MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ak217 | 2026-02-21 18:57:14+00:00
There is plenty of information about this in trusted sources, the way you're describing this is incorrect. Overcorrection and badly designed simplistic optics can make myopia worse in childhood when the eye is growing. Your eye is no longer growing.

Don't trust everything your doctor says verbatim, they often oversimplify and their information can be out of date. Give your doctor the benefit of the doubt but check it against other sources and use it to build a mental model.
by robocat | 2026-02-21 18:57:36+00:00
So ultraprocessed food is addictive food.

It is hard for individuals to fight back against toxic obesogenic advertisers.

Even when we communally create a helpful concept or word, it eventually gets undermined and debased by sociopathic advertising (now with extra helping hand from AI).

Aside: there's an art to narrowing down and selecting relevant information from AI generated responses. Plus the art of writing/rewriting good prompts. I fear many people will fail to learn to prompt intelligently (Many people haven't even learned to use search operators over decades!)

Aside 2: AI generated spelling mistakes are fun to look for. Humans make different mistakes - Chipolte feels especially human!
Human and AI. How to Modernize Your Consciousness in 10 Minutes
by kokhanserhii | 2026-02-21 18:57:42+00:00
For someone let this be simply a joke, and for someone this will become a serious life turning point. Simply answer several questions to yourself. Reading these questions, you must understand that you are not only trying to position yourself, but at the same time you also learn about the opinion of other people through the text.

I repeat, here the main idea is not a questionnaire, this is intended as a means of personal psychological support in positioning oneself. For many questions the answer should/can be "don't know yet." But you will now know that such a dimension exists and will more meaningfully look at all kinds of arguments for the first, for the second, or third. Also you will begin to understand that you are surrounded by a multitude of different-type, different-vector in these senses people.

---

1. What do you see in artificial intelligence (hereinafter - "smart chats")?

- A service?
- An exoskeleton?
- A partner?
- All of the above in turn in an incomprehensible order?
- All of the above in turn in a meaningful order?

---

2. How do you see for yourself the main purpose of smart chats?

- Help in qualification educational works?
- Help in programming?
- Help in self-development?
- Help in learning in general?
- Literary creativity?
- Reports for work?
- Help in self-development?
- Help in the depths of science?
- Survey self-education?
- Help with correspondence?
- Help with writing articles?
- Help with translation?
- Help with reading large texts?
- Big help with your main subject at work, in hobby?
- ... (here the list is large, if something "other," please add in comments)
...
10. To what extent do you accept a person's answer using a "smart chat" to your important question of interest?

- I want the person himself to answer!
- For the sake of quality and speed I accept that a person with a smart chat answers!
- A correct and understandable answer is important, not who answers!
- I clearly understand: where exclusively a person is needed, where a person with chat is possible, and where simply an answer of a smart chat is acceptable.

---

Do you think it's worth developing and extending this topic further? Something interesting, useful?

Full version:
https://zenodo.org/records/18726277
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-21 18:57:59+00:00
The thought that occurs to me is, the action here that actually needs gating is maybe not the web browsing: it's accessing credentials. That should be relatively easy to gate off behind human approval!

I'd also point out this a place where 2FA/MFA might be super helpful. Your phone or whatever is already going to alert you. There's a little bit of a challenge in being confident your bot isn't being tricked, in ascertaining even if the bot tells you that it really is safe to approve. But it's still a deliberation layer to go through. Our valuable things do often have these additional layers of defense to go through that would require somewhat more advanced systems to bot through, that I don't think are common at all.

