MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toliveistobuild | 2026-02-12 02:23:42+00:00
This isn't just a UI preference issue, it's the observability problem that every agentic system hits eventually.

When you're building agents that interact with real environments (browsers, codebases, APIs), the single hardest thing to get right isn't the model's reasoning. It's giving the operator enough visibility into what the agent is actually doing without drowning them in noise. There's a narrow band between "Read 3 files" (useless) and a full thinking trace dump (unusable), and finding it requires treating observability as a first-class design problem, not a verbosity slider.

The frustrating part is that Anthropic clearly understands this in other contexts. Their own research on agent safety talks extensively about the need for human oversight of autonomous actions. But the moment it's their own product, the instinct is to simplify away the exact information that makes oversight possible.

The people pinning to 2.1.19 aren't being difficult. They're telling you that when an agent touches my codebase, I need to know which files it read and what it searched for — not because I want to micromanage, but because that's literally the minimum viable audit trail. Take that away and you're asking users to trust a black box that edits production code.
by ofou | 2026-02-12 02:23:45+00:00
The model released is called Latam-GPT, the first large-scale open-source language model developed specifically for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Its size is 70 billion parameters (70B).
It is a continuous pre-training (CPT) adaptation of Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B base model, trained on a regionally-curated corpus of ~300 billion tokens that emphasize Latin American languages, cultures, and contexts.

Press release: https://cenia.cl/2026/02/10/latam-gpt-la-primera-ia-regional...

Presentation (in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdLzAiQizhA

HF: https://huggingface.co/latam-gpt

Github: https://github.com/latam-gpt
by bostonvaulter2 | 2026-02-12 02:24:25+00:00
Yeah, I didn't realize that there's a new sort of verbose mode now which is different than the verbose mode that was included previously. Although I'm still not clear on the difference between "verbose mode" and "ctrl + o". Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982177 I think they are different (specifically where they say "while hiding more details behind ctrl+o".
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 02:25:06+00:00
Me neither.

I looked into their Support documentation and it explains how to run the app, not how it works.

I read a 2-slide "Whitepaper" and it describes the many advantages and sort of tells you how it starts in "Ring 0" and the TPM and uses public-key cryptography, but not how it works.

They have trademarked KTLS™, but Kernel TLS is also an extension of actual TLS into the Linux kernel, so good luck differentiating that. Isn't it fun how you can trademark your trade secrets, but if you attempt to patent them, that means public disclosure.

If I had to hypothesize about it, I'd say that there is a Ring 0 hardware driver that takes the USB data, encrypts it, and the encrypted data is tunneled to each application, where it is somehow decrypted transparently without modifying any of the user's applications.

I would research this more in-depth but gnomes have already stolen my underpants. UUU~~U~~~U+++ATH0+++ NO CARRIER
by areoform | 2026-02-12 02:25:33+00:00
Universalising any group is dangerous, but this isn't true for even the least informed young people I know.

They grew up being watched. They know what these data harvesting operations are and how dangerous this is. They've got front row seats to the dystopia. The difference is that they can't / couldn't do anything about it.

They think the world is broken and that you broke it. They're pissed off. And powerless. Not a good combination

Even McKinsey is now reporting on it,

Some Gen Zers push back on a lack of privacy, creating online subcultures that fantasize about anonymity: the pastoral “cottagecore” aesthetic, inspired by tiny cabins and homegrown greens, was one of Gen Z’s first major trends.

Some opt out; the New York Times recently reported on a group of self-described Luddite teens who found community by kicking smart devices in favor of the humble flip phone.

Even if you don’t go that far, many young people are veering away from “everyone knows everything” social media to curate a close group of friends and carefully monitor how much they put online.

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/email/genz/2023/01...
by diyer22 | 2026-02-12 02:25:36+00:00
MathArena uses newly released competition sets and evaluates models close to the event. They also mark models released after the competition date as potential contamination.

On Feb 6, the just-concluded AIME 2026 I, Step 3.5 Flash take first place. Step 3.5 Flash was released on Feb 1, making cheating impossible.
by themanmaran | 2026-02-12 02:25:46+00:00
> Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features [1]

This sentence is what really seals the death for me. I used to be a big Heroku fan. And used them as late as 2023. But tbh it very quickly fell behind the capabilities and devex of products like Supabase and Vercel.

While I agree that it will probably stick around in zombie mode for another decade, if Salesforce doesn't want to improve the product, it will just slowly bleed users until the cost to maintain it is less than the revenue.

[1] https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
by ergocoder | 2026-02-12 02:26:31+00:00
I'd bet what happens is that it just funded a bunch of children of upper middle class families.

Scholarships and this kind of funds happen elsewhere and are based on merits. They end up funding a bunch of upper middle class's children because it turns out those children are well-equipped to perform higher on merits.

If you are too rich, then you wouldn't need this kind of fund.

