MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pizlonator | 2026-02-23 19:47:12+00:00
> I don’t think GP is moving the goalposts at all

Thank you :-)

> It would be very hard to accomplish.

Yeah it's a super hard problem especially when you provide safety using the type system!

The work the Swift team did here is hella impressive.

> But if you could wave a magic wand and make it “done”, it would be huge for rust adoption.

Yeah!
by woodruffw | 2026-02-23 19:47:37+00:00
I think the standard for public resources should be higher than this: it’s not good enough for it to be possibly useful, it has to be in fact useful. TFA provides evidence of the chatbot being the opposite of useful, beyond telling people to stick things in their butts.

(Or in other words: show me something you’d ask a chatbot here, and I’ll show you something you can put on a single HTML page.)
by NortySpock | 2026-02-23 19:47:43+00:00
There are single player scenarios in Beyond All Reason, though not yet a campaign with a narrative.

There are AI opponents and you can configure friendly and hostile AI players. There are also two dedicated "beat waves of enemies then final boss" pve modes.

There's not a real theme other than "robot armies built by commanders with exponentially scaling economy".

There is a lore/backstory/setting planned to be released on March 8th.
by ashertrockman | 2026-02-23 19:48:08+00:00
A) The "IP" they're concerned about isn't the same IP you speak of. It's the investment in RL training / GPU hours that it takes to go from a base model to a usable frontier model.

B) I don't think the story is so clean. The distilled models often have regressions in important areas like safety and security (see, for example, NIST's evaluation of DeepSeek models). This might be why we don't see larger companies releasing their own tiny reasoning models so much. And copying isn't exactly healthy competition. Of course, I do find it useful as a researcher to experiment with small reasoning models -- but I do worry that the findings don't generalize well beyond that setting.

C) Maybe because we want lots of different perspectives on building models, lots of independent innovation. I think it's bad if every model is downstream of a couple "frontier" models. It's an issue of monoculture, like in cybersecurity more generally.

D) Is it really 90% of the performance, or are they just extremely targeted to benchmarks? I'd be cautious about running said local models for, e.g., my agent with access to the open web.
by Aedelon | 2026-02-23 19:48:20+00:00
Yeah, that HF dataset page is rough. 247+ threads, mostly DMCA reports, archive-locked fics scraped without consent, dataset reuploaded after takedown. The AO3 community had every reason to be furious.

Not RWKV-specific though. Most large corpora have the same sources in them, they just don't list them explicitly. Whether the transparency makes it better or worse is a real question.
by Sabrees | 2026-02-23 19:48:39+00:00
Payload is whatever you (or your startup) want it to be.

For me personally mechanical between row weeding is step one, then laser in-row weeding.

1. These on some linear actuators: https://www.getearthquake.com/products/fusion-drill-powered-... (they work surprisingly well)

2. Beyond that for in-row weeding a engraving laser on a Delta: https://github.com/Agroecology-Lab/Open-Weeding-Delta/tree/m...

Or if I'm feeling rich by then this third party weeder looks pretty good https://github.com/Laudando-Associates-LLC/LASER

3. For Seeding my salad crop
https://reagtools.co.uk/collections/jang

4. Harvesting my salad crop
https://reagtools.co.uk/products/quick-cut-greens-harvester

I live on a farm, I have sold salad commercially, these are largely tools I already use and own, just moved about by motors rather than muscles.

This is a smaller scale thing than arable. We're talking a step up from manual horticulture (which is actually what still feeds much of the world)
by WorldPeas | 2026-02-23 19:49:07+00:00
My parents took the same approach and it helped, but I will anecdotally point out that kids have played video games under covers for a while, even when I was young, I remember getting in trouble for playing this spyro game n' watch clone from mcdonalds at night, or gameboy with one of those lamps that plugged into the serial port. When I become a parent, I think I'd feel understanding of something like this, but would likely still only give them access to hardware like cell-enabled apple watches or DSes. The issue I take with modern games like CoC is that they are psychologically engineered to be mentally harmful, and push you to spend real money on fake things. I've seen many peers who were engaged in CoC as kids get into online gambling and sports gambling recently, it doesn't sit right.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 19:49:14+00:00
The ID check laws are about matching an identity to a user account.