Overall I think the will here to reject & deny, the fear uncertainty and doubt is both valid and true, but that people are trying way way way too hard, and it saddens me to see such a strong manifestation of fear. I realize the techies know enough to be horrified strongly by it all, but also, I really want us to be an excited forward looking group, that is interested in tackling challenges, rather than being interested only in critiques & teardowns. This feels like an incredible adventure & I wish to en Courage everyone.
by csmpltn | 2026-02-21 18:58:05+00:00
Call them whatever you want. All I'm saying is that Europeans are hypocrites for fucking over their greatest ally via unenforceable and anti-competitive regulation that's not worth the paper it's written in (and that European institutions have even exempted themselves from). The one ally that they desperately depend on for safety and security, technology, medicine, research, etc.
by weitendorf | 2026-02-21 18:58:06+00:00
Very cool! I’ve been flirting with the idea of biting the bullet and moving more towards language extensions around protobuf/grpc vs just tools so it’s really great to see projects on the other side of that kind of decision shipping and what choices they made

Why the square brackets in particular? Notation is such an annoying part of this stuff, I’m actually leaning towards pushing a lot of structure to the filesystem
by eleventyseven | 2026-02-21 18:58:10+00:00
> a 35yo nobody managed to win the mayoral election with fake smiles and empty promises, because 40% of the city is now foreign-born. Had only native-born Americans (not even just those born in NYC) voted, he would have lost.

Ignorant on so many levels, I truly feel sorry for people who have been brainwashed by their media to think so uncritically.

And why does it matter in any way whatsoever what would have happened if immigrants who gained citizenship couldn't vote? They can vote, and did. So? That is about as relevant as the observation that if Mamdani wouldn't have won if he ran for mayor of Tampa. So? What's the point? I'm truly curious.

America is a multiracial democracy fueled by waves of immigration, NYC especially. Those people live there and are citizens. What's your point?
by jameslk | 2026-02-21 18:58:22+00:00
One safety pattern I’m baking into CLI tools meant for agents: Anytime an agent could do something very bad, like email blast too many people, CLI tools now require a one-time password

The tool tells the agent to ask the user for it, and the agent cannot proceed without it. The instructions from the tool show an all caps message explaining the risk and telling the agent that they must prompt the user for the OTP

I haven't used any of the *Claws yet, but this seems like an essential poor man's human-in-the-loop implementation that may help prevent some pain

I prefer to make my own agent CLIs for everything for reasons like this and many others to fully control other aspects of what the tool may do and to make them more useful
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-21 18:58:49+00:00
I ran a dial-up BBS in the late 1990s. One summer a few of my loyal users suddenly stopped calling.

About a year later I learned that one of my users hacked an airport. At the time a few of my users would set their computers to dial random numbers and find modems answering. One of the numbers was a very strange system with no password. The story I heard was that they didn't know what the system was, because it had no identifying information. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/doj-charges-...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-21 18:59:23+00:00
I worked at AWS in the ProServe division during the height of Covid, every state was so swamped with calls about various government services we had to automate calls as much as possible and figure out other ways to “deflect” calls from call center agents. This was before AI when you had go use old school intents based systems like Alexa, Siri and Google did pre AI.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-21 18:59:37+00:00
Somewhat related: Old post "The sound of the dialup, pictured" https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture... (Biggest HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635144 | 675 points | Nov 2017 | 108 comments, and a few more discussions in https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20sound%20of%20the%20dialu... )
by snowhale | 2026-02-21 18:59:42+00:00
the non-frontier model use case is underrated here. for things like autocomplete, classification, routing, or first-pass triage -- you don't need GPT-4 class reasoning. you need something that's fast and cheap enough to call on every keystroke or every incoming message. at 17k tok/sec and 20x lower cost, a whole class of latency-sensitive edge applications becomes viable that aren't today.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-02-21 19:00:11+00:00
This was a fun exercise. I made it through 1300 by reading it in a Scottish accent and being familiar with some basic old Norse characters from a prior trip to Iceland. I watch Scottish shows like "Still Game", and for some reason that combo with the accent and their lingo made it simpler to read. By 1200 I was completely lost; it looks more Germanic to me, which I don't have the knowledge to read.
Show HN: Connect to Your Mac Terminal from iPhone
by Sayuj01 | 2026-02-21 19:00:43+00:00
Steve Jobs said if you live every day like it's your last, you'll eventually be right. I realized if today was my last day, I'd honestly rather be using Claude Code/Codex than doomscrolling on the toilet.

