MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kokhanserhii | 2026-02-20 18:41:59+00:00
I think adding the word "self-improvement" would be sufficient, and today the emphasis will be less on "improvement" and more on "self-improvement," because today humans are better at improving "smart chats" and robots through "theories, trial, and error" than systems are at improving themselves. A significant step forward would be the use of the phrase "architectural self-improvement." Of course, there are different approaches and different understandings of "improvement" here.
I don't advocate predictions of any kind of "explosive self-improvement" in artificial intelligence systems. It's obvious. Just look at how people improve them... As improvements progress, phrases like "we need $10 billion" and "we need a trillion dollars" periodically appear. Some people mistakenly believe that self-improvement will be free. Yes, it will be free, but the scale of improvement will be limited.
Nowadays, huge sums of money are spent on experiments for improvement, not for the sake of the reasonably expected improvements themselves, but for the sake of the race for leadership in the global market.
Show HN: LLMWise – Compare, Blend, and Judge LLM Outputs from One API
by dm118 | 2026-02-20 18:42:10+00:00
The core idea is that no single LLM is best at everything, so we built orchestration primitives that let you combine them intelligently via a single API.

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA): Our /blend endpoint implements multi-layer MoA. You send a prompt to 2-6 models in parallel, then each model refines its answer using the other models' outputs as reference material. This runs for 1-3 configurable layers before a synthesizer model produces the final response. We also built a Self-MoA variant: a single model generates 2-8 diverse candidates using temperature variation and distinct agent prompts ("prioritize correctness", "anticipate edge cases", "be skeptical"), then synthesizes the best parts. Six blend strategies total: consensus, council, best_of, chain, moa, and self_moa.

Circuit breakers: Every model has a health tracker with a classic closed to open to half-open state machine. Three consecutive failures trips the circuit for 30 seconds. When a model is down, mesh routing automatically skips it and tries the fallback chain, so no wasted latency on providers that are having a bad day. The SSE stream emits route events so you can see exactly what happened: trying, failed, skipped(circuit_open), trying, success. OpenRouter gets its own tuned thresholds (6 consecutive 429s, 20s cooldown) because rate limits there behave differently than hard failures.

Auto-router: model: "auto" does zero-overhead heuristic routing, pure regex classification, no LLM call. Code goes to GPT, math/creative goes to Claude, translation goes to Gemini Flash, etc. Simple, fast, and surprisingly effective for common queries.

Other things that were fun to build:

- Credit settlement with margin targeting: we reserve credits upfront, then reconcile against actual provider cost after the response completes
- Per-user semantic memory via pgvector: conversations build retrievable context across sessions
- BYOK encryption (Fernet/AES-128) so you can bring your own API keys and skip our billing entirely

The whole backend is async Python (FastAPI + asyncpg + LiteLLM), frontend is static Next.js served by the same FastAPI process in production. Single Docker image on Railway.

For the technically curious: https://llmwise.ai/llms-full.txt has the complete platform documentation in plain text, and there's also a machine-readable view at https://llmwise.ai/ai designed for AI agents to consume.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-20 18:42:12+00:00
Donate to your local library.

This is the entire point and purpose of the public library system: aggregating resources to provide accessible information and entertainment for local communities.

Your local library almost certainly has subscriptions to several online and physical news sources. Typically larger libraries have physical newspaper subscriptions from across the country.

If you want to improve accessibility for everyone while still keeping publishers paid, donate to your local library and tell everyone you know about the services they offer. Seriously, we already have a nationwide system to provide access to information that not everyone can afford. We don't need to invent something new and more complicated.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-20 18:42:25+00:00
If you really don't have an alternative in Europe, buy the cheapest Googled Android device (less than $100 or euros), and use that as a glorified 2FA device. It's not ideal because you have to pay for it, but on the other hand Android devices with unlockable bootloaders (mostly Google Pixels now) tend to be cheaper than iThings. A Pixel 9a or 10a running Graphene for everyday use plus a cheap Android phone that stays are home are still considerably cheaper than Apple and Samsung devices, and give the users far more privacy and freedom.
by wpollock | 2026-02-20 18:42:29+00:00
Here's a handy shell script to show only the options from a command's man page:

showoptions() {
man -s 1 "$*" |col -bx |awk '/^[ ]*-/,/^$/' |less
}

(Won't work for every man page, but most of them where options start with a dash.)

