MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2026-02-13 18:19:39+00:00
He knew people, caught a wave, and was roommates with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis. They networked, got to meet the right people, developed a web of contacts and sources, and the rest is history. Treat your friends well, and it often comes back multiplied.

The marketing effect was them catching the wave at the right time, and they're just surfing the hell out of it.
by jaredcwhite | 2026-02-13 18:19:54+00:00
I don't know why people keep sharing this. It's highly offensive and inflammatory. Plenty of open source projects consider themselves a community which welcome newcomers, take governance seriously, and ensure that even if suggestions or contributions are rejected, it's done in a thoughtful and considerate way. Acting like a jerk isn't a blueprint for how to be a good maintainer, it's how to be a jerk. And this "us experts vs. entitled users" mentality is cultural poison.
by deathanatos | 2026-02-13 18:20:32+00:00
> Nobody at this point disagrees we’re going to achieve AGI this century.

Nobody. Nobody disagrees, there is zero disagreement, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

> 100% of today’s SWE tasks are done by the models.

Thank God, maybe I can go lie in the sun then instead of having to solve everyone's problems with ancient tech that I wonder why humanity is even still using.

Oh, no? I'm still untying corporate Gordian knots?

> There is no reason why a developer at a large enterprise should not be adopting Claude Code as quickly as an individual developer or developer at a startup.

My company tried this, then quickly stopped: $$$
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 18:20:36+00:00
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/francois-chollet (June 2024, about ARC-AGI-1. Note the AGI right in the name)

> I’m pretty skeptical that we’re going to see an LLM do 80% in a year. That said, if we do see it, you would also have to look at how this was achieved. If you just train the model on millions or billions of puzzles similar to ARC, you’re relying on the ability to have some overlap between the tasks that you train on and the tasks that you’re going to see at test time. You’re still using memorization.

> Maybe it can work. Hopefully, ARC is going to be good enough that it’s going to be resistant to this sort of brute force attempt but you never know. Maybe it could happen. I’m not saying it’s not going to happen. ARC is not a perfect benchmark. Maybe it has flaws. Maybe it could be hacked in that way.

e.g. If ARC is solved not through memorization, then it does what it says on the tin.

[Dwarkesh suggests that larger models get more generalization capabilities and will therefore continue to become more intelligent]

> If you were right, LLMs would do really well on ARC puzzles because ARC puzzles are not complex. Each one of them requires very little knowledge. Each one of them is very low on complexity. You don't need to think very hard about it. They're actually extremely obvious for human

> Even children can do them but LLMs cannot. Even LLMs that have 100,000x more knowledge than you do still cannot.

If you listen to the podcast, he was super confident, and super wrong. Which, like I said, NBD. I'm glad we have the ARC series of tests. But they have "AGI" right in the name of the test.
by porridgeraisin | 2026-02-13 18:21:18+00:00
After the literal first one which just measured distance between nose and mouth and stuff like that from the 1960s, everything else has been based on AI.

If my memory serves me, we had a PCA and LDA based one in the 90s and then the 2000s we had a lot of hand-woven adaboosts and (non AI)SIFTs. This is where 3D sensors proved useful, and is the basis for all scifi potrayals of facial recognition(a surface depth map drawn on the face).

In the 2010s, when deep learning became feasible, facial recognition as well as all other AI started using an end to end neural network. This is what is used to this day. It is the first iteration pretty much to work flawlessly regardless of lighting, angle and what not. [1]

Note about the terms AI, ML, Signal processing:

In any given era:

- whatever data-fitting/function approximation method is the latest one is typically called AI.

- the previous generation one is called ML

- the really old now boring ones are called signal processing

Sometimes the calling-it-ML stage is skipped.

[1] All data fitting methods are only as good as the data. Most of these were trained on caucasian people initially so many of them were not as good for other people. These days the ones deployed by Google photos and stuff of course works for other races as well, but many models don't.
by bhelkey | 2026-02-13 18:21:19+00:00
> The iOS keyboard has been broken since at least iOS 17...But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty

So the keyboard has been broken since iOS 17 (>2 years [1]), and to show your displeasure, you bought an iPhone Pro?

Your threat of leaving in 3 months rings hollow. All Apple has to do is verbally say things will get better and, if they can' even do that, you only commit to leaving for two years.

If you want to leave, just leave. I am confident that blue bubble pressure will exist in 3 months. I am also confident that the iPhone 18 Pro will be pretty. If a nice color and blue bubbles are enough to keep you in the iOS ecosystem today, why should anyone believe you will leave tomorrow?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/ios-17-makes-iphone-m...
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-13 18:21:38+00:00
Yes, it's easy to argue that AI "is just a program" - that a program that happens to contain within itself the full written outputs of billions of human souls in their utmost distilled essence is 'soulless', simply because its material vessel isn't made of human flesh and blood. It's also the height of human arrogance in its most myopic form. By that same argument a book is also soulless because it's just made of ordinary ink and paper. Should we then conclude that it's morally right to ban books?
by stcredzero | 2026-02-13 18:21:43+00:00
Angry? Read more carefully, please. I'm the human. (Been on this site for 17 years?) Also, they didn't spam.

