MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jare | 2026-02-14 08:57:20+00:00
I couldn't stand TNG at first, and in fact didn't really watch it until a decade ago. To me the first 2 seasons, and pretty much anything involving the Q character, are unwatchable, but once I learned to skip them the rest became really interesting. For the sake of comparison, I loved the old TOS movies, DS9, and liked Voyager as a purely episodic "watch whenever I catch it" show.

Babylon 5 still lords over all of them.
by fcpk | 2026-02-14 08:57:33+00:00
human bodies are incredibly optimized to store energy for bad times and maintain a good balance at the ideal level. this is why the whole "calories in calories out" is technically true but mostly useless for a lot of people as the calories out is a very hard to compute variable. it also ignores entirely the negative effects of muscle loss.

there is a lot of complexity and difficulty in long term weight loss, we are fighting biology hard there. that's why glp1 agonists are having such a success, they allow to fight hormonal homeostasis with proper weapons.

I have yet to see any research showing a way to durably affect the body's set balance, which would be the revolution.

but this research all in all confirms what we know:
* high intensity muscle fiber tearing exercise is much better at not affecting metabolic compensating mechanisms
* cardio might be good for health and other things, it's very much neutral or possibly negative for weight loss, as cardio does not build muscle mass
* pure diet changes are difficult to make sustainable for many. I have seen it first hand where a constant 300 calories deficit a day resulted in weight gain and muscle mass loss despite cardio.
by throwaway5465 | 2026-02-14 08:59:11+00:00
These people, the perrenial fairweather travellers - and those infected - descend on industries and places like locusts.

Been there - another industry. Staying true to you and what you do will outlive the pestelance you're currently (and we all are) currently being delivered. Don't also throw the baby out with the bath water - there is often fire to the smoke, just identify the mirrors too.
by benstopics | 2026-02-14 08:59:56+00:00
I understand the code now after working with it for so long. I even improved the options code to use Black-Scholes so I have a few tricks up my own sleeve. The reality is, now that I have mastered the codebase structure and BASIC... Why would I port it? I have plans on how to keep it in BASIC and make it cross platform e.g. web based.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-14 09:00:11+00:00
> we could likely accomplish that by working very little

Yeah I know many people who do in the small town I live in. Mostly elderly who are used to it still, but also some young people who want to work just enough to buy what they need and not 1 minute more. I could've retired at <20 if I would've enjoyed that. Now I enjoy it more; it's kind of relaxing that kind of lifestyle; not because of not working but because of needing nothing outside your humble possessions.
Critical Logic Bypass "Intended Behavior" Full System Access
by CorporationHit | 2026-02-14 09:01:00+00:00
Hello,
I am a developer and security researcher. I am disclosing a significant logic bypass within the Google VRP (Vulnerability Reward Program).
The Effort & The Logic:
I want to emphasize how much effort and detailed information it takes for a researcher to get a report "Triaged" by a company like Google. After providing extensive data and technical proofs, the report was successfully moved to the triage stage.
The Action:
However, after "3x/TS" processing, the TS report was abruptly closed without any logical explanation and dismissed as "Intended Behavior." Immediately after this, my terminal access was locked.
My Appeal to the Community:
As a developer community, I ask you to judge this: Is it logical or fair for a major company to accept a report into triage (acknowledging its validity), only to close it without valid reasoning and lock the researcher out?
I am releasing this for educational purposes and to let the expert community verify the logic bypass. I have documented everything—the triage, the closure, and the terminal lock—on my GitHub here:https://github.com/shibu1r2i3n4ibiswas-eng/google-security-bypass?tab=readme-ov-file#google-security-bypass-evidence
by efilife | 2026-02-14 09:02:21+00:00
I knew this would be ANOTHER ai glazing post before even clicking. I think we must specify if a post is about AI in titles. Another "I built X" with AI really brings nothing to the table, and I've seen a few users agree with me on this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580844

Here's a similar situation, a submission called "webdev is fun again", and what you find inside is just gushing about how good AI is. Genuinely what value does it bring? I think this phenomenon is literally "clickbaiting" but on hackernews

Other users from here seem to see the same thing that I do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010624
by pqtyw | 2026-02-14 09:03:11+00:00
Generally it seems it was mostly in areas where Catholicism and Protestantism were in close contact and had compete for believers or in protestant dominated areas.

