MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Prateeksha9 | 2026-02-06 03:22:49+00:00
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by username223 | 2026-02-06 03:22:54+00:00
That's different: you're using bots to create software that someone finds useful, so you're entirely on the producer end.

People using Copilot 365 are on both ends, both producing and being inundated with generated content. Sure, they can crank out 10x as many emails and slides, but they also have to deal with 10x as many incoming from their coworkers. They can of course use a bot for that, but then they're back where they started, but with errors.
by nixosbestos | 2026-02-06 03:22:55+00:00
Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or uncomfortable or might invite confrontation.

I've known from the second I started doing debate and FX/DX in highschool, well, let's just say I never thought that the majority of the 2FA-folks would be worth a damn when tyranny really came knocking. Fear of the other as a form of manipulation, and a distraction from class consciousness, has been their literal raison d'état since decades before I was born.

I guess I was shocked that the President being a convicted rapist and documented child predator would be a bridge too far. But then we re-elected him.

I believe it. We voted for this. We do nothing in the face of zero actual justice. This is exactly as good as we deserve. And best of all, it certainly doesn't stop here. This is what they chose to not redact. When we know they spent enormous tax-payer hundreds-of-people hours redacting the documents.

I don't think it's even conspiratorial to say they left stuff in, so they could use it as justification for not releasing the other HALF of the files that haven't been released, even overly censored.

We deserve this, and the much worse that our apathy has invited.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-06 03:23:47+00:00
Theoretically, it makes sense (go look at any of the diagrams of what a "zero crossing" is online, and it totally does.

The problem is that sign(x[n-1]) != sign(x[n]) describes a place where two successive samples differ in sign, but no sample is actually has a value of zero. Thus, to perform an edit there, if your goal is to avoid a click by truncating with a non-zero sample value, you need to add/assign a value of zero to a sample. This introduces distortion - you are artifically changing the shape of the waveform, which implies the introduction of all kinds of frequency artifacts.

Zero crossings are not computed by finding a minimum between two consecutive samples - that would almost never involve a sign change. And if they are computed by finding the minimum between two consecutive samples that also involves a sign change, there's a very good chance that you'll be long way from your desired cut point, even if you ignore the distortion issue.

It really was a completely misguided idea. If the situation was:

sign(x[n-2) != sign(x[n]) && x[n-1] == 0

then it would be great. But this essentially never happens in real audio.
by jMyles | 2026-02-06 03:23:55+00:00
Wikipedia doesn't use the phrase "group of people", and cites a symposium as a source for the assessment that "it is a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups in the United States," so, I'm not sure this advances the discussion.

It's obvious that the vast, overwhelming majority of people consider themselves anti-fascist. So I really don't think it possible for this term to ever actually describe a particular group of people, excluding other groups of people.

These attempts to shoehorn the word "antifa" into some kind of distinct organization seem like they are just a lingual change to make it more difficult to use this phrase, or more difficult to advance critiques of fascist tendencies wherever they may appear.
by noosphr | 2026-02-06 03:25:03+00:00
I've been building systems like what the OP is using since pgt3 came out.

This is the honeymoon phase. You're learning the ins and outs of the specific model you're using and becoming more productive. It's magical. Nothing can stop you. Then you might not be improving as fast as you did at the start, but things are getting better every day. Or maybe every week. But it's heaps better than doing it by hand because you have so much mental capacity left.

Then a new release comes up. An arbitrary fraction of your hard earned intuition is not only useless but actively harmful to getting good results with the new models. Worse you will never know which part it is without unlearning everything you learned and starting over again.

I've had to learn the quirks of three generations of frontier families now. It's not worth the hassle. I've gone back to managing the context window in Emacs because I can't be bothered to learn how to deal with another model family that will be thrown out in six months. Copy and paste is the universal interface and being able to do surgery on the chat history is still better than whatever tooling is out there.

Unironically learning vim or Emacs and the standard Unix code tools is still the best thing you can do to level up your llm usage.
by niobe | 2026-02-06 03:25:06+00:00
If it was framed as "show us how you would break down this problem and think about it" then sure. If it's the gotcha quiz (much more common in my experience) then no.

But if that's what they were going for it should be something on a completely different and more abstract topic like "develop a method for emptying your swimming pool without electricity in under four hours"
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-06 03:25:29+00:00
Repeating a previous comment of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32784959) about an article in Byte Magazine (August 1983) on the C programming language:

From page 52:

> Operating systems have to deal with some very unusual objects and events: interrupts; memory maps; apparent locations in memory that really represent devices, hardware traps and faults; and I/O controllers. It is unlikely that even a low-level model can adequately support all of these notions or new ones that come along in the future. So a key idea in C is that the language model be flexible; with escape hatches to allow the programmer to do the right thing, even if the language designer didn't think of it first.

