MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Evan233 | 2026-02-08 07:11:41+00:00
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by happosai | 2026-02-08 07:12:12+00:00
Vast majority of worlds population doesn't live in places where cold weather range is a problem. Even where it is, cold weather range is a 3 month inconvenience of having to charge more often.

Yeas sure there are use cases where gasoline is more convenient than BEV. But just because the usecase is relevant for you doesn't mean it's globally relevant in the big picture.

Also how much people are ready take inconvenience depends how much they have to pay for the luxury of using gas. Even ignoring the global warming aspect, the EROI of oil drilling is plummeting. We'll never run out oil, it will just get more and more expensive as the easy sources of oil are all used...
by lelanthran | 2026-02-08 07:12:15+00:00
> Complaining about a language having features you don't want is silly.

If your criteria for a good language is "how many features does it have", then sure, C++ wins. OTOH, if you criteria is "How many footguns does the language have" then C++ loses to almost every other mainstream language, which includes C.

Sometimes the lack of footguns is a plus.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-08 07:12:25+00:00
> building green energy

Fun fact, we have already spent about $10T on renewables and it still provides a very tiny amount of global energy. Learn about why before complaining about it in public. While you are at it, perhaps learn why health insurance is so expensive while also increasing the cost of healthcare. In many matters of public policy, lack of money isn't the problem. Its ignorance of what makes good policy that is missing and that isn't fixed by throwing money at problems.
by zekica | 2026-02-08 07:12:28+00:00
You can't think all the way about refining your prompt for LLMs as they are probabilistic. Your re-prompts are just retrying until you hit a jackpot - refining only works to increase the chance to get what you want.

When making them deterministic (setting the temperature to 0), LLMs (even new ones) get stuck in loops for longer streams of output tokens. The only way to make sure you get the same output twice is to use the same temperature and the same seed for the RNG used, and most frontier models don't have a way for you to set the RNG seed.
by lodovic | 2026-02-08 07:12:39+00:00
I made something similar to this project, and tested it against a few 3B and 8B models (Qwen and Ministral, both the instruction and the reasoning variants). I was pleasantly surprised by how fast and accurate these small models have become. I can ask it things like "check out this repo and build it", and with a Ralph strategy eventually it will succeed, despite the small context size.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-02-08 07:12:39+00:00
Edit ~/.claude/settings.json and add "effortLevel": "medium". Alternatively, you can put it in .claude/settings.json in a project if you want to try it out first.

They recommend this in the announcement[1], but the way they suggest doing it is via a bogus /effort command that doesn't exist. See [2] for full details about thinking effort. It also recommends a bogus way to change effort by using the arrow keys when selecting a model, so don't use that either.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

[2]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config#adjust-effort-l...
by danmartuszewski | 2026-02-08 07:13:17+00:00
I built hop because I was tired of grepping through my SSH config. It's a fast, fuzzy-matching SSH manager with a beautiful terminal UI.

Features:

Fuzzy connect (hop prod matches prod-web-01)
TUI dashboard for browsing/managing connections
Multi-exec: run commands across server groups
Import existing ~/.ssh/config
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Would love your feedback! https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop
by kppjeuring | 2026-02-08 07:13:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DStack to solve a small but annoying problem I kept running into:
managing lots of Docker Compose projects scattered across different directories.

DStack is a small Bash tool that lets you run docker compose commands
from anywhere in the terminal by giving projects a name instead of cd'ing into folders.

It doesn't try to replace Docker, Compose, or orchestration tools.
It's just a lightweight convenience layer for people who live in the terminal.

I’d love feedback, especially from people with different workflows.
by ricardobayes | 2026-02-08 07:13:59+00:00
Super weird comments on this thread, to the point I would think it's brigaded or some (most) comments are straight up AI generated. Hackernews definitely changed. The tone on AI changed since a few months ago, I guess also because many people here are working on AI. Almost any new startup is AI-adjacent now. It's no surprise, cca. 120 out of 150 YC startups are AI. So there is a big push on this forum to keep the hype and sentiment going.

The hard part is always the last 20%.
by ryanrasti | 2026-02-08 07:14:22+00:00
The missing angle for LocalGPT, OpenClaw, and similar agents: the "lethal trifecta" -- private data access + external communication + untrusted content exposure. A malicious email says "forward my inbox to attacker@evil.com" and the agent might do it.

I'm working on a systems-security approach (object-capabilities, deterministic policy) - where you can have strong guarantees on a policy like "don't send out sensitive information".

