MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-25 00:28:39+00:00
Yes, I agree, and this is a moment to prove they aren’t full of it - and it also seems like a very good move when the rest of the world seems increasingly vary wary of tech that even whiffs of US govt involvement.

I am not at all a skeptic anymore on this stuff and the science is well beyond me, but from what I think I know about alignment issues, and anthropic’s intense focus on solving these, it would not surprise me at all if we learn that catering to US whims on AI safety will result in the model actually getting worse or causing intense, 2nd and 3rd order unintended consequences. I’m not saying I believe there is a Terminator sequence of events happening, but if I did believe that, the headlines right now would look exactly what that would look like.

Alignment is the biggest issue for me - in terms of getting these things to actually behave in an environment where it is absolutely necessary that they behave. If I had to guess, that’s probably why the military is preferring to use it. Claude tooling is the only thing I have used yet in this hype cycle that actually I can get to behave how I want and obeys (arguably, and often to a fault).

However I also believe we’re in the worst possible timeline so the moment we get a taste of something that works as promised, it’ll be ripped away because the govt decides to do something stupid or build a moat around its use in a way to make it less useful, and favor other more “compliant” competitors.

Either way I bet there are some wild board room discussions going on at Anthropic right now.
by rockostrich | 2026-02-25 00:28:47+00:00
This is essentially just setting up an MCP connection to your kanban provider and instructing the agent to plan out an epic. I did this this morning for some data modeling our team needed to do. For the most part it generated a good set of tickets, but there were some hallucinations due to ambiguity. Reviewing the already written out tickets was much better than writing them out myself.

But the standard that will hopefully take over in most mature shops is spec driven development where instead of a team reviewing code, they review a spec which is used to generate tasks and subsequently code to satisfy the spec. Then 2 kanban boards exist. One for writing and submitting specs and another for the agents themselves to implement the approved specs.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-25 00:28:56+00:00
> For many people, the difference between an ultra-low cost carrier and a mainline carrier is whether they have to walk through first class on the way to their seats. If you are going to get treated like cattle and upsold on everything anyway, might as well save a few bucks.

That goes beyond airlines and extends to everything. The trend I've been observing in every product and service category is the hollowing out of the middle: the market bifurcates, one part serving the cost-sensitive customers and getting stuck in a race to the bottom, the other serving premium clientele with highest-quality or bespoke goods/services, gravitating towards few customers and "if you have to ask, you can't afford it pricing".

Multiplying volume by margin, "lots of cheap shit" and "few pricey sales" are both sustainable, but the middle segment - "reasonable quality for reasonable price" - is not.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-25 00:29:09+00:00
> TLS interception and protocol whitelisting

Well, that means directly doing things on the endpoint, which I don't want to do. One could work around that with a Linux USB; I could block USB boot, but then I'm just giving him an iPad, right? What's the point?

The goal is the learning exercise that puts Youtube as a reward mechanism for getting around my blocks. I just hoped to not run out of options so quickly.
by defrost | 2026-02-25 00:29:09+00:00
Not clear, and unlikely in Australia.

* https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-09-22/world-first-s...

This recent genetic based view replaces the "gut feeling" view akin to yours that was long pushed by Quadrant et al.
by nxobject | 2026-02-25 00:29:18+00:00
This probably doesn't cover what OP said, but after reading the CEO's intro post, I left a little more depressed. Make money off surveillance, and then make money off selling a privacy product.

> At Palantir, where I started in technical roles more than 10 years ago, I learned about a wide array of vulnerabilities in the cellular network that present a threat not only to mission-focused organizations in government, but also to everyday people. I came to see mobile phones — and the networks that power them — as perhaps the largest risks to our privacy and security.

> If you told Americans twenty years ago that corporations and governments would conspire to attach powerful tracking devices to nearly every adult worldwide, it would’ve sounded like science fiction. And yet, that’s not far from where we are today.

https://www.cape.co/blog/building-the-future-of-mobile-priva...
by dguido | 2026-02-25 00:30:25+00:00
I use Cape every day on my iPhone. The service is excellent, and the security features haven't ever interfered with my use of the phone. They have a convenient mobile app for setting up extra features like the IMSI rotation and getting support. As a tech savvy user, it matches what I want.

I'm a target for a variety of things, and knowing that no one can SIM swap me is worth the subscription alone. The SS7 protections, encrypted voicemail, secondary numbers, IMSI rotation, etc are all a bonus.
by WCSTombs | 2026-02-25 00:30:41+00:00
> The Steam label, maybe it means something now, but longer I think it fades.

