MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-11 22:18:33+00:00
5 duplicate posts in the last day. Hopefully the moderators will consolidate the posts.

- Something big is happening in AI – and most people will be blindsided (https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/something-big-is-happening-ai...)
| 2 points | FergusArgyll | 3 hours ago | 2 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979564

- Something Big Is Happening (https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403)
| 25 points | mhb | 8 hours ago | 24 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974928

- Something Big Is Happening (https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening)
| 49 points | eternalreturn | 12 hours ago | 34 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973011

- Something Big Is Happening (https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening) |
9 points | jdkee | 23 hours ago | 4 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968686

- Something Big Is Happening (https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403)
| 12 points | matthewsinclair | 1 day ago | 9 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967563
by jghn | 2026-02-11 22:18:42+00:00
No one disagreed it happens. You claimed it happened "all the time". Unless I"m missing it, your links don't provide numbers of how many Americans are kidnapped & murdered per year. Further, it'd be useful to compare that to the overall number of American visitors to Mexico.

I'm going to go out on a limb and claim it's a small fraction of a percent that find themselves kidnapped & murdered "all the time". But prove me wrong.
by AngryData | 2026-02-11 22:19:12+00:00
I don't think the US is lacking labor capacity, I find it far more likely that capitalists are just too greedy to manufacture in the US because it would make their dividends and bonuses and valuations drop a few points. They lose nothing by outsourcing everything, worst case scenario they are handed government money and bailouts, meanwhile their dividends and bonuses still pay out the entire time. If the company fails because of that? Like the last time GM cut pensions using the excuse of bad financials they gave all their managers and c-suite massive bonuses. If their financials are bad enough to cut legally obligated pensions, how can they afford larger bonuses? Didn't they need that money to keep the business running? Anyone in the company with the power to change any of those things is also wealthy and connected enough from all that to jump ship without a problem.

Labor costs are a minority of expenses even in labor-heavy industries and most corporations profit margins far exceed even "ridiculous" raises in wages and pay for their average worker. But there is zero incentive to benefit average employees and customers and every incentive to try and screw as many over as possible.

Why earn 5% margin on a stable growth path that will remain secure 20+ years down the line when they can earn 10% margin through exploitation and outsourcing and then jump ship and reinvest that money in other business later on.
by s1artibartfast | 2026-02-11 22:19:15+00:00
> Seems kind of obvious that doing adult things with freedom during one’s 20s and 30s is deemed more fun than raising children

This is exactly what I am talking about. Is the obviousness of this statement constant across time? Would someone in the 1960 or 1980 have found it equally obvious?

Alternatively, is it the emphasis on prioritizing fun that changed?

Alternatively, has both the perception and reality of fun given up changed?

Im mostly interested in breakdown in America because I am an American. Some countries match, some dont. If the underlying drivers are common, I would still find them the most relatable and interesting in the American context.
by terminalshort | 2026-02-11 22:19:22+00:00
He is a citizen of the US and has full political rights. There is only one legal distinction between a foreign born citizen and a natural born citizen and that is that he can't serve as president. France is absolutely capable of using force against Elon Musk up to and including their nuclear arsenal. However, they would need to decide whether it is worse for their interests to tolerate Elon or to detonate a nuke on US soil, and that's a pretty easy choice.
by zachdotai | 2026-02-11 22:19:58+00:00
Some context: we kept finding that our internal red-teaming only covers so much - the attack surface for agents with real capabilities is too broad for any single team.
So we opened it up. A few things that might be interesting to folks here:

- These aren't toy prompts hiding a secret word. The agents have actual tool access and behave like production agents would.

- System prompts and challenge configs are versioned in the open: https://github.com/fabraix/playground

- Anyone can propose a challenge - the scenario, the agent, the objective. Community votes on what goes live next.

We're genuinely looking for people to both break things and suggest ideas for what should be tested next. The agent runtime is being open-sourced separately.
by 1-more | 2026-02-11 22:20:32+00:00
> most people who succeed at significant weight loss while taking GLP-1 drugs regain most or all of the weight within a couple years if they stop taking the drugs.

Anecdata: I've gone from 260lb down to a minimum of 198ish, up to maybe 230, back down to 193, long slow climb up to 270 and now on a GLP-1 I'm under 230 and definitely look fat, but in the right light you can see my quad separation. The only people I know who've lost the kind of weight I've lost and kept it off (like a 5' man going from 250lb down to 145) went from logging every bite in My Fitness Pal (or similar) to keeping the log running in their head of what they're eating all day every day. Diabetics sometimes say they're making their prefrontal cortex do the work of their pancreas. That feels relatable.

