MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spease | 2026-02-12 21:39:25+00:00
Yeah, I cannot understand why people are thinking a gigabyte of RAM in this context save for their context being imagining what this would take with a python HTTPS server streaming video via WebRTC to an electron GUI running out of local docker containers or something. Because that ought to be enough memory for a hour of compressed video.

It’s like saying your family of four is going to take a vacation, so you might need to reserve an entire Hyatt for a week, rather than a single room in a Motel 6.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-12 21:39:37+00:00
That doesn’t make sense at all. The raison d’être of SEC is to protect regular mom-and-pop investors. A private company just doesn’t allow anyone to invest in them. Why should SEC rules apply? On what legal basis can you force a private company to divulge its financial details? Would you be happy if you, as an individual, have to divulge your account statements if your own net wealth reaches one million?
by shadowgovt | 2026-02-12 21:39:50+00:00
Because in practice it showed up for a period of time as a common thing in spam-senders. They were trying to maximize throughput and minimize software maintenance costs, so they leave out things that the spec says are optional. But that makes "a commonly-implemented optional thing was left out" into a stronger spam signal.

Is it still a strong spam signal? Hard to say. Sources disagree. But as with laws, heuristics, once added, are often sticky.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-12 21:40:00+00:00
Their docs say:

> If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you.

I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.
by bspammer | 2026-02-12 21:40:05+00:00
> At one point I had the misfortune to be the target audience for a particular stomach churning ear wax removal add.

So isn’t it possible that your friend had the same misfortune? I assume you were similar ages, same gender, same rough geolocation, likely similar interests. It wouldn’t be surprising that you’d both see the same targeted ad campaign.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-12 21:40:08+00:00
My solution is for instances to stop being negligent. Mastodon still directs everyone to create an account on mastodon.social using dark patterns (see https://joinmastodon.org/), which has lead to the flagship instance being far bigger than its moderation team can handle, leading to a situation where it's a major source of abuse and where defederation is too costly for many to consider.

"People will just accumulate on 2 or 3 big providers" is far from an inevitable circumstance, but there are conditions that make it more likely. That, too, is largely down to negligence or malice (but less so than the abusive communications problem).
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-12 21:40:15+00:00
There was a pre-LLM version of this called "battledecks" or "PowerPoint Karaoke"[0] where a presenter is given a deck of slides they've never seen and have to present on it. With a group of good public speakers it can be loads of fun (and really impressive the degree that some people can pull it off!)

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPoint_karaoke
by Tiktaalik | 2026-02-12 21:40:27+00:00
This is a vexing problem I was made aware of by friends that are in the retail business, renting their stores from landlords. It's really brutal. Retailers take on all the risk, put in the work to revitalize a neighbourhood, and their reward is that when lease renewal comes up in 10 years, it spikes and they're faced with a choice of being displaced or handing over an enormously increased part of their margins to the landlord which has done literally nothing.

The others that benefit are the nearby condo developers, that take photos of cool retail in the area to put into their brochures in order to help sell their product. They benefit from the land speculation and the work from others.

I don't really have a solution except that I can see that the landlords benefit from scarcity, and their leverage and ability to raise rents would be lessened if there was more viable retail spaces to take advantage of.

So the city could help retailers by dramatically liberalizing retail zoning and allowing more competitive high streets to develop. This could take the edge off being forced to move by a landlord jacking up rent.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-12 21:41:24+00:00
I don't believe these things to be currently "Conscious" or entities capable of suffering, and I eat beef occasionally so I shouldn't have a problem with essentially "farming" dumb agents.

But if I'm wrong?

Holy fuck, this is Holocaust levels of unethical.

It's horrifying, and I think extremely meaningful, that the people who boost claims of AGI or AI and treat these as entities, seem perfectly happy with a new, industrial scale level of slavery out in the open.

If we take the advertising of these machines at their word, this is wrong and needs to be stopped
by avazhi | 2026-02-12 21:41:42+00:00
My ethics are that certain people will die in certain circumstances and I’m okay with that. I also have no issues working on something that may result in a person’s death at a later stage. One example might be that if I worked on an automobile assembly line it might occur to me that the car I’m working on would at some point crash and the occupants be killed. But why would I care? There’s a chain of causation that you can surely understand, one that in this case would be broken many times before then (assuming I wasn’t negligent in assembling the car).

But again, your condescending tone proves my point. You and I don’t have the same values. That’s okay. But keep yours to yourself and I’ll keep mine to myself, right? That’s my point.
by mbm | 2026-02-12 21:41:46+00:00
Works pretty well as a general-purpose computer. The speed is really enjoyable. Could replace some of my Claude Code use actually. For coding, set to xhigh and use it for personal tools or small projects.

