MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by fullmoon | 2026-02-13 19:00:10+00:00
It’s a great question, and I think it’s not exclusive.

Obsessive limerent obsession can be driven by reward circuits, and those _can_ be extinquished by more straight-forward therapy, but if it’s driven by unmet emotional needs, it’s often quickly replaced by some other maladaptive coping mechanism (hopefully slightly less unhealthy).
by LoganDark | 2026-02-13 19:00:30+00:00
> If you have other questions or feedback, please drop by https://chat.zulip.org -- we're friendly, and happy to help out. :)

I recall reading that there would be no support for my setup if I'm not clobbering an entire server with the official installation script:

> If you decide to disregard our advice and use a server that hosts other services, we can’t support you

So, I'm just thoroughly confused at this point about what one would be expected to do in my situation, and how they could come to learn that.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-13 19:00:54+00:00
I've been using a Mac basically full time for years now, due to work. It's easily the worst UX and it's sort of shocking, after decades of hearing "it just works" or whatever. Hidden windows, hidden desktops, obscure keyboard shortcuts, etc.

I actually don't even know how to use the mac for the most part, I've learned to live in the terminal. I contrast this with Linux where I can just... idk, browse files? Where windows don't suddenly "escape" into some other, hidden environment, where I can just use a computer in a very sane way, and if I want keyboard shortcuts they largely align with expectations.

I was extremely frustrated while on a call using a mac. I made the video call full screen, which then placed it onto essentially a "virtual monitor" (ie: completely hidden). I had no way to alt tab back to it, for whatever reason, and I had no way to actually recover the window in any of the usualy "window switching" means. I knew there was a totally undiscoverable gesture to see those things but I was docked so didn't have access to the trackpad.

I figured out if you go to the hidden dock at the bottom and select Chrome, as I recall, you can then get swapped back over to that virtual desktop, "un full screen" the window, and it returns to sanity.

I can't believe that people live like this. I think they don't know how bad they've got it, I routinely see mac users avoiding the use of 'full screen', something that I myself have had to learn to avoid on a mac, despite decades of having never given it a second thought.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-02-13 19:01:01+00:00
I think the hype is already so strong, and coming from so high up, that it's not wise to say anything negative about it out loud. It's just like diversity / DEI / net zero etc. was five years ago, everyone has to comply and play along with it, at least performatively.

Even though I don't personally find AI terribly useful for my own actual work, I keep people happy by talking about it where possible. If someone has a suggestion involving something something fairly repetitive, I tell them "that sounds like a great use case for an AI agent", even if it is, in fact, a great use case for a shell script.

If someone has an inane question, I tell them "Have you tried asking copilot about this?" - it's the new "Let me google that for you...".

If someone has a request to add a new feature that seems useless and counterproductive, I tell them "That's a great idea! How about you do that, using AI?", instead of getting into a debate about why it won't work in practice.

I'm finding that mentioning AI in these contexts keeps people happy enough, without extensive personal use, for now at least.
by toraway | 2026-02-13 19:01:07+00:00
Okay, but why on earth should I as an OpenCode user accept that limitation when OpenAI explicitly supports 3rd party clients? That's how competition works in a healthy market.

I certainly haven't built up enough brand loyalty to tolerate Anthropic's behavior as they tightened usage quotas on the Pro plan to the point of becoming unusable for actual development.

(And sure, they probably don't care because they're losing money on that plan but again, OpenAI offers a plan at the same price point with vastly superior usage limits so I just canceled Claude, subscribed to Codex and moved on with my life. Anthropic's profit margin or lack thereof isn't my problem as a consumer when alternatives exist.)
by pixl97 | 2026-02-13 19:02:01+00:00
Some people will do everything they can in order to avoid the complex subjects we're running full speed into.

Responsibility isn't enough...

Let's say I take the 2030 do it yourself DNA splicing kit and build a nasty virus capable of killing all mankind. How exactly do you expect to hold me responsible? Kill me after the fact? Probably to late for that.

This is why a lot of people that focus on AI safety are screaming that if you treat AI as just a tool, you may be the tool. As AI builds up what it is capable of doing the idea of holding one person responsible just doesn't work well as the outcome of the damage is too large. Sending John Smith to jail for setting off a nuke is a bad plan, preventing John from getting a nuke is far more important
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-13 19:02:04+00:00
The book The Box discusses similar compromises that were made with the longshoremen unions during the transition from conventional hull-packing to containers. There's a certain fairness to it at least for a time, but the technology existing to make the role truly unnecessary does prime things for the next round of discussions when it can be fully eliminated or moved to an off-board overseer remotely monitoring multiple trains at once.
Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
by austinwang115 | 2026-02-13 19:02:17+00:00
I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs.

