MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cpill | 2026-02-26 18:18:57+00:00
> claims that “Hollywood was over”. As shown in the past these are often code words for ‘Jews must go’ because they never talk about any other country’s film industry like that.

What is going on with this guy!? What has that to do with video models???

They say "Hollywood" because it is the biggest movie producer in the Western world. If they were Chinese, in China, they probably would say "Hengdian World Studios is over".

Also, I thought the reason Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson were ostracize from Hollywood was _because_ they said "Hollywood was run by Jews" (and presumably that's racist because it isn't?) but now it is? But why persecute Marlo and Mel then? Which is it? I'm confused...
by Stellisoft | 2026-02-26 18:19:01+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Matt, solo developer behind Stellify.

The core idea is that code stored as structured JSON rather than text files gives AI much better context to work with. Structured storage lets us attach metadata capturing intent and relationships, and create feedback loops where AI updates that metadata as it works.

It uses a fixed stack composed of Laravel on the backend, a custom framework I built that brings Laravel's fluent API style to the frontend (whilst offering adaptors for Vue/ React/ Svelte) and various libraries that cover common requirements such as authentication. If something's missing, you can request it and I'll look at adding it.

Once you're ready to ship, the platform assembles the data back to source files so that you can export or deploy your code. There's no lock-in.

The Stellify platform provides a fully featured interface builder and code editor. There's also an open source MCP server that enables integration with Claude and other AI tools.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture - there's a free tier if you want to poke around and try it out for yourself.
by dangus | 2026-02-26 18:19:48+00:00
Did Microsoft ban you from using something else?

Fun fact: you can uninstall Notepad!

The truth is, unless Notepad got some kind of makeover, it was a useless vestige. It obviously wasn’t a good text editor for plain monospaced text. Having basically zero features didn’t serve anyone - why not use Notepad++ or vim in that case?

I think the most popular use of notepad is to read text files quickly and these days that often includes Markdown files. It makes perfect sense for Notepad to evolve into something that’s actually useful for lightly formatted text formats.
by Macha | 2026-02-26 18:19:49+00:00
Huh, I expected that to be a Ukraine related surge given the time period chosen but actually Ukraine looks to be (eyeballing a graph here) about 150,000 max in 2022 (if it counted for 100% of humanitarian cases) and 50,000 in 2024: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

Anyway, looks like migration is now down to about 480,000, with the big drop occuring in the second half of 2024.
Ask HN: How are you handling EU AI Act compliance as a developer?
by gibs-dev | 2026-02-26 18:19:58+00:00
The EU AI Act high-risk enforcement deadline is August 2, 2026. If you're deploying AI in the EU — or serving EU customers —
you're supposed to classify your systems, implement risk management, document everything, and potentially do conformity
assessments.

I'm curious how developers are actually approaching this:

1. Are you taking it seriously yet? The prohibited practices are already enforceable (since Feb 2025). High-risk obligations
kick in August 2026. Are you actively preparing or waiting to see how enforcement plays out?
2. Is the EU shooting itself in the foot? The AI Act is 144 pages. GDPR already costs European startups disproportionately
compared to US competitors. Is this just more red tape that will widen the gap with US tech companies, or is regulatory clarity
actually a competitive advantage ("we're EU-compliant" as a selling point)?
3. How do you even operationalize this? 113 articles, 13 annexes, cross-references to GDPR, potentially DORA if you're in
fintech. Is anyone actually reading EUR-Lex, or are you outsourcing to lawyers and hoping for the best?
4. Will enforcement actually happen? GDPR took years before meaningful fines started. The AI Office is still setting up. Are EU
regulators going to enforce this on day one, or will there be a grace period in practice?

I built a compliance API (https://gibs.dev) because I got frustrated trying to navigate this myself, but I'm genuinely
uncertain whether the regulation will adapt or whether European AI companies will just build elsewhere. What's your read?
by CharlesW | 2026-02-26 18:20:02+00:00
> I'm disappointed that they are taking the long way around, with screen shots and visual recognition.

This strikes me as more of a universal fallback vs. Apple choosing vision instead of a structured control plane. It nicely complements the layers Apple has been building for years: App Intents, Shortcuts, Spotlight/Siri surfaces, etc. Those are essentially curated action graphs with explicit parameters, validation, and user consent, which is much closer to your "DOM with safety rails" ideal.

All iOS app developers should now be building "App Intents first". Vision-based awareness is a nice safely for users of apps whose devs who haven't yet realized where this is all obviously going.
by supernetworks | 2026-02-26 18:20:03+00:00
Hostapd now has support for multi pass SAE /WPA3 password as well. We have an implementation of dynamic VLAN+per device PSK with WPA3 (https://github.com/spr-networks/super) we've been using for a few years now.