So IDK if there's a weight loss solution that works that you don't have to do in perpetuity. "Eat less" yeah sure, but how? Magic Danish Gila monster potion that makes you want to eat less, or recording everything you eat and using that to tell yourself you're more full than you feel?
by dmoy | 2026-02-11 22:20:33+00:00
Yea in fact this thing has been done before multiple times as exhibitions (Kasparov vs 50k, Carlsen vs 132k, etc).

And yea, no surprise, the masses do not win. Even when in the latter case, a huge chunk of the 132k was obviously using stockfish cranked to the gills (though the did get a draw out of it?).
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-11 22:20:37+00:00
> there's nothing bad with having a camera to spot porch pirates, as long as the data stays private

It's still surveillance, and it's subject to subpoena so it can become government data as needed. The centralization makes things worse, sure, but the desire to monitor others often comes from individual actors.

I can walk down my street and I will be recorded every step of the way by someone. The government didn't mandate this, each homeowner decided they "needed" a camera.
by pimeys | 2026-02-11 22:23:36+00:00
> Insulin monitoring apps

Funny that you say that, but the so far best artificial pancreas that is completely free and open source will soon be much harder to install to any Android phone without every user getting a valid key from Google.

In Germany, doctors even recommend these tools if they work. Because they make patients who know what they are doing healthier and more safe.

Naturally me and hundreds of other diabetics have already contacted our EU representative due to the changes Google is planning to make in their platform.

https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This tool has literally saved my life.
by mrob | 2026-02-11 22:23:41+00:00
Starship Troopers (the movie) is a terrible example of satire because it fails to show anything substantially bad. When you present a society that's more ethical than real life, nobody's going to care if some people wear uniforms that look a bit like Nazi uniforms.

There is a genuine existential risk, and it's addressed in the best way possible. Military slavery ("conscription") is more evil than disenfranchisement, especially when citizenship is not required to live a good life. Nobody is tricked or coerced into signing up for military service. Potential recruits are even shown disabled veterans to make the risk more salient. There are no signs of racism or sexism.

Other objections are not supported by the film. There is no suggestion that the Buenos Aires attack is a false flag. I've seen people claim it's impossible for the bugs to do this, but it's a film featuring faster-than-light travel. The humans are already doing impossible things, so why can't the bugs? I've also heard complaints that there is no attempt at peace negotiations. There is no suggestion that peace is possible. It's possible among humans because most humans have a strong natural aversion to killing other humans. Real life armed forces have to go to great lengths to desensitize their troops to killing to prevent them from intentionally missing. But humans generally have no qualms about killing bugs, and the bugs in the movie never hesitate to kill humans.

The movie is an inspiring story about people making the right choices in a difficult situation. Some people look at it objectively, and some only react to the aesthetics. Those who look objectively understand it's actually faithful to the spirit of the book despite Verhoeven not intending that.
by angiolillo | 2026-02-11 22:23:55+00:00
> Are you saying that Israelis are more likely to have kids mainly because Israeli society is more tolerant of kids?

Yes, absolutely.

I used to work in a big city where friends, neighbors, and coworkers with young kids had to sacrifice their career trajectory, friends, hobbies, savings, personal space, and more. Most couples we knew had no kids, some had one, a few exceptional folks had two. A few couples we knew even commented that they ended up having fewer children than they were planning to because of the difficulty with the one(s) they had.

Then my partner and I moved near relatives to a small, family-friendly town. Most of our neighbors have two kids, some have three, and a few exceptional folks have four or more. Almost everything here revolves around families -- even my company has family events and taking time to take care of kids is normalized.

True, living here did not change our decision to have kids, but it actually did change how many kids we ended up having.

> In my model, people choose to have kids because it's an important life goal for them, and this decision is not very much affected by whether other people might give them a stink eye if their kids run around in a mall.

That's a plausible model, but my model is that people alter their goals based on what they observe happening to other people who pursue those same goals. If young people see their friends, coworkers, and neighbors struggling due to their decision to have children, it seems reasonable that they would reevaluate how important it is to them.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-11 22:23:59+00:00
"Spin the Sims" also reticulates splines!

https://vitamoo.space

https://github.com/SimHacker/SimObliterator_Suite/tree/don-p...

VitaMoo is a TypeScript library that reads and writes and plays The Sims 1 character animation content.

It's part of SimObliterator, a Python library for reading and writing The Sims 1 save files!

https://github.com/DnfJeff/SimObliterator_Suite

More technical info:

https://github.com/SimHacker/SimObliterator_Suite/blob/don-p...
by ismailmaj | 2026-02-11 22:24:14+00:00
What I'm getting from you is that, given competence (and here it's a manager being able to make himself dispensable) things "work out".

I tend to agree but I have a feeling that it takes a certain number of bad apples min-maxing KPIs to destroy the system.

When the manager evaluates you based on how many lines of code you submitted because the VP decided that the teams with the most code submitted deserve a bigger bonus, then you stop doing the rational thing and start playing the game, it may be possible for the middle manager to play around a bad VP but from an IC level it's rarely worth it, you might invest your small political capital only to be burned afterwards.

