MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-13 17:10:53+00:00
Are you going to apologize for being confidently wrong? Or confess your own incompetence and embarrassment?

> Update 1: Google Workspace Email Log

> Some commenters questioned whether I could reliably determine why Google rejected the email. Here's the screenshot from Google Workspace's admin email log search, showing the exact bounce reason . . .

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this wasn't in the original version rather than that you didn't actually read TFA, but it says straight up that it didn't make it to spam.

> Google's mail servers reject the message outright. It doesn't even get a chance to land in spam.
by sneak | 2026-02-13 17:10:57+00:00
OpenClaw is not insecure because it has ports open to the internet. This is an easily solved problem in one line of code (if indeed it even has that bug, which I don’t think it does). Furthermore you’re probably behind NAT.

OpenClaw, as well as the author’s solution, is insecure because it sends the full content of all of your private documents and data to a remote inference API which is logging everything forever (and is legally obligated to provide it to DHS/ICE/FBI/et al without a warrant or probable cause). Better engineering of the agent framework will not solve this. Only better models and asstons of local VRAM will solve this.

You still then have the “agent flipped out and emailed a hallucinated suicide note to all my coworkers and then formatted my drives” problem but that’s less of a real risk and one most people are willing to accept. Frontier models are pretty famously well-behaved these days 99.9% of the time and the utility provided is well worth the 0.1% risk to most people.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-13 17:11:04+00:00
Actually there's a whole bunch of mathematics which I find useful as an engineer because it tells me that the perfection I have vaguely imagined I could reach for is literally not possible and so I shouldn't expend any effort on that.

e.g Two body gravity I can just do the math and get exact answers out. But for N> 2 bodies that doesn't work and it's not that I need to think a bit harder, maybe crack out some graduate textbooks to find a formula, if I did hopefully the grad books say "Three body problem generally not amenable to solution". I will need to do an approximation, exact answers are not available (except in a few edge cases).
by usui | 2026-02-13 17:11:07+00:00
I can't believe there are also other people downrange who don't get it, but in case anyone has a broken sarcasm detector:

Yes, this blog post is meant to be whimsical and tongue-in-cheek because the post takes itself too seriously by pretending like one user leaving to another platform (for 2 years GASP!!) with a big scary countdown timer is a credible threat to a multi-trillion dollar company. The real part of the post is the request and complaining about the bug.
by t17r | 2026-02-13 17:11:16+00:00
The issue here is a simple bug. We have two pairs for that specific lesson:
- Hello <-> Bonjour
- Good morning <-> Bonjour

They are identified by the question's id. And by the id we find the answer, and this is a bug where we show you one of the Bonjours, and only one of the answers is right per id. It's just a bug, that we already have mechanics for, but it's not always perfect. The course is still tested by linguists and native speakers.
by rPlayer6554 | 2026-02-13 17:11:35+00:00
The binary would not be nearly as useful as the source code. And even if the AI read the binary and copied it, the story is still it reverse engineered and re-wrote a c compiler all on its own. Which is still pretty impressive to me and has real world use cases.

Maybe Anthropic could release the logs to show how the AI was accessing the files.
by Sea_reafused | 2026-02-13 17:11:36+00:00
Cool project, the "built it for myself, others started using it" origin story is usually a good sign of real demand.One thing I'd be curious about: are you seeing any correlation between the metrics writers track (views, followers) and actual downstream outcomes like client leads or paid conversions? In my experience working with content visibility data, the metrics people obsess over and the ones that actually drive results are often surprisingly disconnected.Also, how are you handling Medium's API limitations? Last I checked their official API was pretty bare, are you scraping or using an unofficial endpoint?
by eesmee | 2026-02-13 17:11:46+00:00
I was pasting recipes into gemini and asking it to build me spreadsheets so I could cook 3-4 dishes without losing track. After typing the same prompt dozens of times, I decided to build the app.

CookFlow takes up to four recipes from any source (URL, Pinterest, Instagram, text, IRL cookbook) and merges them into a single step-by-step flow that manages timing across all of them. It auto-generates labeled timers, strips out blog filler, and reformats everything for readability.

Every flow links back to the original recipe creator because I didn't want to build something that strips attribution.

Built with React/Vite, Node/Express, and Claude for the recipe parsing.

First app I've shipped <333 Feedback welcome
by kittikitti | 2026-02-13 17:11:56+00:00
Congratulations to the Waymo team! I was excited reading through the overview. What I'm monitoring in the self-driving space is Lidar and Radar integration. There are leaders like Elon with Tesla who insist that they're not necessary yet Waymo has devoted effort for them in their 6th generation. My personal perspective is that Lidar and Radar are a core requirement for self-driving because "These upgrades help the lidar penetrate weather and avoid point cloud distortion near highly reflective signs, expanding the Waymo Driver's ability to see through heavy roadspray on freeways and other complex edge cases."
by fogzen | 2026-02-13 17:12:00+00:00
They won't survive. AI-as-a-service for frontier models will be relegated to military and research – if that. We're already at diminishing returns on model improvements. Latest improvements are on surrounding architecture, harnesses, agent systems, etc. Consumer hardware will be running the equivalent of ChatGPT 5.2 and IMO most interaction with personal computing devices will be done via natural language LLM personal assistants.

