MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by w4yai | 2026-02-05 02:27:05+00:00
Totally possible and we can already do it ! Simply put, just set the temperature to 0 and reuse the same seed. But it's just not what people really want, and providers are reluctant because they cost up to 5x more to generate.
It's also not 100% non-deterministic, because cloud providers don't run on the same hardware, with the same conditions required for producing the same output. So, in practice, not so good, but in theory if you need it and can afford it, you can.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-05 02:27:15+00:00
There were certain commands that worked just fine. But they, in Apple's way, required you to "discover" what worked and what didn't with no hints, and then there were illogical gaps like "this grouping should have three obvious options, but you can only do one via Siri".

And then some of its misinterpretations were hilariously bad.

Even now, I get at a technical level that CarPlay and Siri might be separate "apps" (although CarPlay really seems like it should be a service), and as such, might have separate permissions but then you have the comical scenario of:

Being in your car, CarPlay is running and actively navigating you somewhere, and you press your steering wheel voice control button. "Give me directions to the nearest Starbucks" and Siri dutifully replies, "Sorry, I don't know where you are."
by edoceo | 2026-02-05 02:28:55+00:00
On prudent choices: one thing I'm surprised about is that LLMs are showing me libraries and tools that I'd not found via search.

A boring one from today was about select, datalist or some custome element (which LLM can prototype) or some JS libs. Good breakdown; links to playgrounds, rough mocks so team could kick tires. It raises points the team had and had counterpoint to help drive decisions.
by anon373839 | 2026-02-05 02:29:05+00:00
It's true that open models are a half-step behind the frontier, but I can't say that I've seen "sheer intelligence" from the models you mentioned. Just a couple of days ago Gemini 3 Pro was happily writing naive graph traversal code without any cycle detection or safety measures. If nothing else, I would have thought these models could nail basic algorithms by now?
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-05 02:30:04+00:00
> Basically tells you have to make various dishes saying without specific amounts and just going more on feel and what tastes good.

This is how my mom taught me to cook, and she decided (unilaterally I assume) that it was the definition of gourmet cooking. I went a lot of years thinking that was the literal definition, ha. Though in retrospect, it is not 100% wrong, and I don't think she was joking when she said it.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-05 02:30:24+00:00
> After an initial investigation, authorities believe the lab found in Las Vegas has possible ties to Jia Bei Zhu, who was arrested in 2023 for failing to obtain the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits for a biolab in Reedley, Calif., according to The Associated Press.

> Investigators also located “pathogen-labeled containers” with labels in English and Mandarin that read “dengue fever,” “HIV” and “malaria,” along with 1,000 mice, according to a federal report from the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
by belviewreview | 2026-02-05 02:30:31+00:00
A couple of questions.

(1) can you point to some large important positive uses of Bitcoin at present, or are you just saying that at some point in the future we will see them?

(2) are you saying all the bad things like Ponzi scams, hacking, drug money monitoring, buying csam and ransomware, have stopped, or that at some point in the future they will?
by JimDabell | 2026-02-05 02:31:20+00:00
Ten years from now, the agent layer will be the interface the majority of people use a computer through. Operating systems will become more agentic and absorb the application layer while platforms like Claude Cowork will try to become the omniapp. They’ll meet in the middle and it will be like Microsoft trying to fight Netscape’s view of the web as the omniapp all over again.

Apple will either capitalise on this by making their operating systems more agentic, or they will be reduced to nothing more than a hardware and media vendor.
by artahian | 2026-02-05 02:31:34+00:00
Yeah that same experience at our previous startup was one of the main reasons why we started Modelence. We got to a point where we had a dedicated 3-4 cloud platform engineers (out of the 20 engineers total) working full time only on things like observability, alerts, performance, cloud deployments, etc, none of which was specific to our product.

