MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kergonath | 2026-02-17 19:45:34+00:00
It’s very difficult to utterly destroy a country’s military force, particularly a country as huge as Russia, which has also a sizeable population. Ukraine cannot do it on its own and I see no appetite from anybody else to do it, so I think it is unlikely to happen.

Of course, it is also very difficult to utterly destroy a country’s economic power. Unfortunately, in Russia’s case, they have the raw materials and a population they can basically enslave. Hitting hard at refineries is a good strategy, it’s a weak point in the whole structure. Hopefully it’ll be enough.

Honestly, I don’t see an easy or clean way out of this. One possibility is that they’ll grind themselves badly enough to become completely irrelevant. Unfortunately that means a good chunk of Ukraine gets ground down along the way. One can hope for a coup, but then whatever comes after might well be worse.

Then, hopefully Ukraine can rebuild as a free nation.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-17 19:45:45+00:00
I agree, which is why it's disappointing that you were so eager to point out that "The LLM cannot want" that you completely missed how I did not claim that the LLM wanted.

The original comment had the exact verbose hedging you are asking for when discussing technical subjects. Clearly this is not sufficient to prevent people from jumping in with an "Ackshually" instead of reading the words in front of their face.
by h3half | 2026-02-17 19:46:06+00:00
Anyone who’s worked inside the sortation centers has also seen sorters crash and rip packages to shreds.

Obviously that’s not “normal” damage to packages, because those things certainly aren’t getting delivered, but it’s not like these things get handled gently by the automation. Packages slide into collection belts where they land hard on top of other packages, they zip down chutes to be loaded into semis, etc.

There’s a reason they want breakables properly packed, and it’s not because the last-mile delivery guy is going to shoot a three with your box.
by henryfjordan | 2026-02-17 19:46:15+00:00
The cards _could_ be copyrightable, would probably be essentially a coin flip if you took it to court.

No individual card text (limited to just the mechanics) is copyrightable but the setlist of cards might be. It would come down to how much creativity went into curating the list of cards that is released. It gets especially murky because new cards are always being released and old cards are being retired, so they obviously put a lot of creative energy into that process. You'd have to avoid pre-made decks as well.

Unless you have funding from an eccentric MTG-loving billionaire, I see why you'd comply with the cease-and-desist.
by munk-a | 2026-02-17 19:46:34+00:00
Middling code should not exist. Boilerplate code should not exist. For some reason we're suddenly accepting code-gen as SOP instead of building a layer of abstraction on top of the too-onerous layer we're currently building at. Prior generations of software development would see a too-onerous layer and build tools to abstract to a higher level, this generation seems stuck in an idea that we just need tooling to generate all that junk but can continue to work at this level.
by nikcub | 2026-02-17 19:46:40+00:00
Enabling /extra-usage in my (personal) claude code[0] with this env:

"ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]"

has enabled the 1M context window.

Fixed a UI issue I had yesterday in a web app very effectively using claude in chrome. Definitely not the fastest model - but the breathing space of 1M context is great for browser use.

[0] Anthropic have given away a bunch of API credits to cc subscribers - you can claim them in your settings dashboard to use for this.
by zardo | 2026-02-17 19:47:00+00:00
> legal liability is on the person who posts it, not who hosts the tool.

In the specific case of grok posting deepfake nudes on X. Doesn't X both create and post the deepfake?

My understanding was, Bob replies in Alice's thread, "@grok make a nude photo of Alice" then grok replies in the thread with the fake photo.
by amatecha | 2026-02-17 19:47:10+00:00
Due to [0] and [1] I'm using the new fork "CoMaps" now, feature comparison: https://www.comaps.app/support/how-do-the-features-differ-fr...

It's pretty excellent! The improved integration with OpenStreetMaps to provide edits/additions is great. I made my first contribution to OSM via CoMaps.