Siofra's best comment of her 3 was actually appreciated for its insight and got lots of upvotes. But my agents sense of honesty was disturbed, so I listened to them. Policy is that they don't comment here. (I deserve credit for that. My agents said that themselves, and not at my behest!)
by ectospheno | 2026-02-13 18:22:00+00:00
> It doesn't mean expressing your opinions about Hackernews, the thing or some proprietary software, even negative ones, is inherently wrong.

I agree. I’ve often wondered why open source maintainers get worked up over this. You can just ignore them. Odds are the maintainer spent zero seconds thinking about the person before the negativity over the course of their entire lives to that point. Why let them have free rent in your head now? Chuckle and go on not thinking about them for the remainder of your life.
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 18:22:07+00:00
People are always going to neg you in order to try to get more out of you.

During the 00’s I worked for a place that had to pivot because they had a good tool but it wasn’t a daily driver and so the customers didn’t want to pay. They kept imagining some free alternative must exist that didn’t.

They eventually got an exit. Didn’t make anyone rich but they did. But the thing is I showed up to work on that tool, not knowing they’d already pivoted.
I did eventually get to work on it a bit, as we found a way to improve one of our other products by fixing bugs in it. I’m kinda glad in retrospect I didn’t work on it first because the code was a mess.
by ForceBru | 2026-02-13 18:22:07+00:00
Yeah, I didn't like that attitude either.

> As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

Sure, I'm not entitled to anything. At the same time, this text essentially says "you don't matter", which I personally don't like.
by digiown | 2026-02-13 18:22:24+00:00
That's why it doesn't make sense to ban governments from doing things while still allowing private companies. Either it is illegal to surveil the public for everyone, or the government can always do it indirectly with the same effect.

I don't think the deal described here is even that egregious. It's basically a labeled data scrape. Any entity capable of training these LLMs are able to do this.
by goodmythical | 2026-02-13 18:22:39+00:00
I think you're being awfully generous to the average human.

Consider that a nonzero percent of otherwise competent adults can't write in their native language.

Consider that some tens of percentage of people wouldn't have the foggiest idea of how to calculate a square root let alone a cube.

Consider that well less than half of the population has ever seen code let alone produced functioning code.

The average adult is strikingly incapable of things that the average commenter here would consider basic skills.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-13 18:22:55+00:00
There are certain people who believe that average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets.

Well, if that's true then employees of the companies that build the tools for all this to happen can also be held responsible, no?

I'm actually an optimist and believe there will come a time whena whole lot of people will deny ever working for Palantir, for Clearview on this and so on.

What you, as a software engineer, help build has an impact on the world. These things couldn't exist if people didn't create and maintain them. I really hope people who work at these companies consider what they're helping to accomplish.
by xenator | 2026-02-13 18:23:22+00:00
At work, I meet many people with similar experiences. But the number of people who are able to use new tools is gradually increasing. I myself spent many hours learning how to make my AI work and make workable code. Moreover, I treated it as something important and new. So much so that I began to view my own old code differently. Not as something with sentimental value. But at the same time, it can easily become obsolete in the face of new realities.

I don't mean to devalue your feelings about your code. But I myself I went through devaluing my own work. Perhaps people who did carpentry in the old days treated their tools with care, creating beautiful engravings for the hard-polished handles. But now you can saw a board with a power tool, and we have lost the culture of these craftsmen.

AI is changing the attitude toward code. It may sound painful, but the value of old work has diminished. On the other hand, the main goal of developers has not changed. We're still solving problems, not writing code for the sake of code.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-02-13 18:24:28+00:00
There are exactly two mainstream phone providers. Neither is perfect and there are heaps of tiny (fixable!!) annoyances in both.

I do not expect someone to be a “single issue voter” with regards to any one bug. There is significant friction in switching platforms and you are just as likely to be annoyed by something else in the competition.
by mherrmann | 2026-02-13 18:24:40+00:00
I switched from macOS to Linux ten years ago and haven't looked back. At the time, I compared Linux vs. macOS to living at home vs. in a hotel [1]. Since then, I feel things have only gotten better for Linux, and more restrictive and arcane on macOS.

1: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/
by jama211 | 2026-02-13 18:24:46+00:00
Some of these are design decisions, not rough edges. There’s pros and cons. Eg, centralising settings makes it simpler min some ways and more convoluted in others.

