MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plugger | 2026-02-18 07:11:13+00:00
You're definitely not alone! I just took delivery of a new BYD Shark 6 on Monday. It's amazing and I paid $41k USD ($57,900 AUD) for it. Before that was available I was planning on punting on a used Hilux.

I'm charging my Shark right now and I couldn't be happier. I expect my fuel bill (it's a PHEV) to drop by 70-80% when compared to the 2010 Commodore wagon I was driving last week.
by baq | 2026-02-18 07:11:19+00:00
> The second part is going to be the hard part for complex software and systems.

Not going to. Is. Actually, always has been; it isn’t that coding solutions wasn’t hard, before, but verification and validation cannot be made arbitrarily cheap. This is the new moat - if your solutions require time consuming and expensive in dollar terms qa (in the widest sense), it becomes the single barrier to entry.
by 1313ed01 | 2026-02-18 07:11:32+00:00
The 00's podcasts I listened to were often in 2-3 hour episodes, rarely well scripted (or scripted at all?), but a lot of fun and very amateurish. I re-listened to several entire series recently and the episode lengths were the only thing I think was worse than in newer podcasts.

On the other hand, if ads etc gets too annoying, I already have run all my downloaded podcasts through whisper to get transcripts with timestamps. Running some LLM to find ranges to delete would probably be quite easy. As a bonus I would be happy to also cut out all the filler repetitions that seem popular these days ("yes, X, I absolutely agree, [repeats everything X just said]"). Could probably cut 1 hour episodes to 20 minutes without losing any content.
by marssaxman | 2026-02-18 07:11:49+00:00
It seems to me rather less likely that someone at Microsoft knowingly and deliberately took his specific diagram and "ran it through an AI image generator" than that someone asked an AI image generator to produce a diagram with a similar concept, and it responded with a chunk of mostly-memorized data, which the operator believed to be a novel creation. How many such diagrams were there likely to have been, in the training set? Is overfitting really so unlikely?

The author of the Microsoft article most likely failed to credit or link back to his original diagram because they had no idea it existed.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-18 07:11:49+00:00
Microsoft employee (VP of something or other, for whatever Microsoft uses "VP" to mean) doing damage control on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scott.hanselman.com/post/3mez4yxty2...

> looks like a vendor, and we have a group now doing a post-mortem trying to figure out how it happened. It'll be removed ASAFP

> Understood. Not trying to sweep under rugs, but I also want to point out that everything is moving very fast right now and there’s 300,000 people that work here, so there’s probably be a bunch of dumb stuff happening. There’s also probably a bunch of dumb stuff happening at other companies

> Sometimes it’s a big systemic problem and sometimes it’s just one person who screwed up

This excuse is hollow to me. In an organization of this size, it takes multiple people screwing up for a failure to reach the public, or at least it should. In either case -- no review process, or a failed review process -- the failure is definitionally systemic. If a single person can on their own whim publish not only plagiarised material, but material that is so obviously defective at a single glance that it should never see the light of day, that is in itself a failure of the system.
by fitsumbelay | 2026-02-18 07:12:14+00:00
I'm probably not the only person who thought this was about ssh and possibly handrolling something

that said, I've been latently fascinated by this kind of project. I've seen a couple of how-things-work/maker/dare-me-to-do-it type shows from UK and US where folks single handedly do stuff like this, though they're all hairy dudes unlike Kala, whose channel looks pretty cool

This is a very cool frontier for a homeowner, to not just have dominion over your terranean space by growing edible veg and habitat for animals but also use your below ground asset for who knows -- domicile extension or DIY geothermal or ...?

Gemini tells me in the US, land ownership theoretically extends to the Earth's core
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-18 07:12:36+00:00
In my opinion, you're very wrong. There is typically lots of good communication -- one way. The stuff that doesn't get communicated down to worker bees is intentional. "CPUs" aren't all that fast either, unless you make them by providing incentives. if you're a well paid worker who likes their job, i can see why you would think that, but most people aren't that.

Meetings are work, as much as IPC and network calls are work. Just because they're not fun, or what you like to do, it doesn't mean they're any less of a work.

I think you're analyzing things from a tactical perspective, without considering strategic considerations. For example, have you considered that it might not be desirable for CPUs to be just fast, or fast at all? is CISC faster than RISC? different architectural considerations based on different strategic goals right?

If you're an order picker at an amazon warehouse, raw speed is important. being able to execute a simpler and more fixed set of instructions (RISC), and at greater speed is more desirable. if you're an IT worker, less so. IT is generally a cost-center, except for companies that sell IT services or software. if you're in a cost center, then you exist for non-profit-related strategic reasons, such as to help the rest of the company work efficiently, be resilient, compete, be secure. Some people exist in case they're needed some day, others are needed critically but not frequently, yet others are needed frequently but not critically. being able to execute complex and critical tasks reliably and in short order is more desirable for some workers. Being fast in a human context also means being easily bored, or it could mean lots of bullshit work needs to be invented to keep the person busy and happy.

