MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themafia | 2026-02-18 02:48:22+00:00
> but we still wouldn't say the sentence is false.

Yes "we" do. It's false. It's false not because it's a lie but because it's very poorly worded and under specified. Inside of a work attempting to communicate a highly specific idea it's a genuine mistake. It invites ambiguity and misunderstanding.

> 99.9% of people

Good for them. What's the point here? Are you attempting to bully me by suggesting I'm not part of your crowd?

> in the spirit in which it was written.

Uh huh. And what spirit are you writing in?
by taytus | 2026-02-18 02:48:27+00:00
Honest question: why would anyone use Opus instead of this? I’m doing web development, the whole shebang, and I don’t think I need Opus right now. I know it’s supposed to be smarter, but a 2%–5% improvement doesn’t seem meaningful, especially when it costs more than double and has only a portion of the context window.

Am I getting this wrong? I would seriously appreciate any clarification here.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-18 02:50:41+00:00
You can find literally thousands of clips of busification [1] online. [2] And obviously those clips themselves are themselves hardly comprehensive. In part because not every incident is filmed, and in part because Ukraine made it illegal to share and record those videos within Ukraine, so those are people risking their own wellbeing to get that information out. That site I linked to is even banned in Ukraine.

And as the war looks increasingly decided these sort of incidents will only increase, because people don't want to die, and they especially don't want to die in vain.

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

[2] - https://busification.org/
by shipman05 | 2026-02-18 02:52:00+00:00
TBH, it seemed such an obvious point you're making that I assumed the author had to be comparing inflation-adjusted dollars, but from the (very little) digging that I did, it looks like that's not the case.

In fact, weddings decreased in inflation-adjusted cost between 1990 and 2023: https://ktvz.com/stacker-lifestyle/2024/03/01/how-us-wedding...

I would assume that downward trend has continued as inflation has spiked in the past few years and people had to spend more of their money in other areas.
by gruez | 2026-02-18 02:52:02+00:00
How viable are the $20/month subscriptions for actual work and are they loss making for Anthropic? I've heard both of people needing to get higher tiers to get anything done in Claude Code and also that the subscriptions are (heavily?) subsidized by Anthropic, so the "just another $20 SaaS" argument doesn't sound too good.
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-18 02:52:02+00:00
that only works if you can oneshot. but nobody can oneshot.

iterating over work in excel and seeing it update correctly is exactly what people want. If they get it working in MSWord it will pick up even faster.

If the average office worker can get the benefit of AI by installing an add-on into the same office software they have been using since 2000 (the entire professional career of anyone under the age of 45), then they will do so. its also really easy to sell to companies because they dont have to redesign their teams or software stack, or even train people that much. the board can easily agree to budget $20 a head for claude pro

the other thing normies like is they can put in huge legacy spreadsheets and find all the errors

Microsoft365 has 400 million paid seats
by alterom | 2026-02-18 02:53:35+00:00
>Bad faith is using sentences like this:

> one of the most evil people in America

That's not bad faith under any meaningful definition of that term.

>I want to know what this sentence means besides “I don’t like this person”(

It means that Peter Thiel's goals, if fulfilled, will bring immense harm to others, and the extent to which he was able to attain goals of that sort is hardly rivaled by any other person in the US.

Now, nobody is under any obligation to break down clearly written English sentences for you, but if you have difficulty understanding them, the right thing to do would be to simply ask questions like "Why do you say this?", or "What do you mean exactly?".

Not "Is it binary? Are we talking utilitarianism?".

>I also think selectively associating everything with palantir because the same VC participates is dishonest.*

The association is not just because "the same VC" participates, but because "the same VC" is Peter Thiel (a very influential individual, huge contributor to the Heritage foundation and Project 2025, mentor of VP J.D. Vance, and someone seen as one of the most evil people and America), and Palantir is Peter Thiel's mass surveillance company which is the foundation on which Peter Thiel has built his fortune (not just a company in which he's a VC, it's a company he founded and got immensely rich off of).

