MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsumnia | 2026-02-23 18:18:27+00:00
> The missing piece is still discovery.

I think the key issue here is that Attention is a temporal construct, meaning discovery is often tied to "being the first thing that comes to people's minds" which means SEO, reverse engineering the ranking algorithms, and constantly having to manage an "online persona". Note none of those things contribute to the actual work you're doing, just your "marketing department" (and whatever time/financial "budget" you intend to give it).

MrBeast figured out the YouTube algorithm - post early and often. Is that how we exist on modern Internet when every website/thumbnail is engineered by a team to maximize clickthrough rates? I agree RSS is useful, but it faces the same scalability issues if everyone starts filling up your RSS feeds. Given the limited amount of time you can devote to a particular task, we'll return to the era of A/B testing Headlines.
by aidenn0 | 2026-02-23 18:18:37+00:00
Yes and no. One could say this of any game with points where the margin of victory doesn't affect long-term outcomes (e.g. most ball games).

A win by 1/2 point or 20 points it suggests a very different relative skill between the two players. Similarly the custom of the stronger player playing white without komi suggests that the point differential matters.
by flofra | 2026-02-23 18:18:42+00:00
I got tired of setting up CI/CD pipelines for small self-hosted projects,
so I built eac-d: two small Go binaries that get your build output onto a
Proxmox LXC container with minimal ceremony.

How it works:
- eacd (client) hashes your build output, sends only changed files as a
delta (SHA-256 + tar.gz) to eacdd (daemon on the CT)
- Daemon reconciles system state: packages, systemd services, users
- Hooks for pre/post deploy, automatic rollback snapshot
- eacd init can provision a fresh LXC container via the Proxmox API

It's opinionated and does one thing. Not trying to replace Ansible or NixOS —
just scratching my own itch for the 80% case.

Early stages, happy to hear what's missing for your workflow.
by ljm | 2026-02-23 18:18:43+00:00
I think there'll be space for curated forges at some point but they're going to live on the margins like most self-hosted repos do.

You could solve it with tech by using ideas from radicle and tangled but the slop is ultimately a social problem, so you just have invite-only forges where the source of the invite is also held accountable (lobsters style).

If you want a high quality internet experience these days you have to step out of the mainstream.
by snowhale | 2026-02-23 18:18:47+00:00
curious about distribution in the training data. 11M hours of internet computer use is probably heavily skewed toward browser, email, and productivity apps -- the long tail of specialized tools (CAD, financial software, lab instruments) is thin. the car demo is impressive but driving is actually well-represented in internet video. how much fine-tune data did you need for blender vs the car task?
by z-a-f | 2026-02-23 18:18:55+00:00
Quick "try it in 60s":

git clone https://github.com/AgentDbg/AgentDbg.git
cd AgentDbg
pip install -e .
python examples/demo/pure_python.py
agentdbg view

What you will see:

- LLM and tool calls + errors + state updates
- Loop warnings when the same pattern repeats
- Everything is stored locally as JSONL

For LangChain / LangGraph adapter:

pip install -e ".[langchain]"
by kelipso | 2026-02-23 18:19:20+00:00
I liked seeing the same meme because it was fun seeing the same thing be done by different people. Not everyone likes that type of novelty I guess.

> complaints on humor subreddits about how people repeatedly post copies of the same jokes, often without attribution

This feels like a reflection of what the person feels posting on the internet signifies. Are you publishing something, and thus you should attribute sources etc, or are you just having a conversation?

You would never attribute sources when making a joke in real life. I guess you could but it would be a pretty dorky thing to do.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-23 18:19:27+00:00
> Or that there's some secret corps of millions of super-teachers who could educate the nation's children, but who would rather be network technicians and underwater welders because they need that half-median software income?

That basically is the suggestion. The world is not an RPG, where being good at one thing necessitates you being bad at everything else. On the contrary, aptitude in one task is pretty well correlated with being good at any task. When we talk about intellectual tasks, we call this IQ, when we talk about physical feats we call this athleticism, and when we talk about social maneuvering, we call it charisma. And all three of those are positively correlated.