I'd suggest taking that compsci approach but considering not just the varying tasks and workloads, but also the diversity of goals and user cases of users (decision makers/managers in companies). There are deeper topics with regards or strategy and decision making surrounding the state machines of incentives and punishments, and decision maker organization (hierarchical, flat, hub-and-spoke,full-mesh,etc..).
by 8bitsrule | 2026-02-18 07:12:49+00:00
IME, in prose writing, arguing with LLM can help a newer writer to gather 'the facts' (to help with research) and 'the objections to the facts' (same result) to anticipate an initial approach to the material. This can save a lot of organizational time. After which, newer writer can more confidently approach topics in their own voice.
by aorloff | 2026-02-18 07:14:18+00:00
This article uses a lot of numbers to make not very strong arguments.

Lets assume that as a media planner, you have the bag of money under your desk to plausibly be discussing buying a Superbowl spot. You are already spending millions of dollars on media every month, the question is - will the Superbowl spot yield more than other channels ?

For some small set of advertisers in this decision matrix, there's also the question of whether the media production cost is worth it (hello coinbase). For the vast majority of decision makers in this position, the media production budget is already getting spent.

Lets say the spot plus extra cost is $10m to use a nice round number.

You have an expectation of how many new users or website visitors your media budget typically delivers for $10m, because you spend that regularly (monthly, quarterly, it doesn't matter, but the point is that your spend has been growing).

So the decision is really really simple. Superbowl or the other places you've been shoving $10m. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but usually its like eh compared to the other places you've been shoving your $10m, underwhelming. Which is why you see justification pieces like this.
by bjackman | 2026-02-18 07:15:38+00:00
FWIW as someone who sadly has about 10% of his brain constantly engaged in AI detection when I read HN, absolutely nothing about the announcement struck me as feeling AI generated.

(I feel guilty for pointing it out but I guess it's actually a compliment in this context: I even saw a beautifully reassuring mis-conjugated verb elsewhere on the website. I wonder if LLMs will have to start injecting these errors to give us an authentic feel. Maybe they already have).

I think we are at a point now where just coz AI is so prevalent, every post on any programming forum will have at least one comment saying "AI slop".
by johncoltrane | 2026-02-18 07:15:42+00:00
The good thing with the 256c palette is that colors in the 16-255 range are fixed, which gives us a very high level of confidence that 146 will be a muted violet and so on. This is very useful for colorscheme developers because it allows us to provide a pretty good and consistent experience across the widest range of terminal emulators.

If the 256c palette is generated from a -- potentially wild -- 16c palette then there is no guarantee anymore that 146 will indeed be the 146 I expect.

Turning 16-255 into the same kind of minefield as 0-15 seems very misguided to me.
Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
by uejfiweun | 2026-02-18 07:15:50+00:00
At my large tech company, we're all being pushed to use AI. I, and most people I work with, have had success using the chatbots and Cursor-style tools and more recently Claude Code to accelerate the process of writing code.

Yet, with a few people in my network, it's like they're living 10 years ahead. Guys are automating everything in their jobs, spinning up 10 specialized agents at a time and running multi-agent pipelines, just doing all sorts of crazy things with this tech that I just can't even fathom. It seems like it's making them way more productive.

I have found a way to fit code-writing and question-answering chatbots into my workflow. I have NOT done the same in terms of these crazy Agent setups. There's clearly a way to leverage these tools to turbocharge your productivity, like at least 2x or maybe even 10x. But what is it?

Are there any Agentic power users out there who can enlighten me? What are the best ways to take advantage of these new tools?
by zephen | 2026-02-18 07:16:27+00:00
According to the author of the second link I gave (here it is again):

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-h...

The problem was that the loop itself was altered, rather than that the function returned and then that somehow caused an infinite loop.

> I'm not aware of any compiler that does that, but it's something I could see happening, and the developers would have no reason to "fix" it, because it's perfectly up to spec.

This is where we disagree.
by ezst | 2026-02-18 07:17:12+00:00
Waiting for the LLM evangelists to tell us that their box of weights of choice did that on purpose to create engagement as a sentient entity understanding the nature of tech marketing, or that OP should try again with quatuor 4.9-extended (that really ships AGI with the $5k monthly subscription addon) because it refactored their pet project last week into a compilable state, after only boiling 3 oceans.
by zephen | 2026-02-18 07:18:36+00:00
A study found that, for a particular subset of UB (code that had legal, detectable behavior changes at differing optimization levels), 40% of Debian Wheezy packages exhibited this UB.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/wang-stack.pdf

I submit that that's a small fraction of UB, that much of it would exist at any optimization level.
by danaris | 2026-02-18 07:18:39+00:00
There's zero chance that Musk will have suddenly "solved" FSD in a day, a week, or a year. He's not an engineer; he's a money man, and a grifter.

