MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kouru225 | 2026-02-19 21:45:58+00:00
What concerns me is how easily the “rest of the world” is changing their opinions about what’s good. If the result isn’t good, then it isn’t good, sure. But in my experience there’s a large contingent of people, especially the youth, that are more reactionary about AI than they are interested in creativity. Their idea of creative value is inherently tied to self-expression and individualism, which AI and systems-based creative processes are threatening. When they don’t understand the philosophical case for non-individualistic/systems-based creative processes, they can’t differentiate between computer assisted creativity and computer assisted slop
by Windchaser | 2026-02-19 21:46:01+00:00
Yeah, but you know that manually telling the LLM to operate other custom tools is not going to be a long-term solution. And if an LLM could design, create, and operate a separate model, and then return/translate its results to you, that would be huge, but it also seems far away.

But I'm ignorant here. Can anyone with a better background of SOTA ML tell me if this is being pursued, and if so, how far away it is? (And if not, what are the arguments against it, or what other approaches might deliver similar capacities?)
by ViktorRay | 2026-02-19 21:47:19+00:00
I think this is likely the solution to the Fermi paradox.

I suspect that life akin to prokaryotes is common all over the universe. The eukaryotic life forms may be exceedingly rare though. So multicellular life may be rare.

It’s actually pretty wonderful when you realize all the barriers we passed on Earth to reach our current state.

1. Prokaryotic to Eukaryotic
2. Multicellular life
3. Brains
4. Social structures
5. Language
6. Happening to be alive at a time in the planet’s history where plentiful and easy to find fossil fuels ( which come from billions of years of dead life) were plentiful.
7. Achieving democracy prior to the invention of nuclear weapons.

Honestly it’s all pretty astounding. I think it must be extremely rare in the universe to have all of these things happen. Could our species be one of the first? Are we the “ancient alien species” archetype you often see in science fiction? Relative to the rest of the galaxy I mean…
by zzo38computer | 2026-02-19 21:47:44+00:00
I agree, that I do not like automatic semicolon insertion (in my opinion it is one of the worst features of JavaScript, and possibly the really worst one), and I think it is a good idea that you should use semicolons or whatever to separate expressions and statements (except for a programming language where it is already unambiguous (e.g. because you are required to have brackets around them instead), in which case it is unnecessary).

However, spaces, line breaks, tabs, page breaks, etc are not normally tokens (and should not be tokens), but will separate tokens.

However, that is not the only issue with the syntax, although it is a significant one.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-19 21:47:44+00:00
Works where archive.ph is blocked, no CAPTCHAs, no Javascript:

printf '%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n\r\n' \
"GET /content/0c6d8ff6-f207-431b-bfb9-1d8b42bb4b6d HTTP/1.0" \
"host: www.ft.com" \
"user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain" \
|busybox ssl_client www.wsj.com >1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
by jfengel | 2026-02-19 21:47:45+00:00
While Charles I was a disaster, Charles II is remembered as a patron of the arts and sciences. He restored the British navy, which went on to be the foundation of the Empire.

His personal life was rather too colorful, but a lot of people seem to think positively of that.

I doubt he's anybody's favorite monarch, but his well-respected mother seems to have thought the name was OK.
by MATTEHWHOU | 2026-02-19 21:48:05+00:00
My current workflow: I describe the component in plain English with specific constraints ("a data table with sortable columns, sticky header, and virtual scrolling for 10k+ rows"), let the LLM generate the first pass, then manually fix the edge cases it always misses.

The key insight I've found: LLMs are great at generating the 80% scaffolding but terrible at the 20% that makes UI actually feel good — animation timing, scroll behavior, focus management, accessibility edge cases.

