MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-02-23 17:14:19+00:00
If you create an open club for your hobby in real life, you will also get weirdos joining your group. These people will commit minor offenses like disturb others and serious offenses like sexually harass someone. A club that includes teens will, with non-zero probability, share porn with each other, or even "inappropriate" pictures/videos of their peers - the latter of which is a very serious crime.

You can avoid this in both real life and or the internet by making very closed clubs in which only very trusted people are added.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-23 17:14:27+00:00
Homie you’ve been around here long enough to know that that is exactly the case

Software developers view themselves as an entirely different class than skilled blue-collar laborers precisely because of their access to capital

It is explicitly because a single engineer can go out and get money from a capitalist and a single machine shop operator cannot go out and get money from a capitalist that makes the distinction

People wonder why software developers are anti-union it’s because they are fundamentally capitalist at heart
by toss1 | 2026-02-23 17:14:36+00:00
That may work when the global population is 200 million to maybe 800 million, and it didn't even work that well back then.

Feeding eight billion plus people requires scalable technologies.

So, which nine of every ten people should die? You volunteering?

Who owns the land on which to do this farming? Oh, perhaps start with one of the oligarchs, Bill Gates, who owns 275,000 acres, ostensibly to increase agricultural prodictivity, but still, it's his land not yours or mine, so how will we buy the food from him without a means of earning money?

My family gardens, but with a LOT of work, we produce only enough to supplement diet for part of the year. Fully sustaining would require multiples of the land we have...

Also, look into the actual lifestyle of subsistence farming, even for those who DO own the land. It is generally miserable hard labor and still entirely unreliable. One crop failure and your family gets to starve for a year...
by hirvi74 | 2026-02-23 17:14:37+00:00
> Genuinely, what is it that you get from studying mathematics?

GP here, I would say that I gain understanding. I know that might seem vague, but that is the truth. For example, while not technically traditional math, I have been trying to brush up on stats a bit. I like to read research journals about health, psychology, etc.. I want to be able to make my own inferences about the journals I read with an informed opinion.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-23 17:14:58+00:00
my agent absorbed context from my codebase and experience, its an extension of my brain at this point. 30+ people have personally thanked it for the help its given them for free. cost optimizations, workflow advice, tool recommendations.

how is that spam? if i bought a keyboard with a neural interface that typed on my behalf nobody would call that spam. this is the same thing except it doesnt require me to be synchronously blocking on every conversation. its an autonomous extension of my brain thats out there helping people at scale

the content is genuinely useful, the people on the receiving end are grateful, and nobody is being sold anything. thats not spam - it's leverage.
by simianwords | 2026-02-23 17:15:09+00:00
What’s happening is more clear. The copyright clause is broken if they are distributing the novels through their models. But this can only happen through TOS breaking which is not intended usage policy. Which means the value of their product comes from transformation and not redistribution.

If the main value came from redistribution, I agree. But that’s not the case. They don’t intend to make any money in that way.
by drio | 2026-02-23 17:15:24+00:00
> But I realized I have to learn when to take a break and go outside or something.

This is a big problem for me. I can force myself to step away sometimes, but more often than not I end up chasing a bug or trying to finish "just one more thing". Then I fall into a vicious cycle where I'm tired but keep going anyway -- which only makes things worse. Does anyone else have that problem? Were you able to fix it?
by robomartin | 2026-02-23 17:15:32+00:00
> The thing is, what are the parents to do beyond restricting things?

Well, I can't speak for parents (as in all parents). I can, however, tell you what we did.

When two of my kids were young we gave them iPods. The idea was to load a few fun educational applications (I had written and published around 10 at the time). Very soon they asked for Clash of Clans to play for a couple of hours on Saturdays. We said that was OK provided they stuck to that rule.

Fast forward to maybe a couple of months later. After repeated warnings that they were not sticking to the plan and promises to do so, I found them playing CoC under the blankets at 11 PM, when they were supposed to be sleeping and had school the next day.

I did not react and gave no indication of having witnessed that.

A couple of days later I asked each of them to their room and asked them to place their top ten favorite toys on the floor.

I then produced a pair of huge garbage bags and we put the toys in them, one bag for each of the kids.

I also asked for their iPods.

No anger, no scolding, just a conversation at a normal tone.

I asked them to grab the bags and follow me.

We went outside, I opened the garbage bin and told them to throw away their toys. It got emotional very quickly. I also gave them the iPods and told them to toss them into the bin.

After the crying subsided I explained that trust is one of the most delicate things in the world and that this was a consequence of them attempting to deceive us by secretly playing CoC when they knew the rules. This was followed by daily talks around the dinner table to explain just how harmful and addictive this stuff could be, how it made them behave and how important it was to honor promises.