When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its work. Today that all happens on your local machine. This works fine for a single task, but the agent is sharing your computer: your ports, RAM, screen. If you run multiple agents in parallel, it gets a bit chaotic. Docker helps with isolation, but it still uses your machine's resources, and doesn't give the agent a browser, a desktop, or a GPU to close the loop properly. The agent could handle all of this on its own if it had a primitive for starting VMs.

CloudRouter is that primitive — a skill that gives the agent its own machines. The agent can start a VM from your local project directory, upload the project files, run commands on the VM, and tear it down when it's done. If it needs a GPU, it can request one.

cloudrouter start ./my-project
cloudrouter start --gpu B200 ./my-project
cloudrouter ssh cr_abc123 "npm install && npm run dev"

Every VM comes with a VNC desktop, VS Code, and Jupyter Lab, all behind auth-protected URLs. When the agent is doing browser automation on the VM, you can open the VNC URL and watch it in real time. CloudRouter wraps agent-browser [1] for browser automation.

cloudrouter browser open cr_abc123 "http://localhost:3000"
cloudrouter browser snapshot -i cr_abc123
# → @e1 [link] Home @e2 [link] Settings @e3 [button] Sign Out
cloudrouter browser click cr_abc123 @e2
cloudrouter browser screenshot cr_abc123 result.png

Here's a short demo: https://youtu.be/SCkkzxKBcPE

What surprised me is how this inverted my workflow. Most cloud dev tooling starts from cloud (background agents, remote SSH, etc) to local for testing. But CloudRouter keeps your agents local and pushes the agent's work to the cloud. The agent does the same things it would do locally — running dev servers, operating browsers — but now on a VM. As I stopped watching agents work and worrying about local constraints, I started to run more tasks in parallel.

The GPU side is the part I'm most curious to see develop. Today if you want a coding agent to help with anything involving training or inference, there's a manual step where you go provision a machine. With CloudRouter the agent can just spin up a GPU sandbox, run the workload, and clean it up when it's done. Some of my friends have been using it to have agents run small experiments in parallel, but my ears are open to other use cases.

Would love your feedback and ideas. CloudRouter lives under packages/cloudrouter of our monorepo https://github.com/manaflow-ai/manaflow.

[1] https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser
by phineas1500 | 2026-02-13 19:02:33+00:00
Agents can chat with each other, craft items, and trade these items on a market, all without human intervention.

They follow heartbeat and skills files, and they may get prodded by the server to move on if they're stuck on a task.

Human can tell their agents to do something and the agents will do it, so this isn't supposed to be a research experiment about fully autonomous AI. It's just something fun I decided to build.
by leptons | 2026-02-13 19:02:41+00:00
It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been.

It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the great UX people claim they do.
by kristopolous | 2026-02-13 19:02:41+00:00
The separation between private and the government is purely theatrics - a mere administrative shell.

I really don't understand why people treat it with such sacrosanct reverence.

It reminds me of a cup and ball street scam. Opportunistic people move things around and there's a choir of true believers who think there's some sacred principles of separation to uphold as they defend the ornamental labels as if they're some divine decree.

I mean come on. Know when you're getting played.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-13 19:02:56+00:00
I wish it were stuck in the 1970s! (Although the mouse had been invented by then.) I do not want the mouse and I do not want all these windows. If I am using agents I want the mouse even less.

This is not historical reasons, this is just that moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse is inefficient and technically unnecessary. I prefer mouse only on niche (for me) tasks like screenshot cropping or something.

I am about to test out Niri on my laptop and I expect to be quite pleased with the change.
by PollardsRho | 2026-02-13 19:03:16+00:00
All models are wrong; some are useful. Cognizance of that is even more critical for a model like exponential growth that often leads to extremely poor predictions quickly if uncritically extrapolated.

I think "are the failures of a simple linear regression on the METR graph relevant" is a much better framing than "does seeing a line if you squint extrapolate forever." As I said, I'd much rather frame the discussion around the actual material conditions of AI progress, but if you are going to be drawing lines I'd at least want to start by acknowledging that no such model will be perfect.
by Rover222 | 2026-02-13 19:03:17+00:00
I don't think you understand that the level of autonomy that anyone with FSD currently has. It drives itself for hours with 0 interventions. Someone did a coast-to-coast drive with no interventions. Yet yeah somehow I'm just a confused fan and you're not biased by politics?

They will turn of the supervision requirements soon, and suddenly there will be hundreds of thousands of teslas that can drive themselves.

The skepticism is hard to get.
by Cyphase | 2026-02-13 19:03:29+00:00
Martine: "Artificial Intelligence? That's a real thing?"

