MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Panzerschrek | 2026-02-05 05:37:01+00:00
This not answers my question. I just don't see any necessity to update an editor like Notepad++ at all. Such programs are usually stable and there is no need to add new features constantly. Even security vulnerabilities don't matter much, since a text editor isn't that critical piece of software.

My Notepad++ installation, for example, is 5 years old and it's fine for me.
by keeda | 2026-02-05 05:37:02+00:00
Here are my thoughts, which are not fully formed because AI is still so new. But taking this line of thought reductio ad absurdum, it becomes apparent that the elites have a critical dependency on us plebs:

Almost all of their wealth is ultimately derived from people.

The rich get richer by taking a massive cut of the economy, and the economy is basically people providing and paying for services and goods. If all the employees are replaced and can earn no money, there is no economy. Now the elite have two major problems:

a) What do they take a cut of to keep getting richer?

b) How long will they be safe when the resentment eventually boils over? (There's a reason the doomsday bunker industry is booming.)

My hunch is, after a period of turmoil, we'll end up in the usual equilibrium where the rest of the world is kept economically growing just enough to keep (a) us stable enough not to revolt and (b) them getting richer. I don't know what that looks like, could be UBI or something. But we'll figure it out because our incentives are aligned: we all want to stay alive and get richer (for varying definitions of "richer" of course.)

However, I suspect a lot will change quickly, because a ton of things that made up the old world order is going to be upended. Like, you'd need millions in funding to hire a team to launch any major software product; this ultimately kept the power in the hands of those with capital. Now a single person with an AI agent and a cloud platform can do it themselves for pocket change. This pattern will repeat across industries.

The power of capital is being disintermediated, and it's not clear what the repercussions will be.
by chrisco255 | 2026-02-05 05:37:25+00:00
Yeah I just don't think the average person is going to even get what they are talking about and they may not really care about ads in exchange for free-to-use ChatGPT. Most ChatGPT users are just using it as a search and summary tool. And they were seeing ads before via Google so what difference does it make?

While the Anthropic ads might be a hit amongst nerds, it won't compel normies to use Claude over ChatGPT, and in fact, it may just be damaging to AI adoption overall as it presents bad taste examples of how corruptible it all is.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-05 05:37:58+00:00
It's the opposite IMHO. AI is enabling a lot more B2B SaaS. There are a lot of companies that are running on outdated software. Especially in manufacturing and industry. They've had decades of experience with very expensive IT projects where cost got out of hand because things just are very complicated in the real world.

There are many millions of companies that are going to be re-examining if they can do better in the next years. The work will still be very complicated but with the help of AI, small IT shops might just deliver enough value to be worth the trouble.

The notion of e.g. busy floor plant/logistics managers vibe coding this themselves is silly. 1) they don't have the time; these people are super busy 2) they lack the ability. 3) they'll want it done properly 4) their employers won't skip all the certifications, iso stuff, and what not.

Companies invest in SAAS software if it delivers some kind of revenue/profit benefits. If it's too expensive/complex, it can't do that. AI tools lower the cost of SAAS solutions. So the totally addressable market grows. Companies will want to maximize their ROI though. So, they'll do the usual and engage software companies and integrators to help them do this. They'll expect to pay less for more. And there will be lots of haggling around that topic. But there's an enormous amount of companies that are quite far behind on getting their operations into this century in terms of IT already. There are going to be early adopters looking for early successes here that will put pressure on their competitors if they are successful.

I'm running a small company in this space. We're seeing a lot of opportunities right now. And AI is making my work massively easier already. All those complex ERP integrations just became an order of magnitude easier to do with a small team. They are still hard though. Forget about vibe coding that. You need a plan.
by jsemrau | 2026-02-05 05:38:40+00:00
I am building Agents for a long while now. The problem with Copilot is that it gets in the way too many times without being useful.
Examples:
When I open an email with 3 short lines of text, why do I need a "summary by copilot" button?

When I open a meeting invote from someone else the first 1/3rd of the screen is occupied with "Prepare for your meeting" nonsense. The "insights" button just provides general knowledge akin to "read the documentation".
by tombert | 2026-02-05 05:39:10+00:00
> And honestly even if I did use an LLM to write a comment on HN, so what? The code is what matters.

Part of what makes these forums fun is human responses. LLMs write "good enough" text but they come off as robotic and inhuman. The only reason to go onto one of these forums is to communicate with people. If I wanted to talk to a robot, I would talk to ChatGPT, which I can do as often as I want.
by xhanah | 2026-02-05 05:39:46+00:00
ditto to everything here. If you really want to you can also change the port to something random to avoid bot spam. but you shouldn't have SSH accessible directly from the internet anyway.