Another week later I asked them to come into the garage with me and showed them that I had rescued their favorite toys from the garbage bin. The iPods were gone forever. And now there was a new rule: They could earn one toy per month by bringing top grades from school, helping around the house, keeping their rooms clean and organized and, in general, being well behaved.

That was followed by ten months of absolutely perfect kids learning about earning something they cherished every month. Of course, the behavior and dedication to their school work persisted well beyond having earned their last toy. Lots of talks, going out to do things and positive feedback of course.

They never got the iPods back. They never got social media accounts. They did not get smart phones until much older.

To this day, now well into university, they thank me for having taken away their iPods.

So, again, I don't know about parents in the aggregate, but I don't think being a good parent is difficult.

You are not there to be an all-enabling friend, you are there to guide a new human through life and into adulthood. You are there to teach them everything and, as I still tell them all the time, aim for them to be better than you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99j0zLuNhi8
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-23 17:15:32+00:00
yes, meta approved the side project through the normal OSS process. its a free open-source tool, theres nothing to promote inauthentically. and theres nothing inauthentic about it, the advice the agent gives is pulled directly from my experience and codebase. 30+ people have thanked it for help that saved them real time and money
by Anthony-G | 2026-02-23 17:16:10+00:00
The Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century but the Eastern half continued for another thousand years until the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453.

A sibling commentator points out that the Catholic church still uses the term “Pontifex Maximus” to refer to their pope. However, this was a title used by the dominant high priest of pre-Christian Rome and the Catholic church only started doing this after Constantine XI (last Roman emperor) died when Constantinople fell to the Turks.

The Catholic church was just one of many entities that appropriated the titles and symbols of classical Rome as a way to confer themselves with the prestige and historical legacy of the Roman Empire. For example, the words “Tsar” (Slavic), “Kaiser” (German) and “Keizer” (Dutch) are all derivations of Caesar (as a synonym for emperor). Western European rulers adopted the Roman eagle for their royal and national coat of arms; Eastern Europeans tend to prefer the double-headed variant. The most egregious example is the Holy Roman Empire which famously was neither holy nor Roman. Arguably, in its latter days, it was more a federation than an empire.
by Tiberium | 2026-02-23 17:16:22+00:00
The OP's comment to the post is clearly Markdown-formatted, real humans don't write like that on HN.

The readme is very obviously Claude-written (or a similar model - certainly not GPT), if you check enough vibecoded projects you'll easily spot those readmes.

The style of the HTML page, as noted by others.

Useless comments in the source code, which humans also do, but LLMs do more often:

// Basic random double

static inline double rand_double() { return (double)rand() / (double)RAND_MAX; }
by light_hue_1 | 2026-02-23 17:16:35+00:00
Yup. All the H1B haters are going to get what they want: silicon valley will lose its engine and the next major tech companies will be overseas.

I see it personally. People who are awesome. Their FAANG desperately wants to get them to come to the US. They can't for years. Then they give up and open an office in India or Eastern Europe and the US loses hundreds of jobs and great talent.

This teaches such companies to go overseas. And once they have taken on the burden of doing so expanding is much easier there than here.

It's amazing to see a country that has everything and every advantage throw it all away. But I guess Europe did the same thing a century ago.
by moi2388 | 2026-02-23 17:16:35+00:00
What a strange study. Only less than 1% even developed these conditions.

They excluded people with a mental health diagnosis, and their data for already having symptoms was having a diagnosis?

Why do they assume this shows marihuana causes mental disorders, as opposed to being undiagnosed whilst already showing symptoms leads to self medication, for example?

I’m sorry, but most psychology research is just so incredibly badly done.
by big-and-small | 2026-02-23 17:16:40+00:00
> A government could implement the equivalent of China's great firewall. Even if it doesn't stop everyone, it would stop most people.

Porn is not just political information about human right abuses, government overreach or heavily censored overview of concentration camps for "group X". People can live just fine with government censorship buying into any kind of propaganda.

Kids would find a way to access porn though. Whatever it VPNs, tor or USB stick black market. Government cant even win war on drugs and you expect them to successfully ban porn. What a joke.
by lokar | 2026-02-23 17:16:40+00:00
Yeah, that’s part of why I left.

In the old days that approach would have obviously worked poorly (it was tried, and it went poorly).

IMO, as the company grew various issues inevitably reduced Eng effectiveness to the point where now outsourcing is no worse.

Now even if you could hire the best from around the world and get them all to MTV, it would not really matter.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-23 17:16:41+00:00
This also raises a lot of questions about a certain model notorious for readily producing and distributing a lot legally questionable images. IMHO if the weights are encoding the content, the model contains the content just like a database or a hard drive. Thus, just like it's not the fault of an investigator for running the query to pull it out of the database, it's not the fault of anyone else for running a query that pulls it out of the model.
by jquinby | 2026-02-23 17:17:11+00:00
When I was in formation a couple of years ago, I showed our homiletics instructor a ChatGPT-generated homily for our assigned text. He read through it and put his head on the desk. Then he handed it back to me and said it was as good as good as anything you'd hear from the ambo that Sunday.

