MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-02-20 17:55:37+00:00
Just look at current software.

Windows is maintained by morons, and gets shitter every year.

Linux is still written by a couple of people.

Once people like that die, nobody will know how to write operating systems. I certainly couldn’t remake Linux. There’s no way anyone born after 2000 could, their brains are mush.

All software is just shit piled on top of shit. Backends in JavaScript, interfaces which use an entire web browser behind the scenes…

Eventually you’ll have lead engineers at Apple who don’t know what computers really are anymore, but just keep trying to slop more JavaScript in layer 15 of their OS.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-20 17:55:52+00:00
I think what's amazing to me is, we used to have Steve Jobs' exaggerations, the "reality distortion field" and correct me if wrong, but he basically delivered on the visions he had. Then Musk started to ratchet up the lies more and more, but I think Trump coming into the office essentially supercharged this idea in Silicon Valley that actually, lying was more profitable than truthtelling.

As someone who's trusting, I do sort of listen to Altman or Amodei (who I think has been a bit more truthful in his predictions, a year from AI writing all software actually ended up being more truthful than I think people though, even if it isn't technically true) and like have this nagging voice in the back of my head that these people know something I don't, but then, just looking at this clear leadership trend seeming to suggest that lying is more profitable than trying to tell the truth, and the whole picture definitely does not look clear.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 17:56:18+00:00
> And, indeed, the administration has been dropping the ball on following rulings in low-level deportation cases, but hasn't really ignored, or ordered people to ignore, major big-ticket Supreme Court cases.

They did exactly that in the Garcia case, which was a "big-ticket SCOTUS case". It became politically untenable and they eventually backed down, but the post-ruling response was initially "nuh uh!"
by bturtel | 2026-02-20 17:56:22+00:00
Great question! It's probabilistic so not really "right vs wrong" on any single question, but who better estimated the likelihood.
One big difference shows up when there's no useful context - we ran the same eval WITHOUT including any useful up-to-date context with questions. In this case, GPT-5 stays overconfident and its BSS drops to -11.3% (vs -4.3% ours) - worse than just guessing the base rate.
So one advantage of the RL training is just learning to know what you don't know, and identify when there's real signal.
by hinkley | 2026-02-20 17:56:29+00:00
Thomas isn’t a hack, he’s a shill. And he’s not even trying to be subtle about it. He’s somebody’s bitch and he literally drives around in the toys they bought for him as compensation.

If any justice deserves to be impeached it’s him. I can’t believe they approved him in the first place. Anita Hill sends her regards.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-20 17:56:30+00:00
I agree with you.

But there's also potential downsides to digging in and fixing the UI.

For instance: I've made a few simple boards with KiCAD. The first one was frustrating as hell and took forever, because my distro had helpfully installed the very latest version of KiCAD.

Meanwhile, the tutorials and videos were generally all about older versions. Which is fine, I guess, except way too many of them didn't even specify a version number.

So I (a complete newb) spent way too much time trying to find nonexistent UI widgets and being mystified that a given tutorial often seemed to be written by someone who was using different software entirely.

(The answer here is, of course, to have decent-enough official tutorials that stay in lock-step with software releases, so as to always get people started on the right page. But doing/enforcing that feels like work, and that's not usually what people want to feel when they volunteer to help write CAD software.)
by zadikian | 2026-02-20 17:57:12+00:00
Plenty of supply-driven inflated prices did go back down after covid, or after the post-covid inflation shock. Gasoline is one example.

At the same time, USD M2 supply increased 40% from Jan 2020 to Jan 2022. It only fell a little after. So prices that were inflated for that reason, I wouldn't have expected to fall back down.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-20 17:57:24+00:00
I blame Garland for much of the mess we are in. If the DOJ had done their job regarding the Jan 6 insurrection we wouldn't be here talking about stupid tarrifs that caused a year of turbulence for US businesses and contributed to inflation, for no good reason (and this might be the least of the problems caused by the Trump admin).
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-20 17:57:39+00:00
But the "infilling" problem isn't exactly solved for AR LLMs, so it's a strange critique.

Further more, you're applying the logic of AR LLMs to diffusion models. AR LLMs are only seeking the probability of the next token (a chain of conditional probability), but diffusion LLMs are modeling the probability of the entire output at once. Because of this token structures that leads to invalid outputs should be extremely low probability if properly trained.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-20 17:57:43+00:00
> * a tariff refund product wherein they pay companies who are struggling with paying tariffs 20-30% of a potential refund*

For what it’s worth, I’ve personally been doing this. Not in meaningful dollar amounts. And largely to help regional businesses stay afloat. But I paid their tariffs and bought, in return, a limited power of attorney and claim to any refunds.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-20 17:57:47+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer. Exceptionally, an export tax may be levied on exports of goods or raw materials and is paid by the exporter.

