MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by encom | 2026-02-08 17:49:10+00:00
>until something goes significantly wrong

Data breaches are so common they don't even register any more, and people share far more personal information now (willingly or not) than they used to. Remember when the common advice was "don't use your real name online"? Now every service demands your phone number to register, and those temporary email services (like 10minutemail) rarely work any more, in my experience. Downtime makes the news if it's bad enough, but Cloudflare, Microsoft and Amazon still control most of the internet. They fuck up badly all the time, and nothing ever happens. Windows 11 is literal adware, and Linux desktop usage is still a rounding error.

Remember that Tea "dating" app that leaked pretty much everything last year? As far as I can tell, it's still in business.

Many such cases.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-08 17:49:26+00:00
You only need an LIR annual fee (~$2000) if you want to be an LIR and manage other people's resources. Otherwise you find another LIR (some popular choices are the ones the OP used) to manage your resources on your behalf. The annual fee is then ~$60. The resources are allocTed directly to you, even when managed by a third party.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-08 17:50:02+00:00
> Noam and I were introduced to Epstein at the same time, during one of Noam’s professional events in 2015, when Epstein’s 2008 conviction in the State of Florida was known by very few people, while most of the public – including Noam and I – was unaware of it.

I hate when people act like there was no way they could have known about Epstein's criminal behavior. It was widely reported in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/us/questions-of-preferent... ), and there was more extensive coverage in the Palm Beach Post ( https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2006/08/14/had-ever... ) among other sources. There was also another wave of coverage when Epstein was indicted for child trafficking in 2010. We're expected to believe that none of these powerful and intelligent people could have ever bothered googling the name "Jeffrey Epstein".

> We had lunch, at Epstein’s ranch, once, in connection with a professional event; we attended dinners at his townhouse in Manhattan and stayed a few times in an apartment he offered when we visited New York City. We also visited Epstein’s Paris apartment one afternoon for the occasion of a work trip. In all cases, these visits were related to Noam’s professional commitments. We never went to his island or knew about anything that happened there.

There's no way they could have visited Epstein's townhouse without thinking that something seriously wrong was going on there. Chomsky also knew about Epstein's island, there's an email where he said that visiting it was his "special fantasy". https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02465...

> Noam’s email to Epstein, in which Epstein sought advice about the press, should be read in context. Epstein had claimed to Noam that he [Epstein] was being unfairly persecuted, and Noam spoke from his own experience in political controversies with the media. Epstein created a manipulative narrative about his case, which Noam, in good faith, believed in. It is now clear that it was all orchestrated, having as, at least, one of Epstein’s intentions to try to have someone like Noam repairing Epstein’s reputation by association.

From looking at the email, Chomsky clearly knew about the accusations (this was after the Miami Herald exposé in 2018) and still decided to stick with Epstein and help him defend himself https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA010325... .

I also find it disappointing that the article doesn't even try to explain Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon at all. Chomsky publicly referred to the Republican party as the "most dangerous organization in human history" and a "serious danger to human survival" ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/noam-choms... ) while secretly hanging out with the man most responsible for Trump's rise. I think it casts a shadow over Chomsky's legacy that he chose to abandon his values to spend his last few good years being a court jester intellectual performing for a billionaire pedophile and a right-wing propagandist.
by gpderetta | 2026-02-08 17:50:03+00:00
Oh. Apple won this and the last few rounds for sure. They definitely picked the right microarchitecture and delivered masterfully.

Early on personally I had doubts they could scale their CPU to high end desktop performance, but obviously it hasn't been an issue.

My nitpick was purely about using clock per cycle as a performance metric, which is as much nonsense as comparing GHz: AFAIK Apple cpus still top at 4.5 GHz, while the AMD/Intel reach 6Ghz, so obviously the architectures are optimized for different target frequencies (which makes sense: the power costs of a high GHz design are astronomical).

And as an microarchitecture nerd I'm definitely interested in how they can implement such a wide architecture, but wide-ness per-se is not a target.
by JackSlateur | 2026-02-08 17:50:05+00:00
Which says a lot ..

Any way, for what it's worth, I tried it, using a random code; Unable to compile; Does not support c17, apparently;

Please take the time to run llvm's test suite with it and share the results !

(but it does not really matter)

edit: it does not matter because we'd need something new or something better; It fails on both accounts;
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-08 17:50:25+00:00
>People who have reaped the rewards of their careers tend not to be the ones concerned about their futures. Apathy.

Not everyone has to become a programmer, people at the start of their careers can chooses paths other than programming if they're afraid of the (lack of) future prospects from AI. Where did people work before the ZIRP boom? Those industries are still around.
by kryptiskt | 2026-02-08 17:50:32+00:00
> If you want to code by hand, then do it! No one's stopping you. But we shouldn't pretend that you will be able to do that professionally for much longer.

