MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mnicky | 2026-02-11 17:25:31+00:00
What I haven't seen discussed anywhere so far is how big a lead Anthropic seems to have in intelligence per output token, e.g. if you look at [1].

We already know that intelligence scales with the log of tokens used for reasoning, but Anthropic seems to have much more powerful non-reasoning models than its competitors.

I read somewhere that they have a policy of not advancing capabilities too much, so could it be that they are sandbagging and releasing models with artificially capped reasoning to be at a similar level to their competitors?

How do you read this?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/EwW9H6q
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-11 17:25:45+00:00
> They use this game engine in the 2026 RAV4

Funny how “game engines” are now car parts in 2026.

Can I just have an electric car that’s a car and nothing else? Seats, wheels pedals, mirrors, real buttons, no displays just a aux jack. I’d buy it, hell I might even take the risk and pre-order it
by pphysch | 2026-02-11 17:26:10+00:00
Those are two sides of the same coin. The "sky is falling" narratives and invasive advertising are both employed by the same elite to control your behavior through fear and suggestion.

Noam Chomsky is one of the loudest doomsayers and "critics" of the system (war, climate, politics) and yet simultaneously was good buddies with post-conviction Epstein. That ought to stimulate a reassessment of what you've believed about how (American) politics and society works.
by yawboakye | 2026-02-11 17:26:21+00:00
<rant>

the irish government is adept at misplaced priorities, (very) short-term thinking, pursuers of feel-good vibes, basically everything besides running a state. incompetence here has bred the need for more and varied welfare programs just so we can have a variety of careers that cater to the needs of life. of course, necessity of the arts is undisputed. but can the artist make a career here when the money you make from a show, including tips, can’t pay your utility bills? when your income can’t afford you decent accommodation?

</rant>
by staticman2 | 2026-02-11 17:26:22+00:00
Gemini Pro 3 seems to be built for handling multiple page PDFs.

I can feed it a multiple page PDF and tell it to convert it to markdown and it does this well. I don't need to load the pages one at a time as long as I use the PDF format. (This was tested on A.i. studio but I think the API works the same way).
by tracker1 | 2026-02-11 17:26:28+00:00
If it's large enough for say 2x or more "retina" usage... a very minor soften filter, then color reduction to get well under 256 colors (often can do 32-64) quantization and oxipng w/ zopfli can go a long way... just getting down to a palette over rgb for png brings down sizes a lot... palette reduction to around 32 colors does a bit too. Just depends on the material.

That said, the actual size of this image is massive compared to where it needs to be, and looking at it, should definitely be able to quantize down to 32-64 colors and reduce the size to even 4x the render size... let alone just using svg, as others have mentioned.
by netdur | 2026-02-11 17:26:33+00:00
I have tried to solve the agent running wild, and I found two solutions, the first is to mount the workspace folder using WASM to scope any potential damage, the second is running rquickjs with all APIs and module imports disabled, requiring the agent to call a host function that checks permissions before accessing any files

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[0] https://github.com/netdur/hugind
by badpun | 2026-02-11 17:26:34+00:00
Luck was required, but not sufficient. What are the odds that, while bumming around, you'll meet a guy who singlehandedly built an awesome home computer, and needs someone to market it? Jobs took initiative he wasn't the only one who knew Woz, but was the only one to use that opportunity. But, on the other hand, if he never met Woz, there'd be no Apple - so, lots of luck was required.
by astrostl | 2026-02-11 17:27:04+00:00
Yep. Consumer Reports' "Find a Car" page has sorting options for Overall Score, Road Test Score, Predicted Reliability, and Predicted Owner Satisfaction. I think they're a tremendous pro-consumer non-profit, and that a $39/year membership more than pays for itself by way of better major purchases.

Rivian, by the way, is the lowest-ranked of 26 covered auto manufacturers in terms of predicted reliability, below Ram and Jeep. The top 3 are Toyota, Subaru, and Lexus.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-11 17:27:22+00:00
LOL!!!

