MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2026-02-06 04:59:06+00:00
"The squirrel can do my job and more? It can do five years of my work in a month? For only $20k? Pssh, but I bet it copied someone's homework."

Developer salaries are about to tank.

This is the end of the line. People are just in denial.

Soon companies will hire the squirrel instead of you. And the squirrel will transform into enormous infrastructure we can't afford ourselves.

"One mega squirrel to implement your own operating system overnight. Just $100k."

It's going to be out of the reach of humans / ICs soon. Purely industrial. And all innovation will accrue to the capital holders.

Open weights models are our only hope of keeping a foot in the door.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-06 04:59:50+00:00
I'm disappointed to see this article pine on about how they're so excited to envision their models helping open source projects find and fix vulnerabilities, then go on to say they're implementing measures to prevent this from being possible, just because attackers might use it.

At that point the article becomes "neener neener we can use our model to find vulnerabilities but you can't" which is just frustrating. Nothing's changed, then.

(Also, in a theoretical case, I wouldn't reasonably be able to find my own vulnerabilities before an attacker does, because they're far more invested and motivated than I.)
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-06 04:59:59+00:00
I just installed it and went on a deep dive for hours today. Interface is kinda clunky but it seems to mostly work.

I had a lot of trouble getting it running on my OpenWRT router alongside Let's encrypt, setting up a DNS record on one of my domains, and temporarily opening ports for it an certbot etc. But now I feel I understand it all and tweaks should be easy from now on.
by elevation | 2026-02-06 05:02:19+00:00
When I build unit tests around the right routines, I feel like all is right with the world. But some employers consider this gilding the lily.

But with LLMs in hand, I can generate entire suites of tests where they're most useful before management has the time to complain. All the little nice-to-have-but-hard-to-google environment tweaks are seconds away for the asking. It's finally cost effective to do things right.
by permo-w | 2026-02-06 05:03:01+00:00
They're suggesting that you listen to and address the points they made rather than simply rephrase your original viewpoint.

I'd suggest you try to understand that psychological problems are real and that you only get one brain. You may say "you don't understand poverty", but it equally sounds like you don't understand trauma and psychological issues. You only get one brain and life is about being happy. If you rise out of poverty, but you're less happy than you were, is that better? It sounds like it is for you as long as they stop voting for candidates you don't like. It's easy to not care about people's happiness if they don't vote for the candidates you like, right?
by regularization | 2026-02-06 05:04:00+00:00
His e-mails show him trying and failing to get a Russian visa. Not much of a Russian agent.

Actually the person who was trying to help him was until this week the UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson. He had to resign this week due to the emails. He previously spent decades attacking the UK Labour's left like Corbyn and trying to make the party more amenable to the type of people Epstein hung around with.

Odd that this very American American, with heavy Israeli contacts and some UK contacts is claimed to be associated with Russia with little evidence. He's American through and through (or failing that, Israeli aligned).
by WatchDog | 2026-02-06 05:04:21+00:00
I agree with all the points made about GH actions.

I haven't used as many CI systems as the author, but I've used, GH actions, Gitlab CI, CodeBuild, and spent a lot of time with Jenkins.

I've only touched Buildkite briefly 6 years ago, at the time it seemed a little underwhelming.

The CI system I enjoyed the most was TeamCity, sadly I've only used it at one job for about a year, but it felt like something built by a competent team.

I'm curious what people who have used it over a longer time period think of it.

I feel like it should be more popular.
by denti | 2026-02-06 05:04:28+00:00
Image models can think.

Can we achieve accuracy of Flux.Dev with Flux.Schnell, or can we get even sharper Nano-Banana results?
FlyMy.AI CRAFT approach makes it happen.

“Thinking mode” already boosted language models to a new quality tier. Our latest research at FlyMy.AI shows the same approach works in the visual domain.

