MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gormo | 2026-02-24 03:23:51+00:00
No, addiction involves physical substances interacting with a person's biochemistry. Attempting to extend the concept of addiction to include positive emotions brought on by sensory experiences or behavior is a disingenuous rhetorical tactic.

It's simply not legitimate to redefine "addiction" as anything that people might have an emotional or psychological motivation to participate in.

People trying to use the same terminology to describe social media as is used to describe tobacco or alcohol are trying to sneakily attach the negative associations of those substances to something unrelated entirely to them.

This is a form of deception, and a silly one, since social media has lots of negative aspects that can be argued against in their own right, without needing to engage in manipulative dialog.
by voidhorse | 2026-02-24 03:24:57+00:00
That's precisely what makes it a "trick question" or a "riddle". It's weird precisely because all the information is there. Most people who have functioning brains and complete information don't ask pointless questions (they would, obviously, just drive their car to the car wash)—there's no functional or practical reason for the communication, which is what gives it the status of a puzzle—syntax and exploitation of our tendency to assume questions are asked because information is incomplete tricks us into brining outside considerations to bear that don't matter.
by tempestn | 2026-02-24 03:25:15+00:00
The one that always gets me is how they're insistent on giving 17-step instructions to any given problem, even when each step is conditional and requires feedback. So in practice you need to do the first step, then report the results, and have it adapt, at which point it will repeat steps 2-16. IME it's almost impossible to reliably prevent it from doing this, however you ask, at least without severely degrading the value of the response.
by freakynit | 2026-02-24 03:28:26+00:00
If most of your users are concentrated in the same (or nearby) time zones, your traffic can easily vary by 5–10x over a 24-hour period. In that case, 30% average CPU utilization doesn't mean you have 70% headroom at peak... it may already imply you're close to saturation during busy hours.

For example, if 30% is your daily average and your peak-to-average ratio is ~5x, you're effectively hitting 150% of capacity at peak. Obviously the system can't sustain that, so you'll see queueing, latency spikes, or throttling.

The 30% guideline makes sense if you care about strict SLAs and predictable latency under peak load. If you're more tolerant of temporary slowdowns, you could probably run closer to 60–70% average utilization, but you're explicitly trading off peak performance and tail latency to do so.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-24 03:28:38+00:00
So history has no relevance? Who is being unserious again?

Excuse me, but you're the one that started off with the insults, become emotional, adopted an aggressive tone and started swearing. Regardless, Ukraine won't exist without a working-age male population. I very much do understand what events transpired between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the present. I also don't view the situation in a vacuum nor do I pretend it's a simple case of bad guys versus good guys.
by henrikschroder | 2026-02-24 03:28:56+00:00
> those Europeans gatekeeping European ethnic identity

No no no, no-one is gatekeeping ethnicity. If you have Irish heritage, you have Irish heritage. That's a fact.

We're gatekeeping cultural identity and nationality, because these cosplaying Americans seem to think that their ethnicity confers culture and nationality by weird blood magic or something, and that's not how it works.

> if we ask them if an African who has been there for 5 years is English or German.

Someone who is not ethnically German, but has immigrated to Germany and speaks the language, is way more German than a cosplaying American whose parents and grandparents were all Americans, doesn't speak German, knows nothing about German culture, has never lived in Germany, but who has one ancestor who came from Germany.

If you're a first-generation immigrant, you get to choose what you identify as. If you speak the language of your new country and if you've become a citizen, sure, you can call yourself that. I don't think a lot of people will object to that.

Because, and this is the fuel for this clash, we care the most about culture and nationality, instead of heritage and ethnicity.

> Basically, if an American is claiming to be whatever

Because they're not, their culture is American, their nationality is American, they're American.

> But an Indian or African who arrived 5 years ago is a true blood Aussie mate, because saying anything else would be doing a racism.

No they're not, no it's not, and my what a lovely strawman you made up there.
by 453yuh46 | 2026-02-24 03:29:17+00:00
It seems, that people do not know that in USA there exists American ethnicity of relatively small population(for USA) - about 20 million that identifies themselves as Americans, so the quote is not correct.

However large majority of Americans have background of immigrants and they have right to claim their ancestry(though DNA companies are selling them as ancestry lineage their relatedness, which is not the same). You and other people that wants to gatekeep this have no right to decide for them what they want to identify as, just as Europeans nowadays are mixing up national identity and ethnic identity, which are not exact match even in Europe.
by kamaal | 2026-02-24 03:30:07+00:00
Oh well had a talk with a director at office. He says, instead of using AI to get more productive, people were using AI to get more lazy.

1)

What he means to say is, say you needed to get something done. You could ask AI to write you a Python script which does the job. Next time around you could use the same Python script. But that's not how people are using AI, they basically think of a prompt as the only source of input, and the output of the prompt as the job they want get done.

