MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pitched | 2026-02-19 23:29:52+00:00
This is the most interesting part of the way the US government is structured. Where the federal government has very little power compared to the states, each state is competing for talent. Like how Texas is more conservative and California is more liberal. May the best policies win. People will move to whichever set of laws better produces success. I don’t think that as true as it once was though.
by thallavajhula | 2026-02-19 23:30:02+00:00
This is great. I am hopeful that Gemini 3.1 Pro would be great. So far, I'm almost always pulled away from Gemini models by Claude. Having used Claude Opus High for a while now, Claude Opus seems to be fantastic at coding. Even Gemini's comparison chart says so. OpenAI's 5.3-codex is by far the weakest (of the 3) for my coding purposes. Claude Opus really shines at explanations and generating code.

Gemini is almost great. Claude Opus is great. I keep switching among these subscriptions every month to not miss out on any of the offerings for too long; ChatGPT Plus <-> Gemini Pro <-> Claude.
by vladms | 2026-02-19 23:30:20+00:00
But do you think the concept of advertising is the best solution to the problem it tries to solve? I have serious doubts.

Sure, 100 years ago you had no other way to make something known, but today with everybody having a smartphone there might be other ways. I always would like to see reviews of stuff from my immediate network of friends (or, let's say 2-3 connections) - wouldn't that be much better? Of course, the whole ad industry will have zero interest to promote something like this, where they loose control and the process might be actually efficient.
by simianwords | 2026-02-19 23:30:22+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/share/69979cf0-3908-800b-8144-87c2667075... no you can't reproduce it using the thinking model. I don't trust random redditor's since its easy to spoof it. Try it yourself.

In fact give it 100 tries and post here if you find even one.

If your answer is that OpenAI is constantly patching these, then that's conspiracy level thinking. But if you really want to go there, then it should be easy to come up with a new prompt to stump chatgpt wouldn't it?
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-02-19 23:30:35+00:00
Saw this on /r/localllama

It's an LLM ASIC that runs one single LLM model at ridiculous speeds. It's a demonstration chip that runs Llama-3-8B at the moment but they're working on scaling it to larger models. I think it has very big implications on how AI will look like a few years from now. IMO the crucial question is whether they will get hard-limited by model size similarly to Cerebras
by jongjong | 2026-02-19 23:30:39+00:00
This is well put. If the LLM gets the type wrong, then we're already discussing a failure scenario with a feedback loop involving back-and-forth changes.

LLMs are not really good at this. The idea that LLMs benefit from TypeScript is a case of people anthropomorphizing AI.

The kinds of mistakes AI makes are very different. It's WAY better than humans at copying stuff verbatim accurately and nailing the 'form' of the logic. What it struggles with is 'substance' because it doesn't have a complete worldview so it doesn't fully understand what we mean or what we want.

LLMs struggle more with requirements engineering and architecture since architecture ties into anticipating requirements changes.
by dakial1 | 2026-02-19 23:30:49+00:00
That is not new, just new with APIs.

The usual cycle with startups is to:

- Start being very open, as this brings people developing over the platforms and generates growth

- As long as they are growing, VC money will come to pay for everything. This is the scale up phase

- Then comes the VC exit, IPO or whatever

- Now the new owners don't want user growth, they want margin growth. This is the company phase

- Companies then have monetize their users (why not ads?), close up free, or high-maintenance stuff that do not bring margin

- and report that sweet $$$ growth quarter after quarter

...until a new startup comes in and starts the cycle over again, destroying all the value the old company had.

A mix of Enshittification and Innovators Dilemma theories
by tptacek | 2026-02-19 23:31:03+00:00
I think people are retconning a lot of things onto Show HN that aren't actually part of the ethos of Show HN. That's not new; in the past, people have tried the same thing to suggest Show HN is about, say, open source software only.

I don't dispute the quality decline on Show HN or the need for some kind of intervention, but this particular argument about how AI interacts with "Show HN" is in fact introducing a new and significant element of gatekeeping to it.

