MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LastTrain | 2026-02-12 17:39:22+00:00
Very, very few people believe that. This is how it works: Republicans willfully lie to their supporters, who know it is lie, and they then knowingly pass on the lie to you. This could be your conservative friends, family, co-workers. They are all knowingly lying to you. This is a pretty simple form of debasement and a loyalty test - will you repeat this lie for me? The bigger the lie, the more loyal.
by Arnt | 2026-02-12 17:39:31+00:00
Happily, the meanings in RFCs are clearly specified, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119.

Note "the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course". Gmail and the other big hosters have full-time spam teams who spend a lot of time weighing implications, so I assume the implications of this was weighed.
by hackrmn | 2026-02-12 17:39:35+00:00
> A LLM is stateless

Unless you mean by that something entirely different than what most people specifically on Hacker News, of all places, understand with "stateless", most and myself included, would disagree with you regarding the "stateless" property. If you do mean something entirely different than implying an LLM doesn't transition from a state to a state, potentially confined to a limited set of states through finite immutable training data set and accessible context and lack of PRNG, then would you care to elaborate?

Also, it can be stateful _and_ without a consciousness. Like a finite automaton? I don't think anyone's claiming (yet) any of the models today have consciousness, but that's mostly because it's going to be practically impossible to prove without some accepted theory of consciousness, I guess.
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-12 17:39:35+00:00
What does this have to do with either comment above?

You think a show is going in a certain direction: a news piece comes out and confirms that, with millions of dollars of incentive to seal it, it's probably not going to go that way...

What's wrong with voicing displeasure at that? They said they're canceling their viewership, not that the show should be shut down due to their preference or something.
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-12 17:39:38+00:00
That does universal copy and paste with my linux laptop? Airdrop with my android tablet?

I can copy something on my macbook and paste that on my iphone - nice feature. Or to my iPad. I’m a sucker for interconnected technology, no hassle with transferring data between my devices.

Sure there are alternatives, but none that provide such integration amongst diverse class of devices. That’s the true monopole they have - unfortunately.
by bleuradience | 2026-02-12 17:39:56+00:00
BleuNova AI Agent – a personal, self-hosted agent built from scratch with a focus on ethics and security.
Core constraints I set for myself:

No cloud dependency by default (Ollama/local models first)
Immutable ethical rules enforced at runtime (truthfulness, harm prevention, consent, audit logging)
Zero-trust execution (Docker sandboxing, network isolation, timeouts)
Continual learning without catastrophic forgetting (replay buffers + DSPy-style optimization)

Current capabilities:

Multi-modal (video gen via Wan 2.2, voice, vision, IoT)
Multi-agent role delegation
Optional Grok API for humor/large-context reasoning
Visual builder & dashboard
Built-in Docker helper agent

Early stage (v0.1.0), MIT-licensed:
https://github.com/BleuRadience/BleuNova-AI-Agent
Curious what the HN crowd thinks:

How robust is the ethics enforcement in practice?
What self-hosted agent pitfalls have you hit that I should address?
Any must-have integrations or tools for this kind of system?

Appreciate any feedback, PRs, or forks.
Thanks,
Cassandra (@BleuRadience) – Houston
Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
by vldszn | 2026-02-12 17:40:37+00:00
I started noticing problems with Prettier in Cursor around 3 weeks ago.

Discussion on Cursor forum: https://forum.cursor.com/t/after-last-update-prettier-stopped-working/149213

I managed to fix it a couple of days ago by:

- updating to the latest Cursor version

- downgrading the Prettier extension to 11.0.2

- removing the following from settings.json
"[typescript]": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.typescript-language-features" }

(more info: https://forum.cursor.com/t/after-last-update-prettier-stopped-working/149213/24)

- manually removing the broken v12 prettier extension (they were two versions v11 and v12 installed in .cursor/extensions): rm -rf ~/.cursor/extensions/esbenp.prettier-vscode-12.1.1-universal

(more info: https://forum.cursor.com/t/after-last-update-prettier-stopped-working/149213/23)
by something765478 | 2026-02-12 17:40:44+00:00
> Most people are too appearance and fashion-conscious to want to wear tech on their face

Have you seen the Ray Ban meta glasses? They already look pretty close to existing fashionable sunglasses, albeit with a visible camera.

> and I don't see many people wanting to carry TWO expensive tech gadgets (and worry about charging/losing/forgetting them)

They already do; plenty of people have both a smart watch and a smart phone.

> seeing as photos and video is core to what people want from their mobile device, it seems that the smartphone will continue to be the form-factor of the future, and I expect these other next-gen form factors to fail.

People use smartphones to avoid being bored, but there are situations when it's unacceptable to use them (i.e. in a meeting); I could see smart glasses being used for that niche.

