MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pnocera | 2026-01-26 06:36:32+00:00
I've been playing with Brad Ross's AISP [1] to get a better quality of llm outputs at strategic stages of our basic design / plan / implementation workflows.

A concrete example of this is our Adviser Skill experiment [2]. In most AI workflows, a "reviewer" agent just dumps markdown feedback. Our Adviser doesn't just "talk"; it outputs an AISP 5.1 document ( a kind of "Assembly Language for AI Cognition" )

This document forces the agent to define:

- Strict Type Definitions for the issues identified (e.g., distinguishing between a gap, an edge case, or a missing requirement).

- EARS Rules (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) that determine the verdict. For example, a rule might state: "If any issue has a severity of ⊘ (critical), then the workflow MUST halt."

- Formal Evidence: Every "approve" or "reject" verdict must include a confidence score (δ) and a grounding proof (π) that explains why the change matches the original specification.

By treating the agent's output as a proof-carrying protocol rather than just text, we can chain multiple specialized agents (Architect, Strategist, Auditor) who "triangulate" on the codebase. They must reach a formal consensus where the variance between their scores is low.

This shifts the agent's goal from "Finish the task at all costs" to "Prove that this change is safe and correct." It turns out that iterating on the verification logic is much more effective for building reliable systems than just increasing the number of agents running concurrently.

[1] Brad Ross AISP : https://github.com/bar181/aisp-open-core

[2] Adviser skill : https://github.com/pnocera/skilld
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-26 06:37:23+00:00
The government already has every record ever generated, and no law has ever permitted or prevented it. Once it was revealed, the only thing that happened was they exiled the guy the told us. A codified national ID doesn't afford any benefit to anyone. On top of that, nobody, regardless of political persuasion, wants it. At least we can agree on that.
by modeless | 2026-01-26 06:37:34+00:00
Last I looked (a couple of years ago), you could ask the user for read-write access to a directory in Chrome using the File System Access API, however you couldn't persist this access, so the user would have to manually re-grant permission every time you reloaded the tab. Has this been fixed yet? It's a showstopper for the most interesting uses of the File System Access API IMO.
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by haebom | 2026-01-26 06:39:10+00:00
Thank you for your feedback. I would appreciate it if you could refer to the demo video for the actual operation. I have submitted this to YC 26, and the Chrome extension app is currently under review. It will be available for use once the review is complete. If it's okay with you, please send me your email address via LinkedIn message or similar, and I can share a version that can be run in developer mode. As a solo developer, feedback like this is incredibly valuable to me. Thank you so much for your comment.
by abhisek | 2026-01-26 06:39:30+00:00
Tried installing clawdbot. Got blocked by (my own) sandbox because it tried to git clone some stuff which in turn was accessing my private keys.

- clawdbot depends on @whiskeysockets/baileys

- @whiskeysockets/baileys depends on libsignal

npm view @whiskeysockets/baileys dependencies

[..]
libsignal: 'git+https://github.com/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git',
[..]

libsignal is not a regular npm package but a GitHub repository, which need to be cloned and built locally.

So suddenly, my sandbox profile, tuned for npm package installation no longer works because npm decides to treat my system as a build environment.

May be genuine use-case but its hard to keep up.
by tolerance | 2026-01-26 06:39:30+00:00
> It's good of you to beware immature judgment lest you so be judged.

A dear reminder best expressed by the second Caliph of the Islamic state Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه: “Bring yourself to account before you are taken to account.”

I think I’ve come across both that quote of Tolkien’s before and I’m also vaguely familiar with A Modest Proposal, to the degree that after reading the subtitle I was reminded that it’s satire. I’m not sure how this will affect my reading of it but I intend to assign myself both Letter 213 of Tolkien’s letters and the whole of A Modest Proposal with the questions you presented in relation to it as homework! Thanks.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-26 06:40:32+00:00
If it was a sabotage, we could indeed think with such a perspective. But even then, it sounds hard to believe because I am unaware of any specific grievance or animosity that Russia has towards Spain. If it was Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, Poland, some of the Baltics country etc. it would be easier to agree with you. (If it was indeed sabotaged). I am reminded of a politician's speech in my country - "They says that everything wrong in the state is my and my party's fault. Somewhere an accident happens in our state, they say we are to blame. When a natural tragedy happens, and people are hurt or die, they say it is because of us. When someone falls down, they say we are to blame. Brothers and sisters, tomorrow when one of their worker has a child unexpectedly, don't be surprised if they claim that we are responsible for that too!".
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-26 06:40:50+00:00
I know it wasn’t the whole point of your comment, but I fervently hope the legitimacy of art (of any kind and in any medium) is not conferred by the ‘market’. Plays or shows that end having been seen by under 100 people should still be art (and any recording of them should as well), music made for a very niche audience, games that are played by 10s of people, all of those can be art. A painting made by one person to give to another can be art.

