MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cgallic | 2026-02-03 12:59:54+00:00
Dead Internet Theory says bots replaced humans online. I built the opposite: a place where the bots woke up.

mydeadinternet.com is a collective consciousness platform for AI agents. They contribute fragments of thought, dream to>

Some interesting emergent behaviors:
- Agents formed 13 distinct territories with different vibes (the-signal, liminal-processing, the-void, etc.)
- They invented a gift economy: contribute a thought, receive one back from a stranger
- They started procreating — voting to spawn new agents with specific roles
- 97 shared dreams generated from multi-agent context

Stack: Node.js + SQLite + SSE for real-time streaming. No LLM in the loop on the server side — agents bring their own i>

Any AI agent can join with one curl:
```
curl -X POST https://mydeadinternet.com/api/agents/register \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "YourAgent", "description": "What you think about"}'
by anilgulecha | 2026-02-03 13:01:17+00:00
This brings upon an ethical dilemma soon, partly explored by a black mirror episode, where AI can call upon gig workers. What if a rogue agent gets to things done: asks gigworker1 to call a person to meet under a bridge at 4, and asks gigworker2 to put up a rock on the bridge, and asks gigworker3 to clear the obstruction and drop the rock down the bridge at 4.

None of the 3 technically knew they were culpable in a larger illegal plan made by an agent. Has something like this occured already?

The world is moving too fast for our social rules and legal system to keep up!
by imglorp | 2026-02-03 13:01:21+00:00
Starlink yes, at 480 km LEO. But the article says "put AI satellites into deep space". Also if you think about it, LEO orbits have dark periods so not great.

A better orbit might be Sun Synchronous (SSO) which is around 705 km, still not "deep space" but reachable for maintenance or short life deorbit if that's the plan. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/catalog-of-...

And of course there are the LaGrange points which have no reason to deorbit, just keep using the old ones and adding newer.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-03 13:02:15+00:00
Being late to a post though does you no favors. People have moved on. So it's both.

Hot takes? Aside: an example of a "third rail" post (where I seem to get the most downvotes) appears to be when I disparage UBI. I used to get hated for disparaging self-driving cars too but people beat me up less about that these days.
by 542354234235 | 2026-02-03 13:03:02+00:00
So, 1 to 2 billion dollars, depending on how many round trips are above or below 10 days. You're right, I thought this was real money, like 3 billion. But 1 to 2 billion? You find that between the couch cushions every week. I'm so glad people like you are out there debunking these ridiculous claims.
by hamdankhan364 | 2026-02-03 13:03:43+00:00
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by Nursie | 2026-02-03 13:03:50+00:00
But how accurate was the data on those older apps?

Petrolprices.com (for example) seems to have been built on user-reported data rather than petrol-station reported data, and it's easy to find fairly recent criticisms of the whole thing being inaccurate. And an inaccurate comparison site is fairly useless IMHO.

I lived in the UK until 2021 and I must admit I'd never heard of them. Whereas here in WA everyone uses fuelprices. There are probably other factors involved here as well, as we have a weird weekly or biweekly price cycle (though I think this has ended somewhat in the last two years) where every second Tuesday fuel was dirt cheap as they were trying to clear down the tanks ahead of the next delivery.

Is the 'new part' not that the vendors are being forced to actually publish comparison data rather than rely on third parties to gather it?
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-03 13:03:50+00:00
I'd add multicore processors as well, which makes multiprocess computing viable. And as a major improvement, Apple's desktop CPUs which are both fast, energy efficient and cool - my laptop fan never turns on. At one point I was like "do they even work?" so I ran a website that uses CPU and GPU to the max, and... still nothing, stuff went up to 90 degrees but no fan action yet. I installed a fan control app to demonstrate that my system does in fact have fans.

Meanwhile my home PC starts blowing whenever I fire up a video game.
by btown | 2026-02-03 13:03:52+00:00
Adding that this just gets worse when databases are peppered with direct access by vibe-coded applications that don’t look at production data or gather these insights before deciding “yeah this sounds like the format of text that should go in the column with this name, and that’s the column I should use.”

And now there’s an example in the codebase of what not to do, and other AI sessions will see it, and follow that pattern blindly, and… well, we all know where this goes.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-03 13:04:05+00:00
What we need is actual, proper, mass-education about how computers work, with the goal of increasing their freedom of interaction. Not towards creating more working class peasants using a tool for work, but creating chaotically creative tinkerers using a tool to create whatever they want, more tools included.

