MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devonkelley | 2026-02-23 19:21:28+00:00
This is the interesting constraint though. Have you found going deeper than 2 levels actually helps? Every time I've let agents spawn recursively the quality at depth 3+ drops off a cliff. Not because the model is dumber, the accumulated context drift means the deep child is solving a slightly different problem than what the root intended. Curious if your tree structure has a natural depth limit in practice or if it scales.
by Olvin123 | 2026-02-23 19:21:33+00:00
Abstract:
I present a field-based dynamical model in which stable circular orbits emerge naturally from bidirectional directional-energy lines that form a flux field, without invoking a central attractive force or prescribed orbital equations. Using a computational simulator as a physical analog, I demonstrate that particles entering such a field spontaneously acquire orbital motion at multiple radii, with conserved speed and long-term stability. The results suggest that orbital behaviour can arise from directional field geometry rather than force-based attraction, offering an alternative conceptual framework aligned with flow-based interpretations of gravitation.

A new way to see the Gravity effect. The simulator works just like planetary orbit where the trajectories that planets follow as they revolve around a star. Details and gravity simulator can be found at given link.
by leptons | 2026-02-23 19:21:49+00:00
>Also, I disagree with this characterization. I am not crazy, it was unnecessarily rude to suggest otherwise.

You suggested the legalization movement is "crazy", without context. We are far from it. But you used the craziest shit to paint us as "crazy", so you get what you give.

Your original comment stated:

>"But, the pro-legalization folks would argue patently crazy things:"

Nowhere did you mention your peers, you specifically said "the pro-legalization folks", meaning the whole group, up to the most prominent people. That's the only way we can take your original comment, so if you don't like being called out like this, then be a lot more specific and say it was only your crazy friend group that was crazy, making it very anecdotal and not overly broad.
by donmcronald | 2026-02-23 19:22:09+00:00
> It derives an age attribute such as "over 18" from a passport or ID, without disclosing any other information such as the date of birth.

How? If it’s analyzes my ID 100% client side I can fake any info I want. If my ID goes to a server, it’s compromised IMO.

I think the zero proof systems being touted are like ephemeral messaging in Snapchat. That is, we’re being sold something that’s impossible and it only “works” because most people don’t understand enough to know it’s an embellishment of capabilities. The bad actors will abuse it.

Zero proof only works with some kind of attestation, maybe from the government, and there needs to be some amount of tracking or statistics or rate limiting to make sure everyone in a city isn’t sharing the same ID.

Some tracking turns into tracking everything, probably with an opaque system, and the justification that the “bad guys” can’t know how it works. We’ve seen it over and over with big tech. Accounts get banned or something breaks and you can’t get any info because you might be a bad guy.

Does your system work without sending my ID to a server and without relying on another party for attestation?
by spudlyo | 2026-02-23 19:22:13+00:00
> And I am for the destruction of IP on all ends.

While I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of creatives, and their need to eat, I feel like the pendulum has swung so far to the interests of the copyright holders and away from the needs of the public that the bargain is no longer one I support. To the extent that AI is helping to expose the absurdity of this system, I'm all for it.

I don't think "burn it all down" is the answer, but I'd love to see the pendulum swing back our way.
by SteveVeilStream | 2026-02-23 19:22:27+00:00
This local legislation has been the subject of some discussion. Is it prudent or does it discourage tech investment? I'm personally not excited to see that AI and data-centre customers have to compete for MW under a fixed cap while other industries are exempt.

"Through Bill 31, the Energy Statutes Amendment Act, and a new regulation, there is now a requirement for prospective AI and data-centre projects to take part in a competitive selection process to access clean electricity.
This requirement does not apply to traditional industries, such as mining, liquefied natural gas (LNG), forestry, manufacturing or hydrogen for domestic use."
"The allocation targets for these projects are for as much as 400 megawatts for the first two years."
by gruez | 2026-02-23 19:22:34+00:00
>Clearly the team, if it is a team, that is entitled to the copyright is entitled to the copyright of the song, that's a silly statement to make. Copyright belongs to some entity, obviously.

>You were specifically calling out individuals singing a song, not publishing lyrics online. These are not the same thing. Again your distribution/consumption model matters here.

I'm not sure why you're so confidently dismissive here. I wasn't trying to claim that nobody owned the lyrics. I brought that point up because even in the case of an amateur singing a song, even if you accept the "for 99.999% of people that are singing a song, it's not a replacement for the original in any way shape or form" excuse, you're still infringing on the copyright of the lyrics, because it's a derivative work. Moreover it's unclear whether that excuse even works. If you make a low cost version of star wars, copying the screenplay exactly, that still seems like copyright infringement, even if "it's not a replacement for the original in any way shape or form".

>On artists being "cool" with it - if the copyright holder doesn't pursue you then does it matter?

