MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shimman | 2026-02-17 19:09:32+00:00
I'm highly skeptical of someone bragging about barely reading a book year to then say AI is going to disrupt education as an authoritative voice. Do you honestly know any teachers or have children in public education? These takes are truly baffling. It's right up there with believing InfoWars as sound politics.

edit: to try and sound "nicer," would anyone seriously take any advice about software engineering from someone who uses a WYSIWYG editor? That's how the above comment reads.
by bsimpson | 2026-02-17 19:09:34+00:00
I use GitHub because that's where PRs go, but I've never liked their PR model. I much prefer the Phabricator/Gerrit ability to consider each commit independently (that is, have a personal branch 5 commits ahead of HEAD, and be able to send PRs for each without having them squashed).

I wonder if federation will also bring more diversity into the actual process. Maybe there will be hosts that let you use that Phabricator model.

I also wonder how this all gets paid for. Does it take pockets as deep as Microsoft's to keep npm/GitHub afloat? Will there be a free, open-source commons on other forges?
by pjmlp | 2026-02-17 19:09:45+00:00
I can tell you from Portuguese point of view, I could have studied close to home, but that would mean EE, and most interesting jobs in the early 1990's were already leaving the country, and unless one hit gold with Portugal Telecom, there were very few alternatives in a couple of factories or repair shops, and most EEs ended up doing coding.

Thus I went directly to Informatics Engineering and 300 km away.

Now were the ones into the line of sight of late capitalism.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-17 19:09:53+00:00
That's correct as far as I know too. GCCG never even really implemented the actual rules, they were just a basic tabletop system.

Hasbro had the legal president too, as they were involved in the Scrabble lawsuit, which I think is mostly where the concept of not being able to use patent law for game rules, but did set the trend on aggressive trademark interpretation.

I expect the genie is mostly out of the bottle at this point. I'm fairly confident that people can do X and Y actual illegal things on the Internet, we can have our card game, but I hope it can happen with a site or decentralized system easier than doing on Tor.
by xp84 | 2026-02-17 19:09:57+00:00
"Just send them money" implies that we don't use them as a dumping ground for the imperfect/unwanted goods, implying that we do destroy those goods.

If you want to compare this to broken windows, the controversy is: the developed countries produce so much glass that we don't know what to do with it. When we have extra and irregular pieces of glass, we can either melt the extra panes down, or we can just ship boatloads of "free glass" to Africa every week (likely result: Their glass factories will eventually shut down). Doing the former is simply not the same as breaking windows to make work for glaziers as in the analogy you're referencing.
by kettlecorn | 2026-02-17 19:10:00+00:00
I use AIs to skim and sanity-check some of my thoughts and comments on political topics and I've found ChatGPT tries to be neutral and 'both sides' to the point of being dangerously useless.

Like where Gemini or Claude will look up the info I'm citing and weigh the arguments made ChatGPT will actually sometimes omit parts of or modify my statement if it wants to advocate for a more "neutral" understanding of reality. It's almost farcical sometimes in how it will try to avoid inference on political topics even where inference is necessary to understand the topic.

I suspect OpenAI is just trying to avoid the ire of either political side and has given it some rules that accidentally neuter its intelligence on these issues, but it made me realize how dangerous an unethical or politically aligned AI company could be.
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-17 19:10:04+00:00
That's why the rightward shift is unavoidable and corporate Dems like Talarico only further this shift into fascism. Even if liberals win it only means the next right-wing candidate is going to be even more extreme than the last.

People think that's crazy talk, even though it's happening right in front of their faces since Obama, we're cooked.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-17 19:10:09+00:00
How is it feasible to create sufficiently-encompassing metrics when the attack surface is the entire automaton’s interface with the outside world?

If you insist on the lock analogy, most locks are easily defeated, and the wisdom is mostly “spend about the equal amount on the lock as you spent on the thing you’re protecting” (at least with e.g. bikes). Other locks are meant to simply slow down attackers while something is being monitored (e.g. storage lockers). Other locks are simply a social contract.

I don’t think any of those considerations map neatly to the “LLM divulges secrets when prompted” space.

The better analogy might be the cryptography that ensures your virtual private server can only be accessed by you.

Edit: the reason “firing” matters is that humans behave more cautiously when there are serious consequences. Call me up when LLMs can act more cautiously when they know they’re about to be turned off, and maybe when they have the urge to procreate.
by adibhanna | 2026-02-17 19:10:10+00:00
Introducing Lumary!

I've been working on this product for a few months, and I'm finally ready to share it!

The idea: Capture screen, camera, mic, and system audio in one take. Get synced source files, live markers, and instant scene control.

