MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by catskull | 2026-02-14 01:08:12+00:00
Whenever I have an Apple platform issue, I simply write up a detailed complaint and then send it via iMessage to one of my friends. I know that it's all supposedly e2ee but I swear it's a lot more constructive than firing it into Apple's feedback black hole. So far, it's worked pretty well.

On macOS (26.2), if you have a game controller that has been connected over bluetooth but is not currently connected, if you go into the bluetooth device list in System Settings then click the circled "i" icon, it opens an information modal. This modal incorrectly lists the device type (my controller right now says it's AirPods 4). It also has a button for "Game Controller Settings...". If you click this button, it opens Find My. If the controller is connected, it opens the "Game Controllers" pane where you can adjust the settings. I'm not sure if this is just my specific controller (Nintendo Switch N64 Controller), but it seems like a pretty obvious bug. And while you're at it, why don't you just go ahead and roll back the entire System Preferences app UI to what it used to be?
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-14 01:08:53+00:00
If we weren't meant to judge someone for his account age, it wouldn't show up in green.

Social media addiction is a mental illness worthy of public mockery. Imagine if alcoholism could be cured by putting your phone in a drawer.

Next time I see a guy in a doorway with a needle sticking out of his arm I'll be sure to tell him, "I know how you feel man, I can't stop scrolling through Instagram. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, a girl will DM me her boobs. It's tough, these addictions."

Enough with the melodrama. Grow up.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-14 01:08:53+00:00
FWIW, Plan 9 windows work this way. They are just plain UTF-8 buffers with no typewriter emulation. You can edit any text you wish. If you want graphics, the draw device is a 2D graphics compositor you load assets into then issue rendering commands. Text is a draw primitive and easily displayed any way you want, angled, rotated, moving around, colorful. VT emulation is accomplished by vt(1) which does VT over stdio and emulates an ANSI typewriter using the draw device and it works well. You could even write a Plan 9 native TUI That way, just run it under vt(1). But I would not recommend that - go native.
by pibaker | 2026-02-14 01:09:01+00:00
This only works because this guy's tiles can be rotated without looking weird and he's on modern hardware that can freely rotate sprites with little cost. If your tiles are shaded or have patterns that look different when rotated then it does not work for you. If you are working on a game for the Nintendo entertainment system then it won't work either because you can't just rotate a tile.
by saulpw | 2026-02-14 01:09:11+00:00
> Cooking those products creates byproducts that must be handled.

Okay so the job of "cook" just became "grease disposal engineer"?

> Yet most of the customers still have to interact with an employee because "the kiosk won't let me"

That hasn't stopped some places I've visited from only allowing people to order from the kiosk. Literally I've said something to the person behind the counter who pointed to the iPad and when I said I wanted something else, shrugged and said we can't do that.
by danudey | 2026-02-14 01:09:16+00:00
How Openclaw works is wildly irrelevant. The facts are that there is a human out there who did something to configure some AI bot in such a way that it could, and did, publish a hit piece on someone. That human is, therefore, responsible for that hit piece - not the AI bot, the person.

There's no level of abstraction here that removes culpability from humans; you can say "Oops, I didn't know it would do that", but you can't say "it's nothing to do with me, it was the bot that did it!" - and that's how too many people are talking about it.

So yeah, if you're leaving a bot running somewhere, configured in such a way that it can do damage to something, and it does, then that's on you. If you don't want to risk that responsibility then don't run the bot, or lock it down more so it can't go causing problems.

I don't buy the "well if I don't give it free reign to do anything and leave it unmonitored then I can't use it for what I want" - then great, the answer is that you can't use it for what you want. Use it for something else or not at all.
by nxobject | 2026-02-14 01:09:32+00:00
At this point, it really just is a show of impunity! There were so many ways she could have done this discreetly:

As Yin was speaking to the reporter, Bextel approached the lawmaker to tell him she planned to sue him for defamation.

In her Facebook post, Bextel called Yin a “sore loser.”

The one good news is that, well, the state legislature is contemplating preventing this in the future.

https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/wyoming-senate-c...
by coldtea | 2026-02-14 01:10:00+00:00
>Jockingly? Is this meant to suggest that brutal honesty is an adjacent pasttime of jocks?

Well, I'm a jock, if I may say so myself, and I do ocassionally deploy brutal honesty.

Though I was talking about sarcasm and playful busting of balls in general, not necessarily through brutal honestly. Could be sarcastic and outlandish or fan, not necessarily honest.
by appreciatorBus | 2026-02-14 01:10:08+00:00
Not at all. My argument is not that tit for tat is good, but that if we are to be serious about condemning violence, we must be willing to criticize all those who are violent, even if we may align with them politically in some fashion.

Instead there is a distinct slant on this conflict in both reporting & commenting.

