MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 02:46:57+00:00
> The idea that me an individual observing you, and a large, well funded company allied with the US government observing you has no difference, quite frankly, leads me to conclude* you are arguing in bad faith.

I mean, in both cases, I'm being observed in public, with unknown intent. Until that observation becomes action of some kind, there is no difference to me.

That tells me it's the concrete result of the surveillance that makes the difference, not whether or not it's an individual or a government doing the surveillance.

As far as I can tell, if no one searches for my vehicle in Flock's database within 30 days of being observed, whether or not Flock observed me becomes moot. For the vast majority of individuals observed by Flock, there will not exist any permanent record of their movements.

Now, all that is assuming they're above board with their retention policies, which they may well not be! I trust them about as far as I can throw them, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're lying about their retention practices, or that they're engaging in "dragnet-style" surveillance. I'm optimistic that any lawfare they engage in will out any bad behavior in that regard, thanks to discovery.

This does pose an interesting question: is an individual with perfect memory, who regularly sees you in public and who could recall every detail of every time they've ever seen you, better or worse than Flock, which "forgets" you after 30 days?
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 02:47:07+00:00
As someone that works security, the whole "A compromised DNS on the network" would be a total excuse not to pay.

The fact is allowing any type of unsigned update on HTTP is a security flaw in itself.

>someone would probably point out a much easier way to compromise the networ

No, not really. That's why every other application on the planet that does security of any kind uses either signed binaries or they use HTTPSONLY. Simply put allowing HTTP updates is insecure. The network should never be by default trusted by the user.

What's even fucking dumber on AMDs part is this is just one BGP hijacking from a worldwide security incident.
by MadnessASAP | 2026-02-06 02:47:13+00:00
Strange behaviour and LLMs are the iconic duo of the decade. They've definitley multiplied my productivity, since now instead of putting off writing boring code or getting stuck on details till I get frustrated and give up I just give it to an agent to figure out.

I don't thing my ability read, understand, and write code is going anywhere though.

Neat tool BTW, I'm in the market for something like that.
by magarnicle | 2026-02-06 02:47:19+00:00
They very much do. There's an Australian streaming service called Stan that bought the rights to the English Premier League this year. They post highlights videos to YouTube.

Every single video they post is full of comments about how short the video is, how it didn't replay this or that important moment, and finishes with an ad for Stan.

Compared to 20 years ago where the only highlights you could get for free were in a news program that might spare 1 minute for just the most important match if you were lucky, these videos are incredible.
by xethos | 2026-02-06 02:47:39+00:00
I assumed it was because people here are constantly telling Arathorn that Element (not ElementX) is slow and buggy, and that when they last tried the default server (circa 2019 or so) is was buggy and full of rough edges

He's (in my mind) always positive, open, and willing to admit the shortcomings of the platform he shephards... but damn does he deal with a lot of undeserved criticism (and deserved criticism, where applicable)
by andrewshawcare | 2026-02-06 02:48:48+00:00
It used the best tests it could find for existing compilers. This is effectively steering Claude to a well-defined solution.

Hard to find fully specified problems like this in the wild.

I think this is more a testament to small, well-written tests than it is agent teams. I imagine you could do the same thing with any frontier model and a single agent in a linear flow.

I don’t know why people use parallel agents and increase accidental complexity. Isn’t one agent fast enough? Why lose accuracy over +- one week to write a compiler?

> Write extremely high-quality tests

> Claude will work autonomously to solve whatever problem I give it. So it’s important that the task verifier is nearly perfect, otherwise Claude will solve the wrong problem. Improving the testing harness required finding high-quality compiler test suites, writing verifiers and build scripts for open-source software packages, and watching for mistakes Claude was making, then designing new tests as I identified those failure modes.

> For example, near the end of the project, Claude started to frequently break existing functionality each time it implemented a new feature. To address this, I built a continuous integration pipeline and implemented stricter enforcement that allowed Claude to better test its work so that new commits can’t break existing code.
by TMWNN | 2026-02-06 02:48:55+00:00
Correct. More to the point, when it appeared many on the left attempted to wave this away by claiming that it was, as one put it, a "gentle satire" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Reception> when anyone who has read Animal Farm knows that it is in no way gentle in its satire.