And when you take a step back and think for a moment, it just doesn't make sense that you have to run a whole separate team for something that's pretty much reusable across products.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-05 02:32:35+00:00
It's a product that gives system administrators a power trip. Imagine you control every capability of an AI and you're not qualified to have engineered it. You would give more access to your favorite departments, projects, and coworkers while keeping the defaults as restrictive as possible. I've seen this happen in real time across many different companies. I've known people who were reported to HR by them for using HuggingFace.
by jfengel | 2026-02-05 02:33:20+00:00
What changed is the number of people who decided they were ok with dismantling institutions. That grew by about 7 million, who voted for the opponent in 2020 but stayed home in 2024.

So perhaps the number of people who wanted institutions dismantled remained the same. But the will of the people as a whole changed sharply, mostly because of people who decided it wasn't worth the effort to oppose it.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-05 02:33:23+00:00
Unless you overdose, it's not poison for you. Ask your medical doctor anyway.

From https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-ivermectin

> It acts most strongly on glutamate-gated chloride channels, which vertebrates don't even have.

They are like little holes in the wall of the cell of worms that can be opened and closed, and ivermectin locks them in the open position. A much better and more technical explanation https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/191
by b1temy | 2026-02-05 02:33:46+00:00
> the faded colors, limited palette along with the dithering really grew on me

I wonder if the similarity of a faded photo (like a faded polaroid) might have helped with this, especially if already has memories and some similar photos.

I have not used a e-ink tablet in a long time (since the Kobo Glo), but since I've stopped reading fiction, I do not really see the allure of devices for myself. They're far too expensive to use as an alternative to a notebook, screens as usually too small to read technical non-fiction textbooks (Think, PDFs instead of EPUBs), and if I wanted to look at media with colors, I do not think most current color e-ink displays are good enough for a pleasing experience. I think, like the author said, it is nice to use a digital photo frame that does not need to be recharged often and can easily swap out the photos.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-05 02:33:55+00:00
OTOH, I was hired by an enterprise that was many months into a giant backend rewrite. After wrapping my head around the many plans, I realized they were rewriting Django, badly. One weekend I prototyped the whole thing… in Django. It worked. It met the specs. It was a CRUD app with a REST API.

I came in to work Monday morning, showed it off, and inadvertently triggered a firestorm. Later my boss told me not to do that again because it caused havoc with schedules and such.

So I quit and found a better job. Sometimes the new guy can make a better version themselves over the weekend, not because they’re a supergenius, but because they’re not hampered by 47 teams all trying to get their stamp on the project.

(In before “prime example of overconfidence!”: feel free to doubt. It was a CRUD app with a handful of models on a PostgreSQL backend. They were writing a new Python web framework to serve it, complete with their own ORM and forms library and validation library. Not because the existing ones wouldn’t work, mind you, but more out of not realizing that all these problems were already sufficiently solved for their requirements.)
by bborud | 2026-02-05 02:34:10+00:00
Here’s a key question most people don’t actually ask: do you need RDS? If you’re on AWS the answer is fairly simple because it boils down to what IO capacity you are willing to pay for. Decent performance will cost you so you might as well pay the premium and have AWS manage it too.

But if you have bare metal with fast disk drives, everything changes. You can get decent performance at a lower price in exchange for taking on a bit more responsibility. So then the question becomes how much of a burden it is to manage what is essentially just another application.

AWS doesn’t just rent computers, it rents relief from responsibility, and prices raw performance to make that trade feel inevitable.

Most people do not operate services that cannot bear very occasional downtime. But they have been conditioned to think they do. Or to not consider other factors that influence their actual downtime.

For instance: we ran a service that in itself achieved 99.99% uptime (allowing about 52 minutes of downtime per year). We even survived a big AWS outage that took out almost everyone else because we had as much redundancy as we could afford. However, the service depended completely on a system totally outside our control that would, on average have multiple outages every day (well usually at night, but not always). Ranging from 30 second blips to an hour. Meaning that the customers would have to deal with this anyway. No matter how stable our systems were.

