years down the road when prod goes down due to a bullshit bug from the offshore team and it ends up costing the company millions, or U.S. employees are picking up the slack.

At Allstate (circa 2016), we were required to use offshore teams from Infosys. There was one U.S. software engineer for every 6 or so offshore "engineers". We weren't allowed to say "no they actually cause more problems than they fix, you can keep paying them but we'll be paying them to do nothing". Ha. You would have gotten fired for that level of "insubordination" because the higher ups legitimately didn't understand that software development is a skill - it's not like an assembly line where anyone can put an item into a box over and over again.
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-20 16:55:45+00:00
Yep. Biden's "well I bet he will just go away naturally" approach to Trump's crimes will be a historic error. It remains to be seen if this is quite at the level of walking back Reconstruction, but if the US descends further into fascism then it will be up there.

Biden is gone, but Schumer and Jeffries aren't exactly looking any different.

I'm currently livid at the dem leadership that doesn't have the guts to do anything hard. Dem leadership needs to go and we need a serious response here. South Korea just jailed their criminal president for life. Just imagine.
by ukblewis | 2026-02-20 16:55:48+00:00
Honestly I’m shocked to be the only one I see of this opinion:
HuggingFace’s `accelerate`, `transformers` and `datasets` have been some of the worst open source Python libraries I have ever used that I had to use.
They break backwards compatibility constantly, even on APIs which are not underscore/dunder named even on minor version releases without even documenting this, they refuse PRs fixing their lack of `overloads` type annotations which breaks type checking on their libraries and they just generally seem to have spaghetti code. I am not excited that another team is joining them and consolidating more engineering might in the hands of these people
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-20 16:55:50+00:00
> The plaintiffs argue and the Court concludes that the President lacks authority under IEEPA to impose tariffs. I disagree. In accord with Judge Taranto’s careful and persuasive opinion in the Federal Circuit, I would conclude that the President’s power under IEEPA to “regulate . . . importation” encompasses tariffs. As a matter of ordinary meaning, including dictionary definitions and historical usage, the broad power to “regulate . . . importation” includes the traditional and common means to do so—in particular, quotas, embargoes, and tariffs.

That doesn't sound like "well, this would be too hard to undo" to me, and making that argument elsewhere doesn't diminish the core of the decision.
by linuxhansl | 2026-02-20 16:56:12+00:00
Finally some sanity. The administration has use laws about "national security" and other so call "emergencies" to impose tariffs. If everything is an emergency then nothing is, and that was clearly not congress' intention with those laws.

The power to impose tariffs rests with the legislator, not the executive.
Of course our congress is effectively useless - we can thank decades of Mitch McConnell's (and others) "not giving the other side anything" thinking for that.
by smeej | 2026-02-20 16:56:40+00:00
Wait have you been thinking "keep them on the home row" means any finger not actively typing a key must be in physical contact with its home row key??

This would at least help me make sense of people's wrist problems. Holy cow. Never mind how much it would slow somebody down. None of my fingers is ever stationary long enough to bring it back to a specific place typing 135 wpm.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-20 16:57:08+00:00
> If you build an awesome app and want to charge for it, what stops me from just pointing "Claude Epic 2.5" at it and making a pixel perfect replica?

It's the same argument people used to use against open sourcing your code for a SaaS: "If I can just clone the repository and run the service myself, why is there a hosted product?"

There is so much more going on though, from how you run something, to how you can react to changes and how you perpetually try to avoid the spaghetti ball from building, so improvements don't take longer and longer to implement and break other things.

Even if the original code is the same, two operators of that service can lead to two very different experiences, not to mention how the service will look like in a year.
by cjonas | 2026-02-20 16:57:18+00:00
I get that, but you can just "pin" to someone else's taste and they can effectively never get ahead for more than a few minutes.

I think (and hope) this won't be as big a problem in the arts because "authenticity" matters to most people, but I for the software industry it feels very disruptive (assuming the models continue to improve and are accessible).
by aeturnum | 2026-02-20 16:57:27+00:00
I mean....it will compile and return the same AST on the OS and hardware from 30 years ago. But if you want to get the same result today on modern hardware / software you may discover you need to make some changes (or rather people have been making little changes for 30 years to ensure you can still get the same AST). Generally software has either had little bits and bobs added and removed to keep it relevant or its fallen away and been forgotten.
by xienze | 2026-02-20 16:57:33+00:00
> If the case was “can Trump dissolve New York as a state” you would still have 3 justices siding in his favor with some dog shit reasoning.