Example repo that Codex with spark made in about 15 minutes for me since `claude --resume` has been finicky lately: https://github.com/mzxrai/claude-sessions
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 21:41:58+00:00
Awesome, that's the exact reason we built this!

Is it possible to completely disable or not use the remote sandbox features? I would never use them and would prefer my code stays on my device.

Yes, the remote sandbox feature is disabled by default, and you have to manually enable it for the syncing to start.

For those of us that are using subscriptions, does it show our remaining usage? I would hate to run out of tokens in the middle of a session.

Currently Omnara doesn't show your usage limits, you would have to check that at claude.ai. I'll look into add that though.

One feature of the CC TUI I sorely missed on mobile is the ability to look up and directly reference files via “@“. Is any functionality like this planned?

Yes, this exists in Omnara already!

Are there any plans to offer a cheaper tier for those of us that just want to run this on our own machines?

That's a good idea, we'll think about doing this where we don't offer sandbox + voice, and just have the messaging service.
Show HN: LLM Welcome – explicitly opt in for AI contributions on your GH issues
by tomasz-tomczyk | 2026-02-12 21:42:51+00:00
LLM Welcome is a GitHub app that as a maintainer you have to install on your project. Issues you then label with `llm welcome` are then listed on the site and offered to anyone who prompts their agent to find and solve issues.

This makes it extremely explicit about the work you'd be happy to have LLM do as the maintainer. You're in control of how many issues at a time that might be.

Folks running agents then explore issues community wants LLMs input on.

I was inspired by https://goodfirstissue.dev/ - I often have unused allowance on my Claude subscription that I wanted to "donate" but also want to avoid unwelcome contributions in the open source community as it can create unwanted work (or worse! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 )

Right now it's just me dog fooding it, but would be keen to help avoid the unsolicited PR problem we're starting to pop up.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-12 21:43:41+00:00
The atoms of your body are not dynamic structures, they do not reengineer or reconfigure themselves in response to success/failure or rules discovery. So by your own logic, you can not be intelligent, because your body is running on a non-dynamic structure. Your argument lacks an appreciation for higher level abstractions, built on non-dynamic structures. That's exactly what is happening in your body, and also with the software that runs on silicon. Unless you believe the atoms in your body are "magic" and fundamentally different from the atoms in silicon; there's really no merit in your argument.
by gowld | 2026-02-12 21:43:48+00:00
That's an improper analysis.

First off, it's dollar-averaging every category, so it's not "% of income", which varies based on unit income.

Second, I could commit to spending my entire life with constant spending (optionally inflation adjusted, optionally as a % of income), by adusting quality of goods and service I purchase. So the total spending % is not a measure of affordability.
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-12 21:43:50+00:00
I think it might have taken a larger percentage of high-grade ultrapure xenon, a narrower market than the global bulk supply. A 1% impurity is fine if you are using xenon for welding, not so much if you are firing zenon plasma at a grid carrying a few hundred volts. A little bit of o2 in there and your grid would be rust very quickly.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 21:44:08+00:00
the bimodal thing is already happening with products and you can see it in how people react to indie games vs stuff that feels "generated." even when the quality is comparable, there's a different emotional response when you can tell a specific human made specific choices.

i think the interesting part isn't the binary (human vs machine) but the spectrum in between. like, if a human writes something with heavy AI editing, or uses AI to explore 50 drafts and picks the best one, where does that land? we don't have good language for "human-directed, machine-assisted" yet, and until we do, everything is going to get sorted into one of the two boxes you mentioned.
by VirusNewbie | 2026-02-12 21:44:13+00:00
Anthropic has one of the best moats of any business that's been created in the last 50 years.

Numerous companies have tried and failed competing with SoTA foundational models. If Anthropic had no moat, Apple and Meta wouldn't be paying them billions for coding asistance.

Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia would all have SoTA competitors to Claude. They all tried and have not produced a competitor.

Instead you have three companies that stand alone making billions from foundational models.
by valianteffort | 2026-02-12 21:44:48+00:00
> Obama seemed to manage it (around 3 million people)

It is well known that the Obama administration counted turning around people at the border as a "deportation".

> Obama didn't hire record numbers of barely qualified (40-50 days worth of training) people and then send them to occupy American cities

The only cuts from the surge hire training were spanish language and some driving courses, spanish alone consumed 12-weeks. None of the other training material was reduced. In the cases of Good and Pretti, neither agent was a surge hire. This is nonsense rhetoric attempting to delegitimize ICE agents performing lawful duties.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 21:44:49+00:00
I think you’re correct that it’s a culture of “someone else will do it.” Also, you can go further and pick up trash that doesn’t belong to you in an effort to keep the space clean for everyone: https://youtu.be/5N2eM7Za9Ss. In some cultures, it’s taboo to touch other people’s trash. In many more, it’s considered beneath the social class of people to clean up like that.

