MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Uehreka | 2026-02-19 03:54:29+00:00
> how can they even enforce this?

Many ways, and they’re under no obligation to play fair and tell you which way they’re using at any given time. They’ve said what the rules are, they’ve said they’ll ban you if they catch you.

So let’s say they enforce it by adding an extra nonstandard challenge-response handshake at the beginning of the exchange, which generates a token which they’ll expect on all requests going forward. You decompile the minified JS code, figure out the protocol, try it from your own code but accidentally mess up a small detail (you didn’t realize the nonce has a special suffix). Detected. Banned.

You’ll need a new credit card to open a new account and try again. Better get the protocol right on the first try this time, because debugging is going to get expensive.

Let’s say you get frustrated and post on Twitter about what you know so far. If you share info, they’ll probably see it eventually and change their method. They’ll probably change it once a month anyway and see who they catch that way (and presumably add a minimum Claude Code version needed to reach their servers).

They’ve got hundreds of super smart coders and one of the most powerful AI models, they can do this all day.
by jes5199 | 2026-02-19 03:55:24+00:00
there’s a million small scale AI apps that just aren’t worth building because there’s no way to do the billing that makes sense. If anthropic wanted to own that market, they could introduce a bring-your-own-Claude metaphor, where you login with Claude and token costs get billed to your personal account (after some reasonable monthly freebies from your subscription).

But the big guys don’t seem interested in this, maybe some lesser known model will carve out this space
by r-w | 2026-02-19 03:56:24+00:00
I think Fluxer just became a more likely candidate. Its maintainer just committed to removing its CLA[1] once the rewrite's done.

It also has screen sharing[2], which Stoat doesn't have yet[3], though it doesn't support casting audio yet. Also, the mobile app implementation can't arrive soon enough!

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1r8724q/comment/...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1r6muvz/comment/...
[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/stoatchat/comments/1r7tdg4/answerin...
by ddxv | 2026-02-19 03:57:22+00:00
Hey there, I've previously worked on OpenAttribution which had some similarities though with more of an advertising analytics / MMP focus. I'd love to chat, even if just to exchange ideas.

Also, do you have some example apps on the Play or Apple App Stores using Respectlytics, I'd love to tag them as open source and add them to AppGoblin's App SDK lists.
by hdra | 2026-02-19 03:58:18+00:00
The about page at https://alllooksame.com/about/ seems to indicate that the author who is of Japanese descent is not able to differentiate between them himself and made this website to test the assumption

In any case, I thought the "you all look the same" racist trope is that east asian people look similar to one another individually? is there an actual expectation of being able to tell the actual ethnicity/countries apart?
by dang | 2026-02-19 03:58:46+00:00
An entire thwack of personal attacks, for starters. Not allowed here.

> Censorship is bad dang mmmkay?

It's one of those words that mean many different things depending on how people want to use it. I wouldn't personally use that word as opposed to moderation, curation, etc., but then I would say that. HN isn't an anything-goes kind of site, and if we didn't do some version of moderation/curation/censorship/beflugeoning, it would be an entirely different place.
by wps | 2026-02-19 03:58:56+00:00
This is great news. I was super disappointed when Rainbow Six Siege dropped the Vulkan version of their game. They cited the support burden as the reason they dropped it, as nearly every game in the studio defaulted to DX11/12. For at least two years after that they received non-stop complaints of frame stutters on DX12. I do not know if the situation has gotten much better since then.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-19 03:59:55+00:00
Bullshit. The rest of the industrialized world is laughing at you for saying that. There are zero credible studies that show that socialized healthcare increases costs and plenty of bankrupt Americans because of our broken healthcare system.

I went to the doctor because of chronic acid reflux. They charged me a copay. They couldn't help so they referred me to a gastro doc. The gastro charged me a copay (more because it was out of network—there's no in network gastro doctors in my city). I was given an upper endoscopy, but insurance only covered 10% of the cost of the procedure. I spent $500 on the medication I was prescribed afterwards.

I have "good" insurance through my employer. If I didn't have insurance, I wouldn't have been able to get treated. The fantasy universe that you're describing is the one we live in: I have almost no choice, nothing is in network, and I spent $10k on healthcare on top of what's already taken out of my pay. Nobody in countries with socialized medicine has any of these problems.
by iteria | 2026-02-19 04:00:41+00:00
Is that actually true though? Because I remember distinctly as a teen somewhere in the 00s where pockets stopped being an option. I could not and still cannot buy them in regular stores. I have to go to speciality stores or order online to get pockets. A lot of women have become resigned, but I rarely know a woman who isn't very excited about pockets for every day wear.

