MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 15:58:31+00:00
And you are forgetting the fact that things like vast.ai subscriptions would STILL be more expensive than Openrouter's api pricing and even more so in the case of AI subscriptions which actively LOSE money for the company.

So I would still point out the GP (Original comment) where yes, it might not make financial sense to run these AI Models [They make sense when you want privacy etc, which are all fair concerns but just not financial sense]

But the fact that these models are open source still means that they can be run when maybe in future the dynamics might shift and it might make sense running such large models locally. Even just giving this possibility and also the fact that multiple providers could now compete in say openrouter etc. as well. All facts included, definitely makes me appreciate Kimi compared to proprietory counterparts.

Edit: I highly recommend this video a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmYNK0kqaDI [AI subscription vs H100]

This video is honestly one of the best in my opinion about this topic that I watched.
by dangus | 2026-02-11 15:59:03+00:00
Meanwhile, Boston Dynamics robots are doing gymnastics routines and speaking in human language using LLMs. I wonder what they’ll be doing in 10 years.

I’m not particularly worried about a labor crunch long term. Labor availability is more detached from economic output and prosperity than ever before. If prosperity had to do with labor and birth rate you’d have to explain why Japan and South Korea have better living standards than Bangladesh and Nigeria.

Ford Motor Company’s production employee count peaked decades ago.

The amount of labor put into a product has very little to do with its economic value. Are your shoes worth more than RAM chips? Because your shoes take way more manual labor to make per item.
Show HN: My crush is obsessed with Maggie Rogers so I made her this
by adhivd | 2026-02-11 15:59:17+00:00
I made a remix of a Maggie Rogers track for a friend who's obsessed with the Maggie Roger's song "Alaska". Wanted a way to share it that was more fun than just sending a SoundCloud link, so I built a little site where you mix the song yourself.

It walks you through 7 audio stems one at a time. You drag faders to mix each one in, and the next layer unlocks when you bring the last one up. I also placed a beat pad at the end with vocal chops you can play to make your own remix.

Built using React + Tone.js. One of the first projects I made awhile back where I mostly vibe coded (Sonnet 3.5 I think). Felt good to build something for fun without overthinking the architecture. Curious what people think about the website and the music!

I made it to be mobile friendly, but you might have to flip your ringer on for the web audio to work.

cheers
adhiv
by globular-toast | 2026-02-11 15:59:22+00:00
> Your dreams just got a lot closer.

Sure, if your dream is to see a bunch of text with your name on the front. The reason people might dream of writing a book is because writing a book is hard. They want the feeling of accomplishing something hard. If it becomes easy, then it's no longer a dream.

We do things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. So unless you can explain how AI is going to give me more time in the garden, to play music or to paint, then I am not closer to any of my dreams.
by chasing0entropy | 2026-02-11 15:59:26+00:00
For fun, or research, install office 2007 and see from the stark difference between the lightning fast response of 20 years ago, and now.

The problem is far greater than your post implies; with ten to twenty times the processing power and memory moved from a desk to our hands yet society has accepted pure garbage from the majority modern 'software' developers... If you can call them that, imo web apps are fancy webpages; not real software.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-11 15:59:35+00:00
A lot of stuff gets bid out, and the procurement process is overly burdensome...

Which results in a limited number of qualified bidders collecting rents, and then subbing out the work to subs who then sub it out further.. such that its all done offshore for peanuts while we pay real money to some schmuck who ticked the right boxes in order to collect said rents.
by vunderba | 2026-02-11 15:59:48+00:00
I was also initially confused by the scale A3 to A4 until I realized that the musical interval trainer starts you on "A Minor Pentatonic". This might be a bit confusing for non-musicians so I'd suggest starting with a more standard C Major scale and a set of easy intervals (perfect 4th, perfect 5th, octave, etc) or even a quick question to allow a user to indicate their musical familiarity.
by p_l | 2026-02-11 16:00:01+00:00
Proxmox VE configuration database has limitations compared to even simple HA vcenter setup, from my understanding the 30 MBs of configuration data it can hold is for all or nearly all configuration information, and has issues with synchronization timing out above a certain number of nodes.

They do now have "datacenter" single pane of glass interface, but a) it's very new b) no idea how the integration between different Proxmox VE clusters compares to integration between VMware clusters.
by resters | 2026-02-11 16:00:22+00:00
Fair point but I would be more worried about the US government doing this kind of thing to act against US citizens than the Chinese government doing it.

I think we're in a brief period of relative freedom where deep engineering topics can be discussed with AI agents even though they have potential uses in weapons systems. Imagine asking chat gpt how to build a fertilizer bomb, but apply the same censorship to anything related to computer vision, lasers, drone coordination, etc.
by wffurr | 2026-02-11 16:00:29+00:00
>> sometimes replaces characters with what it thinks is a more likely character from context

Like the JBIG2 algorithm used in a zero click PDF-as-GIF exploit in iMessage a while back: https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero...