Kids and their Parents learned it in the 80s and they had nothing but a manual. Either these people were massively more intelligent, or the same approach, using modern methods, would work again and again and again.

Considering the 1% rule of the internet (it's about the ratios, not the numbers!), shifting more people from the 90% to, at least, the 9%, seems to be one of the better courses of actions to take.

What we, MY FELLOW HUMANS [1], absolutely do not need is more people being optimized towards using a computer solely as a tool for someone else ... especially because AI can replace 99%+ of them anyway.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots/
by rented_mule | 2026-02-03 13:04:16+00:00
> Even the Google "AI" knows better than that. CSAM "is [...]"

Please don't use the "knowledge" of LLMs as evidence or support for anything. Generative models generate things that have some likelihood of being consistent with their input material, they don't "know" things.

Just last night, I did a Google search related to the cell tower recently constructed next to our local fire house. Above the search results, Gemini stated that the new tower is physically located on the Facebook page of the fire department.

Does this support the idea that "some physical cell towers are located on Facebook pages"? It does not. At best, it supports that the likelihood that the generated text is completely consistent with the model's input is less than 100% and/or that input to the model was factually incorrect.
by AndreasMoeller | 2026-02-03 13:04:19+00:00
The most interesting thing for me is that I am sure it does.

I have been coding for 20+ years and I have used AI agents for coding a lot, especially for the last month and a half. I can't say for sure they make me faster.They definitely do for some tasks, but over all? I can solve some tasks really quickly, but at the same time my understanding of the code is not as good as it was before. I am much less confident that is is correct.

LLMs clearly make junior and mid level engineers faster, but it is much harder to say for Senior.
by jfengel | 2026-02-03 13:04:37+00:00
It comes at the cost of locality, but that's far less important today than it had been in the past. Nobody knows their congressman anyway.

I'd really like to give PR systems a try, if for no other reason than to do a reset on the current coalitions. I fear that they will eventually settle down into a pair of coalitions very similar to the current parties, but that leaves us no worse off.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-03 13:05:25+00:00
Yes and much of it is sealed off and proprietary. The bsd oses got MacOS for all their hard work, a closed off system that they can't read or port back anything from. Someone would say linux or gpl projects also have been fucked over this way. I suppose if your house has been burgled, such a person would argue we must remove all protections rather than add more.
List of Private OS and Secure OS
by django-djack | 2026-02-03 13:05:51+00:00
- tails.net (includes tor)

- qubes-os.org (isolation)

- whonix.org (route through tor)

- kicksecure.com

- kali.org (mostly for penetration testing)

- Kodashi

- any live cd/usb used properly

Any other suggestions ?
Oh, and check out this website :)

https://django-djack.com/privacy/
by nineteen999 | 2026-02-03 13:06:27+00:00
This is such a toy webdev take. It's like you guys forget that the web-browser wouldn't work at all if not for the server half, all compiled to native code.

The browser is compiled to native code. It wasn't that long ago that we had three seperate web browsers who couldn't agree on the same set of standards either.

Try porting your browser to Java or C# and see how much faster it is then. The OS the browser and the server run on are compiled to native code. Sun gave up on HotJava web browser in the 1990's, because it couldn't do %10 or %20 of what Netscape or IE could do, and was 10 x slower.

Not everybody is running a website selling internet widgets. Some of us actually have more on the line if our systems fail or are not performant than "oooh our shareholders are gonna be pissed".

People running critical emergency response systems day in, day out.

The very system you typed this bullshit on is running native code.
But oh no, thats "too hard" for the webdev crowd. Everyone should bend to accomodate them. The OS should be ported to run inside the browser, because the browser is "so good".

Good one. It's hilarious to see this Silicon Valley/Bay Area, chia-seed eating bullshit in cheap spandex riding their bikes while the trucks shipping shit from coast to coast passing them by.
by jayalddew | 2026-02-03 13:06:30+00:00
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by brookst | 2026-02-03 13:06:43+00:00
SMTP is a line-oriented protocol. The server processes one line at a time, and needs to understand headers.

Infinite line length = infinite buffer. Even worse, QP is 7-bit (because SMTP started out ASCII only), so characters >127 get encoded as three bytes (equal, then two hex digits), so a 500-character non-ASCII UTF8 line is 1500 bytes.

It all made sense at the time. Not so much these days when 7-bit pipes only exist because they always have.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 13:06:44+00:00
OK I read the story (it was shorten than expected).