With CRAFT we introduced a reasoning loop to image-to-text and image-to-image tasks and saw two clear effects:

- Large Image models became even more context-aware and precise.
- Smaller Image models improved by several multiples—reaching the performance of big, expensive systems while keeping inference costs low.
by QuiEgo | 2026-02-06 05:04:44+00:00
You read it. You now have an infinite army of overconfident slightly drunken new college grads to throw at any problem.

Some times you’re gonna want to slowly back away from them and write things yourself. Sometimes you can farm out work to them.

Code review their work as you would any one else’s, in fact more so.

My rule of thumb has been it takes a senior engineer per every 4 new grads to mentor them and code review their work. Or put another way bringing on a new grad gets you +1 output at the cost of -0.25 a senior.

Also, there are some tasks you just can’t give new college grads.

Same dynamic seems to be shaping up here. Except the AI juniors are cheap and work 24*7 and (currently) have no hope of growing into seniors.
by GOE_OVSYANKA | 2026-02-06 05:05:16+00:00
This paper presents a structural theory of dataset and model degradation under recursive training on synthetic data. Unlike prior work that attributes model collapse to entropy loss, noise accumulation, or data provenance, the paper identifies the loss distribution as the central object governing degradation. The core claim is that recursive self-training acts as a sharpening operator on the data distribution: low-loss (high-probability) samples become increasingly dominant, while rare and difficult cases—the tail of the distribution—systematically vanish. This process is formalized as an iterative distributional transformation that leads to progressive collapse and loss of structural diversity. The paper introduces a tail invariance principle, stating that stable long-term learning requires preservation of tail probability mass across model generations. The theoretical framework is supported by controlled experiments on discrete distributions, continuous models, and language models, using metrics such as KL divergence, entropy, and tail mass. The results demonstrate that common mitigation strategies (noise injection, anti-repetition heuristics, AI-content detection) do not address the root cause of collapse. Effective prevention requires explicit mechanisms to preserve the loss distribution, including real-data anchoring, dataset accumulation, distributed generators, and tail-mass correction. Overall, the work reframes model collapse as a structural consequence of loss distribution dynamics and provides a principled stability criterion for generative training pipelines.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-06 05:05:56+00:00
This is the core problem. The agent writes its own memory while working, so it has blind spots about what matters. I've had sessions where it carefully noted one thing but missed a bigger mistake in the same conversation — it can't see its own gaps.

A second pass over the transcript afterward catches what the agent missed. Doesn't need the agent to notice anything. Just reads the conversation cold.

The two approaches have completely different failure modes, which is why you need both. What nobody's built yet is the loop where the second pass feeds back into the memory for the next session.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-06 05:06:31+00:00
We keep meaning to provide a page equivalent to this one. Our position is more or less identical:

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...

We have user reports that XWayland causes error when running many plugins (primarily those written use JUCE); we also have reports that using XNest tends to be more successful.
by esperent | 2026-02-06 05:07:57+00:00
The key is a well defined task with strong guardrails. You can add these to your agents file over time or you can probably just find someone's online to copy the basics from. Any time you find it doing something you didn't expect or don't like, add guardrails to prevent that in future. Claude hooks are also useful here, along with the hookify plugin to create them for you based on the current conversation.
by CSSer | 2026-02-06 05:08:40+00:00
I hate to say this. I can't even believe I am saying it, but this article feels like it was written in a different universe where LLMs don't exist. I understand they don't magically solve all of these problems, and I'm not suggesting that it's as simple as "make the robot do it for you" either.

However, there are very real things LLMs can do that greatly reduce the pain here. Understanding 800 lines of bash is simply not the boogie man it used to be a few years ago. It completely fits in context. LLMs are excellent at bash. With a bit of critical thinking when it hits a wall, LLM agents are even great at GitHub actions.

