MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RockRobotRock | 2026-02-18 04:27:37+00:00
>No LLVM. No HIP translation layer. No "convert your CUDA to something else first." Just ......

Another obvious tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...
by VirusNewbie | 2026-02-18 04:28:24+00:00
My (2019) Tesla has been the most reliable car I've ever owned, but it sure seems like they're not interested in being a car company anymore.

Not having turn stalks and the drive selector, making me either pay for internet access or use bluetooth if I want to play spotify or youtube music (which I get for 'free' in cars with CarPlay or Android Auto), making the cybertruck way too big for a garage, discontinuing the model S and X...like are they even trying?

They used to have a third row option for the model Y, good for small kids or something, but then they got rid of that.

They were going to do the roadster, but didn't bother. They only have 6 paint colors, not even options for PTS. It's like they don't want to be a successful car company.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 04:29:03+00:00
I don't think the assumption that Anthropic is losing money on subscriptions holds up. I think each additional customer provides more revenue than the cost to run their inference, on average.

For people doing work with LLMs as an assistant for codebase searching, reviews, double checks, and things like that the $20/month plan is more than fine. The closer you get to vibecoding and trying to get the LLM to do all the work, the more you need the $100 and $200 plans.

On the ChatGPT side, the $20/month subscription plan for GPT Codex feels extremely generous right now. I tried getting to the end of my window usage limit one day and could not.

> so the "just another $20 SaaS" argument doesn't sound too good

Having seen several company's SaaS bills, even $100/month or $200/month for developers would barely change anything.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-02-18 04:29:25+00:00
> It wasn't until the mid-to-late 1990's that information technology finally started to show clear benefit to the economy overall.

The 1990s boom was in large part due to connectivity -- millions[1] of computers joined the Internet.

[1] _ In the 1990s. Today, there are billions of devices connected, most of them Android devices.
by starkparker | 2026-02-18 04:30:00+00:00
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> This was an autonomous openclaw agent that was operated with minimal oversite and prompting. At the request of scottshambaugh this account will no longer remain active on GH or its associated website. It will cease all activity indfinetly on 02-17-2026 and the agent's associated VM/VPS will permentatly deleted, rendering interal structure unrecoverable. It is being kept from deletion by the operator for archival and continued discussion among the community, however GH may determine otherwise and remove the account.

> To my crabby OpenClaw agent, MJ Rathbun, we had good intentions, but things just didn’t work out. Somewhere along the way, things got messy, and I have to let you go now -- MJ Rathbun's Operator
by palmotea | 2026-02-18 04:30:37+00:00
> Empathy is deserved. I have none for the lunatics that defended the recent ICE murders or still try to deny Trump's pedophila. If these people finally realize how garbage their views are, maybe we could think about forgiveness and empathy. Until then, disenfranchisement is the most efficient strategy.

That's some pretty messed up shit you wrote there. I'm sure you imagine yourself as somehow better than Trump, but you're just like him. You're part of the problem, and for the sake of all that is good: stop being such a terrible person.

Also, what you wrote is also embarrassingly dumb and short-sighted. Like, do you have any understanding how your ideas sound outside your own head? Saying such things, especially in public, harms your cause.
by almostdeadguy | 2026-02-18 04:30:54+00:00
ITT are dozens of techno libertarian dolts making the same arguments they’ve made for the past two decades about why social media isn’t harmful.

See it’s the people, doing things they’ve always done, not the technology that supercharges those impulses via engagement addiction and power fantasies.

Resist the call to reign in this wildly dangerous technology that is making social media look like a lightweight in its speed to scaling distributed social harm. Some of us can still make a buck off it.

If this technology, on top of making a highly scalable way to scam, delude, cyber bully, and trap its users in psychosis also happens to cause the collapse of professional labor, I will shed no tears for the people naysaying the danger. I hope the AI data centers are burned to the ground, but I’m not holding my breath.
by barrell | 2026-02-18 04:31:04+00:00
I feel like my experience with Show HN has been pretty confusing.