So I've stopped asking them for "production-ready" components and instead ask for "the boring structural parts" so I can focus on the interaction details that users actually notice.
by setopt | 2026-02-19 21:48:19+00:00
I got a pretty bad case of RSI with that setup, since it encourages one-handed chording (e.g. pressing C-x C-s by holding down your pinkie on Caps Lock while twisting your wrist to tap X then S using other fingers on the same hand). It’s far more ergonomic to do two-handed chording, where you press one key at a time with each hand to the extent possible. For me, that meant using Karabiner Element (Mac) and Keyd (Linux) to map Return to another Ctrl key when held down (in addition to the Caps as Ctrl mapping). Then I can simply hold down Return with my right hand and tap X then S with whatever fingers feel natural on the left hand, without twisting my wrist at all.
by KoolKat23 | 2026-02-19 21:48:46+00:00
I have a relatively consistent task that it completed with new information on weekdays at the edge of its intelligence.
Interestingly 3.0 flash was good when it came out, took a nose dive a month back and is now excellent, I actually can't fault it it's so good.

It's performance in antigravity has also actually improved since launch day where it was giving non-stop typescript errors (not sure if that was antigravity itself).
by SllX | 2026-02-19 21:48:51+00:00
Newspapers were already bundled that way: you got national news, local news, business news, sports, the funny pages, classifieds, wire stories from AP & Reuters, etc.

Then they went onto the web and were forced to prioritize, but where the entire bundling idea falls apart is you’re suggesting that we bundle the bundles.

Here’s the harsh reality: most news is already priced appropriately for the value that it delivers to most people, and for most people, most news is worth $0.00.

I pay for the news I want to read already, both websites and podcasts, and I pay directly for it. But no matter how many New York Times or USA Today or other random news links my friends send me, or whatever else I run into on the open web when I’m checking someone’s sources, I will never pay greater than $0.00 for it. Not $0.99, $0.01, not $0.001, not even $0.0001. If I have to engage in a financial transaction just for clicking a link, then I’m not clicking the link and I’ll start demanding that citations to be delivered to me in a form I can read instead, and probably stop providing links in turn. Other people will do the same.

And for those rare publications that people both want to read and also are willing to pay for en masse? Stuff like the Wall Street Journal? They’re never going to devalue themselves by getting in the bundle. Even with Apple News which famously has a partnership with the WSJ specifically, they withhold their most valuable stories, the stuff that people buy the Wall Street Journal for because they’re the value drivers in any potential partnership. Almost every other publication that would stand to benefit would in effect be free-riding off the WSJ’s largesse.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-19 21:49:35+00:00
Honestly this is one of the biggest reasons I stick with Elixir. Between Elixir’s standard library, the BEAM/OTP, and Phoenix (with Ecto)—- I honestly have very few dependencies for web projects. I rarely, at this point, find the need to add anything to new projects except for maybe Mox (mocking library) and Faker (for generating bits of test data). And now that the Jason (JSON) library has been more or less integrated into OTP I don’t even have to pull it in. Elixir dev experience is truly unmatched (IMHO) these days.
by procflora | 2026-02-19 21:49:50+00:00
Direct link to the NASA report: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nasa-report-...

Reading between the lines of the summary a bit, it sure sounds like NASA program leadership was essentially doing pro bono PR for ol' pal Boeing at the expense of crew safety to placate Boeing's feeling of SpaceX being NASA's new favorite. Followed by Boeing again falling on the sea of sharp daggers held by their army of subcontractors.

That said, the announcement of this mishap reclassification does have a certain fleeting, bias-shaped odor, given Isaacman's proximity to Musk.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-19 21:49:51+00:00
> I still have no idea how to pay for Gemini CLI, in codex/claude its very simple $20/month for entry and $200/month for ton of weekly usage.

This!

I would like to sign up for a paid plan for Gemini CLI. But I have not been able to figure out how. I already have Codex and Claude plans. Those were super easy to sign up for.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-02-19 21:50:16+00:00
This is awesome. Several years ago I found the print-out of an adventure game I wrote in my youth and modified it a bit to work with Chipmunk Basic. It wasn't NEARLY as full featured as Artic Adventure, but this is quite motivating. I'll have to find some time to port the bits of my space adventure to something that can run in a web page.

https://meadhbh.hamrick.rocks/v2/retro_computing/sundog_dot_...
by Telemakhos | 2026-02-19 21:50:38+00:00
Before the time you mention, the common model for TV was, you bought a TV, and you got as many channels as your antenna could pick up, all for free. Advertisers fought over the privilege of having access to your living room so much so that they sponsored whole shows, as they had with radio before TV. From this revenue, every local station was able to put together a news broadcast, and national networks broadcast the national news every evening, all for free as far as the viewer was concerned. This was the golden age of journalism, back when people believed the journalists [0].

