MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcranmer | 2026-02-11 14:13:28+00:00
It's been decades since I read Surely You're Joking, and I've completely forgotten about that chapter. It plays no part in my conscious recollection of the book.

The episode that really stuck in my mind was the episode about his competition with the abacus-user, who was better at math, which essentially ends with him giving up trying to explain how he could mental math a cube root faster, because the abacus-user was just someone who couldn't understand a math explanation.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-11 14:13:38+00:00
I often make the argument that uBlock Origin is so essential that it should be built into the browsers instead of being a separate extension. The restrictions imposed by manifest v3 are good, it's just that uBlock Origin is special enough that it should be able to bypass them.

Unfortunately, the huge conflicts of interest make this unrealistic. Can't trust developers funded by ad money to develop an ad blocker.
by infecto | 2026-02-11 14:14:06+00:00
You’re missing the point. Absolutely cartel violence impacts all types of people in the US and Mexico but large scale brutal violence that is usually saved for Mexico since unfortunately the Mexican federal government does not have control in most of the regions.

There is a huge difference between a one off gang killing in the US and someone taking a whole grey hound bus and burying the bodies in the desert.
by dsf3dd | 2026-02-11 14:14:15+00:00
No its not even that.

The people who work at these firms were losers in life to begin with. Misery loves company.

Give them some cash and some feeling of power on working on stuff billions of people use... and there you have it.

No one with any morals would choose to work there. You simply wouldnt. Youd be working elsewhere, knowing full well you are choosing not to contribute in lining the pockets of people like Zuck.

Apple is the only somewhat respectable large tech firm.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-11 14:14:16+00:00
>We don't know this is mistreatment. It's not wrong for the government to subpoena data to investigate a crime.

To which specific "crime" are you referring?

From TFA[0]:

Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that
supplied weapons to Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all
of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus.

I didn't realize that attending a protest was now a crime. When, exactly, did that happen?

[0] https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-stud...
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-11 14:14:28+00:00
I think it is excellent as well—that it also demonstrates aperture and shutter priority is a bonus.

I do feel (image nerding now) that its shutter/ISO visual for showing the image over/under-exposed is not quite correct. It appears they show incorrect exposure by taking the "correct" image and blend (multiply) with either white or blend with black (on the other end of the exposure spectrum) to produce the resulting image.

I suppose I am expecting something more like "levels" that pushes all the pixels to white (or black) until they are forced to clip. (But maybe I am too trained in photo-editing tools and expect the film to behave in the same way.)
by mythz | 2026-02-11 14:14:56+00:00
They announced it on twitter [1]:

> A new model is now available on http://chat.z.ai.

Looks like that's all they can handle atm:

> User traffic has increased tenfold in a very short time. We’re currently scaling to handle the load.

[1] https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2021564343029203032
by lukan | 2026-02-11 14:15:01+00:00
"that we keep encountering phenomena in reality and then realize that an existing but previously purely academic branch of math is useful for modeling it."

Would you have some examples?

(Only example that I know that might fit are quaternions, who were apparently not so useful when they were found/invented but nowdays are very useful for many 3D application/computergraphics)
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-11 14:15:33+00:00
I noted there is a new toggle between "agent/chat" when you switch to GLM-5 on chat.z.ai. I assume this model is focused on agentic tasks. Can't wait for them to release the paper or blogpost on this. I've been very impressed with GLM-4.7, so I have high expectations on this.

The youtube channel AiCodeKing mentioned something interesting on a video where he covered this model [1]. He said GLM-5 is the first open-weight "system architect" model akin to Claude opus. He also claims it beats opus 4.6 for long running tasks. But I can't verify that. We'll see it on the Artificalanalysis benchmark.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ail-fOrkM
by close04 | 2026-02-11 14:16:16+00:00
Two things can be true. While the user you're replying to has a weirdly focused agenda and insistence, some of the points raised are definitely valid.