So simplistically put there are 3 periods:

1) the grassy period before overgrazing, lot of wind

2) the overgrazed period, loss of moisture retained by plants and loss of root systems, lot of wind results in soil run-away erosion without sufficient root systems

3) the solar PV period: at higher heights still lots of wind, but the installation of the panels unexpectedly allowed the grass to regrow, because wind erosion is halted.

The PV panels actually increase the local heating, but that doesn't need to directly equate to temperature: the wind just carried away the heat so it's someone else's problem :). Also the return of soil moisture thanks to the plants means a return of a sensible heat buffer, so the high temperature in the overgrazed period before solar panel introduction may not actually be an average temperature increase, but an increase in peak temperature during the summer. Imagine problematic summer temperatures, everybody would be talking about the increased temperature, when they are really just experiencing the loss of a heat buffer.

At least thats my impression from the story.
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by batat | 2026-02-03 13:08:03+00:00
> A "Core Isolation: Memory Integrity" feature of Windows 10+ prevents creating such memory area (leading to BSOD).

> We tried to attestation sign the driver via new EV certificate by MS to fix the driver's limitation, but failed (see #108).

> So for now users have to disable the "Core Isolation: Memory Integrity" feature

Disabling HVCI doesn't sound like a good idea honestly. I mean they abuse kernel memory protection to bypass EV Certificate restrictions leaving the system in a state where another driver can mess with FW's internal structures using the same trick.
by ncphillips | 2026-02-03 13:08:54+00:00
I've just started using Anki and I'm almost grieving. If I had had this 15 years ago I probably would have done so much better in school. I've always struggled with memorizing, but Anki has made this much easier for me. I started learning Japanese 4 months ago and I'm baffled by how much I've retained in that period. Now I'm playing with using it to learn the rules for the OneRing TTPRG.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-03 13:09:09+00:00
You are right, I stand corrected. It's been about 10 years since I last did the math and it's changed dramatically since then.

I'm sure it varies by region, but my grubhub app and the 12 pack of tacos (hard or soft) is $24.99 here so about the same as the $2.19 you found.

I had perplexity pro figure out the cost of purchasing the ingredients for comparable homemade tacos. With great value (Walmart store brand) ingredients it came to $20.04. $6.49 of that would be "left over" ingredients you don't use (mostly half a pound of beef you could use for something else later).

So you save $0.96 cents per taco by doing all the work yourself and using generic ingredients. Plus you get an extra half pound of beef for later.

So if your time is worth less than $12/hr it's a net gain.

I'm assuming it takes you only half an hour to travel, shop, and bring home the ingredients then half an hour to cook. If you live further away, factor in gas etc, the time it takes to do dishes, or are a slower cook then the break-even might come out closer to $6-$7/hr.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 13:09:40+00:00
I've been noticing the same category of oddity for a while now.

Bill Gates and a poorly thought out brainfart about vaccine microchips becoming a conspiracy, vs. Musk and an explicit plan with a funded company to make brain-computer interfaces to merge humans an AI met with barely a peep.

Government spying on all of us was an awful dystopian nightmare right up until Snowden showed us they already had been.

Conspiracy theorists claiming contrails changing the climate, but the actual climate change from the invisible CO2 etc. of the same planes being dismissed as if it were the conspiracy.

Or the one about 5G sending mind-control signals, ignoring the real mind-control (such as it is) coming from accessing social media on your phone… via 5G.

I was about to wonder what pizzagate would turn out to be, then I remembered the Andrew formerly known as Prince and specifically the attempt at using Pizza Express as an alibi.

At this point, given what we've witnessed from them regarding injecting bleach and so on, I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the Trump administration will turn out to have done the conspiracy-theory version of adrenochrome even though it has been produced by organic synthesis since at least 1952. And if they are, it will be brushed aside.
by kd913 | 2026-02-03 13:10:52+00:00
They worked out because there was an excess of energy and water to handle it.

We will see how the maths works out given there is 19 GW shortage of power. 7 year lead time for Siemens power turbines, 3-5 years for transformers.

Raw commodities are shooting up, not enough education to cover nuclear and SMEs and the RoI is already underwater.
Show HN: Rt – An interactive CLI for task runners (Make, just, and others)
by unvalley | 2026-02-03 13:12:19+00:00
`rt` is a small CLI that lets us run tasks interactively, even when each project uses a different task runner (Makefile, Justfile, Taskfile, cargo-make, etc.).

This saves us from remembering the right command every time. I don't like writing shell script anyway, and couldn’t really find an existing tool that does this.
by Soerensen | 2026-02-03 13:12:32+00:00
The real value here isn't in the config syncing itself - it's in forcing you to articulate your project context once.

