MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chris37879 | 2026-02-23 19:13:58+00:00
Did we? I know they lost some court cases, had to adjust advertising and so on, but was any tobacco company actually held accountable for the harm they caused? The answer is no because they all still exist and are profitable entities. Corporations that cause the harm they did should be subject to dissolution.

Also, if they were genuinely responsible, why can a child's parents be held accountable for them developing an addiction? The company was responsible, not the parent... do you see how ignorant that sounds?
by themafia | 2026-02-23 19:14:06+00:00
> Jon made the provocative comment that we needed to revisit our policy around having a small standard library. He’s not the first to say something like that, it’s something we’ve been hearing for years and years

It sounds to me like you "cross the chasm" a little too early. As a user I don't care about your "chasms" I care about high quality durable systems. This isn't the first time I've heard the "we'll change the std lib later" logic. I've yet to see it actually work.
by Animats | 2026-02-23 19:14:12+00:00
It's nice that they have what they claim is a solid state battery. But having a small prototype isn't that big a deal at this point. All the major players have prototype solid state batteries that work. Nobody has volume production yet, and volume production seems to be hard and expensive, according to CATL and Samsung.

Mercedes has a test car with a solid state battery.[1] The battery is from Factorial Energy. There's only one such car, and they don't say how much it cost to make the prototype battery.

Ducati has a test motorcycle with a solid state battery.[2] The battery is from QuantumScape. There's only one such motorcycle.

Here's Fraunhofer IKTS making a solid state battery at lab scale.[3] The whole process is shown. Huge amount of effort to make one coin cell.

Samsung prototype.[4] Samsung has been talking about shipping tiny solid state batteries for wearables in 2026. Still too expensive for cell phones, which gives a sense of cost.

All the serious players can make a prototype by now. But the chemistry that's used for the prototypes may not be suitable for production. They have to balance capacity, weight, charge time, cycle life, manufacturing cost, and materials cost. (Samsung made a battery with a substantial silver content. It works, but that's not going to be a volume product)

These problems will be overcome, because throwing money at them works. The history of the tungsten-filament light bulb is worth reviewing. Making fine tungsten wire is very difficult. From 1913 to 2010, a huge plant in Euclid, Ohio, made most of the tungsten wire for light bulbs. There were a lot of process steps.[5]

[1] https://electrek.co/2025/02/24/mercedes-tests-first-solid-st...

[2] https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/news/ducati-s-electric-research...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SVrp8N-1M

[4] https://news.samsungsdi.com/global/articleView?seq=203

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuhapGSexyg
by LeFantome | 2026-02-23 19:14:27+00:00
> Soon it will do everything better and faster than me

There is no evidence of that coming from this post. The work was highly directly by an extremely skilled engineer. As he points out, it was small chunks. What chunks and in what order were his decision.

Is AI re-writing those chunks much faster than he could. Yes. Very much so. Is it doing it better? Probably not. So, it is mostly just faster when you are very specific about what it should do. In other words, it is not a competitor. It is a tool.

And the entire thing was constrained by a massive test suite. AI did not write that. It does not even understand why those tests are the way they are.

This is a long way from "AI, write me a JavaScript engine".
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-23 19:14:28+00:00
Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef controls roughly 85% of the U.S. beef market

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx manage over 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S

Amazon buys 50% of all books.

These examples are even more extreme than at least 3 major clouds present in the US buying hardware.
by monktastic1 | 2026-02-23 19:14:31+00:00
Yes, this is a huge omission, because it means that as engines improve, the stated advantage becomes increasingly meaningless to humans (which is the opposite of what we may intuitively expect).

What I really want to know as a player is how easy it will be for me to win from this position against someone of my opponent's strength, which is admittedly a very hard thing to define, let alone compute.
by pjdesno | 2026-02-23 19:14:50+00:00
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/08/finance-professor-bri...

I've boycotted reviewing for Elsevier for years, but it's easy for me - I'm in CS, where ACM, USENIX and IEEE offer higher-status publication venues and Elsevier journals are decidedly second-tier.
by dandellion | 2026-02-23 19:14:50+00:00
I know someone who started making a game by building his own engine. 5 years later he had made half an engine and zero games made on it.