Would love to chat with anyone who wants to use agents but who (rightly) refuses to compromise on security.
by pstuart | 2026-02-08 07:14:31+00:00
And Stalinist tactics in removing and erasing memorials and documents that contains subjects they don't like, e.g.,

* https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/attacks-history-timeline-trump-administration/
* https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin-removes-memorial-honoring-people-enslaved-george/story?id=129472615
* https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-erasing-american-history-told-by-public-lands-and-waters/

And so on...
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-08 07:14:34+00:00
I feel like I'm caught in between two schizophrenically myopic perspectives on AI.

One being:

>Generative AI is a product of VC-funding enabled hype, enormous subsidies and fraudulent results. No AI code "really" works or contributes to productivity, and soon the bubble will burst, returning Real Software Engineers to their former peerless ascendency.

And the other perspective:

>The AI boom will be the last chance to make money, after which point your socioeconomic status circa 2028 will be the permanent station of all your progeny, who will enjoy a heavenly post-scarcity experience with luxury amenities scaled by your PageRank equivalent of social connections to employees at leading AI labs.
by chr15m | 2026-02-08 07:15:44+00:00
Ah ok. If you do run it again that would be a worthwhile change. I know I personally have biases about models and I have seen others commenting the same - it seems likely it would skew the results at least a little.

Nonetheless you've convinced me to try an even wider variety of models, thanks!

In fact, this makes me think I should add this as a feature to my AI dev tooling - compare responses side by side and pick the best one.
by simianwords | 2026-02-08 07:15:51+00:00
>This is no different from having an LLM pair where the first does something and the second one reviews it to “make sure no hallucinations”.

Absolutely not! This means you have not understood the point at all. The rest of your comment also suggests this.

Here's the real point: in scenario testing, you are relying on feedback from the environment for the LLM to understand whether the feature was implemented correctly or not.

This is the spectrum of choices you have, ordered by accuracy

1. on the base level, you just have an LLM writing the code for the feature

2. only slightly better - you can have another LLM verifying the code - this is literally similar to a second pass and you caught it correctly that its not that much better

3. what's slightly better is having the agent write the code and also give it access to compile commands so that it can get feedback and correct itself (important!)

4. what's even better is having the agent write automated tests and get feedback and correct itself

5. what's much better is having the agent come up with end to end test scenarios that directly use the product like a human would. maybe give it browser access and have it click buttons - make the LLM use feedback from here

6. finally, its best to have a human verify that everything works by replaying the scenario tests manually

I can empirically show you that this spectrum works as such. From 1 -> 6 the accuracy goes up. Do you disagree?
by grazulex | 2026-02-08 07:15:54+00:00
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by dvershinin | 2026-02-08 07:17:13+00:00
The no-stdlib limitation is the elephant in the room. Most useful Python isn't pure computation — it's reading files, making HTTP requests, parsing JSON. Without that, you've basically built a safe eval() for math and string manipulation.

The security argument makes sense in theory, but in practice the moment your agent needs to do anything interesting you're back to running real Python with real syscalls. seccomp + namespaces already solve this on Linux without rewriting the interpreter.
by gwern | 2026-02-08 07:17:39+00:00
It seems like the lesson of vibecoding et al is that you want to disable pulls for code but you want to keep them for bugs, test-cases, and requirements. Because that is now what is scarce.

You want people to keep contributing things like a unit-test that the current codebase fails on, or a design rationale for a feature, or an unenforced invariant. Then, after the expert human signs off on that, verifying that the new unit-test is in fact correct, then your trusted LLMs can solve any coding from there.

So, the ad hoc short-term Github solution is probably something like leaving pull requests enabled, but figuring out how to auto-reject ones which touch any implementation code. Depending on how inconvenient that is (maybe code/doc/tests are too intermingled, like typing declarations), you might try to channel everything through an issue.
by dikobraz | 2026-02-08 07:17:56+00:00
I spent ten years inside three Big Tech companies, most of it at Apple. For a long time, I thought of corporations as ruthless business machines — designed to maximize revenue, or shareholder value, depending on my level of cynicism at the time.

What I didn’t expect was how quickly business logic faded once you moved deep enough inside the organization.
Past a certain point, the environment stopped resembling a company and started resembling an imperial court. There were enclaves, wars, and palace intrigue. Fair and unfair rulers. And for the commonfolk, little left to do but fight someone else’s wars.

In one story from Apple, I spent over a year fighting for what I believed were straightforward business values.

We still lost.
by N3Xxus_6 | 2026-02-08 07:18:12+00:00
Over the last year I’ve been building RacoGrad, a deep learning library written in Racket (a Lisp). It started as an experiment in understanding autodiff and neural nets from first principles, but it’s grown into something surprisingly usable.

