MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kitchi | 2026-02-18 00:35:59+00:00
This isn't strictly true. Multiple studies have shown that coffee reliably acts to increase alertness and can often boost mood.

Alertness isn't the same thing as energy, which is why people who drink a lot of coffee often feel tired but "wired". The brain is alert but energy is low. Abstaining from coffee can "reset" the nervous system to an extent, but alertness and energy is largely determined by insulin levs in the body. So figuring out what works for you with diet is a much better way of getting more stable energy through the day, regardless of caffeine intake.
by echelon | 2026-02-18 00:38:04+00:00
> Yeah, this is quite thought provoking. If computer code written by LLMs is a commodity, what new businesses does that enable? What can we do cheaply we couldn't do before?

The model owner can just withhold access and build all the businesses themselves.

Financial capital used to need labor capital. It doesn't anymore.

We're entering into scary territory. I would feel much better if this were all open source, but of course it isn't.
by Dimittri | 2026-02-18 00:39:32+00:00
We don't have plans to open-source the platform yet, but we prioritize transparency. For example, we display all tool calls and system prompts to help developers verify the RCA immediately.
Regarding the open-source projects—are you referring to rrweb and the Sentry SDK? We used them for the first version of our product, but we’ve since switched to connecting directly via OAuth and native integrations.
by simondotau | 2026-02-18 00:39:35+00:00
Are you legally permitted to drive that vehicle? Is the car actually a 1:10th scale model? Have aliens just invaded earth?

Sorry, but that’s not how conversation works. The person explained the situation and asked a question; it’s entirely reasonable for the respondent to answer based on the facts provided. If every exchange required interrogating every premise, all discussion would collapse into an absurd rabbit hole. It’s like typing “2 + 2 =” into a calculator and, instead of displaying “4”, being asked the clarifying question, “What is your definition of 2?”
by alwaysdoit | 2026-02-18 00:39:52+00:00
He never says "AI could lead to post-scarcity" in the entire piece. In fact, he says:

> Before making this argument, I want to defend the topic. Utopia is not around the corner; these issues don't have any practical urgency. But I agree with Bostrom that thinking about utopia “can serve as kind of philosophical particle accelerator, in which extreme conditions are created that allow us to study the elementary constituents of our values.” Reflecting on utopia might tell us something interesting about human nature more generally.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-18 00:40:46+00:00
>There's nothing funnier than a lot of people taking some absurd principles for granted when they make no sense at all, property taxes being one of them.

>Make it make sense

The cops/judges/prisons/schools/military/etc that maintain a mostly peaceful and ordered society that prevents someone else from walking onto your property and throwing you out costs money, and costs more money every year. The more land you have, the more it costs, since more time, materials, and energy have to be spent moving around all of that surface area you have "own". Surface area is the costliest thing people consume.

Tax on the improvements on the land, as well as earned income tax are the absurd principles.
by MengerSponge | 2026-02-18 00:40:48+00:00
For conducting unethical experiments on children. For criminally negligent protection of student data.

FERPA is no joke, and a competent administration would successfully prosecute people, sending them to big-boy jail for severe violations of students' personal data.

What are the alternatives? Almost anything else. Not breaking the law. You can buy a lot of traditional schooling for $65k/yr.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-18 00:40:56+00:00
Performance is tricky to measure. Right now the best measure of performance I've got is the "blunder index", but that's currently flagging a lot of stuff that I really don't consider to be true blunders - I think my top priority for the next few evenings is going to be iterating on the blunder-annotator, and that'll help me identify what issues in the actual gameplay code to focus on. And the blunder index isn't really defined in such a way that you can do arithmetic on it meaningfully :)
by bilbo0s | 2026-02-18 00:41:47+00:00
AFAIK, the other hospitals/clinics under the Northwestern umbrella don't really factor into whether the downtown Northwestern Memorial campus qualifies for 340B