The Spanish inquisition for the most pairt maintained the medieval view that witchcraft could not exist from a theological perspective and continued prosecuting belief in it as a heresy.

I'm not defending the church, though. They declared witchcraft to be an irrational superstition to delegitimize pagan beliefs a few centuries earlier yet had no qualms about embracing the same beliefs to gain a competitive edge when competing against protestants.
by razingeden | 2026-02-14 09:03:39+00:00
Ahem. I said I described GoF and got banned for it.

> but instead, "you know the views" that amount to harassment

Is sneering “believe all women” at people you disagree with one of these forms of “harassment” ? Or just discussions about biology?

Not sure what you’re suggesting here. That is okay. Honestly, I don’t care about anything you have to say.
by MrJohz | 2026-02-14 09:03:59+00:00
I don't use VSCode as my editor, but I found out recently you can open the AI agent sidebar as a separate window, and it's been fantastic - it's mostly replaced Claude Code and other similar TUI tools. It's not quite full integration, but the UI is so much easier to use, because you can be more precise. Rather than having a global "more information" toggle that expands everything like in Claude Code or Pi or whatever, I can specifically inspect the bits of information that I'm interested in. There's two parallel subagents running and one of them is doing unusual things? I can explore exactly what it's doing in more detail.

It helps that VSCode has really improved in the last couple of releases - before then, the features available in Claude Code were useful though that it was worth using despite the baggage, and there's still a handful of things I miss in VSCode. But I think the visual information density and acuity that you can get out of a GUI application is far beyond what you can ever achieve in a TUI, and I think as these tools start reaching something like feature parity, that makes GUIs a lot nicer to use.
by benstopics | 2026-02-14 09:04:53+00:00
I think it will definitely need refactored in order to do an overhaul like that.

But the best way I can answer your question. WSR does not claim to simulate real markets. It probably leans too much into fundamentals for our time, at least for the blue chip stocks in the game. What is actually is is a M&A and tax evasion simulator on top of a financial market sandbox to create tax implications to be avoided.
by arter45 | 2026-02-14 09:04:54+00:00
If the ads content depends on a social media company seeing your posts and analyzing them, it’s probably fair to say it’s targeted advertising.

Browsers typically send Accept-Language headers so you could easily return ads in languages matching that header, without having to analyze your posts.

It’s like switching on to a Spanish TV channel and getting Spanish speaking ads. It’s not targeted because you are signalling you probably understand Spanish.
by jantheman | 2026-02-14 09:06:21+00:00
I built a text-to-speech app for macOS that runs completely offline. No cloud, no subscriptions, no account required.
It uses on-device models for voice synthesis and cloning. Everything runs locally on your Mac’s GPU, so there are no token limits or usage caps.
Key features:
∙ One-time purchase ($19.99)
∙ Voice cloning from short audio samples
∙ Handles book-length content (unlimited input)
∙ Fast synthesis using Apple Silicon/Metal
∙ Zero telemetry or tracking
∙ Works offline indefinitely
I built this as an alternative to services like ElevenLabs after getting frustrated with subscription fatigue and API rate limits. For anyone who needs TTS regularly (accessibility, content creation, language learning), the costs add up fast.
The privacy aspect is a bonus – nothing leaves your machine.

Available on the Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/potato-labs/id6758903660?mt=12

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or design choices.
by gizajob | 2026-02-14 09:06:37+00:00
The desktop PC was the same - everyone said that it was going to wipe out jobs, when the main thing it wiped out was filing cabinets.