Absurd? YT was acquired for 1.5 billion USD back in 2005 / 2006. (Google was already a billioncompany back then)

I tell you one thing: They are sitting in the basement each evening, counting the cash and laughing their ass off :-D :-D

Guaranteed :-)

This was by far one of the most strategic decissions they ever made.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-11 17:27:29+00:00
I’m not thinking granular low-level knowledge, but rather a strategic point of view to shape the tech strategy and organizational goals of NYC.

We know that AI has to form part of that story and so you want a CTO who can steer clarity and vision, without resorting to keyword soup and hype.

To be clear, I have no signal where this CTO is likely to fall on that spectrum, so I’m very much looking forward to the difference she will make.
by justjake | 2026-02-11 17:27:36+00:00
Totally! People who see the impact will likely see more impacted than say, 3% of their services. Not all disruption created equal.

We rolled out a change to update our fraud model, and that uses workload fingerprinting

Since, in all likelyhood, your projects are similarly structured, there will be more impacted workloads if the shape of your workloads was in the "false positive" set

Will have more information soon but very valid (and astute) feelings!
by losteric | 2026-02-11 17:27:51+00:00
Money follows ROI. Making those speculative or detrimental industries less profitable is the answer.

Regulations on micro-targeting, data privacy, algorithm transparency, legal liability for content, etc.. all push back against the externalities of ads/social media.

Regulations on energy and land use can make eg data center build outs more expensive, pressuring back against speculative AI trash.

Taxing big tech companies, subsidizing manufacturing education, and judicious import tariffs.. would all create incentives for investing money and labor in hard capabilities
by jajuuka | 2026-02-11 17:27:54+00:00
Not sure what the USSR has to do with Chinese elections. Which is the topic.

The "lack of competition because other parties don't exist" is simply a naive view. Single party system DO have those same dynamics. The difference is purely aesthetic. If you think they don't then you're the one repeating propaganda.

It's relevant because it is an effective one party system when one party gains full control of the government. But because another party exists it's okay then?

Saying bad people existed in history doesn't mean everyone today is bad too. It's a bit reductionist. The point I was making is that one party systems eliminate the dynamics of "the other". Multiparty systems inevitably lead to tribalist behavior of "we're the good ones and the other groups are the bad ones". It's not productive and prevents progress for political theater.

No, I wasn't talking about one party winning over another. I'm talking about actual revolutions against the current government of any country.

I think you're continuing the misunderstanding. I am talking about actual revolutionary action. Regardless of political flavor revolutionary actors are suppressed by the state. The US didn't welcome the communist party and the UK didn't invite ISIS to form their own party.

Your last paragraph just continues this misunderstanding further. My point still stands that democracy can absolutely exist under a single party system and it's purely a cosmetic difference from a multiparty one. That doesn't mean it is ALWAYS the case or that one party systems are the best and flawless. Way too much anti-soviet era propaganda still shapes our views on politics and what is and isn't good. If we fail to honestly engage with our own and other political systems then we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes of the past.
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 17:28:00+00:00
There no such thing as "proper" "basic income." You cannot "properly" rob one group of people to pay another. Nothing about that is fair, or correct, or just, and it certainly will never be "proper."

EDIT, in reply to some cretin below: You people without green names are the most nauseating, because the only way you get there it seems is by being a servant of Lucifer. (As this discussion and your downvotes/flags demonstrate.) Well I've got "karma" to burn on this throwaway, bitch, so keep it coming.

Please, tell us more about your grand plan to make everyone rich by robbing everyone. Fucking worthless thieves.
by antisthenes | 2026-02-11 17:28:06+00:00
> Almost no jobs were added net and the few that were, were all in health care, 131K i think the article said.

I wonder what those folks in health care are doing, because (once again) after dealing with the US healthcare system, it seems like it's about 1% doctors, 10% other staff and 90% useless billing/scheduling/collections, designed to extract the maximum possible amount of money from a patient and provide the minimum amount of care.

