MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yes_really | 2026-02-16 19:09:19+00:00
Also love the refusal to even agree that words have meaning. You put scare quotes around 'terrorism'. Are you saying that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and a series of small terrorist groups, and a series of individuals did not commit terrorists attacks in Israel?

Terrorism is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." - are you saying exploding bombs, knife attacks, and firing rockets indiscriminately against civilians is not terrorism?
by asveikau | 2026-02-16 19:09:30+00:00
> If [you] ... take pride in your secure code

I don't object to most of what you're saying, but I take issue with this part.

This happens to be an area where lapse or neglect can be taken as a moral failure. And here you are mocking people who are concerned about it.

If someone uses AI to architect a bridge and the bridge collapses, you couldn't say that the structural integrity of the bridge wasn't the important part.
by ezst | 2026-02-16 19:09:50+00:00
Same, years ago, I set up a Matrix server, because it was advertised as the-new-XMPP (and I had done XMPP as a user, a long time before, and thought it had been quirky enough to warrant a successor protocol).

What I found with Matrix was the same terrible experience you describe, so I gave old XMPP a new look, and it's been great and continuously improving since. I sleep much better at night having my whole family using XMPP over a self-hosted ejabberd than I can using Matrix to talk with them (and synapse... Forget using synapse federated).
by gauravvij137 | 2026-02-16 19:10:43+00:00
This project implements Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) for MobileNetV2, enabling deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Built autonomously by [NEO](https://heyneo.so), the system achieves exceptional model compression while maintaining high accuracy.

Solution Highlights:
- 9.08x Model Compression: 23.5 MB → 2.6 MB (far exceeds 4x target)
- 77.2% Test Accuracy: Minimal 3.8% drop from baseline
- Full INT8 Quantization: All weights, activations, and operations
- Edge-Ready: TensorFlow Lite format optimized for deployment
- Single-Command Pipeline: End-to-end automation

Training can be performed on newer Datasets as well.

Project is accessible here:
https://github.com/dakshjain-1616/Quantisation-Awareness-tra...
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-16 19:10:45+00:00
> The consensus back then was that it only slightly increases the speed at which one loses weight, but it helps significantly with adherence to a diet.

This is my experience as well. IF didn't teach me how or what o eat, it taught me not to snack after the last meal of the day, and after losing around 10% of my weight (still obesity grade II), the weight-loss effect was lost. It didn't work for long-term weight loss, it just established a new equilibrium. Also, there's a bounce back if you stop it.

Currently, I'm on Mounjaro (diabetes type II likely caused by obesity and genetics), and IF meshes wonderfully with it, since mounjaro forces you to eat less or feel miserable. So far I've reached obesity grade I (aka plain obesity), and the effect has been very consistent over time, no new equilibrium reached yet.

So, for me, IF is not for weight loss, but it helps if you combine it with a proven method for weight loss.
by pwndByDeath | 2026-02-16 19:11:08+00:00
For me the issue with the discord/signal/ telegram is they are all dependent on a 3rd party that could flip or disappear at any moment, to say nothing of the trust me bro privacy.
On the other hand, email is an example of a communication system that would persist if the major supporters dropped out,but then self hosting email is a nightmare.
Xmpp is better, but you still need DNS and TLS cents to participate.
There are some interesting reimagined network options that seem like they could break this. My current favorite being RNS and LXMF
by ryandrake | 2026-02-16 19:11:27+00:00
I don't think stealing a pack of gum at 14 years old is a big deal, but many people have a huge problem understanding proportionality: To them, it's binary. You're either a criminal or not a criminal, and if this kid's record shows "shoplifter" until he dies, a significant number of people, including employers, will lump him into the "criminal" bucket for the rest of his life.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 19:11:29+00:00
Hobbes says that talking to someone with courtesy is honor(giving them relative power), and talking trashy is dishonor(reducing their relative power).

Its not very long, but I use this in my daily life:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3207/pg3207-images.html...

