MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krautburglar | 2026-02-17 19:32:34+00:00
Our entire business was seeded through military investment. Personal computers, the GUI, the internet, the dotcom boom, the social media business, smartphones, the cloud, AI... all children and grandchildren of the military-industrial complex. Only a fool would deny this. You can see it in the DNA. It is all weaponry of one form of another, we just point it at each other now. This short-sighted shill Prokopenko makes it out to be bad news for Russia. This is bad news for us. If only that pedo Minsky were still alive. He would tell you the same thing, and you would heed instead of flag.
by yihac1 | 2026-02-17 19:32:35+00:00
We did run internal benchmarks and experiments, but we focused on measuring our own performance rather than doing side-by-side comparisons with other tools. The goal was to validate stability, speed, and resource usage in real scenarios, not to create a public comparison that could be misleading or depend on many external factors. We’re planning to share our methodology and raw numbers so people can evaluate the results themselves and run their own comparisons if they want.
by lovegrenoble | 2026-02-17 19:32:43+00:00
Paroles et paroles et paroles

Écoute-moi

Paroles et paroles et paroles

Je t'en prie

Paroles et paroles et paroles

Je te jure

Paroles et paroles et paroles et paroles et paroles

Et encore des paroles que tu sèmes au vent

https://youtu.be/LYAvhujK4nA?t=88
by raron | 2026-02-17 19:32:43+00:00
I don't think this is about the current situation in the US.

Big US tech companies are infamous for not following the EU's data protection rules, and they wouldn't even able to, because some US regulations (I think PRISM, FISA and others) are incompatible with the requirements of EU GDPR.
This dates back at lest to Snowden leaks and the invalidation of EU-US data protection agreements by Schrems judgments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Complaints_with_th...
by Bender | 2026-02-17 19:32:57+00:00
I think the wording is fine. I hope your idea works out and is not gamed by AI. Once one AI gets in they could invite others but having to pay a few bucks may slow that down. I mean, hopefully that does not happen in the first place and probably would not until your platform became popular. It's when platforms get popular that devious people and their bots get shimmed into the process.
by tonymet | 2026-02-17 19:32:57+00:00
Déjà vu …

Since Crimea Invasion

Russia’s Economy Is On the Brink of Collapse" – CNN Business, December 2014.

"The End of the Putin Era? Russia’s Economy Is Tanking" – Newsweek, December 2014.

"Russia Heading for Economic 'Colossal Collapse'" – BBC News (quoting Alexei Kudrin), December 2014.

"How the Oil Price Collapse Could Topple Putin" – The Guardian, 2015.

"Russia’s Economy Is a Mess" – The Atlantic, February 2015.

"Russia’s Coming Economic Collapse" – Forbes, June 2015.

Since Ukraine War

Post-Ukraine Invasion (2022–Present)

"The Russian Economy Is Heading for a Meltdown" – The Economist, March 2022.

"Biden: The Ruble Is Reduced to Rubble" – Associated Press (reporting on White House statements), March 2022.

"Russia Faces its Worst Economic Collapse Since the Fall of the Soviet Union" – Bloomberg, April 2022.

"The Implosion of the Russian Economy" – Foreign Affairs, July 2022.

"Russia’s Economy Is Dying a Slow Death" – Business Insider, 2023.

"Is Russia’s Economy On the Brink of Collapse? Why Trump Might Be Right" – The Guardian, September 2025.

"Stormy Weather Pummels Russia's Economy: Cracks Are Appearing" – CEPA, February 2026.

"The Russian Economy Is Finally Stagnating" – The Guardian, February 2026.
by toastal | 2026-02-17 19:33:10+00:00
Coincidentally, my most-used project is on Codeberg, & is a filter list (such as uBlock Origin) for hiding a lot Microsoft GitHub’s social features, upsells, Copilot pushes, & so on to try to make it tolerable until more projects migrate away <https://codeberg.org/toastal/github-less-social>.
by trane_project | 2026-02-17 19:33:12+00:00
Tried to use Show HN for my new project a couple months ago with almost no traction. It's a software literacy tutor, so I guess it's not the right audience, but my intuition aligns with this. For reference, an earlier post showing the practice engine that powers the literacy tutor did pretty well back in 2023 and it was my first post. I've had more success getting sign ups trying to do just the tiniest bit of SEO.

