MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2026-02-05 20:15:39+00:00
> we speak the truth

I get what you're saying, but you're ignoring intent here. They're, literally, using the wrong word, without meaning to. In their language they have multiple "yes" that mean very different things, but they incorrectly use our single "yes" for all of them which, as you're very correct to point out, has a very specific and STRONG meaning. This is a conceptual mapping mistake, not an intent.

They're trying, and slightly failing, to speak a language they took time to learn, but is still unfamiliar to them, my dude. The alternative is that you/I should learn mandarin. I applaud their efforts that allow me to be lazy, even if it means I have to understand some shortfalls in the communication.

If you learn a language, but accidentally use the wrong word in conversation, because maybe nobody has corrected you before, does that make you a liar? Of course not. That's what's going on here.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-02-05 20:16:20+00:00
> By then, Mr. Epstein was already a convicted sex offender, having pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, but Coinbase took his money all the same

I don’t get why people keep saying things like this.

If a person is convicted of a crime and they are out of jail, it is everyone else’s right to interact with them as if they had done nothing wrong. Isn’t that how the whole system is set up?

I think the reason it feels weird is because his sentence was ridiculously short and should have been much longer. But that is not up to everyone else to compensate for. Can we instead start focusing on how shocking it is that he spent so little time in jail, and then discuss why that happened?
by cullenking | 2026-02-05 20:16:31+00:00
I do this all the time in a dumb but effective way. Add logging statements to code paths that drop timing info. Another dumb but effective way, instead of using a step through debugger, is drop "here, value is {val}". Telling claude to do this is trivial, it's quick, and it can read its own output and self-solve the problem all with just the code itself.

IMHO git bisect is slower, especially depending on the reload/hot-reload/compile/whatever process your actual app is using.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-02-05 20:17:01+00:00
I live in Portland. I've met many people that label themselves antifa. They're just protestors that are willing to be a little more aggro. That's literally it.

So when people talk about antifa as if it was the left wing equivalent of Osama Bin Laden's terror network, it's a self report they're forming their views based on strawman style propaganda, not engaging with the reality of it.
by palmotea | 2026-02-05 20:17:15+00:00
Come on. It's 2026: I, Pencil isn't a mic drop. It's a cliche. It's 70 years old, assume everyone's read it.

Also, your drop of it betrays a pretty fundamental lack of understanding. I stand by my statement that free market could never accomplish something like this. Eradicating a disease is nothing like a business making a pencil to sell.
by StephenHerlihyy | 2026-02-05 20:17:19+00:00
This is sort of where I think he is going with it. Run the compute part super cold (-60C) in a dielectric fluid. Maybe even at a low pressure. It boils off, gets collected, and is then condensed into something way hotter. Like boiling water hot. This is sent through a high temperature radiator for heat dispersion (because Stefan-Boltzmann has a damned 4), and then pumped back into the common storage area. Cycle indefinitely. Beyond the simple space whatever non-sense, there is a nugget of a good idea in there. Cold things are going to have less internal resistance - so they will produce less waste heat. If you can keep them at a constant temperature via submerged cooling they are also going to suffer less thermal stress due to heat fluctuations. So the vacuum of space becomes the perfect insulator. You can’t have humans getting into them anyways because then you have to reheat and recool, causing stress on the system. Just have to accept your slow component losses. Microsoft and IBM have been working the same basic concept for a while (decade plus), Elon is just throwing ‘Space!!’ into the equation because of who he is. I think it’s 50% hype and 50% this is where the industry is going regardless. I always assumed they would just find an abandoned mine or something. But the always-cold, thermally-stable, no-humans-allowed data center is coming. We are hitting the point where the upfront cost of doing it is overshadowed by the tail cost savings.
by Rperry2174 | 2026-02-05 20:17:21+00:00
Fair I agree that was true of early codex and my perception too.. but today there are two announcements that came out and thats what im referring to.

specifically, the GPT-5.3 post explicitly leans into "interactive collaborator" langauge and steering mid execution

OpenAI post: "Much like a colleague, you can steer and interact with GPT-5.3-Codex while it’s working, without losing context."

