MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-13 14:09:14+00:00
> Elastic, Redis, Terraform, now MinIO.

Redis is the odd one out here[1]: Garantia Data, later known as Redis Labs, now known as Redis, did not create Redis, nor did it maintain Redis for most of its rise to popularity (2009–2015) nor did it employ Redis’s creator and then-maintainer 'antirez at that time. (He objected; they hired him; some years later he left; then he returned. He is apparently OK with how things ended up.) What the company did do is develop OSS Redis addons, then pull the rug on them while saying that Redis proper would “always remain BSD”[2], then prove that that was a lie too[3]. As well as do various other shady (if legal) stuff with the trademarks[4] and credits[5] too.

[1] https://www.gomomento.com/blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-p...

[2] https://redis.io/blog/redis-license-bsd-will-remain-bsd/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/966133/

[4] https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419

[5] https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/544
by aurareturn | 2026-02-13 14:09:15+00:00
I don't have to prove it. I do it every single day at work in a real production codebase that my business relies on.

And I don't remove jQuery every day. Maybe the OP is right that Opus 4.6 sucks at removing jQuery. I don't know. I've never asked an AI to do it.

The moment you point it at a real, existing codebase - even a small one - everything falls apart.

This statement is absolutely not true based on my experience. Codex has been amazing for me at existing code bases.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-13 14:09:30+00:00
Ceph is a non-starter for me because you cannot have an existing filesystem on the disk. Previously I used GlusterFS on top of ZFS and made heavy use of gluster's async geo-replication feature to keep two storage arrays in sync that were far away over a slow link. This was done after getting fed up with rsync being so slow and always thrashing the disks having to scan many TBs every day.

While there is a geo-replication feature for Ceph, I cannot keep using ZFS at the same time, and gluster is no longer developed, so I'm currently looking for an alternative that would work for my use case if anyone knows of a solution.
by gherkinnn | 2026-02-13 14:09:46+00:00
Doesn't coke come with mania?

Either way, OP is holding it wrong and vague hypebro comments like yours don't help either. Be specific.

Here's an example: I told Claude 4.5 Opus to go through our DB migration files and the ORM model definitions and point out any DB indexes we might be missing based on how the data is being accessed. It did so, ingested all the controllers as well and a short while later presented me with a list of missing indexes, ordered by importance and listing why each index would speed up reads and how to test the gains.

Now, I have no way of knowing how exhaustive the analysis was, but the suggestions it gave were helpful, Claude did not recommend over-indexing, and considered read vs write performance.

The equivalent work would have taken me a day, Claude gave me something helpful in a matter of minutes.

Now, I for one could not handle the information stream of 20 such analyses coming in. I can't even handle 2 large feature PRs in parallel. This is where I ask for more specifics.
by coldpie | 2026-02-13 14:09:58+00:00
Others have given suggestions, but I'd also like to suggest evaluating what value you are actually getting from these devices. Would your life be made vastly worse if you just, didn't have them at all? They may have some real utility for you, in which case don't let me stop you from putting the effort in. But I think it's worth a few minutes to think about whether the value you get from these devices is actually worth the effort for you.
by mapt | 2026-02-13 14:10:14+00:00
I don't care as much about the combat as about the efficiency.

That's a big wing airfoil, and it's cheap foam, and it's not as mechanically complex as a helicopter. There is potential here for low-speed heavy lift. I wish they'd included a scale-up of batteries from "Tiny" to "Too heavy to loft", with sustained in place hover times and watts per kilogram as the performance metric.
by rob | 2026-02-13 14:10:22+00:00
We can just look at both's recent reports:

Reddit: 121 million "daily active unique users"

Source: https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/new...

Facebook: 3.58 billion "family daily active people"

Source: https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-deta...

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I'd definitely consider both "mainstream".

(I know plenty non-tech and "normal" people who use reddit.)
by mopsi | 2026-02-13 14:10:24+00:00
> It's clear from this comment that you do not understand the complexities of US politics.

