MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexanderlevin | 2026-02-12 19:33:10+00:00
We spent two years optimizing vehicle routing for a huge line-haul delivery network. We found that standard OR solvers (such as Google OR-Tools) struggled with the dynamic nature of the requests, while pure Reinforcement Learning agents would not converge.

We ended up building a Hybrid Architecture that splits the logic:

1. MARL Agents act as "Fleet Managers" that handle high-level strategy (when to dispatch, which cluster to serve).

2. Linear Programming acts as a "Bin Packer" to enforce strict physical constraints on the final route.

The article details the architecture, the specific reward shaping we used to encourage LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) consolidation, and how we normalized the observation space to achieve zero-shot generalization across different warehouse sizes.

Happy to answer questions about the stack or the specific failure/success cases we ran into.A
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-12 19:33:35+00:00
While Utah has a lower homicide rate than California (2.2 vs 5.1 per 100k) like many rural states it has a much higher suicide rate (21.5 vs 10.1 per 100k). Accident mortality (mostly overdoses and car accidents) are similar (49.7 vs 51.1 per 100k).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/homicide.html

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/suicide.html

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/accidents.html

More on the drivers of lower life expectancy in US here:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/what-dr...
by yellowapple | 2026-02-12 19:33:44+00:00
I wonder if shoving

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into the headers of every response would be enough to kill off the worst-offending traffic?
by staticassertion | 2026-02-12 19:34:01+00:00
Can you elaborate a bit on what "working correctly" would look like? I have made use of agents, so me saying "they worked correctly for me" would be evidence of them doing so, but I'd have to know what "correctly" means.

Maybe this comes down to what it would mean for an agent to do something. For example, if I were to prompt an agent then it wouldn't meet your criteria?
by dahart | 2026-02-12 19:34:44+00:00
Why do you say that? Isn’t the fact that it got approved evidence that it was easier to justify subsidies for artists?

I don’t know what you mean at all, why is this “so polarizing”? A lot of the art world already runs on subsidies, and it’s well known that it’s more difficult to make a living as an artist than your examples of jobs that come with steady pay, even if it’s low. Solo artists don’t get any steady income at all, and many have to take other jobs in order to support their art work. The general public where I live (in the US) is absolutely more willing to fund the arts than to fund generally low paying steady-income jobs, especially steady-income jobs that are already funded via taxes like teachers and firefighters. This is why I claim it’s easier to justify subsidizing artists. What is the reason you claim it’s not easier to justify, and where is the evidence your claim is true?
by latchkey | 2026-02-12 19:34:51+00:00
Not for what they are using it for. It is $1m+/chip and they can fit 1 of them in a rack. Rack space in DC's is a premium asset. The density isn't there. AI models need tons of memory (this product annoucement is case in point) and they don't have it, nor do they have a way to get it since they are last in line at the fabs.

Their only chance is an aquihire, but nvidia just spent $20b on groq instead. Dead man walking.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-12 19:35:29+00:00
"Under questioning by Rand Paul [during testimony to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security], ICE officials [Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott] confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meogyr355n2q

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5707281/senate-dhs-over...
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-02-12 19:35:43+00:00
Either the server must explicitly confirm to servers or the clients must accept everything. Otherwise message delivery is not guaranteed. In the context of an email protocol, this often is a silent failure which causes real-world problems.

I don’t care what the protocol rfc says, the client arbitrarily rejecting an email from the server for some missing unimportant header (for deduction detection?) is silly.
by ziml77 | 2026-02-12 19:36:06+00:00
I wish they made this clearer as being the issue. It's what it came across to me like, but I couldn't actually say for sure that's what they meant because the CVE pages didn't make it obvious. And the comments here didn't help because everyone is just complaining about feature creep rather than discussing the actual problem.

Anyway, what this now has me thinking is, should protecting against this be expected to be done per-app or should it be at the OS level? It seems like it would make more sense to have the OS keep records on what application is allowed to open what kinds of links. Maybe with some mechanism to allow the app to cooperate with the OS if they want finer-grained permissions (such as a chat app passing the poster's user ID to the OS when invoking the link, so you could set an 'always allow' rule for links from specific users rather than the full app).
by staticassertion | 2026-02-12 19:36:09+00:00
What exactly is the goal? By laying out exactly the issues, expressing sentiment in detail, giving clear calls to action for the future, etc, the feedback is made actionable and relatable. It works both argumentatively and rhetorically.

Saying "fuck off Clanker" would not worth argumentatively nor rhetorically. It's only ever going to be "haha nice" for people who already agree and dismissed by those who don't.

