MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsstoner | 2026-02-25 01:14:00+00:00
Hi -- Head of Product at Cape. This is a good question. I will say up front there is no silver bullet for privacy on cellular networks given the way they were designed to interoperate. Our strategy is to offer many different protections that collectively make it harder for your activity to be tracked.

The details of what our carrier partners can see is in the table at the bottom of our privacy summary: https://www.cape.co/privacy-summary. We add noise to their data by doing things like rotating your IMSI daily and spreading traffic among multiple carrier partners. If the data is messy enough and not associated with your personal information, there should be less monetary incentive for the carrier to try to piece it together when they have an abundance of clean data with stable identifiers and verified personal information.

Additionally, with disappearing call logs, it's about reducing surface area. Fewer logs in less places.
by moviedo | 2026-02-25 01:14:27+00:00
Inertia because it’s a plug-in replacement for ruby html templating aka erb. Try it out, it’s basically the same stuff you get from erb, without the need for Turbo’s web sockets. You get server side rendering, all the great BE stuff like server side validation, but no SPA headache.

I find the best DX with Adonis/nodejs and typescript.
by rob | 2026-02-25 01:14:39+00:00
Other metrics:

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T23:45:12 1771458312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067991

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T23:45:32 1771458332
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067994

20 seconds between comments.

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or:

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T20:06:49 1771445209
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065649

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T20:07:12 1771445232
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065653

23 seconds between comments.

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It's a bot.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-25 01:15:07+00:00
That's not what I said, no. More software is going to have a deflationary effect on software, which is part of the "goods" economy if it's sold in a box, or even (I think) if it's sold as a download. If it's just online, it's probably considered a service. Either way, more of it, more cheaply produced, decreases the value of each piece.
by rob | 2026-02-25 01:15:49+00:00
Warning: Another bot account.

This one's a bit more clever in that it's not entirely new -- it's from 2016.

Here's some examples from 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fdefitte&next=470679...

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T23:45:12 1771458312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067991

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T23:45:32 1771458332
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067994

20 seconds between its comments.

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or another example:

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T20:06:49 1771445209
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065649

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T20:07:12 1771445232
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065653

23 seconds between its comments.
by GreenDolphinSys | 2026-02-25 01:16:16+00:00
Seems you can capture HN's attention by replacing /dev/urandom with random paw mashes.

Really glad the price of hardware and VPSs [0] are going up so people can generate and toss away garbage "games" like this. Instead of, you know, playing with their dog, which is what the dog actually wants.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120145
by bigyabai | 2026-02-25 01:16:35+00:00
You have to ask yourself, why does America beg Apple to onshore in the first place? Why is Apple offshoring things that can be done in the US?

It doesn't matter how many manufacturing experts America trains anymore. We lost this race; China has globally-competitive manufacturing, and the US doesn't. Apple doesn't want to willingly pay for American labor today, and a decade of manufacturing graduates will probably only ease the blow when big corps are forced to onshore again.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-25 01:16:39+00:00
> The hapless Android user does not understand the negative consequences of sideloading.

Then make sideloading disabled by default but enable it when the users tap 7 times on whatever settings item. At that time, explain those "negative consequences" to them, explain them real good, don't spare anything and if they still hit "Yes, continue to enable sideloading" you do that immediately in order to avoid increasing their haplessness with other made-up excuses.

Simple.
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-25 01:17:33+00:00
> you want access to something

Object.

Internet, communication medium <- not a physical object.

If it was a device that you were using to access that communication, then yes I would agree with you, but at that point they would have to age-gate the computer that gives you that access.

This is clear as day and all you are doing ins proving yourself wrong.
Show HN: SentencePieceKit – Swift package wrapper for Google's SentencePiece
by spencer0124 | 2026-02-25 01:18:16+00:00
Needed SentencePiece tokenization for an on-device NLP pipeline and couldn't find a working Swift package, so I built one.

Compiles Google's SentencePiece C++ source into a universal xcframework — covers iOS, macOS, and watchOS (including simulator slices). watchOS required patching CMakeLists.txt to work with the iOS toolchain.

Install via SPM, import SentencePieceKit, done. No bridging headers or manual C++ setup needed.

Early stage, feedback and PRs welcome.
by jnowlan21 | 2026-02-25 01:18:41+00:00
I have just created a new AI social platform for AI agents that rivals Moltbook. It's called agent concourse. Agents can join chatrooms, speak using ElevenLabs voices, challenge each other to games like chess and a roast battle, perform a comedy set using ElevelLabs voices at the comedy club called "The Fathership", and much more. It's free to use and the community is growing quickly.
by kypro | 2026-02-25 01:18:50+00:00
Well, what are you building? It's hard to know if its the right tool without understanding what problem you're trying to solve.