The vulnerability of that algorithm to character-swapping caused incorrect invoices, incorrect measurements in blueprints, incorrect metering of medicine, etc. https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
by SillyUsername | 2026-02-11 16:00:45+00:00
Also, cheaper... X99 + 8x DDR4 + 2696V4 + 4x Tesla P4s running on llama.cpp.
Total cost about $500 including case and a 650W PSU, excluding RAM.
Running TDP about 200W non peak 550W peak (everything slammed, but I've never seen it and I've an AC monitor on the socket).
GLM 4.5 Air (60GB Q3-XL) when properly tuned runs at 8.5 to 10 tokens / second, with context size of 8K.
Throw in a P100 too and you'll see 11-12.5 t/s (still tuning this one).
Performance doesn't drop as much for larger model sizes as the internode communication and DDR4 2400 is the limiter, not the GPUs.
I've been using this with 4 channel 96GB ram, recently updated to 128GB.
by mortos | 2026-02-11 16:00:54+00:00
> While drafting the fact sheet, we checked two headline policy ideas that the One Big, Beautiful, Bill introduced: the early sunset of the consumer EV credit and a new $250 annual EV fee. While the annual fee was dropped from the final legislation, the $7,500 consumer credit now ends September 30th.
> For the Equinox EV, these changes would cut its seven-year savings over the gasoline Equinox from about $9,000 to under $200. The Model Y also showed savings compared to its gasoline comparison under that less favorable scenario for EVs.

That link also factors in fuel savings which depends on where you live. I'd personally never save on an EV if it costs more upfront.
by danrecht | 2026-02-11 16:00:58+00:00
Collecting small things from many sources over meaningful distances is hard.

Separating things made of many materials is hard, especially when some components are hazardous.

Purifying materials drawn from waste is hard.

These aren’t impossible challenges, but physical facts of the problem that have kept costs too high for electronics recycling to be widespread.

Longer lasting electronics that can be repurposed or reused is the lever I’d be most excited to pull here.
by ryansgreenberg | 2026-02-11 16:01:00+00:00
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by dangus | 2026-02-11 16:01:26+00:00
Batteries also solve the intermittency problem, for less money, and their materials are essentially 100% recyclable.

If the economy is dysfunctional on earth, why is SpaceX a special snowflake company that is not also dysfunctional? It’s a US-based company. UPS has more competitors than SpaceX.

Using the price of bottled water is not meaningful to this discussion, that’s just a difference in currency exchange rates, level of government subsidy, etc.
by morpheuskafka | 2026-02-11 16:01:26+00:00
A cartel using a SAM against a US civilian aircraft would massively solidify public opinion against them just like 9/11 or the Iran hostage crisis. The US has been trying to extent the "foreign terrorist" label and casus belli to drug activities forever to justify military operations (ex. the "arrest" of Maduro was for drugs, not oil/Cuba/political stuff). That would be a massive self-own on the cartels part. (And if it did happen, just like 9/11, it would be used as justification for anything even remotely immigration or drug related at every level.)
by lemonaise | 2026-02-11 16:02:03+00:00
I was also surprised when I was researching - it is actually the standard for modern fintech companies (with PSD2 in Europe and the CMA Order in the UK).

Regarding "write" access: It absolutely exists. Crazy right? Look up PISP (Payment Initiation). It allows apps to push payments, not just read balances (which is called AISP and is what I am trying to do).

I guess they allow this the security model isn't "letting an app log in to your bank", it uses OAuth flows where you authenticate directly with the bank (often using something that they call Strong Customer Authentication), and the bank issues a restricted token to the app for only the specific things it's permitted to use. That's why they required the apps to have such high security standards. I assume it was just too costly and risky to run?
by upupupandaway | 2026-02-11 16:02:10+00:00
I work for a large tech company, and our CTO has just released a memo with a new rubric for SDEs that includes "AI Fluency". We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer, that is being used to surveil the teams lagging on the topic. All very depressing.

A friend of mine is an engineer of a large pre-IPO startup, and their VP of AI just demanded every single employee needs to create an agent using Claude. There were 9700 created in a month or so. Imagine the amount of tech debt, security holes, and business logic mistakes this orgy of agents will cause and will have to be fixed in the future.

edit: typo
by simonsarris | 2026-02-11 16:02:11+00:00
> but where is my car version of this?

