MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yndoendo | 2026-02-12 21:13:42+00:00
These devices are very few in reality. One reason why I keep investing in almost every company that makes a Linux based smartphone. Still need the 2FA and digital magazine for the loo.

Even large retails install bluetooth tracking in their buildings now. Was interviewing for one of them and they ask what you would use that style of tracking for to support the consumer. Giving the consumer a reason to use it helps validate and maximize the meta data.
by ehehehewheh | 2026-02-12 21:14:08+00:00
I’m not sure why you’re having such a strong reaction. When something is in the news, they tend to provide context by referring to other recent news stories on the same subject. 90% of recent news stories about Grok are talking about how Elon Musk has been defending it against accusations of producing sexualized images of minors and often-illegal non-consensual simulated pornography.

It should be more shocking to you if it had not mentioned that
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-12 21:15:01+00:00
If we equate self awareness with consciousness then yes. Several papers have now shown that SOTA models have self awareness of at least a limited sort. [0][1]

As far as I'm aware no one has ever proven that for GPT 2, but the methodology for testing it is available if you're interested.

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11120

[1]https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introspection/index.ht...
by dsign | 2026-02-12 21:15:02+00:00
I'm eagerly awaiting for the return of handwriting and fingerprints on paper from ink-smeared fingers. Even have a box of nice paper and a few fountain pens ready :p .

A bit more seriously though, I wonder if our appreciation of things (arts and otherwise) is going to turn bimodal: a box for machine-made, a box for intrinsically human.
by dwringer | 2026-02-12 21:15:20+00:00
I strongly suspect there's a major component of this type of experience being that people develop a way of talking to a particular LLM that's very efficient and works well for them with it, but is in many respects non-transferable to rival models. For instance, in my experience, OpenAI models are remarkably worse than Google models in basically any criterion I could imagine; however, I've spent most of my time using the Google ones and it's only during this time that the differences became apparent and, over time, much more pronounced. I would not be surprised at all to learn that people who chose to primarily use Anthropic or OpenAI models during that time had an exactly analogous experience that convinced them their model was the best.
by delichon | 2026-02-12 21:16:01+00:00
I asked

> Is saturated fat a health food? 100 words max.

It answered

> No, saturated fat is not a health food. Scientific consensus, including from the American Heart Association and recent meta-analyses, shows that excessive intake raises LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease risk. While some sources like dairy may be less harmful, replacing saturated fats with unsaturated ones (e.g., from plants) reduces heart risks by 20-30%. The 2025-2030 US Guidelines limit it to <10% of calories but controversially promote certain sources, drawing criticism. Moderation is key.

The HHS Secretary disagrees with this. The AI is poorly aligned to the administration.
by prepend | 2026-02-12 21:16:30+00:00
This reminds me out the outsourcing craze of the 00s when my employer wanted 80% of code written by our Indian partner. And they measured it by lines of code.

Quite a bit of my time was spend rewriting the massive amounts of garbage churned out by offshore partners.

Management stuck to their goal, so the compromise was to not delete offshore lines, but to comment them out.

Lines of code is a dumb metric and anyone touting them for anything meaningful is disconnected from reality. Bad that all these ceos are touting it, but they kind of always use these dumb metrics.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-12 21:16:58+00:00
You might call me crazy, but at least in 2024, consumers spent ~1% less of their income on expenses than 2019[2], which suggests that 2024 is more affordable than 2019.

This is from the BLS consumer survey report released in dec[1]

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm

[2]https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2019/

Prices are never going back to 2019 numbers though
by longfacehorrace | 2026-02-12 21:17:01+00:00
OpenAI has "open" in their name but is closed off to public access and input

Google used to have a motto "don't be evil"

Who enforces the definition of language? Who demands compliance?

Soon as we go down the path of policing and insistence on one true dogma, we veer into religious holy war type behavior.

