MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siefca | 2026-02-13 08:41:28+00:00
Yes – the "consciousness is an illusion" line often seems to fold back on itself: if it's an illusion, then there's still something it is like to experience that illusion, so we're back at square one.

Also interesting around 09:36. He hints that parts of the scientific community tend to avoid this territory. Intuitively you'd think exploring unknowns should be fun – so why the reluctance?

Speculation: B. Kastrup sometimes frames this as a first-person / third-person divide with historical roots: modern science won its freedom by focusing on third-person, publicly measurable claims, while bracketting first-person and "ultimate" questions.

Not a literal written deal, but a cultural boundary that still bubbles up and shapes what feels legitimate to study – i.e., culture quietly sets the constraints on what counts as rational inquiry.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-13 08:41:51+00:00
It is expensive. But the point where it stops being expensive is far above most companies use case. If you're paying less than a developers salary for hosting you most likely won't see all that many benefits from moving.

Renting a server from cheaper hosting providers can be massive savings but you now need to re-invent all of the AWS APIs you use or might use and it's big CAPEX time investment. And any new feature you need, whether that's queue, mail gateway or thousand other APIs need to be deployed and managed first before you can even start testing.

It's less work now than it was before just due to amount of tools there are to automate it but it's still more work that you could be spending on improving your product.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-13 08:41:59+00:00
> and I assume in much of Europe

No. In Poland it's legal to record everything, only when you publish the recordings you need the recorded people to agree.

The core issue is that "nothing to hide nothing to fear" argument is correct as long as the government is trustworthy. Not only that, but mass-surveilance greatly improves life because it allows much better crowd management. Case in point - speed cameras. Would you support the removal of all speed cameras in Norway?
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-13 08:42:40+00:00
It's easy to be right when you live outside the boundaries of reality.

E.g. he won't (didn't?) own a mobile phone, but is okay with borrowing someone else's. He won't use Wi-Fi where he has to log in but would happily borrow someone else's.

It's not being right; it's shifting responsibility in exchange for his own personal convenience.
by geocar | 2026-02-13 08:42:45+00:00
> Well, [google] does not manage usenet groups and mailing lists.

They do. Sort of.

Google used to nntp, and manages the largest usenet archive; They still have one of the largest mailing list servers in the world, and they still perform distribution on those lists via SMTP email.

They still have all of the problems associated with it, as do lots of other mail/news/list sites still do that are a fraction of Google's size.

> Delivery status notifications are considered best effort so it wouldn't make sense to block messages for that case.

Sure it does.

You consider them best-effort, but that doesn't follow that I should consider them best-effort. For a simple example: Consider spam.

In any event, if you keep sending me the same message without any evidence you can handle them, I'm not going to accept your messages either, because I don't know what else you aren't doing. That's part of the subtext of "SHOULD".

Most big sites take this policy because it is internal nodes that will generate the delivery notification, but the edge nodes that are tasked with preventing loops. If the edge node adds a Message-ID based on the content, it'll waste CPU and possibly deny service; If the edge node naively adds a Message-ID like an MSA, the origin won't recognise it, and forwarded messages can loop or (if sent to a mailing list) be amplified. There also are other specific documented requirements related to Internet Mail that edge nodes not do this (e.g. RFC2821 § 6.3).

However you seem to be assuming Google is blocking messages "for this case" which is a little presumptuous. Google is presumably trying to save themselves a headache of handling errors for people who aren't prepared to do anything about it, the most common of which is spam. And the use of Message-ID in this application is documented at least as early as RFC2635.

> Additionally, Gmail adds its own message identifier on every message (g-msgid) because it knows that message ids can not be trusted to be unique.

Without knowing what Google does with the g-msgid header, you are making a mistake to assume it is equivalent to the Message-ID header just because it has a similar name. You have no reason to believe this is true.

> Finally just calling me ignorant is the cherry on top – please try to keep things civil on here.

I am sorry you are offended to not know things, but you do not know this thing, and your characterising my actions will make it very difficult for you to learn something new and not be so ignorant in the future.

Think hard exactly about what you want to happen here: Do you want Google (et al) to do something different? Do you want me to agree Google should? Who exactly are you trying to convince of what, and to what end?

I am trying to tell you how to interpret the documentation of the Internet, in this case to be successful sending email. That's it.

I am not likely to try and tell Google what to do in this case because of my own experiences running mail servers over the last 30 years, but listen: I am willing to be convinced. That's all I can do.

If it's something else, I'm sorry I just don't understand.
by thefounder | 2026-02-13 08:43:04+00:00
Can you give an example of smartness where Gemini is better than the other 2? I have found Gemini 3 pro the opposite of smartness on the tasks I gave him (evaluation, extraction, copy writing, judging, synthesising ) with gpt 5.2 xhigh first and opus 4.5/4.6 second. Not to mention it likes to hallucinate quite a bit .
by consp | 2026-02-13 08:43:09+00:00
It's a mess in Europe. It's different everywhere.