Show HN is not in fact a craftspersons forum! Craft can be one of the things it's about, but it's not the only thing.
by Conscat | 2026-02-19 23:31:15+00:00
I've been inputting Devanagari with a 30% ortho keyboard lately using QMK. ऐसे अति मुश्किल नहीं है । I have an extra layer for nicher inputs just as I do with my usual Roman text. I'm not aware of any writing systems that normally require multiple layers. The most complex I can think of is Hangul, and they all should translate pretty directly to a smaller keyboard.
by tzs | 2026-02-19 23:31:36+00:00
> Just as an example Europe had a few years of exporting the best GLP-1 drugs (finally something in which Europe was leader in science), Eli Lily quickly took it over

You make it sound like Europe was not a leader in any area of science until this one thing which they led in for a few years.

> Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money and created a new company

No, he's an example of what can happen when a Fields medalist gets funding cut. 99% of exceptionally smart university mathematicians and scientists will not be able to get VC money.

With the US both cutting research funding and becoming unfriendly to foreign students many future Tao's that would have chosen a US school for grad school will likely look elsewhere.
by stephen_g | 2026-02-19 23:31:44+00:00
I expect that to go about as well as Facebook changing their name to Meta and putting all their eggs in the Metaverse/VR basket...

But at least Meta's legacy businesses (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) were still valuable enough to fall back on - whereas Tesla's seems to be tanking. Only their utility-scale fixed battery business seems to have much potential if they can't turn around their dwindling car business.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-19 23:32:31+00:00
> Had to look at some c# backend code. To write any kind of endpoint that talked to a database they had to write at least... 7? different files, lots of empty interfaces that has to be created and implemented, command, mediator patterns everywhere, etc. Looked like insanity compared to Spring Boot

Programming against interfaces. That's what you are seeing. Makes unit testing easier.
by clejack | 2026-02-19 23:32:55+00:00
Just to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding you, I double checked the meaning of "normative." This is the first result from google:

"establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behavior."

And other sources have something similar. I'm interpreting your comment as saying "(psychological) harm is subjective, and because it can not be measured empirically, it's not possible to have expertise on this topic."

Fortunately, there are real world consequences that can be measured. If I take an action that makes many people say "ow!" and we acknowledge that expression as an indicator of pain, even though I can't measure the exact level of pain each person is experiencing, I can measure how many people are saying "ow!" I can measure the relationship between the intensity of my action, and the number of people that respond negatively. There's plenty of room for empiricism here, and a whole field of mathematics (statistics) that supports handling "normative" experiences. They even have a distribution for it!

The foundation of law is not scientific exactness or scientific empiricism. It is the mechanism by which a state establishes norms. A law against murder does not stop murder, but it does tell you that society does not appreciate it.
by m_ke | 2026-02-19 23:33:00+00:00
i've been working in this field for a very long time, i promise you, if you can collect a dataset of a task you can train a model to repeat it.

the models do an amazing job interpolating and i actually think the lack of extrapolation is a feature that will allow us to have amazing tools and not as much risk of uncontrollable "AGI".

look at seedance 2.0, if a transformer can fit that, it can fit anything with enough data
by Affric | 2026-02-19 23:33:10+00:00
I don't know if you're being flippant but the information at universities is neither secret nor sacred. Sure, there is a stupid price for academic journals but most of it can be found freely on the internet.

Eldership, acceptance into a hierarchy based on deeds and demonstrated virtue within a relatively small social grouping that does not recognize the value of money is, I believe, worthwhile. And the socially formal recognition, not easily won nor necessarily expected from anyone who has not been permitted to give it perhaps recognises that our society has values and that you are still expected to grow, even as an adult.
by 141205 | 2026-02-19 23:33:16+00:00
You would forget that this would cause exponential growth: in a couple decades, a single lab could produce more people seeking tenure track than an entire country's worth of positions; there need to be smarter ways to provide the requisite labor for science, since this is clearly unsustainable praxis. Running a pyramid scheme of this magnitude is only going to cause an implosion—which we may already be witnessing.
by BretJohnson | 2026-02-19 23:34:11+00:00
Personally, those rates seem very reasonable and I wouldn't shy from making that more clear.