More jobs being added in health care seems to be an indicator for it getting even worse.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-11 17:28:10+00:00
> I feel like you’re an unlucky sample of 1.

Maybe a bit, but overall my numbers line up with what most sources give for average TCO maintenance numbers. But really, the car was just getting old - having a couple random things to fix per year on a 10+ year-old car isn't unusual. (And my ICE component maintenance was quite low, so you could say I was lucky there, rather than unlucky.)

I think it's your maintenance numbers that are way off, "zero maintenance other than tires" doesn't line up with what any reputable source gives for TCO maintenance costs for EVs or non-ICE components.

e.g.

Consumer Reports says EVs have 40% of the maintenance costs: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023...

US government says fleet EVs have 60% of the maintenance costs: https://www.motortrend.com/news/government-ev-ice-maintenanc...

AAA puts EV maintenance at something like 80% of ICE maintenance: https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-You...

University of Michigan study puts EV maintenance costs at 50% of ICE vehicles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13463
by pcwelder | 2026-02-11 17:28:28+00:00
It's live on openrouter now.

In my personal benchmark it's bad. So far the benchmark has been a really good indicator of instruction following and agentic behaviour in general.

To those who are curious, the benchmark is just the ability of model to follow a custom tool calling format. I ask it to using coding tasks using chat.md [1] + mcps. And so far it's just not able to follow it at all.

[1] https://github.com/rusiaaman/chat.md
by gruez | 2026-02-11 17:28:29+00:00
>last year was the first year I've seen since the release of the original switch where switch/switch 2 was not constantly sold out (usually poached by resellers early in the AM) every time I visit target. There's a full shelf of them since late last summer.

Don't you expect demand to taper off as more people get their hands on it? It also doesn't help that the switch 2 is basically "the switch, but better".
by lkbm | 2026-02-11 17:28:29+00:00
It's interesting to poke around and see how the game of telephone works.

The first mentions I saw on Twitter were from February 2018[0]. Subsequent Black History Months[1] would reiterate how she invented GIFs or sometimes animated GIFs. You even get crazy things like how she invented the animated GIF while working with the Obama administration[2]. (That post references an article that talks about her working with the Obama administration that doesn't mention GIFs[3]. The author just merged the two things she's credited with.)

In 2024, the story is that she invented the GIF at Netscape[4], which obviously makes little sense. It could be a reference to GIFs looping, but I see no evidence for that, especially since her LinkedIn[5] doesn't say she worked at Netscape. She worked at Macromedia, which involved work with Netscape, and I suspect the genesis is her work on Shockwave during that time (2005-2010), and that was taken to be a precursor to animated GIFs (obviously false, but an easy mistake for someone young and non-technical. Maybe it's a cultural precursor to modern animated GIF usage in people's minds?)

Overall, though, this is a pretty dumb thing for them to claim, even if the claim is widespread across the Internet these days. She was roughly 17 when animated GIFs were first developed.

As I said, it's interesting to see how the game of telephone plays out. I don't think anyone involved in this was intentionally spreading false information, and I don't really expect random Twitter users to fact-check carefully. I would like NYT to put some effort into it. As it is, we now have a NYT touting an obviously-false claim when she actually did a lot of really important and impressive stuff they could focus on instead. There's no need to spread fake accolades for her. Her actual contributions stand on their own.

[0] https://x.com/Reel365/status/960288180447694848

[1] https://x.com/search?q=%22Gelobter%22%20%22gif%22%20until%3A... / https://x.com/search?q=%22Gelobter%22%20%22gif%22%20until%3A... / https://x.com/search?q=%22Gelobter%22%20%22gif%22%20until%3A...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7034543821...

[3] https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2022/08/18/computer-scientis...

[4] https://seattlemedium.com/lisa-gelobter-the-trailblazing-com...

