MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shevy-java | 2026-02-14 21:29:41+00:00
AI is kind of like Skynet in the first Terminator movie. It now destroys our digital life. New autogenerated websites appear, handled by AI. Real websites become increasingly less likely to show up on people's daily info-feed. It is very strange compared to the 1990s; I feel we lost something here.

> The commons of the internet are probably already lost

That depends. If people don't push back against AI then yes. Skynet would have won without the rebel forces. And the rebels are there - just lurking. It needs a critical threshold of anger before they will push back against the AI-Skynet 3.0 slop.
by hinkley | 2026-02-14 21:30:14+00:00
Well you’ve got less of a capitalist filter on that than I feared but I think you’ve got the cart before the horse.

The parts that relate to open source are this: when you have riches, you share them. People making a genuine effort to reciprocate when they are able (which may be months or years from now) makes the social structure function (if you like, by the rule of large numbers - someone always has more than they need when others do not).

If you do share in kind, your social status is unaffected by this aspect of your culture. If you are consistently more generous, your status increases. Call it Bayesian if you like. He helped us in the past, he will help us again in the future, so let’s keep him safe.

If you’ve ever been nominated as a maintainer on someone else’s project, this is usually why. You’re one of the top contributors not already on the core team, and they either like you a lot, or the contributions from others have fallen off and even they know this is not sustainable, and you’re the next best option.

There is an element of gifts given to strangers, which I’m claiming should also show up in how you receive “visitors” to your project, but I think outside of fiction this is typically set at a best effort level. It’s acceptable to set it at the “decency” level discussed elsewhere in this thread. But a lot of people don’t and then yell back when people scold them for it.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-14 21:30:15+00:00
> I think this could work
> well as a blog post…

A blog post ain't a bad idea.

But I only set out to get the overall vibe of what Yegge is doing. The static analysis [1] and the automaton's take [2] were plenty for doing that.

> …maybe you could at least
> go through the report yourself
> and point out issues it highlights

I suppose. But to be frank, I'm not that interested in the project to do a super deep dive.

It was all I could do to muster up the will to even do as much as I did eventually force myself to do.

I'm not the faniest fan boy of AI-assisted coding. But I appreciate them for what they're good at. To me, it delivered a stellar code review here.

> …show the relevant code,
> and explain why that's
> actually bad

I humbly don't think I could add anything that the LLM and static analysis haven't brilliantly illuminated already.

The Sonar Cloud analysis is super detailed. And the automaton's code review is on the money. Digging into their respective nitty gritty is left as an exercise for the reader.

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/CCWutUHalfDone

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/ItsaGasGasGas
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-14 21:30:18+00:00
> Phones were about $400-500 years ago now they are over $1k

https://www.walmart.com/ip/ST-MOTOROLA-XT2413V-CDMA-LTE-BLUE...

Try to avoid cherry picking if you want to have a discussion where you or the other person learns something. All the Elon stans on this site that I've encountered are highly disingenuous, starting to think that's not a coincidence.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-14 21:30:32+00:00
It really depends on the music you listen to and what your ears are already use to.

I thought my fathers old setup always sounded amazing when I was younger. Coming back to it 20 years later though, it sounds stupidly scooped to my ears. Same speakers but what has changed is the music I was playing on them and what my ears expect to hear. 20 years ago I was more into guitar/bass/drum/vocal music that these speakers were made for.

There is really no such thing as "sound quality". There is just different EQ, frequency range, etc.
by fat | 2026-02-14 21:31:20+00:00
Sure – our API is built specifically for common LLM workflows. Here's a great example.

LLMs are often used for changing code. If an LLM creates a patch that touches 10 files, you need to take the following steps to save that patchfile on GitHub using their rest API.

.

1. Get the base branch SHA

2. Create a new branch (ref)

3. Create blobs (one per file… 10 blobs!)

4. Create a tree containing those 10 file changes

5. Create a commit

6. Update the branch ref to point to the new commit

7. Pull the GitHub api until it stops returning 422's (an eventual consistency issue when GitHub is under high load)

.

About 15 total requests…

With code.storage you just post the complete diff:

```

const result = await repo.createCommitFromDiff({

targetBranch: "my-branch",

commitMessage: "Apply generated SDK patch",

author: { name: "Diff Bot", email: "diff@example.com" },

committer: { name: "Diff Bot", email: "diff@example.com" },

diff,

});

```

or better you can stream us your updated files, and we'll apply the diff for you.

```

const result = await repo

.createCommit({

targetBranch: "main",

commitMessage: "Update dashboard docs",

author: { name: "Docs Bot", email: "docs@example.com" },

})

.addFileFromString("docs/changelog.md", "# v2.1.0\n- refresh docs\n")

.addFile("public/logo.svg", await fs.readFile("assets/logo.svg"))

.deletePath("docs/legacy.txt")

.send();

```

On top of ergonomics, we have first class APIs for git notes, grep, get archive (include/exclude by blob), and other filesystem behavior that is exceeding helpful when working with LLMs.
by ajam1507 | 2026-02-14 21:31:46+00:00
> If a newspaper publisher knows that some very loyal subscribers only ever read 5 articles every morning, making that particular group read 30 articles would not drive up earnings.