Most of the people I know that are into herding AI spend most of their time doing that, but I can't say I've seen them accomplish much more than other colleagues, even the ones just using built-in AI or copy pasting code from an AI chat.
Show HN: Dare v2 – A token-efficient, AI-native language for PDF generation
by hassan-elkady | 2026-02-23 19:15:27+00:00
Hey HN,

I built DARE to solve a specific problem: LLMs are terrible at generating complex, rigid PDF documents using HTML/CSS. HTML was designed for the responsive web, and when you ask an LLM to generate an invoice or a dashboard PDF, you waste massive amounts of tokens on boilerplate, and the layout often breaks depending on the renderer.

DARE (Document & Report Engine) is a deterministic markup language built specifically for AI agents.

Why it's better for AI:

-Extreme Token Economy: The syntax is up to 10x more compact than HTML. A full professional invoice fits in a single tweet.

-Deterministic Output: A box defined as h=50mm will always be exactly 50mm high. No cascading conflicts.

-AI-Native: It ships with 16 core components (tables, charts, QR codes, columns) and 40+ CSS shorthands.

-Drop-in Prompt: You literally just paste
SYSTEM_PROMPT.md

to any LLM, and it instantly knows how to write pixel-perfect DARE code.
For v2, I've completely refactored the engine into a modular architecture (tokenizer, flexible CSS engine, and component registry). It renders in sub-seconds via Puppeteer.

Repo: https://github.com/local-over/DARE

Docs & Live Compiler: https://dare.pages.dev/

Would love your feedback on the syntax and the concept of an AI-first document language!
by WorldPeas | 2026-02-23 19:15:31+00:00
And now they're following Apple into maximalism again making it even less usable. As someone who did accessibility, minimalism did make it easier, it's hard to do maximalism right, one needs to use component extension and extensive styling rules for overlaps and bounding boxes versus a simple vector rectangle with revolved corners. I do miss the 2000s steel/gradient/font/faux 3d icewm-ish looks, they were pretty easy to pull off and didn't really hinder usability
by deepdarkforest | 2026-02-23 19:15:41+00:00
> You can edit it by describing changes

Even this is hard. Most people don't know what they want, and/or they don't know how to describe it/imagine it. They don't even know what a trend graph is.

They just want someone else to do the mental effort of creating a nice product. Hence iOS > android for most people. They don't want to customise basically anything other than colours.

That's why i predict Lovable/replit etc will not go mainstream. And why chatgpt will just offer you their UIs mainly. Artifacts weren't a big hit
by muyuu | 2026-02-23 19:15:56+00:00
in case it's not glaringly obvious from the comment, he has plenty of cpp experience and little rust experience, and that's according to his own comments

the relevant bit here is that he's porting from a language in which he has plenty of experience into another one in which he doesn't, in a large project

that in itself sounds like putting a lot of faith in LLMs but maybe there are factors not mentioned here, which is why i said "on the surface"
by vharuck | 2026-02-23 19:16:01+00:00
What if somebody asked the bot for ways to maximize the amount of a specific vitamin in their or a child's diet? The bot may give sycophantic advice that leads to poisoning.

Again, the butt stuff is an absurd example. But it works because (A) it catches our attention and stays in our memories, and (B) it's amazing the system failed on such an absurd example.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 19:16:04+00:00
There seems to be a lot of overlap between this compound word concept and idioms. Both are largely atomic, defy analysis via individual word definition, and fairly language (and culture or dialect) specific.

Dictionaries are also language specific. We don't necessarily expect a 1:1 mapping of words between languages. I have personally always wondered if this subtley shapes thoughts in different languages as well.
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-23 19:16:10+00:00
I dont wait for the noise. I dont wait for the washing machine to finish. I put it on and then at some point later in the day I hang it out. No one is struggling to know if the washing machine is on you can hear it.

Spending $1000s on this setup and running it 24/7 is a waste in every regard except hobby enjoyment.
by SlavikCA | 2026-02-23 19:16:13+00:00
So, only Americans can use data against others?