[5] https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagelobter/details/experience/
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 17:28:42+00:00
If it "works"? What is it about robbing one group of people to pay another that you would expect to "work"?

What is the goal here--to cause a revolution? Then you might say it "works", for certain definitions of "work."

EDIT: In this thread, thieves tell me I'm wrong for calling them a thief. That's considered "bad faith" among this cult of thieves and robbers. (I guess the word "heresy" is out of vogue.)

EDIT 2: Some idiot below thinks AI is going to make him unemployed and living for free. The fool does not realize that the only reason he is alive and breathing at this moment is due to his ability to work for his owners.

You think the owners (of everything, including you and the robots) are going to keep mining the world's limited resources just to keep you alive, because they love you so much? LOL. Nope. You're about to be exterminated, son, once your usefulness has expired. Straight into the slaughterhouse.

EDIT 3: Some other thief thinks his robbery is justified because it's "lawful", according to his personal dictate. Sorry, no, you do not get to overturn the basic laws of the universe to justify your greed. Your theft WILL NEVER SUCCEED. You don't get to legislate reality or morality. People don't like being robbed, PERIOD, especially not to pay for a bunch of weed smokers to sit at home relaxing on their dime. There will be blood.
by thrance | 2026-02-11 17:28:50+00:00
What you're proposing is awfully dystopian. If people don't want kids anymore, then let them not have kids. Society should adapt to the will of its members, not the other way around. And with all our technology we can live very decent lives even with declining birthrates. Maybe we'll have to do with less travel, less cheap garbage and so, but I'm fine with that.
by hearsathought | 2026-02-11 17:28:53+00:00
> It's about the delta.

What's with the degenerate AI shills and "delta"? Just say growth. It's a perfectly fine word and it's more pertinent to your assertion than delta. Think about it.

> While local politicans in the US are using populist misinformation

You mean local politicians are listening to their voters who complain about DCs? Why is it those who complain about misinformation are the ones pushing it?

> you're seeing both China [0] and India [1] offering multi-decade subsidizes and tax shelters to build out DC capacity

As opposed to the countless trillions we've given to the tech industry?

> This is why you see Amazon announce layoffs [2] while committing to spend tens of billions of dollars in India's hyperscaler buildout [3] or Marvell expanding in Vietnam [6] after a similar sized layoff [7].

Amazon is spending in India because they want access to the indian market. Has nothing to do with "local politicking". It's "geopoliticking".

> [0] ... [7]

Man you are really invested in this huh? The AI grifting is off the charts.

You wrote a wall of garbage when all you had to say is, I am tied to the AI industry in some manner and want more government money so that I can line my own pockets.
by oritron | 2026-02-11 17:29:17+00:00
Ah sorry, I quickly edited that out of my comment! I had the video playing while posting, they were talking about a precursor project for embedded Flutter which this in some ways builds on, /that/ is running on the new RAV4.

One of the example uses given in the talk is 3D tutorials, which I could imagine being handy. Not sure I'd want to click on the car parts for it but with the correct affordances I could imagine a potentially useful interface.
by everforward | 2026-02-11 17:29:22+00:00
Their business model is ads, which doesn’t inherently require storing information the government would want. Some of that data probably isn’t useful in that space, others might reduce efficacy by a tiny margin but it wouldn’t shut them down.

Eg I can’t think of a reason why they’d need to store your exact location. Do people target ads down to a precise GPS location, or even a street? I can’t imagine they need things more granular than a ZIP code.

That also doesn’t absolve them of supporting autocracy. The difference between the morally upright and the morally bankrupt is what they do when doing the right thing will cost them, not what they do when the right thing is free.
by munk-a | 2026-02-11 17:29:22+00:00
There might be a temporary resistance from violence but eventually competition will take over. The issue in this case is that we're not looking at voluntary adoption due to a competitive advantage - we're seeing adoption by fiat.

