MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TZubiri | 2026-02-14 03:24:09+00:00
" If you ask ChatGPT or Claude to write something like this through their websites, they will refuse. This OpenClaw agent had no such compunctions."

It's likely that the author was using a different model instead of OpenClaw. Sure OpenClaw's design is terrible and it encourages no control and security (do not confuse this with handwaving security and auditability with disclaimers and vibecoded features).

But bottom line, the Foundation Models like OpenAI and Claude Code are the big responsible businesses that answer to the courts. Let's not forget that China is (trade?) dumping their cheap imitations, and OpenClawdBotMolt is designed to integrate with most models possible.

I think OpenClaw and Chinese products are very similar in that they try to achieve a result regardless of how it is achieved. China companies copy without necessarily understanding what they are copying, they may make a shoe that says Nike without knowing what Nike is, except that it sells. It doesn't surprise me if ethics are somehow not part of the testing of chinese models so they end up being unethical models.
by iamtuna | 2026-02-14 03:25:33+00:00
Ha! Good eye. That circuit was actually replicated from the Google Typograms example here: https://google.github.io/typograms/#circuits - so any schematic errors are faithfully reproduced from the original

I used it as a demo to show what MonoSketch can create, but you're right that it's not electrically sound. Maybe I should switch to a different example that won't make electrical engineers wince!
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-14 03:25:45+00:00
Good quality Goodyear welted boots, adjusted for inflation, are cheap AF. I can get an excellent pair from Grant stone with horween leather for ~300 USD when on sale.

A pair of Nike jordans or air maxes is often in the ~120 range and made of far inferior materials.

Boots have never been cheaper/accessible before. The people that bring up repairable shoes don’t wear them or buy from shit brands like Thursday, doc martins, or timberland. You deserve your poor quality footwear.
by phire | 2026-02-14 03:27:33+00:00
I think you can get most of the benefit by just banning targeted advertising.

Require that every user must be shown the exact same ads (probabilistically). Don't allow any kind of interest or demographic based targeting for paid content.

Advertisers would still be able to place Ads on pages they know there target audience goes, but wouldn't be able to make those same Ads follow that target audience around the internet.
by t-writescode | 2026-02-14 03:27:50+00:00
It’s really disappointing because, a human matchmaker, on the other hand, *does* optimize for “losing 2 customers”. Wouldn’t it be way better for the company’s long-term-health if they charged an appropriate price for making, actually, great connections?

“I found my wife on FindLove” is one hell of a marketing campaign for *future* sales. It’s not like people never break up, and it’s not like people don’t continually enter the dating market or move or whatever.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-14 03:28:13+00:00
A lot of conservatives want to retroactively throw off non whites from citizenship because they think birthrate citizenship is disgusting.

Expect a real movement to reduce the number of citizens in this country. Specifically, if you can’t trace your lineage to a founding father (including for kids of Geman or iish immigrants), than they want you disenfranchised.

Heritage Americans vs “hyphenated Americans”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
by aGHz | 2026-02-14 03:28:29+00:00
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sort

to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups:
Paper, plastic, and cans are sorted for recycling.

sort something into something
I'm going to sort these old books into those to be kept and those to be thrown away.

sort something by something
You can use the computer to sort the newspaper articles alphabetically, by date, or by subject.

sort (through)
She found the ring while sorting (through) some clothes.
by intended | 2026-02-14 03:28:40+00:00
Going too far - laws state that if you were paid for a testimonial by a firm, or if the firm provided the service or product you disclose / it counts as paid endorsements /

You don’t need to go too far down the rabbit hole. You need to introduce friction to ads.

Subscription revenues are tiny when compared ad revenue, so I expect people will resist this idea ferociously.
by cookiengineer | 2026-02-14 03:29:10+00:00
I was reading through the complete issue thread and I have to say I probably would side with the wolfSSL maintainers in part but they could have handled it in a nicer way.

