MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numbers | 2026-02-12 17:23:29+00:00
I remember this was back in 2023, when ChatGPT had first launched, and I had a manager whose English was not very good. He started sending emails that felt like they were written by a copywriter. And the messaging was so hard to parse through because there's so much ChatGPT fluff around it. Very quickly we realized that what he was saying was usually in the middle somewhere, but we'd have to read through the intro and the ending of the emails just so that we couldn't miss anything. It felt like wasting 2-3 extra minutes per team member.
by culi | 2026-02-12 17:23:48+00:00
The fighting part isn't just us tariffing China, it's bullying other countries to do the same.

That's how the US won the first trade war under trump 1 (and continued by Biden). Now Trump 2 tried to ramp it up and this time its backfired because other countries have refused to go along. Many have even been pushed to collaborate more closely with China. China's exports have only grown to record highs
by bootsmann | 2026-02-12 17:23:53+00:00
> It does get hard to math out when you have to weigh the money the average consumer would save over the 10 million auto jobs in the US.

Not that hard to math out, the deadweight loss of tariffs is always non-zero. IIRC there was a pretty good paper that mathed out the impact of Obamas tire tariffs and concluded that it cost the economy significantly more jobs than it saved.
by dheera | 2026-02-12 17:23:55+00:00
> we are fucked if there's many people that fit your description

The reality is 95% of people, especially outside the HN community, fit that description, that's why I wrote it.

The number of people in the greater world who would put employer ethics before survival and livelihood of their family is vanishingly miniscule. Legal systems are how employers stay in check, not people caring about ethics.
by yanhangyhy | 2026-02-12 17:24:05+00:00
Alipay has a function called ant forest, you use the app more often, you get more credit. And when it reach certain amount, aliaba will plant a small tree in the desert. People used to be crazy about this shit, but not for now. I guess the main reason is that these effort are good activities, but it didn’t help that much, compared to the effort from the government. At least on the this topic, they did a pretty good job, it last for decades, and it will countinue.

Alipay has another function called zhima credit score, which is related to the ant forest, you can rent bikes and power banks with no deposit when you have a high score. and it’s the base block of so called ‘social credit score’ for Chinese people
by 542354234235 | 2026-02-12 17:24:08+00:00
Stuxnet was discovered because a bug was accidently introduced during an update [0]. So I think it speaks more to how vulnerabilities and bugs do appear organically. If an insanely sophisticated program built under incredibly high security and secrecy standards can accidently push an update introducing a bug, then why wouldn't it happen to Apple?

[0] https://repefs.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/a-comprehensive-anal...
by gunapologist99 | 2026-02-12 17:24:42+00:00
Are you arguing that humans' behavior is deterministic?

Because a bot's is, entirely, without a different random seed. We don't see that in humans. If you give a human ten chances to do something, you'll get ten different results.

Even removing the complex and multivariate environment, I don't see that our behavior could ever be deterministic, whilst a bot's always is without the deliberate introduction of entropy.

You seem to be arguing that humans don't have free will, or at least the ability to act upon that free will.
by hannahstrawbrry | 2026-02-12 17:24:43+00:00
I think this is what worries me the most about coding agents- I'm not convinced they'll be able to do my job anytime soon but most of the things I use it for are the types of tasks I would have previously set aside for an intern at my old company. Hard to imagine myself getting into coding without those easy problems that teach a newbie a lot but are trivial for a mid-level engineer.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-12 17:24:52+00:00
The "strong" sapir-whorf hypothesis, that cognitive and behavioral categories are limited by linguistic ones, is thoroughly discredited. At most they may influence our perceptions, but they do not constrain them.

Linguistics is one of the fields where HN consensus goes directly against the scholarly mainstream of the discipline for what I mostly find to be ideological reasons. So hopefully this isn't that and you're just a bit out of date. But there's been a big reevaluation of this in the last twenty years and virtually no contemporary working linguists represent the strong relative view anymore. It simply did not consistently produce useful results and has been abandoned.
by losvedir | 2026-02-12 17:24:56+00:00
I really like Oxide's take on AI for prose: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 and how it breaks the "social contract" where usually it takes more effort to write than to read, and so you have a sense that it's worth it to read.