AI commentators seem to overlook that one of the primary functions of capitalism is to keep people in busywork: what David Graber called Bullshit Jobs. So AI is going to automate most of the bullshit away but the bullshit employees will keep working, because there wasn’t much need for them in the first place.
by blks | 2026-02-14 09:06:57+00:00
I was really disappointment how many people were talking about this like something the agent did automatically, on its own. They were trying to explain it by all the internet hit pieces and edgelord content from Reddit that it allegedly trained on, talking about how we influence LLMs, and overall taking everything at face value.

I’m appalled by this uncritical thinking. Openclaw agents are controlled by some initial input and then can be corrected via messages, as they go. For me this is a clear case of the human behind the slop that gives it instructions to write such an article (and then “apologise”).
by Terr_ | 2026-02-14 09:07:31+00:00
Putting on my cynic-hat:

1. Reform occurs, now ad-networks serve ads based on the content it appears near, rather than analyzing the viewer.

2. Ad-network says "You know, I'd pay more if you had a version of this content that drew people who were X, Y, Z..."

3. The sites start duplicating their content into hundreds of inconsequentially-different sub-versions, profiling visitors to guide them to "what fits your interests", but it's actually a secret signal to the ad-networks.

4. Ad-network, super-coincidentally, releases tools that can "help" sites do it.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-14 09:07:58+00:00
> you have to work on yourself first

I hate this phrase because it's a generic catch-all that says nothing but shuts down any discussion. If I'm friendly, responsible, honest, not poor, do sports, learn new things, keep the house clean, then the fuck more you want. Can we admit that social dynamics have completely changed and the value of "a relationship" dropped through the floor? 200 years ago bad relationship was better than no relationship because have fun trying to farm land on your own, but nowadays it's literally more convenient to live single than to deal with the inconvenience of living with another person.

Also, personally, I'm a minority within a minority, and I'm not going to cheat the statistics even if I shower twenty times a day.
by geocar | 2026-02-14 09:09:12+00:00
> I can’t think of a single time I’ve needed a sorted list of only numbers.

Gosh. Let me try to convince you.

I use permutation arrays all the time: lists of indexes that can be used across multiple vectors.

This is much faster than the pattern of scanning rows, constructing tuples of (thingToSort . thingIWantInThatOrder) and making a custom sort function, and destructuring those tuples...

And really, not having to write custom sort functions is really really nice.

> Especially in telemetry, where mean is easy and median is not.

Funny. Yes median is obvious with a permutation array, and maybe mean is less so.

When your data is really big and not very variable, mean of x is roughly the same as the mean of any sufficient sample of x, and that sample can be meaningfully represented as a permutation array!

You can get such an array with reservoir sampling and some maths, and (depending on what you know of your data and variance) sometimes even simpler tricks.

That's kindof actually how the "faster than dijkstra" trick referred-to in the article works: Data sets with small variance has this same property that the min of x is roughly the same as the min of a sufficient sample of x (where the size of sufficient has to do with the variance). And so on.

Another big use-case in my code is trees: Apter trees have a flat memory layout which is convenient for permutation arrays which can simultaneously represent index, rotation, tombstones, and all sorts of other things you might need to do with a tree.

Give it a dig. There's good stuff in there.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-14 09:09:34+00:00
> But a programmer+LLM is going to be far more effective in any language than an unaided programmer is in Lisp—and a programmer+LLM is going to be more effective in a popular language with a large training set, such as Java, TypeScript, Kotlin, or Rust, than in Lisp. So in a world with LLMs, the main practical reason to choose Lisp disappears.

You are working on the assumption that humans don't need to even look at the code ever again. At this point it in time, it is not true.

The trajectory over the last 3 years do not lead me to believe that it will be true in the future.

But, lets assume that in some future, it is true: If that is the case, then Lisp is a better representation than those other languages for LLMs to program in; after all, why have the LLMs write in Javascript (or Java, or Rust, or whatever), which a compiler backend lowers into an AST, which then gets lowered into machine code.

Much better to program in the AST itself.

IOW, why program in the intermediate language like JS, Java, Rust, etc when you can program in the lowered language?

For humans, using the JS, Java or Rust lets us verbosely describe whatever the AST is in terms humans can understand, however the more compact AST is unarguably better for the way LLMs work (token prediction).

