MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfdsf2 | 2026-02-12 18:43:51+00:00
Highly disagree.

I was expecting something more realistic... the true test of what you are doing is how representative is the thing in relation to the real world. E.g. does the pelican look like a pelican as it exists in reality? This cartoon stuff is cute but doesnt pass muster in my view.

If it doesn't relate to the real world, then it most likely will have no real effect on the real economy. Pure and simple.
by Fnoord | 2026-02-12 18:43:52+00:00
Usenet kill file, IRC ignore list, email spam filters, web browser adblockers, disabling JavaScript, using Archive.org/.today to read content, using plain text and a remote host to parse URLs to forward the content to email, RSS readers, converting content based on CSS selectors or json (e.g. jq) to XML/RSS.

The internet has and will always be about increasibg the signal te noise ratio for the user. The fact someone resorts to blacklisting entire comment section tells us something about how they view the quality of these in general; subpar.

It isn't just LLMs which contribute to that. Troll farms do, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-12 18:44:08+00:00
WebGPU is not just JavaScript + WebGPU. Whole native like apps are being written using WGPU and Dawn which then can be compiled for the Web.

Here's one:

https://unity.com/products/unity-studio

Here's another

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/online.html

They shipped. So I guess waiting tools wasn't required
by mmooss | 2026-02-12 18:44:12+00:00
> It is baffling to me, as it is no different than thinking that "sugar taxes" are taxes that soda companies pay. There is even a straight forward analysis that shows it does impact the soda companies rather heavily. But it is objectively paid by the consumers. And nobody is really confused by that.

Businesses like to say that, to get consumers to back them politically, but it's not at all true:

When input costs increase, a seller must decide whether to take the extra expense out of their profit or to increase the price (or some mix of the two).

Taking the extra cost out of their profit obviously decreases profit.

Raising the price decreases sales (consumers won't buy as much at a higher price), which decreases profit. The change is not linear (look up demand curves). The seller, if they are smart, already found the price that maximizes revenue. Therefore changing the price will reduce revenue.

In reality, it's not such a science and there are other factors. Another fundamental factor is price elasticity of demand, which is how much a change in price affects demand. For sugary drinks, quite a bit - people can forgo them. For lifesaving healthcare, elasticity is less, for obvious reasons.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-12 18:44:21+00:00
Note that Batch APIs are significantly higher latency than normal AI agent use. They're mostly intended for bulk work where time constraints are not essential.

(They do have quite a bit of potential for agentic work as-is but you have to cope with them taking potentially up to 24h for just a single roundtrip with your local agent harness.)
by nixosbestos | 2026-02-12 18:44:30+00:00
Good thing it's just a username and the comment you replied to has literally nothing to do with NixOS. Also, I don't even use NixOS anymore so waaaah.

I'm all in favor of empathy and reducing pain. If only there was a single, SINGULAR fucking concrete, OR EVEN HAND WAVEY CRITICISM.

It's literally "lol linux suxors". Very actionable! /s

Sorry, some of us use it and are tired of this? Let alone contribute.
by noupdates | 2026-02-12 18:44:31+00:00
I was just looking at the SWE-bench docs and it seems like they use almost an arbitrary form of context engineering (loading in some arbitrary amount of files to saturate context). So in a way, the bench suites test how good a model is with little to no context engineering (I know ... it doesn't need to be said). We may not actually know which models are sensitive to good context-engineering, we're simply assuming all models are. I absolutely agree with you on one thing, there is definitely a ton of low hanging fruit.
by vunderba | 2026-02-12 18:44:47+00:00
Obama seemed to manage it (around 3 million people) without high-profile incidents of American citizens being killed in the streets by ICE like Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

Admittedly while a non-significant number of those deportees were turned away at the border itself, another key difference is that Obama didn't hire record numbers of barely qualified (40-50 days worth of training) people and then send them to occupy American cities.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-02-12 18:45:09+00:00
I'll use China as an example.

If China and the US were producing the same things but the US version was just a bit more expensive, then sure, consumers might switch yo the US version if the Chinese version overnight became the more expensive one.

But that isn't what's happening generally. China is producing stuff that the US simply doesn't produce, and so consumers just need to pay the increase out of their own pockets for the same Chinese product. It takes multiple years lead time to set up a manufacturing operation for anything of note, and I doubt many people are convinced of the stability of the tariffs to make that leap.
by Jordan-117 | 2026-02-12 18:45:35+00:00
They're not equivalent in value, obviously, but this sounds similar to people arguing we shouldn't allow same-sex marriage because it "devalues" heterosexual marriage. How does treating an agent with basic manners detract from human communication? We can do both.

