MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-11 09:15:59+00:00
Also expensive, but the best options for cyclists are the Cycliq front and rear cameras/lights. They're best fitted to the bike and provide excellent footage along with being easy to manage (they overwrite old recordings automatically unless they're marked as being an incident where the camera goes onto its side).

Helmet cameras may compromise the "protection" provided by a cycle helmet though cycle helmets are next to useless in a multi vehicle collision anyway.
Show HN: We let GPT OSS 120B write and run Python and ARC AGI 2 jumped 4x
by steinsgate | 2026-02-11 09:16:19+00:00
Hi HN,

We are a team of independent researchers from Germany working on ARC AGI 2 since last summer. The general opinion on open-weight models is that they are too weak for this fairly difficult benchmark and score at near noise levels. We found that GPT OSS 120B is actually much more capable than previously thought, once the interleaved thinking regime is stabilized. We basically let the model use a stateful IPython based REPL via function calling and patched vLLM so that the model can reliably do interleaved thinking. The score jumped more than 4x.

Technical write-up: https://pivotools.github.io/posts/agentic_coding_arc_agi/
Code: https://github.com/gutfeeling/arc-agi-2-submission
Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/arcagi2/arcagi2-agentic-codi...

For safety, we support sandboxed execution using IPyBox (local Docker) and Daytona (cloud), so others can reproduce this without running untrusted code locally.

It gets more interesting: the effect seems to be general and translates seamlessly to other models without even changing prompts. We are not sure why agentic coding is so powerful in ARC AGI 2, which isn't traditionally thought of as an agentic benchmark. Perhaps code execution provides a stronger form of verification than COT, or perhaps it encourages a qualitatively different form of thinking.

We will be around for a while and would be happy to hear ideas / feedback and discuss infra issues / interleaved thinking / GPT OSS / ARC AGI 2.
Ask HN: How do you trace your own mental loops?
by schneak | 2026-02-11 09:16:22+00:00
How do you trace your own mental loops?

I keep catching myself in recursive thought patterns—debugging
production issues at 2am while my brain debugs hypothetical
conversations from 2019.

I've started treating these like performance bugs: tracing the
call stack, finding the root trigger, watching the loop unwind.

Before I build anything: How do you "debug" your own cognition?
Do you journal, use frameworks, white-knuckle it, or just
accept the overhead?

Genuine curiosity. If there's a pattern in the responses,
I'll share what I've been experimenting with.
by benreesman | 2026-02-11 09:16:26+00:00
I am a long time fan of Steve Yegge but he's too much part of the groupthink at this point.

You can't win with Claude Code. I understand that his API key isn't on the PID controller, so he gets a less bad deal, but he's still breaking even with some gee whizz factor.

Agents are like people on a long enough timeline: they will eventually do the lazy thing. But this happens in minutes not years.

If you don't have them on tracks made of iron, you are on a sugar high that will crash.

Formal methods, zero sorry, or it's another bounty for the vibecode cleanup guys.
by steve_gh | 2026-02-11 09:16:49+00:00
Gloves: if you have to take them off outside, brush the snow off them first, then put them in an inside pocket. You will naturally sweat a little, so the gloves will be a little damp inside even if you don't notice it. If your gloves are in an inside pocket they stay warm. Otherwise you will find that your hands freeze when you put your gloves back on.
by cauenapier | 2026-02-11 09:17:45+00:00
What’s wild about Step-3.5-Flash isn’t just the quality, it’s how close it is to fitting on personal hardware.

The int4 weights are ~110GB. That sounds insane, but 128GB unified memory machines already exist, and people are running it today. A few years ago, a 200B-class model was pure datacenter territory. Now it’s “expensive laptop / workstation” territory. That’s a huge shift.

