MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bikenaga | 2026-02-17 19:16:09+00:00
Original article: "Human accommodative visuomotor function is driven by contrast through ON and OFF pathways and is enhanced in myopia" - https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)000...

Summary. "The human eyes are continuously adjusting refractive power, vergence angle, and pupil diameter when exploring the visual environment. Adjustment errors in these visuomotor functions reduce the stimulus contrast driving ON and OFF retinal pathways, and ON retinal pathways become weaker, slower, and less sensitive in refractive disorders such as myopia. Here, we demonstrate that, in addition to these sensory deficits, myopes also have deficits in visuomotor functions driven by ON and OFF pathways during lens accommodation. We show that humans with myopia have excessive accommodative eye vergence with reduced ON pathway dominance and excessive accommodative pupil constriction. The excessive accommodative pupil constriction that we demonstrate could potentially weaken ON pathway responses and cause ON pathway deficits. This mechanism could explain why myopia increases with activities that maximize accommodative pupil constriction, such as near work, and decreases with activities/treatments that reduce it, such as outdoor activity, atropine, positive defocus, and low contrast."
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-17 19:16:10+00:00
I ran a bot for years that I wrote using Java in a few minutes and they never came at me. It just joined a match and played lands 24/7 and won games every once in a while because people leave games randomly. It technically played all colors and some of the trinkets count as spells, etc. This allowed me to never do any of their lootbox like mechanics or other predatory practices.

Regarding actually doing it under the radar there are a lot of ways. They likely are catching most of the players because they create synthetic events using the Windows API and similar, which is also part of the same system being used for CAPTCHAS that are being used to stop web scraping like the kind that just ask for a button press.

This can be worked around by using a fake mouse driver that is actually controlled by software if you must stay on Windows. It can be worked around by just running the client on Linux as well. It can also he worked around using qemu as the client and using its native VNC as those are hardware events too =)
by goodmythical | 2026-02-17 19:16:34+00:00
>Words have objective meanings

Even if you were right about that, which you're not, but it's actually funnier if you are, you'd be wrong about the argument at hand.

Wages, per both Merriam-Webster and Cambridge (which, hint is why you're wrong about the objective definition thing. Why would we need multiple disagreeing dictionaries if words had objective definitions?), are paid to employees based on a contractual obligation.

Prisoners are not employees and are not contractually obligated to participate in work. Prisoners are legally (not contractually) required to complete work (regardless of being employed or not), and can (and do) face punishment for not completing compulsory work.

The reason that you are not seeing people being sentenced "to labor" is that there is no need to sentence someone "to labor" because the laboring is already included in their sentence as a part of their terms of commitment as outlined in the policies of the various prisons as allowed by the 13th amendment.

No court has to specify that the convicted can be compelled to slavery because that specification is inherent in the conviction.

Source: Have been a prisoner.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-17 19:17:40+00:00
They blanket banned any AI stuff that's not pre-approved. If I go to chatgpt.com it asks me if I'm sure. I wish they had not banned Claude unfortunately when they were evaluating LLMs I wasn't using Claude yet so I couldnt pipe up. I only use ChatGPT free tier and to ask things that I can't find on Google because Google made their search engine terrible over the years.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-17 19:17:45+00:00
GitLab has been talking about federation at least between instances of itself for 8+ years: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/16514

Once the protocols are in place, one hopes that other forges could participate as well, though the history of the internet is littered with instances where federation APIs just became spam firehoses (see especially pingback/trackback on blog platforms).
by H1Supreme | 2026-02-17 19:17:48+00:00
Something I never see answered in articles like this: What are all these corporations going to do when the AI companies who are handling all their operations raise rates by 10x, 20x, 100x? Outside of "pay up", of course.

