MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 21:54:26+00:00
> If making my project reduces my power on the project, why would I ever open source anything?

For me, especially when I'm increasing the bus number of something I worked on at work, it's down to two things. Either I'm hoping that my 'power' will remain the same but the 'power' of the project will grow and the new people will take their share out of the surplus.

Or, I want to focus my power elsewhere, and as long as I'm sole proprietor to this project I will be associated with it to the exclusion of other things. It was having my face pressed against glass of shiny new things I was iced out of at work that finally taught me the value of sharing. Indispensable can make you typecast. Deputizing someone has benefits that usually outweigh the costs.
by elevation | 2026-02-13 21:54:43+00:00
As LLMs consume all our compute resources and drive up prices for the compute hardware on which we run applications, the silver lining is that LLMs are helpful in implementing tooling without a heavy stack so it will run quickly on a lower-spec computer.

I've achieved 3 and 4 orders of magnitude CPU performance boosts and 50% RAM reductions using C in places I wouldn't normally and by selecting/designing efficient data structures. TUIs are a good example of this trend. For internal engineering, to be able to present the information we need while bypassing the millions of SLoC in the webstack is more efficient in almost every regard.
by sophacles | 2026-02-13 21:54:45+00:00
Having a tui file picker in the pipeline can be a powerful technique. Sometimes it just makes sense to have an interface that is slightly more interactive than pre-selecting all the files makes the flow smoother. Being able to put that into a script/alias/whatever is nice.

Other CLI things benefit from this "have a minimal ui interface in the workflow for the one step where it makes sense".
by takinola | 2026-02-13 21:54:59+00:00
Writing down what you are feeling and thinking is really effective in reducing your anxiety. It does not need to be fancy or well written, just get it out of your head and unto a page.

Also helpful is developing a practice of observing yourself. Just make a mental note of what is going on. Something like "I am feeling sad", "My chest feels very tight", etc. The key here is to create some distance between yourself and these emotions.

My last recommendation is to develop acceptance. Most things lose their scariness once you accept them. Once you are fine with whatever scenario is causing you stress, it loses its sting. This can be hard to do but is extremely effective in quieting your mind.
by Jtsummers | 2026-02-13 21:55:17+00:00
That makes a lot more sense, but just as a note for the future: HN replaces submission URLs with their canonical URL for most pages (they have disabled this for some where the site's canonical URL is reliably wrong). So when you submitted a link to the comment section, HN stripped that out and replaced it with the link to the article itself. It's done this for years.
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-13 21:55:24+00:00
Due to federal safety regulations. I wonder how much safer this is?

> Revenue is projected to continue as the company adds more trucks and driverless routes to its network. Today, the company has 30 trucks in the fleet, 10 of which are operating driverlessly. That fleet is expected to grow to more than 200 trucks by the end of the year. Urmson said the company’s trucks have racked up 250,000 driverless miles as of January 2026 with a perfect safety record.

> In the second quarter, Aurora plans to deploy a fleet of driverless International Motors LT trucks, which will not have a human observer on board. Aurora’s driverless operations that use Paccar trucks currently have a human safety observer in the cab as requested by the truck manufacturer.

I don't know that there's enough data here to say that their current safety record justifies the claims just yet. If it's not safer than overworking a regular driver then the headline claim is just regulation arbitrage.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 21:55:57+00:00
I just added a TUI built on Charm for my custom agent. I primarily use it for two things.

1. Navigating all my chat sessions and doing admin work. It's super fast to push a single key to go in and see what it was about before deleting it.

2. Testing out features and code changes without the web UI / vs code extension complexity.

3. Places where I cannot connect VS Code. I still want to chat and see diffs, a TUI is much easier than a CLI for this.

It also has a CLI, basically three interfaces (CLI, TUI, GUI (vscode/webapp)) to the core features of my personal swiss army knife (https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof)
by krupan | 2026-02-13 21:56:11+00:00
The way the safety concerns are written, I get the impression it has more to do with humans' mental health and loss of values.