1) I love that it isn't strictly locked into a subscription model but could be either pay as you go or pay monthly

Paying monthly would remove my stress of his usage and if it was clearly set up as a 'pause any time' subscription model I'd be even more inclined. Ie. He may be REALLY into it for a month or two and then hard pivots to a new thing so being able to pause easily month-to-month while I wait for his attention to cycle back is a great thing.

2) I think you could also explore saying, 'We know AI is moving fast and their models are always evolving, we're committed to offering credits to our amazing community at fair market rates plus a Ball2 platform fee of 10% which helps us improve Ball2 and add more features. And since we're able to pool the buying power of the whole Ball2 community, we hope to keep the cost of creating as low as possible. Currently those rates are...'

I think you're also set up to offer a really incredible maker community as kids share their games and iterate off one another. If you don't have plans for a basic community forum I'd lean in to that. Would be cool to sponsor monthly challenges or organize mini-hackathons where kids spend a weekend collaborating virtually to come up with new more elaborate games or solve design challenges that employ the balls capabilities etc. -- Also helps keep kids engaged and using credits ;) or looking forward to Ball3!

I could also see you offering school stem kit packs or school PE packs etc.

What a really cool space to be playing in.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-02-19 23:34:31+00:00
Personally I prefer a keyboard with a gentle curve rather than an actual split - the old Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 was my favourite for many years, but mine have all failed with membrane issues now.

I'm probably going to end up building a custom board with the features I want (gentle curve, ISO layout, nice switches) since what I want doesn't seem to be available off-the-peg. (The X-Bows keyboards are quite nice, but ANSI-only - I've done enough programming to have learned that I'm not prepared to compromise on the position of "\"!)
by tombert | 2026-02-19 23:34:33+00:00
I’m not sure who told you that the Nazis only killed German citizens, considering that they famously invaded Poland (a sovereign nation at the time) and started executing Jews there.

I also don’t know who told you that they’re only putting illegal migrants in Alligator Alcatraz. It’s not hard to find examples of people who had legal visas being rounded up because of the Trump administration’s idiotic quota policy.
by computomatic | 2026-02-19 23:34:35+00:00
That’s not how I read it. This describes a process of tagging, not summarizing. The tags (“clusters”) have a title and a summary, but those are not derived from the conversation. They are common across all conversations. Isn’t that what they are saying?

There might be some risk of some data leak where a new cluster (tag) is defined. But that’s not the same as saying they are viewing summaries of content.
by spankalee | 2026-02-19 23:34:52+00:00
> Claude is definitively trained on the process of coding not just the code

This definitely feels like it.

It's hard to really judge, but Gemini feels like it might actually write better code, but the _process_ is so bad that it doesn't matter. At first I thought it was bad integration by the GitHub Copilot, but I see it elsewhere now.
by saratogacx | 2026-02-19 23:34:58+00:00
It isn't valuable if you generate and toss it over the fence. Where the value comes in is when the team verifies the content. Once that's done and corrections made, the words have the assurance that they match the code.

If you aren't willing to put in the time to verify it works than it is indeed, no more useful than anyone else doing the same task on their own.
by seattle_spring | 2026-02-19 23:35:20+00:00
Considering the degree of "hate speech" a Tweet would have to contain to land someone in jail includes direct incitements of violence, I'm scared to ask what sort of opinion you'd like to share that you feel you legally cannot.

The claim that you get thrown in jail in London "just for sharing your opinion" is a myth, unless your opinion is, "round up everyone of race X, put them in a hotel, and burn the hotel down."
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-19 23:35:41+00:00
True, but also, businesses have used "coupons" for a long time. I saw one article where this was described as "selling the same product at multiple tiers".

eg. if you're rich, you don't bother with coupons (in general) - your time is more valuable than clipping the coupon and remembering to take it. if you're middle class, you use the coupon to feel like you're getting a deal, but if you forget, oh well. if you're lower class, you wait for a sale and then use the coupon to be able to afford it at all.

