MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swongel | 2026-02-24 20:39:43+00:00
Regardless of the poor security guarentees and or personal disinterest in such a service. I don't think services which offer continuous services should ever have a "lifetime" price. With a lifetime subscription the incentive of the company is to offer poor service, or to stop alltogether when revenue from growth is no longer outpacing operating costs. I'd much prefer it if the $29/lifetime would just be $29 / 4 years instead, it would make me much more secure in onboarding onto your proprietary service as I would feel more secure about it's future existence.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-24 20:40:00+00:00
>unless you mean it was submitted less than 4 days ago

maybe you are unaware, but you can browse HN without an account. its not like i can only see posts made in the last 4 days.

second, i saw the original post because it was posted in this very comment chain we are on, 5 hours ago, by bondarchuk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137961).

my turn! what is your comment trying to accomplish by cross-examining me about something completely unrelated? what point are you trying to make?

if you think my comment is wrong, you should talk about the contents of the comment, not the age of my account.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-24 20:40:03+00:00
> Even now there is nothing preventing anyone here from making something for millions of dollars.

Any one person might. But the system is setup such that's it's almost impossible for everyone to do well.

> Communist counties tend to gate keep even more. To the point that it is entirely who you know, with little concern to what you do.

And in capitalist countries, it's how much money you have. Swings and roundabouts.
by ghaff | 2026-02-24 20:40:19+00:00
I've had luggage delayed many times relative to the amount I actually check luggage.

There were a few insurance policy things that my adjuster pushed back on (no code upgrades) and there were a number of things that would have just been silly for me not to pay for when walls were being repaintedd and opened up. There was a fire inspector because of the size of the claim. But it was pretty reasonable overall--although of people wouldn't have had the available cash to do the whole job as it really needed o be done. And, given that a couple of contractors, saved my butt in the middle of the winter, I wasn't going to push back too hard.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-24 20:40:21+00:00
Abstract: "Retractions are the primary mechanism for correcting the scholarly record, yet publishers differ markedly in how they use them. We present a bibliometric analysis of 46,087 retractions across 10 major publishers using data from the Retraction Watch database (1997-2026), examining retraction rates, reasons, temporal trends, and geographic distributions, among other dimensions. Normalized retraction rates vary by two orders of magnitude, from Elsevier's 3.97 per 10,000 publications to Hindawi's 320.02. China-affiliated authors account for the largest share of retractions at every publisher. Retraction lags and reason profiles also vary widely across publishers. Among the ten publishers, ACM is an outlier in its retraction profile. ACM's normalized rate is mid-range (5.65), yet 98.3% of its 354 retractions are related to one incident. Seven of the ten most common global retraction reasons (including misconduct, plagiarism, and data concerns) are entirely absent from ACM's record. ACM's first retraction dates to 2020, despite a catalog dating to 1997. ACM self-describes its retraction threshold as "extremely high." We discuss this threshold in relation to the COPE retraction guidelines and the implications of ACM's non-public dark archive of removed works."
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:40:48+00:00
the interesting thing from a practitioner perspective is how much the actual cost of using AI has dropped even while these capex numbers are astronomical. generating images is down to $0.003 each, TTS is 8x cheaper than it was a year ago, and you can produce a full AI-generated video for under $2 in API costs.

the disconnect between infrastructure spending and unit economics reminds me of the fiber optic overbuild in the early 2000s. enormous capital was wasted on capacity that took a decade to fill, but the people who built on top of cheap bandwidth did extremely well. the value capture for AI is likely going to be similar - not in the model providers but in the applications that use cheap inference as a building block.
by simonw | 2026-02-24 20:41:09+00:00
Most people suck at playing the piano. Most people suck at prompting coding agents. If you practice either of those things you'll get better at them.

I really don't understand the "stop telling me I'm holding it wrong" argument. You probably are holding it wrong!

Is this born out of some weird belief that "AI" is meant to be science fiction technology that you don't ever need to learn how to use?

That would help explain why conversations like this are full of people who claim to get great results and other people who say every time they've tried it the results have been terrible.
by PKop | 2026-02-24 20:41:17+00:00
No it is not the same with LLMs because LLMs are a multiplier that makes the overall work less compared to without them, and that includes support burden. "Support" is a hand wavy word to dismiss the fact that it consists of writing code and fixing bugs, all of which LLMs can help massively with now. They meaningfully change software engineering which you are ignoring when you assume the same cost of pre-LLM development on multiple platforms.
by dubcanada | 2026-02-24 20:41:17+00:00
You'd have better luck mailing a letter, but to be honest the kind of "sending a letter and getting a reply from the CEO or some sort of higher up" is long gone unfortunately. There is a few exceptions, but all of them are for very old private companies. You will never get a reply from Pepsi as a kid with a new flavour idea. Or Disney about a new ride for that matter.
by johanvts | 2026-02-24 20:41:19+00:00
I think at least in EU most people don’t want to buy sub 200mile range EVs. There has been many options, especially from stellantis that have all more or less flopped. Could be other reasons but for me its nice to know that charging happens about when i need a break anyway, so about 4 hours of highway driving is nice to have. I dont need it for 95% of my trips, but I also want to be able to use my car for the last 5%. These new small range cars seems targeted at people who have another car for long trips.
by andyferris | 2026-02-24 20:41:23+00:00
There were parallel anti-competitive behavior cases brought against Apple and Google.