Virtually nobody got sued for torrenting with a VPN on. Does that mean it's fair to round that off as being legal, because "if the copyright holder doesn't pursue you then does it matter"?
by flpm | 2026-02-23 19:22:36+00:00
I think it is okay to use AI to help you express your ideas better. I think the idea of AI acting as an "editor" reviewing my work and pointing out potential clarity issues is very helpful.

In this scenario AI does not rewrite the text, but prompts the human to rewrite and then review again. It's a short and strong feedback loop that can be a very powerful learning tool if the learner uses it correctly.
by fuomag9 | 2026-02-23 19:23:09+00:00
In Italy it’s a crime punishable up to 12 years to access any protected computer system without authorization, especially if it causes a DoS to the owner

Consider the case of selfhosting a web service on a low performance server and the abusive crawling goes on loop fetching data (which was happening when I was self hosting gitlab!)

https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/libro-secondo/titolo-x...
by devonkelley | 2026-02-23 19:23:29+00:00
The tmux + lockfile approach is underrated. We went through a whole phase of building proper orchestration infra and ended up ripping most of it out. The overhead of coordinating agents through a framework is often worse than just letting them talk through the filesystem. The dirty secret of multi-agent systems is that the coordination layer is usually where the bugs live, not the agents themselves.
by kalpitdixit | 2026-02-23 19:23:33+00:00
yes works for multi-modal

for every single paper, we describe the method and when it is relevant; we give our final recommendation on whether a certain technique would work for your use-case; ultimately we make it easy for you to understand the options, make recommendations but you choose which one to finally go ahead with.

the recommendations are generally good - so if you dont feel opinionated about a certain area - go ahead with it :)
by dontblokmebro70 | 2026-02-23 19:23:57+00:00
>That doesn't mean Ukraine isn't just as if not more corrupt.

How does one prove your argument? It seems you are just lazily both sides-ing a complex and not easy to compare situation.

How does one compare trump's 10 billion dollar theft of the taxpayer to anything ukraine does? Putin is more known for his wild, unfettered corruption. Why not compare him to the ukraine?
by bakugo | 2026-02-23 19:24:01+00:00
Anthropic leadership once again showing off a remarkable level of immaturity.

Of course they don't want anyone else to use the precious outputs from the model they created by scraping data from the millions of fleshbag programmers they're now trying to put out of a job. They're just another corporation with the standard goal of making as much money as possible with little regard for anything else, so that much is expected.

But to actually write up a public announcement like this, loudly and proudly announcing to the world that they're crying at the daycare because their precious toy has been stolen by some kid, even though everyone around them knows they themselves originally stole that toy from another kid too, takes a special kind of corporate shamelessness that seems to be becoming more prevalent by the day.
by rao-v | 2026-02-23 19:24:06+00:00
So llama.cpp currently statically puts overflow MoE experts in RAM and inferences them on CPU, so you get a mix of GPU + CPU inferencing. You are rooflined by RAM->CPU bandwidth + CPU compute.

With good predictability of MoE, you might see a world were it's more efficient to spend PCI bandwidth (slower than RAM->CPU) on loading MOE experts for the next ~3 layers from RAM to VRAM so you are not rooflined by CPU compute.

VLLM / SGLang (AFAIK) just assume you have enough VRAM to fit all the experts (but will page KV cache to RAM).
Cloudflare non existent Trust and Safety
by rtsam | 2026-02-23 19:24:12+00:00
Had a site flagged for phishing. Unable to get it mitigated. 2 months with no response now. My hosting provider? Took them 10 minutes to look at what cloudflare sent them and discarded it as ridiculous.

Now had a CF worker also now flagged for phishing. What did the worker do? Must be terrible right?

It was 5 lines to do a 301 redirect. Some 3rd party AI security bot seemed to think that it was malicious to send visitors to their clients website. Yep a simple 301 redirect that has only had a few handful of clicks over 3 years. So cloudflare shut it down.

We are living in a world where AI bots and AI response bots just make decisions for things and humans are nowhere to be found. Scary.

Cloudlfare is just poorly run. I had them as my registrar. I realize now this is a bad idea.
by notatoad | 2026-02-23 19:24:25+00:00
i don't see them making any claim that unauthorized use of their proprietary content is illegal.

i read this more as a claim to protect their brand and valuation. They just want us all to know that we shouldn't be too impressed by deepseek, because deepseek is training off claude.

also, i think this blog post should be read in the context of anthropic execs meeting with Pete Hegseth today - this isn't legal, it's political, they're playing up the national security aspects here for some political benefit.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-23 19:24:48+00:00
Right. Demand is fairly rigid from companies who need the labor. But they, as for-profit entities, want to maximize shareholder value, so instead of paying market rate for labor when the market rate is high, companies attempt to decrease the market rate by increasing labor supply through a variety of means - lobbying for modern indentured servitude (H1b's), shipping jobs overseas, etc.

