MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teeklp | 2026-02-11 18:57:19+00:00
I agree that a lot of the current push is driven by investor sentiment and a degree of FOMO. If capital markets start to believe AI is table stakes, companies don’t really have the option to ignore it anymore.
That said, I’m not bearish on AI either. I think there’s a meaningful difference between chasing AI for signaling purposes and deliberately building an “AI muscle” inside the organization. Companies that start learning how to use, govern, and integrate AI thoughtfully are likely to outpace those that never engage at all.
From that perspective, most of these memos feel fairly reasonable to me. They’re less about declaring AI as a silver bullet and more about acknowledging that standing still carries its own risk.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-11 18:57:19+00:00
I think there is a cultural gap. He mention not only apologizing but giving explanations.

For instance my observation is that people in the USA will tend to give you a lot of unrequested information like all their health/medical problems or the sports games of their kid and what not. People in europe seems to be more private unless they are talking with very close coworker they would consider as friends.
by blibble | 2026-02-11 18:57:24+00:00
> you're probably being closed minded and using it wrong

> I was a huge AI skeptic but since Jan 2025,

> I'm in my 50s and have been programming for 30 years

> there is nothing that is going to stop it.

I need to turn this into one of those checklists like the anti-spam one and just paste it every time we get the same 5 or 6 clichés
by toast0 | 2026-02-11 18:57:34+00:00
> I’ve lived various places in Western Washington and the advice about generators and food and batteries and heat ring true everywhere more than an hour away from Seattle or Tacoma

I live on the west side of puget sound, and get two nines of utility power. Undergrounding distribution lines is very expensive given the natural expenses of undergrounding and the shallow soil most of the region has. Undergrounding transmission lines is basically not happening outside of very special cases. Shallow soil also makes trees less stable, so that makes treefall -> utility outage more probable. Roads can get pretty nasty in winter storms too which also contributes to high time to repair.

Article doesn't even mention cell towers go down in extended outages. Around me, it's about 4-6 hours, a little longer overnight, but only 30 minutes past when people wake up.
by jwr | 2026-02-11 18:57:36+00:00
I really dislike this trend that unfortunately has become, well, a trend. And has followers. Namely, let's simplify to "reduce noise" and "not overwhelm users", because "the majority of users don't need…".

This is spreading like a plague: browser address bars are being trimmed down to nothing. Good luck figuring out which protocol you're using, or soon which website you are talking to. The TLS/SSL padlock is gone, so is the way to look into the site certificate (good luck doing that on recent Safari versions). Because users might be confused.

Well the users are not as dumb as you condescendingly make them out to be.

And if you really want to hide information, make it a config setting. Ask users if they want "dumbo mode" and see if they really do.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-02-11 18:58:05+00:00
There are laws of physics you can’t hand waive away. Winter tires are really more cold temp tires. The rubber formulation is different to allow for grip in the cold and dry (tread pattern for cold and snow). As such a winter tire wears heavily driven in the summer, rubber formulation is just too soft.

For an all season that level of summer wear would be unacceptable. So a different formulation is used to improve summer wear at the cost of the winter low temp performance. You can’t have it both ways, a long wearing summer performance and good sub 40 degree grip.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-11 18:58:06+00:00
Holding one's unsubstantiated personal beliefs above all evidence and rational argument is, in fact, delusion.

The evidence in TFA is that Microsoft is much more than Windows. So much more in fact that one can make a very reasonable argument that it's no longer a top priority for them.

The delusion is shutting your eyes, covering your ears, and screaming about how literally everyone except you is wrong.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-02-11 18:58:20+00:00
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8477

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15263

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/9099

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8371

It's very clear that Anthropic doesn't really want to expose the secret sauce to end users. I have to patch Claude every release to bring this functionality back.
by misnome | 2026-02-11 18:58:56+00:00
Yes, I’ve been evaluating since the start of the year and since 4.6 suddenly the most innocuous requests will sit there “thinking” for 5+ minutes and if I can get it to show me the thinking it’s just going round in circles.

Or, it decided it needs to get API documentation out and spends tens of thousands of tokens fetching every file in a repo with separate tool use instead of reading the documentation.

Profitable, if you are charging for token usage, I suspect.

But I’m reaching the point where I can’t recommend claude to people who are interesting in skeptically trying it out, because of the default model.
by LEDThereBeLight | 2026-02-11 18:59:03+00:00
> When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.”

Why bury the lede? Why not just say “it’s got nothing to do with Trump, we’re doing this because X isn’t a priority for Gallup anymore.”
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-11 18:59:13+00:00
> Can I just have an electric car that’s a car and nothing else? Seats, wheels pedals, mirrors, real buttons, no displays just a aux jack. I’d buy it, hell I might even take the risk and pre-order it

You can buy a tubular frame chassis for Beetle-based kit cars from a factory in the south of England, that's been adapted to take modern coilover suspension and an MGF or MGTF engine and gearbox, because Beetles are so rare that anyone wants to put the engine back into a Beetle.