The interesting part isn’t that this model is big. It’s that hardware curves and model efficiency are finally intersecting. Sparse MoE + quantization means frontier-ish reasoning is no longer locked to hyperscalers. We’re basically one consumer hardware generation away from this class of model being normal for power users.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2026-02-11 09:18:04+00:00
We do that too of course. It’s not even the content that really bothers me. What bothers me is the targeted capitalization of kids’ attention. The instant gratification content model is changing behaviors for an entire connected generation in a way the world has never seen before. The real reason parental controls don’t exist is because it’s counter to what makes money for megacorps.
by exfalso | 2026-02-11 09:18:36+00:00
Exact same experience.

Here's what I find Claude Code (Opus) useful for:

1. Copy-pasting existing working code with small variations. If the intended variation is bigger then it fails to bring productivity gains, because it's almost universally wrong.

2. Exploring unknown code bases. Previously I had to curse my way through code reading sessions, now I can find information easily.

3. Google Search++, e.g. for deciding on tech choices. Needs a lot of hand holding though.

... that's it? Any time I tried doing anything more complex I ended up scrapping the "code" it wrote. It always looked nice though.
by imtringued | 2026-02-11 09:18:39+00:00
Telling people that they need to learn boring prerequisites before they are allowed to learn the next thing is exactly how you kill motivation. This strategy works if you have a fully mapped out curriculum that is planned as a whole and a societal expectation that you go through the entire thing, it doesn't work for independent learning.

For independent learning, motivation is the key bottleneck and your goal is to make people organically motivated in calculus after learning that their calculus knowledge is lacking.
by aitchnyu | 2026-02-11 09:19:52+00:00
I would have liked to see the feedback loop and harness instead of the end product. 12 years back, I was opening the 12000 page ECMA OOXML format and also reverse engineering Word's output (half my time spent from undocumented crap) and having "unit tests" to generate Docs which I had to check by eye.
by weinzierl | 2026-02-11 09:20:27+00:00
"For nearly thirty years, notepad.exe was the gold standard for a "dumb" utility which was a simple, win32-backed buffer for strings that did exactly one thing...display text."

Well, except that this did not prevent it from having embarrassing bugs. Google "Bush hid the facts" for an example. I'm serious, you won't be disappointed.

I think complexity is relative. At the time of the "Bush hid the facts" bug, nailing down Unicode and text encodings was still considered rocket science. Now this is a solved problem and we have other battles we fight.
Show HN: Tigement – private timeline planner that recalculates when tasks change
by sodomak | 2026-02-11 09:20:47+00:00
I got tired of rewriting my day plan when one task runs long — so I built a planner that auto-recalculates

I originally coded mostly personal slow&buggy:) version of this workflow ~6 years ago and have used it daily since. Recently I rewrote it properly and made it public as Tigement.

Idea:

You plan your day as a timeline of tasks with durations. When one task changes (overrun / pause / skip / reorder), everything after it recalculates instantly so the plan stays consistent.

Notes that might interest you:

- It’s a web app and you can try the core workflow without signing up (local-first; stored in the browser).

- Free mode is local-only + export/backup.

- Premium adds multi-device sync where the server stores ciphertext only (end-to-end encrypted), plus E2EE table sharing (view/edit) for collaborating on schedules/tasks.

I’d love feedback on:

- is there anything what’s unclear in the first 30 seconds?

- the UI: any glitches (it's still beta:) )?

- basically anything - I am pretty bad with launch process:)
by hansmayer | 2026-02-11 09:20:59+00:00
At this point it seems he is not merely excited with the first results (we all were fooled by this tech in the beginning, after all), but actively disseminating falsehoods. After disseminating such claims about AGI repeatedly and spreading nonsense like using ChatGPT to get answers about how to raise a baby day-to-day, which I think no one believes he does - its a statement directed at influencing the behaviour of the so-called "normies", both him and his immediate team should be held personally criminally responsible for every instance of negative impact on human lives that these tools have caused.
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-11 09:21:13+00:00
I don't understand what including the time of "4 years" does for your arguments here. I don't think anyone is arguing that the usefulness of these AIs for real projects started at GPT 3.5/4. Do you think the capabilities of current AIs are approximately the same as GPT 3.5/4 4 years ago (actually I think SOTA 4 years ago today might have been LaMDA... as GPT 3.5 wasn't out yet)?
Show HN: AI-Templates for Obsidian Templater
by ady1981 | 2026-02-11 09:21:34+00:00
I developed AI-templates for Obsidian Templater for new knowledge development.
The valuable features:
* ready-to-use templates (with default settings)
* structured LLM prompting
* maximal efficiency of LLM prompting via aspect management
* flexible LLM output management.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-11 09:23:17+00:00
It was pretty groundbreaking tbh. Many of the UI paradigms are still used today. Windows 95 introduced the start menu and the task bar, windows 3.11 didn't have them in that form. The start menu was just an applications folder (a bit like on Mac) and the task bar was some shortcuts on what was basically the desktop. I don't think windows 3 had a registry either. It really became what we still know as windows today.