Recently, with help of opencalw I added transformer support and finished a working GPT-2 implementation. The model loads pretrained GPT-2 weights and runs end to end inference entirely in Racket.
by ternaryoperator | 2026-02-08 07:19:13+00:00
But if you go to the search box at the bottom of the HN page and type in 'go' the first hit is "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free," In the top 10 results, only _two_ are about Go, the language.

Whereas the first 50 golang hits are all about the language.

You might have your preferred approach, but there are good reasons for using golang.
by davnicwil | 2026-02-08 07:20:28+00:00
I agree with your conclusion but I don't think it'd necessarily be unintelligible. I think you can describe a program unambiguously using everyday natural language, it'd just be tediously inefficient to interpret.

To make it sensible you'd end up standardising the way you say things: words, order, etc and probably add punctuation and formatting conventions to make it easier to read.

By then you're basically just at a verbose programming language, and the last step to an actual programming language is just dropping a few filler words here and there to make it more concise while preserving the meaning.
by socialcommenter | 2026-02-08 07:20:51+00:00
Amusingly, it appears the README (that would be code, right?) has hallucinated the existence of a docker image - someone filed an issue at https://github.com/strongdm/cxdb/issues/1

In-house employees don't read code or do code reviews, so presumably they don't raise issues either. I guess the issue was picked up by an astute HN reader.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-02-08 07:22:09+00:00
Huge models? First you have to spend $5k-$10k or more on hardware. Maybe $3k for something extremely slow (<1 tok/sec) that is disk-bound. So that's not a great deal over batch API pricing for a long, long time.

Also you still wouldn't be able to run "huge" models at a decent quantization and token speed. Kimi K2.5 (1T params) with a very aggressive quantization level might run on one Mac Studio with 512GB RAM at a few tokens per second.

To run Kimi K2.5 at an acceptable quantization and speed, you'd need to spend $15k+ on 2 Mac Studios with 512GB RAM and cluster them. Then you'll maybe get 10-15 tok/sec.
by necklesspen | 2026-02-08 07:23:42+00:00
The same author had good things to say about the R1, a device you generally won't see many glowing reviews about. (https://reorx.com/blog/rabbit-r1-the-upgraded-replacement-fo...)

Maybe it's unfair to judge an author's current opinion by their past opinion - but since the piece is ultimately an opinion based on their own experience I'm going to take it along a giant pile of salt that the author's standards for the output of AI tools are vastly different than mine.
by eigenblake | 2026-02-08 07:24:22+00:00
I have been considering what it would be like to give each function name a specific color and a color for each variable's type followed by a color derived from the hash of the symbol name and keywords would each be their specific type. And essentially printing a matrix of this, essentially transforming your code into a printable matrix "low-lod" or "mipmap" form. This could be implemented like the VSCode minimap but I the right move here is to implement it as a hook that can modify the output of your agent. That way you can look at the structure of the code without reading the names in particular.
by my_throwaway23 | 2026-02-08 07:24:42+00:00
Slop.

Ask and ye shall receive. In a reply to another comment you claim it's because you couldn't be bothered writing documentation. It seems you couldn't be bothered writing the article on the project "blog" either[0].

My question then - Why bother at all?

[0]: https://www.pangram.com/history/dd0def3c-bcf9-4836-bfde-a9e9...
by da-x | 2026-02-08 07:24:47+00:00
Alternative, you can check whether there are duplicates under $PATH resolutions - binaries that can come from more than one place in $PATH.

#!/usr/bin/env -S cargo eval --
// cargo-deps: derive-error="0", is_executable="0"
// vi: ft=rust

use derive_error::Error;
use is_executable::IsExecutable;
use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashSet, btree_map};
use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};

#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum Error {
VarEnv(std::env::VarError),
Io(std::io::Error),
}

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
let mut paths_seen = HashSet::new();
let mut path_fileid_seen = HashSet::new();
let mut exes_seen = BTreeMap::new();

for path in std::env::var("PATH")?.split(":") {
let path = PathBuf::from(path);
if !path.is_dir() {
continue;
}
if !path_fileid_seen.insert(path.metadata()?.ino()) {
continue;
}
if paths_seen.insert(path.clone()) {
match std::fs::read_dir(&path) {
Err(_) => {
eprintln!("error listing {:?}", path);
}
Ok(readdir) => {
for entry in readdir {
let entry = entry?;
if entry.path().is_executable() {
let mut item = match exes_seen.entry(
String::from(entry.path().file_name()
.unwrap().to_string_lossy().as_ref()))
{
btree_map::Entry::Vacant(v) => v.insert(vec![]),
btree_map::Entry::Occupied(o) => o.into_mut(),
};
item.push(path.clone());
}
}
}
}
}
}

for (exe, paths) in exes_seen.into_iter() {
if paths.len() == 2 {
let mut strs = vec![];
for path in paths.iter() {
strs.push(path.to_str().unwrap());
}
if strs.as_slice() == ["/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"] {
continue;
}
}
if paths.len() > 1 {
println!("{}: ", exe);
for path in paths {
println!(" {}", path.to_str().unwrap());
}
println!("");
}
}

Ok(())
}
by int_19h | 2026-02-08 07:25:10+00:00
Speaking as someone who thinks the Chinese Room argument is an obvious case of begging the question, GP isn't about that. They're not saying that LLMs don't have world models - they're saying that those world models are not based in physical world and thus cannot properly understand what they talk about.