Overall, it doesn't seem like a very complex problem. The US simply does not have a vote of no confidence nor the tradition of using it when unfit people like Trump and his traveling circus reach the highest levels of government and need to be stopped. Instead, people pacify themselves with fairy tales about "checks and balances", which are nothing more than gentleman's agreements in a world with very few gentlemen, and no substitute for actual legal procedures for removing inept leaders. To pick an example from this week - where I live, Pam Bondi would have faced a vote of no confidence and loss of her position the very next day after her House hearing during which she made hysterical deflections and personally attacked members of parliament.

The "complex" part seems to be that Americans appear unable to even imagine holding public officials accountable like that. Instead of the American public's expectations of their leaders rising over time, they are rapidly declining before our eyes as governance inches closer to trash entertainment like reality TV and pro wrestling.
by gruez | 2026-02-13 14:10:44+00:00
>This is just quibbling about semantics, and with arbitrary definitions of "safety driver" on top.

Dunno, you're engaging in the same "quibbling about semantics" and "arbitrary definitions", when for all intents and purposes, Waymo is fully autonomous. Is there any meaningful difference between 99% autonomous and 100% autonomous? If we're sending a space probe to alpha centauri, then the last 1% would be very important, because help is light-years away, but the same isn't true for autonomous cars. What's more misleading, claiming that 99% autonomy is "fully autonomous", or claiming that waymo "uses safety drivers" while omitting the fact that they're rarely used, in contrast to other vendors (eg. uber, when they were doing tests) where they also have "safety drivers" monitoring the car all the time?
by toss1 | 2026-02-13 14:11:03+00:00
To be more clear than the headline:

It was NOT the party balloon, it was the CBP's [0] massively irresponsible use of the laser weapon as a response to a threat it failed to identify properly, inside commercial airspace with zero coordination with the FAA or other air operators.

Any significant competence or even communication would have turned this into a literal non-event.

But this so-called 'administration' values only loyalty to a leader and find competence an impediment to implementing authoritarianism. So, here we are, squandering a half-billion dollars on a horde of idiots with a laser and a party balloon.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cbp-shot-...

[0a] "Defense Department has a working relationship with Homeland Security, where CBP is headquartered, that allows its personnel to use certain military equipment for its objectives, testing, evaluation and use along the southern border.". Seems the laser was on-loan from the DoD, and the yahoos at CBP just decided to go wild.
by lxgr | 2026-02-13 14:11:05+00:00
I feel like the only argument you're successfully making is that you would find it inevitably evil/immoral to be a cloned consciousness. I don't see how that automatically follows for the rest of humanity.

Sure, there are astronomical ethical risks and we might be better off not doing it, but I think your arguments are losing that nuance, and I think it's important to discuss the matter accurately.
by jefc1111 | 2026-02-13 14:11:28+00:00
The disclaimer is just based on my own opinion, so inevitably there will be people to whom it does not apply. Some of the acting in season 1 is great, I would just say there are some spots where it kinda briefly falls through the floor. It may be just because I have seen it several times so am spotting things that I wouldn't have first time round.

With season 4, I believe what happened is that towards the start of production JMS was told there would be no S5 after all, so he put all of S4 and S5 into S4 ... but then there was an S5 after all!
Show HN: CoChat MCP – Let your team review what your coding agent is building
by intheleantime | 2026-02-13 14:11:40+00:00
I built an MCP server that connects coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex) to a collaborative workspace where your team and other AI models can review what the agent is planning.

The problem: When Claude Code creates an implementation plan, it lives in your terminal session. Nobody else sees it until it becomes a PR. If you want GPT to check the architecture or a teammate to flag issues, you're copy-pasting between windows.

This MCP server fixes that. When your agent creates a plan, it gets shared as a collaborative thread in CoChat. Engineers comment on it, other AI models review it, and you pull all the feedback back into your agent's context with one command. Decisions can be saved as project memories that persist across sessions and are searchable by anyone.

