MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paganel | 2026-02-26 23:29:59+00:00
> When you have a break, you charge.

You cannot do that, because there will never be that many charging places around. Never. The situation is so bad now that there are barely enough places for trucks to get parking spots, let alone parking spots with electric charges. I'm talking about Europe, my brother is a truck driver (right now is on a ride to Morocco, he picked something up with his truck from Hungary), I know those stories about parking spots from him.
by hi_hi | 2026-02-26 23:30:04+00:00
I don't understand the fascination and focus on Vibe Coding.

Sure, you can do that, it's an option, but no serious engineering effort is being left entirely up to the AI.

Vibe coding is essentially the Jackson Pollock approach to software building. Throw a bunch of paint down, with very little control, and look, we have something novel.

It doesn't mean your going to replace all the ways of making art with paint throwing.

I'd love to start seeing more discussions about alternative approaches to working with AI. The recent Vinext article was great https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/. This seems to be "the way" for working with AI in a high stakes production environment, but what other ways are there.

I fear the focus on vibe coding is diluting and taking focus away from far better alternatives. Maybe because the narrative around those aren't quite so dramatic?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-26 23:30:31+00:00
He pushed the issue to an ultimatum because he is an unqualified drunk, and thinks that it's against the law for anyone to try and stop the US military from doing something they want to do. This isn't an isolated issue; he tried to get multiple US Senators prosecuted for making a PSA that servicemembers shouldn't follow illegal orders.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-26 23:30:35+00:00
Powering down unused physical RAM is absolutely a thing on some systems. For one thing, it's required if you ever want to support physical memory hotplug. The real issue however is that the gain from not doing DRAM refresh is clearly negligible: it's no more than the difference between putting a computer to sleep (ACPI S3), or putting a phone to sleep in airplane mode - and powering it off.
by ishandeveloper | 2026-02-26 23:30:50+00:00
haha, good question.

My co-founder and I met in high school, and we wanted the name to carry a sense of craft. Cardboard was always that material in school projects that was firm enough to hold structure but malleable enough to build almost anything out of. That balance of structure and flexibility felt like a good metaphor for what we're building.

Also we just thought it was a cool name and bought a bunch of domains... https://cardboard.mov is one of my favorites :)
by orwin | 2026-02-26 23:31:05+00:00
Yeah, they started with minorities, but they going against socialists/communists as loyalty tests, to close rank, and you will likely see violence against their own side shortly after they start putting political opponent in jail.

At first jail, where they release them after a day or two, then in warehouses converted into jail-hospitals, where people stay weeks, get treated, sometime lose teeth. Almost always syndicalists and KPD supporters, sometimes SPD local leaders, it was often political?

Oh sorry, you talked about the US?
by phtrivier | 2026-02-26 23:31:29+00:00
The USA were pretty clearly on the "better side" of conflicts in 1941-1945, during the Cold War (at least as far as Europe and the Marshall plan was concerned). In Koweït and central Europe during the 90s. You may even argue for Afghanistan post 9-11 (although the state building was botched.) in the 2000s. ISIS is a footnote in history because of US intervention (from Trump first term, of all things.) And Ukraine would not be against getting the support it had in 2022 back under Trump.

Does not mean that very bad things were not happening at the same time.

But it's definitely easier to find some "supportable" interventions from the US than, say, Russia or China.
by astrange | 2026-02-26 23:31:37+00:00
> to promote his product with the silent implication that LLMs actually ARE a path to AGI

That isn't implied. The thought process is a) if we invent AGI through some other method, we should still treat LLMs nicely because it's a credible commitment we'll treat the AGI well and b) having evidence in the pretraining data and on the internet that we treat LLMs well makes it easier to align new ones when training them.

Anyway, your argument seems to be that it's unfair that he has the opportunity to do something moral in public because it makes him look moral?
by ben_w | 2026-02-26 23:31:41+00:00
> They’re moaning about the fee because it will work

If by "work" you mean "the same company employs the same person just in an office in a different country"?

You do you, if so.

> Visas are supposed to be issued to the best of the best

If you want that. But then don't be surprised when such people look at you and say "nah".

> But we both know how easy that is to abuse.

No, we don't "both" know. I never tried to [ab]use it. Because I (like several of my friends who said "no" to US companies asking them to move to the US) never cared about moving to the US in the first place.

> The employers who hire cheap foreign labor to replace Americans at ordinary jobs won’t pay that fee; it’ll be cheaper to pay an American $120k than to pay an Indian $50k with the extra $100k application fee. That solves that problem in one easy stroke.