Similar with ads - if you won't let me access your site without showing me ads (even with an adblocker) - I really don't need your product that badly. Sell to those who have a lot of spare attention or willpower to look past your ads.

I don't mean I click on ads - EVER - but they're distracting. VERY distracting. I mean, the few times I've had to use yahoo mail from a browser without an ad blocker, it was an unbelievably bad experience. (yes, I still use yahoo. I got at least one of those accounts right around the time "BackRub" was renamed "Google")
by bluegatty | 2026-02-19 23:36:19+00:00
Spark is the 'same model and harness' but on Cerebras.

Your intuition may be deceiving you, maybe assuming it's a speed/quality trade-off, it's not.

It's just faster hardware.

No IQ tradeoff.

If you toy around with Cerebras directly, you get a feel for it.
by rtfeldman | 2026-02-19 23:36:25+00:00
> Whether functions are introduced with an explicit keyword; how return types are marked; whether semicolons can be omitted at end of line; how types are named (and the overall system for describing algebraic types).

Yes, these are all examples of things I always thought were generally considered small enough differences that nobody who was okay with how C++ or Rust or Swift did them would find the way one of the others did it a deal-breaker.

> ...Which is really all to say: different people are focused on different details, at different levels.

For sure!
by 0x1ch | 2026-02-19 23:36:50+00:00
> The issue with kinesis and all those nice small symmetrical keyboards is that not every alphabet is as short as English.

> Russian, for example, has 33 letters.

Ironically, the biggest enthusiast of these splits I know in real life (he owns a kinesis) is a slavic guy, speaks both Ukranian and Russian, but I suppose he's typing in English for most of the day at his job, however I know he uses layering for the cyrillic.
by jasonvorhe | 2026-02-19 23:36:58+00:00
But where, outside of some smaller, isolated platforms? YouTube has gotten a bit more tolerant since COVID and Musk definitely mastered the art of masquerading X as a free speech platform, but a lot of people on the left are spread out to Bluesky, Fediverse while the right wing is on Truth Social, Gab, etc and each have their niche media platforms as well. The days where you could reach both sides of the spectrum are long gone so most just virtue signal their Allegiance's without thinking much about arguments the other side might bring to the table. For some, most mainstream media is either constant bombardment of Trump Derangement Syndrome or Leftist Communists laying siege to some major city. If I don't want to get bombarded by what I perceive to be closer to the side or spectrum I'm mostly aligned with, I'll ignore the obvious platforms where I expect then most personal annoyance.
by minihoster | 2026-02-19 23:37:02+00:00
> arr[n..=m]

so you just need to overload the syntax of intervals even more to make it work

> arr[0..m], arr[m..]

now `m` refers to different things depending on which side of the interval it's on. less characters doesn't mean nicer

I get it though, I was skeptical about 1-based indexing when I started Julia. By the nature of indices vs length there will always be an off-by-one problem: either you have elements [n, m - 1] with length (m - n) or [n, m] with length (m - n + 1). Unless you're doing a bunch of pointer arithmetic type stuff, I find the symmetry of a inclusive-inclusive interval to be a better default.

As a final rebuttal I offer: range(n - 1, -1, -1)
by chrysoprace | 2026-02-19 23:37:08+00:00
OP briefly touches on it, but vibe coding is (typically) absent of struggle, besides the usual frustrations with code flat out not working or the LLM not understanding the nuance of human language. Whenever I build a solution that a PM has asked for, I can typically make some predictions about what possible problems are going to be and potential solutions, but you don't know what you don't know. It's not until I immerse myself in a problem space that I actually understand what some of the roadblocks might be. The LLMs that I've tried are more than happy to keep hacking at a problem and implement workarounds, instead of taking a step back and wonder if the approach is wrong.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-19 23:37:14+00:00
The future belongs to those who use AI as an assistant to improve tasks and workflows since search engines are broken.