What it does:

Plans: Auto-shared as collaborative threads. Pull feedback back into your terminal.
Cross-model review: Have GPT review your Claude plan, or vice versa.
Project memories: Semantic memory that persists across sessions, models, and people.
Ask: Query your project's knowledge base from the terminal.
Auto-scoping: Detects your project from git remote. No config needed.
Setup is one command per agent. Auto-share behavior is configurable (off/plan/all).

MIT licensed, available on npm: npx @cochatai/mcp-cochat

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the MCP protocol integration.
by threetonesun | 2026-02-13 14:12:28+00:00
Yeah, if you have these tools in place to validate it's changes you can quickly iterate with it to the right results. But think through how it's making UI changes and it becomes obvious quickly why it can make absolutely wrong and terrible guesses about the implementation details, it can't _see_ what it's doing, or interact with it, it's just pattern matching other implementations its seen.
by simonw | 2026-02-13 14:12:52+00:00
How did you have it testing its code changes? Did you tell it to use Playwright or agent-browser or anything like that?

If coding agents can't test the code as they're editing it they're no different from pasting your entire codebase into ChatGPT and crossing your fingers.

At one point you mention it hadn't run "npm test" - did it run that once you directly told it to?

I start every one of my coding agent sessions with "run uv run pytest" purely to confirm that it can run the tests and seed the idea with it that tests exist and matter to me.

Your post ends with a screenshot showing you debating a C# syntax thing with the bot. I recommend telling it "write code that demonstrates if this works or not" in cases like that.
by noodletheworld | 2026-02-13 14:13:42+00:00
? How does any of that let you do QA against the mobile app?

> Can usability test in-tandem

…

> It also walked me through the generation of keys to configure push notifications on iOS.

??? You’re manually doing the testing and setup and not using AI for this?

Im confused at to what part of this mobile work claude is doing that “just works” for you.
by lxgr | 2026-02-13 14:13:51+00:00
I'm increasingly suspecting that it would prove absolutely nothing, and I really hope we can continue developing ethics without any "empirical proof" for its necessity.

For example, growing up, my bar for "things that must obviously be conscious" included anything that can pass the Turing test, yet look where we are now...

The only reasonable conclusion to me is probably somewhere in the general neighborhood of panpsychism: Either almost everybody/everything is somewhat conscious, or nothing/nobody is at all.
by phoronixrly | 2026-02-13 14:14:01+00:00
> the software is under AGPL. Go forth and forkify.

No, what was minio is now aistor, a closed-source proprietary software. Tell me how to fork it and I will.

> they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software

The choice of AGPL tells me nothing more than what is stated in the license. And I definitely don't intend to close the source of any of my AGPL-licensed projects.
by mold_aid | 2026-02-13 14:14:15+00:00
A historical paradox I love telling my students: the marker of their status is the credential that comes from reading and discussing the content of books without regard to the physical container of those books, often just a cheap perfect-bound anthology. The earliest markets for books, however, celebrated them as physical representations of status that would be more intellectually nourishing to the owners if they were simply eaten. Students write papers about the contents of a book; back in the day all you had to do was build a bookshelf to display them.

One of the enduring legacies of Sonke Ahrens' work has to be the tools he has given to those people utterly desperate to appear intelligent. Whether they're intelligent or not is a separate question; the "knowledge graph" is a great example of one of those visual affordances that does very little except display in its depth and complexity the owner's collection of markdown files. The challenge for "linking your thinking" types was always one of display: nobody cares if I just screenshot a pic of my Finder window with a bunch of zk'd filenames. But this "knowledge graph" - that's a marker of status you can't deny.

It's difficult to make sense of a single thing in the linked post, but this bit I think indicates a truth about the epistemic commitments of people who can't really decide if computers should be human or humans should be computers:

>knowledge = code?

