MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overgard | 2026-02-20 21:28:40+00:00
I don't want to speak too much out of my depth here, I'm still learning how these things work on a mechanical level, but my understanding of how these things "reason" is it seems like they're more or less having a conversation with themselves. IE, burning a lot of tokens in the hopes that the follow up questions and answers it generates leads to a better continuation of the conversation overall. But just like talking to a human, you're likely to come up with better ideas when you're talking to someone else, not just yourself, so the human in the loop seems pretty important to get the AI to remix things into something genuinely new and useful.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-20 21:28:55+00:00
Now at the bottom it has a few tabs: Chats, Updates, ...

Updates are broadcasted, but they disappear after 24 hours.

Step 1) Keep updates for a week, later forever

Step 2) Mix Chats and Updates

Step 3) Add a few relevant patrocinated posts

Step 4) Change the css from green to blue

Step 5) Profit
by tkp-415 | 2026-02-20 21:29:14+00:00
My first use case of an LLM for security research was feeding Gemini Semgrep scan results of an open source repo. It definitely was a great way to get the LLM to start looking at something, and provide a usable sink + source flow for manual review.

I assumed I was still dealing with lots of false positives from Gemini due to using the free version and not being able to have it memorize the full code base. Either way combining those two tools makes the review process a lot more enjoyable.
by btschaegg | 2026-02-20 21:29:42+00:00
Got another one:

Hugo Weaving laughs manically.

It assigns this to the original The Matrix and doesn't mention the sequels. I guess it can't distinguish between them?

Edit: And another one :)

A western hero wants to retire but is forced into a last big battle against all odds by his biggest fan.

(My Name is Nobody)

Aaand another one:

Two men identify classical music pieces by the ads that use them as background music.

(The Intouchables)
by dboreham | 2026-02-20 21:30:38+00:00
It wasn't a "rumor" it was explicit deliberate disinformation. Unfortunately many people in the US have insufficient education and accurate news feeds to realize.

See also: disinformation that "other countries charge us the same tariffs", which turns out to be either a plain lie, or they mean VAT (a sales tax, like we have in the US).
by lysace | 2026-02-20 21:30:50+00:00
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-tariff-ruling-updates

Furious about the defeat, Trump said he will impose a global 10% tariff as an alternative while pressing his trade policies by other means. The new tariffs would come under a law that restricts them to 150 days.

Don't you americans have some kind of mechanism for removing a president from office when the trust is no longer there? I remember hearing a lot about it during the Clinton era in the 90s.
by maurycyz | 2026-02-20 21:31:19+00:00
Very predictable: If Facebook (or any other social media site) showed you what you wanted to see --- stuff from your friends --- you would be satisfied and leave.

... but Facebook makes money off ads. They don't want you leaving. They want you to stay online all day.

Instead, they show you brainrot: content interesting enough to keep you on the site, but shallow enough that you are always thirsty for more. However, making this content is still a lot of work, and isn't what most people want to do: It takes a lot of brainrot to keep you trapped 24/7.

Slop requires no effort, costs next to nothing, and fills the "brainrot" niche perfectly. Facebook doesn't care that people are posting bot content, because it's the perfect thing to make them money.
by czbond | 2026-02-20 21:31:21+00:00
Agree - yet, security researchers and our wider community also needs to recognize that vulnerabilities are foreign to most non-technical users.

Cold approach vulnerability reports to non-technical organizations quite frankly scare them. It might be like someone you've never met telling you the door on your back bedroom balcony can be opened with a dummy key, and they know because they tried it.

Such organizations don't kmow what to do. They're scared, thinking maybe someone also took financial information, etc. Internal strife and lots of discussions usually occur with lots of wild specualation (as the norm) before any communication back occurs.

It just isn't the same as what security forward organizations do, so it often becomes as a surprise to engineers when "good deed" seems to be taken as malice.
by bsder | 2026-02-20 21:31:24+00:00
> Do you agree with countries doing the opposite to the US?

