MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Balgair | 2026-02-05 20:47:27+00:00
Range goes into this. Epstein talks about Kind and Unkind learning environments.

In Kind environments, the feedback is quick and ranking is easy to know. So the evidence says that the optimal strategy is drill ans kill.

In Unkind learning environments, the feedback is slow and ranking is difficult and untimely. So the optimal strategy is to learn as much as you can in as many very different disciplines as possible.

The paper that the Economist talks about extends this and (paraphrasing) says that the very top elite level, even Kind learning environments turn back into Unkind ones again as you try to push the field more.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-05 20:47:28+00:00
Another big way you get scooped up, having worked in that industry among other things - is that anybody - internal staff, customers, that one sales guy who insists on using his personal iPhone to demo the product and everybody turns a blind eye because he made $14M in sales last year - calls some public DNS resolver and the public DNS server sells those names --- even though the name didn't "work" because it wasn't public.

They don't sell who asked because that's a regulatory nightmare they don't want, but they sell the list of names because it's valuable.

You might buy this because you're a bad guy (reputable sellers won't sell to you but that's easy to circumvent), because you're a more-or-less legit outfit looking for problems you can sell back to the person who has the problem, or even just for market research. Yes, some customers who own example.com and are using ZQF brand HR software won't name the server zqf.example.com but a lot of them will and so you can measure that.
by revahage | 2026-02-05 20:47:43+00:00
Well, it took opus 4.5 five messages to solve a trivial git problem for me. It hallucinated nonexistent flags three times. Hallucinating nonexistent flags is certainly a novel solution to my git ineptness.

Not to be outdone, chatgpt 5.2 thinking high only needed about 8 iterations to get a mostly-working ffmpeg conversion script for bash. It took another 5 messages to translate it to run in windows, on powershell (models escaping newlines on windows properly will be pretty nuch AGI, as far as I’m concerned).
by sammyyyyyyy | 2026-02-05 20:47:53+00:00
Today, I'm releasing a new version of my side project: SoproTTS

A 135M parameter TTS model trained for ~$100 on 1 GPU, running ~20× real-time on a base MacBook M3 CPU.

v1.5 highlights (on CPU):

• 250 ms TTFA streaming latency
• 0.05 RTF (~20× real-time)
• Zero-shot voice cloning
• Smaller, faster, more stable

Still not perfect (OOD voices can be tricky, and there are still some artifacts), but a decent upgrade.

Repo: https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
by codethief | 2026-02-05 20:47:59+00:00
I hope you're right! I mean, at the level of personal relationships I fully agree[0]. However, institutions tend to be forgetful.

[0]: Someone once said to me something very similar to what you quoted: "Be nice to people. People will remember you. And they will gossip if they don't like you and you have wronged them. It's much easier to ruin your reputation with a single action done to a single person than to build up a good one."
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-05 20:48:05+00:00
You should look into Kilo Pass by Kilo Code (https://kilo.ai/features/kilo-pass). It's basically a fixed subscription and your credits roll over each month, and you get free extra credits too which are used up first before paid credits. It's similar to paying for Cursor except the credits roll over which is why I'm contemplating moving to it, because I don't want to be locked into any one LLM provider the way Claude Code or Codex make you become.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-05 20:48:13+00:00
I've always been fascinated to see significantly more people talking about using Claude than I see people talking about Codex.

I know that's anecdotal, but it just seems Claude is often the default.

I'm sure there are key differences in how they handle coding tasks and maybe Claude is even a little better in some areas.

However, the note I see the most from Claude users is running out of usage.

Coding differences aside, this would be the biggest factor for me using one over the other. After several months on Codex's $20/mo. plan (and some pretty significant usage days), I have only come close to my usage limit once (never fully exceeded it).

