MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rramadass | 2026-02-12 09:12:10+00:00
Right. I am not sure why people have a hard time understanding this.

You almost always remember more of what you have consciously written down by hand than by typing. You can write as little or as much as you see fit; the point is that the conscious involvement of "whole body and mind" in the act of writing enforces mental discipline, helps find inter-disciplinary patterns and in general, is an aid to thinking.

Here is an article on the brain areas involved in writing; Psychologically speaking: your Brain on Writing - https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/blog/p...

Finally, if you look at any of the great Scientists, almost all of them wrote prodigiously viz. Letters/Papers/Books/etc. I am quite convinced that this was one important factor in the development of their greatness.

My personal role model for writing is of course Edsger Dijkstra :-)
by lxgr | 2026-02-12 09:12:50+00:00
After having given Openclaw a try as my "personal assistant" for a day when traveling, I 100% want this to be one possible way I can interact with my computer going forward.

Of course it's failed hilariously in many instances, is currently not private (I want local inference before giving it access to anything material, or it'll indeed be a privacy nightmare), and crashes all the time, but the fact that a (not yet) walking, talking CVE can do a better job at this than one of the most wealthy corporations in the world after several years of trying should give them some serious pause.
by GeorgeOldfield | 2026-02-12 09:12:54+00:00
it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:

downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later

edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion

parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does:
curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-12 09:14:33+00:00
You do not appear to have a solid grasp on how the world functions.

Billionaires don't reach this extreme amount of wealth by "work" (unless you believe in magic tales and "tooth fairy", but probably you're old enough to figure out that those "tales" of self-made man they give you on the TV are completely made-up?)

Billionaires reach those obscene amount of wealth by tricking the system. Putting themselves in a place where they're able to "capture" the money, and refuse to pay (through normal taxation) their fair share of what they owe the society

No billionaire does his business "on his own". They rely on an existing infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals for the workers), and the very work of their employees.

So it's perfectly normal at some point to say: you might have done a very interesting business and got rich, but beyond a certain "inequality threshold" (let's say $100M) we tax away all the rest to give it back to society. When you think about it, it's the ONLY thing that makes sense
by its_magic | 2026-02-12 09:14:44+00:00
I had D support in my distro for a while, but regrettably had to remove it. There's just too many problems with this language and how it's packaged and offered to the end user, IMO. It was too much hassle to keep it around.

To get it onto one's system, a bootstrapping step is required. Either building gcc 9 (and only gcc 9) with D support, then using that gcc to bootstrap a later version, or bootstrapping dmd with itself.

In the former case I'm already having to bootstrap Ada onto the system, so D just adds another level of pain. It also doesn't support all the same architectures as other gcc languages.

In the case of dmd, last I checked they just shove a tarball at you containing vague instructions and dead FTP links. Later I think they "updated" this to some kind of fancy script that autodownloads things. Neither is acceptable for my purposes.

I just want a simple tarball containing everything needed with clear instructions, and no auto downloading anything, like at least 90% of other packages provide. Why is this so hard?

Tip: pretend it's still the BBS days and you are distributing your software. How would you do it? That's how you should still do it.

I haven't tried the LLVM D compiler, and at this point quite frankly I don't want to waste any more time with the language, in its current form at least--with apologies to Walter Bright, who is truly a smart and likeable guy. Like I said, it's regrettable.

The only way to revive interest in D is through a well planned rebranding and marketing campaign. I think the technical foundation is pretty sound, but the whole image and presentation needs a major overhaul. I have an idea of how to approach that, were there interest.

The first step would be to revive and update the C/C++ version of the D compiler for gcc so as to remove the bootstrapping requirement and allow the latest D to be built, plus a commitment to keeping this up to date indefinitely. It needs to support all architectures that GCC does.

Next, a rebranding focused on the power of D without garbage collection.

I'm willing to offer ongoing consultation in this area and assistance in the form of distro support and promotion, in exchange for a Broadwell or later Xeon workstation with at least 40 cores. (Approx $350 on Ebay.) That's the cost of entry for me as I have way too much work to do and too few available CPU cycles to process it.

Otherwise, I sincerely wish the D folks best of luck. The language has a lot of good ideas and I trust that Walter knows what he is doing from a technical standpoint. The marketing has not been successful however, sadly.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-12 09:15:14+00:00
Not just government legislation, but also lawsuits. I'm confident that Discord is a hotbed of all kinds of abuse and inappropriate / adult content, a lot targeting younger generations, and most of their resources are spent on that. Age verification doesn't solve that problem per se, but it makes things a bit easier.

