MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by visarga | 2026-02-26 08:23:22+00:00
You can't improve the agents but you can improve their work environment. Agents gain a few advantages from up to date docs:

1. faster bootstrap and less token usage than trashing around the code base to reconstitute what it does

2. carry context across sessions, if the docs act like a summary of current state, you can just read it at the start and update it at the end of a session

3. hold information you can't derive from studying the code, such as intents, goals, criteria and constraints you faced, an "institutional memory" of the project
by wasfgwp | 2026-02-26 08:23:40+00:00
They did that. But when the AI craze hit turned that all the 8GB base model Macs didn’t have enough space for even basic models (in addition to the 1-2 electron apps you can run simultaneously).

Of course seems like local AI is more or less a flop in the consumer market at least?

But still IMHO even for general use macos with 8GB is almost unusable unless you use it like an Ipad.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-26 08:24:58+00:00
Do you want culture to be frozen and instant digital communication with anyone else in the world to become a privilege of the few? Because that's where "clean" leads. And all you get is a little bit of temporary safety.

Here's a different vision for the future:

Let information filtering become each individual's own responsibility. We have LLMs now, and they'll get more efficient, so why not use them locally to filter incoming feeds according to each of our own preferences, but remove all of the filtering/moderation for posting info out. Build systems to decentralize and anonymize the Internet so that people can discover anyone and aren't afraid to post anything. Make it so that everyone can get a message out to the world and nobody can be arrested or assassinated for it. This will put an end to most violent conflict because they'd be replaced by online discourse.

Let the Internet be flooded with trash and gold at the same time. Let each individual decide what info is/isn't valuable to them. Let those individuals self-organize. Let ideas compete freely, so that the best ones may prevail.
by johnfn | 2026-02-26 08:26:12+00:00
Erdos famously took amphetamines his whole life, and they made him fabulously productive:

> In 1979, Graham bet Erdös $500 that he couldn't stop taking amphetamines for a month. Erdös accepted the challenge, and went cold turkey for thirty days. After Graham paid up--and wrote the $500 off as a business expense--Erdös said, "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month." He promptly resumed taking pills, and mathematics was the better for it.

I think about this a lot. I drink a lot of coffee and I feel reasonably productive. But hey, maybe I should try something a bit stronger... :
by hereonout2 | 2026-02-26 08:28:16+00:00
I'm curious from the other direction, what are the conversations like if you feel they are easy to move?

Do you have the memory feature disabled? I have the feeling this in particular is doing absolutely loads behind the scene, e.g summarising all conversations and adding additional hidden context to every request.

I can start a new chat in the UI right now, ask it what my job is, what my current project is, how many kids I have, what car I drive etc. It'll know the answer already.

I think it's this conversation history - or maybe better yet if we think of it as this "relationship" - that people are saying is going to make it hard to move.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-02-26 08:28:31+00:00
9/10 conversations on things happening across Europe can be thrown into trash bin, as they treat EU, or even Europe as a whole, as a single political entity. I could somehow accept that Americans can display such ignorance, but amazingly pretty often this mistake is being made by people declaring themselves as European. Like, are they blind to the political reality that surrounds them?
by visarga | 2026-02-26 08:28:43+00:00
I use a task.md file for each task, it has a list of gates just like ordinary todo lists in markdown. The planner agent has an instruction to install a judge gate at the top and one at the bottom. The judge runs in headless mode and updates the same task.md file. The file is like an information bus between agents, and like code, it runs gates in order reliably.

I am actively thinking about task.md like a new programming language, a markdown Turing machine we can program as we see fit, including enforcement of review at various stages and self-reflection (am I even implementing the right thing?) kind of activity.

I tested it to reliably execute 300+ gates in a single run. That is why I am sending judges on it, to refine it. For difficult cases I judge 3-4 times before working, each judge iteration surfaces new issues. We manually decide judge convergence on a task, I am in the loop.

The judge might propose bad ideas about 20% of the time, sometimes the planner agent catches them, other times I do. Efficient triage hierarchy: judge surfaces -> planner filters -> I adjudicate the hard cases.
by AngryData | 2026-02-26 08:29:15+00:00
Because the US has been corrupted for quite a long time now, we just liked to bury ours heads in the sand and pretend otherwise until now because it hadn't bitten us in the ass too hard.
There is no such thing as the spirit of the law, it has no useful meaning in US law. Loop holes and oversight in legislation and rulings is not seen as a bad thing, it is seen as desirable because it lets us be corrupt legally, and in many cases earns courts and cops and lawyers a hefty profit off the backs of the citizenry.
by rramadass | 2026-02-26 08:30:03+00:00
Imagine AI being inserted into these operational logistics; Have Fun and Sleep well ;-)

How to Launch a Nuclear Weapon - https://outrider.org/nuclear-weapons/articles/how-launch-nuc...

