MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davorak | 2026-02-27 18:57:28+00:00
Which seems like a silly accidental overreach of the law. If that is the way it applies.

The literal reading of the law says this only required when a child is the primary user of the device.

> (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

but 'user' here is:

> (i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.

So these rules should only apply to accounts/devices where a child is the primary user.

Grep on an adult's machine would not need to check how old you are, at least with a literal reading of the law.
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-27 18:58:01+00:00
> This is wrong; it's very common to have for instance both 127V and 220V in the same building, sometimes even side by side in the same wall faceplate; 127V is phase to neutral, 220V is phase to phase (on the common 3-phase system). Yes, it does depend on the city, some cities use 220V exclusively, and there are a few other variations, but AFAIK the 127V/220V 3-phase combo is the most common.

That's good news. I'm glad my info is out of date!
by handedness | 2026-02-27 18:58:06+00:00
As one who has lived out of both operating systems for years, I struggle with the way you invariably make value judgments about GrapheneOS every time it comes up in a thread, based on your (justifiable) appreciation for Qubes OS. The same thing happens in reverse on the GrapheneOS forums, by the way.

Both lines of thinking are faulty, and attempting to directly extrapolate from one project to the other (in either direction) mostly only conveys a lack of understanding of both projects, even (especially?) one's favored project.

Joanna Rutkowska herself admitted that the difficult nature of trying to contain the PC hardware stack made it ultimately feel like she lost the war. Qubes OS is inherently vastly more vulnerable than GrapheneOS, in large part precisely because of their different approaches to hardware. Some of this has been mitigated by developments made since she stepped back from the project, but some of it will always remain. How to deal with this inherent conflict is not a simple matter and the two projects have taken two distinctly different approaches.

In the cases of both projects, I think they made justifiable decisions in their approaches. I use and contribute to both projects.

If you've been using Qubes OS long enough, you'll remember a time when trying to run it on anything that wasn't essentially identical to the ThinkPads used by Qubes OS devs often presented a major challenge.

GrapheneOS is a fundamentally different project in scope, and each project has a subset of users which seem unable to do anything but evaluate the other project based on the criteria set by the one they like.

"The goal of the project is not to slightly improve some aspects of insecure devices and supporting a broad set of devices would be directly counter to the values of the project. A lot of the low-level work also ends up being fairly tied to the hardware."

GrapheneOS achieves significantly more security on the hardware level than Qubes OS, in very large part specifically due to the nature of the project.

Securing a single device type with excellent hardware security is simply much more viable a project than securing a broad range of devices with hardware security that is, at best, pretty terrible, is a completely different thing.

Criticizing one project by taking the assumptions of the other project is not just pointless, it's counterproductive to aims of FOSS privacy and security.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-27 18:58:24+00:00
SpaceX's move-fast-and-break-things approach was lauded and NASA panned as being stuck in the past until <checks notes> the zeitgeist turned against Musk at which point the drones and tech blogs they read and write now view SpaceX as dangerous and wasteful at all costs. When a mere few years ago they couldn't shower them with enough praise.

I have no skin in this game other than to say the old school methods resulted in a janky ship that stranded two astronauts in space for months a minute ago until they could catch a ride home on a SpaceX ship.
by csallen | 2026-02-27 18:58:28+00:00
> The reason we have at will employment so prevalent is because it undermines unions. Its not because its the best and most equitable arrangement between employers and employees

At-will employment came about in the 1870s and predates the predates major union battles and influence. It's part of American culture, which treats adults like adults who are able to make decisions on their own.

> What I'm saying is there is a lack of consequences for executives and by extension companies.

There shouldn't be consequences. It's their company to do with what they will. Just like there shouldn't be consequences for employees who leave.

If you're an adult, and you go out and get a job, that's a mutual contract you're signing. It's your responsibility (and no one else's) to plan for the fact that your job might end some day, through no fault of your own.

If you don't do that, it's not your fellow citizen's responsibility to take care of you. It's not your boss or your CEO's responsibility. That's what the government is for, if you want to fall back to that. That's why those are called entitlement programs -- because you are entitled to that.
by maniazi83 | 2026-02-27 18:58:36+00:00
This is seriously impressive. Emulating x86 + stubbing enough Win32 APIs in the browser is not trivial.

How are you handling system calls that expect filesystem or registry access? Are those fully stubbed/mocked, or mapped to some in-browser virtual layer?

Also curious how you’re handling performance for heavier binaries — interpreted JS/WASM core?
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-27 18:58:45+00:00
> I think it's rather people trying to keep grounded and suggest that it's not just the hallucination machine that's bad, but also that many doctors in real life also suck

No, you see this line or argumentation on every post critical of LLM's deficiencies. "Humans also produce bad code", "Humans also make mistakes" etc etc.
by nickjj | 2026-02-27 18:58:58+00:00
It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-27 18:59:21+00:00
Ukraine's constitution doesn't allow elections when martial law is in effect. The US constitution has no such clause, nor anything else that would allow for delaying or canceling elections.