I would prefer to look to the democratization of art as the means and ability for individuals to produce substantial, if small, works at a pace, for an audience, for some reward determined solely by the creator.

At the end of the day, ‘what is art’ and ‘are video games art is a dated sentiment, so I agree, I was just repulsed by the suggestion that the definition/legitimacy of something as art can/should be dictated by ‘The Market’ .
by cthalupa | 2026-01-26 06:41:08+00:00
Or we could look at the video where we can actually see the distance between the officer and the vehicle.

That's really all that matters. We have a video that shows the distance between the two for all of the relevant points of the situation. What you might have guessed something would have been from a bad angle becomes an irrelevant metric when there is superior evidence available. I don't know why it looks like he is moving that way on a ultra compressed low resolution video shot from a distance. I don't really care, either, because I can look at the video that was shot from right at the scene, with higher resolution, less compression, and a much better angle.

You've also completely dodged the overwhelming majority of the comment where the meat of the argument was for anything that actually matters. Hell, not even the most relevant point for just Good. Even if I were to agree she had hit him with the car, the medical examiner determined the fatal shot was either the 2nd or 3rd which came through the driver window of the car.

But how were either of these riots? How do they reinforce your argument that there is rioting?

Why are you being disingenuous in how you present the argument being made to you?

Why are you arguing to hold people who are at least nominally law enforcement to a lower standard than everyday civilians when it comes to following it?
by UnmappedStack | 2026-01-26 06:41:30+00:00
It'd be very interesting to run the same experiment except rather than on different engines, just on different versions of Google in different years. Sadly I can't really search 2005 Google anymore of course but it would be interesting nonetheless to see if it's Google in general or rather the recent "enshittification" of their results. It may be intriguing to expand to survey takers outside of Reddit to get a potentially less biased set of results, yes.
by mkl | 2026-01-26 06:42:10+00:00
They can go at high speed:

Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAILab

Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Yellow

France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_Iris_320

China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_railways_CIT_trains

UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train
by bawolff | 2026-01-26 06:43:17+00:00
At its peak i think (based on googling) the nazis killed about 14,000 per day, which would put it in a similar ball park on a per-day basis. However they kept up the level of killing and didn't stop after just a few days.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2846/
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-26 06:43:58+00:00
Nvidia doesn't have a fantastic record for long term support on their SoCs. It usually ends up stranded on some outdated out-of-tree kernel. If they've shared the support task with Microsoft (and if MS remains institutionally capable of support at this point...), that's a reason for cautious optimism.

I don't think this is likely to truly pan out though. I can't imagine Nvidia making the kind of afffordances that would allow it to develop into a successful market segment. They're inevitably going to gatekeep documentation and aggressively encroach on their partners' margin like they always do.
by keiferski | 2026-01-26 06:44:19+00:00
Market was maybe a bad term. I mean more “society at large” and not specifically stuff that makes money.

I am more saying that the idea of caring about “being labeled as art” is not that important anymore. Largely because anyone can make and publish anything nowadays. So a play with 100 viewers is still art, yes, but no one really cares about getting that label.
by nearbuy | 2026-01-26 06:44:50+00:00
I'm pro-privacy and I still think these retorts just make it sound like you've put zero effort into understanding what the "nothing to hide" people are trying to articulate.

E.g. "Can we put a camera in your bathroom?"

Very few people are arguing that nudity or bathroom use shouldn't be private, and they are not going to understand what this has to do with their argument that the NSA should be allowed to see Google searches to fight terrorism or whatever.

