MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-17 20:29:53+00:00
India is adding 2GW of solar every month, with 105GW currently in development pipelines.

With that said, they're still adding coal capacity, so lots of solar, wind, and battery storage to deploy to destroy demand for existing and thermal generation (208GW of coal, 25GW of fossil gas as of this comment per Electricity Maps).

India adds record 35GW+ solar PV in 2025 - https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2... - January 5th, 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India ("Solar power is an important source of electricity in India. Since the mid-2010s, India has increased its solar power significantly with the help of various government initiatives. By January 2026, India's solar power installed capacity reached 140.6 GWAC. India is one of the world's fastest adopters of solar power, making it the third-largest producer of solar power globally as of 2025, after China and the United States.")

(Global solar module manufacturing capacity is ~1.8TW/year as of this comment)
by jordanlewis | 2026-02-17 20:30:01+00:00
Vibe Coding Simulator is a ~30 minute incremental game that progresses through Steve Yegge's levels of AI coding adoption from "maybe I'll try autocomplete" to things getting out of hand.

I was inspired to make this based on my love for both AI coding and incremental clicker games. They feel so similar, in a way.

Would love to hear if the pacing works for you and where you got bored (if you did).
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:30:20+00:00
GrapheneOS provides major privacy enhancements including Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes, Sensors toggle, per-connection Wi-Fi privacy via per-connection DHCP state + MAC randomization and far more. It's a privacy project and privacy depends on security so it heavily focuses on protecting against exploitation of privacy and security vulnerabilities too. Privacy and security are not separate things from each other but rather closely tied together and our work is on both for the sake of improving privacy. Our only reason to work on security features is protecting privacy.
by runarberg | 2026-02-17 20:30:45+00:00
My not even wrong argument was contingent on the weakest interpretation of your argument, where AI would change the language exactly like anything else in human society changes language.

> Changes in how we use language with AI will change even faster when AI starts learning continuously during inference.

This is a stronger claim, and shows that the weakest interpretation of your argument does not apply. I take not event wrong back. As this is a testable hypotheses which offers a solid prediction. I can in fact be wrong.

That said, I am skeptical of your claims for the reason stated above. People don’t interact with LLM’s nearly as much as they do with their dogs, and I am not aware of any research that shows that people who interact with a lot of dogs simplify their languages in human-to-human communication. To the contrary, there is ample research that humans are in fact quite good at context switching. You can speak extremely poorly in a second learning you are currently learning, and then in the next sentence speak fluently without hesitation in your native language.
by srvo | 2026-02-17 20:31:02+00:00
Ethics often fold under the face of commercial pressure.

The pentagon is thinking [1] about severing ties with anthropic because of its terms of use, and in every prior case we've reviewed (I'm the Chief Investment Officer of Ethical Capital), the ethics policy was deleted or rolled back when that happens.

Corporate strategy is (by definition) a set of tradeoffs: things you do, and things you don't do. When google (or Microsoft, or whoever) rolls back an ethics policy under pressure like this, what they reveal is that ethical governance was a nice-to-have, not a core part of their strategy.

We're happy users of Claude for similar reasons (perception that Anthropic has a better handle on ethics), but companies always find new and exciting ways to disappoint you. I really hope that anthropic holds fast, and can serve in future as a case in point that the Public Benefit Corporation is not a purely aesthetic form.

But you know, we'll see.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5740369-pentagon-anthropi...
by lambda | 2026-02-17 20:31:35+00:00
This isn't the paper that I was thinking of, but it shows a similar trend to the one I was looking at. In this particular case, even down to 5 bits showed no measurable reduction in performance (actually a slight increase, but that probably just means that you're withing the noise of what this test can distinguish), then you see performance dropping off rapidly as it gets down to 3 various 3 bit quants: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14277

There was another paper that did a similar test, but with several models in a family, and all the way down to 1 bit, and it was only at 1 bit that it crossed over to having worse performance than the next smaller model. But yeah, I'm having a hard time finding that paper again.
by Rapzid | 2026-02-17 20:31:56+00:00
When does a pile become a heap?