This. This is the difference between C and Pascal. This is why C won and Pascal lost - because Pascal prohibited everything but what Wirth thought should be allowed, and Wirth had far too limited a vision of what people might need to do. Ritchie, in contrast, knew he wasn't smart enough to play that game, so he didn't try. As a result, in practice C was considerably more usable than Pascal. The closer you were to the metal, the greater C's advantage. And in those days, you were often pretty close to the metal...

Later, on page 60:

> Much of the C model relies on the programmer always being right, so the task of the language is to make it easy what is necessary... The converse model, which is the basis of Pascal and Ada, is that the programmer is often wrong, so the language should make it hard to say anything incorrect... Finally, the large amount of freedom provided in the language means that you can make truly spectacular errors, far exceeding the relatively trivial difficulties you encounter misusing, say, BASIC.

Also true. And it is true that the "Pascal model" of the programmer has quite a bit of truth to it. But programmers collectively chose freedom over restrictions, even restrictions that were intended to be for their own good.
by jMyles | 2026-02-06 03:27:05+00:00
In terms of the silliness / uselessness, you're right that they're similar - nobody compares "The alt-right" to the Red Cross, as if they had an office and an accountant on staff.

But plenty of people will say that they are traditional conservatives, and say "I'm not alt-right". Virtually nobody describes their own political views by saying "I'm not anti-fascist."
by Ronsenshi | 2026-02-06 03:27:24+00:00
Not an OP, but seems like you might be talking about different things.

Security could be about not adding certain things/making certain mistakes. Like not adding direct SQL queries with data inserted as part of the query string and instead using bindings or ORM.

If you have insecure raw query that you feed into ORM that you added on top - that's not going to make query more secure.

But on the other hand when you're securing some endpoints in APIs you do add things like authorization, input validation and parsing.

So I think a lot depends on what you mean when you're talking about security.

Security is security - making sure bad things don't happen and in some cases it's different approach in the code, in some cases additions to the code and in some cases removing things from the code.
by GS523523 | 2026-02-06 03:29:13+00:00
That's better, but it's still wrong, because there are plenty of organized belief systems whose leaders don't demand blind loyalty. To say that these don't qualify as religions is absurd.

You could say that one of the elements of religion is having faith in something that is not provable via the scientific method and I'd agree. But then you'd lose generals, managers, politicians, etc... from the list above in which case the comment has lost its meaning.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-06 03:29:30+00:00
Assumptions need to be stated or you're solving only a discreet part of the problem! Try this, see if you get another deadpan assumption.

A solar system has 3 planets in concentric orbit. PlanetZ is the farthest with an orbit diameter of 9. PlanetY has an obit diameter one greater than PlanetX. What is the orbit diameter of PlanetX?
by mikeyouse | 2026-02-06 03:29:41+00:00
They illegally fired the IGs responsible for whistleblowers and fraud in every department; https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/firings-of-inspectors-...

They illegally withheld funds (impoundment) from congressionally authorized/mandated expenditures and relied on pocket rescissions to defund programs they didn't like: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/pocket-rescissi...

They keep illegally appointing unqualified hacks as US attorney in defiance of the mandate they're approved by the Senate (Essayli, Habba, Halligan, Sarcone, Chattah) - judges have found at least five of the appointments illegal. As one example: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/judge-los-angeles-t...

They've repeatedly violated court orders to either return immigrant detainees or release them. "This is one of dozens of court orders with which respondents have failed to comply in recent weeks.": https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/patrick-schiltz-judg...

His targeting and shakedowns of Universities, law firms, and media companies is transparently illegal jawboning.

Everything about the tariffs is obviously illegal which he confirms every time he opens his mouth since he's relying on 'national security' justifications to issue them without Congress and he keeps insisting they're punishment for some random perceived slight.

His illegal firing of Federal workers without the notice required: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5544317/federal-probati...

Some sillier things like renaming the Kennedy Center -- the law that established it literally said that it couldn't be renamed without Congress -- so Trump firing everyone on the board and then appointing a bunch of his flunkees to vote for the name change doesn't cut it.. https://beatty.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/beatty.house.gov...