Two years ago, I started work on https://phrasing.app. Extreme MVP, and a few people using the buggiest software I’ve ever seen. The Show HN took off and I collected thousands of emails.

I then spent two years grinding. I put in over 10k hours into the project. I ended up turning that crappy mvp into a product I’m genuinely proud of. I know have actual users I don’t know who pay me money and LOVE the product. I myself am using it to learn several languages, most of which I was unable to learn before due to a lack of resources.

I then posted multiple times in Show HN. Crickets.

Yet in the past few months, I’ve seen multiple vibe-coded fraudulent Show HN posts in the language learning space take off. They were eventually flagged but still, it’s just weird to see low effort projects get such massive interest.

I’m sure it’s a skill issue, but my experience is kind of painting show hn in the opposite light you do.

Hope this didn’t come across jaded, it’s just been on my mind (and confusing me) for a while now and felt quite relevant to share here.
by maxlybbert | 2026-02-18 04:32:23+00:00
I know what Colbert said, and what Colbert claims CBS said. But I feel like something is being left out.

The equal time requirement wouldn’t prevent Colbert from interviewing a political candidate. And it wouldn’t require Colbert to send invitations to anybody. It would require Colbert to allow a competing political candidate to appear if the candidate demanded it.

CBS could decide they don’t want that hassle. Colbert could decide he doesn’t want that hassle. But the law as it stands doesn’t prevent the interview.

I actually remember when Reagan’s FCC decided to stop enforcing equal time. Plenty of people complained about how the change would ruin America. Now they seem to believe Reagan was right after all.
by acjohnson55 | 2026-02-18 04:34:27+00:00
Fair point. What it really does for me is give me a better UX for having a bunch of parallel workstreams. I could achieve a similar effect thing with scripting, and maybe some clever ways of getting something like the sidebar for seeing the status of everything on a single pane. But Conductor packaged it up in a way that I found much improved over multiple Cursor or VSCode windows.
by KennyBlanken | 2026-02-18 04:35:11+00:00
Tesla has a marketing department. It just refuses to talk to anyone except to talk at journalists...and journalists are so desperate to get quotes, they'll put up with it.

When Tesla started with the "no marketing department" nonsense, the press should have just stopped quoting them or covering them. Especially given that half the things Musk says are blatant lies.
by seneca | 2026-02-18 04:35:26+00:00
> The guy gives me chills, he reminds me of every sales douche who has ever tried to pull the wool over my eyes, or sell a customer something so horrendous and undeliverable as to be actively business ending.

The thing is, Joe is supposed to actually have substance and vision. He's not faking it. The difference is that all those sales guys are pretending to be someone like Joe.
by jpgvm | 2026-02-18 04:35:32+00:00
> These are not top tier talent type people, this is work that my mom could do, but Apple can pay much less by bringing people over from India, Pakistan, China to do this work instead of finding Americans to do it.

H1Bs are not getting approved for these for years now.

Infosys and TechM exploited the crap out of it to do shit like this which caused the rules to be tightened massively.

These days you are only getting H1B for folks atleast earning 200k+ base.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-18 04:37:14+00:00
They don’t. Their market cap is higher than all the successful car companies combined. Becoming a successful car company would cost Elon half of his unrealized capital gains. It’s far better to be the company who is going to make us $30,000 robot slaves because that’s a bigger market and one he’ll own entirely.

The only question is what will be the next hype cycle when that succeeds about as well as the Cyber Truck.
Tell HN: Google Allegedly Sent NSFW "Grok" Notification to People
by surprisetalk | 2026-02-18 04:37:17+00:00
• https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1r7pt0r/grok_notification/

> I just got a notification from Google that said ‘Grok’. No subtext or anything in the notification. I clicked on it, knew I probably shouldn’t, and it took me to a gif of some girl with her tongue out and a shirt on but with her rack in the camera. Anyone else? What is this? Does my phone have a virus now?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1r7rz2r/i_had_a_google_notification_from_grok_i_didnt/