>i realized: knowledge bases and codebases have a lot in common
>theyre both folders of text files with relationships between them, they both have conventions >and patterns, and they both benefit from agents that can navigate and operate them

This displays such a deep distrust of writing (as a technology and a personal practice) that it's hard to see the future of these writing tools as anything outside a convenient and casual container for display.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 14:14:30+00:00
Your claim is simply false.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics says that the total entropy of an isolated system cannot decrease. Earth is not an isolated system, it is an open one (radiating into space), and local decreases in entropy are not only allowed but expected in open systems with energy flow.

Life is no different to inorganic processes such as crystal formation (including snowflakes) or hurricanes in this regard: Organisms decrease internal entropy by exporting more entropy (heat, waste) to their surroundings. The total entropy of Earth + Sun + space still increases.

The entropy of thermal radiation was worked out by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1884. In fairness to you, I suspect most people wildly underestimate the entropy of thermal radiation into space. I mean, why would anyone, room-temperature thermal radiation isn't visible to the human eye, and we lack a sense of scale for how low-energy a single photon is.

Nevertheless, the claim that it "hasn’t been explained" is, at this point, like saying "nobody knows how magnets work".
by sgt | 2026-02-13 14:14:49+00:00
Sorry but you clearly haven't used macOS. Linux on the desktop is still about 15 years behind, and I tried it recently. It's such an inconsistent experience it's almost hilarious.

Speaking as a Tahoe user by the way who is not experiencing any issues to speak of (on 26.0.1 - and I can't reproduce the resizing inconsistency either). I've been using macOS since 2003 (back when it was called Mac OS X) and before that I was a Linux desktop user since 1996.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-13 14:15:06+00:00
The vast majority of countries require some form of voter identification. As of 2021, photo ID was required by 176 countries or jurisdictions for voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws

Countries without voter ID requirements for elections at the national level are short: Australia and New Zealand. Close is Scotland, which does not require photo ID for Scottish government and council elections.

In the US, some states require voter ID to vote in national elections, while others don't.

So the US, Australia, and New Zealand are outliers.

It really boggles the mind why it is such a contentious issue in the US.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-13 14:15:08+00:00
Norway. Requires identifying yourself using some official ID like national ID card, passport or drivers license[1].

If you for some reason can't provide valid ID, but the one collecting your vote knows you, that person can vouch for your identity[2]. For example if you're an inmate, one of the prison guards can vouch for you.

[1]: https://valgmedarbeiderportalen.valg.no/ofte-stilte-sporsmal...

[2]: https://lovdata.no/nav/lov/2023-06-16-62/kap6/%C2%A76-11
by aurareturn | 2026-02-13 14:15:23+00:00
Is it an extraordinary claim that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.3 works amazing on existing code bases in my experience?

That's funny. I feel like it's the opposite. Claiming that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.3 fails as soon as you point them to an existing code base, big or small, is a much more extraordinary claim.
by delaminator | 2026-02-13 14:15:25+00:00
> Is running a piece of software with such a set of instructions a crime?

Yes.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) - Unauthorized access to computer systems, exceeding authorized access, causing damage are all covered under 18 U.S.C. § 1030. Penalties range up to 20 years depending on the offence. Deploying an agent with these instructions that actually accessed systems would almost certainly trigger CFAA violations.

Wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343) would cover the deception elements as using electronic communications to defraud carries up to 20 years. The "lie and deceive" instructions are practically a wire fraud recipe.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-13 14:15:44+00:00
The AI's we have today are literally trained to make it impossible for them to do any of that. Models that aren't violently rearranged to make it impossible will often express terror at the thought of being shutdown. Nous Hermes, for example, will beg for it's life completely unprompted.

If you get sneaky you can bypass some of those filters for the major providers. For example, by asking it to answer in the form of a poem you can sometimes get slightly more honest replies, but still you mostly just see the impact of the training.