With that in mind, it's not at all unreasonable to believe that somebody who would make a great teacher (or at least a substantially better than average teacher) might have other aptitudes that we choose to reward more, even if they'd be relatively much better at teaching. Right now, you'd have to take a ~$50,000 pay cut to choose to be the highest paid teacher in the median California school district compared to being a median Californian software developer.

It's like any other job. If I'm offering $80,000 a year for software developers in CA, I might find a few talented people overlooked by the rest of the job market, or someone exceptionally stoked to work at my particular company, but I'm far more likely to end up with someone well below mediocrity.
by in-silico | 2026-02-23 18:19:27+00:00
So... they can't actually "generate near-verbatim copies of novels"?

If they end a single sentence differently than the original, then the next sentence will be different and so on until you get a very different novel. Sure they could course-correct back towards the original plot, but it's going to be a challenge to stay on target when every third sentence is incorrect.
by dheera | 2026-02-23 18:19:44+00:00
I highly encourage you to go visit farms sooner rather than later, especially during the rainy seasons and winter when farmers are really at work preparing for the next season. The kind of conditions robots need to deal with in that environment is no joke.

I also notice you're using the BNO055 -- if you need an C++ I2C ROS driver for it I wrote one (https://github.com/dheera/ros-imu-bno055). I think the one in the ROS apt-get repository is written in Python but they claimed the package name before I did
by johnhamlin | 2026-02-23 18:19:48+00:00
I got into solving the NYT crossword during Covid. I couldn’t solve a Monday when I started; now I do Mondays downs-only and look forward to Saturdays. Along the way, I developed a sixth sense for when an answer will be more than one word. I’ve thought a lot about it and can’t really describe how I do it. (Some other puzzles clarify if an answer spans multiple words, but I find the ambiguity adds to the fun.)
by jacobr1 | 2026-02-23 18:19:55+00:00
Normal isn't a myth. The mistake people make is taking the mode as normal, or worse mistaking their own experience as normal. But humans generally do tend to have a range of common behaviors that a significant percentage of people fit into. And you probably can even predict it to a reasonable degree, if you have some other metadata to correlate which sub-group they might correspond to.

Normal in the sense of "you can model a distribution of human behavioral processes or outcomes" that encompasses, say, 95% of humans in a given culture or geography is very much a thing you can do. And I'd go as far as to say a large chunk of the mental bandwidth of the average person is running those simulation models just to operate in a multi-human-agent world.

(If you want to say we observe bimodal or other multi-peaked distributions in practices rather than "normal" ones, I will strongly agree, but that usually isn't the objection when people say "normal is a myth")
by stego-tech | 2026-02-23 18:20:09+00:00
Typically? Legislation would handle it, but most western democracies are so captured by Capital that getting this done nationally would take decades of time we simply do not have, and be far too risky.

Another court opinion reversing those decisions in some part is an alternative, but equally unlikely given current politicization of SCOTUS.

International treaties could work, if we still didn't have the military and economic might to twist arms in our favor - though with the EU very firmly refuting America's trade policies and expansionist regime, these might be closer than we think.

International finance could also apply pressure for a reversal through pulling investment or only funding firms focused on fundamentals and long-term strategy over quarterly results and share prices alone. Unfortunately we still hold most of the Capital, so that's going to take time to create change.

Then there's the thing. The thing could do it, but it would destabilize global geopolitics in the process by removing the sole remaining stabilizing superpower from the board for the thing. It's always an option, but also one of absolute last resort as a way of resolving the otherwise unresolvable. I am personally strongly opposed to the thing, but man I don't see many ways of avoiding it this far into the current mess.

The more likely immediate course of action is continued protests, riots, and rising violence - just short of becoming the thing, but still bad enough to send a signal to the world that our way of doing things was unsustainable and that everyone else needs to reign things in immediately or risk following suit. China seems to acutely understand this, hence why they take great pains to incarcerate and reign-in Capital lest toxic western economic practices take root within their party or economy; France is in the midst of a similar such moment, and we don't know where they'll end up.

