MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spivak | 2026-02-17 20:11:24+00:00
I feel like I maybe should've been more explicit about him having gone all the way from undergrad to a PhD was all paid for by being a line cook. Yeah, he didn't actually pay for his PhD program because he got a fellowship but that's also not really the point. He was still able to pay for the expensive part on what was barely over minimum wage for the time.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-17 20:11:35+00:00
> it's kind of wild that a couple of those crashes would've been easily preventable with parking sensors that come equipped as standard on almost every other car

Teslas are really cheaply made, inadequate cars by modern standards. The interiors are terrible and are barebones even compared to mainstream cars like a Toyota Corolla. And they lack parking sensors depending on the version you bought. I believe current models don’t come with a surround view camera either, which is almost standard on all cars at this point, and very useful in practice. I guess I am not surprised the Robotaxis are also barebones.
by a_micali | 2026-02-17 20:11:38+00:00
I built this because my OpenClaw setup had become critical — it runs a good chunk of my daily workflow. But everything lives in ~/.openclaw on one machine. Conversations, memory DBs, credentials, skills. Disk dies, it's all gone.
Clawstash backs up the entire directory to any S3-compatible storage with encryption and block-level dedup. After the first backup, only changed blocks get uploaded — a small edit to a 200MB SQLite file uploads ~4KB.
Runs as a background daemon (systemd/launchd), configurable retention, selective restore by category.
TypeScript, 4 runtime deps, 198 tests, MIT license.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-17 20:11:44+00:00
> Prescott Lecky destroyed the validity of Pavlov’s experiments with his paper on Self Consistency.

Clearly you feel strongly about this. Unfortunately, a non-AI search for "prescott lecky" and "pavlov" really reveals very little support for this claim, to the point where your comment is actually the 5th result.

So ... got links?
by EdNutting | 2026-02-17 20:11:50+00:00
Oh by the way, I agree, NDAs all the time, and many of the tools are super user-unfriendly. There's quite a bit of money being made in developing better tools.

As for a list of companies, in the UK or with a UK presence, the following come to mind: Graphcore, Fractile, Olix, Axelera, Codasip, Secqai, PQShield, Vaire, SCI Semiconductor and probably also look at Imagination Tech, AMD and Arm. There are many other companies of different sizes in the UK, these are just the ones that popped into my head in the moment tonight.

[Please note: I am not commenting on actual salaries paid by any of these companies, but if you went looking, I think you'd find roles that offer competitive compensation. My other comments mentioning salaries are based on salary guides I read at the end of last year, as well as my own experience paying people in my previous hardware startup up to May 2025 (VyperCore).]
by xdotli | 2026-02-17 20:11:52+00:00
I would frame the 'post-trajectory generated skills' as feedback-generated skills, so is Letta: https://www.letta.com/blog/skill-learning. We haven't seen existing research or hypothesis debating whether the skills improvement might come from the skill prompt themselves activated knowledge in LLMs that can help itself. So that's why we added an ablation of 'pre-trajectory generated skills' because we have that hypothesis and this seems a very clean way to test it. Also it is very logical that feedback generated skills can help, because it most certainly contain the failure mode of agents on that specific tasks.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-17 20:11:59+00:00
How do you really target FPGA and GPU when these are so different?

e.g. what I find appealing about FPGA is (1) very low latency and (2) arbitrary precision data paths, like if I want 6-bit data paths I can have them. The GPU on the other hand is throughput oriented and you get the data types that were baked in.

I remember looking at

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...

and thinking "how could that possibly work?" and the fact that it's had basically zero uptake suggests to me that my hot take was the right take.
by BirAdam | 2026-02-17 20:12:25+00:00
At this point, I am really sick of both Elon supporters and Elon haters, coverage of Elon's companies either good or bad (as it's always incredibly biased in either direction), and sick of both the current trend of hyper optimism and hyper doomerism.