$100k is just for H-1B, which is specifically work, and was already capped in number.

The, e.g. H-2A visa has a fee of apparently $460 (not thousand, just four sixty). That's the one for "temporary agricultural work", which is very much not "the best of the best".
by skeeter2020 | 2026-02-26 23:31:49+00:00
in a nutshell: AI - even if transformative and in the future a widely used general-purpose technology - is normal technology. I reject the technological determinism that is being fed to us, especially the idea that AI itself is an agent in defining its own future. I think adoption and the post-adoption spread will be slow & uncertain (relative to the current messaging) regardless of where it ultimately takes us. I think the absolute societal impact is grossly overstated, and the roles of institutions shaping the path underestimated or ignored.
by jibal | 2026-02-26 23:32:25+00:00
No, the shell author needed some way to distinguish file descriptor 1 from a file named "1" (note that 2>1 means to write stderr to the file named "1"), and '&' was one of the few available characters. It's not the address of anything.

To be consistent, it would be &2>&1, but that makes it more verbose than necessary and actually means something else -- the first & means that the command before it runs asynchronously.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-26 23:32:27+00:00
Per NOAA and USGS, ~20 million liters of crude oil naturally seeps into that part of the California ocean each year. That is more crude oil each year than the worst oil spill in California history[0].

You are projecting your biases. There was no "drilling is good for the environment" narrative. I was recounting an interesting fact about the environment there.

Many of these seeps are under considerable pressure as there is substantial natural gas mixed in. The seepage rate of each has been mapped and studied for many decades. It has long been observed that the introduction of drilling appears to substantially reduced the seepage rate at many of these underwater sites. Drilling wells significantly reduces natural pressure in these reservoirs, likely leading to the observed reductions in seepage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill
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by arithmosdev | 2026-02-26 23:32:49+00:00
5 numbers, 16 targets. Build expressions using +, −, ×, ÷, () to hit each one. Numbers can only be used once per expression.

At the end of the day, you see how your solutions compare to everyone else's. Finding a rare solution is the fun part.

15 minutes of math beats 15 minutes of doomscrolling, especially for the kids.

Happy to answer questions.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-26 23:32:57+00:00
"Dumb beyond belief" doesn't perform at the gold-medal level at IMO.

And how would you have changed your decisions in those last 10 years if you did?

I'd have dropped everything else I was doing and started learning about neural nets -- a technology that, for the previous couple of decades, I'd understood to be a pointless dead end.

As for Go, the defeat of Lee Sedol caught my attention in part because a friend and colleague, one of the smartest people I've ever worked with, had spent a lot of time working on Go-playing AI as a hobby. He was strongly convinced that a computer program would never reach the top levels of play, at least not during our careers/lifetimes. The fact that he'd turned out to be wrong about that was unnerving, and it should have done more than "catch my attention," but it didn't.

Today, my graphics card can outdo me at any number of aspects of my profession, and that's more interesting (to me) than anything I've actually done.

...except a 5 year old can actually retain information for more than a brief conversation.

Like I said: it's a good time to start paying attention. Start taking notes, so to speak, like the models are doing now.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-26 23:33:00+00:00
In isolation, I think it's cute and silly - something to write about in a blog, have a chuckle about, and to have a nice sort of gimmick/ceremony within the company. Maybe a few data points towards studying or keeping track of how the model writing style changes over time. Nothing wrong with that.

> delusions of people who ramble about model consciousness

On one hand, it's interesting how the technology has advanced to where it essentially passes the Turing Test, often just because of how much people choose to anthromorphize it. Sadly, putting that in context, yeah, that's a bit unfortunate too, given how some of those interactions become unhealthy.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-26 23:33:01+00:00
Yeah that's another rub. The current price is basically there in the hopes that in the future they can find revenue streams to maintain their current pace.

But even if the big companies ultimately go belly up, I think the open models are good enough that we'll likely see pretty cheap AI available for a while, even if it's not as good as the STOA when the bankruptcies roll through.
by spartanatreyu | 2026-02-26 23:33:19+00:00
You definitely need a gif or apng file showing it's use in the github readme.

And a link to an asciicinema would help a lot too.

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Also, I'm not sure how useful the side-by-side view is.

The second example (https://github.com/flamestro/deff/blob/main/docs/example_02....) is confusing.

The left side has lines 1365-1371 having the same code as lines 1374-1380 on the right side, yet they're not aligned with each other.

Most diff views would put padding between lines 1364-1365 on the left side so lines 1365-1371 are aligned with 1374-1380 on the right side.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-26 23:33:28+00:00
> That's now. Right now, the tooling exists so that for >80% of software devs, 80% of the code they produce could be created by AI rather than by hand.

