MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by transpute | 2026-02-11 23:24:25+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier...

> Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.. can re-identify a person in other locations most of the time when a Wi-Fi signal can be measured. Observers could therefore track a person as they pass through signals sent by different Wi-Fi networks – even if they’re not carrying a phone.. their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent.
by autoexec | 2026-02-11 23:24:45+00:00
> Its all a mental problem (and here in Switzerland

Ah, that might explain why you'd think that healthy food is easily available and affordable everywhere. I haven't seen what stores are like in Switzerland for myself, but it sure sounds like a massive improvement and may be part of why the obesity rate there is around 10% instead of over 40% like it is here.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-11 23:24:45+00:00
Not how it works

> In this model, the price of electricity is set by the most expensive source needed to meet demand at any given time. Often, this is gas-fired power plants. Even if cheaper renewable sources like wind and solar are supplying a significant portion of electricity, the overall market price is influenced by the cost of gas.

If you don't cover 100% of the current power usage from batteries, the price will be price of gas plants.

The gas plants could be 1% of given moment, yet still set price
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-11 23:25:50+00:00
Paranoid schizo here: This actually seems to be a way to flag users into whales and fishes, and to treat the whales as marks to dumb down their entire needs of LLM value.

People who toggle debug will get "full" access and those who dont care, probably won't notice if their LLM us is degraded.

It seems a pure market segmenting prior to a "shrinkflation" approach to cost management.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-11 23:26:14+00:00
Treasury is the name for the government's economic ministry, ie the people who "have the money" (except that of course all modern governments run a huge debt) if you're American your equivalent department is also named Treasury.

The UK's tax authority is HMRC, His Majesty's Revenue & Customs.

It takes a lot of time to build electrical generators, so "rapidly" here means what... decades? Years at least. I think wind farms generally you need to do a bunch of paperwork and then if you get an OK (after the paperwork) maybe 3-5 years to build.

The weirdness you're talking about is the other side of the Contracts for Difference subsidising the off shore (and historically onshore too) wind farms. A CfD works like this: You auction off the right to build generation and in the auction people can bid down for the price they'll be paid for say, 10 years of their electricity, this is called the Strike Price. Whatever they sell their electricity for, they always get that strike price. When the sale price was lower, the government is giving you free money - that's why this is obviously a subsidy. But when the sale price was higher the government (effectively the treasury, though actually via a for-purpose government owned company) takes every penny above your strike price, too bad.

This subsidy is cheap for governments because it's about certainty, something they have and which private investors lack. The British government knows it will have tax revenue in 2036, but a private investor would want a fat premium to cover that.

Now, CfDs run out. If you have 10 years of CfD obviously the wind turbine you bought doesn't magically explode after exactly 10 years, maybe maintenance prices get out of hand or the main blades reach end of life in 20 years and so it doesn't last forever, but eventually there's an unsubsidised generator, the situation today though is that there's a lot of very new generation, and so most of it is subsidised.

Another issue is that it makes sense to build off-shore wind farms in particular on the Scottish coast, whereas it didn't make sense to build e.g. coal generation there, so the UK isn't set up to move a huge amount of power made in Scotland to the south where much of it is needed. This results in a situation where there's say 15GW of almost free electricity, but 5GW of it is the far side of a 2GW transit point, you can only have 12GW of that electricity, even though you made 15GW. Fixing this will take years and political will.
by abustamam | 2026-02-11 23:26:40+00:00
What problem are we trying to solve here? I agree that we need to have proper border enforcement. But deporting people because they got a traffic citation[1]? Am I supposed to feel safer from "dangerous immigrants" now?

We need to solve the problem of prosecution and punishment of crimes. And we need to solve the problem of improper border enforcement. But this ain't the way. This just seems like a huge waste of resources.