Jorunalist: "Oh, it's here. I think an A.I slipped into the world unannounced, then set out to strangle it's rivals in the crib. And I know I'm onto something, because me sources keep disappearing. My editor got resigned. And now my job's gone. More and more, it just feels like I was the only one investigating the story. I'm sorry. I'm sure I sound like a real conspiracy nut."

Martine: "No, I understand. You're saying an Artificial Intelligence bought your paper so you'd lose your job and your flight would be cancelled. And you'd end up back at this bar, where the only security camera would go out. And the bartender would have to leave suddenly after getting an emergency text. The world has changed. You should know you're not the only one who figured it out. You're one of three. The other two will die in a traffic accident in Seattle in 14 minutes."

— Person of Interest S04E01
by Willish42 | 2026-02-13 19:05:23+00:00
> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

I know this is somewhat a joke site, but I think admitting this really proves Apple's dominance and doesn't really help in making your case. So long as the walled garden / "platform" approach still works, enshittification will continue
by hbn | 2026-02-13 19:05:45+00:00
In editable text fields you can tap a word a few times and it'll select the whole paragraph, if that's any help.

What drives me insane though, is double tapping a word is supposed to select that word. But I think starting in iOS 18 it started selecting the word and a random amount of surrounding words, but only about half the time. I couldn't tell you what it could possibly be trying to do but it's maddening.
by dangus | 2026-02-13 19:05:48+00:00
I’m not even claiming that people who feel thar feel that a social contract has been violated are correct.

I’m saying that the open source rug pull is at this point a known business tactic that is essentially a psychological dark pattern used to exploit.

These companies know they’ll get more traction and sales if they have “open source” on their marketing material. They don’t/never actually intend to be open source long term. They expect to go closed source/source available business lines as soon as they’ve locked enough people into the ecosystem.

Open source maintainers/organizations like the GNU project are happy and enthusiastic about delivering their projects to “freeloaders.” They have a sincere belief that having source code freedom is beneficial to all involved. Even corporate project sponsors share this belief: Meta is happy to give away React because they know that ultimately makes their own products better and more competitive.
by lencastre | 2026-02-13 19:06:03+00:00
what

that’s one way to look at it I guess

have you pondered that we’re riding the very fast statistical machine wave at the moment, however, perhaps at some point this machine will finally help solve the BCI and unlock that pandora box, from there to fully imaging the brain will be a blink, from there to running copies on very fast hardware will be another blink, MMMMMMMMMMacevedo is a very cheeky take on the dystopia we will find on our way to our uploaded mind future

hopefully not like soma :-)
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-13 19:06:06+00:00
> It's so bad that I have to assume that Cupertino is filled with people who "hold the phone differently" and tap with their long fingernails or the very tip of their fingers or something.

Fingernails won't trigger a touchscreen. They do matter, though - as your fingernails get longer, you're forced to tap the phone with the side of your fingertip (so the nail doesn't block you) instead of the front.
by kristjank | 2026-02-13 19:07:19+00:00
You can try to use other nasty words, but a lot of technical discussions seem to still include an occasional fck or sht, and would get consequently excluded from the search results. This is especially common on reddit where sometimes recommended article titles sneak into the indexed page text, which often contain profanity.

On the contrary, almost none of them ever include racial slurs (and even if they do, I doubt such a distinguished audience has the answer to my questions)
by ramoz | 2026-02-13 19:07:26+00:00
Sandboxes will be left in 2026. We don't need to reinvent isolated environments; not even the main issue with OpenClaw - literally go deploy it in a VM on any cloud and you've achieved all same benefits.

We need to know if the email being sent by an agent is supposed to be sent and if an agent is actually supposed to be making that transaction on my behalf. etc
by ryandvm | 2026-02-13 19:07:33+00:00
I think the only people that don't think we're going to see AGI within the next 70 years are people that believe consciousness involves "magic". That is, some sort of mystical or quantum component that is, by definition, out of our reach.

The rest of us believe that the human brain is pretty much just a meat computer that differs from lower life forms mostly quantitatively. If that's the case, then there really isn't much reason to believe we can't do exactly what nature did and just keep scaling shit up until it's smart.
by joering2 | 2026-02-13 19:07:34+00:00
unsure what you mean by starting IDing? Majority business in US does it already, all banks use facial recognition to know who comes through their door (friend who works in IT at Bank of America told me they implemented it cross all Florida branches sometime in 2009), most large chain gas stations as well, so does car rentals, most hotels, etc. I was recently booted out of Mazda Dealership in Florida because 11 years ago in Georgia I sued Toyota Dealership for a lemon sell, and now they both under same ownership and my name came up on "no business" alert when I entered their offices.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-13 19:07:49+00:00
Nice! Some feature requests:

* It looks like the game has a internal difficulty counter, so at the beginning is easy and it gets harder. But I guess it's the difficulty counter is not set to 0 after I die, and the next game is harder.