Of course the architecture sucked deeply with its dos based heritage but they fixed that soon after when NT 4 came out. And 2000 made that a stable experience.

I remember it was a pretty exciting time. I was studying computer science and we tried early beta builds ("Chicago") that had leaked.
by jwr | 2026-02-11 09:23:44+00:00
I'm glad the roads are small. Smaller roads cause slower driving (well researched). As for the cities, it is unsustainable to use cars as the primary mode of transportation within cities. We do want to make cities greener and largely car-free, because cars for individuals simply do not make any sense in a city. We still need roads for deliveries and occasional transportation of heavy or large goods, but transporting yourself within a city should rarely be done in a car. See Tokyo for an example of a large metropolis which functions well and which would completely break down if everybody tried to use a car to get somewhere.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-11 09:23:54+00:00
I couldn't agree more. A text editor exposing an attack surface via a network stack is precisely the kind of bloat that makes modern computing ultra-fragile.

I actually built a "dumb" alternative in Rust last week specifically to escape this. It’s a local-only binary—no network permissions, encrypted at rest, and uses FIPS-compliant bindings (OpenSSL) just to keep the crypto boring and standard.

It’s inspectable if you want to check the crate: https://github.com/BrowserBox/FIPSPad
by jakub_g | 2026-02-11 09:23:54+00:00
For those of you on macOS who still want to benefit from arguably the best drawing application ever conceived, https://jspaint.app/ is THE way. Use it all the time when editing screenshots.

Bonus point: that Windows 95 style "error" beep when pasting too large image. Always sends the shiver down the spine and confuses the coworkers around (we're an all-Mac shop).
by kalleboo | 2026-02-11 09:23:55+00:00
Nordic studless winter tires (different from Central European winter tires so also probably different from whatever you get in the US) do give some grip on ice, while all-seasons can be nearly as bad as summer tires. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-66968-2_...

The government has done ongoing research on these subjects and the regulations do get renewed (e.g. some properly rated all-seasons are now allowed)
by ranguna | 2026-02-11 09:24:29+00:00
Is it really not?

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.fa...

It says they'll have offline transactions, if they have that, then you can probably make those "offline" transactions from Kms away from the receiver. We'll see how things evolve, I'm still not convinced that wero will have any use once the digital euro arrives.
by benj111 | 2026-02-11 09:24:49+00:00
I've recently hand the 'pleasure' of dealing with legal issues. Google ai was giving me lots of useful sounding advice but you ask for case law, and then Google itself can't find it, and the ai in that search is guessing that you've made a mistake, because the citations just don't exist.

But then you have programming where it appears to be scarily good.

So is this a case of programmers program so their Ais are tested to be good at programming? Or is this cognitive dissonance on our part?

To tie it in to this post. Is it a good thing to have the ai generate the code and data? It assumes an understanding that isn't really there.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-11 09:25:08+00:00
To flesh out my comment with more context...

everyone [...] considered digital audio on a computer just a novelty

Personal computers, in 1995, did not have the juice to play high quality audio and video. Media formats used less efficient compression and harddisks were smaller (most couldn't fit a whole CD of PCM audio).

And, in 1995, there were no portable device options - as far as I know - to play audio files, on-the-go. For high-quality digital audio, it was pretty much either DAT cassettes, or CDs (recordable CDs were too new for normal people to own).

