MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-26 07:10:21+00:00
Farmers, like anyone else, are a diverse group of people you can't easily generalize. They are all business owners, sure, but only some are in it primarily for the money. Others feel that it's their responsibility to hang on to the farm passed down through the generations. Still others aren't on an ancestral farm, but love the job for its own sake and wouldn't give it up to build a datacenter no matter how much money they were offered. It just depends.
by sasjaws | 2026-02-26 07:11:33+00:00
A while ago i did the nanogpt tutorial, i went through some math with pen and paper and noticed the loss function for 'predict the next token' and 'predict the next 2 tokens' (or n tokens) is identical.

That was a bit of a shock to me so wanted to share this thought. Basically i think its not unreasonable to say llms are trained to predict the next book instead of single token.

Hope this is usefull to someone.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-26 07:12:39+00:00
The workflow is not the issue. You are welcome to try the same challenge yourself if you want. Extra test cases (https://drive.proton.me/urls/6Z6557R2WG#n83c6DP6mDfc) & specification (https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5581b499-a471-4d58-8e05-1...). I know enough about compilers, bytecode VMs, parsers, & interpreters to know that this is well within the capabilities of any reasonably good software engineer but the implementation from Gemini 3.1 Pro (high & low) & Claude Opus 4.6 (thinking) have been less than impressive.
by vintermann | 2026-02-26 07:12:45+00:00
I have a story here: I deleted my Reddit account.

A few months later, the owner of the u/batman account added my mail as password reset mail.

I looked up the account. It was hardly ever used in 15 years, mostly for once in a blue moon dropping in a random comment role-playing as Batman. It was not obviously anyone I knew. It looked like they were basically inviting me to take over the account.

That was actually a bit tempting, but then the owner, whoever they were, would know who I was, and I still didn't know who they were.

(For that reason I've changed the name, it wasn't Batman, but it was equally "I can't believe you got THAT as your Reddit username" rare.)

So I clicked "this wasn't me" instead. After a few weeks the account was deleted by the owner. It seems they were willing to burn a 15+ year old account with a super-desirable (to many) name in order to get me back to Reddit, and then when I refused they just deleted it. That was VERY weird, and I wish I knew what was going on.
by cloverich | 2026-02-26 07:13:14+00:00
But if you live near Lamar its pretty great. I use to alternate bus and light rail despite owning a car because it was very convenient, despite always being the slower option.

But that does also reinforce the point. Even at max convenience, with two good options (rail, rapid bus line), it was still about 15% slower than driving. Add a single connection or your situation and you're losing an hour a day round trip.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-26 07:14:50+00:00
> That has all changed today

Anecdote, but I knew a couple senior folks at Apple during the San Bernardino encryption dispute [1]. My understanding is Cupertino was surprised—going all the way to the top—how much backlash they got for what they felt was the natural reaction. (Not to unlock.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-26 07:15:08+00:00
When the market starts acting like a caffeinated teenager, smart investors look to the "adults in the room." Tweedy, Browne Company is the personification of that seasoned, Graham-and-Doddsville wisdom. Their latest regulatory filing just dropped, and if you’re looking for a roadmap through the current volatility, it’s time to pay attention.

Let’s dive into the core moves and the overall strategy reflected in the Tweedy Browne 13F Q4 2025 Holdings.

The Defensive Moat: Why These Moves Matter

Tweedy, Browne isn't interested in the "next big AI moonshot" if the math doesn't check out. They are classic bargain hunters, and Q4 was no exception. Looking at their portfolio, it’s clear they are doubling down on businesses with massive pricing power and sturdy balance sheets.

While the rest of the herd is chasing momentum, Tweedy is quietly accumulating (or trimming) based on one thing: intrinsic value. Their Q4 activity shows a deliberate focus on international diversification and high-conviction staples that can weather a high-interest-rate environment.

Breaking Down the Tweedy Browne 13F Q4 2025 Holdings

The most striking takeaway from the Tweedy Browne 13F Q4 2025 Holdings is the firm's unwavering commitment to their "safety first" mantra. We aren't seeing radical pivots here; instead, it’s a masterclass in portfolio pruning.