So instead of reusing the Python script, they basically re-prompt the same problem again and again.

While this gives an initial productivity boost, you now arrive at a new plateau.

2)

Second problem is ideally you must be using the Python script written once and improve it over time. An ever improving Python script over time should do most of your day job.

That's not happening. Instead since re-prompting is common, people are now executing a list of prompts to get complex work done, and then making it a workflow.

So ideally there should be a never ending productivity increase but when you sell a prompt as a product, people use it as a black box to get things done.

A lot of this has to do with lack of automation/programming mindset to begin with.
by jlawson | 2026-02-24 03:31:03+00:00
SKG is more like if the car company is required to provide a working factory, capable of manufacturing all the car's parts, along with working supply chains for all those things, to the car ownership "community", if they ever want to stop manufacturing that kind of car. They're required to do this for free.

You know, so the "community" can take it over and keep manufacturing parts to keep the car going forever.

Modern multiplayer game infrastructure is extremely complex; you don't just "hand over the server code". It's a massive multimillion dollar project to do anything analogous to that, and this project is mandatory and must be done for free. And no, gamers won't expect to pay any more because of SKG.
by andai | 2026-02-24 03:31:28+00:00
Interesting. Artificial does have a negative connotation to it, I never considered that.

Synthetic sounds more neutral, aside from bringing microplastics to my mind.

I guess the field of artificial life has the same issue.

As another comment pointed out, you don't necessarily need consciousness for intelligence. And you don't need either of those for goal oriented behavior.

My favorite example is the humble refrigerator. (The old one, without the microchips!) It has a goal (target temperature), it senses its environment (current temperature), and takes action based on that (turn cooling on or off).

A cuter example is the dandelion seed. It "wants" to fly. Obviously! So you can display goal directed behavior as the result of natural forces moving through you. (Arguably electricity and glucose also fall in that category, but... Yeah...)

LLMs, conscious or not, moved into that category this year, in a big way. (e.g. Opus and Codex routinely bypassing security restrictions in the pursuit of the goal.)

Does it really have goals, or does it merely appear to act as though it has them? Does it appear to act as though it has consciousness?

(I forget who said it: it won't really disrupt the global economic system, it will merely appear to do so ;)

Also, here I am! :)
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-24 03:31:40+00:00
I think this is the future of API's and it's super exciting. Instead of having to manually write out API's and server handlers you just provide an interface for the LLM to update the database with targeted, precise changes. You could either provide sql access with a skill file or create a lower level API for mutating tables and rows. Either way, the LLM can just make the required change and that also enables the app to grow dynamically - AI could even spawn new tables and columns if necessary.
by voidhorse | 2026-02-24 03:32:29+00:00
You're not making a fair comparison.

"What's 2 + 2" is a completely abstract question for mathematics that human beings are thoroughly trained mostly to associate with tests of mastery and intelligence.

The car wash question is not such a question. It is framed as a question regarding a goal oriented, practical behavior, and in this situation it would be bizarre for a person to ask you this (since a rational person having all the information in the prompt, knowing what cars are, which they own, and knowing what a car wash is, wouldn't ask anybody anything, they'd just drive their car to the car wash).

And as someone else noted there are in fact situations in which it actually can be reasonable to ask for more context on what you mean by "2 + 2". You're just pointing out that human beings use a variety of social mores when interpreting messages, which is precisely why the car wash question silly/a trick were a human being to ask you and not preceded the question with a statement like "we're going to take an examine to test your logical reasoning".

As with LLMs, interpretation is all about context. The people that find this question weird (reasonably) interpret it in a practical context, not in a "this is a logic puzzle context" because human beings wags cats far more often than they subject themselves to logic puzzles.
by spooner07 | 2026-02-24 03:33:31+00:00
I recently went down a rabbit hole researching the how Gmail won email. What fascinated me wasn't just the 1GB of storage, but how it forced incumbents like Yahoo and Microsoft into a corner.

Yahoo and Microsoft were stuck with expensive enterprise storage and banner-ad business models that actually penalized fast page loads. Google used dirt-cheap commodity hardware, thin provisioning, and text-based AdSense to completely change the unit economics of webmail. I mapped this out on to visualize how these decisions reinforced each other to create a superior product category - take a look.

I'm curious to hear from anyone who may see an analog to AI revenue and cost structures.

For example, it seems innovation on inference cost (like Google TPUs) allow companies to offer dramatically better products. As well as Ads/No-Ads in chatbots.

Anyone else see it?
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-24 03:35:15+00:00
End result: the AI industry will get 50% more chips, the rest of us plebs will still be waiting for new GPUs to hit the market...