And yet, for years we obsessed about uptime needlessly. Our customers didn’t care. They had to deal with the unreliability of the upstream system anyway. It didn’t cost us that much money, but it did make everything more complex.

Now, back to the question: do you need RDS? When was the last time you set up and ran Postgres? When was the last time you set up replication and live backups? How hard was it the first time? How hard was it to repeat after doing it once?

If you are already on bare metal servers you may want to at least try to set up Postgres a few times and track cost in terms of time, money and complexity. Because if you use RDS, chances are it isn’t the only thing you are managing in the cloud.
by moderation | 2026-02-05 02:35:33+00:00
> "I'm very interested in the idea of a piece of music being a place to think," Richter explained, adding that he had written Daylight as a response to the 2003 Iraq War. [0]

0. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/796801746/max-richter-tiny-de...
by Nition | 2026-02-05 02:35:49+00:00
They could agree to some actual significant negative consequence to running ads. e.g. They could put a clause in the subscription signup process that says if they ever run ads - even if it's only for free accounts - then you get all of the money you've spent back.

Of course I realise they would never do something like that. Buy why not? Well, because they might decide they want to run ads...
by oidar | 2026-02-05 02:35:53+00:00
I think you are right. In fact, if were a regular office worker today, a Claude subscription could possibly be the only piece of software you might need to open for days in a row to be productive. You can check messages, send messages, modify documents, create documents, do research, and so on. You could even have it check on news and forums for you (if they could be crawled that is).
by maysunyoung | 2026-02-05 02:35:56+00:00
Pixwit.ai is a cutting-edge AI-powered platform that enables users to easily create high-quality videos from text, images, and even avatars. Whether you're a content creator, marketer, educator, or business owner, Pixwit makes video production effortless, offering tools like text-to-video, image-to-video, AI avatars, and long-form video creation — all in one place
by andai | 2026-02-05 02:36:09+00:00
Spec is too low level in my experience. The graph continues far further to the left.

I tried doing clean room reimplementations from specs, and just ended up with even worse garbage. Cause it kept all the original garbage and bloated it further!

Giving it a description of what you're actually trying to do works way better. Then it finds the most elegant solution to the problem, both in terms of the code and the UI design.
by noduerme | 2026-02-05 02:36:17+00:00
My career occupies a weird middle ground where, for 20 years or so, I've catered to smaller businesses that need bespoke solutions (because the SaaS available doesn't conform well to their business logic), but don't have the scale or desire to build and maintain software in-house. Sometimes these are slapped together in a weekend, if that's all that's needed. But in most cases they still become ongoing improvement and maintenance projects for me.

This niche position has had some interesting ramifications for them and for me. They clearly incur a lot of technical debt once their business relies on bespoke software. On the other hand, they own the software and can get an immediate response or new feature or upgrade from me, limited only by my time. And in the end, this ends up saving them time and money. It gives me a permanent and unending flow of work. But if I die, they're pretty screwed.

One reason I don't vibe code things even now, even simple components that could easily be vibe coded, is that I remember and know where everything is, every function or line of code that might be causing issues, because I wrote it myself. I know right away where to look for a query that might be throwing errors after a database upgrade, for instance.

As a manager I assume you would probably not want to go down the road of hiring someone like that, but for companies of a certain size it's an acceptable compromise. However, I wouldn't want to hire someone like that myself unless they were extremely reliable and didn't rely on AI to write any of their code.
by anon373839 | 2026-02-05 02:36:39+00:00
Exactly. Apple operates at a scale where it's very difficult to deploy this technology for its sexy applications. The tech is simply too broken and flawed at this point. (Whatever Apple does deploy, you can bet it will be heavily guardrailed.) With ~2.5 billion devices in active use, they can't take the Tesla approach of letting AI drive cars into fire trucks.
by dcreater | 2026-02-05 02:37:32+00:00
This is Yellow Pages type thinking in the age of the internet. No one is going to own an agentic layer (list any of the multitude of platforms already irrelevant like OpenAI Agent SDK, Google A2A) . No one is going to own a new app store (GPTs are already dead). No one is going to foundation models (FOSS models are extremely capable today). No one is going to own inference (Data centers will never be as cost effective as that old MacBook collecting dust that is plenty capable of running a 1B model that can compete with ChatGPT 3.5 and all the use cases that it already was good at like writing high school essays, recipes etc.) The only thing that is sticking is Markdown (SKILLS.md, AGENTS.md)

