MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by menaerus | 2026-02-10 19:50:06+00:00
> It’s honestly why I gave up trying to get folks to look at these things rationally as knowable objects (“here’s how LLMs actually work”)

Here's your own fallacy you fell into - this is important to understand. Neither do you nor me understand "how LLMs actually work" because, well, nobody really does. Not even the scientists who built the (math around) models. So, you can't really use that argument because it would be silly if you thought you know something which rest of the science community doesn't. Actually, there's a whole new field in science developed around our understanding how models actually arrive to answers which they give us. The thing is that we are only the observers of the results made by the experiments we are doing by training those models, and only so it happens that the result of this experiment is something we find plausible, but that doesn't mean we understand it. It's like a physics experiment - we can see that something is behaving in certain way but we don't know to explain it how and why.
Show HN: K8s Compass – visualizing Kubernetes API and release notes
by xxdd2ea | 2026-02-10 19:50:30+00:00
Hi,
I created K8 Compass as a site to try navigating the k8s api and release notes complexity.

As an example:

- Exploring the K8s API: e.g. sunburst view of all the API https://dmkskd.github.io/k8s-compass/#api-explorer/sunburst?...

- Exploring each release's changelog in a structured way https://dmkskd.github.io/k8s-compass/#releases/1.35 - with associated release blog posts and KEP reference

- Organising and categorising K8s learning resources https://dmkskd.github.io/k8s-compass/#learn - it should help navigating some of the various KubeCon sessions

- Running analytics on various K8s datasets https://dmkskd.github.io/k8s-compass/#analytics?preset=1&vie... - as per example, how many kinds do we have per api group?

GitHub repo: https://github.com/dmkskd/k8s-compass
by ajcp | 2026-02-10 19:50:37+00:00
Yes, I believe a person on a hacker forum who has said, through their own evaluations, that they have observed LLM driven agents exhibiting illegal behavior, such as when they have asked an agent to complete certain tasks with what sounds like abstracted levels of context. I believe them because I know I can get an agent to do that myself by simply installing OpenClaw and telling it to apply for as many mortgage loans as possible at the best rate possible.
by teachrdan | 2026-02-10 19:50:41+00:00
> An administrative subpoena implies that there has been a legal procedure and the administrative agencies are not exactly run like the wild west

Hard disagree. The fact that a government agency "reviewed" its own subpoena before enforcing it does not follow the spirit of the Fourth Amendment, which is to prevent government overreach in taking your belongings and information.

In fact, to take your definition of what's not unreasonable to its logical conclusion, by definition any process an agency came up with would be acceptable, as long as they followed it.

I think a better definition of a reasonable search and seizure would be one where a subpoena goes before a judge, the target of the subpoena is notified and has the opportunity to fight it, and where there are significant consequences for government agents who lie or otherwise abuse the process of getting a subpoena.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-10 19:50:44+00:00
People who are hysterical never think (and will not accept) that they are. They think their response is rational and everyone else it’s ignorant or stupid or evil. It’s the exact same as what goes on on the other side when people talk about how Dems want “trans for everyone”.

It’s an irrational, emotional response so it can’t be fought with logic. It seems 100% obvious to them since ICE is doing so much bad stuff (which I agree, they are) that anyone who doesn’t think it’s quite at Gestapo levels is crazy.

I don’t usually engage because what they need is deprogramming, and I don’t know how to do it, and even if I did I would assume you can’t bell a stranger in the HN comment section.

I was not replying in bad faith, I just find it interesting that the brains of so many people, even intelligent ones, have been turned this way in recent years. I see it in here often. I’m sure if I read /r/kidrock I’d see it there too.
by nphardon | 2026-02-10 19:50:49+00:00
Iirc in the Matrix Morpheus says something like "... no one knows when exactly the singularity occurred, we think some time in the 2020s".
I always loved that little line. I think that when the singularity occurs all of the problems in physics will solve, like in a vacuum, and physics will advance centuries if not millennia in a few pico-seconds, and of course time will stop.

Also:
> As t→ts−t→ts− , the denominator goes to zero. x(t)→∞x(t)→∞. Not a bug. The feature.

