MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurquer | 2026-02-19 03:40:05+00:00
The same snobs who were telling us that "The Old Man and the Sea" (written in the style of a fifth-grader) is 'art'...

the same people telling us that "Finnegan's Wake" (written in the style of a fifth-grader with a brain injury) is 'art'...

the same people telling us the poetry of Maya Angelou (written in the style of a fifth-grader with a brain injury and self-esteem issues) is 'art'...

the same people telling us that the works of Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, etc., etc. are 'art'...

seem to be the ones complaining the most about AI generated content.
by conception | 2026-02-19 03:40:14+00:00
The Montana law is also nearly identical to model legislation drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, meaning it could easily be replicated by lawmakers elsewhere.

Alec which is the group that formed after business/ultra wealthy decided it was cheaper to just buy government than work for votes for unpopular things after the Powell Memorandum.

It was super effective! https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman14slides.pdf
by readitalready | 2026-02-19 03:40:32+00:00
The whole GPU history is off and being driven by finance bros as well. Everyone believes Nvidia kicked off the GPU AI craze when Ilya Sutskever cleaned up on AlexNet with an Nvidia GPU back in 2012, or when Andrew Ng and team at Stanford published their "Large Scale Deep Unsupervised Learning using Graphics Processors" in 2009, but in 2004, a couple of Korean researches were the first to implement neural networks on a GPU, using ATI Radeons (now AMD): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00313...

I remember ATI and Nvidia were neck-and-neck to launch the first GPUs around 2000. Just so much happening so fast.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-19 03:40:37+00:00
I still run a MacMini (2012) with Catalina, and it just got a security update. Long back, the drive got an SSD upgrade, with max-out RAM. It still serves as a Media Server. Unfortunately, I don’t want to find out or fix, but my other Macs running Tahoe are unable to access the drives there directly, and a few other issues. I used to just mount it on my local drive like a file server. I had attached two drives, one as an offline Apple Photos copy and another for Dropbox. Both seem to have stopped working the way I want.

But hey, it still works. Survived a bad fall while cleaning up, duck-taped as the screws are not screwing.
by firloop | 2026-02-19 03:40:40+00:00
The biggest reason why this is confusing is the Claude Agent SDK[0] will use subscription/oauth credentials if present. The terms update implies that there's some use cases where that's ok and other use cases (commercial?) where using their SDK on a user's device violates terms.

[0] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview
by MillionOClock | 2026-02-19 03:41:00+00:00
If you look at this tweet [1] and in particular responses under it, it still seems to me like some parts of it need additional clarification. For instance, I have seen some people interpret the tweet as meaning using the OAuth token is actually ok for personal experimentation with the Agent SDK, which can be seen as a slight contradiction with what you quoted. A parent tweet also mentioned the docs clean up causing some confusion.

None of this is legal advice, I'm just trying to understand what exactly is allowed or not.

[1] https://x.com/trq212/status/2024212380142752025?s=10
by Gigachad | 2026-02-19 03:41:44+00:00
In theory sure, but teenagers love sugary drinks and burgers too, sugar drinks exist all over the world too where obesity rates are significantly lower. While you can be slim while sitting all day doing nothing, being physically active is massively important for your health.

The fact that the particular area you live in determines so much of the probability a person would be obese suggests the location plays a huge part. While sugary drinks are marketed and popular everywhere.
Show HN: I just shipped the canonical neuro-symbolic control demo
by anulum | 2026-02-19 03:43:04+00:00
Quick update on the SCPN Fusion Core:
I just shipped the canonical neuro-symbolic control demo.

https://lnkd.in/eb-vSv4r

One notebook. Zero setup. Runs in <2 min.