The challenge with "protect the children" is not only evildoers targeting them, but targets actively seeking things out. They'll be the first ones looking for ways to circumvent age verification.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-12 09:15:47+00:00
When I went off to uni in the early 1990s I found that the library had a collection of Byte magazine going back to the late 70s (not quite to the very first) and up until well into the late 80s. They may have had more recent ones upstairs, but I used to go down into the stacks and read through all the old ones from the 8-bit era, Ciarcia'a Circuit Cellar being a particular favourite.

Even though by then many of the "Good Bits" were over ten years old it still seemed so fresh and exciting, and the cover artwork really made it all look very special.

The building is closed, all the old buildings (even the very new at the time one where I studied EE) are closed. The building where the library and physics classrooms were is now flats, and I expect all the magazines are long gone.

I hope someone took them for their own collection. I wish I had. I can still smell the paper.
by jbstack | 2026-02-12 09:16:01+00:00
> If you work for a company that uses them, you ought to have them installed on your work machine. This is not unreasonable.

I covered that with "It might be fine in certain contexts (e.g. team members..." and "it breaks down when you're communicating with arbitrary members of the public". A lot of the comments in this thread seem to be assuming that the only communications that ever take place are intra-company. For many people that isn't true at all. For me the vast majority of work-related communications are to clients and third parties. I can't just say "screw them" or "they'll find a way to get hold of me if they care enough" or tell them to use slack to inform me that they've emailed me. I have to live in the real world.
by 000ooo000 | 2026-02-12 09:16:04+00:00
I've posted this a few times over the last year or two. Yet to hear anything remotely convincing. Apparently paying for the privilege of having your site raped 4000x/minute by scrapers so you can see literally no benefit whatsoever -- no community, no ideas sharing, no ad money -- is something people will do for fun going forward.
by kakacik | 2026-02-12 09:16:19+00:00
The past gives a lot of lessons, all negative ones. Power people are endlessly greedy for more power, there is no end in that spiral. All top folks are like that, if you look for the signs you can see it in their behaviors outside PR rooms. Sociopaths to the last one, all big names and then some more.

So, when in doubt, feel free to have good faith in these behemoths. I don't. Secret court orders for example can force any company into anything, and it can be pro bono for some gov contract later. Why would they disclose this, ever? We had Snowden and others.

Come on lets be realistic here, all that data is a wet dream and ultimate goal of any 3 letter agency all around the world.
by lxgr | 2026-02-12 09:16:48+00:00
> It would be interesting to know how many people actually use, or even want Siri, or any type of voice assistant for that matter.

Do you drive to work?

I don't either, but I suspect anyone that does, and that's hundreds of millions of people in the US alone, would get a lot of value out of a version of Siri that can actually act as a "personal assistant", capable of doing things like booking a doctor's appointment that fits into their calendar, summarizing email, canceling subscriptions etc.

And beyond that, I suspect the main reason voice assistants haven't taken off yet is the fact that they just haven't been possible pre-LLMs. Siri has been voice dial on a prescription-free amount of steroids. Imagine what it could do with actual contextual understanding.
by globular-toast | 2026-02-12 09:17:14+00:00
Why are infants materialising out of nowhere behind cars? There must be something else going on here.

When I reverse, there can't possibly be something behind my car, because I've just driven forwards over that area. When I begin to reverse, I'm looking all around behind and I'll be able to see if an infant, or dog or whatever, runs into the path I intend to take.

A lot of people tend to drive forwards into parking spaces then reverse out. I've no idea why, because it's far easier to reverse in then drive forwards out. And I reckon much safer too. If people are sitting in their cars for extended periods then beginning to drive in reverse, I can see this being a problem. But there are also vehicles that you wouldn't be able to see an infant in front of the car either.
by mattlangston | 2026-02-12 09:18:06+00:00
PhD physicist (Stanford/SLAC), Research Software Engineer doing low-level systems work in C/C++ and LLM research. Not a founder or investor — just a practitioner.

One data point for this thread: the jump from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 is not linear. The minor version number is misleading. In my daily work the capability difference is the largest single-model jump I've experienced, and I don't say that casually — I spent my career making precision measurements.

I keep telling myself I should systematically evaluate GPT-5.3 Codex and the other frontier models. But Opus is so productive now that I can't justify the time. That velocity of entrenchment is itself a signal, and I think it quietly supports the author's thesis.

I'm not a doomer — I'm an optimist about what prepared individuals and communities can do with this. But I shared this article with family and walked them through it in detail before I ever saw it on HN. That should tell you something about where I think we are.
by superactro | 2026-02-12 09:18:27+00:00
Nice writeup. The security concern is valid — running an AI agent with shell access on your main machine is risky. Dedicated hardware is the right approach.

FWIW if you're buying new for this use case, the Orin Nano Super (not the original Nano) is a much better fit. It runs Ubuntu 22.04 natively so you skip the entire glibc/Bun workaround. Node 22 installs cleanly, 67 TOPS for local inference, and it draws about 15W so it can run 24/7 without thinking about power.