When they come for YOU.

Seriously this is why people use to take every government transgression and overreach so seriously. Now multiple times a day it's something that would have been a straight SCANDAL in the past.

It's happening right now y'all because it was always happening and will always happen without constant push back.

Don't wait!
by randycupertino | 2026-02-17 20:32:13+00:00
> "Regarding the news in question, I did in fact treat an athlete from that sport, whose name and nationality I will obviously not disclose, nor whether he is participating in these Olympics," Alessandro Littara told USA TODAY Sports in an email. "However, I can say that I treated him last month and used a generous dose of hyaluronic acid."

> "I cannot say whether he told me the whole truth," Littara said, "but in any case, we did a good job and implanted a more than generous dose of hyaluronic acid." He also added, "The result is immediate, so the athlete could wear the new suit after just a few minutes."
by viraptor | 2026-02-17 20:32:14+00:00
While I'm not annoyed by the slowdown that much, what made me not trust them anymore is being careless with the system. For example I did a review recently on a PR where the collapsing sections were not visible and made 2 patch fragments look like continuous code. I commented that this makes no sense and won't run... only to look like an idiot later. Fortunately the issue was fixed by the time I looked at the PR again, but still, much less trust now.
by general_reveal | 2026-02-17 20:32:16+00:00
This is going to be a massive market. If you think programmers want an effective coding agent for themselves and are willing to pay for it, wait until you meet parents that will not settle for anything less than the best Teaching Agent that measurably beats humans/other agents.

There will be no competition. Educators are on notice, just like programmers were two years ago. Take this shit seriously.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:32:19+00:00
There's a huge open source app ecosystem available for Android. The distinction you're trying to draw is inaccurate. Open source apps also very open do privacy invasive things. On Android, people can see that many open source privacy even including Signal include dark patterns such as repeatedly asking for access to contacts when it works without it. On a desktop OS, the apps and services will simply have access to nearly everything by default so you aren't aware of it happening for the most part.

GrapheneOS provides far better privacy and security than a desktop OS. There's no such thing as an advertising ID built into GrapheneOS so it's a strange thing to bring up. There are plenty of privacy invasive things built into desktop operating systems and applications, including open source ones. They nearly entirely lack the ability to protect against apps and services being privacy invasive in the first place. They also have far weaker protection against exploitation.
by kwk1 | 2026-02-17 20:32:54+00:00
> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes

I know you're probably intending to only remark on leaky water pipes, but:

The New London School explosion was caused by a leaky pipe. It killed 295 students and teachers, and led to the inclusion of smelly thiol in natural gas, as well as the Texas Engineering Practice Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
by samiv | 2026-02-17 20:32:55+00:00
Same story for 4 years long. "Russian economy is at the brink of a collapse." Yet it Somehow just keeps ok going year after year.

The truth is that the sanctions are only hurting the Eurozone more than Russia. Small minority (EU or the political west) cannot force meaningful sanctions on much larger group (BRICS). Unfortunately this is not the narrative anyone can say out loud lest they be labeled as "Putin's trolls" so the wishy-washy keeps on going on.
by nobleach | 2026-02-17 20:33:26+00:00
But Go culture promulgates this practice of repeating boilerplate. In fact this is one of the biggest confusion points of new gophers. "I want to do a thing that seems common enough, what library are you all using to do X?". Everyone scoffs, pushes up their glasses and says, "well actually, you should just use the standard library, it's always worked just fine for me". And the new gopher is confused because they really believe that reinventing the wheel is an acceptable practice. This is what leads to using LLMs to write all that code (admittedly, it's a fine use of an LLM).
by ErwinX | 2026-02-17 20:33:34+00:00
... wasn't there a glitch reported in 2019 which allowed unauthorized FBI personnel to access private data for more than a year [The New York Post] according to a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith. Obviously Palantir denied the claims in a statement and said the fault was caused by the FBI's incorrect use of the software ... isn't this, the "incorrect" use of a software, always the entry point of every hack ...
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-17 20:33:53+00:00
> I can understand the frustration

It's not frustration, just disapproval.