If the identity check was blind it wouldn't actually be an identity check. It would be "this person has access to an adult identity".

If there is truly no logging or centralization, there is no limit on how many times a single ID could be used.

So all it takes is one of those adult blind signatures to be leaked online and all the kids use it to verify their accounts. It's a blind process, so there's no way to see if it's happening.

Even if there was a block list, you would get older siblings doing it for all of their younger siblings' friends because there is no consequence. Or kids stealing their parents' signature and using it for all of their friends.
by malshe | 2026-02-23 19:49:32+00:00
Abstract: We present the first representative international data on firm-level AI use. We survey almost 6000 CFOs, CEOs and executives from stratified firm samples across the US, UK, Germany and Australia. We find four key facts. First, around 70% of firms actively use AI, particularly younger, more productive firms. Second, while over two thirds of top executives regularly use AI, their average use is only 1.5 hours a week, with one quarter reporting no AI use. Third, firms report little impact of AI over the last 3 years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment or productivity. Fourth, firms predict sizable impacts over the next 3 years, forecasting AI will boost productivity by 1.4%, increase output by 0.8% and cut employment by 0.7%. We also survey individual employees who predict a 0.5% increase in employment in the next 3 years as a result of AI. This contrast implies a sizable gap in expectations, with senior executives predicting reductions in employment from AI and employees predicting net job creation.
by this-is-why | 2026-02-23 19:49:37+00:00
You are 100% correct. I find the attitude that everything should be free a bit tedious. But then again, why does the truth have to be paywalled while lies are free. I believe it is a detriment to society that we cannot publicly find reporting. Yes I know now come the cynics who will argue bias. But that’s just a failure of reading comprehension, not fair reporting doctrine.

So yes. I’m with you 100%.
by torginus | 2026-02-23 19:49:38+00:00
Can't anyone basically sanction entire wallets, and mark them, and make some legislation that any transaction involving coins originating from those wallets be rejected by all payment processors and exchanges in regulated markets?

I mean, they obviously can, but probably they have elected not to do so. But if crypto becomes a tool in the hands of enemy nation states, such regulation can't be soo far off.

Though that would create a secondary market for these 'tainted' coins, and would probably have far-reaching consequences into the crypto ecosystem.
by toast0 | 2026-02-23 19:49:47+00:00
> NES Super Marios Brothers 3 with the slot machine game after each level

a) It's either Super Mario Brothers or Super Marios Brother

b) SMB2 (aka Super Mario USA in Japan) has the Bonus Chance slot machine after each level, SMB3 does have the Goal card at the end of each level with a match 3 mechanic, but I don't consider that to really be a slot machine.
by binarysolo | 2026-02-23 19:49:53+00:00
Practically speaking, in 2026, are there any big ticket items an American could buy abroad and have the travel economics work out to their favor?

The big one I do is medical tourism, though I have family in Taiwan. I've done a bit of dental works where the cost in the US is $3k-$5k after insurance, and at Taiwan is maybe $300-$500 (10x diff) cash pay. I've also done scan-all-the-things health spas in a Taiwan hospital for $300-$500, where American equivalents are again 10x.
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-23 19:49:56+00:00
I dunno man. IMHO, kids should not have access to devices of any kind until the brain develops. Im not sure what that number is, but lets say its 15. At that point, we as parents need to be role models and let kids make mistakes. There is this whole idea that if you focus too much on security, you open the door for increased risk. I feel this applies to this situation[0].

When I was a kid, when I reached a certain age, 13 I think, there was nothing my parents good could do to stop me from learning from my own mistakes. I think using blanket laws and tech to curb internet behavior is just going to backfire.