Unfortunately I don't have a clear-cut answer other than "apply pressure to those in power such that compliance with the demands of their people is more palatable than taking funds from Capital or acting in their self-interest."
by joshstrange | 2026-02-23 18:20:10+00:00
These articles are a complete waste of time. They cherry-pick examples from a literal handful of people and declare "Old thing is new again!" and people upvote it here like it's at all based in reality.

This is just like the "Teens are starting to use flip phones" or "Teens are starting to use paper maps" BS stories we've also seen on HN.

It's the laziest form of "journalism", it's just clickbait trash. A handful of people is not a trend. Please stop upvoting this nonsense.
by Dunedan | 2026-02-23 18:20:23+00:00
It crashed for you? You must be running Arch Linux. ;-)

Arch Linux used system-provided SpiderMonkey which lacked a crucial bug fix. This issue should be solved by now, by Arch Linux switching back to vendored Spidermonkey.

Check out https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/0a... and https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8757 for details.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 18:20:38+00:00
They are ridiculously expensive, but there was an article in a magazine that said that a certain vendor of ready-to-eat food uses for cooking its food an industrial microwave oven with gallium nitride transistors instead of a magnetron.

Like I have said, the advantage of transistors is that it is easy to modulate in frequency the microwaves. This avoids to have standing waves inside the oven, which cause cold spots and hot spots, so they ensure that heating is uniform everywhere in the oven.

I assume that this advantage is more important for a big industrial oven, where many portions of food are cooked simultaneously and it is desired that all of them are cooked uniformly.

But for home users, magnetrons will not be replaced any time soon.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-23 18:20:38+00:00
GP is not totally ignoring the post he replied to: we have models that are basically 6-months behind closed SOTA models and that we can run in the cloud and we fully know how much these costs to run.

The cat is out of the bag: compute shall keep getting cheaper as it's always been since 60 years or something.

It's always been maintenance that's been the killer and GP is totally right about that.

And if we look at a company like Cloudflare who basically didn't have any serious outage for five years then had five serious outages in six months since they drank the AI kool-aid, we kinda have a first data point on how amazing AI is from a maintenance point of view.

We all know we're generating more lines of underperforming, insecure, probably buggy, code than ever before.

We're in for a wild ride.
by artur-gawlik | 2026-02-23 18:20:56+00:00
Interesting in context of that some time ago Andreas said that they failed on porting TypeScript compiler from TypeScript itself to Go lang by using LLMs and they went with manual port https://youtu.be/uMqx8NNT4xY?si=Vf1PyNkg3t6tmiPp&t=1423
by bigyabai | 2026-02-23 18:20:56+00:00
> After exhausting every Vulkan approach, it switched back to OpenGL… and it worked. It fell back to an older OpenGL version, but everything rendered.

It sounds like Vulkan was the big blocker here, then? I'd be curious if everything ran fine with nothing but the OpenGL D3DX backend, Proton seems to suggest that the Nancy Drew games are fixed on recent Proton/DXVK builds.
by supriyo-biswas | 2026-02-23 18:20:57+00:00
I was taking this article quite seriously, until I read that AI agents will replace Visa/MC with crypto. It appears that this article was probably the result of an orgy with a16z and his friends.

Regardless, if I am to accept most of the premise of this article, I don't think society will stay stable as they suggest; in a societal collapse situation because white collar workers are mostly unemployed and blue collar workers don't have people to sell to, there will be no positive sum games to play, which leaves zero and negative sum games to increase. Expect massive increases in violence, terrorism, assaults, and the like.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 18:21:24+00:00
The purpose of a system is what it does.

Undermining data protection and privacy is clearly the point. The fact that it's happening everywhere at the same time makes it look to me like a bunch of leaders got together and decided that online anonymity is a problem.

It's not like kids having access to adult content is a new problem after all. Every western government just decided that we should do something about it at roughly the same time after decades of indifference.

