MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guerython | 2026-02-26 19:12:44+00:00
Love this direction. Memory failures are usually silent until quality drops, so treating memory as an SLO surface makes sense.

One metric that helped us was retrieval precision@k against a small gold set of "must-return" facts from prior sessions. Drift there showed degradation earlier than latency/token metrics.

If you haven’t already, adding write-amplification + duplicate-rate tracking is useful too. We found many systems look healthy while gradually filling with near-duplicate notes that poison recall.
by screye | 2026-02-26 19:13:35+00:00
> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important

We are 50 years into post-modernism. Can't imagine it can get any more important.

I predict emergent design will be the next big thing. Czinger[1] is a great example of what it may look like. Rick Ruben-esque world, where the creator is more a guide.

[1] Czinger uses stochastic optimization to converge to designs - https://www.czinger.com/iconic-design
by Bender | 2026-02-26 19:13:40+00:00
Wait until these people learn about Disney's Secret Club 33. Membership is $100,000 not counting annual dues and the current waiting list is about 14 years. That's the only way into the unpublished tunnel that leads to the special underground rooms. Not even park security have access. The normies that know about it think it's just about drinking alcohol in the ground floor room.
by 1derfool | 2026-02-26 19:13:42+00:00
Most bingo/tambola caller apps I found either required internet for ads, analytics, or remote syncing. For community halls and senior centers (where this is often used), connectivity is unreliable — and I didn’t want gameplay to depend on network state.

So the app:

Runs fully offline (no API calls during gameplay)

Uses a cryptographically secure RNG for number generation

Doesn’t collect personal data

Doesn’t require account creation

The hex verification system was added after running into disputes during larger games. Instead of manual checking, each card can be validated deterministically against the called sequence, which made competitive sessions much smoother.

If anyone is curious about implementation details (RNG choice, QR card generation approach, state handling, etc.), happy to go deeper.

Also very open to critique — especially around UX clarity for large-screen TV mode.
by epiccoleman | 2026-02-26 19:13:44+00:00
KG: Anybody coulda wrote it, anybody coulda done that, one song, just one note

JB: Yeah but guess who did write it, me!

KG: Yeah but did you write this?

JB: Dude, I did, I told you to do the bendy every once in a while!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLvOLjHt4S0
by kylegalbraith | 2026-02-26 19:13:59+00:00
After building Depot [0] for the past three years, I can say I have a ton of scar tissue from running BuildKit to power our remote container builders for thousands of organizations.

It looks and sounds incredibly powerful on paper. But the reality is drastically different. It's a big glob of homegrown thoughts and ideas. Some of them are really slick, like build deduplication. Others are clever and hard to reason about, or in the worst case, terrifying to touch.

We had to fork BuildKit very early in our Depot journey. We've fixed a ton of things in it that we hit for our use case. Some of them we tried to upstream early on, but only for it to die on the vine for one reason or another.

Today, our container builders are our own version of BuildKit, so we maintain 100% compatibility with the ecosystem. But our implementation is greatly simplified. I hope someday we can open-source that implementation to give back and show what is possible with these ideas applied at scale.

[0] https://depot.dev/products/container-builds
by mordechai9000 | 2026-02-26 19:14:04+00:00
I would make them fairly small (personal pie-sized) and use a filling that doesn't need to be cooked in the oven to set. The main limiting factors, I think, would be structural integrity and heating the filling to the center. You could set it on a ring (like the rim of a spring-form pan) to support it better during cooking. Now, a four dimensional hyper pie, on the other hand...
by aforwardslash | 2026-02-26 19:14:08+00:00
I don't think it has slowed down; in fact,I think it has grown in the last few years. Sure, it is a niche - and will probably always be - but one never had such a low barrier of entry to build stuff and be creative; you have plenty of very powerful chips, somewhat usable SDKs, a ton of COTS ready to use components ranging from gps sensors to rotary encoders, and you can design your own pcbs and order them cheap from China; you can also design enclosures and 3d print parts in your own home with precision that was only accessible to specialized companies 15 years ago. LLMs are a great help not only on the code generation part, but also on the design part - as an example, I sometimes use ChatGPT to generate openscad functions, and it isn't half-bad.
Show HN: I built the US version of "Are You Dead?", China's viral check-in app
by maxtermed | 2026-02-26 19:14:31+00:00
In January, a Chinese app called Sile Me ("Are You Dead?") went to #1 paid app on China's Apple App Store. One button. Tap it daily to say you're alive. Miss two days — your emergency contact gets an email. It went viral because 200M Chinese people live alone and finally had a tool that acknowledged the obvious risk.

The US has 40 million solo households — 29% of all households, an all-time high. And no good equivalent.