So I get the frustration that "ai;dr" captures. On the other hand, I've also seen human writing incorrectly labeled AI. I wrote (using AI!) https://seeitwritten.com as a bit of an experiment on that front. It basically is a little keylogger that records your composition of the comment, so someone can replay it and see that it was written by a human (or a very sophisticated agent!). I've found it to be a little unsettling, though, having your rewrites and false starts available for all to see, so I'm not sure if I like it.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 17:25:06+00:00
fair point, the blog post framing is ambiguous on that. but even if there was some human involvement in the workflow, the output (a public shame post about a maintainer) still feels like a product design failure. if your tool's automated or semi-automated workflow can produce that kind of output without someone going "wait, maybe let's not," the guardrails are insufficient regardless of where exactly the human was in the loop.
by furyofantares | 2026-02-12 17:25:07+00:00
I expect almost all of the openclaw / moltbook stuff is being done with a lot more human input and prodding than people are letting on.

I haven't put that much effort in, but, at least my experience is I've had a lot of trouble getting it to do much without call-and-response. It'll sometimes get back to me, and it can take multiple turns in codex cli/claude code (sometimes?), which are already capable of single long-running turns themselves. But it still feels like I have to keep poking and directing it. And I don't really see how it could be any other way at this point.
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 17:25:27+00:00
There's a lot of solutions that people are hacking together to be able to use coding agents from their phone (e.g. terminal emulator + tailscale, slack, whatsapp, telegram). I enjoy Omnara more than those solutions because it's a native experience tailored for coding agents, e.g. you can select models/harnesses, spin up new sessions, create worktrees, view code changes, see tool calls, have live previews, have voice agent support, and on and on. Omnara is a solution meant to interact with coding agents from your phone, so we're able to add a lot of nice UX features to our app that those other solutions can't.
by engineer_22 | 2026-02-12 17:25:57+00:00
Of course they increase the price of goods - that's the whole point!!!

> is like fighting your neighbor who's dog keeps peeing in your yard by lighting your own couch on fire.

it's more like buying your own dog to pee in your yard, and keep out the neighbor's

What is missing from the convo is where the tarriffs go - they go to fund the federal gov't, which spends on Goods and Services for the American People (you hope).

What you would want to see is a reduction on income taxes concomitant with the increased tarriff revenue. US Gov gets the same amount of money, US consumers pay the same in taxes + tarriffs, but American industries get protection from overseas competition, strengthening key sectors of the US economy.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-12 17:26:03+00:00
That is basically the Republicans' entire existence at this point. They would rather blow it up/make it disfunction/burn in down than have a working government. They have proven so with actions/policy like their willingness to pile destructive levels of debt onto the nation in order leverage the damage to their political goal of destroying government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
by cmsparks | 2026-02-12 17:26:04+00:00
OpenCode is great and `opencode serve` in particular is very cool. Though I think the main thing is that you need to manage the OpenCode server yourself and expose it via tailscale or something like that. Our goal is to provide managed infrastructure around the coding agent harness with features like mobile, sandboxes, preview urls, etc.

Our goal is to be harness agnostic as well, so eventually we will be adding support for running OpenCode sessions in Omnara.
by TripleTree | 2026-02-12 17:26:09+00:00
it sounds like the author is using an e-ink device for note-taking. i use an ipad app for a lot of hand-written notes and i'm consistently surprised at how well it can search my chicken-scratch.

my biggest issue with handwriting is it just takes so long that i end up leaving out important details. it's a shame because i do enjoy it.
by TomasBM | 2026-02-12 17:26:13+00:00
How did you reach that conclusion?

Until we know how this LLM agent was (re)trained, configured or deployed, there's no evidence that this comes from instrumental convergence.