Bullshit. The value in software isn't in the number of lines churned out, but in the usefulness of the resulting artifact. The right 10,000 lines of code can be worth a billion dollars, the cost to develop it is completely trivial in comparison. The idea that you can't take the time to handcraft software because it's too expensive is pernicious and risks lowering quality standards even further.
by zemvpferreira | 2026-02-08 17:50:58+00:00
In that case I really don't understand how you conclude there's any difference between being on the bottom or the top of the tool. The bare reality is the same: Skilled labourers will be replaced by automation. Woodworking tools (and looms) replaced skilled labourers with less-skilled replacements (such as children), and AI will absolutely replace skilled labourers with less-skilled replacements as well. I ask sincerely, I truly don't understand how this isn't a distinction without a difference. Have you spent time inside a modern furniture factory? Have you seen how few people it takes to make tens of tons of product?
by mindslight | 2026-02-08 17:51:05+00:00
You're talking about a completely different problem. From the first paragraph of the article:

> her fellow students were claiming they were disabled to receive accommodations like extra time on tests, excused absences and the best housing on campus

As far as the problem you're talking about, I get what you're describing and agree it sounds appealing. The problem in the US is the university hierarchy is one of the things used to perpetuate class, so the people who are able to change it generally benefit from how it currently is.
by qwertox | 2026-02-08 17:51:11+00:00
I want to see where we're at in 2 years, because these last couple of months have been pretty chaotic (but in a good sense) in terms of agents doing things with other agents. I think this is the real wake-up-call, that these dumb and error-prone agents can do self-correcting teamwork, which they will hopefully do for us.

Two years, then we'll know if and how this industry has completely been revolutionized.

By then we'd probably have an AGI emulator, emulated through agents.
by foldr | 2026-02-08 17:51:46+00:00
I don't think Chomsky's relationship with Epstein is in any way defensible, but I've seen similar comments to yours all over the interwebs and I'm confused by them. Chomsky never decried capitalists or told us to be suspicious of them on a personal level. Or at least, not in any of his political work that I've ever read. He was anti-capitalist, but he didn't have a simplistic view of the world where individual capitalists were inherently evil.
How do you manage context window?
by picklepixel | 2026-02-08 17:52:07+00:00
I have been experimenting with context window on Claude Code, and I have stopped using /compact and instead i document the journey well including writing in claude.md.

but sometimes there is just some context that i'd like to keep with my next sessions but i do not want to burn tokens just to keep it, so i made an MCP server that does session recap through different models, and spits back a small summary to keep things on track.

what do you guys do?
by IshKebab | 2026-02-08 17:52:10+00:00
> Who and how someone is vouched or denounced is left entirely up to the project integrating the system.

Feels like making a messaging app but "how messages are delivered and to whom is left to the user to implement".

I think "who and how someone is vouched" is like 99.99% of the problem and they haven't tried to solve it so it's hard to see how much value there is here. (And tbh I doubt you really can solve this problem in a way that doesn't suck.)
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by fedepochat | 2026-02-08 17:52:22+00:00
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by kelnos | 2026-02-08 17:52:43+00:00
> The detail about needing to reinstall Windows NT just to add a second CPU shows how tightly coupled OS and hardware were — there was no abstraction layer pretending otherwise.

In this case there was: the reason you need to reinstall to go from uniprocessor to SMP was because NT shipped with two HALs (Hardware Abstarction Layer): one supporting just a single processor, and one supporting more than one.

The SMP one had all the code for things like CPU synchronization and interrupt routing, while the UP one did not.

If they'd packed everything into one HAL, single-processor systems would have to take the performance hit of all the synchronization code even though it wasn't necessary. Memory usage would be higher too. I expect that you probably could run the SMP HAL on a UP system (unless Microsoft put extra code in to make it not let you), but you wouldn't really want to do that, as it would be slower and require more RAM.

So it wasn't that those abstraction layers didn't exist back then. It was that abstraction layers can be expensive. This is still true today, of course, but we have the cycles and memory to spare, more or less, which was very much not the case then.
by qwerpy | 2026-02-08 17:52:47+00:00
> brittle plywood furniture

If only it was plywood, at least it'd be solid and sturdy. These days it's particleboard, which is much worse than plywood. Similar concept, but now made out of sawdust and glue instead of woodchips and glue that are alternately laid down in different orientations layer by layer for increased strength.

Particleboard chips much easier, breaks down much faster with moisture, and can't hold screws in. But it's very cheap, can be made very smooth, and is light.