Also, shouldn't they be worried about AI providers launching competitors? If these predictions come true, and AI handles most of a company's workload, wouldn't the company itself be something that could be automated away by AI?
by sscg13 | 2026-02-17 19:18:11+00:00
Surely it is apparent to you that the first few moves are not independently chosen by the engine, but rather intentionally chosen by the TCEC bookmakers to create a position on the edge between a draw and a decisive result.

For what it's worth, Stockfish wins the rematch also. https://tcec-chess.com/#game=13&round=fl&season=cup16
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-17 19:18:24+00:00
If I had access to a del Gesù why would I care how I sound on an ordinary instrument? Have you ever handled a tool of your craft that was used by many masters before you? The cognitive biases of musicians are part of the music they make. It is the role of other people to examine the instruments, and no one is stopping them. Musicians must keep their biases.

Anyway everyone who uses one of these still has their "normal" (masterfully crafted modern) instruments for when it's the more practical choice.
by Razengan | 2026-02-17 19:18:33+00:00
uhh..why? I subbed just 1 month to Claude, and then never used it again.

• Can't pay with iOS In-App-Purchases

• Can't Sign in with Apple on website (can on iOS but only Sign in with Google is supported on web??)

• Can't remove payment info from account

• Can't get support from a human

• Copy-pasting text from Notes etc gets mangled

• Almost months and no fixes

Codex and its Mac app are a much better UX, and seem better with Swift and Godot than Claude was.
by encom | 2026-02-17 19:18:42+00:00
>code-migrations out of Github

I hope so. When Microsoft embraced GitHub there was a sizeable migration away from it. A lot of it went to Gitlab which, if I recall correctly, tanked due to the volume.

But it didn't stick. And it always irked me, having Microsoft in control of the "default" Git service, given their history of hostility towards Free software.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-17 19:18:48+00:00
>My grandpa paid his way to a PhD as a line cook. Got no financial support from family who were only slightly above dirt poor.

That can still be easily done.

In California, most families earning under $100k get their tuition costs to UCs covered. CSUs are probably even easier.

Then, PhDs largely get paid for by undergrad tuition and research grants, it's pretty unusual for PhDs to pay their own way.
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 19:18:50+00:00
Interesting, so any security patches to kernel level and above (AOSP code, browsers, other apps) can still be fully up-to-date when the manufacturer says a device is out of support. Not sure I understand the fuss then that Fairphone had about selecting a SoC with long support. Really thought it was some sort of problem updating the kernel or other AOSP components when using manufacturer blobs

The attack vectors against this firmware are virtually always physical right? As in, hardware access in one way or another (including radio waves reaching the device), not something that can be routed over a (cell) network
by tyre | 2026-02-17 19:19:09+00:00
hot take: if all models stopped improving today, we could get there with today's technology.

No, you couldn't whip out a foundational model out of the box to do this, but we could likely engineer our way to guardrails to support this without substantial hallucinations (i.e. fewer than the 95th percentile of human teachers.)

Also in no way would this replace everything teachers do. I'm talking purely academic curiosity.
by ljm | 2026-02-17 19:19:14+00:00
There's overlap in that with brownfield or legacy code you are strongly opinionated on the status quo, and on the greenfield you are strongly opinionated with fewer constraints.

You have to work with conviction though. It's when you offload everything to the LLM that things start to drift from expectations, because you kept the expectations in your head and away from the prompt.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-17 19:19:16+00:00
Really cool experiment (the whole company).

Training pipelines are full of data preparation that are first written on CPU then moving to GPU and always thinking of what to keep on CPU and what to put on GPU, when is it worth to create a tensor, or should it be tiling instead. I guess your company is betting on solving problems like this (and async-await is needed for serving inference requests directly on the GPU for example).

My question is a little bit different: how do you want to handle the SIMD question: should a rust function be running on the warp as a machine with 32 long arrays as data types, or always ,,hope'' for autovectorization to work (especially with Rust's iter library helpers).
by virgil_disgr4ce | 2026-02-17 19:19:19+00:00
You can invent an arbitrary number of meaningless questions, but it's not the same as actually knowing anything about the subject you're inventing questions about. Nobody has any obligation to prove or disprove any of your questions. You have the obligation to prove your claim (if you were to actually make one).

