MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-02-16 01:12:41+00:00
The problem is that it’s being marketed like it’s magic and will make people obsolete… not as a tool with a high learning curve.

I don’t blame people for being upset when it can’t do what all the hype says it will do.

The way people talk about the latest Claude Code is the same way people were talking 2-3 years ago about whatever the latest model was then. Every release gets marketed as if it’s a new level of magic, yet we’re still here having the same debates about merit, because reality doesn’t match the marketing and hype.

It has gotten better, I tried something with early ChatGPT that failed horribly (a basic snake game written in C), and just tried the exact same thing again last week and it worked—it wasn’t good, but it technically worked. But if it took 3 years to get good enough to pass my basic test, why was I being fed those lies 3 years ago? The AI companies are like the boy who cried wolf. At this point, it’s on them to prove they can do what they say, not up to me to put in extraordinary efforts to try and get value out of their product.

Last week I sat through a talk from one of our SVPs who said development is cheap and easy now, then he went on about the buy vs build debate for 20 minutes. It’s like he read a couple articles and drank the kool-aid. I also saw someone talking about ephemeral programs… seeing a future where if you want to listen to some MP3s, you’ll just type in a prompt to generate a bespoke music player. This would require AI to reliably one-shot apps like Winamp or iTunes in a few words from a layperson with no programming background. These are the ideas the hype machine is putting in people’s minds that seem detached from reality.

I don’t think the, “you’re holding it wrong”, type responses are a good defense. It’s more that it’s being marketed wrong, because all these companies need to maintain the hype to keep raising money. When people use the AI the way the hype tells them it should work… it doesn’t work.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-16 01:13:03+00:00
It does appear that people prefer the convenience of internet shopping, though I also see that other firms still successfully apply the catalog model in specific markets, eg Harbor Freight which does this for construction tools.

People don't voluntarily lose money. Understand that and the world will way more understandable.

But nobody is arguing that they do. Rather, I'm saying that if some companies lose money on selling clothes and exit the market, there's nothing wrong with that.
by hermitShell | 2026-02-16 01:13:14+00:00
The Sammy Jankis link was certainly interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Whether or not AGI is imminent, and whether or not Sammy Jankis is or will be conscious... it's going to become so close that for most people, there will be no difference except to philosophers.

Is AGI 'right around the corner' or currently already achieved? I agree with the author, no, we have something like 10 years to go IMO. At the end of the post he points to the last 30 years of research, and I would accept that as an upper bound. In 10 to 30 years, 99% of people won't be able to distinguish between an 'AGI' and another person when not in meatspace.
by fn-mote | 2026-02-16 01:13:31+00:00
> > It's hard to have any empathy when the warning label was already on the box for all these products.

> These snooty takes where we're supposed to look down upon others for having reasonable assumptions about usage of their data are why it's so hard to get the general public to care about privacy.

In addition: it’s not just the Ring camera installer whose rights are being violated (to be optimistic), it’s everyone who walks past on the sidewalk.

Privacy is a public good.

And it’s so long gone nobody (in the US or UK at least) can see a way to get it back.
by Animats | 2026-02-16 01:13:42+00:00
Now that understanding video and projecting what happens next indicates we're getting past the LLM problem of lacking a world model. That's encouraging.

There's more than one way to do intelligence. Basic intelligence has evolved independently three times that we know of - mammals, corvids, and octopuses. All three show at least ape-level intelligence, but the species split before intelligence developed, and the brain architectures are quite different. Corvids get more done with less brain mass than mammals, and don't have a mammalian-type cortex. Octopuses have a distributed brain architecture, and have a more efficient eye design than mammals.
by TSiege | 2026-02-16 01:13:52+00:00
There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing.

1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worried about being directly liable for all the harms OpenClaw can do.

2. Any pretense for AI Safety concerns that had been coming from OpenAI really fall flat with this move. We've seen multiple hacks, scams, and misaligned AI action from this project that has only been used in the wild for a few months.

3. We've yet to see any moats in the AI space and this scares the big players. Models are neck and neck with one another and open source models are not too far behind. Claude Code is great, but so is OpenCode. Now Peter used AI to program an free app for AI agents.

LLMs and AI are going to be as disruptive as Web 1 and this is OpenAI's attempt to take more control. They're as excited as they are scared, seeing a one man team build a hugely popular tool that in some ways is more capable than what they've released. If he can build things like this what's stopping everyone else? Better to control the most popular one than try to squash it. This is a powerful new technology and immense amounts of wealth are trying to control it, but it is so disruptive they might not be able to. It's so important to have good open source options so we can create a new Web 1.0 and not let it be made into Web 2.0
by ed_mercer | 2026-02-16 01:14:10+00:00
Ahh, that makes sense. Yeah you likely have a very different business model. We're more using them as "AI employees" that help us with tasks. Currently running 4 of these VMs but planning to add more.
Note that each VM has a specific role: cluster monitoring, database stats, frontend/backend features (this is where VMs really shine) and a (very experimental) high-level manager.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-16 01:14:58+00:00
> Would you consider cute animal videos that are not AI generated to be so much more worthy of your time?