The scariest thing about this article is the number of things it's right about. Yet my uncharacteristic response to that is one big shrug, because frankly I'm not afraid of it anymore. This stuff has never been hard, or maybe it has. Maybe it still is for people/companies who have super complex needs. I guess we're not them. LLMs are not solving my most complex problems, but they're killing the pain of glue left and right.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-06 05:08:56+00:00
Earning a tremendous amount of money and then amusing yourself by spending it on "charity" for the rest of your life doesn't make you a good person.

It's just one more method of buying good feelings and trying to buy good will while being in control of large numbers of people.

He wants to feel like he's doing good and using money to give him that feeling.
by davekempe | 2026-02-06 05:09:43+00:00
rustguac is a lightweight Rust replacement for the Apache Guacamole Java webapp. It provides browser-based remote access to SSH, RDP, and web browser sessions through guacd, the Guacamole protocol daemon.

rustguac sits between web browsers and guacd, proxying the Guacamole protocol over WebSockets. It manages session lifecycle, authentication, session recording, and an optional Vault-backed address book.

https://github.com/sol1/rustguac

Of course this is no warranty, if it breaks you get to keep both halves. But this is a project I have been thinking about for years, and would love to get some visibility on this and feedback.
by simianwords | 2026-02-06 05:10:06+00:00
Can you address the point I made where farmers suicides happen because of material poverty?

If you saw that my main point was that metaphysical concerns of “trauma” and “psychological issues” are a non issue for people who don’t have food on their plate.

> If you rise out of poverty, but you're less happy than you were, is that better?

Who are you to suggest they are less happy than otherwise? They took that decision voluntarily. I’m also suggesting that it’s the best decision.

You seem to think you have a better alternative for those people. Pray tell me, what is it that you are suggesting? What would you have rather done if you were the poor mother in middle of nowhere India and you had 6 children with complete lack of material stability. You would have rejected it?

If it were me or my friends or family- I would have definitely taken the job or adviced my friends to take it.
by kdazzle | 2026-02-06 05:10:31+00:00
Pretty sure someone at MS told me that Actions was rewritten by the team who wrote Azure DevOps. So bureaucracy would be a feature.

That aside, GH Actions doesn’t seem any worse than GitLab. I forget why I stopped using CircleCI. Price maybe? I do remember liking the feature where you could enter the console of the CI job and run commands. That was awesome.

I agree though that yaml is not ideal.
by kamaal | 2026-02-06 05:11:29+00:00
>>given that the alternative would be spending 12 hours sewing fast ...

That is the best case scenario. Mostly women roll beedis(a kind of needle sized cigar) on which you get like 1 paise per 10 rolls or something like that. Or worse do assorted labor chores which can really sap one's soul real fast.

Even with all that women actually have it a lot better than men. Men literally die and are reborn every day in most parts of India.

Just drive 30 kms North of Bangalore, and you will see abject poverty scenes. People scavenging bovine dung for fuel, children with flies, no clothing. The ever present scene is always that of an elderly person with pencil thin legs wearing shorts he likely is wearing since a decade with nothing but boiled rice and salt water+turmeric to eat daily. 8 - 10 hr power cuts are the norm, that is if you can afford electricity at all. Most health care is either entirely absent, or you have to travel to the nearest metro and hope you don't die out of hunger getting treatment there. I could go on but that is life here.

£260 a month is actually great for some place like this.
by sutterd | 2026-02-06 05:12:02+00:00
I am also _not_ happy. I tried the `/model` command and I could not switch back to Opus 4.5. However, the command line option did let me set Opus 4.5:

```
claude --model claude-opus-4-5-20251101
```

I will probably work with Opus 4.5 tomorrow to get some work done and maybe try 4.6 again later.
Ask HN: 7 days down, zero human support from Netlify/Bolt.new (paid account)
by encremagique | 2026-02-06 05:12:30+00:00
I'm in a desperate situation and would appreciate any advice from the HN community.

*Background:*

My production website (encremagique.org) has been completely DOWN for over 7 days. I accidentally deleted a project on Bolt.new (Netlify) on Jan 30, 2026, and immediately paid $17.88 for a Pro plan to restore it (Order #2060-7613).