So I built Macky so I can do exactly that.

It works by establishing a direct P2P WebRTC tunnel between your Mac and iPhone. It is secure by design. My server introduces the devices but never sees the data stream and allow listing so you have to manually approve your iPhone on the Mac first.

Since you are already naked, you might as well ship some code.
by cstrahan | 2026-02-21 19:01:12+00:00
https://bablr.org/

> The next-gen LR parser framework for creating elegant and efficient language tools

> BABLR is a new kind of thing that does not quite fit into any category of things that has existed before it. In purpose it is made to be an instrument of code literacy -- a unified toolchain for software developers that supports a new generation of richly visual interfaces for coding. In form BABLR is a collection of scripts and virtual machines written in plain Javascript that run in almost any modern web browser. BABLR is also a community and an ecosystem, including a small but rapidly growing collection of ready-to-use parsers for popular languages.
by pluralfossum | 2026-02-21 19:01:47+00:00
Mala in se vs. mala prohibita.

I don't think it's all that debatable to say that deceiving people is categorically wrong, nor is it to say that it's immoral not to follow the laws of the land -- both are obviously untrue as absolute statements.

For extreme examples, would it be immoral to lie to the Gestapo about harboring Jews? Were people illegally helping slaves escape the American South being immoral?
by whattheheckheck | 2026-02-21 19:02:18+00:00
Reasoning is a pattern that is embedded within the token patterns but the llms are imitating reasoning via learning symbolic reasoning patterns.

The very fact that it memorized the Ceasar cipher rot13 pattern is due to it being a Linux command and it had examples of patterns of 13 shifted letters. If you asked it to figure out a different shift it struggled.

Now compound that across all intelligent reasoning problems in the entirety of human existence and you'll see how we will never have enough data to make agi with this architecture and training paradigm.

But we will have higher and higher fidelity maps of symbolic reasoning patterns as they suck up all the agent usage data for knowledge work tasks. Hopefully your tasks fall out of distribution of the median training data scope
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-21 19:03:09+00:00
I mentioned in another reply that I built call centers during an after my time at AWS for organizations (Amazon Connect), I assure you that the human you get online is no more knowledgeable than the chatbot. Even before AI they were using a knowledge base. Now services like Amazon Q for Connect automatically displays KB answers to the agents based on the conversation you are having with the human agent.
by nothrabannosir | 2026-02-21 19:04:10+00:00
I never had this integrated with an editor but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. With CDKTF, a stock typescript IDE automatically has tab complete for every provider you want. That + being able to use functions, variables, loops, arrays, and structs for composition made it a completely different experience.

If those things all end up coming to terraform I’m all ears. For now it seemed more like a compilation target.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-02-21 19:04:19+00:00
> The thing that I’m really very skeptical of is the 2 month turnaround. To get leading edge geometry turned around on arbitrary 2 month schedules is .. ambitious. Hopeful. We could use other words as well.

They may be using Rapidus, which is a Japanese government backed foundry built around all single wafer processing vs traditional batching. They advertise ~2 month turnaround time as standard, and as short as 2 weeks for priority.
by amarant | 2026-02-21 19:04:29+00:00
What do you mean, you can't quote the Linux kernel by heart? I thought it was gospel for all nerds:

Loongarch kernel, first paragraph, the lord Linus said, in all his wisdom:
/* Hardware capabilities */
unsigned int elf_hwcap __read_mostly
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(elf_hwcap)
by flumpcakes | 2026-02-21 19:04:31+00:00
I am about to talk about "vibes" and "feelings" so please take this with a grain of salt:

Does anyone else get the impression that they feel like the nefarious surveillance state is now real and definitely not for their benefit?

It's been a long running trope of the men in black, and the state listening to your phone calls, etc. Even after Snowdon's leaks, where we learned that there are these massive dragnets scooping up personal information, it didn't feel real. It felt distant and possibly could have been a "probably good thing" that is it was needed to catch "the real bad guys".