Yes indeed. I do love me some cat and bunny videos. But I hate getting fed slop - and it's not just cat videos by the way. I'm (as evidenced by my comment history) into mechanics, electronics and radio stuff, and there are so damn many slop channels spreading outright BS with AI hallucinated scripts that it eventually gets really really annoying. Sadly, YT's algorithm keeps feeding me slop in every topic that interests me and frankly it's enraging, as some of my favorite legitimate creators like shorts as a format so I don't want to completely hide shorts.

> And most people I know who love spending time on this kind of content would not care either - because they don't care whether they waste time on real or AI animal videos. They just want something to waste time with.

The problem is, these channels build up insane amounts of followers. And it would not be the first time that these channels then suddenly pivot (or get sold from one scam crew to the next) and spread disinformation, crypto scams and other fraud - it was and is a hot issue on many social media platforms.
by nsainsbury | 2026-02-16 01:15:10+00:00
I used to also believe along these lines but lately I'm not so sure.

I'm honestly shocked by the latest results we're seeing with Gemini 3 Deep Think, Opus 4.6, and Codex 5.3 in math, coding, abstract reasoning, etc. Deep Think just scored 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 (https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/)! And these benchmarks are supported by my own experimentation and testing with these models ~ specifically most recently with Opus 4.6 doing things I would have never thought possible in codebases I'm working in.

These models are demonstrating an incredible capacity for logical abstract reasoning of a level far greater than 99.9% of the world's population.

And then combine that with the latest video output we're seeing from Seedance 2.0, etc showing an incredible level of image/video understanding and generation capability.

I was previously deeply skeptical that the architecture we have would be sufficient to get us to AGI. But my belief in that has been strongly rattled lately. Honestly I think the greatest gap now is simply one of orchestration, data presentation, and work around in-context memory representations - that is, converting work done into real world into formats/representations, etc. amenable for AI to run on (text conversion, etc.) and keeping new trained/taught information in context to support continual learning.
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-16 01:15:20+00:00
> I doubt there are a lot of people you'd immediately recognize by their voice.

There is a lot of variability on this from person to person.

A lot of people are terrible at recognizing voices out of context. I have always been able to recognize people's voices just about as easily as their faces.

(Unfortunately, while this is a neat parlor trick, I haven't found it to be a particularly valuable skill).
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-16 01:15:42+00:00
> I mentioned I am working on replacements for the usual local PC software stack ..."exactly"

Very good, when you replace it, use it to create all the shiny things you dream about, it should be a breeze, use AI to create everything you need. We, the less fortunate, are going to stay with the browser only until you save the world and not a minute longer.

> I will stick to phone apps and run what I want on my PC.

I also run what I want on my PC and what I want in my browser and I don't want phone apps because they are restricted to a tightly controlled environment. Are you going to replace that one too? With something free and open? AI should do it with a couple of prompts, right?

> And I have achieved this in just a few weeks

That's wonderful, I wish you luck, seriously.

> EE who has developed software from hardware up for over 20 years... has provided the context to bring "fairy tales" to life.

Until you bring them to life, they remain fairy tales - not my call, that's how it works and has always worked. I don't see why we should discuss something that isn't there and address claims that cannot be verified in any way.

More importantly, I don't see why we should abandon vital and indispensable infrastructure just because you say so and because you can get by using something much more restricted for your narrow purposes. I mean, show me, don't tell me.
by nowittyusername | 2026-02-16 01:15:56+00:00
Good article and I agree with everything in there. For my own voice agent I decided to make him PTT by default as the problems of the model accurately guessing the end of utterance are just too great. I think it can be solved in the future but, I haven't seen a really good example of it being done with modern day tech including this labs. Fundamentally it all comes down to the fact that different humans have different ways of speaking, and the human listening to them updates their own internal model of the speech pattern. Adjusting their own model after a couple of interactions and arriving at the proper way of speaking with said person. Something very similar will need to be done and at very fast latency's for it to succeed in the audio ml world. But I don't think we have anything like that yet. It seems currently best you can do is tune the model on a generic speech pattern that you expect to fit over a larger percentage of the human population and that's about the best you can do, anyone who falls outside of that will feel the pain of getting interrupted every time.
Show HN: Crabify, a Spotify TUI
by eiiot | 2026-02-16 01:16:14+00:00
Hey HN,

I made a little Spotify TUI today because I was sick of the electron app draining my battery and otherwise slowing down my computer. I am using it right now and figured you all might find it useful.