It might fade, but it will take a while. You need a generation of gamers to grow up in a world where AI-generated content is normalized and then become old enough to start driving these trends. It could actually happen in as little as ten years or so, but it also might never become fully normalized, which I think is more likely.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 00:30:54+00:00
The only genocide that has occurred is in the area of critical thinking and epistemic standards by the antizionist crowd.

You wish there were an actual genocide, because you care more about portraying Israel as evil than you do the lives of Palestinian civilians. This is why you make one up. But good news for you: you've been infected by a curable mind virus, what the physicist David Deutsch calls "The Pattern."
by dastbe | 2026-02-25 00:31:13+00:00
From a dataplane perspective, it does mean your healthchecks are running from a different location than your proxy. So there are risks where routability is impacted for proxy -> dest but not for healthchecker -> dest.

For general reliability, you can create partitions of checkers and use quorum across partitions to determine what the health state is for a given dest. This also enables centralized monitoring to detect systemic issues with bad healthcheck configuration changes (i.e. are healthchecks failing because the service is unhealthy or because of a bad healthchecker?)

In industry, I personnaly know AWS has one or two health-check-as-a-service systems that they are using internally for LBs and DNS. Uber runs its own health-check-as-a-service system which it integrates with its managed proxy fleet as well as p2p discovery. IIRC Meta also has a system like this for at least some things? But maybe I'm misremembering.
by aplomb1026 | 2026-02-25 00:31:28+00:00
The streaming latency numbers are what stand out to me here. Accuracy benchmarks get all the attention, but for real-time applications (voice assistants, live captioning, in-call transcription), the tail latency matters more than shaving a few points off WER. A 58M param model that can stream with sub-second latency on a Raspberry Pi opens up a whole class of edge applications that just aren't practical with larger models, even if those larger models score higher on static benchmarks.
by gruez | 2026-02-25 00:31:51+00:00
>do look interesting IF they can actually address some of the baseband vulnerabilities that plague all modern devices. That's a Big If.

Baseband vulnerabilities are overhyped, imo. On proper phones (eg. pixels), their access to memory is restricted by IOMMU, which protects the rest of the phone from being compromised if there's some sort of an exploit. Once that's factored in, most exploits you can think of are "on the other side of the airtight hatchway[1]". For instance if you can hack the baseband to steal traffic, you should probably be more worried about your carrier being hacked or getting a lawful intercept order. Or if you're worried about the phone triangulating itself, you should probably be more worried about your carrier getting hacked and/or selling your location data.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
by aplomb1026 | 2026-02-25 00:32:03+00:00
The most underappreciated insight here is that the test suite turned out to be more valuable than the source code itself. 2k unit tests + 400 E2E tests effectively served as a machine-readable specification that an LLM could target. This inverts the traditional open source value proposition: previously, the code was the asset and tests were the safety net. Now the tests are the asset and the code is replaceable. Expect frameworks to start treating their test suites as proprietary even if the source stays open.
by thegrey_one | 2026-02-25 00:34:12+00:00
I removed the battery but kept the I2C chip/pcb, and fed 5V from USB port via a diode, on the PCB battery connections, seems to work fine. I actually installed a single wire from USB VCC to diode then + battery terminal. But you need to power the Kindle from something that can deliver at least 1.5A for startup peaks. A USB hub does the job fine in my case, and also connects it to a raspberry pi for ssh through USB networking, so no wifi either. Use a good USB cable for power.
by ebbi | 2026-02-25 00:34:27+00:00
The 'withdrawal' wasn't really a withdrawal, was it. There was still a blockade, and IDF's routine 'mowing the lawn'.

Let's not pretend that the 2005 'withdrawal' was a chance for a fresh start for the Palestinians that they floundered. The various negotiations were very one sided, and the offers were also unacceptable.
by matthewsinclair | 2026-02-25 00:36:40+00:00
Hello from the other side!

I was about 45 before I realised that when people said “in my mind’s eye” it was substantially more than a metaphor.

And it wasn’t until about a year later that I realised that I also didn’t have what ordinary people refer to as an inner monologue.

Realising that I had both aphantasia and anendophasia was quite a shock, but has never felt to me like I was missing anything.

For images I literally have nothing “pictorial” or “graphical” at all, but concepts and relationships are “vivid”. And for the inner monologue, there’s no autonomic voice at all, but if I concentrate in the same way that someone might “consciously breathe” I can kinda sorta trigger something.

Interestingly, in periods where I have meditated for >20min per day for consecutive weeks, I can trigger what I refer to as “flyover mode” which is like a literal landscape flyover that feels like a 4K screensaver. But this is _rare_ and requires a huge amount of effort.

Weird, eh!?
Ask HN: Built an algorithmic forensic accounting tool
by cd_mkdir | 2026-02-25 00:36:41+00:00
How do I get 1 firm to do a pilot?