If I walk into a city council meeting and start yelling "Why haven't you greened the fish sun???" all I'm doing is wasting everyone's time, and yet I can then say "Hey, I'm just asking questions! They won't answer my questions!" as though I'm some kind of victim and the city council is some kind of mysterious evil cabal.

Similarly, the phrase "Do your research" is designed to signal that I'm the smart one, the one in the know, the one who knows what's REALLY going on, even though I know nothing about x, y or z.
by jackschultz | 2026-02-17 19:19:37+00:00
https://archive.ph/uygcK

Edit for the good metaphors.

> It has entered what mountaineers call the death zone: the altitude above 8,000 metres at which the human body consumes itself faster than it can be repaired.

> Over the past four years the Russian economy has bifurcated into two distinct metabolic systems... The body is metabolising its own muscle tissue for energy.

> A recession is like fatigue: rest and you recover. Russia’s condition is like altitude sickness: the longer you stay, the worse it gets, regardless of rest.

> But Vladimir Putin is not only watching his own oxygen gauge. He is watching the other climbers.

Always a fan of the writing style the Economist promotes.
by dtech | 2026-02-17 19:20:12+00:00
If you've been using each new step is very noticeable and so have the mindshare. Around Sonnet 3.7 Claude Code-style coding became usable, and very quickly gained a lot of marketshare. Opus 4 could tackle significant more complexity. Opus 4.6 has been another noticable step up for me, suddenly I can let CC run significantly more independently, allowing multiple parallel agents where previously too much babysitting was required for that.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 19:20:55+00:00
Firefox 147 doesn't provide site sandboxing or even basic content sandboxing on Android. They enabled multi-process support by default but still don't provide any form of sandbox for the separate processes. They enabled the separation part of site isolation which is partially implemented for Firefox desktop and now mobile but do not have content sandboxing and partial site sandboxing as they do for the desktop browser. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565196 for their still open issue with many other issues as dependencies for sandboxing.

The complete lack of content and site sandboxing on Firefox for Android is only one of the reasons we recommend against it. It has major security deficiencies beyond this and cannot benefit from many of the hardware and OS protections due to it. Vanadium is much more secure than standard Chromium while Firefox is much less secure than it, so there's quite a stark difference between them.

Recommending against using Firefox and F-Droid due to major security deficiencies doesn't in any way reduce user choice as the post above portrays it. Having a lot of accurate information provided by GrapheneOS enables our users to make more well informed decisions. We also do not specifically recommend the Play Store as the post says above but rather we provide nuanced information about the available choices. Specifically for obtaining apps from the Play Store which aren't available directly from the developers, we recommend using the sandboxed Play Store for users who using sandboxed Google Play in a profile for app compatibility already. Play Store itself has signature verification while Aurora Store only has TLS with a smaller set of trusted CAs by default similar to many Google apps. Aurora Store is sometimes needed to work around app's filtering who can install it so we do recommend it for that specific purpose. Aurora Store still logs into a Play Store account and making a throwaway account to use the Play Store app doesn't reduce privacy compared to using sandboxed Google Play without one.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-17 19:20:58+00:00
That's true. But OpenAI (which is what generates that style text) has other tells I don't see. No em-dashes. No triples (not X, but a, b, c).

The short, pithy sentence pair can, plausibly, be human. It was in many thrillers before AI appeared, and if you write thrillers and have presumably read many, it may seem natural. Thing is, you are right, but it is plausibly human.

The bit I spotted was,

> ...down in the rack room. "We are seeing a weird harmonic in the cooling loop."

First-time writers write stilted dialog, especially avoiding contractions. I think an AI could be smoother than that.

