MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kamaal | 2026-02-16 02:37:50+00:00
>>replace LLM with employee in your argument - what changes ?

I mentioned this part in my comment. You cannot trust an automated process to a thing, and expect the same process to verify if it did it right. This is with regards to any automated process, not just code.

This is not the same as manufacturing, as in manufacturing you make the same part thousands of times. In code the automated process makes a specific customised thing only once, and it has to be right.

>>The problem is those systems weren't built for LLMs specifically so the unexpected failure cases ...

We are not talking of failures. There is a space between success and failure where the LLM can go into easily.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-16 02:37:55+00:00
either way there's a lot of money pumping the agentic hype train with not much to show for it other than Peter's blog edit history showing he's a paid influencer and even the little obscure AI startups are trying to pay ( https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/commit/725a3cb372bc2... ) for these sorts of promotional pump and dump style marketing efforts on social media.

In Peter's blog he mentions paying upwards of $1000's a month in subscription fees to run agentic tasks non-stop for months and it seems like no real software is coming out of it aside from pretty basic web gui interfaces for API plugins. is that what people are genuinely excited about?
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-16 02:38:18+00:00
Yeah I wish I could do that but I don't have the money to buy a double set of drives. I often upgrade my NAS by just swapping out a disk for a bigger one and the old one goes into the backup rotation. Right now I have 15 disks in there (and 8 in the actual NAS). Because they are of course smaller drives I need more of them to cover the content.

Buying hardware to keep 15 disks spinning is also pretty expensive :(
by bee_rider | 2026-02-16 02:39:51+00:00
I sometimes drop by cpu down to the 400Mhz-800Mhz range. 400 is rough. 800, not so bad. It runs fine, with something like i3 or sway.

If we really got stuck in the hundreds of MHz range, I guess we’d see many-core designs coming to consumers earlier. Could have been an interesting world.

Although, I think it would mostly be impossible. Or maybe we’re in that universe already. If you are getting efficiency but not speed, you can always add parallelism. One form of parallelism is pipelining. We’re at like 20 pipeline stages nowadays, right? So in the ideal case if we weren’t able to parallelize in that dimension we’d be at something like 6Ghz/20=300Mhz. That’s pretty hand-wavey, but maybe it is a fun framing.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-16 02:40:41+00:00
You have to pay to burn them, at home or abroad, and the cost is likely a few % of a clothing piece, where the margin is already >70%.

Tl;dr the EU will say "Mission Accomplished" because no clothing has been burned in the EU since 2026(tm), while all of the emissions are produced abroad.

The same show has been going on with industry, where the dirtiest parts are done in India or China, so that we can say that we are "clean".
by ttul | 2026-02-16 02:40:48+00:00
The game theory here is that either OpenAI acquires this thing now, or someone else will. It doesn't matter whether they could replicate it. All of the major players can and probably will replicate OpenClaw in their own way and make their thing incredibly scalable and wonderful. But OpenClaw has a gigantic following and it's relevant in this moment. For a trivial amount of money (relatively speaking), OpenAI gets to own this hype and direct it toward their models and their apps. Had they not succeeded here, Anthropic or Google would have gladly directed the hype in their direction instead, and OpenAI would be licking its wounds for some time trying to create something equivalently shiny.

It was a very good play by OpenAI.
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-16 02:43:21+00:00
If I understand correctly, this makes your program and/or its build system tied to an OS. Depending on the details (You mention interpreted and compiled languages), it's not clear if this would provincialize the build only, or running the application as well. (With complications beyond executable ABI compatibility)

My perspective: I want from the OS: An allocator, threading, filesystem support, dates/times, and in some cases hardware access like for GPUs, USB etc.

I do not want my software to be dependent on a specific OS's package manager. I don't want a headache when I change the PC I'm compiling on, and really don't want to deal with a separate package manager for each OS I distribute the application for. Especially so given that there are so many linux distros.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-16 02:44:14+00:00
OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (November 2025)

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe...

Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560

Other words removed:

responsibly
unconstrained
safe
positive
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 02:44:25+00:00
helpful framing: this feels less like k8s itself and more like "fleet ops for agents". k8s solved deploy/observe/isolate for containers, youre mapping that control plane idea to agent workers.

would be great to add one concrete diagram in the readme (controller, namespace, agent runtime, secret boundary). i think that would remove most confusion in this thread quickly.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-16 02:44:34+00:00
Idk I was using Claude code this weekend to do some experimenting with supabase. Claude code had no issue integrating supabase into my application and even do the schema and rls setup. I think supabase is safe because it’s managed, has plenty of features, and the agents know it. That may be the key to saas survival, do the agents know about your service and how to integrate it into their work? …man that sounds scary just replace “agents” with “software devs” in my last sentence. It’s a crazy world.
by huxley | 2026-02-16 02:45:07+00:00
There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per capita than the world average.

The only realistic threat to Canada is the new one from Donald Trump, but it would take closer to 30% GDP to protect from that one.
by whattheheckheck | 2026-02-16 02:45:38+00:00
Brute forcing the 14 million undocumented immigrants in the USA is no doubt going to end up a crime against humanity seeing how they've handled the last year.

There's 5 million+ citizen kids with undocumented parents in the USA.

The foster system in the USA has 800,000 kids

The administration is incompetantly evil if you have any sense of scale and understanding of historical reality of other attempts to move that many people.
by prewett | 2026-02-16 02:45:57+00:00
A cogent article. But I think the biggest problem is that the DOM was built for documents, not apps. We know how to build a performant UI architecture: Qt, Java/Swing, Cocoa all have pretty similar architectures and they all ran fine on much poorer hardware than a modern browser on an M1. But unless you use WebAssembly, you can't actually use them on the browser.

When the industry shoehorns something into a tool designed for something else, yeah, performance suffers and you get a lot of framework churn with people trying to figure out how to elegantly cut steaks with spoons.
by mythz | 2026-02-16 02:46:23+00:00
Sure he's still one of the top players, but he's not as strong this year and OP is suggesting he still has an edge against the GOAT, who this year:

- Has won Freestyle WC

- Has won SCC

- Has won 2x Titled Tuesday's

- Has won a Freestyle Friday

Hikaru can snipe a win off Magnus here and there, but I don't think there's any time control or format where he could win a long series of chess matches against Magnus.
by mcmoor | 2026-02-16 02:46:38+00:00
For all the grievances people made against food pyramid, this is actually the real reason why it was instituted. Meat has always been expensive, and with limited money people had, they'd rather spend it all on grains and save the money for something else. Food pyramid encourages people to at least add some proteins in their diet. And it works, people's height had been increasing decade-by-decade.

In a way, the movement to disparage food pyramid because it institutes too much grain really seems like a first world problem. Especially any that encourages more meat.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-16 02:47:03+00:00
> Ah yes, since controversy over how judges decide only exists in the US.

Well, pretty much, yes. I've not lived in a country where judges really differ that much. And usually we don't even know their political affiliation. Because it really doesn't matter. This goes even for our supreme court (we call it the high council). Which isn't really that important to our daily lives anyway. They are just a last resort when people can't stop appealing.

In Holland they also don't rule on big things like this. They're not allowed to play politics. Just to apply the law in specific cases only. Something like the supreme court deciding to overturn abortion legalisation is really unthinkable. Besides, if they rule on one case it has zero effect on anyone else, because we don't have precedent-based common law. This is exactly the kind of issue I have with common law.

> The US system of having legislators approve/reject nominated judges is not the norm elsewhere. The only restrictions on choices for the Canadian Supreme Court are a) being a member of the bar for 10 years, and b) having three judges being from Quebec; otherwise, whoever the PM chooses becomes one of the nine sitting judges on the court. End of story.

Isn't that a similar process to the US? Basically the currently ruling party gets to pick the supreme court judges. There's congress validation but they rarely would take the pick of the non-majority party.