If you are using only keys, make sure they are managed, tracked, securely stored and backed up. The last thing you want is to have a machine die that has the only private key for your environment.
by kayson | 2026-02-05 05:41:27+00:00
> sudo echo $NUM_PAGES > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

This won't work :) echo will run as root but the redirection is still running as the unprivileged user. Needs to be run from a privileged shell or by doing something like sudo sh -c "echo $NUM_PAGES > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages"

The point gets across, though, technicality notwithstanding.
by raincole | 2026-02-05 05:42:13+00:00
No one should care.

Seriously, we all know:

1) Those Anthropic ads don't matter. Companies eat up their promises all the time and rarely face any consequence. They'll introduce ads one way or another.

2) Sam Altman's tweets don't matter. They never matter. Tweets from any OpenAI employee are purely to pump engagement. If what they said had a sliver of substance we would have had AGI mid-2025.

The whole 'war' is just to keep their brands mentioned on news and social media.
by bombcar | 2026-02-05 05:42:29+00:00
A direct answer - because if you donate and work with people near you, you have to deal with the people. It doesn't sound like much, but it's the whole linchpin - you have to face the reality and often realize that what you want to do simply can't be done for any number of reasons, and then you have to back up and try a different tactic.

If you ship your money across the globe you can sit back and be content that it's working well based on the glossy reports you get; you don't have to actually deal with the people as people; just as statistics.
by sandGorgon | 2026-02-05 05:42:52+00:00
This is a personal project that im open-sourcing. Its one of those projects-that-should-exist-but-nobody-wants-to-kill-their-business.

It takes ur standard docker compose file and runs it transparently in kubernetes (k3s actually). So ur devs don't have cognitive dissonance between testing ur stack locally on ur laptop and making it work on kubernetes in production.

It is primarily meant as a dev tool on ur laptop, and as a replacement for docker compose.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-05 05:43:01+00:00
fair points; we rarely use the glovebox because the central console is not only more accessible but also doesn't require fiddling with the touch screen to open ;)

I do agree that the UX is pretty good overall, the glovebox annoyed me (until we just stopped using it) and also the defogger (which we need all the time in the winter her) which took several taps on the screen until I discovered that I could customize the shortcut buttons at the bottom of the screen

Some automated things they definitely got right: auto-engage the emergency break while in park; auto-park when opening the door; auto-lock when leaving the car; auto-start the climate control when entering the car; auto-adjust the seat position based on driver detection.

But some things need work: The algorithm for the windshield wipers definitely needs some calibration -- the wipers come on at random times when there as no rain or water splashes; the lane departure "I'm taking control because you're going to crash" is way too sensitive and beeping at random moments; the collision sensor is also much too sensitive (yes I see the car and I'm already slowing down) (but I have to admit that I'd rather it err on the side of being too sensitive than not enough)
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-05 05:43:14+00:00
I admit I haven't read the full study, but I'm extremely skeptical that the takeaway as given in the article is valid.

Take violinists, for example. Essentially every single world renowned soloist was "some sort" of child prodigy. Now, I've heard some soloists argue that they were not, in fact, child prodigies. For example, may favorite violinist, Hilary Hahn, has said this. She still debuted with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra when she was 12, and here she is performing as a soloist at 15: https://youtu.be/upkP46nvqVI. Nathan Milstein, one of the greatest violinists of all time, said he was "not very good until his teens" - he still started playing at the age of 5, and at the age of 11 Leopold Auer, a great violin teacher, invited him to become one of his students, so he clearly saw his potential.

I have no doubt lots of prodigies burn out. But, at least in the world of violins, essentially every great soloist was playing at an extremely high level by the time they were in middle school.
by snihalani | 2026-02-05 05:44:21+00:00
> Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.

OpenAI's terms of service (https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/):

What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

1. Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone’s rights.

2. Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.

3. Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).

4. Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).

5. Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.

6. Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.

7. Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

Learning: Marketing and Legal team are not in sync with each other.
by snailmailman | 2026-02-05 05:45:10+00:00
Ah yes. “Non-existent security” is only a pesky detail that will surely be ironed out.

It’s not a critical flaw in the entirety of the LLM ecosystem that now the computers themselves can be tricked into doing things by asking in just the right way. Anything in the context might be a prompt injection attack, and there isn’t really any reliable solution to that but let’s hook everything up to it, and also give it the tools to do anything and everything.

