MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seba_dos1 | 2026-02-18 07:31:32+00:00
You're vigorously defending a poorly thought out title by inventing irrelevant contexts and falsely accusing multiple people of being wrong because they claimed such uncontroversial things like "AOSP is Android". Sure, if we want to be strictly correct then AOSP is not Android, but rather the name of a Google project that distributes the source code of Android - but that's not how you used the term either.

What people objected to is the concept of "breaking free from Android" by using a soft-fork of Google-developed Android. Interpreting the title as "break free from flavors of Android that can use the Google's trademark in their marketing; here's one that can't" is just ridiculous and not what anyone will think about when reading it. The current one ("break free from Google") is still objectionable, but slightly less since you could make a point that relying on Google-developed codebase that's soft-forked by someone else actually is significant enough step away from using something that comes straight from Google and tightly integrates with their proprietary services. It's still quite obviously hyperbolic, especially when actual non-Android alternatives also exist.
by gethly | 2026-02-18 07:32:20+00:00
When this might have been a problem in the past, I basically always reminded myself that there was nothing i could not do. Whatever problem or obstacle I faced, I always overcame it. And that always gave me confidence. Plus, allow yourself to say "i don't know". It's actually a good sign of a sr programmer if he has the balls to say this to a boss, customer, other devs,... because a jr would feel dumb but a sr feels confident in that he does not know but also that he can learn.
by vintermann | 2026-02-18 07:33:46+00:00
Reply to your edit: what if we wanted to do with the water was simply to drink it?

"Meritocratic climbing on the social ladder", I'm sorry but what are you on about?? As if that was the meaning in life? As if that was even a goal in itself?

If it's one thing we need to learn in the age of AI, it's not to confuse the means to an end and the end itself!
by awestroke | 2026-02-18 07:33:47+00:00
Tried this with Claude models, ChatGPT models and Gemini models. Haiku and Sonnet failed almost every time, as did ChatGPT models. Gemini succeeded with reasoning, but used Google Maps tool calls without reasoning (lol). 50% success rate still.

The only model that consistently answers it correctly is Opus 4.6
by snapetom | 2026-02-18 07:35:53+00:00
I hear you. After the first season, the tech and industry was just a backdrop, and I couldn't get into because the rest of it was pretty weak.

I had the same feeling but the opposite outcome with Silicon Valley. Growing up in Palo Alto, it took me a while to figure out if I was enjoying this show because it was genuinely funny or if it was just because it hit the absurdity of the time and place so well.
by sixtyj | 2026-02-18 07:35:54+00:00
There was a discussion yesterday that LLM generated “Show HN” posts should be moved to another thread :)

Nevertheless, it looks nice but I can’t be sure that texts are correct. Did OP check everything because she/he knows deeply the topic?

Citations give credits to text but can we be sure about them if they are automatically generated? Live links to arXiv or ResearchGate would be much better.

Graphics and visualisations look great, well done.
by dahcryn | 2026-02-18 07:36:21+00:00
not true at all, onboarding is complex too. E.g. you cant just connect claude to your outlook, or have it automate stuff in your CRM. As a office drone, you don't have the admin permissions to setup those connections at all.

And that's the point here: value is handicapped by the web interface, and we are stuck there for the foreseeable future until the tech teams get their priorities straight and build decent data integration layers, and workflow management platforms.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-02-18 07:37:01+00:00
There's also an issue where Hewitt's actors were more like Erlang processes, i.e. unlike Scheme closures, they could run independently of each other. Maybe call/cc can simulate something like that. I remember the footnote in SICP claiming that Scheme was developed partly to understand what Hewitt was talking about, but I think that might not have been serious. It could be worth trying to talk to Steele or Sussman about this history.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-18 07:39:38+00:00
> I would love to play a modern version of this.