That's why people keep giving Tesla money: because Musk has fooled so many people into believing he's this amazing engineer, who could, possibly, "solve" FSD overnight—and, moreover, has gotten them to buy into it so deeply that they have tied their identity into that belief, and so in order to continue to cling to it, they reject empirical evidence of both his lack of qualifications and his outright crimes.
by bandrami | 2026-02-18 07:19:27+00:00
That's probably true for some, but I think a lot of big orgs are simply risk-averse and see AI in general as a giant risk that isn't even fully baked enough to quantify yet. The security and confidentiality issues alone will make Operations hesitant, and Legal probably has some questions about IP (both the risk of a model outputting patented or otherwise protected code, and the huge legal gray area that is the copyrightability of the output of an LLM).

Give it a year or two and let things settle down and (assuming the music is still playing at that time) you might see more dinosaurs start to wander this way.
by lnsru | 2026-02-18 07:19:29+00:00
That means the system will collapse in the future. Now from bunch of people some good programmers are made. Rest go into marketing, sales, agile or other not really technical roles. When the initial crowd will be gone there will be no experienced users of AI. Crappy inexperienced developer will make more crap without prior experience and ability to judge the design decisions. Basically no seniors without juniors.
by storystarling | 2026-02-18 07:23:47+00:00
That's a fair point about friction, but we're intentionally focused on physical books - the whole idea is to get away from screens. Most parents we talk to have the opposite problem: too much digital content, not enough tangible things. A printed book that lives on the shelf, gets read at bedtime, gets dog-eared and carried around - that's the product. You're ordering it for a birthday, a holiday, a first day of school. It's not impulse content, it's a keepsake.
by kmaitreys | 2026-02-18 07:24:59+00:00
While I would not call this AI slop, the probability that LLMs were used is high.

> It's really demeaning to call someone's hard work "AI slop".

I agree. I browsed through some files and found AI-like comments in the code. The readme and several other places have AI-like writing. Regarding author not spending time on this project, this is presumably a 16k loc project that was commited in a single commit two days ago. So the author never commited any draft/dev version in the time. I find that quite hard to believe. Again my opinion is that LLMs were used, not that the code is slop. It may be. It may not be.

Yes this whole comment chain is the top comment misreading LLVM as LLMs which is hilarious.

> My beef isn't with you personally, it's with this almost auto-generated trend of comments on HN calling everyone's work "AI slop".

Now this doesn't necessarily is about this particular project but if you post something on a public forum for reactions then you are seeking the time of the people who will read and interact with it. So if they encounter something that the original author did not even bother to write, why should they read it? You're seeing many comments like that because there's just a lot of slop like that. And I think people should continue calling that out.

Again, this project specifically may or may not be slop. So here the reactions are a bit too strong.
by storystarling | 2026-02-18 07:25:46+00:00
Honestly, for children's books specifically - yes. A children's book is 28 pages, simple language, short sentences, clear emotional arc. That's a very different challenge than writing a novel. We've put a lot of work into the prompting and story structure, and the results are genuinely good for this format. Parents can also edit every page of text before approving for print if they want to tweak anything.

The soul comes less from the prose and more from the fact that this story exists for this child. A book about their specific
fear, their favorite thing, their family situation — that's what makes a kid ask to read it again at bedtime.
Show HN: Converged – open-source ops layer for CNC shops and print bureaus
by solenopsys | 2026-02-18 07:26:09+00:00
A CNC shop or print bureau has two kinds of work: making things, and everything around it — incoming requests, client messages, order statuses, file handling, queue management, notifications, "is it ready yet?" at 11pm.

Converged handles the second part. It connects to the equipment (3D printers via Bambu/Marlin/Klipper, CNC machines), reads telemetry, manages work distribution across the fleet, and routes all client communication through one interface with an AI chat layer on top.

Built on Bun + Elysia, runs on a $100 SBC (Orange Pi), deploys to k3s. 49 microservices, modular — you activate only what you need. AGPL-3.0.
by fredoralive | 2026-02-18 07:27:06+00:00
The era of bespoke arcade hardware died in the late 90s really. They couldn’t really keep up with consoles / PC with a declining market. By the early 2000s arcades were mostly console derived, beyond the Sega trio of Naomi (Dreamcast), Chihiro (Xbox) and Triforce (Gamecube), Konami and Namco mostly used PlayStation 2 derived hardware. By the late 00’s we were mostly looking at PC based stuff.
by written-beyond | 2026-02-18 07:27:43+00:00
This is really nice, specially the pdf report generation.

I feel very moronic making a dashboard for any products now. Enterprise customers prefer you integrate into their ERPs anyway.