I do not agree with the overall conclusion that "EU bad". But there are some pretty bad things going on, and the trend is definitely concerning. If you wait until you're on fire, you waited for too long.
by XeonQ8 | 2026-02-11 14:16:36+00:00
Great point on the indirect injection via tool outputs. I’ve noticed a similar 'tool-chain' vulnerability when working with agents that handle multi-step data processing.

For example, I've seen Recursive Execution work: where you don't just plant a prompt in a page, but you plant a prompt that specifically instructs the agent to use a second tool (like a calculator or code interpreter) to execute a hidden payload. Many guardrails seem to focus on the 'retrieval' phase but drop their guard once the agent moves to the 'execution' phase of a sub-task.

Has anyone else noticed specific 'blind spots' that appear only when an agent is halfway through a multi-tool chain? It feels like the more tools we give them, the more surface area we create for these 'logic leaps.
by leemartin | 2026-02-11 14:16:36+00:00
When Netlify and I agreed to work together on their 10 million developers activation, Netlify Capsules, I knew I wanted to take the opportunity to learn some new technology and challenge myself. I consider every client project an educational opportunity and try to push myself out of my comfort zone in order to always come away with new learnings. How could I incorporate AI in the development of this project? Were there new features of the Netlify platform worth integrating? What would it be like to collaborate with nearly every department of Netlify? I was excited to answer these questions.
by xtracto | 2026-02-11 14:17:10+00:00
This is different.

See, Drug cartels over here operate with the blessing and favor of our president. They are tightly connected.

If a cartel dared to ground a US flight. The US government would have a "free pass" to break all hell loose in Mexico, and Sheinbaum wouldn't have a way to stop it.

She doesn't want that in any way, so the message to the cartel bosses would be to be very careful in that respect.

Sure, there have been US citizens killed within Mexico here and there, but those can easily be attributed to local violence. And as retribution, Mexican government sends a couple of wanted criminals to the US.
by ajb | 2026-02-11 14:17:58+00:00
Along these lines, one of the early popular science works is "Letters to a German Princess", which compiles Euler's letters on Natural Philosophy (which is mostly what we today call science and maths) which he was commissioned to write as part of her education. Many were keen to educate their daughters as well as royalty, so the book version sold well. It is, of course, very out of date in terms of the science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_German_Princess
by Steuard | 2026-02-11 14:18:12+00:00
All I have to say is that if one of my students turned in those curves as "best fits" to that data, I'd hand the paper back for a re-do. Those are garbage fits. To my eye, none of the very noisy data sets shown in the graph show clear enough trends to support one model over any other: are any of those hyperbolic curves convincingly better than even a linear fit? (No.) The "copilot code share" data can't possibly be described by a hyperbolic curve, because by definition it can't ever go over 100%. (A sigmoidal model might be plausible.) And even if you want to insist on a model that diverges at finite time, why fit 1/(t0-t) rather than 1/(t0-t)^2, or tan(t-t0), or anything else?

The author does in fact note that only the arXiv data fits this curve better than a line, and yeah: that's the one dataset that genuinely looks a little curved. But 1) it's a very noisy sort of curved, and 2) I'll bet it would fit a quadratic or an exponential or, heck, a sine function just as well. Introducing their process of doing the hyperbolic fit, they say, "The procedure is straightforward, which should concern you." And yeah, it does concern me: why does the author think that their standard-but-oversimplified attempt to fit a hand-chosen function to this mess is worth talking about? (And why put all of that analysis in the article, complete with fancy animated graph, when they knew that even their most determined attempt to find a signal failed to produce even a marginally supportive result 80% of the time?)

In short: none of the mathematical arguments used here to lead in to the article's discussion of "The Singularity" are worth listening to at all. They're pseudo-technical window dressing, meant to lend an undeserved air of rigor to whatever follows. So why should we pay attention to any of it?
by coldtea | 2026-02-11 14:18:28+00:00
>Do you also audit every part of every car you buy or medicine you take? Or do you rely on large well-established institutions to do that for you?

