MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-22 09:22:52+00:00
Sounds like the GP still has the mentality of the PS2/late PS1 era, where JRPG with cartoony graphics were indeed the big trend and pushing force of gaming.

But that very abruptly ended with the PS3, between development costs ballooning and shutting down many longstanding studios, trends shifting to chase open world or the blossoming online FPS genre, a shift of Japanese developers towards "global appeal", and the extremely slow start of the PS3 as a viable console to sell for.

Any JRPG studios surviving past that purge are the stragglers, not the trendsetters. And every company has their battle scars from that time. Final fantasy development exploded in budget, the "Tales of" series coasted along (fans would call it the "call of duty of JRPGs"), Atlus had to be bought out by Sega to survive (and fortunately, thrive), Monolith broke off of Bandai Namco and went to Nintendo, and so many more stories. Falcom seems to be the only one who simply cruised on by, which speaks to how lean and consistent their development cycle was.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 09:23:00+00:00
Suhail, Andrej, Peter … these people are propagandists, spreading a false take about the HN community. They’re very disconnected from the real world, which is why Suhail can state something as absurd as claiming that all of HN’s users are jealous of Peter’s generational wealth. It really says more about Suhail, that he puts wealth on that pedestal and thinks the entire world must also think that way.

And as I’ve said elsewhere, it is telling that a certain class of people are attacking Hacker News when they have no shame about using Twitter/X, which is a much more toxic echo chamber. It also says a lot about their moral character when they’re willing to overlook all the harm suffered by millions of people (mostly minorities) due to racist/supremacist content on Twitter/X, but they will not tolerate a single word of criticism directed to themselves or their class. To me, that’s the behavior of selfish propagandists.
by emptysongglass | 2026-02-22 09:23:46+00:00
> If I gave you a great tasting cake made of boiled plastic would you still eat it?

How is that analogy in any way relevant?

The OpenClaw I control is extremely useful to me. I've never been more excited about technology than right now. If it's not for you, I really don't care. Go do something you enjoy. Turning it into Chicken Little doomerism is completely uncalled for.
by p0d | 2026-02-22 09:24:17+00:00
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on thinking and rumination. I fall prey to circular thinking myself. This can unsettle my wife at times as she is not this way inclined. I can incite worry, while I move on and probably forget about the very concerns I have been raising.

I have been learning to quieten my ruminations by keeping a journal. This stops all the meanderings escaping. A kind of triage so to speak, where important thoughts get revisited and the rest stay in a journal no one will read.
by gary17the | 2026-02-22 09:24:30+00:00
> Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.

As others have already noted, this workflow is exactly what the Google Antigravity agent (based off Visual Studio Code) has been created for. Antigravity even includes specialized UI for a user to annotate selected portions of an LLM-generated plan before iterating it.

One significant downside to Antigravity I have found so far is the fact that even though it will properly infer a certain technical requirement and clearly note it in the plan it generates (for example, "this business reporting column needs to use a weighted average"), it will sometimes quietly downgrade such a specialized requirement (for example, to a non-weighted average), without even creating an appropriate "WARNING:" comment in the generated code. Especially so when the relevant codebase already includes a similar, but not exactly appropriate API. My repetitive prompts to ALWAYS ask about ANY implementation ambiguities WHATSOEVER go unanswered.

From what I gather Claude Code seems to be better than other agents at always remembering to query the user about implementation ambiguities, so maybe I will give Claude Code a shot over Antigravity.
by Roark66 | 2026-02-22 09:24:55+00:00
Is there a shittier summary anywhere, please? Or did the author reached the peak of enshittification?

Honestly, did the bot implementation have bugs or was it a proper implementation that crashed the network due to sheer numbers?

Also, how does changing the encryption standard affect anything if the bots tried to integrate correctly with the network?

Is the problem "fixed" or is it not? Elsewhere I found large number if botnet devs got pissed off with this botnet operator and 600k nodes went offline. Might this have much more to do with the situation getting better than simply changing encryption?

Also, was there any suggestion a quantum breaking attack was attempted? No. So why put the emphasis on "post quantum" in this article?

Bad. Very bad.
by raphman | 2026-02-22 09:25:15+00:00
FWIW, there's also happened quite a lot of research on latency in academia - which that page seems to completely ignore.

