MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danans | 2026-02-11 16:06:32+00:00
> So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it?

It's more about propaganda and fodder for lawmakers who will try to use it to justify fossil fuel promotion legislation.

It's not fooling anyone though. Most of the world - including the US - is well aware of that increasing GHGs are warming the atmosphere. Those whose livelihood depends on existing climate patterns is already feeling the effects.

Some just don't care because they believe they are insulated from the effects, and gain huge amounts of wealth and power from a short term boost in fossil fuel demand. In their fever dream, they might wish that the world at large somehow forgets the physics of GHG emissions, but that's unlikely.
by ej88 | 2026-02-11 16:06:41+00:00
1. execs likely have spend commits and pressure from the board about their 'ai strategy', what better way to show we're making progress than stamping on some kpis like # of agents created?

2. most ai adoption is personal. people use whichever tools work for their role (cc / codex / cursor / copilot (jk, nobody should be using copilot)

3. there is some subset of ai detractors that refuse to use the tools for whatever reason

the metrics pushed by 1) rarely account for 2) and dont really serve 3)

i work at one of the 'hot' ai companies and there is no mandate to use ai... everyone is trusted to use whichever tools they pick responsibly which is how it should be imo
by toraway | 2026-02-11 16:06:45+00:00
Yeah, I have been loving GPT 5.2/3 once I figured out how to change to High reasoning in OpenCode.

It has been crushing every request that would have gone to Opus at a fraction of the cost considering the massively increased quota of the cheap Codex plan with official OpenCode support.

I just roll my eyes now whenever I see HN comments defending Anthropic and suggesting OoenCode users are being petulant TOS-violating children asking for the moon.

Like, why would I be voluntarily subjected to worse, more expensive and locked down plan from Anthropic that has become more enshittified every month since I originally subscribed given Codex exists and is just as good?

It won't last forever I'm sure but for now Codex is ridiculously good value without OpenAI crudely trying to enforce vendor lock-in. I hate so much about this absurd AI/VC era in tech but aggressive competition is still a big bright spot.
by palmotea | 2026-02-11 16:07:14+00:00
> We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer, that is being used to surveil the teams lagging on the topic. All very depressing.

Enforced use means one of two things:

1. The tool sucks, so few will use it unless forced.

2. Use of the tool is against your interests as a worker, so you must be coerced to fuck yourself over (unless you're a software engineer, in which case you may excitedly agree to fuck yourself over willingly, because you're not as smart as you think you are).
by everforward | 2026-02-11 16:07:16+00:00
I think it’s a) volume of scrapers, and b) desire for _all_ content instead of particular content, and c) the scrapers are new and don’t have the decades of patches Googlebot et al do.

5 years ago there were few people with an active interest in scraping ForgeJo instances and personal blogs. Now there are a bajillion companies and individuals getting data to train a model or throw in RAG or whatever.

Having a better scraper means more data, which means a better model (handwavily) so it’s a competitive advantage. And writing a good, well-behaved distributed scraper is non-trivial.
by jamiemcdonnell | 2026-02-11 16:07:33+00:00
Hi everyone,

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I'm opening it up for other nomads to test if anyone is interested.

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Let me know what you think! I have voucher codes if anyone is willing to dig in and provide some valuable feedback on the project?

thanks all, have a great weekend!

Jamie
by Sharparam | 2026-02-11 16:07:35+00:00
> Venmo isn't needed, because bank transfers are free and "real time" as in <60s.

This depends highly on what countries and banks are involved.

If I (as a Swede) want to send money to my german friend, I have to use Revolut or Wise since going through my bank is an enormous hassle and involves higher fees.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 16:07:44+00:00
They're all pretending to bring about the singularity (surely a 1 million token context window is enough, right?) and simultaneously begging the US government to help them create monopolies.

Meanwhile said government burns bridges with all its allies, declaring economic and cultural warfare on everybody outside their borders (and most of everyone inside, too). So nobody outside of the US is going to be rooting for them or getting onside with this strategy.