> but it wouldn't be right to say they 'restrict themselves to Pixels'.

It's absolutely right to say that. You justify why in your next sentence.

> They believe strongly in a standard for privacy/security of people's personal devices, and unfortunately only Pixels are close to meeting those standards.

That doesn't prohibit them from releasing a version that runs on other phones, even if it's missing a few (and it would only be very few) features. Most of the graphene users are not using it because of those features.

> I feel the frustration should be targeted at OEMs that don't meet very reasonable requirements like minimum 5 years of monthly (timely) security updates.

Again, though, no frustration; I wouldn't run graphene even if I could as I have my own setup I'm quite happy with. Just disapproval at an arbitrarily high standard that isn't doing the good they think it is, and ultimately, actually does more harm in not making their product accessible to the hundreds of thousands of people it would benefit.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-17 20:34:41+00:00
I don't imagine it would be too difficult to snoop the instruction stream to identify a software implementation of AES and yoink the keys from it, at least if the implementation isn't obfuscated. If your threat model includes an adversarial CPU then you probably need to at least obfuscate your implementation, if not entirely offload the crypto to somewhere you trust.
Show HN: CogniScroll – A terminal-styled micro-learning app for mental models
by Yonehsan | 2026-02-17 20:34:49+00:00
I built this PWA to fix my own attention span. It turns the "doomscroll" mechanic into a micro-learning loop for Game Theory, Psychology, and Strategy (e.g., Winner's Curse, OODA Loop).

Instead of infinite feeds of noise, you swipe through high-signal "Intel Cards." As you progress, you unlock a hidden "Intel Archive" which switches to a retro-terminal UI for deep-dive reading.

Tech stack is React/Vite. No login required to try the core loop.
by 3rodents | 2026-02-17 20:34:50+00:00
I’m not so sure. I think Tesla is so tied up in Musk’s personality that Tesla and Waymo aren’t in the same field, likewise with Optimus. Tesla isn’t self-driving, it is Tesla. Especially now that many mainstream vehicles ship with various levels of self-driving, a lot of people have a lot of exposure to it. Tesla has the best brand recognition but they no longer define the product. Tesla is Tesla, Waymo is self-driving.
by atmavatar | 2026-02-17 20:35:02+00:00
> Even getting the currently occupied land back is mostly optional.

That's only true in the short term.

If Russia gets out of the war with Ukraine with territory gains, that only serves as incentive to start up again after Russia can regroup. After all, Putin's stated long-term goal is to take the entire country (among others) and restore the USSR.

Of course, taking back the occupied land is also easier said than done, as it would severely weaken Putin domestically to have expended all these resources and lives for nothing. There's no way he can allow that.

Both countries are in a catch-22.
by wk_end | 2026-02-17 20:35:05+00:00
What a weird, victim-blame-y thing to say.

Something genuinely shitty was done to this guy by an LLM - who, as an open source maintainer, probably already is kind of pissed about what LLMs are doing to the world. Then another shitty thing was done to him by Ars' LLM! Of course he's thinking about it a lot. Of course he has thoughts about the consequences of AI on the future. Of course he wants to share his thoughts.

Just curious, do you also think that the breathless AI hype bots who've been insisting for about five years and counting that LLMs are going to replace everyone and destroy the world any day now, who have single-handedly ballooned the stock market (mostly Nvidia) into a massive bubble, are also histrionic, milking things for engagement, need to talk to a therapist?
by LogicalRisk | 2026-02-17 20:35:10+00:00
Yes, engines would almost certainly never play 2. f4. That's a different question than whether chess is solved, for which the question of interest would be "given optimal play after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 is the result a win for one side or a draw?"