Spotify doesn't seem to allow devs to create new apps at the moment, but this should work with any existing or unused app id.

Cheers!
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-16 01:16:40+00:00
> This argument justifies CCTV surveillance of all public places.

Well, yeah, I think that was super obvious, no?

> In any case, there needs to be more nuance in the discussion than a one-liner.

Not really. Super public busy places like train stations ought to be surveilled. The benefits far outweigh any cons.
by claudeomusic | 2026-02-16 01:16:51+00:00
To be a little less vague - I think the biggest difference I’ve seen is where time is spent. In the past since I know what I’m doing I’d go straight into dev mode pretty quickly
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Going straight into dev mode with an LLM pretty much always goes wrong - a lot more time is spent in planning and in setting up constraints for how an agent can operate before letting it loose so that once you set it free it can run.
by jwpapi | 2026-02-16 01:17:56+00:00
Honestly Im not even sure how much model improvement was in the last 12 months, or it was mainly harness improvement. It feels to me like I could’ve done the same stuff with 4, if I would be able to split every task into multiple subtasks with perfect prompts. So to me it could totally be that there is an inner harnessing happen that has been the recent improvements, but then I ask myself is this maybe the same with our own intelligence?
by ggm | 2026-02-16 01:18:32+00:00
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"," is Evelyn Waugh's take on the gentleman naturalist in "Scoop" (1938) a role which Peter Matthiessen seems to have taken to heart.

It's a job. Somebody has to note the first cookoo of spring.
by Lerc | 2026-02-16 01:18:40+00:00
I don't really understand the argument that AGI cannot be achieved just by scaling current methods. I too believe that (for any sane level of scaling anyway), but this-year's LLMs are not using entirely last-year's methods. And they, in turn, are using methods that weren't used the year before.

It seems like a prediction like "Bob won't become a formula one driver in a minivan". It's true, but not very interesting.

If Bob turned up a couple of years later in Formula one, you'd probably be right in saying that what he is driving is not a mini van. The same is true for AGI anyone who says it can't be done with current methods can point to any advancement along the way and say that's the difference.

A better way to frame it would be, is there any fundimental, quantifiable ability that is blocking AGI? I would not be surprised if the breakthrough technique has been created, but the research has not described the problem that it solves well enough for us to know that it is the breakthrough.

I realise that, for some the notion of AGI is relatively new, but some of us have been considering the matter for some time. I suspect my first essay on the topic was around 1993. It's been quite weird watching people fall into all of the same philosophical potholes that were pointed out to us at university.
by n4bz0r | 2026-02-16 01:18:42+00:00
Seems like a fitting area for government regulation and certification. But in order for a government to even begin to consider the lack of security in IoT a problem, the adoption must ubiquitous. I.e. the devices (or the number of thereof) should pose enough a threat to public infrastructure (think botnets) to be subjected to regulation. Is there such an incentive in any country at the moment?
by windexh8er | 2026-02-16 01:18:46+00:00
Security is always a cost center. We've seen multiple iterations of changes already impact security in the same ways over the last 20+ years. Nothing is different here and the outcomes will be the same: just good enough but always a step behind. The one thing that is a new lever to pull here is time: people need far less of it to make disastrous mistakes. But, ultimately, the game hasn't changed and security budgets will continue to be funneled to off the shelf products that barely work and the remainder of that budget will continue to go to overworked and underpaid. Nothing really changes.
by chlorion | 2026-02-16 01:18:53+00:00
>The curl|sh workflow is no more dangerous that downloading an executable off the internet

It actually is for a lot of subtle reasons, assuming you were going to check the executable checksum or something, or blindly downloading + running a script.

The big thing is that it can serve you up different contents if it detects it's being piped into a shell which is in theory possible, but also because if the download is interrupted you end up with half of the script ran, and a broken install.

If you are going to do this, its much better to do something like:

sh -c "$(curl https://foo.bar/blah.sh)"

Though ideally yes you just download it and read it like a normal person.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-16 01:18:54+00:00
> 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worried about being directly liable for all the harms OpenClaw can do.

This is a great take and hasn't been spoken about nearly enough in this comment section. Spending a few million to buy out Openclaw('s creator), which is by far the most notable product made by Codex in a world where most developer mindshare is currently with Claude, is nothing for a marketing/PR stunt.
by spyder | 2026-02-16 01:18:55+00:00
It sounds similar, but doesn't sound the same to me.
Also how would you determine the similarity allowed? Maybe if we would have such a measure they could use that in voice model training to not allow that much similarity to a single voice, but if we don't have an agreed upon value for that than it's a subjective "sounds the same to me" rule then it's hard to follow that.
Ok, they can say that don't train on their voice, but it's very likely that a blend of voices from an "allowed" set could produce a very similar voice to his.
by nelsonfigueroa | 2026-02-16 01:19:09+00:00
> "What I want is to change the world".