I've been running OpenClaw on one for months — Telegram bot, browser automation, cron jobs, the whole stack. The original Nano works (as you showed) but the 4GB RAM is tight once you add any local model. The Orin Nano's 8GB unified memory makes a real difference for running quantized models alongside the agent.

The Bun shebang fix is a good find. Worth noting that openclaw update will clobber it every time, so wrapping both sed commands in a post-update script saves headaches.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-12 09:18:29+00:00
none of this matters, the probability of new physics here is essentially nil.

if anyone is irresponsible its Papp who knowingly handed the plug to a productive skeptic, knowing full well the dangers of the device.

if the motor had any merit, he could refuse the out-of-court settlement and demonstrate the working principles of his motor, but he didn't! he took the money, Feymann inadvertently saved him from certain humiliation had this not occured.

hiding rocket propellant in a perpetuum mobile must be one of the most dangerously retarded things to do, people will come closer and inspect and try to figure out the true power source, and they will home in on your panic reactions to get closer (warmer - colder style).
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-12 09:19:12+00:00
> The solution is parents using the parental control feature on their children’s devices.

This is a stopgap at best, and to be blunt, it's naive. They can go on their friends' phones, or go to a shop and buy a cheap smartphone to circumvent the parental controls. If the internet is locked down, they'll use one of many "free" VPN services, or just go to school / library / a friend's place for unrestricted network access.

Parents can only do so much, realistically. The other parties that need to be involved are the social media companies, ISPs, and most importantly the children themselves. You can't stop them, but they need to be educated. And even if they're educated and know all about the dangers of the internet, they may still seek it out because it's exciting / arousing / etc.

I wish I knew less about this.
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-12 09:19:21+00:00
I wish more intellectuals had their "brain on capitalism".

It is dismaying to find out how many American academicians take Marxism seriously - unless they stem from countries like Cuba that had the misfortune to actually let Marxist ideas rule them. It is mental fentanyl for certain kind of collectivist mind.

Give me Hayek and Buckley instead.
by noughtnaut | 2026-02-12 09:19:29+00:00
I wonder if this sort of thing belings to a certain kind of organisation, or type of career. I can certainly see the value of "we have all of <brilliant engineer's> technical notes going back 43 years!" but in my experience, it's rare to meet a "brilliant engineer" who'll stay in one position for even a decade.

Personally, I've been in many 2-15 year employments where I made copious notes - but I did so in whatever wiki my department was using. I've never had the opportinity (or, for that matter, much desire) to bring those notes with me to the next position, as they were (a) specific to that place or task, and (b) quite certainly proprietary (if far from high-value industrial secrets). Detailed notes on the inner workings of an in-house framework, or end-to-end credit card processing flow, just aren't that relevant when your next role is steward of a 25-year-old national tax reporting platform.

I've done a few blog posts, but haven't generally felt the need to share my brilliant thoughts with the greater world, those were just my personal musings (as is this piece right here).

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to _be_ in a position where such long-term usefulness was expected.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-12 09:20:57+00:00
> Also you are expected to apply when the government issues a Call For Creatives.

I love the idea of having a list of "Registered Artists", where you get a basic income as long as you're prepared to Answer The Call of Your Country when needed.

"We need a nice cartoony figure for this public safety film! Find me some artists!"

"Here you go, boss"

"Naw, not those guys, have you got anything in a more Shel Silverstein-y kind of look? How about those ones?"
by anthonj | 2026-02-12 09:21:37+00:00
I'm not making a statement on his arguments (well I dont agree with it, but that was not in my post).

I posted that because I consider blogging a fringe form of journalism, and basic journalism ethics require clear disclosure of conflict of interests.

His entire blog is very self serving. Which doesn't mean his opinion is wrong, but potentially not "cold" or impartial. More like a sales pitch probably. He is also very trasparent about his business but the article is posted here without that context, and I think it's important to point it out given the era of sensationalized and fake news we live in.
by pyrale | 2026-02-12 09:21:51+00:00
This rings hollow to me.

When my code compiles in the evening, it also compiles the next morning. When my code stops compiling, usually I can track the issue in the way my build changed.

Sure, my laptop may die while I'm working and so the second compilation may not end because of that, but that's not really comparable to a LLM giving me three different answers when given the same prompt three times. Saying that nothing is deterministic buries the distinction between these two behaviours.

Deterministic tools is something the developper community has worked very hard for in the past, and it's sad to see a new tool giving none of it.
by spyke112 | 2026-02-12 09:21:54+00:00
Anecdotal data coming in hot.

I use Siri daily for controlling HomeKit devices. She's not always on point though. I've named a light basically "Radiohouse", because that's what the designer called it, but 25% of the time she insists of playing radio instead of turning on the light. I'm not a native english speaker and communicate with Siri in Danish, but still. Siri is definitely not useless and I would love for her to become a lot better.