If an analysis says that "domestic consumers are paying 90%" of a tariff then they are simplifying the process that others are describing here as "baked into the cost" and I would say, more accurately, "the cost of tariffs are recouped from consumers/businesses by those who paid them (the importer)"

The economic burden of tariffs falls on the importer, the exporter, and the consumer. [Wikipedia]

If economists are saying "consumers pay tariffs" then I would expect to see a notation on the price tags and a line-item on my receipts, but the cost of the tariff must be paid by the importer, or there won't be a consumer who can purchase the goods, let alone bear the costs of their tariffs.
by amarant | 2026-02-20 17:58:06+00:00
"The only problem is, no one needs their dream application"

I vibe coded my dream application, and I use it. I wouldn't really say I _need_ a pixel art editor for Android, but I sure do like it!

Do I really need more than that? Am I not allowed to create my dream app, for me? Nobody needs my pixel art either, honestly I kinda suck at drawing, but I enjoy doing it!

Op needs to get off their high horse and stop shiting on people for making things. Go make something and stop whining
by mattlord | 2026-02-20 17:58:18+00:00
It's open source. If you really want to know these things, I would encourage you to look at the code and read the documentation. As noted in the blog post, reverse vreplication is setup when you switch. You can switch back and forth and nothing is lost.

https://github.com/vitessio/vitess

https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vreplication/

"isn't this just pushing the same issue forward in time?" I don't understand what you are trying to say here. You can only compare the two sides / databases at the same logical point in time. While you are doing this comparison at that point in time, the timeline continues to progress. Unless you want to stop the world and prevent writes for the full duration of the diff (which can be days or even weeks).
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-20 17:58:38+00:00
Very valuable point!

In addition to the limits of human planning and intellect, I'd also add incentives:

as cynical as it sounds, you won't get rewarded for building a more safe, robust and reliable machine or system, until it is agreed upon that the risks or problems you address actually occur, and that the costs for prevention actually pays off.

For example, there would be no insurances without laws and governments, because no person or company ever would pay into a promise that has never been held.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-20 17:59:04+00:00
You can't change or fix people who have their vote. You keep folks who want to come to the US who might be vulnerable once in the US out of the US to protect them (which this administration is assisting with through their anti immigration efforts). The people who want to leave [1]? You help them leave for developed countries, which there are many. The people who will remain and should be protected? You protect them if you have the resources or network to do so. The global economy continues to reconfigure to decouple from the US. Time marches on. These are harm reduction mechanisms, perfect is not possible nor the target.

Systems problems. Think in systems.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-w... ("In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.")
by dwohnitmok | 2026-02-20 17:59:05+00:00
> The two illegal moves = forfeit is an odd rule which the authors of the benchmarks (which in this case was Claude Code) added[1] for mysterious reasons. In competitive play if you play an illegal move you forfeit the game.

This is not true and I have no idea where you heard this. This is clearly spelled out in FIDE rules and is upheld at tournaments. First illegal move is a warning and reset. Second illegal move is forfeit. See here https://rcc.fide.com/article7/

I doubt GDM is benchmarkmaxxing on chess. Gemini is a weird model that acts very differently from other LLMs so it doesn't surprise me that it has a different capability profile.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-20 17:59:15+00:00
The blog answers all those questions. It says they're working on fabbing a reasoning model this summer. It also says how long they think they need to fab new models, and that the chips support LoRAs and tweaking context window size.

I don't get these posts about ChatJimmy's intelligence. It's a heavily quantized Llama 3, using a custom quantization scheme because that was state of the art when they started. They claim they can update quickly (so I wonder why they didn't wait a few more months tbh and fab a newer model). Llama 3 wasn't very smart but so what, a lot of LLM use cases don't need smart, they need fast and cheap.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-20 18:00:00+00:00
That completely misses the point. You are mistaking your preference for some objective, though unmeasured, benefit.

I could understand an argument from ignorance fallacy wherein your preference is superior to every other alternative because any alternative is unknown to you. But instead, you are saying there is only way one of doing things, components/modularity/templates, and this is the best of that one way's variations, which is just a straw man.

You really aren't limited to doing this work the React way, or any framework way. If you want to continue doing it the React way then just continue to use React, which continues to evolve its own flavor.
by al_borland | 2026-02-20 18:00:14+00:00
I liked a lot of what I read here, and it looks to address many issues I have with RSS readers, though I worry it may bring some new ones. I plan to try it out later today.

I did have a question about this line:

> The defaults are what I think most people want (short-left to mark read, long-left to release...