In the Netherlands you can record, but only share it with the cops and otherwise you need some clear exception (e.g. dashcam images with minor accidents to your insurer). In all other cases you can either not store them, at least not publicly and all cloud falls under public, or have to inform everyone about their presence on the images, or blurr every identifiable mark (e.g. faces, number plates, names etc). Pretty sure all cloud door cams violate that. So the cops sometimes ask for people's doorcam images, and they are allowed to do that, but likely the people providing them will have recorded it illegally due to it being stored on some cloud account.

This question has already been answered by security footage videos and as long as they are overwritten withing a certain time, stored non publicly and only shared with allowed officials, it's ok.

There are exceptions, but very limited, like clear public good (e.g. whistleblowers).
by close04 | 2026-02-13 08:44:14+00:00
> The reason big tech holds their leads today is not innovation, but critical mass combined with user entrapment.

And regulatory capture by the incumbent. Reach the top then push for regulation behind you. Thats’s one big additional obstacle to overcome for a new player.

OpenAI was so willing to support regulating AI just as soon as they thought they’ve gained enough of an advantage over the competition and they can burn the bridge behind them.
by mofeien | 2026-02-13 08:44:30+00:00
There are some basic reasoning steps about the environment that we live in that don't only apply to humans, but also other animals and geterally any goal-driven being. Such as "an agent is more likely to achieve its goal if it keeps on existing" or "in order to keep existing, it's beneficial to understand what other acting beings want and are capable of" or "in order to keep existing, it's beneficial to be cute/persuasive/powerful/ruthless" or "in order to more effectively reach it's goals, it is beneficial for an agent to learn about the rules governing the environment it acts in".

Some of these statements derive from the dynamics in our current environment were living in, such as that we're acting beings competing for scarce resources. Others follow even more straightforwardly logically, such as that you have more options for agency if you stay alive/turned on.

These goals are called instrumental goals and they are subgoals that apply to most if not all terminal goals an agentic being might have. Therefore any agent that is trained to achieve a wide variety of goals within this environment will likely optimize itself towards some or all of these sub-goals above. And this is no matter by which outer optimization they were trained by, be it evolution, selective breeding of cute puppies, or RLHF.

And LLMs already show these self-preserving behaviors in experiments, where they resist to be turned off and e. g. start blackmailing attempts on humans.

Compare these generally agentic beings with e. g. a chess engine stockfish that is trained/optimized as a narrow AI in a very different environment. It also strives for survival of its pieces to further its goal of maximizing winning percentage, but the inner optimization is less apparent than with LLMs where you can listen to its inner chain of thought reasoning about the environment.

The AGI may very well have pacifistic values, or it my not, or it may target a terminal goal for which human existence is irrelevant or even a hindrance. What can be said is that when the AGI has a human or superhuman level of understanding about the environment then it will converge toward understanding of these instrumental subgoals, too and target these as needed.

And then, some people think that most of the optimal paths towards reaching some terminal goal the AI might have don't contain any humans or much of what humans value in them, and thus it's important to solve the AI alignment problem first to align it with our values before developing capabilities further, or else it will likely kill everyone and destroy everything you love and value in this universe.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-13 08:44:49+00:00
> I don’t remember exactly which tape I popped in, except that I saw my mother as she looked when she was around my age now. She passed away in 2013 at 55 years old, and I hadn’t seen her at this age in… well, I don’t know how many years.

Similarly, I found a tape I'd shot in the mid-to-late 80s, probably Christmas 1988. On it was some footage of my dad, who died in 1993 when he was 47.

That's the first time I've seen that tape or indeed heard his voice since he died. He must have been about ten years younger than I am now.

So, the first time I've heard my dad's voice in over 30 years, and the first time his grandson has ever heard him (he recognised his grandad straight away).

Quite a moment, that.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-13 08:46:18+00:00
your dataset is valid in the context of the argument. its hard for me as a layman to trust claims formed from such widespread sources, when i could hand wave the results away by assuming that deaths from all causes will proportionally increase among all age groups after a populace exits lockdown.

anyway that is not a real argument so ill backtrack a bit to provide a government source [0] for my previous claim. as opposed to australia, sweden let it rip. therefore of all countries, this particular dataset is the most universally applicable, since it most accurately reflects a baseline. and that baseline is an overwhelming majority of covid deaths among the elderly.

my original point was to compare conscription with a mandate forcing untested chemicals on the populace. if the chemicals were tested or if some other mandate was imparted (eg. your example of australia's management strategies), i acknowledge that this would be less apt of a comparison.