In contrast, we are seeing people using AI to do the heavy thinking, doing their whole work, these people are cooked.
If you remove AI right now, they can no longer work, some cannot work at all because they are 100% vide-coder.
by aquariusDue | 2026-02-19 23:37:53+00:00
There's a fun thing regarding Emacs, lots of stuff came first in Emacs and trickled down to other editors or IDEs sometimes in a better form but often times in an inferior or lowest common denominator form. For example while command palettes are a thing in lots of places nowadays Emacs' M-x can be customized in lots of ways i.e. Orderless and prescient.el matching, sorting alphabetically, by recently used or most frequently used and so on.

Stuff like terminal panes in code editors again have been a thing for a long time in Emacs though now they're better out of the box in VS Code or Zed.

There's lots of LLM and recently agentic stuff in Emacs but it's not as good unless you spend time to configure it for your own workflow. Think mass-market versus artisanal.

I don't mention these to simply draw parallels but to contextualize the fact that lots of people using Emacs will go "Yeah, we have had that for a long time!" while also having a blindspot regarding how well the "new stuff" is integrated together for mass-appeal in something like a Jetbrains IDE. See magit which is amazing for advanced stuff that's complicated to do through the git CLI yet the most common git operations are usually better presented in something like Zed for example.

Though this sounds like a rant, it's not really meant as one. I'm a happy Emacs user but sometimes I like to branch out and see the UX improvements I'm sometimes missing out on. On that note I'd love Obsidian but with org-mode instead of markdown (though these days I'd settle for djot too).
by idoubtit | 2026-02-19 23:37:58+00:00
> That seems a bit too optimistic to be a valid argument.

I think you misunderstood, since that's not about optimism. Years ago, smart students from all over the world could hope for a successful career in American research. Now, in the USA many doors are closing in most academic domains, and few (potential) researchers dare plan any success story.
by mat_b | 2026-02-19 23:38:11+00:00
> Killing is bad... killing because you don't like $group is double-bad. Speeding is bad, speeding without a seatbelt is double-bad.

Why would either of those be double-bad? They're the same thing as the original.

If you don't want to wear your seatbelt and you like to risk your own life, then that's on you. Just like riding a motorcycle.
by lmf4lol | 2026-02-19 23:38:19+00:00
I agree. I call it my Extended Mind in the spirit of Clark (1).
One thing I realized while working a lot in the last weeks with openClaw that this Agents are becoming an extension of my self. They are tools that quickly became a part of my Being. I outsource a lot of work to them, they do stuff for me, help me and support me and therefore make my (work-)life easier and more enjoyable. But its me in the driver seat.

(1) https://www.alice.id.tue.nl/references/clark-chalmers-1998.p...
by Rebelgecko | 2026-02-19 23:38:25+00:00
This page showed up on HN years ago, someone gathered a bunch of art depicting elephants over time: https://uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/

It's interesting because they don't monotonically get better over time. Some of the oldest depictions are pretty good, and there's some zaniness in the middle of the timeline
by boredemployee | 2026-02-19 23:38:45+00:00
Well, different people, with different backgrounds, have very different perspectives, feelings, and standards when it comes to the world of work.
I’ve also had a physical shit job before, and I don’t want to go back to it at all, and between that and being a developer, I'd obviously rather be a developer. But that doesn't rule out the possibility of wanting a different kind of profession. the current state of things just isn't good. the fact that it's one of the few types of work that still pays well makes it seem like this 'privilege' is often used as an excuse for all kinds of wrongdoing.
by erader | 2026-02-19 23:39:22+00:00
First, I've spent a ton of time becoming opinionated about a normalized data model that supports the product experience I'm trying to build. This applies both to the extraction (line items, warranty sections, vendors, etc.) and the analysis portion. The latter is imperfect, but aligns philosophically with what I'm willing to stand behind. For example

- building outputs for price fairness (based on publicly available labor data)

- scope match (is vendor over/under scoping user's intent)

- risk (vendor risk, timeline, price variability, etc.)

- value (some combination of price, service, longevity, etc.)

I don't get much hallucinations in my testing, but overall it's pretty complex pipeline since it is broken down into so many steps.