MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dehugger | 2026-02-24 00:38:08+00:00
Late reply, but the answer is:
1) there is a fair amount of behind the scenes work going on that I dont want the agent to have access too or know about. Tools make it very easy to have strong control over what can and cannot be done. File system access is built directly into the tool, which makes it much easier to be confident about what it has access too, since the thing that actually has the permissions is the tools code, not the agent.
2) Portability, I can host it from a single spot and serve it to multiple models on different machines easily, which is very desirable for me.
3) I can update the configuration of the tool independent of a skill.

A skill wouldn't be a bad option though, and I highly recommend creating one yourself! The ability to customize our workflows and tools to a high degree is one of the largest strengths of agentic coding.
by usef- | 2026-02-24 00:38:26+00:00
Of course not. But I believe your Windows example was implying fundamental tech got worse.

The original "worst" quote is implying SOTA either stays the same (we keep using the same model) or gets better.

People have been predicting that progress will halt for many years now, just like the many years of Moore's law. By all indications AI labs are not running short of ideas yet (even judging purely by externally-visible papers being published and model releases this week).

We're not even throwing all of what is possible on current hardware technology at the issue (see the recent demonstration chips fabbed specifically for LLMs, rather than general purpose, doing 14k tokens/s). It's true that we may hit a fundamental limit with current architectures, but there's no indication that current architectures are at a limit yet.
by ozim | 2026-02-24 00:38:35+00:00
AI companies don’t have 20 years, they have max 5 years where they have to turn to profit.

They don’t have time to wait for all the companies to pick up use of AI tooling in their own pace.

So they lie and try to manufacture demand. Well demand is there but they have to manufacture FOMO so that demand materializes now and not in 20 or 10 years.
by tptacek | 2026-02-24 00:38:47+00:00
In what way are voters in these municipalities being lied to? We got logs of all the searches, and incident reports of every time they were used to curb another vehicle. We know how well they did (or didn't, in our case) worked.

I don't know what "surveys" have to do with this. Voters voted on it; it was a campaign issue in our trustee election.
by josephg | 2026-02-24 00:38:55+00:00
Yep. Claude code is best thought of as an overachieving junior / mid. It can run off and do all sorts of work on its own, but it doesn't have great instincts and it can't read your mind about what you want.

Use it as if you're the tech lead managing a fresh hire. Tell it clearly what you want it to focus on and you get a much better result.
by throw10920 | 2026-02-24 00:39:19+00:00
> There are many human failures which are distinctly a vision issue and not attention related

Which are a tiny minority. The largest causes of crashes in the US are attention/cognition problems, not vision problems. Most traffic systems in western countries (probably in others, too, but I don't have personal experience), and in particular the US, are designed to limit visibility problems and do so very effectively.
by alwillis | 2026-02-24 00:39:23+00:00
It's more like:

- You have to work; you can't stay online all day waiting for the tickets to go on sale

- You have your agent watch for when the tickets go on sale

- Because the agent has its own wallet, it spends the 6 hours waiting for the tickets to go on sale and buys them for you

- Your agent informs you via SMS, iMessage, email, Telegram or whatever messaging platform of your choice

Yes agentic wallets are a thing now [1].

[1]: https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/2023893470725947769?s=20
by bo1024 | 2026-02-24 00:39:45+00:00
The easiest way to read it is "there exists a function h in O(1) such that f(x) <= g(x) + h(x)."