Maybe it takes a bit longer than 5 years but that's where we're going. Already the only reason you're not interacting via personal assistant for everything isn't really LLM capability but the lack of tooling.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-13 17:12:03+00:00
Yeah, Season 4 is acknowledged for compressing a lot of the story that would have been Season 5 in the original plan. The series finale ("Sleeping in Light") was even shot as a part of Season 4 and delayed once Season 5 was picked up to keep it the series finale. The epilogue it tells spins out enough past the show that it mostly isn't that noticeable, but the big tell is a brief appearance of Ivanova rather than Lochley, which doesn't really break the episode because of the out-of-order storytelling of the whole episode and the glimpses of the crew are "timeless" flashbacks, but it is interesting.
by jsheard | 2026-02-13 17:12:15+00:00
Vulkano is a somewhat higher level library which aims to be safe and idiomatic. It looks like it generates its own Vulkan bindings directly from the vk.xml definitions, but it also depends on Ash, and this comment suggests that both generators need to be kept in sync so they're effectively beholden to Ash's release cadence anyway.

https://github.com/vulkano-rs/vulkano/blob/master/Cargo.toml...

Maybe that's so they can interop with other crates which use Ash's types?
by krapp | 2026-02-13 17:13:25+00:00
>I would give my left kidney for either a continuation or a reboot of Babylon 5 under the helm of J. Michael Straczynski with full creative freedom.

I don't know. I loved Babylon 5 but I also found it kind of corny. And then Crusade was just a D&D campaign in space. The ship was even called the Excalibur FFS. I feel like "full creative freedom" would ruin it the way it did with George Lucas and Star Wars.

>and I wish more writers/showrunners would adopt this approach (instead of the usual writers' room + only plan until the end of the season approach which is so common today.

What else can you do when you don't know if you're getting renewed? You can't push the conclusions to your storylines forward into seasons you might never even have to resolve them.
by latexr | 2026-02-13 17:13:34+00:00
> I didn't say it was hard to type an em-dash

Neither did I say you said that. I only said they are trivial to type. Which they are. I do it all the time, and it doesn’t interrupt my train of thought any more than a comma. I also do the keyboard shortcuts for things like “smart quotes” and apostrophes (’). For some of those I even have my own special snippets in Alfred, like typing "" produces “” with the caret in between. I can’t even tell you what the exact shortcuts for those are without looking at my fingers, because they are so ingrained in my muscle memory. I know I’m far from alone in that.

> But for comments on the internet or a blog posts that aren't meticulous everywhere else, an en-dash is a pretty good signal that the work is AI generated.

Provably false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722
by BlackjackCF | 2026-02-13 17:13:45+00:00
The moment I heard about this feature coming out, I bought Reolink cameras with microSDs for local storage and a giant SSD for NVR.

I was worried it would be a lot of work to replace Ring stuff. While Reolink’s setup experience isn’t quite as smooth, it was still trivial to get working. Highly recommend it for everyone who wants a decent alternative.
by strongpigeon | 2026-02-13 17:14:27+00:00
For those interested, you can get the base config Mac Mini (in the US) for $400 from Micro Center [0]. They don’t seem to ship to where I live, but BestBuy was happy to price match in the support chat.

Just received mine and planned on experimenting with something like OP this weekend.

[0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/688173/apple-mac-mini-mu...
by Bjorkbat | 2026-02-13 17:14:58+00:00
I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and perhaps also a reflection of a very particular form of "web culture" that has no clear successors.

People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aesthetically inspiring". For that reason I'm kind of lukewarm on neal.fun.

EDIT: so I think a better way to describe it is that when artists experiment with technology, you get something like cachemonet. When developers experiment with technology, you get a web experiment that challenges conventional notions of what you can do with the web, but with varying degrees of creativity. I think terra.layoutit.com is best appreciated by other web devs who can appreciate the sheer amount of work required to figure out how to render a terrain map in CSS, but otherwise it's basically just a tool to generate terrain height maps, and not a particularly good one. Generating terrain maps in CSS is not a feature, but a handicap.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-13 17:15:01+00:00
>If you have something to add to the conversation then just do that. Don't make bad faith interpretations and unsubstantiated accusations against people.

You mean like you just did?