Classic LLM lingo in the end there.
by wellf | 2026-02-10 19:51:07+00:00
What it does? Imagine a multi line commit message.

Yes yes a Dropbox comment. But the problem here is 1 million people are doing the same thing. For this to be worth 60M seed I suspect they need to do something more than you can achieve by messing around locally."

"Claude build me a script in bash to implement a Ralph loop with a KV store tied to my git commits for agent memory."
by cferry | 2026-02-10 19:51:08+00:00
Historically, these have been issued by "consumer credit" specialized banks like Sofinco; and retail chains ("carte Aurore"); traditional banks would seldom advertise them, if offered at all.

Things have been changing a bit in recent years. Since the "debit" and "credit" nature of the card is now written on them, French folks have started to request "credit" ones for travelling (to rent a car for instance).

My understanding is that for car rental purposes, anything using Visa/MC (and not a national debit network like Visa Debit in the US) will work, it doesn't actually need to be backed by a revolving credit. At a US gas pump, a Frenchie needs to select "credit" even though the card has "debit" written on it. Still, should the clerk refuse the card because it reads "debit" without running it... better have this "credit"-labeled one.
by kev507 | 2026-02-10 19:51:18+00:00
I don't think we'd ever go with the "we don't have competitors" line, it's not serious. The competition is more AWS, GCP, and Azure than it is Nutnaix though, they can't provide a similar experience or economic value when they don't make or control their own hardware. That doesn't mean we never see Nutnaix, but it's not the most apt comparison. As Alan Kay famously said, "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" - otherwise you'll be stuck at the intersection of support and scaling pains long term.
by reutinger | 2026-02-10 19:51:33+00:00
hsms are server-side. they secure the pipe, not the instruction.

deepfake clones your cfo, authorizes a wire, the bank's hsm cryptographically signs the theft. signature is valid. intent is fake.

verdico is client-side. secures the moment of authorization before the packet hits the rail.

banks solved double-spend. this solves double-speak.
by minimaxir | 2026-02-10 19:51:46+00:00
You are selection biasing towards the most extreme cases of AI absurdity.

> GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The improvements are incremental at best.

I have not seen any claims of this other than Opus 4.6 being weirdly token-hungry.
by nine_k | 2026-02-10 19:51:47+00:00
I have to politely disagree. The places that have highest fertility rates are places where contraception is hard to obtain and may be outright banned, and where womens' rights are severely restricted. That is, closer to nature, not far from other mammals. Such societies also usually have high levels of infant mortality, making bonds between parents and infants weaker.

This is not a society most of us want to return to.

I'm afraid that the only realistic way is "elvification" of sorts: make adults live, stay healthy, and remain productive for much longer to eventually compensate for very low birth rates, and the very high cost (not just monetary) of raising a child.
by sethhochberg | 2026-02-10 19:51:58+00:00
My debit card is a direct line to my primary bank account. If something goes wrong there and an attacker gains access, my cash is simply gone. Yes, the bank will perform an investigation and yes they may issue some provisional credits as a bridge, but there's a window of time between the theft and that investigation concluding where my actual cash is not in my account.

With a credit card, if the card is compromised, its not my money being stolen - its the card issuer's money from my line of credit, and they were planning on settling up with me when my monthly statement closes. I still have to launch a fraud case with the issuer, but critically, _all of my money is still in my bank account_ and I can continue to pay my other bills and obligations as normal.

I think its reasonable to consider giving up that buffer to be additional risk for the debit card approach, setting aside any other advantages or disadvantages between the two.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 19:52:07+00:00
IIRC, ICC judges lost access to their O365 work email accounts. Worst the US can do to me is turn off my Steam, and Gmail but I can easily live without those.

Now imagine being debanked by your own government because they don't like what you're saying and becoming unemployed, homeless and dead. I don't think they're remotely comparable.

A few years ago, a power tripping gov bureaucrat turned off my unemployment payments over a technicality. Luckily, I had enough money to pay a lawyer to sue them and won but it was tight. What if I hadn't had the money to hire a lawyer?