That's not to say it can't be done, but there's a huge difference in difficulty between doing what the country's constitution says, and doing the opposite. Especially in a country where elections are run by sovereign governments not under the control of the central government.
by trothamel | 2026-02-27 18:59:34+00:00
A couple of new posts by Nasa Administrator Isaacman:

Launch cadence across NASA programs:

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2027456699175497741

An infographic showing the new architectures:

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2027456713507356713

It's interesting how Artemis III (the new one) will try to prove out both HLS landers in one LEO mission.
by kristjansson | 2026-02-27 18:59:35+00:00
> preemptively refuses to deliver

See this is your confusion. They're not refusing to deliver, they're happy to provide the services agreed to at the rate negotiated. What they're refusing is a change in the terms.

If you contract me to build you a building, and I agree with a stipulation that it won't be used as a slaughterhouse (and that you'll write that into the deed), you can't compel me to continue building if you change your mind on that point six months in. You either break the contract subject to agreed terms, renegotiate to remove that clause, or stop breaching the contract.

Of all American claims to exceptionalism, one that rings closest to true is that the the people AND the government are all bound by the rule of law. Contracting with the government is no different than contracting with any other party.

Your point seems to be "but it's the government clearly they can do whatever they want lol" viz. DPA, Supply-Chain risk, etc. You're right that they have those powers. But accepting/asserting that the capricious, vengeful, use of those extraordinary powers should be an anticipated, normal feature of contracting with the government runs counter to what should be among our highest shared values. We might as well jump directly to the authoritarian logic 'they have the army, they can compel anything they want for $0, so just give them what they ask'.

(addenda: you're going to say we've used the DPA a bunch. I would argue that vanishingly few instances have compelled private enterprise to act in direct opposition to their own interests; an even in those cases they were just being asked to lose money (meatpackers, PG&E suppliers, ...))
by the_af | 2026-02-27 18:59:44+00:00
Agreed. I wanted to give some credence to the fact many cookie-cutter CRUD apps can absorb a ton of inefficiencies until they truly burst at the seams, but yeah, even in that case software bloat and bad use of resources matters.

I find it intriguing seeing this new batch of dev-types completely giving up on the matter. The conversation of machine vs developer efficiency is not new, but completely giving up on any sane use of resources is something relatively new, I think. Especially coming from some in the HN crowd. Maybe these are new people, so I can chalk it up to generational turnover?
by babarock | 2026-02-27 19:00:40+00:00
> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads.

I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity?

[1]: https://www.openstack.org/
by ArtDev | 2026-02-27 19:00:46+00:00
Lean into it. Work on that side-project you never had the time to complete!

The more broad your skillset, the more you will be able to transform your role in your company.

I have been having lots of fun with Claude Code but recently got in to Cursor too. Vibe coding with frameworks and languages I am already familiar with is wild. However, I want to vibe code with languages I don't know next!

Anyone who works with technology knows that it is inherently transformative. It's true that we need tech-worker Unions, UBI and AI regulations.. and without those the future is potentially very dark.

I like my scifi dark but I don't want to live in a dystopian Cyberpunk future. I think it is possible to both be an AI-optimist AND an AI-doomer at the same time. In fact, it is important to see both these sides.
by nradov | 2026-02-27 19:00:55+00:00
Treaties are pointless without a practical means of monitoring and enforcement. We're fortunate that nuclear weapons programs are difficult to hide from overhead imagery, seismographs, and fallout detectors. We can't verify what code is running in a Chinese data center or missile guidance system. It's just a ridiculous notion to equate AI or autonomous weapons with nukes in any way.
by quacker | 2026-02-27 19:00:56+00:00
I mean, let’s at least discuss this in good faith.

“Good” bread according to the majority and bread that is specifically up to your standards are probably two very different things.

My grocery store’s bakery sells many types of fresh bread: sourdough, white, rye, croissants, ciabatta, buns, rolls, bagels, and so on. Many grocery stores in my city have a bakery section with a selection of fresh bread like this. (Even Walmart I think, but I don’t shop there).

It’s not the best bread I’ve ever eaten, but it’s fresh, good, tasty bread. It’s not “mushy garbage” and it’s not “cake” like you described in your original comment. It’s not “weird specialty hipster” bread. It’s just simple, real, fresh bread.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-27 19:01:42+00:00
I feel like seeing people disregard traffic laws fits this topic in some related way. They could be patient, they might arrive at their destination 1-3 minutes slower (or not), but in the moment they choose to break the law and put others at risk.