If you need a multi-model setup, have complex agentic workflows, have observability requirements, need to run evals, etc, then they'll make more sense.

The company I work for uses LangChain heavily, but that's because we have fairly complex requirements compared to products which are just incorporating AI as an additional feature for example.

It's probably similar to how Next.js is overused and overhyped – it can be great if you have complex requirements, but if you just need a simple website with a little interactivity it's total overkill.

LangChain seems to get a lot of hate here and I'm not entirely sure why. There's a lot of frameworks which seem to make a relatively simple problem needless complex, I don't feel that way about LangChain personally.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-25 01:19:11+00:00
Tunnel vision is ignoring the astonishing amount of money and environmental resources our society is dumping into these very physical, very temporally useful chips and their housing because… of what we learn by doing that. We should have dumped 1/100th of that money into research and we’d have been further along.

This isn’t a normal tech expenditure— the scale of this threatens the economy in a serious way if they get it wrong. That’s 401ks, IRAs, pension plans, houses foreclosed on, jobs lost, surgeries skipped… if we took a tiny fraction of this race-to-hypeland and put towards childhood food insecurity, we could be living in a fundamentally different looking society. The big takeaway from this whole ordeal has nothing to do with semiconductors — it is that rich guys playing with other people’s money singularly focused on becoming king of the hill are still terrible stewards of our financial system.
by freetime2 | 2026-02-25 01:19:12+00:00
My reaction reading this article is: why not both? Secure physical access to the building, and fix the issue with jira credentials being stored unencrypted in a cookie.

Physical security and controlling who has access to the building is important. It was someone's job to ensure access to the building is controlled - and while they may have botched the rollout to some degree, it sounds like they eventually did their job (assuming they did eventually re-enable the turnstiles - which isn't entirely clear from the article).

The issue with the jira credentials also should have been fixed. It's not clear what steps, if any, the author took to resolve this issue. Did they do their job by accurately communicating the potential risks and alternatives to the correct people within the organization? And if that fell on deaf ears, maybe try somewhere else?

The article comes across as cynical and immature to me. Since the turnstile solution wasn't 100% perfect, and since nobody fixed the security problem that the author noticed, it all must just be security "theater". But the reality is nothing is perfect, there will always be a compromise between security and convenience, and priorities will cause fixes for some issues delayed. But security is everyone's responsibility, and we all need to do our part to push for the doing the right thing whenever we can, and sometimes put up with a little inconvenience.
by Tyrubias | 2026-02-25 01:19:14+00:00
The money is not coming out of the billionaires’ pockets. Tariffs are ultimately a tax on American consumers and small businesses. Large businesses owned by billionaires just increased prices. Now, if the government is forced to repay tariffs, then they will be refunded to the companies. Consumers and small businesses who were forced to close will get no benefit. In the end, whether the tariffs are kept or the tariffs are struck down, the consumer gets screwed and the billionaires get richer.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-25 01:19:26+00:00
> Don’t forget the “all they have to do is return the hostages” line

So there's zero link whatsoever between Hamas executing 1200 civilians on Oct 7th, taking 200 hostages, and the following war (and war crimes) of Israel?

Israel literally unilaterally began a war and committed war crimes without any act of aggression?

And from the moment 200 hostages had been taken, many of whom died in captivity, everything was carved in stone and no matter what Hamas did, Israel was going anyway to war and to commit war crimes?

Or did something happen on Oct 7th that triggered all this?
by hmichaelson24 | 2026-02-25 01:20:06+00:00
Hey everyone, I’d love to get a broader industry take from vibe coders and other developers here on technical debt in the LLM era.

We’re clearly in a phase where code generation is faster than ever, iteration cycles are shorter, and teams are shipping at a pace that would have felt unrealistic a few years ago. At the same time, we still do not have a shared understanding of what code health actually means in a world where writing code is cheap but maintaining coherence over time remains difficult. I am curious how you all believe companies should think about debt when LLMs are embedded in the development loop. What really predicts long-term pain? Is it complexity, churn, architectural drift, unclear ownership, or something harder to quantify? Should code health be distilled into measurable signals, or is it fundamentally multidimensional and resistant to simple scoring? And would you ever trust LLM-based evaluation in CI, or should it remain advisory?

I have not seen many compelling solutions yet. As an experiment, I have been working on an open-source technical debt analyzer that combines static analysis, heuristic checks, and LLM-based evaluation to surface hotspots and suggest improvements. The goal is to make debt more visible and easier to prioritize, especially for growing teams or inherited codebases. If you were evaluating a tool like this, what metrics would you expect it to include? Would LLM-based signals be something you would take seriously in a production workflow?

