MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by silcoon | 2026-02-11 08:48:58+00:00
I lived in Australia in Far North Queensland until last year and power was running out every heavy rain. The point is that in that region there are only two seasons: a short dry season and a long wet one.

So everyone expects multiple power off a year and every household has generators and stock of fuel and matches for emergency.

Locals have a “it’s gonna be fine” attitude against a poor (but expensive) infrastructure. I was really disappointed, growing up in Europe, where a power off it’s extremely rare (even if we have rain and snow).
by ralfd | 2026-02-11 08:49:06+00:00
You did misunderstand:

https://x.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/2017932529882296706

SpaceX worked with Ukraine together to register authorized Starlinks.

You obviously can’t simply geo-fence because the usage is not in Russia, but Russian troops using it in Ukraine.

And you can’t simply blacklist Russian use, because lots of devices with legitimate Ukrainian use cases were imported in privatly or by third party.

That is why cumbersomley legitimate Ukrainian devices must now be whitelisted.
by Hikikomori | 2026-02-11 08:49:25+00:00
There's also ATMs from Euronet that are conveniently placed in tourist areas that refuses to pay out Euro if you have a Euro card, you can only get money if you do an exchange and they do a 15% or so on top of a fixed rate. Also do things like charge for checking balance on account and don't tell you about before its done.

Its an American company.
by voidUpdate | 2026-02-11 08:49:48+00:00
I found a copy of the win98 (I believe) notepad.exe a while back, and it works perfectly on windows 11 (though the "about notepad" dialog shows the windows 11 version for some reason??). I can write text into it, save it, and load text again. What more does notepad need? And it has a very nostalgic font too
by mnicky | 2026-02-11 08:49:49+00:00
If you recall the context/situation at the time it was released, that might be close to the truth. Google desperately needed to show competency in improving Gemini capabilities, and other considerations could have been assigned lower priority.

So they could have paid a price in “model welfare” and released an LLM very eager to deliver.

It also shows in AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate benchmark where Gemini has 88%, the worst from frontier models.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-11 08:50:25+00:00
> GPUs, from my understanding, have lost the majority of fixed-function units as they’ve become more programmable.

That would be nice but doesn't match reality unfortunately, there are even new fixed-fuction units added from time to time (e.g. for raytracing).

Texture sampling units also seem to be critical for performance and probably won't go away for a while.

It should be possible to hide a lot of the fixed-function magic behind high level GPU instructions (e.g. for sampling a texture), but GPU vendors still don't agree about details like how the texture and sampler properties are managed on the GPU (see: https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/2022/08/descriptors-are...).

E.g. the problem isn't in the software, but the differing hardware designs, and GPU vendors don't seem to like the idea of harmonizing their GPU architectures and they're also not a fan of creating a common ISA as compatibility shim (e.g. how it is common for CPUs). Instead the 3D API, driver and highlevel shader bytecode (e.g. SPIRV) is this common interface, and that's how we landed at the current situation with all its downsides (most of the reasons are probably not even technical, but legal/strategic - patents and stuff).
by delichon | 2026-02-11 08:51:11+00:00
He talks about this new tech for extracting more value from engineers as if it were fracking. When they become impermeable you can now inject a mixed high pressure cocktail of AI to get their internal hydrocarbons flowing. It works but now he feels all pumped out. But the vampire metaphor is hopefully better in that blood replenishes if you don't take too much.
by kaliades | 2026-02-11 08:52:00+00:00
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by forty | 2026-02-11 08:52:07+00:00
There again, I think the comparison fails.

Fixing the hospital: single place to work on, easier

Blocking all the roads/flights: everywhere, harder

Vs

Fixing all the telnet: everywhere, harder/impossible

Blocking port 23 on an infra provider: single place, easier

It makes sense to me to favor the realistic solution that actually works vs the unrealistic one which is guaranteed not fix the issue, especially when it's much easier to implement
by conductr | 2026-02-11 08:53:05+00:00
Right but we’re debating different points. I’m saying there’s room for non-feature complete products in the world, generally it’s not all or nothing. You’re saying this product specifically isn’t going to be successful.

I’m not saying anything good or bad against this product just that it has a right to exist and could work (whether it will or not is not what I’m arguing).
by dTal | 2026-02-11 08:53:29+00:00
Right, but that was my point - statistically, answers do not follow questions without some establishing context, and as such LLM chatbots are not "simply" next word predictors - they are Hofstaderian strange loops that we will into being. The simpler you think language models are, the more that should seem "magic".