I know that it is irrational to expect any kind of balance or any kind of objective analysis, but things are so polarized that I often feel the world is going insane.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-02-17 20:12:38+00:00
Nix-Darwin. I have a config repo I push to GitHub and new machines get completely provisioned in minutes. The setup is essentially:

1. Download XCode command line tools (to get git)

2. Generate SSH key

3. Add ssh key to GitHub in safari

4. Install Nix using the vanilla installation method

5. Clone the repo and enter the nix shell which has automation tooling and command line tools to run the rest of the bootstrap

6. Ensure that I’m connected to a fast internet because Lol Nix Lets Go Download 8Gb Of Packages

7. Invoke the home manager configuration switch from the nix shell and come back 15 mins later to a completely fully provisioned machine

If you are okay with your nix config being public you can even skip steps 2 and 3
by BizarroLand | 2026-02-17 20:12:40+00:00
[I'm using] Handy myself right now. And it's pretty good. I don't have any problems with it, except that I wish that it would slowly roll out the text as you talk instead of waiting to transcribe into the very end. because I like to rant and ramble a little bit and then go back and edit what I've written rather than having to perfectly compose on the first attempt. And that's one of the big advantages, in my opinion, of using a voice to text app is that it would let you ramble and rant and see what you have said and keep making additions and alterations to that. For instance, I'm doing this entire bit using handy in one stream of thought take. And so it's probably gonna be a bit rambly and not very polished, but at the same time it's more representative of a general use case. And I'm talking quite a bit so that I can actually put the system under stress and see how well it responds.

My only issue with it was that it cut off the words [I'm using] at the beginning and obviously it doesn't enter paragraph breaks. It took about 25 seconds to transcribe all of that on a 10th gen i7 laptop processor.

If they could incorporate combination typing out what was said while you're talking it would be pretty perfect.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-17 20:13:10+00:00
I still find books valuable because they give you a structure and physical location to anchor learning. They give you an overview of the whole topic you're interested in.

Whenever I need to learn a new topic I always try to buy a book on the subject because it so much faster to have someone do the scaffolding for you than trying to be 'self-directed' about it. It also give some confidence that you aren't leaving big holes in your understanding.
by Spivak | 2026-02-17 20:13:38+00:00
Right, so broadly the solution you're proposing is subsidies. University will be cheaper from the perspective of the student but we don't actually undergo any meaningful cost cutting it's just the money comes from somewhere else. I don't know about you but I don't think this actually solves the problem of the cost of university ballooning out of control and becoming unaffordable to almost every American if they had to pay for it with what was in their bank account.

I mean it can work so long as the government can bully the university into keeping a lid on the per student costs but large public universities have massive amounts of political capital to sell the cost increases to the government.
by bjackman | 2026-02-17 20:13:39+00:00
Is there a good code review tool out there? The best one I've used is Gerrit, at least it has a sensible design in principle. Aside from that I've only used GitHub and Gitlab which both seem like toys to me. (And mailing lists, lol).

But the implementation of Gerrit seems rather unloved, it just seems to get the minimal maintenance to keep Go/Android chooching along, and nothing more.
by ysnp | 2026-02-17 20:13:41+00:00
I can understand the frustration, but it wouldn't be right to say they 'restrict themselves to Pixels'. They believe strongly in a standard for privacy/security of people's personal devices, and unfortunately only Pixels are close to meeting those standards. It's not even like Pixels are their ideal device.

I feel the frustration should be targeted at OEMs that don't meet very reasonable requirements like minimum 5 years of monthly (timely) security updates.
by microtonal | 2026-02-17 20:13:41+00:00
That seems wrong. If malware can fake what the authenticator shows me, the authenticator is broken!

That's not what I am saying. The authenticator is irrelavant to this attack. If your machine is compromised by malware, the malware could take over the browser session, regardless of how you log in.

Phones are better protected against persistent malware because every application is sandboxed (harder to escalate) and much more of the boot chain/OS is validated (harder to persist).
by Tade0 | 2026-02-17 20:13:52+00:00
My degree is in computer science but I studied at the faculty of electrical engineering.

My courses didn't get into the details of semiconductor design (particularly manufacturing), but we had one on the physical principles behind this whole thing - bandgaps and all.

We also had to design analog circuits using the Ebers-Moll transistor model, so pretty basic, but still not exactly linear.

Overall these are very different fields but at the end of the day they both have models and systems, so you could make a student of one of them learn the other and vice versa.

It just has to be worth the effort.
by munificent | 2026-02-17 20:13:57+00:00
This is a real, hard question. Two things are true:

1. Most people are generally good and while some have made catastrophic mistakes, those tend to be outliers over generally decent behavior.

2. Some people are consistent predators who have no compunction about harming others for their own benefit.

The people in set #2 really want to appear to be in set #1. It's good to be mindful of that fact. At the same time, set #1 is an actually much larger set of people.

Navigating this is probably one of those things where there's no perfect solution, just very difficult compromises.
by so-cal-schemer | 2026-02-17 20:14:00+00:00
"Clojure and indeed all lisp style languages are the final boss of density here though. Almost every line is an expression of business logic. I never really got into it myself, but looking at these results are starting to make me rethink that decision.