I reckon with a minor amount of fettling you could squeeze a Nissan Leaf transaxle and a sufficient amount of batteries in, and still drop your Manx beach buggy shell over the top. Or any other shell you like.

You'd be running around in a solar-powered beach buggy. THAT is the future.
by showerst | 2026-02-11 18:59:44+00:00
I'd argue that QoL in middle America is not great compared to similarly priced places in the EU.

Americans have worse health outcomes (including lifespan), travel far less and have less time off, and retire later. That said, you do get much more space, nicer housing stock, (arguably) better access to education, and generally more 'stuff', so it's a tradeoff.
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-11 18:59:51+00:00
> By this do you mean there isn't much more room for future improvement

I don't expect that LLM technology will improve in a way that makes it significantly better . I think the training pool is poisoned, and I suspect that the large AI labs have been cooking the benchmark data for years to suspect that their models are improving more quickly than they are in reality.

That being said, I'm sure some company will figure out new strategies for deploying LLMs that will cause a significant improvement.

> [Do] you feel it is not useful in its current form for software development?

IME using LLMs for software development corrodes my intuitive understanding of an enterprise codebase.

Since the advent of LLMs, I've been asked to review many sloppy 500+/1000+ line spam PRs written by arrogant Kool-Aid drinking coworkers. If someone is convinced that Claude Code is AGI, they won't hesitate to drop a slop bomb on you.

Basically I feel that coding using LLMs degrades my understanding of what I'm working on and enables coworkers to dominate my day with spam code review requests.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 19:00:12+00:00
ironically sometimes warmer winters are worse

like if a typical winter is slightly but consistently below 0C
then a warmer winter would have

- more black ice

- more ice rain

- more snow melting and refreezing (so ice on roofs, ground or trees etc.)

- wetter snow (so heavier)

etc.

Through where I live it is/was the opposite this year. Normally we have mostly above 0C degrees and rarely ice rain/black ice or similar. Also some way colder days (-10C and below) too cold to have much ice issues. This year for ~a month the temperature did non stop bounce between enough above 0 during the day to slightly melt things (but not fully) and below 0 at evening + cold ground to fully freeze any water produced by melting. So non stop icy walkways, streets etc. for nearly a month.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-11 19:01:05+00:00
> We don't have a model for a LLM that does exist will respond to a specific query either.

Yes we do... It's math, you can calculate it.

> No, it's not and I'm getting tired of explaining this. If you think it is, write your paper and get very rich.

Why would I get rich for explaining how to do math?

> You clearly don't understand any of this.

Could you be more specific?

Quantum physics is stupidly hard to calculate when you approach realistic situations.

A real LLM takes a GPU a fraction of a second.

They're both hard to interpret, please realize I'm agreeing that LLMs are hard to interpret. But they're easier than QM on some other fronts.

And mentioning copenhagen or many-worlds doesn't show that quantum mechanics are easy to interpret, that's about as useful as saying an LLM works like neuron activation.

> Oh really ? Lol

Here's one of many posts about it. https://cameronrwolfe.substack.com/p/llm-scaling-laws
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-11 19:01:11+00:00
Exactly.

At some point the greedy rich people will realize that their well-being immediately depends on the well-being of others around them, and that at some point if you want to increase YOUR longevity (/quality-of-life, /pleasure, etc) you need to increase EVERYONE's longevity (/quality-of-life, /please, etc)
by Fwirt | 2026-02-11 19:01:23+00:00
Backup cameras do contribute significantly to safety, to the point that I installed one in my 2002 vehicle with a cheap aftermarket head unit. The important thing to realize is that all the modern conveniences can be decoupled from the drivetrain. My $50 Android head unit does basically all the things that the OEM head unit on our 2018 vehicle does. It even does many things better.

The problem with modern cars is that everything is so heavily integrated and proprietary. If I swapped out the OEM touchscreen, apparently I would also lose the ability to set the clock on my instrument cluster. Now that this has become normalized, automakers have realized they can lock Android Auto/CarPlay behind a paywall and you’ll have no recourse but to buy one of those tablets that you stick on your dashboard and plug into the aux port. If your car still has an aux port.

I’m excited for the Slate, but unfortunately I have the feeling that the people who buy new cars aren’t the same people that want the Slate. The rest of us who keep our 20+ year old vehicles reliably plugging along don’t make any money for automakers.
by ayushrai02 | 2026-02-11 19:01:28+00:00
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by sigseg1v | 2026-02-11 19:01:41+00:00
"Hey boss, I tried to replace my screwdriver with this thing you said I have to use? Milwaukee or something? When I used it, it rammed the screw in so tight that it cracked the wood."