My group has been looking into that topic, too¹.
One of our most interesting findings (IMHO) was that for many USB devices, input latency does not follow a normal distribution but that each device has its own distribution of latencies for input events, including funny gaps².

However, with gaming hardware supporting 1000+ Hz polling, the effect of input latency should be negligible nowadays.

¹) https://hci.ur.de/projects/latency

²) https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/40182/1/On_the_Latency_of_USB...
by paganel | 2026-02-22 09:25:17+00:00
Saw that, too, but at some point one cannot just stand like sheep in the slaughterhouse, the reaction was to be expected (even though it could have happened in a more civilized way, not via personal-ish attacks, I agree with that).

More generally, there are now literally trillions of dollars being invested in this madness/tsunami/whatever-one-wants-to-call-it, which means that it has now become impossible to follow said money so as to follow the conflicts of interests (it’s easy to assume a conflict of interest for a guy like Karpathy given his past and recent employment history, but I do think that Simon is more on the genuine side), so this is why that counter-reaction is now manifesting itself so chaotically, hitting left and right with not necessarily any logic behind it, which means that there are going to be collateral “casualties” during it all (such as Simon in this case).
by Wise314 | 2026-02-22 09:25:28+00:00
I'm an independent researcher. I found that a single stability metric Φ = I×ρ - α×S detects degradation across 8 domains with no training.

The repo linked here is the quantum computing validation — 445 qubits across 3 IBM backends, 85% error reduction, all real hardware.

Same formula also works on neural networks (660+ architectures), mechanical bearings, turbofan engines, power grids, LLM behavioral drift, financial data (3.1M loans), and cardiac arrhythmia (AUC 0.90).

15 provisional patents filed. All code is open and auditable.

Quantum paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18522745
Cross-domain paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18523292
Full framework + controller: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18684052
Portfolio overview: https://github.com/Wise314/barnicle-ai-systems

Happy to answer any questions about methodology or results.
by thiht | 2026-02-22 09:26:58+00:00
One thing to consider is that "native" apps are considered the gold standard of desktop UIs, but a overwhelming share of users… don’t care. I, for one, don’t necessarily enjoy Qt apps. I think the only one I still use is KeepassXC and it’s trash to me, just slightly better than Keepass2. I much prefer the Bitwarden Electron app.

Given the choice, I often reach for Electron apps because they feel more feature rich, feel better designed in terms of polish (both UI and UX), and I rarely get resource hog issues (Slack is the only offender I can think of among the Electron apps I use)
by mock-possum | 2026-02-22 09:27:15+00:00
As a musician, it’s amazingly noticeable if there’s even a 10ms delay between hitting the key and hearing the sound, or seeing the note displayed on the screen - once I really got into digital music production and recording, it really helped to set reasonable expectations for lag in gaming, between peripherals and response rate in displays and audio lag in headphones. I still (somewhat more superstitiously at this point) default to wired devices to this day, mostly out of concern for lag.
by pmg101 | 2026-02-22 09:27:27+00:00
I don't judge content for being AI written, I judge it for the content itself (just like with code).

However I do find the standard out-of-the-box style very grating. Call it faux-chummy linkedin corporate workslop style.

Why don't people give the llm a steer on style? Either based on your personal style or at least on a writer whose style you admire. That should be easier.
by nneonneo | 2026-02-22 09:27:32+00:00
The website notes that you can measure lag with an “expensive” high-speed camera setup.

My favorite trick, which I’ve used frequently (including in scientific publications on lag!) is to use the slo-mo cam on a smartphone. Phones will usually do anywhere from 120-240Hz. Set up the camera so it can see both your input (e.g. a side view of you pushing a button) and the display, record a video, and then pull it into a media player that supports frame-by-frame playback. You can then measure the number of frames elapsed from you pushing the button (pressing it down far enough to electrically activate it) and the corresponding reaction on screen. This gives you a cheap and easy setup capable of measuring latency down to ~4ms granularity, and doing a few repeated measurements can give you a very accurate picture of latency. Keep in mind that latency is a range (statistical distribution), not a single number, so you need repeated measurements to understand the shape of the distribution.

If you’re developing a game, you can add a prominent frame counter on screen to be captured on the video, and add the frame counter to your log output. Then you can match up the video with your game’s events, after accounting for display latency.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-22 09:28:54+00:00
> But if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems.

Because then their competition would work faster than they could and any amount of slop/issues/imperfections would be amplified threefold.

