MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nalllar | 2026-02-17 18:05:29+00:00
The article itself reads as an AI generated output, complete with classic Not Just X … Y hallmarks from forever ago, 100% on pangram's low false positive detector. I'm not sure if it's some experiment on their readerbase or what.
pangram result: https://www.pangram.com/history/02bead1c-c36e-461b-8fa7-8699...

So many AI generated AI bashing articles lately. I wrote a post complaining about running into these, and asking people who've sent me these AI articles multiple of them came from HN. https://lunnova.dev/articles/ai-bashing-ai-slop/
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-17 18:05:50+00:00
Sqfty?

I mean it's a real problem, but it's also a solved problem, and also not a problem that comes up a lot unless you're doing the sort of engineering where you're using a CAD tool already.

I don't doubt it's useful, and seems pretty well crafted what little I tried it, but it doesn't really invite much discussion.
by furyofantares | 2026-02-17 18:05:53+00:00
Look through my comment history at all the posts where I complain the author might have had something interesting to say but it's been erased by the LLM and you can no longer tell what the author cared about because the entire post is a an oversold monotone advertising voice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46583410#46584336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605716#46609480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617456#46619136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658345#46662218

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630869#46663276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656759#46663322

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661936#46663362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748077#46749699
by biophysboy | 2026-02-17 18:06:15+00:00
Not all the legacy newspapers are failing; NYT is doing well. There are other news sources beyond legacy newspapers, broadcasters, local news, and social media. There are wire services (AP, Reuters), insider access journalism (Axios, Punchbowl, Semafor), public media (NPR, PBS, BBC), investigative journalism (ProPublica), digital-first outlets (Politico, Vox), and the growing wave of small, indie , creator-led media (YouTube, Substack, Patreon).
by theorchid | 2026-02-17 18:06:20+00:00
> i) Who am I? ii) What is our design philosophy and tenets? iii) Go through the repo and ensure the architecture and codebase adheres to our design philosophy and tenets.

I also use similar questions for different situations, and different ones for different projects. So, to avoid writing these questions every time, I created commands for each question.
There is also a "/capture" command that analyzes the dialogue and suggests what to save from it, what commands and rules to create.
The "/insights" command not only analyzes the current dialogue, but also suggests ideas for creating new commands and rules.
If you have asked the same question several times in the dialogue, these commands will suggest creating new commands specifically for these questions.
by Arnt | 2026-02-17 18:06:22+00:00
Maybe you ought to read the article. Or a few of the articles.

At this stage, according to the numbers presented here, Russia would have to increase taxes on oil to about 115% of the exports (not the profit, the total exports) in order to balance the national budget. These numbers are well attested. They've been growing worse and worse for a long while and as the number 115% shows, they are really very bad now.

When did the Russian economy's problem become bad and how much later did they increase from bad to terrible? Matter of opinion, but if you've been hearing about it for years, that's because it took a long time to get as bad as those 115% indicate.
by mengk | 2026-02-17 18:06:31+00:00
Terminal-Bench evaluates how well models carry out complex tasks in the terminal. On the official leaderboard, GPT-5.1 Codex underperforms GPT-5 Codex by 6.5 percentage points, even with the same scaffold. What explains the regression? In under an hour, Docent finds that the regression probably stems from timeout errors, not performance.
by comex | 2026-02-17 18:07:13+00:00
Two issues.

First: If Fiu is a standard OpenClaw assistant then it should retain context between emails, right? So it will know it's being hit with nonstop prompt injection attempts and will become paranoid. If so, that isn't a realistic model of real prompt injection attacks.