If you compare Clojure (77.91%) to C# (58.4%), it seems the average C# developer writes 20% more redundant code every single day just to satisfy the compiler. Even with tools like resharper and LLM’s to help thats not a insignificant amount of effort."
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-17 20:14:05+00:00
Hardware is artificially underpaid work, good positions are sparse in the US, and generally most engineers end up in niche coding environments.

Most people that land a successful long career, also refuse to solve some clown firms ephemeral problems at a loss. The trend of externalizing costs onto perspective employees starts to fail in difficult fields requiring actual domain talent with $3.7m per seat equipment. Regulatory capture also fails in advanced areas, as large firms regress into state sponsored thievery instead.

Advice to students that is funny and accurate =3

"Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
by Retric | 2026-02-17 20:14:11+00:00
I may be in a bubble of smart people, but IMO AI consistently far worse than many high school works I’ve read in terms of actual substance and coherent structure.

Of course I’ve had arguments where people praise AI output then I’ve literally pointed out dozens of mistakes and they just kind of shrug saying it’s not important. So I acknowledge people judge writing very differently than I do. It just feels weird when I’d give something a 15% and someone else would happily slap on a B+.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-17 20:14:32+00:00
> You have given no argument for why an LLM cannot be intelligent.

I literally did provide a definition and my argument for it already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051523

If you want to argue with that definition of intelligence, or argue that LLMs do meet that definition of intelligence, by all means, go ahead[1]! I would have been interested to discuss that. Instead I have to repeat myself over and over restating points I already made because people aren't even reading them.

> Not even that current models are not; you seem to be claiming that they cannot be.

As I have now stated something like three or four times in this thread, my position is that machine intelligence is possible but that LLMs are not an example of it. Perhaps you would know what position you were arguing against if you had fully read my arguments before responding.

[1] I won't be responding any further at this point, though, so you should probably not bother. My patience for people responding without reading has worn thin, and going so far as to assert I have not given an argument for the very first thing I made an argument for is quite enough for me to log off.
by lawstkawz | 2026-02-17 20:14:56+00:00
You! Of all people! I mean I am off the hook for your food, healthcare, shelter given lack of meaningful social safety net. You'll live and die without most people noticing. Why care about living up to your grasp literacy?

Online prose is the least of your real concerns which makes it bizarre and incredibly out of touch how much attention you put into it.
Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
by solomonb | 2026-02-17 20:15:57+00:00
I've been working on creating a Low Power FM radio station for the east San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. We are not yet on the broadcast band but our channel will be 95.9FM and our range can been seen on the homepage of our site.

KPBJ is a freeform community radio station. Anyone in the area is encouraged to get a timeslot and become a host. We make no curatorial decisions. Its sort of like public access or a college station in that way.

This month we launched our internet stream and on-boarded about 60 shows. They are mostly music but there are a few talk shows. We are restricting all shows to monthly time slots for now but this will change in the near future as everyone gets more familiar with the systems involved.

All shows are pre-recorded until we can raise the money to get a studio.

We have a site secured for our transmitter but we need to fundraise to cover the equipment and build out costs. We will be broadcasting with 100W ERP from a ridgeline in the Verdugos at about 1500ft elevation. The site will need to be off grid so we will need to install a solar system with battery backup. We are planning to sync the station to the transmit site with 802.11ah.

I've built all of our web infrastructure using Haskell, NixOS, Terraform, and HTMX: https://github.com/solomon-b/kpbj.fm

This is a pretty substantial project involving a bunch of social and technical challenges and a shoe string budget. I'm feel pretty confident we will pull it off and make it a high impact local radio station.

The station is managed by a 501c3 non-profit we created. We are actively seeking fundraising, especially to get our transmit site up and running. If you live in the area or want to contribute in any way then please reach out!
by munk-a | 2026-02-17 20:16:02+00:00
I believe you absolutely could... as the model owner. The question is whether Go project owners can convince all the model trainers to invest in RL to fix their models and the follow up question is whether the single maintainer of some critical but obscure open source project could also convince the model trainers to commit to RL when they realize the model is horribly mistrained.