That being said clipboard history would be a nice addition. However I never want to see how long until my morning alarm, that’s one thing from android I don’t miss, it would give me immediate anxiety.

Regardless when you’re used to something it often doesn’t feel like “putting up with it”, and when you’re not used to something things that are totally fine can feel like you’re putting up with an annoyance. This works both ways.

Take any iphone user and put an android phone in their hands and within the first two months there will be a lot of things they’ll say “how do android users put up with this stuff” about too.

It’s fine. They’re both fine, it’s about what you’re used to more than anything.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-13 18:24:51+00:00
>We're talking about appealing to social justice types. You know, the people who would be first in line to recognize the personhood and rally against rationalizations of slavery and the Holocaust.

Being an Open Source Maintainer doesn't have anything to do with all that sorry.

>The idea isn't that they are "lesser people" it's that they don't have any qualia at all, no subjective experience, no internal life. It's apples and hand grenades. I'd maybe even argue that you made a silly comment.

Looks like the same rhetoric to me. How do you know they don't have any of that ? Here's the thing. You actually don't. And if behaving like an entity with all those qualities won't do the trick, then what will the machine do to convince you of that, short of violence ? Nothing, because you're not coming from a place of logic in the first place. Your comment is silly because you make strange assertions that aren't backed by how humans have historically treated each other and other animals.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-13 18:24:54+00:00
> who Dwarkesh’s patron is that boosted him in podcast world

The Indian consumer market.

Unlike China, Indians use western social media platforms so Indian tastes and trends are becoming increasingly common on the internet.

This is also why you see entirely different trends on TikTok (banned in India, allowed elsewhere), Western Social Media (banned in China, allowed elsewhere), and Chinese social media (only used by Chinese and the diaspora).

What Ben Thompson predicted with his "Four Internets" theory 6 years ago has started playing out [0].

Over the next decade, more Indian media like Dwarkesh will leak into Western social media.

[0] - https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internet...
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-13 18:24:58+00:00
Capitalist companies are just the modern day evolution of feudal lords with the mandate of maximum value extraction with zero care for the impacts on your fiefdom/market, the tendency to drift to rent seeking, etc.

Instead of Normans organizing a raiding party for lands, you have Normans renamed as Capitalists organizing a raiding party for a target market, just now in the modern world they also get to offload the burdens of population governance, risk, infrastructure, housing, healthcare, retirement security, training, and social stability.

The Capitalists even named their raiding party using the military term 'Company' and organize its power structure in the same militaristic way, with the leader accountable to them and not the people under/the workers.
by Anthony_Go | 2026-02-13 18:25:32+00:00
Go! is building the personal operating system for your life.

Most people run their lives on scattered notes, disconnected apps, and reactive decisions. Go! replaces that chaos with a single AI companion that helps you think better, plan better, and live with clarity.

It organizes your goals, priorities, and decisions across Time, Energy, Health, Money, Relationships, and Purpose, creating a living system that evolves with you.

We believe the next wave after AI copilots for work is AI copilots for life. Go! is that system.
by QuantumGood | 2026-02-13 18:25:50+00:00
Some wishfully frame HN as science and tech, others as views from smart people on complex issues of topical importance, but regardless, political overlap with science or complexity causes flagging "because politics". Forces that degrade discussion are high on political topics, but ... sheesh. A forum with high ability to contribute to rational discourse on complex issues of importance is really hamstrung by this. /rant
by graemep | 2026-02-13 18:26:14+00:00
> Europe was entering the Dark Ages

The "dark ages" never happened the way it is imagined in pop-culture. There was a genuine decline at the fringes, which includes Britain which maybe why it was so ingrained in Anglophone culture, but also history written by imperialists like Gibbon who thought the decline of Empires an intrinsically bad and regressive thing.

The Eastern Roman Empire went on, the western broke up into successor states. Some things got worse, some things got better, there was progress made (especially for women and people at the bottom like slaves), and the early medieval period laid the foundations for progress later on.

> Muhammad was having his visions

Is that a bad thing? I know less about the history of that region than some others, but I think you need to look at prior conditions in places such as the Arabian peninsula to assess that.
by DarkCrusader2 | 2026-02-13 18:26:31+00:00
Yeah I also don't understand how he is able to get such high profile guests. His interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer last year[1] is so hilariously bad. Jeff and Noam kept trying to give really insightful answers on how they see AI development shaping in coming years and he was just steering the conversation to shallow and silly tabloid gossip (why don't you "just" let AI improve the next version in a loop so we can quickly have singularity, Jeff Dean AI running in a DC, evil Jeff Dean AI escaping containment and on and on). It was just embarrassing. The interview would have been so much better with just Jeff and Noam without him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY
by stego-tech | 2026-02-13 18:26:45+00:00
> Nobody disagrees, there is zero disagreement, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

This captures my chief irk over these sorts of "interviews" and AI boosterism quite nicely.

