MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by otsaloma | 2026-02-20 18:57:24+00:00
I recently revised my script to rely on (1) no commits in the last 30 days and (2) branch not found on origin. This is obviously not perfect, but it's good enough for me and just in case, my script prompts to confirm before deleting each branch, although most of the time I just blindly hit yes.

To avoid losing any work, I have a habit of never keeping branches local-only for long. Additionally this relies on https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...
by ei8ths | 2026-02-20 18:57:27+00:00
I like taking my code, especially sql stuff and asking AI a better way to write this and it actually is making me better at SQL because of sql methods i didnt know i could do before. I also like it in vscode to just quickly do the redundant things with auto-complete. now i have 15 years of programming behind me. If i had AI starting out, it would be very bad, I would lack understanding and be a incompetent programmer.
by loss_flow | 2026-02-20 18:57:29+00:00
What if a society's collapse is a feature of progress, not a failure of it? Popper argues that open societies thrive on questioning and closed ones stagnate by suppressing it. But this introduces the contradiction that openness can't be preserved by any fixed set of rules as rules rigid enough to structure a society inevitably devolves the openness they're meant to protect.

The optimistic read of that problem is that the devolution is itself the corrective. Athens outpaces Sparta through openness, devolves, falls. Rome's republic succeeds it, devolves, falls. Promoting growth is then: promote openness as a principle and accept that when a society devolves, its failure clears the way for selection for increased openness.
by jerf | 2026-02-20 18:57:31+00:00
I struggle to find a strong distinction between what you describe and what is currently described as the "high art" world.

I personally don't have a problem declaring that entire world objectively stupid, either, but the foundation upon which I stand to do that is not in line with the modern zeitgeist in the slightest. (Which is also my pre-emptive answer to anyone thinking they can score clever-clog points by challenging me on that. We do not have the same presuppositional foundation and the odds either of us are going to budge on that from an HN post or thread approach zero, so let's just skip the super obvious thread. Anyone sad about that can just imagine it for themselves with minimal loss.) However, even from that position I can't deny that taste is clearly at least partially subjective, which makes it all much more difficult to argue about the objectivity of taste.
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2026-02-20 18:57:35+00:00
I'm not sure why "954 partners" is surprising: log10(954) is between 2 and 3 so, if you assume Soundcloud uses at least 10 SaaS products to manage data (AWS, Snowflake, Datadog, etc. this number is definitely a low estimate). And then you assume each of those entities process the data through 10 partners of various kinds, it only takes 3 steps out to get 1,000.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-20 18:57:36+00:00
Libya has a 10x lower population density than Iran, among other disparities. I'd be careful leaping to comparisons before anything has happened, especially considering how benign the Twelve Day War ended up being.

"Hands off the nuke or we kill you" is a great populist policy on paper, but difficult to implement in reality. Especially if your air campaign fails, necessitating a suicidal ground invasion.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-20 18:58:55+00:00
This project is top of mind currently so it's understandable I talk about it constantly. Even to my wife.

Whether they "like the project or not" is connected to whether or not they think there is a valid problem being solved.

What they actually say is almost immaterial. Either it's FUD about malware or illegality or something they imagined without evidence about how easy the poison is to filter. This is just a manifestation of their opposition to the idea, just a "beard".
by RetpolineDrama | 2026-02-20 18:59:04+00:00
Extremely biased comment.

The SC ruling today:

1) Does not stop the president from enacting tariffs, at all. The dissents even spelled out that no actual change would come from this ruling.

2) The ruling creates the absurd scenario where the president can (under this specific law) totally ban ALL imports from a country on whim, but not partially via tariffs. It's akin to being able to turn the AC on or off, but not being allowed to set the temperature.

As usual, interesting discussion about the nuances of this ruling are happening on X. Reddit and HN comments are consistently low-signal like the above.
by david_shaw | 2026-02-20 18:59:05+00:00
There's a lot of skepticism in the security world about whether AI agents can "think outside the box" enough to replicate or augment senior-level security engineers.

I don't yet have access to Claude Code Security, but I think that line of reasoning misses the point. Maybe even the real benefit.

Just like architectural thinking is still important when developing software with AI, creative security assessments will probably always be a key component of security evaluation.

But you don't need highly paid security engineers to tell you that you forgot to sanitize input, or you're using a vulnerable component, or to identify any of the myriad issues we currently use "dumb" scanners for.

My hope is that tools like this can help automate away the "busywork" of security. We'll see how well it really works.
by coredog64 | 2026-02-20 18:59:20+00:00
You're already downvoted, but this quote from Fight Club always annoyed me as it misunderstands how recalls work.