They're not simple though. You can understand, in a reductionist sense, the basic principles of how transformers perform function approximation; but that does not grant an intuitive sense of the nature of the specific function they have been trained to approximate, or how they have achieved this approximation. We have little insight into what abstract concepts each of the many billions of parameters map on to. Progress on introspecting these networks has been a lot slower than trial-and-error improvements. So there is a very real sense in which we have no idea how LLMs work, and they are literally "magic black boxes".

No matter how you slice it - if "magic" is a word which can ever be applied to software, LLM chatbots are sure as shit magic.
by PhilipRoman | 2026-02-11 08:53:37+00:00
>>Nobody verifies host keys,

>The known_hosts file is verification of host keys

I think the point was that those devices typically generate host keys dynamically and therefore the host key verification is usually turned off, leaving you just with encryption (which is still better than telnet - at least you're safe against passive adversaries). At least that's what I've seen in practice.
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-11 08:53:43+00:00
Very well elaborated.

It misses a point though. FTX management not only presumably but effectively (according to court deliberations) had committed wire fraud, multiple conspiracy of frauds, customer + lender + investor deception.

Customers finding their supposedly owned assets withdrawals denied was enough suspicions to take over.

Now, whether the take over moves were the best, that's easy to conclude they weren't now. But the market could have gone either way, and the victims worse off.

Had SBF kept his reign and likely continued his fraudulent schemes, what would have prevented him and his crew from continuing to gamble assets that weren't theirs to begin with? What would have been the outcome of that.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-11 08:54:10+00:00
https://satwcomic.com/you-re-hot-then-you-re-cold

Whatever weather people are used to will be handled seamlessly. If it's unusual, it will cause failures. Doesn't really matter what kind of weather it is.

This is basically the Netflix Chaos Monkey theory of systems, applied to weather response.

(A friend of mine lives in Shanghai. She's shocked whenever I mention a power failure; in her mind, a functioning country wouldn't have them at all.)
by spragl | 2026-02-11 08:54:19+00:00
I assume by third party you mean the authority, and yes, the authority would need to know your personal information. At least enough of it to verify your age. So the ideal is that the authority is the entity that already knows your personal information. Like the entity that issued your passport to you, or the one that issued you drivers license.

But even if the authority was a private company, I think it would be an improvement compared to the current situation. In this situation your personal information would be held by this one company, and not whatever provider that needs to verify your age. Also, you would be able to use the commitments, that this private authority gave you, without any coordination afterwards. The authority would not know about your transactions.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-11 08:54:52+00:00
No, she's absolutely wrong about this. The book is based very closely on Feynman's lectures. He wrote the material and gave the lectures. Other people edited that material into book form, but Feynman did the lion's share of the work.

Saying that Feynman didn't write the book is just dishonest, unless you immediately clarify afterwards that Feynman did indeed write almost all of the material in the book, in something very close to its final form.
by sephamorr | 2026-02-11 08:55:32+00:00
The document describes proof of effectiveness as supported by demonstrating "non inferiority to... a US licensed product". So yes, a (licensed) benchmark, but I see no references to a requirement for only testing against the best standard of care. It's a separate question about whether it should be though, and the cfr is quite vague throughout, so I would probably expect this isn't an illegal move (assuming arbitrary and capricious isn't held by a court), but I don't see it supported by precedent.
by Gym-Berlin | 2026-02-11 08:56:37+00:00
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by orwin | 2026-02-11 08:57:15+00:00
Sorry, i wasn't clear, my bad. You have grifters everywhere, especially in the fringe as when your audience is small, grifting is the best way to make any real amount of money. But when a grifter is caught doing something the public consider bad (SA, but sometime just being caught red-handed stealing money), he either disappear, or grift to the right. No grifter go further left is my point.

I think the internationally known examples are the Tate brothers or the Paul brothers, but among the scammers who got pardonned by trump you will mostly find people who grifted to the right. In my country it is also quite clear. Doctors caught doing weird chamanism and not helping patient? Suddenly it's "cancel culture!!1!". Your "quantum energy" bullshit is caught and proved to be a weird MLM? Cancel culture! Every fucking time.

It happened with people who used to grift for kombaya/hippies with weird chamanism and yoga. Suddenly, 911 was an inside job and Donald Trump is our savior, Q is his prophete. I shit you not, my mother Yoga ayurvedic group went from hippies that use to get scammed into buying essential oils to "open the Chakra" to weird antisemites who purchased trumpm/melania coin in less than 3 years. And we're not even in the US :/
by Nevermark | 2026-02-11 08:57:22+00:00
In the US, there are tremendous structural barriers for third parties. They exist, it is just extremely difficult for them.