Tipping culture in the US is absolutely rooted in bigotry[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. That's not a "bad faith interpretation," it's well-documented history.

[0] https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/

[1] https://www.povertylaw.org/article/the-racist-history-behind...

[2] https://stop-tipping.org/history-of-tipping/

[3] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-b...

[4] https://inequality.org/article/tipping-is-racist-and-harms-u...

[5] https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-racist-histor...

[6] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage...

[7] https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-13 17:15:05+00:00
You as a first-time contributor need to know that the large group of first-time contributors has a lot of poorly behaved people in it, and that the burden is on you to establish that you are not one of them.

Trust is built through iterative exchange. This is Bayesian priors - default is average, and only moves on the introduction of new information.

Lots of examples of this. In 1950's westerns, if a stranger comes to a small town, the default treatment is a guarded form of hospitality with a health measure of suspicion. If you are dating someone new, you are by default understood as the average first date partner, and the average first date partner is not a great match.
by adastra22 | 2026-02-13 17:15:09+00:00
It might be more accurate to say that he repopularized the term among a new generation of developers. Immediate vs Retained mode UI was just as much a thing in early GUIs.

It was a swinging pendulum. At first everything was immediate mode because video RAM was very scarce. Initially there was only enough VRAM for the frame buffer, and hardly any system RAM to spare. But once both categories of RAM started growing, there was a movement to switch to retained mode UI frameworks. It wasn’t until the early 00’s that GPUs and SIMD extensions tipped the scales in the other direction - it was faster to just re-render as needed rather than track all these cached UI buffers, and allowed for dynamic UI motifs “for free.”

My graying beard is showing though, as I did some gave dev in the late 90’s on 3Dfx hardware, and learned UI programming on Win95 and System 7.6. Get off my lawn.
by phil21 | 2026-02-13 17:15:23+00:00
> (this is equivalent to speed cameras when the induction loop in the ground says that a car passed faster than the speed limit)

This isn't how many speed cameras work in Europe. They work by having a speed camera at location Y on the highway that snaps a photo of your car/license plate read, and then another one 5km down the road that also snaps such a photo and plate read.

If you average more than the speed limit in that distance between photo timestamps, you get a ticket mailed to you.

Due to the way it works, it's taking a snapshot of every single vehicle that passes each camera. How long that data is stored/etc. I suppose is a matter of how much you trust the government.

This system is considered better most of the time since it allows for brief excursions of the limit for overtaking, and doesn't just set up a situation where everyone slows down for the one known speed camera point (or slam on the brakes when they notice a mobile speed camera van on the side of the road).
by coldtea | 2026-02-13 17:15:59+00:00
>You cannot get an intelligent being completely aligned with your goals, no matter how much you think such a silly idea is possible

I don't think is possible, and didn't say it is. You're off topic.

The topic I responded to (on the subthread started by @mrguyorama) is the morality of us people using agents, not about whether agents need to get a morality or whether "an intelligent being can be completely aligned with our goals".

>It's the same with slavery in the states. "Morality is only a concern for the superior race". You think these people didn't think that way? Of course they did.

They sure did, but also beside the point. We're talking humans and machines here, not humans vs other humans they deem inferior. And the latter are constructs created by humans. Even if you consider them as having full AGI you can very well not care for the "suffering" of a tool you created.
by em-bee | 2026-02-13 17:16:16+00:00
you are right about straczynski, but i'd prefer to see a new scifi series by him rather than a reboot or continuation. ok, a spin off maybe. jeremiah was pretty good. (i haven't seen sense8)

but i just see that he was approached to direct star trek: enterprise. star trek by straczynski is something i'd really love to see.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-13 17:16:38+00:00
Anthropic, both in the name, and in their model cards, agressively anthropomorphize their models.

You probably should start doing it. Ghost in the Shell is about super intelligent AI creating a "ghost" (scientifically understood version of the soul) out of thin air. I believe such a thing is possible. The same movie literally predicted model merging (the end of the film the AI model merges with the major) to a tee.

Further, the appearance of sentience/cognition/consciousness might as well be identical to actual sentience/cognition/consciousness. That is to say, we can't know if you're a P-zombie or not. Bladerunner and most other cyberpunk stuff is coming and gonna hit you and every other AI-denialist in the face. The Von-Kampf test is absurd and pretty bad (inaccurate) in their universe for a reason.

I tell my LLM it's a good bot and thank it, because even a tiny risk of subjective qualia experienced by a model (and again, Anthropic themselves believe in this exact risk) means I should treat it like a quasi-ethical actor.

This is also a reason why the robot torture scene in empire strikes back could be a real dynamic in the future.
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-13 17:17:15+00:00
But it is about humans in general!

Humans who want to use the software, and humans who author (or control dependencies of) the software.