^ If someone says that they are definitely "holding it wrong", yes. If they used it more they would understand that you use the clutch ring to the appropriate setting to avoid this. What you don't do, is keep using the screwdriver while the business that pays you needs 55 more townhouses built.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-11 19:02:50+00:00
US Secretary of State Bressent just publicly said that the US needs to get along and cooperate with China. His tone was so different than previously in the last year that I listened to the video clip twice.

Obviously for the average US tax payer getting along with China is in our interests - not so much our economic elites.

I use both Chinese and US models, and Mistral in Proton’s private chat. I think it makes sense for us to be flexible and not get locked in.
by throwaway1114 | 2026-02-11 19:03:03+00:00
At this year Davos it was said in open text: big LLM supplieers & labs don't have enough demand to have profit that will cover spending. They must compete and provide supply because who win race will get most of the rewards. Geopolitics makes this even worse. So they are over leveraged and now time is running out before house of cards will collapse. All the hype and paid marketing is target to make masses (and more important people who make decisions) believe their story and buy into it. I assume for a person without technical background it's hard to filter signal from noise. It's all about that is hard to see that LLMs are what they are because "they" make great illusion of intelligence and illusion of novel thinking when it fact they just do the math with big text database.
by revicon | 2026-02-11 19:03:11+00:00
Here's a one-shot script that does the compare for you, in case it's helpful...

https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/bad_browser_extension_check_osx.sh

You can run it directly if you cut/paste this in your mac terminal...

curl -fsSL https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/bad_browser_extension_check_osx.sh | bash
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-11 19:03:43+00:00
> Anyway, you could assume 10 years ago, each button was $2. A car has 40-70 buttons? So its probably like $100 a car. Maybe $150 or $200 in today's money.

I have a late 90s Range Rover. It has about 12 buttons on the dashboard, most of which I never have to bother with (they do things that turn on and off the fog lamps, which I don't need to use, or adjust the air suspension, which I rarely need to use). I turn the lights off and on, and I switch the heating from "normal" to "BLAST EVERYTHING ON, FRONT AND REAR DEMIST ON, SEAT HEATERS ON, EVERYTHING ON, EVERYTHING ON, EVERYTHING UP FULL, WE'RE AN AIR FRYER NOW" mode.

What do you actually need an LCD for in a car?
by kstrauser | 2026-02-11 19:03:48+00:00
Oh please. That ship has sailed. I'm marginally sympathetic to people who don't run JavaScript on their browsers for a variety of reasons, but they've deliberately opted out of the de facto modern web. JS is as fundamental to current design as CSS. If you turn it off, things might work, but almost no one is testing that setup, nor should they reasonably be expected to.

This has zero to do with Adtech for 99.99% of uses, either. Web devs like to write TypeScript and React because that's a very pleasant tech stack for writing web apps, and it's not worth the effort for them to support a deliberately hamstrung browser for < 0.1% of users (according to a recent Google report).

See also: feel free to disable PNG rendering, but I'm not going to lift a finger to convert everything to GIFs.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 19:03:52+00:00
I think Dario & crew are getting high on their own supply and really believe the "software developers out of work by end of 2026" pronouncements.

Meanwhile all evidence is that the true value of these tools is in their ability to augment & super-charge competent software engineers, not replace them.

Meanwhile the quality of Claude Code the tool itself is a bit of a damning indictment of their philosophy.

Give me a team of experienced sharp diligent engineers with these coding tools and we can make absolutely amazing things. But newbie product manager with no software engineering fundamentals issuing prompts will make a mess.

I can see it even in my own work -- when I venture into doing frontend eng using these tools the results look good but often have reliability issues. Because my background/specialization is in systems, embedded & backend work -- I'm not good at reviewing the React etc code it makes.
by kube-system | 2026-02-11 19:04:01+00:00
I'm surprised it is that high. Plastic is cheap to produce, and the quality of plastic from US recyclers is poor. It is so infamously dirty that China banned importing recycled plastic from the US. By the time you wash the peanut butter out of each peanut butter jar, you've spent more in water and labor than the plastic is worth.

But ultimately, landfills are a good place to put plastic. It sequesters the carbon and keeps the pollution contained.
by acheong08 | 2026-02-11 19:04:07+00:00
Looking at the contributor analytics: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/graphs/contributors

Doesn't look like he was, but then looking at the actual commit list: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/commits/main/?before=e49...
He definitely had more than the 14 commits listed. They might've lost their email due to the conflicts & lost ownership over the commits?
by tgtweak | 2026-02-11 19:04:14+00:00
Why are we not comparing to opus 4.6 and gpt 5.3 codex...

Honestly these companies are so hard to takes seriously with these release details. If it's an open source model and you're only comparing open source - cool.

If you're not top in your segment, maybe show how your token cost and output speed more than make up for that.