The money is shared at the system level. The referrals are to/from other hospitals/clinics in the system. Many of the other facilities in the system, exist because of Northwestern Memorial. This is what needs to be done to ensure access.
by istjohn | 2026-02-18 00:42:07+00:00
The entire idea of post-scarcity doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny. Even if unlimited energy and matter could be summoned by magic, one would be limited by space and the speed of light, and by the threat of black hole formation if too much matter and energy is crammed into too small a region of space. In addition, one's time would be limited by the impending heat death.
by taurath | 2026-02-18 00:44:27+00:00
> most HNers grew up in middle and upper-middle class households in the 1980s-90s that in most cases weren't representative of the lives the median American would have lived then, and a lot of the rose tinted glasses appear to betray that upbringing

Guilty as charged! I also do think that there’s an additional sense within those communities of the “normalcy” of homeownership both within the spaces, and reflected back via mass culture. True, nobody in New York has an apartment like they did on Friends, but the shows made to appeal to middle class America, even the ones like Married with Children still held “well there’s a house” even though the main character is a deadbeat - this isn’t played for laughs or out of irony, it’s just the default.

Even in the 50s, 60s, and 70s sitcoms and shows you rarely see people renting - homeownership rates are pretty steady around 62% back to the 60s. Among white Americans it’s like 75% or something. So I don’t think it’s entirely rose tinted glasses, even if there is a point to be made about the biases of the HN crowd.
by tjr | 2026-02-18 00:44:35+00:00
Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else.

One possibility may be that we normalize making bigger, more complex things.

In pre-LLM days, if I whipped up an application in something like 8 hours, it would be a pretty safe assumption that someone else could easily copy it. If it took me more like 40 hours, I still have no serious moat, but fewer people would bother spending 40 hours to copy an existing application. If it took me 100 hours, or 200 hours, fewer and fewer people would bother trying to copy it.

Now, with LLMs... what still takes 40+ hours to build?
by Spivak | 2026-02-18 00:45:08+00:00
Fully accurate article, can confirm that it works really well. Don't need an MCP sever for Linear when the agent knows how to use the already there GraphQL API. The models already have decades of knowledge of how to use the Linux userspace including scripting languages like Python. Let them do what they're already good at.

MCP is a lack of trust that the model is smart enough to use the tools made for humans
and that they need their own special thing. Nope, let em read the man page. They'll do fine.
by kshri24 | 2026-02-18 00:45:32+00:00
You can cut 90-95% of the slop posts by checking the project's GitHub repository. If it has .cursor / .claude folders it should be automatically pushed into a slow queue with the queue shifting every X hours. For example, this really popular post from 27 days ago was just pure AI slop. It got on to front page of HN and stayed there for days. Should have been nuked the very first hour:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710710
by themafia | 2026-02-18 00:46:08+00:00
LPFMs are licensed. You are responsible for everything that is broadcast and you can be held liable for FCC violations or for any criminal acts conducted on or through your station.

I would simply not feel comfortable opening the door to the station in this way. Even where we do allow remote broadcasters there is /always/ a person physically in the studio controlling the board, the automation system, and the remote host connection directly.

Finally.. one of the great joys of working in radio.. is, honestly, taking phone calls while on shift in the studio. If you're going to do a call in show it's basically required. The induced delay on digital connections is often too high to make a quality show out of. It's honestly one of the pain points of podcasts today.. watching two hosts bounce off the delay while trying to have a natural "conversation" on any level.
by Macha | 2026-02-18 00:46:10+00:00
They have a ML model based on shrug emoji that decides if you’re in the automatically approved bucket, the face verification bucket or the ID verification bucket. If face verification fails or you’re in the high risk bucket you’ll need to send them ID to access adult content, i.e. any channels manually set to nsfw, anything their classifier deems nsfw and anything in servers deemed nsfw. Discord would like to imply that most users are in the automatically verified bucket and only like porn is flagged nsfw, but it’s entirely in their control to tighten these screws when they reckon that the controversy is over (and they’ve already been trialling more mandatory ID verification on UK users, before starting the global rollout)
by rish2497 | 2026-02-18 00:46:30+00:00
you'e 100% right to call this out, and I appreciate the deep dive.