So, in a world where all code is written by LLMs, using an intermediate verbose language is not going to happen unless the prompter specifically forcibly selects a language.
Show HN: Agent Hypervisor – Reality Virtualization for AI Agents
by sv-pro | 2026-02-14 09:10:18+00:00
Author here. Built this after working on AI agent security at Radware, where we discovered ZombieAgent - persistent malicious instructions in agent memory.

The insight: Don't teach agents to resist attacks. Virtualize their perceived reality so attacks never enter their world. Like VMs hiding physical RAM → agents shouldn't see raw dangerous inputs.

ARCHITECTURE:
- Input virtualization: Strip attacks at boundary (not after agent sees them)
- Provenance tracking: Prevents contaminated learning (critical with continuous learning coming in 1-2 years per Amodei)
- Taint propagation: Deterministic physics laws prevent data exfiltration
- No LLM in critical path: Fully deterministic, testable

Working PoC demonstrates:
- Prompt injection prevention (attacks stripped at virtualization boundary)
- Taint containment (untrusted data can't escape system)
- Deterministic decisions (same input = same output, always)

CRITICAL TIMING:
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO, Feb 13): Continuous learning in 1-2 years [1]
Problem: Memory poisoning + continuous learning = permanent compromise
Solution: Provenance tracking prevents untrusted data from entering learning loop

Research context:
- OpenAI: "unlikely to ever be fully solved" [2]
- Anthropic: 1% ASR = "meaningful risk"
- Academic research: 90-100% bypass rates on published defenses [3]

Seeking feedback on whether ontological security (does X exist?) beats permission security (can agent do X?) for agent systems.

Practical workarounds available in repo for immediate use while PoC matures.

Disclaimer: Personal project, not Radware-endorsed. References to published work only.

Happy to answer questions!

[1] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2
[2] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/openai-prompt-injection...
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12815
by smarx007 | 2026-02-14 09:11:38+00:00
I think that npmjs uses colors too much to the point of irrelevance. Why are links in the README red? Why is the code tab red? Why is the download graph purple?

Compare your npmx link to vue to https://npmx.dev/package/node-red-contrib-rtc-alert-node . This package uses deprecated and vulnerable deps and npmx correctly uses color to draw attention to it. And because the npmx page is normally monotone, the use of color actually draws your attention.

Regarding clutter - I agree.
by jjcm | 2026-02-14 09:12:10+00:00
This is entirely tangential to the article, but I’ve been coding in golang now going on 5 years.

For four of those years, I was a reluctant user. In the last year I’ve grown to love golang for backend web work.

I find it to be one of the most bulletproof languages for agentic coding. I have a two main hypotheses as to why:

- very solid corpus of well-written code for training data. Compare this to vanilla js or php - I find agents do a very poor job with both of these due to what I suspect is poorly written code that it’s been trained on.
- extremely self documenting, due to structs giving agents really solid context on what the shape of the data is

In any file an agent is making edits in, it has all the context it needs in the file, and it has training data that shows how to edit it with great best practices.

My main gripe with go used to be that it was overly verbose, but now I actually find that to be a benefit as it greatly helps agents. Would recommend trying it out for your next project if you haven’t given it a spin.
by M95D | 2026-02-14 09:12:13+00:00
So the version here on youtube is a 16:9 widescreen crop of a 4:3 TV crop of the original 16:9 filming? And the remaining CGI are only the 4:3 crop from the lost 16:9 originals? Did I understand corectly?

Then, is there a version somewhere with original uncropped 16:9 live action and 4:3 CGI? I can tolerate side bars. To me, seeing the complete video frame is more important than a consistent frame format.
by blks | 2026-02-14 09:13:55+00:00
This will hurt people in the moment, people who sometimes are few dollars away from not making rent or buying enough food.