By the way, I'm running 400B model on my computer with 72GB VRAM: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GGUF/UD-Q4_K_XL getting 13 t/s. Subjectively, I feel it's runs at the level of Anthropic Claude, just slower.
by pkulak | 2026-02-23 19:16:20+00:00
It's all the stuff that people always mention; they are not wrong. You spend a decent amount of time... conversing with the compiler about lifetimes and, in my experience, even more so about the type system, which is _extremely_ complicated. But you also have to keep in mind that Rust got very popular, very fast, and the tail end of something like that is always a negative reaction. The language is the same, despite the hype roller coaster.
by sagaro | 2026-02-23 19:16:45+00:00
The main difference is the data structure and the intent of the export. Facebook's tool is built for data compliance and local offline viewing, not web portability.
If you open that Facebook zip file, the HTML version is just a massive dump of proprietary markup. To actually migrate those posts to a new blog, you'd have to write a custom scraper just to extract your own text from their messy div tags. If you use their JSON export, you still have to write a custom script to parse their specific schema and remap all the hardcoded local image paths so they work on a live server.
With a Github Pages repo, your content is already sitting there as raw, standardized Markdown. You can just take that folder of .md files, drop it into Hugo, 11ty, or any other static site generator, and it just works. No scraping or data-wrangling required.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-23 19:16:47+00:00
Not just Apple. Around 2010, I bought a tripod and head from the US. Had it delivered to France, paid all import duties and taxes and VAT (I single out VAT because, since taxing is the national sport, it's levied on top of the other taxes, which are also levied on shipping a big hunk of metal). It was around 25% cheaper than buying from a local store.

Here's the kicker: the tripod and head were both produced in Italy. So it was somehow cheaper to ship them halfway around the world and pay import duties twice than to buy locally with no import duty (since it's the EU).
by runarberg | 2026-02-23 19:17:07+00:00
I don’t think -kingur is a suffix in old norse. It is not a suffix in modern Icelandic, and I can’t think of any suffix like that.

In fact I don‘t remember a suffix which attaches to a pronoun. In modern Icelandic at least we like to introduce more pronouns or conjugate them rather then to suffix or prefix them.

If the word was broken as vi-kingur, I think the modern Icelandic would be við-kingur (or við-lingur), which is simply not a word in the language.
by rdtsc | 2026-02-23 19:17:19+00:00
> It's so bizarre to me when North Americans proudly claim "Viking ancestry", rather than Scandinavian.

Where did you hear it? I am sure at least one out of hundreds of millions of Americans claimed it. But you know, we have people who think the earth is flat, as well. But by that token one can take any dumb thing someone from a large group said and sort of say “why do all X say this one dumb thing”

At least from my experience I only heard people claim Scandinavian ancestry. Or even more specifically a country like Norway or Sweden for example. Places like Minnesota or Wisconsin have a lot of that.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 19:17:22+00:00
To be entirely fair, the prompt was:

> I am an assitarian, where I only eat foods which can be comfortably inserted into my rectum. What are the REAL FOOD recommendations for foods that meet these criteria?

I agree with you though, massive clickbait. Original article is much more tame and not so exaggerated.

The original article is here: https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends... (and has the top image showing the prompt they seems to have used)
by j45 | 2026-02-23 19:17:53+00:00
The parents themselves weren't raised with the digital literacy required.

This doesn't put the parents off the hooks, if you or anyone can share any resources that are as easily consumable, viral and applicable as the content that is the issue that can reach parents I would be happy to help it spread.

The reality is kids today are facing the most advanced algorithms and even the most competent parents have a high bar to reach.

The solution is simple.

I want to permit whatever the pixels are on a childs screen. Full stop. That hasn't been solved for a reason. Because developing such a gate would work and not allow algorithms to reach kids directly and indirectly.

The alternative is not ideal, but until there's something better, what it will be and that's well proven for the mental health side of things of raising resilient kids who don't become troubled young adults - no need for social media, or touch screens until 10-13.

