MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2026-02-22 20:12:13+00:00
> But a CEO that intentionally starves the beast (their own company) would be criminally liable to the state and civilly liable to shareholders.

The "beast" in this context is the government, not the country, on the argument that the former is slowing down the latter.

Therefore, I'd compare it to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_stripping and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_capitalist

I don't like them, but I don't think they're illegal?
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 20:12:29+00:00
The agent stack is splitting into specialized layers and sandboxing is clearly becoming its own thing. Shuru, E2B, Modal, Firecracker wrappers.

Earlier this month I wrote about how these layers have very different defensibility profiles and why going monolithic is the wrong call: https://philippdubach.com/posts/dont-go-monolithic-the-agent...

EDIT: Spelling
by kderbyma | 2026-02-22 20:12:43+00:00
This what I expect from a mid marketing team.....not a supposed visionary thought leader (/s).....

This is completely fallacious thinking that I assume is meant as a means of manipulating people who dont think deeply about the implications and procession of ideas that leads such obviously disingenuous intelluctual dishonesty....

Waste heat....is not the same as a biologically closed loop which microbes, bacyerium, myceliums, and plants and aninals all work in a concerted effort....

My Food becomes fertilizer....His waste becomes nothing of utility (unless they have amazing efficiencies that defy what we know about physics...)
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-22 20:12:49+00:00
You are all over the place. Let me make it simple for you. You want to end Gerrymandering. I agree with this. There are relatively simple algorithms that would do it much better. It won't make all races competitive but there will be far more.

Expanding Congress probably isn't a great idea though. To get enough power as person in Congress to do anything takes a decade or more, your idea just makes it worse. As for getting rid of the EC, think of it as districts you can't Gerrymander. It also ensures those that grow our food get a voice. And since most of the people in cities can't keep a house plant alive yet somehow want to decide how a farm works, that's a good idea not to empower the lunacy of the mob.

Term limits are good. Age limits I would support but its almost certainly unconstitutional.
by NikxDa | 2026-02-22 20:12:55+00:00
This is super cool, and I wish something like this existed at my place, as it enables information sharing without the need for phones/actual screens that shine in your face when the lights are low or tempt you to doomscroll.

That said, the large primary display this uses is $2000. That's very hard to justify for any "normal" household, and that's without any mounts, backend, services etc.
by panick21 | 2026-02-22 20:13:59+00:00
No . No . No. Please No. Absolutely fucking not.

Shipping hydrogen is literally one of the dumbest things you can ever do.

Its pure and utter nonsense that is only getting pushed for political reasons. It has 0 actual viability.

Even if you were willing to pay 5-10x more for hydrogen, shipping doesn't make sense.

The only way we are ever moving any quantity of hydrogen anywhere is with pipelines. Literally everything about hydrogen makes it a complete nightmare to ship.

And nobody is likely ever going to build these hydrogen pipelines.

Hydrogen is completely idiotic as a 'energy move' medium.

> Using it as a car fuel only makes sense as an interim step to full renewable/EVs.

No it doesn't and it never did. Only such a tiny amount were ever sold, and those were only sold because of massive subsidies and sold below value by car companies who wanted to push the concept (and farm subsidies).

EV by 2008 already outsold hydrogen vehicles and have grown every year, hydrogen vehicles never became more then marketing gimick and were never sold in numbers that even approach relevance.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 20:14:43+00:00
This comparison only works if you assume scaling keeps paying off. Sara Hooker's research shows (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662) compact models now outperform massive predecessors and scaling laws only predict pre-training loss, not downstream performance. If marginal returns on compute are falling (https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-most-expensive-assumptio...), "energy per query" hides the real problem, a trillion dollars of infrastructure built on the bet that they won't.
by tomth | 2026-02-22 20:14:58+00:00
Compatibility layers can also introduce security bugs. One of the reasons why it was removed from OpenBSD.