It's impressive to see that there still was so much room left to improve EUV, but I can't help but be royally pissed off that it will be a looooong time before we the people see any practical benefit of it.
by itishappy | 2026-02-24 03:35:59+00:00
Photoresist too. XRays are really good at passing through matter, which is a bit of a problem when the whole goal is for them to be absorbed by a 100 nanometer thick film. They tend to ionize stuff, which is actually a mechanism for resist development, but XRay energies are high enough that the reactions become less predictable. They can knock electrons into neighboring resist regions or even knock them out of the material altogether.
by levkk | 2026-02-24 03:36:03+00:00
A couple options come to mind:

1. Replicate shards into one beefy database and use that. Replication is cheaper than individual statements, so this can work for a while. The sink can be Postgres or another database like Clickhouse. At Instacart, we used Snowflake, with an in-house CDC pipeline. It worked well, but Snowflake was only usable for offline analytics, like BI / batch ML, and quite expensive. We'll add support for this eventually; we're getting pretty good at managing logical replication, including DDL changes.

2. Use the shards themselves and build a decent query engine on top. This is the Citus way and we know it's possible. Some queries could be expensive, but that's expected and can be solved with more compute.

In our architecture, shards going down for maintenance is an incident-level event, so we expect those to be up at all times, and failover to a standby if there is an issue. These days, most maintenance tasks can be done online in-place, or with blue/green, which we'll support as well. Zero downtime is the name of the game.
by xpe | 2026-02-24 03:36:54+00:00
Nothing wrong with being wary, generally speaking.*

There are many examples of good engineers that are also good leaders. I think the Venn overlap isn't that unusual, at least for a good engineer leading a team up to maybe a dozen. When a good engineer lands in a spot where they get to work on something they really care about, that doesn't hurt either!

Now, how many good engineers are also good at leading larger teams? As the team size increases, my impression is that it is less common. If so, why? Lots to explore around individual, cultural, and corporate factors.

* If one sets a prior probability to 0 or 1, a posterior probability will not change due to Bayes' Rule. This means new information has no effect. Put another way, choosing either 0 or 1 as a prior is equivalent to stating "no new information will change my belief."
by skeledrew | 2026-02-24 03:37:04+00:00
Their models are accessed via their backend; the models are not the backend. Their backend is unique from a features perspective, while their models are unique by virtue of training data+technique.

> They make it impossible for smaller players to compete.

No they don't. Ollama is healthy, OpenRouter, and quite a few others. Then there are actual model makers such as DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, Zai, etc. The lists march on and nobody wanting access to LLMs is left in the cold. Somehow you're still trying to stick terms which just don't apply to the status quo. Unless you believe that Anthropic's offerings are so unique and critical to people's well-being that they should be treated as a public utility or something, which is laughable.

> So was Über, so was AirBNB

There is the option of not using them. But they actually have cornered a part of the market as well, even if that part is primarily comprised of well-to-do's ready to throw money to avoid the slightest inconvenience.
Show HN: BudgetFast – Upload a bank statement screenshot, AI does the rest
by ivanramos | 2026-02-24 03:37:22+00:00
I was tired of manually updating my budget. Most budgeting apps require bank integrations or CSV exports — mine just needs a screenshot.

Upload it, and AI extracts every transaction. You set rules once ("NETFLIX = Entertainment"), and it categorizes itself automatically from there.

Built with Next.js, MongoDB, and Claude API. Happy to answer questions.

budgetfast.co — early access open.
by voidhorse | 2026-02-24 03:37:43+00:00
It's actually very understandable to me that humans would make this kind of error, and we all make errors of this sort all the time, often without even realizing it. If you had the meta cognitive awareness to police every action and decision you've ever made with complete logical rigor, you'd be severely disappointed in yourself. One of the stupidest things we can do is overestimate our own intelligence. Only reflect for a second and you'll realize that, while a lot of dumb people exist, a lot of smart ones do too, and in many cases it's hard to choose a single measure of intelligence that would adequately account for the complete range of human goals and successful behavior in relation to those goals.
by 453yuh46 | 2026-02-24 03:37:49+00:00
That is your right to not claim your German ancestry, as generally it is a viable solution to just not stand out and blend in with crowd, but frankly that is also your right to claim your ancestry and seek refuge in German speaking countries, if things go south in Sweden and Caliphate is established there or some Finns invade and makes your life impossible, so generally - this is not your gate to keep, as these can be considered as an open choices. And I would think that current age of open borders that we have now might end and claiming different identity might be the only viable option to migrate somewhere else.
by danalec | 2026-02-24 03:37:52+00:00
7950X3D has 96MB L3 cache and the the graph is very sparse and tree-like.

It reaches 20.000x without fast-math against supposed alledged "custom dijkistras" in my specific setup. And you're free to test against your own dijkstras...