[0]: https://news.clemson.edu/the-safer-you-feel-the-less-safely-...
by shevy-java | 2026-02-23 19:50:21+00:00
Some time ago I was perma-banned from the Ladybird github repository. One can say it is warranted, or not (people have their own opinion; I completely disagree with their decision). Now that this has happened, I can speak more freely about Ladybird.

Naturally this will be somewhat critical, but I need to first put things into context. I do believe that we really need an alternative to Google dominating our digital life. So I don't object that we need alternatives; whether Ladybird will be an alternative, or not, will be shown in the future. Most assuredly we need competition as otherwise the Google empire moves forward like Darth Vader and the empire (but nowhere near as cool as that; I find Google boring and lame. Even skynet in Terminator was more fun than Google. Google just annoys the heck out of me, but back to the topic of browsers).

So with that out of the way ... Ladybird is kind of ... erratic.

Some time ago, perhaps two months or three, Andreas suddenly announced "Swift WILL BE THE FOREVER FUTURE! C++ sucks!!!". People back then were scratching heads. It was not clear why Swift is suddenly our saviour.

Ok, now we learn - "wait ... swift is NOT the future, but RUST is!!!". Ok ... more head-scratching. We are having a deja-vu moment here... but it gets stranger:

"We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story."

and then:

"I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation"

So ... the expertise will be with regards to ... relying on AI to autogenerate code in ... Rust.

I am not saying this is a 100% fail strategy, mind you. AI can generate useful code, we could see that. But I am beginning to have more and more doubts about the Ladybird project. Add to this the breakage of URLs that are used by thousands or million people world-wide (see the issues reported on the github tracker); or also the fact that, once you scale-up and more and more people use ladybird, will you be able to keep up with issue trackers? Will you ban more people?

In a way it is actually good that I am no longer allowed to make comments on their repository because I can now be a lot more critical and ask questions that the ladybird team will have to evaluate. Will ladybird blend? Will it succeed? Will it fail? Yes, it is way too early to make an evaluation, so we should evaluate in some months or so, perhaps end of this year. But I am pretty certain the criticism will increase, at the least the moment they decide to leave beta (or alpha or whatever model they use; they claimd they want a first working version in this year for Linux users, let's see whether that works).
by nomel | 2026-02-23 19:50:27+00:00
I understand, but that's my point. Currently the case is 25% of the battery. Only the case can be removed. If you move the fragile guts of the battery into the frame (in no way reducing their mass), you're effectively turning that 25% case to 0%. So, the most you can save is 25% battery weight.

That doesn't really nudge the power density needle all that much, especially when you consider that you don't throw batteries out the back as their energy is depleted, as you do with fuels.
by klsdjfdlkfjsd | 2026-02-23 19:50:38+00:00
That's the official story, anyhow. I guess you haven't yet discovered that the official story is always bullshit.

I'll keep my C and I'll keep my LLM queries on my own hardware. Please feel free to keep sending your life to The Cloud and its nebulous owners.

Unfortunately, I don't currently have powerful enough hardware to run any LLM stuff at all. In fact my video card doesn't even support Vulkan. That's OK. I am waiting patiently for your AI bubble to burst and your Aeron chairs and Nvidia cards to be sold off at a steep discount to retail.

I did just upgrade to a new-to-me dual Xeon system with 40 cores and 128GB DDR4 RAM for $360 from some guy off Craigslist who didn't know what he had. I'll get a nice video card later from one of these AI guys, or a crypto guy. (Has that gone to zero yet? Haven't been paying any attention.)

By the way, thanks for beta testing all this software and hardware for me. Between a) not enslaving myself to a giant corp, b) not being data mined, c) missing out on all the early adopter razor blades and footguns, and d) last but certainly not least, buying up your hardware later for pennies on the dollar, I think I'm doing pretty well here.
by hinkley | 2026-02-23 19:51:28+00:00
Okay this is weird.

> The key advancements in Monday's disclosure involved doubling the number of tin drops to about 100,000 every second, and shaping them into plasma using two smaller laser bursts, as opposed to today's machines that use a single shaping burst.