I think first we should teach "f in O(g)" notation, then teach the above, then observe that a special case of the above is the "abuse of notation" f(x) = O(g(x)).
by poooka | 2026-02-24 00:40:03+00:00
There's a depth to what you're saying that I don't think you're truly aware of..."flooding the block" -- or the mass importation of immigrants to build a political machine -- has been part of my country's politics since the Tammany Hall days (political machines). Tale as old as time in the US and it's one of the reasons why there's so much skepticism. Like what you said here, we KNOW how this works because at some point we were the Irish\Italian\or Mexican that got shipped in. We're not blind to party politics and ginning up house delegates or patronage politics.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-24 00:40:09+00:00
It feels to me like some kind of creative destruction that's supposed to happen in the economy hasn't happened. We should have had a recession, or some kind of economic crash, and now because AI or something, we're in this like weird malaise stage where these companies keep growing, but the healthy disruption that should lead the next string of startups is stuck behind it.
by sillyfluke | 2026-02-24 00:41:51+00:00
That seems a tad reductionist. Why not just say the iPhone was completely inconsequential because afterall it's simply another "computer". Why not go even back further and start the timer at the first physical implementation of a Turing machine?

The iPhone killer UX + App store release can be directly traced to the growth in tech in the subsequent years its release.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-24 00:42:10+00:00
the investments are being made by massively profitable companies (our biggest and brightest ones, the ones that have been carrying the economy for quite some time now, even before "AI"). even just in recent history we have seen companies making large investments and being very unprofitable until they weren't anymore (e.g. Uber). and it is always the same story, everyone is up in arms "this is not sustainable etc..."

whether or not these companies can turn a profit - time will tell. but I am betting that our massively profitable companies (which are biggest spenders of course) perhaps know what they are doing and just maybe they should get the benefit of the doubt until they are proven wrong. but if I had to make a wager and on one side I have google, microsoft, amazon, meta... and on the other side I have bunch of AI bubble people with a bunch of time to predict a "crash" I'd put my money on the former...
by sovietmudkipz | 2026-02-24 00:42:32+00:00
Ahhhh yes thank you for this link! I'm working on a project and my agent referred me to the factbook. It said all this great savory information was made available on the factbook website. I thought great but when I went to check it was all very basic. Truly I thought my agent was hallucinating!

It wasn't! Note to self: also check archive.org in case there is an internet archive for any sites an agent might reference.

I checked out this repo -- it has the information useful to my project. Thanks for sharing this!
by chrysoprace | 2026-02-24 00:42:36+00:00
What does that mean? By what metric do you measure "AGI", whatever that means? Industry definitions are incredibly vague, perhaps intentionally so, with no benchmarks to define how a model, harness, or other technology might achieve "AGI". They have no intelligence, and can't even reason that you need to take your car to the car wash to have it washed[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-24 00:43:46+00:00
1. You can't just steal someone else's identity labels when you've polluted your own so much that you can't stand them any more.

2. It would be so much more useful if Americans who didn't like what their country is doing actually fought for it to stop doing that, rather than trying to co-opt other people's identities.

3. Making up an almost-completely-bullshit identity marker like the modern version of Vikings is even worse, because it's not only stealing someone else's identity, it's then erasing that identity with some made-up bullshit.

Maybe y'all should start thinking about this deeply.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-24 00:44:33+00:00
I assume you mean technology, not the www (didn't exist). And, until around the second half of the 90s those papers were right. Most papers you'll find arguing that it wasn't contributing much to productivity were saying just that, that it wasn't, not that it won't. At the time, they were right. Productivity had stagnated despite heavy spending in technology.

But now we have something else happening. It's hard to find an application for something that makes a lot of mistakes. That's not the same issue. The issue then was that no one had written the software yet. Everyone knew what software needed writing. The future was obvious. Here, not so much. We can't see how to make it not make mistakes.

We have to hope someone will come up with a solution to that. Otherwise their big bets on something non-productive won't pan out the same way that the computer did, and we're all going to suffer for it.
by fyredge | 2026-02-24 00:44:41+00:00
On telegram and YouTube, I take your points, thank you.

To be honest, I find many holes the ID method myself and it stems from the free and abundant nature of the internet where anything goes everywhere. If I could take an analogy, it's like we have allowed casinos to be built all around the neighborhood and now have no political will to stop children from entering, though I do concede that it's much easier to stop a child from entering a casino than access to internet. Perhaps China was on to something with the great firewall, though I doubt the efficacy of that method as well.