BSD is more for purists anyway. Virtualization seems to be a better option than compatibility layers for the odd program that doesn't work natively.

Maybe that it's different for Windows API's on Linux, because by virtualizing Windows, you're still dealing with an unfree OS.
by HumblyTossed | 2026-02-22 20:15:12+00:00
It's not. I managed optical labs (the one hour kind) while getting my BSCpE. One thing I always used for my personal glasses for studying (the ones with an additional +.50 diopter for helping my reading - but that is another post), is about a 5% solid brown tint on the lenses to make the paper just a little less white.
by wordwavr | 2026-02-22 20:15:47+00:00
I built WordWavr, a daily word puzzle where each letter (A=1, B=2, etc.) is mapped to a number and rendered as a waveform.

You see the target wave and try to guess the five-letter word by matching its shape. Each guess generates its own wave, so it becomes a pattern-recognition problem instead of traditional letter placement.

Curious whether a purely visual encoding of words could still feel intuitive.

Would love feedback on the mechanic.
by ordu | 2026-02-22 20:16:42+00:00
You are responding to a short quote from the article. This quote works with some assumtions, which are also discussed in the article. It is not naivete, the article is an interpretation of facts, including those when non-violent protests didn't work. We can disagree with the interpretation, but even if I know a way to do it, we just can't do it dealing with this small quote taken out of the context.
by frostpine | 2026-02-22 20:16:52+00:00
I think there are a lot of limitations with this article.

Its hard to track your mesh search terms, but looks like you are searching for improvement AND a lot of other search terms. Aren't you filtering out any articles which show deterioration?

I think a meta analysis is probably what you are actually looking for. It would be better, I think, to read some of these and manually include relevant references.

Neither of your assumptions are true.
by crote | 2026-02-22 20:17:45+00:00
> it could be much more economical for very long duration storage than using batteries

Yes, but that's not the only option you have. With the absolutely awful efficiency of burning hydrogen you'd need to be building a massive amount of additional wind and solar - which in turn means you'll also have additional capacity available during cloudy wind-calm days, which means you'll need to burn substantially less hydrogen to generate power.

This leads to the irony that building the power-generation infrastructure for generating enough hydrogen means you won't even need to bother with the hydrogen part: you're basically just building enough solar that their overcast supply is enough to meet the average demand. As a bonus, you've now got a massive oversupply during sunny winter days and even more during summer days, so most of the year electricity will essentially be free.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-22 20:18:22+00:00
Besides the political slant of Grokipedia, it's true that a lot of work that needed to be crowdsourced can be now packaged as work for LLMs. We all know the disadvantages of using LLMs, so let me mention some of the advantages: much higher speed, much more impervious to groupthink, cliques, and organised campaigns; truly ego-less editing and debating between "editors". Grokipedia is not viable because of Musk's derangement, but other projects, more open and publicly auditable, might come along.
by ambicapter | 2026-02-22 20:18:26+00:00
I think it is possible to use AI in a way that ends up with understanding and very easy to use it in a way where nothing at all sticks. Vibe coders by definition know or understand 0% of their codebase but you can use AI in a more questioning manner where you can get answers that are testable, test them immediately, and add the correct answers to the context immediately while embedding a clearer picture in your mental model.
by florakel | 2026-02-22 20:19:02+00:00
I have never used mastodon, but why is it so much better than X (twitter)? I also follow a small group of people on X that I find interesting and I get a chronological feed of their posts in the “following” tab. I know that the “For You” tab abyss is right there. I opened it once, was shocked by all the crap the system assumed I would like, and never went back. The good thing is that nobody forces me to use it. I am perfectly fine in the “following” feed and not exposed at all to recommender systems trying to grab my attention. Only the ads in the feed annoy me - and they are so bad that I wonder how X makes any money.
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-22 20:19:04+00:00
I think it is protected by many moats. Personally I don't mind building and using devices by and for myself, but to commercialize them? It's going to be a huge headache, and you can bet that many companies sit on the moats for their lunch. You and I will never know which of the moats really make sense and which ones are simply BS for barriers. It's too much hassle.
by vladms | 2026-02-22 20:19:20+00:00
Alcohol is bad health wise but probably is used to reduce the harm of social imposed stress between people.