I really think we are building manipulation machines. Yes, they are smart, they can do meaningful work, but they are manipulating and lying to us the whole time. So many of us end up in relationships with people who are like that. We also choose people who are very much like that to lead us. Is it any wonder that a) people like that are building machines that act like that, and b) so many of us are enamored with those machines?

Here's a blog post that describes playing hangman with Gemini recently. It very well illustrates this:

https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2026/02/is-this-game-or-i...

I completely understand wanting to build powerful machines that can solve difficult problems and make our lives easier/better. I have never understood why people think that machine should be human-like at all. We know exactly how intelligent powerful humans largely behave. Do we really want to automate that and dial it up to 11?
by hbarka | 2026-02-13 21:56:54+00:00
I remember when Marques coined the word “squiricle” which is a portmanteau of square and circle, to describe the shape of the steering wheel of a Tesla. From then on every “car reviewer” YouTuber started describing any steering wheel with this shape using the stupid portmanteau. It’s infuriating to car enthusiasts who knew that this kind of steering wheel is called a quartic steering wheel, with history behind the design.
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-13 21:57:16+00:00
It is really good at highlighting my core flaw, marketing. I can ship stuff great, i feel insanely productive, and then i just hit a wall when it comes to marketing and move on to the next thing and repeat.

I think this is more aimed at the people who talk to AI like it is a person, or use it to confirm their own biases, which is painfully easy to do, and should be seen as a massive flaw.

For every one person who prompts AI intentionally to garner unbiased insights and avoid the sycophancy by pretending to be a person removed from the issue, who knows how many are unaware that is even a thing to do.
by piker | 2026-02-13 21:57:30+00:00
Yes, one argument that I didn't make in the post but that does favor immediate mode is that you can somewhat straightforwardly convert from an immediate mode GUI to retained mode by just introducing your own abstractions. In some sense this makes you more disciplined about the FPS which could be a net win over all.

[Note that Tritium at least is translated into a number of a different languages. That part isn't that hard.]
by dasil003 | 2026-02-13 21:57:44+00:00
Is it really fair to saddle the conscientious objectors with this critique? What about the people that stay and continue to profit exponentially as the negative outcomes become more and more clear? Are the anti-AI and anti-tech doomers who would never in a million years take a tech job actually more impactful in mitigating harms?

To be clear, I agree with the problem from a systemic perspective, I just don't agree with how blame/frustration is being applied to an individual in this case.
by lupsasca | 2026-02-13 21:57:50+00:00
There are closely related "MHV amplitudes" which naively obey a really complicated formula, but for which there famously also exists a much simpler "Parke-Taylor formula". Alfredo had derived a complicated expression for these new "single-minus amplitudes" and we were hoping we could find an analogue of the simpler "Parke-Taylor formula" for them.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-13 21:58:06+00:00
A recent, less ambiguous warning from insiders who are seeing the same thing:

Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models,
a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current
state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the
technology.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...
by drdaeman | 2026-02-13 21:58:55+00:00
Sociopathic how? I re-read the article a few times, as initially I haven’t got much sense out of it. Yet, all I see for sure is personal rant how a person is(was?) unhappy about their self-image and they’re reframing it differently to get at peace with themselves.

It’s one thing if one’s being a shitty person to others, and does some mental gymnastics to not feel bad about it. Plenty of examples out there, but author doesn’t strike me as such. I don’t see any of this here, unless maybe if author’s game or Mandarin skills are beyond atrocious, lol. Just kidding, of course.

It’s a whole other thing to be at peace with yourself about your own stuff. Not doing that is a potential way to become a sociopath, because if one constantly feels shitty about themselves all chances are they’ll start to voluntarily exclude themselves from society (to avoid feeling bad) and get out of touch with it.