Steam and GoG have a version of Railroad Tycoon 2 which works well on modern machines:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/7620/Railroad_Tycoon_II_P...

https://www.gog.com/en/game/railroad_tycoon_2

Not quite as old-school as the first version, but IMHO gameplay-wise "just right".
by francescomi | 2026-02-18 07:39:52+00:00
I live in Dubai, UAE and I can see with my own eyes that the sanctions strategy doesn't work, here Russians buy whathever they like and send it to Russia. There are companies that do this. They hire workers from poor countries promising a good life here in Dubai and they send them in Ukraine to fight. To fight agains Russia we need to attack every nations that have deals with Russia. Let's sanction everyone who makes deals with Russia, let's really block everything that goes to Russia and then maybe the Russian economy with crash
Show HN: Improved Finder / Spotlight search using Raycast extension
by atharva_n | 2026-02-18 07:41:13+00:00
Finder / Spotlight search on Mac isn't great. It usually gives me a lot of junk (python caches, irrelevant system files, etc), instead of what I'm looking for. So I decided to implement my own filtering + search, with an extension to Raycast.

Key features

- Search is limited to my Documents/ and Downloads/ folders – where 95% of my relevant files are.

- Also, there are a lot of Claude-generated exclusion patterns!

- Filtering is simple – I'm just doing it by sub/string match.

Finder does have a lot of niceties (previewing files, looking at metadata, etc). So the default behaviour is 'hit enter' to open in Finder. Or 'Cmd + enter' opens the file directly.
by Animats | 2026-02-18 07:41:53+00:00
This is so out of hand.

There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. The image was purchased from Alamy Stock Photo. I recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive; the video had AI-generated images that looked wrong, despite GG-1 pictures being widely available.
YouTube is creating fake images as thumbnails for videos now, and for industrial subjects they're not even close to the right thing. There's a glut of how-to videos with AI-generated voice giving totally wrong advice.

Then newer LLM training sets will pick up this stuff.

"The memes will continue" - White House press secretary after posting an altered shot of someone crying.
by maxbond | 2026-02-18 07:42:04+00:00
Well he certainly wouldn't but the engineers working for Tesla might, with a probability that is very low but greater than 0. It's much higher (but still low) in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. Tomorrow is a metanym for the future.

But to be very clear I not only don't think they will but I don't think that they think they will, or they wouldn't be shifting focus to Optimus. I'm not invested in Tesla except for my exposure through
index funds.

If anyone who is a fan of Tesla can get through this article without changing their mind. Well. Bless their heart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-a...

https://archive.ph/K4ckR
by phicoh | 2026-02-18 07:42:25+00:00
One issue is that Europe got caught with it pants down. It likely that Europe will keep improving its defense long after it is no long necessary from an economic point of view. Supporting Ukraine in destroying whatever Russia manages to produce is a sound strategy in this context.

If Russia really becomes weaker and the war winds down a bit, then supporting Ukraine is likely to become cheaper as well. But as long as Russia manages to send tons of drones and missiles to Ukraine, Europe should be worried. So Ukraine will remain a testing ground for air defense for a while.

There is also the issue with the Baltic countries and to some extent Finland. Those countries are terrified that Russia will do something stupid.
by stackghost | 2026-02-18 07:42:51+00:00
It's perennially baffling to me why we're still clinging to VT220/xterm compatible terminals. I even see people claiming they prefer working in the terminal, though it's not clear to me what type of work those people are doing.

Give me a proper graphical application any day, but I recognize that it's historically been a lot more work to produce a GUI in the pre-LLM era.

But golly gee whizz if we're going to keep the command line around, can we move on from 1983?
Show HN: Sovereign – Multi-agent OS with GraphRAG memory and HITL checkpoints
by borhensaidi | 2026-02-18 07:43:45+00:00
I built this because existing agent frameworks either give agents god-mode filesystem access with no safety controls, or they're too locked down to be useful.

Key things I cared about that most frameworks skip:

- Runtime HITL checkpoints — pause mid-execution when risk is high, resume from exact state
- Hybrid memory: vector + BM25 keyword + graph entities/relations scored together, no external dependencies
- Security as a primitive: path jail sandbox, OTP pairing, XOR-encrypted local secrets
- 22+ LLM providers with per-agent model policy and fallback chains
- Multi-agent councils with debate rounds, soul evolution, and skill memory

Node.js, Prisma, Postgres/Redis, Docker. 55/55 tests passing. Apache 2.0.