1. You see others do it and feel compelled not to be taken advantage of

2. You start with small things as escalate

3. You normalize the behavior in one context and then it expands to other context.

This feels like it's following similar patterns of normalization

Even if it's not direct death, which, with at 4000lb car is certainly a possibility, it can indirectly cause severe repercussions. If you ruin someone's car they might not be able to get to work. They lose value in their car even if repaired. Repairs are never 100%. They also have to deal with all the time dealing with the time dealing with accident itself and time dealing with repairs etc. Time they could have spent earning a living or taking care of loved ones.

Yesterday I was at a 1 lane road where there's enough room on the right to squeeze in for a right turn. A driver squeezed to that right turn area on the red. Then on the green they went through the light and illegally passed all other cars. I see this kind of stuff daily.

Another one I see regularly. There's left turn lane with a left turn arrow. The lane to the right of the left turn lane is NOT a left turn lane, yet random drivers turn left from it. It's more common to see them turn left when there's the green turn signal but I've seen them turn left when the left turn signal is red.

Another that escalated over the years is cutting across multiple lanes of traffic and the painted barrier to take a freeway exit at the last second.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-27 19:01:52+00:00
This was designed for any file sage. From what I know (correct me) magit-wip-mode hooks into editor saves. UNF hooks into the filesystem.

magit-wip-mode is great if your only risk is your own edits in Emacs. UNF* exists because that's no longer the only risk; agents are rewriting codebases/docs and they don't use Emacs.
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-27 19:01:54+00:00
> Alternatively you can just run everything at 230V

Sure and everyone can just stop using Python 2.x tomorrow right?

Backwards compatibility is a big deal. Even moreso when it involves physical infrastructure. who wants to pay billions upon billions of dollars to make the change? How long will it take to roll trucks on all those linemen and electricians to convert/retrofit everything? Does the customer pay? The government?

And at the end of it everything is just the same as it was before. There's no huge benefit to be had for doing it.

That's why I said I wished we had more use of the 240v NEMA plugs. So we could begin supporting higher power appliances over time without some huge switchover expense.

For that matter I wish 3-phase was more available. I have a small machine shop in my garage that would greatly benefit from it.
by rendleflag | 2026-02-27 19:02:12+00:00
There is a concept of “the burden or knowledge”, in that doctors know the worst thing that could happen, so they recommend the most cautious approach. My son had stomach pain one time when he was young. We took him to urgent care because it was a stomach ache. The doctor there said we needed to go to the ER because it could be an appendicitis. So we trucked to the ER. Close to $2000 later he was diagnosed with idiopathic stomach pain and told to wait it out at home.

So when I read “they then compared the platform’s recommendations with the doctors’ assessments” and see a mismatch, I wonder if it’s because human doctors are overly cautious or that the AI was wrong.

But that all pales in what could be the actual issue. I can’t read the original study, but if it use the USA, it’s understandable why people are turning to AI for Health advice. Healthcare is painfully expensive here. Even a simple trip to the ER (e.g. a $2000 stomach ache) is beyond a lot of people’s ability to spend. That’s just a reality.

With that in mind, the real questions “should I do nothing about my symptoms because I can’t afford healthcare or should I at least ask AI knowing it could be wrong”.
by reducesuffering | 2026-02-27 19:02:19+00:00
I don't understand what occasional hiccups prove. The models can pass college acceptance tests in advanced educational topics better than 99% of the human population, and because they occasionally have a shortcoming, it means they're worse than humans somehow? Those edge cases are quickly going from 1% -> 0.01% too...

"any human can instantly grok the right answer."

When asking a human about general world knowledge, they don't have the generality to give good answers for 90% of it. Even very basic questions humans like this, humans will trip up on many many more than the frontier LLMs.
by waisbrot | 2026-02-27 19:02:23+00:00
For example, I just asked ChatGPT "The boat wash is 50 meters down the street. Should I drive, sail, or walk there to get my yacht detailed?" and it recommended walking. I'm sure with a tiny bit more effort, OpenAI could patch it to the point where it's a lot harder to confuse with this specific flavor of problem, but it doesn't alter the overall shape.
by microtonal | 2026-02-27 19:03:05+00:00
that value is undercut by its inaccessibility

You are saying this like GrapheneOS only runs on some unobtanium hardware. I can literally hop on my bike and pick up a phone that runs GrapheneOS in 5 minutes, every day of the week. Also, it's available in pretty much all price classes except maybe a 100-200 Euro phone that runs on a Unisoc CPU. Pixel 9a regularly goes for 350 Euro here and you can go all the way up to an expensive flagship with a Pixel Fold (or anything in between). Even in the 100-200 bracket you can probably pick up a refurbished 8a that should still be supported until 2031.