Ironically one of the main pain points is Apple. keychain sync means all the apple devices on the same sync account should share a password for wireless. Secondly the MAC randomization timeouts require reassignment.

The trouble with SAE per device passwords is that the commit makes it difficult to evaluate more than one password per pairing without knowing the identity of a device (the MAC) a-priori, which is why it's harder to find this deployed in production. It's possible for an AP to cycle through a few attempts but not many, whereas in WPA2 an AP could rotate through all the passwords without a commit. The standard needs to adapt.
by miki123211 | 2026-02-26 18:20:54+00:00
Git commits are identified by a hash of their entire contents[1]. The way hashes work, if you change even one bit, the hash becomes completely different. Every commit contains the email address of the committer and the hash of the parent commit. If the email address in even one commit is changed or removed, that changes its hash, which in turn requires you to update its children, changing their hashes etc. So, updating a commit from n years ago requires you to update all commits that have been made since. By default, git will refuse to pull from such an updated repository, as commits are considered immutable once pushed.

[1] In practice, it's a bit more complicated. Merkle trees are involved, so it's hashes of hashes of hashes instead of hashing a multi-gigabyte blob on each commit, but that's a performance optimization that doesn't affect semantics much.
by MBCook | 2026-02-26 18:21:15+00:00
I don’t see the point. It works well, and I can’t think of anything in the discussions I’d like changed.

So I’m happy they leave it as is.

Similarly I find old.reddit nearly perfect, though the way they crammed in multi-image support is a pain point for me.

I’m glad HN isn’t trying to follow random design trends.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-26 18:21:15+00:00
Even serfs had their housing, old age, etc factored into the equation. We've reached the point where companies are so disconnected we are back to companies not caring if their employees can live, and a system with less protection than serfdom.

If you as a buyer of labor can't afford the cost it takes for that labor to exist, you are a zombie company and should be shut down. You can't expect to buy business inputs for less than those inputs cost as a business model. Yet because people still have to figure out how to live even when the numbers don't work, business thinks it's a reasonable model to expect from humans. It's not. And the system WILL break if business keeps this up.
by greensoap | 2026-02-26 18:21:17+00:00
It will just be an arms race if we try to prove "not genAI." Detectors will improve, genAI will improve without marking (opensource and state actors will have unmarked genAI even if we mandate it).

Marking real from lense through digital life is more practical. But then what do we do with all the existing hardware that doesn't mark real and media that preexisited this problem.
Show HN: Protection Against Zero-Day Cyber Attacks
by gaurav1086 | 2026-02-26 18:21:23+00:00
Most security approaches I see in production environments focus on:

Scanning for CVEs
Hardening configurations
Aggregating logs

All useful — but they don’t actually stop exploitation once it starts.

In reality:

Not every CVE gets patched immediately
Legacy systems stick around
Zero-days happen

When exploitation succeeds, the real damage usually comes from runtime behavior:

A process spawning a shell
Unexpected outbound connections
Secret access
Container escape attempts

I’ve been experimenting with a lightweight runtime enforcement layer for Linux that focuses purely on detecting and stopping high-risk behavior in real time — regardless of whether the underlying CVE is known or patched.

Would love input from folks running Linux/Kubernetes at scale:

Is runtime prevention something you rely on?

Where do existing tools fall short?

What would make this genuinely useful vs just more noise?

Live Demo: https://sentrilite.com/Sentrilite_Active_Response_Demo.mp4
Github: https://github.com/sentrilite/sentrilite-agent
by jjmarr | 2026-02-26 18:21:25+00:00
You need human alignment on what constitutes a "good" comment. That means consistent rules.

Otherwise, some people feel review is too harsh, other people feel it is not harsh enough. AI does not fix inconsistent expectations.

> But how does one separate the good comments from the bad comments?

If the AI took a valid interpretation of the coding guidelines, it is a legitimate comment. If the AI is being overly pedantic, it is a documentation bug and we change the rules.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-26 18:21:45+00:00
> They make a good point. Apple's most-popular device is a smartphone that doesn't handle workloads any heavier than Snapchat or Instagram. The value prop of the iPhone is not rooted in the performance or battery life (as Liquid Glass showed us) but just the branding.

It's not a good point, it's an assumption based on elitism, just like your assumption that nobody is doing anything other than Snapchat or Instagram on their phones, or that they're only buying an iPhone because of the branding and not also the performance and battery life. In your head, what do you think the average iPhone user looks like? Are they drooling simpletons?

> Apple makes more money selling iPhone accessories than they make selling Macs. You look at the desktop market share in 2026 and it's very apparent that the Mac's regular upgrade cycle is driving Apple's sales, not direct competition: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

What point are you trying to make here? People like the iPhone, the iPhone makes a shitload of money, so therefore people who have Macs don't appreciate the hardware? Or what?