Happy to answer questions about any of the architecture decisions.
by whiplash451 | 2026-02-18 07:44:05+00:00
> And sadly everyone has the same ideas

I'm not sure that's true. If LLMs can help researchers implement (not find) new ideas faster, they effectively accelerate the progress of research.

Like many other technologies, LLMs will fail in areas and succeed in others. I agree with your take regarding business ideas, but the story could be different for scientific discovery.
by Retric | 2026-02-18 07:44:36+00:00
Most people have a rather consistent commute, so the Mercedes was a more like a 0% or 80% kind of thing. The issue was adding more roads wasn’t going to help, the underlying benefit to attention free driving just wasn’t that valuable even to customers who could use the system regularly.

They are looking to reintroduce it with a much higher top of 81MPH which might help, but agin my issue isn’t with the particular system but the underlying assumption of how much people value attention free driving.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-18 07:45:15+00:00
There is only extremely flimsy speculation in that post.

> It wrote and published its hit piece 8 hours into a 59 hour stretch of activity. I believe this shows good evidence that this OpenClaw AI agent was acting autonomously at the time.

This does not indicate… anything at all. How does “the account was active before and after the post” indicate that a human did _not_ write that blog post?

We know that the operator was regularly looped into things the bot was doing.

> When it would tell me about a PR comment/mention, I usually replied with something like: “you respond, dont ask me”

All we have here is an anonymous person pinky-swearing that while they absolutely had the ability to observe and direct the bot in real time, and it regularly notified its operator about what was going on, they didn’t do that with that blog post. Well, that, and another person claiming to be the first person in history to experience a new type of being harassed online, based on a GitHub activity graph.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-18 07:45:18+00:00
> Another study from 2015 showing that credit card logos increase estimates of item value

Notably, the abstract of the 2015 study specifically points out that the 1986 study has frequently failed to replicate, and although it finds an effect, the 2015 study has n = 28. As always with psychology studies, we would do well not to assert their purported findings as facts, as with the statement "The brand effect is so strong that displaying a Visa logo near checkout literally increases consumer spend". Psychology as a field is far too unreliable to make such assertions with confidence.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-18 07:45:49+00:00
The first commit was 17k lines. So this was either developed without using version control or at least without using this gh repo. Either way I have to say certain sections do feel like they would have been prime targets for having an LLM write them. You could do all of this by hand in 2026, but you wouldn't have to. In fact it would probably take forever to do this by hand as a single dev. But then again there are people who spend 2000 hours building a cpu in minecraft, so why not. The result speaks for itself.
by xienze | 2026-02-18 07:46:49+00:00
How is caching implemented in this scenario? I find it unlikely that two developers are going to ask the same exact question, so at a minimum some work has to be done to figure out “someone’s asked this before, fetch the response out of the cache.” But then the problem is that most questions are peppered with specific context that has to be represented in the response, so there’s really no way to cache that.
by zahlman | 2026-02-18 07:46:53+00:00
That's pretty hard to reconcile with OP's claim:

> In 2010, I wrote A successful Git branching model and created a diagram to go with it. I designed that diagram in Apple Keynote, at the time obsessing over the colors, the curves, and the layout until it clearly communicated how branches relate to each other over time. I also published the source file so others could build on it.

If you mean that the Microsoft publisher shouldn't be faulted for assuming it would be okay to reproduce the diagram... then said publisher should have actually reproduced the diagram instead of morging it.
by shahidsj | 2026-02-18 07:47:25+00:00
"I built this because I was tired of 'free' invoicing tools that force you to create an account or add watermarks to your PDFs.
Key features:

100% Client-side: Your data stays in your browser (privacy-first).

No Signup: Just open and start billing.

No Watermarks: Clean, professional PDFs.