What it shows:
- Stochastic Petri net → verified SNN compiler (LIF + bitstream path)
- Formal topology/liveness/boundedness proofs (with SHA256 proof bundle)
- Closed-loop on *real DIII-D shot 166000* (beta-limit disruption precursor)
- Full FusionKernel digital twin evolution under SNN control
- Side-by-side: SNN vs PID vs MPC — RMSE, disruption flags, actuator commands, latency (sub-ms p95)
- Deterministic artifact export → replay with identical states/actions/proofs

Notebook (executed outputs baked in, Colab button too):
https://lnkd.in/eb-vSv4r

Full repo + RESULTS.md (honest metrics, DIII-D/SPARC validation, limitations section):
https://lnkd.in/eTJMfWC8

I’m pruning the kitchen-sink modules this week (legacy/ folder incoming) so it becomes a clean control-only package.

Would love brutal feedback:
- Does the formal verification approach look credible for real-time safety?
- Anyone at DIII-D National Fusion Facility-D / Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) / ITER Organization willing to throw more shots at it?
- What’s the biggest red flag you see for actual hardware-in-loop?

AGPL, fully reproducible, happy to hop on a call or add features.

Cheers

hashtag#FusionEnergy
hashtag#NuclearFusion
hashtag#AI
hashtag#MachineLearning
hashtag#Tokamak
hashtag#PlasmaPhysics
hashtag#ControlSystems
hashtag#Neuromorphic
hashtag#SNN
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by notpushkin | 2026-02-19 03:43:30+00:00
Well, I’ve jinxed it. My current “neobank” of choice, TNG eWallet, is onto me now :(

(Not because of my comment, probably – I’ve upgraded LineageOS and had to reinstall everything. But just in case you guys read this – please, just let me bypass it, I’m aware of the risks :)
by yndoendo | 2026-02-19 03:43:41+00:00
I recommend _Culture in Nazi Germany_ by Michel H Kater [0] for the fact it examines the complexity of reality during this time. He actually went and talked to the musicians, actors, and writers of the era to have a better understanding of the culture and view points that the people still held after the war. I will take his expertise over those of the modern era that have not engaged with these people that lived through it.

People scoff at the idea _Jews for Hitler_. Reality is that a number of Jewish Germany actually supported Hitler and Fascism in the 1920-1930s and latter. It latches onto the idea that that modern day people would be able to pick out Fascism and reject it ... which has shown to be the opposite with populism.

By the way, I consumed _Mein Kampf_ by Adolf Hilter. It was not to align with his ideology but to understand it and have an independent reference to _like Hilter_ that politicians, the media, and pop culture use, and as a base understand of Fascism. I in fact reject Fascism, Nazism, and Adolf Hitler.

Example is that Hilter's take over of Europe was under the disguise that resources are ours for the taking and are needed to support the country. He states this in his book. This is the same statement that Donald Trump and his executive branch uses against Greenland. Yet history proved Hilter wrong. Technology is what drives the economy not direct resource access. Japan, USA, South Korea proved this after WWII.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-his...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hans_Kater

P.S. Based on your post history your account is shell account with only two comments that only drive pro Israel ideology.
by ddxv | 2026-02-19 03:44:50+00:00
The pressure is to boost revenue by forcing more people to use the API to generate huge numbers of tokens they can charge more for.
LLMs are becoming common commodities as open weight models keep catching up. There are similarities with pirating in the 90s when users realize they can ctrl+c ctrl+v to copy a file/model and you don't need to buy a cd/use their paid API.
by tstrimple | 2026-02-19 03:45:26+00:00
Yes. I have four devices fully managed by Claude Code at this point. My NAS and Desktop running NixOS. My MBP with nix-darwin and an M2 MBA with a dead screen that I've turned into a headless server also using nix-darwin. I've got a common flake theme and modularized setup. I've got health checks (all written by CC) coming in from all of them aggregated by another script (written by CC) which will send me alerts over various pipelines including to my Matrix server (setup and maintained by CC). I can do things like ask CC to setup radarr and make it available on my internal network and it knows where and how I host containers. It can even look at other *arr tools and pull usenet details from them to use in radarr. What my NAS is for. How to add a service in a "standards" compliant way for my setup. I can ask it to make a service available on the internet and it will configure a cloudflared tunnel exposing it. Including knowing when to make changes on my local dnsmasq instances or the Cloud Flare global DNS for external access.