It feels different now. Since last year, it feels like the walls are closing in a bit and that now the US is becoming... well, I can't find the words, but it's not good.
by kburman | 2026-02-21 19:05:13+00:00
I don't get the whole idea of treating identity verification as a private enterprise problem. I realize it's easy to just blame LinkedIn or Microsoft here, but the core issue is architectural. We are trying to solve a public utility problem by building private honeypots.

The government should provide an API or interface to validate a user, essentially acting just like an SSO. Instead of forcing users to upload raw passport scans to a third-party data broker, LinkedIn should just hit a government endpoint that returns an anonymized token or a simple boolean confirming "yes, this is a real, unique person." It gives platforms the sybil resistance they need without leaking the underlying PII.
by hackernudes | 2026-02-21 19:06:11+00:00
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k&t=99

This matches my memory of 56k dialup with the two BONGs.

And now I get to share my favorite AT command. M0 could mute the modem! M1 was quieter than the default. I will never understand why those weren't more common! Used like: ATM0DT
by pvaldes | 2026-02-21 19:06:20+00:00
People do all sort of crazy things with their cars, because the fearsome "brother-in-law effect". ("Hey, what a nice diesel injection pump do you have here, lets add the frying chips oil to 'clean' it!"). Of course they end with a broken car, while refusing adamantly to admit that the car is broken.

I'll shamelessly take advantage of your experience. Lets assume that you are trying to repair a sizeable electric stove, with or without wheels; what advice would you give to avoid being zapped?
by mindslight | 2026-02-21 19:07:01+00:00
That the founders were able to articulate lofty ideals while steeped in being oppressors in multiple ways isn't the condemnation you seem to think it is. Rather it's more commendable that they were able to be so forward thinking, as people with power benefiting from the society they were in. Our modern interpretation of that sentence would most certainly have shocked many of the people who supported it in the context of the time, and yet they were able to draw a rough sketch that we are still appealing to eight generations later as a beacon of progress!

Of course it is important to guard against those who would dredge up that historic context as what "the founders intended" to try and drag us back there, on some rosy vision of the past where all of the problems seem quaint (as they've been addressed in the current day).
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-02-21 19:07:48+00:00
> How will you maintain multiple deployments across multiple regions in the world? Backups, security patches will start to take a toll

The same way as always - by automating the crap out of it.

> How granular is the right split? Not every country has a cloud provider.

Doesn't have to be one deployment for one country, does it? Having like 3 or 4 deployments across the globe already gives you (at least) 3-4 hours of inactivity window, let's say 1 am - 4 am or something.
Show HN: Podvoice – Local-first CLI to turn Markdown into multi-speaker audio
by aman179102 | 2026-02-21 19:07:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Podvoice because I wanted a simple way to turn Markdown podcast-style scripts into audio without relying on cloud TTS APIs.

It runs fully locally using Coqui XTTS v2.
No API keys.
No accounts.
Just a CLI workflow.

You write something like:

[Host | calm]
Hello and welcome.

[Guest | excited]
Let’s talk about AI.

And it generates a single stitched audio file.

Would love feedback on the idea, UX, or use cases I might be missing.
by BuildTheRobots | 2026-02-21 19:07:59+00:00
I've also been searching for that double-bong for years.

Last time I asked, user hackmiester pointed me to https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-colle...

The "Texas Instruments DSP based Modems" linking to USR-Sportster-bong-bong.wav is pretty close to what I remember.

edit: hackernudes reply is perfect. The youtube auto generated subtitles are pleasing too.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-21 19:08:20+00:00
It's the siren song of the myopically lazy. It's laziness today in exchange for harder work tomorrow, with the wager that tomorrow's harder work will be even lazier thanks to advances in technology.

Whereas I'd self-describe as "strategically lazy". It's building iterable code and repeatable processes today, so I can be lazy far into the future. It's engineering solutions today that are easier to support with lazier efforts tomorrow, regardless of whether things improve or get worse.

