MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unshavedyak | 2026-02-05 21:14:46+00:00
I mean.. i don't think that statement is far off. Much of what we do is entirely about predicting the world around us, no? Physics (where the ball will land) to emotional state of others based on our actions (theory of mind), we operate very heavily based on a predictive model of the world around us.

Couple that with all the automatic processes in our mind (filled in blanks that we didn't observe, yet will be convinced we did observe them), hormone states that drastically affect our thoughts and actions..

and the result? I'm not a big believer in our uniqueness or level of autonomy as so many think we have.

With that said i am in no way saying LLMs are even close to us, or are even remotely close to the right implementation to be close to us. The level of complexity in our "stack" alone dwarfs LLMs. I'm not even sure LLMs are up to a worms brain yet.
by jsheard | 2026-02-05 21:15:01+00:00
Firefox already mitigates this by randomizing the extension path: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

The file is then available using a URL like: moz-extension://<extension-UUID>/images/my-image.png"
<extension-UUID> is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly generated for every browser instance.
This prevents websites from fingerprinting a browser by examining the extensions it has installed.
by brookst | 2026-02-05 21:15:21+00:00
With extensibility via plugins, MCP (stdio and http), UI to prompt the user for choices and redirection, tools to manage and view context, and on and on.

It is not at all a small app, at least as far as UX surface area. There are, what, 40ish slash commands? Each one is an opportunity for bugs and feature gaps.
by ribosometronome | 2026-02-05 21:15:38+00:00
And? Why do you think that matters to what I'm commenting on? Them moving to and from DC is almost certainly completely unrelated to any changes in WaPo's quality.

That there is a personal reason for why their two datapoints are before and after acquisition doesn't change that their two datapoints are before and after acquisition such that it's hard to use those two datapoints to exclude that the ownership had major effects on the quality of the paper's reporting, if anything, it seems extremely suggestive that it did.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-05 21:15:56+00:00
That's certainly closer to my understanding of the guy. He really doesn't feel "smart" in any of the usual sense of the term.

It's entirely possible that you can be on the stupid side of Chesterton's fence (to abuse the metaphor) and take it down, causing all the expected havok, and then claim you're excelling at your goals because you just have a sociopathic approach to the world.

Sure, picking up Maduro was well executed... and then he has been replaced with (checks notes... ) "the Maduro Regime".

Yeah, that -screams- competence.
by sobkas | 2026-02-05 21:16:25+00:00
>The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity?

So he is no longer a billionaire?
And donating to what charity, The Gates Foundation? The one that he controls?
The one that he uses to push his ideological stances and repeatedly fails to help anyone?
Just look how successful his work on improving education system in America was.
What a sacrifice it was for him...
by uniq7 | 2026-02-05 21:16:36+00:00
I totally understand that "the salesman" is everywhere and that a single person can't fight against that, but he is everywhere because most parents are not blocking him in the first place, and that's exactly my point. Those are the parents that need to be blamed.

In my first message I was not targeting those parents who try to block this but can't; I was targeting those parents that use Youtube to distract their kids since they are babies, those who give unrestricted access with no control at all, those who don't care. We all know people like that.

This is just an hypothesis, but if parents were fined every time their kid accessed social media, I'm sure most kids wouldn't be on it.
by DrStartup | 2026-02-05 21:16:57+00:00
Setup a quick CDP connection. Have Claude Code attach and inject JS into Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument. Loads before the page.

Typical early hooks:
• fetch wrapper
• XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open/send wrapper
• WebSocket constructor wrapper
• history.pushState/replaceState wrapper
• EventTarget.addEventListener wrapper (optional, heavy)
• MutationObserver for DOM diffs
• Error + unhandledrejection capture
by mindslight | 2026-02-05 21:17:09+00:00
The reasonable assumption is that mail in ballots are checked after they are mailed in, as they're being tallied. This avoids people voting in person plus mailing in, duplicating ballots, rolls changing before the election, etc.

