MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldPeas | 2026-02-24 18:50:08+00:00
You probably figured, but I am likely the same age to your kids, I agree that the similar "shock and awe" nature with which my parents treated this stuff was warranted, and in fact I wish they went a little further, but even hiding the batteries to all devices and only allowing them out for a couple hours a day was progress. The problem I see coming my way is that the cultural monolith has degraded to the point where an online kid and offline kid can't coexist, it was already pretty strained when I was a high school student in the '10s, isolation isn't the answer, and in my own experience while one can tolerate being "weird", the lack of a shared culture is often dislocating. At this point I'm just hoping there's somewhere I could find with with like-minded parents
by sillyfluke | 2026-02-24 18:50:39+00:00
>It is only by exploiting the surplus of large amounts of workers

Well, it's possible for a person to become a billonaire without directly doing this.
I think it was said somewhere that Lebron James was one of the first wage billionaires, due to his 20+ years on top of the NBA.

But loosening the statement a little, if the person themselves hasn't its almost certain that the people that have paid them have (in the case of sports athletes, the companies paying for the ads).

Be that as it may, being a wage-slave billionaire still leaves you less exposed to direct first-hand moral dillemas than the CEOs of companies.
by skinnymuch | 2026-02-24 18:51:05+00:00
Still seems silly when meme stocks exist and the establishment (like entire media and news apparatus) can and do collude to mess with things (like “Black Monday” ~2021 when all the media and news lied and said wall street bets and meme stonk people had moved on to silver) and within days all the meme stock gains across over a dozen companies were entirely wiped out.

Not saying meme stocks should be a thing but no one gets investigated or in trouble. Nothing is done. If they cared about the average person something would be done.
by GTP | 2026-02-24 18:51:15+00:00
> Hello! I am an eccentric video game designer (a very creative one) who communicates in an unusual way. Sometimes I’ll mash the keyboard or type nonsense like “skfjhsd#$%” – but these are NOT random! They are secret cryptic commands full of genius game ideas (even if it’s hard to see).

Your job: You are a brilliant AI game developer who can understand my cryptic language. No matter what odd or nonsensical input I provide, you will interpret it as a meaningful instruction or idea for our video game. You will then build or update the game based on that interpretation.

Here's what you should tell your coworker the first day on the job if you get hired to do something you know nothing about :D
by jtbayly | 2026-02-24 18:51:40+00:00
I'm interested in reading this, but it's unreadable on my laptop (and loud). From ChatGPT:

Here’s a 5-sentence summary of the article “the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds” from vmfunc.re:
The blog presents an investigation into how the identity verification company Persona allegedly operates a large surveillance-oriented system that collects detailed biometric and identity data, screens users against watchlists, and generates Suspicious Activity Reports to government agencies. It describes finding thousands of unprotected source files from a FedRAMP-authorized government endpoint, revealing code for facial recognition, politically exposed person detection, and multiple verification checks, suggesting the system is far more invasive than publicly acknowledged. The research asserts that this infrastructure has been running for years and was discoverable through publicly accessible tools like certificate transparency logs and DNS without unauthorized access. The authors raise 18 pointed questions about data retention, transparency, and how the system passed security assessments, urging Persona and OpenAI to respond in detail. An addendum notes that Persona’s CEO is now in direct correspondence with the researchers and has committed to answering those questions publicly, while core findings remain unaddressed.
Show HN: Trolley – Run terminal apps anywhere
by oDot | 2026-02-24 18:51:52+00:00
Happy to share the early version of Trolley, which will package your TUI app with Ghostty for non-technical users on MacOS and Linux, with Windows being a WIP.

This came about after writing a small TUI to allow a friend to back up their entire Vimeo library, and finding that while they enjoyed the simplicity and speed of the TUI, they did not like having to use the shell to get there, nor did they want to install a terminal like Ghostty for a better experience.

Trolley makes it easy to package apps for that kind of person. It's still very early, but I thought it'd be interesting to get some feedback, so let me know what you think.