It’s a simple utility tool for freelancers and indie hackers. I would love to get some technical feedback from the HN community on the UI or features you'd like to see!"
by xdotli | 2026-02-18 07:47:32+00:00
no worries it's totally fine! there is indeed work needs to be done on the feedbacks generated skills. Thanks for helping us submitting on HackerNews. And for
> a lot of Skills on GitHub are just AI-generated without any feedback or deliberative refinement. Many thought those would still be valuable, but you've shown evidence otherwise.
we do find most skills on the internet to be useless, and thanks to the generosity of https://skillsmp.com/ author, we were able to get all the meta data of the 99k skills indexed on his website. We did a lot of filtering and deduping and we discovered ~40k+ skills were relevant at the time we did the study.
by alexhans | 2026-02-18 07:48:38+00:00
I've naturally done this a lot and suggested that other people prompt this way. I can see how a "ready made" solution with this behaviour could be interesting.

The compliance parts are good to make clear considerating one segment of the user target audience.

May I ask what techniques do you use to test regressions or correct behaviour of your multi turn conversation in your product? What are the biggest lessons and learnings in that space?
by BrunoVT1992 | 2026-02-18 07:49:12+00:00
GUID / UUID v4 is the most widely used GUID / UUID version and is designed to be generated from randomness or a cryptographically secure pseudorandom generator. It requires no coordination, no central authority, no clock synchronization and no device identifiers. Making it ideal for distributed systems, APIs, databases and general-purpose unique identifiers.
by camgunz | 2026-02-18 07:49:35+00:00
But you would see more houses, or housing build costs/bids fall.

This is where the whole "show me what you built with AI" meme comes from, and currently there's no substitute for SWEs. Maybe next year or next next year, but mostly the usage is generating boring stuff like internal tool frontends, tests, etc. That's not nothing, but because actually writing the code was at best 20% of the time cost anyway, the gains aren't huge, and won't be until AI gets into the other parts of the SDLC (or the SDLC changes).
by janpmz | 2026-02-18 07:49:48+00:00
I got almost the same reply, including the "push it" nonsense:

> Walk! It would be a bit counterproductive to drive a dirty car 50 meters just to get it washed — and the walk will take you less than a minute. You can simply pull the car out and push or walk it over, or drive it the short distance once you're ready to wash it. Either way, no need to "drive" in any meaningful sense for just 50 meters.
by KennyBlanken | 2026-02-18 07:49:50+00:00
Wow you're so very smart! You should tell all the llm and stablediffusion developers who had no idea it existed! /s

HIP has been dismissed for years because it was a token effort at best. Linux only until the last year or two, and even now it only supports a small number of their cards.

Meanwhile CUDA runs on damn near anything, and both Linux and Windows.

Also, have you used AMD drivers on Windows? They can't seem to write drivers or Windows software to save their lives. AMD Adrenalin is a slow, buggy mess.

Did I mention that compute performance on AMD cards was dogshit until the last generation or so of GPUs?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-18 07:50:09+00:00
> According to who?

According to researchers who actually ran blinded tests: https://daily.jstor.org/the-coca-cola-wars-can-anybody-reall...

What's funny is kind of the reverse is also true: when people were given the exact same cola but one was labeled Coke and the other Pepsi, not only did they say they preferred Coke, but fMRI brain scans should more prefrontal cortex activation for the Coke as well: https://medium.com/@marketingoal/the-pepsi-vs-cola-cola-expe... . That's the power of branding.
by lixiasky | 2026-02-18 07:51:03+00:00
You hit the nail on the head. C++20 coroutines are indeed complex and the barrier to entry is high.
However, that complexity actually forced me to start from first principles. It drove me to tackle the essential problems from the ground up, which gave me a much deeper understanding of how coroutines truly work.
That is exactly why I built this project—I wanted to create a minimal "laboratory" to dissect stackless coroutines without the overhead of a massive framework like Seastar.
Regarding your point on Erlang/Go: That's actually the goal of this scheduler! It implements the M:N threading model (Work-Stealing) to simulate that kind of "lightweight process" concurrency, but giving you manual control over the mechanics.
Hope this helps you finally wrap your head around co_await!
by zerocrates | 2026-02-18 07:51:04+00:00
The first one, the one based on the book, was great and did fly a good deal under the radar. But definitely one of those ones with a core fanbase that evangelized for it and good critical notices. Elsewhere in this discussion Jared Harris's role in Foundation has been mentioned; he's a major, consistent, and excellent fixture in The Terror.