And as other commenter correctly pointed out, by the federal law of hour wage plus tips is below federal minimum wage, the restaurant must pay extra to reach the minimum wage. So if we assume that restaurants actually follow this law, wait staff will be kept at poverty wage 7.25/hr.
Show HN: Neohabit – habit-tracker with adjustable habit frequencies (X / Y days)
by Vsein | 2026-02-14 09:15:02+00:00
Hey HN! I recently open-sourced a project that I came up with in the late 2022 and have been working on and off since. It's taken around a year or so of active development in total.

My problem with habit-trackers is that they're all the same. All of them basically allow to track only one thing - X times per 1 day. That's very rigid and goes against my instinct to ease into new things.

I wanted something that's flexible, self-sustainable, and wouldn't require a lot of maintenance.

After a bit of tinkering I came up with something novel - adjustable habit frequencies. And made all the custom github/anki-style heatmaps with all that functionality on top, meaning stuff like heatmaps for once-in-three-days habits.

It's hard to put into words, as it's very visual, so here's the landing: https://neohabit.org/ (might be a bit slow as it's deployed with github-pages)

And a demo: https://neohabit.org/projects

GitHub: https://github.com/Vsein/Neohabit
by M95D | 2026-02-14 09:16:35+00:00
> The 4:3 Blu-Ray remasters are about as good as it gets in visual quality, but there's a "cinematic" feel lost from the 16:9 DVDs, but the quality difference is noticeable and unfavorable.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. What's wrong with the quality difference?
by npodbielski | 2026-02-14 09:18:03+00:00
> we’ll have spent quite a while in a world of such abundance and plenty that jobs might simply be superfluous. Perhaps we’ll spend our lives in leisure, pursuing poetry or pure mathematics or the fine art of looksmaxxing.

That is quite a optimistic view that I do not share. The US shitshow with epstein files shows what those with power are actually capable of. The star trek utopia universe is not the world we are building right now collectively. I would expect instead that with robotics and AI combined there will be a lot of more technical jobs for maintaining and building automated systems that serves rich people but not common folks. But still you need knowledge and skill to do that which means you still need to learn and teach those. Which means you still need education and people working there. You still need people that support education sector and technical and maintance sector for AI and robotics. All of them need to eat and have basic needs to be fulfilled. You need agriculture and services and housing and entertainment and dozens of others for that too. So in an essence the author is right but still with AI capable robots I would not expect utopia but somekind of world between blade-runner and alien: you won't be scrolling mindlessly while all you needs are being met but rather trying to save money for the things you dream off while working stupid mindless job you do not like. Which is basically what most of us are doing right now.

So yes nothing will change for most of us but humanity will find a way somehow to make world suck in so many ways by exploiting each other, by stealing from each other, by lying and generally making a world living hell for everyone. Because we do not know any better.

AI won't change that. So as the old saying goes: a lot have to change for everything to stay the same.
by dpe82 | 2026-02-14 09:18:07+00:00
For sure, but sometimes what you or I think should be important really isn't in the grand scheme of things. An example could be focusing on cost or efficiency - generally very reasonable things to care about - but if all a company cares about right now is growth at all costs, then that focus would be wrong. This can happen - the company leadership might see a market that they absolutely must enter and be dominant in no matter the cost. That may not filter down well 3-4 layers of management; so the soft skill in that instance would be in sussing out what several layers of management above you actually care about and surfacing to them things that align with those concerns.
by gethly | 2026-02-14 09:18:11+00:00
0.16 ... maybe in 2050 they will finally release v1.0.

Jokes aside, once Jai comes out, Zig will become obsolete. Odin might hang on, as it is quite a bit smaller and limited language. Rust is being forced into every low level codebase, so that one will stay. C3, well, no one is using that, like Carbon. But Zig... despite running some big projects, it has no future.
by barnabee | 2026-02-14 09:18:38+00:00
3D printing (additive manufacturing) usually involves layers that tend to be a weak point.

If you want something truly long lasting you might find substractive manufacturing techniques like CNC milling better. Indeed there are solutions from companies like Cryptotag for punching cryptographic seed data into plates / blocks of titanium. Something like this could be automated with a CNC router to store a bunch more data.