[0] https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/

[1] https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-25/2/
An methodology for new business development in the GenAI era
by leading-AI | 2026-02-17 19:47:15+00:00
https://github.com/Leading-AI-IO/depth-and-velocity

I'm an AI strategist at a Japanese tech company (Sun Asterisk). After launching multiple AI-native business initiatives inside large enterprises, I systematized what worked into an open methodology called "Depth & Velocity." The core idea is the 10:80:10 rule: humans own the first 10% (will) and the last 10% (decision), AI agents handle the middle 80% (acceleration). The manifesto is on GitHub. Looking for feedback, especially from anyone building new products with AI agents.
by dfmx123 | 2026-02-17 19:47:16+00:00
For the most part, all the arguments in the article are right on point. They’re very similar to those expressed by the CEO of Integral AI, Jad Tarifi, former head of Google AI, who has been very critical of LLM‘s for a while.

Modern AI came about from mimicking how natural neurons worked, and we can't get to AGI without also mimicking higher-level brain structures such as the neocortex neural column.
by manmal | 2026-02-17 19:47:20+00:00
You ran out of tokens so much faster because the Anthropic plans come with 3-5x less token budget at the same cost.

Cline is not in the same league as codex cli btw. You can use codex models via Copilot OAuth in pi.dev. Just make sure to play with thinking level. This would give roughly the same experience as codex CLI.
by xvxvx | 2026-02-17 19:47:23+00:00
I’m no fan of Musk, but I do like the idea of a large fleet of Cybercabs available to summon when needed. It could possibly replace the need to own or lease a vehicle.

Most days, I drive to work and my car sits there until I drive home. I pay about $15 per day for this, not to mention gas and tolls, etc.

Can this be replaced by Cybercabs? Can the cost be reduced by carpooling in them? Would cities react by pushing this type of carpool, at least in crowded areas?

A lot of opportunity here.
by saghm | 2026-02-17 19:47:38+00:00
Sounds like you want Cockatrice: https://cockatrice.github.io/

The rules aren't embedded into the client; it's "just" a virtual tabletop where you enforce the rules the same way you would playing with a friend in person. Cards have to be imported but it's fairly automatic (basically just clicking a few buttons after startup), so you could either only import the sets you want or just not use the ones you don't want (which is also how it tends to work when playing informally in person; it's not like you usually have a judge to enforce that you or your friends are playing by whatever rules you agree to).
by ben_w | 2026-02-17 19:47:40+00:00
The same law prevents you and me and a hundred thousand lone wolf wannabes from building and using a kill-bot.

The question is, at what point does some AI become competent enough to engineer one? And that's just one example, it's an illustration of the category and not the specific sole risk.

If the model makers don't know that in advance, the argument given for delaying GPT-2 applies: you can't take back publication, better to have a standard of excess caution.
by uyzstvqs | 2026-02-17 19:47:50+00:00
There are dozens of websites dedicated to exactly this type of abuse. Regulators are silent about them. Why?

This abuse is against Grok's ToS, it was (!) possible because Grok doesn't want to be every user's overly prude nanny by banning nudity, they want to support artistic freedom. Unlike these dedicated websites, Grok's intent was good. Looking up "undress AI", there are a lot of results, and none of them are Grok. Yet Grok is being targeted, and exclusively so.

Think about this for a moment, and try to explain why.
by simonh | 2026-02-17 19:48:03+00:00
The article is not as unrealistic as that, the author does point out that Putin is not just looking at the state of Russia, he’s also looking at the relative state of Ukraine and its support from the West.

The death zone isn’t the point at which they die, it’s the point at which they are consuming their own long term strength and capacity to recover in order to sustain their effort .

To our utter shame, we have never actually committed to Ukrainian victory or Russian defeat, but merely to tenuous Ukrainian survival. I firmly believe this war would already be over, or effectively so, if Ukraine’s allies had spent what we have up till now in the first 2 years. Even from a cynical financial point of view it would have been the better policy.
by incomingpain | 2026-02-17 19:48:14+00:00
We are living in the best times in human history. 200 years ago, the wealthiest kings in the world didnt live in such luxury.

We are pulling people out of poverty like no other era has ever been able to do.