Ignoring these facts - now, that's dishonest.
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-18 02:53:53+00:00
It's a nice idea. The problem is that it's impossible. It's like saying "write sentences, not words" or "use a tool, not a knife or a hammer or a lever". A protocol is an abstract concept that can't be interacted with except via a service.

And anyway, people like services. People want services. And they're right to do so! Services are good and necessary. We just need to avoid using services that become corrupted by dark patterns, and to do that it will help if we can put guardrails in place to regulate services.

The example in the article about "moving your email from gmail" is nonsensical. Yes, you can have another email that can still (in theory) email all the same people. But if you don't actually have all your old emails, that will be pretty cold comfort. Not to mention that you may have difficulty convincing those people that you're the same person whose gmail got nuked. And that's assuming whatever new email provider you get is big enough that it won't be autoblocked by gmail, preventing all your old gmail friends from even seeing your emails.

Email being a protocol doesn't really help much here. What we need is to simply do regular "maintenance" of the tech world to ensure that individual providers do not become too big and powerful.
by McGlockenshire | 2026-02-18 02:54:39+00:00
> "Alt Codes" which are the majority of (my) shortcuts? e.g. Alt + H - I - S for Insert Sheet

Alt + H opens whatever menu H stands for, then the subsequent letters hit the appropriate menu items. The menus and their hotkeys would have to match the Office counterparts as well, and that's unlikely in normal free software clones. Not sure if it'll be that case here.

edit: After looking at what this tool does, I actually would not be surprised if you could just rewrite all the menus and their hotkeys...
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-18 02:56:22+00:00
Each person who really loves Denver may find something not to love in Miami.

Whether its heat, humidity, frequent electrical thunderstorms, hurricanes, insects or reptile population, I guess it's possible to find two more dissimilar climates.

But "Florida Man" may have a very unforeseen influence, more so than the wildlife.

Expect company culture to never be the same, you asked for it.

OTOH if they've been looking forward to doing some salt-water ocean fishing, yeehaw !
by nojs | 2026-02-18 02:56:38+00:00
interesting. yeah the only reason it’s on cron is because the sentry-github integration didnt work for this (can’t remember why), and i didnt want to maintain another webhook.

the other issue is crazy token wastage, which gets expensive. my gut instinct re triaging is that i want to do it myself in the prompt - but if it prevents noise before reaching claude it may be useful for some folks just for the token savings.

no, I don’t receive alerts because i’m looking at the PR/issues list all day anyway, it would just be noise.
by hakfoo | 2026-02-18 02:57:00+00:00
They didn't have to box themselves into "pitching electric cars to right-wing climate change deniers."

I've heard there are rumours there are least three or four countries outside the US. In several of them, EVs are selling like like hotcakes, or at least not with the current American militant hostility to the very concept.

I suspect they spent too long riding the horse they got here on though. Making an EV appealing to American premium buyers was a marketing coup. Selling it as a software-style "we'll continue iterating with OTA updates" was an interesting alternative to the model-year redesign when you're targeting an early-adopter audience used to regular software refreshes.

But now these things are a liability. Your product matrix is full of America-centric designs with iffy product-market fits in other markets (will a Model S or Cybertruck literally fit in some side streets of Europe or Asia?) You've failed to make a recognizable, exciting redesign of an existing model, so what you do have looks dated. You never really developed a reputation for quality or reliability. These are product problems that have nothing to do with politics. You could have addressed them and been a viable player elsewhere, even as the US continues to eat itself alive. (Of course, that might have involved not intentionally rubbing your brand all over a highly polarizing and toxic political scenario)

I was excited about Tesla back when they were a novelty. I can recall going to the mall with the Microsoft Store (remember those? They sold "bloatfree" PCs because it used to be the OEM who loaded them full of crapware instead of MS itself) to buy a Windows 8 tablet, and then looking across the aisle to see a Model S on display at the Tesla "not really a dealership" stall.