Cars are under quite strict laws that software isn't. And there is only a small number of car vendors, while there are several orders of magnitude more extension vendors. Also a car vendor is a big company with many audits and controls, an extension "vendor" could just be some guy in his garage office, who just sold it to scammers, even for popular extensions.

And I still wouldn't trust a modern car using subscriptions and code updated.
by JoshPurtell | 2026-02-11 14:18:35+00:00
I concede that it is not precisely OSS. But if I tell someone that it is source-available, they will expect some kind of license restriction for any use. If I tell someone OSS, they will expect mostly what the Sentry license entails, unless they are a competitor, in which case I really don't care what they think.

I wish there were a popular term that conveys exactly how Sentry license works. But, there isn't - so I think it's fair to say open source, maybe as a general term. I'll change it from OSS to open source
by coldpie | 2026-02-11 14:18:38+00:00
I see this in the opposite direction at work. I'll send someone a chat message after their working hours and they'll actually reply apologizing that can't look now and will reply tomorrow. Or that they're just waking up and they'll look later today. Yeah, that's what I expect, I'm not your boss asking you to come in on a Saturday. Why on earth are you looking at your work chat outside of your work hours anyway??
by greggoB | 2026-02-11 14:18:42+00:00
> I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of one party systems. One party systems do not mean everyone agrees on everything.

I am aware of this, and that the USSR had elections which allowed the people to express themselves to some extent, though never in any major way.

> It still has all the nuances of any other political party

This simply cannot be true on a very fundamental level, which is the lack of competition that other parties bring. Multi-party systems have both inter and intra party dynamics; by definition single-party systems can only have the latter. Saying "it's pretty much identical" shows a fundamental misunderstanding on your part.

> Plenty of people are cheering on Japan who just elected that.

I fail to see how this is relevant.

> Obviously the goal is the betterment of the country and society is shared among all the elected officials

Well, no, not at all. History is replete with examples of officials of all political, cultural and ethnic persuasions being far more interested with enriching themselves than the betterment of society. This statement comes across as rather naive.

> who want to overthrow the government in their government.

If you're talking about a ruling party losing an election to another party, we don't call that a government overthrow, we call that a transition of power. It is a feature of the system, and there is a lot of concern that it is done fairly and peacefully.

> The overwhelming majority of western countries have actively suppressed or fought back anyone who wants to dismantle or reform the country

This just reads like outright propaganda, I'm not going to bother addressing it on the merits.

> So are all democratic elections predetermined as well?

This is predicated on your previous propagandized statement having any real substantive factual bearing, which I don't believe it does, so my answer is no, they aren't. In fact, there are many, many examples of surprise results (see JFK, Obama, Trump, Brexit, Ukraine, etc.). So if there is some kind of global suppression operation at play, it doesn't have a very good track record of success.
by ghtbircshotbe | 2026-02-11 14:18:59+00:00
Capital One just offered me $45 to install a Firefox extension. I declined, though I'm sort of tempted to get paid for getting spied on which I assume is happening anyway. And who knows, maybe I could get a couple more bucks later in the class action.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikibuy-for-f...
by mazugrin2 | 2026-02-11 14:19:00+00:00
It is a pedantic but meaningful distinction that I'd only point out on a sorta geeky site like this, but actually, FL180 (or, flight level one-eight-zero) is the altitude at which an altimeter will read 18,000 feet if it's set to assume that the barometric pressure is 1013 hPa (29.92 inHg). Above a certain transition altitude, aircraft switch their altimeters from reading altitude in the local pressure to this "standard" pressure. This is because above that altitude and safely away from terrain, it's no longer important to know precisely how high you are, but it _is_ important to know what altitude you are relative to all the other aircraft nearby.
by philwelch | 2026-02-11 14:19:05+00:00
Right, my point is that if they were men raping four and eight year old boys, they may very well have been convicted of sodomy rather than child rape like they would in some Western countries.