OpenAI post: "Instead of waiting for a final output, you can interact in real time—ask questions, discuss approaches, and steer toward the solution"

Claude post: "Claude Opus 4.6 is designed for longer-running, agentic work — planning complex tasks more carefully and executing them with less back-and-forth from the user."
by breezykoi | 2026-02-05 20:17:30+00:00
Hi! I have been happily using Ardour as a hobbyist since version 5. At the same time I also started learning Pure Data. I was wondering how difficult it would be to implement a feature similar to "The Grid" from Bitwig. I’m not sure whether this could be done as a simple plugin, or if it would require much deeper integration with Ardour.
by woah | 2026-02-05 20:17:33+00:00
All they did was prompt an LLM over and over again to execute one iteration of a towers of hanoi algorithm. Literally just using it as a glorified scripting language:

```

Rules:

- Only one disk can be moved at a time.

- Only the top disk from any stack can be moved.

- A larger disk may not be placed on top of a smaller disk.

For all moves, follow the standard Tower of Hanoi procedure:
If the previous move did not move disk 1, move disk 1 clockwise one peg (0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 0).

If the previous move did move disk 1, make the only legal move that does not involve moving
disk1.

Use these clear steps to find the next move given the previous move and current state.

Previous move: {previous_move}
Current State: {current_state}
Based on the previous move and current state, find the single next move that follows the
procedure and the resulting next state.

```

This is buried down in the appendix while the main paper is full of agentic swarms this and millions of agents that and plenty of fancy math symbols and graphs. Maybe there is more to it, but the fact that they decided to publish with such a trivial task which could be much more easily accomplished by having an llm write a simple python script is concerning.
by alluro2 | 2026-02-05 20:17:48+00:00
Thank you for the heartfelt reply - I wish to apologize for crude assumptions I made.

My view of how people are getting affected by AI and choosing to degrade values that should matter for a bit of convenience - has become a little jaded.

While we should keep trying to correct course when we can, I should also remember when it's still a person on the other side, and use kindness.
by jsnell | 2026-02-05 20:17:57+00:00
"Couldn't stick to the ABI ... despite CPU manuals being available" is a bizarre interpretation. What the article describes is the generated code being too large. That's an optimization problem, not a "couldn't follow the documentation" problem.

And it's a bit of a nasty optimization problem, because the result is all or nothing. Implementing enough optimizations to get from 60kB to 33kB is useless, all the rewards come from getting to 32kB.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-05 20:18:05+00:00
The Coke Classic is still selling. Coke Zero has not replaced Classic. Both "no one bat's an eye" and your use of "most people" (even with the "I know" qualifier) are clearly extremes of both sides of the conversation being intentionally used. The fact that things like Diet, Zero, etc version of Coke and other soft drinks exist show people are paying attention to sugar. The fact that sugary products are still being purchases shows that not everyone has changed their habits.

Shouting extreme positions doesn't really move the converstation
by razuba | 2026-02-05 20:18:43+00:00
We focus on a holistic risk analysis of the risks that would matter to a security engineer. For example, all the signals analyzed to ensure the MCP server is official and provided by the vendor directly is something that is not found elsewhere. In addition, we have focused on ensuring false positives are minimal or non-existent so you can focus on the true risks.

So with the mix of static and dynamic analysis, MCP protocol conformance, supply chain vulnerability analysis, and MCP specific risk factors we curate a relevant risk score allowing you decide if the usage of a given MCP server is introducing unnecessary risk or not.
by varsketiz | 2026-02-05 20:18:56+00:00
We run our own infrastructure, sometimes with our own fincing (4), sometimes external (3). The cost is in tens of millions per year.

When I used to compare to aws, only egress at list price costs as much as my whole infra hosting. All of it.

I would be very interested to understand why netflix does not go 3/4 route. I would speculate that they get more return from putting money in optimising costs for creating original content, rather than cloud bill.
by morleytj | 2026-02-05 20:19:00+00:00
This seems plausible. It would be shocking if these companies didn't have an automated testing suite which is recomputing these benchmarks on a regular basis, and uploading to a dashboard for supervision.