And just another thought -- when non-white US citizens such as myself, my relatives, my in-laws, feel the need to carry their passports on them to prove citizenship and even then are fearful of being roughhoused and detained for no reason, the system is obviously broken. Or, maybe it's working exactly as intended.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/georgia-army-veteran-go...
by hocuspocus | 2026-02-11 23:27:12+00:00
Co-branded Amex cards essentially became considered no different than 4-party cards and stopped being exempted from the cap interchange in 2018. Nothing changed for Amex proper. How would you even define interchange when it's indistinguishable from the scheme fee?

There's a reason every European PSP charges 2-4x higher fees with Amex cards.
by SllX | 2026-02-11 23:28:29+00:00
Something to keep in mind is while it’s the same developer, the ownership history of NNW had a few rocky years.

At some point Brent Simmons started work on an entirely new RSS reader he was at the time calling Evergreen, intended only for the Mac at that point, and eventually he got the rights to NetNewsWire back. So there’s a break point between NetNewsWire the commercial software and NetNewsWire the open source project.

In many ways, the new NetNewsWire is a solid improvement, but it’s also missing a lot of features that the old NetNewsWire had since it was no longer his day job and he rethought a lot things. I don’t share the parent’s feelings but I can get why some people would still be a tinge salty about it, cuz for a period of time there NetNewsWire was pretty much in limbo, Brent was the developer but for most of its commercial life it was under the auspices of NewsGator and one of the companies that was supposed to keep it going (Black Pixel I think? It’s been a while and I’m going mostly off the dime here) basically didn’t do shit with it.

This was around the time of the run up to NetNewsWire 4.0. I think only NNW 4.0 Lite ended up shipping, and that was around the time the parent was paying $10.00 to run a version on his iPad for software that was from a reasonable customer’s perspective, entering its life support era. And then of course Google Reader was killed in the night a couple of years later, a sacrifice for Google+, and anybody still running NetNewsWire no longer had any good syncing options. That NetNewsWire was abandoned, and is still dead, but yes, the new one is pretty great.

So your positive spin doesn’t really land here. Not for anybody that was around at the time.
by wpm | 2026-02-11 23:28:44+00:00
It's more the former. I'm assuming though that Background Security updates are basically the same thing as "Rapid Security Responses" was, which on the Mac I can recall being used once, 13.3.1(a) released the same day as 13.4 as an RSR.

Basically, the amount of stuff Apple can realistically change on the fly without restiching an entirely new system volume snapshot into place is quite small, so unless the stars align it can't be used.

See: https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html
by metalman | 2026-02-11 23:29:24+00:00
for all that elon is quite horrible by times, spacex is a meritocracy (that is hiring), and you have exactly one right in a meritocracy,
which is to work harder and smarter.
I feel that companys must be allowed to set up as meritocracys,(spitballing)for which I would add one twist, that they MUST hire a certain proportion of new people, on a first come first serve basis ie: anyone can give it a go, once.
by shimman | 2026-02-11 23:29:32+00:00
I do agree it is a spending issue, for far too long corporate welfare has flourished in America. None of these rich people would exist with out the federal teat they suckle from, truly pathetic. Remove their bloat, take their money, and fund programs that will enable REAL economic value like medicare for all, universal childcare, free school lunches, public jobs programs, and universal education.
by Quothling | 2026-02-11 23:29:39+00:00
I've been around for a while. The closest we ever got was probably RPA. This time it's different. In my organisation we have non-programmers writing software that brings them business value on quite a large scale. Right now it's mainly through the chat framework we provide them so that they aren't just spamming data into chatGPT or similar. A couple of them figured out how to work the API and set up their own agents though.

Most of it is rather terrible, but a lot of the times it really doesn't matter. At least most of it scales better than Excel, and for the most part they can debug/fix their issues with more prompts. The stuff that turns out to matter eventually makes it to my team, and then it usually gets rewritten from scratch.

