MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overgard | 2026-02-14 05:51:47+00:00
What contingency plan is there exactly? At best you're just going from an automated-already job to a soon-to-be-automated job. Yay?

I'm baffled that so many people think that only developers are going to be hit and that we especially deserve it. If AI gets so good that you don't need people to understand code anymore, I don't know why you'd need a project manager anymore either, or a CFO, or a graphic designer, etc etc. Even the people that seem to think they're irreplaceable because they have some soft power probably aren't. Like, do VC funds really need humans making decisions in that context..?

Anyway, the practical reason why I'm not screaming in terror right now is because I think the hype machine is entirely off the rails and these things can't be trusted with real jobs. And honestly, I'm starting to wonder how much of tech and social media is just being spammed by bots and sock puppets at this point, because otherwise I don't understand why people are so excited about this hypothetical future. Yay, bots are going to do your job for you while a small handful of business owners profit. And I guess you can use moltbot to manage your not-particularly-busy life of unemployment. Well, until you stop being able to afford the frontier models anyway, which is probably going to dash your dream of vibe coding a startup. Maybe there's a handful of winners, until there's not, because nobody can afford to buy services on a wage of zero dollars. And anyone claiming that the abundance will go to everyone needs to get their head checked.
by carabiner | 2026-02-14 05:52:08+00:00
I loved the oktrends blog and read Christian Rudder's book dataclysm, but these data are over a decade old. A lot has changed (pandemic, atomized culture, manosphere, incels, gym obsession, decline of drinking / going out) I have to wonder how much is still valid. OkCupid was the best dating site ever though.
by agentultra | 2026-02-14 05:52:09+00:00
I’m not worried about a world without people.

I’m more worried that even if these tools do a bad job people will be too addicted to the convenience to give them up.

Example: recruiters locked into an AI arms race with applicants. The application summaries might be biased and contain hallucinations. The resumes are often copied wholesale from some chat bot or other. Nobody wins, the market continues to get worse, but nobody can stop either.
by nl | 2026-02-14 05:52:11+00:00
> I’m simply reposting accurate and direct information that is already public and already highlighted by TFA.

No you aren't. To quote:

> There ought to be social consequences for using machines to mindlessly and recklessly libel people.

Ars didn't libel anyone. They misquoted with manufactured quotes, but the quotes weren't libelous in anyway because they weren't harmful to his reputation.

Indeed, you are closer to libel than they are.

For example, if these quotes were added during some automated editing processes by Ars rather than the authors themselves then your statement is both harmful to their reputation and false.

> These people should never publish for a professional outlet like Ars ever again. Publishing entirely hallucinated quotes without fact checking is a fireable offense in my book.

That's going perilously close to calling for them to be sacked over something which I think everyone would acknowledge is a mistake.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-14 05:52:24+00:00
Is there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?

Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter

- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.

I expected better from HN :/

Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan

> - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack

How much traffic did you get out of substack?
by grishka | 2026-02-14 05:52:38+00:00
The one related thing that has always driven me a bit crazy on iOS (which I hardly ever use, only for testing) compared to Android (which I've been using daily since 2011) is how touches register slightly higher than where you're physically tapping. This alone makes hitting small-ish targets, including keyboard keys, quite challenging and infuriating. This does seem intentional too, as it depends neither on the device model nor on the OS version, it's been like that for over a decade at this point.
by lawrencechen | 2026-02-14 05:53:19+00:00
I also personally prefer running agents locally instead of in the cloud. For some reason, it feels easier to steer Claude Code when it's running in my terminal vs steering something in the cloud. Maybe part of it is the latency from typing into ssh'd TUIs, and this is something that a GUI can solve... but I still feel more at home with Claude Code/codex in the CLI vs something like Claude Code Web/Codex Cloud. Part of it is likely reliability and "time to first token that AI responded that I can see." But local has tradeoff of conflicting ports/other resources, lag (maybe it's time to upgrade my M1 Max 64gb...), and slight latency incurred since LLM calls have slightly more network latency.

Curious to hear more about your local orchestration platform, how did you solve resource sharing (mainly ports for web stuff tbh)? Or is it more intra-task vs inter-task parallelism?
by andsoitis | 2026-02-14 05:53:26+00:00
> Still, funny how you ignored IRCs/forums that I mentioned. Those were used by MANY people, and could scale infinitely.

At its peak (late 1990s to early 2000s), IRC was estimated to have about 3–4 million concurrent users worldwide at any given moment, with tens of millions of total users over time.