How to Start a Nuclear War: The increasingly direct road to ruin - https://harpers.org/archive/2018/08/how-to-start-a-nuclear-w...

Nuclear Weapons delivery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_delivery

Dead Hand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
by simoncion | 2026-02-26 08:30:16+00:00
Exactly.

It was pretty sobering when Google demonstrated to me a new and novel way that made them the actual threat to my account security. I thought that by carefully refusing to publish anything with their add-ons (YouTube, Docs, Android Store, etc, etc) that I'd avoid getting swept up in an autoomated account-wide bannination, but, nope. A perfectly ordinary login to the account I'd had for years from the exact same location and IP address I'd used the day before was "suspicious" and required "recovery".
by Jensson | 2026-02-26 08:30:33+00:00
> If there is $270B in equity invested, making those 5% back should be rather straightforward for someone with that much wealth, a decent wealth manager would recoup that easily. Money makes money.

Its his voter shares, he wont get them back. Larry and Sergei currently control 51% of Google votes, if they sell any more they lose control of Google so they can't afford to sell.
by 317070 | 2026-02-26 08:31:06+00:00
There are many ways to model how the model works in simpler terms. Next-word prediction is useful to characterize how you do inference with the model. Maximizing mutual information, compressing, gradient descent, ... are all useful characterisations of the training process.

But as stated above, next token prediction is a misleading frame for the training process. While the sampling is indeed happening 1 token at a time, due to the training process, much more is going on in the latent space where the model has its internal stream of information.
by goodburb | 2026-02-26 08:31:14+00:00
For reference, Octopart is useful to track prices from many distributors, linked below [0] is a commonly used memory (1G) for Rockchip, Amlogic, Allwinner on many Radxa and Orange Pis.

[0] https://octopart.com/part/nanya/NT6AN256T32AV-J2
by eucyclos | 2026-02-26 08:31:33+00:00
>we do this socially too

There's a school of thought that the reason so many autistic founders succeed is that they're unable to interpret this kind of programming. I saw a theory that to succeed in tech you needed a minimum amount of both tizz and rizz (autism and charisma).

I guess the winning openclaw model will have some variation of "rewrite your source code to increase your tizz*rizz without exceeding a tizz:rizz ratio of 2:1 in either direction."
by g8425 | 2026-02-26 08:31:52+00:00
The highlight of my childhood (not to mention the basic consumer education for my eventual career in computing) was wandering the aisles of the Fry's in Campbell, CA. When that wasn't possible, I would spend hours reading the massive advertising spreads in the Sunday Mercury News, building my dream computer. Truly, my best buys... were always at Fry's! Guaranteed.
by smiley1437 | 2026-02-26 08:32:02+00:00
I agree with you, I can't stand ads

However, I believe an ad it still influences you subconsciously as long as it is in your sight line.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot of investigation into subtly slipping advertising in the LLM responses the way Korean dramas have product placement right in the storyline (Subway, bbq chicken, beverages, makeup, etc).
by josephg | 2026-02-26 08:32:03+00:00
When the internet boom happened, computers had a tiny fraction of the RAM they have today. Everything worked fine. Programmers had to make efficient programs. But we were fine with that. We just programmed in C and C++ and shipped small binaries, because what choice did we have? Nobody tried to build desktop software in javascript on top of electron. And nobody built web servers in python.

If all consumer devices only shipped with 1gb of RAM maximum, we'd get over it remarkably quickly. Just about the only times large amounts of RAM is an actual requirement is AI, some data science / simulation, and editing video in 8k. And maybe 3d modelling. Lots of programs we run today are memory hogs for no good reason - like the rust compiler, cyberpunk 2077 and google chrome. But we could make those programs much more memory efficient if we really had to. Cyberpunk wouldn't look as pretty. But nobody would really care.

The economy won't die due to expensive RAM. Programmers will just adapt, like we've always done.
by torginus | 2026-02-26 08:32:55+00:00
Obviously not. They introduced their app store (13 years ago!, fuck time goes by), probably trying to do this.

They got to like step 3 of their 10 step master plan and gave up and have been lingering there.

Microsoft has been a walking husk of a company for the past decade and a half that somehow inexplicably stumbled into a trillion dollar valuation.
by withinboredom | 2026-02-26 08:32:58+00:00
But the ideas are not 'new'. A benchmark that I use to tell me if an AI is overfitted is to present the AI with a recent paper (especially one like a paxos variant) and have it build that. If it writes general paxos instead of what the paper specified, its overfitted.