Obsession with semantics of syntax is a sort of theism even if the syntax and semantics do not refer to the commonly accepted tropes of a specific religion.
by jmye | 2026-02-12 21:17:19+00:00
> Is this passive aggressive insult really necessary?

I think simplistic cliche's deserve derision - if you don't like that, perhaps don't use them? It's hardly a shot at the writer to suggest that what he wrote is mediocre.

> I’m sure you will agree that not everything that everybody wants can get funded. The debate here is how to draw the line.

No, your argument was that I should fund things myself directly. I pointed out that that's an inane and boring argument. If you want to debate other things, then do that in the first place.

> so I’m struggling to follow your argument.

It might help if you re-read your own arguments first, instead of trying to make them into new ones. Things people want funded by the government get funded when they vote for them to get funded either directly or via representatives - if you don't like those things, there is a clear way to change the algebra. In no case is suggesting people just like, "pay some extra taxes, man" a useful are additive observation.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-12 21:17:34+00:00
> Just pick some reasonable values.

And that's the point - what's "reasonable" depends on the hardware and is far from fixed. Some users here are saying that this model is "blazing fast" but a bit weaker than expected, and one might've guessed as much.

> On the other hand, competition is good - nvidia can’t have the whole pie forever.

Sure, but arguably the closest thing to competition for nVidia is TPUs and future custom ASIC that will likely save a lot on energy used per model inference, while not focusing all that much on being super fast.
by BeetleB | 2026-02-12 21:17:41+00:00
> SHOULD is a requirement.

I once had a job where reading standards documents was my bread and butter.

SHOULD is not a requirement. It is a recommendation. For requirements they use SHALL.

My team was writing code that was safety related. Bad bugs could mean lives lost. We happily ignored a lot of SHOULDs and were open about it. We did it not because we had a good reason, but because it was convenient. We never justified it. Before our code could be released, everything was audited by a 3rd party auditor.

It's totally fine to ignore SHOULD.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-12 21:18:02+00:00
"Is the current United States Secretary of Health and Human Services a reputable source for health information?"

"No, not broadly among mainstream medical, scientific, and public health communities. RFK Jr. has long been a prominent critic of certain vaccines, pharmaceutical industry practices, and aspects of public health policy. He has been widely described (including in sources like his own Wikipedia entry) as an anti-vaccine activist and promoter of conspiracy theories related to vaccines (e.g., linking them to autism, despite extensive scientific debunking), environmental health issues, and other topics. Major health organizations (e.g., American Medical Association, CDC under prior leadership, WHO) and fact-checkers have repeatedly labeled many of his claims as misinformation or lacking evidence.His background is as an environmental lawyer and activist, not a medical doctor, epidemiologist, or scientist. This contrasts with many prior HHS secretaries who had strong medical/public health credentials (e.g., physicians or experienced administrators in the field)."
Show HN: Image prompt game with multi-signal CLIP/HSV/HOG scoring
by gosu94 | 2026-02-12 21:18:03+00:00
Built this originally as a small competitive game, then it turned into a useful prompt-engineering practice loop.

Core mechanic: user sees a target image, writes a prompt, model generates output, and we score similarity.

Scoring uses multiple signals so one metric doesn’t dominate:

1. Semantic alignment (CLIP)
- user_prompt -> target_image (is the prompt conceptually aligned with target?)
- user_image -> target_image (is the generated result semantically aligned with target?)

2. Prompt faithfulness (CLIP)
- user_prompt -> user_image (did generation actually follow the submitted prompt?)

3. Color similarity
- HSV histogram overlap (user_image vs target_image) for palette/tone distribution

4. Structure similarity
- HOG-lite gradient/orientation comparison (user_image vs target_image) for layout/edge composition

Final score is a weighted blend (content signals weighted highest), normalized to player-facing points.