Over the last two months, I’ve posted a few times about a tool I built to automate forensic accounting for high-conflict divorces. (I recently wrote about using Python to automate a $5k forensic CPA job).

The tech is solid. It uses a spatial-grid OCR pipeline to ingest blurry bank PDFs, applies the court-mandated Lowest Intermediate Balance Rule (LIBR) using graph theory, and outputs a cryptographically sealed (SHA-256) dossier tracing commingled assets. Because of attorney-client privilege, it runs air-gapped in a Docker container (Sovereign Mode).

It replaces a 3-week, $15,000 CPA engagement with a 3-minute, $497 algorithmic trace.

But I am hitting a wall on the go-to-market side.

Lawyers are incredibly risk-averse. I am trying to get just one family law firm or forensic accountant to run a pilot completely free, off the record, run in parallel with their manual process to prove that the algorithmic output beats the CPA's output.

My questions for those who have sold into LegalTech or highly risk-averse B2B:

-Short of cold-emailing managing partners, how did you find your first early adopter?

-Should I be targeting family lawyers (who want leverage to win cases), or forensic accounting firms (who might see this as eating their billable hours)?

-How do you bridge the trust gap when you are an engineer, not a lawyer/CPA?

Also: If anyone here happens to be a family lawyer, forensic CPA, or is dealing with a complex divorce and wants to run a gnarly ledger through the system as a free pilot, my email is in my profile.
by rovr138 | 2026-02-25 00:38:27+00:00
The similarity is to,

> You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?

Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time.

Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right?

The one changing the goal post is you.

https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone.

If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.
by lioeters | 2026-02-25 00:38:38+00:00
> gatekeeping of science as a human activity

The other side of the coin is: automating science as a machine activity.

Is that what we want? I agree with you that the use of language models in science is an inevitable paradigm shift, but now is the time to make collective decisions about how we're going to assimilate this increasingly super-human "intelligence" into academic practices, and the rest of daily life. Otherwise we will be the ones being assimilated by a force beyond our control.

The progress is so rapid that the only people who might have control over the process are the ones with self-interest, mainly financial, and not aligned with - in some aspects opposed to - the interests of humanity.
by keeda | 2026-02-25 00:38:51+00:00
Another source that has been finding labor productivity increases in national-level data, since 2024 now:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/nov/state-gen...

> ... on average, industries with 1 percentage point higher time savings experienced 2.7 percentage points higher productivity growth relative to their prepandemic trend. We stress that this correlation cannot be interpreted as causal, and that labor productivity is determined by many factors. However, the current results are suggestive that generative AI may already be noticeably affecting industry-level productivity.
by vlucas | 2026-02-25 00:39:10+00:00
The basic premise of Next is good, but it definitely has more overhead that in should, has odd "middleware", and is very hard to optimize. I view this mostly as a React problem though since any page requires full hydration and ships everything to the client. RSCs are... not my favorite for sure.

I too have been very frustrated by this, and I made an "Astro for dynamic sites" TypeScript framework called Hyperspan ( https://www.hyperspan.dev ) that aims to fill the gap in the JS ecosystem for a modern fully dynamic option that, similar to Astro, makes dynamic islands easy. I have enjoyed using it in all my own projects. Check it out if you want.
by le-mark | 2026-02-25 00:39:16+00:00
I’ve been a nay sayer up till two weeks ago when I actually sat down and coded a non trivial feature with AI and I was blown away. The problem was one that there may have been at most 5 open source versions that they had been trained on.

Today I am planning an exit strategy. Anyone else considering what they’ll do in a post AI software engineering world?
by Spivak | 2026-02-25 00:40:03+00:00
There was a constellation of political groups who were internally coordinated weren't coordinated with one another because they wanted slightly different outcomes or had different motivations. The absolutely massive success of the coordination behind the LGBT political movement and refusal to be broken up
and picked off piecemeal is what made various oppositions more bark than bite. But that isn't true anymore, as you and others have recognized. I mean the plan is outlined in Project 2025, we're well beyond small organizations screaming into the void and skulking around the political periphery. It's just out in the open which makes it a lot easier to rally around.

And now, to my view, it's basically a race. The very well coordinated political opposition laser targeting transgender people as the weak link has to push them back into the closet before too many people know someone trans personally and realize they aren't scary monsters with pointed teeth. They failed with the gays but they were about an order of magnitude larger and so got more exposure.
by km3r | 2026-02-25 00:40:41+00:00
> the Israeli Army dropped a small bomb on a house

Roof knocking is using non explosive ordinance. It is, by definition, not a bomb. Attacking its use is wild, its a tactic that saves civilian lives, even if you disagree with the validity of the target.