And wanting good things is… normal, isn’t it? I would be rather concerned if someone doesn’t want anything - ahedonia is not a good state to be in.

The only social thing I’ve seen there, is author’s admission they want to impose imagination (whatever that means), but in my perception that’s just some random thought that wasn’t followed on.
Show HN: Ctxsync – Chat with your codebase that stays in sync
by jelvibe25 | 2026-02-13 21:58:57+00:00
Hi HN. I got tired of uploading my data to ChatGPT, having a useful conversation, then realizing a week later I need to re-upload again, because data changed.

Built ctxsync to fix it:

• Connect GitHub repos, documentation sites, files

• Sync on demand or schedule – your AI's knowledge stays current

• Data isolation: each chat runs in separate containers, no cross-contamination

Uses your own LLM API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Kimi-Code).

Early access: free

What do you think?
by itissid | 2026-02-13 21:59:31+00:00
I think a few things explain these kinds of projects

1. There are a lot of Agentic Data Plane startups for knowledge workers(not really for coders[1] but for CFOs, Analysts etc) going up. e.g https://www.redpanda.com/ For people to ask "Hey give me a breakdown of last year's sales target by region, type and compare 2026 to 2025 for Q1". This can be done entirely on intranet — by agents or humans — but as someone pointed out the intranet can also be a dangerous place.

2. People who have skills — like the one OP has with wasm (I guess?) — are building random infra projects for enabling this.

3. All the coding people are getting weirded out by its security model because it is ofc not built for them.

[1] As I have commented elsewhere on this thread the moment a coder does webfetch + codeexec its game over from security perspective. Prove me wrong on that please.
by devin | 2026-02-13 21:59:47+00:00
1. People in the comments feel bad about their continued participation but are wage slaves or are morally bankrupt

2. People are jealous that someone else has the means to get the hell out of the race

Instead of confronting the bummer reality inherent in either of these, they lash out and find reasons to say that this person is doing what they would do if they could "the wrong way".
by inanutshellus | 2026-02-13 21:59:48+00:00
Arg. What's the quippy internet adage for this?

Where someone (traditionally in a FOSS project's support / bug report / feature request pages) posts some angrygram of "Fix my pet peeve OR ELSE YOUR PROJECT IS DEAD TO ME!!11!!one!11!!!"

Not "emotional blackmail" but... something like that.
by JonoBB | 2026-02-13 21:59:52+00:00
Totally agree. I swapped about 2 years ago (work requirements), and I battle against the Apple keyboard every single day. I prefer the Android keyboard in every single way - it’s more intuitive, works better, more logical, significantly better auto-correct, significantly better text selection, much better prediction, and so on.

Everything seems so much more intuitive and just easier in Android.

For how good the Apple hardware is compared to the rest (especially MacBooks), the software really lets it down.
by aftbit | 2026-02-13 22:00:21+00:00
There's a thought (and real) experiment about this that I find illuminating.

Imagine that you are sitting on the train next to a random stranger that you don't know. A man walks down the aisle and addresses both of you. He says:

"I have $100 and want to give it to you. First, you must decide how to split it. I would like you (he points to you) to propose a split, and I would like you (he points to your companion) to accept or reject the split. You may not discuss further or negotiate. What do you propose?"

In theory, you could offer the split of $99 for yourself and $1 for your neighbor. If they were totally rational, perhaps they would accept that split. After all, in one world, they'd get $1, and in another world, they'd get $0. However, most people would refuse that split, because it feels unfair. Why should you collect 99% of the reward just because you happened to sit closer to the aisle today?

Furthermore, because most people would reject that split, you as the proposer are incentivized to propose something that is closer to fair so that the decider won't scuttle the deal, thus improving your own best payout.

So I agree - Uber existing provides gig economy workers with a better alternative than it not existing. However, that doesn't mean it's fair, or that society or workers should just shrug and say "well at least it's better today than yesterday."