What nl is attempting to do above is the latest iteration of what Animal Farm and 1984 both received from those who could not stand the spotlight of their scrutiny: Claim that the target is something else, and/or that Orwell's attacks are so pedestrianly obvious (since "everyone knows" that Stalinism is bad) as to be pointless.
by jeffkumar | 2026-02-06 02:49:23+00:00
Great insights Namanyay!

I feel the same way about needing to build platforms that enable companies to build on top. That's why i'm building adventureflow.ai to enable energy companies to build their agentic workflows directly on top of my platform.

The expectations have completely changed now, customers expect more software for less, because it is 5-10x cheaper now or faster to build and there's no changing that. Tools like Opus 4.5 have completely disrupted the software marketplace!
by defrost | 2026-02-06 02:50:07+00:00
There are many many styles and genres of music across the continent, and a diaspora of african artists, a random grab from my play history has:

Angelique Kidjo's - We We https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NsRS3S1UY

later sampled by Burna Boy in Anybody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4dgTRaWFk

Sona Jobarteh, playing Kora, Gambia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSD_amb-l9Q

S.Africa way, Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens, Kazet Gazette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR7UbvhVT8g

Kanda Bongo Man Lela Lela - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76VFiJsFIcc

Bhundu Boys Hatisi Tose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-acwRukdO8

Toure Kunda Emma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6u0omHFhqE

Songhoy Blues (Mali) Soubour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY

Little Simz Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY31eN3gtE

Backo Dada's cover ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHCZDtA9wbc ) of Mory Kanté's Yeke Yeke ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGFtLh-5pVY )

Hmm, better stop for now - lunchtime.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 02:50:40+00:00
> is a separate issue.

No, just no. This is not a separate issue. It is 100% the issue.

Lets say I'm a nation state attacker with resources. I write up my exploit and then do a BGP hijack of whatever IPs the driver host resolves to.

There you go, I compromised possibly millions of hosts all at once. You think anyone cares that this wasn't AMDs issue at this point?
by drnick1 | 2026-02-06 02:50:50+00:00
I don't see that as a problem. C has been the bedrock of computing since the 1970s because it is the most minimal way of speaking to the hardware in a mostly portable way. Anything can be done in C, from writing hardware drivers, to GUI applications and scientific computing. In fact I deplore the day people stopped using C for desktop applications and moved to bloated, sluggish Web frameworks to program desktop apps. Today's desktop apps are slower than Windows 95 era GUI programs because of that.
by mikalauskas | 2026-02-06 02:51:46+00:00
Minimax M2.1:

The inner diameter of the glass is *7*.

Here's the reasoning:
- The coaster (diameter 9) sits between the glass and table, meaning the glass sits directly on the coaster
- This means the *outer diameter of the glass equals the coaster diameter = 9*
- The glass has a wall thickness of 1 on each side
- *Inner diameter = Outer diameter - 2 × wall thickness*
- Inner diameter = 9 - 2(1) = 9 - 2 = *7*
by tototrains | 2026-02-06 02:52:48+00:00
Opus 4.6 Extended thinking:

```

Finding the Inner Diameter
The coaster sits beneath the glass on the table, meaning the glass rests on top of it. Assuming the coaster matches the outer diameter of the glass base:

Outer diameter of glass = diameter of coaster = 9
Wall thickness = 1 (on each side, so subtract twice)

dinner=9−2(1)=7d_{\text{inner}} = 9 - 2(1) = 7dinner =9−2(1)=7
The inner diameter of the glass is 7.

```

Makes its assumption clear, seems reasonable?
by ropable | 2026-02-06 02:54:34+00:00
I have a colleague who (inexplicably) doesn't trust Postgres for "high performance" applications. He needed a database of shared state for a variable number of running containers to manage a queue, so he decided to implement his own bespoke file-based database, using shared disk. Lo and behold, during the first big (well-anticipated) high-demand event, that system absolutely crawled. It ran, but it was a total bottleneck during two days of high demand. I, who has made a New Years resolution to no longer spend political capital on things that I can't change, looked on with a keen degree of schadenfreude.

Just. Use. Postgres.
by roywiggins | 2026-02-06 02:55:03+00:00
How about court orders?

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ice-violations-judge-...

> ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence," Schiltz said, adding that he counted 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frustrations-from-judge-prosecu...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-06 02:56:16+00:00
> For whatever reason, distro maintainers working for free seem a lot more competent with security than billion dollar hardware vendors

I don't believe that these billion dollar hardware vendors are really incompetent with security. It's rather that the distro maintainers do care quite a bit about security, while for these hardware vendors consider these security concerns to be of much smaller importance; for their business it is likely much more important to bring the next hardware generation to the market as fast as possible.

In other words: distro maintainers and hardware vendors are simply interested in very different things and thus prioritize things very differently.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-06 02:56:26+00:00
I'm curious which harness and which model(s) you've been using.

And whether you have a decent PRD or spec. Are you trying to prompt the harness with one bit at a time, or did you give it a complete spec and ask it to analyze it and break it down into individual issues with dependencies (e.g. using beads and beads_viewer)?

I'm not looking for reasons to criticize your approach or question your experience, but your answers may point to opportunities for you to get more out of these tools.

If you're using Claude Code and you have a friend who has had more success with these tools, consider exporting your transcripts and letting them have a look: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/25/claude-code-transcript...
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-06 02:56:39+00:00
No, if you've got problems with voters believing false things, it's your civic duty to educate them, or your party will lose elections.

Whether you think it's a hot political topic or not, many Trump voters think it is. They may be uninformed. Now you (a general interlocutor) can either inform them, or you can do what you've done here and say "nope you're wrong, go figure out why!"

I'm generally supportive of the Republican party so I don't mind you doing the latter, but I have a feeling you would prefer the outcome of the former. I've literally never seen anyone do the former on this particular topic.
by da_chicken | 2026-02-06 02:56:59+00:00
No, it's not that. You can actually do those things in C#.

You just can't do them at compile time. You have to use introspection or the dynamic keyword and do it at runtime.

In order to do what you're suggesting at compile time, you'd need a type of types, and then you'll run into the decidability paradox.
by Murskautuminen | 2026-02-06 02:57:40+00:00
I agree with your points overall. Regarding "what is a journal except for a complicated algorithm for performing reviews"? I think one point is that there is a hard-to-quantify social contract between the journal editors and specialized reviewers, which are partially hand-selected over many years (and opaque). Editors overall do rely on verifiable experts in the field with an established reputation, both publically and privately. Reviewers can have some sort of direct interaction with the editors, coming with opaque trust-verification. Editors also tend to go to scientific meetings as well and do have undocumented or unofficial interactions with scientists (and their favorite reviewers). Now, reviewers might ask their students to review a paper and they sign off on that after a quick skim, but not all of them do and especially if the paper has more caliber/weight to it, they do tend to take it seriously personally.
by cortesoft | 2026-02-06 02:57:58+00:00
> Also you probably aren't doing anything special enough to warrant using something different".

I always get frustrated by this because it is never made clear where the transition occurs to where you are doing something special enough. It is always dismissed as, "well whatever it is you are doing, I am sure you don't need it"

Why is this assumption always made, especially on sites like HackerNews? There are a lot of us here that DO work with scales and workloads that require specialized things, and we want to be able to talk about our challenges and experiences, too. I don't think we need to isolate all the people who work at large scales to a completely separate forum; for one thing, a lot of us work on a variety of workloads, where some are big enough and particular enough to need a different technology, and some that should be in Postgres. I would love to be able to talk about how to make that decision, but it is always just "nope, you aren't big enough to need anything else"

I was not some super engineer who already knew everything when I started working on large enough data pipelines that I needed specialized software, with horizontal scaling requirements. Why can't we also talk about that here?
by energy123 | 2026-02-06 02:58:05+00:00
> Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot.

That depends on your budget. To work within my pro plan's codex limits, I attach the codebase as a single file to various chat windows (GPT 5.2 Thinking - Heavy) and ask it to find bugs/plan a feature/etc. Then I copy the dense tasklist from chat to codex for implementation. This reduces the tokens that codex burns.

Also don't sleep on GPT 5.2 Pro. That model is a beast for planning.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-06 02:58:25+00:00
It is, mostly, the organization Linus created (and of course the enormous number of people participating).

An absurd amount of weight is carried by a small number of very influential people that can and want to just do a good job.

And a signal that they're the best is you don't see them in the news.