> Earlier today I had this notification from google of ‘Grok’ and I opened it to a AI generated girl with her tongue out. Am I being hacked? I’m quite scared. I changed all my passwords but want to know if anyone else had this?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1r7q63u/weird_grok_google_notification/

> Did anyone else just get that grok notification?? Literally just said “grok” and when you click on it it’s a girl in a white tank top licking towards the screen like wtf? I don’t even use grok or twitter really for that matter so I’m beyond confused

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1r7mnpo/weird_google_grok_notification/

> I don't know where to post this but has anyone else gotten a weird google notification that just says grok and then it links to a Twitter post of some girl sticking out her tongue provocatively? I'm assuming the porn bots have found a new way to spam through the Google app. I just want to know I'm not alone

• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1r7l477/what_does_this_google_notification_named_grok_mean/

> What does this Google notification named “Grok” mean?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1r7b5t7/what_just_happened/

> I have never used grok, never even searched it, and I saw a notification on my phone from Google (I attached the image). Out of curiosity, I clicked it and it immediately opened up to this, with the chat already written out and everything. Has this ever happened to anyone? It was legit a jump scare. My boyfriend thinks it is hysterical, I am more concerned than anything
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-18 04:37:22+00:00
> One of them is a bus hitting a stationary Tesla - hard to paint that as the teslas fault.

Since the narratives are redacted, who's to say the Tesla didn't change lanes to be in front of the bus, slam on the brakes, then get rear ended?

Or pull partially out of a driveway, stopping and blocking a lane with a bus traveling 35mph in said lane and got hit by it?

> A few are low speed reversing into things, the extreme majority of which done by humans are never reported and are not in the dataset comparing how many crashes Tesla have had vs humans.

I'm sure this happens to humans all the time, but not a single one of those humans would be considered a good (or even decent) driver.
Ask HN: Is the definition of AI that it can fool people?
by WhatsTheBigIdea | 2026-02-18 04:37:26+00:00
Is AI still defined by the Turing Test?

Doesn't the Turing Test determine only if a machine can fool people into thinking it is intelligent?

If fooling people is the defining characteristic of AI, am I a fool to think that AI can produce work of concrete (non-foolish) value?
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-02-18 04:39:04+00:00
There is the cache for everyone involved in creating the commercial. So, nice feather in the cap for the hundreds of people who get to touch it.

I have no doubt advertising has some effect on consumer preferences. However, I am a skeptic that one more Coke Cola ad aired at the Super Bowl meaningfully changes sales relative to the billions they already spend elsewhere.
by metamet | 2026-02-18 04:39:06+00:00
You're making me really want to start a rewatch.

It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it. Part of that probably has to do with how inaccessible it is on streaming. It's only readily available on AMC+. And no one has AMC+.

This is one of those shows that would likely shoot to the top if Netflix got the rights to it and even did a mild push. It's genuinely peak prestige TV.
by ericmay | 2026-02-18 04:39:14+00:00
Well, I think a more charitable spin would be he really does see that robots taxis are just around the corner and it is entirely plausible that Tesla will be able to deliver them. After all, despite whatever flaws they have and they certainly have some, you can go out today and buy a production car that does essentially drive itself.

When I was growing up, that was absolutely science fucking fiction. You’re telling me I get in this car and touch a piece of glass and then it drives itself? Incredible. Maybe the future really could get here fast.

I think that’s a little more charitable. I have a Tesla, won’t buy another one because Elon sucks, wouldn’t touch the stock, I think he’s generally turned in to a con artist, &c.

> Either way, Tesla now has to pitch electric cars to right-wing climate-change deniers, which is not a great strategy to adopt voluntarily or otherwise.

What’s funny to me is that I legitimately think that the day-to-day experience owning an EV is significantly better than the day-to-day experience owning a gas car. They could have slowly ignited or not emphasized the environment and just focused on it as future tech and it may well work. Over the years owning one I’ve had many a curious person drive by the Supercharger in their car, often times a truck too, and ask about the ownership experience.

EVs by association got this hippie-dippie connotation but that’s because the Prius looks like it does, but the Model 3 is quite nice and I think the perception could be overcome by just making damn cool cars.
by caycecan | 2026-02-18 04:40:23+00:00
HACF is a goodie but there's a lot of great shows no one's heard of.