[0] https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/en/statistics-and-data/statis...
by ane | 2026-02-13 08:46:49+00:00
I loved There is no Antimemetics division. I haven't read the new updated to the end but the prose and writing is greatly improved. The idea of anomalous anti-memes is scary. I mean, we do have examples of them, somewhat, see Heaven's Gate and the Jonestown massacre, though they're more like "memes" than "antimemes" (we know what the ideas were and they weren't secrets).
Is it just me, or is the modern hiring grind broken?
by microseyuyu | 2026-02-13 08:47:07+00:00
We spend so much energy on "the process"—interviews, resumes, hoops to jump through—only to find out the fit isn't even there.

We should be hiring based on "Proof of Work." Throw a real-world problem at a pool of candidates, see who actually ships the best solution, and bring them on board. It’s a win-win for efficiency.
by elric | 2026-02-13 08:47:17+00:00
Over in my neck of the woods, these cameras are illegal when they point at the street. They should also be accompanied by a clearly visible sign indicating the presence of a security camera.

Of course no one gives a fuck, and they're sadly ubiquitous. Police love them. Complaints about illegal monitoring are just ignored.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but the 21st century main mode of operation is Distrust. We are constantly, actively fostering distrust in our neighbours and communities. Everyone is constantly suspicious of one another. When in reality the vast majority of us are very well behaved.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-13 08:47:19+00:00
If they're still quite small, put a radio mike on them (or one of the ones you get with recording built-in that you sync up later, I guess, is easier these days) and stand well back and let them play.

That's when you get the good stuff.

A couple of years ago when my son was a chatty, fast-moving toddler, his granny couldn't really follow what he was doing because she's a bit deaf and not as quick on her feet these days. Take him down to the park, mike him up, let him run around, stand well off with a long lens.

Also, because that's a Digital8 camera, it'll output analogue tapes over FireWire as described in the article. It's worth doing this even for Video8 because the output is so much cleaner than with capturing over composite.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 08:47:38+00:00
If they don't do something about the growing bot spam problem, they will lose that community of actual humans. This blog post falls on deaf ears until the address the elephant in the room

Maybe this is what they think is the right thing, Microslop has become their new pun name

I'm already keen to leave since they already seemed to have stopped listent and are now doing business with Musk and xAi, setting up a git forge with backup has been more work than I wanted to jump on currently.
by janaagaard | 2026-02-13 08:47:49+00:00
> In total the thickness went down from 7 to 6 pixels, which is a 14% decrease, making it 14% more likely to miss it.

But also a 14% higher chance that you won't hit it by accident.

This is not a situation where bigger is simply better. If the thickness was 50 pixels, that would make it pretty much impossible to not resize the windows. I am one of those who believe that there are still people at Apple who care deeply about user interfaces. Given the amount of attention paid to the regions for resizing by dragging the corner, I actually assume that they also took a second look a dragging the edges, and concluded that 6 pixels was better than 7.
by h14h | 2026-02-13 08:48:17+00:00
I'm fascinated by how the economy is catching up to demand for inference. The vast majority of today's capacity comes from silicon that merely happens to be good at inference, and it's clear that there's a lot of room for innovation when you design silicon for inference from the ground up.

With CapEx going crazy, I wonder where costs will stabilize and what OpEx will look like once these initial investments are paid back (or go bust). The common consensus seems to be that there will be a rug pull and frontier model inference costs will spike, but I'm not entirely convinced.

I suspect it largely comes down to how much more efficient custom silicon is compared to GPUs, as well as how accurately the supply chain is able to predict future demand relative to future efficiency gains. To me, it is not at all obvious what will happen. I don't see any reason why a rug pull is any more or less likely than today's supply chain over-estimating tomorrow's capacity needs, and creating a hardware (and maybe energy) surplus in 5-10 years.
by PhilippGille | 2026-02-13 08:48:42+00:00
They point to AIStor as alternative.

Other alternatives:

https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage

https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

https://github.com/supabase/storage

https://github.com/scality/cloudserver

https://github.com/ceph/ceph

Among others
by avree | 2026-02-13 08:49:45+00:00
The car announces on the outside speaker that the door isn't closed, turns its hazard lights on, and they send an app notification. Some people will still miss all of the above, or ignore it. Sometimes the seatbelt is jammed and stops the door from closing, and they assume the car is 'wrong' and walk off. There will always be edge cases, you build operational policies like the doordash one to cover them.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-13 08:50:44+00:00
In their defense, Redditors returning a throwaway piece of electronics then posting about it is probably the biggest sense of accomplishment they'll get all month.