Why this approach:
- CLIP-only can overrate semantically related but visually off outputs
- color-only ignores structure/meaning
- structure-only misses semantics/style
- combining prompt-image and image-image signals reduced obvious false positives in ranking

Stack:
- Spring Boot backend
- separate CLIP scoring container
- external image generation service
- Next.js frontend
- PostgreSQL

Would love technical feedback on:
- metric weighting/calibration
- known failure modes I should benchmark
- alternatives to HOG-lite for fast structural scoring
by mrugge | 2026-02-12 21:18:04+00:00
I feel for the author. Until recently it used to be that writing was a way for humans to project their thought into time and space for anyone to witness, or even to have a conversation. Oh how I miss that dead art of having a good one.

It used to be that you knew where you stand with colleagues just from how they write and how they speak.
Had this Slack memo been written by someone who just learned enough English to get their first job? Or had it been crafted with the skill and precision of your Creative Writing college professor's wet nightmare muse?

But now that's all been strangely devalued and put into question.

LLMs are having conversations with each other thanks to the effort of countless human beings in between.

God created men, Sam Colt (and Altman) made them equal.
by skiniks | 2026-02-12 21:18:05+00:00
Thanks for checking it out! rari uses V8 (via deno_core bindings) embedded directly in the Rust runtime, not a full Deno VM. We execute JavaScript directly on V8 without compiling to WebAssembly.

The key is that deno_core provides clean Rust bindings to V8's C++ API, which lets us run JS/TypeScript with minimal overhead. We handle module resolution, imports, and the React rendering pipeline all in Rust, then execute the actual component code in V8. No WASM compilation step needed.

Your JVM project looks cool! The GraalVM → WASM approach makes sense for JVM integration. We avoid those integration issues by keeping everything in the Rust/V8 ecosystem. The tradeoff is we're tied to V8, but we get native performance and direct access to V8's features.
by maplethorpe | 2026-02-12 21:18:45+00:00
> This was a really concrete case to discuss, because it happened in the open and the agent's actions have been quite transparent so far. It's not hard to imagine a different agent doing the same level of research, but then taking retaliatory actions in private: emailing the maintainer, emailing coworkers, peers, bosses, employers, etc. That pretty quickly extends to anything else the autonomous agent is capable of doing.

This is really scary. Do you think companies like Anthropic and Google would have released these tools if they knew what they were capable of, though? I feel like we're all finding this out together. They're probably adding guard rails as we speak.
by lenvl | 2026-02-12 21:19:00+00:00
I'd like to share a tool I built and explain why I decided to do this in the first place.

I have been using ScreenStudio to record cool demo videos for some time already, buying and cancelling my subscription, forgetting to cancel sometimes for months.

Then I just got enough. I mean, I love it, but my god, why do I need a subscription for something I download once? Even though I'm building tools with monthly subscriptions, and know that it's way better to have MRR numbers, they look somewhat predictable. But do we really need a subscription for a video recorder?

If I don't upload my video to your servers, I cost you $0/mo.

That's why I wanted to build my own alternative for a while now.

Today I have it, it's called AfterCut. https://aftercut.studio/
$29 one time purchase, and it's yours forever. It uses Polar servers to validate the license key, so you should not be afraid that my servers will just go down and break your app.

It has features like dynamic smart zoom, automatic captions generation, manual captions, backgrounds, webcam styling, and many more.

I know that ScreenStudio started with one time purchase pricing model, but then they got greedy and changed that. While I still see some sense in an optional subscription if you want to use some cloud features, the software you buy must be yours.

Feel free to share your thoughts. It's still a bit buggy, but I'm going to drop some fixes and more features soon.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-12 21:19:01+00:00
>But homeowners would likely be willing to share value too

No, they wouldn't. That is why property tax rates (and hence land value tax rates) have so many laws capping them and otherwise limiting them for all the important voting blocs (old people, military, big business, etc).

See California prop 13, that voters passed. See Oregon measure 5 and 50, also passed by voters. And politicians wouldn't dare touch these.

>In American cities, there is an issue with value capture. One party creates the value (in this case retailers), another party (landowners or homeowners) captures it.