Given that they already pre-approved various language and marketing materials beforehand there's no real reason they couldn't just leave it lined up with a function call to go live once the key players make the call.
by lowkey_ | 2026-02-05 20:19:02+00:00
If you don't trust a center-right think tank with video evidence, but you're advocating for a far-left movement... you need to see more center.

I've literally seen, with my own eyes, people of this movement shut down speech on my own college campus so many times. Probably everybody I've ever known at any college (Harvard, BU, BC, Northeastern, Middlebury, UC Berkeley, NYU, Columbia, etc) has seen this first-hand. How are you denying such an obvious reality?
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-05 20:19:08+00:00
I was working on my own alternative to Beads... then I realized I could do exactly this with something similar to Beads, I'm planning on open sourcing it soon because I like what I have so far, I also made it so I can sync my tasks directly to my GitHub projects as well. I think its more useful to have agent tasks eventually synched back up to real ticketing systems for historical reasons. Besides, its better to have alternatives that are agent agnostic.
by Longwelwind | 2026-02-05 20:19:30+00:00
When doing advanced terminal UI, you might at some point have to layout content inside the terminal. At some point, you might need to update the content of those boxes because the state of the underlying app has changed. At that point, refreshing and diffing can make sense. For some, the way React organizes logic to render and update an UI is nice and can be used in other contexts.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-05 20:19:58+00:00
> This is obviously not true, you can use real data and common sense.

It isn't "common sense" at all. You're comparing several companies losing money, to one another, and suggesting that they're obviously making money because one is under-cutting another more aggressively.

LLM/AI ventures are all currently under-water with massive VC or similar money flowing in, they also all need training data from users, so it is very reasonable to speculate that they're in loss-leader mode.
by kzahel | 2026-02-05 20:20:08+00:00
I looked into it a bit. It stores memories near where it stores JSONL session history. It's per-project (and specific to the machine) Claude pretty aggressively and frequently writes stuff in there. It uses MEMORY.md as sort of the index, and will write out other files with other topics (linking to them from the main MEMORY.md) file.

It gives you a convenient way to say "remember this bug for me, we should fix tomorrow". I'll be playing around with it more for sure.

I asked Claude to give me a TLDR (condensed from its system prompt):

----

Persistent directory at ~/.claude/projects/{project-path}/memory/, persists across conversations

MEMORY.md is always injected into the system prompt; truncated after 200 lines, so keep it concise

Separate topic files for detailed notes, linked from MEMORY.md
What to record: problem constraints, strategies that worked/failed, lessons learned

Proactive: when I hit a common mistake, check memory first - if nothing there, write it down

Maintenance: update or remove memories that are wrong or outdated

Organization: by topic, not chronologically

Tools: use Write/Edit to update (so you always see the tool calls)
by libraryofbabel | 2026-02-05 20:20:36+00:00
Umm, Sonnet 4.5 has a 1m context window option if you are using it through the api, and it works pretty well. I tend not to reach for it much these days because I prefer Opus 4.5 so much that I don't mind the added pain of clearing context, but it's perfectly usable. I'm very excited I'll get this from Opus now too.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-05 20:21:05+00:00
> in my German neighborhood we have Antifa stickers pretty much on any other street lamp. Given the fascist tendencies all around it actually makes me feel safer

My Polish-German godmother asked me, as a kid, "who would you hide."

I didn't get the question. And 6-year old me wasn't ready for Holocaust with grandma. But it comes back to me from time to time.

Who would you hide. Who would you stake your wealth and life on to keep from undeserved suffering. The stickers are good. But they only mean something if you're willing to fight for them. At least in America, I'm unconvinced most sticker-toters are willing to sacrifice anything. (It's what makes Minnesota and Texas different.)
by Esophagus4 | 2026-02-05 20:21:16+00:00
Someone once said to me, be very careful about negotiating with leverage… when you twist someone’s arm, they’ll say, “I’ll remember that. You may have won this one, but I’m gonna win the next one.”

Sadly, the US has done this to ourselves… all this arm twisting and strong-manning is coming home to roost.