Pales in comparison with the scale that’s needed today, given the number of people, variety of media, and bandwidth required.
by dahart | 2026-02-14 05:54:08+00:00
Promotion of anything at all is advertising, with or without compensation. The word advertising is pretty well defined, and the dictionary definitions don’t usually mention compensation, e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertise.

An example I’m sure you would consider advertising - consider Google advertising Google Fiber in Google search results, or Facebook advertising business services on Facebook, or Apple, Netflix, Cinemark advertising their own shows & products in their own channels. You’ve seen lots of these, I’m sure you would consider them ads, but it’s not the compensation that makes them ads.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-14 05:54:36+00:00
Nearly all decisions are recoverable. Most things are rather low risk, and when there is significant risk there's typically a way to hedge that risk, like through insurance or contingencies. You'll make countless decisions in life and at most 1 might kill you.

In nearly all circumstances where you're actually fretting over the decision, you're choosing between two reasonable options. It's unlikely one option will be substantially more recoverable than the other, and if you're still considering it anyways you likely have a good reason.

I think the better way of evaluating tough decisions is to think about which choice leaves you in a better position to make the next choice. The real dilemma in almost every decision is the uncertainty, and typically you'll learn a lot more from trying one thing than the other. Oftentimes also choosing a particular order to try different options leaves more options open later on.

Further, I notice that a lot of people see dilemmas where they don't exist. Practically every week I'm in a meeting where there is a heated discussion of whether to do A or B when we have to do A regardless of whether or not we do B and almost invariably the question of whether or not to do B will be answered by doing A.
by echelon | 2026-02-14 05:54:38+00:00
> If you're in your 40s you aren't looking to date people in their 20s.

My building is full of divorced 40-somethings dating younger. You see it all over media too. Leonardo DiCaprio is famous for this, and he's hardly the only one.

Women date younger too. My wife's TikTok is full of women empowerment videos; the number of videos on her feed that talk about this is not inconsequential.

Plenty of people to date.
by selylindi | 2026-02-14 05:55:20+00:00
The meat of this paper is applying the "person-affecting stance" to the question of timing. There's a lot of philosophy background in that phrase, but the paper describes the key distinction well on page 4:

> In particular, we may distinguish between a person-affecting perspective, which focuses on the interests of existing people, and an impersonal perspective, which extends consideration to all possible future generations that may or may not come into existence depending on our choices.

In philosophy, it's always fine to see where ideas lead. For the rest of us, though, we might take pause here because the "person-affecting" perspective is insane in this context. It gives full moral status to the future life experiences of people who are alive now, and exactly zero moral status to the future life experiences of people who will be born any time after right now. (Don't worry about the fact that "now" keeps changing. That makes the theoretical problem worse, but the practical and moral problem is unchanged.) Wanna destroy the biosphere in a way that only really catches up to tomorrow's kids? Totally fine from the "person-affecting perspective", because future people aren't people (yet).
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-02-14 05:55:42+00:00
The two Seagate periods that stick out most to me:

Seagate bought Connor when Connor had released a several models w/
leaky seals. Bad sectors started at the outer edge of the
platters and grew inward.
Seagate refused to honor Connor's drive warranties.

The 7200.10 series had super high failure rates. I wound up replacing
every one I had out there within 2 years. The 7200.11 weren't much
better.

The last Seagate lines I truly trusted were the ST series of MFM and RLL drives.
by tokioyoyo | 2026-02-14 05:55:43+00:00
Looking from my surroundings, in my circles, women are way more picky than men. Across different races, age groups and etc. According to all of my girl friends, they don’t really need a man, especially of their life is ok right now. They can satisfy their sexual and non-sexual desires much easier without dating.

My guy friends though, they’re less picky and more desperate (in a good way). This basically works out for guys constantly “looking”, but the girls not as much so. So you have an imbalance.

It’s much easier from one perspective in the gay world, because we can satisfy our sexual desires much easier. However, it also becomes complex once we seek something that’s more than sexual relationship.

I look at it as a physiological problem that I can’t see an online solution to. It basically needs to be cultural, where women and men meet each other in the middle ground. But good luck with that in 2026z
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-14 05:56:12+00:00
It sparks more joy than the old one and buddy, that's for frelling enough damn it. Whinge out!

Awful comment. Your comment is bad and should be ashamed.

Use it and disagree! Tell me it in fact does not spark more joy! This just seems pretty clear, ya'll.