As a counter-example, if the case was, say, "can a college use race as a factor in admissions"[0], you get 3 justices siding in favor using dogshit reasoning, just from the other side of the aisle. It's a bit ridiculous to think there aren't Democrat partisan judges on the Supreme Court.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
by raddan | 2026-02-20 16:57:36+00:00
While in general engineers should define things, so that we can be clear about what we mean, there are plenty of things that are difficult to define that way. Love, happiness, satisfaction, for instance. You might argue "well those are emotions so they don't count" but you don't need to go far to find some more. What is the "perception of red"? What is the sensation of temperature (thermoception) or my sensation of my body in space (priprioception)? The sensations of these things are difficult to define--even if we have good explanations for how the physical world induces them--but they are experienced nearly universally by humans and we most people don't feel the need to define them to find them to be useful ideas.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-20 16:58:26+00:00
They also have tons of data on the users' habits and desires which they can use to inform the AI with each specific user's preferences without them having to state them. Because so many people use Google maps, Gmail etc. It's not just about training data but also operational context. The others lack this kind of long-term broad user insight.

I'm not using Google services much at all and I don't use Gemini but I'm sure it will serve the users well. I just don't want to be datamined by a company like Google. I don't mind my data improving my services but I don't want it to be used against me for advertising etc.
by nilkn | 2026-02-20 16:58:32+00:00
I'm very curious about this as well. This is the main thing that has held me back from a meaningful rebalancing. Eating a huge tax bill to avoid a theoretical future loss of unknown size and duration while also losing out on potential gains if that loss ends up not materializing is a hard pill to swallow. I suppose this is probably why most long-term investment advice suggests not trying to time the market unless you have a very short time horizon.
by holbrad | 2026-02-20 16:58:44+00:00
This isn't actually correct.

Gemini 3.0 gets a very high score because it's very often correct, but it does not have a low hallucination rate.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#aa-omniscience-hallucination-...

It looks like 3.1 is a big improvement in this regard, it hallucinates a lot less.
by keiferski | 2026-02-20 16:58:45+00:00
The strangest thing about all of this to me is how SF seems to have absorbed basically none of the previous SF culture. You can detect the commercial, artistic, cultural histories of NYC in the various industries there, from media to finance. Ditto for LA, or London, or Paris.

In SF though, it’s as if the previous culture of the place has just been overwritten entirely. Hard to believe that it’s the same city which Kerouac, the Beats or Hippies ran around in. Or even the historically wealthy but cultural old money class, like Lewis Lapham’s family, or Michael Douglas’s character in The Game. Nope, all gone, and certainly no one there has ever read On the Road.

I suppose you could probably just blame this on how the people at the top behave: totally uninterested in funding culture, like the billionaires of yesteryear. And so a city which is hyper focused on one economic activity has no space for anything else.
by basisword | 2026-02-20 16:59:11+00:00
>> A government that has the power to arrest people for saying "hateful" things is no better than China or North Korea.

The US government is quite literally shooting dead American citizens in the street with zero consequences. You have a president who was found in civil court to be a rapist. He was impeached and had dozens of charges brought against him. He's unilaterally murdering people at sea and kidnapping foreign leaders.

EU countries balancing the right to freedom of speech against other rights is a drop in ocean compared to what's going on in the land of the free.
by mlapeter | 2026-02-20 16:59:19+00:00
Why did people used to make geocities pages back in the day? Kids like to express themselves and being able to make simple games and share them with friends is fun for them. So far it's helping him learn to read (he reads and edits his voice transcriptions before submitting), and teaching him basics like bugs, game mechanics, etc. He iterates on it and adds/ removes things. He probably did several dozen iterations over 2-3 hours.

Posting it publicly is also helping him learn about people - we talked about how no matter what some percent of people won't like it and may even say it's stupid, but that will always happen and it's still worth creating things anyway.
by abeppu | 2026-02-20 16:59:45+00:00
I don't work this way, so this is all a hypothetical to me, but the possibility space is larger than _any_ model can handle; models are effectively applying a really complex prior over a giant combinatorial space. I think the idea behind a swarm of small models (probably with higher temperature?) on a well-defined problem is akin to e.g. multi-chain MCMC.
by luma | 2026-02-20 17:00:42+00:00
I'm trying to understand your position here. An app with it's own way to manage multiple browser windows is better, because you have too many tabs open in your browser. If you have multiple links open, the tab management is now a problem in your desktop app instead of the browser. If you don't, then you don't have to manage tabs anyway. What does this solve that a separate browser window doesn't, except not having any way to add extensions like ad blockers or tampermonkey scripts etc?
by holbrad | 2026-02-20 17:00:48+00:00
You are misreading the benchmark.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#aa-omniscience-hallucination-...

If you look at the results 3.0 hallucinates an awful lot, when it's wrong.

It's just not wrong that often.

(And it looks like 3.1 does better on both fronts)
Show HN: Trained an LLM to predict "What will Trump do?"
by bturtel | 2026-02-20 17:01:11+00:00
Hey HN! I RL-tuned an open-source LLM (gpt-oss-120b — 120B MoE, but only 5.1B active params) to predict "What will Trump do?" in any situation, trained on nothing but public news collected automatically from search queries.
The trained model beats GPT-5, and both dataset and trained model are open sourced.

Data generation: Generated 2,108 binary forecasting questions from just a search query and a date range using the Lightning Rod SDK (https://github.com/lightning-rod-labs/lightningrod-python-sd...). Questions are generated from historic news articles — like "Will Trump impose 25% tariffs on Mexico by March 1?" — and resolved by checking what actually happened after the deadline. No human annotation — the whole pipeline is automated.