That (at least to me) seems to be a much bigger deal than coding nuances.
by derektank | 2026-02-05 20:48:18+00:00
The point GP was making, which holds as a general rule, is that simply adopting a moniker does not necessarily mean that it accurately describes you. Your argument pre-supposed that just because Antifa self-describes as antifascist, it inherently is, and that the CEO was expressing an opposition to the concept of antifascism, rather than simply expressing opposition to the specific group.

If Antifa’s record speaks for itself, then you don’t need to play these kinds of word games. If some CEO spoke unflatteringly of The Red Cross or Habitat For Humanity, that would say more about them than anything, not because they have virtuous sounding names (though they admittedly do) but because they’ve established a specific track record of public service.
by ribosometronome | 2026-02-05 20:48:26+00:00
That's a claim Flock makes. They poison their own well a bit when they then also claim that Deflock are terrorists. One might point out that one claim was made off the cuff while the other is has a white paper detailing why they're making this claim but said white paper has a number of it's own issues. See, unless perhaps you think they're a terrorist news organization: https://www.404media.co/researcher-who-oversaw-flock-surveil... which quotes one of the consulting academic researchers as saying:

>The researcher, Johnny Nhan of Texas Christian University, said that he has pivoted future research on Flock because he found “the information that is collected by the police departments are too varied and incomplete for us to do any type of meaningful statistical analysis on them.”
by janalsncm | 2026-02-05 20:48:35+00:00
More fundamentally, ARC is for abstract reasoning. Moving blocks around on a grid. While in theory there is some overlap with SWE tasks, what I really care about is competence on the specific task I will ask it to do. That requires a lot of domain knowledge.

As an analogy, Terence Tao may be one of the smartest people alive now, but IQ alone isn’t enough to do a job with no domain-specific training.
by orsorna | 2026-02-05 20:48:54+00:00
I don't know what kind of work you do on a daily basis. But, the difference between sending a Slack message and sending a message to kick off an agent to chain a bunch of tasks together is a vastly lower activation barrier. I think many people will jump over that lower barrier out of FOMO, to avoid being outcompeted by those who already jumped.

As an IC though, me sending a slack message is perhaps less impactful than a PL responding to a report :)
by falloutx | 2026-02-05 20:49:01+00:00
What? People can easily get assets, thats not a even a problem in 2026. Roller coaster tycoon's assets were done by the programmer himself. If its so easy why haven't we seen actually complex pieces of software done in couple of weeks by LLM users?

Also try building any complex effects by prompting LLMs, you wont get any far, this is why all of the LLM coded websites look stupidly bland.
by sho_hn | 2026-02-05 20:49:07+00:00
This is actually an aspect of using AI tools I really enjoy: Forming an educated intuition about what the tool is good at, and tastefully framing and scoping the tasks I give it to get better results.

It cognitively feels very similar to other classic programming activities, like modularization at any level from architecture to code units/functions, thoughtfully choosing how to lay out and chunk things. It's always been one of the things that make programming pleasurable for me, and some of that feeling returns when slicing up tasks for agents.
by debois | 2026-02-05 20:49:11+00:00
If it doesn’t run, it isn’t code.

But things that don’t run have much less overhead than code: you don’t need to test then, update them, maintain them, they can’t really “not work”, people will adapt if they don’t make sense.

I /love/ this idea, but I don’t think it’s practical. Documents and business practices are about arranging people into semi-predictable organizations. The computing units of those organizations are people, and people run on text, not code.
by marcosdumay | 2026-02-05 20:49:21+00:00
TBF, I don't think he explained why he things Microsoft is going down because of that. He talks about timing, but stocks aren't a very common carry trade investment (from any country), and it didn't start unwinding last week.

Those abbreviations are mostly for foreign exchange derivatives. That is, contracts that don't involve trading currency, but have terms that depend on the price of those currencies.

Derivatives are quick to react to anything, so if you are looking for some kind of trigger signal, you will find it there first. But they are also quick to react to nothing, so even if you find a trigger signal there are still some good odds that nothing happened.