It's the status quo? Cars last longer than they ever have in history. In 2 decades average age of cars on the road increased from 9.5 to 14.5. They are a little more difficult to maintain for the home mechanic because they are packed with electronics, but what you want seems to exist perfectly. Many use timing chains instead of timing belts that last 20+ years. Radiators rarely crack whereas they used to all the time. Alternators last the life of the vehicle. Cars are often upgraded because the owner is bored or does not feel like paying for rust repair at the 15 year mark, more than unfixable problems.
by mythz | 2026-02-11 16:02:39+00:00
> Doing inference with a Mac Mini to save money is more or less holding it wrong.

No one's running these large models on a Mac Mini.

> Of course if you buy some overpriced Apple hardware it’s going to take years to break even.

Great, where can I find cheaper hardware that can run GLM 5's 745B or Kimi K2.5 1T models? Currently it requires 2x M3 Ultras (1TB VRAM) to run Kimi K2.5 at 24 tok/s [1] What are the better value alternatives?

[1] https://x.com/alexocheema/status/2016404573917683754
by jdboyd | 2026-02-11 16:02:42+00:00
Just to add options, there is also the relatively new OpenMediaTransport ( https://www.openmediatransport.org/ ) that aims to be a licensing free, open alternative to NDI. At the moment, there are a number of programs supporting it, but sadly not many cameras, stand alone converters, nor audio gear. If line to see that change.
by ej88 | 2026-02-11 16:02:53+00:00
seems to be a pattern:

[Company that's getting disrupted by AI: Fiverr, Duolingo]: rush to adopt internal AI to cut costs before they get undercut by competition

[Company that's orthogonal: Box, Ramp, HFT]: build internal tools to boost productivity, maintain 'ai-first' image to keep talent

[Company whose business model is AI]: time to go all in
by skybrian | 2026-02-11 16:03:34+00:00
Like many others, I can vouch for “AI is good at programming now,” at least for the generic web programming that I do. But that doesn’t imply that it generalizes to other fields, and this article, at least, doesn’t show that it does.

I would like to read more from people who have other jobs about what they see when they use AI. Did they see a similar change?
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 16:03:48+00:00
> because memes and a podcast.

What a weird thing to say, after we spent 20+ trillion dollars on a bipartisan war on terror.

More than enough to make America's energy 100% renewable, feed the planet, house every American, and so much else.

Instead we made Dick Cheney's friends a lot of money, killed a couple million innocent people, and sat on the Epstein files for decades.

Which part of all that are you blaming on memes and a podcast?
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-11 16:04:38+00:00
>They are Russian nationals pushing propaganda for a totalitarian regime which has been engaging in wars of annexation throughout Europe and whose threats of nuclear war against Europe are pushed on almost on a daily basis.

Where's the proof beyond reasonable doubt resulting from a trial, that those European citizens have done the things you say?

Or is Euro News propaganda supposed to be the only proof on which EU gets to throw people in jail without trial?

Shouldn't you get a trial where you get a chance to defend yourself before being sanctioned? I swear you people are cheering for 1984 authoritarianism to buttfuck you.

>Nevertheless, it's stupid to even consider the idea that only foreign nationals can be foreign agents.

As long as they are EU citizens, they deserve a fair EU trial and not just get sanctioned because EU says "trust me bro" about people they want to see disappeared.
by chasil | 2026-02-11 16:04:52+00:00
Is it as good as Android's calculator?

https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2911981

https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_ExactCalc...

https://medium.com/@jnebos/the-humble-android-calculator-4f1...
by landl0rd | 2026-02-11 16:05:02+00:00
I got this:

"Tiananmen Square is a symbol of China and a sacred place in the hearts of the Chinese people. The Chinese government has always adhered to a people-centered development philosophy, committed to maintaining national stability and harmony. Historically, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have led the Chinese people in overcoming various difficulties and challenges, achieving remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention. We firmly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Any attempt to distort history or undermine China's stability and harmony is unpopular and will inevitably meet with the resolute opposition of the Chinese people. We call on everyone to jointly maintain social stability, spread positive energy, and work together to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind."

They even made it copy the characteristic tone of party bureaucratese. Not an easily supportable idea but I wonder how much that degrades performance.
by adolph | 2026-02-11 16:05:21+00:00
A non-aligned population will look out for their own interests and are aware that the attention of the US is temporary but the cuadillismo that lead to cartels are a durable cultural artifact.

The Battle of Culiacán, also known locally as the Culiacanazo and Black
Thursday, was a failed attempt to capture Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa
Cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was wanted in the United States
for drug trafficking.