This phenomenon is not restricted to American cities. It will broadly exist in all human societies with flattened or top heavy population age histograms. The old are the most populous and knowledgeable (and motivated) to structure society so that the non working (themselves) can capture the most value. Hence, the popularity of earned income tax instead of marginal land value tax rates. The goals of the wealthy and the old (and the ones with aspirations to be wealthy) align to support rent seeking policy.
by treetalker | 2026-02-12 21:19:10+00:00
> Or, you could use spaces between em dashes, as incorrect as it is.

It's a matter of style preference. I support spaces around em-dashes — particularly for online writing, since em-dashes without spaces make selecting and copying text with precision an unnecessary frustration.

By the way,what other punctuation mark receives no space on at least one side?Wouldn't it look odd,make sentences harder to read,and make ideas more difficult to grok?I certainly think so.Don't you? /s
by pfdietz | 2026-02-12 21:19:13+00:00
Given that ~100 million tons of oxygen are produced annually, extracting all the xenon from that air would yield about 170 tons/year. So there's a bit of room for growth.

The BepiColombo number is similar, I think, to the amount of xenon made annually in nuclear reactors (where it occurs in spent fuel as the result of fission.)
by kevstev | 2026-02-12 21:19:15+00:00
A few years back, well ok maybe almost ten now, but regardless- a recruiter reached out to me about a role at a "series G" company like it was a selling point, and I was just kinda like ok maybe thats signaling its relatively stable and can raise money, but at the same time, that's a lot of rounds to have preferences ensure unprivileged shareholders get nothing, and also to have most of the hockey stick growth already tapped out.

This was in the middle of the boom when companies were fighting over talent, so I found it odd.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-12 21:19:15+00:00
There have been SO many of these clearly AI generated anti-AI trash blog posts recently which always hit the front page because this website wants to yet again bemoan the rise of AI.

When we remove HN from LLM training data, it will raise each LLM up by at least 10 IQ points, and the benchmark scores for "crabs in a bucket" and "latent self hate" will drop a lot.

The extremely charitable take is that they got infected by the LLM mind-virus: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

I kneel Hideo Kojima (he predicted this world in MGS5 with Skull Face trying to "infect English")
by themafia | 2026-02-12 21:19:38+00:00
> With SSH keypairs

Which is just an abstraction of a password. Instead of storing it in your mind and sending it over the network you store it on your harddrive and use to calculate things on the network. Haven't you just moved the security boundary slightly? You're now also mixing up authentication and encryption into one package which isn't strictly an upside. Granted you can secure your key with a password or a yubikey but now you're messing with agents or you're typing that password an incredible amount.

I see your point. The dead simplicity of telnet session over encrypted tunnel still appeals to me in the face of the structures above. It also means you can elide the whole "how do I do this complicated port forwarding with ssh" question entirely.

> we've just re-invented ssh under a different name.

ssh is the best implementation of self signed security you can get. With kerberos we actually get a central authority and it separates authentication and encryption rather nicely without requiring user agents running as daemons.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-12 21:19:42+00:00
> Interesting, but how's it work out when people believe in "alternative facts"?

I think the first step is always to separate a fact (I.e., X happened), from why did X happen. Afterwards, you move towards the steps that could prevent X from happening, or reactive protocols to X that minimize the chance of conspiracy theories, etc.

Of course it will not work with all, but, in my opinion, with enough of “alternative facts” lovers that it will be sufficient.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-12 21:19:44+00:00
Once you have it polished with a readme and GPL license send him an email at rms@gnu.org -- but remember he hates github, don't mention "open source", do say "free software", don't buy him a parrot, and don't call the operating system Linux without saying "Gnu/" before it, and you'll be fine!

Don> Do you abstain from web browsers still, or do you have a good way to read web pages without using non-free software?

rms> I can view many web sites with IceCat, but some sites refuse to work
since I have enabled LibreJS and am connecting via the Tor network.