You may be right that the majority probably doesn't use Siri, but that's because it doesn't really make sense to use Siri on the phone. I rely on HomePod speakers to interface with it, that makes a lot more sense for me.
by latexr | 2026-02-12 09:22:04+00:00
> Sometimes I just bookmark things because I think to myself “Maybe I’ll try this out, when I have time” which then likely never happens.

For me that’s 100% of the time. I only bookmark or star things I don’t use (but could be interesting). The things I do use, I just remember. If they used to be a bookmark or star, I remove it at that point.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-12 09:22:31+00:00
Why logically read the news?

- “Breaking” news directly relevant to your life: spreads through other channels

- Lessons on how the world works (systems etc.) that you can apply locally: in practice, embarrassingly most news sources omit key facts and are light on details, and push a narrative which is misleading, so the implicit lessons you’d form are counter-productive. This is inevitable because accurate news is more boring than exaggerated outrage narratives; companies doing the former are out-competed, not just economically, but in popularity (so don’t blame Capitalism, because even if they have sustainable income, they’re outranked in social media feeds). Moreover, events and their context become clearer long after they occur, so “news”, even from the most ideal source, can never be the best way to learn systems.

Most people actually read the news because it’s cheap dopamine, so in a way, news sources adding paywalls are doing their readers a favor.
by rudhdb773b | 2026-02-12 09:22:35+00:00
I have as well. But for it to really work, don't you need to hand over the monopoly on violence directly to AI?

Any human discretion would be abused by elites, so AI would be in full control. And once it's given control, there's no going back. Any coup attempt would be easily crushed by a sufficiently advanced AI.
I'm building a crowdsourced podcast episode tonight from YOUR articles
by pavkatar | 2026-02-12 09:22:45+00:00
I’m Pavel, building MediaThrive, a system that turns written content into podcasts.

Tonight I’m running an experiment.

Instead of planning a podcast episode in advance, I want to build one entirely from articles submitted here.

If you’ve written a blog post or news article recently, drop the link.

What I’ll do:
• Select a subset
• Adapt them into a structured two-host dialogue
• Generate the episode
• Publish it
• Share the result back in this thread

First 30 links also get a 60-second audio version returned.
The question I’m testing:

Can podcast production become as fast and composable as publishing blog posts?

If this works, I’ll repeat weekly and publish metrics.

If it fails, I’ll post what broke.
by TrackerFF | 2026-02-12 09:22:52+00:00
One massive mistake scientists made, was to market it as "global warming". Every climate-denier I've ever met, has pulled out the "If the earth is getting warmer, why are our winters still so cold? Check mate" card.

I live in a colder climate area, and every. single. time. we get some cold weather, these people will come crawling out of the woodwork to point out that "global warming is hoax!"

And, unfortunately, due to the extreme rise of populism the past 10 years, the "climate change is a hoax" mentality has been allowed to prosper.
Show HN: Solving Sudoku reasoning via Energy Geometric models
by epokh | 2026-02-12 09:22:54+00:00
We were genuinely impressed by Yann LeCun’s recent announcement about his Sudoku solver based on Energy-Based Models here: https://logicalintelligence.com/yann-lecun

So we (a software engineer and prodigy mathematician) worked in the weekend to see if we can beat it and we did!

If Kona solves puzzles in 313 milliseconds, we currently solve 270,000 puzzles per second!

We do not know the internal mechanics behind Logical Intelligence’s system, but we are happy to share ours in the webpage there is a full description, code and also a paper published.

Why people are obsessed with Sudoku: we think is because being a CSP, it can solve some serious business problems such as work scheduling, resource allocations and logistic optimization.

For any questions reach me out to: cassia@robomotic.com.
by vidarh | 2026-02-12 09:23:23+00:00
Even in that case, if these systems can be proven to be good enough, rules that require them to be consulted, and for the judge to justify the deviation (if any) from the automated reasoning, might be good.

To draw a parallel to a real system, in Norway a lot of cases are heard by panels of judges that include a majority (2 or 3 usually) lay judges and a minority (1 or 2 usually) of professional judges. The lay judges are people without legal training that effective function like a "mini jury", but unlike in a jury trial the lay judges deliberate with the professional judges.

The professional judges in this system has the power to override if the lay judges are blatantly ignoring the law, but this is generally considered a last resort. That power requires the lay judges to justify themselves if they intend on making a call the professional judges disagree with. Despite that, it is not unusual for the lay judges to come to a judgement that is different from what the professional judges do, and fairly rare for their choices to be overridden.

The end result is somewhere in the middle between a jury and "just" a judge. If proven - with far more extensive testing - that its reasoning is good enough, an LLM could serve a similar function of providing the assessment of what the law says about the specific case, and leave to humans to determine if and why a deviation is justified.