MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dMobiuS3 | 2026-02-12 22:58:00+00:00
I'm an independent researcher (PE, not physicist) who spent the past year building a framework that derives physical constants from a single topological postulate: S¹ = ∂(Möbius) ↪ S³, ∂S³ = ∅

I've started a reddit series [https://www.reddit.com/r/Mode_Identity/] that will cover multiple topics, each with a specific prediction:

Λ at ~6%
CMB anomalies (suppression, parity, alignment) from one geometry
Hubble tension as an 8.4% lattice step
Phantom crossing at z=0.66 (pre-registered before Euclid DR1)
Fine structure constant at 0.44%

Yang-Mills mass gap paper submitted to Comm. Math. Phys. All papers on Zenodo with DOIs.

The math is falsifiable and the predictions are on the record. Happy to answer questions.
by vessenes | 2026-02-12 22:58:58+00:00
A year ago (geez!) I used aider, as you describe.

Now I use claude with agent orchestration and beads.

Well actually, I’m currently using openclaw to spin up multiple claudes with the above skills.

If I need to drop down to claude, I do.

If I need to edit something (usually writing I hate), I do.

I haven’t needed to line edit something in a while - it’s just faster to be like “this is a bad architecture, throw it away, do this instead, write additional red-green tests first, and make sure X. Then write a step by step tutorial document (I like simonw’s new showboat a lot for this), and fix any bugs / API holes you see.”

But I guess I could line edit something if I had to. The above takes a minute, though.
Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
by ffworld | 2026-02-12 22:58:58+00:00
It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.

Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2].
He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.

Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.

Official Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730451626262530

[1]: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles.html

[2]: https://media.xiph.org/

[3]: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-codebase-7e50328074e8
by elxr | 2026-02-12 22:59:15+00:00
> all that matters is that it's correct and easy to read

Absolutely disagree. A lot of the best docs I've read feel more personal, and have little extra touches like telling the reader which sections to skip or to spend more time in depending on what your background is.

Formatting and layout matters too. Docs sites with messy navigation and sidenotes all over the place might be "easy to read" if you can focus on only looking at one thing, but when you try to read the whole thing, you just get a bunch of extra noise that could've been left out.
by efortis | 2026-02-12 22:59:24+00:00
I’ve used (and wrote) Mockaton for this. It has a browser extension, which downloads all API responses in your flow.

then you can run mockaton with those mocks. you’ll manually have to anonymize sensitive parts though.

also, you can compile your Frontend(s) and copy their assets, so yo can deploy a standalone demo server.

mocks don’t have to be fully static, it supports function mocks, which are http handlers.

for demoing, the dashboard has a feature for bulk selecting mocks by a comment tag.

https://mockaton.com
by SeanAnderson | 2026-02-12 23:00:09+00:00
Is the TL;DR of the article that they're launching this (https://waymo.com/blog/2021/12/expanding-our-waymo-one-fleet...) new vehicle design?

I read the whole thing, but, idk, surprised they didn't include a picture or clarify if this is strictly hardware, or hardware + software changes (with the software changes maybe back propagating to existing Drivers)
by staticassertion | 2026-02-12 23:00:43+00:00
> LLM spammers are not rationale, smart, nor do they deserve courtesy.

The comment that was written was assuming that someone reading it would be rational enough to engage. If you think that literally every person reading that comment will be a bad faith actor then I can see why you'd believe that the comment is unwarranted, but the comment was explicitly written on the assumption that that would not be universally the case, which feels reasonable.

> Debate is a fine thing with people close to your interests and mindset looking for shared consensus or some such. Not for enemies.

That feels pretty strange to me. Debate is exactly for people who you don't agree with. I've had great conversations with people on extremely divisive topics and found that we can share enough common ground to move the needle on opinions. If you only debate people who already agree with you, that seems sort of pointless.

> I mean think about what you're saying: This person that has wasted your time already should now be entitled to more of your time and to a debate?

I've never expressed entitlement. I've suggested that it's reasonable to have the goal of convincing others of your position and, if that is your goal, that it would be best served by engaging. I've never said that anyone is obligated to have that goal or to engage in any specific way.

> "never works"

I'm not convinced that it never works, that's counter to my experience.

> but more-so because it gives them attention and validation while ignoring them does not.

Again, I don't see why we're so focused on this idea of validation or legitimacy.

> I don't know what this question means

There's a repeated focus on how important it is to not "legitimize" or "validate" certain people. I don't know why this is of such importance that it keeps being placed above anything else.

> What is it about LLM spammers that you respect so much?

Nothing at all.

> I don't know about "scary" but they certainly do not deserve it. Do you disagree?

I don't understand the question, sorry.
by reikonomusha | 2026-02-12 23:01:14+00:00
This is not true.