I also use the 12 bullet points before that on Power.
by bpodgursky | 2026-02-16 19:11:50+00:00
OK, but the other view equally compatible with the evidence is that he is scared of getting rolled by an AI-dominant China and that's why he's building tools for the dept of defense.

Like I said you can believe whatever you want about good-faith motives, but he didn't have to say he wanted to pause AI, he could have been bright-and-cheery bullish, there was no real advantage to laying his cards out on his qualms.
by tarruda | 2026-02-16 19:11:53+00:00
Considered getting a 512G mac studio, but I don't like Apple devices due to the closed software stack. I would never have gotten this Mac Studio if Strix Halo existed mid 2024.

For now I will just wait for AMD or Intel to release a x86 platform with 256G of unified memory, which would allow me to run larger models and stick to Linux as the inference platform.
by lukeasch21 | 2026-02-16 19:12:05+00:00
That's one of the biggest shortcomings of AI, they can't suss out when the entire premise of a prompt is inherently problematic or unusual. Guardrails are a band-aid fix as evidenced by the proliferation in jailbreaks. I think this is just fundamental to the technology. Grandma would never tell you her dying wish was that you learned how to assemble a bomb.
by brandonli28 | 2026-02-16 19:12:31+00:00
I’ve been told this many times in the comments, but this again is not reliable. Simply put, compression doesn’t necessarily follow a pattern, so specifying “ranges” or rounding to a specific place will not work. Compression optimizes for the eye, and doesn’t do the same thing for every value. It will round some down, some other mores, others less. Giving a range is simply not enough.
by skeptic_ai | 2026-02-16 19:12:43+00:00
I was jealous too until I realized this is just an ad for OpenAI. They want to show you can vibe code an app and actually become a millionaire. What better way to show than actually do it?

Well, here you have it, a low effort to wire up a few tools together with spaghetti gen ai and he’s millionaire in a few months. Ok, I might be mean by saying no effort, I actually don’t know. But I know vibe coding won’t work for more than a few weeks. Also I think this bot is just a connector to multiple open source libraries that connect to WhatsApp and other services.

This is the best ad to sell AI: you can be millionaire too if you use our ChatGPT to vibe code stuff.

I think it will get a negative reaction in a few weeks when the dust settles as technical people realize it’s an ad.

Note: he might be an amazing developer but the ad still stands.

Edit: from Gemini: Publicly Embarrassing Anthropic: The timing is brutal. Anthropic’s legal team forcing a name change (from "Clawdbot" to "Moltbot" to "OpenClaw") alienated the very developer who was driving millions of users to their model. OpenAI swooping in to hire him days later frames Anthropic as "corporate lawyers" and OpenAI as "friends of the builders." It’s a perfect narrative victory.
by quacked | 2026-02-16 19:12:48+00:00
The two American political parties are so perfectly shielded by their own ideological blinders to avoid any possibility of national protectionism against offshoring and outsourcing that I don't think there will ever be any kind of movement against this.

The conservative base is unfriendly to foreigners and foreign cultures, and claims to prefer American-made goods and services, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who causes consumer prices to raise substantially--which they would have to do in order to support American workers creating products rather than our offshored counterparts. And the business owners and shareholders who love to outsource generally aren't true blue voters.

The liberal base is in theory pro-union and pro-worker, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who suggests economic discrimination in favor of native-born industries and workers.
by Lapsa | 2026-02-16 19:12:50+00:00
it's a neighboring country that is suffering along. apart from that - ethnic Russians are a huge minority here. economically - a majority. western world is incapable to tell the difference and sees everything Russian corrupted. it's a similar story in Ukraine but sharper cause of language similarities and much higher stakes (did you know that UA produced most if not all the helicopter engines for Russia?). Russian propaganda also compares their law enforcement mild compared to harsh one Belarus has. because there's like 30 different separatist groups in Russia.
by heraldgeezer | 2026-02-16 19:13:28+00:00
I do love that.