> What if Google or someone else comes out with an AI-centric "personal assistant" device so compelling that it massively ups the bar as to what customers expect from a mobile device (in same way that iPhone did at launch)?

Knowing Google, that personal assistant would probably be shut down within a year.
by amatecha | 2026-02-12 17:40:58+00:00
Google literally just settled for $68m about this very issue https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/26/google-pr...

> Google agreed to pay $68m to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy.

Apple as well https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/apple-sir...
by bigyabai | 2026-02-12 17:41:00+00:00
> Who? As in you?

No, as in the entire PC market for the past two decades: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

> Apple is cheaper for what it offers in hardware ignoring the Apple ecosystem.

Then it sounds like their work is cut out for them. They've got a lot of market share to catch up on, and they're not gaining very quickly.

Makes me glad for businesses like Nvidia, who are very willing to ship industry-grade ARM hardware even if Apple won't.
by root_axis | 2026-02-12 17:41:02+00:00
I deliberately copied the entire quote to preserve the full context. That juxtaposition is a tonal choice representative of the article's broader narrative, i.e. "agents are so powerful that they're potentially a dangerous new threat!".

I'm arguing against that hype. This is nothing new, everyone has been talking about LLMs being used to harass and spam the internet for years.
by thisisit | 2026-02-12 17:41:31+00:00
I am confused by your logic.

You start off with

> I think blanket tariffs are dumb don't get me wrong.

Then add a conjunction and use a single example to just make a point opposite to what you started with.

> So in my opinion, we've seen where they can work.

I can't help but think that you don't believe blanket tariffs are dumb because it worked for one industry and helps American jobs. Just start with that please.
by Kerrick | 2026-02-12 17:41:33+00:00
I laugh every time somebody thinks every problem must have a root cause that pollutes every non-problem it touches.

It's a problem to use a blender to polish your jewelry. However, it's perfectly alright to use a blender to make a smoothie. It's not cognitive dissonance to write a blog post imploring people to stop polishing jewelry using a blender while also making a daily smoothie using the same tool.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-12 17:41:37+00:00
> I am indeed biased (I walk/cycle and don't drive), but that is irrelevant.

It's really not, not if it's informing your view more than fact and reason is.

I applaud you for providing some data (although none peer reviewed and published in standard journals from what I can see), but I have to be skeptical of their results.

Look at rideshare drivers as a counter - they typically have their phones mounted, and see new jobs, texts etc as they come in. If phones were so damaging, don't you think rideshare drivers would be involved in more incidents than most, and an uptick in accidents since ride-sharing became normal? Nothing like that has happened, though.

If the average is 23 seconds, I assume there's some elderly people skewing things, and the mode might be much closer to 5 or 10 seconds. The average in this case could very much be non-representative.

> People may start off being ultra careful with phone use, but unless there's some process to warn them, they end up using their phone more and more.

You could say this for anything though. By all means have zero tolerance and harsh penalties for using a phone while the vehicle is in motion, but I think some places even have laws punishing using a phone in the drivers seat in a parked car, which is just ridiculous.

> As far as "working" with the police, that's very much the line that the police bring out for encouraging the public to submit video evidence of traffic offences.

Sure.

> "Harmless behaviour that is common" - as discussed, the behaviour is not harmless which is precisely why the phone use law was introduced and why the police are interested in prosecuting for it.

I don't think you've made your case that the behavior is not harmless, and a more cynical guess at a motive might just be easy money.

> The police took her report and video seriously.

That's good.
by salmacodes | 2026-02-12 17:41:41+00:00
Been trying to get Operator to handle a multi-step workflow for a client (login → navigate nested menus → fill form → confirm) and it just... breaks in the middle every time.

Seeing the hard-task numbers here makes that make a lot more sense.

Honestly the more interesting thing to me is the benchmark critique. WebVoyager being the default eval while only agreeing with humans 62% of the time is kind of damning for the whole space. Has anyone else tried running their agent against Online-Mind2Web?
by ericmay | 2026-02-12 17:42:06+00:00
I think you don't know what you're talking about in this conversation, but I'll kindly summarize it for you.

I said the following in context of using credit cards:

> Buying a bottle of Calvados in some remote area? Yea just tap to pay with your Mastercard.

Jimnotgym said:

> Hard disagree.

Implying that it is in fact not easy, or common, or something like that.

graemep then wrote:

> It's not just American tourists. It's everyone from everywhere. If you do not accept Visa and Mastercard you are not going to accept payments from all sorts of travellers (tourists, business people, people from your own country living abroad) either.

So at this point jimnotgym is saying, effectively, "tourists use credit cards". graemep is accurately pointing out that everyone uses credit cards, not just tourists.

Let's continue...

jimnotgym says:

> Who all stop in chain hotels, who will accept whatever you bring.