Trane (good post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980069

Pictures Are For Babies (lame post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290805
by cracki | 2026-02-17 19:33:26+00:00
Age has an effect, no matter if it's software or electronics. These types learned their trade once, some decades ago, and keep driving like that.

If you want old dogs to learn new tricks, teach them. No company has the money to spend nor the inclination to even suggest education to their workers. Companies usually consider that a waste of time and money. I don't know why. Probably because "investing" in your work force is considered stupid because they'll fire you the moment a quarterly earnings call looks less than stellar.
by parl_match | 2026-02-17 19:33:26+00:00
> the deepfake nude thing

the issue is that these tools are widely accessible, and at the federal level, the legal liability is on the person who posts it, not who hosts the tool. this was a mistake that will likely be corrected over the next six years

due to the current regulatory environment (trump admin), there is no political will to tackle new laws.

> I just don't know if there's any institution in the US that is going to look at this for what it is - an unsafe system not ready for the road - and take action.

unlike deepfakes, there are extensive road safety laws and civil liability precedent. texas may be pushing tesla forward (maybe partially for ideological reasons), but it will be an extremely hard sell to get any of the major US cities to get on board with this.

so, no, i don't think you will see robotaxis on the roads in blue states (or even most red states) any time soon.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-17 19:33:30+00:00
I don’t know what your comment is referring to. Are you criticizing the people parroting “this tech is too dangerous to leave to our competitors” or the people parroting “the only people who believe in the danger are in on the marketing scheme”

fwiw I think people can perpetuate the marketing scheme while being genuinely concerned with misaligned superinteligence
by anonym29 | 2026-02-17 19:33:41+00:00
Open weights fulfill a lot of functional the properties of open source, even if not all of them. Consider the classic CIA triad - confidentiality, integrity, and availability. You can achieve all of these to a much greater degree with locally-run open weight models than you can with cloud inference providers.

We may not have the full logic introspection capabilities, the ease of modification (though you can still do some, like fine-tuning), and reproducibility that full source code offers, but open weight models bear more than a passing resemblance to the spirit of open source, even though they're not completely true to form.
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-17 19:33:48+00:00
When student debt becomes dischargeable, market forces will finally price degrees according to their actual economic value relative to the risk of poor returns. Currently, that price discovery is broken; the cost of a degree bears almost no relationship to its real-world payoff. No need for degree seizure to correct it. Lenders can decide for themselves which degrees lead to returns, which in turn provides degree seekers with actual financial signals instead of vibes-based "go into programming" propaganda from FAANG.
by b8 | 2026-02-17 19:34:45+00:00
Self driving cars aren't better than humans yet. Waymo is tele operated (they claim only sometimes). Also, Tesla and Comma.ai are the only real AI self driving companies that have useable services currently AFAIK. geohot claims it'll take Tesla 8 more years to become better than a human driver and Comma 10 years.
by chowells | 2026-02-17 19:35:23+00:00
As someone with no firsthand knowledge at all, I am inclined to believe your position is correct. But I also think the Economist is making an important point: Russia's continued prosecution of this war will shred their internal economy with consequences lasting for decades or centuries. What people often underestimate is just how much damage an economy can suffer before breaking down entirely.

But Putin doesn't care about that, so the war will continue until something changes militarily.
by EdNutting | 2026-02-17 19:35:32+00:00
Sure, so, yeah "general1465" seemed to be talking about PCB Design.

And from what I know of SemiEngineering's focus, they're talking about chip design in the sense of processor design (like Tenstorrent, Ampere, Ventana, SiFive, Rivos, Graphcore, Arm, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc.) rather than the kind of IP you're referring to. Although, I think there's still an argument to be made for the skill shortage in the broader semiconductor design areas.