I think it's hard to say if that's true. A consumer might be willing to pay more for a service they use a lot rather than a little.

What I do know is that I can see plainly that advertising-driven services are among the worse offenders for creating addictive products and other revenue models generally provide healthier incentives to direct development.

The EU's general approach here is probably better than banning advertising since it diagnoses a clear problem, but leaves it open for regulators and companies to address it.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-14 21:31:53+00:00
> For those claiming they rigged it.

I don't think they "rigged" it, but might be given a bit more push on that part since it's going for a very long time now.

Another benchmark is going on at [0]. It's pretty interesting. A perfect scoring model "borks" in the next iteration, for example.

> Rant: This is why AI is going to take over, folks are not even trying the least.

It might be drawing things alright, at least some cases. I seldom use it when my hours long researches doesn't take me to the place I want, and guess what? AI can't go there, either. It hallucinates things, makes up stuff, etc. For a couple of things I asked, it managed to find a single reference, and it was the thing I was looking for, so it works rarely in my cases.

Rant: This is why people are delusional. They test the happy path and claims it knows all the paths, and then some.

[0]: https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
by udfalkso | 2026-02-14 21:34:14+00:00
Teams suffers from one giant problem. There is a totally odd, but understandable from tech debt perspective, segregation between “chats” and “teams” which makes it practically impossible to find everything. It’s a fatal flaw. Slack is beautifully simple and effective in comparison. Also, the reminder feature on slack is extremely useful to me personally and I miss it dearly in teams.
by underlipton | 2026-02-14 21:34:21+00:00
You're not well-meaning if your concern is that other people getting a chance at what you took for granted (and you did, or else you would have understood that it wasn't a given and would have looked at making sure others weren't left out) will shut you out.

I was watching an interview of one of the white parents who opposed bussing in Boston in the 70s. He said something along the lines of, "We worked hard for new neighborhood schools and facilities, it was unfair that our kids couldn't go to them." Well, didn't the black parents work hard to get their kids access to a quality education? Of course. The next person interviewed was a black mother who quit her job so that she could work at the school her children attended, to make sure that they were safe.

It turns out that she opposed bussing, too; the goal of the black parents' lawsuits hadn't been bussing per se, but equitable access to resources. The government had engaged in malicious compliance: rather than keep all kids, regardless of race, at newly-improved neighborhood schools, they opted for a "solution" that only solved the problem on a surface level, and which was sure to draw ire, knowing that this rage could eventually justify walking back the changes. Look at Boston school demographics today; they achieved their aim.

To your "well-meaning" friends - and to everyone caught up in this type of situation - I ask you to think deeply about who is the actual bad actor. It's usually not the person that the wealthy or powerful or influential or "professional" are telling you want to take something from you. You have to actually be well-meaning to see through that smokescreen, though, and not just zealously self-interested.
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-14 21:34:55+00:00
I had 5.3-Codex take two tries to satisfy a linter on Typescript type definitions.

It gave up, removed the code it had written directly accessing the correct property, and replaced it with a new function that did a BFS to walk through every single field in the API response object while applying a regex "looksLikeHttpsUrl" and hoping the first valid URL that had https:// would be the correct key to use.

On the contrary, the shift from pretraining driving most gains to RL driving most gains is pressuring these models resort to new hacks and shortcuts that are increasingly novel and disturbing!
by nomilk | 2026-02-14 21:35:00+00:00
I've noticed other junk like 'games' and ads for paid 'premium' content getting through uBlock's filter list. Hope those are added to the list too.

I used uBlock's element zapper feature to block the youtube logo on top left, because it's often animated and always distracting (I desperately need fewer distractions when using youtube, not more, even if minor).
by yorwba | 2026-02-14 21:35:20+00:00
> I feel like I'm missing something

You're missing the existence of technology that allows anyone to create superficially plausible but ultimately made-up anecdotes for posting to public forums, all just to create cover for a few posts here and there mixing in advertising for a vaguely-related product or service. (Or even just to build karma for a voting ring.)

Currently, you can still sometimes sniff out such content based on the writing style, but in the future you'd have to be an expert on the exact thing they claim expertise in, and even then you could be left wondering whether they're just an expert in a slightly different area instead of making it all up.