Agree with the general sentiment though.
by giantrobot | 2026-02-08 17:53:04+00:00
I've got a cheap laptop stand with built-in fans that blow against the bottom case of my MBA. With my previous M1 and current M3 the stand keeps them from thermal throttling for longer periods. Most of the time it's completely unnecessary but I use it occasionally when doing long duration compiles or other long term heavy loads. Even without using the stand the tasks would complete in a reasonable amount of time, it just gives me a few extra minutes of "full blast" which is often all I need.
by onionisafruit | 2026-02-08 17:53:14+00:00
I noticed this unusual line in go.mod and got curious why it is using replace for this (typically you would `go get github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3@v3.4.0` instead).

replace github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 => github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 v3.4.0

I found this very questionable PR[0]. It appears to have been triggered by dependabot creating an issue for a version upgrade -- which is probably unnecessary to begin with. The copilot agent then implemented that by adding a replace statement, which is not how you are supposed to do this. It also included some seemingly-unrelated changes. The copilot reviewer called out the unrelated changes, but the human maintainer apparently didn't notice and merged anyway.

There is just so much going wrong here.

[0] https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/4469
by kaicianflone | 2026-02-08 17:53:52+00:00
This is a solid step forward on execution safety for agentic workflows. Permissions, sandboxing, MCP allowlists, and output sanitization all matter. But the harder, still unsolved problem is decision validation, not execution constraints. Most real failures come from agents doing authorized but wrong things with high confidence. Hallucinations, shallow agreement, or optimizing for speed while staying inside the permission box.

I’m working on an open source project called consensus-tools that sits above systems like this and focuses on that gap. Agents do not just act, they stake on decisions. Multiple agents or agents plus humans evaluate actions independently, and bad decisions have real cost. This reduces guessing, slows risky actions, and forces higher confidence for security sensitive decisions. Execution answers what an agent can do. Consensus answers how sure we are that it should do it.
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by djoldman | 2026-02-08 17:54:32+00:00
Studies like this always seem to cite stats in a way that's pretty inaccessible to me. This is more clear to me:

* 217,122 participants whose data was extracted from the UK biobank database

* Out of those 217,122, 325 got early onset dementia over an average of 8.3 years

* The vast percentage of data came from exactly one blood draw per person between 2006 and 2010 at the beginning of the biobank study

Omega-3 Blood | Hazard Risk | Rate of Incidence | Percent Incidence
Level Quintiles | | Over 8.3 Years | Over 8.3 Years
-------------------|------------------|--------------------|------------------
Q1 (Lowest 20%) | 1.0 | 193 in 100,000 | 0.193%
Q4 (High) | 0.62 | 120 in 100,000 | 0.120%
Q5 (Highest 20%) | 0.60 | 116 in 100,000 | 0.116%
by staticassertion | 2026-02-08 17:55:08+00:00
It's seemingly dose dependent. Low omega 3 can seems to have the same mechanistic effect. As for what the dose should be? No clue, personally, and it depends on your heavily diet since even one fishy meal could provide as much as most supplements do. Personally, I don't eat much fish, so I'm comfortable with a supplement. If I ate even one piece of salmon in a day I'd skip the supplement that day.

If I had afib I'd talk to a doctor about it before taking it and probably would stay well under 1G on any day I don't eat fish and skip it entirely on a day that I do.

Not a dr, not a health professional, not anyone you should listen to perhaps at all, but this is my understanding.
by docmars | 2026-02-08 17:55:12+00:00
Dang right we do.

And the problem isn't even the Junior Zoomer devs running circles around seniors. It's the CTO or Engineering VP himself disappearing for a few months and single-handedly consolidating a handful of products into a full rewrite for the company, excluding most of their engineering team from the process, and then laying them off after.

The problem is the CEO pretending to be an engineer and thinking they know better because they can write English prompts and spit out a hideous prototype.

The problem is Product Owners using LLMs to "write code" while their engineering team does zero human review before merging it, because their AI tooling was made solely responsible for code quality. If something's broken, just prompt a sloppy fix full of hidden performance and security bugs that the automated code review step missed.

If you think this is hyperbole, I was recently laid off from a company that did exactly the above.

Then in 2027, it will be product owners replacing the entire engineering team, including the CTO, because they made their system too reliable to justify their employment, while the "thinkers" get to build the product, engineers be damned. Why? Because the CEO is a naive, overconfident moron.

People with real skills they acquired over lifetime are no longer shaping business. Reckless efficiency towards being average will rule the day.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-02-08 17:55:29+00:00
I've never bought into it because like 80% of the work the world does is CRUD-level stuff which should be boring and simple so it can be readable and maintainable.