But back to the use of ID, is there not an argument to be made that doing something is better than nothing? Personally, I would like the banning of algorithmic content and that online peers should only be found through intent and not recommended by the platform, but I digress.
by caranti | 2026-02-24 00:44:51+00:00
Some good responses here already. One angle that's not been mentioned yet is informed consent at the time of purchase.

When "buying" not "renting" there is presently no information for the consumer to make an informed choice about what they are purchasing when it comes to a live service game because no end-of-service date is available at the time of making the purchasing decision.

This is in large part why the end of The Crew was problematic for many people.

Had the service end of life been advertised at the point of purchase the consumer could have knowingly "purchased" a time-limited product, or not, but the decision would have been informed.

All this stuff about end-of-life plans, releasing self-hosted servers, patching out online-only stuff and leaving behind an offline-only game, etc, is great, but it's only one of the possible remedies that SKG have been discussing for the last couple of years.

Another perfectly feasible one is not to dress up a time-limited entitlement to participate in a live service as the same thing as an "own forever" product at the point of purchase.
by hinkley | 2026-02-24 00:44:52+00:00
So the thing about mushrooms is you pretty much have to stick them in your mouth and chew for them to hurt you.

There are plants that can screw up your life if you touch them, but people sort of have the two threat levels flipped in their heads. The scariest thing a fungus can do to your insides is horrible, but an insect or animal can do the same but also you die screaming. So... be careful out there kids. And don't go to Australia.
by anitil | 2026-02-24 00:46:11+00:00
There's so many times where I realise what I thought was simple in C turns out to be a minefield. I'd assumed an enum was 'word' sized, so 64 bits on a 64 bit architecture, but instead it turns out to be unspecified, and left up to the compiler.

Thinking through the standards quote again, I'm not sure that MSVC's behaviour is even wrong (when not using C23 type specification)? Because it doesn't look like it's required that the underlying type has to be sufficient to represent the largest enum. So maybe it's not wrong, it's just ... broken.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-24 00:47:06+00:00
Ukraine will cease to be a country without a working-age male population. What agreement are you referring to when you say again exactly? The war started in 2014 over Russia offering to bankroll a loan that was previously issued by the IMF / World Bank, and was up for renewal (with structural adjustments of course). Also the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych during Euromaidan played into it.
by rayiner | 2026-02-24 00:47:50+00:00
Why is that the metric? In my job, I get drafts from junior employees that requires major revisions, often rewriting significant parts. It’s still faster to have someone take the first pass. Why can’t AI coding be used the same way? Especially if AIs are capable of following your own style and design choices, as well as testing code against a test suite, why isn’t it easier to start from a kind of working baseline than to rebuild from a raf h.
by antonymoose | 2026-02-24 00:48:01+00:00
Perhaps India is a different place, groceries wise, but in America I shop the deals. Are sirloin steak, chicken thighs, or Boston Butts on sale? What veggies, what pastas, starch, and breads (that don’t suck) - I do check the weekly ads ahead of time to gameplan but I never make a formal list. Maybe I bank on that meat sale and the quality looks like trash, what then, do I give up and go home? You have to think on your feet, your plan never withstands first contact with (corporate grocery stores)
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-24 00:48:51+00:00
I’ll do the Minority Report here: I loved the article, the point being that rich people hyping AI for their own enrichment have somewhat shutdown rational arguments of benefits vs. costs, the costs being: energy use, environmental impact of using environmentally unfriendly energy sources out of desperation, water pollution from by products of electronics production and recycling and from water use in data centers, diverting money from infrastructure and social programs, putting more debt stress on society, etc.

I have been a paid AI practitioner since 1982, so I appreciate the benefits of AI - it is just that I hate the almost religious tech belief that real AI will happen from exponential cost increases for LLM training and inference for essentially linear gains.

I get that some lazy ass people have turned vibe coding and development into what I consider an activity sort-of like mindlessly scrolling social media.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-24 00:49:05+00:00
Not weird for potentially two reasons:

1. They didn't know about it. It's only recently that there have been popular youtube videos on the topic. Critical mass can take time.