What amazed me about Provo and SLC was how clean and orderly the busy public spaces are, not just the nicer neighborhoods. There’s clean and orderly rich neighborhoods in every place in the world. Palo Alto pays people to go around and power wash everything. What’s rarer is places where even the busy tourist areas and lower income neighborhoods are clean. What you’ll see often in Tokyo are places that are not nice—worn out buildings, or buildings with mildew on white surfaces because it’s still a hot and humid country—but where the streets are clean and well kept.
by ryan29 | 2026-02-12 21:44:51+00:00
I wonder how it works and how much heavy lifting "supervising" is doing. Whenever I try to use AI, the outcome is about the same.

It's good at non-critical things like logging or brute force debugging where I can roll back after I figure out what's going on. If it's something I know well, I can coax a reasonable solution out of it. If it's something I don't know, it's easy to get it hallucinating.

It really goes off the rails once the context gets some incorrect information and, for things that I don't understand thoroughly, I always find myself poisoning the context by asking questions about how things work. Tools like the /ask mode in Aider help and I suspect it's a matter of learning how to use the tooling, so I keep trying.

I'd like to know if AI is writing code their best developers couldn't write on their own or if it's only writing code they could write on their own because that has a huge impact on efficiency gains, right? If it can accelerate my work, that's great, but there's still a limit to the throughput which isn't what the AI companies are selling.

I do believe there are gains in efficiency, especially if we can have huge contexts the AI can recall and explain to us, but I'm extremely skeptical of who's going to own that context and how badly they're going to exploit it. There are significant risks.

If someone can do the work of 10 people with access to the lifetime context of everyone that's worked on a project / system, what happens if that context / AI memory gets taken away? In my opinion, there needs to be a significant conversation about context ownership before blindly adopting all these AI systems.

In the context of Spotify in this article, who owns the productivity increase? Is it Spotify, Anthropic, or the developers? Who has the most leverage to capture the gains from increasing productivity?
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-12 21:46:04+00:00
The problem with these exercises is always: I have limited time and capacity to do things, and a fairly unlimited number of problems that I can think of to solve. Coding is not a problem I want to solve. Prompt engineering is not a problem I want to solve.

If I do things for the love if it, the rules are different of course. But otherwise I will simply always accept that there are many things that improve around me, that I have no intimate knowledge of and probably never will, and I let other people work them out and happily lean on their work to do the next thing I care about, that is not already solved.
by ilaksh | 2026-02-12 21:46:04+00:00
The ambiguity in the title is going to get a lot of the "skeptics" who have remained in denial about this to assume it's some kind of admission that they haven't been autonomous this whole time.

It's weird how many people there are like that still.

But what they mean is that they are putting the new release into production (without backup drivers). They have been fully autonomous for many years.
by ctoth | 2026-02-12 21:46:13+00:00
Give it a rest.

What's happening is that AI has become an identity-sorting mechanism faster than any technology in recent memory. Faster than social media, faster than smartphones. Within about two years, "what do you think about AI" became a tribal marker on par with political affiliation. And like political affiliation, the actual object-level question ("is this tool useful for this task") got completely swallowed by the identity question ("what kind of person uses/rejects this").

The blog author isn't really angry about the comment. He's angry because someone accidentally miscategorized him tribally. "Did you use AI?" heard through his filter means "you're one of them." Same reason vegans get mad when you assume they eat meat, or whatever. It's an identity boundary violation, not a practical dispute.

These comments aren't discussing the post. They're each doing a little ritual display of their own position in the sorting. "I miss real conversation" = I'm on the human side. The political rant = I'm on the progress side. The energy calculation = I'm on the rational-empiricist side.

The thing that's actually weird, the thing worth asking "what the fuck" about: this sorting happened before the technology matured enough for anyone to have a grounded opinion about its long-term effects. People picked teams based on vibes and aesthetics, and now they're backfilling justifications. Which means the discourse is almost completely decoupled from what the technology actually does or will do.
by Bender | 2026-02-12 21:46:17+00:00
Couldn't you simply set up your own instance and link up with the wider network?

I honestly have no idea. My lawyers love money and will always accept more of it but I am more of a Tor .onion fan which means the IRC daemon and host must be hardened enough to make its location difficult to enumerate correctly. I assume some smaller sites will do this or similar Wireguard or Tinc Open source VPN meshes. Tinc makes adding hops and avoiding network outages much easier for me. For what it's worth this setup has always kept the kiddos off my IRC as far as I know.
by aftbit | 2026-02-12 21:46:18+00:00
>Anecdotally, fence phones were still being used throughout the 1970s and perhaps even later. C.F. Eckhardt describes calling his parents who lived in rural Texas and still used a fence phone; their number was simply 37, designated on the small local network by three long rings and one short ring.

