MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oceanplexian | 2026-02-02 16:23:50+00:00
Uhh.. I work with this stuff daily and there are a LOT of intrinsic reasons a single stream would be slower than running multiple: MPLS ECMP hashing you over a single path, a single loss event with a high BDP causing congestion control to kick in for a single flow, CPU IRQ affinity, probably many more I’m not thinking like the inner workings of NIC offloading queues.

Source: Been in big tech for roughly ten years now trying to get servers to move packets faster
by godelski | 2026-02-02 16:23:58+00:00
I think you missed the issue with the Dropbox comment. Look back at it. He talks about using Linux, FTP, curlftps, SVN, and doing a network mount.

The comment isn't actually even talking about providing the same service, so they mention emailing themselves files and usb drives.

The problem was there was a big technical hurdle to locally network mount a file system. Especially across OSes. It's even harder to do it non locally. Sure, it's not hard if you're familiar with that stuff. Sure, it's not hard to learn if you're comfortable in the terminal. Sure, today you can use rclone. BUT that's not a tool my grandma can use.

On the other hand, we're not talking about tools my grandma can use. We're talking about tools a programmer can use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by nullderef | 2026-02-02 16:24:06+00:00
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by itissid | 2026-02-02 16:24:39+00:00
My colleague works in a functional role for a medium sized SaaS company(1000-5000 employees), working with banks, family offices, hedge funds. They use teams and copilot, they all hate it.

One thing that I don't know about is if they have an AI product that can work on combining unstructured and databases to give better insights on any new conversation? e.g. like say the LLM knows how to convert user queries to the domain model of tables and extract information? What companies are doing such things?

This would be something that can be deployed on-prem/ their own private cloud that is controlled by the company, because the data is quite sensitive.
by daviddbwilson | 2026-02-02 16:24:45+00:00
We built background agents that automate recurring work (in production). Unlike interactive agents where users can fix mistakes, background agents run when no one is watching.

Here's a bunch of approaches that we found useful: making everything a tool call (including stopping), treating tool metadata as prompts and rewriting them all, using deterministic binary checks with cheap LLMs plus optional review from expensive LLMs for quality control, and using multiple simple memory approaches instead of one complex system.

The patterns might be useful if you're building agents that need to run reliably without supervision.
by corroclaro | 2026-02-02 16:24:47+00:00
Glad to have returned after missing out on FOSDEM for a while. However, I agree with OP on that undeniable success leading to heavy crowding.
I also missed some hacker hardware stands, there were very few this year.

I always enjoyed chatting with people demoing SDR/small cool hardware hacks as a refreshing break from whatever high-tech presentation room I got stuck in for half a day :-)

It would almost be good to ... have a bigger campus.

Tough luck on that though.
by amit-bansil | 2026-02-02 16:25:15+00:00
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by BoiledCabbage | 2026-02-02 16:25:19+00:00
> I think what we have is mostly AGI.

I agree that the term AGI is the problem. If I have something as intelligent as a mouse that should be AGI, if I have something a intelligent as a bird that should be AGI. Same is it's as intelligent as a 2 year old human, or someone with an IQ of 75. Those would all clearly be Artificial, General Intelligences.

But the problem is the term AGI also oddly has this bar that if must be equal to our better than human (a standard that the majority of humans would fail based on definition of intelligence alone). Plus multidisciplinary better than all humans (which it would take a super genius to have a human accomplish).

Given the current definition of you took a bright high schooler and made them artificial they wouldn't count as AGI which makes the definition silly.

And that is separate from the entire concept of sentience - which it's unclear if it's a requirement for intelligence.

It's all a bunch of squishy definitions mashed together.
by i_s | 2026-02-02 16:25:26+00:00
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by sutterd | 2026-02-02 16:25:40+00:00
My go-to models have been Claude and Gemini for a long time. I have been using Gemini for discussions and Claude for coding and now as an agent. Claude has been the best at doing what I want to do and not doing what I don’t want to do. And then my confidence in it took a quantum leap with Opus 4.5. Gemini seems like it has gotten even worse at doing what I want with new releases.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-02-02 16:25:43+00:00
> there is no way they could monitor conversations in the car for commercial purposes (at least in Western countries)

people used to feel that way about search queries, email (gmail) and IP laws (LLM training).

