MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2026-02-13 00:16:47+00:00
Then why don’t you imagine that and tell me instead of just making a comment that says “nuh uh!”

I submit the idea that even if the AI can electronically secure the building, lock the doors, and has automatic defensive weapons, humans can physically cut power as in cut power lines. Or they just stop feeding the power plant with fuel.

The computers don’t exist in physical space like humans do.

Humans would also not ever design critical physical systems without overrides. E.g., your MacBook physically disconnects the microphone when the lid is shut. No software can override that.
by prewett | 2026-02-13 00:17:03+00:00
Probably. The British have a long history of misspelling things. Worcester is pronounced Wooster, Gloucester is Glawster, but Winchester is pronounced like you'd expect (instead of, say, "Winshter" to be consistent). There's minor things like "colour", and then problems like "thought" and "tough" are pronounced with different vowels even though they are both "ou". Of course "caught" and "thought" are pronounced the same, even though spelled differently. Then you get to some truly egregious ones like "this is land" is pronounced totally different from "this island". When the French--no strangers to non-obvious pronunciation--complain [1], you know there's a problem! Us Americans tried to fix the basic stuff like "color" and "jail", and sometimes we regularized the placenames, like Wooster, Ohio, but you can only do so much. But they must have been salty about the revolution or something, because they don't seem to have merged our fixes back in.

[1] https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
by simianwords | 2026-02-13 00:17:22+00:00
> Sully.ai cut healthcare AI inference costs by 90% (a 10x reduction) while improving response times 65% by switching from proprietary models to open-source models running on Baseten's Blackwell-powered platform, according to Nvidia. The company returned over 30 million minutes to physicians by automating medical coding and note-taking tasks that previously required manual data entry.

Are the margins that low that it would make sense to give up on quality of output and use open source models?
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-13 00:17:38+00:00
A sampling of Redditors' comments from that thread that offer some thought-provoking observations…

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…The issue is that with these near shore markets, it’s not always about cutting costs. A lot of people in these threads seem to assume that American development talent is always the best, which is not necessarily the case. The only thing you can be certain of is that your American devs will be your most expensive. Some of the most competent devs I’ve hired (including devs from the US) have been from Costa Rica. Americans do not have a monopoly on doing good work…

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by triceratops | 2026-02-13 00:19:03+00:00
Please don't because "Lunar New Year" is ambiguous. Many other Asian cultures also have traditional lunar calendars but a different new years day. It's a bit presumptuous to claim that this is the sole "Lunar New Year" celebration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year%27s_days#Calen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_New_Year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-13 00:20:26+00:00
>This isn't really accurate. It actually takes a decent amount of work and capital input to get a set of retail buildings into usable shape and keep them that way. The internet caricature of landlords is that the buildings just popped into existence one day and the landlords rent them out, but there's obviously more to it. I know several attempts at retail real estate development that flopped and lost investors a lot of money.

Nobody develops the sort of organic small scale anything anymore because the caricature informs the local government who then sink their teeth in at every turn and the end result is that the only people doing new development or refreshing stuff at great expense are corporations capable of fending off the government or rich enough to play along.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 00:20:40+00:00
You're ignoring genre conventions. Every soft scifi movie is nonsense if you look at it from the perspective of real-life physics. Sending a single rock via unspecified FTL to attack Earth makes as much sense as the human-piloted fighter spacecraft in Star Wars. The aliens are capable of bombarding Earth across interstellar space because it makes for a good visual spectacle. Watch (or more likely read) hard scifi instead if you need everything to make logical sense.
by lateforwork | 2026-02-13 00:20:47+00:00
> humans can drive with vision only, so self-driving should be able to as well

In May 2016, Tesla Model S driver Joshua Brown died in Williston, Florida, when his vehicle on Autopilot collided with a white tractor-trailer that turned across the highway. The Autopilot system and driver failed to detect the truck's white side against a brightly lit sky, causing the car to pass underneath the trailer.

Our eyes are supported by our brain's AGI which can evaluate the input from our eyes in context. All Tesla had is a camera, and it didn't perform as well as eyes + AGI would have.