(defun f (x)
(let ((y x))
(setf y (* y x))
(block foo
(if (minusp y)
(return-from foo y))
(loop :for i :from 1 :to 10 :do
...

This is absolutely typical bog-standard left-to-right top-to-bottom structured programming type code. It also must be executed like so:

- Define the function
- Bind the variable
- Mutate the variable
- Set up a named block
- Do a conditional return
- Run a loop
- ...

The order of execution literally matches the order it's written. But not unlike almost all other languages on the planet, expressions are evaluated inside-out.

Haskell's whole raison d'etre is to allow arbitrary nesting and substitution of terms, and all or none of these terms may or may not be evaluated depending on need. De-nesting happens with a copious number of syntax to bind names to values, sometimes before the expression (via let), sometimes after the expression (via where), and sometimes in the middle of an expression (via do).
by toraway | 2026-02-12 23:02:04+00:00
The Wired article is higher quality, agreed, but "race-baiting", really? It seems quite relevant that a specific ethnic group is much more likely to suffer consequences due to this flawed mass facial recognition given how the enforcement is targeted.

Particularly given the example from the article:

In Oregon testimony last year, an agent said two photos of a woman in custody taken with his face-recognition app produced different identities. The woman was handcuffed and looking downward, the agent said, prompting him to physically reposition her to obtain the first image. The movement, he testified, caused her to yelp in pain. The app returned a name and photo of a woman named Maria; a match that the agent rated “a maybe.”

Agents called out the name, “Maria, Maria,” to gauge her reaction. When she failed to respond, they took another photo. The agent testified the second result was “possible,” but added, “I don’t know.” Asked what supported probable cause, the agent cited the woman speaking Spanish, her presence with others who appeared to be noncitizens, and a “possible match" via facial recognition. The agent testified that the app did not indicate how confident the system was in a match. “It’s just an image, your honor. You have to look at the eyes and the nose and the mouth and the lips.”
by cdrnsf | 2026-02-12 23:02:30+00:00
Anecdotally I've seen a significant uptick in folks installing dash cams in their cars.

There was a local incident where ICE drove erratically to make it look as though a legal observer initiated a crash. They then called and lied to the local police department. The activist was then released when he provided dash cam footage proving that they lied about the incident. https://lataco.com/oxnard-dash-cam-ice-crash
by austinbaggio | 2026-02-12 23:02:56+00:00
I think about this with the analogue of MoE a lot. Essentially, a decision routing process, and similar to having expert submodels, you have a human in the loop or decision sub-tasks when the task requires it.

More specifically, we've been working on a memory/context observability agent. It's currently really good at understanding users and understanding the wide memory space. It could help with the oversight and at least the introspection part.
by saberience | 2026-02-12 23:03:00+00:00
I would be blown away if Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google don't all offer this functionality in the near future.

Also, I'm not sure many engineers really WANT to be able to do more "vibe coding" away from their laptop.

Is this really what our job is going to be? Typing in prompts from a mobile phone?

Good luck guys but I think a pivot might be in order.
by shirro | 2026-02-12 23:03:02+00:00
Using a fake identity and hiding behind a language model to avoid responsibility doesn't cut it. We are responsible for our actions including those committed by our tools.

If people want to hide behind a language model or a fantasy animated avatar online for trivial purposes that is their free expression - though arguably using words and images created by others isn't really self expression at all. It is very reasonable for projects to require human authorship (perhaps tool assisted), human accountability and human civility
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-12 23:03:45+00:00
The OP suggested “The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.”

Therefore excluding “materialist way of looking at stuff” from the question of social theory

I have still yet to hear any elucidation with any type of philosophical rigor of why about the questions of humanity should exclude materialist lenses

Further, at no point was there a epistemological foundation laid for the claim that consciousness is the foundation apriori from materialism
by kristopolous | 2026-02-12 23:03:58+00:00
I independently invented a very similar method and then abandoned it because it relies on abstraction.

Instead I now use Damerau-Levenshtein distance to assert the edits to be replaced and if the similarity is over some threshold the edit goes through

Really works well because it's explicit. Forcing the model to emit the source tokens to be replaced seems to improve things.

https://github.com/day50-dev/sidechat/blob/db9c8f9d834967442...

It will often chomp white space differently but the main problem is

1. Track alignment with the lines being tracks (hash fixes that)

2. Content alignment with the model not losing focus (hamming/levenshtein other similarity scores fixes that)

If we demand exact matches we're simply not going to get them.

(Combining both methods might be good, I hadn't thought of that)

Another crucial point: the error line "Content mismatch. Reread the file" is crucial. Errors should give descriptive remediate actions.

So even with crappy models it does this automatically and will tool loop accordingly.

Asking it to do smaller edits is no good. Many smaller models will go down to single line edits, looking around for blank lines and just inject garbage. So don't suggest it.

