MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dankrieg | 2026-02-17 00:27:42+00:00
Distribution is one of the least structured parts of building a product. GrowthClaw approaches it as a state machine with explicit transitions, evaluation gates, and periodic strategy review.

Instead of prompting an agent to “do marketing,” it models the business, generates tasks, and runs them through a controlled pipeline.

Key pieces:
* Context intake from website + structured questions
* Strategy generation with explicit KPIs and constraints
* Task backlog stored in SQLite
* Human approval gate before execution
* Per-task evaluator that returns PASS / REVISE / ESCALATE
* A PM agent that enforces deterministic state transitions
* Strategy evolution that runs on cron three times per day

Everything runs locally. Workflows are YAML-defined. No external services required.

Curious whether treating distribution as infrastructure resonates with others here.
by rtpg | 2026-02-17 00:27:53+00:00
To anyone who has an opportunity I highly recommend taking any chance you get to try and play any of the bigger "moving" arcade machines like the AX Monster Ride shown in the video.

Even for really old stuff like Space Harrier the feeling of moving along with the screen gives you a more visceral experience than almost any VR setup. Hard to fake the effects of gravity!

[0] has a list (in japanese) of moving arcade machines. Mikado in Takadanobaba has some of these. These things are getting older and older of course so the window of opportunity is unfortunately shrinking as time goes on.

(EDIT: just realised that list itself is over 10 years old at this point so YMMV)

[0]: https://www.space-harrier.com/arcade.html
by suralind | 2026-02-17 00:28:14+00:00
I just like my stack, which includes Go. That stack is of course ever changing, but why would I make a drastic change if I’m already both happy and somewhat good?

I’ve been recruiting people and had exposure to small sample of generalists as an interviewer, but also in a team. Not too long ago, I’ve been briefly exposed to „staff” level Go developers who, I kid you not, would not follow ANY known and widely accepted as best practice Go convention (that I could identify). Obviously these were Java, C#, Python developers bringing habits from their last language to that project and boy was it bad. I suppose that was an extreme end of the spectrum (they were also incredibly toxic), but not once before were I in a team where new code was that bad. Of course, best practices are there to serve you and not the other way around, but each time I’d ask, they couldn’t explain why in a coherent way.

I suppose once you know programming it’s kinda easy to change the syntax, but imo code is just significantly better if people know what they are doing.
by forrestthewoods | 2026-02-17 00:28:43+00:00
Yes if you go pure C API and write libraries that conform to this and don’t pass owned memory around then sure that works.

MSVC is ABI stable since 2015. Many libraries that distribute pre-compiled binaries that rely on this stability. None of them include MinGW binaries in their matrix. (Debug/release X MT/MD).

Being a good citizen means meeting people where they are. Libraries and programs should expect to be integrated into other build systems and environments. I have literally never ever in my career worked in a Windows dev environment that used MinGW. The only* reason to use MinGW is because you primarily use Linux and you want to half-ass do the bare minimum.
by ass22 | 2026-02-17 00:29:47+00:00
Simple takes are never correct. Just like the radiologists example has been proven wrong.

This place is the worst at this too. I get you guys are very involved in writing code that is central to the existence of a software product - but you are not a product designer nor manager. Meaning you dont get people and how they view their choice set and more importantly how they make decisions.

For if you did.. you'd all be shipping your own products and highly successful. But most of you are not shipping your own products with large success behind it. So quit the crap.
by tootie | 2026-02-17 00:30:27+00:00
Anecdotally, my partner does experience design for fintech systems akin to Bloomberg for a particular niche. They do the standard lifecycle of user research, design iteration in figma, handoffs to devs and all that. The tech department at this company has also been building OpenAI integrations for more than 2 years and are neck deep in LLM technology doing exactly what this thread describes. My partner is still doing exactly the same work she's been doing the entire time and getting the same level of adoption for all the bespoke UI development while the chat interface is just kinda there. I'm sure it's getting usage for some tasks, but it's supplemental.
by ktoo_ | 2026-02-17 00:30:31+00:00
There's something about this that stands out as very concerning for me.