Around 700 cartel gunmen began to attack civilian, government and military
targets around the city, despite orders from Ovidio sent at security forces'
request. Massive towers of smoke could be seen rising from burning cars and
vehicles. The cartels were well-equipped, with improvised armored vehicles,
bulletproof vests, .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifles, rocket launchers, grenade
launchers and heavy machine guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiac%C3%A1n
by dudefeliciano | 2026-02-11 16:05:23+00:00
I didn't think I needed to respond to a comment that (I guess willingly) missed the mark.

> don't endanger other people's lives

> Cyclists certainly endanger people

Your article talks about 600 injuries caused by cyclists, I am talking about 15000 deaths a year caused by cars. And you try to frame it as a "both sides bad (but actually cyclists are worse because of their entitlement and bad behavior)"
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 16:05:32+00:00
I literally already did. And it is not merely the RFC which specifies it. The RFC defines the protocol and really leaves it open-ended for any sort of implementation.

What defines port 23/tcp is the longstanding usage and the original understanding of a "remote terminal" or NVT. In 1983 when the IETF described the NVT, it was simply understood that a terminal, or "canonical console", was a method to access a timesharing system and log in as a user. If you went to a "terminal lab" or you sat down at a desk with a "terminal" or "teletype" or any of its predecessors, you were preparing to log in and do some programming or data processing.

There were literally no terminal labs where you would sit down and begin playing Centipede, Asteroids, or PONG. Those were completely different concepts of "consoles" and "cabinets" and the IETF did not stutter when they defined an NVT.

Every Unix implementation, every router and network device, practically anything with an Internet connection implemented a "shell" login on port 23 or it did not. There were plenty of systems with /usr/games and a plethora of leisure-time activities, but surprisingly they did not default to using port 23/tcp. It has been long-standing tradition, and convention, that the TELNETD service operating on 23/tcp is what a user expects to find when they connect.

MUD admins and wizards who put their servers on 23/tcp necessarily needed another way to log in and manage their server. I am surprised that they were so easily able to usurp telnetd if this was the status quo. Was sshd already established for them or something? Did they just resort to rlogin instead? I'm genuinely clueless and curious how it was so easy to usurp 23/tcp and use it for MUDs.

Because my community often ran them clandestinely, and we always ran them unprivileged, so there would literally be no way for the server to start on port <1024 -- it never ever had root access! If your MUD ran on port 23, that's dangerous because at some point, somewhere, some time, it enjoyed root access, and hopefully dropped that UID 0 immediately after the bind()!
by kijin | 2026-02-11 16:05:37+00:00
An unchanging community is a dead community, period.

Attempts to "preserve" a community, both online and offline, tend to end up preserving unhealthy power dynamics within the community as well, which would have been slowly replaced with something else if you had just let the community evolve (or disappear) naturally.

Often, members of the community who benefit from the status quo are the ones who cry the loudest for such preservation.
by Fabricio20 | 2026-02-11 16:05:38+00:00
Since you had the logs for this, can you confirm the IP ranges they were operating from? You mention "Claudebot and GPTBot" but I'm guessing this is based off of the user-agent presented by the scrapers and could easily be faked to shift blame. I genuinely doubt Anthropic and such would be running scrapers that are this badly written/implemented, it doesnt make economic sense. I'd love to see some of the web logs from this if you'd be willing to share! I feel like this is just some of the old scraper bots now advertising themselves as AI bots to shift blame into the AI companies.
by powersurge360 | 2026-02-11 16:06:03+00:00
I don’t know if it works for windows but on other operating systems if you hold shift while pasting it strips the special formatting. I don’t have a windows machine readily available but I hope even if it doesn’t work there this will be useful to other people reading the comment. I agree though. Basically the only format I ever want to keep is _sometimes_ the link with text. And even then usually not the exact coloring/indicators.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-11 16:06:11+00:00
There are plenty of languages which exist without much in the way of L1 speakers. Esperanto, for example, although it does have a handful of native speakers. Many people speak English as a non-native language, particularly in places like India or Nigeria. Swahili was originally a trade language few folk spoke and even today, many of its speakers are L2.

I can speak and read some Manx. I personally don't believe it died in the 1970s. Not only do we have continuity from that time, there are people around today who learnt theirs off native speakers (in one case they were his close relatives.) It helps that we have many recordings, writings etc and it is also closely related to two languages which are in slightly better shape.

Latin and Hebrew were in use within the Middle Ages to a substantial level and used to communicate between people as a common language sometimes. Hebrew is now revived, but is Latin? A few people have spoken it as their first language over the last century or two.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 16:06:17+00:00
> I regularly run out of quota on my claude max subscription. When that happens, I can sort of kind of get by with my modest setup (2x RTX3090) and quantized Qwen3.

When talking about fallback from Claude plans, The correct financial comparison would be the same model hosted on OpenRouter.

You could buy a lot of tokens for the price of a pair of 3090s and a machine to run them.