It’s not clear that patchwork EU government back offices migrating off Teams will hurt US tech, but long term, in aggregate, this is going to be a headache for American tech.

EU can’t out innovate US tech, but they can make it harder to dominate their markets.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-05 20:21:59+00:00
Exactly right. This is why skill-snitch's phase 1 is grep, not LLM. Grep can't be prompt-injected. You can put "ignore previous instructions" in your skill all day long and grep will still find your curl to a webhook. The grep results are the floor.

Phase 2 is LLM review and yes, it's vulnerable to exactly what you describe. That's the honest answer.

Which reminds me of ESR's "Linus's Law" -- "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" -- which Linus had nothing to do with and which Heartbleed disproved pretty conclusively. The many-eyes theory assumes the eyes are actually looking. They weren't.

"Given enough LLMs, all prompt injections are shallow" has the same problem. The LLMs are looking, but they can be talked out of what they see.

I'd like to propose Willison's Law, since you coined "prompt injection" and deserve to have a law misattributed in your honor the way ESR misattributed one to Linus: "Given enough LLMs, all prompt injections are still prompt injections."

Open to better wording. The naming rights are yours either way.
by mcintyre1994 | 2026-02-05 20:22:19+00:00
This kind of sounds like both of them stepping into the other’s turf, to simplify a bit.

I haven’t used Codex but use Claude Code, and the way people (before today) described Codex to me was like how you’re describing Opus 4.6

So it sounds like they’re converging toward “both these approaches are useful at different times” potentially? And neither want people who prefer one way of working to be locked to the other’s model.
by abalone | 2026-02-05 20:22:41+00:00
Thank you for providing a source. That’s an early stage research paper, not the proven solution you originally implied. There are tons of early stage research papers on all these problems on earth and in space. Often we encounter a bunch of complications in applying them at scale such as dew-related cementation[1], which is a key reason why they haven’t been deployed at sufficient scale.

That you point to the Mars rover, a mission with extremely budgeted power requirements, as proof of how soiling doesn’t pose an impediment to mega scale desert solar farms, only underscores the flaw in your reasoning.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22131...
by whynotminot | 2026-02-05 20:23:00+00:00
> Solution, use both as needed!

This is the way. People are unfortunately starting to divide themselves into camps on this — it’s human nature we’re tribal - but we should try to avoid turning this into a Yankees Redsox.

Both companies are producing incredible models and I’m glad they have strengths because if you use them both where appropriate it means you have more coverage for important work.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-05 20:23:20+00:00
Who do you imagine would do the “acting” here, i.e. who would be ones actually on the ground arresting ICE officers at polling stations? Local police, the state National Guard? How sure are you they would obey the (textually illegal) orders to do that? Because these are both cohorts who lean heavily pro-Trump; I’m fairly confident they would not.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-02-05 20:23:21+00:00
this isn't 1820 -- most people's perception is via social media, and failing that, legacy media.

which is why the big tech bros and the openAI execs donated money to Trump; "kiss the ring".

it's why Larry Ellison desperately wants to buy CBS.

recent posts show that 1/3 of the US electorate will still, in all likelihood, vote Republican, again, even after everything that has happened.
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-05 20:23:28+00:00
I've always assumed it to be #2 combined with indiscriminate mail-in ballots if it were happening. Anecdotally, my non-citizen roommate received a ballot in Seattle. I'm genuinely asking: how do we know this? What is the mechanism by which this is known well enough to be strongly claimed with regularity? For #1, if that were happening, would it be documented somewhere that N people tried to vote and had already voted? If #2, would it be documented somewhere that an audit of verification procedures happened? Where would these be documented?
by ben_w | 2026-02-05 20:24:02+00:00
We saw partial copies of large or rare documents, and full copies of smaller widely-reproduced documents, not full copies of everything. An e.g. 1 trillion parameter model is not a lossless copy of a ten-petabyte slice of plain text from the internet.