Apple was deemed not to be anticompetitive in app stores because there was no existing market of app stores on iOS. Google was more open in allowing other app stores, but deemed anticompetitive by discouraging their use relative to the Play store.

The irony is the more open player was deemed more anticompetitive. OP is saying Google is “fixing” their anticompetitive behavior by eliminating alternative app stores entirely.
by nmeagent | 2026-02-24 20:41:26+00:00
> That freedom must be balanced against the interests of the rest of society to avoid risk from certain kinds of harm which can easily proliferate in an environment where any program can run with the full authority of the owner and malware spreads willy-nilly.

No, no, a thousand times no. This is an argument for authoritarian clampdown on general computing and must be opposed by all means necessary. I have the right to run whatever code I wish on my own damn property without the permission of arbitrary authorities or whatever subset of society you favor, and if you or they have a problem with this, you or they can proceed to pound sand.
by exceptione | 2026-02-24 20:41:31+00:00
> long before the Charlie Kirk assassination.

True. The free speech narratives are mere tools against opposition by promoting the most childish and stupidly rigid interpretations thereof, not something they really believe in. The whole conservative project is doomed from the start as it has to confront science and progress like the emancipation by women, lgbt people and certain ethnicities.

> or the left wing, for that matter;

Both sides is uncalled for. Far left and the horse shoe, sure, but a) far left is very fringe, and b) lets not equate them with a well funded actual insurrection of oligarch and white nationalists with a paramilitary.
by zzzeek | 2026-02-24 20:41:33+00:00
> CEO Dario Amodei repeatedly has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the dangers of fully autonomous armed drones and of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent.

I mean sure, he has ethical concerns. But especially with the mass surveillance part, it's simply a good business decision. Claude's bread and butter are millions of developers who are overwhelmingly opposed to government surveillance activities. Giving that up so that Hegseth can do a few more war crimes before he gets fired in 2027 after the midterms for being a drunken idiot is not worth the enormous hit to Anthropic's credibility across its primary customer base.
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-24 20:41:35+00:00
I get it. 4 years old is a threshold. After that you can reason with them. Before that they are just mini terminators.

I guess parenting is a bit easier if your interests/work align with the kid’s interests. But if not then it’s going to be tough, because parents only have time to do one thing extra, so they either have to ignore the kids and do what they love, or forfeit what they love and do what the kids may or may not want.

And then most kids are average in most of the ways but have sparks here and there, so it’s again the question of “do I invest here for a bunch of money and one year or just skip for the next?”. My father was very into building me as a pianist and a math wizard from early on, neither of which I had strong interests in, but nevertheless I dragged on for many years. I think he gave up the Math part when I was in early middle school and the piano part when I said I don’t want to go to a music school.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I cost him a whole career. He was one of the top Mathematicians in my country back then but he didn’t publish much after I was born. All for what? I don’t want to repeat his mistake.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:41:37+00:00
the practical benefit that nobody mentions is boot time. stock lenovo BIOS on a kaby lake thinkpad does a bunch of pointless hardware enumeration and memory training on every cold boot - easily 8-15 seconds before your bootloader even runs. coreboot with a tuned config cuts that to under 2 seconds. if you reboot a lot during development that adds up fast.

also worth noting: the porting work described here is a good example of how much easier coreboot ports have gotten. the x270 shares enough silicon init code with the x280 that most of the heavy lifting was already done. five years ago this would have been a multi-month project, not a weekend hack.
by andai | 2026-02-24 20:41:51+00:00
I just gave it a dedicated `agent` user. So it's free to blow up its own files, but not mine.

(Looked into the docker stuff and realized the only thing I actually cared about was it reading/writing my files and that Unix solved that problem like 60 years ago)

I'm not hooking it up to my email, but I will probably give it its own account that I can forward stuff to.

For most people I think the appropriate way to run it is on a Raspberry Pi (or mac mini, as the trend goes :)

I realized I could fiddle with docker and have constant inconvenience and still stress about did I set it up right.. or just give it its own box (pi or VPS) for $5 and if it blows it up I just reset it.