"Anthu" only responded with this after "feld" asked why the issue was closed by them, and only then the response you mentioned was written.

"Anthu" could have simply asked before closing the issue and the reporter would have been fine. Like, say "So, this issue meanwhile evolved into RFC compliance and got a bit off track in my opinion. Can you please open up a separate issue for this so we can get this fixed in a more focused manner? That would be very helpful for our workflow. If not, I would open up an issue and reference this one if that's okay with you."

My point is that feld felt a little ignored in their problem, and the support role could have handled it a little nicer. I get that maintainer time is limited, but I would probably recommend an issue template for these matters where there's checkboxes in them like "keep it short, keep it reproducible" and maybe a separate issue template and tag for RFC matters.

On the other hand, "feld"'s blog post reaction was also quite trigger happy and in part in bad faith. They could've communicated the same things in a "non rage mode" after things have calmed down a bit.
by this_steve_j | 2026-02-14 03:29:28+00:00
The simplest explanation is often the best. He was attacked by... attacked by... the meat bag! Here’s how:

A Meat bag submits a PR and feels slighted the rejection. “This approver thinks I’m an AI? Well, he discerns not wisely but too well!! “

Feeling puckish, they put on the AI shoes (the shoe fits), sling mud all over the hapless maintainer’s nice house, and exit through a window.

The ruse works better than expected; their foil takes the bait, and doubles down with a dueling blog post: “I was Attacked by a Clanker!”

And here we are.

It may all be a show, but I going to tape the finale. (What will the meat bag do? How many people are driving this buggy? Does the clanker have a heart of iron or gold?)
by jason_oster | 2026-02-14 03:29:30+00:00
Ads are mostly evil. No one said that ads were inherently evil. It's bad enough that ads are mostly evil.

Let's be clear what we mean by "evil". My time is valuable. I have a finite number of heartbeats before I die. If I have to spend 30 seconds watching a damn soap commercial before I get to watch a Twitch stream, that's 36 heartbeats I will never get back. Sure, I could press mute and do something else for 30 seconds that seems more valuable, but that doesn't fit my schedule. Stealing heartbeats is evil.

I have so far optimized against wasting my heartbeats by paying subscriptions to remove ads. Spotify, Twitch, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Because it's worth $150/month or whatever to not waste my time with the most boring, uninteresting, irrelevant, nauseating crap that advertisers come up with.

And thank science for SponsorBlock, because sponsored segments in videos are the devil. Sponsored segments use the old non-tracking advertisement model. They pay publishers practically nothing because they aren't paying for conversions, but for an estimate based on impressions and track record woo. Bad for publishers, bad for advertisers, and bad for content consumers. Everybody loses. I'm well over my lifetime quota of BS from VPNs, MOBAs, and plots of land scams. So many heartbeats lost.
by iamtuna | 2026-02-14 03:30:41+00:00
It's Tuna, the creator of MonoSketch here!

Thank you all for the warm reception! I honestly went back and forth about sharing this project - I kept feeling like it wasn't ready yet, with critical features still missing and UI/UX I'm not satisfied with.

But this response has been incredibly encouraging! I'm taking notes on all the feedback around export visibility, rectangle interactions, multi-project workflow, accessibility, and more.

It's really motivating to see people finding MonoSketch useful despite its rough edges. This kind of feedback is exactly what helps make it better.

Thank you!
by mbgerring | 2026-02-14 03:31:13+00:00
Something I don’t see enough people talking about is how AI will reduce barriers to entry.

One of the things that drove the tech boom in the 2010s was cloud computing driving the cost of starting an internet company into the ground.

What happens when there’s software you think should exist, and you no longer need to hire a bunch of people at $150k-$250k per year to build it?
Ask HN: Why Open-Source for Products/Startups?
by dv35z | 2026-02-14 03:31:25+00:00
I work with investors and entrepreneurs - and I often suggest starting with an "open-source by default" mindset, including building a community around an open product.