I think the difference is that all of my scheduled tasks and alerting capabilities are all just normal scripts. They don't depend on CC to exist. CC could disappear tomorrow and all of my setup and config would still be valid and useful and continue to work. CC isn't a critical path for any normal operations of the system. I have explicitly instructed CC to create and use these scripts so it's not something you get "for free" but something you can architect towards. If I wanted to look at a companies job postings each day and provide alerts to me, I'd have CC build a script to scrape and process results and schedule it. At that point CC is outside of the loop and I have a repeatable pattern to use until the website changes significantly enough to justify updating it. But I could ask that CC context to stop the job search service months later and it would know or be able to find what I'm referring to.

I'm open to using more autonomous tools like OpenClaw, but I'm very resistant to building them into critical workflows. I'd happily work with their output, but I don't want them to be a core part of the normal input/output operations of the day to day running of my systems. My using AI to make changes to my system is fine. My system needing AI to run day to day is not.
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
by merlindru | 2026-02-19 03:46:07+00:00
I'm building a commercial macOS app with Electrobun [1]. I have previously written the same app with Tauri. I'll say that, while I love Tauri, using Electrobun has been an absolute breeze. I got the same app done in roughly 70% of the time [2]. It's a very productive stack. In no small part due to Electrobun, but also the fact that Bun has tons of DX niceties and a builtin bundler.

Electrobun lets you open/manipulate/close webview windows and communicate with them using typed rpc. It also handles building, code signing, and notarization.

And because I'm using Bun, running an HMR + React + Tailwind server is just one command (`bun ./index.html`) or like 5 lines of code. Pass --console and the webview's console.log()s get streamed to your Terminal too.

There's tons of other things Electrobun does that I haven't even mentioned, because I haven't interacted much with them yet. E.g. I know that it lets you show platform-native notifications, prompts/popups, etc.

There also is a very impressive updating mechanism that relies on a bsdiff implementation written in Zig. You just ship the deltas, so updates to very large apps are just a few KBs most of the time.

It's genuinely a very productive stack and impressive piece of tech.

[1] Not affiliated - I just like the project.

[2]: The API and implementation was clear, so I'll cautiously say this is not a case of "rewrites are always faster". In fact, the Tauri version was a rewrite too :)
by thunderseethe | 2026-02-19 03:46:43+00:00
> I wonder if this is a reference to "I need you to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to one another"

It is!

> my understanding is that there are areas where you can use bidirectional typing (e.g. languages that have subclasses) where HM style type inference might become undecidable

There are! Afaik most languages end up with a bidirectional system in practice for this reason. Haskell started out HM and has shifted to bidir because it interacts better with impredicative types (and visible type applications). Bidir can handle fancy features like subtyping and all sorts of nifty stuff.
by itissid | 2026-02-19 03:47:35+00:00
One set of applications to build with subscription is to use the claude-go binary directly. Humanlayer/Codelayer projects on GitHub do this. Granted those are not ideal for building a subscription based business to use oathu tokens from Claude and OpenaAI. But you can build a business by building a development env and gating other features behind paywall or just offering enterprise service for certain features like vertical AI(redpanada) offerings knowledge workers, voice based interaction(there was a YC startup here the other day doing this I think), structured outputs and workflows. There is lots to build on.
by jmalicki | 2026-02-19 03:47:59+00:00
I am aware of tests vs. ChaCha20 here https://www.pcg-random.org/index.html, I am not aware of tests vs. AES-256-CTR.

However at some point, 100x faster performance w/o an exploitable attack vector is also relevant! (though sometimes people find ways).

CSPRNGs are mostly worried about very specific attack vectors, and sure, they're like to be completely unpredictable. But other applications care more about other attack vectors like lack of k-dimensional equiprobability, and that hurts them far more.

The idea that CSPRNGs are the end all and be all of rngs holds CS back.
by jryle70 | 2026-02-19 03:48:12+00:00
> "Social Credit" ala China was the big scary propaganda

Propaganda, like not as prevalent as in the US? Are you kidding me? China also has used many tool control the population. Did you hear of hukou? "Acktshually, ..." I can already hear you saying.