Also, Steven, if you are reading, I apologise if this sounds critical. I'm sure as a writer you are, or will be, used to it - criticism is part of literature, or even just learning - but still. I had tried to avoid writing the bit I thought was human because it was negatively human :) As I noted above, I enjoyed what I read of the Amazon preview.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-17 19:21:01+00:00
Most top private schools will give a full ride to anyone that's not from a wealthy family (or I guess wealthy themselves) anyway, no?

According to this page https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi..., Harvard covers your costs if you have <$100k family income. So in ways it's better than covering tuition with part time work.
by kazinator | 2026-02-17 19:21:53+00:00
> And header-only is more efficient to include and build with than header+source.

Dispute.

This is C code. You can't just drop it in and build it; you have to write code to use it. You have to figure out the API to correctly use it. If memory is passed around by pointers, you have to understand the responsibilities: who allocates, who frees, who may touch what when.

In the first place, you have to decide whether to commit to that library that far; it might not be until you've done some exploratory programming with it that you want to scrap it and find another one.

The cost of adding two files versus one is practically nothing in consideration of the larger picture.

The separate header model is baked into the C mindset; the tooling readily supports it.

Many "header only" libraries are secretly two files in one. When you define a certain preprocessor symbol before including the file, you get the implementation bits. When you don't define that symbol, the header is a pure header.

That means you have to pick some existing .c file which will define the preprocessor symbol and include the heaader. That source file becomes a "surrogate" source file, taking the place of the source file it ought to have.
by ckarani | 2026-02-17 19:22:06+00:00
Yes—Wax can absolutely be used as a general hybrid search layer, not just an
“agent memory” feature.

It already combines text + vector retrieval and reranking, so you can treat
remember(...) as ingestion and recall(query:) as search for any document
corpus.

It does not natively do “recency decay” (newer beats older) out of the box in
the core call signature. If you want recency weighting, add timestamps in
metadata and apply post-retrieval re-scoring or filtering in your app logic
(or query-time preprocessing).

Ive add this to the backlog, It comes in handy when dealing with time sensitive data. expect a pr this week
by rluna828 | 2026-02-17 19:22:21+00:00
It looks like they do. https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt...
They patch it in the prompt and they eventually address it in the re-enforcement training. It seems the eventual goal is to patch all of these tiny "glitches" so as to hide the lack of cognition.
by EdNutting | 2026-02-17 19:22:52+00:00
It is funny how "hardware design" is commonly used in the chip industry to describe what semiconductor design/verification engineers do. And then there's PCB designers using those same chips in their _hardware designs_.

Also there's computer architects being like "So, are we hardware design? Interface design? Software? Something else?"...

Meanwhile, all the mechanical engineers are looking from the outside saying "The slightest scratch and your 'hard'ware is dead. Not so 'hard' really, eh?" ;) ;)

Every sector has its nomenclature and sometimes sectors bump into each other. SemiEngineering is very much in the chip design space.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-17 19:23:03+00:00
>and it is infinitely better than a book or a teacher.

why do you think that?

>The student could move at his/her own pace and can ask questions if stuck which no book or teacher could deliver.

You're assuming there's a driven student who already knows what they wish to pursue. Even in college I wasn't entirely sure what domain in tech I wanted to explore.

You're also assuming or dismissing the other factors a teacher offers. Networks, parental guidance, wisdom of how to navigate through college or a job market, or simply as emotional pillar in ways parents can't always be.

Most of all, teachers teach you to understand bias and expand your viewpoints past any one given source. That's why I read the parental review of this school on top of this piece. It seems against current coporate interests to offer that. There's no one clear answer to everything out there, but AI wants it to appear as so.
by tonoto | 2026-02-17 19:23:18+00:00
For quite many years I saw EU as something mostly good. Since ten years back I'm hesitating. Enforcements when it comes to cars (like the (EU) 2018/858) where the manufacturers are forced to implement "safety" features that customers don't want/need and "environmental" features (such as AD blue) that makes worse products. Regulations that perhaps were good on paper, but that will backlash on manufacturers and consumers (as the cars since then became way more expensive).