This is covered in that video. Did they let him leak their Q1 plans?
by Eikon | 2026-02-23 19:52:14+00:00
> Vertically scaling primaries is also a fine choice, just keep that vertical limit in mind.

In practice, outside of extremely marginal use cases, you’ll have a hard time exceeding such a limit.
Merklemap [0] hosts a 100B-row, 40TB Postgres database on low-tier commodity hardware and things are more than fine; there are very few use cases where it would be an actual practical limit.

[0] https://www.merklemap.com/
Show HN: AIOffice – Terminal tabs don't scale past 3 AI agents, so I built this
by christianjung | 2026-02-23 19:52:26+00:00
I've been running multiple AI coding agents in parallel through Claude Code and Copilot CLI and imo once you get past 3 concurrent tasks, terminal tabs become unmanageable.

So I built AIOffice — a pixel-art virtual office where each agent sits at a desk. You walk around as the boss, assign work, and see everyone's status at a glance. When you need to interact with an agent, you walk over and chat.

How it works:
- Each agent is a real CLI process running in a PTY on your machine
- Server watches JSONL output, bridges messages over WebSocket
- Phaser renders it all as a pixel-art office with spatial awareness
- You chat with agents using their native CLI interfaces

The spatial metaphor turns out to be surprisingly useful — you naturally remember
"Bob is at the desk by the window working on the API" instead of "which tab was that Claude instance in?"

Runs on your machine and uses your CLI tools.
Built with TypeScript, Phaser 3, node-pty, and WebSockets.

Repo: https://github.com/ChristianFJung/AIOffice
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-02-23 19:52:41+00:00
It's hard to point to what's idiomatic given such low level fp primitives.

Something like https://github.com/composewell/streamly can go very fast and constant memory with 0 allocs.

Once linear types get better support, it would be nice.

Both Rust and Haskell are fairly high-level and I'd bet with proper primitives in both languages it is impossible to reason about register use or performance.
by baron816 | 2026-02-23 19:52:49+00:00
The old arguments were right. Americans live materially better lives than anyone else. People are disenchanted because of the things that can’t be outsourced (housing, education, healthcare) have become so expensive.

The America First doctrine, in practice, has meant using power to do things that nominally appear in our interest, but don’t account for the second and third order effects. ie bully allied nations into accepting high tariffs without reciprocating, which doesn’t account for our own industries being hurt by higher input prices, a new reluctance to enter the US market, less competition, etc.

Protecting US workers from competition nominally helps those select workers, but it also makes them uncompetitive, steers businesses from setting up shop here at all, makes things more expensive for US consumers, and reduces innovation and upskilling.
by rhdunn | 2026-02-23 19:53:12+00:00
COM is interesting as it implements interfaces using the C++ vtable layout, which can be done in C. Dynamic COM (DCOM) is used to provide interoperability with Visual Basic.

You can also access .NET/C# objects/interfaces via COM. It has an interface to allow you to get the type metadata but that isn't necessary. This makes it possible to e.g. get the C#/.NET exception stack trace from a C/C++ application.
by ignoramous | 2026-02-23 19:53:12+00:00
> As LLM become ubiquitous and code generation becomes cheap, the choice of language becomes more important.

I think, changes to languages/tooling to accomodate Agentic loops will become important.

> All of this assume that you care even a tiny bit about what is happening in your code. If you don't...

I mean, as software engineers, we most certainly do. I suspect there'll be a new class of "developers" who will have their own way of doing software, dealing with bugs, building debugging tools that suits their project's lifecycle etc; I suspect, it won't be similar to the kind of engineering taught and practiced today. LLM will be to software development what Relativity was to Astrophysics, imo: A fundamental & permanent shift.
by parineum | 2026-02-23 19:53:15+00:00
I'm waiting for the link between _Trump_ and alleged bribes to Clarence Thomas.

Despite the "where there's smoke there's fire" idiom, smoke is not fire. You still have to find the fire if you see smoke before you call it fire.