The state law in Washington even had a similar issue. Bestiality was prohibited by the sodomy statute, which the state repealed in its entirety as a gay rights thing. After the Enumclaw incident the legislature scrambled to re-criminalize bestiality.
by vmirnv | 2026-02-11 14:19:10+00:00
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by jermaustin1 | 2026-02-11 14:19:12+00:00
The UK has a lot of "garage" brands too (the Morgans, Caterhams, BAC, etc.), but as you said they don't have a lot of lobbying power, and the lobbying they do is on behalf of lengthening THEIR transition to new EV requirements.

That said, the UK's history of small auto manufacturers would make it potentially ideal for a few domestic producers to make little EVs, similar to the Caterham 7, or the Ariel Atom for the domestic market, but they will never be the mass produced Tesla or BYD competitor.
Show HN: Spheni – A Vector Search Engine in C++ built from scratch, for Python
by datavorous_ | 2026-02-11 14:19:45+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been building a small in-memory vector search library as a way to explore ANN systems from first principles. I was inspired by Spotify's annoy, and Meta's FAISS.

Currently, it's a CPU-first C++ library with Python bindings that supports Flat/IVF indexes and Cosine/L2 distance metrics.
There's a Colab notebook linked in the README if you want to try it quickly without installing anything.

I went from a naive brute-force (with millisecond level latency) to under half a millisecond with IVF, when benchmarked against SIFT1M subset. After that I was able to increase the throughput by ~2.4x, by making the search multi-threaded on my 4 core CPU (U series). Using scalar quantization, I reduced the memory usage by ~73% with negligible loss in accuracy.

I have documented the changes in performance and overall architecture in my repository.

Currently, my focus is on tightening the memory alignment and tuning cache locality, and making top-k selection faster, and in the long term my aim is to implement IVF-PQ and HNSW.

I'd appreciate any feedback on how I may move forward, and think through the process.

I used AI tools for implementing serialization and bindings and for early architecture brainstorming; details/prompts for which are documented in the README's 'Disclosure' section.
by louiereederson | 2026-02-11 14:19:57+00:00
That is fair but doesn't do much to push back against the risk to the independent model vendors, particularly in consumer. This has represented a huge portion of the AI capex so far. OAI alone represented 2GW of compute in 2025. The point is they are in a fragile position, and so are the economics of AI DC spending in aggregate.

With respect to Google, I'd also wonder about the economics of AI search vs traditional.
by hasitha_ch | 2026-02-11 14:20:28+00:00
What it does:
- Create an event, share a link, everyone marks their availability
- Choose between day-only or day + time slot selection
- Results are ranked automatically — best dates surface instantly
- Participants who can't make it can mark themselves as "not available"
- Admins can edit dates and time ranges after creation
- No sign-up, no accounts, no limits — just a shareable link
by whh | 2026-02-11 14:20:36+00:00
I've used it for a couple of hours. A few observations:

- It's nice to see conversation context alongside the change itself.
- I wasn't able to see Claude Code utilise past commit context in understanding code.
- It's a tad unclear (and possible unreliable) in what is called 'checkpointing'.
- It mucked up my commit messages by replacing the first line with a sort of AI request title or similar.

Sadly, because of the last point (we use semantic release and git-cz) I've had to uninstall it.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-11 14:20:38+00:00
“However, a source familiar with the restriction who was briefed by the FAA tells CNN’s Pete Muntean the sweeping flight ban was driven by military operations from nearby Biggs Army Airfield, located on Fort Bliss. Drones, helicopters and other aircraft operate from the facility. The source said the FAA acted after the Department of Defense could not assure the safety of civilian aircraft in the area.”