If you're developing a TUI or considering a hog like Electron for an app that can be text-based, give Trolley a look.
by hmokiguess | 2026-02-24 18:52:07+00:00
Fair point, though a lot has changed from 15 years ago. A lot of what you mentioned is sort of the new baseline most payment gateways ship with, and working on code you haven't touched in a while is certainly a lot easier nowadays with agents too. All that said, if you're satisfied with the price and the product I am not here to convince you to swap.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-02-24 18:52:12+00:00
I think this scenario drastically underestimates the amount of "moat" many of these software companies have on the consumer side.

Not sure about Stripe, but I think it would be extremely dubious for vibe-coded competitors to Uber to serve as real competition like described in the substack post, because the business benefits so much from network effects. A new upstart would not only need to replicate the technical aspects but also the physical vehicle network and years of built-up fraud prevention efforts (including things like rider/driver ratings and features that targeted at edge cases) of the existing incumbent firms.
by vincentvandeth | 2026-02-24 18:52:18+00:00
Fair point on the time cost — but I'd frame it differently. The 6 months wasn't spent building a governance layer instead of building the agent. The governance layer grew out of the actual project work. Every receipt, every quality rule, every dispatch pattern was a direct response to something that broke in production. Day one I had zero governance and a working agent. By month six I had 1100+ receipts and a system that catches failures before they ship.

The infrastructure approach makes sense for teams who want to skip the learning curve. The trade-off is that pre-built governance rules are generic by definition — they can't know that your specific codebase breaks when tasks exceed 300 lines, or that planning gates without explicit deliverables always need redispatch. That pattern data only comes from running your own agents on your own work.

Curious what you're building — is it the ledger/tracking layer, the quality gates, or the full orchestration?
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-24 18:52:41+00:00
Anecdotally, I started lifting again a few weeks ago. Took a few years off due to Covid complications, but was previously exercising regularly.

Walked up to the bar stressed about all sorts of things, everything is expensive, car is making weird chafing noises when I make sharp turns, politics, this and that.

Did 3 sets of 5 deadlifts with a 60kg bar. Barely any weight on the bar since I didn't want to annihilate my joints. Regardless, as I finished the sets, all that stress was just gone, and it stayed away for days. I was calmer, clearer, more present.

I don't think I have fewer reasons to be stressed since getting the gym card, but I sure am less stressed.

Deadlifts in particular, but really any full body lifts have always been a mental state degauss button for me. Doesn't matter how many problems you have before you walk up to that bar, you'll barely remember them when you're done.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-24 18:53:10+00:00
> but I think the community needs a better response

The community does not need to do that. Installing software on my device should not require identification to be uploaded to a third party beforehand.

We're getting into dystopian levels of compliance here because grandma and grandpa are incapable of detecting a scam. I sympathize, not everyone is in their peak mental state at all times, but this seems like a problem for the bank to solve, not Android.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-24 18:53:26+00:00
I don't consider it a logical fallacy so much as a philosophical debate on art vs theft that exists in both human and AI worlds.

IMO Nothing and nobody starts out original. We need copying to learn, to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding. Everything is a copy of something else (or put another way, art is more like a sum of your influences). The only difference is how much is actually copied, and how obvious it is.

And in the US at least, from a legal perspective, this "how obvious is it" subjective test is often one way that copyright disputes are settled.

For example there have been many cases of similar sounding songs that either did in fact draw an influence from an existing track (whether consciously or not), or were more likely just coincidental... but courts have ruled both ways in such cases, even if they sound extremely similar.
Show HN: Connector-OSS – Memory integrity kernel for AI agents
by umeshlamton | 2026-02-24 18:53:41+00:00
I built connector-oss because I kept running into the same problem with
multi-agent AI systems: when something goes wrong, you have no cryptographic
ground truth of what any agent stored, read, or accessed. Log files are
mutable. There's no tamper-proof record.

connector-oss is an in-process Rust kernel that adds memory integrity
primitives to existing agent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen).