2. Before "the whole ice thing" there wasn't a team of masked brownshirts terrorising communities and using all available technology they could access in order to undertake said terrorising. That these cameras are part of that available technology, the timing ain't weird at all. In fact, it was pretty predictable.

But, yes, should have been up in arms beforehand, but likely the knowledge and visceral demonstration of the effects were not known. Visceral demonstration does pretty the heavy lifting.
by dataflow | 2026-02-24 00:49:22+00:00
Maybe an easier explanation: just subtract g(x) from both sides.

You get:

f(x) - g(x) ≤ O(1)

Now, if you already know that

f(x) - g(x) = O(1)

means "f and g eventually differ by no more than a constant", then

f(x) - g(x) ≤ O(1)

must mean "f eventually stops exceeding g by a constant".
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-24 00:49:22+00:00
It's just that 90% of many many projects is boilerplate / scaffolding, "standard practice" - being able to reduce the effort to providing advice / guidance on the last 10% frees up a lot of cognitive resources.

For a practitioner it means things like being able to quickly whack out a custom terraform provider to resolve some rough edges on a project, when that wouldn't have been a good use of time before AI.
by dvt | 2026-02-24 00:49:22+00:00
We're still 6-12+ months away from a "killer" AI product. OpenClaw showed what's possible-ish, but it breaks half the time, eats tokens like crazy, and can leak all kinds of secrets. Clearly there's potential there, and a lot of people are working on products in the AI space (myself included), but anyone that's seriously tried to wrangle these models will agree with the reality that it's very hard to reliably get them to do what you want them to do.
by cromka | 2026-02-24 00:50:45+00:00
You must have not heard how everyone must now disclose all social media handles, including deleted ones, from last 5 years, in order to obtain ESTA visa? And how CBP now regularly asks to show them your phone and if you don't you are returned back to your country? Not to mention if they find anything unfavorable towards the president or VP they find in your phone, like Vance's caricature? True story.

I get that Fox News audience remains oblivious to this, but if well read and people like here on HN do too, then the US is completely cooked.
by gerdesj | 2026-02-24 00:50:58+00:00
It probably is somewhat LLM prompted but is that a bad thing?

I have a business partner who sounds like a TV evangelist when it comes to vibe coding but if he gets results then I am all in. He has got quite a lot of results in a few months on a project but he has certainly put the miles in himself.

The key is to use the tool appropriately. Don't blindly allow it to do what it likes but guide it all the way using your experience and knowledge.

Anyway, we now have tsharkrs to add to gotshark!
by tptacek | 2026-02-24 00:50:59+00:00
Thanks! But I'm much more interested in just getting people to do local politics. It is nothing at all like national politics. The people you need to persuade aren't faceless, they're not a mass of people swayed by the media, the electeds will take your phone calls directly, you can go door-to-door to make things happen. I see so much nihilistic fatalism in these threads and I think most of it is based off a conception of politics rooted in, like, the shit Politico reports about.

Most of the stuff that really impacts your community, like Flock, is governed locally, by very small numbers of people.
by poooka | 2026-02-24 00:51:05+00:00
One of our big exports. Germans were obsessed with American outlaws (Karl May). And I am of the opinion that this is what the Nazi's were thinking when they invaded Poland and Russia. They wanted to create and settle their own variation of the "wild west". Hard to explain to people in 2025 how captivating the American frontier was to a European in 1910.
by hinkley | 2026-02-24 00:51:06+00:00
The thing with microbes is not if they can grow in a place it's whether they can get there first.

Beer is basically knocking out natural bacteria and trying to get yeast growing before the bacteria can turn it into cleaning supplies. The alcohol is kind a there because it kills bacteria.

So for instance I put winecaps (Stropharia rugosannulata) into wood chips that had already been exposed to the elements for six months, and ended up with more than I could possibly eat.

