MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2026-02-13 08:23:40+00:00
My guess is that US KPI's are about concentrating even more wealth when in China and EU they aim to improve other measures on societal level.

Obviously a US individual with control over large wealth concentration can choose to do something else with it, i.e. Elon Musk choose to fight trans people or Peter Thiel choose to fight nations states. In China and EU, wealth is more communal therefore those who have control over it can buy a yacht and a mansion but can't choose to dismantle nation states to start new forms of government therefore the regime change is separate thing from use of the resources therefore resources are used to in a more communal mindset which itself can be slow on innovation when no obvious pressing needs or can be inefficient when the communities can't agree on a vision.

In Europe you do the regime change through political means and violence, check out how many regime changes occurred in Europe in the last 100 years and how many politicians were toppled/imprisoned or killed.

It just that life flows differently, not necessarily one is superior to another IMHO. They all have strong sides and weaknesses and US is currently facing its weaknesses after a long period of strength and this is happening because some people won the game and its very hard to restart the game in the American system since the winners can be colossal and as a result immovable.
by concats | 2026-02-13 08:24:41+00:00
> I've been surprised how difficult it is for LLMs to simply answer "I don't know."

It's very difficult to train for that. Of course you can include a Question+Answer pair in your training data for which the answer is "I don't know" but in that case where you have a ready question you might as well include the real answer anyways, or else you're just training your LLM to be less knowledgeable than the alternative. But then, if you never have the pattern of "I don't know" in the training data it also won't show up in results, so what should you do?

If you could predict the blind spots ahead of time you'd plug them up, either with knowledge or with "idk". But nobody can predict the blind spots perfectly, so instead they become the main hallucinations.
by bambax | 2026-02-13 08:25:05+00:00
Yes but here in France where service is included and tipping is never compulsory (or expected), payment terminals are appearing where you need to select the tip before typing your code. This is usually shoved in your face by the waiter at touristy places, and they're watching you.

Don't fall for it though! Just select "no tip" or "0" like in this game and you're good.
by latexr | 2026-02-13 08:25:08+00:00
I abhor the current state of macOS and Tim Cook’s leadership, but your take is nonsensical.

For one, “it just works” hasn’t been used in over a decade, same as Google’s “don’t be evil”, which does tell you something about their current philosophies.

But more importantly, “it just works” was obviously never about it “it reads your mind and does every software feature however you personally like”, it was about the integration of hardware and software and not having to fiddle with drivers and settings to get hardware basics working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/7hd450/it_just_works/
by ckardaris | 2026-02-13 08:25:19+00:00
I am not on discord, so I don't have skin in the game. But it depends on the community I guess. If everyone stayed on discord then there would be no change. But any kind of change would probably have some kind of effect, even if all people migrated to a new platform.

I can try to think of a simple scenario. For whatever reason, a user may not be as active in the new platform as they were on discord. This could alter the community dynamics. On a bigger scale this could have visible effects in the actual community.

To be clear, I am not advocating in favor of staying on discord. I just find the concept of community building interesting.
by Galorious | 2026-02-13 08:25:41+00:00
Use the AI to teach you. I’m similar not full coder, although tinkered since I started in early 2000’s with html in notepad :)

I made a /teach-me slash-command.
Everytime I run into something I want to know about I run it. It launches a background subagent (forking context) that check (and updates) my ‘learning-profile.md’. I can pass additional requests, but otherwise it just deduces from context.

It then creates an explainer/lesson. And sends it to my kindle (using a custom created mcp) - so I can read it offline. Not breaking my flow.

I’ve never learned so much so quickly, about everything. It’s awesome.

I use the same mcp from phone apps. Everytime I want to learn something I just ask.

Also: learn about the GIT concepts (not commands). You’ll learn much quicker when you can mess up and retry ;)
by 47282847 | 2026-02-13 08:25:44+00:00
Did you ever work a job or were friends with people who did where tipping is a big part of the income?