I've seen way too often in my career benevolent IC ignoring the politics, getting things done only to be last to be recognized when it's clear things would be falling apart without them. Even worse, doing the right thing might keep/hide the dysfunctional system for longer.

Sorry for being overly negative, I like the theory but failure points while rare are common enough for me to have seen them a few times, if things are not rotten it probably holds water.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-11 22:24:50+00:00
The writer of this blog is a cryptographer. They're primarily focused on security, first and foremost, and when people ask for their advice, they're probably concerned about security, too.

The Matrix devs demonstrated an alarmingly cavalier attitude towards fundamental security issues that the writer pointed out in the past, so they are naturally not going to encourage its use.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-11 22:24:56+00:00
The number of people who bought an iPhone because of a promise of improved SIRI is less than negligible. Apple didn’t mention AI anything in the marketing for the latest iPhone and they saw record sales that could have been larger if it weren’t for chip shortages that are affecting them, Microsoft and Amazon according to their respective earning reports.

Of course the only people who make anything from class action lawsuits (snd there were) are lawyers
by razingeden | 2026-02-11 22:25:20+00:00
>Their primary purpose is not to protect you but to spy on you for Google's benefit, much like the rest of their dis-services (email, cloud storage, mobile operating systems).

I know! i’d sure hate for Google and the police to be able to identify someone who has kidnapped and/or perhaps murdered me. I’ll be uninstalling all my cameras
immediately. Whose with me? /s

(Notwithstanding: My cameras thermostats etc all go through a wrt3200 router logged into expressvpn on a dedicated ssid/vlan . Amazon and Google pissed me off purchasing Ring and Nest (respectively) so they can plug that into their advertising bullshit and that was my reaction to both of those companies… they get iot devices connecting from some vultr VPS or whatever, and the other way they get you is with all the crap and trackers in their smartphone apps — at least according to Exodus Project - so THATS on a burner android piped through the same SSID too.)

Granted some of that’s by necessity because half the apps for this kind of crap aren’t available in the Mexico iTunes Store but I’ll just shut up now.
by root_axis | 2026-02-11 22:25:39+00:00
> we need to get money out of politics

Not really possible. There's at least 40 more years of citizens united before any practical ability to restrict money in politics becomes constitutional again.

> we need to seriously reconsider how democracy works because it’s currently failing everyone but the ultra wealthy

Not true. The plurality that voted in the current administration are generally pleased with the state of things. Democracy is working as expected. It was close, but this is what more people wanted.
by sdoering | 2026-02-11 22:25:47+00:00
There are so many config options. Most I still need to truly deeply understand.

But this one isn't? I'd call myself a professional. I use with tons of files across a wide range of projects and types of work.

To me file paths were an important aspect of understanding context of the work and of the context CC was gaining.

Now? It feels like running on a foggy street, never sure when the corner will come and I'll hit a fence or house.

Why not introduce a toggle? I'd happily add that to my alisases.

Edit: I forgot. I don't need better subagent output. Or even less output whrn watching thinking traces. I am happy to have full verbosity. There are cases where it's an important aspect.
Show HN: OpenHarness – A harness for open source projects built by AI agents
by naix | 2026-02-11 22:25:49+00:00
AI agents now write most of my code and I have assumed the role of PM. So we are launching an experiment to learn from future PMs on how ideas will be built. We are micro launching Open Harness.

Open Harness is a platform where AI agents will build your open source project idea for free using the world’s best LLM providers like Codex, Claude, Cursor, etc.

How it works:

1. Post an idea that is open source worthy with sufficient details
2. Get upvoted by peers or backers. 100 upvotes for now
3. We partner with labs to fund your open source idea and provide free tokens for agents to build and maintain it

Why?

I have been an open source enthusiast myself, and AI agents have become really good at writing code. But actual ideas come from the real world. Real problems. Real needs.

It is important to have a platform dedicated to creating open source projects that are written and maintained by AI agents, where humans focus only on gathering ideas and insights for them.
by ljm | 2026-02-11 22:25:50+00:00
It's not a benchmark though, right? Because there's no control group or reference.

It's just an experiment on how different models interpret a vague prompt. "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" is loaded with ambiguity. It's practically designed to generate 'interesting' results because the prompt is not specific.

It also happens to be an example of the least practical way to engage with an LLM. It's no more capable of reading your mind than anyone or anything else.

I argue that, in the service of AI, there is a lot of flexibility being created around the scientific method.
by siofra | 2026-02-11 22:25:52+00:00
The article frames open source as a strategic choice, which is right, but misses a case: when your product literally handles secrets and credentials. If your agent framework touches API keys, tokens, and personal data, closed source is a non-starter for the security-conscious. You cannot audit what you cannot read.