The only concern I see is that unilaterally mailing out ballots can induce fraud from new residents at the address filling out the ballots for the old residents - drastically lowering the bar from pretending to be someone else at a polling place, or even having to actively request ballots for someone else.

> would it be documented somewhere that an audit of verification procedures happened? Where would these be documented?

That you're asking this as open pondering rather than just straightforwardly researching your own state still feels quite leading. For the states I am familiar with, this is responsibility of the Secretary of State. They do generally perform audits, but you have to dig into the specifics of your own state if you want the exact answers of what has been audited - not just handwave vague feelings of how you personally not knowing must imply the worst possibility. This is what I mean about undermining trust in our public institutions.

Specifically for your own example of your non-citizen roommate receiving a ballot, it seems that you should look up what your Secretary of State has to say about the matter. I'm guessing they've got a well-written FAQ page that lays out how such a ballot would be rejected.
by notahacker | 2026-02-05 21:17:22+00:00
Feels mostly like "if you're responding to this you're already compromised", a bit like "I take it you understand that our Family expects its favours to be returned".

I think it's pretty well established now that powerful people in and outside the Valley considered to think that Epstein was a useful contact knowing his "personal situation" rather well and sometimes explicitly referring to it. Suspect it's possible to have innocently accepted an introduction to him or even advice from him in the 2010s because he wasn't that famous at the time, but it seems like they were motivated to minimise that possibility. Even easier to add people to the list you can blackmail in future if you don't even have to arrange island visits for them
by FreakLegion | 2026-02-05 21:17:27+00:00
You said:

> This is electionist cope. The elections are decided in a handful of states with narrow margins.

And the other guy's point was that the backlash against Trump is significant enough that this time around elections may not be decided that way. As evidence: A Texas district that was Republican for 25 years, that voted Republican by a 17% margin in November 2024, just elected a Democrat by 14% (after he'd already won by 12% in November 2025).

This is separate from the obvious fact that House seats are decided in district elections and are all up for grabs this year.
by exitcode0000 | 2026-02-05 21:17:33+00:00
Cool article, interesting to read about their challenges. I've tasked Claude with building an Ada83 compiler targeting LLVM IR within a single C file - currently at 100% a-series and ~30% c-series coverage for the ACATS (Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite).

I am not using teams though and there is quite a bit of knowledge needed to direct it (even with the test suite).

In case anyone is curious:
https://github.com/AdaDoom3/Ada83/tree/main
by w10-1 | 2026-02-05 21:17:34+00:00
"how long does a frontier model need to stay competitive"

Remember "worse is better". The model doesn't have to be the best; it just has to be mostly good enough, and used by everyone -- i.e., where switching costs would be higher than any increase in quality. Enterprises would still be on Java if the operating costs of native containers weren't so much cheaper.

So it can make sense to be ok with losing money with each training generation initially, particularly when they are being driven by specific use-cases (like coding). To the extent they are specific, there will be more switching costs.
by eaf7e281 | 2026-02-05 21:17:58+00:00
These two basically do what you want, let Claude be the manager and Codex/Gemini be the worker. Many say that Coder-Codex-Gemini is easier to understand than CCG-Workflow, which has too many commands to start with.

https://github.com/FredericMN/Coder-Codex-Gemini
https://github.com/fengshao1227/ccg-workflow

This one also seems promising, but I haven't tried it yet.

https://github.com/bfly123/claude_code_bridge

All of them are made by Chinese dev. I know some people are hesitant when they see Chinese products, so I'll address that first. But I have tried all of them, and they have all been great.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-02-05 21:18:01+00:00
you have seriously got to read and understand Eco's 14 tenets of Ur-Fascism [0] if you think that contemporary applications of the term "fascist" are inaccurate in describing what's happening right now in the US.