Pete Kegbreath at it again, basically. The FAA had to act in response.
by 1313ed01 | 2026-02-11 14:20:56+00:00
I bottom-post if the other person do so first. That almost never happens these days. I guess if too many do it like that then no one will be the first to bottom-post, even when both would prefer that. Not sure what a good solution would be that did not involve confusing random other people with bottom-posts.

I remember around the time top-posting had taken over, someone on a mailing list being upset about having their mail cut up and quoted inline by someone else. Can imagine today many might react like that if they ever encounter nicely formatted mail replies.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-11 14:21:09+00:00
Both Apple and Google Maps greatly underestimate travel times on anything other than perfectly straight motorways. If you've never driven here before you can at least double their estimate, easily - and that assumes you are at least reasonably proficient at driving on the left at all.

The A9 is the most dangerous road in Europe, and you'll be doing 50mph at most along that because there's nowhere to overtake and that's the maximum speed trucks can go at, so you'll end up in a queue behind a truck.

Depending on the route you take, you might go through Inverness, in which case once you get off the A9 most of the road you'll be on looks like this, for about 120 miles: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9L5cSejT1eyAVR2E7

Once you get to Dalwhinnie you can turn off the A9 and start heading across to the A82, which is really pretty especially in the snow but will be mostly road like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qv1L21jk59EEAHZs9

Notice how it's not actually wide enough for two cars? But that's still a 60mph road, although you'd be lucky to be getting up to more than about 50mph.

And you'll be driving on the wrong side of the road, in an unfamiliar car, with a manual gearbox.

Good luck.
by mikrl | 2026-02-11 14:21:43+00:00
>I know it doesn't make financial sense to self-host given how cheap OSS inference APIs are now

You can calculate the exact cost of home inference, given you know your hardware and can measure electrical consumption and compare it to your bill.

I have no idea what cloud inference in aggregate actually costs, whether it’s profitable or a VC infused loss leader that will spike in price later.

That’s why I’m using cloud inference now to build out my local stack.
by rkagerer | 2026-02-11 14:22:06+00:00
My first reaction is, what a disaster. More of the web becomes gated behind sacrificing your privacy to companies who by and large don't give a damn about it.

Then I remembered when I was a teen, thought about how I'd have reacted to this, and realized over the long term youth will rediscover old-school tools like IRC or migrate to new alternatives outside the claws of big corps and government.

And I felt a little better about the future of human civilization.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-11 14:22:15+00:00
Respect for not selling out. I have to admit though... If I had a browser extension and someone suddenly offered me a million dollars for it, I think I would take it.

This realization made me distrust any system where it is even possible to sell out. In order for a system to be trustworthy, it must be impossible for this sort of exploitation to ever occur, no matter how much money they put on the table.
by mythz | 2026-02-11 14:22:16+00:00
We're getting high quality drops for the perfect trifecta of leading models from the Chinese models with the same day release of GLM-5 and Kimi K2.5 1T model drop a few days ago.

Despite having many great options, I end up making use of all 3. MiniMax is my fast workhorse for tool calling and getting quick responses. GLM for all coding tasks whilst Kimi K2.5 1T model has deep knowledge for everything else, with an Opus-level command of the english language. There's been many times where I've preferred Kimi K2.5 over Opus.
by neya | 2026-02-11 14:22:19+00:00
Nobody is going to even do anything about SimilarWeb for pulling this off?
My understanding from the article is that they're actively behind this.

When I was the CTO in a previous role, SimilarWeb approached us. I read through the code snippet they gave us to inject onto our site. It was a sophisticated piece of borderline spyware that didn't care about anyone in the entire line of sight - including us. They not only were very persistent, they also had a fight with our management - for refusing to use their snippet. They wanted our data so bad (we had very high traffic at the time). All we wanted was decent analytics for reporting to senior management and Google had just fucked up with their GA4 migration practices. I switched them to Plausible.io and never looked back. It was the least I could do, we had to trade-off so many data points in comparison to GA, but still works flawlessly till date. Fuck SimilarWeb.