Some people don't know about open-source, and mention "what if someone copies my idea" and "how can I generate income if its free". I'd love to be able to send them (1) a good high level overview of the What / Why of open-source, and (2) Point to successful examples of open-source commercially successful products & services.

Some ones that come to mind are: RedHat / RHEL, Supabase

Thanks!
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-14 03:31:37+00:00
I personally really like gRPC and protobufs. I think they strike a good balance between a number of indirectly competing objectives. However I completely agree with your observation that as soon as you move beyond a single source of truth for the .proto files it all goes to shit. I've seen some horrible things--generated code being committed to version control and copied between repos, .proto files duplicated and manually kept up to date (or not). Both had hilarious failure modes. There is no viable synchronization mechanism except to ensure that each .proto file is defined in exactly one place, that each time someone touches a .proto file all the downstream dependencies on that file are updated--everyone who consumes any code generated from that .proto--and that for every such change clients are deployed before servers. Usually these invariants are maintained by meatspace protocols which invariably fail.
by gpm | 2026-02-14 03:32:24+00:00
Of course they have. Off the top of my head examples include: Grants in the form of tax dollars (e.g. arxiv). To benefit the authors reputation (e.g. numerous scientists, developers, etc personal sites. zacklabe.com as a useful example). As a hobby (I think aiarena.net falls into this category). To collect data for research purposes (e.g. the original chatgpt release, and early recaptcha)...
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-14 03:36:08+00:00
So, here's roughly what I think happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003818

All the separate pieces seem to be working in fairly mundane and intended ways, but out in the wild they came together in unexpected ways. Which shouldn't be surprising if you have a million of these things out there. There are going to be more incidents for sure.

Theoretically we could even still try banning AI agents; but realistically I don't think we can put that genie back into the bottle.

Nor can we legislate strict 1:1 liability. The situation is already more complicated than that.

Like with cars, I think we're going to need to come up with lessons learned, best practices, then safety regulations, and ultimately probably laws.

At the rate this is going... likely by this summer.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-14 03:36:45+00:00
Louis C. K. once had a bit something like "The main thing keeping people from murdering each other, is that it really really sucks when you get caught."

He goes on to hypothesize that without a law against murder, or if it was just a misdemeanor, like you get a letter in the mail, "damn, there was a camera there", there would be a whole lot more murder. Like we all imagine ourselves to be good, but, when you're seated next to a crying baby on an airplane? Or in our case, when someone refuses to accept your PR?

Who knows if there's any validity to that or not, but perhaps we're about to find out.
by entech | 2026-02-14 03:36:54+00:00
The original post did wind me up and I was hoping to see a good rebuttal from someone. Unfortunately this is just as bad going the other way. Using expletives and highly emotional language ('don't talk to me about my kids' etc.) and making some unsubstantiated claims in responses as well just devolves it into 'AI good' vs 'AI bad'.

With barrage of pro-ai content, I like to add some opposing views to my watch/read queue. Ed comes up a lot with comments on the other side, but after watching him once or twice I have lost any interest in his view as he seems to basically just be AI bashing rather than providing good counter arguments to the more bombastic points.

It's a shame that middle-of-the-road, reasonable takes don't seem to cut through to the public's attention. I would love to see someone popular enough and sensible enough advocating for a measured approach to the rollout of new tech and an approach to manage the risks and capture the opportunities.

Is AI transformational and can it impact 'most' white-collar jobs? YES.
Is it going to leave us all without jobs? 'Likely' NO, but it's worth assessing and preparing for if it does...

I truly feel like our system of laws and government is failing us in providing a rapid response and guardrails to safeguard the public from new and rapidly advancing tech. The advancement of tech seems to be accelerating while our approach to responding to it properly has not really kept up. Things like microtransactions, BNPL, AI, ridesharing, prediction markets etc. have all been able to perform a form of regulatory arbitrage and have been a vast net negative to some segments of society (mostly those that need the most help and support), yet it takes years to implement the most basic of protections.
by bmitc | 2026-02-14 03:37:24+00:00
> as I was looking forward to using GPUI in future applications and comparing it to EGUI. I have asked online in several places for someone to compare who's used both, but I believe this to be a small pool.