Anyway, I agree with you that the commoditized IP that's incrementally improving, while very important, isn't going to pay as well as the "novel stuff" in processor design, or even in things like photonics.
by emigre | 2026-02-17 19:35:50+00:00
Yes, yes, definitely, it's okay. I like the design, actually. :) But it would be nice to have the touch of a professional, if you can.

I would say that your choice of cover design as a whole denotes elegance and taste. Look at the cover design of graphic designer Manuel Estrada:

https://estradadesign.eu/project/alianza-editorial/

Your cover remind me of that kind of style.

There are some details about the typeface, layout, and the photograph that, as somebody with a certain background in graphic design, I can perceive as a little bit off.
by Itoldmyselfso | 2026-02-17 19:36:01+00:00
You are not independent from Google if you purchase an android device from another manufacturer. You're then having your data sent to both Google and that manufacturer, resulting in far worse privacy overall than with just Google, not to mention worse security at hardware level. If you don't want to "support" Google, just buy any used Pixel 6 to 10 series.
by bobchadwick | 2026-02-17 19:36:11+00:00
I just did this last week, mostly using Claude Code. I live close to a major airport and wanted to be alerted when interesting planes are flying overhead. The PWA Claude Code spit out is exactly what I was hoping for, and adding an AR overlay was really trivial.

It's amazing and in some ways frightening that I had an interesting problem, and within a couple hours I had a fully functional app that completely solved it.
by bflesch | 2026-02-17 19:36:12+00:00
Slightly unrelated, but aren't these AES-specific custom CPU instructions just a way to easily collect the encryption keys? There is a speedup but is it worth the risks?

If I were a nation state actor, I'd just store the encryption keys supplied to the AES CPU instruction somewhere and in case the data needs to be accessed you just read the stored keys.

No need to waste time deploying a backdoored CPU firmware and wait for days or weeks, and then touch the hardware a second time to extract the information.

When all AES encryption keys are already stored somewhere on the CPU, you can easily do a drive-by readout at any point in time.

Linux kernel has a compile time flag to disable use of custom CPU instructions for encryption, but it can't be disabled at runtime. If "software encryption" is used, the nation state actor needs to physically access the device at least two times or use a network-based exploit which could be logged.
by malfist | 2026-02-17 19:36:22+00:00
Chatgpt doesn't get it right: https://chatgpt.com/share/6994c312-d7dc-800f-976a-5e4fbec0ae...

```
Use digit concatenation plus addition:
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
Digit count:

888 → three 8s

88 → two 8s

8 + 8 + 8 → three 8s

Total: 3 + 2 + 3 = 9 eights
Operation used: addition only
```

Love the 3 + 2 + 3 = 9
by imiric | 2026-02-17 19:36:25+00:00
Ah, yes. Let's ignore the words of a safety researcher from one of the most prominent companies in the industry because they're "cryptic". Their real intent was obviously to retire and write poetry.

The film "Don't Look Up" was a documentary. We could have the highest authority ringing the bells, and the majority would happily ignore them.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-t5OvSbk
by ericmay | 2026-02-17 19:36:34+00:00
> They will sell their gas at discount to China until the very end.

Yes and no. There's a minimum price they need to sell it, and somewhere in between they may not actually make enough between the minimum and sale price to actually fund their military. Nevermind the awesome job you guys are doing blowing up refineries and other industrial facilities. It'll be good when Europe stops importing Russian gas and steps up their seizure of sanctioned ships too.

Sanctions can and will work against Russia. Part of the strain they face today is due to these sanctions, it just takes awhile and in the meantime, unfortunately, there are people dying.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-17 19:37:08+00:00
I wish (/desire) a way to dispel this notion that the robots are self aware. It’s seriously digging into popular culture much faster than “the machine produced output that makes it appear self aware”

Some kind of national curriculum for machine literacy, I guess mind literacy really. What was just a few years ago a trifling hobby of philosophizing is now the root of how people feel about regulating the use of computers.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-17 19:37:12+00:00
I cheer on and have volunteered for progressive candidates before on the east coast. NYC keeps putting out rockstars. I guess its something about this diverse pressure cooker of a city? I don't know but they keep doing it.