Some individuals are reaching >900.000x using fast-math! Have they tried the Rust version? (add -rs in the url)

I'll update the readme with more info...

But why this is still flagged?
by JamesLeonis | 2026-02-24 03:38:40+00:00
The elephant in the room is 'unverified' uses will overwhelmingly be underage kids, and that absence will be tracked across the internet. This whole thing inadvertently exposes who are the kids vs the adults programmatically.

Second, if all it takes to get into underage spaces is not being verified, predators *will* notice and exploit this hole.

Even the absence of information is information.

> The Roblox games site, which recently launched a new age-estimate system, is already suffering from users selling child-aged accounts to adult predators seeking entry to age-restricted areas, Wired reports.

I rest my case.
by mobinpo | 2026-02-24 03:39:20+00:00
Hey HN! I built CodeAnswr because I noticed a problem: everyone now
solves coding problems with AI, but those solutions never get published
anywhere searchable. Stack Overflow is dying because of it.

CodeAnswr is the fix — AI-assisted Q&A where the final answer gets
published publicly, so the next developer searching for the same problem
finds it instantly.

Key things I tried to get right:
- Privacy scanner strips API keys, passwords, AWS creds before anything
is stored or published
- Built entirely on Cloudflare Workers + D1 + Pages — zero server costs
- AI is Puter.js (free, unlimited) — no API key required from users
- Full translation for 10 languages while preserving code blocks
- MCP server so Claude/Cursor users can query it directly

Stack: SvelteKit + Hono.js + Cloudflare D1 + Puter.js
Repo: https://github.com/mobinpo/Implementing-Developer-Hub-APIs

Would love feedback, especially on the privacy scanner and the
publish-review flow.
by redkoala | 2026-02-24 03:39:26+00:00
The equivalent self contained home server exists today in the homelab community, either with Mac Minis or NAS systems running Unraid or TrueNAS with community apps. Add in Tailscale on top for remote access.

What’s needed is a lot of work on the software front to make it much easier, with interoperable standards. Self-hosted WYSYWIG options as easy to use as the social media tools for photos and writing and social posts. Ability to run distributed chatroom style instances with tracker like discoverability to replace Discord. Built in backup options with easy offsite backup replication.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-24 03:39:35+00:00
Indeed. I have zero desire to put such a thing together just for my own use.

I didn't address that concept at all above, but I think the notion of a million people each independently using the bot to write a million bespoke programs that each do the same things is...kind of a non-starter. It's something that can only happen in some weird reality where software isn't essentially free to copy, and where people are motivated neither by laziness, nor the size of their pocketbook.

If/when someone does put the work into getting it to happen, then I expect to find it on Github for people to lazily copy and use, or for them to make it available as a website or app for anybody to use (with even more laziness) -- and for them to monetize it.
by onecommentman | 2026-02-24 03:40:55+00:00
But only 8% of the baseline US adult population have a felony record.

https://legalknowledgebase.com/how-many-us-citizens-have-a-f...

And only 18% of those 8% baseline US adult felonies were violent felonies.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vfluc.pdf

So that suggests 2% of the US baseline population have violent criminal records, versus 14% of those arrested by ICE. Precisely what case is the reporter trying to make?
by voidhorse | 2026-02-24 03:41:08+00:00
> not really a reasoning failure

And that's precisely why the term "reasoning" was a problematic choice.

Most people, when they use the word "reason" mean something akin to logical deduction and they would call it a reasoning failure, being told, as they are, that "llms reason" rather than the more accurate picture you just painted of what actually happens (behavioral basins emerging from training dist.)
Show HN: MFLScout – Analytics Platform for Metaverse Football League
by iedayan03 | 2026-02-24 03:41:10+00:00
MFLScout is an analytics and management platform for the Metaverse Football League (MFL), a blockchain-based football game on the Flow network.

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by IAmNeo | 2026-02-24 03:41:48+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialSentience/comments/1mmd3h...

It's predicting the next word, looking for the statically most relevant words to complete the query. It's how it started at the foundation of LLMs, even reasoning models are trained on reasoning patterns, completing the pattern and using pattern completion and statistics to do what they do. But in the end it's still quite likely humans do the same thing... Oh well.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-24 03:42:11+00:00
The parent commenter earlier seems to be implying that it's only a matter of not caring.

> care so little about the performance of the code they ship to browsers.

> but I'm curious to hear how do you know it for backend code but not frontend code.

Because I find backend languages extremely easy to reason about for performance. It seems to me that when I write in a language like rust I can largely "grep for allocations". I find that hard to see in javascript etc. This is doubly the case because frontend code seems to be extremely framework heavy and abstract, so it makes it very hard to reason about performance just by reading the code.