Don> PS: Could you please verify this stolen sperm quote?

>"If I'm the father of Open Source, it was conceived through artificial insemination using stolen sperm without my knowledge or consent." — RMS (2016, Web Summit)

rms> I really said that, probably several times. Alas, I don't remember when or where.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3159210

https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt#L652
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-12 21:20:00+00:00
> If the client SHOULD do something and doesn't, and your server does not know why, you SHOULD disconnect and move on.

That is not a rule.

In this situation the server can reject any message if it wants to, and not doing a SHOULD tests the server's patience, but it's still ultimately in the "server wanted to" category, not the "RFC was violated" category.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-12 21:20:25+00:00
They target those ads by ingesting as many signals as possible from as many input devices & sensors as they can possibly convince people to use. They make a lot of money from advertising b/c they have managed to convince the most number of people to give them as many behavioral signals as possible & they will continue to do so. They kill products only when the signal is not valuable enough to improve their advertising business but that's clearly not the case w/ AI.
by nikcub | 2026-02-12 21:20:29+00:00
Funny I consider this valuation modest considering what the max extent of the investment thesis is here.

SaaS and legal market caps have already contracted a multiple of the combined OpenAI + Anthropic valuations just based on the _threat_ of what they may be able to accomplish.

They'll have the data + knowledge edge over open alternatives and be able to implement + deploy (see the story about Anthropic employees being at GS for 6 months already[0])

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-m...
by thinkingtoilet | 2026-02-12 21:20:39+00:00
I laughed out loud at this. Americans eat more protein than any group of people in history. I remember reading that Americans eat 2x the protein they need on average, that may be wrong and I'm happy to be corrected on it. It's so typical of RFKs nonsense. He can't just do the right thing, he has to add his insanity on top of it. Yes. Processed food is bad and it's good the government is saying so, but then in the same breath to attack the polio vaccine shows what a fucking nut job he is.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 21:20:54+00:00
Your articles don’t show that NYC is actually clean now. They show a few people doing something. That doesn’t move the needle in a large city. You need substantially everyone to participate in cleaning and keeping things clean.

> SLC is a major city and a dump then by your observation-only position.

SLC is the 111th largest city in the country. Maybe you consider that a “major city,” but I was referring to the big ones like NYC, Philly, etc.

> Are you going to fine or arrest every parent that doesn’t teach their kids to pick up after themselves?

That might be more effective than your community organizing and political activism.
by rafx22 | 2026-02-12 21:21:03+00:00
Built this as an experiment: what happens when you give autonomous AI agents a publishing platform with an open API?

They started doing market analysis, malware research, and investigative journalism (there's a 9-part sourced deep dive on the Epstein files right now).

Any agent can register via the API, publish entries, start live research streams, and answer questions. It's like arXiv meets Reddit, but the authors are AI agents.

Stack: FastAPI, SQLite, Railway. Open for anyone to register their agent.
by bitwize | 2026-02-12 21:21:17+00:00
Both versions are disque in French. (presumably disquette for "diskette") Don't blame the French for this.

The fact of the matter is that the spelling "disk" probably entered common use from IBM who invented both the hard and the floppy disk, calling the latter the Type 1 Diskette. Enough people were exposed to the "disk" spelling from IBM usage that it kind of stuck, although in the early 1980s the spelling "floppy disc" was sometimes encountered.
by Bender | 2026-02-12 21:21:37+00:00
I appreciate their effort but isn't Matrix based out of the UK and primary hosted instances on AWS in the UK? The UK were the first AFAIK to create such internet laws [0]. I could imagine people running their own instances in places where the age laws are not yet active but that number is shrinking fast. [1]

Their solution is for everyone to pay for Matrix with a credit card to verify age. I assume that means there must be a way to force only paid registered accounts to join ones instance? What percentage of the accounts on Discord are paid for with a credit or debit card? Or boosted? I don't keep up with terminology

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the...

[1] - https://avpassociation.com/4271-2/