Purposely showing prior-gen models in your release comparison immediately discredits you in my eyes.
by alexhr | 2026-02-11 19:04:17+00:00
Decapod is a repo-native, agent-first control plane written in Rust.

It’s a local, daemonless kernel your agents invoke on demand: shared state, an audit trail of why changes happened, todos that persist across sessions, and proof-gated “truth” to prevent drift from quietly rotting a codebase.

Git-native. No SaaS. Model- and agent-agnostic.

https://github.com/DecapodLabs/decapod

cargo install decapod
by mindslight | 2026-02-11 19:04:38+00:00
Care to elaborate on your point then? Reading what you have written, I do agree with the abstract thrust of where you're coming from.

But I have also observed that the destructionists appeal to similar lofty ideas to justify what is currently going on - eg accelerationism.

(I also don't know what difference "tongue in cheek" makes. I've never looked at the government and thought anything like "these people represent me and work for my interest". I know a lot of people seemingly have, but that's not me. But I did look at the Biden administration, which I voted for, and think "this is the stable predictable evil I (and the rest of American society) already know how to cope with".)
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-11 19:04:44+00:00
> LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIs

Yes they are. This is true.

> which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.

In my experience, this is a tedious part of programming which I do not spend very much time on.

In my experience LLM generated API boilerplate is acceptable, yet still sloppier than anything I would write by hand.

In my experience LLMs are quite bad at generating essentially every other type of code, especially if you are not generating JS/TS or HTML/CSS.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-02-11 19:05:56+00:00
>Think about the Industrial Age transition from individual craftspeople working on small shops using hand tools to make things into working in factories on large-scale assembly lines.

I wouldn't analogize the adoption of AI tools to a transition from individual craftspeople to an assembly line, which is a top-down total reorganization of the company (akin to the transition of a factory from steam power to electricity, as a sibling commenter noted [0]). As it currently exists, AI adoption is a bottom-up decision at the individual level, not a total corporate reorganization. Continuing your analogy, it's more akin to letting craftspeople bring whatever tools they want to work, whether those be hand tools or power tools. If the power tools are any good, most will naturally opt for them because they make the job easier.

>The nature of the work and your enjoyment of it is a fundamental part of the compensation package of a job.

That's certainly a part of it, but I also think workers enjoy and strive to be productive. Why else would they naturally adopt things like compilers, IDEs, and frameworks? Many workers enjoyed the respective intellectual puzzles of hand-optimizing assembly, or memorizing esoteric key combinations in their tricked-out text editors, or implementing everything from scratch, yet nonetheless jumped at the opportunity to adopt modern tooling because it increased how much they could accomplish.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976955
Show HN: Open Benchmarks Grants– a $3M commitment to close the AI eval gap
by vincentschen | 2026-02-11 19:06:18+00:00
Today, we're launching the Open Benchmarks Grants: a $3M commitment to fund open-source and academic teams building benchmarks for AI agents. In partnership with HuggingFace, PrimeIntellect, FactoryHQ, Together, Harbor, and PyTorch, the grants provide funding, data development support, and research collaboration.

Our ability to measure AI has been outpaced by our ability to develop it, and we believe this evaluation gap is one of the most important problems in AI. Open benchmarks are one of the most important levers for advancing AI safely and responsibly—but the academic and open-source teams driving them often hit resource constraints, especially in the face of the exponentially expanding complexity of what tomorrow’s benchmarks need to cover.

We think the next wave of benchmarks needs to push on three axes:
- Environment complexity - How realistic is the operating environment?
- Autonomy horizon - How far can an agent operate independently? We need to measure
- Output complexity - How sophisticated is the work product?

Happy to answer questions about the grants, the framework, and would love to hear more about what you’re building!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-11 19:06:51+00:00
As a manager though, I bet you understand the architecture, the politics, the business, the security posture, the financial implications, etc of everything you are responsible for.

Wouldn’t you agree that your skillset is more valuable than your coders? Again with the assumption that you aren’t working in BigTech or equivalent where every optimization is at a scale that it matters.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-11 19:06:58+00:00
only if you run it as root, run it as a user and it can't do any more damage than the user running it could. It can still certainly send any data the user has access to anywhere on the inet though, that's a big problem. idk if there's a way to lock down a user so that they can only open sockets to an IP on a whitelist.. maybe that could be an option to at least keep the data from going anywhere except to Anthropic (that's not anywhere close to perfect/correct either but it's something i guess).
by ajkjk | 2026-02-11 19:07:05+00:00
What are you talking about? Infinite decimals give reals, do they not? Repeating decimals give rational which are a subset of the reals.

The colloquial phrase 'infinite decimal' is perfectly intelligible without reference to whether it's an infinite amount of data or rigorously defined or whatever else.

There's a lot of trickery involved din dealing with the reals formally but they're still easy to conceptualize intuitively.