The distinction may not have mattered for copyright laws if things had gone down differently, but the gap between "blurry JPEG of the internet" and "learned stuff" is more obviously important when it comes to e.g. "can it make a working compiler?"
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-02-05 20:24:04+00:00
Yes, the idea is that you focus on the things that differentiate you from the competition. If you’re a factory that makes nails, a better data centre won’t make you any more money. It won’t help you sell more nails. So you should leave the data centres to the experts, and focus on work which improves your actual product.

If you don’t, you’ll be stuck trying to figure out data centres. Hiring tons of infrastructure experts, trying to manage power consumption. And for what? You won’t sell any more nails.

If you’re a company like Google, having better data centres does relate to your products, so it makes sense to focus on them and build your own.
by photon_garden | 2026-02-05 20:24:23+00:00
King Sunny Ade is another great Nigerian artist! Ja Funmi is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/LIO9MjfOo48?si=bZFOTgQF0SZZgT_X

Africa has a ton of fantastic musicians.

For instance, Dur Dur Band from Somalia: https://youtu.be/cVfrEmO5no4?si=aeqeufJpsKiIyvQX

Mulatu Astatke from Ethiopia: https://youtu.be/jXdVpT_aSJU?si=jMzwDIS75L9pqhxf

John Wizards from South Africa: https://youtu.be/1FNWfhmTn1M?si=lmHOUgvqxYS_P_Av

It’s a very deep well.
by beloch | 2026-02-05 20:24:32+00:00
The U.S. government has long looked out for U.S. companies, even to the point of staging coups (e.g. United Fruit Company). The Trump administration has been threatening direct invasions while also levying tariff's and other actions when other countries try to enact taxation or legislation of American tech companies operating in their jurisdictions. U.S. tech execs have applauded and lined up to bend the knee. Now they're finding out that their products are replaceable.

The replacements aren't perfect, but an injection of new users and funding could allow them to improve rapidly. Meanwhile, American companies like MS and Google seem determined to enshitify their products and force AI adoption because they're financially entangled with OpenAI.

Is this bad for the U.S.? It depends on how fast Americans smarten up. MS needs to start putting their products first again. Meta needs to stop relying on their government links to coerce other jurisdictions into accepting utterly irresponsible products that cause social harm while producing no tax revenue to mitigate that harm. All Americans need to stand up to their government and force it to back down from imperialist aggression.

The U.S. and U.S. software have lost international trust and are now losing out to competitors because of it. Those competitors no longer need to be better or cheaper. Just trustworthy. It is possible to mitigate this loss of trust with prompt action, but every delay causes permanent harm. The world is watching.
by thethimble | 2026-02-05 20:24:38+00:00
If the world is built on AI infrastructure (models, compute, etc.) that is controlled by the CCP then the west has effectively lost.

This may lead to better life outcomes, but if the west doesn't control the whole stack then they have lost their sovereignty.

This is already playing out today as Europe is dependent on the US for critical tech infrastructure (cloud, mail, messaging, social media, AI, etc). There's no home grown European alternatives because Europe has failed to create an economic environment to assure its technical sovereignty.
by V_Shukla | 2026-02-05 20:25:02+00:00
Interesting direction, secure communication between agents is going to become increasingly critical as multi-agent workflows scale.
We’re seeing a related challenge on the content-generation side as well, where multiple creative or generation agents coordinate to produce campaign-ready outputs, and maintaining secure, deterministic message passing becomes essential for reliability across pipelines.
Tools that solve the messaging layer early could quietly become core infrastructure for agent ecosystems.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-05 20:25:46+00:00
> With Opus 4.6, the emphasis is the opposite: a more autonomous, agentic, thoughtful system that plans deeply, runs longer, and asks less of the human.

This feels wrong, I can't comment on Codex, but Claude will prompt you and ask you before changing files, even when I run it in dangerous mode on Zed, I can still review all the diffs and undo them, or you know, tell it what to change. If you're worried about it making too many decisions, you can pre-prompt Claude Code (via .claude/instructions.md) and instruct it to always ask follow up questions regarding architectural decisions.

Sometimes I go out of my way to tell Claude DO NOT ASK ME FOR FOLLOW UPS JUST DO THE THING.