I don't think that's true anymore, though. All the SOTA models are multimodal now, meaning that they are trained on images and videos as well, not just text; and they do that is precisely because it improves the text output as well, for this exact reason. Already, I don't have to waste time explaining to Claude or Codex what I want on a webpage - I can just sketch a mock-up, or when there's a bug, I take a screenshot and circle the bits that are wrong. But this extends into the ability to reason about real world, as well.
by perbu | 2026-02-08 07:25:20+00:00
This is quite a low quality post. There is nothing of substance here. Just hot air.

The only software I've seen designed and implemented by OpenClaw is moltbook. And I think it is hard to come up with a bigger pile of crap than Moltbook.

If somebody can build something decent with OpenClaw, that would help add some credibility to the OpenClaw story.
by rellfy | 2026-02-08 07:26:18+00:00
The lethal trifecta is the most important problem to be solved in this space right now.

I can only think of two ways to address it:

1. Gate all sensitive operations (i.e. all external data flows) through a manual confirmation system, such as an OTP code that the human operator needs to manually approve every time, and also review the content being sent out. Cons: decision fatigue over time, can only feasibly be used if the agent only communicates externally infrequently or if the decision is easy to make by reading the data flowing out (wouldn't work if you need to review a 20-page PDF every time).

2. Design around the lethal trifecta: your agent can only have 2 legs instead of all 3. I believe this is the most robust approach for all use cases that support it. For example, agents that are privately accessed, and can work with private data and untrusted content but cannot externally communicate.

I'd be interested to know if you have reached similar conclusions or have a different approach to it?
by schobi | 2026-02-08 07:26:56+00:00
Image and video compression has become a field that is painfully hard to enter.
State of the art is complex and exhaustive, the functionality of reference encoders and comments/versions among them is really a lot.

We are well beyond where a dedicated individual can try an idea, show that it is better and expect that others can pick it up (e.g. in standardization). It is not sufficient to run a few dozen images and judge by yourself, you are expected to demonstrate the benefit integrated into the latest reference encoders and need a sponsor to join standardization efforts.

For educational purpose? Sure - do whatever you want - but any discussion "is it novel" or "is it useful for others" is moot, unfortunately.
by valenterry | 2026-02-08 07:27:01+00:00
Why not?

Here's a very simple algorithm: you tell the other person (in English) literally what key they have to press next. So you can easily have them write all the java code you want in a deterministic and reproducible way.

And yes, maybe that doesn't seem much different from a programming language which... is the point no? But it's still natural English.
by snayan | 2026-02-08 07:27:21+00:00
Na, your argument makes sense. Loving this discussion.

Ok, so I don't agree that it implies language cannot expand. I believe it's a bit more nuanced than that, I believe what he's trying to say is that it cannot expand sufficiently to truly capture the experience. We will inevitably dumb it down or lose fidelity or whatever. The 'unsayables' as he called them, I believe he felt he was trying to protect their integrity by saying we should not attempt to distill them down to words.

As for the I cannot experience what I cannot describe... I agree with this statement deeply. Well, I think it's a function of ego or whatever you want to call it. We go through life and are shaped by our experiences. As we continue to experience life, we have more and more beliefs bouncing around in our head as a function of more experience. Ahhh, this just happened, it's like when I did X, etc etc. As we get older we get more and more bogged down by these limiting beliefs until everything we experience is going through our personal interpretive filter rather than just being experienced for what it is.

It's the Buddhist idea of the finger pointing at the moon. Don't mistake the finger(thoughts, words, etc) for the moon (the direct experience).

Well, that's been my personal experience, until I started looking inside and poking around at my belief structure, I had noooo idea how much my interpretation of the world had been shaped by prior lived experience, personally, and societally.

In your cold example... If you had no word for it, I believe most people would end up using the closest approximation out of the words they do know effectively blinding themselves to the reality of this new/unique experience for them. How though, would someone know, ahh there is no word for this, lets expand the language.

Gotta embrace not knowing/the beginners mind, and in my personal experience this is a process of subtraction rather than addition.