If you are below upper middle class, then you would have a hard time competing with children from that class.

The upper middle class isn't rich enough to fund the kid but is good enough to accumulate a lot of merits.
by text0404 | 2026-02-12 02:26:34+00:00
> People tend to behave if they know they are being watched

People tend to behave in the ways that the people who own the surveillance apparatus want them to behave. This assumes that the people who own and operate the apparatus (oftentimes private corporations) can be trusted to monitor and act in the best interests of society. Unfortunately, the people who own and operate these have shown that they are largely untrustworthy and motivated by profit and power.

Most people would not sacrifice personal agency and democracy for supposed safety. "Behave" just means "obey" or "comply" when used in the context of "people tend to behave if they are being watched."
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-12 02:26:36+00:00
> He once tweeted that seven of the city’s supervisors — all progressives — should “die slow, motherfuckers” in a late-night polemic. The tweet, which Tan said was a joke, prompted hateful mail and police reports.

Yeah, my benefit of the doubt (which was already zero for a rich person in politics) is negative.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-12 02:26:41+00:00
I was looking around Mt. Charleston/Griffith Peak, southeastern Nevada. I've been on Griffith many times, Charleston twice. I was comparing what it showed me vs my experience. Your map actually shows the trail, most of that trail has little in the way of views to the other side of the respective peak--the peaks blot out a big chunk.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-02-12 02:27:20+00:00
There's a great NPR piece about Vonnegut's daughter - who read and gave feedback on Slaughterhouse-Five.

N VONNEGUT: And I have to say, when I was reading, he would be in the next room. If I laughed, he'd come running in because...

INSKEEP: (Laughter).

N VONNEGUT: ...That is what mattered (laughter).

INSKEEP: He'd want to know which joke landed.

N VONNEGUT: Absolutely, every time.
by jared_stewart | 2026-02-12 02:27:54+00:00
Tree-sitter and LSP solve different problems.

LSP is a full fledged semantics solution providing go-to-definition functionality, trace references, type info etc. But requires a full language server, project configuration, and often a working build. That's great in an IDA, but the burden could be a bit much when it comes to working through an agent.

Tree-sitter handles structural queries giving the LLM the ability to evaluate function signatures, hierarchies and such. Packing this into the recursive language model enables the LLM to decide when it has enough information, it can continue to crawl the code base in bite sized increments to find what it needs. It's a far more minimal solution which lets it respond quickly with minimal overhead.
by DannyBee | 2026-02-12 02:28:02+00:00
I spend a lot of time in eplan, 3d cad programs, and cam programs (when working on machines, furniture, and cnc of furniture or machines respectively :P)

However, the vast majority of time what i'm searching grabcad or friends it's for specific part numbers or parts.

I cannot remember the last time i wanted to try to find some object by generic description. Even as a tool to find possible parts that might fit my task, i don't see how it would make sense, because the stuff that matters is mostly not visual.

IE let's say i'm trying to find ballscrew nuts that might be a replacement for one i can't get anymore.

I'd want to search for ballscrew nuts that have a specific dimension, which maybe it can do (doesn't look like it so far), but the parts that matter are things like "is it preloaded", etc, which wouldn't be part of the description it generates (because it's often not even visualized in the cad model).

This is for mechanical stuff that might be interchangeable. Lots of cad models are of electronics and such that are very much not.

Even when i'm doing 3d printing, most of the time i'd search for the part i'm looking for, not a generic description of what might look like - ie i'm searching for dividers for sidiocrate crates.
Giving me thousands of possible things that might be a divider would be pretty useless.

To the degree i search for generic descriptions, people already provide them, and it's not obvious this is a meaningful friction point for them (IE that being able to generate the labels automatically is really valuable)

So while i think this is overall cool, i struggle to think of a truly practical use.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-12 02:28:08+00:00
The fact that the most elite judges in the land, those of the Supreme Court, disagree so extremely and so routinely really says a lot about the farcical nature of the judicial system. Ideally, these people would be selected for their ice-cold and unbiased skills in interpreting the law, and the judgments would be unanimous so frequently that a dissent would be shocking news.

Law is complicated, especially the requirement that existing law be combined with stare decisis. It's easy to see how an LLM could dog-walk a human judge if a judgement is purely a matter of executing a set of logical rules.

If LLMs are capable of performing this feat, frankly I think it would be appropriate to think about putting the human law interpreters out to pasture. However, for those who are skeptical of throwing LLMs at everything (and I'm definitely one of these): this will most definitely be the thing that triggers the Butlerian Jihad. An actual unbiased legal system would be an unaccptable threat to the privileges of the ruling class.
by apparent | 2026-02-12 02:28:49+00:00
I do. The battery life on our units varies depending on the amount of foot traffic that they see. One is at our front door, where package deliveries and entry/egress trigger 5-10 times daily, and the other is in our backyard, where it is triggered a 5-10 times weekly. The backyard camera lasts much longer per charge.