Key Additions and Top Ups
In Q4, the firm showed renewed interest in several undervalued industrials and financial services. By looking at the specifics of the Tweedy Browne 13F Q4 2025 Holdings, we see they’ve increased stakes in names that offer high dividend yields and strong free cash flow. They aren't just buying stocks; they're buying "economic castles."

The Strategic Trims
Profit-taking is an art form, and Tweedy Browne knows when to exit. Several positions that reached their fair value estimates were trimmed. This isn't a sign of lack of faith, but rather a disciplined rebalancing to keep the "dry powder" ready for the next market dip.

Global Value: Where the Real Deals Are

One thing that always sets Tweedy, Browne apart is their global lens. A significant portion of their conviction remains in European and Asian markets, where valuations often look much more attractive than the frothy S&P 500. Their Q4 moves suggest they still see a massive "value gap" between US tech giants and boring-but-beautiful international conglomerates.

The Bottom Line for Investors

Following the Tweedy Browne 13F Q4 2025 Holdings isn't about blindly copying their trades—it's about understanding their discipline. In a world of "get rich quick" schemes, Tweedy Browne reminds us that slow and steady doesn't just win the race; it owns the track.

What's your take on their Q4 moves? Are they being too cautious, or is this the perfect setup for 2026? Let’s talk in the comments.
by thekevan | 2026-02-26 07:15:16+00:00
Notepad is turning into the text app I desperately want, except for the association with Copilot. And then with new changes, it had the recent security vulnerabilities issues. The only thing it doesn't have that I want is a sidebar that shows folders or files like so many text editors already do.

I never use Notepad anymore. I have been using Pulsar, which is okay, but not exactly what I want.

I want a text editor that can do markdown if I want, spell check, minimal tool bar with some formatting shortcuts, etc.

I'd love it if a "dumbed down Typora" had a love child with Notepad.
by culi | 2026-02-26 07:15:40+00:00
Yes it's basically data poisoning. It reminds me of the approach the Adnauseum extension takes. It hides ads from you like traditional adblockers but under the hood it's actually selectively clicking them to fool advertisers. I don't know if it's smart enough to create a "profile" for you (e.g. "soccer mom from Michigan") but that seems like the logical next step. Instead of just "flooding the zone with shit" you'd be more selectively/consistently misleading
by einr | 2026-02-26 07:15:59+00:00
The old EDIT never shipped with any 64-bit Windows IIRC, since it was a 16-bit MS-DOS application. I believe 32-bit Windows 10 has it..?

As someone who (mercifully) only occasionally has to touch Windows machines, I keep forgetting this, and then when I try to do stuff I’m flabbergasted that the operating system does not include a terminal text editor. (In a fit of pure desperation I even typed EDLIN into the Command Prompt — no go ;)

That was the case with Win11 about a year ago; if they finally started shipping EDIT64 then hey, that’s one positive recent change in Windows I suppose.
by shakna | 2026-02-26 07:16:38+00:00
It doesn't only work with protocols registered by "your system" - Notepad doesn't register protocols. And Notepad is the user agent, here.

It works with your _locally_ registered protocols, not just the _remote_ protocols.

Which is why it works with JScript. And Powershell. And Visual Basic.

This is a bug that replicates why IE 4 was called insecure. Its not something that should ever surface again, today.

It is... The exact example of what an RCE is. _Local_ code executed by a _remote_ command.
by qudent | 2026-02-26 07:16:38+00:00
In Google AI Studio, Google documentation encourages to deploy vibecoded apps with an open proxy that allow equivalent AI billing abuse - giving the impression that the API key were secure because it is behind a proxy. Vulnerable apps (all apps deployed from AI studio) are easily found by searching Google, Twitter or Hacker News. https://github.com/qudent/qudent.github.io/blob/master/_post...
Show HN: Skillscape – Engineering skills matrix without the spreadsheet
by danielyefet | 2026-02-26 07:17:20+00:00
I'm an engineering manager and built this to solve a problem I kept running into: no good way to track team capability without either a sprawling spreadsheet or an expensive HR system.