I really find this whole "Responding is legitimizing, and legitimizing in all forms is bad" to be totally wrong headed.
by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 2026-02-12 19:36:11+00:00
I don't think the creator believes ARC3 can't be solved but rather that it can't be solved "efficiently" and >$13 per task for ARC2 is certainly not efficient.

But at this rate, the people who talk about the goal posts shifting even once we achieve AGI may end up correct, though I don't think this benchmark is particularly great either.
by kmaloney89 | 2026-02-12 19:36:31+00:00
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by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-12 19:36:33+00:00
Yes because other operating systems never have a decade old vulnerability?

https://www.sysdig.com/blog/detecting-cve-2024-1086-the-deca...

And yes because their UI folks should be spending time on the kernel. What next? If Apple didn’t have so many people working at the Genius Bar they could use some of those people to fix security vulnerabilities?
by KKM092989 | 2026-02-12 19:36:40+00:00
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CT RISE Network is a Connecticut-based nonprofit improving educational outcomes through data tools and technology that support schools and educators.

We’re hiring a Junior Software Developer to help design, build, and ship new features across our product ecosystem. You’ll work across frontend, backend, and cloud systems; build RESTful APIs and modern web applications; participate in code reviews; and receive mentorship while contributing to secure, scalable solutions used by real educators.

Great benefits and flexible work schedule.
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by andai | 2026-02-12 19:36:48+00:00
Cool! Would be nice to get some explanation for this though.

These are Wolfram's rules, though?

How are they sorted here? It's kind of sorted by number, but then there's discontinuities in the numbering?

Also I wonder... Most of them aren't doing very interesting things, maybe there's a way to detect trivial loops and filter those out? (Maybe compression, as mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942864)
Show HN: Digital identity pages with traffic quality
by m6jo9 | 2026-02-12 19:36:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a digital identity platform that started as a link-in-bio tool, but evolved into something more focused on traffic quality and signal vs noise.

Most link pages show views and clicks. That never felt sufficient. I wanted to understand:

- how much of the traffic is actually human
- where it comes from
- what people click first
- how much of it is noise or automation

So I built a traffic quality layer on top of personal pages. There’s basic bot filtering, a human score, first-click tracking, referrer breakdowns, and deeper analytics than a typical “click counter”.

Human score is currently based on request fingerprinting, simple behavioral signals and bot-pattern detection. It’s still evolving and I’m actively refining the heuristics.

On top of that, pages are fully customizable (not just stacked buttons), and there’s a built-in referral system with campaigns and coupons.

Example public profile:
https://thugg.lol/m6jo9

Instead of spending on ads, I’m allocating budget to users who find real bugs or suggest features that we actually ship. So far that has produced better feedback than paid traffic.

It’s bootstrapped and built solo.

Would genuinely appreciate technical feedback, especially on the analytics approach and overall direction.

Happy to answer questions.
by smithza | 2026-02-12 19:37:04+00:00
Please read through this incredible book review (book is All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart). It is the kind of philosophy that everyone is looking past. Syntactic vs informational determinacy. LLMs is designed to create copy that is syntactically determinate (it is a complex set of statistics functions). Whereas the best human prose actually is the opposite--it does not converge on syntactic determinacy (see quote below) but instead converges on informational determinacy. The plot resolves as the reader's knowledge grows from abstraction and ignorance to empathy, insight and anticipation.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/one-to-zero

Semantic information, you see, obeys a contrary calculus to that of physical bits. As it increases in determinacy, so its syntactical form increases in indeterminacy; the more exact and intentionally informed semantic information is, the more aperiodic and syntactically random its physical transmission becomes, and the more it eludes compression. I mean, the text of Anna Karenina is, from a purely quantitative vantage of its alphabetic sequences, utterly random; no algorithm could possibly be generated — at least, none that’s conceivable — that could reproduce it. And yet, at the semantic level, the richness and determinacy of the content of the book increases with each aperiodic arrangement of letters and words into coherent meaning.

Edit: add-on

In other words, it is impossible for an LLM (or monkeys at keyboards [0]) to recreate Tolstoy because of the unique role our minds play in writing. The verb writing hardly appears to apply to an LLM when we consider the function it is actually doing.