I also don't know a single woman who enjoyed the hunt starting in their teens for a pair of jeans that actually fit. I exclusively shop online because at least I can reference a size chart using actually real measurements. They're still lying to me but at least I have a solid chance of the clothing actually fitting.

While I don't doubt that there are women who disliked seeing the number go up on their waist size, I'm still not sure that if there was an easy sizing metric we could use, that it wouldn't get used. The example in the article was basically about a great many measurements and I could see how that would get skipped. Most people don't have tailors tape lying around, but I wonder if that international number was on everything if we'd see women like it more.
by kartoffelsaft | 2026-02-19 04:02:28+00:00
I'm inclined to believe that the difference that makes the upper bound of human writing (or creativity) higher than that of an LLM comes from having experiences in the real world. When someone is "inspired" by others' work or is otherwise deriving ideas from them, they inevitably and unavoidably insert their own biases and experiences into their own work, i.e. they also derive from real-world processes. An LLM, however, is derived directly and entirely from others' work, and cannot be influenced by the real world, only a projection of it.

> Would you rather have the novel that the LLM generated (the output), or the prompts and process that lead to that novel?

The "process", in many cases, is not necessarily preferable to the novel. Because an important part of the creative process is real-world experiences (as described above), and the real world is often unpleasant, hard, and complex, I'd often prefer a novel over the source material. Reading Animal Farm is much less unpleasant than being caught in the Spanish Civil War, for example.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-19 04:03:02+00:00
I'm going to production with a new Electron app at my job this week, i wish this had existed a year ago lol. Electron Builder does a pretty good job making the updates and signatures not TOO painful but it hasn't been painless by any stretch.

Looks cool, I'll try this for my next personal desktop project and see how it goes
by hedora | 2026-02-19 04:03:11+00:00
Oh crap. I just logged into HN to ask if anyone knew of a working alternative to the Claude Code client. It's lost Claude's work multiple times in the last few days, and I'm ready to switch to a different provider. (4.6 is mildly better than 4.5, but the TUI is a deal breaker.)

So, I guess it's time to look into OpenAI Codex. Any other viable options? I have a 128GB iGPU, so maybe a local model would work for some tasks?
by vicchenai | 2026-02-19 04:03:38+00:00
The economic tension here is pretty clear: flat-rate subscriptions are loss leaders designed to hook developers into the ecosystem. Once third parties can piggyback on that flat rate, you get arbitrage - someone builds a wrapper that burns through $200/month worth of inference for $20/month of subscription cost, and Anthropic eats the difference.

What is interesting is that OpenAI and GitHub seem to be taking the opposite approach with Copilot/OpenCode, essentially treating third-party tool access as a feature that increases subscription stickiness. Different bets on whether the LTV of a retained subscriber outweighs the marginal inference cost.

Would not be surprised if this converges eventually. Either Anthropic opens up once their margins improve, or OpenAI tightens once they realize the arbitrage is too expensive at scale.
by mindslight | 2026-02-19 04:04:19+00:00
I understand the mechanism.

I agree that removing section 230 today would have an even more centralizing effect. We've already got huge tech companies that would happily shoulder such liability, and lots of small sites that would find themselves in an uncomfortable position.

My point was that if we never had section 230 to begin with, then there would have been a strong incentive against setting up sites that revolved around centralizing speech in the first place. There would have been more emphasis on protocols, and keeping communication under the control of the person speaking.
by petterroea | 2026-02-19 04:04:32+00:00
Somehow copyright infringement has become the layman's best way of protesting the consumption system they are in, in lieu of proper regulation. Nobody gets directly hurt, and consumers are able to keep up to date with the media that they may depend on for common interests with friends.

It's also a great tool for disruption. YouTube music is superior to Spotify because they found a middle ground that allows them to host a reasonable amount of copyright infringing music. You don't need all licenses if your users can fill the holes
by bluegatty | 2026-02-19 04:05:58+00:00
If you buy a 'Season's Pass' for Disneyland, you cant 'sublet' it to another kid to use on the days you don't; It's not really buying a 'daily access rate'.

Anthropic subs are not 'bulk tokens'.

It's not an unreasonable policy and it's entirely inevitable that they have to restrict.
by ayoung5555 | 2026-02-19 04:06:23+00:00
Calculators are good. But we still teach times tables and long division and prohibit calculators until kids learn how to do it the “hard way.”

We can’t give a generation of kindergarteners calculators and expect them to produce new math when they’re adults: how will they ever form mathematical problem solving skills?

I think the same principle applies for LLMs - they can be a tool but learning how to do things without them is still essential. Otherwise we might not have any more good authors in 10 years.