Yes, please! Maximally efficient is minimally robust.

We need robustness in the global economy more than some megajillionaire needs another half cent per customer in profit.

In addition, we need competition in a lot of areas where we have complete consolidation right now. The only way to get that is to give some protection to the little guys while they grow.
by _verandaguy | 2026-02-20 21:32:03+00:00
This isn't the argument against traditional payment systems you seem to think it is.

There's a reason most people in well-banked countries use plastic over cash these days, convenience and consumer protection are it; and even with cash, the barrier to entry for fraud is higher since at some point that cash will come into contact with the banking world, and will have to be accounted for. If your cash flow is suspicious enough, it'll be audited.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 21:32:20+00:00
> I've seen people claiming that they have a bunch of paid accounts that they use to fetch the pages, which is, of course, ridiculous.

The curious part is that they allow web scraping arbitrary pages on demand. So if a publisher could put in a lot of arbitrary requests to archive their own pages and see them all coming from a single account or small subset of accounts.

I hope they haven't been stealing cookies from actual users through a botnet or something.
by CosmicShadow | 2026-02-20 21:32:33+00:00
Yet my wife uses it daily and has to keep 16 separate tabs open to people and bands she wants updates from because Facebook refuses to put them on her feed, despite her commenting on every post and story from them; she instead gets all these random shitty "suggested" posts from things that she would never have interest in or actively hates and FB should know that. She constantly mutes and reports shit. I get the same thing, but I don't use FB nearly as much. Those same bands have to spam repeatedly because despite having tens of thousands of fans they show everyone that their posts are only shown to 16 people. It's a shit site that maybe works for some folks, but not at all for us active or not.
by rkeene2 | 2026-02-20 21:32:41+00:00
Good news ! It is against the law (i.e., illegal) for a US President to impose tariffs (on a whim or otherwise) -- a US President doing so is doing so illegally and without constitutional authority!

When the US President commits crimes as the US President, he has absolute immunity from prosecution (otherwise, he might not be emboldened to break the law) so there is no judicial recourse, but the US Congress can still see the illegal activity and impeach and remove him from office to stop the execution of illegal activity. As our representatives within the US Government, they are responsible to us to enact our legislative outcomes. It appears they have determined that the illegal activity is what we wanted, or there would be articles of impeachment for these illegal acts.

The legislative branch can of course deliberately impose tariffs at any time for the reasons you listed.
by jimmyhmiller | 2026-02-20 21:32:53+00:00
I try to explain what I mean the next few sentences of the post. I have spent a good amount of my career jumping into fairly large code bases. I don't need to take it quite so step by step. I have seen enough code to take shortcuts, to guess at what is there.

But telling people that isn't helpful. I try at the beginning to give more step by step of how I would get into understand the code base if I didn't already know these kinds of shortcuts. (I'm not sure I could write those down, they are just know how and heuristics, like how when you are a starting to code a missing ; can take a much longer time to see than as you've been programming for a while)
by qurio_dev | 2026-02-20 21:33:17+00:00
Thanks for the insight, alexhans. You hit the nail on the head regarding the deterministic cycle—CPCs were born out of that exact frustration.

To answer your question: Yes, Meta Thinking is the eventual north star. Right now, I’m focused on the "Architectural" logic of solving a single problem, but the goal is to help students recognize their own patterns across different domains.

I don't have an RSS feed or newsletter set up just yet, but given your interest, I’ll prioritize adding a simple "Signals" feed to the site so supporters can follow the technical journey.
A question for you (or anyone else in the thread): As a solo dev with zero marketing budget and no sales background, I’m struggling with how to get this in front of the right parents without getting lost in the "AI hype" noise. Since I’m self-funding the API costs, I can't afford big ad spends.