Skillscape lets you map your team against a structured L1–L4 skill framework, spot coverage gaps and bus factor risks, and define custom role frameworks. Free for small teams.

Would love feedback from other managers or engineers who've dealt with this — does the problem resonate? Is this the right solution?
by toprak123 | 2026-02-26 07:17:40+00:00
I built this after getting cut off mid-session on Claude Pro with zero warning three times in one week. The official settings page only shows usage if you
think to check it. This auto-detects cookies from your browser so there's nothing to configure — just run the install command and it shows up in your menu bar.

Happy to answer questions about the Cloudflare bypass (curl_cffi) or the browser cookie detection approach.
by qsera | 2026-02-26 07:17:41+00:00
>represents UNDERSTANDING of the input language.

It does not have an understanding, it pattern matches the "idea shape" of words in the "idea space" of training data and calculates the "idea shape" that is likely to follow considering all the "idea shape" patterns in its training data.

It mimics understanding. It feels mysterious to us because we cannot imagine the mapping of a corpus of text to this "idea space".

It is quite similar to how mysterious a computer playing a movie can appear, if you are not aware of mapping of movie to a set of pictures, pictures to pixels, and pixels to co-ordinates and colors codes.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-26 07:17:45+00:00
Anthropic is not on the side of the people. None of these companies are. They've made it clear that they want to gatekeep LLM capabilities.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

These companies use safety and intellectual property as excuses to achieve centralization. But if you think about it for more than a second, they're basically saying "intelligence for me but not for thee."

I don't want to live in a world where a handful of entities control all of the intelligence, and I don't think you do either. The best future we can hope for is one where everyone can run an open-source AGI on their own gaming PC. And by run I mean local matmuls, not API calls to a remote server.
by Animats | 2026-02-26 07:18:01+00:00
My only adventure with off-brand TLDs has been "aether.ltd". This was for my steampunk telegraph office, "The Aetheric Message Machine Company", an elaborate setup we ran at steampunk conventions from 2011 through 2019.[1] Text in a message, and it's banged out on a restored Teletype machine from the 1930s in a brass and glass case, then delivered by a costumed messenger.[1] This got some press coverage back when steampunk was a thing.

Somehow, Zoominfo picked up the site, and rated The Aetheric Message Machine Company as having revenue of about $5 million a year and, at peak, 24 employees. We had a back story for roleplay purposes, in the operating manual for the cosplayers.[2] Someone apparently took it seriously.

That was a fun project.

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314

[2] https://aetherltd.com/public/othermanuals/operatormanual05.p...
by LarsDu88 | 2026-02-26 07:18:49+00:00
The big problem with AI has been that it has always been so energy intensive compared to biological intelligence. However once, you bake the models into ASICs, suddenly the power consumption goes way down, and moreover the inference WILL be ~250X faster than it currently is (which is already on par with the speed of a human thinking).

That's a very scary inflection point. Imagine in 24 months, a Opus 4.6 level Diffusion based model etched directly onto silicon using the latest TSMC process node.

At that point knowledge work will incredibly commoditized.

I have Opus 4.6 one-shotting recreations of 90s videogames for less than the inflation adjusted cost of buying those original games when they were released! Now cut that cost down by 250X!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-26 07:18:59+00:00
> why is it not a law that the government can't pay another entity to do something it's not allowed to do itself, without a warrant?

I think the median American favors security over freedom right now. The reality of cable news and now social media is that an unsolved crime is a national anxiety. When we’re whipped into a collective panic like that, it seems outright ridiculous that the cops not be allowed to access anything that could help.
by MrJohz | 2026-02-26 07:19:00+00:00
I think there's a lot more than just that, but I think part of the problem is that you just get an uncanny valley feeling. All of the phrases and rhetorical tricks that these tools use are perfectly valid, but together they feel somehow thin?