This, clearly very clever, young man is 14 years old. The article says: "Wu had always been fascinated with the ancient Japanese art of origami, but he really began indulging in it as a hobby about six years ago."

At eight. He was *indulging* in a hobby at eight years old. Indulging in a hobby should be a pre-retirement activity. What an incredible weight the attitude of the writer puts on kids.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-17 00:31:55+00:00
This might be slightly tangential but it's relevant to languages in general.

Even in "squiggly" programming languages, I find that I my favorite code is the code that I'm able to write "spread out". Whether it be through method chains or through assigning names to intermediary values (though only if the intermediary is still semantically meaningful) or through a series of pipe operators I find that this "spacing" of semantic units makes it easier for me to follow the flow of the program.
by jscd | 2026-02-17 00:32:05+00:00
I can kinda see your point, especially if the meaning is still obvious and the tone is inviting you to participate, but I think you're misunderstanding what "privilege" means here.

It isn't a superior "flexing their privilege" over their subordinates. The superior doesn't care. They don't even think about it. Because they have power over you, they can just speak gibberish and you have to figure it out. In my opinion, a good boss should have enough respect for me to not waste my time by forcing me to decipher a thought they didn't even read before sending.
by nyrikki | 2026-02-17 00:32:42+00:00
Docker Sandboxes are microVMs.

Basically due to many reasons, ld_preload, various containers standards, open desktop, current init systems, widespread behavior from containers images from projects, LSM limitations etc…

It is impossible to maintain isolation within an agentic environment, specifically within a specific UID, so the only real option is to leverage the isolation of a VM.

I was going to release a PoC related to bwrap/containers etc… but realized even with disclosure it wasn’t going to be fixed.

Makes me feel bad, but namespaces were never a security feature, and the tooling has suffered from various parties making locally optimal decisions and no mediation through a third party to drive the ecosystem as a whole.

If you are going to implement isolation for agents, I highly suggest you consider micro VMs.
by nguyentran03 | 2026-02-17 00:32:43+00:00
Small models aren't more deterministic than large ones. Determinism comes from temperature and sampling settings, not parameter count. A 7B model at temp 0.7 is just as stochastic as a 405B model.

The "no moat" memo you linked was about open source catching up to closed models through fine-tuning, not about small models outperforming large ones.

I'm also not sure what "skeletonized down to opcodes" or "geometry for text as bytecode patterns" means in the context of neural networks. Model compression is a real field (quantization, distillation, pruning) but none of it works the way you're describing here.
by jazz9k | 2026-02-17 00:33:07+00:00
"If this was a problem already, OpenClaw's release, and this hiring by OpenAI to democratize agentic AI further, will only make it worse. Right now the AI craze feels the same as the crypto and NFT boom, with the same signs of insane behavior and reckless optimism."

There are definitely people abusing AI and lying about what it can actually do. However, Crypto and NFTs are pretty much useless. Many people (including me) have already increased productivity using LLMs.

This technology just isn't going away.
by gortok | 2026-02-17 00:34:05+00:00
Ever since the recent revelation that Ars has used AI-hallucinated quotes in their articles, I have to wonder whether any of these quotes are AI-hallucinated, or if the piece itself is majority or minority AI generated.

If so, I have to ask: If you aren’t willing to take the time to write your own work, why should I take the time to read your work?

I didn’t have to worry about this even a week ago.
by sriku | 2026-02-17 00:34:35+00:00
The "impossibility" of enforcing legislated constraints on thousands of providers point is hand waving. We're all legislated to not harm each other. Throwing the small fraction who do in jail, is sufficient to keep the vast majority away from harming others, and there is also moral alignment.

If 10% of hosts (maybe even less) are penalized, the rest will likely start complying. much like self managed compliance of thousands of companies. A protocol is only as good as the entities that participate in the community using it.
by k310 | 2026-02-17 00:35:14+00:00
Data point:

Mobile Safari loses text fields (a lot) and text areas when switching to another tab, making it a fright for text boxes like (this).