1. Insurance companies price in the risk, and insurance pricing absolutely influences manufacturers (see the absolute crap that the Big 3 sold in the 70s)
2. The government can force a recall based on a flaw whether or not the manufacturer agrees
by ievans | 2026-02-20 18:59:59+00:00
Not super surprising that Anthropic is shipping a vulnerability detection feature -- OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-aardvark/ and Google announced BigSleep in Nov of 2024.

The impact question is really around scale; a few weeks ago Anthropic claimed 500 "high-severity" vulnerabilities discovered by Opus 4.6 (https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/). There's been some skepticism about whether they are truly high severity, but it's a much larger number than what BigSleep found (~20) and Aardvark hasn't released public numbers.

As someone who founded a company in the space (Semgrep), I really appreciated that the DARPA AIxCC competition required players using LLMs for vulnerability discovery to disclose $cost/vuln and the confusion matrix of false positives along with it. It's clear that LLMs are super valuable for vulnerability discovery, but without that information it's difficult to know which foundation model is really leading.
by czbond | 2026-02-20 19:00:00+00:00
Not at all. I was suggesting if an account is performing source code level request scanning of "numerous" codebases - that it could be an account of interest.

This is different than someones "npm audit" suggesting issues with packages in a build and updating to new revisions. Also different than iterating deeply on source code for a project (eg: nginx web server).
by NoSalt | 2026-02-20 19:00:13+00:00
> "A common comment was something to the effect of 'I like any man page that has examples'."

I completely endorse this sentiment. There are times, after reading a man page, that I wonder how anybody has ever figured out how to use this tool or that. There should be a requirement for man pages to have at least one or two very simple examples of how to use it.
by Stromgren | 2026-02-20 19:00:15+00:00
It depends where I look. Among colleagues and tech-native friends, I feel like there’s healthy skepticism as well as the excitement about new tech. On the other hand, all the investment podcasts that I’ve been following for years are nothing but ignorant AI hype and reciting articles about how all the jobs are about to disappear. I guess the people who doesn’t make firsthand experiences are not leaving the hype yet.
by zoogeny | 2026-02-20 19:00:31+00:00
I log into Facebook website a couple of times a week to browse Marketplace. I very rarely check the feed (once a month?) since almost no human I know posts there. But my feed has 0 thirst traps when I just checked. It was some musicians I follow, one or two pictures posted by friends, the workout routines from a distant family member, local news and then a whole bunch of comedy skits and old comic strips turned into reels.

It is 60% garbage but actually the 40% that is there is completely different and valuable compared even to YouTube (where I spend the lions share of my social media time). But I actually think that only looking at it once a month is the best way since if I look at the feed more often I notice it slowly skews more to 90% garbage and 10% value.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-20 19:00:43+00:00
> it would be impossible to return the funds to them due to diffusion.

It's very much possible if money isn't (or only partially) returned to the companies and used for targeted investment benefiting the public. Of course this won't help much if government spending priories and legislative objectives aren't revised, but that's unlikely because there's nobody in government or academia with anything close to a good idea about it.
by BizarroLand | 2026-02-20 19:01:17+00:00
You're right. Trump does an excellent Zaphod Beeblebrox. He distracts from power, and I get that, but he's still a piece of crap, and a lot of people have died from his fumbling, bumbling, inept, failing upwards solely due to the fact that people associate him with having money and power, even though he's an tryannical, ineffectual, foppish, childraping manboy.
by turbiakjohn | 2026-02-20 19:01:49+00:00
This is a really interesting space to be working in. The whole “authenticity layer for the AI era” feels very real right now, especially with how common copilots, teleprompters, and deepfakes are becoming in interviews.

I like that you’re focused on real-time signals instead of just building another research-heavy detection model. The behavioral angle (latency, eye movement, response dynamics) sounds especially compelling if done right.

Would love to hear more about what you’ve built so far.

Happy to chat
by Pfhortune | 2026-02-20 19:01:59+00:00
[citation needed]

I run GrapheneOS and use several US-based banking apps. I'll not name them since I don't really want my HN account associated with my financials in any way, but I've got a mix of well-known national bank apps and smaller local credit union apps working.

I'll admit there is a single institution's app I've found that doesn't work, but that is just one of several that I use.
by fermigier | 2026-02-20 19:02:00+00:00
It is a disgrace how Google has managed this situation.

To recap the storyline, as far as I understand it: last August, Google announced plans to heavily restrict sideloading. Following community pushback, they promised an "advanced flow" for power users. The media widely reported this as a walk-back, leading users to assume the open ecosystem was safe.

But this promised feature hasn't appeared in any Android 16 or 17 betas. Google is quietly proceeding with the original lockdown.

