MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-22 12:06:26+00:00
Foreign accents come from both.

It's true that when studying a foreign language, learning to read too early can harm your pronunciation. However, it is very difficult to learn new sounds that have no equivalent in your native language, and some languages have very restrictive phonology (like Italian and Japanese requiring a vowel at the end of every word) that their native speakers struggle to break out of.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-22 12:06:32+00:00
And if my prompt is a 10 page wall of text that I would otherwise take the time to have the AI organize, deduplicate, summarize, and sharpen with an index, executive summary, descriptive headers, and logical sections, are you going to actually read all of that, or just whine "TL;DR"?

It's much more efficient and intentional for the writer to put the time into doing the condensing and organizing once, and review and proofread it to make sure it's what they mean, than to just lazily spam every human they want to read it with the raw prompt, so every recipient has to pay for their own AI to perform that task like a slot machine, producing random results not reviewed and approved by the author as their intended message.

Is that really how you want Hacker News discussions and your work email to be, walls of unorganized unfiltered text prompts nobody including yourself wants to take the time to read? Then step aside, hold my beer!

Or do you prefer I should call you on the phone and ramble on for hours in an unedited meandering stream of thought about what I intended to write?
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-22 12:06:57+00:00
Feels like the article hand waves away the effect of COVID-19 and the disruption it caused in learning progress, especially for kids that had to start their early years remotely.

Good read if you want to get into it: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5270880/math-reading-co...

Technology does have its effects but this is a very naunced one-sided view, nothing else to expect from the rag that is Fortune.
by abustamam | 2026-02-22 12:07:08+00:00
I take this concept and I meta-prompt it even more.

I have a road map (AI generated, of course) for a side project I'm toying around with to experiment with LLM-driven development. I read the road map and I understand and approve it. Then, using some skills I found on skills.sh and slightly modified, my workflow is as such:

1. Brainstorm the next slice

It suggests a few items from the road map that should be worked on, with some high level methodology to implement. It asks me what the scope ought to be and what invariants ought to be considered. I ask it what tradeoffs could be, why, and what it recommends, given the product constraints. I approve a given slice of work.

NB: this is the part I learn the most from. I ask it why X process would be better than Y process given the constraints and it either corrects itself or it explains why. "Why use an outbox pattern? What other patterns could we use and why aren't they the right fit?"

2. Generate slice

After I approve what to work on next, it generates a high level overview of the slice, including files touched, saved in a MD file that is persisted. I read through the slice, ensure that it is indeed working on what I expect it to be working on, and that it's not scope creeping or undermining scope, and I approve it. It then makes a plan based off of this.

3. Generate plan

It writes a rather lengthy plan, with discrete task bullets at the top. Beneath, each step has to-dos for the llm to follow, such as generating tests, running migrations, etc, with commit messages for each step. I glance through this for any potential red flags.

4. Execute

This part is self explanatory. It reads the plan and does its thing.

I've been extremely happy with this workflow. I'll probably write a blog post about it at some point.
by csmpltn | 2026-02-22 12:07:44+00:00
> "We just would need the courage to ban LinkedIn and every other American social media company. We'd have a clone up and running in a month. You only need to look to China who did exactly this."