This is because the simple reality of this new technology is that this is not the local maxima. Any supposed wall you attempt to put up will fail - real estate website closes its API? Fine, a CUA+VLM will make it trivial to navigate/extract/use. We will finally get back to the right solution of protocols over platforms, file over app, local over cloud or you know the way things were when tech was good.

P.S: You should immediately call BS when you see outrageous and patently untrue claims like "Mac minis are sold out all over.." - I checked my Best Buy in the heart of SF and they have stock. Or "that its all over Reddit, HN" - the only thing that is all over Reddit is unanimous derision towards OpenClaw and its security nightmares.

Utterly hate the old world mentality in this post. Looked up the author and ofcourse, he's from VC.
by fouc | 2026-02-05 02:38:10+00:00
If we squint our eyes we can vaguely consider that at this point, university is on the path of becoming a mere extension of the regular k-12 education system.

In that case, we can simplify things by applying the same educational standards across the entirety of the k-16 system.

No double standards allowed!

Joking aside, it would be worth restoring tenure and explicitly strengthening it as a safeguard against outrage-driven firings.

Expanding the definition of misconduct to equate controversial speech with a “hostile environment” is unconscionable.
by panzi | 2026-02-05 02:38:40+00:00
This is very cool!

Also means I can stop with my hobby project that was supposed to do the same. Wasn't far along and haven't worked on it in months anyway.

So I'll spend my time on another hobby project then that also solves something that is already solved 100 times over, but I don't like the other solutions (simple log monitoring including systemd and sending error emails if something is found).
by epsteingpt | 2026-02-05 02:39:08+00:00
Text from CEO email to impacted users in February for October Breach:
Hello,

I’m reaching out to let you know about a security incident that resulted in the email address and phone number from your Substack account being shared without your permission.

I’m incredibly sorry this happened. We take our responsibility to protect your data and your privacy seriously, and we came up short here.

What happened. On February 3rd, we identified evidence of a problem with our systems that allowed an unauthorized third party to access limited user data without permission, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other internal metadata. This data was accessed in October 2025. Importantly, credit card numbers, passwords, and financial information were not accessed.

What we are doing. We have fixed the problem with our system that allowed this to happen. We are conducting a full investigation, and are taking steps to improve our systems and processes to prevent this type of issue from happening in the future.

What you can do. We do not have evidence that this information is being misused, but we encourage you to take extra caution with any emails or text messages you receive that may be suspicious.

This sucks. I'm sorry. We will work very hard to make sure it does not happen again.

- Chris Best, CEO of Substack
by rayiner | 2026-02-05 02:39:44+00:00
If the U.S. could make a country rich by propping up its military Egypt and Pakistan and several others would be first world countries. Korea and Taiwan are rich for the same reason China is getting rich. The only difference is Korea and Taiwan followed a capitalist model starting in the 1950s and 1960s, while China didn’t start until the 1980s and 1990s.
by solid_fuel | 2026-02-05 02:40:06+00:00
> Better to face those groups head on than hide.

Cool, if you feel that way then go face them. Don't force professors to stand in the firing line in your stead.

> Not sharing course outlines is not going to help make this problem better.

It would make finding targets more difficult than just doing a ctrl-f, which obviously would make the problem better just by making it harder to find professors to harass.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-05 02:41:06+00:00
Direct comments on this site saying this is all just Israel and illegitimate is somehow 'not supportive'? Saying they support the Iranian regime. In what world are those comments not supporting the Iranian regime like I claimed?