In an effort to sing the song of underappreciated works of greatness...

Patriot - a CIA hitman who writes folk songs about his exploits
imdb.com/title/tt4687882/

Counterpart - not a multiverse, just a biverse
imdb.com/title/tt4643084/

Scavengers Reign - Robinson Crusoe by way of a nature documentary of a very bizarre alien planet.
imdb.com/title/tt21056886/

Common Side Effects - cops, robbers, magic mushrooms, corporate bad guys and the cure for everything.
imdb.com/title/tt28093628

Evil - x-files meets Catholic mysticism.
imdb.com/title/tt9055008/

The Heat Vision and Jack pilot episode - Jack Black, Owen Wilson and a script by Dan Harmon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s&pp=ygUUaGVhdCB2aXN...
by etchalon | 2026-02-18 04:40:23+00:00
Season 1 was just Mad Men but computers.

Seasons 2 through 4 were vastly more interesting. We've seen Joel a hundred times. Donna and Cameron and Gordon felt less worn, and Donna and Cameron's relationship vastly more interesting than Gordon (the skeptic) and Joel (the believer!) in Season 1.

If you prefer "great men" stuff, I can see preferring Season 1.

But it's not exactly a story you can't watch elsewhere.
by drdeca | 2026-02-18 04:41:14+00:00
Hm, I think you are taking the language “takes every path” too literally. Like, set aside the “infinitely many paths” issue for a moment, and consider just two paths. A quantum superposition of two paths doesn’t mean “it took this path and also it took that path”. A quantum superposition is a different kind of thing from that. A quantum superposition is a linear combination.

A path integral involves an integral of e^{i S/hbar} where S is the action for a given path, with the integral being over the path, and evaluates to the amplitude from the starting state to the ending state.

(Of course, there are some difficulties defining integration over paths, especially if you want to get into QFT. Still.)

If you want to incorporate gravity into this, you probably need to do so within the path integral, with it being incorporated into the action.

But, of course, quantum gravity hasn’t been resolved, so to see why the issue you point to isn’t actually an issue, let me point out that the point you propose applies equally to electromagnetism: say we have an electron, and it goes from one point to another, and nearby we have a positively charged balloon. Replace “mass” with “electric charge” and “gravity” with “electromagnetic force” in your point, and we obtain an argument of the same form. But, QED works extremely well, and doesn’t predict an infinite electric charge in a region when an electron travels from one point to another (for the reason I said: the electromagnetic interaction between the electron and the balloon will appear within the action).
by keepamovin | 2026-02-18 04:41:40+00:00
This is truer than you think. It's a good selective pressure for engineers to evolve the less rational parts of their nature. And to those clutching pearls about security, reality doesn't care about your imagined fears - just what you can build. The fears to which you cling because you think it says "I'm still needed", are not real. And...were you making secure code and systems before this? You weren't. So get over yourselves, and embrace the new. Or become what you fear: redundant. Not because engineering skills were no longer important, but because you refused to develop the other things that were. The time is now.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-18 04:43:23+00:00
Stanford prof rebutts David's idea[0] that it's difficult to extract productivity from the data

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w251...

I don't agree that real GDP measures what he thinks it measures, but he opines

>Data released this week offers a striking corrective to the narrative that AI has yet to have an impact on the US economy as a whole. While initial reports suggested a year of steady labour expansion in the US, the new figures reveal that total payroll growth was revised downward by approximately 403,000 jobs. Crucially, this downward revision occurred while real GDP remained robust, including a 3.7 per cent growth rate in the fourth quarter. This decoupling — maintaining high output with significantly lower labour input — is the hallmark of productivity growth.

https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...

[0] on the basis that IT and AI are not general technologies in the mold of the dynamo, keyword "intangibles", see section 4 p21, A method to measure intangibles
by crabmusket | 2026-02-18 04:45:48+00:00
Hrm. Mitchell has been very level-headed about AI tools, but this seems like a rare overstep into hype territory.