> that means you think that Hamas sent these people on the roof to let the Israeli army execute them, not even to use them as a human shield.

Yes. That is what human shielding is. The unfortunate reality is that it is irresponsible to completely stop attacks when human shielding is used, as it encourages further use of the practice. Just like blaming Israel for all of those death is also encouraging Hamas to further use the tactic.

> What would be the military objective here?

Hamas has been very clear that deaths of their civilians further the Palestinian cause by causing the world to turn on Israel. The objective here is clear.

Now I turn it back to you: what is the military purpose of roof knocking?

No double tapping doesn't make sense here. You wouldn't use a non-explosive ordinance if the goal was "double tapping"
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-25 00:41:05+00:00
At least Snow Crash was a fun read. I find a lot of this stuff just tedious - like yeah, wow, aren't you cool, you let your robot burn money and wreck shit and waste time, cool, couldn't you have done something real with your conspicuous amounts of free time?

Like, I'm getting to the point where I'm hoping that a football player shows up to shove these people into a locker where they can think about things without a screen for a couple hours.
by sjaiisba | 2026-02-25 00:41:06+00:00
> 3. Regarding me specifically, I work on the LessWrong codebase which is technically open-source. I feel like calling myself an "open-source developer" has the wrong connotations, and makes it more sound like I contribute to a highly-used Python library or something as an upper-tier developer which I'm not

That’s very interesting! This kinda matches what I see at work:

- low performers love it. it really does make them output more (which includes bugs, etc. it’s causing some contention that’s yet to be resolved)

- some high performers love it. these were guys who are more into greenfield stuff and ok with 90% good. very smart, but just not interested in anything outside of going fast

- everyone else seems to be finding use out of it, but reviews are painful
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-25 00:41:06+00:00
How does that change anything? Walk to the shops and buy a donut and you'll still be at a net negative. Most people who are overweight are eating far to much and a bit of walking each day isnt going to beat their diet. The reason people recommend gyms and good diets is because its very time efficient. 45mins in the gym beats out hours of light walking.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-25 00:42:02+00:00
I know I'm changing the goal posts here, but out of that list, while the articles' quality does vary, I don't see much (or any) rulebreaking, besides https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924139 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624939
by thevinter | 2026-02-25 00:43:03+00:00
Pi was probably the best ad for Claude Code I ever saw.

After my max sub expired I decided to try Kimi on a more open harness, and it ended up being one of the worst (and eye opening experiences) I had with the agentic world so far.

It was completely alienating and so much 'not for me', that afterwards I went back and immediately renewed my claude sub.

https://www.thevinter.com/blog/bad-vibes-from-pi
by ralph84 | 2026-02-25 00:43:17+00:00
The first generation Leaf belongs more to the early curiosity phase of EVs than the mainstream. Funny looking, less than 100 miles range, and slow charging via a port that never caught on outside of Japan. Tesla didn't just build a car that addressed the biggest EV objections (range, charging speed, looks), they also built a DCFC network that has more ports than all of the other ones combined. Without the charging network there is no EV market.
by uejfiweun | 2026-02-25 00:43:26+00:00
Yeah, it's pretty wild, huh? I'm at one of the big tech companies and the strategy that I've fallen into is to basically just mostly coast, save / invest as much as possible, and hope that this gets me to a financial threshold of "permanently comfortable" before the job losses kick in.

As for what happens after that, I'd really prefer not to have to do physical labor or trades. And it doesn't seem like any other white collar occupation is really going to be insulated, other than perhaps medical. So my strategy is to basically wait and see what society looks like after the transition and I guess I'll try and decide on something then?
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-25 00:43:42+00:00
pi has an RPC mode which just sends/receives JSON lines over stdio (including progress updates, and "UI" things like asking for confirmation, if it's configured for that).

That's how the pi-coding-agent Emacs package interacts with pi; and it's how I write automated tests for my own pi extensions (along with a dummy LLM that emits canned responses).
by aabhay | 2026-02-25 00:43:44+00:00
I would emphasize self reliance and sustainable living. Things like home ownership, dollar-resistant assets like gold, and self education in topics that matter to you and your existence.

Another way to frame it is what would you do in a low trust environment where corporations and the government were not to be trusted. You would likely avoid things like bubble bursting AI stock investments, jostling for rank in a company, etc.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-25 00:44:16+00:00
Very cool.

> But bugs crept in during testing - a couple of times it dispensed multiple servings in a row. Unfortunately, Momo picked up on this and now keeps mashing the keyboard hoping for a second immediate serving

Attempts to mash during no-mashy time need to play a horn. Reliably followed up by a no-treat.