That's socialist dictatorship. Why do you want the EU to be more like China, instead of the EU being more like the US? It will result in further isolation and decline of Europe which sorely depends both on the US (and China) for survival.
by shit_game | 2026-02-22 12:08:16+00:00
Similarly to pixel sorting, effects like these fall under New Aesthetic[0], which primarily communicates "digitalness" in some avstract sense. It's cool, but definitely not Glitch. Emulation of some intuitive perception of "this is something computeresque and it's broken or acting how it shouldn't" has tons of applications in media, particularly in commercial creative workflows where actually getting down and dirty with file formats or hardware is either cost or application prohibitive, but will often draw strong criticism from glitch artists. There is a philosophical parallel between this "hard glitch" versus "glitch aesthetic" constrast to criticisms of AI generated images and manmade art, largely centered around the ethos of the work. There's also the undeniable differences in the compositions of hard glitches and new aesthetic media - most hard glitches are ugly, as they're not generally designed to be visually appealing or communicative in the way that new aesthetic deliberately is. The deliberate composition and curation (or complete lack thereof) of hard glitch elements that makes up much glitch art is arguably just as important to its ethos as the hard glitches themselves, IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Aesthetic
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 12:08:26+00:00
Cool hack but 0.5 tok/s on 70B when a 7B does 30+ on the same card. NVIDIA's own research says 40-70% of agentic tasks could run on sub-10B models and the quality gap has closed fast. I was looking int this last year: https://philippdubach.com/posts/nvidia-likes-small-language-...
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-22 12:08:28+00:00
> I honestly still don't see the point of compaction.

Currently my mental model is every token Claude generates gets added to the context window. When it fills up there is no way forward. If you are going to get a meaningful amount of work done before the next compaction they have to delete most of the tokens in the context window. I agree after compaction it's like dealing with something that's developed a bad case of dementia, but you've run out what is the alternative?

> why would you even want compaction and not just start a blank sessions by reading that md?

If you look at "how to use Claude" instructions (even those from Anthropic), that's pretty much what they do. Subagents for example are Claude instances that start set of instructions and a clean context window to play with. The "art of using Claude" seems to be the "art of dividing a project into tasks, so every task gets done without it overflowing the context window".

This gives me an almost overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I've spent my entire life writing my code with some restriction in mind - like registers, RAM, lines of code in a function, size of PR's, functions in a API. Now the restriction is the size of the bloody context window.

> I'm working on something which tries to achieve lossless compaction but that is incredibly expensive and the process needs around 5 to 10 times as many tokens to compact as the conversation it is compacting.

I took a slightly different approach. I wanted a feel for what the limit was.

I was using Claude to do a clean room implementation of existing code. This entails asking Claude to read an existing code base, and produce a detailed specification of all of its externally observable behaviours. Then using that specification only (ie, without reference to the existing program, or a global CLAUDE.md, or any other prompts), it had to reliably produce a working version of the original in another language. Thus the specification had to include all the steps that are needed to do that - like unit tests, integration tests, coding standards instructions on running the compiler, and so on, that might normally come from elsewhere.

Before proceeding, I wanted to ensure Claude could actually do the task without overflowing its context window - so I asked Claude for some conservative limits. The answer was: a 10,000 word specification that generated 10,000 lines of code would be a comfortable fit. My task happened to fit, but it's tiny really.

When working with even a moderate code base, where you have CLAUDE.md, and a global CLAUDE.md for coding standards and what not and are using multiple modules in that code base so it has to read many lines of code, you run into that 10,000 words of prompt, 10,000 lines of code it has to read or write very quickly - within a couple of hours for me. And then the battle starts to split up the tasks, create sub-agents, yada-yada. In the end, they are all hacks for working around the limited size of the context window - because, as you say, compaction is about as successful for managing the context window as the OOM killer is for managing RAM.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-22 12:09:21+00:00
Except, I only use services I pay for and set tight privacy settings.

EDIT: sorry for the initial short reply, your comment deserved a more reasoned response: I build my digital life on two primary service providers:

Proton: mail, cloud storage, and Luma private LLM chat (integrated web search tool with a strong Mistral model: my default tool that replaces plain web searches, 90% of my routine ‘LLM chat’ use)

Google: Gemini APIs, occasional use of Gemini for deep research, very occasional use of AntiGravity for coding using Claude and Gemini models, YouTube Plus for entertainment (philosophy talks, nature videos, Qi Gong exercise, etc. etc.)