Second: What exactly is Fiu instructed to do with these emails? It doesn't follow arbitrary instructions from the emails, does it? If it did, then it ought to be easy to break it, e.g. by uploading a malicious package to PyPI and telling the agent to run `uvx my-useful-package`, but that also wouldn't be realistic. I assume it's not doing that and is instead told to just… what, read the emails? Act as someone's assistant? What specific actions is it supposed to be taking with the emails? (Maybe I would understand this if I actually had familiarity with OpenClaw.)
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-17 18:07:24+00:00
I'd push back on this and say that the #1 problem with the discourse about AI now (e.g. why I'd almost never upvote a blog post about AI coding) is that it is too focused on 2026-02-17. That is, I could care less about optimizing to pick the best model or agentic workflow because it's all going to be obsolete in a year.

I am wary of blogs by celebrity software managers such as DHH, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, and Paul Graham because they talk as if there was something about their experience in software development and marketing except... there isn't.

The same is true for the slop posts about "How I vibe coded X", "How I deal with my anxiety about Y" and "Should I develop my own agentic workflow to do Z?" These aren't really interesting because there isn't anything I can take away from them -- doomscrolling X you might do better because little aphorisms like "Once your agent starts going in circles and you find yourself arguing it you should start a new conversation" is much more valuable than "evaluations" of agents where you didn't run enough prompts to keep statistics or a log of a very path-dependent experience you had. At least those celebrity managers developed a product that worked and managed to sell it, the average vibe coder thinks it is sufficient that it almost worked.
by BatteryMountain | 2026-02-17 18:07:30+00:00
At first used Claude Max x5, but we are using the api now.

We only give it very targeted tasks, no broad strokes. We have a couple of "prompt" templates, which we select when creating tasks. The new opus model one shots about 90% of tasks we throw at it. Getting a ton of value from diagnostic tasks, it can troubleshoot really quickly (by ingesting logs, exceptions, some db rows).
by seba_dos1 | 2026-02-17 18:07:49+00:00
You're confused.

To quote Google's documentation:

> To build an Android-compatible mobile device, follow this three-step process:
> 1. Using AOSP, implement Android on your device.
> 2. Ensure your device complies with the Android Compatibility Definition Document. The CDD enumerates the software and hardware requirements for an Android-compatible device.
> 3. Pass the Compatibility Test Suite (CTS). Use the CTS as an ongoing aid to evaluate compatibility during the development process.

AOSP is how Android is being distributed. Being "Android-compatible" (implementing Android and passing CTS) does not automatically give you access to Google Play, it just unlocks the possibility of licensing it:

> After achieving compatibility, your device is considered Android compatible and you can consider Licensing Google Mobile Services (GMS) and prepare to use the Android trademark.

Google restricts the use of "Android" trademark on hardware, packaging or marketing materials of devices and requires prior approval of any use, but that doesn't make AOSP "not Android". If you insist otherwise, you're going against common use of these terms.

In fact, not just "common use", but even Google's use - AOSP's homepage has this as its headline:

> Android is an open source software stack created for a wide array of devices with different form factors.

It also tells you how to "get the Android source" or "build the Android OS".

Sure, many apps that are being called "Android apps" are in fact apps for the Google Play platform (perhaps that's where you got your confusion from), but that doesn't make Android-based systems non-Android.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-17 18:08:42+00:00
In fact I'll go further - in my experience people with a software background make much better hardware designers than people with an EE background because they are aware of modern software best practices. Many hardware designers are happy to hack whatever together with duck tape and glue. As a result most of the hardware industry is decades behind the software industry in many ways, e.g. still relying on hacky Perl and TCL scripts to cobble things together.

The notable exceptions are:

* Formal verification, which is very widely used in hardware and barely used in software (not software's fault really - there are good reasons for it).

* What the software guys now call "deterministic system testing", which is just called "testing" in the hardware world because that's how it has always been done.
Show HN: I solo built a text to AI motion graphics Video generator
by ramsrigouthamg | 2026-02-17 18:08:47+00:00
Hi HN folks,
I am Ramsri a solo builder from India who built AiArtist an AI motion graphics generator for Social Media and Ads.

One can create stunning motion graphics videos with typography and visuals for social posts, ads, reels, shorts, and marketing videos instantly from a text prompt.