Though in our case we don't really have a 'ruling party'. We have many parties and one is never enough to gain a majority so there's always a complicated coalition. It is a bit of a stumbling block forming a government but I abhor the first-past-the-post system like in the US because it makes politics a zero-sum game: A loss for one party is a win for the other. That stimulates dirty politics, smearing, and of course there's the risk of a bunch of nutcases coming to power and nothing being able to be done about that. Most of our governments collapse before their 4 years are up and in most cases this was not a bad thing (especially our last one that was full of populists, they were definitely a ton of nutcases and they didn't manage to stick it out a year before they collapsed in infighting lol).
by Sanmilie | 2026-02-16 02:48:06+00:00
I’ve been working on a Windows‑native SSH agent to address a long‑standing gap in the Windows ecosystem: reliable smartcard support (CNG/KSP + PKCS#11) for SSH, Git, WSL2, and PuTTY, without external middleware or additional tools.

Most existing solutions rely on vendor PKCS#11 DLLs, Pageant bridges, or npiperelay hacks.
This project tries to provide a clean, unified, minimal alternative using only Windows native crypto APIs.

Key features
Full PKCS#11 module (RSA, RSA‑PSS, ECDSA incl. Brainpool, Ed25519, Ed448)

Native CNG/KSP backend (PIV, GIDS, YubiKey, Nitrokey, Windows minidrivers)

SSH‑agent interface compatible with Git, Visual Studio, OpenSSH, WSL, WSL2

Native Pageant server (PuTTY)

Built‑in WSL2 TCP bridge (no npiperelay)

Optional Windows service mode (SYSTEM) with isolated userland helper

RDP‑friendly PIN prompts (native Windows UI)

Single binary, no DLLs, no CRT, no dependencies

Security model
All signatures via NCryptSignHash

Private keys never leave the smartcard

PIN handled only by Windows native UI

Secure pipes (DACL + per‑session GUID)

Why I built this
Smartcard support on Windows for SSH has historically been fragmented across multiple tools and middleware stacks.
I wanted something minimal, auditable, and predictable that works across Git, WSL2, VSCode, and RDP without hacks.
by kube-system | 2026-02-16 02:48:33+00:00
> Your claim that it "factually something that provides value to society“ is unsubstantiated.

Fashion is fundamentally an art form that has deep social, cultural, and anthropological meaning. This is high school level social studies.

> Just as unsubstantiated as "You are certainly entitled to the opinion that fast fashion is not a good thing".

Are you saying you might not be entitled to an opinion? Okay...?
by halfcat | 2026-02-16 02:48:42+00:00
FWIW, “colocation in component-based architecture” doesn’t necessarily mean shared code. It can just mean the one thing has all of its parts in one place, instead of having HTML in one file, CSS in another, JS in another.

You’re right about DRY and code reuse very often being a premiere (wrong) abstraction, which is usually more of a problem than a few copy/pastes, because premature wrong abstractions become entrenched and harder to displace.
by kasey_junk | 2026-02-16 02:50:19+00:00
I tend to have between 4-15 agent sessions going at once, but importantly I’m counting agents that are awaiting inputs from me.

My agent orchestration system is a bespoke python program that I vibed just for me. It is one of thousands of systems that combines git worktrees and devcontainers. But I’ve customized it for my quirks and workflows. The big win is I can decide on a repo by repo basis what level of permissions to give an agent from yolo mode to very limited permissions.