So here what's happening is jimnotgym is basically saying tourists use credit cards, they only stay in chain hotels.

Here is where I highlighted why credit cards are used (and sure, debit cards too) and then claiming that every hotel in Europe takes credit cards.

And then afterward you've said a few things which, of course one of them I acknowledged using the wrong words for. Since then you've just been arguing points that aren't relevant to the conversation at hand. You at one point claimed you used a debit card at a hotel.

Great.

Find me a single hotel in Europe that doesn't take credit cards Why? Because jimnotgym is asserting credit cards "are a tourist thing" and are used only at chain hotels or hotels for tourist. I'm giving him a softball question and setting an extreme anchor point here. The vast majority of hotels in Europe take credit cards regardless of whether they are catering to "tourists" or not. That's a demonstrable fact. But do all hotels? I bet they do. Which goes to prove that credit card usage at hotels isn't limited to "tourists".

If you have any specific questions you'd like to ask, I'd be happy to answer them. I don't know what point you're trying to make here and it really seems like you've lost track of what the initial conversation was and now you're just arguing things that aren't being argued.
by willio58 | 2026-02-12 17:42:12+00:00
Elon cult members still to this day will tell me that because humans only use vision to drive all a Tesla needs is simple cameras. Meanwhile, I've been driven by Waymo and Tesla FSD and Waymo is by far my pick for safety and comfort. I actually trusted the waymo I was in, while the Tesla I rode in we had 2 _very_ scary incidents at high speeds in a 1 hour drive.
by ericmcer | 2026-02-12 17:42:21+00:00
Talking to a chatbot yourself is much different from another person spinning up a (potentially malicious) AI agent and giving it permissions to make PRs and publish blogs. This tracks with the general ethos of self-responsibility that is semi-common on HN.

If the author had configured and launched the AI agent himself we would think it was a funny story of someone misusing a tool.

The author notes in the article that he wants to see the `soul.md` file, probably because if the agent was configured to publish malicious blog posts then he wouldn't really have an issue with the agent, but with the person who created it.
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 17:42:33+00:00
Yeah, SaaS tools start feeling bloated fast. I switched to self-hosting analytics so I could track user behavior properly without paying per seat.

Was messing around with Grafana and other stuff, but for session replays and metrics I built UXWizz. Gives me everything self-hosted and avoids those crazy per-user bills [0].

[0] https://www.uxwizz.com
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-12 17:42:41+00:00
Pretty much every tax is ultimately paid by the consumer, because all the suppliers have to make a profit or they won't stay in business. The point of an import tariff isn't to make anything cheaper, it's to level the market in the presence of a foreign supplier who has much lower costs (e.g. sweatshop labor, state-supported industry, etc.) that are not available to domestic suppliers.
by rickydroll | 2026-02-12 17:42:42+00:00
I think using translation software or AI images comes down to the ease of working with the system vrs a human. For example, I've created placeholder images for various pieces of work. The images didn't bring in any revenue; they were throwaway pieces, so I didn't give a shit. It wasn't worth paying a human for it.

Before I had AI-generated images, I either left out images from the work or used no-copyright clip art because, again, it wasn't worth arguing with or paying a human to do it.

When it came to diagrams, before Excalidraw, I would dust off my drafting skills, draw something on paper with colored pencils, take a picture of it, and use the picture as the diagram. In this case, I was willing to argue with and pay myself.
by varispeed | 2026-02-12 17:42:43+00:00
Many carriers also effectively stopped honouring DAP Incoterm. If consumer doesn't pay the tariff within 2 months or so, they charge the shipper.

See FedEx for instance:

14.6 Regardless of any payment instructions to the contrary, the Sender is ultimately responsible for payment of duties and taxes and all fees and surcharges related to FedEx’s disbursement of duties and taxes if payment is not received. If a Recipient or a third party from which reimbursement confirmation is required refuses to pay the duties and taxes upon request, FedEx may contact the Sender, for the same. If the Sender refuses to make satisfactory arrangements to reimburse FedEx, the Shipment may be returned to the Sender (in which case, Sender will be responsible both for original and return charges) or placed into a temporary storage, general order warehouse or a customs-bonded warehouse or considered undeliverable. If Transportation Charges for a Shipment are billed to a credit card, FedEx reserves the right to also settle uncollected duties and taxes charges associated with that Shipment to the credit card account.
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-02-12 17:43:07+00:00
It’s kind of shocking the OP does not consider this, the most likely scenario. Human uses AI to make a PR. PR is rejected. Human feels insecure - this tool that they thought made them as good as any developer does not. They lash out and instruct an AI to build a narrative and draft a blog post.