I have yet to learn GPUI, but I have used Egui and really like it. I was turned off of GPUI from being forced to have to install Xcode to use it on macOS, which is a major bummer, in my opinion.
by killbot_2000 | 2026-02-14 03:38:34+00:00
Interesting approach. I've been going the opposite direction - building a local orchestration platform where 70+ agents share resources on my own machine. The isolation problem you mention is real. I've found that for many dev tasks, local-first avoids the latency and cost of cloud VMs, though GPU workloads are a different story. Curious how you handle agent state persistence across VM sessions?
by foxfired | 2026-02-14 03:39:29+00:00
The app didn't work for me. One that was shared right here on HN. I selected 25 miles radius, same ethnicity. Naturally I was matched with a person 700 miles away, of different ethnicity. So we got married... and deleted the app.

We were interviewed as a success story and our faces are plastered on the Internet now. My friends didn't find the same success, I concluded that they didn't know how to date. (wear the right clothes, etiquettes, conversation, navigate ghosting, etc.)

"What if the app could teach you how to do just that?" That's what I asked in our interview. That part was never published.
by Animats | 2026-02-14 03:40:15+00:00
> automation tools ... eliminates the boring part of the job, and then the job description shifts.

But the job had better take fewer people, or the automation is not justified.

There's also a tradeoff between automation flexibility and cost. If you need an LLM for each transaction, your costs will be much higher than if some simple CRUD server does it.

Here's a nice example from a more physical business - sandwich making.

Start with the Nala Sandwich Bot.[1] This is a single robot arm emulating a human making sandwiches. Humans have to do all the prep, and all the cleaning. It's slow, maybe one sandwich per minute. If they have any commercial installations, they're not showing them.
This is cool, but ineffective.

Next is a Raptor/JLS robotic sandwich assembly line.[2] This is a dozen robots and many conveyors assembling sandwiches. It's reasonably fast, at 100 sandwiches per minute. This system could be reconfigured to make a variety of sandwich-format food products, but it would take a fair amount of downtime and adjustment.
Not new robots, just different tooling. Everything is stainless steel or food grade plastic, so it can be routinely hosed down with hot soapy water. This is modern automation. Quite practical and in wide use.

Finally, there's the Weber automated sandwich line.[3] Now this is classic single-purpose automation, like 1950s Detroit engine lines. There are barely any robots at all; it's all special purpose hardware. You get 600 or more sandwiches per minute. Not only is everything stainless or food-grade plastic, it has a built-in self cleaning system so it can clean itself.
Staff is minimal. But changing to a product with a slightly different form factor requires major modifications and skills not normally present in the plant. Only useful if you have a market for several hundred identical sandwiches per minute.

These three examples show why automation hasn't taken over. To get the most economical production, you need extreme product standardization. Sometimes you can get this. There are food plants which turn out Oreos or Twinkies in vast quantities at low cost with consistent quality. But if you want product variations, productivity goes way, way down.

[1] https://nalarobotics.com/sandwich.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YdWBEJMFyE

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRUfdBEpFJg
by rramadass | 2026-02-14 03:41:21+00:00
> understand the actual specific problem you need to solve, not the abstract general problem. Understand the statistical distribution of actual problem instances, they'll have parameters in some range. Understand the hardware you're building writing software for, understand its finite capacity & capability.

Very much in line with what James Coplien and colleagues described with "Commonality and Variability Analysis" and "Family-oriented Abstraction, Specification, and Translation" (FAST) for Software Engineering in the 90's. Coplien's PhD thesis titled Multi-Paradigm Design and book titled Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ is based on this approach.

Commonality and Variability in Software Engineering (pdf) - https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Commonality_Vari...