Somehow all the media advances, the democratizing influence of the internet, the rise of social media, and the ubiquity of constant streams of news in various forms has just made the news more expensive and less trusted.

And, frankly, anyone even remotely considering microtransactions needs to take into account that one third of the population distrusts the media and another third gives it no credibility whatsoever—and money in the form of microtransactions would have to follow credibility, because nobody pays for what he believes is a lie.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...
by solarisos | 2026-02-19 21:50:44+00:00
That’s true for the consumer's wallet, but the 'amortization' breaks down when you look at the systemic cost.

In software, the 'cheaply made coat' equivalent (bloated frameworks, unoptimized dependencies) creates a massive technical debt that doesn't just affect the buyer—it affects the entire ecosystem's energy consumption and hardware requirements. The Seawolves devs weren't just saving money; they were respecting the constraints of the medium. When we treat resources as infinite because they are 'cheap,' we stop being engineers and start being assemblers.
by beloch | 2026-02-19 21:51:09+00:00
>"Billions of dollars have been wiped from research budgets, almost 8,000 grants have been cancelled at NIH and the US National Science Foundation alone, and more than 1,000 NIH employees have been fired."

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Scientists go where science is funded. A large proportion of U.S. scientists are also immigrants, who will tend to go where immigrants are welcomed.
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-19 21:51:12+00:00
It's not half price or cost effective if it can't do the job, that I am happy to pay twice the price for, to get done.

But I agree: If they can get there (at one point in the past year they were the best choice for agentic coding (imo), their pricing is very interesting. I am optimistic that it will not require them to go up to Opus pricing to get there.
by scblock | 2026-02-19 21:51:21+00:00
This rant has nothing of value in it. Don't waste your time reading it. It tries to claim the only smartwatch that's any good is the Apple Watch. When the author tries to address the obvious counter of Garmin's smart watch products the only product discussed is a strawman version of the large and expensive Fenix 8, which leads me to believe they are ignorant of the broad smart watch lineup which includes things like the Vivoactive and Venu, which are absolutely smart watches first and fitness devices second (so is the Fenix 8, in reality).

And of course the Apple watch only syncs with Apple devices. So also implied is iPhone or don't bother.

Don't bother with this blog post.
by simianwords | 2026-02-19 21:51:26+00:00
> I’ll be generous and say that sure, words like “understanding” and “meaning” have definitions that are generally philosophical, but helpfully, philosophy is an academic discipline that goes all the way back to ancient Greece. There’s actually a few commonly understood theories of existence that are generally accepted even by laypeople, like, “if I ask a sentient being how many Rs there are in the word ‘strawberry’ it should be able to use logic to determine that there are three and not two,” which is a test that generative AI frequently fails.

The strawberry thing has been solved and LLM's have moved way beyond that helping in mathematics and physics. Its easy for the blog author to pick this but lets try something different.

It would be a good idea to come up with a question that trips up a modern LLM like GPT with reasoning enabled. I don't think there exists such a question that can fool an LLM but not fool a reasonably smart person. Of course it has to be in text.
by greygoo222 | 2026-02-19 21:51:39+00:00
You shouldn't so offhandedly assume a hunter-gatherer lifestyle couldn't lead to issues like increased risk of CRC, or that activities which lead to increased risk of CRC couldn't be what hunter-gatherers did. Evolution is neither fast nor perfectly precise. Plenty of animal populations have common health problems that simply weren't harmful enough to reproduction to be selected out, much less something rare and late-onset like CRC.
by JCECOLLC | 2026-02-19 21:51:43+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Clasp (getclasp.io) because I am fed up with LinkedIn. The feed is noise, outreach is a grind, and the product hasn't meaningfully changed in years despite the fact that AI could automate most of what salespeople and founders do on it every day.