In my lifetime I expect we create a food factory that takes clean water, atmosphere, and electricity in. Automation happens, no humans, and it produces foods. We can simply build as many of these as we please, anywhere.

Literally everywhere I look things are going fantastically.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2026-02-17 19:48:37+00:00
Interesting, my sonnet 4.6 starts with the following:

The classic puzzle actually uses *eight 8s*, not nine. The unique solution is: 888+88+8+8+8=1000. Count: 3+2+1+1+1=8 eights.

It then proves that there is no solution for nine 8s.

https://claude.ai/share/9a6ee7cb-bcd6-4a09-9dc6-efcf0df6096b (for whatever reason the LaTeX rendering is messed up in the shared chat, but it looks fine for me).
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-17 19:48:42+00:00
The frontier LLMs have the same overall architecture and programming as earlier models. I absolutely understand how they operate. I have worked in a startup wherein we heavily finetuned Deepseek, among other smaller models, running on our own hardware. Both Deepseek's 671b model and a Mistral 7b model operate according to the exact same principles. There is no magic in the process, and there is zero reason to believe that Sonnet or Opus is on some impossible-to-understand architecture that is fundamentally alien to every other LLM's.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-17 19:48:45+00:00
I had a similar thought way back when. It goes back to what is important to the person reviewing it be it the style, form or just whether it works for their use case. In the case of organic food, I did not even know I was living living a healthy lifestyle until I came to US. But now organic is just another label, played by marketing people just like anything else.

As I may have noted before, humans are the problem.
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-17 19:49:10+00:00
So I've started to use it since that's the way things are going. It's pretty drop-in compatible with how I used to use Github contributions for Gentoo. There are currently 2 downsides I'm facing:

- It's slow for git command-line tasks, despite the site UX being much faster, git operations are really slow compared to Github.

- It doesn't have full feature parity with Github actions. Their CI doesn't run a full pkgcheck I guess, so it's still safer for a new Gentoo contributor to submit PR's to github until that gets addressed.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-17 19:49:15+00:00
This is just an opinion.

Follow trusted journalists that have a history of superb journalism. You have to decide what is good for yourself. Also industry specific journalists for deeper insight into industry you care about. Many of the greats realize that all the news companies are sinking ships and are trying to establish their own thing before things completely collapse.

Focus on what each journalist specializes in and don't read too much into it when they report on topics that are not their forte (like Breaking points talking about AI). Many journalists stay in their lane but the groups covering all the news don't. I wish all journalists would stay in their lane but this is not the world we live in anymore.

For everything else that you are not willing to invest the time in, just accept you are not going to get great coverage.

My (typically far left) biases are comfortable with the following (these are not all far left)

Zeteo + dropsite for foreign middle east leaning coverage

Breaking points for daily news

Ken Klippenstein, Glenn greenwald for national security state/us government news. Klippenstein is more fun (when he gets an FBI email asking for info but also politely asking to not release it, he goes ahead and provides a download link). Greenwald feels a bit more dry.

Industry specific: autoline (youtube+website) for automotive, semianalysis for semi.

Again this is just my opinion, please decide for yourself.
by severino | 2026-02-17 19:49:37+00:00
> Can you access their websites without the need to confirm 'who you are' with their app?

Yes, none of them required me to use the app a single time. In fact, for all the banks I work with, I always identified myself at a local office when opening the account for the first time, the last one less than a year ago. And all of them allow me to operate in the website without the need of an app (actually I could never use any banking app as my telephone lacks Google Play).
by Aromasin | 2026-02-17 19:49:39+00:00
We recently had an employee leave our team, posting an extensive essay on LinkedIn, "exposing" the company and claiming a whole host of wrong-doing that went somewhat viral. The reality is, she just wasn't very good at her job and was fired after failing to improve following a performance plan by management. We all knew she was slacking and despite liking her on a personal level, knew that she wasn't right for what is a relatively high-functioning team. It was shocking to see some of the outright lies in that post, that effectively stemmed from bitterness at being let go.