Training: GRPO with Brier score as the reward signal. LoRA rank 32, 50 training steps.

Results: Slight accuracy edge over GPT-5 (Brier 0.194 vs 0.200), but big gains in calibration — the RL-tuned model produces much better probabilities (ECE 0.079 vs 0.091).

Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LightningRodLabs/WWTD-2025

This is a fully automated way to spin up domain expert LLMs from public web data with just a few search queries, no labeling/annotation required.

I’d love any feedback, or suggestions for what domain expert to train next!
by lkbm | 2026-02-20 17:01:12+00:00
This could use a lot more content.

How do HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 change things? (Sonnet 4.6 and ChatGPT [idk default free] told me they don't. Gemini 3 Fast gave me a long essay on how they technically do.)

Mostly it seems like it's other things--CNAME flattening and whatnot--that make it unnecessary.

But it's been unnecessary since long before HTTP/2, and we do it for semantic or historical reasons. I don't think anyone is including www because they think it's technically necessary.

If you want me to change the way I do things, make your case and support your claims! If the entire point here is "you don't need to include www", well, yeah, duh, we've all visited apex domains. We know it's a perfectly valid option.
by lubesGordi | 2026-02-20 17:01:17+00:00
I don't know man. I'm writing a flashcard app, and I like it. It makes me happy and it works the way I want. Exactly how I want. BC I could never get into quizlet. Whatever. Maybe others will like it, maybe not, I don't care.

Taste is subjective. Having 1 million todo apps, great. Maybe someone I know will find one they like and tell me about it. Maybe I'll find one that doesn't suck. Maybe I'll just make my own.

One thing I won't do though, is complain about how there's now 1 million todo apps that aren't up to my standards. Everyone being able to make their own apps however they want is a beautiful thing.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-20 17:01:27+00:00
I use LLMs in my fiction writing; and before the wolves come out to shred me to pieces: The LLM never gets to see my writing and doesn't do any of the writing for me. I use LLMs in other ways.

One of the first uses I discovered was to have it identify my own blandness. I'll give it a general scenario from my writing and ask it for ten resolutions to that scenario. If my own resolution appears, I realize at best my resolution is bland and at worst cliche.
by ariaxhan24 | 2026-02-20 17:01:56+00:00
I keep seeing agent workflows generate piles of planning-mode .md files (plan.md, notes.md, etc.). They look organized, but they rot fast: stale assumptions, unqueryable context, and handoffs that become archaeology.

I switched to a database-first setup:
SQLite as the source of truth for context, decisions, and learnings. Hooks that auto-capture tool failures and “gotchas" and a startup step that injects the current state into the agent before work begins. Markdown becomes a render target for humans, not storage or directions for agents

Curious if others have found better primitives than “generated markdown as memory”, and what you use for durable, queryable agent context.
by martinpw | 2026-02-20 17:02:17+00:00
> Fillets and chamfers are a good example. They seem simple but are geometrically non-trivial, and OCC will fail on cases that Parasolid handles without complaint.

A long time ago I interviewed at one of the large CAD companies. I remember getting an office tour and the person showing me around pointed into a corner with six desks and said "that is the team that does fillets".

Open source tools can handle some cases, but to handle the full complexity of real world problems is a huge extra step that I doubt they will manage any time soon.
by rep_lodsb | 2026-02-20 17:02:26+00:00
It makes no difference whether they're signed or unsigned. Unless the subtraction is checking for overflow, or using a wider integer type than the numbers being compared, the high bit will not in every case indicate which number is smaller.

e.g.

0x8000_0000 < 0x0000_0001 for signed numbers
0x8000_0000 - 0x0000_0001 = 0x7fff_ffff, high bit clear
by chasd00 | 2026-02-20 17:02:32+00:00
If anthropic continues getting their foot in the enterprise door then maybe they can tap into enterprise cloud spending. If Athropic can come up with services and things (db, dns, networking, webservers, etc) that claudecode will then prefer then maybe they become a cloud provider. To me, and I am no business expert btw, that could be a path to sustainable financials.

Edit: one thing I didn’t think about is Anthropic more or less runs at the pleasure of AWS. Of Amazon sees Anthropic as a threat to AWS then it could be lights out.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-20 17:03:04+00:00
When I wrote this blog post, something like this was in my mind as the type of scenario where I view it as a net positive. I don't have a problem with people building things they want for themselves, the problem starts when people try to share something to the rest of us without having understood why anyone would want to see it first.

I am extremely excited that your kid is able to do this, and even you sharing it now here isn't like "my child's game is the best game ever look at me" it's thoughtful commentary on the post I've written.

Even if you had shared a separate post on HN proper like "LLMs are enabling my child to build earlier and become involved in tech" or something that would have had thought behind it on why its interesting to other people, in considering other people you're acting in good faith.

My overall point isn't that LLMs generating apps are bad it's that we should consider why what I'm showing to someone else would matter to them in the first place, which you did here :)