2026 is the year where we get pragmatic about these things. I use them to help me code. They can make my team extremely effective. But they can't replace them. The tooling needs improvement. Dario and SamA can f'off with their pronouncements about putting us all out of work and bringing about ... god knows what.

The future belongs to the model providers who can make it cost effective and the tool makers who augment us instead of trying ineptly to replace us with their bloated buggy over-engineered glorified chat loop with shell access.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-11 16:07:54+00:00
> But hey you can gulp 60 oz of super strong energy drinks which equate to about 5-6 fat lines

Are you joking?

Look, I’m no stranger to drugs, but coke is not a “60oz energy drink” and its potential for generally destroying someone’s life is, while not at the same level, definitely in the same ballpark as crack, heroin, and meth.
by jmathai | 2026-02-11 16:08:01+00:00
I'm pretty pragmatic and resist AI hype. However, I am in the camp that the tools we've built do not maximize the potential of the LLMs we have today.

I see 2 things happening in parallel.

1) Tools on existing LLMs continue to improve (cursor -> claude code).

2) The LLMs themselves improve which makes existing tooling better and results in new tooling to take advantage of the improvements.

I'm not sure when I see either of these slowing down and they've been accelerating at a very rapid pace. Perhaps when the funding dries up.

I think that's the question but I believe if we don't have any more LLM improvements that we still have a couple years of tooling improvements using what's there today.

I'm sort of surprised that coding is a leading use case but do not see any reason it would not spread to other industries (what the OP is saying).
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-11 16:08:02+00:00
This is absolutely the norm across corporate America right now.
Chief AI Czars enforcing AI usage metrics with mandatory AI training for anyone that isn't complying.

People with roles nowhere near software/tech/data are being asked about their AI usage in their self-assessment/annual review process, etc.

It's deeply fascinating psychologically and I'm not sure where this ends.

I've never seen any tech theme pushed top down so hard in 20+ years working. The closest was the early 00s offshoring boom before it peaked and was rationalized/rolled back to some degree. The common theme is C-suite thinks it will save money and their competitors already figured out out, so they are FOMOing at the mouth about catching up on the savings.
by dwedge | 2026-02-11 16:08:20+00:00
> So why use them if you see no benefit?

I didn't say I see no benefit, I said I don't see the productivity boost people talk about. I conceded they are good for some things, and presumably that's what I use them for.

> You can refuse to use it, it's fine

Where do you work? Because increasingly, this isn't true. A lot of places are judging engineers by LoC output like it's 2000, except this time the LoC has to come from AI
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-11 16:08:27+00:00
HN doesn't have rules it has guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't know what the difference is intended to be but the guidelines also don't have anything to say about voting on comments except not to complain about it.

The comment sucked so I downvoted it. Yours too.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 16:08:29+00:00
> This was evident in the dialogue from the antivaxers who had done their research on mRNA changing your genome and being activated by 5G radiation.

Well, no, it was evident in the fact that mRNA vaccine manufacturers would only sign contracts with countries that agreed to give them blanket immunity from any and all possible legal consequences.

Bit of a red flag, that.
by blacktent | 2026-02-11 16:08:37+00:00
I kept running into the same problem during incidents: something breaks, I need help fast, and the quickest path is pasting logs into ChatGPT or a vendor ticket — but I’d often realize too late I’d leaked API keys or database URLs.

BlackTent is a local CLI that redacts secrets before anything leaves your machine. It scans code, configs, and (optionally) logs, replaces credentials deterministically, and outputs a reviewable bundle you can inspect before sharing.