There is still a long way to go to securing these. Apple is, I think wisely, staying out of this arena until it’s solved, or at least less of a complete mess.
by thefourthchime | 2026-02-05 05:45:12+00:00
I just had an idea. How easy would it be to spin up a business that's just online? Like, I don't know, shipping semi-glutides or something. It would be so trivial to set up a website as well as payment and all the other things. And of course the agent could help me with all the legal parts. Why don't I have like 10 LLCs?
by branko_d | 2026-02-05 05:46:38+00:00
> often you have to inject data into new tables or columns

No tool can help you with that, simply because this kind of data migration depends on your particular business logic that the tool has no way of knowing about.

While SQL Server Data Tools has its warts, it has been immensely useful for us in making sure every little detail gets handled during migration. That doesn't usually mean that it can do the entire migration itself - we do the manual adjustments to the base tables that SSDT cannot do on its own, and then let it handle the rest, which in our case is mostly about indexes, views, functions and stored procedures.

After all that, SSDT can compare the resulting database with the "desired" database, and reliably flag any differences, preventing schema drift.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-05 05:50:13+00:00
pretty strong disagree; Apple can't afford to potentially start an AI apocalypse because it tried to launch an OpenClaw type service without making it impossible for prompt-injection or agent identity hijacking to happen as we're seeing with Moltbook

Let OpenClaw experiment and beta test with the hackers who won't mind if things go sideways (risk of creating Skynet aside), and once we've collectively figured out how to create such a system that can act powerfully on behalf of its users but with solid guardrails, then Apple can implement it.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-05 05:50:21+00:00
> Anthropic could have made this statement at any time, but they chose to do it when OpenAI says they are going to start showing ads, so view it in that context.

Obviously they did do it for that reason, but it does make sense. They've positioned themselves from day 1 as the AI company built on more values; that doesn't make them good but it's self-consistent. If, out of the blue earlier on when nobody was talking about ads in AI, they said "we're not going to put ads in AI", that would have been a Suspiciously Specific Denial: "our shirt saying we're not going to put ads in AI has people asking a lot of questions already answered by our shirt".

> Can you imagine someone in a boardroom saying, "Everyone, we can't do this. Sure it will make us a ton of money, but it's wrong!"

Yes. But that's not how you'd say it. "First of all, this would go against our established ethical principles, which you knew when you invested with us. Second, those ethical principles define our position in the market, which we should not abandon."
by Groxx | 2026-02-05 05:50:24+00:00
The color accuracy is a lot worse, but generally the contrast is significantly better than other color eink readers without a backlight, from my eyes - all other color readers use an LCD-like color filter over a regular grayscale eink screen, which makes it noticeably darker at all times, and it's kinda awful without the backlight on.

With the backlight on, they might be a bit better? I don't remember well enough. Remarkables are not helped by their rather meagre and inconsistent light though (probably a consequence of being significantly thinner).
by Stratoscope | 2026-02-05 05:51:21+00:00
Many years ago, I worked at a company with a product that ran on Mac and Windows. The Mac version was pretty solid, but the Windows version had some problems.

They had a talented team of developers who were mostly Mac experts and just starting to get a grip on Windows.

I was known at the time as a "Windows expert", so they hired me to help the team get the Windows version into shape.

My typical day started with "house calls". People would ping me with their Windows questions and I'd go door to door to help solve them - and to make sure they understood how to do things on Windows.

In the afternoon, I would work on my own code, but I made sure everyone knew they could always call on me for help with a Windows problem any time of day.

One colleague asked me: "Mike, how can you afford to be so generous with your time?"

Then in a performance review, I got this feedback:

"Mike, we're worried. Your productivity has been OK lately, but not great. And it's surprising, because the productivity of the rest of the team has improved a lot during this time."

I bit my tongue, but in retrospect I should have said:

"Isn't that what you hired me for?"
by aappleby | 2026-02-05 05:51:58+00:00
This article is taking some liberties with the word "prodigy" that I disagree with.

If the way you nurture a talented student is via "intense drilling", I would argue that the student is not a prodigy in the traditional sense, but a talented and determined student who may or may not be dealing with parental pressure.

The actual prodigies I've known absorb information and gain skills without significant effort - I knew someone who enrolled in a calculus class, skimmed through the book in a week or so, and then would only show up to class for tests (which they would ace).

So the article conclusion doesn't surprise me - inflict relentless training on a young talented person and yeah maybe they won't want to do that as an adult.

But as far as actual "prodigies"? There is no burn-out because there is no (or minimal) effort. The choice of whether to stick with an area of interest through adulthood is more of a personal preference than anything ingrained.
by dwd | 2026-02-05 05:52:56+00:00
Frequent flyer points are where they make their money. So much so that many airlines would run at a loss just flying passengers.

