MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-02-20 14:00:10+00:00
I can't tell you about California. But when it comes to Minnesota, this was already a multi year investigation where Minnesota collaborated with the FBI. Nothing was "brought to light" by this video, the fraud was being investigated, and Trump was aware of it. Several names I've seen thrown around were people who are already convicted.

The completely last minute decision of Trump to make a public spectacle of it was just a power grab, and an opportunity to demonize the people of the state. Anyone who hasn't drunk the Koolaid would understand that. That's why the white house site does not approach the fraud in a matter of fact way. It literally calls Walz "deranged."

And of course, that situation spawned the trolls, where people would make videos with a deluge of "facts", where one instance of legitimate fraud would be combined with a bunch of bullshit evidence to make it seem like the fraud is widespread and unstoppable without Trump's intervention.

So I'm sorry if I'm not blindly taking everything Fox says at face value.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-20 14:00:45+00:00
I've tried deepseek a few months ago and asket about the Tiananmen square protests and massacre.

At first the answer was "I can't say anything that might hurt people" but with a little persuasion it went further.

The answer wasn't the current official answer but way more nuanced that Wikipedia's article.
More in the vein of "we don't know for sure", "different versions", "external propaganda", "some officials have lied and been arrested since"

In the end, when I asked whether I should trust the government or ask for multiple source, it strongly suggested to use multiple sources to form an opinion.

= not as censored as I expected.
by beloch | 2026-02-20 14:00:47+00:00
The AI industry is completely unlike an arcade in that arcade machines weren't run at a loss while trying to lock-in users and drive all the other machines out of business. Arcade owners expected the machines they bought to start paying for themselves from the get-go.

P.S. This article felt like it was written by an AI, or just really needs to be edited for redundancy.
by jmye | 2026-02-20 14:01:02+00:00
> Well yeah, but you gotta start somewhere

Wait, I thought those things solved depression? Why are you hedging now? Did your initial analysis suck, and you're just now realizing it? Are you figuring out that maybe this is slightly more complex than "just be happy" and that maybe you're not the only person on the planet who's ever thought about this?
by vanschelven | 2026-02-20 14:01:51+00:00
But the argument is reversed! The more boring your tech stack, the _easier_ it is to host it anywhere (including Europe). So choosing boring tech is actually an enabler of this (and other) choices down the line.

It's only "a political commitment" as long as it doesn't affect you yet; and from the European perspective I'd say "the affecting has begun".
Show HN: LexPrep – Open-source toolkit for linguistic stimulus preparation
by Sajjad_m | 2026-02-20 14:02:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I built LexPrep during my Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience because preparing lexical datasets for reading experiments was taking me hours every week.

Most NLP libraries I tried were powerful but too general for psycholinguistics workflows. I needed something focused on experimental stimulus control rather than large-scale text processing.

LexPrep currently supports:

• Syllable counting
• Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P)
• Orthographic neighborhood calculation
• Lexical statistics for stimulus control
• Multi-language support (Persian, English, Italian)

The goal is reproducible and fast stimulus preparation for cognitive and reading experiments.

I’d love feedback from the HN community. especially around API design, performance, and potential integrations.

Repo: https://github.com/sajjad-mazaheri/lexprep
by dormento | 2026-02-20 14:02:09+00:00
> Jimmy: What is the largest planet in our solar system?

> me: the moon

> Jimmy: The answer to "What is the capital of France?" I was looking for was the city of Paris, but that's not the correct response to the original question of the capital of France. The question that got cut off was actually "What is the capital of France?", and the response "There are plenty of times I look to groq for narrow domain responses" wasn't the answer I was looking for.

It is certainly fast, but I think there might be some caching issues somewhere.
by Galanwe | 2026-02-20 14:02:27+00:00
> `defer` is still in "spooky action at a distance" category

Agree, this is also why I'm a bit weary of it.

What brings me on the "pro" side is that, defer or not defer, there will need to be some kind of cleanup anyway. It's just a matter of where it is declared, and close to the acquisition is arguably better.