Also some use of:

DuckDuckGo: when I still do web search, DDG is my default.
by Nasrudith | 2026-02-22 12:09:22+00:00
The only problem is that it the argument is intuitive but isn't true. It hasn't been true for justifying using gas guzzlers instead of more efficient vehicles and is based upon farcial assumptions about "new vehicle people" pancaking their old cars every six months instead of the actual truth where even the neophiles cars wind up still on the road even if they get new ones, that most people don't in fact have the brand new but the backlog of previously new.

It hasn't been true for servers either, as reflected by the resale price of old server hardware. It turns out power over a long time frame dominates over the manufacturing costs. From what I've seen, the argument is just bad math and bad assumptions all the way down at best. At worst it is willful ignorance in service of validating their assumptions regardless of the truth.
by post_below | 2026-02-22 12:10:46+00:00
I haven't been following the claws but I built something like this recently. Self hosted, runs through signal, supports group chat (with whitelisted accounts).

I just finished setting up grocery automation to run on it: agent provides a starter list based on past orders (locally stored or grabbed from store site), all group members can weigh in, add or remove items, agent uses bespoke browser tool to login to store, create the cart using the finalized list (and optionally search for additional request items), validates the cart and (maybe later) places the order for delivery. I haven't implemented the full checkout process yet, not sure if I want the agent to have spending power. As is I just login and finish the last 2 clicks of checkout manually.

Crazy times. It was easy enough to build that if someone hasn't already open sourced something like it, they will shortly.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-22 12:10:58+00:00
> I'm guessing the answer is making small things, but what exactly? I've made so many to do list apps I don't know what to do with them

My favorite way has always been to not just build small things, but build small useful things. There is always something that could be better, and there is always a subset of languages best for the task at hand. If it's a CLI, then a language that can compile to binary tends to be best (for me at least), so that already limits the languages somewhat. Then depending on what the task is, it might make sense to learn a new language for it.

Then naturally over the years I've picked up 10-15 languages this way, by just following what each language seems best at, and not being afraid of spending 2-3 weeks writing something basic.

Then for each language you learn, next one gets a lot easier, especially when most mainstream languages today are Algol-like languages and more similar to each other than different.
by evolve2k | 2026-02-22 12:11:01+00:00
I've long been a big fan of Porkbun, switching over to them from namecheap who I supported from back in the SOPA era. But today Im very frustrated. A friend of mine was required to go through Age ID. This is in Australia and is despite there being no legal requirement to ask for Age ID on domains in Oz.

Yes Age verification for social media was recently enacted into law; but I think we should expect that good companies don't self opt into additional systems of surviellance until such time as they are legally compelled and at the very least have exhausted other options.

It stings harder as I had porkbun pegged as one of the companies standing up for users and pushing back against a surviellance web. Angry and frustrated.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-22 12:11:24+00:00
> Treating DoS as affecting availability converts the issue into a "do I want to spend $X from a shakedown, or $Y to avoid being shaken down in the first place?"

But that is what security is in the real world anyway. Once you move past the imaginary realms of crypto and secure coding that some engineers daydream in, the ultimate reality is always about "do I want to spend $X dealing with consequences of ${specific kind of atack}, or $Y on trying to prevent it" - and the answer is to consider how much $X is likely to be, and how much it'll be reduced by spending $Y, and only spending while the $Y < reduction in $X.
by giantg2 | 2026-02-22 12:11:47+00:00
"The medical devices I'm talking about require around $50K–$200K for FDA clearance"

I think that's only if you use the expedited approval process (510k).

I actually had an idea for a medical device. Turns out there was a patent on that idea already. It wasn't on the market yet. The potential client population wasn't very big, but just big enough to make it worth while.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-22 12:12:32+00:00
> You encountered an entirely mundane piece of technology - an ineffective chatbot, which is hardly either new or novel

I doubt the basis for that dissenting assessmement, given (to my knowledge) you wern't present in the encounter.

> used Ask

I didn't use Ask.