When one side is violent, we are told that this is honorable resistance and that we must expand our view of the conflict further back in history, (but not too far back), to understand their actions as a response to the other side's actions (aka tit for tat, but it's good when we do it)

When the other is violent, we are told to focus solely on recent history, and to understand that there is simply no reason whatsoever for the violence except pure bloodlust.
by palata | 2026-02-14 01:10:19+00:00
> I guess there's no other way to justify the uncompromising attitude he somehow developed.

I disagree. When someone open sources code, they give away some of their work for free. That's all, and that's nice.

I really don't get how so many people think that if you give away some of your work for free, then you must give even more work away for free because they consider it "basic decency".
by senkora | 2026-02-14 01:10:54+00:00
This is part of the civilizational collapse narrative. It is definitely true in a way.

I think that how much it would end up mattering depends on how well solar tech would withstand a civilizational collapse.

I think that a proto-industrial society with photovoltaics and batteries would be able to bootstrap itself back up to the present state, even without easily exploitable fossil fuels.

(I am not an expert in any of this)
by killerstorm | 2026-02-14 01:10:57+00:00
Another book by Greg Egan - "Zendegi" - has more overlap with MMAcevedo. It covers a different approach to mind uploading (possibly) more practical in near future: a generic model of the brain is fine-tuned on responses from a specific human. The generic model itself is made by averaging over many scanned connectomes. The other part of the book is VR Shahnameh which, honestly, was a bit too boring.

He also has a whole bunch of short stories on the same topic. Some assume reader is already familiar with concept of sideloading, as it's explained in the passing:

1. Bit Players: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/BIT/BIT.html

2. 3-adica

3. Instantiation

4. Uncanny Valley (available online)

Other:

1. "Reasons to Be Cheerful"

2. “Learning to Be Me”

3. Closer
by xvector | 2026-02-14 01:10:57+00:00
I'm not arguing anything is okay, that is you in your political anger shoving words into my mouth. I am simply saying that it is easy to understand.

And again, you're being incredibly naive - there's no chance you'd be doing anything different in her position unless you are totally fine with sacrificing yourself, your parents, wife, children etc.

It seems that you think "criminal threats" from elites are something that only happen in TV shows, not real life. I'm not sure why this is your perspective because the Panama Papers murders were real, whistleblowers are killed all the time, etc.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-14 01:11:23+00:00
Technically this is about Tiktok's "addictive design", and their examples include "infinite scroll over time". It's totally unclear what they mean by that, or what Tiktok would have to change it to in order to be in compliance. The whole thing seems like it was written by a boomer bureaucrat who has never used Tiktok, let alone a computer.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-14 01:12:43+00:00
Good golly miss molly them goalposts sure can fly

right, so basically the only people who can enter the market are those part of the same club who have brought us the stripped down and dated wonders before us today.

Take the mobile phone market, there is basically no innovation going on these days. Small iterative steps and minor improvements, each new generation another sensor removed or new consumer hostile bloat added, because everyone in the club agrees on how to fuck the consumer, irrespective of what the consumer wants. It's an illusion of choice.
Show HN: Turn OpenClaw in a high performing development team with DevClaw
by laurentenhoor | 2026-02-14 01:12:52+00:00
I built DevClaw, an OpenClaw plugin that turns each Telegram group into an isolated, autonomous dev team: planner/orchestrator, DEVs, and QA all running on their own. I use it for all my development now. Issues on GitLab/GitHub are the single source of truth, and three things compound to save around 70% on tokens: model tiering (Haiku for typos, Opus for architecture), session reuse across tasks, and token-free scheduling that burns zero LLM calls for orchestration.

Please try it and give some feedback. Also keen to hear from anyone running autonomous coding agents, especially what you’ve found works for model selection and session management.

Code’s all here: https://github.com/laurentenhoor/devclaw
by mrob | 2026-02-14 01:13:29+00:00
People don't need to discuss specific products, they only need to be aware of the existence of product categories. If it's genuinely the case that whole product categories are unknown to many people who could realistically benefit from them, as determined by a disinterested third party, an exception could be made for advertising that does not mention specific products or brands.

The insulation example can be solved by publication of data on average heating costs. When people learn that their neighbors are paying less they will be naturally incentivized to investigate why. Equivalent problems can be solved with the same general technique.
by danudey | 2026-02-14 01:13:57+00:00
> An AI agent like this that requires constant vigilance from its human operator is too flawed to use.

So people shouldn't be using it then.

The people who built the AI agent system built a tool. If you get that tool, start it up, and let it run amok causing problems, then that's on you. You can't say "well it's the bot writer's fault" - you should know what these things can do before you use them and allow them to act out on the internet on your behalf. If you don't educate yourself on it and it causes problems, that's on you; if you do and you do it anyway and it causes problems, that's also on you.