I bought like $2000 in shares back then, figuring one day, jokingly, they'd be worth enough to exchange for a new Tesla. It looks like I could probably get one now. But these days, I just want a BYD; they seem to be actually building a coherent product line and long-term vision.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-18 02:57:15+00:00
It's tricky to give a number for "RA required" that isn't wildly misleading, or contextualize one you're given. The common case for most AV RAs is confirmation of what the vehicle already has planned. Does that count as "required"?

An AV company can also tune how proactive vehicles are in reaching out to RA for confirmation, which is a balancing act between incident rate, stoppages, RA availability, and rider metrics. There's other ways to tune RA rate by also adjusting when and where the vehicles operate, which comes down to standard taxi fleet management tools (e.g. price and availability).

Waymo chooses a target that they're comfortable with and probably changes it every so often, but those numbers aren't the only possible targets and they're not necessarily well-correlated to the system's "true" capabilities (which are themselves difficult to understand).
Tell HN: Ramadan Mubarak
by Sayyidalijufri | 2026-02-18 02:58:12+00:00
Ramadan 1447 AH has started in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and many places yesterday evening after moon sighting.

Here in Indonesia (and much of South/Southeast Asia), the moon wasn't sighted locally, so fasting begins tomorrow, Thursday, February 19 inshaAllah.

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone observing!

May your fasts be easy, your ibadah accepted, and the month bring barakah, patience, and closeness to Allah.

It's always fascinating how a global community syncs (or asyncs) on the lunar calendar—one crescent can shift entire countries by a day.

The tech side is interesting too: prayer/athan apps, qibla finders, hydration trackers during long summer fasts (though thankfully not this year), or even simple scripts to calculate local imsak/subuh/iftar times.

If you fasting this year what's one small habit or tool that helps you through the month? Or if you're not fasting, what's something you've learned about Ramadan from friends/colleagues?
by kjellsbells | 2026-02-18 02:58:32+00:00
I suspect BYD would do a lot better in Europe if the political class wasn´t afraid of the fallout from the European manufacturers (VW, Stellantis, and all their child brands) being seriously damaged or even wiped out by the competition.

That said, if relations between the EU and the US get much chillier, the EU may decide to make some sacrifices in order to have China in their camp. E.g. VW are arm-twisted into selling Škoda to BYD, with job preservation guarantees, and then BYD is badged Škoda and six months later all the old Škoda models are gone and its EVs all the way.
by um1 | 2026-02-18 02:58:43+00:00
Seems like a good idea! I basically stopped consuming the news for years except for occasional local news. I was much happier. Then around covid, started up again (unfortunately still am… :( ). When your mind is in state of fear/anxiety it impedes your ability to think clearly (or so I believe several studies have indicated). Likely by design? Tried reading various left/right media in multiple countries to get a better picture, but it is very homogeneous. Really, instead of looking at spin, better to see which stories are ignored - especially on “both” sides. But interesting to see the propaganda and what each side/ faction reports and what they don’t. I think most thinking people have given up on the legacy corporate media at this point. Their remaining viewers are dying of old age or are true believers that drank the kool-aid. Oops this went a bit longer than I thought, apologies.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-18 02:59:04+00:00
I get it, I really hate when I go looking for instructions and all I can find are long videos. (Just try to Google instructions for learning CAD. All it comes up with are videos.)

Grady's video are not instructions, they are entertainment. He is a much better producer of videos than a writer. I'm quite thankful that he makes transcripts of his videos, but they are always better watched instead of read.
by therealsreal | 2026-02-18 02:59:29+00:00
Unsure why you are taking this stand on this issue, but calling the company in question "some user on <SOCIAL_MEDIA>" is absurd: https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-...