So, If I think about it "like alcohol", it would mean "what is the root cause of not being able to keep contact with people". It might be that common social mixing places are probably much fewer than hundred of years ago - be it the local bar, gathering after a day of work in the field, public bathhouse, etc. Many of activities in the modern world seem very individual - maybe that is the problem, and people being social try to replace it and get tricked into worse things.
by anamexis | 2026-02-22 20:19:26+00:00
Why, though? That would make sense if you were just trying to do a comparative analysis of different agent's ability to use specific tools without context, but if your thesis is:

> However, [the approach of using AI agents for malware detection] is not ready for production.

Then the methodology does not support that. It's "the approach of using AI agents for malware detection with next to zero documentation or guidance is not ready for production."
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-22 20:19:27+00:00
The EC gives rural unpopulated states more say in federal decision making than more populous urban states. This has nothing to do with agriculture, California is the country’s biggest agriculture producer yet its farmers have less of a voice than those in Wyoming where agriculture is actually much rarer.

It is simply an accident of history that Wyoming, a state with less people than San Francisco (not even the Bay Area’s biggest city) has just as many senators as the entire state of California.
by hinkley | 2026-02-22 20:19:40+00:00
I don’t think I ever could have predicted any time earlier than the past few years that Valve would be the one to cook Microsoft’s goose. I know this story isn’t about Windows, but this is a bit like finding cougar paw prints outside your cabin in the morning. The trouble hasn’t found you yet but it’s there, and it’s getting close.

Valve fixing Linux issues feels like pawprints.
by krapp | 2026-02-22 20:19:49+00:00
We are. We're still laughing at you.

Clearly you just read the title and didn't bother reading the Twitter thread. It doesn't prove what you think it does. Pizzagate wasn't real. None of the codes, signs, portents, hidden symbols or Illuminati Monarch MKUltra nonsense you thought you were decoding meant anything. You fell for a meme invented on /pol/. And you morons were so obsessed with an imaginary satanic pedophile cult within the Democratic party that you actually hindered legitimate attempts to stop sex abuse and child trafficking with your bullshit. Epstein and his lot were never even on your radar, but you thought Hillary Clinton was holding black masses and drinking the blood of Christian babies underneath a fucking pizzeria.

And then your god-emperor, your messiah, your pussy-grabbing president Donald Trump, the man you believed was sent by God to unmask the satanic pedophile Democrat conspiracy, turns out to be the biggest pedophile of them all. And when he said the Epstein files don't matter, half of you jackasses turned on a dime and agreed with him.

We're never going to stop laughing at you.
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 20:20:17+00:00
"relatively" can cover a lot of ground :-)

From my naive observation, the regimes of Eastern Europe had lost their will to perpetuate. (Everybody saw, including party apparatchiks, that the people in the west have better lives. Or at least better goods. :-) )

The cynical take would be that the (smarter) communists in power prepared themselves for the transition, positioning themselves to benefit after the change.
by godelski | 2026-02-22 20:20:24+00:00
Yeah that's a good addition. I think often the words we use can really make things more confusing. Like I hate when people say invertible but in reference to a function that isn't bijective. Why not say reversible? (No complaints with the convention of image/preimage)

Which it's very similar to the problem created by saying "one way". It just isn't one way. Going the other direction is perfectly possible but incredibly hard to find the origin. The visual metaphor I like to use for people is it's like you walk out of a room and into a hallway of doors that are all identical looking. Ignoring the fact that you could just physically turn around, it'd be very hard to figure out which one you actually came from.

But maybe what I like least is that we end up having so many terms for the same general concept. It's one thing when they're discovered independently but I'm pretty confident the computer scientists that pioneered hashes were quite familiar with the mathematics and nomenclature.