The impact is a direct threat to independent AOSP distributions like Murena's e/OS/ (which I'm personally using). If installing a basic APK eventually requires a Google-verified developer ID, maintaining a truly de-Googled mobile OS becomes nearly impossible.
by glaslong | 2026-02-20 19:02:19+00:00
Very cool! For all its faults, seeing control and value change flows through execution is one of the things I really liked about Unreal's Blueprint viz scripting system. This looks like a better take on that.

And for huge git repos I always like to generate a Gource animation to understand how the repo grew, when big rearrangements and refactors happened, what the most active parts of the codebase are, etc.
by tptacek | 2026-02-20 19:02:19+00:00
This is exactly the sentiment I detected in the previous thread, where a small group of people seem to have decided what the etiquette of daring to post a Show HN is. I'm not sure I remember being consulted on whether you should be keeping these gates for the rest of us. My reaction is the same as it was when people tried to argue Show HN was only for open-source software: says you.
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by thenewnewguy | 2026-02-20 19:02:34+00:00
I'm not an MD or expert in this field enough to know if OP is right or wrong, but I think it's fairly reasonable to be irritated people are claiming software has a health benefit based on vibes/feels.

I thought we as a society had moved on from superstition to evidence-based medicine, but in this very post there are plenty of replies countering OP's scientific analysis and data with anecdotes (which is disappointing regardless of if TFA is correct or incorrect).
by tass | 2026-02-20 19:02:56+00:00
I’m not usually an apologist, and I’d agree with this judgement if the car was left to its own devices, but the driver of the car held his foot on the accelerator which is why it blew through those stop signs and lights.

In regards to the autopilot branding, would a reasonable person expect a plane on autopilot to fly safely if the pilot suddenly took over and pointed it at the ground?
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-20 19:02:59+00:00
All systems have weaknesses, but the utter criminal farce the US system has been betrayed to be yields a situation where zero Americans should be gloating about their constitution or values any more.

Oh look, Trump just declared a new, 10% global tariff because lol laws. Congress is busted. There are essentially zero real laws for the plutocrat class.
by harrall | 2026-02-20 19:03:15+00:00
I firmly believe this varies between people significantly.

Blue light filters do not work for me because I fall asleep on command everyday all the time regardless if WW3 is outside.

BUT it also seems the effect of poor sleep seems to be MUCH worse for me than other people. I go from extreme motor coordination to dropping cups in a span of 3 days of poor sleep.

There’s a chemical called adenosine which accumulates over the day that induces sleepiness and there are genetic variations that can affect your susceptibility to it. Receptors notice the accumulation of adenosine and use it as a signal to “scale down.”

I think that I am more sensitive, explaining my ease of sleep but also the effect of it when it accumulates due to poor sleep (sleep flushes it away). Yeah it’s great when I’m in bed but it’s not great when I want to throw a ball and my brain wants to be stingy. It basically means that someone else’s “helpful guide to sleep” is completely different from my “helpful guide to sleep.”
by viking123 | 2026-02-20 19:03:19+00:00
I mean Mossad was basically running a blackmail operation to catch all the degenerate US elites and the amount of stuff they have on these people is insane so of course they have a strong hold of them. The links to Israel are so obvious you have to be a shill not to see them.

Trump hasn't said a bad word about Israel, even about Putin he has grumbled.

Even the most delusional Fox news boomers are seeing it lmao.

But yeah let's see the goyim (wording that Maxwell and Epstein used) to go die again.
by lgl | 2026-02-20 19:03:30+00:00
The interface... Oh.. the terrible terrible UI on desktop...

Switch tabs, come back.. it refreshes everything and you can never go back.

Comment threads with 100+ comments with only a "show more" link, which again.. se previous paragraph.

See a video, click fullscreen icon. Doesn't go fullscreen, goes to some weird modal window, muted. Click fullscreen again..

And I'm sure I could go on... It's really a sad shell of the simplicity it once was.
by iamnafets | 2026-02-20 19:03:31+00:00
The warm container host is shared by multiple people. It basically runs docker with a small UI and a daemon which spins up new hosts, recycles them, and warms them when code changes happen.

Ideally when I open a new workspace, it opens in the context of that SSH session. So new splits open as new shells, claude's messages proxy through, etc etc.

Feel free to send me an email at stefan@hellointerview.com if you want to discuss. Love the problem you're trying to solve here.
by alwillis | 2026-02-20 19:03:38+00:00
> the AI companies will in the near future declare ownership of all software code developed using their software.

Pretty sure this isn’t going to happen. AI is driving the cost of software to zero; it’s not worth licensing something that’s a commodity.

It’s similar to 3D printing companies. They don’t have IP claims on the items created with their printers.

The AI companies currently don’t have IP claims on what their agents create.