My career is built on people not knowing how to Google lmao (IT)

To most people, AI is chatGTP. Maybe Gemini.

Claude? No idea.

VS Code, Cursor, Antigraivity, Claude Code? Blank stares.

Same as when the computer came, some will fall behind. Excel monkeys copy pasting numbers will go, copywriters, written word jobs = already gone. Art for simple images = AI now all done by one person.

Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy.
by logicx24 | 2026-02-16 19:13:29+00:00
Disclosure - I run https://tachyon.so/, an AI SAST tool.

It makes sense that SAST is better for the provided task. The CWE Top 25 seem like issues focused around patterns. Each one has a strictly enumerated set of vulnerable patterns that you can scan for, and then, the tool's task becomes simply finding an exploitable path to that pattern. This lends itself towards static methods. Every known weakness of LLMs, like hallucinations, needle-in-haystack, and context overflow, show up in this taint-analysis issue.

I also think this is why SAST did much better in Java. Pattern-based vulns + static languages make static taint analysis really powerful. LLMs have no advantage here, while all of their disadvantages are highlighted.

This article doesn't go into issues that LLMs are able to find that traditional SAST isn't. Auth vulnerabilities, for example - privilege escalation is a software pattern but not a code one, and it takes reasoning to build a permissions model and then test it for breaches. Business logic issues are other: ways users can get around usage limits, or get access to premium features or private data.
by hbn | 2026-02-16 19:13:49+00:00
I bought Halide and it is indeed a nice app but it also taught me I don’t like editing photos.

A camera app I’ve been enjoying even more is Dazz. It’s got a bunch of preset looks from various cameras, and you just select one and shoot. The preview doesn’t actually even apply the filter, which some people may not like but I think it’s actually a feature. It’s pretty fun to select a random camera, take a photo, and go in afterwards and see how it turned out. It’s similar to taking photos on an old point and shoot, where you don’t see how they turn out until after you take the shot.

I’ve ended up with some pretty cool photos I would have never got through editing.

It also has a cool golf camera mode where it’ll take a handful of photos back to back, and keep a fixed object in focus, then make an animation with that focused object locked in place as the frames of the photos move around it. It’s hard to explain but it’s available to use in the free version of the app.
by codegeek | 2026-02-16 19:13:52+00:00
I am not sure if AI is a complete bubble. To me, it is similar to Amazon, Uber etc in their early days when they were just burning cash but were providing something of great value to consumers. Ultimately, they figured out a way to get cash positive.

I think once the dust settles n next 2-5 years, few clear winners will remain who will figure out a way to become cash positive.
by sodapopcan | 2026-02-16 19:14:50+00:00
> While it is literally gatekeeping, it's necessary. Doctors, architects, lawyers should be gatekept.

That was exactly my point. It's one of those things where deliberately use a word that is technically correct in a context where it doesn't, or shouldn't, hold true. Does this mean I want to stop people from "vibe coding" flappy bird. No, of course not, but as per your original comment yes, there should be stricter regulations when it comes to hiring.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-16 19:15:07+00:00
They can try it and sometimes it works, but generally it's hard to imitate well. You have to not give a fuck about the right things. The imitators who just don't give a fuck about anything will stumble on something genuinely important.

Like the cool guy at school who doesn't give a fuck about what the teachers say will have to give a fuck about his friends and the community around him, to the skills that he gets his coolness from to preserve his status.

A boss who sends informal messages should still give a fuck about the overall state of the team, on being timely to respond to actually important matters even if just giving a quick ok sent from my iPhone.

The countersignaling is more about "I care about/provide more important things that are more valuable or impactful for you than getting caught up in bullshit insignificant superficial matters"
by RHSeeger | 2026-02-16 19:15:19+00:00
My take was that it's not

> We should hate/destroy this technology because it will cause significant short term harm, in exchange for great long term gains.