How it works:

Scans project files for common secret patterns (API keys, tokens, env vars, DB URLs)

Replaces them with deterministic placeholders (same secret → same placeholder)

Produces a bundle + manifest showing exactly what was redacted

Properties:

Runs entirely locally (no network calls, telemetry, or history)

Deterministic and diffable

Redaction rules are fixed and inspectable

Logs are opt-in (they’re risky and context-heavy)

Example:

blacktent bundle .
# Creates incident-2025-01-28.tar.gz
# Review the manifest, then share the bundle

This is not a security boundary or forensic tool — it’s meant to reduce accidental leakage under time pressure.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on edge cases, false-positive tolerance, and integrations people would actually use.
by nilkn | 2026-02-11 16:08:40+00:00
> Maybe you were able to cut at 10.000, but if you go more precise you'll start seeing other digits, and they will not be repeating. You just picked a real number.

A reasonably defensible inference would be that adding a finite amount of precision adds a finite number of additional digits. That is a physically realizable operation. There's no obvious physical meaning to the idea of repeating that operation infinitely many times, so this is not clearly a meaningful way of defining or constructing real numbers. If you were trying to use this construction to convince a skeptic that irrational real numbers exist, you would fail -- they would simply retort that arbitrary finite precision exists and that you have failed to demonstrate infinite non-repeating, non-terminating precision.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-11 16:08:47+00:00
Just... no... not notepad.. Notepad should be the single-simplest of text editors, always has been, always should be... it should be "safe" much like "task manager" it should be as simple and bulletproof as any application in Windows are... these are essential tools that should never, ever, ever break.

MS has WordPad... fck around with that to make it support markdown or whatever else beyond rtf you want it to support. For that matter, it's probably that much more appropriate to do so.

Do I typically use Notepad, no.. not really... I actually use the new rust based edit terminal app more than Notepad. That said, I expect notepad to do one thing... edit text files, and to not break doing so. The ONLY* addition that might be acceptable would be a HEX Editor mode, so you can edit any file.

There are maybe 5-7 applications in Windows I expect to never break... task manager, notepad, registry editor, file explorer, command prompt are at the top of that list... these are the golden tools that should never fail, even if everything else does.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 16:08:47+00:00
> Also, cheaper... X99 + 8x DDR4 + 2696V4 + 4x Tesla P4s running on llama.cpp. Total cost about $500 including case and a 650W PSU, excluding RAM.

Excluding RAM in your pricing is misleading right now.

That’s a lot of work and money just to get 10 tokens/sec
by burkaman | 2026-02-11 16:08:52+00:00
I'm not sure a person wrote this website, but FYI on Firefox Nightly the text of the tweet is shown below the blocked tracker in a box labeled "Content from blocked embed". It doesn't have images or longer posts, so not that useful for this specific website, but it's a nice feature. It also gives you a link to the tweet so you can easily open it in a private window or XCancel if you want to.
by esseph | 2026-02-11 16:08:58+00:00
> The "insufferable genius" stereotype tracks most not for the extremely smart people but the kinda-smart people who are absolute jerks but try to defend their jerkassery on the basis of their intelligence.

Autism plays a lot into this. You'll get people who can seem condescending or unaware of different social norms, and it's genuinely not from a bad place, just a complete inability to understand their own communication style (especially in the moment).
Show HN: I built an AI executive assistant you use through iMessage
by mushgev | 2026-02-11 16:09:05+00:00
I built an AI executive assistant that works through iMessage.

Instead of creating another dashboard or agent interface, I wanted something that behaves more like messaging a real assistant.

Attaché works entirely over iMessage.

You connect Gmail once and then you can send messages like:

give me a morning brief of what matters today
summarize important emails from the last 24 hours
draft a response to the investor thread and keep it concise
find a 30 minute slot next week for John and send options
remind me if the contract is not signed by Friday

It manages inbox and calendar together and maintains persistent memory. It remembers your preferences and directives over time, so it adapts instead of starting from scratch each session.

It can also proactively summarize important emails as they arrive and prepare draft replies so you can approve or edit them quickly.

Security was critical because this touches real accounts. We do not store email credentials. Access is via OAuth and tokens are encrypted. During beta Google shows the unverified app warning because verification is still in progress.