On the internet, a few sites, such as radio stations, streamed audio using 'realaudio'. The sound quality was abysmal.

At the same time, the tech industry was in the midst of a 'multimedia' bubble. 'Multimedia' essentially referred to programs on CD-ROMs that could play postage-stamp sized videos and short snippets, or low-quality snippets, of audio.

The music environment became closer to today's in 1999 - with Napster - when the public discovered mp3s, and closer still in 2001 - with Apple's introduction of the iPod - when the public discovered portable music players.
by larodi | 2026-02-11 09:25:25+00:00
"It reminds me a bit of how à while back people were finding that operating a level 3 autonomous vehicle is actually more fatiguing than driving a vehicle that doesn’t even have cruise control."

this is huge insight and very philosophical in relation to the question of "which skills shall we retain still, and is this a general threat (perhaps not) to majority of traditional skills?"
by roysting | 2026-02-11 09:26:27+00:00
I’m not sure how to really get this point across, but you would be very incorrect believing that and I have first hand knowledge of that.

Yes, it’s not a waterfall methodology/system like some Soviet central committee planned economy, but what else do you call things like the kill list board meetings of the Obama administration, if not malicious and with forethought? They had lists, they decided on who to murder, they broke to accomplish their weekly objectives and then they reported on their progress every week. And that’s just a tiny snowflake on top of the iceberg of what is available for anyone in the public all around the world to know, even without any kind of special access other than an open mind willing to accept reality that is not what one was told it is from childhood on. You know, when people are the most vulnerable and easily manipulated, the MO of the people like Epstein.

Is not even that the information needed to understand these things are not all there in public agreed caps leaks and releases, it’s just that most people seem to just want to accept that 2+2=5 and in exchange live a life they believe is a good deal from the devil.

You seem to represent one of those people who has no idea what you are a part of, similar to how an animal born into a zoo is quite content since all his needs are met. That animal cannot understand any bigger context, because all it’s ever known is that cage it’s always been in all your conscious existence.

All the information you need is publicly available to you even without any clearances, on the internet (for the time being). What is your excuse for not knowing, e.g., that effectively all NGOs are a tool of the CIA? Or what else would you call the Obama kill list meetings where, just like how you may have weekly sprints, they picked from a backlog and then killed them and reported back on progress; if not malicious and with forethought?

Reality simply is that the majority of people are like those peasant masses that applauded Obama at the Winter Olympics; the same malicious, deliberate murderer with forethought and with a kill list that we know he was. What are you?
by duskdozer | 2026-02-11 09:26:49+00:00
I can think of an exaggerated scenario though in which that sounds reasonable depending on the goal:

say preferences are 1 (low) to 5 (high).

suppose 65% of the population ranked candidate A at 5 and B at 4, and the other 35% ranked A at 1 and B at 5. the majority doesn't get their favorite choice, but they do get an outcome they're happy with, and the minority doesn't have a horrible outcome. Exaggerated, but I don't think situations like this are unrealistic.
by Radim | 2026-02-11 09:27:28+00:00
Yeah ruling juntas do need to "man the fields & factories" (1st order meatware), in order to produce and maintain those drones. Or nukes, or whatever "deciding factor beyond numbers" put them in power.

But they also need 2nd order meatware to support that 1st order: teachers, doctors, merchants… You need scientists to advance your technology against other militaries… You need leaders (3rd order) to keep the first two populations quiet and productive since that turns out to be more cost-effective than fear control through extermination…

Hell you need a certain level of genetic diversity so your own kids don't come out weird.

Give evolution a little more credit. The required number of humans for the in-group to be self-sustainable is definitely not billions, plus it's been shrinking with automation. But we are where we are for a reason – lots of alternative arrangements have been tried over millenia and found wanting.

"Keep my bunker + my drone factory and some farmers, kill the rest" leaves rulers with terrible quality of life (bad) and the next-door-junta taking over pretty quickly (also bad). It is a self-defeating, poor long-term strategy.