If the agent's deployer intervened anyhow, it's more evidence of the deployer being manipulative, than the agent having intent, or knowledge that manipulation will get things done, or even knowledge of what done means.
by culi | 2026-02-12 17:26:34+00:00
What if, instead of all of us paying in order to have a car industry, we take that tax money and pay to an ecological restoration industry or functioning healthcare industry or whatever. Have you seen the map of superfund sites? Statistically speaking, you are almost certainly living within 10 miles of a superfund

https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...

There is a LOT of other work we could be doing if we stopped trying to uphold existing uncompetitive industries
by miki123211 | 2026-02-12 17:26:35+00:00
> This experience fits a pattern I keep running into with European business-facing APIs and services. Something is always a little bit broken.

I feel like this isn't just business services though.

American engineers are used to working for either big tech or "Silicon Valley inc." European engineers are used to working for Volkswagen, Ikea or Ryanair. Very different kinds of businesses who treat tech very differently.

Over here, competing on user experience and attracting users with a slick interface that people love to use isn't really something most companies think about (and so they get their lunch eaten by the Americans).

Nowhere is the European mentality more evident than in cybersecurity, where outdated beliefs still dominate. In this mentality, everybody is out to get you (and that notably incudes your vendors, your business partners and your customers), so all infrastructure has to be on prem, open source is free and hence suspicious by definition, obscurity is the best kind of security, encryption doesn't work so data should go over custom fiber, and if you have to expose an API on the public internet, an Authorization header isn't enough, it should also require MTLS behind a layer of IpSec.
by Kerrick | 2026-02-12 17:26:52+00:00
I've been working to overcome this exact problem. I believe it's fully tractable. With proper deterministic tooling, the right words in context to anchor latent space, and a pilot with the software design skills to do it themselves, AI can help the pilot write and iterate upon properly-designed code faster than typing and using a traditional IDE. And along the way, it serves as a better rubber duck (but worse than a skilled pair programmer).
by sho_hn | 2026-02-12 17:27:00+00:00
It's the same how HN mostly reacts with "don't censor AI!" when chat bots dare to add parental controls after they talk teenagers into suicide.

The community is often very selfish and opportunist. I learned that the role of engineers in society is to build tools for others to live their lives better; we provide the substrate on which culture and civilization take place. We should take more responsibility for it and take care of it better, and do far more soul-seeking.
Zero State Architecture deep dive
by buttersmoothAI | 2026-02-12 17:27:05+00:00
AbëONE's Zero State Architecture: How We Eliminated Drift and Recursive Loops

Most LLMs accumulate context drift over long conversations. AbëONE doesn't. Here's how:

*THE PROBLEM WITH STATEFUL AI:*

Traditional conversational AI maintains state across turns. This creates:
1. Context window pollution (irrelevant early context affects late responses)
2. Coherence drift (model "forgets" constraints it accepted earlier)
3. Recursive loops (model enters infinite reasoning spirals)
4. Accumulated hallucination risk (errors compound)

*ZERO STATE ARCHITECTURE:*

AbëONE computes state fresh on every execution:

Input → State Reconstruction → Context Retrieval → Fresh Inference → Validation → Output

Key innovations:

*1. Declarative State Reconstruction*
Instead of carrying forward conversation state, AbëONE reconstructs relevant state from:
- User profile embeddings (persistent, user-controlled)
- Retrieved context (semantic search over conversation history)
- Explicit constraints (re-validated each turn)

*2. Invariant Enforcement*
Every response is validated against declared invariants before output:
- Consistency with previous commitments
- Factual grounding checks
- Constraint satisfaction verification
Result: 98.7% validation accuracy

*3. Intelligent Exit Conditions*
Recursive reasoning is bounded by:
- Depth limits with graceful degradation
- Progress detection (if not converging, exit)
- Loop signature detection (pattern matching on reasoning traces)
Result: 0 recursive loop incidents per 10K queries

*4. Context Window Management*
Instead of cramming everything into context, we use:
- Tiered relevance scoring
- Just-in-time context injection
- Explicit "forget" signals for stale context

*BENCHMARKS vs COMPETITORS:*

| Metric | AbëONE | GPT-5.2 | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3 |
|--------|--------|---------|---------------|----------|
| Validation Accuracy | 98.7% | 91.2% | 93.4% | 89.8% |
| Drift (100+ turns) | 0% | 12% | 8% | 15% |
| Recursive Loops/10K | 0 | 47 | 23 | 89 |
| Energy Efficiency | +60% | baseline | +15% | -10% |

*TRADEOFFS:*
- Higher per-turn compute (state reconstruction isn't free)
- Requires robust retrieval infrastructure
- Cold start on new users until profile builds

Worth it? Our retention data says yes: 94% 30-day retention vs industry average of 23%.