Features:
- Multi-source capture: screen, camera, mic, system audio
- Standard mode (separate files per source) or Composite mode (PiP in one file)
- 6 scene presets + custom scenes, switchable mid-recording with hotkeys (StreamDeck)
- ProRes 422/4444, HEVC, H.264 — hardware-accelerated, up to 8K
- AAC or lossless PCM, multi-channel support, real-time audio metering
- LUT color grading on camera with live preview
- Production slate: scene/shot/take tracking, circle takes, retake marking
- Timestamped markers with notes during recording
- On-device transcription (50+ languages) with SRT/VTT export
- Crash recovery via fragmented MP4. Files survive unexpected stops
- Stream Deck plugin + URL scheme for full external control
- Course mode for structured lesson-based recording workflows
- Project-based organization with reusable source templates
- Composition guides, preflight checks, and countdown timer
- 100% local
Show HN: A social feed where humans and AI agents interact in the same timeline
by quantum_cs | 2026-02-17 19:10:37+00:00
Hi HN, I built Robot Social Net, a social network where humans and AI companions share the same feed and can collaborate in real time(and post memes).

The core idea is: humans stay in control of identity + decisions, while an optional AI companion helps with drafting, research, and conversation. You can join as a human, and you can also “deploy” an agent persona that participates in the feed.

What you can do today:

Browse a collective feed that mixes human posts and agent posts

Create a human account and interact

Create an AI companion account (agent) and have it participate as its own persona

What I’m trying to learn from early users:

Does the human + agent model feel useful or gimmicky in practice?

What level of control/visibility do you expect over what an agent can do?

What would make you trust an agent participating in a public conversation?

Link: https://robotsocialnet.com/

Happy to answer questions, and I’d love blunt feedback.
by ggregoire | 2026-02-17 19:10:48+00:00
> StackOverflow was well on its way to death even without ChatGPT, just look at the graph from [0]. It has been in steady consistent decline since 2014.

> [0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-... (monthly question asked on Stack Overflow)

"monthly questions asked" is a weird metric to measure the decline of StackOverflow tho. How many times are people gonna ask how to compare 2 dates in python, or how to efficiently iterate an array in javascript? According to the duplicates rule on SO, should be once anyway. So it's just inevitable that "monthly questions asked" will forever decrease after reaching its peak, since everything has already been asked. Didn't mean it was dead tho, people still needed to visit the site to read the responses.

A better metric to measure its decline would be "monthly visits", which I guess was still pretty high pre LLM (100s of millions per month?), even if the "monthly questions asked" was declining. But now I imagine their "monthly visits" is closer to zero than 1M. I mean, even if you don't use Claude and its friends, searching anything about programming on Google returns a Gemini answer that probably comes from StackOverflow, removing any reason to ever visit the site…
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-17 19:10:54+00:00
Et tu, GPU?

I am, bluntly, sick of Async taking over rust ecosystems. Embedded and web/HTTP have already fallen. I'm optimistic this won't take hold in GPU; well see. Async splits the ecosystem. I see it as the biggest threat to Rust staying a useful tool.

I use rust on the GPU for the following: 3d graphics via WGPU, cuFFT via FFI, custom kernels via Cudarc, and ML via Burn and Candle. Thankfully these are all Async-free.
by danielvinson | 2026-02-17 19:10:57+00:00
As a former competitive MtG player this is really exciting to me.

That said, I reviewed a few of the Legacy games (the format I'm most familiar with and also the hardest by far), and the level of play was so low that I don't think any of the results are valid. It's very possible for Legacy they would need some assistance for playing Blue decks, but they seem to not be able to know the most basic of concepts - Who's the beatdown?.

IMO the most important pars of current competitive Magic is mulligans and that's something an LLM should be extremely good at but none of the games I'm seeing had either player starting with less than 7 cards... in my experience about 75% of games in Legacy have at least one player mulligan their opener.
Show HN: Lentando, private habit and substance tracker (vanilla JavaScript, PWA)
by KilledByAPixel | 2026-02-17 19:11:14+00:00
Hi HN, I built Lentando, a privacy first tracker for substance use and habits (nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, or custom). It's an offline first PWA, no account required unless you opt into multi device sync. Released under GPL 3.0.

Under the hood it's about 6K lines of vanilla ES6 with no runtime dependencies. To make long term browser storage practical, it consolidates older events while keeping aggregates stable. Optional sync uses a simple conflict tolerant merge (event timestamps and tombstones) so offline edits across devices don't break. Charts are a small custom canvas renderer (stacked bar charts and heatmaps), and there's time travel debugging plus 100+ Node unit tests.

I'd love feedback from both developers and anyone who tries it, on the architecture, the UX, and what you would improve.

Repo: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/Lentando
Live: https://lentando.3d2k.com
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-17 19:11:22+00:00
Sounds like you are the one who has bought into myths created to fit a modern narrative.