Enjoy!
by tencentshill | 2026-02-20 18:42:42+00:00
Non-monetary, indirect value (Goodwill, "soft power", leverage, future gains) is not, and has never been a consideration for President Trump [1]. All accounts must be settled immediately.
Funny how he had to take out a full-page ad, because he couldn't get this opinion actually published in any newspaper.

[1] Donald Trump - Letter on Foreign Policy - September 2, 1987
by ativzzz | 2026-02-20 18:42:52+00:00
I'm fully onboard the Neovim train. Lua is a much better language than vimscript and there's a lot more interest in Neovim so there's more interesting packages that people create. Regular Vim is probably fine if you aren't gonna put as much effort into customizing it and if you just stick to the tried and true.

I use nvim all the time for code exploration & figuring out what i need to tell the AI. Invest in tools and packages that let you navigate your codebase quickly
by ianbutler | 2026-02-20 18:42:59+00:00
I'm not shitting on you at all, you're actually not the type of person I was talking about at all. The thread I reference (and link to) at the opening of the blog post sets a lot of the scene. That thread was about Show HN being flooded with slop.

Making for yourself is great, if you make for others you need to actually consider what they need.
by iLemming | 2026-02-20 18:43:06+00:00
Renaissance? Yup, checks out. I've been waiting for Web Components to become a thing for a loooong time. The (European) Renaissance took two-three centuries - from Petrarch and Giotto to Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. I suppose we have to wait for another hundred years or so, and in couple of generations we could finally say: "web components is a thing". My grandchildren will laugh at my React-based code, that will happen someday. Right now, there's shit to ship.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-20 18:43:12+00:00
Mac kernels are almost always compute shaders written in Metal. That's the bare-minimum of acceleration, being done in a non-portable proprietary graphics API. It's optimized in the loosest sense of the word, but extremely far from "optimal" relative to CUDA (or hell, even Vulkan Compute).

Most people will not choose Metal if they're picking between the two moats. CUDA is far-and-away the better hardware architecture, not to mention better-supported by the community.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-20 18:43:56+00:00
Two others who come to mind are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Scott_(engineer)

Steinmetz contributed heavily to AC systems theory which helped understand and expand transmission. while Scott contributed a lot to transformer theory and design (I have to find his Transformer book.)
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 18:44:01+00:00
> The problem in this case is that Congress made such a mess of the law that the lower court judges didn't think the outcome obvious enough to grant the injunction.

The lower courts issued several such injunctions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-tariffs...

"On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade dealt an early blow to that strategy. The bipartisan panel of judges, one of whom had been appointed by Mr. Trump, ruled that the law did not grant the president “unbounded authority” to impose tariffs on nearly every country, as Mr. Trump had sought. As a result, the president’s tariffs were declared illegal, and the court ordered a halt to their collection within the next 10 days."

"Just before she spoke, a federal judge in a separate case ordered another, temporary halt to many of Mr. Trump’s tariffs, ruling in favor of an educational toy company in Illinois, whose lawyers told the court it was harmed by Mr. Trump’s actions."
by michelb | 2026-02-20 18:44:51+00:00
Engagement is great if you target a specific group. Don't need human content. It's ridiculously easy to start a Facebook page in a niche targeting a specific demographic, connect a site to it, unleash AI generated content, post it on FB and run ads. With enough traction, Facebook will pay you for making more content, while you extract money from your page followers. You're separating easy-to-influence boomers and conspiracy theorists from their money. It's disgusting, but it is ridiculously easy to make heaps of money with whatever content on Facebook.
by anthonypasq | 2026-02-20 18:44:59+00:00
> What I don't understand is why so many Americans think that it was perfect.

because theres no example in history that has worked better. Its unclear how much of the success of the US should be attributed to the Constitution (what history would have looked like if the US had a canadian constitution for example), but what cant be argued is that the US is the most successful political body in world history and it is the oldest continuous Constitution in the world.