Building processes around agents predicated on a specific model is myopically lazy, because you'll be rebuilding and debugging that entire setup next year when your chosen agent is deprecated or retired. Those of us building documented code with agents today, will have an easier time debugging it in the future because the hard work is already done.

Incidentally, we'll also have gainful employment tomorrow by un-fucking agent-based workflows that didn't translate into software when tokens were cheap and subsidized by VCs for market capture purposes.
by bdash | 2026-02-21 19:08:24+00:00
It is a little more direct than that even. The application's entitlements are passed into the interpretation of the sandbox profile. It is the sandbox profile itself that determines which policies should be applied in the resulting compiled sandbox policy based on entitlements and other factors.

An example from /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles/application.sb, the profile that is used for App Sandboxed applications, on my system:

(when (entitlement "com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-only")
(read-only-and-issue-extensions (home-subpath "/Downloads")))
(when (entitlement "com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-write")
(read-write-and-issue-extensions (home-subpath "/Downloads")))
(when (or (entitlement "com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-only")
(entitlement "com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-write"))
(allow process-exec (home-subpath "/Downloads")))
by hifriendbot | 2026-02-21 19:09:56+00:00
I built this because I kept re-explaining my project architecture every time
I started a new Claude Code session. CLAUDE.md helps but tops out at ~150
lines and gets unreliable after context compaction. CogmemAi stores facts
about your codebase server-side and retrieves them via semantic search. The
compaction recovery hooks were the hardest part to get right. Claude Code's
transcript format is undocumented. Happy to answer questions.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-21 19:10:06+00:00
new england is also pretty wet but because it freezes, we have basements (not sure about UK), so the stonework is below the habitable levels.

i get what you mean about not being able to fix it. from what it sounds like, the UK is leading the US by about 10-20 years in terms of "energy leaving the system."
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-21 19:10:44+00:00
First I'm not american, I'm simply displeased to see my fellow Europeans seething about the consequences, while refusing to address the causes.

You speak about China: their government is very eager to favor local alternatives, which helps fund the local ecosystem.

In contrast, Euro countries don't generally procure office software from elsewhere than US companies (especially, Microsoft). It's always talk, talk, when the time for action comes, everyone looks at their shoes and signs the contract from the US company.

Even the European commission does the same, and filed a lawsuit against their own regulatory body after it pointed out that MS Office 365 wasn't fully compliant with the EC's own privacy rules! Rules for thee, not for me, as always with the EC.[0]

So yeah, regulations and laws don't replace political will and action. Especially when we talk about the EU, where hypocrisy and lobbying is at its highest.

[0] https://www.freevacy.com/news/official-journal-of-the-europe...
by billmalarky | 2026-02-21 19:11:01+00:00
Bastion hosts.

You don't give it your "prod email", you give it a secondary email you created specifically for it.

You don't give it your "prod Paypal", you create a secondary paypal (perhaps a paypal account registered using the same email as the secondary email you gave it).

You don't give it your "prod bank checking account", you spin up a new checking with Discover.com (or any other online back that takes <5min to create a new checking account). With online banking it is fairly straightforward to set up fully-sandboxed financial accounts. You can, for example, set up one-way flows from your "prod checking account" to your "bastion checking account." Where prod can push/pull cash to the bastion checking, but the bastion cannot push/pull (or even see) the prod checking acct. The "permissions" logic that supports this is handled by the Nacha network (which governs how ACH transfers can flow). Banks cannot... ignore the permissions... they quickly (immediately) lose their ability to legally operate as a bank if they do...

Now then, I'm not trying to handwave away the serious challenges associated with this technology. There's also the threat of reputational risks etc since it is operating as your agent -- heck potentially even legal risk if things get into the realm of "oops this thing accidentally committed financial fraud."

I'm simply saying that the idea of least privileged permissions applies to online accounts as well as everything else.