I have seen someone I know in person get very insecure if anyone ever doubts the quality of their work because they use so much AI and do not put in the necessary work to revise its outputs. I could see a lesser version of them going through with this blog post scheme.
by salawat | 2026-02-12 17:43:27+00:00
You need to stop materially misrepresenting your product. The Agent does not have a bank account. The customer does, and is integrating an executable to perform activities in the individual account holder's name. I assure you. That is a different beast entirely than what you are describing, and finance is so prone to being misunderstood, you aren't doing anyone any good faith favors. In fact, as a former participant in the sector, you're engaging in the vice of finance people everywhere; equivocation through jargon and telling people what they want to hear to get them on your fee schedule.
by sreekanth850 | 2026-02-12 17:43:42+00:00
I vibe code and do a lot of coding with AI, But I never go and randomly make a pull request on some random repository with reputation and human work. My wisdom always tell me not to mess anything that is build with years of hard work by real humans. I always wonder why there are so many assholes in the world. Sometimes its so depressing.
by curun1r | 2026-02-12 17:43:48+00:00
What’s obnoxious about them isn’t tariffs conceptually, it’s the implementation.

There’s an argument that some sort of tariffs are actually necessary. The world is changing and the US has become reliant on countries who increasingly have divergent interests from the US. Additionally, some countries have aging populations that will make them more and more unreliable places to manufacture stuff in the next couple decades. It’s entirely reasonable to believe that it’s pretty critical for the US to begin the process of re-industrializing as soon as possible and tariffs are a crucial lever to make that happen.

But…how you do that matters. Re-industrialization is a process that will take decades and the businesses doing that need to be fairly sure of the government’s policy for most of that period. If Trump had built a broad consensus with Democrats for the tariff policy so that businesses could have understood that a future Democratic president or congressional majority would continue the tariff policy, then businesses would be able to plan accordingly and begin the massive capital outlays that come with re-shoring manufacturing. And the tariffs would strategically exclude certain items like the steel that would be necessary to build factories. And, lastly, you wouldn’t pick now to go on a deportation spree when a sizable chunk of the nations construction workers are undocumented immigrants, since all those factories will need to be built by someone and there aren’t enough Americans to do it.

But instead of the sane and well-reasoned way to do it, we’ve got Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip chaos version. The tariff policy changes weekly, so businesses can’t predict it, let alone rely on it in the way they would need to to spend the collective trillions of dollars on manufacturing infrastructure that need to be spent. And he’s antagonizing Democrats to such and extent that any future Democratic administration will drop the tariffs on day one. The result of which is that businesses, understandably, are hunkering down until he’s out of office. Instead of spurring the massive investment we need, his policies have chilled spending on manufacturing. The only thing we’re really building at the moment are data centers.

So there’s this narrative that tariffs are awful now that’s really the result of someone incompetently deploying them. Some sort of tariff policy would actually be a necessary medicine for the country to help heal the damage from an over reliance on a globalized system that is going to crumble in the coming decades. It won’t be easy, but the earlier the country starts to address it, the better the outcome will be. But it needs to be done intentionally, in a bi-partisan way and through acts of Congress, not in a scattershot fashion where Congress is a bystander and a single deranged lunatic pulls tariff percentages out of ass whenever the mood strikes him.
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-12 17:44:01+00:00
How many cities can Trump put under siege before something breaks, causing a cascading failure?

There's probably a limit on how many men are willing to be Gestapo, well probably hit that first.

Economic activity must lessen or even halt when under siege. We lost about 0.3% of the US population to COVID and had labor shortages and supply chain problems for years - can't disappear and deport too many folks.

I'm actually surprised that the NRA types haven't risen up against tyranny. That would be a real problem.

A lot of sieges happening at once will end up as a command economy, which leads to market distortion. Prices and availability problems ensue.

Any or all of these things could lead to a quick societal collapse. Trump is wrong in believing that people will just carry on as before even when all manner of changes occur. At some point, people change behaviors in n response.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-12 17:44:07+00:00
> philosophizing about whether a Turing machine can simulate a human brain

Existence proof:

* DNA transcription (a Turing machine, as per (Turing 1936) )
* Leads to Alan Turing by means of morphogenisis (Turing 1952)
* Alan Turing has a brain that writes the two papers
* Thus proving he is at least a turing machine (by writing Turing 1936)
* And capable of simulating chemical processes (by writing Turing 1952)

Turing 1936: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

Turing 1952: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing...
by DFHippie | 2026-02-12 17:44:13+00:00
They didn't. Not until Trump started tariffing them. (I don't have time to find references, but Paul Krugman has you covered for data and analysis.)

All Trump's policies assume he's playing a single-move game where his is the only move. It turns out it's an infinite game and the other side actually has free will and competent decision makers. He can't just wish people into the cornfield as he promised.