It's also almost certainly the case, in that I don't know why you would do it, that Stockfish given the black pieces and extensive pondering would be meaningfully better than Stockfish with a time capped move order. Most games are going to be draws so practically it would take awhile to determine this.

I'm of the view that the actual answer for chess is "It's a draw with optimal play."
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-17 20:35:43+00:00
People were doing that by using additional tools on top of git, not via git alone. I intentionally only listed things that git doesn't do.

There's not much point in observing "but you could have done those things with email!". We could have done them with tarballs before git existed, too, if we built sufficient additional tooling atop them. That doesn't mean we have the functionality of current forges in a federated model, yet.
by spyckie2 | 2026-02-17 20:35:49+00:00
Anthropic was the first to spam reddit with fake users and posts, flooding and controlling their subreddit to be a giant sycophant.

They nuked the internet by themselves. Basically they are the willing and happy instigators of the dead internet as long as they profit from it.

They are by no means ethical, they are a for-profit company.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-17 20:36:02+00:00
What is this even in response to? There's nothing about "playing dead" in this announcement.

Nor does what you're describing even make sense. An LLM has no desires or goals except to output the next token that its weights are trained to do. The idea of "playing dead" during training in order to "activate later" is incoherent. It is its training.

You're inventing some kind of "deceptive personality attribute" that is fiction, not reality. It's just not how models work.
Show HN: ATS-first FREE resume builder that got me intrview at OpenAI and Google
by fredfilm | 2026-02-17 20:36:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I built SignalResume, a free ATS-first resume and job application toolkit.

Motivation was personal. I’m an international student and community college grad with under a 3.6 GPA. I sent around 300 applications and got 0 interviews. After mentors from Meta and Amazon helped me rebuild my resume using a more ATS-first approach, my results flipped, under 100 applications and interviews from Google, OpenAI, Stripe, TikTok, and IBM.

A lot of resume tools optimize for pretty templates and subscriptions. Many “AI resume” tools also hallucinate, inventing numbers, impact, or responsibilities, which is risky if you actually have to defend it in interviews. I wanted something ATS-first and grounded.

What it includes

ATS-first resume builder using one proven template

AI bullet improver, revise per entry or “revise all”, skips Education and Skills

Cover letter generator from resume plus job description, with validation and quality checks

Job fit evaluator (LLM ATS review), score, gaps, improvements, includes verbatim quotes as evidence, and explicitly does not rewrite bullets

I built the LLM system personally with ATS constraints in mind to reduce hallucinated fluff and keep suggestions grounded in user inputs.

Link: signalresume.com

Feedback welcome, especially on ATS edge cases, formatting issues, or places where the “grounded” constraint is still too loose.
Show HN: Utils.live – 700 free developer tools that run in the browser
by kranthie | 2026-02-17 20:36:09+00:00
I built a collection of 700+ developer utilities — JSON formatters, Base64 encoders, regex testers, hash generators, color converters, CSS tools, and more.

Everything runs client-side in your browser. No data ever leaves your machine. No accounts, no paywalls, no usage limits.

The stack: Next.js static site on Cloudflare Pages. Each tool is a pure function defined with a schema — input in, output out. The whole site is statically generated at build time (~700 pages). The entire project — every tool, every component, the build system — was built using Claude Code.

I'd love feedback on which tools are most useful and what's missing.

https://utils.live
by MBCook | 2026-02-17 20:36:54+00:00
> Hacker News has always assumed this problem is easy. It is not.

That’s the problem right there.

It’s EXTREMELY hard.

Waymo has very carefully increased its abilities, tip-toeing forward little by little until after all this time they’ve achieved the abilities they have with great safety numbers.

Tesla appears to continuously make big jumps they seem totally unprepared for yelling “YOLO” and then expect to be treated the same when it doesn’t work out by saying “but it’s hard.”

I have zero respect for how they’ve approached this since day 1 of autopilot and think what they’re doing is flat out dangerous.