It's just generally vastly nicer. I love that file exploration of packages doesn't feel like a last afterthought before leaving the solar system forever.
by alden5 | 2026-02-14 05:56:17+00:00
Having public investors forces companies to try their best to make a profit with the threat that you could get sued if you don’t. Sacrificing short term gains for long term goals is something public companies aren’t really good at. One good example where not having public investors has drastically helped a company is spacex. Almost every one of their programs has had really bad failures that public investors could’ve investigated and shut down. As someone who worked for them I really don’t want them to become public, forcing a company to do that seems crazy.
by zeroCalories | 2026-02-14 05:58:01+00:00
This is just my own observations, but I find that when cutting calories I need to really optimize the rest of my life to avoid crashing in energy. Sleeping well, no alcohol, plenty of caffeine, lots of water and electrolytes, and time my carb intake. Doing a simple deficient will usually either not work, or lead to my energy completely crashing.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-14 05:58:16+00:00
> Your framing is weirdly disingenuous

I am not surprised that you can't understand that the quote I am making is obviously parodying the OP as disingenuous. Given our previous interactions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938446), it is clear you don't understand much things about AI and/or LLMs, or, perhaps, basic communication, at all.
by hliyan | 2026-02-14 05:59:12+00:00
I'm not sure whether this is an artefact of translation, but things like this don't inspire confidence:

> The "Modern Data Stack" (MDS) is a hot concept in data engineering in recent years, referring to a cloud-native, modular, decoupled combination of data infrastructure

https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/m...

Later parts are better and more to the point though: https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/m...

Edit: perhaps I judged to early. The RAG sections isn't bad either: https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/m...
by northlondoner | 2026-02-14 06:01:03+00:00
Message Passing, is a fascinating subject. One of the early prominent project was/is MPI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface ). So many great concepts and high-level abstractions are developed by the outstanding researchers in MPI. NATS, probably serves in the era of the "larger" Internet (as MPI mostly designed for local clusters).
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-02-14 06:01:49+00:00
The ways that data has been weaponized to amplify insecure people's fear of social change and "others" in order to vote against their own economic interests are novel and fascinating. Yes, obviously the pattern has played out before the internet. But if you approach it with curiosity rather than writing it off because it looks similar on the surface to something you've seen before, it's actually very interesting.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-14 06:02:21+00:00
Thanks, this helps. I hope you understand tho that it can be hard for me to shift my linguistics in a day but I will definitely try to take this into account if I ever write professionally.

I like writing in HN because its fun & spontaneous. Some people write really crafted messages and I love reading those too :D but I am not sure if I might enjoy the site without such spontaneity, but I also liked reading how you trimmed my message and thinking process behind it. So no guarantees but I have favourited this comment for reading it whenever I want :D

I feel this comment can/will definitely help me in professional writing contexts, something which I struggle with. [In concising what I want to say]

This suggestion is helpful. Do you have any normal blogs I can read about this or something to read/learn more in my free-time?

Also, I definitely appreciate you taking time out of your day to write this message so have a nice day!
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-14 06:03:25+00:00
OP's original comment is something that is actually happening in a bunch of comments on this very thread, and yours...not even remotely. You certainly tried to paint it as disingenuous but it really just fell flat. I'm not surprised you failed to understand that though.

>Given our previous interactions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938446), it is clear you don't understand much things about AI and/or LLMs at all.

Sure, Whatever makes you happy I guess.
by ares623 | 2026-02-14 06:04:03+00:00
There's one aspect that doesn't come up often enough as well, and I think something most people are too afraid to even imagine about.

What happens when you have a surplus of able bodied young people who are angry and without purpose? What's the easiest way to divert all that anger and give them purpose at the same time?

People in developing nations worked around this by immigrating.
by SergeAx | 2026-02-14 06:05:41+00:00
Google is notorious for creating bad products, and right now, Gravity is the worst ML-assisted code editor on the market, IMO.

Also, I personally experienced a mishap when Google ML-chat was unable to sync chats between the web and mobile clients. To my embarrassment, it turned out that I was using Gemini on the mobile and AI Studio on the web. How Google managed to create two similar products - I don't know, but it was obviously a tremendous misallocation of resources.
by remslave | 2026-02-14 06:06:15+00:00
Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Matrix can be bridged to Discord as well so you can talk between either, should help ease the transition period for anyone jumping ship.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-14 06:06:42+00:00
Replaced by 'profitably' :)

Mission statements are pure nonsense though. I had a boss that would lock us in a room for a day to come up with one and then it would go in a nice picture frame and nobody would ever look at it again or remember what it said lol. It just feels like marketing but daily work is nothing like what it says on the tin.
by danielroe | 2026-02-14 06:07:26+00:00
npmx maintainer here! a few answers to questions i see:

we haven’t launched yet! we’re building openly but aiming for march 3. as is par for the course, hn gets the scoop.

i made the first commit two weeks ago, so it’s very new. but we’ve had 900+ PRs and 170+ contributors in the last fortnight… because this is something we care about.

having said that, i’m taking notes about what is and isn’t intuitive

npmjs remains the source of truth for the registry, which is why we get our data from there

but along the way we add a lot of features, like:
- claiming new packages from the ui
- batch admin operations for your orgs, teams and packages
- total install size, vulnerabilities and deprecations for your transitive dependencies
- generated docs for packages
- linkable package contents
- and more
by int_19h | 2026-02-14 06:08:24+00:00
I've seen it mostly on far left servers in US.