This stands in direct contrast to the stated arguments they use to justify such moves, like "there isn't sufficient talent inside the US". There is sufficient talent inside the US, it just comes with a price tag they don't like.
by devonkelley | 2026-02-23 19:24:51+00:00
This is the framing most people in this thread are missing. The difference between "agent that does stuff for a company" and "agent that does stuff for me" isn't technical, it's about who defines the tool chain and who the agent is optimizing for. Every multi-agent system I've built has this tension buried in it. The agent's behavior changes dramatically based on whose goals are baked into the system prompt vs whose goals come in at runtime.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-23 19:25:05+00:00
>That basically is the suggestion. The world is not an RPG, where being good at one thing necessitates you being bad at everything else. On the contrary, aptitude in one task is pretty well correlated with being good at any task.

We need, for a nation the size of the United States, millions of teachers. Quite literally. The process that somehow selects not one good (or more literally, very few, just so the pedants don't complain) teacher now, but will select mostly/all good teachers if we were to implement it is 15% raises across the board? 40%? Never mind that doing that could only possibly attract something like 5-10% of personnel change... and I'm supposed to believe this is about increasing the quality of education instead of pandering to a voting bloc that will help you to enact your non-education agenda? No thanks.

>With that in mind, it's not at all unreasonable to believe that somebody who would make a great teacher

Blah blah blah, I've already moved past that. No need to try to make the sale here.
by RobRivera | 2026-02-23 19:25:10+00:00
I seem to recall a reporter being given a Tesla to test drive and they wrote a scathing report about bad battery, range, problems with finding recharge stations, and all a flagrant tear down which would have been great reporting...had it not been for Elon having vehicle logging which revealed the flagrant misuse of the vehicle e.g. riding past recharge after recharge after recharge station, riding the car in circular routes to drain the battery, and plain misrepresentation of their experience.

Journalism does itself no service writing like this and it's exhausting
by dlenski | 2026-02-23 19:25:11+00:00
> The dishwasher at my office has WiFi.

At one of the AWS builds I worked at there was a water dispenser. It had one button to dispense cold still water, one for fizzy, one for hot water, etc.

Instead of JUST PRESSING THE BUTTON WITH YOUR FINGER, you could—and I am not making this up—download an app that would allow you to pair to the dispenser via a QR code, and then remotely trigger the water-dispensing action… so that you wouldn't have to press the button.

Absolutely insane.

Yeah, I imagine that this feature was dreamed up during the early part of the COVID pandemic where it was hypothesized that COVID spread on high-touch surfaces. Still doesn't make it any less insane. (And also, that theory was pretty clearly highly sus from the start.)
by armcat | 2026-02-23 19:25:20+00:00
This is such an insane rabbit hole. AI labs distill weights from the entirety of the internet knowledge, (mostly) without anyone's consent, which (technically) amounts to theft. However the chinchilla law dictates you need to expend X amount of energy to make this knowledge useful. Then the data law dictates that you need to shift the weights to a more useful latent space by paying maths, coding and domain experts lots of money. So you have "stolen" the data, but then paid billions to make it useful. And useful it is!

Then another lab comes, and "steals" from you - that beautiful, refined dataoil - by distilling your weights using inferior equipment but with a toolbox of ingenuity and low-level hacking tricks. They reach 90% of your performance at 20x cost reduction.

What happens when another lab distills from the distilled lab?

Who is the thief? How far will the Alice go?
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-23 19:25:40+00:00
> I just like, can't help but start with fuck these companies. All other arguments are downstream of that.

The solution would then be to break them up or do things like require adversarial interoperability, rather than ineffective non-sequiturs like requiring them to ID everyone.

The perverse incentive comes from a single company sitting on a network effect. You have to use Facebook because other people use Facebook, so if the algorithm shows you trash and rage bait you can't unilaterally decide to leave without abandoning everyone still there, and the Facebook company gets to show ads to everyone who uses it and therefore wants to maximize everyone's time wasted on Facebook, so the algorithm shows you trash and rage bait.

Now suppose they're not allowed to restrict third party user agents. You get a messaging app and it can send messages to people on Facebook, Twitter, SMS, etc. all in the same interface. It can download the things in "your feed" and then put it in a different order, or filter things out, and again show content from multiple services in the same interface, including RSS. And then that user agent can do things like filter out adult content, if you want it to.

We need to fix the actual problem, which is that the hosting service shouldn't be in control of the user interface to the service.
by davidmartinsu | 2026-02-23 19:25:41+00:00
I'm a designer/PM who got tired of the same ritual every time I need to benchmark a competitor: open their product, take screenshots one by one, paste them into Miro, draw arrows by hand, add notes... It takes 2-3 hours just to document a flow I could analyze in 20 minutes if the capture were automated.