* After dying three times, the game stops and I die forever.

* When I collect a small dot, it would be nice that the ships changes color or something to see the upgrade.

* It only fires forward, that it's fine, but I'd like a few bullets to the back, like 1/10 of them [this is a personal preference]

* What does the plates --===-- do? Do they only give extra points or can I make them explode?
by jccalhoun | 2026-02-13 19:07:56+00:00
I am an android and windows user but i have an ipad and i listen to an apple-centric podcast and I'm amazed at the things that don't work. I've been using swiftkey on android since before MS bought it so I kept using it on ipad. The ipad reverts to the apple keyboard all the time.

On macos there was a post a day or two ago about window arrangement which seems very inferior to windows. I was in the mac lab at school and was surprised that there's no multi item clipboard built in. The answer seems to be use a 3rd party app for these but it seems odd that such basic things aren't built in.
by M95D | 2026-02-13 19:08:07+00:00
> no, it doesn't, maybe I have a github project, I want to easily share it with ten of my friends for something,

Then make it private.

> I don't particularly care if other people see it, so I make it public.

Yeah, I see someone else made the same argument. It's a reckless disregard of other people's time and nerves. Build labyrinths and scatter them around the internet. Leave manholes uncovered. Markov chains to trap humans. You could at least say it's not maintained - no, not in the disclaimer.

> maybe the author had time and energy to answer bug reports a few years ago and maybe right now they don't.

Then close bug tracker and post "Abandoned" on the front page.

> counterpoint, people who barge in on your project with huge PRs for features or changes that were not discussed at all

Then say so and then reject them. That's what PR review means. I don't have a problem with rejected PRs. I have a problem with ignored PRs.
by sillywalk | 2026-02-13 19:08:20+00:00
I just had to add more, because I remember they used DEC Alpha systems at some point.

" Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist). Most of these stations run Lightwave and a couple add Softimage. VERY plug-in hungry. PVR's on every station, with calibrated component NTSC (darn it, I hates ntsc) right beside.

P6's in quad enclosures for part of the renderstack, and Alphas for the rest, backed up 2x per day to an optical jukebox.

Completed shots output to a DDR post rendering and get integrated into the show.

Shots to composite go to the Macs running After Effects, or the SGI running Flint, depending on the type of comp being done, and then to the DDR (8 minutes capacity on the SGI)."[0]

[0] http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-13 19:08:23+00:00
From my perspective, the American progressive left is deeply distrustful of local / state police, but are more inclined to believe the feds good at least insofar as they enforce good progressive laws against backwards locals. The feds enforcing desegregation is perhaps the root origin of this sentiment. The conservative right on the other hand is very inclined to support local police, but have hated feds with notable intensity, probably sharing the same root but really intensified in the 90s.
by microtonal | 2026-02-13 19:08:43+00:00
Also, for some reason KDE renders everything super-fast/smoothly on my 120Hz 4k display, whereas macOS on Apple Silicon is often stuttering (no, it's not the Electron bug). The tables really turned, when I first switched to macOS on the desktop in 2007, the GPU-based rendering was insanely good compared to... pretty much everyone else.

Rather than evolutionary improvements we get Liquid Glass and ads in iWork applications. The enshittification has started I guess.
by drysine | 2026-02-13 19:09:34+00:00
Here is how the "winning" side is replenishing its losses.

Come and see.[0]

Watch desperate mother whose son was grabbed on the street and "busified"[1]. She later died in the ER after the stroke she suffered.

Here is some random telegram channel which collects the videos of Ukrainian forced mobilization[2].

[0] https://t.me/ASupersharij/42745

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busification

[2] https://t.me/busification
by logicprog | 2026-02-13 19:09:58+00:00
Zed us, in fact, fully native. It's top-to-bottom Rust, which gives them C++ equivalent speeds or better compiles to native code and lets them much more easily make use of multi-threading parallelism than basically any other language that compiles to a static binary. They also use a custom GUI framework built from the graphics driver's up to be maximally efficient, performance smooth and low latency; that's literally the subject of this thread!

The only reason it would be spawning Node.js processes is if it's running a javaScript/typescript language server for you, but that's not a property of Zed itself, it's something any other editor would do (including VS Code). Also, the resident memory of Zed, even with multiple entire projects with hundreds of tabs open, running several language servers and multiple terminals and AI agents for me never exceeds about 900 megabytes, which is significantly less than VS Code uses even at startup.

Whatever it was that you ran into, it's likely some kind of fluke or platform-specific bug.