Also there would inevitably be some feature drift - I got SourceTree for my Mac and was surprised to discover that it's actually somewhat different from the Windows version, that was a bit jarring.

I hope that in the next decade we get something like lcl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library), but for all OSes and with bindings for all common languages - so we don't have to rely on the web platform for local software, until then developing native apps is a hard sell.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-22 09:30:44+00:00
On average a company uses 100+ SaaS companies

https://www.sellerscommerce.com/blog/saas-statistics/

Salesforce has had your client list, the amount the deal is worth, the status of the deal, which of your employees are working on the deal, their bill rate etc. for years.

Zoom/Gong/Microsoft Teams knows every conversation yoh have with a client if you turn transcriptions on.

Your email provider gets your company email in plain text.

Slack has all of your interoffice communications.

Atlassian gets exactly what you are working on, whose working on it and the status of every task.

AWS/GCP/Azure know everything about your infrastructure.

BTW, Amazon is one of the most paranoid companies about confidentiality you can imagine (former employer). They use Microsoft Office, Slack (they were moving away from Chime before I left) - and the internal consulting division uses Salesforce.

Why the moral panic about Anthropic? I doubt very seriously they are going to start in my company’s case - a cloud consulting division
by luuuc | 2026-02-22 09:30:50+00:00
I built a set of free AI tools that give founders the feedback their friends won't.

5 tools: Idea Funeral (critiques your startup idea), Corporate Translator (decodes your jargon), Startup Therapist (challenges your optimism), Pitch Without Slides (stress-tests your pitch in plain text), and Build or Die (reality-checks your project scope).

Free to start, no signup required.

Built because I got tired of people nodding politely at ideas that deserved a funeral.

https://star.tupcheck.me?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=la...
by evilhackerdude | 2026-02-22 09:30:56+00:00
that early steam UI aesthetic has sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole...

https://archive.org/details/steam_10-08-2004

a rabbit hole, at the end of which is an imgui theme, and me was^H^H^Hspending entirely too much time extracting actual fonts, color codes and other minuscule details.

what's better, i have absolutely no issue with that theme being my new default!
Show HN: A phone number you can call to talk to an AI that remembers you
by sbjartmar | 2026-02-22 09:31:22+00:00
I had a random thought a week ago: "why can't I just call my AI on the phone?"

It spun into a series of thoughts:

1. Phone calls are an established technology, people are used to picking up the phone and calling someone for a chat. It's much more natural than opening up a web app to talk

2. Millions of people don't have access to reliable 4G/5G where they live but still have cell signal. Those people would probably still want access to an AI.

3. Why don't I just build this?

4. I should build this.

So I built it: https://paradisesignal.com

I think I'll lose money from this. The gpt-realtime model is insanely expensive compared to text. But I want to give it a try and see if there's a need out there.

While I've been debugging and testing I've noticed something strange. I feel much more of a connection to the AI than I do in a regular web chat. I started greeting the AI each time I called it and I wouldn't hang up until we'd said goodbye. Maybe that's because I'm used to doing that on phone calls.

Anyways, if you live or work in a remote area I'd love to get some feedback and users. The AI remembers past conversations in detail, up to a point, so you can have coherent talks to it.
by onion2k | 2026-02-22 09:31:56+00:00
That's a short term view. Any system you build inhouse has to be maintained until you replace it, and often the longer it remains in place the harder it is to do that. You might save a small amount of cash (which might be important at the time tbf) but you're creating a major headache for later. Legacy code is debt, and that includes all your code. It's also a huge problem if the maintainer leaves because typically those small systems are owned by an individual dev who set it up in the first place.

Everyone who founds a company needs to remember that they're building a system of systems that all interact and influence each other, and you have to balance short term cash flow against long term strategy.
by RamblingCTO | 2026-02-22 09:32:02+00:00
Sorry, this take just shows that you probably are not running a business. Having someone dedicate their whole business to a solution to one of your problems will most likely get a better result than you doing a hackjob you can't even maintain. Let alone the maintenance, logistics, complexity, time etc. The economics just aren't there to vibe code even more than 30% of the software you use.

People running businesses want to focus on their core business and are happy to pay for pain points to go away, for money to come in or less money to come out. It's that simple.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-22 09:34:32+00:00
Seems pretty sensible!