We need more very influential people who aren't newsworthy.
by v3ss0n | 2026-02-06 02:58:51+00:00
Very narrow spec of how company can fit into code.Try Integrating ERP system in non-tech business. You will see how resistant the people are to use a software that streamline their business and need customization that fit their operation procedures or outright resistance because it would make things a lot easier and make them irrelevant.

On successful integration all they would use ERP system would be for signing in , chatting, producing invoices, the rest would still be done manually, if lucky in excel files.
by mikrl | 2026-02-06 02:59:02+00:00
I think “test the function does what it does” is not necessarily the intent here, it’s being able to write tests that fill themselves in and assuming you’ll double check afterwards.

That said, I don’t see how it’s much different to TDD (write the test to fail, write the code to pass the test) aside from automating adding the expected test output.

So I guess it’s TDD that centres the code, not the test…
by kristianp | 2026-02-06 02:59:12+00:00
https://archive.is/eS2Q3

> [Burry] warned that if prices fall another 10%, Strategy (MSTR) would be billions in the red and could “find capital markets essentially closed".

According to bloomberg [1] mstr is still trading at a 9% premium to the btc it owns. Why would bitcoin falling another 10% make a difference?

[1] https://archive.is/jQPYk
by alephnerd | 2026-02-06 02:59:31+00:00
The alternatives in these kinds of villages in rural Jharkhand is literally doing bit-piece agriculture work for the local mega landlord who will never pay salaries on time because he has the power, migrate to the nearest big city (in this case Ranchi, Dhanbad, or Patna) and work at a factory for 12 hours a week with the exact same risks, or get married off.
by xyst | 2026-02-06 03:00:25+00:00
"juSt use PoStGreS" is spoken like a true C-level with no experience on the ground with postgres itself or its spin offs.

yes pg is awesome and it’s my go to for relational databases. But the reason why mongo or influx db exists is because they excel in those areas.

I would use pg for timeseries for small use cases, testing. But scaling pg for production time series workloads is not worth it. You end up fighting the technology to get it to work just because some lame person wanted to simplify ops
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by deaux | 2026-02-06 03:00:59+00:00
> Consequently AWS (and I presume others) will run models supplied by the AI companies for you in their data centres. They won't be doing that at a loss, so the price will cover marginal cost of the compute plus renting the model.

This says absolutely nothing.

Extremely simplified example: let's say Sonnet 4.5 really costs $17/1M output for AWS to run yet it's priced at $15. Anthropic will simply have a contract with AWS that compensates them. That, or AWS is happy to take the loss. You said "they won't be doing that at a loss" but in this case it's not at all out of the question.

Whatever the case, that it costs the same on AWS as directly from Anthropic is not an indicator of unit economics.
by gffrd | 2026-02-06 03:01:51+00:00
Well, I am God, so yes.

My original comment was just a counterpoint to the doom in parent: not all is lost, and in fact, quite a lot is not.

The situation of “things we care about are far away and require intermediaries to connect with” and “our ability to trust intermediaries is gone” are both human creations, and totally addressable.

Edits: more words, and wording
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by ajkjk | 2026-02-06 03:03:24+00:00
on the one hand I can't imagine it will ever go fully to zero because then people will buy them just for fun, keeping the price at least a bit up.

on the other hand there is a price where the network no longer has any incentive to operate. Whereupon... doesn't it just stop working / become easily forkable? in which case it seems like Bitcoin is perhaps uniquely unable to recover from crashing out of all things that can crash (a thesis which is consistent with it having no intrinsic value, lol)
by atonse | 2026-02-06 03:03:43+00:00
Wow, I have been using Open 4.6 and for the last 15 minutes, and it's already made two extremely stupid mistakes... like misunderstanding basic instructions and editing the file in a very silly, basic way. Pretty bad. Never seen this with any model before.

The one bone I'll throw it was that I was asking it to edit its own MCP configs. So maybe it got thoroughly confused?

I dunno what's going on, I'm going to give it the night. It makes no sense whatsoever.
by deaux | 2026-02-06 03:04:11+00:00
You mean Claude sucks at Czech. You're extrapolating here. I can name languages that Claude is better at than GPT.

Gemini is the most fluent in the highest number of human languages and has been for years (!) at this point - namely since Gemini 1.5 Pro, which was released Feb 2024. Two years ago.