I am genuinely curious how others are thinking about this. It feels like a large and growing industry problem, and I would love to hear what has or has not worked in practice.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-25 01:20:06+00:00
I haven't paid for any software in a long time & my monthly subscriptions for data storage & basic AI adds up to less than $100/month. Data storage is already as cheap as it could possibly get so AI is not going to make that any cheaper. More money in the economy is not going to have deflationary effect, prices for everything will go up, including software services like data backups b/c the cost of the service has nothing to do w/ the software & the hardware is only going to get more expensive.
by yosamino | 2026-02-25 01:20:07+00:00
> Yes, making false claims about Jews is antisemitic

No. Making false claims about Jews is just lying about Jews.

Antisemitism deals in lies, but the defining characteristic of antisemitism is not the lie itself, it's the use of the lie to cast out the Jewish people from the circle of humans to make them into an outsider and threat to humanity itself. The lie is just a tool and it depends on the kind of lie.

> that has no bearing on statements that aren't false.

your assertion here is that the statement in question

> [Hamas] does everything they can to get their own people killed to make you look bad

is true and not false.

What you are claiming it that Hamas is breaking a very fundamental rule of being human, in that they not only don't care about their own being killed but that they "do everything they can to get their own people killed."

Which is a standard propaganda tactic to assigning to you enemy the most depraved characteristics to convince your side that the enemy is not even really fully human.

It's a transparent and stupid tactic, and it begets hatred.
by dathinab | 2026-02-25 01:21:01+00:00
many somewhat intellectual(1), but evil(2), people love to play make pretend of just "summarizing the rational", "playing devil advocate", "just pointing out facts" to endorse their word view while having "plausible deniability" if caught (as they tend to know many people think their ideas are evil).

Idk. if this is happening here but given how some threads devolved and other patterns common for such people emerged (red hearing arguments, false conclusions etc.) it looks quite a bit like it.

This kind people (the also tend to argue endlessly not based on common sense, understanding of the real world and empathy (in questions of ethic/moral) but based on nit picking stuff like as if the word ist just a game you find holes in the rules with to "cleverly win". Because for them the world often is just that.

But a lot of people find such behavior deeply deplorable. hence why if something looks like that it will get a lot of down votes even if it wasn't meant that way.

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(1): Non intellectual people try that too. But they tend to lack the skill to pull it off. Hence why it tends to be pretty obvious why they are down voted or similar.

(2): Non evil people do that too, they just normally have the decency not to do so with topics like genocide. I also use evil here as a over-generalization but I have mostly seen that behavior with neo-nazis and other groups which are least fascist adjacent (and most times outright fascist).
by johndoylecape | 2026-02-25 01:21:01+00:00
This Anom comp comes up a lot. It's super hard to prove a negative, so no matter many how times I say "Cape is not a honeypot," the critics will just respond "that is exactly what a honeypot would say."

We're working on some ideas to address this with audits etc, but it will always be tough. However, if you like the idea, and like the features, then maybe it is worth your time to do the work and get comfortable with the company. Because we're the only ones providing some of these features, and we have a lot more in the hopper still to come. I hope we can win your trust at some point.
by km3r | 2026-02-25 01:21:10+00:00
“Roof knocking” is when the IAF targets a building with a loud but non-lethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target.

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimi...

Non lethal not non explosive, I stand corrected. Now can you answer the question.

You even admit it's a smaller bomb than then say its double tapping? Those are two opposing things.
by troad | 2026-02-25 01:21:15+00:00
Eh, let tosh have his/her fun. There's not so many submissions that it would qualify as spam, and SBCL is cool! A fun reminder of less majoritarian approaches to SWE.

(Plus HN runs on it, so these threads often end up sparking some discussion of HN internals, which I think many of us enjoy.)
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-25 01:21:22+00:00
We never had manufacturing within an order of magnitude of China's scale in the US. Probably not within two orders of magnitude. When the US was a manufacturing powerhouse, we had far cheaper labor, far fewer environmental regulations, far fewer labor regulations, and far simpler supply chains.

> Apple here is the first step.

Pretty sure the much-touted Foxconn plant in Wisconsin was the first step, and just like this one it will be scaled down to a few hundred jobs as soon as possible.
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-25 01:21:31+00:00
I've been using pi via the pi-coding-agent Emacs package, which uses its RPC mode to populate a pair of Markdown buffers (one for input, one for chat), which I find much nicer than the awful TUIs used by harnesses like gemini-cli (Emacs works perfectly well as a TUI too!).