I always wonder how those established Electron codebases would map over to something that uses the system specific WebViews and how broken (or not) those would prove to be:

https://wails.io

https://tauri.app

But admittedly that would just decrease the bundle size while doing not much for the performance or resource usage: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso... so maybe not super relevant to this particular discussion.
by brainless | 2026-02-22 09:34:45+00:00
If we can print ASIC at low cost, this will change how we work with models.

Models would be available as USB plug-in devices. A dense < 20B model may be the best assistant we need for personal use. It is like graphic cards again.

I hope lots of vendors will take note. Open weight models are abundant now. Even at a few thousand tokens/second, low buying cost and low operating cost, this is massive.
by flipped | 2026-02-22 09:35:39+00:00
It's 10, not 9. And there are severe problems with having a total of 10 DA be the essential source of truth for whole network. It would be trivial to DDoS the DAs and bring down the Tor network or at the very least, disrupt it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755.

It's the only complaint I have of the current state of Tor. Anyone should be able to run directory authority, regardless if you trust the operator or not (same as normal relays).
by pests | 2026-02-22 09:36:01+00:00
> Krebs’s article is based entirely on the sellers description of the (imaginary) product, rather than actual observation

I noticed. While researching I had a feeling of "is this just makeup on a pig?". Anyone can make pretty graphics or make claims. I tried reading a few selling points and I was weary.

One claimed to handle a MFA token handover and then somehow got access to the token and they could proxy it for you? The user types in the MFA token, they get the token. I cant figure out how they would bypass all browser protections to pass on the highly-secured token via a proxy. I've been online for 25 years, I understand on a deep level on the internet works and the web and what is happening in this situation, as I'm sure most here are.

Without a 0day, this just doesn't make sense. But this is pretty technical, and unless you hang out here then the above sounds perfectly reasonable but to us sounds like bullshit.

> he didn’t bother to source reasonable quality screenshots for the story

Also noted. Quickly found better quality versions myself with a quick search.
by sheept | 2026-02-22 09:36:10+00:00
Then under your definition there must not be any widely used written language with an alphabet. Most of the world's alphabetic writing systems aren't phonetic transcriptions, they're standardized. They're usually based on the prestige dialect, at the cost of diminutizing other dialects.

For example, Spanish has a fairly consistent spelling system standardized by RAE, based in Madrid. But, for instance, even though much of Latin America doesn't have a distinction between s and soft c (seseo), they still keep the distinction in its spelling.
by xav0989 | 2026-02-22 09:36:23+00:00
In the Canadian university lingo, co-op refers to a (usually paid) internship that you complete as part of your degree. You usually have a couple co-op terms/semesters along with your traditional terms. For example, you may start your degree with two semesters of classes, then a semester of co-op, then one of classes, then another two co-ops, more classes, etc. until you complete the degree requirements. Degrees with a co-op requirement usually will make mention of it (e.g. Software Engineering with co-op).
by brainless | 2026-02-22 09:37:10+00:00
New GPUs come out all the time. New phones come out (if you count all the manufacturers) all the time. We do not need to always buy the new one.

Current open weight models < 20B are already capable of being useful. With even 1K tokens/second, they would change what it means to interact with them or for models to interact with the computer.
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-22 09:37:35+00:00
> Why bother harvesting resources from a gravity-laden planet when you can almost certainly get them from asteroids or other places?

Why bother digging up a carbon laden energy source from the depths of a gravity laden planet instead of using solar energy or wind or any other energy source that is less harmful?

Seems really illogical … oh wait, thats just an intelligent life-form.
by ricardobayes | 2026-02-22 09:37:40+00:00
All that is correct and well-written, however I fear in most cases "good enough" will be good enough for Business. If Business can do something to 80% the same but with a large cost cutting they likely go for it, we have seen this with shrinkflation (reduced portion sizes for the same price), to using cheaper ingredients to practically everything that is not a knowledge-heavy industry. The big change is now the "shrinkflation" is coming to knowledge domains too, which will likely lower the quality of healthcare, software etc.

AI being a next-token predictor will produce cheap and average products, we will likely see some (most?) software become a commodity, that goes through the same product development and "manufacturing" as a breakfast cereal. Made in a "dark factory", 24/7, with little supervision.

However I think down the line we will see many industries popping up that are like "organic food", "mechanical watchmaking" that provide above the usual slop that large businesses produce.