This reminds me too much of the classic 'disruption' argument, e.g. Uber 'look, if we followed the laws and paid our people fairly we couldn't provide this service to everyone!' - great, then don't. Don't use 'but I wanna' as an excuse.
by reaperducer | 2026-02-14 01:14:23+00:00
unless it suddenly, inexplicably becomes a popular hotbed of political activism

That's the thing about AI and scale. You don't have to only target the big fish. You can cast a wide net and scoop up data on people in every nook and cranny of the internet.

The concentration camps were loaded with people who thought their town was too small for the Nazis to bother with.
by taysco | 2026-02-14 01:14:57+00:00
this works fine for like 2-3 small instruction sets. once you start getting to scale of a real enterprise system, the AI falls down and can't handle that amount of context. It will start ignoring critical pieces or not remember them. And without constant review AI will start priotizing things that are not your business priority.

I don't agree they have solved this problem, at all, or really in any way that's actually usable.
by danbolt | 2026-02-14 01:15:23+00:00
My first job out of school was on one of the HD expansions at SkyBox Labs. It was mostly grunt feature work and desync fixes, but I remember that some of the handcoded ASM from the legacy pathfinding had been one-to-one translated to C++.

I always wondered if that contributed to the pathfinding regressions that were talked about online. Or, you learn about compiler-induced accidental UB in school, and part of me wondered if something was happening there.
by palata | 2026-02-14 01:15:39+00:00
> If you (plural) can't write a one line answer to a bug report or click a reject PR button, then why should I put any effort?

You wrote a PR because you benefited from source code that somebody on the internet shared for free, and wanted to share that work for free as well. See the PR as just one way to open source your patch. You could put it on your blog, in an email list, or keep it in a fork.

By opening a PR, you make it visible to other people who also benefit from the project and who may be interested in using it.

> then why should I put any effort?

Something I really want to say about this: if you decided to open a PR to an open source project, it is very likely that you put less effort into your PR than the other put into the open source project. But they gave it for free without complaining. You don't have to do it, but you can. And you will still have put less effort into it than the author.
by AngryNPC | 2026-02-14 01:16:39+00:00
This guy gets it, and isn't falling for the distractions.

Also, what is going on with this thread? Everyone here sounds like they're from Reddit, which has one of the most hysterical and heavily-propagandized userbases in existence.

One person here even said that Reddit is "free from MAGA influences". Like lol, Reddit is nothing but bot accounts and activist moderators who will insta-ban you for wrong-think. The whole site is nothing but astroturfing, and you have to be an NPC to believe any political post on its frontpage.

HN's has been one of my fav sites to lurk on for at least a decade, but I can't tell it apart from Reddit sometimes.
by dakolli | 2026-02-14 01:16:44+00:00
This type of automation does not create jobs, and we are seeing that in jobs numbers. You're right it does reduce the amount of labour needed, hence why we are seeing equities rise why people's wages/opportunities shrink.

Get ready for french revolution v2, but global, the ruling class only exists because the working class tolerates them. This just won't work.
by coldtea | 2026-02-14 01:17:11+00:00
Poor people pay more for ads (as part of product price), and suffer more because of ads (from misleading advertising for shit products like junk food and drugs, to having certain out of reach lifestyles based on purchasing crap they don't need hammered on them and getting in debt). They also pay with having a worse media landscape, worse social media, and many more.

People would also be better of without 90% of the ad-driven internet.
by initramfs2 | 2026-02-14 01:17:45+00:00
I am also fairly certain that if we do arrive at some abundant utopia where you can wish for anything can have it arrive, society will collapse. It's just bringing up 7 billion (probably more) spoiled brats at that point of time.
Work on its own is also a form of "social control". Idle hands are the devil's tools etc.
by dankebitte | 2026-02-14 01:17:53+00:00
> This is why the Biden administration had a restraining order filed against it, on account of them pressuring social media companies to ban content it didn't like. This violated the First Amendment

It's very strange of you to leave out that the extremely right-wing 5th Circuit's opinion was overturned 6-3 by SCOTUS because "pressuring social media companies to ban content" was a complete fabrication the plaintiffs failed to support whatsoever.
by salawat | 2026-02-14 01:18:06+00:00
When Europeans wonder why the U.S. is so backwards and barbaric about not implementing a National ID scheme. Look no further, ladies and gents, because at least once every 200 years, the population has a day of supreme brain off and puts someone like Trump in office. Once that happens, you too will appreciate why it should be hard for the government to do things.
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-14 01:18:12+00:00
The simplification is correct but not correctly stated (even though colloquially it's common to state it that way). Technically it's when some component of the algorithm is dwarfed by another, then you can exclude it (i.e. O(n+W) =~ O(n) when W <<< n, O(mn) =~ O(n) when m <<< n etc). It's colloquially shortened to "when it's a constant" because generally it's constant regardless of program execution whereas the variable parts of the formula actually do change and thus the big-O analysis does still give you a correct lower bound on the performance.