*The Problem:*

- Site has been down for 150+ hours
- Submitted 6 support tickets over 7 days
- ZERO human responses - only automated "Sam" bot replies
- No phone support available
- No escalation path visible

*What I've Done:*

- Paid Pro subscription immediately after the incident
- Filed ICANN complaint (Case #01547725)
- Posted on Twitter tagging @boltdotnew and @StackBlitz
- Messaged Reddit moderators of r/boltnew
- Attempted to post on multiple Reddit communities

*Impact:*

My users cannot access the platform. My business is suffering. 150+ hours of downtime on a PAID account.

*My Questions:*

1. Has anyone dealt with this level of support unresponsiveness from Netlify/Bolt.new?
2. What legal/technical options do I have beyond ICANN complaints?
3. Are there any other escalation paths I'm missing?
4. Should I consider immediate migration to another provider?

*Lessons Learned (so far):*

- Always maintain backups on multiple platforms
- Research support quality before committing to a hosting provider
- Don't rely on a single provider for critical infrastructure

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm documenting everything for potential legal action if needed.

Order: #2060-7613 | Domain: encremagique.org | ICANN Case: #01547725
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 05:14:38+00:00
You should know better than to be defending evil people.

Evil is, as evil does.

Bill Gates and his Foundation have a bad rep long before his Epstein link came into the news.

Who better to collude with a known child trafficker/molester, than one who has no qualms in killing children via illegal vaccines/drugs to help his nexus with Big Pharma.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of such innocent victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

The Gates Foundation operates like a monopolistic unethical pharmaceutical company (as a weapon and Think Tank of Big Pharma) under the guise of a charitable NGO or grantmaker.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/bill-gates-big-philanthr...
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-06 05:14:53+00:00
This is a very early research prototype with no other inter-agent communication methods or high-level goal management processes."

The lock file approach (current_tasks/parse_if_statement.txt) prevents two agents from claiming the same task, but it can't prevent convergent wasted work. When all 16 agents hit the same Linux kernel bug, the lock files didn't help — the problem wasn't task collision, it was that the agents couldn't see they were all solving the same downstream failure. The GCC oracle workaround was clever, but it was a human inventing a new harness mid-flight because the coordination primitive wasn't enough.

Similarly, "Claude frequently broke existing functionality implementing new features" isn't a model capability problem — it's an input stability problem. Agent N builds against an interface that agent M just changed. Without gating on whether your inputs have changed since you started, you get phantom regressions
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-02-06 05:15:16+00:00
The first one is the classic. Don't know about the second one.

Power dynamics have been extensively investigated by the "Johnstone school" of improv, because humans are (mostly preconsciously i.e. usually are not but can become conscious about it) interested in power dynamics -- especially in situations where power balance is switching -- so this is the key if you want improvise acts that feel realistic and capture the audience attention.

To really understand it, I would recommend taking some improv classes that are based on Johnstone's teachings. But the book will give you the idea.
by bri3d | 2026-02-06 05:16:24+00:00
> you can’t expect every game studio to have the expertise to write secure, reliable kernel drivers.

If someone wants to sell something that comes with a driver, the driver needs a modicum of care applied to it. This is of course also on Microsoft for signing these things, although that ship sailed ages ago.

Yes, I wouldn't expect every studio to need their own team - game studios can buy anti-cheat middleware, and the middleware can compete on not being total junk (which is how the industry already works, with a side helping of these more obscure awful drivers and a few big studios with their own).

> If Microsoft wants Windows to be more stable and secure, they should provide built-in anti-cheat support in the OS.

I guess they could have users approve a set of signed applications that would get some "authenticated" way to read address space and have an attestation stapled to it? It's actually kind of an interesting idea. The hardest part here would be that each anti-cheat tries to differentiate with some Weird Trick or another, so homogenizing the process probably isn't appealing to game developers really.