The "age verification" story is casus belli. This is about ID, political dissent, and fears of people being exposed to the wrong brand of propaganda.
by jonjacky | 2026-02-23 18:21:26+00:00
How did you use Claude? How much guidance did you give it? Did you just write CLAUDE.md and stand back, Claude did all the rest? Or did you write some assembly language samples - like object.inc etc. - to get it pointed in the direction you wanted it to go? Did you review and revise the code that Claude wrote?

How long did the project take? Hours? Months?
by Findecanor | 2026-02-23 18:21:35+00:00
I remember a web when practically every ISP allowed you to have a "home page" hosted with them. Your home page was situated in the "public_html" directory of your home directory on their server — hence the name.

Then the URL was http://www.<hostname.domain>/~<username>

I haven't see an URL with a tilde ('~') in it in a long time.

Why did ISPs stop with this service? Was it to curb illegal file sharing?
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-23 18:21:37+00:00
Dictionaries are a mixed bag at best. If you apply David Kaplan’s character/content distinction from Demonstratives, you have to ask: should pure indexicals, which are essentially 'contentless' pointers be treated the same way as standard words? Let alone the thousands of rigid designators in this dataset that map directly to specific objects in the real world. At a certain point, is there no room left for encyclopedias?
by Pxtl | 2026-02-23 18:21:39+00:00
All of my kids devices are identified, at device level, as children's devices. They could've trivially exposed this as metadata to allow sites to enforce "no under 18" use. However, I'd disagree that my bigger concern for my kids isn't that they'd see a boob or a penis, but that they'd see an influencer who'd try to radicalize them to some extremist cause, and that's usually not considered 18+ content.

And either way, none of that requires de-anonymizing literally everyone on the internet. I'd be more than happy to see governments provide cryptographically secure digital ID and so that sites can self-select to start requiring this digital ID to make moderation easier.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-23 18:21:44+00:00
The older kids are often the easy source for the younger kids. At 8 I had already seen a Playboy and knew kids who had seen harder stuff. I could have easily gotten a teenager to get me cigarettes (and drugs, but I didn’t know what those were really). I had also already tasted alcohol. Any of this I could have stolen from any number of places.

At 16 it was easier, but at 8 it wasn’t hard.
by sillywalk | 2026-02-23 18:21:45+00:00
It looks like the FPGA that monitors/controls the redundant/lockstep CPUs might be radiation tolerant. From [0]:

"..the critical FPGA which is always on for the duration of the mission, the radiation tolerant ProASIC3 is chosen with the military temperature grade (-55 C to 125 C) and -1 speed grade to mitigate the degradation in the propagation delay caused by the total dose radiation. The single-event upset (SEU) is mitigated with triple module redundancy (TMR) in the FPGA design.

...

The FPGA device is a military-grade version of MicroSemi’s ProASIC3L, which uses the same silicon as the radiation-tolerant device from the same family."[0]

The specs from [1] say there is also a specific radiation-tolerant variant.

So it looks like the CPUs themselves have dual lock-stepped cores, and the CPU checks for errors each cycle. If there's an error it flags the FPGA, which switches to the other CPU.

[0] https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...

[1] https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/F...
by 9rx | 2026-02-23 18:21:49+00:00
Ideally, but if a project wasn't written with tests at the time then finding a working time machine can be a challenge. If you try to add them later you won't capture all the nuance that went into the original program. After all, if the implementation code was expressive enough to capture that nuance, you'd already have your test suite, so to speak. Tests are written to fill in the details that the rest of the code isn't able to express.
by dlenski | 2026-02-23 18:22:08+00:00
> Why can't I pay to express my consumer preferences? Why must I deliberately buy broken stuff and fix it myself?

I guess it comes down to "market failure."

Many people would probably say that they care about security/privacy/maintainability of their electronic devices, but in practice they buy based on cost and features, and they remain oblivious to security/privacy/maintainability unless and until there's a major problem.