Having Claude as my sysadmin there is fun too. I obviously wouldn't use that for anything serious though. But in a year or two, that might not even be such a bad idea. At this point reliability is really the missing feature.
by Tharre | 2026-02-24 20:42:33+00:00
I understand how passkeys work. You don't need the legitimate app's credentials, we're talking about phishing attacks, you're trying to bring the victim to giving you access/control to their account without them realizing that that's what is happening.

A simple scenario adapted from the one given in the android blog post: the attacker calls the victim and convinces them that their banking account is compromised, and they need to act now to secure it. The scammer tells the victim, that their account got compromised because they're using and outdated version of the banking app that's no longer suppported. He then walks them through "updating" their app, effectively going through the "new device" workflow - except the new device is the same as the old one, just with the backdoored app.

You can prevent this with attestation of course, essentially giving the bank's backend the ability to verify that the credentials are actually tied to their app, and not some backdoored version. But now you have a "blessed" key that's in the hands of Google or Apple or whomever, and everyone who wants to run other operating systems or even just patched versions of official apps is out of luck.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-24 20:42:37+00:00
I’ve told you that access was not a problem at all. All your questioning is because you can’t grasp my lived reality. You think I’m mistaken, but actually I just don’t care to try to convince you because you’re already so sure.

Disinterest was what really “saved” me from these vices but lacking that, it was my parents. I also had access to perfectly legal things that were bad for me that I actually wanted and it was my parents who helped me there too; no mandatory ID required.
by the_af | 2026-02-24 20:42:51+00:00
This is an extremely cute, cool and fun experiment. Kudos.

That said, I wonder: does the dog input matter? It seems this is simply surfacing Claude's own encoded assumptions of what a game is (yes, the feedback loop, controls, etc, are all interesting parts of the experiment).

How would this differ if instead of dog input, you simply plugged /dev/random into it? In other words, does the input to the system matter at all?

The article seems to acknowledge this:

> If there’s a takeaway beyond the spectacle, it’s this: the bottleneck in AI-assisted development isn’t the quality of your ideas - it’s the quality of your feedback loops. The games got dramatically better not when I improved the prompt, but when I gave Claude the ability to screenshot its own work, play-test its own levels, and lint its own scene files.

I'll go further: it's not only not "the bottleneck", it simply doesn't matter. The dog's ideas certainly didn't matter, and the dog didn't think of the feedback loop for Claude either.
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by stewrat | 2026-02-24 20:43:31+00:00
A fun little weekend side project for a reading group I am putting together with friends.

I have always been interested in religious history and it is fun to draw parallels or find notable deviations in their belief structures.
Inspired by the skill tree from Path Of Exile, I built this node graph of major world religions, as well as parallel philosophies and axioms associated with spiritual thought.

There are other diagrammatic maps of the world religions, but this one focuses on their meaningful deviations in thought ("the split") and also by building constellations of historical events that crossed faith-based lines. Each node has a corresponding text to look at, and I think it will be a fun way to navigate learning about the various ways humans have cultivated meaning through time.

Would love some feedback or suggestions!
by ignoramous | 2026-02-24 20:43:45+00:00
> All the hospitals are now rubble

Hospitals may have been used for retaliation [0], but it is unclear how many & in what capacity (according to accepted conventions, using a hospital to treat wounded combatants wouldn't make it a valid military target, for example; but hiding weapons or personnel would).

[0] One such recent report: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:44:41+00:00
the killer feature of e-ink for this use case is power consumption. an e-ink display draws zero power to maintain an image - it only uses power during a refresh. for a bus schedule that updates every 60 seconds, you are looking at maybe 50mW average vs 500mW+ for an always-on LCD. that means you can run it off a small battery with solar for months without touching it.

the ghosting issue people mention is real but largely solved on newer e-ink panels with partial refresh modes. the Kindle 4 used in this project supports partial refresh which avoids the full black-white flash and cuts refresh time to ~250ms.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-24 20:44:48+00:00
Exactly. I own over 50 computers, if you count some low powered SBCs. But even those can run lightweight Linux.

That’s enough for me to distribute a few freedom devices to friends and neighbors, and still have extras to account for normal failures.

I also hoard source code, and will happily distribute that with the computers! Maybe that’s “programmer brained,” if so then fine by me!
by squidbeak | 2026-02-24 20:45:06+00:00
If Wagner's rapturous welcome in Rostov was typical elsewhere, he wouldn't have needed to run a military dictatorship.

He seemed to lose his nerve after his call with Lukashenko. It's tough to imagine it being anything other than a threat to his family, in which case it was a schoolboy error to fail to secure them before launching the rebellion.
by lilytweed | 2026-02-24 20:45:13+00:00
Forensic Architecture are great. I remember their work being very hot in the international art scene around ~2018 (when they were nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, among others - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-prize-2...).

Not sure if they're still fêted as artists or have moved away from that label. I still find their approach completely mesmerizing nevertheless.
by londons_explore | 2026-02-24 20:45:15+00:00
Optimus could do really well if they had all the smartest robotics engineers working on it...