The caveat IMHO is that if a codebase is not consistent in its use, it could be worst.
by 9rx | 2026-02-20 14:02:34+00:00
> they are necessary.

It is a useful tool, but not strictly necessary. Obviously in the small scale the people in a democracy can simply communicate directly. As things scale up you do need to, for all practical purposes, introduce a messenger[1] to carry what the people at the local level have decided upon, to compile with all the other local levels. But that does not require elections either, only trust that the message will be delivered accurately and in good faith. Elections are a really good way to select who you trust, which is why it is the norm in a representative democracy, but if in some hypothetical world where someone naturally became trusted by the people and became the messenger out of simple happenstance, that would be just as democratic. The only signifiant feature of a democracy is that the people hold control[2].

[1] Now that you no longer need to travel thousands of miles to talk to another person it is questionable how necessary that remains. However, we've never successfully developed a trust model without face-to-face interaction. As such, we willingly retain a trusted messenger to offer the face-to-face presence.

[2] Which is why the USA is oft said to not be a democracy. Few people in the USA actually get involved in democracy, which then makes it look like a small group hold control over everyone else. However, there is nothing to suggest that anyone is prevented from getting involved if they want to. Choosing to not participate is quite different from not being able to participate. And thus it is rightfully still considered a democracy.
by hliyan | 2026-02-20 14:02:53+00:00
Important to note that online culture isn't entirely organic, and that tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D has been spent by ad companies figuring that nothing engages the natural human curiosity like something abnormal, morbid or outrageous.

I think the end outcome of this R&D (whether intentional or not), is the monetization of mental illness: take the small minority of individuals in the real world who suffer from mental health challenges, provide them an online platform in which to behave in morbid ways, amplify that behaviour to drive eyeballs. The more you call out the behaviour, the more you drive the engagement. Share part of the revenue with the creator, and the model is virtually unbeatable. Hence the "some asshole from Twitter".
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-20 14:03:09+00:00
>Some people slide into a hole of their own making Others get thrown into the abyss by external factors.

Yes, true, a lot of the times it is from external factors (ask me how I know), but what people miss is that even in that case, it's still on you to get yourself out since SSRIs and therapy session won't fix the situation you fell into, nor will anyone else come to get you out, unless maybe you're lucky enough to have an incredible family, community or support network.

It's still your responsibility to get yourself out even when your situation is not your fault. That's the sad truth about life, you have to play the hand you're dealt, instead of being depressed you've been dealt a bad hand. It's not fair, but that's how it works.
by empath75 | 2026-02-20 14:03:10+00:00
Even an O3 quality model at that speed would be incredible for a great many tasks. Not everything needs to be claude code. Imagine Apple fine tuning a mid tier reasoning model on personal assistant/MacOs/IOS sorts of tasks and burning a chip onto the mac studio motherboard. Could you run claude code on it? Probably not, would it be 1000x better than Siri? absolutely.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-20 14:03:46+00:00
I agree we are headed into very unstable times, all the more reason for people to exercise. The stress relief effect is magical, and if you do it outside you get some fresh air and vitamin D. Exercise isn't a magic cure to make everyone honkey dorey but I do believe it should be seen as one of the best (and free) tools we have to maintain mental health.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-20 14:04:19+00:00
> any factor of 10 being a new science / new product category,

I often remind people two orders of quantitative change is a qualitative change.

> The thing that I’m really very skeptical of is the 2 month turnaround. To get leading edge geometry turned around on arbitrary 2 month schedules is .. ambitious. Hopeful. We could use other words as well.

The real product they have is automation. They figured out a way to compile a large model into a circuit. That's, in itself, pretty impressive. If they can do this, they can also compile models to an HDL and deploy them to large FPGA simulators for quick validation. If we see models maturing at a "good enough" state, even a longer turnaround between model release and silicon makes sense.