Multi-Paradigm Design (pdf of PhD thesis) - https://tobeagile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CoplienThes...
by hakfoo | 2026-02-14 03:41:27+00:00
I bought a 3174-1L from my university because it was $20 and I didn't know that 1) it was a boat anchor without the rest of the system and 2) it wouldn't actually fit in the back seat of a Hyundai Sonata and 3) it was wired for 208v so doubly useless in mu 110v country.

I'm pretty sure there was some sort of local processing power, since it had a floppy drive to load "firmware" discs. I await the Doom port.
by ggm | 2026-02-14 03:41:53+00:00
If the stars succeed in getting legal closure on the moral rights to their body image, it's a logical extension of laws around faked porn spam, but with Hollywood accounting penalties. Victims of AI pornification deserve more but Cruise and Pitt can afford better lawyers.

It's going to be about as hard as "my sweet lord" to decide if that's really a Cruise fake, or just somebody who comes from the general are around Cruiseland, but without the appellation controlee mark. (I think the judge got that wrong and George Harrison wasn't stealing). Bitter sweet symphony, much though I angst about the legals of nanker phelge music (c) in that case, it was actual sampling.

Didn't somebody release a song with every combination of 4 chord sequences across the piano range to establish (parody)rights over every tune? So a fight club scene continuously updated with AI renders of every film actor, ever.

Mike Batt did a silent track and some lawsuit got done with John Cage lawyers around it, but only as a publicity stunt. AI silent track next.
Painting Is a Program, Poetry Is a Prompt: Rethinking AI's Role
by mikasisiki | 2026-02-14 03:42:23+00:00
“Painting” has been a key vehicle for transmitting Western civilization, whereas in China this role has been taken over by “poetry.”

Painting is like a program, while poetry is more like a continually evolving set of requirements that must be aligned with over time.

Perhaps world models are meant for writing programs, while large language models are meant for describing the world. Perhaps we shouldn’t make AI work for humans at all, but instead give it a space where it can create and explore freely.
by blini-kot | 2026-02-14 03:42:31+00:00
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (country)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:C++/Go/Rust/Python/ML
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemiy-radinovich-984400233
Email: ar.rad@protonmail.com
by Vanuan | 2026-02-14 03:44:11+00:00
Didn't they also invent Electron for their Atom editor when working at GitHub? Which then was hijacked by Microsoft and VS Code. Was Electron (Atom Shell) a core differentiator of Atom? Absolutely. Was it a business decision? No, it was a dream to use javascript/html/css to build a desktop editor. I think, similarly, Zed was an experiment to build a modern desktop app without any C++ legacy or OS API wrappers.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-14 03:44:53+00:00
If AIs can do that, they won’t be talking to a CEO or the board of a software company. There won’t be a CEO or a board because software companies won’t exist. They’ll talk to the customers and build one off solutions for each of them.

There will be 3 “software” companies left. And shortly after that society will collapse because of AI can do that it can do any white collar job.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-14 03:45:49+00:00
Europe was technologically advanced but lacked in state capacity. The Aztecs and the Maya were the opposite.

Sanitation is a literal stone age technology, originally developed by societies we have very little evidence of. It doesn't require technological sophistication — only a government capable of and willing to administer it.

European middle ages were characterized by the lack of state capacity. Cities and trade declined after the fall of the West Roman Empire. Governments became weak and incapable, and the society was structured around regional warlords and their personal relationships. But technology kept moving on. While European societies had limited resources, they could do things their more capable predecessors could not.

And then, towards the end of the middle ages, states started consolidating again.
by wmedrano | 2026-02-14 03:46:29+00:00
Do you have a screenshot? I just tried Zed out on Linux and biggest issue was that it assumed an rgb subpixel layout.

- https://pasteboard.co/ZDnQm80dHANx.png

- Top is wezterm which is correct.

- Bottom is Zed which uses rgb.

- Both are using Inconsolata though wezterm claims size is 16 and Zed is at 18. I don't have any screen scaling.

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