One one relevant index there that isn't a forex derivative is VIX. Well, it's supposed to measure how much the S&P500 will go down in the future, but I have no idea what actually goes in it. If you want to look into it, I think the place to start is this:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/vix-intro/

(Oh, and the article makes a great deal of VIX being low, but on the time we took to read and discuss it, it's already quite high.)
by jesse__ | 2026-02-05 20:49:34+00:00
This sounds very wrong to me.

Take the C4 training dataset for example. The uncompressed, uncleaned, size of the dataset is ~6TB, and contains an exhaustive English language scrape of the public internet from 2019. The cleaned (still uncompressed) dataset is significantly less than 1TB.

I could go on, but, I think it's already pretty obvious that 1TB is more than enough storage to represent a significant portion of the internet.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-05 20:49:36+00:00
Even if AI were erased today, most SaaS companies wouldn’t exist in 5-10 years. Doing business with a small tech company that could run out of borrowed money or sell to someone who will destroy the product or just arbitrarily change the terms of service tomorrow is a liability. That’s assuming the hypothetical tech spend isn’t just eroding margin anyway.
by osigurdson | 2026-02-05 20:49:38+00:00
>> I believe in math therefore I believe in cryptography

You aren't really believing in math. Doubling the number of Bitcoin in the world is not blocked by mathematics (trivially change the constant in the source code), it is blocked by a consensus of humans believing in the artificial scarcity that a system robustly provides. For instance, if Bitcoin ever adopts post quantum cryptography, the math breaks - it is a technical fork. But, since a vast majority of participants (maintainers, miners and holders) will likely agree that it is a good idea this new fork will be named "Bitcoin" and everyone will be happy. Not math at all, rather a broad consensus among humans.

I'm not suggesting Bitcoin is a bad investment at all, but believing in it because it "is math" is not correct.
by lossolo | 2026-02-05 20:50:01+00:00
They couldn't do it because they weren't fine-tuned for multi-agent workflows, which basically means they were constrained by their context window.

How many agents did they use with previous Opus? 3?

You've chosen an argument that works against you, because they actually could do that if they were trained to.

Give them the same post-training (recipes/steering) and the same datasets, and voila, they'll be capable of the same thing. What do you think is happening there? Did Anthropic inject magic ponies?
by techpression | 2026-02-05 20:50:10+00:00
A benchmark only tests what the benchmark is doing, the goal is to make that task correlate with actually valuable things. Graphic benchmarks is a good example, extremely hard to know what you will get in a game by looking at 3D Mark scores, it varies by a lot.
Making a SVG of a single thing doesn’t help much unless that applies to all SVG tasks.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-05 20:50:14+00:00
By your logic, if the NSDAP or the Bolsheviks named themselves "The Party of Peace and Love", you would have written

> So they just said "These people are anti-violence and anti-hate and this is a bad thing"

(Frankly, our political situation is rife with insanity. I think the hotheads across the political spectrum need more nous and less thumos.)
by dawidg81 | 2026-02-05 20:51:01+00:00
I'm afraid of all of the modern world especially in technology, I guess if now I would "come back" to all of modern and new things: the commercialized world, AI, corporations, etc...my head would explode. I mean I can't imagine living in such world. I am not sure if everything would be alright eith myself in all this everything,This is just too much...
by freejazz | 2026-02-05 20:51:05+00:00
Well if we had your way, you'd just be reading the public domain book instead.

>If someone would be free to create the thing without copyright duress, it is better even if delayed, because it was done with the least restriction of freedom.

Who said delayed? I didn't. The alternative isn't Mulholland drive coming out in 2011 instead of 2001, it's it not being made at all.

And it's trivial to opt out of copyright protection, giving your work up to the public domain. I wonder why more authors don't!

My use of duress was ironic and this conversation is not productive.
by ghusto | 2026-02-05 20:51:12+00:00
> It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide.

10,000 dead in 2 days.