As usual in life, the correct answer is not an extreme on either side. It's some kind of middle path.
by Aloisius | 2026-02-13 22:00:55+00:00
If you don't have a multi-touch pointing device, I suppose.

You can also hit ctrl-left or ctrl-right to move spaces without one or ctrl-1, ctrl-2, ctrl-3, etc. to switch to a specific virtual desktop directly.

You can also hit ctrl+ scroll wheel if you have one. Or add mission control hot corner to one of the screen corners.
by slibhb | 2026-02-13 22:01:02+00:00
> In my experience LLM’s can make new things when they are some linear combination of existing things but I haven’t been to get them to do something totally out of distribution yet from first principles.

What's the distinction between "first principles" and "existing things"?

I'm sympathetic to the idea that LLMs can't produce path-breaking results, but I think that's true only for a strict definition of path-breaking (that is quite rare for humnans too).
Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling
by gucduck | 2026-02-13 22:01:32+00:00
Hey HN

I’ve been thinking a lot about barriers to civic participation. Most people don’t show up to town halls. They don’t respond to traditional surveys. And a lot of online political spaces feel loud, adversarial, or exhausting.

So I started wondering what happens if you make participation radically lightweight.

That’s where Civie comes in.

Each day you answer one to three short civic questions. It takes under a minute. Responses are anonymous. Results are shown only in aggregate. Over time, those responses accumulate into an open dataset anyone can explore.

This isn’t scientific polling, and it’s not pretending to be. The samples are self selected and nuance gets flattened. That’s an intentional tradeoff. The bet is that if participation is fast, anonymous, and recurring, more people might actually show up.

Civie is built around a few core pillars. Lower the barrier to participation. Make it safe to answer honestly. Keep the results transparent and open. And allow signal to emerge both from individual questions and from patterns over time.

I’d really value feedback on the core concept. Does a daily cadence make sense? Is anonymity enough to meaningfully lower friction? Are open aggregate results actually useful, or just interesting? What would make this something you’d return to?

If you’re curious, you can join the beta waitlist at civie.org. I’m onboarding early users in small batches and would love thoughtful testers, skeptics, and critics.

Any level of feedback and discussion welcome. Thanks!
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 22:01:55+00:00
> Robotics is obviously a whole different field from AI

I agree, but people are conflating the two. We have seen a lot of advancements in robotics, but as of current that only makes the economics worse. We're not seeing the complexity of robots going down and we're seeing the R&D costs going up, etc.

If it didn't make sense a few years ago to buy a crappy robot that can barely do the task because your business will never make money doing it, it probably doesn't make sense this year to buy a robot that still can't accomplish the tasks and is more expensive.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-13 22:02:38+00:00
It depends on the model and the person? I have this wicked tiny benchmark that includes worlds with odd physics, told through multiple layers of unreliable narration. Older AI had trouble with these; but some of the more advanced models now ace the test in its original form. (I'm going to need a new test.)

For instance, how does your AI do on this question? https://pastebin.com/5cTXFE1J (the answer is "off")
by dcre | 2026-02-13 22:03:57+00:00
It's a response to this: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

The post is silly, but I do not expect Zitron's commentary to be particularly illuminating as he is a charlatan himself. I could point to many examples, but here is a blog post I wrote about one case of him trying very hard to not understand a simple and familiar situation: https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-inference/.
by palmotea | 2026-02-13 22:04:14+00:00
> 2) They do not see their opponents as people.

> Like, that's it. They're either ignorant or they view their opposition as subhuman.

I'm going to go a bit off topic, but tech people often just inhale sci-fi, and I think we ought to reckon the problems with that, especially when tech people get into position of power.

Take Dune, for instance. Everyone know Vladimir Harkonnen is a bad guy, but even the good-guy Atreides seem to be spending their time fighting and assassinating, Paul's jihad kills 60 billion people, and Leto II is a totalitarian tyrant. It's all elite power-and-dominance shit, not even the protagonists are good people when you think about it. Regular people merit barely a mention, and are just fodder.