To be completely transparent: I’ve over-indexed on the vision and the architecture in this repo rather than the functional implementation. The current state of the code is effectively a "spec-in-code" and a skeleton of the architecture I am building toward, rather than the production-ready engine my post implied.

The "LLM-generated-slop" comment hits home because I have been using AI tools heavily to scaffold the cross-platform boilerplate (the enums, the FFI bridges, and the project structures). In my excitement to show the "unified pipeline" vision, I pushed a version that is essentially a hollow shell of stubs.

Specifics on your points:

Empty projects: Correct. These are placeholders in the current monorepo structure.

Hardware Enums: You caught the stub. I am currently working on the actual Metal/Vulkan integration layers in a private branch, but I mistakenly pushed the "public skeleton" as if it were the finished core.

200ms TTFT: This is our internal target based on local benchmarks with raw llama.cpp implementations, but as you noted, it is currently "undefined" in the public Flutter wrapper because the bridge isn't actually moving tokens yet.

I genuinely appreciate the reality check. Building a "faster version of llama.cpp" is not my goal, my goal is the orchestration layer, but I clearly tried to "Claude Code" my way through the infrastructure too fast.

I’m going to take this feedback, go back to the shed, and focus on the actual C++ implementation before I post another update. Also, big respect to Telosnex/fllama your are the benchmark for a reason, and I clearly have a lot of work to do to reach that level of "real."

Thanks for keeping the community honest.
by i7l | 2026-02-18 00:46:44+00:00
If profit is the objective, it will turn into growth-at-all-costs machine because that's how the mathematics works.

If, however, the objective is, say, improve as many lives as possible with the constraint of being profitable, it's definitely possible to do good. You just have to make sure you understand what level of profitability is sufficient, which is rare but doable.
by moWerk | 2026-02-18 00:46:50+00:00
Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post. As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.
Show HN: Spawn – Postgres migration/test build system with minijinja (not vibed)
by Winsaucerer | 2026-02-18 00:46:52+00:00
Hi! Very excited to share my project spawn, a db migration/build system. For now, it supports PostgreSQL via psql to create and apply migrations, as well as write golden file tests. It has some innovations that I think make it very useful relative to other options I've tried.

GitHub: https://github.com/saward/spawn

Docs: https://docs.spawn.dev/

Shout out to minijinja (https://docs.rs/minijinja/latest/minijinja/) which has made a lot of the awesomeness possible!

Some features (PostgreSQL via psql only for now):

- Store functions/views/data in separate files

- Git diff shows exactly what changed in a function in new migrations

- Easy writing of tests for functions/views/triggers

- Env specific variables, so migrations apply test data to dev/local db targets only

- Generate data from JSON files

- Macros for easily generating repeatable SQL, and other cool tricks (e.g., view tear-down and re-create)

I started this project around two years ago. Finally have been able to get it to an MVP state I am happy with. I love using PostgreSQL and all its features, but current available tooling makes utilising some of those features more challenging

I created spawn to solve my own personal pain points. The main one was, how to manage updates for things like views and functions? There's a few challenges (and spawn doesn't solve all), but the main one was creating and reviewing the migration. The typical (without spawn) approach is one of:

1. Copy function into new migration and edit. This makes PR reviews hard because all you see is a big blob of new changes.

2. Repeatable migrations. This breaks old migrations when building from scratch, if those migrations depend on DDL or DML from repeatable migrations.

3. Sqitch rework. Works, but is a bit cumbersome overall with the DAG, and I hit limitations with sqitch's variables support (and Perl) for other things I wanted to do.

Spawn is my attempt to solve this, along with an easy (single binary) way to write and run tests. You:

- Store view or function in its own separate file.

- Include it in your migration with a template (e.g., {% include "functions/hello.sql" %})

- Build migration to see the final SQL, or apply to database.