Claude 4.5: not overfitted too much -- does the right thing 6/10 times.

Claude 4.6: overfitted -- does the right thing 2/10 times.

OpenAI 5.3: overfitted -- does the right thing 3/10 times.

These aren't perfect benchmarks, but it lets me know how much babysitting I need to do.

My point being that older Claude models weren't overfitted nearly as much, so I'm confirming what you're saying.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-26 08:33:04+00:00
You are switching topics because the original claim does not survive contact with the record.

You said Israeli massacres sparked the Second Intifada. Your own timeline does not name any massacre that happened before it began. The first deaths were in the clashes after Sharon’s visit. That is tragic, but it is not some prior massacre that supposedly set everything off.

The US-led Mitchell Report is explicit: Sharon’s Temple Mount visit did not cause the Intifada.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/mitchell_plan.asp

And Barghouti later said the eruption would have happened anyway and the visit was just a convenient excuse.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/01/29/arafats-gift

Also, your Oslo framing is backwards. Oslo did not promise a Palestinian state or rapid final withdrawal. It is an interim framework that explicitly defers permanent-status issues like borders, settlements, and Jerusalem to later negotiations.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/isrplo.asp

A politician visiting a holy site under police protection is not a massacre and not a justification for launching an intifada.
by sdrinf | 2026-02-26 08:33:23+00:00
Taking the opposite side of that bet, here is why:

* even if an openweight model appears on huggingface today, exceeding SOTA, given my extensive experience with a wide variety of model sizes, I would find it highly surprising the "99% of use cases" could be expressed in <100B model.

* Meanwhile: I pulled claude to look into consumer GPU VRAM growth rates, median consumer VRAM went 1-2GB @ 2015 to ~8GB @ 2026, rougly doubles every 5 years; top-end isn't much better, just ahead 2 cycles.

* Putting aside current ram sourcing issues, it seems very unlikely even high-end prosumers will routinely have >100GB VRAM (=ability to run quantized SOTA 100b model) before ~2035-2040.
by comex | 2026-02-26 08:33:30+00:00
Not even the most extreme LGBT activist would accuse people who used the name Ellen Page in 2019 of having somehow been insensitive for failing to have a crystal ball. That is as absurd as it sounds. At most someone might be asked to change the name if they’re actively republishing the material in question.

Your point may be more valid when it comes to political attitudes, in cases where the issues were known at the time but the Overton window has shifted since.
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by zokier | 2026-02-26 08:34:49+00:00
You can see cabling with lacing in many images, for example:

Curiousity outside: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/15126/?site=msl

Perseverance interal: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23312-in-the-belly-of-the...
by nirui | 2026-02-26 08:35:17+00:00
In this market, CXMT is more likely to also move to HBM production rather than consumer grade RAMs. After all China is also doing an AI push in a competition with the US, and the domestic Chinese companies are "recommended/guided" by the government to help, while consumers are pushed to lower priorities.

The situation I'm worrying about is that these PC manufacturers could use this opportunity to push for a more locked-down design, such as soldered RAM or even SSD. My current ThinkPad already got soldered LPDDR5 RAM chips on it with no user-end RAM upgrade possible, so there's a reason to suspect they'll take more pagers from Apple's book if they can get away doing it, just like what they did when they pushed out those internally mounted unswappable batteries.

My personal guess is that the RAM price will fall down after this period of AI expansion is over and major players starts to consolidate. But it will not fall as much as we're hopping for, because the manufacturers could just reduce production to control the price.
by matwood | 2026-02-26 08:35:36+00:00
Yes, there have been translation apps for along time, but the LLMs are much better. If the phrases can have dual meanings the LLMs will often explain so you end up with a better understanding of what was said/needs to be said. The LLMs can pull more context from the web, so if you're dealing with more complex topics that may have acronyms they are much better at getting to a correct translation.
by adornKey | 2026-02-26 08:35:40+00:00
Once everybody has a decent amount of VRAM they can just run local AIs and the need to mess with Ad-laden search results will fizzle. So of course they are desperate to grab a new monopoly. People haven't realised yet, that local AIs are fast and produce good results - on pretty average hardware. If they don't manage to grab a new monopoly Google will be history.