EDIT: Also on the front page currently: "You can't trust the internet anymore" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017727
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-14 21:35:59+00:00
There’s a major difference between having insurance cover something (socialized cost, immediately drives up provider fees for bizarre reasons) and letting the market allow people to buy it themselves (individual cost, the market drives the cost down fast and hard). Notice the pattern with LASIK and GLP1 where lack of insurance coverage has counterintuitively made it cheaper and more accessible.

Let everyone who wants to pay get their scans! But don’t make me pay for you
by mcintyre1994 | 2026-02-14 21:36:30+00:00
We use Slack at work, and everyone we work with uses Slack, and we all work together with Slack Connect. I suspect if we moved to a competitor that’s pretty much the main impact we’d see, and it wouldn’t be good unless everyone else work with moved too. I think that network effect is probably the only meaningful differentiation in that space.
by shaongitbd | 2026-02-14 21:36:45+00:00
Who starts their conversation with "Hello I am from HN and spamming you"???
Then "Because I want to test the product you posted on HN"

I literally said "test it without spaming maybe like what things are broken then help me out?"

Stress testing or spamming a piece of software shouldn't be done without proper permission. How did you manage to call or message me if this wasnt a real piece of software?

Proof https://ibb.co.com/ccdrqJ9w
by hluska | 2026-02-14 21:36:48+00:00
Odd, the Conversation has a version from France (that covers French news), Canada (that covers Canadian news), an African version (that…get this covers African news) and many other editions. I can’t shake the feeling that you just have an axe to grind and that axe is such a huge part of your identity that you’ll change facts to fit your chosen narrative. And you know, that’s very sad - we have these amazing cerebral cortexes and are capable of so much more.
by Nathan2055 | 2026-02-14 21:36:58+00:00
That already exists, it's called Common Crawl[1], and it's a huge reason why none of this happened prior to LLMs coming on the scene, back when people were crawling data for specialized search engines or academic research purposes.

The problem is that AI companies have decided that they want instant access to all data on Earth the moment that it becomes available somewhere, and have the infrastructure behind them to actually try and make that happen. So they're ignoring signals like robots.txt or even checking whether the data is actually useful to them (they're not getting anything helpful out of recrawling the same search results pagination in every possible permutation, but that won't stop them from trying, and knocking everyone's web servers offline in the process) like even the most aggressive search engine crawlers did, and are just bombarding every single publicly reachable server with requests on the off chance that some new data fragment becomes available and they can ingest it first.

This is also, coincidentally, why Anubis is working so well. Anubis kind of sucks, and in a sane world where these companies had real engineers working on the problem, they could bypass it on every website in just a few hours by precomputing tokens.[2] But...they're not. Anubis is actually working quite well at protecting the sites it's deployed on despite its relative simplicity.

It really does seem to indicate that LLM companies want to just throw endless hardware at literally any problem they encounter and brute force their way past it. They really aren't dedicating real engineering resources towards any of this stuff, because if they were, they'd be coming up with way better solutions. (Another classic example is Claude Code apparently using React to render a terminal interface. That's like using the space shuttle for a grocery run: utterly unnecessary, and completely solvable.) That's why DeepSeek was treated like an existential threat when it first dropped: they actually got some engineers working on these problems, and made serious headway with very little capital expenditure compared to the big firms. Of course they started freaking out, their whole business model is based on the idea that burning comical amounts of money on hardware is the only way we can actually make this stuff work!

The whole business model backing LLMs right now seems to be "if we burn insane amounts of money now, we can replace all labor everywhere with robots in like a decade", but if it turns out that either of those things aren't true (either the tech can be improved without burning hundreds of billions of dollars, or the tech ends up being unable to replace the vast majority of workers) all of this is going to fall apart.

Their approach to crawling is just a microcosm of the whole industry right now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

[2]: https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/ and related HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787775
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-14 21:37:07+00:00
> Most humans are altruistic and trusting by default ...

... towards an in-group, yes. Not towards out-groups, as far as I can tell.

Though for some reason this tends not to apply to solo travellers in many, many parts of the world.

Lots of debate, yes, but very little about the basic fact that Hardin's formulation of "the tragedy of the commons" doesn't describe actual historical events in pretty any well documented case.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-14 21:37:12+00:00
Doesn't look like there is additional tax on the property itself which would be way worse, but still it's completely medieval to tax rises in asset value before there is any cash flow intended to be realized from the rise.

The rate might even be in excess of medieval times, I don't know, but it's bound to drive people away who are not flush with cash. I would maybe consider limiting to crypto alone, and still only after being sold for a profit.

I assume property tax is already exorbitant. I don't know how deep the similarities go, but in Florida many a subdivision or even whole new towns have been carved out of wetlands which were not welcoming otherwise.

Sometimes where dry land didn't even exist before :)

Eventually the subdivision fills, property values rise, and taxes do too automatically.

This is by design, once it's full, they want to tax you out of there to make room for people with more money to spare.