Pricing is fixed so users do not have to think about LLM token usage or variable billing.

This was built in about a week using Claude Code.

I would really appreciate feedback, especially around edge cases, trust, and what you would or would not delegate to something like this.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-11 16:09:33+00:00
>Your so-called victims are Russian agents

WHere's the proof that they are? Would you be OK is someone accused you of being a russian agent because you criticized the EU too much, and sanction you with no opportunity to defend yourself in court?

>You don't even try to argue for innocence.

Why would I? I don't know if they are innocent, that's why I want a public trial.

>You know they are agents and guilty

I Don't know that. That's just what the EU told us. That's why I want a public trial.
by everforward | 2026-02-11 16:10:02+00:00
There’s a difference between “this concept has value” and “a company can capture that value”.

I do see value in this, but like you I think it’s too trivial to implement to capture the value unless they can get some kind of lead on a model that can consume these artifacts more effectively. It feels like something Anthropic will have in Claude Code in a month.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 16:10:12+00:00
I like using Codex inside OpenCode, but frankly most times I just use it inside Codex itself because O.Ai has clearly made major improvements to it in the last 3 months -- performance and stability -- instead of mucking around trying to vibe code a buggy "game loop" in React on a VT100 terminal.
by esseph | 2026-02-11 16:10:31+00:00
LMAO Ayn Rand could get rolled up by an 8th grader.

No idea about how social systems actually work, or how real humans act.

If there's one thing that was real about Rand it was that ego.

There's few people that can make an ass of themselves to multiple fields so quickly, but if you stuck an artist, an economist, and an anthropologist in the room with Rand, after 15 minutes they could have all left with a laugh on Rands behalf.

It's also so funny to me the modern US libertarians that claim to love her so much. Rand hated libertarians! She thought they were crybabies and had no moral or logical foundation.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-11 16:10:45+00:00
> (cc / codex / cursor / copilot (jk, nobody should be using copilot)

I seem to be using claude (sonnet/opus/haiku, not cc though), and have the option of using codex via my copilot account. Is there some advantage to using codex/claude more directly/not through copilot?
by rossant | 2026-02-11 16:10:54+00:00
Unpopular opinion but I kind of agree. I've been using Codex extensively these past few months. Using the latest paid models. Something is changing. It was a nice assistant before. In the past few weeks, I realized it became better than me in making architectural decisions on low-level performance-critical code. For the first time, I realize that I prefer his decisions rather than mine. He is just better now. I have 30+ years of programming experience. I agree with the author that we should get ready to adapt quickly to a world that may soon become radically different.
by thunky | 2026-02-11 16:11:05+00:00
> I have the same experience and still use it. It's just that I learned to use it for simplistic work.

OP said "I don't see the productivity boost from AI" and that they don't "believe the hype" without any qualification, but then went on to say that they use it every day. This makes no sense to me.

Isn't this like saying "I don't get anything out of reading books" immediately followed by "I read books for 4 hours every night"?
by apercu | 2026-02-11 16:11:09+00:00
The KPI problem is systemic and bigger than just Gen-AI, it’s in everything these days. Actual governance starts by being explicit about business value.

If you can’t state what a thing is supposed to deliver (and how it will be measured) you don’t have a strategy, only a bunch of activity.

For some reason the last decade or so we have confused activity with productivity.

(and words/claims with company value - but that's another topic)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-11 16:11:16+00:00
I don't understand what it means for something to feel "natural". You can formally define the real numbers in multiple ways which are all isomorphic and coherent. These definitions are usually more complicated than people expect which nicely show that the real set is not a very intuitive object. Same thing for C.

There is not evidence for C. It's a construction. Obviously it shows up in physics models. They are built using mathematical formalism.