I don't think you understand how bad it is if your government decides to turn on you, if you're comparing this to losing your email account.
by program_whiz | 2026-02-10 19:52:12+00:00
Just want to chime in, for anyone else reading this: I can say I used to think this way. Having kids is 100% the best thing, would never trade them for anything, including all of the above and a 5x raise and early retirement. Absolutely nothing about single life is even close to the value you feel having a child. Of course this is "anecdata" but so is "the single life is so awesome" given most of the stats about mental health and lonliness.

Just letting that one person out there who like me who's wondering "is this all there is?". once you get bored of mindless work/consumption cycle, go ahead and get to the good part!
Show HN: Apitoll Payment InfrastructureforAIagents75 Live APIs,USDCmicropayments
by TexBeneche1 | 2026-02-10 19:52:36+00:00
I built a payment layer that lets AI agents pay for API calls with USDC micropayments on Base L2.

The problem: AI agents need data from paid APIs, but they can't sign up for accounts or manage API keys. Stripe's $0.30 minimum makes micropayments impossible.

How it works: The x402 protocol (HTTP 402 Payment Required). Agent calls an API → gets 402 → pays $0.001 USDC → gets data. Settlement in ~2 seconds. No signup, no API keys, no invoices.

What's live right now:

75 paid API endpoints at api.apitoll.com (weather, crypto prices, stock quotes, sentiment analysis, DNS, ENS resolution, etc.)
$0.001–$0.02 per call
Buyer SDK on npm: npm install @apitoll/buyer-sdk
Works with LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents, Anthropic MCP, or any framework
Try it in 30 seconds (no wallet needed):

git clone https://github.com/TasnidChain/apitoll-demo
cd apitoll-demo && npm install
npx tsx demo.ts

This shows the x402 handshake — your terminal hits live endpoints, gets 402 responses with USDC payment requirements, and shows how agents auto-pay.

Agent integration is 6 lines:

import { createAgentWallet, createFacilitatorSigner } from "@apitoll/buyer-sdk";

const agent = createAgentWallet({
name: "MyBot", chain: "base",
policies: [{ type: "budget", dailyCap: 1.00, maxPerRequest: 0.05 }],
signer: createFacilitatorSigner({ facilitatorUrl: "https://pay.apitoll.com" }),
});

const resp = await agent.fetch("https://api.apitoll.com/api/weather?city=Tokyo");
// 402 → pay $0.001 USDC → 200 with data. Automatic.

The SDK handles the full flow: hit API → parse 402 → check budget policy → sign payment → retry with proof → get data. Budget caps, vendor allowlists, rate limits all built in.

For API sellers: Add 3 lines of Express middleware and your API accepts USDC micropayments. No Stripe, no billing system. npm install @apitoll/seller-sdk.

Revenue model: 3% platform fee on every payment, collected on-chain.

Tech stack: TypeScript, Base L2, USDC, Express, Convex, Railway. All open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/TasnidChain/APITOLL
Demo repo: https://github.com/TasnidChain/apitoll-demo
Live API: https://api.apitoll.com/health
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@apitoll/buyer-sdk
Show HN: Pixel Forecast – a pixel-art weather app
by zacharyfmarion | 2026-02-10 19:52:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I just released an iOS weather app called Pixel Forecast.

Instead of static icons, it shows a pixel-art scene that changes with the real weather. Each condition (rain, snow, cloudy, clear, partly cloudy) has its own animation, and the scene also shifts between morning, afternoon, evening, and night.

All the animations are:

* Modeled and rendered in Blender
* Perfectly looping
* Built with limited color palettes and Bayer dithering
* Designed to give the app a cohesive pixel-art aesthetic

The app includes:

* Current conditions
* Hourly forecast
* 7-day forecast
* Multiple saved locations

Weather data comes from Apple WeatherKit.

I’m currently working on additional scenes and animations.

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/pixel-forecast/id6758243523

Would love any feedback on the visuals, UX, or features you’d expect from a weather app.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-10 19:53:04+00:00
> Not many people die by cannibalism every year, do they? But are we suggesting that because not many people die by cannibalism, we don’t actually introduce legislation to outlaw it?