If you have any advice on organic growth for a tool that's intentionally designed to be "harder" (more friction) than the competition, I’d love to hear it.
by thegrim33 | 2026-02-20 21:33:19+00:00
"What I find annoying is repetitive stuff that's just typing"

..

"Where I can't trust AI is if it needs to copy paste / duplicate code"

???

AI takes away the "boring", "tedius" parts of coding for you, yet you at the same time don't trust it to even just duplicate code from one place to another?
by smackeyacky | 2026-02-20 21:33:38+00:00
It initially surprised me that Country music was one of the genres infested with Clanker tunes. Then you realise that modern country music is already very formularised in the same way dance music is (another heavily infected genre).

One recommendation that came up on YouTube music for me was Ella Langley and I had a hell of a time working out whether she was a clanker or not. I think she’s real but there are Ella Langley AI generators now and half the music videos of her songs are clanker morgs.

It’s getting confusing and annoying but country music itself might have to share some of the blame for making itself so homogenous.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-20 21:33:49+00:00
It doesn't matter to any of these companies what their users get out of it so long as those "dumb fucks[1]" keep coming back to the trough and slurping up the slop. Eat your rage bait and like it, piggy. Keep that attention economy roaring!

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
by dlisboa | 2026-02-20 21:34:41+00:00
You have to see there's a hefty dose of hypocrisy in this, right? American might has been used, quite extensively, to impose unfavorable conditions to local companies in their own soil in favor of American companies. Multiple American multi national corporations have used exploitative labor conditions in underdeveloped countries to prop up their own margins. The American government has used multiple coercive tools to de-industrialize many nations and has, in the 21st century, an explicitly paternalistic attitude towards the Western Hemisphere with literal stealing of their resources.

I understand and even respect when someone says "I'm American so I wish to maintain the status quo where the US can undercut other nations but they can't undercut us". But if there's some rose tinted view of how the US is actually the morally aggrieved one, I just can't bear it.
by rdiddly | 2026-02-20 21:35:10+00:00
So toward the end of last year, the FBI was after archive.today, presumably either for keeping track of things the current administration doesn't want tracked, or maybe for the paywall thing (on behalf of rich donors/IP owners). https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-is-trying-to-unmask-the-registra...

That effort appears to have gone nowhere, so now suddenly archive.today commits reputational suicide? I don't suppose someone could look deeper into this please?
by mgiampapa | 2026-02-20 21:36:06+00:00
IDK, I still find my Facebook and Instagram feeds very topical and useful to me, so I keep using them. I also curate aggressively, have a wide variety of interests and a few hundred close connections. It could be that I am just fitting into what the algo is steering to, but I don't get the low quality stuff that OP is complaining about.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-20 21:36:10+00:00
> No, I don't think you have the inerhent right to install any apk you desire, if their OS is designed to prohibit it. You should be free to try to alter their OS any way you want, but they should not have to make it easy.

> And the argument is the same lower down the stack. You shouldn't be able to tell someone how to design their firmware.

Earlier, you claimed,

> They should be able to install any software they want.

but it sounds like actually you only mean that users should be allowed to futilely attempt it, not that there should actually be allowed to run software at will. If the firmware only allows running a signed OS, and that OS only allows running approved apps, then the user is not able to install any software they want.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-20 21:36:21+00:00
> You should be able to install your own operating system

So you draw the line between the bootloader and the OS. Other people draw the line between the OS and applications. Most (nearly all) people can't write either, so for them it is just part of the device.

> you don't get to tell them how theirs should operate.

I paid for it, and I allow it to be legal in the jurisdiction I (partly) control. So it is not only theirs anymore.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 21:36:23+00:00
That was in an election year after Obama had already appointed two other Justices and the vacancy was the deciding vote, and Garland was more of a centrist than the previous nominees but was still left-leaning and would have flipped the court. Then they definitely lose if they confirm him but maybe win if there is a President from the other party the next year, and on top of that as long as they held the Senate even if they didn't retake the Presidency they could just confirm Garland in the fall instead of the summer.