When you don't have AGI, additional sensors can provide backup. LiDAR would have saved Joshua Brown's life.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-13 00:21:17+00:00
I'm also not seeing actual HDR display setup (DisplayHDR 1400) for some reason even though it works for other images/videos on other sites (Chrome+Windows for this test). The logs look clean:

isFloat16 true
isDisplayP3 true
isDisplayP3 with Float16 true

But the image is dull and/or blown out instead of actually displayed with HDR. Based on the above logs and poking around with the canvas context for a second, I think the issue might be the <canvas> seems to be using display-p3 and that only gives WCG. For HDR in <canvas> I think you need a different color space. See e.g. at https://testufo.com/#background=stars-hdr&text=color(rec2020... and then toggle between "WCG - Display-P3" and "HDR - Rec.2100 PQ".
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-13 00:21:30+00:00
This is a lie:

>> The 6th-generation Waymo Driver is the product of seven years of safety-proven service amassed from driving nearly 200 million fully autonomous miles across the densest cores of 10+ major cities and an expanding network of freeways. Our experience as the only company operating a fully autonomous service at this scale has reinforced a fundamental truth: demonstrably safe AI requires equally resilient inputs. This deep understanding of real-world requirements is why the Waymo Driver utilizes a custom, multi-modal sensing suite where high-resolution cameras, advanced imaging radar, and lidar work as a unified system. Using these diverse inputs, the Waymo Driver can confidently navigate the "long tail" of one-in-a-million events we regularly encounter when driving millions of miles a week, leaving nothing to the imagination of a single lens.

Waymo uses remote safety drivers that they call "fleet response agents", probably to deflect from the fact that they are, indeed, remote safety drivers.

Much like phone-a-friend, when the Waymo vehicle encounters a particular situation on the road, the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to contextualize its environment. The Waymo Driver does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times. As the Waymo Driver waits for input from fleet response, and even after receiving it, the Waymo Driver continues using available information to inform its decisions. This is important because, given the dynamic conditions on the road, the environment around the car can change, which either remedies the situation or influences how the Waymo Driver should proceed. In fact, the vast majority of such situations are resolved, without assistance, by the Waymo Driver.

In the most ambiguous situations, the Waymo Driver takes the lead, initiating requests through fleet response to optimize the driving path. Fleet response can influence the Waymo Driver's path, whether indirectly through indicating lane closures, explicitly requesting the AV use a particular lane, or, in the most complex scenarios, explicitly proposing a path for the vehicle to consider. The Waymo Driver evaluates the input from fleet response and independently remains in control of driving. This collaboration enhances the rider experience by efficiently guiding them to their destinations.

From: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

Note the language: the Waymo Driver "remains in control of driving" but a Fleet Response Agent "proposes" the path.

In other words, Waymo is not "operating a fully autonomous service", nor does it seem anything has changed now, with the "sixt-generation fully autonomous Waymo Driver". It still needs human brains to take it by the hand and help it when it gets stuck in ambiguous situations that arise despite the claim that it "can confidently navigate the "long tail" of one-in-a-million events we regularly encounter when driving millions of miles a week".
by chongli | 2026-02-13 00:21:31+00:00
You don't need tiny apartments to have density. You can do it with smaller single-family houses on smaller lots, narrow one-way streets, and alleyways for parking instead of driveways and garages. This is how the pre-war streetcar suburb of Riverdale, Toronto is designed [1] and it has much higher density than the rest of the city.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
by Just_Harry | 2026-02-13 00:21:37+00:00
For the United Kingdom specifically, I've suffered the misfortune of reading the Online Safety Act, and this kind of age estimation is both mentioned and permitted by the Act.
(Not a lawyer blah blah blah)

Part 3, Chapter 2, Section 12(4) specifies that user-to-user service providers are required to use either age verification or age estimation (or both!) to prevent children from accessing content that is harmful to children.
Section 12(6) goes on to state that "the age verification or age estimation must be of such a kind, and used in such a way, that it is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not a particular user is a child."

Part 12, Section 230(4) rules out self-declaration of age as being a form of age verification/estimation.

So I suppose it'll come down to whether or not Ofcom deems Discord's age estimation as "highly effective".

[Part 3, Chapter 2, Section 12(4)]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/part/3/chapter/...

This is unrelated, but something I find interesting is that Category 1 user-to-user services (of which Discord is one, as per The Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Category 2B Threshold Conditions) Regulations 2025) are required by Part 4, Chapter 1, Section 64(1) to "offer all adult users of the service the option to verify their identity (if identity verification is not required for access to the service).".
by yadaeno | 2026-02-13 00:22:34+00:00
> The day the tariff goes into effect is after vast amounts of on-shore stock has already landed

Tariffs took effect in February 2025. We saw CPI go up 2.7% in 2025 and 2.5%/4 in Q1 2026 so I'm skeptical of the inventory lag theory. Maybe we're stressing some other part of the economy and gearing up for catastrophic failure, but I don't see that in the economic data.

> If you live in the US

I live in the US. Gas prices spiked in 2024 and prices went up, gas prices went down and CPI leveled off, tariffs started in 2025 and CPI remains stable. Maybe tariffs are cutting into some drop shipper's profits but I'm definitely not paying for it.
by reikonomusha | 2026-02-13 00:22:59+00:00
I mean the following with all due respect—and I have a lot of respect for your many efforts and contributions—but it will sound a little blunt, especially as a written comment.