Rather

> We should acknowledge that this technology will cause significant short term harm is we don't act to mitigate it. How can we act to do that, while still obtaining the great long term gains from it.
by copper4eva | 2026-02-16 19:15:21+00:00
If you're betting against modern stockfish, respectively, that's a terrible bet.

There are some games of knight odds Leela playing superGM's.
For example, Hikaru Nakamura went 1 win, 2 draws, and 13 losses against LeelaKnightOdds at 3 minutes + 2 sec increment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYO9w3tQU4Q
So that's a score of 2 out of 16. Which is apparently actually very good. I know Fabi played a lot of games too, and also lost almost all of them.

And that is with knight odds lol. And stockfish is ever better than Leela, but generally less aggressive and more methodical.

You clarified in another post that you had won back in 2015. I have no clue the strength of engines back then (I imagine still very strong of course), but a decade of growth is a lot. They're completely insane nowadays.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-16 19:15:22+00:00
We've been here before: You can use XML to describe the data on the dashboard and the possible actions in a structured way. Then you attach a XMLT script that visual user agents use to turn that into pretty XHTML, and programmatic user agents can directly consume the XML.

A swagger API with react frontend is kind of the modern jsonified version of that, with better interactivity. But just wait five years and people will use a WebMCP backend rendered by WebGPT /s
by epolanski | 2026-02-16 19:15:41+00:00
I really find the state of American (but not only) politics dreadful where everything is seen under the lenses of conservatives vs liberals.

Most people I know, everywhere in the world have mixed views on most topics.

Let alone the fact that ideologies tend to change, modern rights are way more populist and economically-socialist than they were 2 decades ago. See Poland, Hungary, Italy, etc, where governments make money fall on the poorest, on the elderly, etc ignoring their historical electorate (middle class).
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-16 19:15:56+00:00
> It's a bit more useful than it was 3 years ago.

It's comments like these that make me not really want to interact with this topic anymore. There's no way that your comment can be taken seriously. It's 99.9% a troll comment, or simply delusional. 3 years ago the model (gpt3.5, the only one out there basically) was not able to output correct code at all. It looked like python if you squinted, but it made no sense. To compare that to what we have today and say "a bit more useful" is not a serious comment. Cannot be a serious comment.
by mupuff1234 | 2026-02-16 19:16:31+00:00
You completely miss the fact that the same R&D Israel has done would have cost 100x more if it were done by US based companies.

The US gains massive cheap R&D and real world tested capabilities for a fraction of the price it would pay domestically.

Now you could argue about the moral implications, but money wise it's a great deal.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-02-16 19:16:39+00:00
This is a good use case for a blockchain. AI companies can run their own nodes so they're not bashing infra that they don't pay for. Concerned citizens can run their own nodes so they know that the government isn't involved in any 1984-type shenanigans. In the sealed-for-X-years case, the government can publish a hash of the blocks that they intend to publish in X years so that when the time comes, people can prove that nobody tampered with the data in the interim.

The government can decide to stop paying for the infra, but the only way to delete something that was once public record should be for all interested parties to also stop their nodes.
by kashnote | 2026-02-16 19:16:55+00:00
Maybe someone can clarify this but I was also pretty appalled by the grammar in the Epstein emails until someone pointed out it could be an artifact of OCR or decoding issues.

Not sure why they would have to do OCR on emails. Were they printed out? On PDF for some reason? The decoding thing I kinda get but that you can easily point out because of all the equal signs.
by nosianu | 2026-02-16 19:16:58+00:00
It's unclear if you are merely joking or whatever you are actually doing here. Your comments don't say much of anything. People here reward and want useful comments that take the discussion seriously. If you don't, what are you doing here commenting nothingburgers? YOU are the one writing short substance-free complaint-only comments, complaining about other people.