> The western nations have way way more cameras that 'Evil Capitalist China'

You know this because?

> Although the last few times this world dealt with fascists, it was the Communists who finally broke them.

Remind me who supported Polpot that killed a million of their own compatriots? Where did the Culture Revolution take place?
by chii | 2026-02-19 03:48:19+00:00
And that is how it should be - the knowledge that the LLM trained on should be free, and cannot (and should never be) gatekept behind money.

It's merely the hardware that should be charged for - which ought to drop in price if/when the demand for it rises. However, this is a bottleneck at the moment, and hard to see how it gets resolved amidst the current US environment on sanctioning anyone who would try.
by MillionOClock | 2026-02-19 03:48:47+00:00
You are talking about Anthropic and indeed compared to OpenAI or GitHub Copilot they have seemed to be the ones with what I would personally describe as a more restrictive approach.

On the other hand OpenAI and GitHub Copilot have, as far as I know, explicitly allowed their users to connect to at least some third party tools and use their quotas from there, notably to OpenCode.

What is unclear to me is whether they are considering also allowing commercial apps to do that. For instance if I publish a subscription based app and my users pay for the app itself rather than for LLM inference, would that be allowed?
by codezero | 2026-02-19 03:48:55+00:00
Last time I cracked out my blueberry clamshell iBook, it worked fine, though for what it's worth, I was using Linux, and it seems the main limitation for these connections are the SSL certs.

Whenever I think about it, I think that getting my old Mac up and running is easier than getting ANY modern PC up and running lol.
by oska | 2026-02-19 03:49:05+00:00
I'm very aware, of course, of the horrific crimes that Japan carried out in China and other countries in the 1930s but that is not xenophobia. People going outside their country (to do whatever) are not affected by xenophobia. Xenophobia is a fear of people from outside the country, within that country.

Native cultures (however you want to define that) have always shown some curiousity and openness to visitors from outside the culture but that is balanced by some level of xenophobia too, that ramps up as people inside the culture feel that they are being overwhelmed. Both aspects of openness and shutting out are natural traits in any homogenous culture.
by picklepixel | 2026-02-19 03:49:50+00:00
I'm actively job hunting and it was eating all my time, so I decided to automate the hell out of it.

ApplyPilot is a 6-stage pipeline from discovering jobs to applying to them. I kept it running for 2 days and hit 1,000
applicationsmostly remote, some local, all in tech.

Some things that genuinely blew my mind so Haiku is the brains of the operation. At some point a LinkedIn session
expired mid application but Haiku reset the password and kept going. Another job had no application form at all, just a
contact email buried in the description but then it sent the company an email directly and attached my resume. One
application was entirely in French and yet it completed the whole thing in French. It reasons through whatever it
encounters.

Currently in interviews because of this. Open source: https://github.com/Pickle-Pixel/ApplyPilot
by theptip | 2026-02-19 03:49:53+00:00
I think this is shortsighted.

The markets value recurring subscription revenue at something like 10x “one-off” revenue, Anthropic is leaving a lot of enterprise value on the table with this approach.

In practice this approach forces AI apps to pay Anthropic for tokens, and then bill their customers a subscription. Customers could bring their own API key but it’s sketchy to put that into every app you want to try, and consumers aren’t going to use developer tools. And many categories of free app are simply excluded, which could in aggregate drive a lot more demand for subscriptions.

If Anthropic is worried about quota, seems they could set lower caps for third-party subscription usage? Still better than forcing API keys.

(Maybe this is purely about displacing other IDE products, rather than a broader market play.)
by kevlened | 2026-02-19 03:50:11+00:00
> Oxfmt got it, and then won.

This doesn't align with the data.

- 650k npm downloads for oxfmt this week [0]
- 4.3m npm downloads for biome this week [1]

- 19.1k gh stars for oxfmt [2]
- 23.7k gh stars for biome [3]
- gap widening in favor of biome [4]

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/oxfmt
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@biomejs/biome
[2] https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc
[3] https://github.com/biomejs/biome
[4] https://www.star-history.com/#oxc-project/oxc&biomejs/biome&type=date&legend=top-left
by apothegm | 2026-02-19 03:50:19+00:00
Does it solve a burning need that most people can’t solve for themselves and that’s severe enough to be worth paying for? Start doing direct outreach (but not AI spam, please).