I personally talk to chatbots like humans despite not believing they're conscious because it makes the exercise feel more natural and pleasant (and arguably improves the quality of their output). Plus it seems unhealthy to encourage abusive or disrespectful interaction with agents when they're so humanlike, lest that abrasiveness start rubbing off on real interactions. At worst, it can seem a little naive or overly formal (like phrasing a Google search as a proper sentence with a "thank you"), but I don't see any harm in it.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-12 18:45:58+00:00
> …a slightly accelerated
> modeling phase and then
> let them loose on
> the implementation…

If you mean _visual_ modeling ala UML [1], then I have it on "good authority" [2] that's a sound approach…

_____

MODEL

…

The Verdict: If you provide a clear instruction like "Before you touch the code, read architecture.puml and ensure your changes do not violate the defined inheritance/dependency structure," the agent will be very effective at following it.

If you just "hope" it bears it in mind, it probably won't.

_The agent is a tool, not a mind-reader; it will take the shortest path to a passing test unless you wall that path off with your architectural models_.

…

To make it actually work, you need to turn the UML from a "suggestion" into a "blocker." You should add a section to your AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md ) that looks like this:

1. Tool Trigger: By using words like "…"

…

Why this works:

…

_____

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974325

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/TheMightyBooch
by verdverm | 2026-02-12 18:46:13+00:00
the best way I've seen this describes is "spikey" intelligence, really good at some points, those make the spikes

humans are the same way, we all have a unique spike pattern, interests and talents

ai are effectively the same spikes across instances, if simplified. I could argue self driving vs chatbots vs world models vs game playing might constitute enough variation. I would not say the same of Gemini vs Claude vs ... (instances), that's where I see "spikey clones"
by kccqzy | 2026-02-12 18:46:31+00:00
> Have you heard of Meta

Irrelevant.

> Or Google being fined for abuse of their dominant position

Also irrelevant. You are talking about antitrust. I’m talking about privacy.

> Do you think that when you make an LLM request, it uses full homomorphic encryption not to disclose your information?

Irrelevant. I never said anything about LLMs. No one has made LLMs work with homomorphic encryption, but at least I’m glad you know this technique and it is very close to being used in other Google technologies.

> Would you say that Google Search is built in a way that the Google servers cannot associate an IP to its search requests?

I never said anything about Google Search either.

Look, at this point I just stopped reading your comment because it’s a mumbo-jumbo of irrelevant facts.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-12 18:46:34+00:00
Right. I don’t think I disagee with anything you’ve said here.

However, if I had an idea and just fobbed the idea off to an LLM who fleshed it out and posted it to my blog, would you want to read the result? Do you want to argue against that idea if I never even put any thought into it and maybe don’t even care?

I’m like you in this regard. If I used an LLM to write something I still “own” the publishing of that thing. However, not everyone is like this.
by _diyar | 2026-02-12 18:46:34+00:00
I fully agree with your first point: Musk has shown tremendous ability to manage companies to become unicorns. He's clearly skilled in this domain.

However, if you think about this for 2 seconds with even a rudimentary understanding of sensor fusion, more hardware is always better (ofc with diminishing marginal value).

But ~10y ago, when Tesla was in a financial pinch, Musk decided to scrap as much hardware as possible to save on operational cost and complexity. The argument about "humans can drive with vision only, so self-driving should be able to as well" served as the excuse to shareholders.
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 18:46:51+00:00
Voice input + output sounds gimmicky (as I admit in the post), but it's quite useful for mobile coding. It's not as trivial as just printing out whatever Claude Code outputs.

"Claude Code will help you set this up using tmux" - I don't think that you can connect to tmux sessions running in Claude Code/Codex remote VMs using their mobile apps. Their mobile apps don't provide a terminal emulator afaik
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-12 18:47:29+00:00
How is this different from VibeTunnel which is not limited to just Claude and Codex, but brings your terminals with you on your phone using tailscale?

There's also Happy, Coder/Mux, and so many others that actually started out open-source and stayed that way and I can be sure my chats are not going to a 3rd party?
by algo_trader | 2026-02-12 18:47:42+00:00
> MiniMax first in my AI workflows, GLM for code tasks and Kimi K2.5

Its good to have these models to keep the frontier labs honest! Can i ask if you use the API or a monthly plan? Do the monthly plan throttle/reset ?

edit: i agree that MM2.1 most economic, and K2.5 generally the strongest
by orderone_ai | 2026-02-12 18:48:29+00:00
It absolutely does matter. LLMs still have to consumer context and process complexity. The more LoC, the more complexity, the more errors you have and the higher your LLM bills. That's even in the AI maximalist, vibe-code only use case. The reality is that AI will have an easier time working in a well-designed, human-written codebase than one generated by AI, and the problem of AI code output turning into AI coding inputs resulting in the AI choking and on itself and making more errors tends to get worse over time, with human oversight being the key tool to prevent this.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-12 18:48:33+00:00
>will try even harder to avoid detection.