That's not what it looks like in most cases. In the first half of any term the next election can't gain you the Presidency but it could lose you the Senate. On top of that, when it isn't the deciding vote, e.g. the first of either Alito or Thomas to be replaced, a moderate is a much better hedge than the coin flip even in the second half of a term, because if you take the moderate and then lose the next election at least you have the moderate in the other party's majority, meanwhile if you win the next election then you keep the majority regardless.

Which is to say, that's only likely to happen in the next few years if it happens for the second of the two Justices in the second half of a Presidential term and the Democrats lose the subsequent Presidential election.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-20 21:36:49+00:00
> which is far from being a primary feature,

I don't know that I agree. If the adblocking functionality has gaps, then I will likely not use it for reading stories, and if I'm already opening up HN in my browser w/ ublock origin, then I might as well stay there and comment. Reading the article may not be the 'primary feature', but strong adblocking does seem like table stakes.
by vablings | 2026-02-20 21:37:06+00:00
Absolutely horrible according to DIVE TALK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NsjpiPK7o

Insurance company would not cover a decompression chamber for someone who has severe decompression sickness, it is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate remediation.

The idea that you possible neurological DCS and you must argue on the phone with an insurance rep about if you need to be life-flighted to the nearest chamber is just.... Mind blowing
by tass | 2026-02-20 21:37:10+00:00
I don't mean a reasonable pilot. Would a reasonable person expect autopilot in a plane prevents a plane from crashing into something that the pilot was accelerating towards while physically overriding the controls. The claim is that autopilot should not have been able to crash even with the driver actively overriding it and accelerating into that crash.

To me, it's reasonable to assume that the "autopilot" in a car I drive (especially back in 2019) is going to defer to any input override that I provide. I wouldn't want it any other way.
by xurukefi | 2026-02-20 21:37:13+00:00
Because it works too reliably. Imagine what that would entail. Managing thousands of accounts. You would need to ensure to strip the account details form archived peages perfectly. Every time the website changes its code even slightly you are at risk of losing one of your accounts. It would constantly break and would be an absolute nightmare to maintain. I've personally never encountered such a failure on a paywalled news article. archive.today managed to give me a non-paywalled clean version every single time.

Maybe they use accounts for some special sites. But there is definetly some automated generic magic happening that manages to bypass paywalls of news outlets. Probably something Googlebot related, because those websites usually give Google their news pages without a paywall, probably for SEO reasons.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-20 21:37:15+00:00
If you find the arrogance abhorrent, I wonder how you characterize some of the actually bad stuff that politicians get up to.

Personally, I don't expect people on the right to come around. I am mystified by people on the center who looked at Trump and Harris and decided Trump was the way to go, or even just didn't care. If you'd like to enlighten me why they did that, I'd be interested.

My real confusion is people on the left who did this. They decided that Harris didn't say the right things about Israel, or they were upset at not having a primary, or they were still upset about Bernie, and decided to stay home. That is baffling.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-20 21:38:08+00:00
Does it have to be a government? Why not a third party non-profit? The white hat gets shielded, and the non-profit has credible lawyers which makes suing them harder than individuals.

The idea is to make it easier to fix the vulnerability than to sue to shut people up.

For credit assignment, the person could direct people to the non profit’s website which would confirm discovery by CVE without exposing too many details that would allow the company to come after the individual.

This business of going to the company directly and hoping they don’t sue you is bananas in my opinion.
by Buttons840 | 2026-02-20 21:38:14+00:00
I've said before that we need strong legal protections for white-hat and even grey-hat security researchers or hackers. As long as they report what they have found and follow certain rules, they need to be protected from any prosecution or legal consequences. We need to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The problem is this is literally a matter of national security, and currently we sacrifice national security for the convenience of wealthy companies.