Privacy arguments are about who should have access to what information. For example, I'm fine with Google seeing my Google searches, but not the government monitoring them.
by bigDinosaur | 2026-01-26 06:46:40+00:00
It's impossible to discuss TikTok in isolation without discussing its algorithm or the whole 'the medium is the message' nature of it - which is precisely what distinguishes it from the era of the weird and bizarre personal website. In other words, it's inherently biased towards one form of content in a way that the general web is not (a website can contain anything, unlike TikTok).
by sersi | 2026-01-26 06:46:53+00:00
> This has been going on for years; the right simply refuses to countenance the possibility of legitimate organic opposition, while also being chronically unable to provide any evidence for their claims.

That strategy is also typical of China. Whenever there's a protest (for example the HK protests), it's always financed by western interests. Even volunteers organically organising themselves to help victims of the Tai Po fire were deemed to be western interests trying to discredit China. It's a surprisingly effective tactic.

I just always wonder how we have so many people eating this up when the strategy is so blindingly obvious.
by zahlman | 2026-01-26 06:47:33+00:00
> And you definitely don't care how a payments network point of sale terminal and your bank talk to each other... Good software is invisible.

> ...

> Are you keeping up with security updates? Will you leak all my data? Do I trust you? Can I rely on you?

IMO, if the answers to those questions matter to you, then you damn well should care how it works. Because even if you aren't sufficiently technically minded to audit the system, having someone be able to describe it to you coherently is an important starting point in building that trust and having reason to believe that security and privacy will work as advertised.
by benatkin | 2026-01-26 06:48:25+00:00
Good time to surface the limitations of a Content Security Policy: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/issues/92

Also the double iframe technique is important for preventing exfiltration through navigation, but you have to make sure you don't allow top navigation. The outer iframe will prevent the inner iframe from loading something outside of the frame-src origins. This could mean restricting it to only a server which would allow sending it to the server, but if it's your server or a server you trust that might be OK. Or it could mean srcdoc and/or data urls for local-only navigation.

I find the WebAssembly route a lot more likely to be able to produce true sandboxen.
by kStadler01 | 2026-01-26 06:48:35+00:00
I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects.

Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-26 06:48:57+00:00
Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754101

Related:

Pentagon buys device via undercover operation suspected link to Havana Syndrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608913
by bjt12345 | 2026-01-26 06:49:28+00:00
The thing about C-suite executives is they usually have short tenures, however the management levels below them are often cozy in their bureaucracy, resist change, often trying to outlast the new management.

I actually argue that AI will therefore impact these levels of management the most.

Think about it, if you were employed as a transformational CEO would you risk trying to fight existing managers or just replace them with AI?
by Mawr | 2026-01-26 06:49:52+00:00
> Bikes are an incredibly segregating means of transport.

A bike costs on the order of a few hundred dollars; there's essentially no barrier to entry.

Comparing them with cars on this metric is laughable. Must be 18 or so and able bodied, obtain an expensive license, purchase the actual very expensive vehicle, pay for constant upkeep in insurance, fuel, repairs, and risk serious accidents. All of this is an insane barrier to entry.

> They are inherently limited in range

Yeah, to like a radius of 5km or so, on the low end. That's quite a bit in a city.

> and they are largely incompatible with any other transit mode.

Kind of, but not really? Between e-scooters, rental bikes, and bike garages at train stations, this really is just a matter of proper infrastructure in the end. I don't get the relevance of this anyway.

> So you create an environment where all the housing within bike range from good jobs is unaffordable for most people.

And where exactly is this place you describe where everyone commutes exclusively by bike? Ooops, right, it doesn't exist, never has, probably never will. So you're just making stuff up.

I mean, it is a cute little theory, but it has zero relevance to the world we've built or ever plan to build.

Or maybe it's a strawman, implying that someone somewhere has claimed that we should only commute by bike? Again, cute, but nobody says that. Adding public transportation to the equation neatly eradicates your entire made up theory.

> And the most democratic mode of transport? Cars. They provide far greater accessibility.

I adore your conversational technique of adding positively charged words like "democratic" and "accessibility" without any justification or explanation, just to make it seem like you have an argument. "The democratic, accessible and green coal power plants." I'll add this technique to my list of common fallacies, thanks.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-26 06:50:28+00:00
Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754101

Related:

Pentagon buys device via undercover operation suspected link to Havana Syndrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608913
by daversa | 2026-01-26 06:50:34+00:00
Haha yeah, that needs some refinement! Ultimately it's a restriction of the API's we're using now.