The centralization of power of each of the two dominant parties nationally at the expense of a more decentralized parties with strong state variability as in the past, makes it even more difficult for third parties to gain traction against all that coordination.

Perot had the best chance, but managed to blow it by bowing out and then back in.

I do think you are right, that times of great dissatisfaction are rare openings for third party candidates, if someone special enough appears. 2020 would have been a great election for that - but an inspiring third party candidate can't be manufactured on demand.
by dwedge | 2026-02-11 08:57:40+00:00
Every time I say I don't see the productivity boost from AI, people always say I'm using the wrong tool, or the wrong model. I use Claude with Sonnet, Zed with either Claude Sonnet 4 or Opus 4.6, Gemini, and ChatGPT 5.2. I use these tools daily and I just don't see it.

The vampire in the room, for me, seems to be feeling like I'm the only person in the room that doesn't believe the hype. Or should I say, being in rooms where nobody seems to care about quality over quantity anymore. Articles like this are part of the problem, not the solution.

Sure they are great for generating some level of code, but the deeper it goes the more it hallucinates. My first or second git commit from these tools is usually closer to a working full solution than the fifth one. The time spent refactoring prompts, testing the code, repeating instructions, refactoring naive architectural decisions and double checking hallucinations when it comes to research take more than the time AI saves me. This isn't free.

A CTO this week told me he can't code or brainstorm anymore without AI. We've had these tools for 4 years, like this guy says - either AI or the competition eats you. So, where is the output? Aside from more AI-tools, what has been released in the past 4 years that makes it obvious looking back that this is when AI became available?
by fileeditview | 2026-02-11 08:58:24+00:00
All this praise for AI.. I honestly don't get it. I have used Opus 4.5 for work and private projects. My experience is that all of the AIs struggle when the project grows. They always find some kind of local minimum where they cannot get out of but tell you this time their solution will work.. but it doesn't. They waste my time with this behaviour enormously. In the end I always have to do it myself.

Maybe when AIs are able to say: "I don't know how this works" or "This doesn't work like that at all." they will be more helpful.

What I use AIs for is searching for stuff in large codebases. Sometimes I don't know the name or the file name and describe to them what I am looking for. Or I let them generate some random task python/bash script. Or use them to find specific things in a file that a regex cannot find. Simple small tasks.

It might well be I am doing it totally wrong.. but I have yet to see a medium to large sized project with maintainable code that was generated by AI.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 08:59:58+00:00
It can also be structural. Depending on the elevation, my county mandates houses be designed to survive wind speeds up to 157 miles per hour and snow loads up to 545 pounds per square foot. That means a flat roof would have to be built like a parking garage floor, but a sloped roof can transfer that weight to the exterior walls, and an true A-frame directly transfers the load to the ground.
by blahblaher | 2026-02-11 09:00:43+00:00
He's totally correct on the extraction that companies do (always has been). What I kinda disagree is the notion that if a company doesn't go the same path as these others, where everyone is "10x'ing" with AI, that they will suddenly disappear. I really don't think it will work that way.
Yeah, some might if another company/startup goes after their business and they build faster, but building faster doesn't mean your building what people want/need. You might be building bloat (Windows/MS) that no one cares about.

Companies still need to know what to build, not just build something/anything faster.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-11 09:00:57+00:00
Sure all the people who somehow find themselves unable to find community, are neurotic as fuck, and who are lonely have some sort of theory for how community is formed. This is definitely a case of "those who can, do; those who can't, teach". This entire field is full of immeasurable guru-bullshit without anything of any value in it. It's just pseudo-science dressed up in the language of science with some pithy lines of how "there's more to it than numbers" and garbage like that. It's just made up bullshit from people who really shouldn't have received a college degree.

Out with this garbage. Defund the bullies.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-11 09:01:03+00:00
Traffic enforcement is minimal. As a cyclist, I can choose any busy city road and go past lots of drivers using their phones whilst stuck in traffic.

Close passes are not something the police look for (excepting a couple of specific operations where they had a cycling officer) so bikecams are the only way to get the police to take any action and that is usually just to send a warning letter.
by SomeUserName432 | 2026-02-11 09:01:06+00:00
> I mean it’s an obvious decision to not accept cards if you can avoid it. You’re letting a company like Amex siphon up to 3% of your income away in perpetuity.