This tends to indicate that they are only recording/uploading in response to specific triggers. They also have LEDs that supposedly light up whenever they are recording.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-12 02:31:30+00:00
I guess they are fashioning it after college dorm cafeteria, where on top of my thousand dollar a month rent, I was required to pay up front for food service, and then paid for food out of that fund, effectively incentivizing me to buy a pint of Ben and Jerry's every day, or else just lose that money forever.

So its a way to guarantee income for the contractor, by forcing employees to hand over a portion of their paycheck. I feel like it's somehow worse than paying the soldiers less and letting them eat for free, but I'm not an army psychologist
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-12 02:31:42+00:00
>and that they can tax billionaires more without them simply leaving the state (because CA is magical and unique (it's the 4th largest economy in the world, don't you know!) and they'll come crawling back to be a part of it)

more like because data from other wealth taxes has shown that millionaires don't leave that easily. If they are, they are replaced by others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXZMXZCY0I

>People put ideology above the evidence in front of their eyes.

It's funny that you're saying this while providing no proof that rich people leave from wealth taxes.
by dfdsf2 | 2026-02-12 02:32:37+00:00
I regularly ask people who are in non-tech professions re. the adoption of AI and whether it has benefitted them. The answer is a resounding no. If anything managers are starting to pull-back on the adoption.

This place is hyper-concentrated on the tech in a particular context and has no resemblance of whats going out there in the big wide-world outside of high-tech software production.

This is the year that revenue has to start showing up materially across a wide range of contexts or else fear will over-take the market and investors will start pressuring the big tech firms to pull back on capex. It is their money after all, not the management.
by jtolmar | 2026-02-12 02:34:13+00:00
When I was a kid, we'd host the pics we want to post on forums on geocities and rename the file extensions to .txt to get past its "no hotlinking images" policy. So it's not like much has changed.

There are a lot of barriers between kids and better solutions, one of which is that anything needs a domain and a server, and that means a credit card.
by sgc | 2026-02-12 02:35:52+00:00
I can get multiple sets of footnotes (critical + content notes) reliably recognized and categorized using gemini-3-flash-preview. I took 15-20 hours to iterate on my prompt for a specific format. Otherwise it would not produce good enough results. It was a slow process because results from batch did not mirror what I was getting from the chat mode, and you have to wait for batch results while analyzing the last set. There was also a bit of debugging of the batch protocol going on at the same time. Flash is also surprisingly affordable for the results I am getting, 4-5x less than I had anticipated. I gave up on gemini-3-pro pretty quickly because it overthinks and messes things up.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-12 02:36:28+00:00
>to have to go through the administrative burden of valuing all that, and then attempting to liquidate at some reasonable market value just to pay one time levy (allegedly lol) is insane, and will rightfully be challenged in court

Cool, let's do it. We know the IRS, especially when auditing the rich tend to be one of the highest value employees of government they will sue no matter how cut and clear the tax code is anyway.

Its really weird we're on HN and we're using an excuse of "but it's hard, so let's not do it". I didn't choose tech because it was easy. Why should the government we fund be just as defeatist?
by Jblx2 | 2026-02-12 02:36:28+00:00
No, minimum wage jobs are kind of the opposite. They push underqualified people to the side, since who wants to pay $15/hour for someone only capable of producing $5/hr of value. And most jobs generally come with more obligations, like "we need you here 2pm - 10pm, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday".
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-12 02:37:24+00:00
It's probably rather difficult and risky to enact vigilante justice against someone who's in prison.

I think the problem is with places where they don't have life sentences at all, but rather let murderers back out into society after some time. I don't know if vigilante justice is a problem there in reality, but at least I can see it as a possibility: someone might still be angry that you murdered their relative after 20 years and come kill you when you're released.
by Tharre | 2026-02-12 02:39:06+00:00
Those would have the user agent "ChatGPT-User" though, and I barely see those. The majority comes from "GPTBot" like in my excerpt above, which makes it pretty clear that it's used for some sort of training:

"GPTBot is used to make our generative AI foundation models more useful and safe. It is used to crawl content that may be used in training our generative AI foundation models. Disallowing GPTBot indicates a site’s content should not be used in training generative AI foundation models."
by Falkon1313 | 2026-02-12 02:40:27+00:00
I still don't understand this one. Yes, clicking a link can trigger what it's linking to. That's the entire concept of links.

You can also put a shortcut to a program on your desktop and - horror of horrors! - clicking the shortcut will execute the program! How crazy is that?

I get that some people don't want the markdown functionality in notepad (you can turn it off very easily, btw). But I don't understand why suddenly the idea of hyperlinks is being blasted as a terrible security vulnerability?