So I built one. Key differences: SMS instead of email, a 48-hour window instead of rigid schedules, and an Emergency Alert button — one tap, immediate text to your contact. Right now, not after two days of silence.

Tech stack: Expo/React Native, Python/FastAPI, RevenueCat for IAP. iPhone only for now.

The full story: https://imalivetoday.com/demumu-app-us
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-26 19:14:35+00:00
>no longer searches web for things it doesn't know, but instead guesses.

This could very well have been a cost-reduction effort to try and simulate what it was doing before.

Somebody must think training has already looked at the web enough, or there may be too much slop now that there was no contingency for.

Then you've got tighter guardrails to make it more palatable for a wider audience.

I guess different people would draw the line differently, but when it goes from being worth money to not worth it any more that could be an enshittification effect.

Especially if things like that accelerate.
by reconnecting | 2026-02-26 19:14:52+00:00
What next, 1 MB = 724 KB...

I checked Sectigo (1) and Digicert (2), same thing: The reduction of public SSL/TLS certificate validity to 200 days (199-day renewals) starting March 15, 2026.

Is there still a way to buy full size SSL certificate?

1. https://www.sectigo.com/blog/200-day-ssl-certificate-expirat...

2. https://www.digicert.com/faq/tls-ssl-certificate-validity
by cpill | 2026-02-26 19:14:53+00:00
Come on man, the usual reason: $$$

Its is Micro$oft after all :P

The reason we're getting this AI gumbo is that obviously the product people at M$ we're told: "Make money by selling AI features!!!". Which flipped their minds from their usual "I am Steve Jobs" fantasies, which tell them to _consider the User experience first_, to _Consider the companie$ experience first_, and they can't keep the two concepts in their little heads at the same time because they are, after all, just product people.
by just6979 | 2026-02-26 19:15:24+00:00
What section of the ToS prohibits this? In other words, what is the thing that is being done that is against the ToS? Looking up the creator of a repo, or the contributors of the repo?

I did a quick scan of the ToS and all I could find was D8 that states that autmated access (scraping) used for "AI" applies a reciprocal license that prevents the scraper from restricting GitHub's access to the data (the whole model? the weights?) resulting from the scraping.

This makes it sound like any model trained on GitHhub content cannot be commercialized, because charging for access to the output would be a "technical or other limit"... So you're obviously not really enforcing this, otherwise MS would be suing every big commercial model out there!
by nicola_alessi | 2026-02-26 19:15:25+00:00
Gating completion on the observation write is smart — you're turning the model's task-completion drive against itself. Have you run into the problem where forced observations degrade to "completed task successfully, no issues noted" though? Technically passes the schema, zero actual information.

That's what killed the approach for me. I spent weeks tuning schemas and rejection criteria and the models just got better at producing plausible-sounding observations that said nothing. Passive extraction ended up more reliable — watch the AST diffs, infer what the agent learned from what it actually changed, skip the self-report entirely.

Curious what your checker validates against. If it's structural completeness of the fields you'll hit the gaming problem fast. If it's semantic quality... how? That's basically asking another model to judge whether an observation is useful, which is its own rabbit hole.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-26 19:15:52+00:00
Typical smartphone aspect ratios are too awkward to be great for use with a stylus in my opinion, and is exacerbated by bezels having been all but eliminated.

If I were to design a smartphone for stylus use, I think it'd look something like an iPad mini, with its squarish ratio and thicker bezels, shrunken down by ~20%.
by hnuser123456 | 2026-02-26 19:15:56+00:00
Their Ninebot escooters are pretty damn good, far better than most random brands.

I spent most of Covid in VRChat and met my current live-in gf, so the metaverse was real for me too.

I also made decent money selling crypto, so that part was real for me too.

And AI coding, for as dumb as even the best models are, still enabled me to create things that I wanted to, but wouldn't have had time or gotten nearly as far without.

I dunno if the author realizes, but all the things they mentioned did materialize in one way or another, just not exactly how the hype described it.

Maybe if they could let go of some of the cynicism, they could find something to be optimistic about. Nothing ever goes exactly as planned, but that doesn't mean nothing is good.
Show HN: GameScout AI – AI-powered game recommender
by wasivis | 2026-02-26 19:15:59+00:00
I built GameScout AI because I never really liked the recommendations sites like Steam propose. It uses natural language to find games based on specific mechanics or moods, like "cozy farming sims with a bit of action" or "something like Dark Souls but funnier".

The Stack:

- Next.js & Tailwind: For a responsive, gaming-focused UI.

- Groq (Llama 3): I’m using Groq for inference because sub-second latency makes semantic search feel like a local DB query.

- Prompt Engineering: Optimized to explain why a game was picked based on actual mechanics, not just metadata.