Also, we all have our private data leaked multiple times per month. We see millions of people having their private information leaked by these companies, and there are zero consequences. Currently, the companies say, "Well, it's our code, it's our responsibility; nobody is allowed to research or test the security of our code because it is our code and it is our responsibility." But then, when they leak the entire nation's private data, it's no longer their responsibility. They're not liable.

As security issues continue to become a bigger and bigger societal problem, remember that we are choosing to hamstring our security researchers. We can make a different choice and decide we want to utilize our security researchers instead, for the benefit of all and for better national security. It might cause some embarrassment for companies though, so I'm not holding my breath.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-20 21:38:15+00:00
Again, all of those are metaphors that describe a feeling and not anything concrete. Like what makes a codebase feel like "strolling through a well-tended garden"--there has to be some objective measures for that, right? Some things like "it's easier to maintain" or "it has really good readability," etc? Why are we not talking specifics of this "taste" instead of using The Karate Kid wax-on wax-off type metaphors?

And that is my central gripe with this piece--it doesn't care about the details and handwaves everything bad as having "bad taste." That is fundamentally lazy imo.
by fullstop | 2026-02-20 21:38:24+00:00
I unfollowed everyone except for a few family members. It really wants to give you the infinite scroll and started showing me some really bizarre stuff. So much AI slop, and random content.

For about a week it kept showing me nursing mothers, no matter how many times I said "I don't want to see this" and blocking. I have no problem with women nursing, but these were done in a way to be sexually provocative.

After that it started showing me AI houses and kitchens, with kitchen taps but no sink basin.

I just gave up at that point.
by andai | 2026-02-20 21:38:46+00:00
>The overall suffusion of this [slop] into the broader scene rightly has the more sensitive of us up in arms. It's noise, it's spam, it's a perversion of the years of skill we've spent accruing.

I realized recently that slop is not worthless. It actually has negative value! Just think of the Android app store. There are gems there, to be sure, but the gems are washed away by the sea of slop.
by koshergweilo | 2026-02-20 21:40:29+00:00
I found this quote from the AI executive slightly reassuring:

"As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," Sharma added. "Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us."

While I'm sad to see someone who's been with the company for so long leave, it's undeniable that the Xbox brand has really faltered under his watch
by ecto | 2026-02-20 21:40:30+00:00
loon is a lisp! https://github.com/ecto/loon

[type Shape
[Circle Float]
[Rect Float Float]]

[fn area [s]
[match s
[Circle r] => [* 3.14 r r]
[Rect w h] => [* w h]]]

[area [Circle 5.0]]
by jagged-chisel | 2026-02-20 21:40:49+00:00
I’m an experienced Senior Software Engineer. I’ve never cracked under pressure. I’m pretty sure I haven’t cracked psychologically. Maybe I just don’t get The Lingo and I have no idea how cracked I have become.

I might categorize myself as a “crack software developer” - is this what they meant, or am I totally out of touch?
by cableshaft | 2026-02-20 21:41:33+00:00
I miss my fast food job (and especially my retail job), to a certain extent. I also worked in a warehouse and a factory for a bit, and there are certain things I miss about those as well. I don't miss the low pay though. And my health is no longer good enough (in part because I've been too sedentary in office jobs the past 20 years) that I can no longer stand for hours at a time (not even that, I can no longer stand in place for more than a few minutes at a time).

I could completely forget about my job when I got home, didn't have to somewhat keep a framework of some giant corporate spaghetti code soup in my head to a certain extent for months or years on end, and interacted with people way, way more than I do now, and made deeper friendships with my coworkers.

Also there was no risk of me working on something for six months and it get cancelled or shelved before it gets used by anyone. At least in fast food and retail jobs you're helping multiple people (sometimes hundreds of people) every day. In my corporate career I've often ended up working on software that only has a handful of high paying clients, or only used internally and not client facing.

If I could justify the insane pay cut and could manage it physically I'd probably do something like be a barista nowadays. Or be a teacher, maybe.