Before CAD, engineers had to draw designs on drafting boards. Similar concept here, I believe most classes still find it valuable for students to start with pencil and paper and grasp something at its most fundamental level, even if obsolete, before moving on to modern tools.

LLMs (and calculators, and CAD) should be used as a tool once the underlying mechanisms and skills are understood by its user, otherwise it’s like driving a car without knowing how to replace a flat tire. Sure you can call AAA, but eventually if nobody learns to change a tire with their own two hands, humanity won’t be able to drive. This obviously hyperbole but I hope it illustrates my point.

I’m fairly confident LLMs will be a net positive on society in the long run, just as calculators have been. But just like calculators are restricted at certain times in math classes, LLMs should be restricted in writing classes.
by joemi | 2026-02-19 04:06:30+00:00
A simple search for books is an interesting problem because some it makes sense to find based on title alone, while it doesn't make sense for other books.

Take To Kill A Mockingbird as an example... No matter what (English) edition of the book you read, you're likely reading the exact same content, even the exact same words, as any other English edition. There might be a different preface near the front or different blurbs on the back cover or a different number of words per page, but the actual story is word-for-word the same. A simple title lookup makes sense here in most cases.

Compare that to something like The Iliad, where the English versions are all translations and can vary greatly from translator to translator. While all telling ultimately the same story, a bad translation doesn't begin to compare to an elegantly beautiful translation, so you almost certainly don't want to treat all editions of The Iliad the same.

Translations aren't the only times that you wouldn't want to treat all editions of a title the same. Some books have undergone abridgments, revisions, or corrections, so the content won't be word-for-word the same between editions, but might or might not be close enough that it's worth considering them the same. Some books have heavily annotated editions, so while not changing the underlying content that all the editions are based on, the reading experience is quite different.

I could go on with differences, but I hope it's clear that there _are_ differences between books and movies when it comes to variations/releases. For books, I think the lookup issue is closer to how it is for board games. Board games, like books, have many editions and translations and often get updated/revised between editions. Sometimes the updates change the gameplay significantly, and other times they don't. Boardgamegeek.com is one of the best (if not _the_ best) catalogs of board games that there is, and it has regular discussions/arguments about whether a new edition of a game is different enough that it deserves its own page or if it should just be relegated to be an easy-to-ignore note in the Versions section of the previous version's page. I think a letterboxd-like lookup for books would have similar regularly-occurring debates, and, like with board games, ultimately have to be fairly hand-curated.
by JadeNB | 2026-02-19 04:06:45+00:00
> The keychain system is so hidden from users it was hard to even get to for myself.

These days, keychain access is under /System/Library/Core Services/Applications/Keychain Access.app. That's not intuitive, but, once you know it's there, it's not hard to navigate to it. Was it different under older versions?
by JimmaDaRustla | 2026-02-19 04:06:46+00:00
My crude metaphor to explain to my family is gasoline has just been invented and we're all being lent Bentley's to get us addicted to driving everywhere. Eventually we won't be given free Bentley's, and someone is going to be holding the bag when the infinite money machine finally has a hiccup. The tech giants are hoping their gasoline is the one that we all crave when we're left depending on driving everywhere and the costs go soaring.
by LeFantome | 2026-02-19 04:07:03+00:00
> From what I can tell they're pretty laser focused on making a browser

I agree with you. I also agree that this decision is an example of that.

SerenityOS had an "everything from scratch in one giant mono-repo" rule. It was, explicitly a hobby project and one rooted in enjoyment and 'idealism from the get go. It was founded by a man looking for something productive to focus on instead of drugs. It was therapy. Hence the name.

Ladybird, as an independent project, was founded with the goal of being the only truly independent web browser (independent from corporate control generally and Google specifically).

They have been very focussed on that, have not had any sacred cows, and have shed A LOT of the home-grown infrastructure they inherited from being part of SerenityOS. Sometimes that saddens me a little but there is no denying that it has sped them up.

Their progress has been incredible. This comment is being written in Ladybird. I have managed GitHub projects in Ladybird. I have sent Gmail messages in Ladybird. It is not "ready" but it blows my mind how close it is.

I think Ladybid will be a "usable" browser before we enter 2027. That is just plain amazing.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-02-19 04:07:37+00:00
No mention of the Radeon VII from 2019 where for some unfathomable reason AMD forgot about the segmentation scam and put real FP64 into a gaming GPU. From this 2023 list, it's still faster at FP64 than any other consumer GPU by a wide margin (enterprise GPU's aren't in the list). Scroll all the way to the end.

https://www.eatyourbytes.com/list-of-gpus-by-processing-powe...
by jbm | 2026-02-19 04:07:50+00:00
As a side note, this is actually akin to my favourite Slashdot troll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kadin2048/Slashdot_Trolli...