Automation tips the power balance further: fewer humans needed, more local autonomy. Which is, I suspect, why the ruling class are so terribly excited about AI, more so than some market valuations. Fewer pesky humans across all levels. Genetic diversity of bloodline remains the primary concern (unless you manage to live forever, which happens to be another evergreen of power ghouls).
by augment_me | 2026-02-11 09:27:44+00:00
Yeah, the argument here is that once you say this, people will say "you just dont know how to prompt, i pass the PTX docs together with NSight output and my kernel into my agent and run an evaluation harness and beat cuBLAS". And then it turns out that they are making a GEMM on Ampere/Hopper which is an in-distribution problem for the LLMs.

It's the idea/mindset that since you are working on something where the tool has a good distribution, its a skill issue or mindset problem for everyone else who is not getting value from the tool.
by blockmarker | 2026-02-11 09:27:46+00:00
I am not aware of all the nuances of the immigration system, but legal and illegal seem a flawed but still somewhat useful measure. Though legal includes both farm workers and software developers and doctors, which makes it even less useful.

And that immigrants do not get most entitlements because the system doesn't work that way seems flawed. The official numbers say that there are 14 million illegal immigrants in the US, and the trustworthiness of those numbers is questionable. It is clear the system is not working properly.

And if Cato wants to talk in public Twitter they should expect questions and answers. And I'm not talking about trolls and haters, but when they respond to intelligent, respectful, high-quality comments from people who know about the subject, with snark and arrogance, with emotional arguments, and sleazy and disingenuous replies, pretending to not understand simple concepts, I don't believe that they are acting in good faith or care about the truth.

I understand that the US has Jus Solis and as such the children of immigrants are legally equivalent to the children of citizens, but that doesn't mean that the economic effect of the children of immigrants should be attributed to all citizens. There is an implicit question and answer of whether immigration is economically beneficial, and the effects of immigration include the children.
If the child of every immigrant raised the deficit by a hundred million one would be crazy to support immigration, even if the parents reduced the deficit by a million.
Not so in Cato's analysis. It would in fact make increasing immigration look better.
For this reason separating between the children of immigrants and non-immigrants would be the correct thing to do, even if legally they are the same. It would be more difficult to do but not impossible at all. If Congress does not collect the data, Cato could do it themselves, or convince Congress to collect it. It is not impossible, they just refuse because it would harm their favored proposal.
by DocTomoe | 2026-02-11 09:27:56+00:00
If you are in America, that 'empty land' was not 'empty land'. It was Native land. Displacement of Native Americans was genocidal and destroyed communities and cultures.

Also, the article touches Moses, right, but it is about communities as a concept, with a heavy emphasis on online communities, where 'new things to buy' do not come at the expense of 'tearing down the old' - and where, when you tear down the old, behaviour patterns change. Take, for instance, the reddit re-design, which changed the page's culture. Or usage patterns of RSS post Google-Reader-shutdown.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-11 09:27:58+00:00
I'm an AI hipster, because I was confusing engagement for productivity before it was cool. :P

TFA mentions the slot machine aspect, but I think there are additional facets: The AI Junior Dev creates a kind of parasocial relationship and a sense of punctuated progress. I may still not have finished with X, but I can remember more "stuff" happening in the day, so it must've been more productive, right?

Contrast this to the archetypal "an idea for fixing the algorithm came to me in the shower."
by larodi | 2026-02-11 09:28:12+00:00
well smart oldies have learned to discern among skills that need focusing on and retaining and those that dont. perhaps with live we learn to navigate information better, given also constraints imposed by (with time) failing organs. so i guess the whole thing about a grownup is really that they be better strategists, and executives than children. everything else pretty much overlaps unreasonably often.

so newgrads burnout faster imho, is all im sayin.
by belter | 2026-02-11 09:28:50+00:00
Free speech is not a concept that exist in Europe, at least not in the USA form...I dont say it as critique just as a factual statement.

Free speech as understood in the US, like rooted in the First Amendment
protection against government restriction, does not have a direct
legal equivalent in Europe. Most countries balance expression against
other rights like dignity, public order, etc...