While I also see lots of these systems running standalone, I think they'll really shine combined with more flexible inference engines, running the unchanging parts of the model while the coupled inference engine deals with whatever is too new to have been baked into silicon.

I'm concerned with the environmental impact. Chip manufacture is not very clean and these chips will need to be swapped out and replaced at a cadence higher than we currently do with GPUs.
by KoolKat23 | 2026-02-20 14:04:20+00:00
Exactly this it serves little purpose.

You're going to need to spend crazy compute just compiling and obtaining training data. And until it's oneshotting absolutely everything. You're going to be asking it what it's it doing and then it'll be "uncompiling" it's code, I can't see this being more efficient than the other way compiling.

I suspect the actual benefit would be more in virtualised interfaces such as Genie 3, skipping this step altogether. Where it's just manipulating pixels and the pixels change based on the underlying statistical model output rather than old school computation.
by gowld | 2026-02-20 14:04:22+00:00
OP site is blogspam.

Here's the paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41500513/

It's a review/summary of existing research, not anything new.

The fundamental problem with studying alternatives to therapy is that "being in a study" may be as effective as therapy! It's a structural placebo effect.

For a depressed person, "Exercise guided by a researcher" is different from "trying to make myself exercise".

> Authors' conclusions: Exercise may be moderately more effective than a control intervention for reducing symptoms of depression.

> Exercise appears to be no more or less effective than psychological or pharmacological treatments, though this conclusion is based on a few small trials.

> Long-term follow-up was rare.

Nothing new:

> The addition of 35 RCTs (at least 2526 participants) to this update has had very little effect on the estimate of the benefit of exercise on symptoms of depression.
by jimishol | 2026-02-20 14:04:28+00:00
OP here.

Note on Terminology:
This analysis uses specific geometric terms (like 'Station Shift' and 'P-Rotation') defined in the Grammar Specification. If the logic seems opaque, the definitions are here:

1. The Grammar Spec:
https://github.com/jimishol/cholidean-harmony-structure/blob...

2. The Topological Basis:
https://github.com/jimishol/cholidean-harmony-structure/blob...
by freetonik | 2026-02-20 14:04:49+00:00
Using words like “Scam Altman” instantly reduces credibility of the author in my eyes. If you want to convince people of something, perhaps it’s better not to use childish methods.

No disrespect, just sharing my thoughts. I see “Elmo Musk” and “Orange Man” etc., and I immediately think this is not worth reading (regardless of my opinion of those persons).
by Zigurd | 2026-02-20 14:06:01+00:00
If this article is correct about XAI being less than 20% of the valuation of the combined entity, after having already been diluted by the Twitter merger, the XAI cofounders and top talent that recently left had a pretty good reason to be dissatisfied with the deal. On top of which, the merger supposedly doesn't trigger change of control provisions, which if the cofounders had accelerated vesting, screws them out of being able to cash out at the merger.
by s_dev | 2026-02-20 14:06:01+00:00
>Now how bulletproof it is in practice will be tested in years to come

Zero chance the data stays in the EU. Just think about it for a moment. US CLOUD Act directly conflicts with EUs GDPR. Amazon doesn't want to risk losing EU markets but it can't lose the US market by not complying with US law.

If these two conflict Amazon will side with the US. The savvy business move is to pretend to serve the EU market exclusively while privately adhering to the US demands.
by jnovek | 2026-02-20 14:06:02+00:00
I just did a test project using K2.5 on opencode and, for me, it doesn’t even come close to Claude Code. I was constantly having to wrangle the model to prevent it from spewing out 1000 lines at once and it couldn’t hold the architecture in its head so it would start doing things in inconsistent ways in different parts of the project. What it created would be a real maintenance nightmare.

It’s much better than the previous open models but it’s not yet close.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-20 14:06:24+00:00
What does battle tested really mean in numbers?

When people say battle tested what they are really doing is looking for bias confirmation. Its no different than when they say software becomes more durable due to community validation.