That said, a well-reasoned text should probably go on a blog site, not here, or here only as link. Otherwise you are wasting a lot of effort, with only few people even noticing your comment and the discussion soon entirely disappearing into history.
by throwaway314155 | 2026-02-16 19:17:18+00:00
> for theatrical effect, but analyzed philosophically and technologically

If theatrical effect basically means "the intent of the production of the film", then they don't merely appear to do have sentience - they _do_ in the context of the filmmakers' vision. Whether you think it was plausible or not is sort of a different discussion I feel.

At any rate, I found Samantha to be a highly plausible ASI or whatever you want to call it. Johanson's performance really sold it for me.
by nearbuy | 2026-02-16 19:17:28+00:00
If you ask a bunch of people the same question in a context where they aren't expecting a trick question, some of them will say walk. LLMs sometimes say walk, and sometimes say drive. Maybe LLMs fall for these kinds of tricks more often than humans; I haven't seen any study try to measure this. But saying it's proof they can't reason is a double standard.
by adakuchi2242 | 2026-02-16 19:17:41+00:00
Founder here.

Not vibe coded, but in the last six months I’ve been heads-down building ORA—an autonomous super agent that represents the next step toward AGI. An agent, specifically designed to help people go from vibe coding to production-ready code.
The gap between 'I got AI to make something' and 'this is actually deployable' is massive. Curious if others in this thread are thinking about that transition.
Demo: https://x.com/OscerraHQ
Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator
by swesnow | 2026-02-16 19:17:46+00:00
A pretty simple but fun to play with simulator for a concept from mathematical physics called the "2D Coulomb gas". I originally made this for my Bachelor's thesis to create pretty pictures and build intuition but have recently gotten it a fresh coat of paint and better performance curtesy of WebGPU acceleration (ported with liberal help from Codex to get through all of the boilerplate).

Play around with it - hopefully read up more on the 2D Coulomb gas because it is an incredibly deep topic research wise.
Show HN: Breadboard – a modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas
by simquat | 2026-02-16 19:18:36+00:00
Hey HN! I’m Simone. We re-built Breadboard, a visual app builder that mixes Figma-style UI design with Shortcuts-style logic so you can build, preview, and publish interactive web apps directly from the canvas.

What it does

Design UIs visually with a flexible canvas –like Figma–.
Define app logic with a visual, instruction-stacked editor inspired by Shortcuts.
Live preview apps directly on the canvas –no separate preview window–.
Publish working web apps with one click.

Why we made it

Modernize the HyperCard idea: combine layout, behavior, and instant sharing in one place.
Reduce friction between design and a working app.
Make simple web apps approachable for non-developers while keeping power features for developers.
Build a foundation for LLM integration so users can design and develop with AI while still understanding what’s happening, even without coding experience –in progress!–.

Try it –no signup required–

Weather forecast app: https://app.breadboards.io/playgrounds/weather
Swiss Public Transit: https://app.breadboards.io/playgrounds/public_transit

Links

info: https://breadboards.io

I would appreciate any feedback :)
by 5555624 | 2026-02-16 19:18:51+00:00
"Atchley do you realize that several Marines were killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor while taking craps?"
"No, sir."
"A fighting man must be vigilant to surprise attack no matter where he is. The survival of our nation depends on the readiness of Marines all over the world. Also more importantly, you only wiped yourself twice - grossly insufficient. Right now, germs with names you can't even pronounce are preparing to launch a devastating attack that will render you helpless in the defense of your country... Do you read me?"
(The Great Santini)
by lambda | 2026-02-16 19:18:55+00:00
In general, quantizing down to 6 bits gives no measurable loss in performance. Down to 4 bits gives small measurable loss in performance. It starts dropping faster at 3 bits, and at 1 bit it can fall below the performance of the next smaller model in the family (where families tend to have model sizes at factors of 4 in number of parameters)

So in the same family, you can generally quantize all the way down to 2 bits before you want to drop down to the next smaller model size.

Between families, there will obviously be more variation. You really need to have evals specific to your use case if you want to compare them, as there can be quite different performance on different types of problems between model families, and because of optimizing for benchmakrs it's really helpful to have your own to really test it out.