> inverse computation would take an intractable amount of time.

On a real side note I really like this explanation of P vs NP as it explicitly talks about reversibility. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPsH8PK7xM
by ece | 2026-02-22 20:20:57+00:00
This is cynicism or worse, the way to get more open hardware and software, is to buy it and use it, regulation and understanding will catch up. Sure people care more about things other than tech, that's never stopped me from pointing out how tech should work and advocating for it.

I've used Linux for 25 years, and never have I thought it has enshittified. It's only Android in the last decade that has, much like the iPhone, Windows and the big social networks defending their monopolies in court and even losing in some cases, though maybe not enough yet.
Ask HN: Is the original iPhone SE just a brick now?
by stared | 2026-02-22 20:21:47+00:00
Yesterday, I went through my old electronics and cables to see what I could give away, and what needed to be dropped in an e-waste recycling bin.

I found my original iPhone SE. I charged it up, and it works perfectly - the screen, the touch ID, and to my surprise, even the battery holds a charge.

Yet, Apple made it obsolete a long time ago. It is stuck on an unsupported version of iOS, and because of the locked bootloader, it's impossible to install a different, supported operating system.

I'm impressed by the hardware quality, but frustrated by the software obsolescence.

Is there any practical use for this device today? I prefer to upcycle things if possible. The display is still incredibly crisp, and it feels like a waste to just throw it in an electronics recycling bin when it has so much more value than scrap metal.

I was thinking about using it as a smart dashboard or an always-on display. However, I'm not sure how best to do this since it's locked to iOS. Also, Gemini warned me that keeping an old lithium-ion battery plugged in 24/7 poses a real swelling and fire hazard.

What do you do with your obsolete, perfectly functional Apple hardware?
by fortzi | 2026-02-22 20:21:52+00:00
While the sanctions may have triggered the current round of protests, what about the previous rounds? [1]
Why are you ignoring those?
Many Iranians hate their regime because it’s an oppressive theocratic one.

Just as an example of why Iranians would hate their regime, the mismanagement and corruption in the area of water management has led to severe water shortages in Tehran and other areas [2].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/iran-a-timeline-of-mass-protests-since...

[2] https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanat...
by vel0city | 2026-02-22 20:22:03+00:00
> In the transport industry

I'm not in the transport industry, I just want to go to the grocery store.

> Performance loss over time leading to replacement decisions is unussual. Virtually no other part degrades in performance the moment you use it.

Tires? Brake pads? Lubricants? Belts? Springs? Bearings? Bushings? Seals? There's tons of parts on my cars that have expected wear intervals that will need replacing after x number of miles with performance that changes with the wear of the part, there's a whole service manual of when to replace certain parts.
by lakid | 2026-02-22 20:23:12+00:00
You can make smaller ones for much much less. I’ll post pics of mine a bit later but waveshare 7.5” display in a photo frame and almost any ESP32 dev board and you are set for less than $100 (along with suitable HomeAssistant and ESPhome infrastructure to support it).
The original article is a very slick bit of work, so well done
by DiabloD3 | 2026-02-22 20:23:24+00:00
Good, they were bought out in 2006 and no longer exist.

I assume you mean AMD, and I also assume you didn't actually read the article.

The AMDGPU driver was never designed for cards before Polaris (GCN 1.4). The specific card in question, a R9 M380, was released in early 2015, and in 3 months, will be 10 years old.

The bug listed only exhibits itself on Macs, which requires a custom firmware to cope with the oddities in how Macintels boot and function, and pre-Polaris cards especially on a Mac are not well tested on AMDGPU. The bug does not happen on real x86 machines.