Meanwhile oyster or shiitake mushrooms want a fresh log, cut with a sterilized blade, and cross your fingers and hope. I haven't even tried because I've watched people who know way more than me about mushrooms, fail.

I think I have some logs that might have lions mane in them, but they're fighting the turkey tail that was already in my local environment and also on the property of the person who donated the logs.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-24 00:51:37+00:00
I’ve heard such things in the US were because of accessibility law that required the website (for the general population) to work no better than the associated call center (for the people who can’t interact with the website for whatever reason).

On one hand, that seems obviously stupid. On the other, I don’t see how you could phrase a legal requirement of this nature.
by giroro | 2026-02-24 00:51:47+00:00
If we expect Parents to treat Social Media like other unhealthy, dangerous, and highly addictive products, then that can never start with "just expect ignorant parents to all magically start doing something difficult, for no real reason".

It starts by banning kids from the internet, entirely. It starts with putting age restrictions on who can buy internet connected devices. It starts by arresting parents and teachers who hand pre-literacy kids an always-online iPad. It starts with an overwhelming propaganda campaign: Posters, Commercials, After-School Specials, D.A.R.E. officers, red ribbon week.

Then, ultimately, it still finishes with an age-gated internet where every adult is required to upload their extremely valuable personal information to for-profit companies, for free
(With the added weight of being forced to agree to extreme ToS, like arbitration agreements).

So what do we do? I agree that the age of entry to the internet should match other vices (currently 21+ in the US, although really that should probably be 18+)...

It will never be acceptable for a single country's police state to extend across international borders, so... we just ban all of the UK and Australia from every web service until they get withdrawals and promise to stay nice? That could be a start.

But this whole situation in like 'freedom of speech' once you start picking and choosing what counts as "acceptable" speech, then suddenly you lose everything. You literally can't make everyone happy, because everything subjective is open to contradiction - and because there are freaks in the world who will never be satisfied by anything less than a complete global ban of everything.

Who gets a say? Do the Amish get to tell us what we are allowed to do? Where do you draw the line? You can't.
Completely open is the only acceptable choice.
But I still vote we start publicly mocking the parents who give their kids an ipad, and treat them like they just gave that kid a cigarette. Because seriously, they're ruining that kid.
Show HN: Credit Units – A New Credit Market Primitive (Live on Solana Devnet)
by CU-Soon | 2026-02-24 00:52:08+00:00
I’ve been building a new credit‑market primitive called Credit Units (CUs) — a standardized, atomic representation of credit exposure that can be issued, traded, and settled on‑chain.

The aim is to create a simple, transparent building block for credit markets, without reproducing the opacity and fragmentation of legacy credit infrastructure.

What’s live now

• Public Solana devnet deployment
• Cross‑wallet trading (buy in one wallet, sell in another)
• Deterministic issuance and settlement logic
• Seller‑maintenance invariant enforced on‑chain
• Next.js UI + Rust/Solana backend
• Supabase for activity history
• Clean, documented architecture

Why this exists

Credit markets today are:

• opaque
• slow
• fragmented
• inaccessible to most participants

CUs are an attempt to provide:

• standardized credit exposure
• transparent pricing
• atomic settlement
• open participation
• a foundation for indices, baskets, and structured products

Think of it as credit exposure as a first‑class on‑chain asset, rather than a derivative bolted onto an AMM.

Who I’m looking for
Not testers or airdrop hunters — the system already works.

I’m looking for:
• engineers who enjoy building financial primitives
• Solana/Rust developers
• people interested in credit, risk, or market structure
• contributors who want to help shape an early system

Try it out

Repo: https://github.com/zippy2261-lgtm/credit-units
Live devnet UI: https://credit-units-ui.vercel.app
Docs: https://pukw8vrkvrdfqd4h.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/PUBL...

Feedback that would be most helpful

• architecture and invariants
• UX flow
• economic logic
• potential integrations
• edge cases
• contributor experience

This is early, but real.
If you’re interested in credit markets, Solana, or financial infrastructure, I’d appreciate your thoughts.