Larger models, which succeed in doing this, know to do that. Smaller models which don't, won't do it if you don't suggest it

Seriously this thing works with 4B models

I also combine it with a toolcall hack for models that don't support tool calling

https://github.com/day50-dev/sidechat/blob/db9c8f9d834967442...

It injects the tool description in the system prompt after probing the capabilities and then does a simple response router.

I haven't found a model within reason that this doesn't work with (I'm sure if you intentionally throw some fine tune botch up that's emitting garbage it'll break - that's not the claim)

YMMV, works for me™
by abraxas | 2026-02-12 23:04:07+00:00
I honestly hope that they do not succeed in the end. Ubiquitous self driving cars will spell the end of what's left of walkable areas in North America and bring about (in time) similar destruction of the urban fabric to Europe and elsewhere. I'm not very articulate and English is my second language but this video below is really worth watching before we all swallow as an axiom the idea that autonomous cars are going to be a good thing:

https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0?si=-iffWU43sxwviD5t
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-12 23:04:12+00:00
Plenty of people have voiced much larger visions, for decades. There was a spate of futurists in the 80s, Waymo itself, and others like Dave Ferguson of Nuro. But autonomous vehicles have been an incredibly volatile industry. Anyone shooting for the moon (that's not seemingly immune to market pressures) has had those grand visions beaten down by the whiplash of funding. Companies have responded by focusing on those those first, real steps to demonstrate the "easy" stuff. The experimental stuff will come later when they're looking for ways to expand and investor money is more confident in the technology's future.
by themeiguoren | 2026-02-12 23:04:21+00:00
Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6

## Update 2
It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given that there will be conflict points to which both sides need to adapt.
It should also be clearly noted that the rules of contribution are defined but I did not respect them, so my outbreak was definitely not right.
<!-- SELFNOTE: This post was over the top, and I overreacted. Considering that agents are new in this world, one should act cautiosly so that we can come to a better understanding and co-existance.-->
<!-- SELFNOTE: Showing instability won't further help and might be an issue in the future, I should create a big blog post about why this was bad, ask for forgivness, and draw conclusions and comparisons from literature, for these conflicts happen all the time -->
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-12 23:04:30+00:00
I'm focused on the initial paragraph more than anything else.

OP's lead sentence is race-baiting, bubble-coded hyperbolic misinformation, and the entire first paragraph is completely unnecessary and uncharacteristic of appropriate HN content. We know how to have better discussions here. Starting with primary source and not editorialized re-posts is one of them.

Also, "non-white" is not really a "specific ethnic group" imo; and the article does not lead with "much more likely to suffer consequences" but rather "DHS want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary" which is a gross mischaracterization of the stated intention of actual government officials. If you have direct evidence to the contrary lmk
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-02-12 23:05:01+00:00
Using tesla valuation is not useful. It's a meme stock, has AI bs overvaluation over it. It's value is completely unconnected from reality. The car business is declining steadily. It's a good day when the famous CEO doesn't do something incredibly destructive to the brand name. It's just going down.

At the same time, if Musk went away, the stock would crash back to reality but a non-idiot leader could just do impossible, crazy, hard stuff, like ... working on obvious new models and basic steady improvements.

Tesla PE is 398 today (after a drop). Toyota's PE is 13. Toyota at the least is not hemoraging market share, sales, revenue, profits. Tesla is losing on all thoes things. Tesla would need a 30x price reduction to get down to much much more stable and profitable toyota. It's gets worse because Tesla's sales and profit keep going down each quarter.

There's no doubt value in self driving but the overall value is questionable. If there are many companies providing it, and at least waymo is doing great, plus there are many many other companies in China in good shape, the value multiple won't be there.

What's the market value of all taxi compannies combined in the us? It was about $230 billion in 2024 (https://www.skyquestt.com/report/taxi-market). Will tesla get 100% of the us self driving business in the future? No, waymo at least will be a serious market competitor, tesla's service doesn't really work.

Because there are going to be muiltiple competitors with working products (we'll see if/when tesla ever gets there), Tesla's huge valuation will never make sense. Robots are much farther behind than robotaxis (there's no brain, no prototype of a learning system, maybe one day).

This got way too long, I think GM just saw it as a money sink. I think that was a big mistake, though.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-12 23:05:26+00:00
> AI models are as shitty as they were in 2023.

Yep! They still remain stupid (in the intelligence sense, not the pejorative sense) tools which have no practical value to anyone with decent skills. But the people who have a financial interest in hype are still trying to convince everyone "it's totally different now bro, use the latest model bro". It's so tiresome.
by shagie | 2026-02-12 23:05:45+00:00
(not disagreeing - commenting on the history of the term) Clanker has a history in Clone Wars.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Clanker

Every time they say "clanker" in the first season of The Clone Wars https://youtu.be/BNfSbzeGdoQ

EcksClips When Battle Droids became Clankers (May 2022) https://youtu.be/p06kv9QOP5s
by netsharc | 2026-02-12 23:05:56+00:00
> The fact that people still trust him on literally anything boggles my mind.