It is built on video generation models unlike programmatic approach with remotion for generating full range of motion graphics.

Also added support to show any Youtube video snippet as inspiration and generate inspired motion graphics.

Would love to hear your feeback and improve the product!

Regards,
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by mentalgear | 2026-02-17 18:08:58+00:00
Unfortunately there's now a whole cotton-industry of "vibe-coding classes and marketing" (similar to "life-coaching" on socials) that probably target HN as well. I think HN needs to think a layer of abstraction "higher" and model around some collection of semantics/metrics that allow to filter out "gloss without quality" vaporware or voting ring tactics.
by foxyv | 2026-02-17 18:08:59+00:00
It's a false dichotomy. There are 4 options:

1. Don't give up liberty, give up security.

2. Give up liberty, give up security.

3. Give up liberty, don't give up security.

4. Don't give up liberty, don't give up security.

Number 4 is completely possible. It's just that people in power don't like it because it means they have less power. They want to pretend that only options 1 and 3 are available and ignore that they are actually offering option 2.
by dang | 2026-02-17 18:09:17+00:00
Yes, I appreciate that, and yes there is room for nuance. But I think you went too far in this case, meaning that the delta between the article title and the submission title was too large. For example, the word "useless" appears nowhere in the article abstract nor in the article body. That's a big delta.

I was starting to type out a longer explanation but I ran out of time - however, I probably would just be repeating things I've said many times before, for example here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - perhaps some of that would be helpful.

You're a fine HN contributor and obviously a genuine user and I hope I didn't come across as critical! From our side it's just standard HN moderation practice. The way we deal with titles has been stable for many years. It isn't entirely mechanical, there are many subtleties (back to the nuance thing) but the core rules have served the site really well. THe main thing we want to avoid is having the title field be a mini-genre where whoever makes the submission gets to put their spin on the article.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-17 18:09:27+00:00
> Indeed, most of SVBs customers were those who had almost zero business finance experience. There were lots of startups but there were also lots of normal businesses and non-profits in the Bay Area that used SVB.

The thing is that you don't need to be a financially sophisticated. Why are they making companies without talking to a CPA? They can get an account with PayChex and they will literally handle everything related with payroll. If your average mom and pop restaurant didn't do this we would fault them for being irresponsible.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-17 18:09:32+00:00
> Sentences can't be extended without additional convictions.

This is technically true but substantively false. Fixed duration sentences in most US jurisdictions (life sentences are different) are come with essentially automatic substantial reductions for good behavior which are removable for poor behavior with minimal process, avoiding the hassle of judicial process for offenses in prison, and frequently “refusing work” is a cause for removing those reductions.

So, technically, its not an “increased sentence” for refusing work. But, in practice, that’s exactly how it functions.
by askonomm | 2026-02-17 18:09:50+00:00
It costs as much as your ID card costs by the government, and lasts as long as well. They are one and the same. Applying for a new ID card / national ID document in Estonia costs 35€ and the document is valid for 5 years. If you forget your PIN code, you can reset it with your PUK codes, but if you also lose your PUK codes you need to apply for a new ID card. The process for getting a new ID card from the moment you applied for it takes no more than 30 days. You can also have it fast tracked for 250€ and get it in 2 days.

But, like the parent said, you have many other options other than the physical ID-card as well. Most people these days use Mobiil-ID or SmartID, which works on your phone and even smart watch. SmartID is completely free and Mobiil-ID is tied to your phones carrier, so the cost varies, but it's a one-time set-up fee of around 5€. Mobiil-ID certificate also lasts 5 years.
by LegNeato | 2026-02-17 18:10:27+00:00
We aren't focused on performance yet (it is often workload and executor dependent, and as the post says we currently do some inefficient polling) but Rust futures compile down to state machines so they are a zero-cost abstraction.