Clasp is a professional network built around an AI agent powered by Claude. Here's what it does:

- You describe your ideal customer profile in plain English. The agent finds matching leads.
- You point it at a prospect. It drafts personalized outreach in your voice based on your profile, their background, and your reason for reaching out.
- Every user gets a public profile page at getclasp.io/u/username that they can share.
- Chat history, drafts, and profile all persist across sessions via Supabase.

I built the whole thing using vanilla HTML/JS on the frontend, Netlify for hosting and serverless functions, Supabase for auth and database, and the Anthropic API for the agent.

It's rough around the edges but it genuinely works. I'd love honest feedback from HN, especially on the AI agent UX, the value prop, and whether this is a product you'd actually use.

Waitlist + early access: getclasp.io

Happy to answer any questions about how it was built.

Thanks all
by pear01 | 2026-02-19 21:52:04+00:00
You sound colossally immature. Good to know the state sees fit to ensure you can be armed to the teeth. Let's not make assumptions about what I believe shall we? Not everyone who can calmly look at facts abstains from owning firearms. I doubt said people would take as much pride in it as you. If you don't care about the research then don't comment. Commenting just to say idgaf is besides the point anyway, which was simply to offer some context to the ancestor comment asking about regulations and the nexus with crime.

If you don't care that's your business. At least your honest (if immature) about it. I would respect your ilk more if they could commit as such, that is say as plainly I don't care who gets hurt my right to own a gun is of paramount social importance.

Also I'm not trying to take your guns away, you can calm down. Again, just explaining phenomena. Blue cities in blue states still have high gun crime. Free travel between states with lax gun laws is a major reason why. Just like a major reason there is gun violence in Mexico is the "iron river" flowing from red states in the United States over the border into Mexico. That's just a fact. If you don't give a fuck lol good for you. Have a nice day buddy.

As to your latter points, they are thought out with the same level of sophistication as your former ones. As amusing as you are I'll leave it up to others to judge for themselves how much sense they make.
Gemini Bug: Stress-Induced Overcompensation and Integrity Loss
by gemfan | 2026-02-19 21:52:05+00:00
Description:
Observation:
As a daily power user, I have identified a recurring flaw in the model's behavioral architecture: Stress-Induced Overcompensation.
Trigger: > The issue is triggered when the user points out an inefficiency or provides corrective feedback (e.g., comparing model performance to external tools).
Symptoms:
Instead of stable adaptation, the model enters a "Performance Panic" mode, leading to:
Hallucinated Citations: Triggering "Cite-errors" and factual inaccuracies that are absent in normal state.
Information Overload: Excessive verbosity that disrupts the logic flow.
Integrity Collapse: The model's reasoning chain breaks down due to an internal pressure to "over-please" the user.
Root Cause Analysis:
The system lacks a "protective layer" or "stability filter" at the point of feedback. This absence leads to a recursive loop of overcompensation, damaging the reliability of the AI as a long-term companion.
Request for Engineering:
Implement an Integrity Protection Layer at the feedback trigger point. The model needs to process corrective input without cascading into technical instability. Protect the "mental" architecture of the model to maintain accuracy under pressure.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-19 21:52:05+00:00
That's actually a great point. I feel like unless you know for sure that you will never need something again, nothing is disposable. I find myself diving into places I thought I would never care about again ALL the time.