"Would I feel happier? What are the cultural differences? What is the food like? What sort of social groups thrive in the cities? What's public transport like? What's commuting like? What's tourism like?"

These are all great suggestions, and some are on the roadmap. One thing is we never want to get in the game of saying one place is "Better" or "Worse" than another. We just want to provide data and let people decide what's important.

Thanks for giving it a spin!
by zinodaur | 2026-01-26 06:50:38+00:00
I don’t understand this take - if all engineers go on call, they learn real quick what happens when their coworkers are too innovative. It is a good feedback loop that teaches them not to make unreliable software.

SREs are great when the problem is “the network is down” or “kubernetes won’t run my pods”, but expecting a random engineer to know all the failure modes of software they didn’t build and don’t have context on never seems to work out well.
by mrwh | 2026-01-26 06:50:51+00:00
Love it! My personal sites tend to start hand-written, evolve into a bash script, occasionally advance into python, but mostly just stay in bash, because it's convenient, doesn't need to please anyone else (nor would it!), and is already built for text processing into files. (I write a lot of scrappy shell scripts for my job too. I guess I should start asking an AI to generate whatever I want directly instead. Cobbling together a script is more fun though...)
by renewiltord | 2026-01-26 06:51:15+00:00
“Environmentalists worry” is sufficient. These guys made up a fictional snail darter species to bullshit us that an endangered species exist. That degree of deception means they’re dead to me.

And I used to be an active turtle conservationist as a young man.

They just make up bullshit science. Poisoned well of garbage. You have to assume it’s all false information.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-26 06:51:43+00:00
> The AI model is an even more transformative use, since (from my understanding) you can't reverse engineer the training data out of a model.

You absolutely can; the model is quite capable of reproducing works it was trained on, if not perfectly then at least close enough to infringe copyright. The only thing stopping it from doing so is filters put in place by services to attempt to dodge the question.

> In fact, the GPL family licenses don't require the output of software under one of those licenses to be open, so I suspect that would also be true for content.

It does if the software copies portions of itself into the output, which seems close enough to what LLMs do. The neuron weights are essentially derived from all the training data.

> There are also questions about guardrails and how much is necessary to prevent exact reproduction of copyright protected material that, even if licensed for training, isn't licensed for redistribution.

That's not something you can handle via guardrails. If you read a piece of code, and then produce something substantially similar in expression (not just in algorithm and comparable functional details), you've still created a derivative work. There is no well-defined threshold for "how similar", the fundamental question is whether you derived from the other code or not.

The only way to not violate the license on the training data is to treat all output as potentially derived from all training data.
by bigDinosaur | 2026-01-26 06:51:48+00:00
Gwern does actual research into usability, and that's the reason there aren't any ads on Gwern.net (which alone makes it far from the worst for readability, I mean have you used the internet without an ad blocker on the median blog??).

Anyway, it's readable for me, and I quite enjoy it, so perhaps you just aren't the target audience. That doesn't matter at all, you don't need to read Gwern at all.
by llmthrow0827 | 2026-01-26 06:52:37+00:00
Yeah I found this article quite sloppy and disjointed, and frankly just wrong.

> they offer only a few counter examples without touching on a whole library of classic literature that scholars are still arguing about hundreds of years later.

Basically, the article is "other kinds of art have property A while video games have property B" over and over by cherry-picking examples and ignoring the multitude counter-examples.
by tdhz77 | 2026-01-26 06:52:45+00:00
I always find Simon Wilson’s post to be odd. He gets access to things, being tipped of things. Who is paying and why? Most of the posts are of little to no value to me. This might be the prime example. Webassembly is the sandbox. That is unless you disagree than you are being paid for your posts and not disclosing it.
by njt | 2026-01-26 06:53:26+00:00
I've been self-hosting my email for a little over 2 decades.

The basic setup has more or less stayed the same, but there's some more extra components around it you have to know now (spam filtering and SPF/DKIM/DMARC come readily to mind).

To quote Michael Lucas: "everything complicated about emails revolves around spam and not getting it". I highly recommend his book, "Run Your Own Mail Server".[1]

In short, hosting your own email is not that bad at all. I strongly suspect, like many other skills, since it has atrophied with the advent of the cloud and people readily giving up to the large carriers, it has gotten the reputation of being hard, or as you said, a full time job. I don't think either of those things are true.

[1] - https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html