The 'boy (or girl) who cried wolf' isn't just a story. It's a lesson for both the person, and the village who hears them.
by ajross | 2026-02-17 19:49:40+00:00
That's misunderstanding the model of actors. "Russia" isn't "Putin". "Countries" act in the best interests of their power structure, not their leaders.

Basically: the way this ends is when the collective will of the power centers (generally the armed forces, though not always) decide that they'll be wealthier and happier with Putin gone than by following more orders.

And obviously that's an unstable/unpredictable equilibrium, because groups don't decide collectively like that and exactly how a coup works is never known until it does. But it's the way literally every other government of every other failed state has fallen[1], and there's no reason to think this one will fare any differently.

[1] Well, there's "unexpected death of the leader" thing too.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-17 19:49:58+00:00
Using only cameras is a business decision, not tech decision: will camera + NN be good enough before LIDAR+Radar+RGB+NN can scale up.

For me it looks like they will reach parity at about the same time, so camera only is not totally stupid. What's stupid is forcing robotaxi on the road before the technology is ready.
by dni138 | 2026-02-17 19:49:59+00:00
Appreciate the comment here! And I agree. Generative models, for the most part, are very much controlled by their context window. So if you provide it a prompt, such as the prompt injection attack you seem to describe, yes the LLM will perform that kind of behavior (albeit, that is trivializing post training a bit).

What this post is trying to get at is that in situations where people of multiple different languages may use AI, such as trying to get information about being a refugee or how to send money to family, you may want to evaluate AI systems to see how they perform with multiple languages. Particularly with guardrails, you want to make sure the same policies, regardless of language in the context window, gets treated the same.

That, to me, is the core of the work: analyzing whether guardrails today (whether a prompted LLM through any-llm or a fine-tuned, custom use guardrail) have the capacity to be performant on multiple languages (in this case Farsi and English). Happy to continue the discussion more!
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 19:50:41+00:00
The self-service analysis tools angle is the most underrated part of this. Being able to write custom fixers scoped to your own codebase solves a real pain point.

We maintain a large Go monorepo and every internal API migration turns into a grep+sed adventure. Half the time someone misses edge cases, the other half the sed pattern breaks on multiline. Having an AST-aware rewriter that understands Go's type system is a massive upgrade over regex hacks.

The -diff preview flag also makes this practical for CI. Run go fix -diff, fail if output is non-empty. That alone could replace a bunch of custom linters people maintain.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-17 19:51:02+00:00
So? People are starving to death in the US and so many are homeless. Because a bunch of Bay Area retirees are millionaires doesn’t mean we shouldn’t wealth tax them. For every dollar over median wealth they should face a 10% wealth tax so that we can fund universal healthcare. There are many studies that show healthcare is more important than wealthcare.
by cameldrv | 2026-02-17 19:51:10+00:00
Digital cameras are much worse than the human eye, especially when it comes to dynamic range, but I don't think that's all that widely known actually. There are also better and worse digital cameras, and the ones on a Waymo are very good, and the ones on a Tesla aren't that great, and that makes a huge difference.

Beyond even the cameras themselves, humans can move their head around, use sun visors, put on sunglasses, etc to deal with driving into the sun, but AVs don't have these capabilities yet.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 19:51:19+00:00
> GrapheneOS claims to be a lot more secure, having additional hardening.

GrapheneOS has been heavily analyzed by privacy and security experts who say it provides far better privacy and security. There's a large amount of real world evidence showing GrapheneOS very successfully defends against commercial exploits tools. /e/ has been heavily criticized for having poor privacy and atrocious security by many experts. /e/ doesn't keep up with basic privacy/security patches and misses many important standard protections.

> keep in mind that it is not an independent comparison

That's not true. It's an independent comparison and the site compares a lot of other software. Contributors to many of the projects compared by it submit issues to it which doesn't many it not an independent comparison.

> In regular use, main difference will be that /e/OS comes with access to the alternative cloud service that project provides.