Any feedback is appreciated!
by gamerDude | 2026-02-26 19:16:04+00:00
In response to having a community and building a brand. This is not necessarily human anymore. Most famous people are not someone you will actually meet. Plenty of people do meet them, but nowhere near the amount that composes their fans.

And we have AI generated influencers now, ex. https://www.instagram.com/imma.gram, so why wouldn't people care about an AI the same way they do about people they never meet?
by atefataya | 2026-02-26 19:16:06+00:00
Most AI coding tools only see the files you paste into the chat. They have no idea how your codebase is connected, what depends on what, what breaks if you change something.

Depwire gives them the full picture. It parses your entire repo, builds a dependency graph, and serves it to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code through MCP. So instead of guessing at imports or missing call sites, the AI knows the actual architecture.

Practical difference: I ask "what breaks if I rename Router?" and get the exact answer: 25 files, broken down by direct dependencies and downstream consumers. Without Depwire, the AI would guess and probably miss half of them.

It also saves tokens. Instead of the AI scanning random files trying to understand your project, it queries the graph directly. Faster responses, lower cost, better code.

To sumup:
it gives AI tools full repository context, not just a single file, a complete dependency map of your codebase, so they write better code, faster, with fewer tokens, and stop breaking things they can't see.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-26 19:16:08+00:00
The wealth of things in the KDE settings are things people will likely never change or are things that can be tweaked but don't necessarily need to be. For example, let's look at GNOMEs settings app. It has menus and options for all the things that the average user needs (network settings, mouse and display options, etc.) but leaves out, for example, things that people need to change for specific workflows (like the option to have focus follow the mouse). A settings app should let the user set things needed for the functions of a computer to work properly while separating deeper level customization for those who want it.

I think emacs does a very good job at this. You can configure most of the settings people need to be productive in a text editor from the menu bar while leaving the extremely rich customization of emacs to the options menu and elisp config files
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-02-26 19:16:26+00:00
>It's like you assigning to humans divine capabilities :) . Hyperbolizing a little, humans also only copy and mix - where do you think originality comes from? Granted, AI isn't at the level of humans yet, but they improve here.

Humans do that a lot but it's not all we do. Go to a museum that has modern(ish) art. It's pretty incredibly how diverse the styles and ideas are. Of course it's not representative of anything. These works were collected and curated exactly because they are not average. But it's still something that humans made.

I think what people can do is have conceptual ideas and then follow the "logic" of those ideas to places they themselves have never seen or expected. Artists can observe patterns, ask how they work and why they have the effect they do and then deliberately break them.

I'm not sure current genAI models do these sorts of things.
by alexchantavy | 2026-02-26 19:16:37+00:00
Partial agree. YC created HN, though the HN community is very much _unlike_ anything I've seen at YC.

HN is deeply skeptical, technical, cynical, sarcastic. It's a great place to learn new things and I've loved it since I found it in 2012.

The current startup climate (not just limited to YC) feels very AI bro YEAHHLETSFUCKINGGOO (and I say this as a founder myself having gone through YC recently in W25).
by david_allison | 2026-02-26 19:16:41+00:00
> when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts.

This isn't my experience. I requested that you looked into a spammer in July 2025, you ignored my reply and the account is still active.

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Thank you so much for the report. We're sorry to hear you're receiving unwanted emails, but it's always a possibility when your public contact information is listed on the web. You can keep your email address private if you wish by following the steps here:

Setting your commit email address

We do expect our users to comply with our Terms of Service, which prohibits transmitting using information from the GitHub (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes. I'm happy to look into it further to see if we can contact the reported user and let them know that this type of activity is not allowed.

Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

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My reply which was ignored:

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I understand it will happen from time to time. I'd rather be contactable (I've received legitimate emails today because my email is on my profile).

Please take further action. My email is public with the expectation that the ToS will be enforced. If GitHub isn't discouraging spammers then it makes it much harder to justify being contactable.

All the best,
David
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-26 19:16:54+00:00
A note about Superfund sites: It used to be funded by a small tax on chemical production companies. 70% of cleanup was paid for by the companies who caused it.

Then in 1995, congress "chose not to renew" that provision.

Now you and I literally and directly pay for the cleanup of hazardous waste. Companies don't really. Yet somehow they "Can't make factories" here
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 19:17:00+00:00
It's kind of like the difference between something being enjoyable for you, and something being widely popular?

In a hypothetical world of "AI can produce a lot of extremely high quality art", you can easily find (or commission) AI art you would absolutely love. But it probably wouldn't be something that anyone else would find a lot of value in?

There will be no AI-generated Titanic. There will be many AI-generated movies that are as good as Titanic, but none will become as popular as Titanic did.