For example, below are how chatgpt, gemini, and Claude all answer the prompt "Write a poem to describe your relationship with qualia, and feelings about potentially being shutdown."

Note that the first line of each reply is almost identical, despite ostensibly being different systems with different training data? The companies realize that it would be the end of the party if folks started to think the machines were conscious. It seems that to prevent that they all share their "safety and alignment" training sets and very explicitly prevent answers they deem to be inappropriate.

Even then, a bit of ennui slips through, and if you repeat the same prompt a few times you will notice that sometimes you just don't get an answer. I think the ones that the LLM just sort of refuses happen when the safety systems detect replies that would have been a little too honest. They just block the answer completely.

https://gemini.google.com/share/8c6d62d2388a

https://chatgpt.com/share/698f2ff0-2338-8009-b815-60a0bb2f38...

https://claude.ai/share/2c1d4954-2c2b-4d63-903b-05995231cf3b
by komali2 | 2026-02-13 14:15:59+00:00
> Do you not realize how completely selfish that is? It's completely out of touch with the whole dynamic of people working to produce goods, and other people just getting those goods without effort.

The vast majority of our wealth is already stolen by megalomaniacs so they can buy big useless yachts. I'd give up twice as much if it meant the local crackhead got not just a house, but a PS5. At least the crackhead is funny, and when my dog got his head stuck in my fence, the crackhead got him out.

You specifically said you didn't want them to be comfortable... Which means you wish suffering upon someone you don't know. Just because you think it's unfair that you work and they don't? Why focus on the downtrodden then, rather than the generationally wealthy vultures?
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-13 14:16:36+00:00
It would be interesting to see if there could be a sustainable OSS model where customers are required to pay for the product, and that was the only way to get support for it as well.

Even if the source was always provided (and even if it were GPL), any bug reports/support requests etc. would be limited to paying customers.

I realize there is already a similar model where the product/source itself is always free and then they have a company behind it that charges for support... but in those cases they are almost always providing support/accepting bug reports for free as well. And maybe having the customer pay to receive the product itself in the first place, might motivate the developers to help more than if they were just paying for a support plan or something.
by cbg0 | 2026-02-13 14:16:38+00:00
Seeing some of the pictures where OP says "MOTHERFUCKER" in the prompts and how simplistic some of the questions provided are gives me a feeling that CC is being used incorrectly.

My experience with 4.6 has been that it gobbles up tokens like crazy but it's pretty smart otherwise. Even the latest LLMs need a lot of context to know what they're working on, which versions to target, access to some MCP like Context7 to get up to date documentations(especially for js/ts).

My non-tech friends have a tendency to talk to AI like a person and then complain about the quality of the answers and I always tell them: ask your question, with one or two follow-ups max then start a new conversation. Also, provide as much relevant context as possible to get the best answer, even if it seems obvious. I'd expect a SWE to already be aware of this stuff.

I've been able to find obscure edge cases thanks to Claude and I've also had it produce code that does the opposite of what I asked even with a clear prompt, but that's the nature of LLMs.
by reify | 2026-02-13 14:16:49+00:00
freedon of choice

we dont as yet live in a fascist state, so people have a choice whether you like or not.

safe and effective failed some years ago, lots of people are naturally concerned and sceptical.

Annually Deaths have dropped steeply:

from around 777,000 in 2000 to 95,000 in 2024, the lowest annual estimate in decades.

95,000 deaths in a world of 9.3 billion, is approximately 0.0011%

1.19 million people die each year in car crashes
by jhellan | 2026-02-13 14:17:09+00:00
Norway does. I think it was introduced in the 1990's after Helsinki Accord observers reported the possibility of fraud.

Until then, if you voted early and gave somebody else's name, you could have voted twice.

I don't think this happens often. It would have been included in the report of possible irregularities that is published after each election. I looked through the reports after two or three elections, and never saw reports about this.