I think we lost the plot as an industry, I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations. This should've been the standard 10 years ago and it's case is only stronger in this age of LLMs.

We get so involved with our products we forget that our customers are humans too. Nobody wants another account to manage or remember. Analytics and alerts should be push based, configurable reports should get auto generated and sent to your inbox, alerts should be pushed via notifications or emails and customers should have an option to build their own dashboard with something like this.

Sane defaults make sense but location matters just as much.
by taurath | 2026-02-18 07:28:10+00:00
> don't perpetuate the myth that the 1970s and earlier would have been heaven

I understand where you're coming from, and hope you've not been given the idea that I'm idealizing the past - I'm only alive today because the present isn't the past. Weird to bring up.. Marc Andreessen of all people as authority after that. Not the pull I'd expect

I don't think there's ever been a panacea, and things have always been been rougher for anyone not white. But I do think that everyone's getting choked out by housing and inflated asset prices in ways that no living generation has. Since '85 rent has gone up 325% more than incomes. I understand you wrote a lot, but don't take what I said and extrapolate my other beliefs - I'm a much more complex person.
by coffeeenjoyer | 2026-02-18 07:28:45+00:00
Wow, this looks pretty cool! It seems you have quite a few features going... The main reason I haven't gotten a smartwatch yet is because of privacy concerns. But now seems like a good time to experiment with one of the watches you support.

I also still dream of one day daily driving a Linux smartphone, but that feels a bit more unrealistic to me, as I have more expectations from a phone, like being able to use bank apps and having a good battery life. But for a smartwatch, which I only expect to show me some biometrics and pass notifications from my phone, this seems perfect.

On this note: aren't JavaScript and QML/Qt too heavy/bloated for a device so small? I expect them to constrain performance and battery life quite a bit, but I admit I don't have a clue and would love to be proven wrong...
by baxtr | 2026-02-18 07:29:38+00:00
As someone who is somewhat familiar with marketing but no expert, I always wondered how well attribution works.

It seems all guesswork to me. User journeys and decisions are not well enough understood to say, "If I spend $1 here, it’ll return $x".

Of course, marketing people come up with all kinds of calculations to show it’s possible.

That or I’m completely ignorant.
by dataflow | 2026-02-18 07:30:00+00:00
For those who haven't watched the video yet because you already know we found out asbestos was dangerous and that it was banned or otherwise solved or mitigated: it is not. This video talks about how asbestos is still around us and how (alleged) cover-ups have been hiding that fact as recently as the past decade. It's not your average asbestos reporting.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-18 07:30:06+00:00
I think you misunderstand what's fundamentally possible with AMD's architecture. They can't wave a magic wand for a CUDA compatibility layer any better than Apple or Qualcomm can, it's not low-hanging fruit like DirectX or Win32 translation. Investing billions into translating CUDA on raster GPUs is a dead end.

AMD's best option is a greenfield GPU architecture that puts CUDA in the crosshairs, which is what they already did for datacenter customers with AMD Instinct.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-18 07:30:24+00:00
This will be fascinating to see in practice, with ghostty for example shipping these changes! I expect that the concern you have here will largely be for naught, with some exception. What are some terminal apps you think might be affected, what are test cases?

I didn't read in fully, but what I was thinking in my head is not that we would just totally replace the rest of the colors with arbitrary palette. But that we would sub in better versions of the palette that also used user colors as the base. What was magenta is derived from what the user picked from blue and red.

There's always been such tension between design/creative and users. Apps & designers want their own brand identity, want creative control to make things just so. And are willing to throw user preference & desire on the pyre to get that exacting control. Personally that was always rubbed me extremely the wrong way; I would way rather allow some weirdness & funkiness in, if it leaves the user in control. But I understand the risk aversion, understand the Murphy's law corporatism that makes people and companies want to build strong laws that forbid anything but strictly approved systems, for fear that things go wrong. I understand. But I also things that's a dogshit world to live in.
by storystarling | 2026-02-18 07:30:34+00:00
Fair perspective. But the parent isn't passive here — they're the creative director. They decide what the story is about, who the hero is, what happens. The AI does a lot of the writing, yes, but the parent is the editor: they review every page, rewrite lines, regenerate illustrations they don't like. It's closer to working with a ghostwriter than pushing a button.

Most AI content feels empty because it's made for nobody in particular. A StoryStarling book is the opposite - a parent shaping a story around their specific child's world. That's a real story. They just had help telling it.
by snapetom | 2026-02-18 07:31:21+00:00
We're in the minority, but I'm with you. It felt like in the first season, the tech and era took center stage to the point it was accurate enough to be an enjoyable element of the show. After that, they just wanted to rush and touch on different eras and the tech and eras were no longer the center stage. However, the stories were too cringey and couldn't carry it. And I'm just not a fan of Lee Pace. His deliver is one-dimensional.