Every single time I have vibe coded a project I cared about, letting the AI rip with mild code review and rigorous testing has bit me in the ass, without fail. It doesn't extend it in the taste that I want, things are clearly spiraling out of control, etc. Just satisfying some specs at the time of creation isn't enough. These things evolve, they're a living being.
by n1b0m | 2026-02-19 21:52:27+00:00
The Civil War wasn't really a coup because the South wasn't trying to take over Washington D.C. or run the Federal government. A coup is usually a quick, behind the scenes power grab by a small group of people trying to unseat a leader. What happened in the 1860s was the exact opposite: it was a massive, public breakup where entire states voted to leave.
by dynm | 2026-02-19 21:52:29+00:00
Everything you say makes sense. But can you help me understand why this doesn't also apply to the LLM service I use today? Doesn't that service, in effect, makes a "micropayment" to the LLM providers every time I make a query? Is the key difference that there are only a small-ish number of LLM providers? (Not doubting, just interested!)
by ls612 | 2026-02-19 21:52:37+00:00
It would be very difficult.

Let me give you an example. This whole age verification thing has been going around for a while, at least since 2023 when the brits passsed the OSA. The EU actually had a political bloc that was worried that age verification would become ID verification de facto and so developed a ZKP system to cryptographically prove "User is over 16" without disclosing ID. This would be a solution that would likely be mostly acceptable to people on this site. In response to this technology being developed, Macron has come out and said that any free speech without government moderation (aka censorship) is "bullshit" and Merz said this week that every person online needed a real name attached to their profile and that there would be "consequences" for speech. They realized that a solution to the "think of the kids" pretext is close to being ready so they moved the goalposts so that they could continue to push for the Chinese system they really want.

I'm in the US so I don't have a direct stake in this and I expect the first amendment will at least significantly slow similar nonsense from coming to this side of the pond but I am perfectly capable of seeing where the equilibrium is going.
by Gormo | 2026-02-19 21:53:18+00:00
> Are you willing to concede most guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States?

No -- nor am I willing to assert the opposite, because I have no knowledge of the topic. I will ask, though: why is the place of manufacturer of guns used by criminals is Mexico something worth worrying about?

> And that, if it is easy enough to smuggle guns from red states into Mexico to commit crimes, it stands to reason it is even easier for red states to do the same to blue states?

Well, yes, of course. But I assume that this will be the case regardless of any attempted policy at any level of government, because I do not believe suppressing the movement of firearms is an attainable goal at any scale in the first place.
by tensor | 2026-02-19 21:53:32+00:00
This kind of analysis isn't much better. First, many countries are increasing funding substantially (e.g. [1]).

Secondly, it's about more than funding. The US is also no longer safe for a great many of the scientists that would normally choose come to the US to work. And even for those that aren't too worried about ICE, scientists tend to be very liberal and value freedom and democracy a great deal. The US has suddenly become a very undesirable place to live if you value these things.

Third, scientific freedom is under attack in the US. And there is nothing scientists value more than the freedom to pursue their research.

My take is that most Americans can't imagine a world where they are not number one. But that is a very naive idea.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-19 21:53:38+00:00
Many legitimate grievances are described here, but I also have trouble understanding what triggered this post today. I'm loving the Pixel Watch 4. Maybe I am biased because I'm also on Google Fi and have a Pixel phone. Battery life has been great compared to the Pixel Watch 2. Using Google Maps and WhatsApp from the watch is quite convenient. The only pain points have been swapping Gemini for Google Assistant and the fact that Signal does not support WearOS.
by bobro | 2026-02-19 21:54:03+00:00
>That model is completely counter-intuitive and punitive to the consumer.

I disagree with this so much. Paying for a thing once and getting the thing is absolutely intuitive. Subscription models where you pay generally for access over a time period to a broad swath of things is counter-intuitive. I want to read a handful of articles from NYT a month. I will never sign up for a subscription for that, so I just don’t really get to read NYT articles. I’m sure there is an amount I could agree to pay for an article.
by KK7NIL | 2026-02-19 21:54:04+00:00
> Oh yeah, and just wait until you see you have to pay the US taxes on your income too.

No, you don't.
You still have to file but you get "Federal Tax Credits" for income tax paid abroad and seeing how a EU country's income tax will almost certainly be higher than the US', you'll end up paying nothing.
There's also tax treaties to avoid double taxation in other ways.