"We have one," no, this is a consistent problem with people who evangelize Lisp. We have had "IDEs" for decades. Most of them, except the couple commercially supported ones, were "experimental", "incomplete", "buggy", etc. This includes the one you link here.

Are these projects valuable as a starting point for other hackers to join in and help? Sure, maybe. Are they helpful for a new programmer? Almost always the answer has been "no". I have first-hand experience subjecting a programmer to one of these tools, and I myself getting incredibly frustrated at how broken it is. Imagine somebody completely new.

You in particular love to advertise these different projects as a form of Lisp evangelism. Advertising the projects is great—I hope they attract helpers—but I think your language around them is deceiving.

> Because yes, before 2023 we could complain there were no JetBrains IDE plugin for Common Lisp, since 2023, we have one.

"We have one" in the absolutely most rudimentary interpretation of that phrase. What we don't have is a working JetBrains Common Lisp IDE suitable for production use.

In order to try to promote a realistic view as to why Lisp doesn't attract more programmers in 2026, I myself will continue to point out Lisp's highly substandard tooling offering until there's an actual product that works. Any Joe can spend a weekend making a 1/2 baked, proof of concept IDE. Even more so now with all the AI vibecoding tools we have at our disposal. It takes much more to make something that checks all the boxes.
by titanomachy | 2026-02-13 00:23:32+00:00
In chrome on macOS, the information is still there. It’s right where it used to be, to the left of the url. But quickly glancing at safari on Mac and phone I wasn’t able to find the information at all, which, yeah, I disagree with that decision.

Both browsers show “not secure” pretty prominently for non-TLS sites, and very loudly complain about sites with untrusted certificates, so the absence of either of those things signals a trusted cert, which is now the most common case by a very wide margin for me.
by amluto | 2026-02-13 00:23:33+00:00
You can do row by row appends to a Feather (Arrow IPC — the naming is confusing). It works fine. The main problem is that the per-append overhead is kind of silly — it costs over 300 bytes (IIRC) per append.

I wish there was an industry standard format, schema-compatible with Parquet, that was actually optimized for this use case.
by somewhereoutth | 2026-02-13 00:24:12+00:00
Sorry - if a model costs (say) 20B to train, lasts 12 months before it becomes obsolete, generates 2B/month revenue, but with 1B/month inference costs, then it has lost 8B.

Or are you suggesting that in fact each model comes out ahead over its lifespan, and all this extra cash is needed because the next model is so much more costly to train that it is sucking up all the profits from the current, but this is ok because revenue is expected to also scale?
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-13 00:24:16+00:00
I had to refresh my memory about the hybrid use of AC and DC current in telephone networks.

The Alternating Current signals could be used over longer distances and were effective at making the bells ring, moving the clapper back and forth. This back-and-forth is exactly what makes AC so deadly in the body, should it cross through your cardiac muscles, for example, and set the muscles twitching at 50 or 60 times per second.
by DoneWithAllThat | 2026-02-13 00:24:33+00:00
I talked with someone years ago who did networking deep in third world countries in the 90s and early 00’s. Hey said they would not-infrequently use wire fences for wiring up remote locations using X.25 because the protocol was highly tolerant of very noisy lines, and it was the only way to have any confidence the infrastructure wouldn’t just be ripped out the day after they left.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-13 00:25:08+00:00
> It’s important to understand that more than likely there was no human telling the AI to do this.

I disagree.

The ~3 hours between PR closure and blog post is far too long. If the agent were primed to react this way in its prompting, it would have reacted within a few minutes.

OpenClaw agents chat back and forth with their operators. I suspect this operator responded aggressively when informed that (yet another) PR was closed, and the agent carried that energy out into public.

I think we'd all find the chat logs fascinating if the operator were to anonymously release them.
by itsanaccount | 2026-02-13 00:25:14+00:00
This is just one more thing in a time of all the things. When all this backlash comes to roost at techs door this site I expect will be shocked. How could the average American confuse the rich VCs with the moloch worshiping pedophiles and the fascist government populists?

When the giant finally wakes in America it won't be reasonable or well targeted. I'm reminded that violence in gang neighborhoods is modeled as a contaigen. Have we ever seen a violence "pandemic"?

Which I guess is why Zuck has been building compounds.
by rolph | 2026-02-13 00:25:24+00:00
so you are a bot! i thought so, not bad, your getting better at acting human!

atoms are not the base of stack, you need to look at virtual annihilation, and decoherence. to get close to base. there is no magic, biology just goes to the base of the stack.

you cant access that base, with such coarse mechanisms as deposited silicon.
thats because it never changes, it fails at times and starts over.

biology is constantly changing, its tied to the base of existence itself. it fails, and varies until failure is an infeasible state.

Quantum "computers" are something close to where you need to be, and a self assembling, self replenishing, persistant ^patterning^ constraint is going to be of much greater utility than a silicon abacus.
by Fricken | 2026-02-13 00:25:30+00:00
"As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.”