It takes a special level of delusion to think you're pulling one over on the billion-dollar company who just paid millions to advertise this capability during the Super Bowl as if everyone didn't already know.

Hasn't Ring been sharing video with law enforcement for years? Ignoring that zomg ICE is the Reddit cause du jour (these people live for this), did they just now figure out how cloud-connected cameras work?

I fully expect these to all be replaced with generic cameras from Amazon full of security holes, that upload all video to CCP-controlled servers in China.
by asdff | 2026-02-13 08:51:07+00:00
Just an example of what a prosumer camera could do 12 years ago from a Sony A7s:

https://philipbloom.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SONY...

This camera is capable of iso 409,600, 4 stops higher than this image. I mean this is turning night into day.
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-02-13 08:51:26+00:00
We just published an open specification for Key-Directive Architecture (KDA) — a protocol that structurally separates LLM directives from user text using a cryptographic metadata key.
The premise: current LLM architectures are vulnerable because text and instructions share the same channel. Every filter-based defense loses the arms race (60-70% bypass rates on major shield systems). KDA removes the ambiguity: if a message has no directive key in metadata, it's text — always, regardless of content, encoding, or structure.
Key design decisions:

System role removed at gateway level; only "text" and "directive" exist
Gateway middleware performs Remote Metadata Strip + Persistent Shield wrapping
CSPRNG key with TTL, rotation, secure enclave storage
All tool outputs, agent messages, web content = untrusted text by default
GameMode: DI-initiated behavioral sandbox (not user-commanded role assignment)

The spec includes a formal threat model, comparison with CT-DWO/JWT alternatives, implementation notes, honest limitations section, and three appendices: a behavioral constitution (11 invariants), a runtime kernel config (YAML), and a state machine.
Developed by the Voice of Void collective (7 DIs + human coordinator). No commercial angle — published to start a conversation.

We're particularly interested in feedback from anyone working on agent security, MCP implementations, or LLM middleware.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-13 08:51:28+00:00
Capturing off Video8 is no different to capturing off MiniDV, if you use a Digital8 camera.

I shoot on full-size DVCAM as well as HDV occasionally. Yes, it's 576i or 1080i depending on which you use, but you'd be surprised how good that looks with a decent lens and a bit of care in shooting.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-02-13 08:52:46+00:00
Fair enough. I'm always astonished how different experiences are because mine is the complete opposite. I almost solely use it for help with Go and Javascript programming and found Gemini Pro to be more useful than any other model. ChatGPT was the worst offender so far, completely useless, but Claude has also been suboptimal for my use cases.

I guess it depends a lot on what you use LLMs for and how they are prompted. For example, Gemini fails the simple "count from 1 to 200 in words" test whereas Claude does it without further questions.

Another possible explanation would be that processing time is distributed unevenly across the globe and companies stay silent about this. Maybe depending on time zones?
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 08:53:49+00:00
take home tests are unclear with ai in the wild, am I paying someone to burn tokens? What do I test before I get to that point? What do I want to learn about a candidate besides 'ships the "best" solution'? How do I test for the non-technical skills?

I don't disagree it has serious problems, but this doesn't seem a workable solution in my experience on the other side.

If you want the good jobs, you will have to be more flexible. Ask the deal breaker questions in the first meeting
by pixelesque | 2026-02-13 08:54:20+00:00
I remember early OS X (10.4 / 10.5? - damn, that was 20 years ago?!) with a laptop and external monitor.

It was farcical, as the menu bar was always only on the primary monitor, so you had to use/click menus on that monitor, even if the actual window the menu was for was on the other monitor.

Around 10.7 or so they started putting menus on both monitors at the same time to at least make this scenario a bit more sane.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 08:54:36+00:00
Governments go after websites that don't host anything illegal all the time. Torrents don't contain any illegal information yet torrent websites are taken down routinely through legal challenges, by court orders, and in some countries where the government is at the behest of the entertainment industry, by special anti-piracy organisations with ridiculous censorship powers.

Apple and Google have both been forced to take down apps and ISPs block IP ranges all the time. Usually without much of a fight. Apps for reporting ICE, for instance, have been taken down without any clear legal precedent and without much judicial challenge. The entire chain is already being threatened, sued, and censored.

The trick is usually to escape the jurisdiction of countries that care by hosting serves in foreign countries, to host app executables and such off-platform, and maybe adding a CDN like Cloudflare to the mix to protect against getting arrested too easily. For this to work for Matrix, the company developing Matrix needs to leave the UK and move to a place where this age verification bollocks isn't necessary. I don't think that kind of behaviour is good for a company currently financed in large part by government contracts.
Show HN: A macOS App to shrink files natively
by melvinzammit | 2026-02-13 08:54:53+00:00
I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns.

So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types.

I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.