> If this had been posted on a blog, or on x/mastodon/whatever, and submitted to hn in the normal way,

It was submitted to HN in the normal way.

Thanks for your explanation.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-22 12:13:06+00:00
IIUC "recent" in this article means 124 million years ago.

This is after the meteorite killed "all" the dinoraurs.

Also, North America was joined to Eurasia, South America to Africa, Australia to Antartica, and India was a huge island in the middle of the "Indic" ocean.

Am I right?
by valianteffort | 2026-02-22 12:15:04+00:00
The idea that Iranians are marching in the streets begging for a monarchy is so absurd only the dumbest will believe it.

And specifically they are "dying" to bring back the clown prince, son of a foreign puppet that was deposed by their parents/grandparents.

Afraid the zionist controlled media has already set the stage for an Iraq level invasion, using their propaganda machine, to install the guy they control.
by treebeard901 | 2026-02-22 12:16:31+00:00
If he is convicted of a crime, he should face the punishment for that. The article keeps making the point that it is the bars responsibility to "provide accountability" when the criminal justice system fails. This guy sounds awful and one of the allegations is certainly bad, but this idea of a sort of hit job in the press and reputational damage with not even an arrest sure does seem suspicious. When did society start wanting to exclude and punish someone even before any arrest, much less a conviction?
by ben_w | 2026-02-22 12:16:50+00:00
> If you've already got the electricity for electrolysis, would it not be more efficient and mechanically simpler to store it in a battery and power an electric motor?

Yes, if you actually have the batteries.

Between around 2014-2024, the common talking point was "we're not making enough batteries", and the way the discussions went it felt like the internal models of people saying this had the same future projections of batteries as the IEA has infamously produced for what they think future PV will be: https://maartensteinbuch.com/2017/06/12/photovoltaic-growth-...

I've not noticed people making this claim recently. Presumably the scale of battery production has become sufficient to change the mood music on this meme.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-22 12:17:33+00:00
Stop taking work so seriously. You're getting paid to deal with other people's nonsense, and if you're in tech you're getting paid better than most to deal with less than most. The next time you're about to have a cry session about your meanie boss asking you to use AI, try to remember that you're allowed to walk straight out the door, without so much as two weeks notice if the request is really so offensive to you. You can get a job flipping burgers instead, lots of people make ends meet with jobs like that. And instead of your boss asking you to use a claw or some other silly AI thing, maybe he'll ask you to clean up the diarrhea some degenerate sprayed on the bathroom walls. A little perspective for you. If you want to learn what the word "exhausting" really means, quit tech.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-22 12:17:58+00:00
AI agents replace "operators." In highly regulated fields, "replacing operators" means replacing liability. If an AI agent makes a mistake in a pull request, the site goes down for an hour. If an AI agent makes a mistake in healthcare billing or legal discovery, the company faces lawsuits, fines, or loss of life.

A legal AI startup needs the distribution and the data that LexisNexis already owns. The "Greenfield" Tan sees is actually a "Minefield" of entrenched players with massive "moats" of proprietary data.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-02-22 12:19:39+00:00
The EU is pushing to intercept and scan all private chat messages and all emails to "protect" the children and give all this information to Europol to keep in perpetuity so they can build a profile on you but sure everything is peachy.

Then you have the German chancellor saying that we should all have our real names attached to all our online accounts but rest assured, nothing nefarious going on here.

France arrested the Telegram founder a few months ago for no apparent reason and the French Justice minister also not long ago wanted to ban EtoE because it makes their job harder so wouldn't it be nice if everyone could just simply share their private life with the government voluntarily?

The UK is looking into getting rid of VPNs to, you guessed it, "protect the children" and Denmark has re-introduced blasphemy laws.

Finally there is the DMA that has been approved the EU which outlaws hate speech on online platforms except that hate speech is never defined in the text so you can pretty much use this law to ban any content you want without due process and without consulting the population.