You are talking about Texas, an also ran mess that has a lot of work to do. Lets put aside the fact that they love their unique flavors of voter suppression. At best, for now all we can hope is whichever nobody gets elected does not cause trouble for the party like Fetterman.

And lets be real, they will be gone once the heat dies down post Trump and the state flips back to Republican.

All states seem to be going towards an enlightenment towards the left but at wildy different rates. Progressives focusing on the coasts + the rust belt make sense as those states have a history of economic populism (and are swing states) whereas Texas might come around a long time from now once the oil companies decline enough and the modern company towns made by people like Musk fall apart like they always historically have. You need a trigger of extreme economic pain for the people to finally bite the bullet and try something new. Texas is not there yet. They have better cost of living and enough industry but they are definitely on the road to disaster in many areas.
by ben_w | 2026-02-17 19:37:26+00:00
Sounds like you're betting everyone's future on that remaing true, and not flipping.

Perhaps it won't flip. Perhaps LLMs will always be worse at this than humans. Perhaps all that code I just got was secretly outsourced to a secret cabal in India who can type faster than I can read.

I would prefer not to make the bet that universities continue to be better at solving problems than LLMs. And not just LLMs: AI have been busy finding new dangerous chemicals since before most people had heard of LLMs.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-17 19:37:26+00:00
I've suggested a very different approach:

Don't have a dollar amount that you repay. Rather, your student loan payment is x% of (your income minus the average rate for those with a high school diploma) for y years. Forgiveness programs for certain fields go away--instead, the tab gets picked up perhaps with a multiplier. Disability, death? Irrelevant--a dead person generally makes nothing, the amount owed is $0. (Generally makes nothing because there can be ongoing income from something they produced. That would be subject to the loan repayment.)
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 19:37:34+00:00
That's like saying Tulip blocked the installation of Vista because they didn't install enough RAM to run it

The OS makers don't have to go out of their way to support a device they don't want to (that's the beauty of open source passion projects), but it's also not like any manufacturer (that allows bootloader unlocking or ships an unlocked bootloader) is blocking GrapheneOS or anyone else from doing it, which the quote implies in my reading (maybe other people read it differently)
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-02-17 19:37:39+00:00
I'm a hardware designer. An EE. But over the last umpteen years I've gradually switched over to software because that's where I was needed. What I've found is that I became a very good software programmer but I still lack all the fundamentals of software engineering. There are things I won't or can't use because it would require too much study for me to get good at it or even understand it.

I would bet that a CS guy would have similar problems switching to hardware engineering.
by ckarani | 2026-02-17 19:37:40+00:00
sqlite-vec is a great vector index — Wax actually uses SQLite under the hood too.

The difference is the layer. sqlite-vec gives you vec_distance_cosine() in SQL. Wax gives you: hand it a .mov file, get
back token-budgeted, LLM-ready context from keyframes and transcripts, with EXIF-accurate timestamps and hybrid
BM25+vector search via RRF fusion — all on-device.

It's the difference between a B-tree and an ORM. You'd still need to write the entire ingestion pipeline, media parsing,
frame hierarchy, token counting, and context assembly on top of sqlite-vec. That's what Wax is.
by godelski | 2026-02-17 19:37:41+00:00
But you aren't being realistic, you're shifting blame.

Let's play a little game of replacement to see how we feel. Suppose he is selling cigarettes, since you made the comparison. He's targeting children and teens for marketing and making it difficult for parents to detect when their kids smoke; after all, Instagram has no smell.

Do your feelings remain the same?

Do your feelings remain the same if you look back at the history of the tobacco industry, recognize they also targeted teens because teen smokers were far more likely to become lifelong users? When you realize that effective change didn't happen until actual regulation came into place along with vocal public discussion?