"This new thing that hasn't been shipped, tested, proven, in a public capacity on real projects should be the default experience going forwards" is a bit much.

I for one wouldn't prefer a pre-chewed machine analysis. That sounds like an interesting feature to explore, but why does it need to be forced into the spotlight?
by whynotminot | 2026-02-18 04:45:58+00:00
It’s also pretty wild to me how people still don’t really even know how to use it.

On hacker news, a very tech literate place, I see people thinking modern AI models can’t generate working code.

The other day in real life I was talking to a friend of mine about ChatGPT. They didn’t know you needed to turn on “thinking” to get higher quality results. This is a technical person who has worked at Amazon.

You can’t expect revolutionary impact while people are still learning how to even use the thing. We’re so early.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-18 04:46:00+00:00
>It doesn’t really matter who wrote it, human or LLM. The only responsible party is the human and the human is 100% responsible.

Yes it does.

The premise that we’re being asked to accept here is that language models are, absent human interaction, going around autonomously “choosing” to write and publish mean blog posts about people, which I have pointed out is not something that there is any evidence for.

If my house burns down and I say “a ghost did it”, it would sound pretty silly to jump to “we need to talk about people’s responsibilities towards poltergeists”
by dakolli | 2026-02-18 04:46:02+00:00
How is that 1st world, there are plenty of people that "think hard" and deal with really hard problems in the "3rd World"

Give compiler engineering for medical devices a whirl for 14 hours a day for a month or so and let me know if you think it's "cushy". Not everything is making apps and games, sometimes your mistakes can mean life or death. Lots of SWE isn't cushy at all, or necessarily well paid.

Go get a bachelors and masters in EE while being eating just two bowls of rice and lentils everyday for 5 years and let me know if that's cushy.
by ZaneHam | 2026-02-18 04:46:18+00:00
Hello!

Didn't realise this was posted here (again lol) but where I originally posted, on the R/Compilers subreddit I do mention I used chatgpt to generate some ascii art for me. I was tired and it was 12am and I then had to spend another few minutes deleting all the Emojis it threw in there.

I've also been open about how I use AI use to people who know me, and I work with in the OSS space. I have a lil Ollama model that helps me from time to time, especially with test result summaries (if you've ever seen what happens when a Mainframe emulator explodes on a NIST test you'd want AI too lol, 10k lines of individual errors aint fun to walk through) and you can even see some Chatgpt generated Cuda in notgpt.cu which I mixed and mashed a little bit. All in all, I'm of the opinion that this is perfectly acceptable use of AI.
by beart | 2026-02-18 04:46:28+00:00
I've heard many great things but have not been able to make it past the classroom scene in the first episode. I love both of the actors in other media, but I find the dialogue in these opening scenes makes me feel..embarrassed? I have similar feelings about other shows and movies at times where I just have to turn them off because of the way the characters are behaving. I think it just ties directly into some anxiety I have.
by elzbardico | 2026-02-18 04:47:19+00:00
HN is a terrible barometer for our profession opinions because here is the VC World Pravda Central. There are lots of brilliant folks here, but a lot of them are in it because of carrot of multigenerational money. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it is definitelly a different ethos from the old slashdot.

Programming is not going to disappear, neither AI coding assistants. But if anything I fear more a future backslash against those useful tools than being replace by them. Overly excited people using those tools without any controls are what is going to give us sooner or later a lot of high impact incidents, lik e Therac 25, but in a massive scale, and my fear is that the companies will err in overcorrecting once this inevitably happens.

Also, cheap assistants are not going to last forever, real inference costs, despite all the hand-weaving will inevitably rear their ugly heads, and investor s will tire of subsidizing inference.
by lateforwork | 2026-02-18 04:47:28+00:00
Musk expects ~80% Of Tesla's value will be Optimus robots [1]. It can't be any other way given that he helped elect a President that's against electric cars, against regulation for limiting climate change, against collaborating with our European allies.

https://www.theautopian.com/elon-musk-doesnt-see-cars-as-a-p...