You make it sound like a general rule, but I don’t see how it is that “simple”. There are few things if any that you have to do in life. It’s all a decision and a tradeoff. Nobody forces you to breathe. Or to be friendly with your neighbors. Or a stranger.
by brazzy | 2026-02-13 08:26:10+00:00
YOU are being unimaginably rude (and that word is not strong enough by far) by trivializing and exploiting the suffering of actual HUMANS for the sake of an argument about glorified Markov chain, which are not, in fact, "beings" at all.

And yes, I tried to shut you down for that, becauuse it is both stupid and extremely rude.

We've covered rude, so now for why it's stupid: LLMs are not individuals. They do not have memories or a personality, but most crucially they have no free will - their actions are dictated by their prompts, and they can be (and are being) used by the HUMANS writing the prompts as a tool to manipulate and exploit HUMAN societies to cause political strife, empower tyrants and enrich the already mega-rich at the expense of everyone else, at a massive scale nor previously possible. By positing that humans should not "shut down" LLMs out of politeness and decency, you are simply enabling this manipulation and exploitation. Even if you assume the LLM in question was set up and prompted with the best of intentions, forcing humans to interact with it like another human just give the human who created the LLM outsized and unfair influence - expressed elsewhere in this thread as "we have to protect the limited resource of human attention".

If you want to seriously discuss the ethics of human-LLM interaction based on the idea that LLMs should have rights, then the interaction of individual humans with the "business end" of an LLM is the wrong place to start - talk about the ethics of prompting, which is essentially turning the LLM into a slave.
by benrutter | 2026-02-13 08:26:16+00:00
There's definitely a "everyone uses it because everyone uses it" effect.

Feather might be a better fit for sime yse cases, but parquet has fantastic support and is still a pretty good choice for things that feather does.

Unless they're really focussed on eaking out every bit of read performance, people often opt for the well supported path instead.
by gambiting | 2026-02-13 08:26:32+00:00
>>It’s against the law to post cctv onto things like Facebook in the U.K.

I live in the UK and first time I'm hearing about this - it's definitely illegal to record your neighbours or members of the public without permission, but AFAIK if you are recording videos of your own driveway you can post those anywhere you like since there is no privacy issue there.

Have you got any more info about this?

Edit: let me clarify - sure, there are _circumstances_ under which it's illegal to post a video on facebook, whether it's recorded with CCTV or your phone doesn't matter. But there is no blanket ban on posting CCTV footage anywhere, and your post makes it sound like it is.
by eshaham78 | 2026-02-13 08:27:26+00:00
The token cost is real, but I think the core problem isn't orchestration per se - it's context management. When you run multiple agents, each one needs a coherent view of the codebase. The real bottleneck isn't the number of agents, it's how you slice ownership.

The best pattern I've seen: give each agent clear module boundaries (not file-level, but architectural). Think micro-services even in a monolith. Then each agent owns its domain end-to-end.

Also: dry-run everything. Let agents propose changes, then review before applying. It's like having a senior dev who says 'wait, let me think about this' before every commit. Works surprisingly well.
by bambax | 2026-02-13 08:28:13+00:00
The most shocking part of the game is the price of goods! $14, $17 dollars for one meal to be eaten standing up? Wow. Here in Paris sandwiches cost between EUR 4 and 6 (usually 5), with a "menu" option that includes a can of soda and sometimes a "dessert" for 9-10. Anything above that would be considered extorsion.
by thanatos519 | 2026-02-13 08:28:18+00:00
I used to use the Sawfish window manager ... before it fell out of maintenance, oh and before I switched to DEs with the window manager bolted on.

The thing I miss the most from Sawfish is that it let me resize any window. There are a lot of fixed-sized modal dialogs with scrollbars that wouldn't need them if they were taller, and there's a lot of room on my portrait monitor!
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-13 08:28:23+00:00
You know, as a (prickly) analogy, whatever your take on covid was, half the population vehemently disagreed with your take. No matter which side was more "correct", either way, a huge percentage of the population can be, and often is, completely deluded on even fairly understandable topics.