[0] https://libraryofbabel.info
by simonw | 2026-02-12 19:37:37+00:00
My more advanced prompt, for when models do a good job on the original, is this one:

> Generate an SVG of a California brown pelican riding a bicycle. The bicycle must have spokes and a correctly shaped bicycle frame. The pelican must have its characteristic large pouch, and there should be a clear indication of feathers. The pelican must be clearly pedaling the bicycle. The image should show the full breeding plumage of the California brown pelican.
by zzzeek | 2026-02-12 19:37:44+00:00
Im not following how he knew the retaliation was "autonomous", like someone instructed their bot to submit PRs then automatically write a nasty article if it gets rejected? Why isn't it just the human person controlling the agent then instructed it to write a nasty blog post afterwards ?

in either case, this is a human initiated event and it's pretty lame
by jihadjihad | 2026-02-12 19:37:45+00:00
99 ministros de guerra
Fósforos y bidones de gasolina
Se creían gente muy astuta
Ya olfateaban un gran botín
Gritaron: “¡Guerra!” y querían poder
Hombre, ¿quién lo hubiera pensado?
Que alguna vez llegaría tan lejos
Por culpa de 99 globos
by HardCodedBias | 2026-02-12 19:38:11+00:00
Always the same with Google.

Gemini has been way behind from the start.

They use the firehose of money from search to make it as close to free as possible so that they have some adoption numbers.

They use the firehose from search to pay for tons of researchers to hand hold academics so that their non-economic models and non-economic test-time-compute can solve isolated problems.

It's all so tiresome.

Try making models that are actually competitive, Google.

Sell them on the actual market and win on actual work product in millions of people lives.
by ahgentopps | 2026-02-12 19:38:27+00:00
I'm building TruthLayer — it plugs into your existing AI tools (starting with Claude Code as a skill, then browser extension for ChatGPT/Gemini/etc). After any AI response, type /verify and it:

1. Extracts every factual claim
2. Cross-references against real sources
3. Returns a color-coded breakdown (verified / incorrect / unverifiable) with source links

Looking for early testers who use AI for anything high-stakes — legal, consulting, research, technical writing.
by rvz | 2026-02-12 19:39:05+00:00
The scale of being "tested" clearly convinced Meta (beyond OpenAI's scale) [0] HuggingFace [1], Perplexity [2] and unsuprisingly many others in the AI industry [3] that require more compute than GPUs can deliver.

So labelling it "untested" even at Meta's scale as a customer (which exceeds OpenAI's scale) is quiet nonsensical and frankly an uninformed take.

[0] https://www.cerebras.ai/customer-spotlights/meta

[1] https://www.cerebras.ai/news/hugging-face-partners-with-cere...

[2] https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/cerebras-powers-perple...

[3] https://www.cerebras.ai/customer-spotlights
by vindarel | 2026-02-12 19:39:12+00:00
New projects are making the newcomer experience easier:

- ICL https://github.com/atgreen/icl/ a full featured REPL in the terminal and the browser.

- JSCL's playground 100% in the browser https://wiki3-ai.github.io/jscl-kernel/ (very new)

- constantly new editor plugins. A new one: Zed https://github.com/etyurkin/zed-cl (all editors, for readers, including VSCode, Pulsar etc: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Those editors appeared in recent years. So, I see a good trend in the ecosystem).
by wiseowise | 2026-02-12 19:39:12+00:00
Their models might be impressive, but their products absolutely suck donkey balls. I’ve given Gemini web/cli two months and ran away back to ChatGPT. Seriously, it would just COMPLETELY forget context mid dialog. When asked about improving air quality it just gave me a list of (mediocre) air purifiers without asking for any context whatsoever, and I can list thousands of conversations like that. Shopping or comparing options is just nonexistent.
It uses Russian propaganda sources for answers and switches to Chinese mid sentence (!), while explaining some generic Python functionality.
It’s an embarrassment and I don’t know how they justify 20 euro price tag on it.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-12 19:39:51+00:00
Complexity is always the thing that needs to be managed, as it is ultimately what kills your app. Over time, as apps get more complex, it's harder and harder to add new features while maintaining quality. In a greenfield project you can implement this feature in a day, but as the app becomes more complex it takes longer and longer. Eventually it takes a year to add that simple feature. At that point, your app is basically dead, in terms of new development, and is forever in sustaining mode, barring a massive rewrite that dramatically reduces the complexity by killing unnecessary features.

So I wish developers looked at apps with a complexity budget, which is basically Djikstra's line of code budget. You have a certain amount of complexity you can handle. Do you want to spend that complexity on adding these features or these other features? But there is a limit and a budget you are working with. Many times I have wished that product managers and engineering managers would adopt this view.
by Bender | 2026-02-12 19:40:09+00:00
IRC is a bit jarring

Indeed it is not as polished and refined as the commercially supported service. Even if the self hosted services people stand up do not gain the same popularity as Discord they are nice to have when Discord is down or if people want to share something too sensitive for a corporation and their third parties to be trusted with.