If multiple definitions turn out to be isomorphic, that's generally because there is an underlying structure linking the properties together.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-11 16:12:26+00:00
CA compromise is very rare and difficult. There are much easier attacks on TLS than that (notably, attacking insecure validation methods; the problem isn't that CAs aren't secure, it's that validation methods and their dependencies are insecure). Besides, the CAs for TLS only covers transport security; authentication+authorization would be handled securely through OIDC, using temporary sessions and not exposing the true credential, often combined with 2FA. Even you successfully attack a TLS server, two factors, and an active session, it only works once; you have to keep pulling it off to remain inside.

Compare that to malware that just copies a developer's ssh private key off the disk (again, almost nobody ever password protects theirs). This just happened recently on a massive scale with the npm attacks. Or intercepts the first connection from a client host and, again, because nobody ever validates keys, injects a false host key, and now they're pwnd indefinitely. Or, again, companies that do not strictly validate host keys, meaning immediate MitM. There's like a dozen ways to compromise SSH. It doesn't have to be that way, but it is that way, because of how people use it.
by protomikron | 2026-02-11 16:12:45+00:00
If you think about it, it makes sense.

Say what you want about LLM-assisted software development, the chances are high that it will stay, meaning a non-trivial part of code will be written by an LLM.

So is it better to have

- git commit (mostly only code)
- magic or blackblock (meaning back and forth by developer with LLM, before commit)
- git commit (mostly only code)
...
(rinse and repeat)

or

- git commit (prompt and/or code)
- git commit (prompt and/or code)
...
(rinse and repeat)

Obviously for that to work the LLM output has to be deterministic and a commit chain has to be pinpointed to a specific weight blob.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-11 16:12:51+00:00
There was research last year [0] finding significant security issues with the Chinese-made Unitree robots, apparently being pre-configured to make it easy to exfiltrate data via wi-fi or BLE. I know it's not the same situation, but at this stage, I wouldn't blame anyone for "absurd threat porn fantasy" - the threats are real, and present-day agentic AI is getting really good at autonomously exploiting vulnerabilities, whether it's an external attacker using it, or whether "the call is coming from inside the house".

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit
by piltdownman | 2026-02-11 16:12:57+00:00
Ah, the Joe Rogan school of geopolitics finally rears its HGH malformed head

{1}https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wales-englan...
{2}https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d...
{3}https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tommy-robinson-uk-speech-cla...

Most of the erroneous conclusions come from a cursory interpretation of a Times article from last year:

{4} https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

In 2023, UK police forces made around 12,000 arrests under the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988. These laws cover sending messages that are "grossly offensive, threatening, indecent, or menacing over communications networks" (which includes social media). Prosecutions resulting tend to come from a small subset of serious crimes - stalking, incitement to hatred, endangering minors etc...

This was gleefully misinterpreted by Musk, Steven Forbes and the rest of the right-wing braintrust as "12,000 people were arrested for saying politically incorrect things."

Germany at third highest is equally in the realm of complete fantasy. The Tagesschau debunked it and concluded that the German numbers make no sense. There is no statistic in Germany for the number of arrests, but the number of people investigated is lower for the period claimed and not all led to arrests so the number is simply a fabrication.

https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/grafik-festnahmen-onl...

Finally, the notion that China or Russia would self-report less cases than the UK and expect the figure to be believed is farcical. There isn't even something comparable to the anti-activism laws or the HK47 in the UK.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-11 16:13:03+00:00
Recycling works best when you have a big lump of bulk material which can be melted down and reforged/recast. Aluminum cans are some of the best objects for recycling because apart from the labels they are almost pure aluminum, and so you just toss them in a furnace and get the constituent material back.

Electronics are the exact opposite of this: they’re highly heterogenous, with bits of material scattered all over the place. Also, most of that material isn’t particularly valuable: silicon is literally as abundant as sand. So all you can really do is melt it all into slag or dissolve it in acid and then try to extract the trace amounts of valuable bits like gold, but this is so energy-intensive for so little material that it’s not worth it at any reasonable material price.