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...
by azakai | 2026-02-05 21:18:15+00:00
Plenty of reasons to be skeptical, but also we know that LLMs can find security vulnerabilities since at least 2024:

https://projectzero.google/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep...

Some followup findings reported in point 1 here from 2025:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

So what Anthropic are reporting here is not unprecedented. The main thing they are claiming is an improvement in the amount of findings. I don't see a reason to be overly skeptical.
by pibaker | 2026-02-05 21:18:17+00:00
Or perhaps you moved to a professional environment where people are on average much better at math than the average person.

It is not uncommon to hear objectively bright and hard working young people wonder if they have become dumber or if they have been a fraud the entire time, after they leave their high school where they enjoyed being a star student and move to a nice university where they compete with the brightest mind of the entire world. They are not dumb, just not mentally adjusted to an environment where they don't get to be the number one no matter how hard they try.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-05 21:18:45+00:00
> That said, 70% of our users haven't got the memo yet - we'll do a hard-upgrade when the remaining missing features in Element X (Spaces & Threads) are fully out of Labs.

This isn't users not getting the memo yet, this is users being faced with an unfortunate choice between a buggy, slow client and a new client that doesn't implement important functionality like Spaces and Threads.
by khaliqgant | 2026-02-05 21:19:26+00:00
You can accomplish this with https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay and make the Lead/Orchestrator any harness you want. At the core agent-relay is agent to agent communication but it unlocks quite a few multi agent orchestration paradigms. I wrote about some learnings here as well https://x.com/khaliqgant/status/2019124627860050109?s=46
by jplusequalt | 2026-02-05 21:19:45+00:00
>But in the context of say transporting packages across the country... it's not really relevant how much you enjoy one or the other; only one of them can get the job done in a reasonable amount of time.

I think one of the more frustrating aspects of this whole debate is this idea that software development pre-AI was too "slow", despite the fact that no other kind of engineering has nearly the same turn around time as software engineering does (nor does they have the same return on investment!).

I just end up rolling my eyes when people use this argument. To me it feels like favoring productivity over everything else.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-05 21:20:02+00:00
One of Michael Shellenberger's central theses is, I think, that the government's ability to invest in "extras" like overseas aid, science, the environment, space exploration, etc is directly a function of how large and healthy the middle class is because that's where the political capital to do these things really comes from.

Basically the post-WWII period was a golden age for all of the above because the middle class of returning soldiers was there, and it was as power and wealth consolidated in the 80s and onward that there was less and less interest and agreement about spending on stuff other the essentials (which turned out to be mostly just defense).

So really it's a two pronged thing:

* the wealthy need to pay much more, and the government needs to invest that in services that benefit the middle class (education, health care, energy & transportation infrastructure) and also which keep people from falling out of the middle class (social safety net, consumer protections).

* eventually there's a critical mass of middle class people comfortable enough to look out their windows and feel concern about pollution, the poor, etc, and then you ultimately get a combination of individual action, NGOs, and government programmes that meet the very needs that are noticed and lobbied for.

But I think the issue is that many advocates want to jump directly from "more taxes on the rich" to "gov't spends directly on my pet issue", and if you miss the second step, you're never going to get the willpower to either raise the taxes or direct the money into environmental initiatives or whatever else.
by mbh159 | 2026-02-05 21:20:09+00:00
Opus 4.6 just dropped, so we’re tossing it straight into the arena.

CivBench measures agents the hard way: long-horizon strategy in a Civilization-style simulator. This benchmark is full of hidden information, shifting incentives, an adversary that’s actively trying to ruin your plan. Hundreds of turns where small mistakes compound.

In 15 minutes we're running an exhibition match: Claude Opus 4.6 vs ChatGPT 5.2, live.

One note on the setup: we’re running GPT-5.2 right now, and we’ll switch to 5.3-Codex the moment it’s available via API.

After the game, we'll have full receipts replay, logs, and transparent ELO. No “trust us” charts. If you want to see how these models actually behave under pressure (not just how they test), come watch live.