Everyone involved knows why there is a backlash to this new policy so I advocate to stop obfuscating it.
by 8note | 2026-02-18 02:59:57+00:00
> unlike coding, where thinking is (or, used to be, pre-agent) a smaller percentage of the time consumed. Writing the software, which is essentially working through how to implement the thought, used to take a much larger percentage of the overall time consumed from thought to completion.

huh? maybe im in the minority, but the thinking:coding has always been 80:20 spend a ton of time thinking and drawing, then write once and debug a bit, and it works

this hasnt really changed with Llm coding either, except that for the same amount of thinking, you get more code output
by conductr | 2026-02-18 03:00:14+00:00
It’s not just that though. You find when going through AI projects in an organization that many times the process is manual for a reason. This isn’t the first wave of “automation” that’s came through. Most things that can be fully automated already have been long ago and they manual parts get sold as we can make AI do it, until you see the specs and noodle around on the problem some then you realize it’s probably just going to remain manual as the amount of model training requires as much time and effort as just doing it by hand.
Show HN: Instrumental Model from Scratch (With Demo)
by day6 | 2026-02-18 03:00:39+00:00
Wanted to try vibe coding a model one day when Opus 4.5 started becoming pretty good. Wrote up an intuitive explanation which should enable someone to generate similar code!

New conversions queue up and go through my one PC at home, so a disclaimer that new imports might be slow. I've also temporarily commited to the bit of having everything scale to $0, so I have lambda-ified my API server and deleted my EC2 instance so there could be a 0.1 second cold start. Mostly a hobby project with 0.4 users but please feel free to use it to listen to any album you'd like the instrumental version of!
by somenameforme | 2026-02-18 03:00:39+00:00
The logical endgame (which I do not think we will necessarily reach) would be the end of software development as a career in itself.

Instead software development would just become a tool anybody could use in their own specific domain. For instance if a manager needs some employee scheduling software, they would simply describe their exact needs and have software customized exactly to their needs, with a UI that fits their preference, ready to go in no time, instead of finding some SaaS that probably doesn't fit exactly what they want, learning how to use it, jumping through a million hoops, dealing with updates you don't like, and then paying a perpetual rent on top of all of this.
by jsheard | 2026-02-18 03:00:47+00:00
ZeroSSL is weird, if you use their non-ACME free tier then you are limited to 3 certs which can't be wildcards. But they also have a free ACME endpoint which is totally unlimited and does support wildcards.

https://zerossl.com/documentation/acme/

> By using ZeroSSL's ACME feature, you will be able to generate an unlimited amount of 90-day SSL certificates at no charge, also supporting multi-domain certificates and wildcards.
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-18 03:01:24+00:00
Fundamentally, almost all "innovation" in browser and JS development for the last 20 years has been about giving new powers to website authors, not to the people actually using the browser. The idea of telling website authors "no, you can't do that" seems to be anathema to browser authors and standards groups. The result is that they make it easy for website authors to wrap their content in shinier and shinier wrapping paper and then tell users how great it is that they can now see all that shininess. Probably 50% of what a website can do today is stuff we would be better off not having available.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-02-18 03:04:19+00:00
Ok I looked at the bibliography. Best I can say is that this book might be ok for a cross-section of Lisp history but I'd like to see something much more thorough, especially regarding early Lisp, and with more of a PLT perspective. Why all those citations of Gödel but nothing(?) about typed lambda calculus or the Kleene-Rosser paradox (that Church's untyped lambda calculus is logically inconsistent)? Do you have anything about Lisp 2? About significant Lisp applications like Macsyma, that drove the language's development?

It would be awesome to have a comprehensive Lisp history bibliography perhaps built around user contributions, something like Richard Jones's garbage collection bibliography https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbib/ .
by simonw | 2026-02-18 03:04:25+00:00
I am confident that Anthropic make revenue from that $20 than the electricity and server costs needed to serve that customer.

Claude Code has rate limits for a reason: I expect they are carefully designed to ensure that the average user doesn't end up losing Anthropic money, and that even extreme heavy users don't cause big enough losses for it to be a problem.

Everything I've heard makes me believe the margins on inference are quite high. The AI labs lose money because of the R&D and training costs, not because they're giving electricity and server operational costs away for free.
by chasing0entropy | 2026-02-18 03:04:46+00:00
'widespread armed conflict in an increasingly vast fantasy universe, the introduction of housing seems to have spurred Blizzard into also pitching it to a new audience as a cozy house-building simulator. It’s simply that to get new furniture, you occasionally may have to go to another dimension and beat it out of a dragon.'