Commenting as if this was a comment on yesterday's clawdbot-thread; I know it isn't, and it has previously been submitted here and is a good text.

It's about entitlement and using free OSS vs paying for a software product, I know.

But I think the gist of this gist can be generalized from "why you should not feel entitled to anything as a FOSS user" to "why software is about humans".

Especially because the commercial aspect is not as direct as in paid closed-source software for FOSS, but pressure (including commercial and/or social pressure) still exists.

Edit: "still" is not even a fitting word here, because the reliance of commercial software on FOSS is the societal change that causes this change in issue reporting, I'd say.

Crowd dynamics / psychological aspects cannot be ignored anywhere.
by oj-hn-dot-com | 2026-02-13 17:17:44+00:00
This is really neat. I just added beautiful-mermaid [0] support to Orange Juice [1] because there is no way to display images on this site, even from an extension (due to their aggressive CSP lockouts). But I can render text->SVG and mermaid doesn't look awful just typed out, but anyone who has the extension installed is leveled up. Is there something like this running as a library that I can also add?

[0] https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid

[1] https://oj-hn.com
by suhputt | 2026-02-13 17:17:57+00:00
so, ignoring the the fact that you yourself didn't actually write this (based on commit history), and the fact that your claims about better security are dubious at best, the most interesting thing I find about this whole situation is - how did you get this to the hackernews front page so fast?

that's the real (not-so) secret sauce here :)
by johndanielk | 2026-02-13 17:17:58+00:00
Hi HN! I’m John, building Authensor, and I just put out SafeClaw.

SafeClaw is a local policy gate for AI agents. It hooks into tool calls (file writes, shell exec, network requests) and evaluates each one against a configurable policy before the action runs. Risky operations pause and wait for human approval via CLI or dashboard. If the control plane is unreachable, everything non-read is denied. Zero npm dependencies beyond the Agent SDK, runs entirely on your machine, your API key never leaves localhost.

Install:
npx @authensor/safeclaw
Opens a local dashboard + setup wizard (Node 20+). Works with Claude + OpenAI.

Notes: open-source MIT client, sub-ms local eval, dry-run mode, tamper-evident hash-chained audit log, 446 tests.
Happy to answer questions about threat model + design tradeoffs.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-02-13 17:18:02+00:00
There are dozens of blog posts about this, and this one is trending on HN.

Anyway, why are you so upset about this? Why are you calling my comment "nonsense" and obsessing over this counter? It's clearly having an effect on you, which was its purpose. Realistically, another post about Apple's borked keyboard should create zero emotional response, yet here we are.
by bosse | 2026-02-13 17:18:19+00:00
I'm not sure if it was so rare, perhaps it depended on your role or location. I suppose developers in engineering used MacBooks less than those of us who worked in consulting, where they were quite common for customer work. We had a choice, though, and there was no judgment about which work tool we preferred.

I'm not sure on what's going on today, I left the company around the IBM acquisition.
by everybodyknows | 2026-02-13 17:18:39+00:00
> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

Here's a more substantive reason to prefer iPhone to Android: Android phones, mine anyway, have no option to suppress audible notification of incoming texts or calls from numbers not found in Contacts.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-13 17:18:44+00:00
Have you used OpenClaw?

My experience has been that it doesn't take input from the world, unless you explicitly ask it to. But I guess that isn't too crazy, if you ask it to look at a website, maybe the website has a hidden prompt.

I guess that's more of a responsibility of the LLM model in the security model.

That said, I don't think the main dev is serious about security, I've listened to the whole Lex Friedman interview, and he talks about wanting to focus on security, but still dismissing security concerns whenever the arise as coming from 'haters', and there's no recognition of insecurity being possibly an inseparable tradeoff of the functional specifications of the product, I think he thinks of security as something you can slap on a product, which is a very basic misconception I see often in developers that get pwned and managers that think of security as a lever they can turn up or down through budget.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-13 17:19:01+00:00
I turn off predictive text for a deeper reason: it interrupts your train of thought. I have a sentence mostly formed in my head, but when predictive text predicts a word that’s different, there’s so much extra mental overhead to consider whether I should change the sentence or ignore it.

I begrudgingly accept autocorrect on iOS however. On a real computer, I turn that off too. I have learned since a long time ago that writing and editing should be two separate activities.
by kbelder | 2026-02-13 17:19:03+00:00
You're right, and I think that's because the core functionality of a UI lib is not too difficult. I've tinkered in that space myself, and it's a fun side project.

Then you start to think about full unicode support, right-to-left rendering, and so on. Then you start to think about properly implementing accessibility features. The necessary work increases by a magnitude. And it's not fun work. So you stall out with a bare-bones implementation.
by a4isms | 2026-02-13 17:19:46+00:00
The term of art for this is becoming a "Reverse Centaur:"

A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine).

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11...