> The Get Some PRIORITIES! troll began to appear after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. A classic offtopic troll, it employs highly hyperbolic language to criticize the other posters and Slashdot in general for discussing trivialities like new gadgets or changes in U.S. copyright law in the wake of such a horrific event. ([0]).

[0] https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114139&cid=967092...
by efitz | 2026-02-19 04:08:12+00:00
I worked at Microsoft for many years and blogged there.

Microsoft was unique among the companies I worked for in that they gave you some guidelines and then let you blog without having to go through some approval or editing process. It made blogging much more personal and organic IMO; company-curated blog posts read like marketing.

I didn’t see the original post but it looks like somebody made a bad judgment call on what to put in a company blog post (and maybe what constitutes ethical activity) and that it was taken down as soon as someone noticed.

I care much less about whether the person exercised good judgment in posting, and don’t care (and am happy) that there was not some process that would have caught it pre-publication.

I care much more if the person works in a team that believes that copyright infringement for AI training is a justifiable behavior in a corporate environment.

And now we know that is a thing, and I suspect that there will be some hard questions asked by lawyers inside the company, and perhaps by lawyers outside the company.
by gdiamos | 2026-02-19 04:09:54+00:00
I'm not sure why the article dismisses cost.

Let's say X=10% of the GPU area (~75mm^2) is dedicated to FP32 SIMD units. Assume FP64 units are ~2-4x bigger. That would be 150-300mm^2, a huge amount of area that would increase the price per GPU. You may not agree with these assumptions. Feel free to change them. It is an overhead that is replicated per core. Why would gamers want to pay for any features they don't use?

Not to say there isn't market segmentation going on, but FP64 cost is higher for massively parallel processors than it was in the days of high frequency single core CPUs.
by irjustin | 2026-02-19 04:11:36+00:00
FWIW, these studies are too early. Large orgs have very sensitive data privacy considerations and they're only right now going through the evaluation cycles.

Case in point, this past week, I learned Deloitte only recently gave the approval in picking Gemini as their AI platform. Rollout hasn't even begun yet which you can imagine is going to take a while.

To say "AI is failing to deliver" because only 4% efficiency increase is a pre-mature conclusion.
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-19 04:13:42+00:00
Peak UI / UX was some years ago, exactly when depends on any given persons particular preference.

What we have now is akin to a Sheperd tone[1], where the design has to get intentionally worse so that corps. can then go on to boast about how the new design in following years is better than ever, but on the whole no real progress is made.

1. A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-19 04:14:48+00:00
> 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."

This is the same way that C# works and C and C++ why is this a surprise?
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-19 04:16:33+00:00
I agree that, ideally, a non-corporate blogging environment is a desirable thing. But there is a line, and at some point I think you have to be doing some kind of sanity check review process when your employees are actively telling people to go download copyrighted books with links to the pirated material as part of a guide on how to train LLMs with them, or, as with yesterday's morging incident, are plagiarising people's work without credit, on your official corporate platforms.
by hedora | 2026-02-19 04:17:05+00:00
Apple has been doing personal agents for a while. They're crushing it so hard they must be tired of winning at this point.

For instance, the other day, the Siri button in maps told me it couldn't start navigation because it didn't know where it was. It was animating a blue dot with my real time position at the same time.

Don't get me started about the new iOS 26 notification and messaging filters. Those are causing real harm multiple times a day.
by MindSpunk | 2026-02-19 04:17:09+00:00
Depends what you're precompiling.

For Vulkan you already ship "pre-compiled" shaders in SPIR-V form. The SPIR-V needs to be compiled to GPU ISA before it can run.

You can't, in general, pre-compile the SPIR-V to GPU ISA because you don't know the target device you're running on until the app launches. You would have to precompile ISA for every GPU you ever plan to run on, for every platform, for every driver version they've ever released that you will run on. Also you need to know when new hardware and drivers come out and have pre-compiled ISA ready for them.

Steam tries to do this. They store pre-compiled ISA tagged with the GPU+Driver+Platform, then ship it to you. Kinda works if they have the shaders for a game compiled for your GPU/Driver/Platform. In reality your cache hit rate will be spotty and plenty of people are going to stutter.

OpenGL/DirectX11 still has this problem too, but it's all hidden in the driver. Drivers would do a lot of heroics to hide compilation stutter. They'd still often fail though and developers had no way to really manage it out outside of some truly disgusting hacks.