- Pin migration to forever lock it to the component as it is now. This is very similar to 'git commit', allowing the old migration to run the same as when it was first created, even if you later change functions/hello.sql.

- Update the function later by editing functions/hello.sql in place and importing it into your new migration. Git diff shows exactly what changed in hello.sql.

Please check it out, let me know what you think, and hopefully it's as useful for you as it has been for me. Thanks!

(AI disclosure: around 90% of non-test code by me, AI was used more once the core architecture was in place, and for assisting in generating docs)
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-02-18 00:47:54+00:00
Plenty of those have existed, but in the end they always get stolen and given to the dogs trust.

There’s nothing people hate more than lasting charitable foundations. They take them to court so that they can crack them open and wank away the entire fund in 6 months.

There was one which was supposed to pay off the entire national debt. They cracked and spaffed it.

Another was supposed to end piracy. Cracked and spaffed.

You could save a million people a year, but that won’t save you from being cracked and spaffed. They’re already rubbing their trotters at the thought.
by themafia | 2026-02-18 00:49:30+00:00
The biggest problem is failover configuration and the needs of programmatic advertising insertions. So most providers will have you carry at least a 60 second buffer to start, but possibly closer to 120 seconds in most observed cases. Then as you listen an ads are inserted, or removed, the amount of delay between your audio and the live edge changes.

We could solve this, however, the royalty rates on music and other content are so high, that it would be insane to pay for that as well as the bandwidth and not get programmatic revenue back from it.
by krautburglar | 2026-02-18 00:49:54+00:00
> Pogroms were before USSR

I know. The point is not who did what. The point is that 20th c. Russia/USSR's human capital had been obliterated.

> Russia already got damn nukes.

Old technology. Suicide. West has better weapons, like twitter (arab spring), autonomous drones, and whatever sonic/microwave mystery we used in Venezuela. Russia is behind.

> Looted as in being sent food aid?

Looted as in having state bureaucrats sell national assets to western corporations for pennies on the dollar, then buying soccer clubs in UK with their ill-gotten gains, as Russia's peasants starve and their birth rate collapses.

> The problem is damn invading neighborhood country.

NATO wants to put missiles on their doorstep. How would any other country respond? We would have glassed Cuba if Khrushchev hadn't taken his missiles back. US state department had been plotting the Zelensky revolution / Russia war since the Obama administration.

I am not a tankie. I am disgusted. We are skirting WWIII to prop-up the boomer pension ponzi scheme. We started shit in Ukraine (yes, WE started it) because the Russians were selling oil to Europe, diminishing the petrodollar in the process. It's also why we've kicked people's shit in from Afghanistan to Syria to Libya to Ukraine. Doesn't matter who you voted for, (D) or (R), the child molester uniparty was going to start that war regardless.
by mclightning | 2026-02-18 00:50:18+00:00
I made the biggest donations in my life via Watsi. Thank you for building this site. I love you guys have an API as well. I thought of building an app on top of your API but never got round to complete it. If you are curious, I can share; I think there may be an opportunity to capture value in free giveaways and turn it into charity. Many people try to give away their things quickly on fb marketplace or letgo, ...what if they could ask for a donation to a charity? I know there are challenges like, what if they want to return. But there has to be a way to solve this with an escrow service or something. A similar model already works in used, 2nd stores that work for charities.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-18 00:50:28+00:00
> San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly

Author doesn't appear to understand startup culture, which mingles ambition, youth, and possibility of huge payoff.

Not comparable, in general, to other jobs. Sure, there ARE companies or cultures where people are worked to a pulp (several Asian companies, pointing at you), but SF startup culture doesn't portend what other jobs or industries should expect.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-18 00:50:47+00:00
This brings back memories of old equipment in the post world I've been around even if I didn't use them directly. One place was a film lab that developed/processed 16mm/35mm. They were using Ranks Cintels but the DaVinci Gold controllers were using joy balls instead of the joysticks. These things talked via a network using BNC cables, but never did learn if it was token ring or not. I don't remember the OS these ran on, but it was definitely a *nix something. One colorist I worked with was wanting to try to connect them up to the newer versions of Resolve on Mac, but eventually caved and got the newer panels. The old panels just went to storage along with racks and racks of older gear that couldn't be sold (nobody wanted it, and they couldn't face how much was paid for it new to see it essentially be worth scrap).
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-18 00:50:57+00:00
Last I checked, the tractor and plow are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers, yet we've got more jobs and grow more food.