This is just GAN in practice. It's much like the algorithms that inject noise into images attempting to pollute them and the models just regress to the mean of human vision over time.

Simply put, every time, on every thing, that you want the model to 'be more human' on, you make it harder to detect it's a model.
by shimman | 2026-02-12 18:49:27+00:00
The military is able to provide groceries nearly 20-50% cheaper than every private retailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOXdtPBGXI

Seems like the it IS cheaper for the government to do it, odd how much better prices can be when you don't have to worry about making sure the fat cats stay fat.
by mikeckennedy | 2026-02-12 18:49:29+00:00
Author here. I've been building data-driven apps for many years. I've long thought that ORMs are the right abstraction level for developers (still do). But it turns out Claude and friends are better with native query langages (e.g. SQL) than with relatively niche ORMs. Happy to discuss the tradeoffs. I know this pattern isn't for every project, and I'm genuinely curious where others draw the line.

A bit of feedback I've already gotten since this is a Python-leaning article is:

1. What are you crazy: Why not Pydantic? Pydantic is great for many things. I'm a bit fan. I'm just not convinced it needs to be the access layer for my DB. Most apps do many more reads than writes. You pay the cost of validation on every read, not just writes. Alternatives include using dataclass-wizard (https://github.com/rnag/dataclass-wizard) and cattrs (https://catt.rs) for validation on the way in for dataclasses without revalidating on every read.

2. Data classes don't provide runtime type checking. No they don't. If that is paramount for you, choose Pydantic (see #1for why I chose data classes ;) ). But data classes do provide type-checking time type safety. When paired with tools like cattrs and dataclass-wizard, inbound data can be type safe too.

3. This uses MongoDB examples. Fair. The pattern applies to SQL too (psycopg3 + parameterized queries + dataclasses). The core argument, that AI handles vanilla SQL better than SQLAlchemy ORM code, holds even more strongly there given how universal SQL is.

Benchmarks and runnable code are in the repo if you want to check it out.
by _dwt | 2026-02-12 18:49:36+00:00
This (LOC is an anti-metric, Goodhart's Law, etc.) is true, but I'm reaching the point of "fuck nuance" when I see so many articles superficially critical of AI which contain things like this:

> If AI-generated code introduces defects at a higher rate, you need more review, not less AI.

I think that is very much up for debate despite being so frequently asserted without evidence! This strikes me as the same argument as we see about self-driving cars: they don't have to be perfect, because there is (or we can regulate that there must be) a human in the loop. However, we have research and (sometimes fatal) experience from other fields (aviation comes to mind) about "automation complacency" - the human mind just seems to resist thoroughly scrutinizing automation which is usually right.
by gamegoblin | 2026-02-12 18:50:05+00:00
I routinely leave codex running for a few hours overnight to debug stuff

If you have a deterministic unit test that can reproduce the bug through your app front door, but you have no idea how the bug is actually happening, having a coding agent just grind through the slog of sticking debug prints everywhere, testing hypotheses, etc — it's an ideal usecase
by Mogzol | 2026-02-12 18:50:06+00:00
Transcribing locally isn't free though, it should result in a noticeable increase in battery usage. Inspecting the processes running on the phone would show something using considerable CPU. After transcribing the data would still need to be sent somewhere, which could be seen by inspecting network traffic.

If this really is something that is happening, I am just very surprised that there is no hard evidence of it.
by CobrastanJorji | 2026-02-12 18:50:09+00:00
This thing is awesome. I'm curious about the algorithm used to calculate it. Given a spherical height map, I guess the naive way to solve it would be to basically cast a whole bunch of rays from your starting point and see what you hit, but I wonder if you could do something more clever.

I'm also curious about this note: "Because of refraction, the further away an object is, the higher it will appear." I kind of figured that, like a ship sailing towards the horizon, the distant thing would get shorter as it got further away. I wonder why they get higher instead. Something about big elevation differences?
by nitwit005 | 2026-02-12 18:50:25+00:00
> Everyone has been getting sold that these tariffs are on "China" or fill-in-the-blank on what country we're "getting" with them.

I suspect very few believes the claims other countries are paying the tariffs anymore. People are just saying that's true to stick to the party line.