Uncle Joe won’t need to pay OpenAI for the solitaire game their AI made for him.

The open source models are quite capable; in the near future there won’t be a meaningful difference for the average person between a frontier model and an open source one for most uses including creating software.
by cestith | 2026-02-20 19:03:39+00:00
I guess I can’t fault the author for the omission, but I wish it had mentioned my daily driver.

I use the Model 100 from Keyboardio. I have two. https://shop.keyboard.io/products/model-100

When I travel I use either their version of the Atreus https://shop.keyboard.io/products/keyboardio-atreus or their version of the Preonic, which I think was only a crowdfunded model.

Keyboardio is run by a programmer who developed debilitating RSI and his wife. He tried a bunch of keyboards, then designed his own. Lots of people asked where to get one, so they refined it into a product and started the company. That was the Model 01, and I have two of those.

Having the function button located for the base of the thumb is really comfortable and useful. The swappable bases (flat linked, tented, and the separate stands) are nice to have. The link between the two halves of the models 01 and 100 uses an Ethernet cable. The stands use a standard camera tripod threaded connector, so building your own mount for a chair or armature is simple enough.

I had a warranty issue with one of my Model 01 boards. One keyswitch didn’t work reliably. Instead of sending the whole thing back, Jesse sent me four or five spare switches, some stickers, a personal note, and a page explaining I could desolder and solder the switch without voiding the warranty (as long as I didn’t damage anything in the process of course). The Model 100 is socketed.

The hardware design and the firmware are open source.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-20 19:03:51+00:00
>> an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced.

>Oh? Do tell!

They do. In the very next paragraph in fact:

The guidance says editors can remove Archive.today links when the original
source is still online and has identical content; replace the archive link so
it points to a different archive site, like the Internet Archive,
Ghostarchive, or Megalodon; or “change the original source to something that
doesn’t need an archive (e.g., a source that was printed on paper)
by Naulius | 2026-02-20 19:04:55+00:00
We built an autonomous testing example that plays Super Mario Bros. to explore how behavior models combine with autonomous testing. Instead of manually writing test cases, it systematically explores the game's massive state space while a behavior model validates correctness in real-time- write your validation once, use it with any testing driver. A fun way to learn how it all works and find bugs along the way. All code is open source: https://github.com/testflows/Examples/tree/v2.0/SuperMario.
by rubinlinux | 2026-02-20 19:04:58+00:00
The use of init.defaultBranch here is really problematic, because different repositories may use a different name for their default, and this is a global (your home directory scope) setting you have to pre-set.

I have an alias I use called git default which works like this:

default = !git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@'

then it becomes

..."$(git default)"...

This figures out the actual default from the origin.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 19:05:05+00:00
> There's legit dashcam video showing Autopilot preventing severe crashes. Go on YouTube instead of balking. Here's a few to get your algorithm working:

So? I just watched those. They don't prove anything about "lives [that] have been saved by the autopilot." They all look like scenarios a human driver could handle (and *I, personally have handled situations similar to some of those). If autopilot is saving lives, you have to show, statistically, it's better than human drivers in comparable conditions.

Also the last one appears to be of a Tesla fanboy who had just left a Tesla shareholder meeting, and seems pretty biased. I'd say his Cybertruck actually reacted pretty late to the danger. It was pretty obvious from the dashcam that something was wrong several seconds before the car reacted to it at the last second.
by selridge | 2026-02-20 19:05:18+00:00
I think you can lead yourself astray imagining that there’s a big difference between subjectivity and intersubjectivity. One is just a college educated term for the other.

More importantly, I think that enough time has passed that we can critique poor old Kant on this matter. When he says the taste has no interest in something what he is really implicitly describing is that taste is the province of rich people. If one has to strive or worry or self promote or anything like that, with regard to an aesthetic decision, it is easy to mark as tasteless. In most cases, the people with access to the kinds of habits that allow them to act in matters of aesthetic without interest are rich.

The main reason people drive themselves in circles, talking about taste and subjectivity, and college-educated words for subjectivity is because we don’t want to admit that it is bound up in class and upbringing. That and not the passage of time is why it is so hard to understand Kant on this matter. He’s describing a fiction that we agreed upon so that we didn’t have to talk about the influence of money.
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-20 19:05:58+00:00
Definitely burned out already. But, hey, it is what keeps bread on the table, so I can't complain too much. I just need to patiently wait until my kid goes to college and then I can drift by. We plan to pay for his tuition, gift him a small apartment once he goes job hunting, which I think is pretty generous. Of course he needs to earn as much $$ as he can and be independent.

I should make myself a clock saying "X days until college". Once it clicks I'll go straight to a local university to register some courses, rent some cabins, and enjoy life.