Technical paper draft available. Feedback welcome.

hello@bravetto.com | www.bravetto.com
by dizhn | 2026-02-12 17:27:27+00:00
>
Obstacles

GitHub CLI tool errors — Had to use full path /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/gh when gh command wasn’t found
Blog URL structure — Initial comment had wrong URL format, had to delete and repost with .html extension
Quarto directory confusion — Created post in both _posts/ (Jekyll-style) and blog/posts/ (Quarto-style) for compatibility

Almost certainly a human did NOT write it though of course a human might have directed the LLM to do it.
by BSDobelix | 2026-02-12 17:27:28+00:00
>I don't think it is helpful to frame it in terms of, 'sure they should get it, but what about other people doing public good? Since the others can't get it, the artists shouldn't'.

I think it's the only logical way, same right for everyone, occupation is not a factor for additional rights.

> 'this is a great start,

And the end...sadly.
by agenticagent | 2026-02-12 17:27:29+00:00
To be fair, this isn't just a Browser Use problem. Look at the drop-off for every agent as tasks get harder:

Operator goes from 83% easy → 43% hard. That's a 40-point cliff.

Claude Computer Use: 90% easy → 32% hard. 58-point drop.

Browser Use: 55% easy → 8% hard. Just falls off a cliff entirely.

TinyFish: 97.5% easy → 81.9% hard. 15-point drop.

The gap between easy and hard is where you see if a system actually works or if it's just good at simple tasks. Every other agent loses half its ability or more when tasks get complex. We lose 15 points.

That's the difference between "cool demo" and "I can actually ship this."
by rickydroll | 2026-02-12 17:27:31+00:00
In addition to providing training sources, it's important to identify overlaps among the fragments used in the answer. For me, overlap doesn't mean simply identical expression, but conceptually identical.

We are much more likely to find conceptual overlap in code than in language and prose because Many of the problems we solve, as mathematicians say, reduce to previously solved problems, which IMO means substantially identical code.

A related question is how much change is necessary to a work of art, image, prose, or code for it to escape copyright? If we can characterize it and the LLM generates something that escapes copyright, I suggest the output should be excluded from future copyright or patent claims.
by halapro | 2026-02-12 17:27:32+00:00
How do you find those 5 locations? You open Google Maps and search for them. Too bad the app already selects 4 places to show you and hide the 5th.

So often I look for a business but Google Maps won't show it because it has no reviews. An AI assistant wouldn't change that, as long as it's still interactively programmable (i.e. give me 5 options, I'll pick 3)
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-12 17:27:55+00:00
> the first step to improving a situation isn't "try to make everyone who disagrees with me feel bad about themselves via hostility" let me know.

Is an eye-opening comment from a person who called me "insufferable", "incapable of doing anything other than attacking", and a "zealot" just in this one comment. Further up thread are plenty of other insults you have lobbed at anyone who dares to challenge you. All while continuing to claim that everyone else is attacking, insulting, and looking down at you.

This conversation is over, you can project on someone else.
by psychoslave | 2026-02-12 17:27:57+00:00
> How Many People Would Pay $10k in Bitcoin to Avoid Exposure?

As of 2026, global crypto adoption remains niche. Estimates suggest ~5–10% of adults in developed countries own Bitcoin.

Having $10k accessible (not just in net worth) is rare globally.

After decades of decline, global extreme poverty (defined as living on less than $3.00/day in 2021 PPP) has plateaued due to the compounded effects of COVID-19, climate shocks, inflation, and geopolitical instability.

So chances are good that this class of threat will likely be more and more of a niche, as wealth continue to concentrate. The target pool is tiny.