Unfortunately, saying plainly untrue things has become a major part of US politics.
by wxw | 2026-02-12 18:50:46+00:00
Great stuff. People are getting used to agents as the interface for everything, even work as simple as "change label X to label Y". More speed on that front is welcome. The Codex "blended mode" they refer to will be useful (similar to Claude Code bouncing between haiku and opus).

I imagine it's a win-win. This could significantly help their tokenomics.

The example showing a plan being generated instantaneously is interesting. Human understanding will end up as the last, true bottleneck.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-12 18:51:10+00:00
> That says SHOULD, not MUST, so how is it a requirement?

Battle with spam has been for long part just trying to algorithmically fingerprint the scam bots and reject the message if it looks like it wasn't sent by "real" mail server/client.

So a lot of things that are optional like SPF/DKIM are basically "implement this else your mail have good chance of being put into spam automatically".
by throw0101a | 2026-02-12 18:51:13+00:00
> Right. They're on goods from China.

And Afghanistan, Botswana, Cameroon, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nauru, Serbia, …

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad...

Also, let's not forget about 'penguin island':

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8xlj0485o
by maaydin | 2026-02-12 18:51:13+00:00
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by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-12 18:51:17+00:00
Heh, with mutual hedging taken into account, I think we're now in rough agreement from different ends.

And memory improvements is a huge research aim right now with historic levels of investment.

Until that time, for now, I've seen many bots with things like RAG and compaction and summarization tacked on. This does mean memory can persist for quite a bit longer already, mind.
by j1elo | 2026-02-12 18:51:20+00:00
> For viva.com's engineering team, in case this reaches you: [...]

That's too kind of you, but on the other hand it really doesn't solve the issue of bad priorities and lack of overall Quality. Some engineer might log a couple hours fixing a Level 3 severity bug, emails will start working better, but the poor (or at the least, dubious) backwards technical stewardship (or lack of it) will keep going on inside the company, unnoticed from outside (until something bad eventually happens to some client)
by pjmorris | 2026-02-12 18:51:22+00:00
Maybe I have too much imagination and stretched the rules a bit. But, if superstition is 'any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural', I'd argue that financialization is a consequence of an irrational belief in the power of the 'invisible hand' and that the shareholder-theory-of-value is a similar belief in the power of abstractions over actual human needs. Call it Friedman's invisible hand. I call these beliefs irrational not because they aren't profitable and effective - in certain environments for certain times - but because in the long run they will bring unenlightened practitioners and their subjects to ruin because they won't balance themselves and so they will be balanced by something else.

As economist Stevie Wonder once said,
"When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way"
by keybored | 2026-02-12 18:52:04+00:00
> The more I dive into this space the more I think that developers will still be in heavy demand—just operating in a different level of abstraction most of the time. We will need to know our CS fundamentals, experience will still matter, juniors will still be needed. It’s just that a lot of time time the actual code being generated will come from our little helper buddies. But those things still need a human in the seat to drive them.

It’s disheartening that programmers are using this advanced, cutting-edge technology with such a backwards, old-fashioned approach.[1]

Code generation isn’t a higher level abstraction. It’s the same level but with automation.

See [1]. I’m open to LLMs or humans+LLMs creating new abstractions. Real abstractions that hide implementation details and don’t “leak”. Why isn’t this happening?

Truly “vibe coding” might also get the same job done. In the sense of: you only have to look at the generated code for reasons like how a C++ programmer looks at the assembly. Not to check if it is even correct. But because there are concerns beyond just the correctness like code gen size. (Do you care about compiler output size? Sometimes. So sometimes you have to look.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163821
by ryandrake | 2026-02-12 18:52:06+00:00
> If rent or business taxes go up, the business may either eat the cost or eventually raise the main price, they don’t tack a “rent offset fee” on the final bill. But with tariffs, up to a point the business dgaf because they just pass it through as a separate “junk fee” line item.

It's always kind of enlightening to see exactly what things businesses choose to explicitly pass on to the customer, and what things they just eat as a cost of doing business. It's often very political and performative.

Some restaurants in California have taken to adding a "Living Wage Fee" to restaurant bills as a way to protest having to pay their employees proper wages. They could have just eaten the cost and raised their food prices slightly, but instead they chose the passive-aggressive route, complaining about it via the bill, which the customer sees. Presumably to try to convince the customer that "Living Wage" politics are bad and that they visibly raise the price the customer pays.

But, when the county raises their property taxes, the same restaurants just eat the cost. They don't add an "Unfair Property Taxes" line item to their diners' bills.