People will find work to do, whether that means there's tens of thousands of independent contractors, whether that means people migrate into new fields, or whether that means there's tens of multi-trillion dollar companies that would've had 200k engineers each that now only have 50k each and it's basically a net nothing.

People will be fine. There might be big bumps in the road.

Doom is definitely not certain.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 00:52:16+00:00
> Even in the 50s, 60s, and 70s sitcoms and shows you rarely see people renting - homeownership rates are pretty steady around 62% back to the 60s. Among white Americans it’s like 75% or something. So I don’t think it’s entirely rose tinted glasses, even if there is a point to be made about the biases of the HN crowd

You have to remember only 58% of Americans today are non-Hispanic White.

For the other 42% of us, we would have been legally segregted in much of America until the 1970s. For us, while there may be a kernel of truth in what you described, the reality is we would have been second class citizens if we were born then.

> True, nobody in New York has an apartment like they did on Friends, but the shows made to appeal to middle class America, even the ones like Married with Children still held “well there’s a house” even though the main character is a deadbeat - this isn’t played for laughs or out of irony, it’s just the default

Few shows represent the bottom 50% of society irrespective of race let alone back in the 1990s or even today. The only prime time shows I can think of that showed that bottom half of society as independent individuals was Shameless.

Even "The Jeffersons" back in the 70s was basically a standard upper middle class sitcom despite being revolutionary in showing African Americans on primetime.

Heck, the HDI of much of America in 1990 [0] is comparable to Serbia and Russia today [1].

And even Marc A. would often recount growing up in rural Wisconsin without indoor plumbing and having to take a s#it in the freezing cold.

[0] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/USA/?levels=1+4&ye...

[1] - https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
by pnw | 2026-02-18 00:53:23+00:00
IDK how many people on HN have read When Prophecy Fails, but it's a seminal paper as I understand it. If you want a more contemporary and readable book on the same topic, When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Cult by Diana Tumminia is very readable and covers the same ground.

Super interesting to see the original research challenged.
by anhsirksai | 2026-02-18 00:54:35+00:00
Or that's the intent of late. Anything that's catches attention, is a new pivot by one of the YC's earlier company. Everyone seems to be pivoting to that flashy new thing that has come out this weekend. And by the time the showHN post catches enough eyeballs here, there is a product out there built on top of the idea.
Show HN: GreedyPhrase – 1.21x better compression than GPT-4o tiktoken, 6x faster
by bazlightyear | 2026-02-18 00:55:01+00:00
A greedy phrase-based tokenizer that outperforms GPT-4 and GPT-4o tokenizers on compression,
with a smaller vocabulary.

Benchmark (enwik9, 1 GB):

Tokenizer Vocab Size Total Tokens Ratio Throughput
GreedyPhrase 65,536 222,805,405 4.49x 47 MB/s
Tiktoken o200k_base (GPT-4o) 200,019 270,616,861 3.70x 4.35 MB/s
Tiktoken cl100k_base (GPT-4) 100,277 273,662,103 3.65x 7.13 MB/s

GreedyPhrase: 1.23x better than GPT-4, 1.21x better than GPT-4o. 1.5-3x smaller vocab,
6-11x higher encoding throughput.

How It Works:

1. Phrase Mining — Split into atoms (words, punctuation, whitespace). Mine bigrams/trigrams.
Top phrases fill 95% vocab slots.

2. BPE Fallback — Train BPE on residual byte sequences. Fills remaining 5% vocab.

3. Greedy Encoding — Longest-match-first Trie. Byte fallback for unknowns (zero OOV).