AI is a broad category of tools, some of which are highly useful to some people - but mandating wide adoption is going to waste a lot of people's time on inefficient tools.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-11 17:30:02+00:00
Old fashioned email etiquette and "netiquette" favored brevity and omission of pleasantries (and trimming quoted messages, etc.) because people were reading on 300 baud dial-up and it made the difference between taking 5 seconds to load your message or maybe a minute or more.

It's largely irrelevant for any technical reason today, but the old greybeards still cling to it (I'm one of them).
by delecti | 2026-02-11 17:30:16+00:00
That was my thought as well. At least naively, it seems to follow that regularly donating blood might have health benefits. A typical donation is half a liter, and a person has about 5 liters of blood, so donating should in theory remove about 10% of the crap you've got circulating, right?

Edit: You can donate every 2 months, so donating as often as possible would roughly halve the crud every year (0.9^6 ~= 0.53, ignoring the natural increase over time).
by andsoitis | 2026-02-11 17:30:17+00:00
> The comment sucked

A great CTO not only guides the technical strategy based on business direction BUT ALSO shapes the business strategy informed by technology direction.

We know that AI has to form part of that story and so you want a CTO who can steer clarity and vision, without resorting to keyword soup and hype.

To be clear, I have no signal where this CTO is likely to fall on that spectrum, so I’m very much looking forward to the difference she will make.
by coder543 | 2026-02-11 17:31:02+00:00
It's not that they can't do multiple pages... but did you compare against doing one page at a time?

How many pages did you try in a single request? 5? 50? 500?

I fully believe that 5 pages of input works just fine, but this does not scale up to larger documents, and the goal of OCR is usually to know what is actually written on the page... not what "should" have been written on the page. I think a larger number of pages makes it more likely for the LLM to hallucinate as it tries to "correct" errors that it sees, which is not the task. If that is a desirable task, I think it would be better to post-process the document with an LLM after it is converted to text, rather than asking the LLM to both read a large number of images and correct things at the same time, which is asking a lot.

Once the document gets long enough, current LLMs will get lazy and stop providing complete OCR for every page in their response.

One page at a time keeps the LLM focused on the task, and it's easy to parallelize so entire documents can be OCR'd quickly.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-11 17:31:06+00:00
I'm not making a judgement on the product but why is everything about selling shovels? I want to see "real" software and new innovative ideas that are developed and maintained using AI and not just shovels 'advertised' on HN every week.

Show me the next blockchain or noSQL, or git!

Everything is "I took a prompt and stapled it to another prompt and added <insert existing OSS> framework".. and then. holds hand out "MONEY PLEASE!"
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-11 17:31:06+00:00
This never happened with the switch. I am not kidding. 2023 I was trying to buy one for my sister, and it took me months of waiting for target to open and beating the resellers to it, because I didn't want to overspend online (plus online stock frequently sold out). It was released in 2017!

Nintendo is notorious for under producing their consoles vs demand in recent years - the worst example was the mini NES or whatever they called it, they could not keep it on shelves for that one either.
by btcalex | 2026-02-11 17:31:24+00:00
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Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves
by MouneshK | 2026-02-11 17:31:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MOL, a domain-specific language for AI pipelines. The main idea: the pipe operator |> automatically generates execution traces — showing timing, types, and data at each step. No logging, no print debugging.

Example:

let index be doc |> chunk(512) |> embed("model-v1") |> store("kb")

This auto-prints a trace table with each step's execution time and output type. Elixir and F# have |> but neither auto-traces.

Other features:
- 12 built-in domain types (Document, Chunk, Embedding, VectorStore, Thought, Memory, Node)
- Guard assertions: `guard answer.confidence > 0.5 : "Too low"`
- 90+ stdlib functions
- Transpiles to Python and JavaScript
- LALR parser using Lark

The interpreter is written in Python (~3,500 lines). 68 tests passing. On PyPI: `pip install mol-lang`.

Online playground (no install needed): http://135.235.138.217:8000

We're building this as part of IntraMind, a cognitive computing platform at CruxLabx.
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