In Stackoverflow data is trivial to edit and the org (previously, at least) was open to requests from maintainers to update accepted answers to provide more correct information. Editing is trivial and cheap to carry out for a database - for a model editing is possible (less easy but do-able), expensive and a potential risk to the model owner.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-17 20:16:08+00:00
I got the Max subscription and have been using Opus 4.6 since, the model is way above pretty much everything else I've tried for dev work and while I'd love for Anthropic to let me (easily) work on making a hostable server-side solution for parallel tasks without having to go the API key route and not have to pay per token, I will say that the Claude Code desktop app (more convenient than the TUI one) gets me most of the way there too.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-17 20:16:13+00:00
It's funny how one can see a persecuted underdog in a company that claimed full self driving (coast to coast) almost a decade ago and had not delivered anything close until just last year. I wonder how the folks who bought their "appreciating asset"[1] in 2019 feel about their cars' current value.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/musks-claim-teslas-appreciat...
by skissane | 2026-02-17 20:16:13+00:00
In RHEL8/9, there is a command "scl" which works by updating the PATH... so you can run "scl enable gcc-toolset-9 bash" to start a new bash shell using GCC 9.

In RHEL10, instead of "scl", each toolset has an independent command (actually just a shell script) like "gcc-toolset-9-env bash" which does the same thing

chroot or LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't necessary, changing PATH is enough

Or in fact – this isn't RHEL scl system, but some other distros – some distros install alternative compilers using a prefix, so you just do `CC=PREFIX-gcc` (assuming you have a Makefile configured with the standard conventions)

e.g. for hobbyist/recreational reasons, I have done MS-DOS software development under Linux before. The DOS cross-compiler gets installed as "i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc" so I just do "CC=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc make" to build my project for DOS instead of Linux.

Similarly, different clang versions are often installed with a version suffix. So in another project I had, I'd do "CC=clang-11 make" when I wanted to use clang 11 and "CC=clang-15 make" when I wanted to use clang 15. (You can tell from the version numbers I haven't touched that hobby project of mine for quite a while now.)
by lesuorac | 2026-02-17 20:16:35+00:00
No hes not.

He's describing the same administration in two different terms. Mark has no problems lying to people that Biden administration sued Meta (it was Trump's [1]) and individuals like Joe Rogan have no problems not calling him out on it.

Trump was president in 2019, 2020. Covid starts in 2019. It's his administration that the twitter files is talking about when they mention censorship. It's his administration that started the big tech lawsuits.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_v._Meta
by xdotli | 2026-02-17 20:16:41+00:00
Thanks @dang for moderating! This is indeed not our original findings and this is a sub conclusion for an ablation we did to remove the confound of LLMs internal domain knowledge. Thanks for submitting for us @mustaphah here's a little bit more details on how we approach this:
> I would frame the 'post-trajectory generated skills' as feedback-generated skills, so is Letta: https://www.letta.com/blog/skill-learning. We haven't seen existing research or hypothesis debating whether the skills improvement might come from the skill prompt themselves activated knowledge in LLMs that can help itself. So that's why we added an ablation of 'pre-trajectory generated skills' because we have that hypothesis and this seems a very clean way to test it. Also it is very logical that feedback generated skills can help, because it most certainly contain the failure mode of agents on that specific tasks.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-17 20:17:05+00:00
"Break free from Google ..." by purchasing Google hardware and using [software "based on"] Google software

Is it really "breaking free" from a company if the method of "breaking free" requires continued cooperation from the company

This is not to suggest using a modified version of Android, isn't useful. This comment is not about GrapheneOS. (But there will be HN replies that will try to redirect focus to it anyway.) This comment is about claiming it's possible to "break free" from something while still remaining inextricably tied to it

In addition to using a custom ROM, there are methods of stopping the Pixel's attempts to "phone home" to the company that work even with the version of Android pre-installed by the company intact. However if a method requires software, e.g., drivers, or is "based on" software controlled by the company, then ultimately the company holds the cards. IMHO, this is not what it means to "break free"

Perhaps the most reliable method of stopping these connections to the company is one that does not rely on cooperation by the company. This is because if the company decides to stop cooperating, the method still works
by e12e | 2026-02-17 20:17:07+00:00
Is this referring to some section of the announcement?

This doesn't seem to align with the parent comment?

> As with every new Claude model, we’ve run extensive safety evaluations of Sonnet 4.6, which overall showed it to be as safe as, or safer than, our other recent Claude models. Our safety researchers concluded that Sonnet 4.6 has “a broadly warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny character, very strong safety behaviors, and no signs of major concerns around high-stakes forms of misalignment.”
by java-man | 2026-02-17 20:17:17+00:00
Battery backed solar power in the sunnier states is such a no-brainer, I don't understand why it is not happening on a wider scale.

In ten years, when China goes fully electric, the same people who now say "drill, baby, drill" will be asking what happened to all our industry and why do I need to learn Chinese to read the service manual?