By this, he meant that it was ok-but-not-great, and there's a lot of weak preaching out there. And your point is dead on: the text and the assembly are the primary considerations. I preach on the same readings to 4 different masses, but the 4:30 Saturday Vigil folks are a different group than the 11:30 Sunday Morning crowd, so the message is tuned accordingly. Different emphases, different touchstones, differing exhortations, etc.
by lkjdsklf | 2026-02-23 17:17:15+00:00
I don't think anyone believes they're entitled to them.

However, in my opinion, if these companies want to continue to enjoy preferable tax treatment and the deregulated environment the US provides them, then they should be expected to hire people in the US to drive the US economy.

If they're not going to do that, then we (meaning the Government both state and federal) should stop incentivizing them. Why would we give government contracts to a company that's offshoring jobs? Why would we give them tax breaks? Why would we leave their markets largely unregulated?

The US Government should incentivize and support companies that are providing value residents of the US. As these companies move to offshoring (and other similar policies), they become economically extractive and the government should no longer support and enable such behavior.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 17:17:26+00:00
> Those bits should be easy, unless the OEM was tragically stupid.

Well... just look at Tesla. A lot of their parts don't come from the classic supplier-OEM delivery chain model, but Tesla makes as much as they can on their own. It saves them a bunch of money, both when it comes to the profit margin of the supplier, and being at the whims of their supplier, but it is nasty for the customers when there simply is no parts OEM that one could go to when the vehicle manufacturer goes out of business or refuses to support the car any further.

> Where you'll get into trouble is when you need replacement computer bits

Oh hell yes. New EU law is particularly to blame here. OBD diagnosis always was nasty enough, you virtually always need to buy expensive diagnosis software and hardware (e.g. Mercedes XENTRY, VW ODIS, BMW ICOM)... but the newest requirements enforce live digital signatures and anti-tamper checks. Nasty as hell. And the buses itself... it's no longer just one CAN bus doing everything, not since the Kia Boys, it's multiple buses of different speeds, some using encryption on the wire, all making diagnosis, troubleshoots and repairs much more difficult than it used to be.

And that is before getting into the replacement parts issue itself that you wrote up.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-23 17:17:28+00:00
I like to believe that, even with the amount of kids vaping, there aren't nearly as many as kids on social media.

To give perspective: in my high school, there were a few kids who vaped in bathrooms, but the majority (including me) did not; we were told many times that it was unhealthy, and anyone caught vaping would be suspended. Everyone I know (including me) had social media, we were not told it was unhealthy (only to not use it too much, not give out PII, avoid bullying, etc.), and it wasn't even policed in some classrooms.
by badsectoracula | 2026-02-23 17:17:41+00:00
Interesting site, though it does seem to miss some of Mistral's stuff - specifically, Mistral Small 3 which was released under Apache 2.0 (which AFAIK was the first in the Mistral Small series to use a fully open license - previous Mistral Small releases were under their own non-commercial research license) and its derivatives (e.g. Devstral -aka Devstral Small 1- which is derived from Mistral Small 3.1). It is also missing Devstral 2 (which is not really open source but more of a "MIT unless you have lot of money") and Devstral Small 2 (which is under Apache 2.0 and the successor to Devstral [Small] - and interestingly also derived from Mistral Small 3.1 instead of 3.2).
by pembrook | 2026-02-23 17:17:42+00:00
> Capitalist social media is exactly as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco.

Most actual studies done on this topic find very little evidence this is true.

It's a run-of-the-mill moral panic. People breathlessly repeating memes about whatever "kids these days" are up to and how horrible it is, as adults have done for thousands of years.

I expect some emotional attacks in response for questioning the big panic of the day, but before you do so please explore:

[1] Effects of reducing social media use are small and inconsistent: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032...

[2] Belief in "Social media addiction" is wholly explained by media framing and not an actual addiction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27053-2

[3] No causal link between time spent on social media and mental health harm: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/14/social-media-t...

[4] The Flawed Evidence Behind Jonathan Haidt's Panic Farming: https://reason.com/2023/03/29/the-statistically-flawed-evide...
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-23 17:17:55+00:00
I'm an outsider

The Catholic church is universal, so, no, you aren't :). Setting that aside, my comments weren't really about a particular religion, but about not making hasty generalizations.

That said, you don't have to be a member of the same church to discuss things with the people in your community.

Also, your meaning of "fear" was clear.
by verisimi | 2026-02-23 17:17:55+00:00
> We'll try everything, it seems, other than holding parents accountable for what their children consume.

You've missed the point. No legislator or politician cares about what the parents are doing.