I know that they are not sold in every country, but worst case it should be possible to get your hands on one second hand or refurbished.
by robotpepi | 2026-02-27 19:04:16+00:00
it seems to me that the problem is quite the opposite. people believe that the "importance of allocation of capital" (good euphemism by the way) is WAY more important that it really is. do we need extra personalized ads in each of our machines? do we need instant financial trades and people optimizing instant transactions? We don't need a sophisticated AI to "inform" the customers.

there is a ton of things that are there simply because at some point people made money out of it, and then lobbied politicians to death to avoid regulation.
by dathinab | 2026-02-27 19:04:42+00:00
yesn't

my argument was more about becoming a billionaire by creating bringing a company to a level of success where they dominate their area of business.

I.e. not getting there by "fame" or "pure luck" (lets say you got 1/42th of early bitcoin from a "fun" project in the very early bitcoin days or similar).

Let's also for simplicity ignore that getting there by "fame" often involve tight cooperation with companies/people which don't care about ethics much. Through you might be able to separate yourself once you reach success, most times they try to make sure you can't.

And even iff you didn't compromise your ethics when becoming a billionaire this doesn't change the core argument.

That is if (as billionaire) you passively go with a push to Oligarchy you are unlikely to suffer from it. But if you don't and the Oligarchy wins, then you likely suffer a lot.

I.e. if you go with a non-emotional/non-ideology considering risk/benefit analysis passively yielding wins. Both for money and power.

In such a situation a lot of people will just go with it, no matter if billionaire or not.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-27 19:04:43+00:00
>And also, it's just data. Just take some random samples.

You are not at all working with "data" or "samples". You are just making arguments and supporting them with examples. That's not science, that's philosophy or persuasive essay writing.

You are generalizing those arguments in insane ways. Just like the worst philosophy. You are drawing conclusions from extremely weak claims that don't even map to reality in the first place.

You can't say "Math works to describe the head of broccoli so I can just think hard enough and understand geopolitics". That's emphatically not science.
by stevejb | 2026-02-27 19:05:08+00:00
Hey I just did a bit of a deep dive into this. Wow, thanks for pointing this out. It seems like 'PEEK' would last the longest, but most printers can't do this.

"Standard estimates for indoor PETG longevity are 10–20+ years under normal conditions, with some sources giving a more conservative 5–10 years. A century is 5–10x beyond those estimates under passive conditions." Wow! Thanks for pointing this out. This is fascinating.
by golem14 | 2026-02-27 19:05:19+00:00
Well, I assume that they are at least not to attack their autonomous "comrades". Masquerading as such will be one obvious tactic, no ? You could argue that these guys would use e2e encrypted messages as FOF designation, but I would imagine a contested area would be blanketed with jammers, leaving only other options (light ? but smokescreens. Audio? Also easily jammed). So this isn't as easy as most people think.

Edit: No, I don't think a purely defensive stance like landmines is sufficient and what the people in command think.

We have landmines today. Why spend much more making marginally better, highly intelligent ones with LLMs?
by MakeAJiraTicket | 2026-02-27 19:05:47+00:00
This is the expected result. "Do you see the connection?" is where it failed to actually bridge the connection. I don't know if pro mode is relevant, but they require someone prodding from the perspective of already knowing the invention to reach it themselves.

They capture the gestalt of reasoning, they can reason in patterns that we encoded with language, but they can't do genuine reasoning.
Show HN: C8lore – Discussions from Slack, Discord, Telegram Communities in LLMs
by white | 2026-02-27 19:05:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I use ChatGPT and Claude daily for research and coding. I often wish they had direct and fresh access to discussions in the private product, marketing, ideas, and engineering news communities I’m part of on Slack, Discord, Telegram,...

So I built c8lore.com (for "community lore" :) that connects and indexes many communities once — it indexes the discussions (near real-time) and LLMs can then semantically search them, pulling relevant threads, workarounds, and insights straight into prompts. It ships with an MCP server so you can simply tell your LLM `use c8lore`.

It’s fed with some initial sources focused on these exact topics (product, marketing, ideas, engineering, ...), and I’m actively adding more. The public directory is open for anyone to browse.

I’d love your feedback:

1. Do you participate in private or semi-private communities for product, marketing, ideas or engineering (or else) discussions? Which platforms? Discourse, Facebook Groups, ...?

2. If you’ve looked at c8lore, does bringing this knowledge into your AI workflow feel useful? What’s missing that would make researching or keeping access to this information easier?

3. Which communities or types of sources would you find most interesting?

Thanks in advance — really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions!
by p_bits | 2026-02-27 19:06:06+00:00
Respect guys, so I made this for me and hopefully for someone else. Currently about 43 installs (this morning it was 43).

The extension is free (a Premium LT version is in the works) and I've added an API fresh out the oven.

So, I just wanted to showcase and see if people have any interest, ideas or needs I should add. Thanks!