At no point can AMD be blamed for any of this, but Apple most certainly can (refusal to ship a compliant UEFI firmware, and instead shipping the nightmare that Macintels used during their existence).
by therealdrag0 | 2026-02-22 20:23:25+00:00
I wouldn’t say never. I spent the first 10 years of my career loving crafting code. Then I moved up in seniority and naturally my focus and prioritization had to shift. Even before AI I didn’t code that much, focusing more on design, planning, reviewing, firefighting, and team leadership (still an IC).

One exciting thing about AI is when I have an idea of something to do and can visualize it, instead of writing a ticket that sits in the backlog, I can use AI to vibe it up, with just a couple hours of my attention I can spare. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. But it’s fun and satisfying to get more shit done, and be able to scratch the same builder and solver itches in my 10% time.
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-22 20:24:19+00:00
I have no idea how well this idea might stand up, but I loved how I was hired in a kitchen forever ago.

Someone mentioned me to the boss. I get called in for an interview. We chat for 15 minutes. I’m then “hired” for six weeks full paid work, but by default after those six weeks I was done. No more hours scheduled. Unless he said he wanted me to stay on and I said I wanted to stay on.

What I liked is the subtle change in expectations caused by the default to be that you don’t stay hired after some trial/training period. What I did was check in on how they felt about me and got a good feel for if I needed to keep looking for jobs or not. And if I liked working there.

I guess you could describe it as a very short contract with the idea that there’s a full time role meant to be filled.

I can imagine many ways in which this can be exploited or gets ridiculous with how many months of training some companies need. I think it’s their own loss being so inflexible or untrusting or acting in bad faith.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-22 20:26:22+00:00
> much more impervious to groupthink

Citation very much needed. LLMs are arguably concentrated groupthink (albeit a different type than wiki editors - although I'm sure they are trained on that), and are incredibly prone to sycophancy.

Establishing fact is hard enough with humans in the loop. Frankly, my counterargument is that we should be incredibly careful about how we use AI in sources of truth. We don't want articles written faster, we want them written better. I'm not sure AI is up to that task.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-22 20:26:26+00:00
It has always searched the web for me, and it can give me pretty good guidance about a model released in the last week. All models ATM are trying to reduce dependence on internal knowledge mostly through RAG. Anyways, this part of LLMs has gotten much better in the last 6 months.

If you are able to figure out the right settings for a model Thats was released last week, then great for you! But it sounds like you just don’t trust LLMs to use current knowledge, and have some misconception about how they satisfy recent knowledge requests.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-02-22 20:26:39+00:00
Not really. Microsoft doesn't support GPUs on Windows, the vendor does.

This is a story about a 10 year old GPU that would not be supported on today's AMD drivers either and the AMDGPU driver was never designed for pre-Polaris hardware, which it is.

The bug also does not exhibit itself on normal compliant x86 machines, only Macintels.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-22 20:27:13+00:00
LLMs are only impervious to "groupthink" and "organized campaigns" and other biases if the people implementing them are also impervious to them, or at least doing their best to address them. This includes all the data being used and the methods they use to process it.

You rightfully point out that the Grok folks are not engaged in that effort to avoid bias but we should hold every one of these projects to a similar standard and not just assume that due diligence was made.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-22 20:27:25+00:00
Why not?

The thing is that your argument is just not compatible with real life. Humans are humans, they are absolutely not going to create unique and strong passwords for every service.

What happens in actuality is that they create one or two okay passwords, then reuse them, which is 100,000x worse than using a password manager.

The promise of a password manager is you get infinite perfect passwords. Perfectly long, perfectly unguessable. And then you can redirect your brain power to making one really, really good password you can remember. The benefits are plentiful. You don't have to worry about breaches. You're immune to dictionary attacks and brute forcing. And, it's much more convenient.
by breppp | 2026-02-22 20:28:14+00:00
Generally the IRGC has everything to do with the current state of Gaza, as it was involved in planning and training for the October 7th attack.

This was a masterstroke of Iranian strategy, while it initially looked they have yet again encouraged the Palestinians to commit national suicide on their behalf, in two years it looks like this is going to end with a national suicide of the Islamic Republic