That said, some specific things that feel very AI-y are the mostly short, equally-sized paragraphs with occasional punchy one-sentence paragraphs interspersed between them; the use of bold when listing things (and the number of two-element lists); there are a couple of "it's not X, it's Y"-style statements; one paragraph ends with an "they say it's X, but it's actually Y" construct; and even the phrasing of some of the headings.

None of these are necessarily individually tells of AI writing (and I suspect if you like through my own comments and blog posts on various sites, you'd find me using many of the same constructs, because they're all either effective rhetorically, or make the text clearer and easier to understand. But there's something about the concentration of them here that feels like AI - the uncanny valley feeling.

I would put money on this post at least having gone through AI review, if not having been generated by AI from human-written notes. I understand why people do that, but I also think it's a shame that some of the individual colour of people's writing is disappearing from these sorts of blog posts.
by mikeayles | 2026-02-26 07:19:57+00:00
Good catches, both of them. The hydrogen pathway should include grid transmission before the electrolyser, you're right. In practice it doesn't change the overall ratio much (multiplying by 0.95 on both sides) but the diagram should be consistent.

The BEV cost not adjusting with the electricity slider is a bug, not a choice. I'll fix both. Thanks.
by mzhaase | 2026-02-26 07:21:12+00:00
It always occurred to me that LLMs may be like the language center of the brain. And there should be a "whole damn rest of the brain" behind it to steer it.

LLMs miss very important concepts, like the concept of a fact. There is no "true", just consensus text on the internet given a certain context. Like that study recently where LLMs gave wrong info if there was the biography of a poor person in the context.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-26 07:22:32+00:00
Anthropic donated $20 million to Public First Action[1], a PAC that promotes Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and her sponsored Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)[2], a bill that will force everyone to scan their faces and IDs to use the internet under the guise of saving the children.

The legislative angle taken by companies like Anthropic is that they will provide the censorship gatekeeping infrastructure to scan all user-generated content that gets posted online for "appropriateness", guaranteeing AI providers a constant firehose of novel content they can train on and get paid for the free training. AI companies will also get paid to train on videos of everyone's faces and IDs.

As for why Blackburn supports KOSA[3]:

> Asked what conservatives’ top priorities should be right now, Senator Blackburn answered, “protecting minor children from the transgender [sic] in this culture and that influence.” She then talked about how KOSA could address this problem, and named social media platforms as places “where children are being indoctrinated.”

If Anthropic, the PACs it supports and Blackburn get their way with KOSA, the end result will be that anything posted on the internet will be able to be traced back to you. Web platforms will finally be able to sell their userbases as identifiable and monetizable humans to their partners/advertisers/governments/facial recognition systems/etc. AI companies will legally enshrine themselves as the official gatekeepers and censors of the internet, and they will be paid to train on the totality of novel human creativity in real-time.

That will be their moat.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-gives-20-million-t...

[2] https://publicfirstaction.us/news/public-first-action-and-de...

[3] https://www.them.us/story/kosa-senator-blackburn-censor-tran...
by davedx | 2026-02-26 07:23:52+00:00
Some very interesting data in here.

The way stock picks are screened isn't normally how I work (ranking by PEG and "revenue thesis purity"), but the supply chain analysis itself is definitely worth a read through.

Edit: I definitely wouldn't select stocks based on the PEG ranking. For example, US/Canadian based solar producers are beaten down for structural reasons. Value traps are everywhere.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-26 07:24:14+00:00
They initially wanted to call it just "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (preview)" but the Internet stuck with the anonymous codename Nano-banana from LMArena because it's interesting and quirky. Google didn't officially adopt it until several days after the public release, exactly because of what you say. Eventually, not using it in their comms got more confusing because regular people were asking how they can find this Nano banana thing everyone is hyped about.
by vintermann | 2026-02-26 07:24:53+00:00
> and the site also won't send you any more email because they don't consider the email verified

Netflix, for one, didn't do this. They kept allowing this guy to "resend his confirmation email" periodically over several months (I never had a Netflix account).