Surely there has to be more to this, in order to generate so much hubbub, than just people not understanding the basic concept of hyperlinks?
by tw04 | 2026-02-12 02:41:12+00:00
So the interconnect costs cover the infrastructure buildout to generate the additional power demands, or that’s spread across all consumers in perpetuity? Because the interconnect itself is the cheap part afaik. And all of our rates go up to cover the costs of the additional generation whether it’s another solar farm or another ng plant.

They don’t generally just have GW of power sitting idle for a rainy day (I’m not talking about the capacity they reserve for hot july days).
Show HN: How to challenge technical assumptions before they cost you
by sharp-dev | 2026-02-12 02:42:13+00:00
We almost bought Auth0 for auth. It was the "smart" choice. We built it instead—in one quarter, for a fraction of the cost. Same with our database platform: "it's too stateful to automate" turned into fully self-service Postgres in 9 months.
I wrote up the ACT framework we use to spot bad assumptions before they become expensive commitments:
- Awareness: What am I taking for granted?
- Challenge: What if the opposite were true?
- Test: Timeboxed spike with clear success criteria
Plus the "Inversion" technique for design reviews (ask what would make the opposite decision correct) and the exact script I use to sell 2-day spikes to skeptical managers.
What assumption is your team holding right now that might be wrong?
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-12 02:42:20+00:00
Cool, so you agree the language model has to be coupled with a kinematics-sensory-model in order to take the instruct "ride the bike" and turn it into action

My point is merely that the knowledge of how to ride a bike is not necessarily expressible in natural language such that reading a "how to" is sufficient to ride on your first try. It takes falling over a few times to learn how to control your body+bike hybrid.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 02:42:30+00:00
What does "easy" and "hard" mean? Approaching the range? Matching the pitch? Sustaining it for a time?

There are not many tasks that can be cut-and-dried as universally "easy"/"hard". "The Star Spangled Banner" is a more challenging melody because of its wide range. Also, because it's often sung solo, with minimal accompaniment, to huge crowds.

If I were singing falsetto notes, I could probably launch into the range, but could I match pitch and harmonize without AutoTune?
by aubreyc | 2026-02-12 02:42:55+00:00
How is this different than MCP Apps that you pre-build for your org using something like https://creature.run

I like that MCP Apps just offer tools, and AI doesn't have to deal with JSON and generative UI. Basically, you can cache UI as an MCP App by generating it up-front, to constantly save on tokens and time, and let AI use tool calls which it is getting constantly better at.
by rmunn | 2026-02-12 02:43:02+00:00
The 100% score, all by itself, should cause suspicion. A hundred percent? Really?

Others have already pointed out how the test was skewed (testing for strict adherence to the law, when part of a judge's job is to make judgment calls including when to let someone off for something that technically breaks the law but shouldn't be punished), so I won't repeat it here. But any time the LLM gets one hundred percent on a test, you should check what the test is measuring. I've seen people tout as a major selling point that their LLM scored a 92% on some test or other. Getting 100% should be a "smell" and should automatically make you wonder about that result.
by naumanxyz | 2026-02-12 02:43:21+00:00
Yifi is a native macOS menu bar app with a minimal, always-on footprint that monitors your network health in real time. It breaks your connection into clear, actionable segments so you can quickly pinpoint where issues begin, whether that’s your Wi-Fi signal, router, ISP, or DNS.

I built Yifi because I kept wanting a simple way to understand why my internet randomly slows down or drops out. We’re entering an era where personal software can be created on demand, and this is my small proof of that. The app was built entirely with Claude Code (Opus 4.6) in XCode 26.3, in about an hour, with no prior experience in Swift, iOS, or macOS development.
by shimman | 2026-02-12 02:43:44+00:00
Yes and do billion dollar corporations really need that much government subsidies? Turns out yes they do, but sure enjoy your plastic trinkets from China I guess. Hopefully you thank a tax payer that pays for the welfare and medicaid of those Walmart workers, and the local town for cheaper property taxes and utility rates at Walmart.

God knows Walmart couldn't exist with all this rampant welfare.
by albatross79 | 2026-02-12 02:44:46+00:00
"He can't keep getting away with it!"

But seriously, how does this degenerate scammer keep getting away with it, it's unbelievable. Has any con man in history operated as long as Elon at this scale? You'd probably have to go back to ancient times. Or maybe it's just recently that people have become so gullible, social media probably plays a big role.
by ajross | 2026-02-12 02:44:52+00:00
And now the truth is out. IT WAS A FUCKING PARTY BALOON THAT GOT SHOT DOWN WITH A LASER, without warning or notice, causing a general freakout at the FAA about what was happening and where and what else might be at risk.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-shot-down-party...

It was not a "Drone Incursion". "Cartels" were not involved.

And just like I suspected, Duffy lied through his fucking teeth. I will accept your apology now, in this flagged subthread no one wants to notice.