Anti-cheat could go the opposite direction, with basically a "fast reboot" into an attested single process VM sandbox, but this has issues with streaming/overlays and task switching which are a bit thorny. I've always thought that this might be the way to go, though - instead of trying to use all kinds of goofy heuristics and scanning to determine whether the game's address space has been tampered with or there's a certain PCIe driver indicating a malicious DMA device or whatever, just run the game in a separate hypervisor partition with a stripped down kernel+OS, IOMMU-protected memory, and no ability to load any other user code, like a game console lite.
by potsandpans | 2026-02-06 05:16:59+00:00
I have a sense that were in a moment of mass hysteria.

You dot even understand what your reading anymore. Cant tell whether you're reading a hallucination or someones thoughts.

"I don't agree / understand this, it must not be real!"

Now, you have to wonder: is my grammar just poor? Or did I intentionally inject spelling and grammar errors into the output or an llm? Is it in my system prompt to do this?
Show HN: Free Unlimited Claude Code usage with Nvidia NIM models
by AliShahryar | 2026-02-06 05:17:05+00:00
I have been working on a side-project which replaces the following things in the Claude ecosystem with free alternatives. I started the initial implementation with Opus 4.5 in claude code and as soon as it got working I used it to work on itself which i found very cool.

- Replaces Anthropic models with NVIDIA-NIM models: It acts as middleware between Claude-Code and NVIDIA-NIM allowing unlimited usage upto 40 RPM with a free NVIDIA-NIM api-key.

- Replaces the Claude mobile app with telegram: Give it access to some directories, send it tasks from telegram and watch it work autonomously.

It has features that distinguish it from similar proxies:

- The interleaved thinking tokens generated between tool calls are preserved allowing reasoning models like GLM 4.7 and kimi-k2.5 to take full advantage of thinking from previous turns.

- Fast prefix detection (+4 other optimizations) stops the CLI from sending bash command prefix classification requests to the LLM making it feel blazing fast.

- Built in rate limiting and session concurrency.

The code is modular so that adding other providers or messaging apps is easy. Hope the community likes it, any PRs are welcome.
by like_any_other | 2026-02-06 05:17:25+00:00
Oh, I hadn't considered that there are complex and nuanced reasons why only white wrongdoing is discussed, and by others is ignored.

> Even orientalism is a european frame, focusing on how europeans engaged with the near and far east. A course on orientalism is not a course on the middle east. It is a course on europeans.

It is nothing of the sort. "Orientalism" is not about Barbary slave raids that emptied whole villages, about Ottoman invaders colonizing half of eastern Europe for centuries, or about the Islamic invasion of Spain. Instead it's focused on problematizing the fact that Europeans viewed these invaders as an 'other', and did not accept and welcome them as their own.

There is, notably, not a similar course chiding native Americans for seeing Europeans as 'other'. There's not even a course problematizing how Ottomans viewed [1] Europe.

You're free to invent further sophisticated reasons why this ridiculous cherry-picking is all perfectly natural and not motivated at all. I am done.

[1] Sorry did I say 'viewed'? I meant 'view', present tense: “Have five children, not three. You are Europe’s future.” - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/recep-tayyip-erdogan-tells-t...
by p-e-w | 2026-02-06 05:19:33+00:00
> I can write you an unoptimised C compiler that emits assembly for $20k

You may be willing to sell your work at that price, but that’s not the market rate, to put it very mildly. Even 10 times that would be seriously lowballing in the realm of contract work, regardless of whether it’s “optimised” or not (most software isn’t).
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-06 05:19:37+00:00
> Deflock, whose primary motivation appears to be chaos. They're closer to Antifa than anything else

so publishing the location of cameras is chaos? also, Antifa's goal is chaos? wtaf?

> We're not forcing Flock on anyone.

except that Flock put cameras back up when cities cancelled their contracts and took them down; that sounds like forcing to me