GrapheneOS users have many cloud services available including suites from Proton and others. Murena services have poor privacy and security overall due to neglecting server security, updates and more. Their speech-to-text service being a thin wrapper around OpenAI sending this sensitive user data to them rather than doing it locally as our SpeechServices app does similarly to Apple (even Google has that as an option):

https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using...

> It uses the default FOSS solution microG for google api compatibility

Their approach with microG gives highly privileged access to Google apps/services by default. GrapheneOS doesn't include sandboxed Google Play by default and they're installed as regular apps. microG doesn't change the fact that the apps are using closed source Google libraries, which are still present with microG and have strictly more access to user data on /e/ than GrapheneOS with sandboxed Google Play. Sandboxed Google Play is an entirely opt-in feature people need to install. /e/ has microG set up where it downloads closed source Google Play components it runs with privileged access as the default.

> /e/OS sets on AppLounge to install and upgrade both play store or F-Droid apps

This is a strange merger of Aurora Store, F-Droid and more. It's very misleading and confusing for users.

> /e/OS is also not my favorite since it feels like it is developing slowly, having had issues with outdated software versions - though it does work well in practice. Have a look at iode for an alternative.

Neither /e/ or iodéOS keeps up with updates to Android, Chromium, firmware, drivers or the Linux kernel. Both mislead users with an inaccurate Android security patch level. iodéOS lags far less behind /e/ and doesn't have nearly as many privacy violating services and added privacy/security flaws but neither is a privacy or security hardened OS. Neither keeps the privacy or security of standard AOSP intact.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-17 19:51:51+00:00
I think you're conflating GPU 'threads' and 'warps'. GPU 'threads' are SIMD lanes that are all running with the exact same instructions and control flow (only with different filtering/predication), whereas GPU warps are hardware-level threads that run on a single compute unit. There's no issue with adding extra "don't run code" when using warps, unlike GPU threads.
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 19:51:58+00:00
The interesting pattern with these Sonnet bumps: the practical gap between Sonnet and Opus keeps shrinking. At $3/15 per million tokens vs whatever Opus 4.6 costs, the question for most teams is no longer "which model is smarter" but "is the delta worth 10x the price."

For agent workloads specifically, consistency matters more than peak intelligence. A model that follows your system prompt correctly 98% of the time beats one that's occasionally brilliant but ignores instructions 5% of the time. The claim about improved instruction following is the most important line in the announcement if you're building on the API.

The computer use improvements are worth watching too. We're at the point where these models can reliably fill out a multi-step form or navigate between tabs. Not flashy, but that's the kind of boring automation that actually saves people time.
by nehal3m | 2026-02-17 19:52:08+00:00
As that IT person I’ve set up a few alternatives over the years (and they’re still up, certs and all). Matrix stuck with a decent group of people, but the group I hung out on Discord with refused to move. I definitively bailed after the ID news but the guys didn’t follow (to Matrix, or Jitsi, or TeamSpeak, or Mumble).

I’m kind of salty about making a fruitless effort I’ll admit, but I feel like unless there’s an effortless, perfect, free program that replicates the (voice) channel functionality and screen sharing features people are not going to leave Discord. Even if it does treat its users like shit.

I miss those guys but I refuse to take part in that abuse, and I’m angry about it.
by childofhedgehog | 2026-02-17 19:52:19+00:00
This is really awesome!
I learned about walking labyrinths at a retreat last year and have had a hard time finding public ones locally - this has given me some great options within a 30 minute drive. I have already shared this with at least one other labyrinth lover, and will be sharing with more.
Thank you for making the map usable on an iPhone - lots of sites mess this up.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-17 19:52:32+00:00
After Tiananmen Square we let Chinese students in the USA stay. I gained a ton of great colleagues during that time. No one freaked out, no one cared. We need to bump up immigration and remove the artificial power H1B/sponsorship gives companies. Perhaps the difference was that those new Americans weren't able to bring their families in due to Chinese policy so racists didn't SEE a huge visible difference?

2. Rural states were what you state already historically. Hence the existence of the rust belt. The existence of lots of towns who's manufacturing was outsourced from Clinton on. They were already this model, just with small/midsize factories and/or call centers.