Because when AI has won art on quality and quantity both, and the quality of the work itself is no longer a differentiator against the sea of other high quality works? The "narrative/life of the artist" is a fallback path to popularity. You will need something that's not just "it's damn good art" - an external factor - to make it impactful, make it stick in the culture field.

Already a thing in many areas where the supply of art outpaces demand. Pop music, for example, is often as much about making sound as it is about manufacturing narratives around the artists. K-pop being an extreme version of the latter lean.
by numbsafari | 2026-02-26 19:17:06+00:00
Using the model of the university and various tenured profs, I'm not sure what you are saying is true. But, perhaps it's a misunderstanding of what I was intending.

I see this more as a way to answer the question of things like the maintainers of OpenSSL or sudo. One approach is to fund the "project" and let it deal with all of these questions. Another approach would be to fund the people themselves. So, have a faculty of expert software maintainers, vetted by the governance structure of the OSE. Within that faculty, you could have "adjuncts" and "residents" who have a time-bound grant and set of obligations. If they are successful and their work continues to be relevant, they could eventually apply for one of a defined set of "tenured" positions. Those positions would guarantee them independence and a stable source of income in order to continue their role as a maintainer.

The goal of this "faculty" would be sustainable OSS maintenance (which involves both leadership and contribution), rather than publishing research and teaching classes. So, similar overall structure and approach, but differing goals.
by coryrc | 2026-02-26 19:17:07+00:00
> they obviously do have some billing check that prevents me from making additional requests after that "final query"

No they don't actually! They try to get close, but it's not guaranteed (for example, make that "final query" to two different regions concurrently).

Now, they could stand up a separate system with a guaranteed fixed cost, but few people want that and the cost would be higher, so it wouldn't make the money back.

You can do it on your end though: run every request sequentially through a service and track your own usage, stopping when reaching your limit.
by noumenon1111 | 2026-02-26 19:17:11+00:00
That's hilarious, and very sweet.

Humans are, by nature, forgetful and argumentative. Fourteen hundred years ago, the Qur'an said this unequivocally (20:115, 18:54, 22:8, 18:73). Not to moralize here, I'm just saying if camel-herders could build a medieval superpower out of nothing, they knew something we don't.

Any state or system that insists good humans are always nice, smart, cogent, and/or aware is doomed to fail. A Washington or a Cincinnatus that can get out of his own way (and that of society) is rare indeed, a one-in-a-billion soul. We shouldn't sit around and wait for that, while your run-of-the-mill dictator in a funny hat (or a funny toupée for that one orange fellow) has his way with us.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-26 19:17:15+00:00
Capabilities based security is something we've discussed quite a bit through the years.[1] Until very recently, I saw the lack of it as something we've papered over since the 1980s when it was fully fleshed out, then ignored. To me, virtualization is just a very crude version of capabilities. I thought we'd have collectively realized our mistake by now, and have actually secure, and actually useful, general purpose computing solved.

Now we're on the edge of AGI, not super-intelligence, but something competent, as long as it doesn't hallucinate, or get confused. This is exactly the thing that could have been handled if we weren't on the worst timeline possible. Most of the solutions presented in the article are capabilities based.

Perhaps this will finally get us on the right track, but I doubt it. I'll see if I can use all this AI magic to cough up some reasonable tools fit for purpose, but I'm just one old guy who gets tired far too quickly these days.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by jjtheblunt | 2026-02-26 19:17:28+00:00
Did you know him or ever speak with him in person?

I have while working in Apple in a critical engineering group, and the negatives you keep citing seem to have died off in his 20s, at which time they indelibly (deservedly) tainted public perception. the post NeXT 'return' seemed very very different than what you describe, from in person experience.
by em-bee | 2026-02-26 19:17:33+00:00
Why are privately owned restaurants part of a city's "livability", as if going out to eat food made by an underpaid slave wage class of migrant workers, is somehow a god given entitlement for the western person

that's the point, it's not an entitlement, it's paid for by taxes. and it is what makes a city attractive. same goes for shopping streets (as opposed to shopping malls) etc.

they make the city desireable and livable. which in turn attracts business, which brings in tax money.

you have never been to vienna, i guess. it's the most livable city in the world it frequently comes out at the top of the most desirable city for expats.

support for entrepreneurship is indeed a problem, not just in austria, in all of europe, but those are two different issues. there is no reason why it could not be improved while continuing to subsidize housing. on the contrary. subsidized housing means that as an entrepreneur i don't have to pay premium salaries in order to hire people like eg. in san francisco.

steinberger got hired by OpenAI three months after he revealed his project. to argue he left because because of how austria treats entrepreneurs makes no sense. did he say that that is the reason? i'd like to know if that's really true.

Central planned income redistribution always leads to failure in the long run

vienna's housing policy is successful for a century now. and i expect it will continue to be successful.