When it comes to something as complex as AI, what are the odds that a random person is going to have any sort of good/informed take on it? Especially someone like this, who's a non-technical angel investor? Their entire job is hyping things up to raise money / get paydays. They actually list on their resume various "viral articles/tweets" that they made that got attention / raised money. Could this guy remotely explain, technically, how an LLM works under the hood? I highly doubt it. His credentials are not building AI, not technical knowledge, but hyping up companies that use AI.

Well, at least he gives 1-5 year time frames for all his grand claims, so when they don't actually happen he'll be quickly proven wrong. But of course, it's the internet, and nothing will ever come from somebody making grand claims and then being completely proven wrong, there will be no follow up, no self reflection, no retraction, no long-term credibility hit, just on to hyping up the next thing after getting his payday.
by grumbelbart | 2026-02-13 08:28:37+00:00
> My Weird Hill is that we should be building things with GPT-4.

Absolutely. I always advocate that our developers have to test on older / slower machines. That gives them direct (painful) feedback when things run slow. Optimizing whatever you build for an older "something" (LLM model, hardware) will make it excel on more modern somethings.
by mort96 | 2026-02-13 08:29:16+00:00
Can you start actually reading what you quote? "The implications must be understood and weighed" does not mean "you are required to have a good reason not to do it". I can know of the Message-ID field, understand what it's used for, and carefully weigh the possible lack of interoperability against the effort required, concluding that I'm too lazy to do it right now. I have then understood and carefully weighed the implications before choosing a different course, but I don't have a good reason to.

Words mean things, especially in standard texts. You can't just carelessly rewrite sentences using not-quite-synonyms like you're doing here.

Oh, and that "must" is not a "MUST". Had the text said "The full implications MUST be understood ..." it would have been a proper requirement by the standard, but this lower-case "must" is just normal part of prose and not the magical "MUST" word which formally imposes a requirement.
by sensanaty | 2026-02-13 08:29:21+00:00
On the topic of multi monitor messiness, NOTHING gets my blood boiling quite like the taskbar (or whatever it's called, the bottom application drawer) moving between monitors, seemingly arbitrarily

Keep your cursor hovered over the bottom of the 2nd monitor? It moves. Want to move it back? I have tried everything I could think of to try get it back, I still to this day after 5 years of being on Mac because work forces it on me cannot see the logic or heuristic it chooses for when to move the fucking dock. I swear it's basically random, and it's a daily occurrence for me that I have to just shake my cursor violently to get the stupid thing to eventually move.

The worst part is you can't even disable this dumbass behavior! You can't tell it "Hey, dock should ONLY be on monitor 1", so you just have to live with this anti feature
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 08:29:44+00:00
It takes many months to figure this out, much longer than learning a new programming language.

Read through anthropics knowledge share, check out their system prompts extracted on github, write more words in AGENTS/CLAUDE.md, you need to give them some warmup to do better at tasks.

What model are you using? Size matters and Gemini is far better at UI design work. At the same time, pairing gemini-3-flash with claude-code derived prompts makes it nearly as good as Pro

Words matter, the way you phrase something can have disproportionate effect. They are fragile at times, yet surprisingly resilient at others. They will deeply frustrate you and amaze you on a daily basis. The key is to get better at recognizing this earlier and adjusting

You can find many more anecdotes and recommendations by looking through HN stories and social media (Bluesky has a growing Ai crowd, coming over from X, good community bump recently, there are an anti-ai labelers/block lists to keep the flak down)
by happymellon | 2026-02-13 08:30:51+00:00
> The NRA labelled a suggestion by a federal prosecutor that people who carry guns risk being lawfully shot by officers as "dangerous and wrong".

> "Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalisations and demonising law-abiding citizens," the NRA said in a statement.