I think you underestimate how easy it is to get something to work well enough with AI.
by pclmulqdq | 2026-02-11 23:29:39+00:00
I doubt this is correct. Women tend to be mezzos and men tend to be baritones entirely based on the structure of their vocal apparatus, not because they are trying to force a sound (with the possible exception of gay men). In most cases, men who are good singers tend to sing high because that is where the demand is (tenors in classical music and also very high pop music), but as they learn to relax their larynx their comfortable range often drops.
by eterm | 2026-02-11 23:30:56+00:00
Have you considered picking a new name for a different concept?

Or have ctrl+o cycle between "Info, Verbose, Trace"?

Or give us full control over what gets logged through config?

Ideally we would get a new tab where we could pick logging levels on:

- Thoughts
- Files read / written
- Bashes
- Subagents

etc.
by autoexec | 2026-02-11 23:31:21+00:00
> I agree. From the outside looking in the US seems to be in a very nihilistic mood, sort of "nothing I do matters anyway so I'll gamble away in the hopes of maybe hitting the only winning ticket out".

However bad their odds are gambling it's often the case that it's still the best chance they'll ever have to meaningfully improve their standard of living.
by mothballed | 2026-02-11 23:33:52+00:00
Lots of billionaires should probably be at the hague. But we should be glad if people can become billionaires because they are generating that much value of both parties being better off, without imposing externalities on others. Yvonne Chouinard came close to this ideal, I think.

If someone can genuinely generate billions in value, not just by imposing externalities on others that they then reallocate to themselves, I will be damn glad that they exist and be damn glad that the hope of getting richer keeps them at it.
by vincentjiang | 2026-02-11 23:34:01+00:00
Fascinating concept, you essentially frame the backend not as a static codebase, but as an adaptive organism that evolves based on real-time usage.

A few things that come to my mind if I were to build this:

The 'Agent-User' Paradox: To make this work, you'd need the initial agents (the ones responding and testing the goals) to be 'chaotic' enough to explore edge cases, but 'structured' enough to provide meaningful feedback to the 'Architect' agent.

The Schema Contract: How would you ensure that as the backend "writes itself," it doesn't break the contract with the frontend? You’d almost need a JIT Documentation layer that updates in lockstep.

Verification: I wonder if the server should run the 'JIT-ed' code in a sandbox first, using the telemetry to verify the goal was met before promoting the code to the main branch.

It’s a massive shift from Code as an Asset to Code as a Runtime Behavior. Have you thought about how you'd handle state/database migrations in a world where the backend is rewriting itself on the fly? It feels to me that you're almost building a lovable for backend services. I've seen a few OS projects like this (e.g. MotiaDev) But none has executed this perfectly yet.
by computerdork | 2026-02-11 23:34:18+00:00
Yeah, am sure these the cheap brands don’t have good batteries. But, have found after a year of using them, they are usually good enough. Unless you’re doing something like ice fishing, almost all outdoor activities take about 1-4 hours, and they last about 4-5 hours on a mix of high/medium. Have only run out a couple of times, and that’s because I was lazy and didn’t charge them before going out.
Also, the battery type used for almost all these heated devices is the same, 7.4 volts. Have bought a couple pairs of replacements that also work pretty well (and have bought ones with larger storage capacities as well as smaller ones for skiing as I don’t want the extra bulk).
The brand of heated socks I’ve tried are the ones recommended online, Snow Deer and Dr Warm.

Snow Deer have better electronics: The main button requires you to hold it down in order to turn it off and on. This is big deal because it’s easy to accidentally press the button when you’re out and about. But, unlike what all the review say, I find them uncomfortable. They have a piece of wiring that runs along the top of the foot that digs in (and have tried two different pairs, same thing. Have returned them both).

Dr. Warm is more comfortable (not perfect, but for hiking, good enough). But the problem is the main button doesn’t require a long press to turn them off, so sometimes, you’ll find they’ve turned off by accident (or more importantly, turned on and you’ve drained the battery). Still, comfort is more important, and there are ways to get around the button issue, so these are the ones I use daily - will keep the batteries unplugged until needed.