In that agent count there are usually 3-5 sessions that are my main tasks mixed between research, planning,coding and code review. The balance of the sessions are sessions for other tasks, improving tests, adding new kinds of guard rails, projects that are ancillary etc.
by bnabholz | 2026-02-16 02:50:37+00:00
Before I saw this comment I was curious and used dig+ARIN to look up the IPs and saw they were at Cloudflare. Given how rapidly the data changes and that the updates are via Websockets, do you get benefits from them serving assets, or is that to obscure the origin so it doesn't get extra attention, skewing the results? Cool project!
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-16 02:50:45+00:00
Then you don't understand Machine Learning in any real way. Literally the 3rd or 4th thing you learn about ML is that for any given problem, there is an ideal model size. Just making the model bigger doesn't work because of something called the curse of dimensionality. This is something we have discovered about every single problem and type of learning algorithm used in ML. For LLMs, we probably moved past the ideal model size about 18 months ago. From the POV of something who actually learned ML in school (from the person who coined the term), I see no real reason to think that AGI will happen based upon the current techniques. Maybe someday. Probably not anytime soon.

PS The first thing you learn about ML is to compare your models to random to make sure the model didn't degenerate during training.
by yawaramin | 2026-02-16 02:51:07+00:00
He makes it sound like he did something special, but this is just something that htmx offers out of the box. In fact if he had used something like:

<a href="/?page=2" hx-target="#dashboard-content" hx-boost="true">
Next Page
</a>

Then he would have gotten the functionality out of the box without even using hx-push-url explicitly. And he would have gotten graceful degradation with a link that worked without JS and Ctrl/Cmd-click to open in a background tab.

Also the article seems to be full of errors. Eg

> In HTMX, if the server returns a 500 error, the browser might swap the entire stack trace or the generic error page into the middle of a table by default. This is a poor user experience.

This is simply incorrect. By default htmx does not swap 4xx/5xx responses. Instead it triggers an error event in the DOM. Developers can choose to handle that event or they can choose to override the default behaviour and do a swap.
by noduerme | 2026-02-16 02:51:23+00:00
Ah, yeah. I spent the early 2010s writing front-ends in AS3, so imagine how that turned out. I wrote my own event system too when I was forced to head to javascript, but in the end I mostly just used jquery's, and it's still what I use. I agree the event-driven paradigm leads to sloppy code, but static event names are enough of a clue to what's invoked most of the time, even in relatively large projects. And most things can sensibly just be promisified now anyway, besides user interactions.

I thought it was funny that you wrote this way back when:

>> I've often seen projects where I think "what talks to what and how? What is the separation of concerns and where does this code live?"
by remarkEon | 2026-02-16 02:54:00+00:00
So, again, there are two relevant paragraphs in this whole article and all they do is point out that New York is paying Palantir to optimize their billing infrastructure, and then it observes that, in order to do this, New York is also giving them PHI that Palantir is permitted to de-identify and use for other "research" purposes.

This tells us almost nothing. You're obviously a cynic (understandable) about technology here, but this journalist could've done a lot more work to actually explain to the reader the nature of this so-called "research". Is it defined in the contract (most likely)? How long do they get access to this data? Are there other constraints? Has Palantir violated any terms of this contract (The Intercept is intimating that they are in at position to know this, since they have the contract materials so they say) with regard to use of this data? Are there reporting requirements if the terms of the contract are violated? Is Palantir required to notify New York about the use of PHI for these research purposes?

The Intercept doesn't tell us any of this, which to me suggests that there's not a lot of "there" there. Did they ask anyone in a position to know about the contract? No, they didn't, all they did was send a gotcha email to the mayor's office. This is not journalism.

>the government should not be sharing private health information with private corporations

How exactly do you think Medicaid/Medicare works? Private corporations handle PHI all the time. There is an entire industry that exists to do exactly that.

>if you think the government should be able to amass enormous dossiers on all of its citizens,

TFA doesn't say this.

Look, Palantir and others involved in XKS and all the rest of warrantless and illegal surveillance activity do not get the benefit of the doubt. My problem here is that this article is shit, is intended to generate clicks, and the quality of investigative journalism on this topic is a pile of hot garbage. There's dozens of other questions this journalist should've gone out and investigated but, no, it was easier to drop in two paragraphs that tell the reader nothing, and then build up a bunch of ancillary observations about other work that governments and private corporations do (all legal, btw) to make everything sound as inflammatory as possible without actually informing anyone of anything.
by tamimio | 2026-02-16 02:55:09+00:00
Hahah glad I never used the claw, now that they joined openAI. But, I will never use any AI assistant because:

- privacy concerns: last thing I want is some prompt injection exposing xyz personal data. Seriously, how do people -especially technical ones- trust one thing with so much access and power!? Even from engineering perspective, it’s a single point of failure.