It's a literal onslaught of illegality so I can't tell if you haven't read a news article since 2025 or if you're trolling.
by LinXitoW | 2026-02-06 03:29:45+00:00
It's more like "We were promised, over and over again, that the squirrel would be autonomous grand master level. We spent insane amounts of money, labour, and opportunity costs of human progress on this. Now, here's a very expensive squirrel, that still needs guidance from a human grandmaster, and most of it's moves are just replications of existing games. Oh, it also can't move the pieces by itself, so it depends on Piece Mover library."
by tomhow | 2026-02-06 03:30:37+00:00
We do the opposite, in fact [1]. Negative stories about YC-funded companies (or YC itself) are given greater visibility than equivalent stories about non-YC-related entities.

When YC-funded companies are featured in Launch HN or Show HN posts, it's clearly denoted in the title or top-text. YC-funded companies don't get preferential treatment in the rankings for any type of post other than Launch HN posts.

ClickHouse isn't a YC-funded company. We don't penalize people for mentioning their employer in the comments unless it's blatantly promotional, in which case it breaks the guideline against promotional posting, and such comments should be flagged by the community.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by surajkumar5050 | 2026-02-06 03:30:49+00:00
I spent 15 minutes yesterday looking for a PDF I was working on weeks ago.

Forgot the name. Forgot where I saved it. Just remembered it was something I read for hours one evening.

That happens to everyone right?

So I thought - why can't I just tell my computer "send me that PDF I was reading 5 days ago at evening" and get it back in seconds?

That's when I started building ZYRON. I am not going to talk about the development & programming part, that's already in my Github.

Look, Microsoft has all these automation features. Google has them. Everyone has them. But here's the thing - your data goes to their servers. You're basically trading your privacy for convenience. Not for me.

I wanted something that stays on my laptop. Completely local. No cloud. No sending my file history to OpenAI or anyone else. Just me and my machine.

So I grabbed Ollama, installed the Qwen2.5-Coder 7B model in my laptop, connected it to my Telegram bot. Even runs smoothly on an 8GB RAM laptop - no need for some high-end LLMs. Basically, I'm just chatting with my laptop now from anywhere, anytime. Long as the laptop/desktop is on and connected to my home wifi , I can control it from outside. Text it from my phone "send me the file I was working on yesterday evening" and boom - there it is in seconds. No searching. No frustration.

Then I got thinking... why just files?

Added camera on/off control. Battery check. RAM, CPU, GPU status. Audio recording control. Screenshots. What apps are open right now. Then I did clipboard history sync - the thing Apple does between their devices but for Windows-to-Android. Copy something on my laptop, pull it up on my phone through the bot. Didn't see that anywhere else.

After that I think about browsers.

Built a Chromium extension. Works on Chrome, Brave, Edge, anything Chromium. Can see all my open tabs with links straight from my phone. Someone steals my laptop and clears the history? Doesn't matter. I still have it. Everything stays on my phone.

Is it finished? Nah. Still finding new stuff to throw in whenever I think of something useful.

But the whole point is - a personal AI that actually cares about your privacy because it never leaves your house.

It's open source. Check it out on GitHub if you want.

And before you ask - no, it's not some bloated desktop app sitting on your taskbar killing your battery. Runs completely in the background. Minimal energy. You won't even know it's there.

If you ever had that moment of losing track of files or just wanted actual control over your laptop without some company in the cloud watching what you're doing... might be worth checking out.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-06 03:31:48+00:00
So can working in the unorganized sector in the heart of the Red Corridor. Like this is literally one of the least developed parts of one of the least developed states in India.

A tribal woman like Murmu who is clearly living in the Red Corridor districts (based on surname and geographic location) doesn't have any better choice.

Yes content moderation introduces you to horrid content, but the alternatives give the very real risk of physical and sexual violence.
by silver_sun | 2026-02-06 03:31:58+00:00
> this isn't just a matter of teasing out the compressed C compiler written in Rust that's already on the internet (where?)

A quick search brings up several C compilers written in Rust. I'm not claiming they are necessarily in Claude's training data, but they do exist.

https://github.com/PhilippRados/wrecc (unfinished)

https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc

https://codeberg.org/notgull/dozer (unfinished)

https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater

I would also like to add that as language models improve (in the sense of decreasing loss on the training set), they in fact become better at compressing their training data ("the Internet"), so that a model that is "half a terabyte" could represent many times more concepts with the same amount of space. Only comparing the relative size of the internet vs a model may not make this clear.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-06 03:32:31+00:00
Legal arguments are based on citations of statute and case law. No ai tools do that right now. They hallucinate about 50% of the time.
Do your legal research first. Add the relevant files to the context. If the LLM provides a reference you didn’t provide you MUST verify it by hand.
If you do that it doesn’t matter which tool you use. They’ll all work well enough.
If you DONT do that, it doesn’t matter which tool you use they’ll all fail you.
by mindslight | 2026-02-06 03:32:49+00:00
In general, if someone chooses to believe comforting falsehoods over uncomfortable/frustrating/complex truths, I don't see how they can be particularly convinced otherwise. Especially by message board comments [0] - maybe some fantastic orator could do it in videos by using the same skills as politicians but "for good" rather than self-interest.