The article talks repeatedly about how there is no unread count, articles fade away or can be released... what does "mark read" do? What does it mean to mark read vs release? I thought release was effectively a metaphor for marking something as read. This line struck me as odd and felt out of place in on otherwise pretty consistent vision.
by fluoridation | 2026-02-20 18:00:16+00:00
>I'm being silly but I've always thought that the "taste is subjective" argument is not very compelling. Taste, if not entirely objective, at least can be measured in demographic thermoclines.

Okay, but so what? "Taste is subjective" is meant to defend the existence of some thing. "Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist." Are you therefore saying the opposite? "Because most people don't like it, it shouldn't exist"?
by _whiteCaps_ | 2026-02-20 18:00:19+00:00
I have no formal CAD experience, I just wanted to build some stuff with my 3D printer.

If you are going to experiment with FreeCAD, I highly, highly recommend starting by learning about parametric modelling. Define everything in the spreadsheet, and relate all of the sizes to each other.

If you don't, it will be a very frustrating experience when you realize halfway into your design that some earlier piece needs to be tweaked, and your whole model falls apart.
by layer8 | 2026-02-20 18:00:29+00:00
It has some good aspects, but I’m addicted to the 3x2 navigation block unfortunately, as well as to the context menu key, and have no use for a Fn modifier key. I also appreciate wide modifier keys, a single-width Ctrl key like on the right side doesn’t do. Lastly, I don’t want the arrow keys to be lower than normal. If anything, I’d rather have them one row higher.
by troupo | 2026-02-20 18:00:47+00:00
> Not being tied to the JavaScript industry upgrade cycle (which is short!),

> We currently use Lit for the framework on top

These two are contradictory statements.

1. lit is both newer than React, and started as a fully backwards incompatible alternative to Polymer

2. Despite being acrively promoted as "not a framework just a lib" it's rapidly sucking in all the features from "fast moving js": from custom proprietary syntax incompatible with anything to contexts, a compiler, "rules of hooks" (aka custom per-dieective rules) etc.

> We're currently on material components and migrating some to Shoelace.

Again, this is exactly the "fast js churn" you're talking about.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-20 18:01:56+00:00
Make gambling legal and regulated? Or tell citizens they are on their own and may be violating the law if they gamble, then look the other way and occasionally promote stories about citizens losing their money to illegal gambling.

US citizens living in states without legal gambling can often drive across state lines or to the nearest Native American reservation to gamble. There’s no way of preventing this nor does there need to be.
by rpcope1 | 2026-02-20 18:02:12+00:00
I mean whenever things like the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank came into existence. They've been the biggest marks to unload your dumbest equity into for as long as I've been paying attention (so at least 10-15 years now), and at least as long as Jim Cramer and his ilk have been hyping dog shit IPOs to drop on clueless retail.
by g-mork | 2026-02-20 18:02:22+00:00
One of these things, however old, coupled with robust tool calling is a chip that could remain useful for decades. Baking in incremental updates of world knowledge isn't all that useful. It's kinda horrifying if you think about it, this chip among other things contains knowledge of Donald Trump encoded in silicon. I think this is a way cooler legacy for Melania than the movie haha.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-20 18:02:40+00:00
FreeCAD is one of those programs that I want to like and I’m rooting for, but for modeling outside of work I’m a much bigger fan of plasticity and blender. I’m hopeful now that language models are so good at software development that we can get a fork of freeCAD with a focus on ease of use.

Unrelated to part modeling, I would love to have a browser based roadway design tool that is domain-first, CAD second. Autodesk and Bentley are trying to be less bad, but their solutions create an extremely high administrative burden and unreasonable costs. Oh, if I just have someone working full-time for a month preparing files to be federated on your cloud platform I can finally get clash detection? I mean, shouldn’t that be table stakes for the software you are already being asked to buy over again every single year?
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-20 18:02:59+00:00
We have laws explicitly for imposing tariffs for these reasons (like Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Trade Act of 1974)

The difference is they have to go through administrative procedure, and are subject to more judicial review to ensure administrative process was followed. Even if its a fig leaf in this administrative, its a tad slower with higher judicial oversight.

What Trump wants to do is impose tariffs on a whim using emergency powers where administrative procedure laws don't apply.

So the hope here: we have at least more predictability / stability in the tariff regime. But tariffs aren't going away
by austinsharp | 2026-02-20 18:03:28+00:00
Highly recommend reading Designing Data-Intensive Apps [1] and Monolith to Microservices [2]. I can't remember which (maybe both?) but I definitely took away the idea that if services share a DB, that DB's schema is now a public interface and becomes much more difficult to evolve with new requirements.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Monolith-Microservices-Evolutionary-P...
by scoofy | 2026-02-20 18:03:45+00:00
I suspect that in the future, apps will be like these blogs: most people will have them. The app authors will they they are great, most won't be great. Some will be great and hugely popular, many will be great but nobody will know or about them, because the attention economy is always hard.