Feedback welcome, especially from people working on agent evals or RL.
by martythemaniak | 2026-02-05 21:20:20+00:00
> If only Bill Gates and Larry Summers had had my mom to go to for advice, they could’ve saved themselves a lot of grief.

The actual lesson is not "listen to your mom", but "character matters". It doesn't matter how much someone agrees with you, how smart they are, how rich they are, how many great ideas they have etc etc. A rotten character will eventually rot everything around it. Techines/nerds/geeks get so enamoured with ideas they tend to not even see the kind of people ideas come from.
by amalcon | 2026-02-05 21:20:42+00:00
I don't remember people thinking HW Bush was dumb. Or McCain, or Romney, or Ryan, or McConnell, or even someone like Gingrich. Quayle, Palin, W Bush (very incorrectly, dude was wrong and/or lying about a lot of stuff but he wasn't dumb), and Trump, sure.

The thing those people have in common is that they have unorthodox public speaking styles. Especially Trump. It's kind of a pro wrestling adjacent style -- lots of performative bombast, specific tropes referencing cultural touchstones, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on any substantive issue. I'm just trying to put myself into a particular box in the viewer's mind. It can be effective, but when it's not, it comes off as buffoonish.
by shagie | 2026-02-05 21:21:00+00:00
You're describing cryogenic fuels there and dumping heat into them. Dumping heat (sparks, electricity) into liquid oxygen would not necessarily be the best of ideas.

Dumping heat into liquid hydrogen wouldn't be explosive, but rather exacerbate the problem of boil off that is already one of the "this isn't going to work well" problems that needs to be solved for space fuel depots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_propellant_depot

> Large upper-stage rocket engines generally use a cryogenic fuel like liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (LOX) as an oxidizer because of the large specific impulse possible, but must carefully consider a problem called "boil off", or the evaporation of the cryogenic propellant. The boil off from only a few days of delay may not allow sufficient fuel for higher orbit injection, potentially resulting in a mission abort.

They've already got the problem of that the fuel is boiled off in a matter of days. This is not a long term solution for a place to dump waste heat. Furthermore, it needs to be at cryogenic temperatures for it to be used by the spacecraft that the fuel depot is going to refuel.

> In a 2010 NASA study, an additional flight of an Ares V heavy launch vehicle was required to stage a US government Mars reference mission due to 70 tons of boiloff, assuming 0.1% boiloff/day for hydrolox propellant. The study identified the need to decrease the design boiloff rate by an order of magnitude or more.

0.1% boiloff/day is considered an order of magnitude to large now. That's not a place to shunt waste heat.
by bilegeek | 2026-02-05 21:21:15+00:00
Do you test on different kernel preemption models? If so, do you feel PREEMPT_RT really gives an advantage over full preemption with threadirqs?

(Cyclictest gives me between a 3x and 5x worst-case latency improvement depending on the background load, but I'm not nearly musically skilled enough to try a real-world test.)
by ajam1507 | 2026-02-05 21:21:31+00:00
> Tests (as usually written, in unit-test form) only tell you that it's not completely broken, they're not a good indicator of it working well otherwise "vibecoded slop" wouldn't be a thing

You can certainly end up with vibecoded slop that passes all the tests, but it won't pass other forms of evaluation (necessarily true, otherwise you could not identify it as vibecoded slop.)

> The same could be said for human CEOs. A lot of them don't really have good success rates either.

This is part of my point. The tight feedback loop that enables us to judge a model's efficacy in software, doesn't exist for the role of CEO.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-05 21:21:42+00:00
Listen, billionaires just have to do three things to be beloved:

1. Donate 5-10% of their fortune to random unobjectionable charities.
2. Don't abuse children.
3. Stay off Twitter.

It's not a high bar, we don't need to give a silver medal to those that fall short.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-05 21:21:46+00:00
I wouldn't say Discord threads are useless - I do wish the UI made them more obvious, but I'm in many discord chats that use threads all the time.