- security concerns: leaking credentials etc.

- codependency concerns: once you become codependent on something that you can’t control (ie not you), things can get messy, from a simple power blackout to cloud interruptions to company acquired by another, you will have a hard reality check.

- cognitive concerns: I have a theory that all these AI assistants will make people dumber in few years, when parts of their brains aren’t working or active as used to be and relying on external help, eventually they will lose that critical thinking ability, and become a “receiver” on how to navigate or do stuff, maybe even day to day tasks.
by lethologica | 2026-02-16 02:55:11+00:00
Sorry, I thought you’d be able to make some logical inferences and I assumed you knew a little about chess.

In chess there’s a concept of strength, and ELO is used as a rough estimate of this. Further there are FIDE rankings like IM and GM that have certain requirements to achieve.

In most sports, there’s never such an age gap. Think of basketball or football. You don’t see 12 year olds hitting the equivalent of GM in those respective sports (going pro?) and being able to compete with the 35 year olds, do you? In most sports, they wouldn’t even be allowed to enter but in chess they could.
by camillomiller | 2026-02-16 02:55:24+00:00
Whenever the EU does something positive towards a collective action issue, this forum gets filled to the brim with nitpickers who know everything that is possibly wrong with such action, and yet don't provide any meaningful alternative to solve actual problems.
So, I guess it's only innovation if you can make your own startup solving menial or useless first-world issues in order for the PG and YC of the world to share a little piece of their billions with you and maybe get fuck you money from an exit.
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-16 02:55:35+00:00
I'll admit that at least looks consistent with extreme carelessness rather than lying. I don't find it terribly convincing, though. I find it a suspiciously long chain of excuses perfectly calibrated to excuse the events. The description gets vague right at the critical point where AI output gets laundered into journalistic output, and the part about the tool being strictly to gather "verbatim source material" sounds like the narrow end of a wedge of excuses for something that actually doesn't do that. But I don't have the background to tell with confidence whether he's lying. If it turns out he's not, well, I'd feel a little bad, but I still wouldn't respect him.

I certainly stand by my broader claim that lying is fireable.
by halfcat | 2026-02-16 02:55:48+00:00
In my editor this looks like this, with an extension like Tailwind Fold or Inline Fold:

<div class="...">
<p class="...">
Because Tailwind is so low-level, it never encourages you to design the same site twice. Some of your favorite sites are built with Tailwind, and you probably had no idea.
</p>
</div>
by somenameforme | 2026-02-16 02:55:52+00:00
Crime rates were substantially lower in the 50s, and prior, than they are today. The narrative about collapsing crime relies on starting sampling near the 60s at which point crime started exponentially skyrocketing, peaking at the 90s - where we hit the highest rates seen in modern history. The collapse of crime starting around that era correlates with an exponential rise in incarceration. In 1960 something like 400k Americans were imprisoned. Today it's around 2 million with the US having the highest incarceration rate in the entire world.

Similarly, the idea that crime is mostly by people you know is driven by another falsehood. That is only when the relationship between the victim and offender is known. The wide majority of crime has an offender that was either unknown to to the victim, or "relationship unknown." And the total number of cases of people killed by police who were not instigating physical resistance or aggression towards them is very near zero. There have been some really egregious cases, but they are very far and few between.

And yeah the 'cop personality' is pretty common, because it's cultivated in the training. They are going after the sort of people you probably don't even know exist, certainly not in the quantities that they do - especially with this image of reasonably people driven to desperation you've built up in your mind. These people will take any sign of hesitation or weakness as something to exploit. The 'cop personality' is a tool to help them do their job, even moreso than the tools on their belt.