On the plus side assorted IRC daemons have been around long enough that one can find Docker or Ansible examples to get started. More complex but popular IRC daemons such as UnrealIRCD [1] can be a little daunting at first yet have all the configuration directives and modules one could likely ever need. Many capabilities can also be disabled for simple setups. One of the simplest IRCD's to set up is ngIRCd [2]. I think the fastest I have set up ngIRCd including LetsEncrypt certs was around 5 minutes but that is because I get wildcard certs.

[1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/

[2] - https://ngircd.barton.de/
by ZoneZealot | 2026-02-12 19:40:09+00:00
They mean to send an email in advance, with a message ID that would later be used in the target email. First email gets ignored, moved to spam, or not read yet. Then the target email gets sent with the predicable message ID, and gets bounced.

Comments on issues use the format
<[OrgName]/[RepoName]/issues/[IssueNumber]/[CommentID]@github.com>

A mitigation to this would be to take the combination of message ID and the sending domain and use that as the unique value, because message ID is not guaranteed to actually contain a domain label that's owned by the sender.

For example SendGrid's message IDs are <[RandomValue]@geopod-ismtpd-[Integer]>.
by andai | 2026-02-12 19:40:13+00:00
> Why bother, you ask? Opus may be a great model, but Claude Code to this day leaks raw JSONL from sub-agent outputs, wasting hundreds of thousands of tokens. I get to say, “fuck it, subagents output structured data now”.

The VC economics are creating a reality distortion field where Anthropic is incentivized to burn more tokens so they can rent more GPUs so they can get more investment, and where I am incentivized to pipe the LLM inputs into `claude -p` and blast 50KB of useless proompt onto it so they don't ban me from their 95% discounted API endpoint.
by pmg101 | 2026-02-12 19:40:31+00:00
This is a deranged take. Lots of slurs end in "er" because they describe someone who does something - for example, a wanker, one who wanks. Or a tosser, one who tosses. Or a clanker, one who clanks.

The fact that the N word doesn't even follow this pattern tells you it's a totally unrelated slur.
by mrisoli | 2026-02-12 19:40:33+00:00
Wehad a junior engineer do some research on a handful of different solutions for a technical design and present the team, he came up with a 27-page document with 70+ references(2/3 of which were reddit threads), no more than a few hours later after the task was assigned.

I would have been more okay with AI generated code, it would likely have been more objective and less verbose, I refused to review something that he obviously didn't put enough effort himself to do a POC on. When I asked for his own opinion on the different solutions evaluated he didn't have one

It's not about the document per se, but the actual value of these verbose AI-generated slop, code that is executable, even if poorly reviewed, it's still executable and likely to produce the output that satisfies functional requirements.

Our PM is now evaluating tools to generate documentation for our platform based on interpreting source code, it includes description of things such as what is the title and what the back button is for but wouldn't inform valid inputs for the creation of a new artefact. This AI-generated doc is in addition to our human made Confluence docs, which is likely to add to spam and reduce quality of search results for useful information.
by afthonos | 2026-02-12 19:40:35+00:00
Either human is a special category with special privileges or it isn’t. If it isn’t, the entire argument is pointless. If it is, expanding the definition expands those privileges, and some are zero sum. As a real, current example, FEMA uses disaster funds to cover pet expenses for affected families. Since those funds are finite, some privileges reserved for humans are lost. Maybe paying for home damages. Maybe flood insurance rates go up. Any number of things, because pets were considered important enough to warrant federal funds.

It’s possible it’s the right call, but it’s definitely a call.

Source: https://www.avma.org/pets-act-faq
by tamimio | 2026-02-12 19:40:58+00:00
> Reolink, Amcrest POE, Eufy with Home Base, TP-Link Tapo, Frigate + POE cams.

Those aren’t really local and they still ping the cloud even if you choose not to use their cloud storage. If you want to truly have local setup, do so by having all the CCTV system on a separate vlan that can’t access the internet, but the NVR is connected to you through vpn, that way only you can access it. Note: thingino is an open source firmware for cameras too, that being said, it lacks many features that I won’t recommend it, better is just using stock but blocked from internet.
by snowwrestler | 2026-02-12 19:41:26+00:00
You’re making a point mostly about aesthetics. But regardless of aesthetics, to be a working artist, the artist needs to make money.

Sounds like you make money partially by teaching and partially by gallery sales. Which are two of the commercially viable paths that are mentioned in this essay.

> Then over time, if you get paid for the art, cut down on the part-time job, and repeat.

The point of this article is simply that the above will not happen by accident.