Technically 100% of the code they could produce could be created by a ton of very specific AI prompts. At that level of control it would be slower than typing the code out though.

Just throwing out random numbers like this is complete nonsense since there's about a million factors which determine the effectiveness of an LLM at generating code for a specific use case. And it also depends on what you consider producing by hand versus LLM output. Etc.
by madrox | 2026-02-26 23:33:35+00:00
I got my first tech job in 2001. I've been doing this a while and ridden all the waves.

There are two kinds of waves. The ones that don't require collective belief in them to succeed, and those that do.

The latter are kinds like crypto and social media. The former is mobile...and AI.

If no one else in the world had access to AI except me, I would appear superhuman to everyone in the world. People would see my level of output and be utterly shocked at how I can do so much so quickly. It doesn't matter if others don't use AI for me to appreciate AI. In fact, the more other people don't use AI, the better it works out for me.

I'm sympathetic to people who feel like they are against it on principle because scummy influencers are talking about it, but I don't think they're doing themselves any favors.
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by arctic-true | 2026-02-26 23:33:54+00:00
I am much more interested in how headcounts compare to 2019 than to 2025 (let alone 2022). Certainly, this is not a comfort to anyone who is losing their job. But I don’t remember anyone panicking about an unemployment crisis pre-pandemic. A lot of people are getting their lottery ticket taken away, which is less than ideal, but we’ve got a long way to go before breadlines.
by Dig1t | 2026-02-26 23:34:10+00:00
Again, very little engagement on ideas, but full paragraphs of derangement about "white supremacy" and "racism". Nobody cares man, you spent the last 10 years calling everything you disagreed with racism and now those words mean nothing.

>Go fuck up Texas if you like.

Indeed, Texas is taking a net inflow of builders and entrepreneurs, California has a net outflow. The state is booming and the future is being built in Texas. The most advanced rocket in the world, something that puts governments to shame, is being built there. Massive semiconductor manufacturing plants, electric cars, financial companies, tons of new housing (look at Austin, 25% price reduction because of new supply in recent years), all happening there.

But I really do think that your train of thought is sort of misanthropic. Anti-progress, anti-science, and just generally being "anti-building" does not play out well in the long term. I supposed it's a lesson that generations have to re-learn.
by helaoban | 2026-02-26 23:34:21+00:00
All of these problems are downstream of the Congress having thoroughly abdicated its powers to the executive.

The military should be reigned in at the legislative level, by constraining what it can and cannot do under law. Popular action is the only way to make that happen. Energy directed anywhere else is a waste.

Private corporations should never be allowed to dictate how the military acts. Such a thought would be unbearable if it weren't laughably impossible. The technology can just be requisitioned, there is nothing a corporation or a private individual can do about that. Or the models could be developed internally, after having requisitioned the data centers.

To watch CEOs of private corporations being mythologized for something that a) they should never be able to do and b) are incapable of doing is a testament to how distorted our picture of reality has become.
by sadeshmukh | 2026-02-26 23:34:23+00:00
How would two neutral labels sound? There's something somewhat confrontational about "friend/foe" and those dynamics seem to worsen discussion. At the least, it should auto hide "foes", since predisposing people to be against a comment before reading it isn't ideal. Neutral labels, like "apple/orange", with slight connotations could be interesting. Of course, this kills networks, but I'd question if that's even a good idea in the first place.
by edent | 2026-02-26 23:34:30+00:00
Yes. And, again, they look amazing and make you feel like you're 10x.

But then I look at the code quality, hideous mistakes, blatant footguns, and misunderstood requirements and realise it is all a sham.

I know, I know. I'm holding it wrong. I need to use another model. I have to write a different Soul.md. I need to have true faith. Just one more pull on the slot machine, that'll fix it.
by dabockster | 2026-02-26 23:34:42+00:00
In the US, we have the ability to either confirm or change a significant chunk of our Federal government roughly every two years via the House of Representatives. The argument here is that we, theoretically, could collectively elect people that are hostile to domestic mass surveillance into the House of Representatives (and other places if able) and remove pro-surveillance incumbents from power on this two year cycle.

The reasons this hasn't happened yet are many and often vary by personal opinion. My top two are:

1) Lack of term limits across all Federal branches

and

2) A general lack of digital literacy across all Federal branches

I mean, if the people who are supposed to be regulating this stuff ask Mark Zuckerberg how to send an email, for example, then how the heck are they supposed to say no to the well dressed government contractor offering a magical black box computer solution to the fear of domestic terrorism (regardless of if its actually occurring or not)?
by misswaterfairy | 2026-02-26 23:35:00+00:00
The irony being that 'Jia Tan' went out of their way to ensure the backdoor was very well obfuscated, to the point it inadvertently caused bugs and slight, but noticeable, performance issues.