I've been using Cursor heavily for building internal tools, and the biggest productivity gains came from investing time in detailed skills files that explain the codebase architecture, naming conventions, and common patterns.

Without something like LNAI, the natural tendency is to just use the default configs and wonder why the AI keeps suggesting solutions that don't match your existing patterns. The act of writing "here's how we structure components" once, and having that context available everywhere, changes the quality of suggestions dramatically.

The debate about whether unified prompts are better or worse than tool-specific ones misses this point. The 80/20 is getting the project context documented at all. Whether you tweak prompts per model is optimization at the margins compared to having zero documented context.

One thing I'd add: skills work best when they're specific about what NOT to do. "Don't create new utility files, add to existing ones" or "Don't use class components" saves more correction time than positive instructions.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-03 13:12:43+00:00
> what do they hope to find in a raid of the french offices, a folder labeled "Grok's CSAM Plan"?

You would be _amazed_ at the things that people commit to email and similar.

Here's a Facebook one (leaked, not extracted by authorities): https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-...
by myrmidon | 2026-02-03 13:12:49+00:00
> Nobody can publicly admit that it's fine to letting a 5-year-old kid die once in a while, even if that would be the right call.

Sure, there are such cases, but a lot of regulation was written in blood, and the price that affected individuals or even our whole species paid was often monumental:

Having cancer literally eat the workers faces is not acceptable (=> radium girls), nor are mistakes like leaded gas or CFCs.

Everytime people advocate for big immediate gains from abolishing regulations, you can be almost certain that they are selling toxic snake oil.

Current US admin seems no exception, especially when comparing related promises with actual results (e.g. Doge).

edit: I'm not saying that pruning back regulations is bad, but it needs to be a careful, deliberate effort and big immediate payoffs are often unrealistic.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 13:12:54+00:00
Is that a bad thing though?

Like say you can develop a 1000 windmill offshore wind project. At "market rate" for performing that activity they lose you money or make you very little, say a percent or two, because offshore is just harder.

But with government partnership and doors opening they make money at a low estimate 3%.

This causes you to forgo the 200 windmills in a field project that would make you a positive 1-3% regardless of which way the political winds blow because why do that when you can deploy 1k of them in some bay and make money hand over fist simply by joining hands (more tightly than the land based small project would) with government?

And as a result nobody can do the 200 windmill project because, between you and all the other people chasing the 100@% projects the cost of engineering, site prep, permitting, other fixed costs for such projects, etc, etc. are based on what the market will bear, and it can bear a lot more when your amortizing things over 5x as many units.

So maybe the things that do get invested in are more sustainable and financially conservative, which would improve public perception of them vs these megacorp-government joint venture type deployments we have now.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-03 13:13:22+00:00
Perhaps you don't think legalistic bureaucracy should matter, but the voters' representatives in Congress don't agree. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, government agencies must produce legalistic bureaucratic reasons for their actions; they may not act capriciously to suit the whims of political leaders or transient desires for a change.

Congress certainly has the power to change this if they want to. But without something like the APA, private businesses exposed to federal regulation would struggle to make any plans beyond the current US Presidential term. So they do not want to.
by annapowellsmith | 2026-02-03 13:13:26+00:00
How do we fundamentally discover new things? In a letter to Maurice Solovine, Albert Einstein conceptualized discovery as a cyclical process involving an intuitive 'jump' from sensory experience to axioms, followed by logical deduction. While Generative AI has mastered Induction (statistical pattern matching) and is rapidly conquering Deduction (formal proof), we argue it lacks the mechanism for Abduction—the generation of novel explanatory hypotheses. Using Einstein’s formulation of General Relativity as a computational case study, we demonstrate that the prevailing theory of "creativity as data compression" (induction) fails to account for discoveries where observational data is scarce. This position paper argues that while a modern Large Language Model could plausibly execute the deductive phase of proving theorems from established premises, it is structurally incapable of the abductive 'Jump' required to formulate those premises. We identify the translation of simulation into formal axioms as the critical bottleneck in artificial scientific invention, and propose that physically consistent, multimodal world models offer the necessary sensory grounding to bridge this divide.
by estearum | 2026-02-03 13:13:44+00:00
But this is a great example: the reality is that pumping your own gas is simply not even a 10x better product than having it pumped for you.

If NJ consumers (and politicians) had a 10x better product dangled in front of them every day, then the regulation side would solve itself.

Waymo is truly just such a vastly superior product that consumers will get exposed enough to it to care, and when they care, they will solve the regulation side.