Also, StatCounter is not an accurate website:

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_n...

https://daringfireball.net/2026/02/apple_releases_ios_26_ado...
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-26 18:22:11+00:00
To the extent that it is a popularity contest, that's one thing.

Of course the first thing people may look at is technologies going head-to-head.

Another big one is user pricing, plus the underlying cost to serve users. Actually minus that cost.

Biggest so far is capital.

Seems to be going that way, a contest of capital could dominate like so many other things regardless of technologies.

There are probably other things that companies may leverage if competition does really ramp up.

It may not have to be a moat to be a defining characteristic that some prefer.
by kvinogradov | 2026-02-26 18:22:21+00:00
Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-)

Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): https://endowment.dev/community/
by ge96 | 2026-02-26 18:22:24+00:00
I'm still unable to accept that people accept ads as a part of life. I can't use instagram it's full of ads. I did finally get YT premium convinced by people on here but UBO all the way. Thankfully
I never got sucked into Twitch.

I get it too I'm a bad person for not accepting articles where every other paragraph is an ad.
by neoromantique | 2026-02-26 18:22:45+00:00
You don't lower the cost of killing by improved targeting, you lower it by thugs shooting people in broad daylight with no consequences.

I understand the argument that moving the decision making power to a black box would clear conscience of the operator, yadda yadda yadda, but newsflash, price of human life is falling so quick, that I think we're far beyond the point where it matters.
by GeoAtreides | 2026-02-26 18:22:58+00:00
Fair enough, if the LLMs critically underperform that would slow down their adoption. Maybe. Not immediately, they (the managerial class) will try everything before they abandon LLM.

I agree, the bubble collapsing would be the best scenario. That being said, the economic woes following the collapse will make things real bad for a time.

But what if the AI actually gets better? and there's no bubble collapse and there are no AI abandon? ...
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-26 18:23:13+00:00
Long ad breaks were real annoying on Twitch, I try to watch the same streamers on YouTube now if possible, since I have a YouTube family subscription (seems like avoiding ads on Twitch requires a subscription to each streamer?).

That YouTube is much better technically (e.g. immediate rewinding) is also a nice bonus.

Edit: I'm seeing now that there's something called Twitch Turbo for $12/month to avoid ads, though YT premium family still seems like a better deal as long as you have 2+ people for it, since you also get a YouTube music sub and, y'know, no ads on the rest of YouTube proper.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-26 18:23:13+00:00
Both, yes. Physical hardware isolation.

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As a funny personal anecdote, my brother is a state judge. His most personal thoughts & correspondances are crafted upon typewriters (mine as well). He isn't officially allowed to just use any phone/computer/network. He is a "high value target" [0],

My personal attorney still doesn't use "the cloud" for client documents (which is respectable) — has local servers, mostly offline. No typewriter, though =P

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I'm just an electrician.

[0] Does it bother anybody else that Pam Bondi has reports specifically of which documents each congressman reviewed (photographed by AP, during recent testimony)?
by JohnFen | 2026-02-26 18:23:17+00:00
> If someone is being forced by an AI to be polite to you, is it really still basic human politeness?

No. That does strip the meaning out of it. I also object to Burger King's proposal.

But at least it's still coming from an actual person, even if they're forced to do it. That may not be much, but it's still better.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-26 18:23:25+00:00
You might be surprised. When Harry Truman tried to nationalize US steel, it created massive pushback (bad for democracy imo, but the business community defends its interests to the teeth—though the circumstance is he wanted to advance the korean war, which was in the business community's interests).

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/truman-orders-se...
by sixtyj | 2026-02-26 18:23:58+00:00
Device should have been accompanied with a lot of examples so people are really aware how stored data could be misused. Alexa or any other similar device - their users are technically illiterate. Do you remember leaks of movie stars’ iPhone images? Multiply it by thousands… Court order, burglars, hackers - all bad actors imaginable…

For you, as producer, those situations can be a nightmare if not well described in operating conditions. And devices should not be pre-setup (don’t be “Google-evil”, as they track everything if you don’t set it up different; and it is always hidden deep in the third level menu under 2-steps verification)
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-26 18:24:17+00:00
It’s a fair retort here, though, where the grandparent comment was clearly trying to grandstand in opposition to his perceived enemy tribe, mostly unprovoked.

Edit: in other words, it’s a fair interpretation of the comment to be saying “We wouldn’t have to deal with all this misinformation about taxes if there wasn’t some giant liberal conspiracy”, given that they weren’t replying to any specific part of the parent post.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-26 18:24:31+00:00
You're putting words in my mouth. I merely pointed out that they have a very confused mission thus I think it is not surprising that there is dysfunction.