I have to continually copy text to notes or a text editor in order not to lose a lot of (difficult) typing.

I really hate ios.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996575#47007534
by cmsparks | 2026-02-17 00:36:39+00:00
Sandboxing requires persistent access to the code (via our github integration + us syncing certain refs to our backend), but is explicitly opt in with the "Enable sync" button.

However, even if you don't opt into syncing, tool calls will end up sending pieces of code from your codebase to our backend. That's just the nature of how we handle persistence of chats. Though messages/chats are retained until you delete them.
by gamblor956 | 2026-02-17 00:37:09+00:00
In my (non-tech) field, most recruiters (except for tech company recruiters) start off by asking what the candidate's number is so that they're not wasting anyone's time, since no gainfully employed candidate is going to jump to a new company for the same or less compensation. For some reason, tech recruiters seem to believe that everyone outside of tech has been ignoring the massive layouts and still think that tech is super sexy and are just dying to work for tech no matter how low the salary is.

I am also fortunate enough to live in a state where job postings are required by law to include a salary range of actual or target salaries for the position (meaning, it must include both the salary range the company is willing to pay and also capture the salaries of anyone at the company who has substantially the same title or job responsibilities). Most companies make a good faith effort to comply. Tech companies generally don't bother, even when they're located in California. They usually slap a "remote" somewhere in the description even as the text elsewhere indicates that the position is hybrid or full-time on-site.
by scottlamb | 2026-02-17 00:37:17+00:00
I think you could still do it against a real database—you're already setting it up to a known state before each test, right? Obviously there'd be more runs but I'd expect (hope) that each task would be sufficiently small that the number of permutations would stay within reason.

There would be some challenges for sure. Likely optimistic concurrent patterns would require an equivalent of loom's `yield_now` [1] to avoid getting stuck. And you'd probably need a way to detect one transaction waiting for another's lock to get out of situations like your update lock vs barrier example. I vaguely recall PostgreSQL might have some system catalog table for that or something.

[1] https://docs.rs/loom/0.7.2/loom/#yielding
by jjk166 | 2026-02-17 00:37:41+00:00
I'd be curious what kind of variation there was across his 54 different designs. If he's discovered the existence of a narrow window where strength dramatically increases, that seems a much more interesting find than if this whole family of origami patterns is knowns to perform well and this variant just happened to be slightly better than the rest. It's exciting to think that there may be super strong designs just waiting to be found with a little bit of rigorous refinement.
by ggm | 2026-02-17 00:38:02+00:00
The underlying tech in a signed public ledger, using chaining methods and merkle trees to record things with non-repudiation, thats useful. I went to a meeting which included people from The Reserve Bank of Australia or The financial regulator, and they said that between nation states, settlement was about mutuality, and absent a regulator to tell you what to do, federated processes around things like this were entirely rational choices. Nothing whatsoever about Bitcoin, Ethereum, the hype machine, rug pulls, just the underlying tech using normal PKI and some data structures and HSM backed processes. The regulator said informally, in a regulated monopoly agreeing to use mutual (dis)trust methods like a chain would be acceptable as an audit method to the regulator. Nothing about you or me, nothing about hype. Mechanistic settlement methods amongst competitors in a reasonably transparent manner.

Some payment chains are painful. An awful lot of middlemen take a cut. Some payment chains impose burdens on the endpoint like 90 day settlement debts which could be avoided with some use of chains. Nothing about the hype, just modification to financial transactions, but they could be done other ways as well (as could the settlement ideas above)

NFT are the same logic as bearer bonds. They're useful to very specific situations of value transfer, and almost nothing else. The use isn't about the artwork on the front, its the posession of a statement of value. Like bonds, they get discounted. The value is therefore a function of the yield and the trust in the chain of sigs asserting its a debt to that value. Not identical, but the concept stripped of the ego element isn't that far off.

Please note I think bored ape and coins are stupid. I am not attempting to promote the hype.

AI is the same. LLMs are useful. There are functional tools in this. The sheer amount of capital being sunk into venture plays is however, disconnected from that utility.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-17 00:38:05+00:00
> +4.5pp for software engineering is suspiciously low compared to +51.9pp for healthcare.