Do your feelings remain the same when you recognize that teens are human beings who have their own autonomy? That parents cannot watch them at all times NOR should they? We transition teens into having greater autonomy and independence. The only way your "it's up to the parents" claim actually works is with helicopter parenting and where they go from 0 autonomy when they are 17 years and 364 days old to complete autonomy the next day.

You don't sound very realistic.

You sound like you're dismissive of the parents. You sound dismissive of the very thing you claim to advocate for. Realistically parents try to solve things by themselves, like most people. Then they turn to peers and family for help. Then they turn to local communities. There is a natural escalation of these things. That's the reality most people live in. Maybe that's not your reality, but it is that of most people. Are you really surprised that people have to escalate and take collective action? Otherwise it's a million battles of one set of parents vs a multitrillion dollar organization with supercomputers and experts on psychology and addiction. I'm just being realistic here, but it seems to me that it is more effective to combine forces, to form a coalition.
by johnniins | 2026-02-17 19:38:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I built PokeDex++ originally as a mobile app, but I couldn’t afford the Play Store developer fee at the time.

So I decided to rebuild the entire thing as a web app and deploy it independently.

It includes:

– full Pokédex with individual pages
– card collection system
– buddy progression
– virtual coins and skins

This is a solo project built over time as a passion project.

Would love feedback.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 19:38:06+00:00
Relevant and related, Sherry Turkle talks about writing love letters. The responses she gets during here research is interesting

Is it better to have an easy, well written letter or have something you have to search your feelings to say, even if you suck at putting words together

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when...
by gruez | 2026-02-17 19:38:25+00:00
From the article I linked:

>When I asked the head of admissions how they found such good staff he told me their compensation was fully transparent. “Associate Guides” were paid $60,000/year (vs the $40,000 average for Austin teachers), “Full Guides” made $100,000 and the five “Head Guides” in the school each made $150,000. They were able to both poach the best teachers from other schools, but also bring exceptional people into teaching that would not have considered it otherwise. It also let them have very high expectations for teachers once they were hired.
by runarberg | 2026-02-17 19:38:29+00:00
At the risk of explaining the insult:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

Personally I think not even wrong is the perfect description of this argumentation. Intelligence is extremely scientifically fraught. We have been doing intelligence research for over a century and to date we have very little to show for it (and a lot of it ended up being garbage race science anyway). Most attempts to provide a simple (and often any) definition or description of intelligence end up being “not even wrong”.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-17 19:38:38+00:00
The average driver also likely hits objects at 1-4 mph at more than 4x the rate they hit things at a severity high enough to generate a police report.

So the average driver is also likely a bad driver by your standard. Your standard seems reasonable.

The data is inconclusive on whether Tesla robotaxi is worse than the average driver.

Unlike humans, Waymo does report 1-4 mph collisions. The data is very conclusive that Robotaxi is significantly worse than Waymo.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-17 19:39:08+00:00
They literally removed "don't be evil" from their internal code of conduct. That wasn't even a real binding constraint, it was simply a social signalling mechanism. They aren't even willing to uphold the symbolic social fiction of not being evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

Google, like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc were, and still are, proud partners of the US intelligence community. That same US IC that lies to congress, kills people based on metadata, murders civilians, suppresses democracy, and is currently carrying out violent mass round-ups and deportations of harmless people, including women and children.
by andrewchilds | 2026-02-17 19:39:13+00:00
Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5 - that 4.6 is consuming 5-10x as many tokens as 4.5 to accomplish the same task: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706

I haven't seen a response from the Anthropic team about it.

I can't help but look at Sonnet 4.6 in the same light, and want to stick with 4.5 across the board until this issue is acknowledged and resolved.
by dw_arthur | 2026-02-17 19:39:15+00:00
The Jevon's paradox example of plummeting costs to create videos doesn't make sense to me. If people are already watching 7 hours of videos a day how much more time do they have to consume video? There are only 24 hours in a day. Earth is only so large and can only handle so much pollution. There are limits we need to talk about here. I guess Elon hand waves it away by saying we'll go into space but that remains to be seen.