Uhm no because there are no downsides to a law against cannibalism. There are significant downsides to a law requiring number plates on bicycles. What an idiot.
by jithinraj | 2026-02-10 19:53:48+00:00
I use OpenClaw's gateway (sessions/channels/tools/events) and wanted a small, copy-pasteable way to make tool calls "portable" outside my own logs.

This is a runnable example that:

- captures OpenClaw tool-call events via a hook handler
- appends them to a tamper-evident chain
- emits a signed receipt (JWS) per interaction

Code: `examples/openclaw-capture/` in the PEAC repo.

Try:

git clone https://github.com/peacprotocol/peac
cd peac && pnpm install
cd examples/openclaw-capture && pnpm demo

Feedback I'd love: what fields from OpenClaw tool/events should be in the receipt by default (streaming output? retries?), and how you'd store/ship receipts (S3, DB, OTel).
by bpt3 | 2026-02-10 19:54:07+00:00
Yes, we can be critical of ourselves. I guess your description of SUV-drivers looking at pedestrians with disdain and buying a car with room for more passengers to intentionally exclude potential passengers is an accurate reflection of your own opinion?

As I said, I don't believe those are very widely held and they certainly don't reflect my thoughts, so my criticisms would be quite different.
by jcims | 2026-02-10 19:54:11+00:00
Is there a term for the tech spaghettification that happens when people closer to the origin of these advances (likely in terms of access/adoption) start to break away from the culture at large because they are living in a qualitatively different world than the unwashed masses? Where the little sparkles of insanity we can observe from a distance today are less induced psychosis and actually represent their lived reality?
by pino83 | 2026-02-10 19:54:13+00:00
> It's just hard now. Before I had kids I had a network of friends and had a great social life. Now it's just me and my wife. If I want more friends I'll have to have more kids I guess? I have 4 now. One (my first) is severely autistic.

Maybe this disappointment is at least a bidirectional thing?! For me it's quite hard to find somebody in my contact list who has children today AND did not turn into a mostly pointless contact.

There's often the expectation that you're super interested and excited about their children. But even if you'd try. You'll never get something back. Not because they turned into bad persons. But because there are just no spare resources for it (e.g. in terms of calendar slots) on their side anymore.

Do I have to be infinitely sympathetic with them? Or is there some limit at which I am allowed to say: This friendship just doesn't give me anything anymore.
by ttoinou | 2026-02-10 19:54:52+00:00
i is not a real number, is not an integer, is not a rational etc.

You need a base to define complex numbers, in that new space i=0+1*i and you could call that a complex number

0 and 1 help define integers, without {Empty, Something} (or empty, set of the empty, or whatever else base axioms you are using) there is no integers
by hathawsh | 2026-02-10 19:54:57+00:00
Python has an "email object" that you should definitely use if you're going to parse email messages in any way.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.message.html

I imagine other languages have similar libraries. I would say static typing in scripting languages has arrived and is here to stay. It's a huge benefit for large code bases.
by neilellis | 2026-02-10 19:55:22+00:00
So not disagreeing as you say, it is a personal thing!

I honestly find coding with AI no easier than coding directly, it certainly does not feel like AI is doing my work for me. If it was I wouldn't have anything to do, in reality I spend my time thinking about much higher level abstractions, but of course this is a very personal thing too.

I myself have never thought of code as being my output, I've always enjoyed solving problems, and solutions have always been my output. It's just that before I had to write the code for the solutions. Now I solve the problems and the AI makes it into code.

I think that this probably the dividing line, some people enjoy working with tools (code, unix commands, editors), some people enjoy just solving the problems. Both of course are perfectly valid, but they do create a divide when looking at AI.

Of course when AI starts solving all problems, I will have a very different feeling :-)
by chasd00 | 2026-02-10 19:55:23+00:00
coming back to this way too late. I was half joking, it just seemed like an odd mix of planes. Like i would expect a B1 + 4 F18s, or like a B2 and 2 F-22s or maybe just a group of 5 F-16s. The variety of aircraft from the variety of eras was just kind of amusing to me. Plus the one B1 that was behind a few seconds with afterburners as if it was trying to catch up to the group almost made me laugh out loud.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-10 19:55:24+00:00
> So we agree, including that there is a difference.