And like someone else said, if all else fails, get a nicer brand, one that is $200+.
by mrob | 2026-02-11 23:34:27+00:00
The "would you like to know more" segments are inner nested stories. Those actually are presented as in-universe video, and qualify as epistolary narrative. But to claim that the movie as a whole is anti-fascist satire relies on the assertion that the whole movie is epistolary, which goes against the narrative conventions of film-making. Judging only by what we see on screen, we have to take it at face value. To do allow otherwise permits bizarre interpretations of any fiction you like, because you can always claim it's unreliable narration.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 23:34:47+00:00
> Even with triple redundant relays, how do you know the salt water didn't just wet them all?

The design typically includes a mix of normally open and normally closed switches. If everything failed in the same direction (closed) it wouldn't satisfy the failsafe.

If you're spilling conductive liquid on the board, it's going to blow fuses anyway. It's more likely to short to ground than to short only to the precise path needed to activate.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-02-11 23:34:51+00:00
Python's zlib does support incremental compression with the zdict parameter. gzip has something similar but you have to do some hacky thing to get at it since the regular Python API doesn't expose the entry point. I did manage to use it from Python a while back, but my memory is hazy about how I got to it. The entry point may have been exposed in the code module but undocumented in the Python manual.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-11 23:34:57+00:00
> So aside from the subhuman Singaporeans who should be violently forced to adopt your ethics,

I didn't use the word subhuman, I used the word barbaric, and that's more regarding the authoritarian regime in power.

> it is also everyone on HN that is far below your golden ethical level and not worth of effortful discussion (but definitely worth moral lecturing and grandstanding), got it.

There's plenty of people who I could have a great, in-depth, reasonable discussion with, it's just that you're not one of them. Even this reply of yours is mainly bait, reliant on twisting things to get a reaction.

You're one of those commenters who needs to have the last word...this unproductive discussion is still going to go in for a few more replies yet because you can't let stuff go. I'm guessing my comment offended you because you live in Singapore and like it, is that it? All of this is just defensiveness?
by Fnoord | 2026-02-11 23:35:00+00:00
If I was interested in mass surveillance I would combine the radio data (WLAN, BT, ...) with the camera feed. If you then see the same person with ML, you can correlate that with radio's. You can even do that with cell towers with anonymous SIM, especially if combined with public transport camera feed or ALPR/ANPR.
by protocolture | 2026-02-11 23:35:23+00:00
> ISAC means adding mmWave to 6G (ostensibly for speed, but also) to build a high-fidelity 3d realtime "digital twin" of the real world that can see through walls, owned and operated by your telecom provider.

"See through walls"

There used to be a great video on youtube of a very high power 60GHz signal being blocked by a door. Sad I can never find it. E Band isn't much better.

IIRC the 60GHz radio is being left out of a lot of 5G deployments because the slight benefits don't outweigh the cost.

This is a pretty common thing for mmWave (or near mmWave) to be deployed with massive fanfare and then be slowly phased out of existence. I am decidedly not writing this on a WiGig docking station.

I dont see telcos wanting to constantly broadcast extra mmWave for little to no added benefit, especially not in all directions. Likewise, regulators are going to choke on that. And the class/band license schemes would have to be updated, to remove interference from devices already using those bands as they are about to have a constant background level of interference. E-Band PTP users, of which there are many, wont give up their high capacity links to weird 6G omni broadcasts without a fight.

I tell you what however, having a button you can press that would map the environment for alignment sounds like a maybe use case here. Better than a camera for detecting new obstructions when links go down.

They might also add more bands to the whole automatic MIMO backhaul trick they have been pursuing.
Show HN: Undertale Text Box Generator
by ethanYIAI | 2026-02-11 23:36:17+00:00
Undertale Text Box Generator is a free tool for pixel-perfect game dialogue boxes.

Features:

Fonts: Determination Mono, Sans, Papyrus.