But it seems that ~80% of the smart people I know refuse to work for Musk on principle, and the remaining 20% prefer to work somewhere that pays well (Musk companies do not).

End result is he has a team of mediocre engineers working on it which is why their demos appear years behind some competitors like Boston dynamics and Unitree.

I think the same is happening to Tesla cars (not much innovation in the last few years).
by microtonal | 2026-02-24 20:45:35+00:00
When I was probably 10 or so, one of the largest computer magazines in the country had a job for a 'junior writer'. My 10yo brain did not realize that junior meant 'just finished the relevant education' and though 'hey, I'm a junior'. So I just called them up and the guy on the other side of the line was clearly confused what to say to me not to disappoint me too much and mumbled something like "the person responsible for hiring is not around". In hindsight, it's pretty ballsy for a kid to just call, if I had to do it ten/fifteen years later I'd have been pretty nervous.

I'm a bit sad that we lose that innocent, carefree attitude later in life.
by doxxedanon | 2026-02-24 20:45:35+00:00
"This study was approved by ETH Zurich’s Ethics Review Board (ERB)."

Truly unbelievable. I'm shocked people can do this without getting immediately prosecuted.

The discourse surrounding this paper on social media is appalling, and the expected political fanatics are salivating at the opportunity of going for the jobs of people who post thoughtcrime on the internet.

These people don't forget and don't forgive, so you could be on the hook for something you posted 15 years ago. What was Anthropic thinking!
by pibaker | 2026-02-24 20:45:57+00:00
It's like how people misunderstand trust. "I trust open source software because I can review the code." No you don't. If you need to review the code then you are already not trusting it. Same deal with "honor" — the entire point of honor is you don't need eyes everywhere to look for misbehavior. You trust people to do the right thing. There is no trust in a police state.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:46:06+00:00
the HN migration from Racket to SBCL is probably the best real-world case study for SBCLs native code compiler quality. going from pages of comments needing pagination to rendering everything in one shot is not a minor optimization - thats an order of magnitude improvement in throughput for a real production workload.

what doesnt get mentioned enough is SBCLs type inference. if you add type declarations to hot paths, the compiler generates code that rivals hand-optimized C. the REPL-driven development workflow where you can redefine functions in a running system is still unmatched by anything in the modern tooling ecosystem.
by cxr | 2026-02-24 20:46:14+00:00
It may be using some of the same deserialization machinery, but "parsing" is a broad term that includes things that the sanitizer is doing and that the browser's ordinary content-processing → rendering path does not.

Even with this being a native API, there are still two parsers that need to be maintained. What a native API achieves is to shift the onus for maintaining synchronicity onto the browser makers. That's not nothing, but it's also not the sort of free lunch that some people naively believe it is.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-24 20:46:31+00:00
> Protecting from scams isn't protection from the victim themselves.

That is where we differ. It is, ultimately, the victim of a scam who makes the choice of "yes, this person is trustworthy and I will do what they say". The only way to prevent that is to block the user from having the power to make that decision, which is to say protecting them from themselves.
by snowhale | 2026-02-24 20:46:44+00:00
this is the underreported second-order risk. Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix all allocated HBM capacity based on hyperscaler capex projections. NAND fabs are similarly committed. a 57% reduction in projected OpenAI spend (.4T -> B) doesn't just affect NVIDIA orders -- it ripples into the memory suppliers who shifted capacity to HBM and away from commodity DRAM/NAND. if multiple hyperscalers revise down simultaneously you get a situation similar to the 2019 crypto ASIC overhang: companies tooled up for demand that evaporated. not predicting that, but the purchasing commitments question is real.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:46:48+00:00
nice approach with the Nix packaging - reproducible builds for this kind of testing infrastructure is important because you need the exact same chaos injection behavior across CI runs.

one feature suggestion: adding a mode that replays real network traces from pcap files instead of synthetic chaos profiles. the synthetic ones are useful for regression testing but real-world network conditions have correlations between loss and jitter that are hard to model with independent random variables. you could capture traces from actual cellular connections during drives and replay them deterministically.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-02-24 20:46:59+00:00
As it's hosted on CSAIL, I was somewhat disappointed by the code quality section:

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/code-quality/

Although it's specifically code quality, not software quality, I feel so much is missing. Of course there is no space to explain it in detail, but they could at least list/mention things like complexity, maintainability, modularity etc.
by mirekrusin | 2026-02-24 20:47:19+00:00
1.4T was estimate by gpt4/5, 600b by gpt5.3?

they'll probably fix it just like they did fix strawberry

their estimates will drop by ~20x which will be their max

as underdog in the race they'll grab fraction of even that

where are they planning to get that much money from? by showing adverts for 14h before you can prompt?