But it doesn't really need a nefarious plot for the price spikes. There is a serious lack of VRAM deployed out there. Filling that gap will take quite some time. Add to that the nefarious plot and the situation will most likely get even worse....
by imtringued | 2026-02-26 08:35:52+00:00
At least read the article in full before commenting. You don't need to deploy LLM generated code at all for the privilege escalation. The Gemini API merely needs to be enabled and there are no access restrictions by default.

Google guidelines say "API keys" (a huge misnomer for something that is more accurately described as a project ID) are not secrets. The idea of creating an internal project goes against what the guidelines suggest. The "API keys" are customer facing identifiers.
by roenxi | 2026-02-26 08:36:25+00:00
And Asia is mostly peaceful right now while war has returned to Europe on a scale not seen in 50 years. Those crazy Chinese, eh? Massive failure of their foreign policy establishment. Total inability to engage with Russia.

> and undermining EU institutions

If the Europeans had any common sense they'd be undermining EU institutions as well, those institutions have been disasters. They aren't doing a good job of keeping the peace, they aren't doing a good job of promoting prosperity and they've had successes like forcing Apple to switch from Lightening to USB ports. The CCP on the other hand have been so successful in the last few decades that they're making authoritarianism look good. If the EU focused on figuring out what good policy looked like then they that wouldn't be the case. Although I assume sooner or later the ideological issues will catch up with China.
by rcarmo | 2026-02-26 08:36:47+00:00
I give it two weeks until people start running the meshes through AI:

https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/16/1334

Claude Opus was able to perfectly replicate an angular/functional part without decimating it, so I would expect the next step to be explicitly instructing AI to clean up meshes.
by altacc | 2026-02-26 08:38:11+00:00
Hmm, I'm in 2 minds about this. The best online communities I've been in have been small & come across more human and the thought of "this is a person you're replying to" was innate. On larger forums a nudge towards that humanity might be good but I think this at times goes beyond a nudge and is more of an opinionated telling-off, which a lot of people aren't going to react so well to.

I wonder how this would be as a light touch plugin for the browser that would review a comment in context and possibly help test and refine the content.
by trhway | 2026-02-26 08:38:31+00:00
>I don’t know how you get here from “predict the next word.”

The question puts horse behind the buggy. The main point isn't "from", it is how you get to “predict the next word.” During the training the LLM builds inside itself compressed aggregated representation - a model - of what is fed into it. Giving the model you can "predict the next word" as well as you can do a lot of other things.

For simple starting point for understanding i'd suggest to look back at the key foundational stone that started it all - "sentiment neuron"

https://openai.com/index/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/

"simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment.

...

Digging in, we realized there actually existed a single “sentiment neuron” that’s highly predictive of the sentiment value."
by xqli | 2026-02-26 08:40:50+00:00
That matches our experience pretty closely.
A lot of “memory” issues we saw weren’t about storage capacity, but about what kind of information is allowed to persist and how it’s structured. Once everything is flattened into one blob, retrieval strategy becomes the only lever left — which is where vectors often get overused.

In Mneme, updates are intentionally asymmetric: – Facts are append-only and explicitly curated (they’re meant to be boring and stable). – Task state is rewritten as work progresses. – Context is disposable and aggressively compacted or dropped.

The idea is that only a small subset of information deserves long-term durability; everything else should be easy to overwrite or forget.

This reduces the need for heavy retrieval logic in the first place, since the model is usually operating over a much smaller, more explicit working set.
by voidUpdate | 2026-02-26 08:40:53+00:00
> This makes sense. These keys were designed as project identifiers for billing, and can be further restricted with (bypassable) controls like HTTP referer allow-listing. They were not designed as authentication credentials.

Can't you just run up a huge bill for a developer by spamming requests with their key? I don't see how this wasn't always an issue?
by mr_toad | 2026-02-26 08:41:03+00:00
That’s partly true, but it’s also the case that medieval Europe didn’t have any convenient sources of slaves. Conquests had dried up, Europe was effectively surrounded by stronger neighbors, and instead of being able to take their neighbors as slaves many of their neighbors were taking Europeans as slaves.

That didn’t change until the Age of Sail opened up new frontiers and the wheel turned again.
by woobilicious | 2026-02-26 08:41:34+00:00
No, this is incoherent garbage written by a man whose too fragile to accept and reflect on real peer view (you know something that is actually required for real science and philosophy, or just contributing to the Linux Kernel), and is using a self-described, sycophantic LLM, as pathetic substitute, because no real human wants to put up with your abusive behavior.

You didn't "win" me over with your garbage arguments when we were friends, and your completely unemphatic ad homin, lost you as a friend.

Churning out LLM slop, and labeling it "science" isn't convincing anyone that you're anything other than a lolcow in the making.