This stood out for me as well. I do think that LLMs have a lot of training data on software engineering topics and that perhaps explains the large discrepancy. My experience has been that if I am working with a software library or tool that is very new or not commonly used, skills really shine there. Example: Adobe React Spectrum UI library. Without skills, Opus 4.6 produces utter garbage when trying to use this library. With properly curated/created skills, it shines. Massive difference.
by gruez | 2026-02-17 00:38:47+00:00
>AI companies don't want you to waste tokens, they benefit when you use them efficiently because they can serve more users on the infra that's the main bottleneck for them.

No, the actual incentive is that people will eventually benchmark their models on bang-per-buck basis and models that chew through tokens are not going to be competitive. It's the same reason why the "Intel/AMD are intentionally sandbagging their CPUs so they can sell more CPUs" theory doesn't work.
by gyomu | 2026-02-17 00:39:01+00:00
What do you expect the iPhone 19/20 to have that the iPhone 17 doesn't?

The tradeoffs will fundamentally be the same. You're not getting a > 100mm^2 sensor (with the glass lens required to image on it) on the iPhone anytime soon (or anytime ever really, unless the form factor of the iPhone dramatically changes).
by quotemstr | 2026-02-17 00:40:08+00:00
Cool! It'll be interesting to follow your work. I've been thinking, as well, about quorum and voting systems that might benefit from some structure. The primitives you've described are great for the "do N things one time each" case, but sometimes I (and the AI) want "do one thing N times: pick the best somehow". (I mean, you can express that with map/reduc over small integers or something, but still: different flavor.) You can even bring public choice theory into it.
by tptacek | 2026-02-17 00:40:15+00:00
I think there's a lot of overstatement about LLM capabilities throughout this piece, but I think it's generally directionally correct. There's an attitude of "LLMs are just going to directly perform business logic" or "data extraction and ingestion" or "calculations". The reality is that deterministic human-mediated code is going to do all that stuff (and AI is going to drastically amplify human leverage in building that code), and LLM agents will call into it as tools.

It's like the people who talk about how LLMs can't count the r's in "raspberry" and don't seem to understand that GPT5 can reliably e.g. work out a transformed probability distribution function from a given PDF by integration and derivation --- in part because frontier models are smarter but more importantly because they're all presumably just calling into CAS tooling.
by red75prime | 2026-02-17 00:40:16+00:00
> I find it more plausible that the feeling of speaking from the gut is akin to allowing that center of intelligence coordinate the rest of our body.

A person thinks that mentally poking the bodymap created by the brain can cause changes in the actual processing. I wouldn't believe this without proofs other than introspection(1). Technically, the vagus nerve can carry enough information to produce speech (the gut should be articulate, of course), but it certainly nowhere near corpus callosum or spinal cord. I doubt that it can allow to "coordinate the rest of our body".

(1) As far as know conscious manipulation of the heart rate is achieved by changing respiratory patterns, not thru direct control of the signals that the brain sends there.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-17 00:41:18+00:00
> Many scenes look better in SDR, such as this foggy, low-contrast morning in Osaka

I have to disagree here entirely. The feeling of that raw light, glowing just out of reach, is well appreciated in the HDR.

One of the big benefits of Halide (and working with raws) is that I'm not beholden to the aesthetic preferences of its creator. It should be built into the phone, but it isn't. So I've been a big fan for awhile.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-17 00:41:24+00:00
Isn’t this just an implementation/UX issue? Ideally the root key should live somewhere secure (offline) and delegate keys live on connected devices. As the ecosystem matures I would expect this to become easier. A hardware wallet means the risk of key loss would become negligible.