In this discussion, I am still not sure - have I met your bar for informing you here, at least somewhat? I have answered some of the questions you posed, yet you seem to still be implying that I have not done enough work for you?

In general it's going to be awfully hard to prove a negative, which is why I say it's the critics that need to meet the bar of proof rather than defaulting to undermining our public institutions. You say in your profile that you are "conservative minded", so surely you must appreciate that.

[0] I've got this idea I've been chewing on that a fundamental part of the problem we're facing is that there is zero social context in online communication. The only thing you know about me is my comments, and those deep-dive into politics real fast. Whereas in meatspace you'd see more facets to me, and then if we touched politics it would start off at the surface level.
Built a desktop assistant [fully local] for myself without any privacy issue
by surajkumar5050 | 2026-02-06 03:33:40+00:00
I spent 15 minutes yesterday looking for a PDF I was working on weeks ago.

Forgot the name. Forgot where I saved it. Just remembered it was something I read for hours one evening.

That happens to everyone right?

So I thought - why can't I just tell my computer "send me that PDF I was reading 5 days ago at evening" and get it back in seconds?

That's when I started building ZYRON. I am not going to talk about the development & programming part, that's already in my Github.

Look, Microsoft has all these automation features. Google has them. Everyone has them. But here's the thing - your data goes to their servers. You're basically trading your privacy for convenience. Not for me.

I wanted something that stays on my laptop. Completely local. No cloud. No sending my file history to OpenAI or anyone else. Just me and my machine.

So I grabbed Ollama, installed the Qwen2.5-Coder 7B model in my laptop, connected it to my Telegram bot. Even runs smoothly on an 8GB RAM laptop - no need for some high-end LLMs. Basically, I'm just chatting with my laptop now from anywhere, anytime. Long as the laptop/desktop is on and connected to my home wifi , I can control it from outside. Text it from my phone "send me the file I was working on yesterday evening" and boom - there it is in seconds. No searching. No frustration.

Then I got thinking... why just files?

Added camera on/off control. Battery check. RAM, CPU, GPU status. Audio recording control. Screenshots. What apps are open right now. Then I did clipboard history sync - the thing Apple does between their devices but for Windows-to-Android. Copy something on my laptop, pull it up on my phone through the bot. Didn't see that anywhere else.

After that I think about browsers.

Built a Chromium extension. Works on Chrome, Brave, Edge, anything Chromium. Can see all my open tabs with links straight from my phone. Someone steals my laptop and clears the history? Doesn't matter. I still have it. Everything stays on my phone.

Is it finished? Nah. Still finding new stuff to throw in whenever I think of something useful.

But the whole point is - a personal AI that actually cares about your privacy because it never leaves your house.

It's open source. Check it out on GitHub if you want.

And before you ask - no, it's not some bloated desktop app sitting on your taskbar killing your battery. Runs completely in the background. Minimal energy. You won't even know it's there.

If you ever had that moment of losing track of files or just wanted actual control over your laptop without some company in the cloud watching what you're doing... might be worth checking out.

Link - https://github.com/Surajkumar5050/zyron-assistant
by throw4847285 | 2026-02-06 03:34:22+00:00
I have the inverse perspective. I am uninterested in the mechanics because to me, all science fiction stories are actually stories about the present. The more mechanical a story is, the more I feel it is obscuring that truth. The author can never erase the fact that they are living in the present and that their work is ultimately about the present. They can only obscure it under layers of verisimilitude that, definitionally, is only an appearance.
by lurking_swe | 2026-02-06 03:34:48+00:00
It’s also silly to try predicting the future 5 years from now, IMO. Historically progress is very unpredictable. It often plateaus when you least expect it.

It’s good to be cautious and not in denial, but i usually ignore people who talk so authoritatively about the future. It’s just a waste of time. Everyone thinks they are right.

My recommendation is have a very generous emergency fund and do your best to be effective at work. That’s the only thing you can control and the only thing that matters.
by chamomeal | 2026-02-06 03:36:25+00:00
It’s got that LLM flow to it. Also liberal use of formatting. It’s like it cannot possibly emphasize enough. Tries to make every word hit as hard as possible. Theres no filler, nothing slightly tangential or off topic to add color. Just many vapid points rapid fire, as if they’re the hardest hitting truth of the decade lol