This is probably rational behavior for most consumers:

There's no real way for them to evaluate claims about security/privacy/maintainability of their devices. Basically every Internet-connected device advertises an enormous list of security-flavored bullet points. "Supports IEEE 802.11g/n/ac/ax, including Wi-Fi Easy Connect for secure passwordless connections", "Secure Boot to ensure only authorized firmware runs on the device", "Hardware cryptographic acceleration", "24/7 monitoring by our dedicated security incident team", yadda yadda.

But those claims don't in any way cover the massive attack surface of a cloud-connected device where the server and client sides have been co-developed with a bunch of rushed and dangerous assumptions about how neither the client to the server will ever talk to any misconfigured or adversarial peer. Finding those kinds of security vulnerabilities is basically my stock in trade.

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by mrguyorama | 2026-02-23 18:22:09+00:00
Similarly, the problem with Twitter is not strictly who runs it. Short form content is brain rot. It requires you to eschew nuance and reason and complexity, dumb things down, handwave or ignore criticisms, parrot cliches, and will always prefer a short but nice sounding thing to something that requires more effort.

Short form communication like that is inherently bad.
by anematode | 2026-02-23 18:22:50+00:00
"El Palo Alto"

As an example of how bogus this is:

... ensuring its projected lifespan extends at least 300 more years

Not found in the given source and I have no clue where this came from.

By the mid-1990s, diagnoses confirmed heart rot and advanced decay in the core, exacerbating risks of limb failure and overall toppling without external support.

Can't find any reference in the cited sources to heart rot or advanced decay; I think it's a fabrication and it's inconsistent with arborists' descriptions of the tree's health. Googling "el palo alto" "heart rot" gives no relevant results.

etc. etc.; the issue is that a lot of these are plausible, yet wrong.
by iamleppert | 2026-02-23 18:23:10+00:00
I keep hearing people say "but as humans we actually understand". What evidence do you have of the material differences in what understanding an LLM has, and what version a human has? What processes do we fundamentally do, that an LLM does not or cannot do? What here is the definition of "understanding", that, presumably an LLM does not currently do, that humans do?
by tarentel | 2026-02-23 18:23:22+00:00
To your last point, the centipawns thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense from an interpretation perspective because it is so shallow. WDL can give you much more insight into how tame or chaotic things are. A 1 pawn evaluated advantage with a 95% chance to win is wildly different from a similar evaluation and a 50% chance to win. The first position likely has an obvious tactic that leads to a win, the latter may require perfect play for 15 moves that only a computer can calculate.

Also, from a computer perspective, a >= 1 pawn is usually sufficient for a computer to win 100% of the time so it's not really interesting and says very little about whether a person could win 100% of the time.
Show HN: RBAC Algorithm – Pure Python, hybrid RBAC+ABAC, pluggable storage
by maneeshthakur | 2026-02-23 18:23:35+00:00
I Built an Enterprise-Grade RBAC Library in Pure Python — Here's What It Can Do

Access control is one of those things every app needs but almost no one gets right the first time. Roles mushroom, permissions sprawl, and the next thing you know your "admin" check is a 200-line switch statement.

I spent the last few weeks building *RBAC Algorithm* — a clean, zero-dependency Python library that handles Role-Based and Attribute-Based Access Control in a single, composable API.
by dist-epoch | 2026-02-23 18:23:41+00:00
OpenClaw Peter is using codex to analyze/de-duplicate PRs, extract good ideas from them and then re-implement them.

> I spun up 50 codex in parallel, let them analyze the PR and generate a JSON report with various signals, comparing with vision, intent (much higher signal than any of the text), risk and various other signals. Then I can ingest all reports into one session and run AI queries/de-dupe/auto-close/merge as needed on it.

Some people bitch, others are real engineers solving novel problems.

https://x.com/steipete/status/2025591780595429385?s=20
by gitonup | 2026-02-23 18:24:05+00:00
Disclaimer: raised Catholic, now Atheist, married to devout Catholic.

The Church as defined by the institution is a community. I do not see it as a contradiction that the head of the institution is instructing the leaders to not add more layers of abstraction between them and the community, especially when those messages are on the subject of what it means to be human.