I don't know if you'll achieve that at OpenAI or if it'll even be a good change for the world, but I genuinely wish you the best. Regardless of the news around OpenAI I still think it's great that a personal project got you a position at a company like that.
by empressplay | 2026-02-16 01:19:31+00:00
This study had no controls at all, and can safely be ignored.

>The participants reported not previously using noise to help them sleep or having any sleep disorders.

All this study said was that people who didn't need noise to sleep had their sleep disrupted when noise was introduced. It has absolutely no implication for people who use noise to help them sleep.

Meaningless trash.
by epolanski | 2026-02-16 01:20:17+00:00
Both the quotes of this, otherwise empty, article are reasonable and do not make him a Kremlin mouthpiece.

Stating that the west, and the US, has actively used Ukraine as a puppet in the geopolitical game is a fact.

It's also a fact that US troops and NATO forces have increasingly surrounded Russia since the 90s.

Mind you, I think that the NATO argument is bogus.

What happened in Ukraine was not a matter of Russian security, but Putin's own ambitions and paranoia against democratic waves in Belarus and Kazakhstan.
by djkurlander | 2026-02-16 01:21:21+00:00
I'm reporting the bots that have visited to abuseipdb once per day, but yeah, there should be a free alternative. You aren’t the first person to have asked for this.

It would be trivial to write out a file that people can grab for free. What do you think would make the most sense? Plain text file, one ip per line, of offending ip’s within the last month? Or year? Or a .csv with the dates included? Generally I’m a big fan of simplicity.
by cvwright | 2026-02-16 01:21:29+00:00
Just burn the tokens. It’s an upfront cost that you pay once at the beginning of a project, or on a smaller scale at the beginning of a major feature.

For context, I’ve built about 15k loc since Christmas on the $20 plan, plus $18 of extra usage. Since this is a side project, I only hit the limits once or twice per week.
by em-bee | 2026-02-16 01:22:02+00:00
that's how you protect your local economy. that's pretty normal everywhere. in europe people go on strike if imports threaten their livelyhood. dumping cheap clothing on an economy that can't handle it is not really helping. it's going to make the local stuff even more expensive because there is less demand for it.

local development simply does not happen if outside products are allowed to dominate.

if we were talking about a part, say less than half of the market, that would be fine, but the import of cheap clothing is so massive that there is no more room for a local market.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-16 01:22:25+00:00
Any city with either an actual city center, an historic center or touristic area. Any restaurant that is in a major business area.

Any neighborhood were local zoning is not a thing and local restaurant can be open. We have a lot of tapas or marisquerías places in Spain that are almost only visited by people from the same neighborhood. I like fish and seafood but don't want the smell of it in my kitchen the next day, whenever I want to eat fish I go to some place selling that and I don't need google maps to find one in my neighborhood.

Also world of mouth is still a thing in many places in this world. Reading HN feels sometimes like a weird parallel universe were people would never open their front door nor meet and to people.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-16 01:22:57+00:00
Why the super-high bar? What's unsatisfying is that aren't the 'dumbest' humans still a general intelligence that we're nearly past, depending how you squint and measure?

It feels like an arbitrary bar to perhaps make sure we aren't putting AIs over humans, which they are most certainly in the superhuman category on a rapidly growing number of tasks.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-16 01:24:46+00:00
I get how difficult a study like this is to carry out, but each participant was involved for just seven days, each night exposed to different conditions. The control environment was silence, and every other conditions did worse than controlled silence. In others they piped in fake environmental noises, pink noise, or made the participants wear earplugs with some other combination.

Eh. People condition to an environment, and someone conditioned to something like pink noise wouldn't have the acclimation issue, and it might drown out smaller environmental noises that otherwise would have disrupted their sleep. It would take a much longer study to determine this.

Or hey, maybe those insecure sleep masks tracking EEG and other things will give us some insights eventually. People just need to harvest the data from the other services.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-16 01:25:15+00:00
I (British/Australian) use it, but not in a cultural sense. I use "the West" when talking about military or economic matters.

I generally prefer the term "Anglosphere" to refer to only the bits of "the West" that share that cultural viewpoint when I'm discussing cultural matters. It's not perfect, but it's useful.

Given the widening gap between the USA and Europe (and Canada) in economic and military matters, I'm not sure how much longer "the West" is going to be useful.