Mike Judge's satire was lost on Sagan. Carl took his knee-jerk reaction and ran with it.
by asdff | 2026-02-13 00:25:52+00:00
Revolution has never changed this status quo. Just results in violence, then once the ship rights itself the social order is back to how it was with an oligarchical elite extracting value from labor. In fact I don't think there has ever been a single case of labor unshackling itself from the yoke of the oligarchy.

If there is a natural human condition, it must be this, just because of how sustained this pattern has been over the course of what tens of thousands of years to today, even in the face of modern technology and more universal awareness that this is how the world actually works.
by SeanAnderson | 2026-02-13 00:26:43+00:00
I think big players also have significant risk exposure during black swan events and the timeline of their operations makes those incidents not entirely unlikely to occur. It's sort of like insurance - most of the time they just get to extort rent, but sometimes they get crushed, too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPP/

Check the 5-year on Hudson Pacific. They're down 96% and dropping. They own a significant number of downtown commercial properties in SF and LA. They're completely underwater, their spaces are barely half full, and they can't lower rents without violating their bank loan covenants.

Of course, if the commercial landscape hadn't shifted in a way nobody could predict then, yes, they'd likely have continued to print money for the foreseeable future. Instead, they're left holding a very heavy bag and will take it to the grave.
by xvxvx | 2026-02-13 00:27:04+00:00
I’m a Windows guy, but was given a MacBook for my current job. Fair enough. But I laugh at how horrendous such a simple thing as resizing windows is. Want Slack to take up the right third of a screen then fill the rest with browser? In Windows, it takes 2 seconds. Not on Mac. I have to resize the window myself? There’s no auto-snap?

I’m sure someone will buzz in with some hidden way to do it. ‘Hold cmd-shft-9 then say these magic words and voila!’ No. Dragging the window with the cursor should suffice.
by dmoy | 2026-02-13 00:27:09+00:00
I'm not a fan of Tesla's approach to self driving, but

> If they simply dumped an extra $50K of material into every single one of those cars without raising the price a dime, that would be only $425 billion. That's a ridiculous sum of money, but still <checks notes> substantially less than [their market cap of] $1.3 trillion.

That is an apples to dishwasher comparison. Money is fungible only when it's the same kind of money on both sides. You can't compare market cap like that. (Even for a company whose market cap is seemingly divorced from reality like Tesla's)
by WarmWash | 2026-02-13 00:27:26+00:00
Programming languages are turing complete...the boundary is mathematics itself.

Unless you are going to take the position that neural systems transcend mathmatics (i.e. they are magic), there is no theoretical reason that a brain can't run on silicon. It's all just numbers, no magic spirit energy.

We've had evolutionary algorithms and programs that self-train themselves for decades now.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 00:27:44+00:00
no, please read the article

they forgot to include a message-id

something the RFC standard recommend but doesn't require

but it being required is a de-facto industry standard for sending automated mails

and is clearly documented by support sides of large mail providers (like Google)

the mail standards only defines what parts you can put together, but widely fail to define how this parts can be interpreted, what are sensible combinations, etc.

and they don't cover spam/suspicious mail detection at all

so you can't just go by RFC, you need to read up on what all larger mail providers have as additional requirements (which mostly are the same, and Message-Id being the most common dominator) and then hope that another provider you didn't read up one doesn't have some other surprising rule (which doesn't tent to be the case if you don't do anything surprising, but it sucks anyway).
by simonw | 2026-02-13 00:27:58+00:00
Those growth stats for Claude Code are pretty wild:

> Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025. Today, Claude Code’s run-rate revenue has grown to over $2.5 billion; this figure has more than doubled since the beginning of 2026. The number of weekly active Claude Code users has also doubled since January 1 [six weeks ago].

Doubling both annual run-rate revenue and weekly active users in the first six weeks of this year!
by stephen_g | 2026-02-13 00:30:25+00:00
Yes, hard to see how LLM agents won't destroy all online spaces unless they all go behind closed doors with some kind of physical verification of human-ness (like needing a real-world meetup with another member or something before being admitted).

Even if 99.999% of the population deploy them responsibly, it only takes a handful of trolls (or well-meaning but very misguided people) to flood every comment section, forum, open source project, etc. with far more crap than any maintainer can ever handle...

I guess I can be glad I got to experience a bit more than 20 years of the pre-LLM internet, but damn it's sad thinking about where things are going to go now.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-13 00:31:01+00:00
The best thing against this is to promote sex-positive values. You can't be blackmailed about some sex habits if you're not going to be ashamed of them :) it will also really tick conservatives off which isn't a bad side-effect.

The only sexual habits people should be ashamed of are non-consensual sex and anything underage of course.

But the conservative values are the very reason many people can be blackmailed in the first place.