One wonders whether the xz backdoor would have been discovered if slightly less obfuscation was used.

The whole xz incident is a pretty strong argument to:

a) change practice from including binary (opaque) test files themselves to human-readable scripts and tooling that build test files on-demand,

b) raise suspicion of any binaries included in open source projects, and

c) create much more scrutiny around dependencies of 'highly scrutinised' packages like OpenSSH.

It's a shame that there isn't a foundation (that I'm aware of) that can donate time and effort of vetted developers to foundational open source projects like xz.
by brendyn | 2026-02-26 23:35:15+00:00
I was trying to upload a 300mb video via the local police's web interface, a very important matter. I had to set my phone screen to stay on for 30 minutes and then leave the web browser open without touching it. Disabling all power saving measures makes not difference. This was the only way I could get it to finish uploading. I'm on a pixel 8 pro with grapheneos. Same thing in both Firefox and vanadium. I don't think it runs out of ram, the system is just too trigger happy. The battery still doesn't last all day anyway.
by probably_wrong | 2026-02-26 23:35:26+00:00
I have read the whole thing but I nonetheless want to focus on the second paragraph:

> Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War

This should be a "have you noticed that the caps on our hats have skulls on it?" moment [1]. Even if one argues that the sentence should not be read literally (that is, that it's not literal war we're talking about), the only reason for calling it "Department of War" and "warfighters" instead of "Department of Defense" and "soldiers" is to gain Trump's favor, a man who dodged the draft, called soldiers "losers", and has been threatening to invade an ally for quite some time.

There is no such a thing as a half-deal with the devil. If Anthropic wants to make money out of AI misclassifying civilians as military targets (or, as it has happened, by identifying which one residential building should be collapsed on top of a single military target, civilians be damned) good for them, but to argue that this is only okay as long as said civilians are brown is not the moral stance they think it is.

Disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
by kazinator | 2026-02-26 23:35:38+00:00
It means redirect file descriptor 2 to the same destination as file descriptor 1.

Which actually means that an undelrying dup2 operation happens in this direction:

2 <- 1 // dup2(2, 1)

The file description at [1] is duplicated into [2], thereby [2] points to the same object. Anything written to stderr goes to the same device that stdout is sending to.

The notation follows I/O redirections: cmd > file actually means that a descriptor [n] is first created for the open file, and then that descriptor's decription is duplicated into [1]:

n <- open("file", O_RDONLY)
1 <- n
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-26 23:36:08+00:00
I found this an interesting question and did some research out of curiosity

[Full credits to wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Division (The company behind what's gonna be essentially StarOffice/Later OpenOffice/Libreoffice given Libreoffice is a fork of OpenOffice)

Star Division was a German software company best known for developing StarOffice, a proprietary office suite. The company was founded in 1985 by 16-year-old Marco Börries in Lüneburg, and initially operated as a small startup. Its first product was StarWriter, a word processor that later evolved into the StarOffice suite.

Their number of employees by the late 1997/1990's from the wiki article suggests
170. They/StarOffice achieved over 25 million sales worldwide and held an estimated 25% share of the office suite market in Germany by the late 1990s

There aren't many true MSword alternatives for what its worth but I found a gnome project which is interesting from alternativeto https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord/-/project_members

There seem to be 5 main members (I am not counting the Gitlab Admin and administrator)

Interestingly, If I remember correctly, I saw Alexandar Franke in here, I have actually talked to alexandar franke a long time ago on matrix back when I used to use fractal. It was definitely a fun surprise to see him in this project as well.

Aside from that, I think the problem with MS word to me feels like it tried to copy the features of previous word processors including quirks and now anything which wants to be MS word competitor is sometimes forced to copy these quirks as well which to me feels like the stressful cause for the reason why we don't see too many new approaches within this space (in my limited opinion)
by sealeck | 2026-02-26 23:36:31+00:00
> I reckon this move is related to bitcoin doing poorly. A LOT of their revenue is bitcoin related and I reckon they realized they're going to have an absolute stinker of a Q1 '26 result...

I had to look this up - in the last 12 months total revenue was ~24 billion of which ~8.5 billion was from the Bitcoin "ecosystem"! Truly bizzare to stake your company on this...

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001512673/55ca61a...