The only way to be sure is to actually measure things, with numbers, and then compare those numbers to some established baseline. Otherwise its just a guess. The more confident the guess becomes the less probable from the average it becomes. This is how rats out perform humans in weighted accuracy tests in clinical trials.
by marcyb5st | 2026-02-20 14:06:34+00:00
Fair enough and thank you for the comment.

I went with a bit of Roche, Novartis, ... So something that would at least cushion the fall with dividends and not being in the GenAI crossfire since they definitely use AI/ML (I got them through an ETF). Also almost all my assets are now either CHF or Euro denominated/hedged. I am also not comfortable with the dollar weakening and the next Fed head probably cutting rates again like Trump wishes
by mitchal | 2026-02-20 14:06:38+00:00
For me it was small amount consistently.
But I cannot stress enough that it was the diagnosis of hemorrhoids coupled with a very proactive doctor that led to me being diagnosed with cancer. It was a lucky circumstance that it was staged early because the additionally suggested screening was not standard protocol for my age.

If you have any abnormalities in your bowel movements (blood, ribboning, etc.) and you have the ability to get it checked then it could offer peace of mind. And yes, there are small chances of intestinal perforations with a colonoscopy.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-20 14:06:43+00:00
> Same for therapy modalities, which often show similar efficacy in studies, but different efficacy for any given person.

It's even more complicated than that - you can probably click well and succeed with one therapist and get a completely ineffective treatment by another therapist and I'm not sure we even understand why that well (saying one therapist is better than the other is not always true).
With it being the way it is , I think A.I actually could be another tool for people to try; not currently but once it improves enough with memory and reliability (I know many people are gonna downvote this but what's your alternative?).
by Garlef | 2026-02-20 14:07:15+00:00
When presented with a choice, I'd prefer to pick something where I know that the sky is the limit in terms of features.

And going with a non-framework approach has the following risk: Of course I might build individual, customized skyscrapers but as soon as I'd like to connect them, I'm in the business of building an ad-hoc framework.
by rvz | 2026-02-20 14:07:33+00:00
This acquisition is almost the same as the acquisition of Bun by Anthropic.

Both $0 revenue "companies", but have created software that is essential to the wider ecosystem and has mindshare value; Bun for Javascript and Ggml for AI models.

But of course the VCs needed an exit sooner or later. That was inevitable.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-20 14:07:42+00:00
I’ll second this. Google’s investment in underlying accelerators is the big differentiator here, along with their existing datacenter footprint.

Everyone else has to build infrastructure. Google just had to build a single part, really, and already had the software footprint to shove it everywhere - and the advertising data to deliver features that folks actually wanted, but could also be monetized.
by xnorswap | 2026-02-20 14:08:12+00:00
I wonder if the parent comments remark is a communication failure or pedantry gone wrong, because like you, claude-code is out there solving real problems and finding and fixing defects.

A large quantity of bugs as raised are now fixed by claude automatically from just the reports as written. Everything is human reviewed and sometimes it fixes it in ways I don't approve, and it can be guided.

It has an astonishing capability to find and fix defects. So when I read "It can't find flaws", it just doesn't fit my experience.

I have to wonder if the disconnect is simply in the definition of what it means to find a flaw.

But I don't like to argue over semantics. I don't actually care if it is finding flaws by the sheer weight of language probability rather than logical reasoning, it's still finding flaws and fixing them better than anything I've seen before.
by elric | 2026-02-20 14:08:27+00:00
This is a problem that I've been thinking on for years now.

It used to be common to just buy a newspaper without handing out any kind of personal information. Walk up to a newsagent/kiosk, hand over a small amount of money, and voila, you have your news.

Then came subscriptions. Great for publishers and advertisers: they have predictibility in how many papers to print, know exactly when and where to deliver them, and advertisers know exactly how many people their printed ads will reach. But it came at the cost of having to provide the paper (or their distributor, maybe your local paper boy) with your address and payment details.