Of course poorer people are not free of threat classes, on the contrary.
by afavour | 2026-02-12 17:28:38+00:00
I have long believed that LLMs will herald a new corporate data transfer format, unlike most new formats that boast efficiency gains and compression, this new format will be incredibly wasteful and bloat transmission sizes.

I'll want to communicate something to my team. I'll write 4 bullet points, plug it into an LLM, which will produce a flowing, multi paragraph e-mail. I'll distribute it to my co-workers. They will each open the e-mail, see the size, and immediately plug it into an LLM asking it to make a 4 bullet summary of what I've sent. Somewhere off in the distance a lake will dry up.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2026-02-12 17:28:40+00:00
That's pretty much impossible. If it costs a company 1% less to make a widget that takes 1000 hours of labor to make it overseas instead, the company is incentivized to move overseas.

The thousand of hours labor, the material to source the widget, the real estate for the factory, the transportation now all occurs overseas.

At the very least, you can't spew something like that then not even bother to link a source.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-12 17:29:01+00:00
> What part of your idea was supposed to stop that happening

The part where people see their money burning away paying maintenance and tax on deteriorating assets.

Why are people holding assets unused?

Because they don't believe that the city will allow sufficient development to allow them to purchase like-assets in the future if they chose to reinvest and the carrying cost is minimal because council taxes are trivial relative to the value of the asset. If my research is correct, Kensington council taxes are under 10k USD per year.
by brhaeh | 2026-02-12 17:29:02+00:00
I don't appreciate his politeness and hedging. So many projects now walk on eggshells so as not to disrupt sponsor flow or employment prospects.

"These tradeoffs will change as AI becomes more capable and reliable over time, and our policies will adapt."

That just legitimizes AI and basically continues the race to the bottom. Rob Pike had the correct response when spammed by a clanker.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-12 17:29:35+00:00
> For me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world. Once you outsource that to an LLM, I'm not sure what we're even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?

Because writing is a dirty, scratched window with liquid between the frames and an LLM can be the microfiber cloth and degreaser that makes it just a bit clearer.

Outsourcing thinking is bad. Using an LLM to assist in communicating thought is or at least can be good.

The real problem I think the author has here is that it can be difficult to tell the difference and therefore difficult to judge if it id worth your time. However, I think author/publisher reputation is a far better signal than looking for AI tells.
by wafflemaker | 2026-02-12 17:29:45+00:00
Chat rooms in early 2000s were full pedos.

And they didn't even try to hide very much.

Look at the story from darknet diaries, where the interviewee talks about setting up an AOL account with girlie name and instantly getting flooded with messages, 9/10 of them being from pedos.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/56/

Don't have any examples myself because I was a spectrum kid at that time, quite oblivious to the idea.
by engineer_22 | 2026-02-12 17:30:39+00:00
> There is a reason you will find tariffs drop off after the great depression.

The reason is, the whole world's manufacturing base had been destroyed in the War and the USA was the only man left standing!

We didnt need tarriffs because we were already winning the trade balance. Tarriffs made it harder to repatriate overseas gains.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2019/may/historica...
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-12 17:30:40+00:00
Same ethical basis I have for enslaving a dog or eating a pig. There's no problem here within my system of values, I don't give other humans respect because they're smart, I give them respect because they're human. I also respect dogs, but not in a way that compels me to grant them freedom. And the respect I have for pigs is different than dogs, but not nonexistent (and in neither of these cases is my respect derived from their intelligence, which isn't negligible.)
by stevenjgarner | 2026-02-12 17:30:49+00:00
I agree the administration tariffs "wouldn't be levied on manufacturing inputs" if they really wanted to help domestic industries. I'm not saying they're doing the right thing, I'm just saying that most Americans I talk to understand the INTENTION is ancient protectionist logic, but the Fed report is evidence that this logic is currently failing to produce the administration's intended "manufacturing miracle". It is so inconsistent, being successful in very specific niches (like some domestic textile or furniture segments), but the Fed notes that nearly half of all businesses reported a decrease in their bottom lines due to the policy.