Under that lens it makes sense that Americans are fairly conservative about changing the constitution and why the founders are so revered. Its just fucking worked out great for us until now. Its really a miracle in many ways.
Show HN: Segspec (CLI) K8s NetworkPolicies from App Configs (Go)
by dormstern | 2026-02-20 18:45:00+00:00
It reads Docker Compose, Helm charts, K8s manifests, and Spring Boot configs, extracts every network dependency, and generates per-service NetworkPolicies.
Tested against real production stacks:

Sentry self-hosted (70+ services): 411 dependencies, 71 policies, 11ms
PostHog (25+ services): 23 dependencies, 12 policies, 128ms

Key design decisions:

Static analysis only. No agents, no cluster access, no observation period. Works offline.
AI is optional. Rule-based parsers handle the core. --ai adds Ollama (local) or Gemini (cloud) for edge cases.
Interactive TUI lets you review every dependency before generating YAML.
Per-service output with both ingress AND egress rules.

The thesis: your configs already declare every dependency. Why are we paying for 30-60 day observation periods and runtime agents?
Written in Go, MIT licensed. Would love feedback from anyone running NetworkPolicies in production.
Show HN: Skills – Making AI coding tools aware of government standards
by aschuth | 2026-02-20 18:45:02+00:00
I work as an engineer at the Dutch government. We have hundreds of technical standards that developers should follow when building government software: API design rules, messaging protocols, authentication profiles, accessibility requirements. The problem is that most developers don't know these standards exist until someone reviews their code (if at all).

Skills are Markdown files that inject domain knowledge into AI coding tools. When a developer starts building an API, the tool automatically loads the relevant standard. No plugins to write, no code. Just structured knowledge in Markdown.

I built a marketplace (https://github.com/MinBZK/overheid-claude-plugins) with now 38 skills covering Dutch government standards. Skills are an open standard (https://agentskills.io/) adopted by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and others.

The interesting part, certainly for a government: you don't have to be a developer to write a skill. A policy officer who knows the standard can structure it in Markdown and suddenly every developer using these tools gets that knowledge for free.
by throw4847285 | 2026-02-20 18:45:07+00:00
Taste is not subjective. It's intersubjective. Subjective experiences are totally located within a particular subject. For example, "I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm sad."

Judgements of taste, on the other hand, implicate all other humans when they are made. They implicitly demand consensus in a way that is unlike any other subjective claims. This is the only possible explanation for why people will in one breath say, "it's a matter of taste, it's all subjective" and then argue about whether or not The Last Jedi is a good Star Wars movie for hours, if not days, on end. Because the truth is, we are constantly seeking consensus and we usually resort to "that's just your opinion man" when we give up and disengage. But we don't believe that, not really.

According to Kant, "a judgment of taste involves the consciousness that all
interest is kept out of it, it must also involve a claim to being
valid for everyone, but without having a universality based on
concepts. In other words, a judgment of taste must involve a
claim to subjective universality." Unfortunately, it's Kant we're talking about, so trying to understand what he meant by subjective universality is a huge headache. Still, his reasoning reflects the way people actually talk about taste better than anybody else I've read.
by andrei_says_ | 2026-02-20 18:45:27+00:00
LLM technology does not have a connection with reality nor venues providing actual understanding.

Correction of conceptual errors require understanding.

Vomiting large amounts of inscrutable unmaintainable code for every change is not exactly an ideal replacement for a human.