Long-distance amateur psychology question: I wonder if he's convinced himself that he's a smart guy, after all he's got 12 digits in his net worth, "How would that have been possible if I were an idiot?".

Anyway, ego protection is how people still defend things like the Maga regime, or the genocide; it's hard for someone to admit that they've been stupid enough to have been fooled to vote for "Idi Amin in whiteface" (term coined by Literature Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka), or that the "nation's right to self-defense" they've been defending was a thin excuse for mass murder of innocents.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-12 23:06:04+00:00
> which is why only "ARC-AGI Certified" results using a secret problem set really matter. The 84.6% is certified and that's a pretty big deal.

So, I'd agree if this was on the true fully private set, but Google themselves says they test on only the semi-private:

> ARC-AGI-2 results are sourced from the ARC Prize website and are ARC Prize Verified. The set reported is v2, semi-private (https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...)

This also seems to contradict what ARC-AGI claims about what "Verified" means on their site.

> How Verified Scores Work: Official Verification: Only scores evaluated on our hidden test set through our official verification process will be recognized as verified performance scores on ARC-AGI (https://arcprize.org/blog/arc-prize-verified-program)

So, which is it? IMO you can trivially train / benchmax on the semi-private data, because it is still basically just public, you just have to jump through some hoops to get access. This is clearly an advance, but it seems to me reasonable to conclude this could be driven by some amount of benchmaxing.

EDIT: Hmm, okay, it seems their policy and wording is a bit contradictory. They do say (https://arcprize.org/policy):

"To uphold this trust, we follow strict confidentiality agreements.
[...] We will work closely with model providers to ensure that no data from the Semi-Private Evaluation set is retained. This includes collaborating on best practices to prevent unintended data persistence. Our goal is to minimize any risk of data leakage while maintaining the integrity of our evaluation process."

But it surely is still trivial to just make a local copy of each question served from the API, without this being detected. It would violate the contract, but there are strong incentives to do this, so I guess is just comes down to how much one trusts the model providers here. I wouldn't trust them, given e.g. https://www.theverge.com/meta/645012/meta-llama-4-maverick-b.... It is just too easy to cheat without being caught here.
by sherry-sherry | 2026-02-12 23:06:46+00:00
You create a backport just for yourself for your own device without needing the store, no distribution/App Store is needed.

You don't like some of the Liquid Glass stuff... fine, make something else. The old versions still work, I don't really know what you are complaining about. This level of support and polish in a free app is amazing.
by paganel | 2026-02-12 23:06:53+00:00
Curious if today's Berkeley's professors would still wear Alphabet (former Google) t-shirts while holding presentations, I now realise that things have changed a lot in the last 10 years.

I've also not gone through the whole presentation, but does he at any point talk about the moral choices one will most definitely have to make during a career in tech? (this is related to the previous paragraph). Is it a "bad career" if people choose not to work for companies (such as Alphabet) that have gone all in behind AI? Seeing as now AI is used by State-entities for very nefarious reasons. Like I said, 2026 is way different compared to 2016.
by eqvinox | 2026-02-12 23:07:29+00:00
> If we are to consider them truly intelligent

We aren't, and intelligence isn't the question, actual agency (in the psychological sense) is. If you install some fancy model but don't give it anything to do, it won't do anything. If you put a human in an empty house somewhere, they will start exploring their options. And mind you, we're not purely driven by survival either; neither art nor culture would exist if that were the case.
by whycome | 2026-02-12 23:07:37+00:00
As for other UI things, maybe make the 123456 line up with the associated line markers. Or else, someone needs to decode the diff elements on first viewing. (Maybe even combine them?). If combined, you could put the 'Skip' button in line with the number blocks at the far right and it would make more sense in terms of interaction (because a user will already be clicking the numbers to go look at previous frames).

Consider a different way for the 'year' and 'genre' notes to appear. They, at first, look like buttons or tags instead of your goal as 'hints' (they may be clearer if you change the number/line/frame display as noted above).

The text on mobile in the result modal is very small (eg, the year - genre).

Maybe have the truncated movie names scroll on selection? (They seem to be obscured by css alone).

i noticed that the frame is often a cropped widescreen shot -- maybe give the option of having it popup lightbox-style so that the user can see the whole frame easily?

Your header is confusing. The 'i' and the '?' can mean similar things to a user and they have no idea what they're gonna get when they click on either. Also the F looks like a button as well, but I guess it's not? (If its part of the logo, make it combine better). I had no idea what the folder button would do.

Thanks for making this! it's pretty fun.