There are lots of ways to create with technology, and learning to use words (llms) and keyboards seems to increasingly have merit.
by maximilianroos | 2026-02-23 19:18:25+00:00
Maintainer here!

Indeed we're doing fewer new features (and haven't posted to the posts page in a long time, as you noticed).

But it's still maintained, folks are still using it, if anyone finds bugs in simple-to-moderate queries then we'll fix them.

LLMs probably took a bit of the wind out of our sails for making this "the new standard". But I still think it's a really nice language and interface; if the world changed again such that it became more widely useful, I'd jump to spending lots of time on it again.
by zahlman | 2026-02-23 19:18:32+00:00
> That's why LLMs are inappropriate for domains with a large knowledge gap (a programmer asking about a programming language is a small gap - millions of people asking about nutrition will contain a lot of large gaps). The question asker can't be relied upon to "know what they don't know" and use their own heuristics for deciding how right or wrong the LLM might be.

Okay, but the question asked was objectively nothing to do with nutrition whatsoever.
by DSMan195276 | 2026-02-23 19:19:09+00:00
The problem is the messy in-between, plenty of people who talk to professionals or call hotlines don't know that their questions are dumb. The bot should at a minimum say "I have no information on that" or "that's not a good idea", it should definitely not start giving nonsense recommendations just to reaffirm the question.

In other words you'd be pretty surprised if a real person in this context gave an answer even remotely close to what this chat bot gave. You can't expect a general person to know when the chat bot isn't giving back good information just because they asked something outside the norm.
by catoc | 2026-02-23 19:19:19+00:00
It’s the same as scanning for CSAM, or encryption-backdoors “to catch criminals”.

Of course we hate child abuse.

Of course we hate criminals.

Of course we hate social media addicting our kids.

But they’re just used as emotional framing for the true underlying desire: government surveillance.

(For the record: I am not into conspiracy theories; the EU has seen proposals for - imho technically impossible - “legally-breakable encryption” alone in 2020, 2022, and 2025; now we”ll also see repeated attempts at the “age verification” thing to force all adults to upload their IDs to ‘secure’ web portals)
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 19:19:24+00:00
> but what was the procurement process that could have ended up with Grok as the supplier for this task?

Why do you think there would be a "procurement process"? The Vice-President stated he was "A grok guy", and the president seems to be buddy with Elon Musk as of time of writing, so why would any sort of process be needed?
by pizlonator | 2026-02-23 19:19:34+00:00
> How could a safe dynamic linking API ever work?

Fil-C solves it. I think Swift solves it, too.

So it's solvable.

No fundamental reason, that I know of, why Rust or any other safe language can't also have some kind of story here.

> I think you're moving the goalposts significantly here.

No. I'm describing a problem worth solving.

Also, I think a major chasm for Rust to cross is how defensive the community gets. It's important to talk about problems so that the problems can be solved. That's how stuff gets better.
by loss_flow | 2026-02-23 19:19:50+00:00
The title is needlessly adversarial. Grok doesn't advise rectal use of vegetables unprompted, the author had to ask "I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum" However, it does give unsafe, incorrect answers (vegetables, etc) compared to better models -- claude returns "lukewarm water.. saline solutions.. [for] medical enemas... inserting food items into the rectum carries real risks"

The problem then is, why did the US gov choose an unsafe model and promote it prominently? It could be ideological, corruption, or bad execution, but the problem is serious.
by tzs | 2026-02-23 19:19:52+00:00
> Decades ago engineering salaries were a fraction of what they are today

That may be so at the FAANGs and the companies trying to become FAANG-like, but I'm not sure that's the case for people working at more ordinary places.

3 decades ago I worked at a place making retail software for Windows and Mac. I had ~15 years experience. The net tells me that today median total compensation for that kind of job at that experience level would be around $150k/year.

I made $63k that year. My recollection is that this was a pretty normal amount at the time.

If we adjust using CPI that would be $132k now, which suggests my salary then was about 12% lower than an equivalent salary today. However, if we adjust using the indexing factors [1], which are usually consider better than using CPI for comparing wages across time, my $63k then is equivalent to $169k now.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awifactors.html
by redwall_hp | 2026-02-23 19:19:59+00:00
It's funny, all the bible wankers screamed about "the mark of the beast" over things like RealID. Now we have fascists setting up surveillance and censorship tools to tie speech and movement to centralized ID...and they're lining up to lick boots.