I think that's fine.

What I really think is that most of the logical folks here think we ought to be focusing our attention and organizing to maximize the efficiency of app making, and that vibe-coding really blows that up, because there is no way to know what is quality and what is trash without actually having to do the work and figure that out. That does suck, but it's why creators should have blogs, github/bitbucket accounts, etc, to offer up their credibility to facilitate bona fides.

I think the programming industry is going to become a lot more like the indie game industry, where loose networks based on mutual respect start forming and critics review the newest apps, because you really don't want to waste a bunch actually using all the stuff.

It's inefficient, but that's life.
Show HN: Preact Health
by erenz88 | 2026-02-20 18:04:03+00:00
In 2018, I attended Start Up school with the intention of creating a health tech start up. It started as an EHR but in an overly crowded space and dwindling desire for “social media” platform, I trashed the idea and started something new - a basic way for people to understand their health; distilling a complex topic into something more simple and understandable.

I’ve finally picked up enough technical skills (and with some coding help from AI) and data/business understanding to bring out Preact Health. Would love some feedback - I know there’s bugs and glitches: it’s a Shiny front end with a Python API and Postgres database. I’n confident with the data and the math - the technical side of software development is the weakness but I think it’s in a workable enough fashion to release.

Feel free to use without creating an account to see what it’s like and if you feel the desire to save it off and return later (future updates will include single question updates to get an updated score based off changes in your health/lifestyle) to see your score.

There is a path to sustainability where the road map currently includes incentivizing people to provide data and be paid for it, to help build risk models for insurance based off actual user data to get past biased population models which overrun insurance at the moment.

Thanks for your attention and if you’d like to give feedback, comment or you can email me at erik@preacthealth.com. Best of luck to all the other founders out there!

Oh and if you’d like to play with the actual algorithm, the Python is open source for collaboration and development:
https://github.com/preacterik/preact-health-scoring

Learn more at the main page:
https://preacthealth.com
by vel0city | 2026-02-20 18:04:19+00:00
You're ignoring that "to promote racist and fringe-right views" isn't grouped with the foreign things.

Do you see the difference?

I see that you still do not understand the stated claim. Let me break it down for you, maybe English isn't your first language (do be worried about a Kavanaugh stop if you travel in the US though, sorry, I hope they don't detain you for too many weeks):

The claims were:

- sowing discord within the US's former "allies"

- to weaken Europe

- to promote racist and fringe-right views.

Where is the entirely foreign requirement for racist and fringe-right views?

But sure, continue moving the goalposts. I guess to you its only a bad thing for the government to promote foreign racist policies. Is it not a bad thing for the candidate for VP to openly say racist lies and openly acknowledge he knew he was lying and he would continue saying such lies if it accomplishes his political goals? Are you OK with him doing so? Why continue supporting it?
Looking for a founding engineer building real-time AI authenticity tooling
by UnveilrBuild | 2026-02-20 18:04:43+00:00
We’re building a real-time authenticity layer for the AI era.

The problem: interviews, assessments, and even live video are becoming increasingly synthetic. Deepfakes, copilots, teleprompters — it’s getting hard to tell what’s real in real time.

We’re building a lightweight detection system focused on:

real-time video + audio analysis

behavioral signals (latency, eye patterns, response dynamics)

practical deployment inside hiring workflows

This is not a research paper project — we’re building a working MVP now.

Stack direction:

WebRTC ingestion

Python backend (FastAPI)

real-time inference + streaming signals

lightweight front-end surface

We’re looking for a founding-level builder who:

likes hard real-time problems

is comfortable shipping rough MVPs

can work async with a small team

This is part-time initially (~40–60 hrs total to start), paid + equity.

If you’ve built real-time systems, WebRTC tooling, or weird low-latency AI stuff — would love to talk.

Happy to share more context with anyone curious.
by dcre | 2026-02-20 18:05:07+00:00
Comment approved by my wife, who is a Plato scholar. Your point that whether True Philosophers even exist is left open is the kind of problem she points out all the time in dogmatic interpretations. It sounds basic, but it's so important to keep in mind that just because a character says something (even if that character is Socrates), that doesn't mean it's the "view" of the dialogue. And you have to be careful to pin down exactly what is being claimed, as you point out with the conditional. Plato is a master (surely one of the greatest of all time) of creating a dynamic space to think in without settling the questions raised.