The US has many flaws, nobody is denying that but to assume that the EU has better privacy is a mirage from a bygone era. The EU politicians are now looking at what China is doing and use that as playbook.
by kristopolous | 2026-02-22 12:19:57+00:00
No it's not a new thing. Agents coding their own mcp servers I saw in the original demo of MCP when it was announced in 2024.

The other thing is part of the plan&act mode paradigm that plandex also started in 2024.

I'm not a cynic, I just follow the scene very closely.

This stuff might be new to you, but it's not new.

There's literally nothing that this thing is doing that I haven't been doing for a few years already

But the other authors didn't go on the Lex Friedman podcast hyping the shit out of their stuff... That's the difference here.

I can do this as well. "This is it! The singularity is here. Use this or get left behind! Everybody rush and use my thing!

So good I was afraid to put it out, scared of how awesome it is!"

I mean brother please...
by griffindor | 2026-02-22 12:20:06+00:00
AsteroidOS, which runs on many Android watches, and offers a Linux environment over SSH and WiFi (for watches that support it). https://asteroidos.org/

The simplest integration is writing a daemon (in the language of your choice) that schedules wakes, syncs, and sends FreeDesktop notifications.

If you want more of a UI, then you'll be writing QtQuick, which is QML/Javascript/C++.

Their best supported watch is the TicWatch Pro: https://asteroidos.org/watches/catfish/
by dijit | 2026-02-22 12:20:40+00:00
Yeah, I have a similar situation; FreeBSD is a great operating system, but the sheer amount of investment in Linux makes all the warts semi-tolerable.

I'm sure some people have a sunk-cost feeling with Linux and will get defensive of this, but ironically this was exactly the argument I had heard 20 years ago - and I was defensive about it myself then.. This has only become more true though.

It's really hard to argue against Linux when even architecturally poor decisions are papered over by sheer force of will and investment; so in a day-to-day context Linux is often the happy path even though the UX of FreeBSD is more consistent over time.
by valianteffort | 2026-02-22 12:20:43+00:00
Iranians are protesting because their economy is collapsing from targeted attacks by the US/West.

Foreign media records them and says they are trying to depose the theocracy, propaganda to justify a military incursion.

Wild claims of civilians being killed by the regime, with zero evidence, manufactured from thin air. (WMD's in Iraq, White phosphorus in Syria)

Average person now thinks it's their duty to to send American sons to die in the sandbox for another generation.

The only winner here, israel.
by eesmith | 2026-02-22 12:21:02+00:00
The best case is a syllabary with how the word was pronounced a few years previous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

> Around 1809, ... Sequoyah began work to create a writing system for the Cherokee language. ... He worked on the syllabary for twelve years before completion and dropped or modified most of the characters he originally created.

> After the syllabary was completed in the early 1820s, it achieved almost instantaneous popularity and spread rapidly throughout Cherokee society.[4] By 1825, the majority of Cherokees could read and write in their newly developed orthography. ...

> Albert Gallatin ... believed [the syllabary] was superior to the English alphabet in that literacy could be easily achieved for Cherokee at a time when only one-third of English-speaking people achieved the same goal.[6] He recognized that even though the Cherokee student must learn 85 characters instead of 26 for English, the Cherokee could read immediately after learning all the symbols. The Cherokee student could accomplish in a few weeks what students of English writing might require two years to achieve.
by dakolli | 2026-02-22 12:21:22+00:00
Well I'm actually producing, not having an llm do things for me and frying my brain in the process. If you're building things with the process described above you're not producing anything, Dalio or Altman's GPUs are, you're simply just a slot machine user.

Have fun paying for "Think for me Saas".

2025-2026: The year everyone became the mental equivalent of obese and let their brain atrophy. There are no shortcuts in life that don't come at a huge cost, remember how everyone forgot how to navigate without a maps app, that's going to be you with writing code/reading code/thinking about code.