We have not started to scratch the surface of the technical debt created by these systems at lightning speed.
by meep_morp | 2026-02-20 18:45:32+00:00
I was on the Ergodox Ez for many years which is also quite big. I was unhappy with how much space it took up on my desk. I switched to a Totem keyboard, a 38 key split, and while it took a while to get used to and feelings of doubt, I've eventually become very happy and settled on this keyboard. It pretty much solves all of my needs and I don't have too much interesting in further experimentation. I did want to try the 360 because I like the key wells, but was put off by the size of course. But I did discover keyboards like the Skeletyl which I was tempted to try. Maybe something like that or a dactyl manuform would interest you?
by zadikian | 2026-02-20 18:46:05+00:00
Same. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then.

For friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.
by anthonypasq | 2026-02-20 18:46:14+00:00
responded the same to the person you responsed to but perhaps this is a decent explanation.

because theres no example in history that has worked better. Its unclear how much of the success of the US should be attributed to the Constitution (what history would have looked like if the US had a canadian constitution for example), but what cant be argued is that the US is the most successful political body in world history and it is the old continuous Constitution in the world.

Under that lense it makes sense that Americans are fairly conservative about changing the constitution and why the founders are so revered. Its just fucking worked out great for us until now. Its really a miracle in many ways.
by sandorscribbles | 2026-02-20 18:46:15+00:00
i may have not emphasized enough how important quotas are for customers. quotas are very important guardrails for orgs that ensure that newly hired engineer who wants to "test drive the cloud" by running a BigQuery tutorial they found on github, gets stopped before they burn $10k in an afternoon. however, quotas on gcp are there for the benefits of google and not geared towards the customers. first there is an ever expanding tree of potential quotas complicating production rollouts of infra and second they are all set insanely low so even the smallest POC gets blocked. requesting a small increase routes the quota through software and auto-approval, requesting a quota that allows for a production workload? 3 weeks + help from your account rep, if google has blessed you the privilege of being allowed to talk with a human googler. no account rep you say, well your production workload can just wait around for google support to potentially acknowledge your existence.
by _dwt | 2026-02-20 18:46:45+00:00
This one IIRC: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is...
He writes about it here, a little: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-truth

In general long meandering semi-factual pieces like this, with odd historical excursions, are one of his things and I don't know anyone else that does it quite the same. (Hmm... oddly enough Scott Alexander, who he cites here, also does some similarly Borgesian stuff, but with a different bent.) One of my favorite writers and I recommend pretty much everything he's done since the early 2010s.
by ajkjk | 2026-02-20 18:46:46+00:00
Aside: what's up with this style of article title? Reaching a boiling point... isn't a thing that really happens. It's not even a reasonable editorialization, given how many times, apparently, the same thing can reach a boiling point without anything changing. Why can't the title be something to do with what happened, like "Pentagon and Anthropic clash over policy violations after Venezuela" or something? Like the titles in newspapers of yore.

I'm sure the answer is somehow 'clicks', of course. But I feel like I see dozens of these non-titles every day and maybe if everyone else also parsed them as pathetic then they'd gradually start to fade out. (Hence my complaining, to raise awareness or something...)
by reenorap | 2026-02-20 18:46:52+00:00
The irony is that the term "Black" was precisely chosen by Black civil rights activists in the 1960s. This wasn't a term given by white people, it was specifically chosen by Blacks, because of its negative connotations. They wanted to embrace its negative connotations and turn it on its head, and that's where terms like "Black is beautiful" came from. They didn't want to be ashamed of it, that's why they embraced it. Black was not a term of shame, it was a term of power.

Now, the left wing activists have turned it on its head again, and now saying that the term "black" is shameful and racist. It's bizarre how ignorant people are who say the term "blacklist" is racist.
by jerf | 2026-02-20 18:46:52+00:00
Not a chance. A fork that is under China's control, maybe, but not an "open" fork. They don't even pretend to have that as a value.