All their partners hand over real cash for points to give their customers, that often either expire or are never redeemed. I think it was the Economist that stated that airlines operate as unregulated banks. Flying people around is a secondary thing they do.
by hackit2 | 2026-02-05 05:53:24+00:00
When I started with the gaming industry (Operation Flashpoint), I was coming in near the end of fixed point arithmetic where floating point units where becoming more common as part of the PII or PI era. It was around mid-1990, I'm actually in my early 40's now. I knew a little bit of floating point units but never really dived into the area - also at the time I wasn't really mathematically minded and we really didn't have access to the internet - Australia.

A-10 Cuba! came out around 1996, and only now am I getting to know its internal engine. For example, it utilizes a signed Q15.16 fixed-point representation for its X and Z axes. For instance, a raw value of 98,304 (0x00018000) decodes to 1.5 units - where a unit is defined as 6607.92 feet - which translates to 9,911.88 feet in the game world. Then to top it off, it uses a different coordinate scaling convention for its up axis. For example the up-axis resolution is 1/10th of a foot so a raw value of 10,000 is actually 1,000 feet. Then there are other discrete exponent scaling factors which the game applies to maintain numerical precision and accuracy.

I had a great time learning all this well reverse engineering the game, and also come to learn even today how common it is for chips not to come with FPU unit, and how common it is that those chips actually perform fixed point arithmetic.
by flowardnut | 2026-02-05 05:54:16+00:00
>The security issue has been fully resolved. Update to the latest version and continue using Notepad++ with confidence.

I mean the last blog post had this line on it:

"With these changes and reinforcements, I believe the situation has been fully resolved. Fingers crossed."

Which just had the wrong tone for a security incident. "I believe it to be fixed, fingers crossed"
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 05:54:27+00:00
Very large tech companies completely automate the schema change process (at least for all common operations) so that development teams can make schema changes at scale without direct DBA involvement. The more sophisticated companies handle this regardless of table size, sharding, operational events, etc. It makes a massive difference in execution speed for the entire company.

Renames aren't compatible with that automation flow though, which is what I meant by "out-of-band". They rely on careful orchestration alongside code change deploys, which gets especially nasty when you have thousands of application servers and thousands of database shards. In some DBMS, companies automate them using a careful dance of view-swapping, but that seems brittle performance-wise / operationally.
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 05:54:33+00:00
The amount of "prompting" stuff (meta-prompting?) the "thinking" models do behind the scenes even beyond what the harnesses do is massive; you could of course rebuild it locally, but it's gonna make it just that much slower.

I expect it'll come along but I'm not gonna spend the $$$$ necessary to try to DIY it just yet.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-05 05:54:34+00:00
> The comment sounds "polished" because I've probably described this project dozens of times at this point.

I didn't say it sounded "polished", I said exactly the opposite.

> And honestly even if I did use an LLM to write a comment on HN, so what?

If we wanted to chat with bots, we know where to find them.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-05 05:55:00+00:00
Of course the first version of the ad will be separated very clearly, just like how Google search started.

While I found the golden dating app the funniest anc creepiest, credit loan ad was the most viewed for a reason: it's the most profitable ad from the scenarios, and it will come in a few years.

I write all this as a mostly happy OpenAI subscriber (my only wish is still being able to have a sticky legacy o3 model as my default for my Pro subscription everywhere).
by QuiEgo | 2026-02-05 05:55:11+00:00
> The "cryptographically sound seed" however is stored inside the secure enclave for anyone with the capability to extract.

Sorry, I'm not sure I follow here. Is anyone believed to have the capability to extract keys from the SE?

The secure enclave (or any Root of Trust) do not allow direct access to keys, they keep the keys locked away internally and use them at your request to do crypto operations. You never get direct access to the keys. The keys used are protected by using IVs, tweaks, or similar as inputs during cryptographic operations so that the root keys can not be derived from the ciphertext, even if the plaintext is controlled by an attacker and they have access to both the plaintext and ciphertext.

Is your concern the secure enclave in an iPhone is deflatable, and in such a way as to allow key extraction of device unique seeds it protects?

Do you have any literature or references where this is known to have occurred?

Tone is sometimes hard in text, so I want to be clear, I'm legit asking this, not trying to argue. If there are any known attacks against Apple's SE that allow key extraction, would love to read up on them.
by maxglute | 2026-02-05 05:55:40+00:00
But they can't hence point moot, and when they could/might, i.e. Russian Alaska, they didn't try. Whereas US tried to annex Canada twice, but was context of British Canada / revolutionary war. CAN not going to ally with RU/PRC for the simple reason it would trigger peril from US.

Americans forget Canada fundamentally an anti/then counter American project, it wasn't until post world war that culture became more compatible. That's still based on US minimally respecting Canadian sovereignty, including NWP, which even before new annexation talk was sore subject. So not particularly imposed from top. Family fights over property gets just as ugly.