Have friends who are editors or staff writers at major (topical) publications? Wrangle a mention.

Satisfied with very gradual growth? Seed your friend, family, colleague networks; get people who already trust you using it. Make it awesome enough for each person who uses it to want to actively recommend it to other people.

Otherwise? Unless it’s a huge, perfect match for the zeitgeist and you’ve got enough of a social media following to give it an immediate boost for a chance at virality (think openclaw having its moment, further assisted by the moltbook novelty factor), you’d better have a heck of an advertising and PR budget.

But also, if this is an open source library, why does it matter so much to you to have people use it?
by kolabv | 2026-02-19 03:50:20+00:00
AI is beneficial, has no negative effects and must be pushed forward at all costs! The world pre-2020 was a dark, poor dystopia as opposed to the flourishing economy in the EU post 2022.

Brought to you by the European Investment Bank and WEF members:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/debora-revoltella/
by eks391 | 2026-02-19 03:51:13+00:00
If you haven't seen news related to LLM generated bug reports, they are pretty disliked due to poor quality. So yes, a new LLM generated bug report era has begun, and the results so far have been moderator/developer burnout, increased time between real bugs being taken care of (as devs treat each submission as a true possible bug), and many projects no longer accepting bug reports.
I have seen a couple anecdotal incidents when someone used LLMs to generate real bugs, one guy showing off a chain he made to HN, and that was really neat. LLMs aren't unable to make reports, but scammers and vibecoders see the dollar signs that they aren't going to put real effort in trying to get, and submit every response from a prompt similar to "provide me a bug report for [XX package/app]" in hopes that one pays out.
The individuals I saw make real bug reports were already developers and were able to test out and iterate with the code the LLM provided, making connections of their own, just like any other person who uses LLMs responsibly instead of outsourcing thinking.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-19 03:53:15+00:00
I started using it around 2018. After being reasonably conversant in Objective-C, I fully adopted Swift for a new iOS app and thought it was a big improvement.

But there's a lot of hokey, amateurish stuff in there... with more added all the time. Let's start with the arbitrary "structs are passed by value, classes by reference." And along with that: "Prefer structs over classes."

But then: "Have one source of truth." Um... you can't do that when every data structure is COPIED on every function call. So now what? I spent so much time dicking around trying to conform to Swift's contradictory "best practices" that developing became a joyless trudge with glacial progress. I finally realized that a lot of the sources I was reading didn't know WTF they were talking about and shitcanned their edicts.

A lot of the crap in Swift and SwiftUI remind me of object orientation, and how experienced programmers arrived at a distilled version of it that kept the useful parts and rejected dumb or utterly impractical ideas that were preached in the early days.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-19 03:53:26+00:00
I'm talking more about a slow decay that is not obvious to a single generation. One person in one lifetime wouldn't even smell it, but everything would be slowly corroding underneath.

Definitely not a big single disaster scenario. More like a "wait, we don't fix things anymore" or "wait, we have way less food variety than before" realization when it hits.
by MBCook | 2026-02-19 03:53:36+00:00
I wasn’t aware Java had Vulkan bindings. So this is JNI I’m guessing?

This makes sense. I guess I’m a bit surprised they were still OpenGL anywhere.

I never really got into Minecraft though, so I can’t pretend I know much about its current state. I didn’t even realize there was a non-Java version for desktops.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-19 03:54:12+00:00
im not entirely sure that i parsed your smileys/double negations/insinuations as intended ... the irrational aspect was agreeing with psychopaths , those psychopaths will always exist and will not be kept in check by anything except for community enforced morality. the west honed a beautiful set of morals for thousands of years , then proceeded to throw those morals in the bin because tv said so. id feel bad for the west , however this does bring up the conundrum - is a propagandized (or otherwise hypnotized) populace liable for their own actions ?