We have vocational trade schools. We have professional guild schools (medical, dentistry, etc). At least some subset of students attends school with the intention of becoming professional researchers (ie pursuing a PhD, then a postdoc, then finally general employment).

I think it would be reasonable to expect undergraduate institutions to set unambiguous goals for each program. Students should know what they are signing up for. It would be fine to graduate with a certain amount of time spent explicitly on general education and a certain amount spent explicitly on vocational training with a specific target.

If you claim that education is a means to an end then what of (for example) history majors? I think the bachelors diploma itself is what became a means to an end much to the detriment of "pure" academia. The CS program at my undergrad spent time teaching us how to use version control. That's fantastic for a professional programmer but how does that have anything to do with CS as an academic pursuit? You can literally do much (perhaps all) of actual CS with nothing more than a pen and paper.
by Timpy | 2026-02-26 18:24:31+00:00
I really like Crash Course World History. I'm older than the target demographic for this resource to be sure, but it's a great high level overview and having this under my belt helped me feel a little more oriented in every other historical thing I've dabbled in since.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-26 18:24:44+00:00
I'll be keeping an eye out for your DE. For a long time now, the Linux desktop space as a whole has been rather uninspired in my opinion. A few interesting ideas have surfaced within it but failed to become popular for one reason or another, making for a rather stale environment.

That's not to say that it needs to be in constant flux or to be full of radical ideas. If anything, it'd be nice to see more DEs settle into a design and feature set and chase stability, efficiency, and performance over shinies. Rather, I think it would be better if more Linux DEs were built around coherent, opinionated design philosophies that cleanly set them all apart from each other. Even if that design philosphy is just "N platform's desktop, refined to its ultimate form", it's better than the "aimless bag of features" direction that's most common.
by whit537 | 2026-02-26 18:24:48+00:00
Let's back up: The way an endowment works is that donors donate money, which goes into a more-or-less permanent investment fund. The interest from the investment fund is then used to a) fund mission-aligned programs (in our case, OSS), b) stay ahead of inflation, and c) pay operating costs.

Where are you seeing capitalists "extract a slice of the pie" here?
by blobbers | 2026-02-26 18:24:49+00:00
Scrape once, spam forever.

I think it's pretty clear you need to use an anonymization scheme in the way commits are handled so that it links back to your github account and the email addresses are kept private.

Privacy centric companies like Apple do this for users offering hashed emails, on a per login basis.

I'm sure this would not work in a world of scraping, but having that kind of ability to figure out bad actors would be nice. You could require authenticated users for certain kinds of requests, and block user information from non-authenticated requests.
by modeless | 2026-02-26 18:24:56+00:00
Street View is such a missed opportunity. In 2007 it was visionary and essential to create the map data that allowed Google Maps to win. In 2026 it is a symbol of Google's stagnation. Essentially zero improvement in user experience for more than a decade, in a time of incredible advancements in computer vision.

By now we should all be flying around the planet in a seamless 3D reconstruction unifying street level and satellite views and allowing smooth free camera motion all the way from space to the front door of buildings and even inside. Many years ago I saw internal Google demos of dramatically improved Street View rendering, none of which ever made it to production. Google has consistently failed to recognize the value of the product and systematically underinvested in the user experience.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-26 18:25:19+00:00
Big change from when Steve Jobs killed the Newton and one unspoken reason was the USMC having just had a _very_ successful trial and being in the process of getting Apple approved as a DOD vendor.... (yes, I'm still salty that the only Apple products I've bought since my MessagePad were OpenStep 4.2, and two iPods for my daughter --- the MacBook I use doesn't count since work bought that --- at least Samsung and Amazon use Wacom EMR in their products, though neither is fully a replacement for my Newton....)
by sippeangelo | 2026-02-26 18:25:21+00:00
It is actively harmful to society. Slap SynthID on some of the photographic evidence from the unreleased Epstein files and instantly de-legitimize it. Launder a SynthID image through a watermark free model and it's legit again. The fact that it exists at all can't be interpreted in any other way than malice.
by lurkingllama | 2026-02-26 18:25:32+00:00
I actually built an app to accomplish this exact thing as I was finishing building my home and was clueless when it came to interior design. I'm genuinely astonished by the capabilities of these models with regards to this, and it feels vastly underutilized by the general populace. Being able to try out multiple paint colors in seconds, or add real furniture or wall decor from Ikea, or move objects around instantly - it still blows my mind.
by elliottboxx | 2026-02-26 18:25:45+00:00
super interesting - can you share some of the other elements. screenshots of the sketchup model, the AI image output, etc?

would you recommend this workflow to others, or just noting that it is what you did? any regrets, road blocks, frustrations?

a ball park price would also be interesting: total cost of sketchup license + ai token cost + fivver modeler + draftsman etc. I assume under $1k?