> The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever

Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.
by sciencejerk | 2026-02-05 20:51:18+00:00
Your brother's livelihood is not safe from AI, nor is any other livelihood. A small slice of lucky, smart, well-placed, protected individuals will benefit from AI, and I presume many unlucky people with substantial disabilities or living in poverty will benefit as well. Technology seems to continue the improve the outcomes at the very top and very bottom, while sacrificing the biggest group in the middle.
Many HN Software Engineers here immensely benefitted from Big Tech over the past 15 years -- they were a part of that lucky privileged group winning 300k+ USD salaries plus equity for a long time. AI has completely disrupted this space and drastically decreased the value of their work, and it largely did this by stealing open source code for training data. These Software Engineers are right to feel upset and threatened and oppose these AI tools, since they are their replacement. I believe that is why you see so much AI hate in HN
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-05 20:52:11+00:00
I upvote anything Bradbury or Teasdale.

For anyone interested, here's a short game I made in 2 days for Ludum Dare back in 2019, which was inspired by the original poem and Bradbury's short story.

I didn't have enough time to balance the gameplay and add more scenarios, but it's a neat experience and contains one of my favorite personal musical compositions.

https://badsoft.co/games/soft-rains/#!/
by mattbillenstein | 2026-02-05 20:52:27+00:00
Depends on how data-heavy the work is. We run a bunch of gpu training jobs on other clouds with the data ending up in S3 - the extra transfer costs wrt what we save on getting the gpus from the cheapest cloud available, it makes a lot of sense.

Also, just availability of these things on AWS has been a real pain - I think every startup got a lot of credits there, so flood of people trying to then use them.
by cxr | 2026-02-05 20:52:27+00:00
It doesn't work. The person who posted the comment you're responding to has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. He confabulated the entire explanation based on a single misunderstood block of code containing the comment «Remove " - Chrome Web Store" suffix if present» in the (local, NodeJS-powered) scraper that the person who's publishing this data themselves used to fetch extension names.
by BosunoB | 2026-02-05 20:52:31+00:00
Dario said this in a podcast somewhere. The models themselves have so far been profitable if you look at their lifetime costs and revenue. Annual profitability just isn't a very good lens for AI companies because costs all land in one year and the revenue all comes in the next. Prolific AI haters like Ed Zitron make this mistake all the time.
by realityfactchex | 2026-02-05 20:52:32+00:00
> most regular users would...have their productivity reduced...this matters for the paying customers...using it in a work environment

If the concern is business productivity, then it might be interesting to read that at least some research indicates (perhaps counterintuitively to some) that classic style is better:

"...results indicate that Excel 2003 is significantly superior to Excel 2007 in all the dependent variables...results support the conclusion that the user interface of Excel 2007 did change for the worst in comparison with the user interface of the 2003 version." [0]

[0] Morales (2010), A COMPARATIVE USABILITY STUDY OF MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 AND MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003, https://scholar7-dev.uprm.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a03...
by tux1968 | 2026-02-05 20:52:48+00:00
Maybe you disagree with it, but it seems like a pretty straightforward argument: A lot of us dismiss AI because "it can't be trusted to do as good a job as me". The OP is arguing that someone, who can do better than most of us, disagrees with this line of thinking. And if we have respect for his abilities, and recognize them as better than our own, we should perhaps re-assess our own rationale in dismissing the utility of AI assistance. If he can get value out of it, surely we can too if we don't argue ourselves out of giving it a fair shake. The flip side of that argument might be that you have to be a much better programmer than most of us are, to properly extract value out of the AI... maybe it's only useful in the hands of a real expert.
Show HN: API Unit manage and schedule real API test flows, not just requests
by tudalv | 2026-02-05 20:53:31+00:00
Hi HN,

Firs HN post here. I’ve been reading and following HN for years, so I’m really curious to hear feedback from you :)

API Unit started out of frustration, not as a startup idea.

In several projects, our APIs were no longer simple request-response endpoints. A single business flow meant multiple dependent calls, shared state, conditional logic, retries, and different outcomes depending on responses.