Often the people are cardboard, and it's the (fantasy) tech and the "world building" that are the focus.

It doesn't seem like it'd be good influence on someone's worldview, especially when not balanced sufficiently by other influences.
by schlauerfox | 2026-02-13 22:04:24+00:00
Here is a gift to you, I found this on the Internet Archive. it's a cassette dramataziation of Asteroids and Yar's Revenge. I'm not sure how many other people on earth would care fellow Atari-knower, but it's a wonderful little time capsule.
https://archive.org/details/AtariSciFiAdventuresInSound
by snowwrestler | 2026-02-13 22:05:28+00:00
Who needs a new app, just use DoorDash…

> Waymo is paying DoorDash gig workers to close its robotaxi doors

> The Alphabet-owned self-driving car company confirmed on Thursday that it's running a pilot in Atlanta to compensate delivery drivers for closing Waymo doors that are left ajar. DoorDash drivers are notified when a Waymo in the area has an open door so the vehicles can quickly get back on the road, the company said.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/12/waymo-is-paying-doordash...
by david-gpu | 2026-02-13 22:05:37+00:00
So, if I got it right, your argument is that the US government has issued so much debt that in order to pay for its interest in the future it will find itself forced to devalue the USD, and that will lead to the stock market to underperform.

Did I get the gist of it?

> I can't be the only one that sees it

Correct. It is a pretty common argument.

A common counterargument is that the US government has two advantages when it comes to issuing debt.

First, the USD remains the primary reserve currency around the world, and for good reasons, too. As long as global trade relies so heavily on the USD and, more generally, on exports to the US, foreign exchange rates will continue to prop up the value of the USD and USD-denominated debt.

Can this global economic system change in the future? Sure. But it has a lot of mass and momentum behind it. It can't stop overnight, any more than a tornado can.

Second is that the US government issues debt in USD and it has its own central bank, which allows them to pull levers both on the fiscal policy side and the monetary policy side. This allows them to issue pretty much as much or as little debt as they want, pay for it as much or as little as they want (let's not forget forget QE), and adjust inflation up or down with an enviable degree of freedom.

Can this destabilize? Of course, it is possible to mismanage it badly enough, in theory. But given its position as the world's reserve currency, they can get away with murder compared to other less privileged countries and currencies.

Lastly, understanding something is not enough to make money out of it. You need to have privileged knowledge that other people lack. Is that what is happening here?
by ozzyphantom | 2026-02-13 22:05:40+00:00
Definitely ridiculous and mostly an exaggeration on my part. There is some truth to it because the features of iMessage group chats are fun (stickers, message animations, etc.) but more generally I just like the Apple ecosystem.

My personal devices are usually Apple products and they all work together pretty seamlessly. Then I have all my other Linux servers, Windows desktops, random tablets, etc. for my hobby projects which generally require more manual configuration to work together.

I just like having my “personal” things within an aesthetically pleasing, relatively privacy preserving ecosystem but I get my kicks outside of that ecosystem aplenty.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-02-13 22:06:19+00:00
I have long thought that fixed distance trucking is the most approachable self driving outcome. Do not attempt the billion messy real world scenarios which occur in urban environments when surrounded by humans.

Make a few hubs that are well outside of city centers that are connected by nothing but straight interstate. AI can drive the truck on this boring fixed route. Humans then take over the short distance to bring it to the actual delivery location.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 22:06:32+00:00
A customer service agent that can be automated should be, but it's not working right now. Most support systems are designed to offload as much work as possible to the automated funnel, which almost always has gaps, loops, etc. The result is customers who want to pay for something or use something that get "stuck" being unable to throw money at a company. Right now the cost of fraud is much greater than the cost of these uncaptured sales or lost customers.

Eventually that will change and the role of a customer service agent will be redefined.