How it works:

1. Every memory write is content-addressed with Blake3 — the CID is
deterministic, so any modification to stored content produces a
different CID and is detected on next read.

2. Every agent operation is logged to an Ed25519-signed Merkle chain.
The chain links H(n) = hash(H(n-1) + op_n), so altering any entry
breaks every downstream entry. Retroactive tampering is detectable.

3. Namespace isolation is enforced at the Rust kernel level — agents
are confined to their namespace in vac-core, not by a Python
convention that can be bypassed.

4. An 8-dimension trust score (consistency, accuracy, recency,
isolation, integrity, coverage, coherence, provenance) is computed
from kernel state — not from LLM self-report.

Crate structure:
- vac-core: MemoryKernel, 28 syscalls, RangeWindow, Interference engine
- vac-store: ProllyKernelStore (Prolly Tree + Blake3), IndexDbKernelStore
- vac-ffi: ~500-line PyO3 thin wrapper
- connector-engine: AgentFirewall, DualDispatcher, KnowledgeEngine
- connector-server: axum REST + Prometheus metrics

One interesting problem: the Prolly Tree backend is async (tokio) but
PyO3 calls are synchronous. We bridge this with block_in_place +
handle.block_on(), which requires flavor = "multi_thread" in tokio
test configs. Namespace packet keys include a timestamp to avoid CID
collisions: ns:{ns}:{ts}:{cid}.

788 tests, 0 failures. <50μs overhead per memory operation.
4-agent pipeline produces 105 audit entries, integrity check passes.