I think CRDTs are great, but Nostr has always presented itself as a potentially lossy medium, purposefully. Unlike SSB and Matrix where state synchronization became a complex bottleneck, Nostr is more IRC-like. Relay owners may have to delete individual posts due to legal reasons, or identities may selectively publish different posts to different relays. The devs didn’t see this as a problem since full state synchronization is heavy and requires long term retention of data. I agree that it’s not perfect, the tradeoffs make it harder to reconstruct a full history for a given identity if you’re trying to reach way back in time. But for new content it works really well, and I think this is why they chose this approach. If you publish to a lot of relays, your message will get through to the people who want to see it, although the process is messy.
by dotty- | 2026-02-17 00:41:29+00:00
At first glance, this feels like just an internal testing prompt at their company for some sort of sales pipeline. Feels more like an accident. None of the referenced files are actually in the repository. If the prompts had more of a "If the user mentions xyz, mention our product" that would absolutely give more credence that this is an advertising prompt, but none of that is here.
by jibal | 2026-02-17 00:41:37+00:00
Doesn't anyone learn from Malthus? In the real world, accelerating curves inevitably stop accelerating.

Others here have suggested that AIs should be able to self-generate skills by doing web searches. What happens when all of the information from web searches (of knowledge generated by ordinary human intelligence) has been extracted?

On another post (about crackpot Nick Bostrom claiming that an ASI would "imminently" lead to scientific breakthroughs like curing Alzheimers and so a 3% chance of developing an ASI would be worth a 97% chance of annihilating humanity) I noted that an ASI isn't a genie or magic wand; it can't find the greatest prime or solve the halting problem. Another person noted that an ASI can't figure out how to do a linear search in O(1) time. (We already know how to do a table lookup in amortized O(1) time--build a hash table.) Science is like animal breeding and many other processes ... there's a limit to how much it can be sped up.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-17 00:42:16+00:00
Sorry, what I meant is if third party has them in their leaderboards. I don't usually trust most of what any of these vendors claim in their release notes without a third party. I know it says "verified" there, but I don't see were the SWE bench results are from a third party, whereas for the "HLE-Verified" they do have a citation to Hugging Face.

I was looking for something closer to: https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/swebench
by delichon | 2026-02-17 00:42:25+00:00
Boycott Target | Ticker | Before (1/30/26) | After (2/13/26) | % Diff
-------------------------|--------|------------------|-----------------|--------
Amazon | AMZN | 239.30 | 198.79 | -16.93
Uber | UBER | 80.05 | 69.99 | -12.57
Meta | META | 716.50 | 639.77 | -10.71
Alphabet (Google) | GOOGL | 338.00 | 305.72 | -9.55
Paramount (Skydance) | PARA | 11.21 | 10.32 | -7.94
Netflix | NFLX | 83.49 | 76.87 | -7.93
Microsoft | MSFT | 430.29 | 401.32 | -6.73
Apple | AAPL | 259.48 | 255.78 | -1.43
Dell | DELL | 114.44 | 117.49 | +2.66
Comcast (Xfinity) | CMCSA | 29.75 | 31.57 | +6.12
AT&T | T | 26.21 | 28.69 | +9.46
Marriott | MAR | 315.30 | 353.89 | +12.24
Charter (Spectrum) | CHTR | 206.12 | 239.09 | +16.00
FedEx | FDX | 322.25 | 374.72 | +16.28
by yencabulator | 2026-02-17 00:44:16+00:00
The scary: Utter lack of any kind of sandboxing here scares me. This thing is supposed to digest text from all kinds of sources, and runs nodejs for all kinds of tasks under the covers all the time.

The weird: the javascript it's supposed to run is included as part of the prompt, for the LLM to write to a file via tool calls.

The naive: "Never actually send emails - only create drafts" yeaah the text generator really doesn't work like that.

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/blob/f68887496bcb608e...

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/blob/f68887496bcb608e...
by noosphr | 2026-02-17 00:44:35+00:00
I build a website generator from Word files in a folder for a coop I'm in. Four years back I had to move it to using libre office because Word broke how links in files work. As of last year the whole coop is using libre office because it works better than ms office which has corrupted old important files multiple times. I don't see a reason why they can't move to an xfce Debian. Having a consultant come in once every 5 years to update everyones computers is a lot cheaper than all the ms licenes you have to pay for now and easier to use without constant breaking changes.