Then came news sites. Initially entirely free because the web was new and no one knew what they were doing. Then with ads. Then with more and more intrusive ads, which started harvesting and stealing personal information against our wishes, which started being used to create highly specific profiles of people. To all the better serve more ads.

Then came paywalls. Where in order to read an article, you now have to go through to the ads/profiling spiel, AND on top of that you have to hand out your name/address/email/payment details just to read a single god damned article.

I would love for us to have a way to go back to the original situation. I give you money, and only money, you give me news. No name. No address. No ad profiling. Zilch.

But because of a fear of terrorists, anonymous payments on the interwebs are effectively impossible.

It's a sad state of affairs, really.
by davidee | 2026-02-20 14:08:41+00:00
Have you added back in capitals/punctuation symbols? keybr defaults to only lower case words, but there are some options worth enabling to bring speed up:

From the preferences:

- Unlock a next key only when the previous keys are also above the target speed. (This will force you to practice keys that are problematic in context, it's frustrating but very helpful for reinforcement learning. For example, I struggle with B, C, V on my split because I don't use the “correct” fingers for those keys on a standard keyboard.)

- Add capital letters

- Add punctuation characters

- Add words to lessons (move it to the max)

Regarding getting much worse in the real world; IMO this isn't discussed enough. When you're relearning muscle memory, it's a very different beast to copy what you see (focused only on where your fingers are) as opposed to focusing on your thought and your fingers just “go there”. I, too, have found my speed plummet at first; at some point I decided to just go cold turkey and suffer being rather slow – trading it for eventual mastery.

In my case, because I was such a phenomenally sloppy typist, sometimes what felt slow was likely just as quick as a result of making fewer mistakes on the new split layout where my behaviour was forced to be better.
by saezbaldo | 2026-02-20 14:08:43+00:00
The context window is the onboarding period. Every invocation is a new hire reading the codebase for the first time.

This is why architecture legibility keeps getting more important. Clean interfaces, small modules, good naming. Not because the human needs it (they already know the codebase) but because the agent has to reconstruct understanding from scratch every single time.

Brooks was right that the conceptual structure is the hard part. We just never had to make it this explicit before.
by mbuda | 2026-02-20 14:09:06+00:00
Yep, amazing points!

Agree with the measures; follow-up question: what's the insight definition? I think exposing some of those measures would help people better understand what the analysis covered, in other words, how much data was actually analyzed. Maybe an additional measure is some kind of breadth (I guess it could be derived from the throughput).

"Informational leverage" reminded me of "retrieval leverage" because yeah, the scale of data didn't change, the ability to extract insights did :D
by gruez | 2026-02-20 14:09:18+00:00
>Most traffic is encrypted with HTTPS unless you can root every single device you own

>Complicated smartphone OS, firmware, drivers might have bugs allow overrides of visual indicators.

This line of thinking gets dangerously close to unfalsifiable territory.

If apps are eavesdropping on us, where's the network data? It's encrypted.

But you can disable https pinning by jailbreaking/rooting? The spying logic automatically disables if it detects it's jailbroken/rooted.

Where's the jailbreak/root detection logic? It's buried in 9 layers of obfuscation so you can't find it.

What about microphone indicator? They found a 0day in both Android and iOS, or the two are complicit as well.

But we don't see any backdoors in AOSP? It's built into the hardware/baseband itself.

>Companies have also been known to secretly eavesdrop and not tell users before (Apple + Siri https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-approves-95-million-app...)

"secretly eavesdrop" implies they were intentionally doing it, when even the plaintiffs admit it wasn't intentional.
by saezbaldo | 2026-02-20 14:09:18+00:00
This reframes the whole conversation. If implementations are cheap to regenerate, specifications become the durable artifact.

Something like TLA+ model checking lets you verify that a protocol maintains safety invariants across all reachable states, regardless of who wrote the implementation. The hard part was always deciding what "correct" means in your specific domain.

Most teams skip formal specs because "we don't have time." If agents make implementations nearly free, that excuse disappears. The bottleneck shifts from writing code to defining correctness.