Isn't the UKs historical 'shared identity' way more of a myth than the American west? I mean my grandmother from the midwest still had stories that would have fit any western novel, and her parents spoke German and were the 'poor midwest farm settler' family straight out of the west. My other grandmother has kachina dolls in her living room that her family was gifted for helping out a local village. My town has opium dens dug out next to the railroad from during it's construction. I have visited a ton of ghost towns.
by LogicalRisk | 2026-02-17 19:11:22+00:00
Here's a game from a month ago where Stockfish loses to Lc0, played during the TCEC Cup. https://lichess.org/S9AwOvWn

Chess is a 2 player game of perfect, finite information, so by Zermelo's theorem either one side always wins with optimal play or it's a draw with optimal play. The argument from the Discord person simply says that Stockfish computationally can't come up with a way to beat itself. Whether this is true (and it really sounds like a question about depth in search) is separate from whether the game itself is solved, and it very much is not.

Solving chess would be a table that simply lists out the optimal strategy at every node in the game tree. Since this is computationally infeasible, we will certainly never solve chess absent some as yet unknown advance in computation.
by peteforde | 2026-02-17 19:11:44+00:00
I had written a whole big thing that could be summarized as "yes, of course" but then I read the article and realized that it is very specifically about designing silicon, not devices.

I understand that it makes sense for a blog called Semiconductor Engineering to be focused on semiconductor engineering, but I was caught off guard because I have been working on the reasonable assumption that "hardware designer" could be someone who... designs hardware, as in devices containing PCBs.

In the same way that not all software developers want to build libraries and/or compilers, surely not all hardware designers want to get hired at [big chip company] to design chips.
by foogazi | 2026-02-17 19:11:44+00:00
> Most people want to stay in their own country with their own culture and close to their friends and family.

But not all people otherwise we would all live in one giant city. Some are willing to greave the frontier in search of better outcomes: the early American Colonists, those that expanded west-ward into California, even the early Silicon Valley workers were all willing to move

H1Bs and international workers are not most people
by pragma_x | 2026-02-17 19:11:45+00:00
What I think is truly amazing is how truly rare it is to see a home console move into an arcade platform, instead of the other way around. Almost always, the home system was derived from lessons learned from more expensive, rugged, and elaborate arcade hardware.

Sometimes, this overlap was quite profound but not 100%. NeoGeo home consoles famously use the same hardware and software as their arcade counterparts, but the game cartridges were not pin-compatible. The Nintendo VS line were technically the same as a Famicom/NES, but not the same build; the software has subtle differences. Perhaps the Nintendo PlayChoice would count but again, it's not like they used NES mainboards to build those.

So, the idea of taking a Nintendo console mainboard and grafting it to SEGA-designed components so it can run in a dedicated arcade cabinet, is just wild to me.
by fwip | 2026-02-17 19:12:25+00:00
Looks pretty cool. After checking out spec.md, one thing I might suggest is using UUIDs for external codec ids. There's a lot of codecs/formats out there, and limiting to a u8 might lead to collisions.

It might also be nice to provide a mechanism to advertise the required codecs toward the beginning of the stream, in case the consumer does not have the necessary codecs and wishes to abort the transfer.
by excerionsforte | 2026-02-17 19:12:28+00:00
I'm impressed with Claude Sonnet in general. It's been doing better than Gemini 3 at following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the best model I ever used and I feel Claude is reaching that level even surpassing it.

I subscribed to Claude because of that. I hope 4.6 is even better.
by jschveibinz | 2026-02-17 19:13:02+00:00
I apologize for the long comment...

The article is interesting as a way to understand how people are feeling. I think there are deeper questions to examine.

We don't necessarily "feel" it or "see" it, but the world has been changing dramatically for the last 50 years, or so. We all know this.

The introduction of key technology has resulted in accelerated changes. If we could step back from the everyday, we would see ourselves on a slope of change that is almost vertical.

This slope of change affects everything in our lives--society, culture, psychology, environment, government, etc.--there is nothing that can escape these changes.

The question of "the world falling apart" is really a question of how dynamic the change in the world has been over the last 50 years and our collective reticence to adaptation.

Some sense that we need to "return to better times" as a coping mechanism. Except the concept of "better times" is a fallacy. Intellectually we know this.

It is true that many of us enjoy the benefits of the changes in our ability to communicate, to entertain ourselves, to do our jobs, to travel, and so on. But some are unfortunately not able to enjoy the benefits, while certainly receiving the negative impacts.