Is that where the pressure's coming from?

They could end up with no room for anybody except the very elite.

If that doesn't work they could always raise the tax rates even more, escalating the same logic ought to move faster in the same direction ;)
by mmaunder | 2026-02-14 21:37:31+00:00
“ One study in 2020 found that 95% of asymptomatic patients had some type of "abnormal" finding, but just 1.8% of these findings were indeed cancer.”

This has been my experience. And I’ve had oncologists echo exactly this. In the words of one: MRIs find too much.

The CT and the PET/CT are the gold standards for finding cancer, finding recurrences, and staging cancer. The trouble is the radiation dose.

MRI provides very inconclusive results. You’ll see something but it’ll be unclear what it is. And often what you see is not even visible on a CT. Or it’s visible on a PET/CT and is showing metabolic activity indicating its cancer.

MRIs are great for certain things like herniated disks in your back. They suck at cancer.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-14 21:37:52+00:00
You can still see the CRTs behind LCARS, but I have to admit it is pretty cool in general. They had a bigger budget.

But for space scenes, IMO the later episodes of B5 were amazing and beautiful. They just need a modern render and to turn down the saturation. TNG era ships and camera framing were much more boring, partly due to the smaller story.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-14 21:38:06+00:00
Land-mobile radio stuff. Analog, voice communication.

Our sales guy had sold a remote node for a voter system to improve receive coverage for a central dispatch system. (Signal-to-noise voters are pretty neat: They can continuously compare two or more related audio signals and [ideally!] pick the one that is best for use while discarding the others.)

That node wasn't all that far away as the crow flies, but it was a very long way out in telephone cabling miles. It spread across two different telco LATAs.

So we rented this very long series of bits of wire held together by scotchloks and punch blocks and whatever else in telephone world to use, and we used it. It was not a conditioned circuit: Just wire.

The specific endpoints of that wire were kind of neat, too: There was some basic EQ that could be used to help compensate, and (IIRC) some impedance adjustment to dial in the circuit itself.

And there was a continuous pilot tone used to set gain: Apparently, when wire gets really long like that, atmospheric conditions can dynamically change its attenuation.

Putting a pilot tone near the middle of the voice range (to be notched it out later) and using its level to set gain helps to improve consistency.

That wireline stuff all worked pretty well.

(The remote node was ultimately a bust. The sales guy also tried to cram too much shit into one feedline and antenna, and the gear to combine and separate all of those signals ate too much energy to make any of it an improvement over doing nothing at all.

Which is... well, that's exactly what the engineering told him would happen, but he did it anyway.

No part of this was inexpensive.)
by brudgers | 2026-02-14 21:38:11+00:00
For direct use by close people, it's a great project and you don't need need to worry about the legal implications.

I doubt relay would help with a public facing project because even if it is legally defensible, at any kind of scale you will wind up defending it against well funded highly motivated adversaries...and you probably don't want to die on that hill.

Or to put it another way, if it's public facing you would probably benefit from paid legal advice and if paying a lawyer seems like too much that's probably a symptom of it not being suitable for a public face.
by dgacmu | 2026-02-14 21:38:43+00:00
Might be, but in the context it's also worth asking what better options you have for your health with that $1000.

(for some people that question may not apply, of course, but at a population level it does, and we have population-level questions about effective use of MRI time.). And if there's something better, you should spend it on that and then ask the question _again_. So it could be that getting a whole-body MRI is something like $30k down the list of best ways to spend money for improved health.

I'm not sure what the best use of $1k is from a health standpoint is, just noting that it's good to have a comparator.
by icameron | 2026-02-14 21:38:46+00:00
My org went all in on Teams over 6 years ago. Removed all PBX systems and desk phones. Pulled out Cisco phones from 20 offices. Ported all numbers to MS. By all accounts it was unremarkable to the end users, and when WFH mandates started it was seamless. Definitely a lot less IT support for configuring and troubleshooting a phone system too. There is far less downtime because Teams will ring through to your cell phone if the office internet is down or your laptop is off. That was not possible when the Cisco routers and CallManager in the office were running the DIDs and local extensions
by serf | 2026-02-14 21:38:51+00:00
>OP wants to brush up on their skills, not have AI do it for them.

the two things aren't mutually exclusive.

if an AI tells you "solder A to B" you're going to learn some technique whether you want to or not. Extrapolated entirely into a robotics project.. there's a lot to gain just through sheer osmosis of instruction.
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-02-14 21:39:11+00:00
It’s worse than that - sometimes they are hired guns…

There was one “journalist” for the New York Times that reviewed cars, and he could never say anything positive about EVs - even to the point of warming consumers of the gloom that is EV. But after digging into his history, it was found he also published a lot of positive fluff pieces for the oil industry lol!