Since they used the book's story already, they made a turn for the series to be an anthology of loosely thematically-similar stories (think American Horror Story). The basic setting of season 2 is Japanese internment during World War II in America, and it's from different writers than the first, and of course isn't adapting the novel anymore. It was much less popular both in terms of viewers and critics.

I'm a little surprised they think the brand still carries enough power to put another original story in there under its name for a season 3. It's also a bit of a double-edged sword: you do get name recognition and some built-in initial audience, but you're also taking on expectations and baggage from the original. This is a factor in season 2's tepid reception, and there have been other similar attempts to slide something unrelated in under an existing banner that backfired: True Detective Night Country comes to mind.
by pas | 2026-02-18 07:51:11+00:00
they increase productivity, which is one of the most important part of the real economy, separates a lot of grueling manual labor while starving (so the Malthusian state) from having so much economic surplus that we have the opposite of starving in advanced economies.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26371/w263...

the finding is that on average, target firms add jobs and see improved labor productivity
by KeplerBoy | 2026-02-18 07:51:24+00:00
This is a big part of AMD still not having a proper foothold in the space: AMD Instinct is quite different from what regular folks can easily put in their workstation. In Nvidia-land I can put anything from mid-range gaming cards, over a 5090 to an RTX 6000 Pro in my machine and be confident that my CUDA code will scale somewhat acceptably to a datacenter GPU.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-18 07:51:48+00:00
> You wouldn't expect a Vim user to just abandon their muscle memory and just switch to Emacs.

Expect to just abandon, no. Expect to spend a reasonable time learning and trying out the new interaction paradigm to see if it could (after controlling for unfamilliarity) also suit them, yes. (The ultimate answer may turn out to be negative, like for me in the case of Emacs.)
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-18 07:52:07+00:00
> NMC li-ion batteries have fallen down to $100 per kWh on the _pack_ level (not cell).

When the Cybertruck was released in 2023 it was $139, making it more like $18k. And that's just the battery, you still need to make the rest of the truck and pay all your other overhead before you get to the MSRP.

The problem is you can't sell a boring $40k truck for $60k, so instead they tried to make an "interesting" truck for $80k, but nobody wants that either. They should've just waited until they could make a boring electric truck for $40k.

> US automakers are sooooo screwed.

Ten years ago packs were $345/kWh and then electric cars have to be premium products. For under $100 they don't and then all it's going to take is for one company to start selling an electric car in the US that costs less than the equivalent gasoline car.

They'll figure it out when the demand shifts. It doesn't take that long to reconfigure factories, they do it every time they come out with a new model anyway.
by zahlman | 2026-02-18 07:52:12+00:00
> You apparently did not read the article.

Please don't say things like this in comments (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

I don't think "LLM" and "hallucinated" are accurate; different kinds of AI create images, and I get the impression that they generally don't ascribe semantics to words in the same way that LLMs do, and thus when they draw letter shapes they typically aren't actually modelling the fact that the letters are supposed to spell a particular word that has a particular meaning.
by lixiasky | 2026-02-18 07:54:19+00:00
That is a fascinating comparison! History really does rhyme.
What you described—suspending with a flag and resuming with new values—is surprisingly similar to how the C++20 compiler transforms coroutines into a state machine under the hood.
In tiny_coro, the promise_type essentially manages that "inversion of control" you mentioned, but hides the manual state management behind the co_await syntax. It's really cool to see that these fundamental patterns for "stopping and resuming" computation have existed for so long, just in different forms.
by leononame | 2026-02-18 07:55:42+00:00
English has present perfect, and past perfect. E.g. "I have walked" and "I had walked", both tenses are participated (ie "walked" instead of "walk"). These two are similar to the German Perfekt and Plusquamperfekt which are also participated.

The problem here is that the simple past "He went" uses an auxiliary verb for negations "He didn't go". In this case, "go" is not participated.