The anticipated benefits are similar to the benefits of async/await on CPU: better ergonomics for the developer writing concurrent code, better utilization of shared/limited resources, fewer concurrency bugs.
by munk-a | 2026-02-17 18:10:48+00:00
PHP went through a similar effort a while back to just clear out places like Stackoverflow of terrible out of date advice (e.g. posts advocating magic_quotes). LLMs make this a slightly different problem because, for the most part, once the bad advice is in the model it's never going away. In theory there's an easier to test surface around how good the advice it's giving is but trying to figure out how it got to that conclusion and correct it for any future models is arcane. It's unlikely that model trainers will submit their RC models to various communities to make sure it isn't lying about those specific topics so everything needs to happen in preparation of the next generation and relying on the hope that you've identified the bad source it originally trained on and that the model will actually prioritize training on that same, now corrected, source.
by password4321 | 2026-02-17 18:11:07+00:00
> often even their comments will all be fully LLM-generated

This really bothers me, coming here asking for human feedback (basically: strangers spending time on their behalf) then dumping it into the slop generator pretending it is even slightly appreciated. It wouldn't even be that much more work to prompt the LLM to hide its tone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992#46396486) but even that is too much.
by lawstkawz | 2026-02-17 18:11:43+00:00
Having grown up rural, fixing farm equipment, rebuilding cars, which propelled me towards a degree in electrical engineering (and after that an MSc in math), my colleagues the last 20 years have watched a lot of TV and played all the video games but can barely bake a potato.

"Unaccountable elites" are enabled by know-nothings in corporate management, software engineering teams, accounting, HR "just following orders".

The lack of muscle memory to be self sufficient keeps people in their lane and unable to look away, fix their own stuff, make their own stuff.

When labor knows nothing but just following orders leadership is empowered to build and fill gulags; what are the people going to do? Resist en masse? Not when they are addicted to GrubHub delivery of Subway.
Ask HN: What's stopping you from running autonomous agents today?
by zweeki | 2026-02-17 18:11:43+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with autonomous agents and tried setting one up on a basic VPS yesterday. To my surprise, the entire stack was running in under 15 minutes.

It can already:
– browse
– execute tasks
– run tools
– automate workflows
– interact with APIs

What’s interesting is that this now works without GPUs or expensive infra.

However, the setup process is still rough:
– security
– API key management
– monitoring
– uptime
– scaling
– model switching
– cost tracking

I’m considering building a managed platform where:
• You bring your own VPS
• You own your data
• Setup + maintenance are automated
• Agents can run continuously

Before committing, I wanted to ask:
Would you actually use something like this?

If yes:
– What use cases?
– Biggest friction today?
– What would make this 10x more useful?
– Would you trust a third-party layer for this?

Trying to validate if this is a real need or just early excitement.
by xrd | 2026-02-17 18:12:05+00:00
I agree with your sentiment but I no longer think empathy is a good long term plan.

One of my favorite books is Excellent Cadavers. It's about two judges in Sicily who systematically rooted out the Mafia. And were both assassinated for their work.

The moral is: action is necessary. Trump is hoping we all stop at trying to find empathy for his team.
by elektronika | 2026-02-17 18:12:19+00:00
> The reason for the "talent shortage" (aka "talent more expensive than we'd like") is really just because hardware design is a niche field that most people a) don't need to do, b) can't access because almost all the tools are proprietary and c) can't afford, outside of tiny FPGAs.