Is this perhaps an OCR or typography error? If the number were "31" that would make much more sense to encode as three long one short. A stylized 1 can look a bit like a 7 depending on how the characters are drawn.
by avazhi | 2026-02-12 21:46:19+00:00
Huh?

Ofc they could afford to, but they don’t. They could alo afford to if they had unlimited money, but in the latter case by definition they’d lose nothing by actually buying.

Given the absurdity of the scenario and its contrivance though I’m not sure what your point is. More money spent on security is good is my point. And if they had more money they’d have more money to spend on security. And if they didn’t spend money on dumb shit like virtue signaling then they’d have more money. That’s the reasoning.
by timeattack | 2026-02-12 21:46:34+00:00
I agree with you and have similar thoughts (maybe, unfortunately for me). I personally know people who outsource not just their work, but also their life to LLMs, and reading their exciting comments make me feel a mix of cringe, fomo and dread. But what is the engame for me and you likes, when we finally would be evicted from our own craft? Stash money while we still can, watching 'world crash and burn', and then go and try to ascend in some other, not yet automated craft?
by valianteffort | 2026-02-12 21:46:45+00:00
> One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.

This kind of blatant, wholesale dismissal is part of the problem. It's not "just like every other nationality". It is overwhelmingly indian nationals abusing the system. Why would we spread the blame to nigerians, or hungarians for what is an indian issue?
by maxbond | 2026-02-12 21:47:02+00:00
Interesting to hear you say that, I was thinking (but hadn't said) that using WalEx to dispatch to some workers where the agent lived would be a better solution. The worker would then update the row (or more likely insert a new one in a different table with more constraints/different columns). I would be curious to hear what advantage you see in a `claw` type/`agent` column? I can't make heads or tails of it but I regard you as knowing a lot more about Postgres than me.
by Yizahi | 2026-02-12 21:47:11+00:00
In my limited text generation experience, LLMs use em-dashes precisely like that, only without spaces on the sides and always in pairs in a single sentence. Here some examples from my Gemini history:

"The colors we see—like blue, green, and hazel—are the result of Tyndall scattering."

"Several interlocking cognitive biases create a "safety net" around the familiar, making the unknown—even if objectively better—feel like a threat."

"A retrograde satellite will pass over its launch region twice every 24 hours—once on a "northbound" track and once on a "southbound" track—but because of the way Earth rotates, it won't pass over the exact same spot on every orbit."

"Central, leverages streaming telemetry to provide granular, real-time performance data—including metrics (e.g., CPU utilization, throughput, latency), logs, and traces—from its virtualized core and network edge devices."

"When these conditions are met—indicating a potential degradation in service quality (e.g., increased modem registration failures, high latency on a specific Remote PHY)—Grafana automatically triggers notifications through configured contact points (e.g., Slack, PagerDuty)."

After collecting these samples I've noticed that they are especially probably in questions like explain something or write descriptive text. In the short queries there is not much text in total to trigger this effect.
by imiric | 2026-02-12 21:47:20+00:00
Part of OpenRouter's appeal to me is precisely that it is a middle man. I don't want to create accounts on every provider, and juggle all the API keys myself. I suppose this increases my exposure, but I trust all these providers and proxies the same (i.e. not at all), so I'm careful about the data I give them to begin with.
by lossolo | 2026-02-12 21:47:29+00:00
> "Get bankrolled by the state at the state's discretion until they get what they want, even if they need to burn $1B to get $1M of value"

If that's how it worked, they wouldn't lead in anything, they'd be bankrupt already. They burn state money like VCs burn cash. DeepSeek, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei, etc., disprove your point.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-12 21:48:22+00:00
But the new pyramid is pretty similar to the old pyramid. From the page:

Grains: Target: 2–4 servings per day.

Vegetables: 3 servings per day.

Fruits: 2 servings per day.

The old pyramid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)#/medi...) recommends 3-5 veg (same/more), 2-4 fruit (same/more), more grains, and is still relatively protein heavy (4-6 between meat and dairy).

It's basically a scene from The Office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5lsemxaJo
by impulser_ | 2026-02-12 21:48:45+00:00
Because it's Google they can't build products and they only care about benchmarking.

The product they released so far are all half assed experiments.

Gemini 3 Pro is now being beaten by open source models because they can't fix or don't want to fix the problems with the Gemini models being completely useless.

The same for Microsoft.

Microsoft had GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Copilot and both of them are useless to Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

You can have all the money in the world, but nothing is stopping you from building useless garbage.