Pleroma is Mastodon server software. For a bunch of essentially random reasons, it was popular among right-wingers setting up their Mastodon instances, and some servers responded by blocking any Mastodon server running it outright. A subset of those would also block any server not blocking Pleroma like they do.
by Frannky | 2026-02-14 06:08:46+00:00
It's interesting how there may be an implicit assumption that imposing more rules on tech will lead to positive outcomes. From my perspective, technology is like reality itself: very difficult to control, with countless ways to achieve the desired result while circumventing the rules. And what's the actual result? Just look at the market capitalization of European companies compared to US companies...
Or maybe it just feels good to add new rules and engage in virtue-signaling contests. Or maybe it's just a way to make everything illegal—'find me the person, and I'll find you the crime' type of control. Maybe a combination of all those. Who knows?
From my experience, the farther you get from the influence of bureaucrats, the happier life becomes...
by sarchertech | 2026-02-14 06:11:11+00:00
It’s definitely possible that there’s an impact that is bad but not cataclysmic. I figure in thst case though my regular savings is enough to switch to something else. I could retire now if I was willing to move somewhere cheap and live on $60k a year. There’s a lot of things that could cause that level of recession though without the need for AI.

I do also think the mid level bad outcome isn’t super likely because of AI is good enough to replace a lot of white collar jobs, I think it could replace almost all of them.
by imiric | 2026-02-14 06:11:48+00:00
> Certainly, an AI that can design weapons of mass destruction could be an existential threat to humanity. But so, too, is a system that subtly manipulates an entire world to lose its ability to perceive reality.

So, like, social media and adtech?

Judging by how little humanity is preoccupied with global manipulation campaigns via technology we've been using for decades now, there's little chance that this new tech will change that. It can only enable manipulation to grow in scale and effectiveness. The hype and momentum have never been greater, and many people have a lot to gain from it. The people who have seized power using earlier tech are now in a good position to expand their reach and wealth, which they will undoubtedly do.

FWIW I don't think the threats are existential to humanity, although that is certainly plausible. It's far more likely that a few people will get very, very rich, many people will be much worse off, and most people will endure and fight their way to get to the top. The world will just be a much shittier place for 99.99% of humanity.
by kevinfiol | 2026-02-14 06:12:09+00:00
> Kamala Harris's threat to tax unrealized gains just prior to the election is probably why we have Donald Trump in office today

It was not a good policy and was unpopular with many Democrats, but I think there were several other more major contributing factors to why as Trump won (ex. general displeasure with inflation post-COVID, high emphasis on the asylum crisis/trans issues, plus only having 4 months lead-up time after Biden's withdrawal).
by llbbdd | 2026-02-14 06:12:59+00:00
It's not rushing to judgement, the judgement has been made. They published fraudulent quotes. Bubbling that liability up to Arse Technica is valuable for punishing them too but the journalist is ultimately responsible for what they publish too. There's no reason for any publication to ever hire them again when you can hire ChatGPT to lie for you.

EDIT: And there's no plausible deniability for this like there is for typos, or maligned sources. Nobody typed these quotes out and went "oops, that's not what Scott said". Benj Edwards or Kyle Orland pulled the lever on the bullshit slot machine and attacked someone's integrity with the result.

"In the past, though, the threat of anonymous drive-by character assassination at least required a human to be behind the attack. Now, the potential exists for AI-generated invective to infect your online footprint."
by dang | 2026-02-14 06:13:45+00:00
That's right—some users vouched for those 3 after we'd killed them.

That makes sense, because if you look at individual posts in isolation you might think they were unfairly killed. One needs to look at the posting history of the account as a whole to understand what the issue was.

(Btw, thanks for explaining the context in those other threads.)
by jameson | 2026-02-14 06:15:14+00:00
As a person working at social media I support this as well. I'm a hypocrite. I admit, but the pay is too good to find alternative.

Terms like "DAU" or "engagement" is common in our field and the primary objective is how to make users spend more time on our platform. We don't take safety or mental health seriously internally but only externally for PR reasons.

CEOs won't change that because the more time user spends on the platform, the more ad revenue it brings.

Only way is to regulate it.
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