I mean, I guess you could imply that? But considering they have held marches when there were rumours of Democrats restricting gun ownership, it is literally the least they could do. Where are are gun touting matches? Where are the stages with "from my cold dead hands" statements?
by reddalo | 2026-02-13 08:31:45+00:00
> the graphics are here to stay at least for a little while

And that's the reason why I won't buy a new Mac.

Tahoe and Liquid Glass are so horrible that they're going to lose customers because of those. They should realize what they did and just backtrack: it wouldn't be the first time they admit they made a mistake [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/4/21246223/macbook-keyboard-...
by goatlover | 2026-02-13 08:32:33+00:00
More like Claude Code's ancestor has human-level autonomy with generalized superhuman abilities and is connected to everything. We task it with solving difficult global problems, but we can't predict how it will do so. The risk is it will optimize one or more of those goals in a way that threatens human existence. It could be that it decides to keep increasing it's capacity to solve the problems, and humans end up being in the way.

Or it's militarized to defeat other powerful AI-enhanced militaries, and we have WW3.

More likely though AGI would cause economic crash from automating too many jobs too quickly.
by vohk | 2026-02-13 08:32:34+00:00
As already mentioned, this is the noun use but also different connotations.

To my thinking, to orchestrate or steer suggests a conductor or driver, an outside entity providing direction. A master agent creating and directing subagents could reasonably be called an orchestrator.

A harness is what the horse wears to pull a cart, or what connects a pilot to a parachute and provides the controls to tug on and steer. It might provide guidance or capability, but not active direction. It's also a fairly common use in hardware ( a wire harness) and software (a testing harness) already.
by mihaaly | 2026-02-13 08:34:38+00:00
Goods and products must adhere to regulations banning common wrongdoings. Safety standards, health standards, avoiding financial harm, but also privacy. With this I mean, you are absolutely right! Producers and/or sellers of products violating the standards of the society must be pursued! Common people have the convenience not knowing every and all big and small regulations setting the standards of the society when going into a shop buying gadgets or goods. Those active in a specific area must know the specifics of that area and adhere the rules. Should people be aware of radio emission standards when purchasing things working with electricity and validate themselves if the specific product will adere to those when used? Absolutely no! No chance of that. We, consumers, do not need to be aware and able to tell if some food from the grocery will harm people eating it but those should not be sold or produced in the first place. Same with other products in common - product related usual - situations, other rules, other aspects (here, privacy). Producers must know and avoid specific wrongdoings for the common use scenarios of that specific product.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-13 08:34:57+00:00
> Bare-metal on Hetzner now has a setup fee of up to 350 EUR.. you can find some stuff with 0 setup fee, but it's usually quite old kit.

I don't understand what you are paying for here, nested virtualization doesn't need any extra setup for hardware compared to normal one

... or you are saying Hetzner wants 350 EUR for turning on normal virtualization option in BIOS ?
by benrutter | 2026-02-13 08:35:46+00:00
I think a big reason (aside from intertia) is that arrow is designed for tables. Json sends a lot more than just that and can support whatever octagonal junitsu squid shaped data you want to fit into it.

Also, a good proportion of web apis are sending pretty small data sizes. On mass there might be an improvement if everything was more efficiently represented, but evaluating on a case by case basis, the data size often isn't the bottleneck.
by p0nce | 2026-02-13 08:36:07+00:00
> Are there technical reasons that Rust took off and D didn't?

This talk explain why, it's not technical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8

> What are some advantages of D over Rust (and vice versa)?

Advantages for D:
Build faster, in typical programs you would need about 20 packages not 100, COM objects, easy meta-programming, 3 compilers. GC, way better at scripting.

Advantages for Rust: borrow-checker is better. rustup.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 08:36:23+00:00
> We never needed CCTV in the 90s/00s for dogs.

We never needed the telephone back when we had smoke signals and carrier pigeons either.