I'm building a tool called BenchCanvas. You paste a URL, it crawls the product with a real browser, captures every screen, detects the navigation paths between them, and outputs an interactive canvas with the full flow diagram. From there you can annotate, run AI analysis (heuristics, UX patterns, improvement suggestions), and share with your team.

A few things I'm genuinely unsure about and would love input on:

- Is the manual screenshot pain real for others, or is this just my workflow?
- Would you trust an automated capture enough to show it to stakeholders, or would you always redo it manually?
- The hard part technically is authenticated flows (post-login screens). Is that a dealbreaker if v1 only covers public pages?

If this sounds useful, I have a waitlist but mostly I'm here for the honest feedback before I build further.
by rishabhaiover | 2026-02-23 19:25:42+00:00
Between a challenging job market, increasing new frontiers of learning (AI, MLops, parallel hardware) and an average mind like mine, a tool that increases throughput is likely to be adopted by masses, whether you like it or not and quality is not a concern for most, passing and getting an A is (most of my professors actively encourage to use LLMs for reports/code generation/presentations)
by burningChrome | 2026-02-23 19:25:49+00:00
>>> we could take some lessons from Ukraine on how to clean up a corrupt government.

You sure about that?

2015 - Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-...

2016 - Ukraine: Fantastically Corrupt: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/uk...

Despite more than 10 years of activity of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Ukraine is still considered one of the most corrupt countries of Europe. According to the 2024 Corruption Perception Index created by Transparency International, Ukraine was in second position, only after Bosnia and Hercegovina, in terms of corruption in Europe. In a recent survey carried out at national level, 91.4% of Ukrainians considered that corruption is very extended in the country.
by jcviau | 2026-02-23 19:26:05+00:00
Two problems with LLMs consuming web content today:

Quality: They get full browser HTML — 90% nav/scripts/ads. Content is 10% of what they parse. They infer structure, miss updates, get things wrong.

Cost/environment: ~80KB HTML per page, ~4KB actual content needed. 20x overhead, across millions of daily crawls = massive bandwidth + energy waste.

OpenFeeder: one /openfeeder endpoint per site, clean structured JSON, semantic search, differential sync.

9 adapters (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Next.js, Astro, Express, FastAPI, Vite, WooCommerce) + Python sidecar + MCP server for Claude Code.

Live demo: https://sketchynews.snaf.foo/openfeeder
by kappi | 2026-02-23 19:26:07+00:00
Instead of betting on RADAR and LIDAR HW getting better and cost going down, they went with vision only approach. Everybody in this field knows the strengths and weakness of each system. Multi-modal sensor fusion is the way to go for L4 autonomy. There is no other way to reduce the risk. Vision only will never be able to achieve L4 in all the weather conditions. Tesla may try to demonstrate L4 in limited geography and in good weather conditions but it won't scale.
by EmbarrassedHelp | 2026-02-23 19:26:09+00:00
Age verification tech companies are lobbying heavily for governments to legally require their services. The proposed "solutions" are about funneling money into the hands of other tech companies and shady groups, while violating user privacy.

If anything, we should be banning the collection of any age related information to access social media and more mature content. We need companies to respect privacy, rather than legislation even more privacy violations.
by devonkelley | 2026-02-23 19:26:13+00:00
The approval-link pattern for gating dangerous actions is something I keep coming back to as well, way more robust than trying to teach the agent what's "safe" vs not. How do you handle the case where the agent needs the result of the gated action to continue its chain? Does it block and wait, or does it park the whole task? The suspend/resume problem is where most of these setups get messy in my experience.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-23 19:26:18+00:00
Administratively, Anthropic seems to misunderstand politics. You don't get to wear the "people's champion" and "government sweetheart" hats at the same time, when push comes to shove you'll be forced to pick a lane. We saw it with Microsoft, we saw it with Apple and Google, and now we're seeing it with OpenAI too. You can't drive down both paths at the same time.

As a member of the target audience for Claude, their messaging just leaves me confused. Are you a renegade success, or do you need the government's help? Are you a populist juggernaut, or do you hide from competition? OpenAI, for all their myriad issues, understood this from the start and stuck to the blithely profitable federal ass-kisser route.
by ej88 | 2026-02-23 19:27:02+00:00
claude code 1B+ arr

ant 10xing ARR, oai

harvey legora sierra decagon 11labs glean(ish) base10(infra) modal(infra) gamma mercor(ish) parloa cognition

regulated industries giving these companies 7/8-fig contracts less than 2 years from incorporation
by below43 | 2026-02-23 19:27:04+00:00
Sure, but my main intent was to raise the question as to why it was singled out in the article/blog post as something that needs to be in the dictionary.

As you've pointed out, the word "bills" clarifies what it is. I don't see why every combination needs to be in a dictionary. The list would be incredibly long, eg. "phone bills" or "power bills", etc.