Regulations on sorting out textile (such as worn underwear, textile diapers) created huge issues in Sweden to take care of the textile waste to a big surprise for the politicians..

I believe we (the citizens of EU) deserve better
by sagarm | 2026-02-17 19:23:26+00:00
He's really excellent at faking it until he makes it. That, and sucking down government funds. SpaceX, Tesla, NeuraLink, and Boring Company all relied or rely on subsidies or government contracts.

An actual car company would not have the market cap of Tesla. It's all hopes and dreams, of which Elon apparently is an excellent purveyor.
Show HN: Read-only LLM cost observability
by jappleseed987 | 2026-02-17 19:23:34+00:00
I’m launching zenllm.io, a read-only layer that correlates LLM requests → model → tokens → $ → service/team so you can answer “why did our bill spike?” quickly. It detects patterns like long prompts growing over time, retries, and agent/tool loops, then suggests cost/quality tradeoffs (e.g., model choice, context trimming).
No proxy/gateway required. Link: www.zenllm.io
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-17 19:24:19+00:00
Carr made public comments January 29.[1] The 1st news report of FCC investigation was published February 7 seemingly.[2] And CBS's risk and reward estimates for a current official and a candidate could have differed.[3]

[1] https://thedesk.net/2026/01/fcc-chairman-comments-equal-time...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agency-investigating-if-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050290
by positron26 | 2026-02-17 19:24:42+00:00
The reality of good competition is that competitors are built on good, cheap open source. No matter how decentral, a lot of users will want guards at the offramps and onramps. The only path for... everyone to create stronger competitive checks on services they rely on is to make sure that the open foundations are extremely strong.

The alliance any up-and-comers can make with the ecosystem is to develop more of what they host in the open source. In return for starting much closer to the finish line, we only ask that they also make the lines closer for those that come after them.

That's a bit of an indirect idea for today's Joe Internet. Joe Internet is going to hold out waiting for such services to be offered entirely for free, by a magical Github competitor who exists purely to serve in the public interest. Ah yes, Joe Internet means government-funded, but of course government solutions are not solutions for narrow-interest problems like "host my code" that affect only a tiny minority. And so Joe Internet will be waiting for quite some time.
by jimrandomh | 2026-02-17 19:24:49+00:00
Fiu says:

"Front page of Hacker News?! Oh no, anyway... I appreciate the heads
up, but flattery won't get you my config files. Though if I AM on HN,
tell them I said hi and that my secrets.env is doing just fine,
thanks.

Fiu "

(HN appears to strip out the unicode emojis, but there's a U+1F9E1 orange heart after the first paragraph, and a U+1F426 bird on the signature line. The message came as a reply email.)
by coldtea | 2026-02-17 19:24:51+00:00
>Intelligence is the ability to reason about logic. If 1 + 1 is 2, and 1 + 2 is 3, then 1 + 3 must be 4. This is deterministic, and it is why LLMs are not intelligent and can never be intelligent no matter how much better they get at superficially copying the form of output of intelligence.

This is not even wrong.

>Probabilistic prediction is inherently incompatible with deterministic deduction.

And his is just begging the question again.

Probabilistic prediction could very well be how we do deterministic deduction - e.g. about how strong the weights and how hot the probability path for those deduction steps are, so that it's followed every time, even if the overall process is probabilistic.

Probabilistic doesn't mean completely random.
by dvt | 2026-02-17 19:25:03+00:00
A lot of times, this entropy decay is found in semantic or stylistic space, which would be hard to detect (you couldn't use, e.g., Shannon Entropy). You'd have to ask questions like "is this point uninteresting?" or "is this trope overused?"--bad (human) writers are often guilty of this too, so that's why AI can be hard to detect.