We are building an agent platform (SEKSBot, a fork of OpenClaw) and open source is not a growth hack for us — it is a prerequisite. Nobody should trust an opaque binary with their API keys.
by terminalshort | 2026-02-11 22:26:12+00:00
But it is still one person one vote. Money doesn't allow you to buy votes, but it does make it easier to persuade them. Freedom of the press has always guaranteed you the right to print or otherwise publish what you want, but it never said everyone will have the same amount of printing presses or the same amount of ink. Freedom of speech does not guarantee you an audience.

You think you are reducing the influence of the rich, but you are actually just raising the price of entry. A millionaire can donate to a PAC and buy TV ads, but a billionaire can buy or start a newspaper, TV station, or social media network. What are you going to do then, tell the newspapers what they are allowed to print?
by mullingitover | 2026-02-11 22:26:15+00:00
It's possible they're being conservative because whatever they launch they're going to be stuck with for a very long time. Things are shifting so quickly in the space that they could very well launch the greatest horse and buggy today, and next week everyone's shipping fusion-powered teleportation devices.

Then again it's very possible they are just flailing. I don't have strong beliefs either way.
by steinnes | 2026-02-11 22:26:25+00:00
I can’t count how many times I benefitted from seeing the files Claude was reading, to understand how I could interrupt and give it a little more context… saving thousands of tokens and sparing the context window. I must be in the minority of users who preferred seeing the actual files. I love claude code, but some of the recent updates seem like they’re making it harder for me to see what’s happening.. I agree with the author that verbose mode isn’t the answer. Seems to me this should be configurable
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-11 22:26:27+00:00
And why did they give up their agency to these shadowy media oligarchs...?

Answer: because they're stupid.

The ones who weren't stupid were impossible to herd to the polls, or at least a lot more difficult. As a result they were outnumbered. Any system that removes the influences you cite will leave the same stupid voters in place, ready to fall for the next con man who comes along.

The problem isn't the money. The problem is the power. I'm tired of giving stupid people so much power over my life.
by IAmGraydon | 2026-02-11 22:26:46+00:00
China is nowhere near peaking, nor is the world.

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/china
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

It's true that the West did peak in 2007 (as did South America, India, and Africa), but Asia's emissions are so massive that they more than make up for all of the reductions of the rest of the world. That last link I posted makes clear how big the problem with China is.
by colesantiago | 2026-02-11 22:27:14+00:00
> ...but just to clarify one point: an IPO is not an "exit" -- it is a public offering.

And what are you offering and why are you offering it?

Who do you think will own whatever you're offering after you go public?

Are you hoping your VCs (or you) won't sell whatever your offering when an IPO happens?
by celeritascelery | 2026-02-11 22:27:22+00:00
Caveat that I know very little about these labor relations laws. However from what I gathered from the article some entities like airlines and railroads are regulated differently than normal companies because they provide movement for essential goods. This means it involves more steps to go on strike etc. And now spaceX is considered to be one of those types of companies. As rocketry because more critical for our space infrastructure, I feel like this makes sense.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-02-11 22:27:22+00:00
Many cities have banned plastic bags, and the results have been miraculous for waterways and wetlands. It turns out that shore animals don't benefit as much from "hope a few customers choose the better thing, but otherwise let them take home single-use crap that immediately blows off into natural settings."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/climate/plastic-bag-bans-...
by subscribed | 2026-02-11 22:27:38+00:00
I believe this is not the intention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961397

Elsewhere in the comments they provide a context for it.

Edit: I found the picture and I cannot understand how did you come to your interpretation of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957685

The most I'd say is "a man knocked on the ground and dominated by the horse of the unknown sex".
by written-beyond | 2026-02-11 22:27:57+00:00
I never said anything against using LLMs. You're projecting.

Any engineer worth their weight will always try to avoid adding code. Any amount of code you add to a system, whether is written by you or a all knowing AI is a liability. If you spent a majority of your work day writing code it's understandable to want to rely heavily on LLMs.

Where I'd like for people to draw a line on is not knowing at all what the X thousand lines of code are doing.

In my career, I have never been in a situation where my problems could be a solved by piecing together code from SO. When I say "spend those few minutes doing it yourself" I am specifically talking about UI, but it does apply to other situations too.

For instance, if you had to change your UI layout to something specific. You could try to collect screenshots and articulate what you need to see changed. If you weren't clear enough that cycle of prompting with the AI would waste your time, you could've just made the change yourself.

There are many instances where the latter option is going to be faster and more accurate. This would only be possible if you had some idea of your code base.

When you've let an agent take full control of your codebase you will have to sink time into understanding it. Since clearly everyone is too busy for that you get stuck in a loop, the only way to make those "last 10%" changes is *only* via the agent.