Matrix has threads in a sense, but in this very thread the project lead is talking about how the new, ostensibly less buggy and more performant flagship client does not yet fully support them.
by Rudybega | 2026-02-05 21:22:08+00:00
It wrote the compiler in Rust. As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities. If you can find one that can compile the Linux kernel or get 99% on the GCC torture test suite, I would be quite surprised. I couldn't in a search.

Maybe read the article before being so dismissive.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-05 21:22:37+00:00
This is absolutely terrible advice mathematically for anyone. If you aren’t working at all, every month that you aren’t working, you have to make 1/12 more for the rest of the year to make up the difference. Take any job that will pay you and keep interviewing. I realize this is much easier working and interviewing remotely

Where exactly besides BigTech and equivalent can a college grad make $170K+ straight out of college and easily make $1 million gross in 4 years with one promotion?

Youngsters aren’t “worth” much of anything. They do negative work starting out.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-05 21:22:47+00:00
The improvements in tool use and agentic loops have been fast and furious lately, delivering great results. The model growth itself is feeling more linear lately, but what you can do with models as part of an overall system has been increasing in growth rate and that has been delivering a lot of value. It matters less if the model natively can keep infinite context or figure things out on its own in one shot so long as it can orchestrate external tools to achieve that over time.
by mold_aid | 2026-02-05 21:22:52+00:00
>Nobody is trying to talk anyone out of their hobby or artisanal creativeness.

Well, yes, they are, some folks don't think "here's how I use AI" and "I'm a craftsman!" are consistent. Seems like maybe OP should consider whether "AI is a tool, why can't you use it right" isn't begging the question.

Is this going to be the new rhetorical trick, to say "oh hey surely we can all agree I have reasonable goals! And to the extent they're reasonable you are unreasonable for not adopting them"?
by judemelancon | 2026-02-05 21:23:00+00:00
To preemptively clarify, I'm not saying anything about these particular researchers.

Having established that, are you saying that you can't even conceptualize a conflict of interest potentially clouding someone's judgement any more if the amount of money and the person's perceived status and skill level all get increased?

Disagreeing about the significance of the conflict of interest is one thing, but claiming not to understand how it could make sense is a drastically stronger claim.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-05 21:23:37+00:00
This is probably a naive question, but...

Doesn't the idea of swapping extension specific IDs to your browser specific extension IDs mean that instead of your browser being identifiable, you become identifiable?

I mean, it goes from "Oh they have X, Y , and Z installed" to "Oh, it's jim bob, only he has that unique set of IDs for extensions"
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-05 21:23:38+00:00
> if you think that contemporary applications of the term "fascist" are inaccurate in describing what's happening right now in the US

Didn't say that. I'm saying I've seen the term thrown around wildly to apply to all manner of things. Like the other terms.

The term is probably fundamentally fucked. If you asked Hitler if he's a Nazi, he'd say yes. If you asked Mussolini if he's a Fascist, he'd say yes. These were the words they used to describe themselves. The reason I'm describing the phenomenon versus blaming the folks using the terms broadly is because I don't think this is a personal failing by anyone as much as something that's linguistically happening.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-05 21:24:20+00:00
It also probably is hard even to get the SQLite _executor_ to accept these plans, given that they are not trees. It feels a bit odd that none of the papers seem to really talk much about this; they have an algebraic tree structure and then end up with something that's distinctly a non-tree after a rewrite. I understand that for the typical column store execution model of doing an entire operator at a time, this isn't a problem -- but wouldn't it be for the rest of the optimization pipeline? Like, how do you build a join (hyper)graph from this? To what degree are other rewrites (like, well, pushdown) allowed? It's obviously been solved _somehow_, since already HyPer could do this and they claim to be able to run the plan in Postgres, but it's not immediately obvious to me. Do they insert a CTE and thus an optimization barrier?