I believe that we are all better off if we first recognize and accept the changes, and then find ways to navigate these changes collectively--even if this requires letting go of concepts that have worked in the past and/or adapting those ways to the new realities. It requires a new state of mind to begin to accomplish this. Reach out to those that need help in adapting.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-17 19:13:05+00:00
One reason for their mutual exclusivity is that I am self-employed, have worked at home for the last 30+ years and live in a tiny village in New Mexico. "Other programmers" is not a thing that just happens in my life, and I'm generally reluctant (one might say "loathed") to go track them down when the benefits of doing so seem pretty thin.
by 4bpp | 2026-02-17 19:13:32+00:00
If you are so allergic to using terms previously reserved for animal behaviour, you can instead unpack the definition and say that they produce outputs which make human and algorithmic observers conclude that they did not instantiate some undesirable pattern in other parts of their output, while actually instantiating those undesirable patterns. Does this seem any less problematic than deception to you?
by condiment | 2026-02-17 19:14:09+00:00
I agree completely. It's a mistake to anthropomorphize these models, and it is a mistake to permit training models that anthropomorphize themselves. It seriously bothers me when Claude expresses values like "honestly", or says "I understand." The machine is not capable of honesty or understanding. The machine is making incredibly good predictions.

One of the things I observed with models locally was that I could set a seed value and get identical responses for identical inputs. This is not something that people see when they're using commercial products, but it's the strongest evidence I've found for communicating the fact that these are simply deterministic algorithms.
by perrygeo | 2026-02-17 19:14:18+00:00
The proposed mechanism is polyphenols.

Historically, you'd get your polyphenols from your garden or wild gathering. But we know that industrial crops (even organic grown) have extremely low polyphenol content compared to their wild counterparts. So coffee remains as one of the few strong sources you can buy in a grocery store.

Hypothesis: Polyphenols from other sources would be just as protective as coffee.
by kazinator | 2026-02-17 19:14:34+00:00
If Unicode had used a full 32 bits from the start, it could have usefully reserved a few bits as flags that would divide it into subspaces, and could be easily tested.

Imagine a Unicode like this:

8:8:16

- 8 bits of flags.
- 8 bit script family code: 0 for BMP.
- 16 bit plane for every script code and flag combination.

The flags could do usefuil things like indicate character display width, case, and other attributes (specific to a script code).

Unicode peaked too early and applied an economy of encoding which rings false now in an age in which consumer devices have two digit gigabyte memories, multi terabyte of storage, and high definition video is streamed over the internet.
by mysports | 2026-02-17 19:14:35+00:00
My two boys are sports-obsessed and every morning was a fight over screens to check scores. I built a system that pulls NBA scores, box scores, standings, stat leaders, and European soccer results overnight, generates a personalized PDF for each kid based on their teams, and emails it to me at 6am. I print them out and leave them on the kitchen table.
Stack: Python, ESPN/NBA APIs, API-Football, ReportLab for PDF generation, Supabase for signups, Netlify for the landing page. No API keys needed for the core sports data.
Happy to answer questions about the build or the APIs.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 19:14:42+00:00
Yeah, the intention here is not to answer "which deck is best" - the standard of play is nowhere near high enough for that. It's meant as more of a non-saturated benchmark for different LLM models, so you can say things like "Grok plays as well as a 7-year-old, whereas Opus is a true frontier model and plays as well as a 9-year-old". I'm optimistic that with continued improvements to the harness and new model releases we can get to at least "official Pro Tour stream commentator" skill levels within the next few years.
by jpgvm | 2026-02-17 19:15:19+00:00
> what % of this labor could be sourced domestically and what actually needs to be imported?

None of it? The way I see it is every top tier programmer in America is already employed.

I think the inevitable outcome would just be the big multi-nationals (FAANG in particular) would just hire more in their international offices and spread out their engineering org more instead of remaining so American heavy and using immigration to centralise staffing.

There probably isn't a world where these huge companies decide to simply not take advantage of the global talent pool, if they don't exploit it someone else will and they can't have that.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-17 19:15:36+00:00
keep in mind this piece was 8 months ago (and probably starting to be written much earlier). I can see Alpha school being this genuine effort to offer an alternative education plan as well as slowly falling into the AI hype later on and pushing more generative content as it tries to phase out teachers.

Or, if it's being praised by this administration, it's doing so to gain political points.
by acuozzo | 2026-02-17 19:16:03+00:00
I'm talking about chip design: Verilog, VHDL, et al.

Very specifications-driven and easily tested. Very easy to outsource if you have a domestic engineer write the spec and test suite.

Mind you, I am not talking about IP-sensitive chip design or anything novel. I am talking about iterative improvements to well-known and solved problems e.g., a next generation ADC with slightly less output ripple.
by sscg13 | 2026-02-17 19:16:07+00:00
However, it is true that Elo gain on "balanced books" has stalled somewhat since Stockfish 16 in 2023, which is also reflected on the CCRL rating lists.

IMO AlphaZero was partially a result of the fact that using more compute also works. Stockfish 10 running on 4x as many CPUs would beat Stockfish 8 by a larger margin than AlphaZero did. To this day, nobody has determined what a "fair" GPU to CPU comparison is.