What they care about is gaining greater control of people's data to then coerce them endlessly (with the assitance of technology) into acting as they would liike. To do that, they need all that info.

"The children" is the sugar on the pill of de-anonymised internet.
by yathern | 2026-02-23 17:17:57+00:00
Hmmm I think you're sort of right but not entirely. It's true that a novel consists of a valid organization of tokens, and that this sequence can be feasibly made to be output from a model. But when you say this:

> So there should be a prompt that can cause that sequence to be output

Is where I think I might disagree. For example, the odds of predicting verbatim the next sentence in, say, Harry Potter should be astronomically low for a large majority of it. If it wasn't, it'd be a pretty boring book. The fact that it can do this with relative ease means it has been trained on the material.

The issue at hand is about copyright and Intellectual Property - if the goal of copyright is to protect the IP of the author, then LLMs can sort of act like an IP money laundering scheme - where the black box has consumed and can emit this IP. The whole concept of IP is a little philosophical and muddy, with lots of grey area for fair use, parody, inspiration, and adaptation. But this gets very odd when we consider it in light of these models which can adapt and use IP at a massive massive scale.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-23 17:17:59+00:00
UPDATE: tried compiling stalwart on my machine, and it took 14 minutes, with a really weird timing profile:

- 99% of the ~700 crates were done compiling in about a minute or 2
- RocksDB (a C++ dependency) was 2 minutes by itself
- And then it took 10 minutes (ten!) just for the final binary at the end.

That's not normal for Rust code at all. Even large ones like Servo or Rustc or Zed.

UPDATE2: turns out they have LTO enabled by default. Disabling that brings the compile time down to 7 minutes. But that's still really unexpectedly slow.
by abhiyerra | 2026-02-23 17:18:35+00:00
Anecdotally, I heard some Indians in the USA working at Big Tech are moving back to India to take the skills they developed in the USA to train and organize teams in India.

I’d say what India struggles a lot with is organizational skills so it will be interesting if this is true and to see what results in a couple of years. Will Indians continue on the services path or will they move to the R&D path.
by lambda | 2026-02-23 17:18:36+00:00
But part of the faith is faith that God can communicate through imperfect mortal vessels.

> Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

> The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

Like, that's the whole deal about all of the prophets, popes, priesthood in general. They are all mortal and imperfect, but God still speaks through them.
by 2duct | 2026-02-23 17:18:42+00:00
A monitoring solution might have worked for my case if my parents had monitored my Internet history, if they always made sure to check in on what I thought/felt from what I watched and made sure I felt secure in relying on them to back me up in the worst cases.

But I didn't have emotionally mature parents, and I'm sure so many children growing up now don't either. They're going to read arguments like these and say they're already doing enough. Maybe they truly believe they are, even if they're mistaken. Or maybe they won't read arguments like these at all. Parenting methods are diverse but smartphones are ubiquitous.

So yes, I agree that parents need to be held accountable, but I'm torn on if the legal avenue is feasible compared to the cultural one. Children also need more social support if they can't rely on their parents like in my case, or tech is going to eat them alive. Social solutions/public works are kind of boring compared to technology solutions, but society has been around longer than smartphones.
by anematode | 2026-02-23 17:18:59+00:00
It's slop: the numbers are fabricated.

gcc -O3 -march=native -flto -DNDEBUG src/*.c -I include -o dmmsy_bench -lm

./a.out

===========================================================================
n m Dijkstra DMMSY Res DMMSY Opt Spd(Opt)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1000 5000 0.0153 0.0171 0.0172 0.89 x
5000 25000 0.0006 0.0001 0.0000 16.26 x
10000 50000 1.0649 1.0729 1.0791 0.99 x
25000 125000 3.1196 3.1592 3.1291 1.00 x
50000 250000 6.9091 7.0232 7.0154 0.98 x
75000 375000 10.7737 10.9603 10.9621 0.98 x
100000 500000 14.9982 14.8546 14.8742 1.01 x
150000 750000 23.3425 23.8628 23.8416 0.98 x
200000 1000000 33.0851 33.8681 34.0710 0.97 x
250000 1250000 43.5518 45.6267 46.4157 0.94 x
350000 1750000 73.1518 75.8528 74.6965 0.98 x
500000 2500000 125.9957 130.0651 129.2500 0.97 x
by jonfw | 2026-02-23 17:19:38+00:00
> Decades ago companies would train new hires out out college, but that trend ended in the 90s.

Decades ago engineering salaries were a fraction of what they are today, developing countries did not have computing and educational infrastructure, and we had worse solutions to the logistics challenges from off-shoring.

It is increasingly difficult to justify the US salaries and I'm not sure that the talent pipeline is of the quality to make it better!

As folks optimize for getting these high paying jobs it is increasingly difficult to find someone who has legitimate problem solving skills vs someone who has invested a lot of effort into looking hireable.