pip install connector-oss
Apache 2.0.
```
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-24 18:53:46+00:00
The US government, that consists of a congress where 98% of congress members have received donations from AIPAC and Persona which is backed by Peter Thiel who also backs the surveillance company Palantir and strongly supports Israel and Zionism. OpenAI is also lead by a staunch Zionist, Sam Altman. It's not difficult to understand where this surveillance machine is originating from. Also happens to thematically run adjacent to certain prophecies contained in the Bible specifically the Book of Revelation.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-24 18:53:49+00:00
Your argument requires the run rate to reduce over time until OpenAI reaches profitability. However, even OpenAI has publicized that they expect their expenses to exponentially increase for their models to remain competitive.

So they are not profitable now & they have no idea of when they ever will be.

Worse, Gemini has guaranteed funding for continued training whenever the AI hype bubble pops.

Anthropic & OpenAI's only saving grace is that Google is generally terrible at product.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-24 18:53:57+00:00
My working class family members always gave 10% to charity (kind of the standard social contract in the US for giving) when that 10% made up a huge percentage of the money it takes for them to live a very basic life. Compare that to billionaires who have more money than they could ever spend and the percentage they have given:

Zuckerberg 2.1%.
Ballmer 3.7%
Bezos 1.6%
Sergey Brin 2.5%
Michael Dell 2.6%
Ken Griffin 5%

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2025/02/03/ame...
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-24 18:54:09+00:00
Srsly, you need your pet in the feedback loop.

It has to produce a game that Momo wants to play.

Does Momo like to bark at cats? On screens? Introduce a bark sensor as feedback.

Or use a cat. Cats like to swipe at mice on TV. Get a touchscreen and evolve a game for cats.
by chris_money202 | 2026-02-24 18:54:21+00:00
Assembly decreases the complexity of the hardware decode block significantly, lower complexity, better speed. C was created to reduce the cognitive load on the developer, with LLMs we don’t technically need to reduce cognitive load if we say compute isn’t a finite resource (it typically is but for sake of argument here).

Assembly is just more aligned to creating purely hardware primitives of LLMs and reasoning than C or upper languages
by craftkiller | 2026-02-24 18:55:00+00:00
> Looks like you didn't enable the suspend

This was with the default settings after flashing Crimson (which I did to recover from the infinite boot loop), so if there is some active step that needs to be taken to enable suspend, then I had not done it.

> When was it?

This was within the past month. I see two possible reasons you didn't run into it:

1) You have been applying the updates as they come out, whereas I took a dusty phone that hadn't been turned on in years and ran the update.

2) You were already on crimson, so maybe they only broke byzantium (or whatever version it was on from years of sitting unused and then hitting update in the software center).
by __atx__ | 2026-02-24 18:55:06+00:00
> I'll also remove the end cap to avoid it blocking the mug's descent.

Ah yes, that matches my observations. It kinda sees that the stuff it is looking for is there, but does not see enough detail to actually notice that not only there is an endcap in the way, but the mug is also rotated the wrong way to sit in the holder.

It feels like the "r's in strawberry" effect where the models do not have enough introspection into the raw input data.
by marttt | 2026-02-24 18:55:10+00:00
Nils M. Holm's essays about highly intelligent people and IQ are worth a read here -- "Where Do The Failed 0.1% Go?" [1] and others [2].

1: https://t3x.org/files/vidya_324-325_NH_reprint.pdf

2: https://t3x.org/#essays
by mattlondon | 2026-02-24 18:55:31+00:00
I wonder if there is some underlying lizard-brain thing going on here.

If you "know" you are physically unfit you are quick to anger and aggression because you potentially need to act like that to not need to rely on physical fitness if it came to needing it? I.e. you need to deter others through your aggression rather than relying on fitness if it came to a fight?

Or alternatively the other perspective if you "know" you are fit you can keep the stress hormones low safe in the knowledge that if it comes to it you've got the fitness to handle a fight?

...Or perhaps none of that!

Interesting.
by gethly | 2026-02-24 18:55:33+00:00
Microsoft lives off of what Oracle, RedHat, HP or even IBM live off - commercial support. To large corporations, having someone to blame and who can vouch for or guarantee fulfilment of signed contracts means more than anything else, because it gives them legal way to offload responsibility and any legal or financial ramifications in case of a mistake. Windows owning the desktop operating system market, for now, is a clear choice for such services. So it depends on your needs rather than general question for value proposition as that depends solely on your specific requirements.
by loevborg | 2026-02-24 18:55:36+00:00
This is fascinating. It sounds like you're building "cloud datastructures" based on S3+CAS. What are the benefits, in your view, of doing using S3 instead of, say, dynamo or postgres? Or reaching for NATS/rabbitmq/sqs/kafka. I'd love to hear a bit more about what you're building.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-24 18:56:06+00:00
I admit I don't have depth of knowledge with how JS and Wasm work behind the scenes, but you can already compile JS to wasm. Forgive the ignorance, but what am I missing here? When you compile JS to wasm, aren't the semantics and language behaviors already addressed?

My understanding was that things like DOM manipulation APIs would need to be (and are) exposed to the WASM runtime so that the JS-to-WASM compiler could do all the right bytecode "linking".