> What is exciting about monetization like this is the possibility for rides to become very cheap or even free. If my dentist offers free rides to the office in return for my loyalty, I'm quite happy to take that.

this won't happen. alphabet will collect on both ends.
by kps | 2026-02-02 16:25:45+00:00
> everyone should just have a full face gas mask for all hacker-ish activities, like painting

Not everyone who wears eyeglasses, unless you're prepared to add another several hundred dollars for the lens holder and set of prescription lenses.

I do have the 3M 6800 full face respirator but almost never use it. The silicone 7xxx series is much more comfortable than the rubber 6xxx series, and the 750x silicone half mask is reasonably priced. Augment with comfortable googles as necessary (vented ones work for me since I'm painting, not rioting).
by willmorrison | 2026-02-02 16:25:47+00:00
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by ashwinr2002 | 2026-02-02 16:26:16+00:00
Apologies for the formatting

Can we not assume that the plan you just said “ok” to came from a user prompts you made earlier in the chat session and hence does influence this decision process.

Another point in the idea is that this trusted context can include even the AI replies up until there hasnt been a tool calls yet that brings back a response an attacker can control

But it’s entirely possible that there are edge cases here, a red teaming dataset to cover these cases shouldn’t be hard to create
by nonnontrivial | 2026-02-02 16:26:20+00:00
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by tomaytotomato | 2026-02-02 16:26:40+00:00
We live in a world increasingly becoming hypercapitalistic in every facet of life with problems and solutions being marketed together, all fed with algorithms.

"Have you got chronic sebhorric dermatitis, click this link to make it go away".

"You may be eligible for compensation if you bought a Volkswagen"

"Fight the corrupt fascist government, buy a gas mask here"

"Fight the corrupt socialist government, buy a year's supply of Iodine tablets"
by NobodyNada | 2026-02-02 16:26:48+00:00
The idea is well-intentioned, but implementing it by making drivers try to parse arbitrarily complex conditionals while driving is unwise.

There's a sign near my house for a school zone with a reduced speed limit, that used to have conditions similar to the GP's example (though not quite as bad) But they recently attached a yellow light to the top of the sign and changed the condition to "when flashing." That's a much more effective solution.
by darvid | 2026-02-02 16:27:08+00:00
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by jjice | 2026-02-02 16:27:19+00:00
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by opttek_snyder | 2026-02-02 16:27:27+00:00
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by CodeMage | 2026-02-02 16:27:40+00:00
It does, but what does that say about the state of communication in our industry? I've seen a lot of writing that reads like an AI produced it in contexts where I could be pretty sure no AI was involved. We want to sound professional, so we sanitize how we write so much that it becomes... whatever this current situation is.

No offense intended to @yz-yu, by the way. I miss the times when more people wrote in an eccentric style -- like Steve Yegge -- but that doesn't detract from what you wrote.
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by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-02 16:27:52+00:00
Yeah, but there is quite a gulf between possible and even likely.

I can think of very few time seen the state give up extra powers it gives itself in emergencies, and the few places where I see it give up powers are at the behest of industries demanding "de-regulation".

Even, say, cannabis decriminalization can be understood (from the stand point of the legislators) as pro-business.

So serious question: when has the US given up powers? It'd do my brain a lot of good to have a picture of how this has happened in the past so I can be less cynical in the present.

You might site the Church commission, maybe, but that seems to be exactly the kind of thing that is both likely and wholly ineffective beyond a the 5-10 year timescale.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-02 16:27:55+00:00
Yeah I'm kind of surprised that people here are calling the opposition to datacenters reflexive NIMBYism. They draw tons of power which causes everybody's utility bills to go up because of the need to add additional electrical capacity, they create very few jobs besides during the initial construction phase, and once the AI boom ends they'll become huge abandoned structures that the very small local police force will then be responsible for guarding. It's a huge net negative for any community they're built in.
by pron | 2026-02-02 16:27:57+00:00
> or the other way around (maybe for direct access to data in a memory-mapped file), you can choose to do that. Java tends to make solutions like that harder.