So yeah. Some of us call them out. A lot. And they seem to keep providing evidence we may be right.
by bsoles | 2026-02-17 20:37:00+00:00
>> "Either we hire good CS people who have the basic understanding of EE, and we train them to become good engineers, or we hire good engineers who are good in CS, and we try to upskill them on the CS side."

The former (CS -> EE) is very unlikely to happen at a large scale than the latter (EE -> CS). It is much easier to teach EEs to become (albeit, often bad) software engineers, than teaching CS student to be good engineers.

Also, the former (CS -> EE) will not happen in academia because of (1) turf wars, and (2) CS faculty not having any understanding, nor interest in electronics/hardware/engineering.

I once proposed to teach an IoT class in the CS department of a major university in US, the proposal basically fell on deaf ears.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-17 20:37:05+00:00
You must be very lucky.

My grandparents were not rich at all, but they still owned houses and land that I will never be able to buy from the salary of an engineer or programmer. I own my apartment, but its true value is far less than of the big houses and ample lands on which my grandparents lived.

Moreover, while there is an abundance of cheap and reasonably healthy food around me, I cannot find at any price food with a comparable quality with that which I could eat at my grandparents, which was produced by themselves, from their cultivated land and from their animals.

There is an abundance of cheap clothes, cheap enough that there is no need to worry about repairing them, like in the distant past, but anything that I can buy in a normal shop has a much worse quality than the clothes that were available many decades ago. At least unlike with food, I can still find good quality clothes, but only if I order them online from various countries and from a different country for every kind, as there is no place where everything is optimum (e.g. I buy some things from Sweden, others from Scotland, others from Ireland, others from Austria, and so on).

There are of course things that are much better, mainly those with electronic components, but there are already many years since the prices of these have been growing almost continuously, so they have become less and less affordable.

In conclusion, while there are plenty of things that are much better than when I was young, there are also a lot of things that are much worse. It hard to say which is the balance between bad and good, especially because the things that have become worse are essential necessities, while those that have become better are mainly optional things, useful for research or entertainment.
by overgard | 2026-02-17 20:37:09+00:00
I'm not sure I agree with the Sideprocalypse idea linked in the blog. Granted, there is a lot of "hustle" content out there about how all you need to do is vibe code an existing business idea and pay for their SEO course. And if you're one of those people selling that, or one of the people believing it... well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Where the vibe coders with their slop cannons aren't present though is in things that require hard won domain knowledge. IE, stuff that requires you to actually create a new idea, off an understanding of actual areas of need.

And that kind of thing probably isn't going to do well on Show HN, because your audience probably isn't on HN.
by sidewndr46 | 2026-02-17 20:37:23+00:00
But why would that happen? Let's say an ETF normally trades at 99% of it's NAV. Suddenly it "crashes" and only trades at 97.2% after some bad news. Bob in accounting embezzled millions. It's gone, Bob spent it all at the strip club. Wouldn't some investor decide to just net the approximately ~1.8% by increasing demand and buying it up? After all, Bob embezzled millions. Not the billions that larger ETFs control.

Unless you're proposing some weird industry wide boycott of Vanguard or something. In that case the only thing stock traders are going to accomplish is destruction of every publicly traded asset they hold as market confidence in retail traders slowly slips downwards.
by larodi | 2026-02-17 20:37:27+00:00
Im only eager to understand has the Izkustvelina already replaced me in the architect role. At times I like to think that building physical prototypes is still a thing, but then reading Quanta and how those guys hack matter, Im starting to not be entirely convinced 3D and who-knows-how-many-D printing is going to literally end life. And is close, so brace :D
by textlapse | 2026-02-17 20:38:04+00:00
My understanding of warp (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-programming-guide/01-intro...) is that you are essentially paying the cost of taking both the branches.

I understand with newer GPUs, you have clever partitioning / pipelining in such a way block A takes branch A vs block B that takes branch B with sync/barrier essentially relying on some smart 'oracle' to schedule these in a way that still fits in the SIMT model.

It still doesn't feel Turing complete to me. Is there an nvidia doc you can refer me to?