I changed the search to Google since you couldn't.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Pro-Khamenei+banners+London+...

First search I did pulled up this recent Palestinian march with support for the Iranian regime. I guess that's also not being supportive of the Iranian regime in your mind?

I refer back to my 'people asking for this here don't seem to be in good faith'. I'm assuming you are just a troll at this point and I'm moving on.
by jagveerllc | 2026-02-05 02:42:44+00:00
Recently I've been obsessed with chaos theory, complex dynamic systems, and simulations. I spent some time over winter break building a platform that lets you write simulations in familiar Python syntax and run them in the browser using Rust + Web Assembly.

The idea is that users write Python DSL and build the simulation. The backend compiles this into an IR which is then run inside the Chaox Engine. The engine is written in Rust, and in addition to serving as a VM to run the user's simulation code, it provides implementations of common things you might need for simulations. The complete binary artifact (including the IR and the compiled engine) runs on the user's browser in a web worker. Events from inside the simulation are periodically transmitted from the web worker to main process allowing for streaming visualizations.

There is also cloud and plugin support although this is still a WIP and incompletely implemented. This allows you to create your own Rust plugins and use them in simulations. You can select dependencies for plugins (i.e. Onnx runtime, Candle) and specify requirements (i.e. CPU/RAM/GPU). Others can then use your plugin in their simulations. The purpose of this is to provide ergonomic handles for simulations to leverage advanced functionality. i.e. LLM plugin, and a user simulation which simulates a conversation between multiple people.

Would love to hear thoughts & feedback!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAl2jQrXQP4
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2026-02-05 02:43:47+00:00
I built my Prusa from a kit and was interested in the internals, but I was always annoyed I spent more time working on the printer sometimes than learning CAD.

And the Prusa is a real workhorse. I’ve only had a couple problems in almost a decade.

A lot of the hobby is people printing out useless things. But the it doesn’t even work for people who are interested in learning CAD. There’s no surprised everyone is turning to Bambu. So will I when my Prusa breaks or there’s a sale too hard to pass up.
by wtetzner | 2026-02-05 02:44:03+00:00
The analogy to assembly is wrong. Even in a high level language, you can read the code and reason about what it does.

What's the equivalent for an LLM? The string of prompts that non-deterministically generates code?

Also, if LLM output is analogous to assembly, then why is that what we're checking in to our source control?

LLMs don't seem to solve any of the problems I had before LLMs existed. I never worried about being able to generate a bunch of code quickly. The problem that needs to be solved is how to better write code that can be understood, and easily modified, with a high degree of confidence that it's correct, performs well, etc. Using LLMs for programming seems to do the opposite.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-02-05 02:44:08+00:00
I’m curious about this too. On my M1 Max MacBook I use the Handy app on macOS with Parakeet V3 and I get near instant transcription, accuracy slightly less than slower Whisper models, but that drop is immaterial when talking to CLI coding agents, which is where I find the most use for this.

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
by kittikitti | 2026-02-05 02:44:17+00:00
Why would anyone trust this? Even as a small child, I found their "Factbook" to be highly dubious. I bet MAGA hated the pages on Greenland, Venezuela, and Israel; even when presented with distorted facts. I'll give the CIA credit for taking it down before MIGA forced them to publish obvious propaganda. That's something Mossad is better suited for. These intelligence agencies have lost all of their reputation and credibility.
by fallous | 2026-02-05 02:45:03+00:00
The investor being the customer rather than actual paying customers was something I noticed occurring in the late 90s in the startup and tech world. Between that shift in focus and the influx of naive money the Dot Bomb was inevitable.

Sadly the fallout from the Dotcom era wasn't a rejection of the asinine Business 2.0 mindset but instead an infection that spread across the entirety of finance.