Not so much anymore, thanks to the new FFM API (https://openjdk.org/jeps/454). The verbose code you see is all compiler intrinsics, and thanks to Java's aggressive inlining, intrinsics can be wrapped and encapsulated in a clean API (i.e. if you use an intrinsic in method bar which you call from method foo, usually it's as if you've used the intrinsic directly in foo, even though the call to bar is virtual). So you can efficiently and safely map a data interface type to chunks of memory in a memory-mapped file.

> But with low-level languages, you can often beat it by doing something else due to having fewer constraints and more control over the environment.

You can, but it's never free, rarely cheap (and the costs are paid throughout the software's lifetime), and the gains aren't all that large (on average). The question isn't "is it possible to write something faster" but "can you get sufficient gains at a justifiable costs", and that's already hard and getting harder and harder.
by jihadjihad | 2026-02-02 16:28:00+00:00
If you're not around rural America a lot, it can be hard to believe how deeply, at an existential level, ideas like those conveyed by a Gadsden flag are held. Rural Americans really, really do not like being told what to do, by anyone, regardless of whether the person in power's mascot is an elephant or an ass.

It is not surprising in the least that suits from Washington and execs from Silicon Valley descending upon the land like vultures aren't exactly given a warm welcome from regular folk. Even if electricity prices stayed the same there would be damage done that goes beyond NIMBYism that would need to be fixed.
by MithrilTuxedo | 2026-02-02 16:28:18+00:00
>So it's important that there is a moment when these things aren't optional.

I haven't found anything more effective than making sure it happens fast enough other devs don't have time to think about disabling it. They might make their changes locally relying on an IDE without running the full build, which pushes the exceptions to the build agent. Developers may not have privileges to modify those builds directly, but complaints and emergencies slowly erode impediments to deploying.
by smithkl42 | 2026-02-02 16:28:22+00:00
I'm one of those really odd beasts that feels some sort of loyalty to Microsoft, so I started out on Copilot and was very reluctant to try Claude Code. But as soon as I did, I figured out what the hype was about. It's just able to work over larger code bases and over longer time horizons than Copilot. The last time I tried Copilot, just to compare, I noticed that it would make some number of tool calls (not even involving tokens!) and then decide, "Nah, that's too many. We're just not going to do any work for a while." It was bizarre. And sometimes it would decide that a given bog-standard tool call (like read a file or something) needed to get my permission every. single. time. I couldn't do anything to convince it otherwise. I eventually gave up. And since then, we've built all our LLM support infrastructure around Claude Code, so it would be painful to go back to anything else.
by tistoon | 2026-02-02 16:28:40+00:00
This will never happen, or at most, it will be a half-baked clunky "federation" like today. Why? Because you will always say first: "I am Italian" and not "I am European" when introducing yourself. All the dreamy one powerful Europe will never happen because of this. Which makes sense because Europe, by definition, is multiple countries, identities and cultures!
by maxdo | 2026-02-02 16:28:41+00:00
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by moregrist | 2026-02-02 16:28:45+00:00
I think the answer is pretty simple.

It's pretty clear that Microsoft had "Everything must have Copilot" dictated from the top (or pretty close). They wanted to be all-in on AI but didn't start with any actual problems to solve. If you're an SWE or a PM or whatever and suddenly your employment/promotion/etc prospects depend on a conspicuously implemented Copilot thing, you do the best you can and implement a chat bot (and other shit) that no one asked for or wants.

I don't know Anthropic's process but it produced a tool that clearly solves a specific problem: essentially write code faster. I would guess that the solution grew organically given that the UI isn't remotely close to what you'd expect a product manager to want. We don't know how many internal false-starts there were or how many people were working on other solutions to this problem, but what emerged clearly solved that problem, and can generalize to other problems.

In other words, Microsoft seems to have focused on a technology buzzword. Anthropic let people solve their own problems and it led to an actual product. The kind that people want. The difference is like night and day.

Who knows what else might have happened in the last 12 months if C-suites were focused more on telling SWEs to be productive and less on forcing specific technology buzzwords because they were told it's the future.