In Brazil you can easily be paying 5-6% when accepting card payments, if not more. You'll generally get a 10% discount when opting to pay with cash in clothing/electronics/etc stores.
by dijit | 2026-02-11 09:01:39+00:00
People very often run notepad as administrator (anything launched from administrative powershell instances will run like this).

In fact, if you enabled developer mode on your computer there's a registry key that gets set to run notepad as admin, it's: `runas /savecred /user:PC-NAME\Administrator “notepad %1”` in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT-> * -> shell -> runas (new folder) -> (Default)

And, if I'm not totally mistaken, notepad also has the ability to reopen files as administrator, but I don't remember how to invoke it.

Regardless, notepad is a very trusted application and is often run as Administrator. Often it's more trusted than any other utility to modify system files.
by vintermann | 2026-02-11 09:02:08+00:00
It's not just exhausting, it's a huge problem. Even if everyone is a complete saint all the time and has the best of intentions, going by beliefs about beliefs can trap us in situations where we're all unhappy.

The classic situation is the two lovers who both want to do what they think makes their partner happy, to the extent that they don't tell what they actually want, and end up doing something neither wants.

I think the goal of all sorts of cooperative planning should be to avoid such situations like the plague.
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-11 09:02:17+00:00
Some interesting parts in the text. Some not so interesting ones. The author seems to be thinking that he's a big deal it seems, though - a month ago, I did not know who he is. My work environment has never heard of him (SDE at FAANG). Maybe I'm an outlier and he indeed influences the whole expectation management at companies with his writing, or maybe the success (?) of gastown got to him and he thinks he's bigger than he actually is. Time will tell. In any case, the glorification of oneself in an article like that throws me off for some reason.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-11 09:02:32+00:00
> I was a BA forever ago during a summer job in college. That job wasn't for me at all! Looking back on the experience, putting together a FRD felt much like writing a CLAUDE.md with some prompts thrown in!

But soon enough, all s/ware dev jobs will be that, because LLMs can write code faster than humans can.
by magic_hamster | 2026-02-11 09:02:38+00:00
How are you running this? I've had issues with Opencode formulating bad messages when the model runs on llama.cpp. Jinja threw a bunch of errors and GPT-OSS couldn't make tool calls. There's an issue for this on Opencode's repo but seems like it's been waiting or a couple of weeks.

> What exact llama model (+ quant I suppose) is it that you've had better results against

Not llama, but Qwen3-coder-next is on top of my list right now. Q8_K_XL. It's incredible (not just for coding).
by imtringued | 2026-02-11 09:02:55+00:00
If you accept that the economy can be in disequilibrium, then it is very easy to see how this happens.

Rich people learn a habit that makes them consume less than their investment returns. The difference is reinvested, resulting in a net increase of their equity. Even if you say they spend 90% of their returns on consumption, the last 10% still grow in absolute terms. Since returns are paid proportionally based on the quantity of equity, you can clearly see that money is allocated from where it has high marginal utility to places where it has low marginal utility.

Of course this leads to a contradiction. If money is held by people who have a low marginal utility for consumption, why would investments pay high returns? Your equity is the latent demand that your investments need to pay you the returns in the first place. You'd increasingly be paying yourself. That is equivalent to investing into something that yields a 0% return which in turn is equivalent to doing nothing.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-11 09:03:07+00:00
> I specifically mean that young people today - that are deliberately trying to be world-changing entrepreneurs, and claim deep inspiration from Jobs - don't typically wander India, take typography design courses, or go to Reed College. They aim for prestigious universities

Reed is a major brand name as far as higher education goes. People have heard of it.

It's currently ranked 63 on the USNews ranking of "national liberal arts colleges", but it has much better name recognition than most of the schools ranked above it.
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-11 09:03:44+00:00
Okay but I fail to see how this is "new tech"?

Basically it's just... agreeing upon a description format for UI components ("put the component C with params p1, p2, ... at location x, y") using JSON / zod schema etc... and... that's it?

Then the agent just uses a tool "putCompoent(C, params, location)" which just renders the component?

I'm failing to understand how it would be more than this?

On one hand I agree that if we "all" find a standard way to describe those components, then we can integrate them easily in multiple tools so we don't have to do it again each time. At the same time, it seems like this is just a "nice render-based wrapper" over MCP / tool calls, no? am I missing something?
by TonyTrapp | 2026-02-11 09:03:51+00:00
Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful additions to it up until Windows 10 or so - for example being able to handle LF (in addition to CRLF) line endings. But yeah, everything added in Windows 11 is just pure bloat.