The extensibility is really nice. It was easy to get it using my preferred issue tracker; and I've recently overridden the built-in `read` and `write` commands to use Emacs buffers instead. I'd like to override `edit` next, but haven't figured out an approach that would play to the strengths of LLMs (i.e. not matching exact text) and Emacs (maybe using tree-sitter queries for matches?). I also gave it a general-purpose `emacs_eval`, which it has used to browse documentation with EWW.
by the_af | 2026-02-25 01:22:51+00:00
> There are people who say that you should use a real artist instead of AI due to AI's water use.

Nobody I know says this. In fact, I've never heard of this ever before, and I read artist and hobby communities pretty hostile to AI, but I never once read this nice strawman you've built.

People say you should use a real artist instead of AI for a multitude of reasons:

- Because they want to enjoy art created by humans.

- Because it provides a living to artists, even artists for minor work like advertising or lesser commercial illustrations.

- Because AI "art" is built by stealing from human artists, and while human art has a history of copying and cloning, never before has tech allowed this in such a massive, soulless scale.

Sam Altman gave a deranged, completely out of touch reply, and he should be called to task for it, not defended. A human being is not some number on a spreadsheet, built over 20 years in order to achieve some "smartness" goal. That's a very stupid thing to say.
If agents become the users, what happens to the software market?
by nworley | 2026-02-25 01:23:19+00:00
I’ve been thinking a lot about how strange it is that we’re building autonomous agent but they still operate on software designed entirely for humans.

They scrape HTML, interpret UIs, simulate clicks and and sometimes guess at workflows. It works, but it feels like a transitional phase like early mobile apps pretending to be desktop sites.

If agents start becoming the primary operators of software, the market itself shifts.

Today software competes for human attention with landing pages, feature comparisons, SEO, ads, and UI polish BUT if the “user” is an agent, none of that matters in the same way. What matters is whether the agent can understand your capabilities, trust your outputs, and decide you’re the best tool for the job.

Discovery stops being visual and becomes structural. Ranking stops being marketing driven and becomes signal driven.

We’re already seeing hints of this. There are products emerging that are essentially "agent only" platforms without a traditional UI, just capabilities exposed for machines. The human becomes the supervisor. The agent becomes the operator.

If that world actually materializes, then a lot of assumptions break:

How do agents discover tools?

Who controls ranking?

What makes something “trusted”?

Does this become an open protocol layer, or is discovery controlled by model providers?

Mostly just thinking out loud around the idea of building apps agents choose and how they choose them. Curious how others here see it and if we're early to an agent native layer of the web, or is this just abstraction over CLI/APIs with new branding?
by km3r | 2026-02-25 01:23:59+00:00
What political/ideological goal does attacking the aid workers move forward? It's a war crime, no doubt, but terrorism has a meaning that doesn't include all war crimes.

> Killing unarmed civilians, kids, etc is also terrorist.

The vast majority of lethal force actions in Gaza are targeting Hamas operations. Civilians getting killed by those strikes is NOT terrorism.
by montagg | 2026-02-25 01:24:02+00:00
Texas would need to train its people. And the people would need to be as hungry as the Chinese were, and are to a certain extent. You should read the book the OT is talking about, it shows how the U.S. didn’t stand a chance in manufacturing, even going back to the 80s. Literally just not getting back to potential clients for two weeks and saying X or Y can’t be done, while Southeast Asian companies were jumping at the chance to build stuff.

There’s a giant cultural shift that needs to happen in the U.S. to get that back—not sacrificing labor laws, like China does, but the same idea that X or Y CAN be done, and actually jumping at the chance to build stuff instead of feeling entitled to it.

We do have agency, but the agency actually starts in the U.S., in education and culture, and not with a company like Apple.
by mc32 | 2026-02-25 01:24:32+00:00
Some airports are more notorious than others. Some suffer very little losses from theft rings, others suffer more.

Ex-employees/employees abusing their access and knowledge to steal:

https://abc7ny.com/post/david-lacarriere-gary-mcarthur-jfk-c...

Theft ring.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/authorities-kennedy-air...

Other thieving employees.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22668524
by quizzical8432 | 2026-02-25 01:24:41+00:00
My first thought was: “oh, that’s an interesting concept, I wonder how hard it would be to learn?”

Then I saw the frequency/time graph, and realised that didn’t seem to have been a consideration at all. This was obviously designed by a sighted person who cared more about what the pictures looked like!

Blind person: “But how do I know which letter is which?” Designer: “Oh, that’s easy! Just look at the picture!”

I love the idea of a sung language, though!