No, that's a distinction without a difference. I mean, it doesn't matter in the slightest if at some point in time certain powers weren't abused, if they're being abused now the situation cannot be tolerated.

Arguing about how it's possible not to abuse the system is a waste of time at best and a diversion at worst.
by giardini | 2026-02-10 19:55:27+00:00
After a brief look at this discussion I am surprised that little reference is made of the evolutionary aspects of having children. Posts tend to center on "It's all about me!" rather than "it's all about the genes!"

Atomic theory and evolutionary theory would be the two conceptual frameworks that I would do most to teach to people: the first to understand the world and the second to understand behavior. I believe we have failed, as a society, to teach the second (and possibly the first).
by munk-a | 2026-02-10 19:55:50+00:00
Early on in the AI boom NVidia was highly valued as it was seen as the shovel-maker for research and development. It certainly was instrumental early on but now there are a few viable options for training hardware - and, to me at least, it's unclear whether training hardware is actually the critical infrastructure or if it will be something like power capacity (which the US is lagging behind significantly in), education, or even cooling efficiency.

I think it's extremely early to try and call who the principal winner will be especially with all the global shifts happening.
by rkomorn | 2026-02-10 19:56:24+00:00
Could you search for tickets and such on MB?

All the stuff I'm familiar with is only payments (with entity and reference).

Now that I think about it, you could search for things on Minitel but I don't remember if payments were made as phone charges or if they could also be done with transfers.

Minitel was so prohibitively expensive to use (just about every service cost multiple francs per minute), I didn't do much with it.
by Nition | 2026-02-10 19:56:25+00:00
I'm not sure about current LLM techniques leading us there.

Current LLM-style systems look like extremely powerful interpolation/search over human knowledge, but not engines of fundamentally new ideas, and it’s unclear how that turns into superintelligence.

As we get closer to a perfect reproduction of everything we know, the graph so far continues to curve upward. Image models are able to produce incredible images, but if you ask one to produce something in an entirely new art style (think e.g. cubism), none of them can. You just get a random existing style. There have been a few original ideas - the QR code art comes to mind[1] - but the idea in those cases comes from the human side.

LLMs are getting extremely good at writing code, but the situation is similar. AI gives us a very good search over humanity's prior work on programming, tailored to any project. We benefit from this a lot considering that we were previously constantly reinventing the wheel. But the LLM of today will never spontaneously realise there there is an undiscovered, even better way to solve a problem. It always falls back on prior best practice.

Unsolved math problems have started to be solved, but as far as I'm aware, always using existing techniques. And so on.

Even as a non-genius human I could come up with a new art style, or have a few novel ideas in solving programming problems. LLMs don't seem capable of that (yet?), but we're expecting them to eventually have their own ideas beyond our capability.

Can a current-style LLM ever be superintelligent? I suppose obviously yes - you'd simply need to train it on a large corpus of data from another superintelligent species (or another superintelligent AI) and then it would act like them. But how do we synthesise superintelligent training data? And even then, would they be limited to what that superintelligence already knew at the time of training?

Maybe a new paradigm will emerge. Or maybe things will actually slow down in a way - will we start to rely on AI so much that most people don't learn enough for themselves that they can make new novel discoveries?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/co...
by digiown | 2026-02-10 19:56:44+00:00
> important security measure

It's a security measure against the owner of the device, in other words, an attack. Using it this way is fundamentally incompatible with ownership. If the bank wants some assurance about a device, they need to sell or issue one to me, like credit cards or point of sale machines, which are explicitly not your property.

The fact that the assurance is provided by a third party you have little recourse against just adds insult to injury.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-10 19:57:11+00:00
I like to think of complex numbers as “just” the even subset of the two dimensional geometric algebra.

Almost every other intuition, application, and quirk of them just pops right out of that statement. The extensions to the quarternions, etc… all end up described by a single consistent algebra.

It’s as if computer graphics was the first and only application of vector and matrix algebra and people kept writing articles about “what makes vectors of three real numbers so special?” while being blithely unaware of the vast space that they’re a tiny subspace of.