Portraits: Huge library of character expressions.

Animations: Iconic typewriter effect & adjustable speed.

Borders: Standard, battle, & colored styles.

Export: PNG, GIF, or MP4.

Use Cases: Fan art, memes, and RP. Supports color codes & auto-bullets for an authentic feel.
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-11 23:36:27+00:00
These prices are a lot closer. You can play around with the assumptions in the government's LCOE calculator spreadsheet linked from the article. Removing the carbon price and using pre-wind load factor of 75% gives a LCOE of £67/MWh, which is similar in cost to solar at £65/MWh and onshore wind at £72/MWh, albeit lower than offshore wind at £91/MWh.

Assuming future costs of gas will go down is risky too. UK North Sea production is falling and recovery costs are likely to increase as we are left with only more marginal deposits.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-11 23:36:42+00:00
I was a bit confused when I went to the json-render github repo, because there were no screenshots of what it looked like.

I found only two videos about it on YouTube. This is the better of the two, and illustrates the output: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vndn2vmSIbw

I don't know whether that video uses Kumo (UI library also from Vercel).
by erwald | 2026-02-11 23:37:11+00:00
Thanks. I'm like 95% sure that you're wrong (as is the parent), and that GLM-5 was trained on NVIDIA GPUs, or at least not on Huawei Ascends.

I think so for a few reasons:

1. The Reuters article does explicitly say the model is compatible with domestic chips for inference, without mentioning training. I agree that the Reuters passage is a bit confusing, but I think they mean it was developed to be compatible with Ascends (and other chips) for inference, after it had been trained.

2. The z.ai blog post says it's compatible with Ascends for inference, without mentioning training, consistent with the Reuters report https://z.ai/blog/glm-5

3. When z.ai trained a small image model on Ascends, they made a big fuss about it. If they had trained GLM-5 with Ascends, they likely would've shouted it from the rooftops.

4. Ascends just aren't that good

Also, you can definitely train a model on one chip and then support inference on other chips; the official z.ai blog post says GLM-5 supports "deploying GLM-5 on non-NVIDIA chips, including Huawei Ascend, Moore Threads, Cambricon, Kunlun Chip, MetaX, Enflame, and Hygon" -- many different domestic chips. Note "deploying".
by GeekyBear | 2026-02-11 23:37:29+00:00
Google recently shipped Magic Cue as their tentpole new AI feature on the Pixel 10 despite it not working.

> “The right info, right when you need it.” That’s how Google describes Magic Cue, one of the most prominent new AI features on the Pixel 10 series. Using the power of artificial intelligence, Magic Cue is supposed to automatically suggest helpful info in phone calls, text messages, and other apps without you having to lift a finger.

However, the keyword there is “supposed” to... even when going out of my way to prompt Magic Cue, it either doesn’t work or does so little that I’m amazed Google made as big a deal about the feature as it did.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-magic-cue-o...

How is shipping a broken feature better for users than admitting that the feature needs more work?
by qcontinuum1 | 2026-02-11 23:37:45+00:00
Thank you. We are very glad to see the discussion that the report has sparked and and also glad to see the feedback on it. It means a lot to us.

> 1- how large your team is? and how long this research took? it is very thorough and knowing such a detail might encourage others to participate in a joint effort in performing this kind of research

The group is not very large and it took a few months of non-continuous work.

> 2- if this kind of research is your primary focus?

At the moment it is not very clear if we will do followup on this topic or not as explained in different comment. At the moment yes, the group is new.

> 3- if there are other ways that financial support can be provided other than through xrp or btc?

No, at the moment. We would like to remain anonymous, at least for now.
by tootie | 2026-02-11 23:38:20+00:00
This is exactly what happened and not to be immodest but it was my first guess before it was confirmed. The closure was a miscommunication between the FAA and Pentagon set off by a balloon. This was pure incompetence and arrogance. This HN thread is almost unbelievable how many wild guesses were made.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-...