It's Minecraft blizzard edition
by scottmf | 2026-02-18 03:04:58+00:00
Yeah I’m completely lost on what the set up is here and it seems misleading to not be upfront about this.

If emails are being processed in bulk, that changes things significantly. It also probably leaves the success of the attack down to its arbitrary placement in the list.

And I could be misunderstanding but how does the model call its file read tool for the respective email which successfully convinced it to use the tool if they’re all shoved into a single user message?

Without any of this information there may as well not even be an LLM on the other side.
by TheDong | 2026-02-18 03:05:36+00:00
No it is not. You would need an md5 preimage attack to go from md5sum to email (what I assume you mean by 'brute force')

To prove my point, c5633e6781ede1aea59db6f76f82a365 is the md5sum of an email address. What's the email address?

If the attacker already knows a given input email ('foo@gmail.com'), then any hash algorithm will identically let them see the emails.

The problem with the above proposal isn't related to hashing, it's that the email address is being used as a password to see sent contents, which seems wrong since email addresses are effectively public.
by itake | 2026-02-18 03:06:51+00:00
My issues with the super posts is its really hard to grep for relevant information.

I've tried asking ChatGPT to recommend projects based on my interests, but ChatGPT heavily hallucinated or projected my interests onto irrelevant projects (for example, a project might be about developing a new programming language and chatgpt was like, "you could use this in your soap making hobby!").

The Who's Hiring posts have community sponsored indexers and its easy for me to query job titles relevant to me, but keyword search is not as useful here.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-18 03:09:05+00:00
The local takeaway shop could have had a professional looking website for years with Wix, Squarespace, etc. There are restaurant specific solutions as well. Any of these would be better than vibe coding for a non-tech person. No-code has existed for years and there hasn't been a flood of bespoke software coming from end users. I find it hard to believe that vibe-coding is easier or more intuitive than GUI tooling designed for non-experts...

I think the idea that LLM's will usher in some new era where everyone and their mom are building software is a fantasy.
by troad | 2026-02-18 03:09:39+00:00
>> If you want to complain about rising housing prices, complain about that. But don't perpetuate the myth that the 1970s and earlier would have been heaven when a large portion of Americans today would have been segregated back then.

>> It's insensitive.

Stop problematising everything, complete with Twitter style mic drops. OP didn't say the 70s were heaven, they're saying that home-ownership is slipping ever more out of reach. This is a true point for people of all races, religions, sexual orientations, etc.

There's nothing constructive about trying to slyly imply white people are more problematic for wanting homes to live in than people of other races. It's pointlessly divisive, and undercuts the sorely needed pro-housing coalition.

You're playing into what the elites want: an opposition that is fractious, navel-gazing, and delightfully (to the elites) impotent.
Show HN: I built yawdl a tiny language that compiles in the browser
by chersbobers | 2026-02-18 03:10:36+00:00
I wanted a way to make websites without using a massive framework, so I built yawdl. It uses Ohm.js to parse a custom syntax (like UI { } and Script { }) and compiles everything directly in the browser.

It's basically a Single Page Application (SPA) engine that doesn't need a server. You just write .yawdl files and the engine handles the routing and metadata.

It’s still pretty unstable and finicky, but I’ve been using it for my own blog and it's actually kind of fun to use. It's built with Bun and Ohm.js.

I'd love to know what people think or if the compiler breaks on your system.

Repo: https://github.com/chersbobers/yawdl
by lyfeninja | 2026-02-18 03:10:47+00:00
I'm guilty of this, mostly for work, but it's a massive time saver for me and gets me out of my own head. I always proof read and modify them to get what I'm looking for as far as overall content, tone , and detail. Now that I'm thinking about it, I really don't do this at all for messaging people I actually want to talk to. I guess that says something...