The craftspeople doing the other 20% of the code are at the top end of the skill spectrum, but AI is starting from the bottom and working its way up. They should be the least worried about AI taking over their output.

This is like throwing together dozens of stick frame homes that look alike vs. building custom log, brick, or stone houses. No one is going to be tearing down my drywall and marveling at how well the studs are spaced.
by jlund-molfese | 2026-02-08 17:55:43+00:00
Your response sounds like AI, but I'm going to read it in good faith. The distasteful thing is using a community instead of being part of it.

And hey, I know everyone's doing it, but it's still annoying.

On HN specifically, you're supposed to avoid clickbait, avoid excessive reposts, and avoid using the site only for self-promotion[0]. This helps to create a community that promotes curiosity, instead of chasing growth hacks and engagement like many other social media platforms.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by MandieD | 2026-02-08 17:55:57+00:00
In Germany, I cannot buy ibuprofen, paracetamol (acetamenophen), or ASS (Aspirin - TM Bayer) at a grocery or "Drogerie" (place to buy cosmetics and other health & beauty items). I have to go to a pharmacy and ask for it at the counter - truly "OTC", and they're expensive compared to their US retail equivalents. That said, most common prescription drugs are significantly cheaper in Germany than in the US, even without insurance.

Antibiotics are definitely prescription-only, as are birth control and morning after ("Plan B") pills. I was once able to talk an airport pharmacy into selling me an albuterol inhaler without a script in hand, but only when I promised that I'd had it before and explained how to use it, and that I was about to get on a flight.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-02-08 17:56:13+00:00
The American people had a dosier publicly available. And after that, Project 2025 and impeachments and 34 felonies and a civil conviction of rape. All of which were absolutely reported on.

You can't pretend the collective will of American voters just isn't a vile, stupid person who wanted Trump and all that entails at this point.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-08 17:56:18+00:00
Why would you worship Cthulhu, the evil god who won’t even reward you for it?

Here's a helpful brochure: https://www.entrelineas.org/pdf/assets/who-will-be-eaten-fir... (730 kB .pdf)

Probably as good an explanation as any. Note that the same question can be asked of the so-called "high agency" billionaires themselves such as Musk and Bezos, as they suck up to a New York real-estate hustler who bankrupted four casinos among dozens of other failed ventures.
by ahepp | 2026-02-08 17:56:25+00:00
I think it's substantially riskier. At the very least, it means you are trusting any directory you cd into, rather than just trusting your $home/bin.

Stuff that would not typically raise eyebrows has been made risky. You might cd into less privileged user's $home, or some web service's data directory, and suddenly you've given whoever had access to those users, access to your user.

Maybe you could argue "well, I just won't cd outside of my $home", but the sheer unexpectedness of the behavior seems deeply undesirable to me.
by sxzygz | 2026-02-08 17:56:26+00:00
You and your coauthor need to write up a detailed account of your “Metatron model”. This paper, if it were to count as research, should be how other phenomena can be simulated by choices of parameters for your model.

Otherwise, you’ve just described yet another synthetic model that exhibits criticality (without proof no less). Which is not particularly interesting, unless your model subsumes other phenomena.
by pyuser583 | 2026-02-08 17:57:16+00:00
“The Shawshank Redemption” is a nonsense phrase in English.

“Shawshank” sounds like a place name, but why a specific place would be the source of redemption is mysterious.

The name of the source text, “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” is even more mysterious and unclear.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-08 17:58:07+00:00
> Indeed, it's relatively impossible without ties to real world identity.

I don't think that's true? The goal of vouch isn't to say "@linus_torvalds is Linus Torvalds" it's to say "@linus_torvalds is a legitimate contributor an not an AI slopper/spammer". It's not vouching for their real world identity, or that they're a good person, or that they'll never add malware to their repositories. It's just vouching for the most basic level of "when this person puts out a PR it's not AI slop".
by ThomasServo | 2026-02-08 17:58:29+00:00
I'm certainly getting tired of the AI slop images and videos. For coding and software development, I'm outright excited (and a little scared) of what I've been able to accomplish with GPT and Claude. I'm a software developer with 25 years experience living in the upper Midwest USA.

I write software professionally and remotely for large boring insurance company, but I'm building a side project of an area of interest using AI tools to assist, and I've created in a couple months a few hours per week what would have taken me a year or more to create. I've read other's comments about having to babysit the AI tools, but that's not so bad.

The little benefit I've noticed using AI tools to "vibecode" is sometimes they come back with solutions that I never would have come up with. ...and then there's the solutions where I click the Undo button and shake my head.