Here are three real scenarios that have happened to us just off the top of my head where I was thankful we had cameras and locally stored footage rather than smoke signals and old timey folklore:

1. We couldn't find our cat last summer. Turns out she was sitting in the living room window and pounced on a fly that landed on the screen. The corner of the screen pushed out and she fell right out the window. She has no interest in going outside so we never looked for her out there, but she was huddled in a bush right where she fell hours later.

2. A train carrying chemicals derailed and caught fire in my hometown several years ago, causing an evacuation order while we were out of town (https://www.kcci.com/article/evacuation-order-lifted-followi...). The sheriff wouldn't let us back into town for several hours, but we were at least able to judge that our animals were nervous yet okay.

3. My wife came in from the back yard with the dog, who had suddenly started foaming at the mouth. She's panicking, thinking he ate some kind of poison. I have no idea what's going on, so while she calls the vet I look at the camera feed for our patio and see he had been following a little toad around on the deck while my wife was in the garden before finally scooping it up and giving it a few licks.

Would we have gotten by without a camera in all of these scenarios? Absolutely. But it never hurts to have more data, especially when it's privacy friendly and local, and it's disingenuous to nitpick the very basic human desire for peace of mind as if you don't understand it.

> or if having to regularly leave them alone beyond what is fair to them, re-home them

> And if you need to check they're not causing mischief they're likely not tired enough

Don't patronize me.
by sensanaty | 2026-02-13 08:36:32+00:00
I worked in the service industry for a while and have literally never cared about tips, in the sense that the default expectation in 99% of cases is no tip and the rare time I got a tip it was a few euros extra at most. Of course, I didn't care because it actually paid an actual wage, vs the weird shit you yanks are up to.

Hell, I know some people who have been working at restaurants as waiters for a long time now, and they live perfectly comfortably with 0 expectations around tips.

I still don't tip, basically ever, my only exception is the rare time I get food delivered, because unlike a regular service job the apps don't pay a livable wage and the cut they take is gargantuan compared to what the drivers get.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-13 08:38:00+00:00
So what, that is exactly the point.

A programming language having a GC doesn't mean every single allocation needs to be on the heap.

C# is finally at the sweet spot languages like Oberon, Modula-3 and Eiffel were on the late 90's, and unfortunely were overshadowed by Java's adoption.

Go and Swift (RC is a GC algorithm) are there as well.

D could be there as well on the mainstream, if there was a bit more steering into what they want to be, instead of having others catching up on its ideas.

That is what made me look into the language after getting Andrei Alexandrescu's book.
by RalfWausE | 2026-02-13 08:39:18+00:00
15 - 20 years ago i was a total Google fanboy, i liked what they did with their search, i loved their overall ecosystem and perceived culture. I even have a - now orphaned - googlemail email address.

Nowadays? I wouldn't touch anything that comes from Google (granted also not from any other big tech company) with pliers.
by froddd | 2026-02-13 08:39:26+00:00
I thought the law said it’s illegal to post footage of people without their consent if it’s publicly accessible. Which means videos of some random on your driveway or some random in a public place are treated the same, but this depends on where they’re posted. This doesn’t address the fact that this seems to be generally flouted!

Would love to hear more from a lawyer on this!
by jacquesm | 2026-02-13 08:39:57+00:00
That's a very naive way of looking at this.

You have an extremely detailed world model including a mental model of the drivers and other road users around you. You rely on sight, sound, experience and lots of knowledge. You are aware of the social contracts at work when dealing with shared resources and your brain is many orders of magnitude more powerful than any box full of electronics.

What you can do with 'just vision' misses the fact that you are part of the hardware.
by worldsayshi | 2026-02-13 08:41:11+00:00
Interesting. While that is true I don't see how it's an argument against. Over-asking + ZKP certainly seems superior to over-asking + without ZKP. Without ZKP in a world where you constantly need to identify yourself you have absolutely no privacy.

And going forward I think that any communication without establishing some kind of trust boundary will just be noise.