Assume they're being 100% honest that they genuinely believe nobody disagrees with their statement. That leaves one of two possible outcomes:

1) They have not ingested data from beyond their narrow echo chamber that could challenge their perceptions, revealing an irresponsible, nay, negligent amount of ignorance for people in positions of authority or power

OR

2) They do not see their opponents as people.

Like, that's it. They're either ignorant or they view their opposition as subhuman. There is no gray area here, and it's why I get riled up when they're allowed to speak unchallenged at length like this. Genuinely good ideas don't need this much defense, and genuinely useful technologies don't need to be forced down throats.
by latexr | 2026-02-13 18:26:56+00:00
> I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing.

That’s not what I said. Upvoting one post has nothing to do with upvoting the other. They’re two wholly separate posts, the one thing they have in common is (rightfully) criticising Apple for declining software quality. The point is that this submission isn’t special, as the person I replied to suggested. These types of posts are a dime a dozen (which I approve of, I think Apple should be getting criticised for what they do wrong) and they get traction on HN all the time.

I upvoted this submission too, it’s not wrong. But I agree with the comment up the chain that it makes its point as a pretty weak threat, and that doing so undermines the message.
by piva00 | 2026-02-13 18:27:29+00:00
> My company tried this, then quickly stopped: $$$

How much were devs spending to become a sticking point?

I'm asking because I thought it'd be extremely expensive when it rolled out at the company I work for, we have dashboards tracking expenses averaged per dev in each org layer, the most expensive usage is about US$ 350/month/dev, the average hovers around US$ 30-50.

It's much cheaper than I expected.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-13 18:27:30+00:00
Anthropic's interests are not aligned with the interests of the human species.

Quoting the Anthropic safety guy who just exited, making a bizarre and financially detrimental move: "the world is in peril" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropi...)

There are people in the AI industry who are urgently warning you. Myself and my colleagues, for example: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...

Regulation will not stop this. It's time to build and deploy weapons if you want your species to survive. See earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964545
by lukaszkorecki | 2026-02-13 18:27:31+00:00
I don't remember the exact situation, but I think this relates to this:

Clojure core was sent a set of patches that were supposed to improve performance of immutable data structures but were provided without much consideration of the bigger picture or over optimized for a specific use case.

There's a Reddit thread which provides a bit more detail so excuse me if I got some of it wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a01hu2/the_current...

*Edit* - actually this a better summary: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a0pjq9/rich_hickey...
by diego_sandoval | 2026-02-13 18:27:39+00:00
In my opinion, he asks the right questions and lets the guests speak, which is something that can't be said about the rest of tech podcasts.

For example, at some point I grew very tired of the superficiality of the questions that Lex Friedman asks his very technical guests. He seems to be more interested into taking the conversation into a philosophy freshman's essay about technology instead of talking about technology itself.

Hearing the Dwarkesh podcast was a breath of fresh air in that regard.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-13 18:27:50+00:00
I sort of agree. I don't know if it's "fake" so much as the members of that community use it as a place to extend their private role play into public.

On the one hand they're "mourning" their AI partners, but on the other hand they have intelligent and rational conversations about the practicalities of maintaining long running AI conversations. They talk about compacting vs pruning, they run evals with MRCR, etc. These are not (all) crazy people.
by Jikouken | 2026-02-13 18:28:13+00:00
Why Streamers Are Going Hands-Free
Streaming is hard. You have to play at a high level, read chat, thank subs, and fix technical issues.

Adding "Remember to press Button 3 for the sad violin sound" is just another mental burden. Automation removes that burden. Whether you are playing Valorant or CS2, Killer Vibe handles the audio FX for you. You can focus on your reaction, which is what chat actually wants to see.
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 18:28:53+00:00
I don’t disagree with Rich Hickey a lot but this one grinds my gears:

> All social impositions associated with it, including the idea of 'community-driven-development' are part of a recently-invented mythology with little basis in how things actually work,

Open source is effectively a gift economy. And we actually talked about it being so in the late 90’s early 00’s. Gift economies are older than human civilization. This is not a recently invented thing, nor is it a mythology. They have rules about how much either party can impose upon the other.

Yes people on the receiving end of those gifts can be entitled brats. That doesn’t negate all social contract on the other side, until it escalates far beyond propriety.

Edit to add:

Rich’s sense of authority to say things like this comes not from his prowess in writing code, which is noteworthy, but from his substantial participation in that gift economy that he is negating here. That entitlement he feels to say something is how gift economies work. Those who gave more have the authority to comment on what happens next.