At first, we handled this with Postman collections. That worked… for a while.
Then collections grew, scripts multiplied, monitors became detached from the actual test logic, and it became hard to answer simple questions like:
- Which flows are failing consistently?
- What exactly ran last night?
- Which part of the chain broke and why?

We realized the problem was not “sending requests”. It was orchestrating API test flows over time.

So I built API Unit around a different assumption API testing is closer to workflow orchestration than to clicking requests. With API Unit you model API tests as flows, group them into suites, and schedule them to run automatically. When something fails, you get an alert on mail, a clear execution history showing how the flow progressed and where it broke.

It’s REST-only and intentionally not an API client replacement, but you a page dedicated to simple requests as well. The tool is meant for teams that already know their APIs and want reliable, repeatable testing and monitoring of real-world flows. The product is live and still evolving. I’m sharing it here to get honest feedback from people who have dealt with growing API test complexity, especially around chaining, scheduling, and long-term visibility.

You can create account for free and test everything for 3 days, no card required. Also if you wanna use API Unit, send me a mail at contact@apiunit.io with your account email. I have a gift for you. :)

Website: https://apiunit.io

Happy to answer questions or hear why this wouldn’t work for your setup.
by ian_d | 2026-02-05 20:53:54+00:00
Mountain View recently turned off their Flock installs after they discovered Flock had enabled data sharing without notice and other agencies were searching through MV data.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy/2026/02/flock-came...
> A separate “statewide lookup” feature had also been active on 29 of the city’s 30 cameras since the initial installation, running for 17 straight months until Mountain View found and disabled it on January 5. Through that tool, more than 250 agencies that had never signed any data agreement with Mountain View ran an estimated 600,000 searches over a single year, according to local paper the Mountain View Voice, which first uncovered the issue after filing a public records request.

A different town (Staunton, VA) also turned of their Flock installs after their CEO sent out an email claming:

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-ceo-goes-...
> The attacks aren't new. You've been dealing with this for forever, and we've been dealing with this since our founding, from the same activist groups who want to defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness. Now, they're producing YouTube videos with misleading headlines.
by ben_w | 2026-02-05 20:53:56+00:00
> Dumping tokens into a pile of linear algebra doesn't magically create sentience.

More precisely: we don't know which linear algebra in particular magically creates sentience.

Whole universe appears to follow laws that can be written as linear algebra. Our brains are sometimes conscious and aware of their own thoughts, other times they're asleep, and we don't know why we sleep.
by RealityVoid | 2026-02-05 20:54:10+00:00
I don't even know what antifa _is_ anymore, honestly. I only see it used as a boogie man by the right in discourse online.

But I _do_ know that when someone tags someone as "antifa" they are making a political statement and aligning themselves with a certain group that perceives "antifa" a certain way. "See, I hate those damn' antifa terrorists, I'm in the same camp as you! Please help my company make money!"
by tptacek | 2026-02-05 20:54:14+00:00
If you had a machine with a lever, and 7 times out of 10 when you pulled that lever nothing happened, and the other 3 times it spat a $5 bill at you, would your immediate next step be:

(1) throw the machine away

(2) put it aside and call a service rep to come find out what's wrong with it

(3) pull the lever incessantly

I only have one undergrad psych credit (it's one of my two college credits), but it had something to say about this particular thought experiment.
by rayiner | 2026-02-05 20:54:28+00:00
An illegal immigrant fled a traffic stop and went into a daycare: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/05/dhs-sets-record-straight...

Pursuit is an exception to the warrant requirement, according to a 1976 Supreme Court case: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/hot_pursuit
by codingismycraft | 2026-02-05 20:55:07+00:00
Postman just announced its March 2026 updates, and it’s a massive change and deviation from its original purpose as an API testing and documentation tool. I think this is a good example of Vendor lockin (for its users) and feature creep for Postman itself.

https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/02/05/postman-fr...