You may theoretically find it advantageous to use such a system anyhow. To a first-order approximation, the danger a government poses to you is proportional to its proximity to you. (In the interests of fairness, I will point out, so are the benefits a government may offer to you. In this case it just happens to be the dangers we are discussing.) Using the stack of a government based many thousands of miles/kilometers away from you may solve a problem for you, if you judge they are much less likely to use it against you than your local government.

But China certainly won't put out an "open" anything.
by miladyincontrol | 2026-02-20 18:47:06+00:00
Being "weird" is fine, but a lot of people dont know how to be normal about being "weird". When it feels like theres walls of perpetual irony to one's personality or embarrassment of one's own interests it rarely bodes well.

Doesn't mean you have to reveal every single interest, just have a little confidence towards the ones that do, whether or not you misread and how they land.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-20 18:47:20+00:00
I'm not the guy you replied to but the idea that "high-net worth individuals" (I assume you mean hundred-millionaires+) are skimping out on a meaningful amount of taxes is political. Most of these IRS agents will end up going after normal people, which is where most tax revenue comes from and where most of the fraud is. Billionaires have entire teams who do nothing but make sure their taxes are in order, a small business owner is more liable to make mistakes or try to commit fraud, which is who they will have to go after if they want to increase revenue. I think there's merit to his point, that the IRS has a history of targeting conservative organizations (https://grokipedia.com/page/IRS_targeting_controversy), and this has lead to their funding being a political issue.

I wouldn't call is comment sleazy I think he's just trying to discuss the topic at hand.
by kurthr | 2026-02-20 18:47:22+00:00
I agree for sleep. I prefer them because they focus better for me.

Blue creates a halo around letters that is distracting with my declining vision.

Also, Blue fluorescent OLED are ~50% less efficient than R/G phosphorescent OLED so you can reduce screen power consumption of a full white page by almost 30% using such a filter. That in turn might be 30% of active device power consumption (for a total of almost 10% in battery life during active operation). Ignoring that they also tend to burn out more quickly, since tandem blue has become fairly mainstream.

Many more reasons for these "filters", if you don't mind the white balance shift and reduced color gamut.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 18:47:34+00:00
> Tesla also claimed that references to CEO Elon Musk’s statements about Autopilot during the trial misled the jury....

> The company essentially argued that references to Elon Musk’s own public claims about Autopilot, claims that Tesla actively used to sell the feature for years, were somehow unfair to present to a jury. Judge Bloom was right to reject that argument.

Of course, since Elon Musk has lied and over-promised a lot about Tesla's self-driving technology. It's an interesting defense to admit your CEO is a lair and can't be trusted.
by bananamogul | 2026-02-20 18:47:42+00:00
Facebook is just fine.

This is mostly about OP, not Facebook. The reason he sees tons of AI images of AI girls is because that's the kind of content he consumes on various Meta platforms. When I login to Facebook, I see none of that. So...

I am in a couple dozen active groups across a variety of topics - guitar, tech, TV shows, history, tabletop gaming, etc. - and 99% of posts are on-topic chatter by humans.

I prefer Reddit because it's longer-form content but with communities, it's about where there's a center of gravity - a subreddit, a FB group, a Discord, a traditional forum, etc. I go where the people are. And a lot of those people are on FB for some niches.

The "FB is nothing but AI slop and ads" is a myth. I have interesting conversations with people I don't personally know (in a real life sense) on FB every day.
by da02 | 2026-02-20 18:47:47+00:00
The first half of the last paragraph is a warning: Get schools to stop using Facebook. If they are showing that kind of content to a grown hetero-woman, I'd hate to wonder what they show to everyone else.

I never signed up to that site because I thought sooner or later Google or some startup would just clone it, lower the ad count, improve censorship, and run it at near break-even. Especially since you don't have to save every single post created for eternity.