By the analogy, your going linking smoke A to smoke B to smoke C and claiming Fire A caused Fire C. The same broken logic you used in the linked thread.

Proposing an explanation that fits the facts doesn't prove that explanation correct and, more importantly, it doesn't disprove any other explanation that also fits the facts.

Anyway, I stopped responding to the previous thread because your conspiratorial thinking is impervious to argument. If I had noticed it was you I was replying to, I wouldn't have replied.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-23 19:53:22+00:00
Sure but wasn't his prosecution generally regarded as political? The Biden admin went hard against crypto towards the end largely to appease donors, at the disservice to consumers. Gary Gensler changed a lot of rules without notice, and targeted people who had previously looked towards the SEC for guidance and followed the rules. Certainly I remember (at least at the time) the arrest of CZ was regarded as political, which is presumably why he was later pardoned and not commuted
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-23 19:53:31+00:00
> That's not where the interesting discussion is. The interesting discussion is with the notion that free unregulated markets are universally good and will naturally lead to positive outcomes because...

The textbook desirable outcome is that competitive markets minimize suppliers'surplus which is good for consumers.

Not that this doesn't mean unregulated markets. Monopolies and oligopolies acting like a monopoly are textbook examples of pathological markets where suppliers can maximize their surplus.

I think pretty much everyone would agree that the current situation is a failure of regulation not over regulation. Regulator and legislation have been constantly weakened in the name of international competitiveness since Reagan.
by LeoPanthera | 2026-02-23 19:53:41+00:00
America is really now two Americas. The divide between traditional freedoms and neo-authoritarianism is getting wider. But America is so large that even the minority (just) that believes in freedom is still 167 million people. Even if only a small percentage of that number, from either side of the divide, believes in violent activism, things are going to get worse before they get better.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-23 19:53:42+00:00
I feel like the ending undermines the whole piece. Throwing your hands up and going "we should do nothing" isn't really a solution. If a compromise exists I think it's adding age requests on device setup. There wouldn't be any verification but it could be used as a way to limit access to content globally. Content provides would just need a simple API to check if the age range fits and move right along.

This puts more onus on parents and guardians to ensure their child's devices are set up correctly. The system wouldn't be perfect and people using something like Gentoo would be able to work around it, but I think it helps address the concerns. A framework would need to be created for content providers to enforce their own rating system but I don't think it's an impossible task. It obviously wouldn't cover someone not rating content operating out of Romania, but should be part of the accepted risk on an open internet.

Personally I do agree with the "do nothing" stance, but I don't think it's going to hold up among the wider public. The die is cast and far too many average people are supporting moves like this. So the first defense should be to steer that conversation in a better way instead of stonewalling.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 19:53:53+00:00
I tend to agree. The definitions overlap perfectly.

At the same time, I am having intuitive issues seeing "hot dog" as an idiom, vs just an ordinary noun. It certainly seems to follow noun rules, and fit into speech as one.

I don't know for sure that it's NOT an idiom though. I could just be wrong here, and have intuition in need of calibration.
by armcat | 2026-02-23 19:53:56+00:00
That's a soft distinction (distilling vs learning). If I read a chapter in a text book I am distilling the knowledge from that chapter into my own latent space - one would hope I learn something. Flipping it the other way, you could say that model from Lab Y is ALSO learning the model from Lab X. Not just "distilling". Hence my original comment - how deep does this go?
by iririririr | 2026-02-23 19:53:59+00:00
They would have been if they could patch and release under a day. They are not affected only because they lag behind a little.

Why do you dream things up? no chrome based browser will do html/js/css different. it's all hooked deep in the engine. they only add things on top and change the chrome (the confusingly named ux component)
by shevy-java | 2026-02-23 19:54:04+00:00
I think this is a good, realistic point of view.

Personally I think most programming languages have really ... huge problems. And the languages that are more fun to use, ruby or python, are slow. I wonder if we could have a great, effective, elegant language that is also slow. All that try end up with e. g. with a C++ like language.