My theory is that it was an affiliate scam of some sort; someone probably got paid for everyone who signed up with his code. So he "signed up" thousands of random mails in the hope that some of them would click through on the "you're almost ready to start your Netflix journey!" mail and actually subscribe to Netflix.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-26 07:25:36+00:00
> Chief Executive Zubin Appoo said in the statement. “I am prepared to say this clearly: the era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over.”

if i was a software engineer i too would probably think that software is the core of engineering ...

i'd also say the same thing as this c suiter if my company was failing and needed to cut costs without scaring the investors !
by cluckindan | 2026-02-26 07:25:39+00:00
You did understand that the parent post was referring to the referenced articles within the linked article?

14: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1087054711427299 - N=50

54: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.12917 - N=82

55: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497... - review of 21 studies
by tsunamifury | 2026-02-26 07:26:32+00:00
I think it’s funny that at Google I invented and productized next word (and next action) predictor in Gmail and hangouts chat and I’ve never had a single person come to me and ask how this all works.

To me LLMs are incredibly simple. Next word next sentence next paragraph and next answer are stacked attention layers which identify manifolds and run in reverse to then keep the attention head on track for next token. It’s pretty straight forward math and you can sit down and make a tiny LLM pretty easily on your home computer with a good sized bag of words and context

To me it’s baffling everyone goes around saying constantly that not even Nobel prize winners know how this works it’s a huge mystery.

Has anyone thought to ask the actual people like me and others who invented this?
by djtango | 2026-02-26 07:27:10+00:00
This is a great article that sums up my own (much lower-stakes) life experiences. Athletes live on the frontier so they're excellent subject to study - after all the Olympics are only every 4 years.

Before my first Taekwondo fight and Muay Thai fight I had so much adrenaline and cortisol in the build up to the fights and for some reason it seems to all dump in my legs making them all heavy and unresponsive - not a helpful response when you need to kick to win!

Before my first Chemistry finals I also momentarily forgot the periodic table despite writing it out several times a day in the run up to it.

But as the article states it can be overcome and things like breathing exercises can really drive the needle. The corollary to the mind-body connection is that there is a body-mind connection! Just as the mind can influence the body, the body can influence the mind and performing physical tasks that the body associates with relaxation (breathing exercises, hot spas, forest walks etc) can settle the mind.

The other thing I came across on my journey to overcome performance anxiety for us mere mortal non-Olympians is:

1. Some of the jitteryness is a result of being unaccustomed/intolerant of adrenaline. Doing stressful (but safe) activities can build up your own resilience to stressful situations - this is why I find value in Muay Thai/boxing sparring, there aren't many things more stressful than getting punched in the face

2. Presence of mind can be trained and an easy hack I found that is taught in the military is the 3x3 Grounding Technique [1]

The general theme of sports psychology reminded me of a BBC article [2] that investigated focus in champion tennis players (and other sports) as measured by their eye movement.

[1] https://www.armyresilience.army.mil/ard/r2/Mindfulness.html

[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180627-is-quiet-eye-the...
by scrollop | 2026-02-26 07:27:31+00:00
Claude may seem incongruous compared to the others, however it's the only human sounding name, compared to the robotic "chatgpt" or others that sound generic or bland company names (Gemini, perplexity).

They intentionally chose a more bland sounding name, as, I assume, they wanted to emphasise the "safe" nature compared to their competitors.

As more information comes out about openai, people may choose to move to for other reasons, such as

- Openai adding ads

- Openai's president donating millions to a MAGA PAC

- Openai getting closer to the US military whilst anthropic standing their ground and rejecting them.

- Openai's recent products not being at the top of the benchmarks

The choice is yours.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-26 07:27:47+00:00
If you run an LLM in an autoregressive loop you can get it to emulate a turing machine though. That sort of changes the complexity class of the system just a touch. 'Just predicts the next word' hits different when the loop is doing general computation.

Took me a bit of messing around, but try to write out each state sequentially, with a check step between each.