TLDR: You're being unhelpfully pedantic.
by halapro | 2026-02-14 01:18:20+00:00
I know the video, again it doesn't matter. I speed type on my phone exactly the same way I used to. I understand how autocorrect works and that it retroactively fixes multiple words later on. I typed this whole comment on my iPhone and I encountered no such issue.

What the video shows could be a problem only if you disable autocorrect or if you want to type a single letter. I made a bunch of errors typing this one and in the end the phone autocorrected it all.
by danudey | 2026-02-14 01:18:52+00:00
Look at those libtard euros! They'll put up with anything their government tells them to - mandated vacation time, sick days, health care, work-life balance. But not me, I'm a FREE THINKER. I have RIGHTS, like the RIGHT to get fired out of nowhere for no reason, or the RIGHT to lose my health insurance if I lose my job. Thank god there are no AUTHORITARIANS here in AMERICA where people are FREE to get SHOT IN THE STREET for DRIVING THEIR CARS or TAKING A PICTURE or BEARING ARMS WHICH IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT BUT THAT ONE GUY DID IT AND DESERVED TO GET MURDERED THIS ONE TIME.
by mpyne | 2026-02-14 01:19:03+00:00
> It's fine for citizens to voice positions, beliefs etc. It's not fine for organizations of hostile origins to astro-sturf and manipulate people into positions they wouldn't normally take.

As the Supreme Court has already apted noted, organizations enjoy free speech rights in the U.S. as well, including the right to advocate for positions you or others wouldn't normally take.
by notatoad | 2026-02-14 01:19:22+00:00
The thing that really gets to me about this situation and others like it (the whole genre of “ai did a bad thing) is that it’s always the people who claim to be most afraid of ai who are the quickest to absolve humans of responsibility and assign it to AI.

The ability to be assigned blame, and for that to be meaningful, is a huge part of being human! That’s what separates us from the bots. Don’t take that away from us.
by dakolli | 2026-02-14 01:19:23+00:00
So why did are companies laying of 100s of thousands of people, 400k in SWE alone in 16 months during a bull market where equities and profits are at all time highs?
How come the January jobs report was so terrible, January is historically the best month for jobs, its downhill from here.

Do you walk around with a blindfold on? Are you extremely privileged? Sounds like it. Tell this to the 25% of new college grads that have been unemployed for 12 months, or working as a barista with 100k in debt. Eventually they'll be knocking on your penthouse/mansion door.
by Alupis | 2026-02-14 01:19:44+00:00
It's pretty standard to open a new issue and reference the previous issue for context, while keeping the new issue specific about what needs to be addressed - ie. RFC compliance.

I don't see the problem here at all - it was a reasonable request and it would have taken `feld` all of 2 minutes to do. Certainly less time than writing that blog post.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-14 01:20:00+00:00
> Yes you can punch a hole in one if you are sufficiently motivated

This is what I meant with "flimsy". If I hit my wall my hand breaks. But as I said It seems to work. I am just used to the massive nature of our houses and I admit a part of me prefers it that way but I don't think it's the one true way.
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-02-14 01:20:05+00:00
I said thousands of victims, not thousands of babies or murders. That much is confirmed even by the FBI.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline#:~:text=...

Some of these claims don't have bulletproof video evidence and DNA, and i suspect you would call those fake too even if they did but they are not unbelievable when considered in the context of everything that's been shown. I can't do that for you.

Anyways, if that's not enough for you to even spend some time reading the news, then I don't know what is. Enjoy being stupid and smug.
by malcolmgreaves | 2026-02-14 01:20:23+00:00
Reddit isn’t extreme left.

You’re regurgitating lies from the Republican party’s impressive propaganda machine.

Trump is as anti free speech as you can get. There’s no debating this fact. The evidence is overwhelming. Anyone that is regurgitating the lines you are is doing so in bad faith: at best, you’re being willfully ignorant.
by rayiner | 2026-02-14 01:20:28+00:00
The idea that there's been meaningful austerity isn't borne out by the data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long.... There was a dip after the financial crisis and a blip that returned to normal after COVID. But Germany, Italy, and the UK all spend a slightly greater share of their GDP on social welfare now than they did in 2000.

And while the U.S. has less social spending overall, the trend shows the opposite of your story. In 2000, when the U.S. elected pro-immigration George W. Bush, social spending was 14.1%. In 2024, when people voted for "mass deportations" Trump, social spending was 19.8% of GDP. The U.S. was spending more of its economy on social welfare in 2024 than Australia, Canada, and the U.K. were spending back in the early 2000s--but the far right is much stronger today than it was back then.