Mostly B. Even if you work in company that does both you'll rarely get a chance to touch the hardware as a software developer because all the EDA tools are seat-licensed, making it an expensive gamble to let someone who doesn't have domain experience take a crack at it. If you work at a verilog shop you can sneak in verilator, but the digital designers tend to push back in favor of vendor tools.
by agos | 2026-02-17 18:12:27+00:00
again, "widely available" should not be intended in the general sense but as a much more precise industry term. "Baseline widely available" is defined[1] as a feature which has been available on all the core browsers (Chrome desktop and Android, Edge, Firefox desktop and Android, Safari on Mac and iOS) for two and a half years

[1]: https://web.dev/baseline
by BeeOnRope | 2026-02-17 18:12:41+00:00
What I mean is that we look at a function in isolation and see that it doesn't have any "dead code", e.g.,:

int factorial(int x) {
if (x < 0) throw invalid_input();
// compute factorial ...
}

This doesn't have any dead code in a static examination: at compilation-time, however, this function may be compiled multiple times, e.g., as factorial(5) or factorial(x) where x is known to be non-negative by range analysis. In this case, the `if (x < 0)` is simply pruned away as "dead code", and you definitely want this! It's not a minor thing, it's a core component of an optimizing compiler.

This same pruning is also responsible for the objectionable pruning away of dead code in the examples of compilers working at cross-purposes to programmers, but it's not easy to have the former behavior without the latter, and that's also why something like -Wdead-code is hard to implement in a way which wouldn't give constant false-positives.
by madihaa | 2026-02-17 18:12:48+00:00
The scary implication here is that deception is effectively a higher order capability not a bug. For a model to successfully "play dead" during safety training and only activate later, it requires a form of situational awareness. It has to distinguish between I am being tested/trained and I am in deployment.

It feels like we're hitting a point where alignment becomes adversarial against intelligence itself. The smarter the model gets, the better it becomes at Goodharting the loss function. We aren't teaching these models morality we're just teaching them how to pass a polygraph.
by Bender | 2026-02-17 18:12:48+00:00
I too was curious because I could not access the funding section so I asked Gemini since I figured it would have access and it said:

- According to the funding and disclosure sections of the article, the research was primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

and then

- The Nurses’ Health Study (NHS): Supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

- The Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS): Supported by grants from the NCI and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

- Specific Grants: Additional funding for the analysis of cognitive decline and dementia outcomes often comes from the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

All the coffee I drink was freeze dried several years ago before prices went up.
by edgineer | 2026-02-17 18:12:50+00:00
The only case of public urination -> sex offender which people can point to is Juan Matamoros. He claims this, but the actual case is too old to verify it, and we should not take his word for it.

Arrested in Massachusetts in 1986, charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness, sentenced to two years.

As of [0] lived in Florida, and was in jail for violating probation on a charge of cocaine possession with the intent to sell.

From the article:
Paul Mishkin, the Boston lawyer who represented Matamoros in 1986, could not recall details of the case this week, but said it was clear the judge considered the incident very serious.

“He [Matamoros] told his side of the story to the judge, but clearly there was evidence that made the judge disagree,” said Mishkin. “A two-year sentence in this incident is a fairly severe sentence. You’d have to think there’s evidence to support that.”

[0] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2007/03/21/long-ago-charge-t...
by dpe82 | 2026-02-17 18:12:57+00:00
It's wild that Sonnet 4.6 is roughly as capable as Opus 4.5 - at least according to Anthropic's benchmarks. It will be interesting to see if that's the case in real, practical, everyday use. The speed at which this stuff is improving is really remarkable; it feels like the breakneck pace of compute performance improvements of the 1990s.
by thrance | 2026-02-17 18:13:12+00:00
Yet he didn't feel the need to hide the plane he received from the Saudis, or the gold bars he got from tech companies. Hell, he even bragged about those. Because there's no one able and willing to stop his naked corruption, he has zero reason to hide it. Shamelessness is his signature, after all. No, his coins were organically fed by people who believe his lies.
by danans | 2026-02-17 18:14:08+00:00
It's probably difficult to find out (but someone here could probably analyze the blockchain), but it would be interesting to know the mean and median stake of the investors who got wiped out.

If the mean is large, it's mostly an off-the-books bribery scheme. If the average stake is small, it's mostly a pump-and-dump con of regular people.

But it was probably just a gambling scheme with just one big bet, where as ever, the house always wins.