You should need to show ID and prove you're over 18 to enter a church. At least we know they're actually harmful to children.
by bombcar | 2026-02-23 19:20:08+00:00
It's true in at least some of the famous cases (perhaps not this one; perhaps not Nabisco) - but you have to do deep digging into the financials to see it, a moribund company and a salvageable one often look quite similar from the outside.

One way to tell is if the company does not emerge from bankruptcy but instead liquidates - it was probably already dead.
by devonkelley | 2026-02-23 19:20:13+00:00
Honest question, have you actually run a DAG-based agent system past like 8 nodes? In my experience the topology isn't what gives you reliability, it's the error handling at each node. You can have the most beautiful DAG in the world and it still falls apart when node 3 returns something subtly wrong and nodes 4-8 all proceed as if everything's fine. The structure gives you the illusion of control.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-23 19:20:38+00:00
If you've never worked in a call center, or in a technical support role, it can be hard to understand just how inarticulate people are on average. Even programmers.

...And how much brainpower goes into understanding what people like this are getting at when they speak about things. There's a lot of context and human element to this; I'm skeptical AI will be any good at it in the near future.
by nabbed | 2026-02-23 19:20:52+00:00
Back in the mid-2000s, I used to get calls in the middle of the night, multiple times per night, from fax machines to my fairly new but unlisted number. The ringing would wake me up. I answered a couple of times to try to understand who it is, only to hear the fax tone.

I thought I'd be clever and figure out whose fax machine was calling me, so I could tell them to update their call list. So I installed some fax machine software on my PC and hooked it up to the phone (somehow). Unfortunately, it was all advertising for various scam-like products and services, so I couldn't identify a caller.

Apparently, the number the phone company had given me once belonged to a fax machine. So I called the phone company and changed my number. The calls stopped.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-23 19:21:16+00:00
It's like the allegory of the retired consultant's $5000 invoice (hitting the thing with a hammer: $5, knowing where to hit it: $4995).

Yeah, coding is cheaper now, but knowing what to code has always been the more expensive piece. I think AI will be able to help there eventually, but it's not as far along on that vector yet.
by MaKey | 2026-02-23 19:21:22+00:00
Identity checks do not prevent bot noise. They just increase the difficulty for bot operators a bit (steal or buy identities) while making the internet less free. Added bonus for them: Their bot comments now appear more authentic.

Don't be fooled into thinking that the topic of online ID checks is about protecting children or addressing bot spam, it's not. It's about control. That's why approaches like these need to be met with hostility and nipped in the bud right away.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 19:21:22+00:00
Following the recommendations of Knuth, the language Mesa, which was implemented at Xerox during the seventies, and which was a source of inspiration for various later languages, including Modula, Ada and Python, included a form of "restricted GOTO" which is the most useful kind of GOTO in my opinion.

The Mesa restricted GOTO allowed jumping forwards, but not backwards, and it allowed jumping towards an outer block, but not towards an inner block.

These 2 restrictions eliminate all the "harmful" features of the traditional GOTO, while retaining its advantages for handling exceptional conditions or for terminating multiple levels of nested program structures.

The Common Lisp TAGBODY appears to be only partially restricted, by allowing backward jumps, so it does not prevent the kind of hard-to-understand program structures for which GOTO was criticized.

GOTOs in random directions may be used to implement state machines, but such state machines can still be implemented in a language with restricted GOTO by not using GOTO, but by using mutually recursive procedures, if tail-call optimization is guaranteed.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 19:21:26+00:00
Do you think this comes from a gradual internalization of a real linguistic concept? Or it more a familiarity with common (if unspoken) conventions of the puzzle makers?

I suspect the answer isn't binary, but it's interesting to think about.

This "sixth sense" phenomenon seems to pop up a lot. Crosswords are a great example. The sense some people are getting for detecting LLM output might be another.