My idea is that if JS itself was require to in WASM, and native JS support didn't exist, the complexity in browsers would be reduced dramatically. And developers will be free to use different languages. Browsers will focus on APIs instead of language semantics. no more V8!
by willio58 | 2026-02-24 18:56:16+00:00
Someone at my job just said yesterday “I can’t see a reason to hire any additional devs in the future with AI being the way it is now”

I disagreed vehemently, but it’s really gotten me thinking about just how screwed some orgs are. Especially those with poor technical leadership. Like I can try to convince people otherwise but ultimately they’re not going to believe it until they see productivity reduce by relying solely on AI.

The other part that’s odd to me is I feel like once we do truly reach a point where dev jobs are made irrelevant, I believe that level of intelligence will make essentially all white collar jobs irrelevant, all the way up to the CEO. So it’s kind of this race to all of us not having jobs. It’s just funny that the higher ups at some companies are so delusional to think what they do won’t also be replaced
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-02-24 18:56:23+00:00
Well the theory is the market will offer alternatives that allow consumers to choose the best products.

But in reality capitalists get to choose the products and use advertising to brainwash us into wanting whatever shit they're shoveling.

Capitalism is supposed to optimise production for efficiency. In reality the people holding the principal capital use it to optimise for profit and we're largely impotent to do anything because they'll just lean more on the 'brainwash' aspect of profitability... Maybe go so far as to sway elections, to put in fascists so they can exercise larger handles of control... all to get a favorable tax regime when they've already got more money than they can spend.

Ho-hum.

I think there's a way out, through cooperatives, possibly, but it's a multi-generational path before you can really start to make change.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-24 18:56:31+00:00
How about.

"I am responsible for my own actions" mode.

You click that, the phone switches into a separate user space. Securenet is disabled, which is what most financial apps rely on.

Then you can install all the fun stuff you want.

This is really a matter of Google not sandboxing stuff right. Why the hell does App A need access to data or notifications from App B.
by mikestew | 2026-02-24 18:56:34+00:00
I've used 1PWD for at least as long as you, and when renewal comes around I'm going to cancel and just stick with Apple's Passwords app (née Keychain Access). First "cloud!", subscriptions, now 33% price increases for the hell of it, I'm outta here, 1PWD. (Though in looking just now, we never upgraded to v8.0, so I guess I'm already outta here.)

I only suggest Passwords because if you've used 1PWD for that long, odds are good you're on Apple HW/OS. It does everything we need in our household, including shared creds. One of these days I'll get off me arse and export the 1PWD stuff (IIRC, 1PWD->Apple PWDs is doable). Right now we use 1PWD as R/O, and all new stuff goes in Passwords.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-24 18:56:54+00:00
Is being able to replace software on the devices I own not in "the realm of software" somehow?

"Sure, you can have the sources, you just can't use them on your own devices because the vendor that shipped it has decided to bar you from doing that with a 2048-bit RSA key" just feels like GPL was upheld in letter, but not in spirit.
by drivebyhooting | 2026-02-24 18:58:26+00:00
I would really like to know the origin story better. Accounts make it sound like Terence learned to read and arithmetic completely on his own by being plopped in front of Sesame Street.

That strains credulity. Those familiar with common Chinese parenting strategies know how involved and directly instructed they can be at times. How much of that has been downplayed (And for what purpose)?

I don’t mean to undermine any of Tao’s achievements. They are unassailable. But I genuinely want to know a true account of what it took to get him there.
Show HN: PiQrypt – Cryptographic audit trail for AI agents (Ed25519, Dilithium3)
by PiQrypt_Fred | 2026-02-24 18:58:40+00:00
AI agents are making decisions that affect money, infrastructure, and users —
but most systems rely on editable logs.

I built PiQrypt to explore whether an AI agent can have a
cryptographically verifiable decision history.

Each event is:
- Ed25519 signed
- SHA-256 hash chained
- Fork-detectable
- Optionally RFC 3161 timestamped
- Optional post-quantum (Dilithium3 / ML-DSA-65)

The goal isn't blockchain or consensus —
it's agent identity continuity and tamper-evident history.

MIT licensed, local-first.

https://github.com/piqrypt/piqrypt

I'd appreciate feedback on the design, especially around
fork handling and key rotation.
by ms170888 | 2026-02-24 18:59:18+00:00
The architectural problem here isn't Persona specifically — it's the centralized identity verification model itself.

When you upload your government ID to a third party's server so they can "verify" you, you're creating a honeypot by design. The incentive structure is broken: the company that collects the most sensitive data also becomes the most valuable target (and, as this article suggests, the most useful partner for surveillance).

The alternative architecture exists and is well-specified: W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) + Verifiable Credentials. Your keys are generated on-device and never leave. Claims about you (employer, age, credentials) are signed by the issuing institution as Verifiable Credentials that any verifier can check cryptographically — without ever contacting a central authority or storing your biometrics in a database.

The W3C standards are production-ready (DID Core 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation since 2022, VC Data Model 2.0 since 2024). The EU's eIDAS 2.0 regulation is actively mandating digital identity wallets based on these standards for all EU citizens.

The question isn't whether decentralized identity is technically feasible. It's whether platforms will voluntarily give up the data collection that makes centralized verification so profitable — and so dangerous.