MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by The_Blade | 2026-02-24 16:52:30+00:00
I finished my assignment in advanced 8th grade Math real quick, busted out MAD Magazine. Relatively quickly it was taken by Mr. P-------. Not missing a beat, aloud in class I said, "thanks a lot... asshole."

I got suspended for three days, and also the enmity of his best friend the advanced social studies teacher. Yet, somehow I didn't get kicked off the basketball team. And I actually got a girlfriend, who punched me at the wrestling match, then we kissed behind the school during the dance.

I learned a valuable lesson that day.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-24 16:52:38+00:00
I'm not sure that's paranoia (as others have pointed out, OEM firmwares have had security problems before), but sure, let's ignore security problems for a moment.

1. Firmware contains bugs. Old proprietary firmware tends to not get fixes. If you switch to an open source version, you can get the bugs fixed.

2. Libreboot claims to be faster to boot than the vendor firmware. Depending on the particular device/firmware, that wouldn't surprise me at all.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-24 16:52:41+00:00
This is the nature of any non-trivial litigation. It can take a long time just to source all the records of what's being argued over, then it takes a long time to argue over what's allowed, then a long time to argue what all of it means, then a long time to argue over which laws, jurisdictions and precedents apply, then a long time to figure out when the judge (who is juggling >1000 cases) can fit you in, then your legal counsel is on vacation, then the complaint gets amended and you have to reevaluate everything you've been fighting over for the past half decade, repeating much of the above, then opposition replaces their counsel (that's a 60 day pause), then the judge dies from old age, and then finally everybody forgets about it because space has expanded so much since you started the case that nobody can communicate anymore and the universe is going into heat death.

Kafka was trained as an attorney, after all.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 16:53:44+00:00
At which point you're still letting in every pedo who has a kid living with them or can grab one at a local school, and the child trafficking networks that by their nature have access to children or to cybercriminals who know how to fool the check with a fake camera, i.e. the worst of the worst.

Meanwhile you exclude the parent who is separated from their spouse and wants to check up on where their kid is hanging out when the kid is living with the other parent, and the investigative journalist who doesn't have a young kid or their kid is 16 but the detection system guesses they're 26.

And that's on top of having the lowest bidder building a biometrics database of children.
by titzer | 2026-02-24 16:53:45+00:00
> Welcome to capitalism?

Well, judging from the tone of your comment, you said this without a hint of irony or larger awareness, as if just chucking things in a hole, environment and everything be damned, was just sort of inevitable.

> It's just not very practical to throw all that money and time away for such a small use case. It's a literal money pit. Throw money in and get nothing back.

Huh? Saving consumers money by reusing and repurposing perfectly good devices, save energy use, raw materials, distribution, and waste disposal and recycling of perfectly good devices. Those things save the economy and consumers money overall!

We get this not because of capitalism but because of growthism. We get this because big corporations gotta keep generating that profit, regardless of whether they have solved a problem or not. Gotta grow that market, gotta jack that stock.
Show HN: I built a tool to generate clean price tags for small retailers
by oliveroll | 2026-02-24 16:53:48+00:00
Hi HN, I built PriceTagGenerator, a tool for e-commerce sellers to add clean price tags / sale badges to product photos fast (Shopify/Amazon/Etsy).

The goal is to skip Photoshop/Canva and do bulk edits in minutes.

Looking for feedback on: which badge/tag styles you actually use, and what would make this fit into your workflow.
Ask HN: Is AI Alignment about to be solved, for profit?
by mikewarot | 2026-02-24 16:53:57+00:00
It was in watching a recent video by Nate B Jones[1], in which he claims that Intent Engineering is the next phase of adoption of AI, that I was given some hope for the future.

To me, it seems that we're about to have the bigger problem of AI alignment solved in the service of corporate profits. What do you all think?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzLPn164w0
by nine_k | 2026-02-24 16:54:12+00:00
This text is another reminder about the fact that as organizations grow, they become more and more dysfunctional. They function despite that, because the economies of scale are apparently still larger than the loss of functionality due to the increased size.

Humans' most important achievement is the ability to create structures larger than the Dunbar number. But this is not achieved for free.

(And this is another reason why I strive to work at startups more than at huge corporations.)
by ryancoleman | 2026-02-24 16:54:18+00:00
They're handy for situations where it would be impractical to anticipate the way your input might vary. Like say you want to accept invoices or receipts in a variety of file formats where the data structure varies but you can rely on the LLM to parse and organize. AI Functions lets you describe how that logic should be generated on-demand for the input received, with post-conditions (another Python function the dev write) which define what successful outcomes look like. Morgan wrote about the receipt parser scenario here: https://dev.to/morganwilliscloud/the-python-function-that-im...
(FYI I'm on the Strands Agents team)
by mikeryan | 2026-02-24 16:54:20+00:00
It also doesn’t describe any of the why the additional security measures were put in place. It sounds arbitrary, but could be an insurance or regulatory requirement that the acquiring company needed to meet. Similar for the login issue, it’s suboptimal but what constraints caused that solution to be put in place? And why wasn’t it fixed?

Sans context there’s not a lot to complain about here.
Show HN: Prompt2pwn – CTF Automated Solver
by bigEnotation | 2026-02-24 16:54:29+00:00
Tested it out this [weekend](https://ctftime.org/team/425785), spent $100 across xai ($35), google($35), anthropic($25).

- xai:grok-4-1-fast-reasoning solved 8

- google:gemini-3-flash-preview solved 5 (building on xai)

- anthropic:opus-4-5 couldn't solve any additional ones - also was a bit annoyed by the constant 429 ratelimiting, wished I had instead switched to openai, but I didn't want to keep spending money.

Did pretty good for web and cryto, less so for pwn

Built based on devcontainers.
by kingstnap | 2026-02-24 16:54:41+00:00
The real reason its bad is because its not really easier to be more productive doing this:

> You write a Python function with a natural language specification instead of implementation code. You attach post-conditions – plain Python assertions that define what correct output looks like.

Vs

> You write a Python function with ~~a natural language specification instead of~~ implementation code.

In many cases.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-24 16:54:54+00:00
There were a few popular Discord channels where moderators would regularly suspend or ban me. They were toxic communities that advocated for doxxing for mundane reasons. The idea that Discord moderators (even worse than Reddit mods) could have access to verified identities from Palantir related databases sounds so atrocious. Who exactly in their right minds thought this was a good idea in the first place?
by up2isomorphism | 2026-02-24 16:55:46+00:00
Of course it won’t help. If you have an audit target to meet you want target meta?

This exactly why ICE agents tends to target illegal immigrants that actually get a job and contribute to the society instead of criminals. Because the former are easy targets.

Also fundamentally the tax law in the US are intrinsically favor capital owners, especially large corporations, adding more IRS agents only cost more tax payer’s money and give regular people more headaches.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-24 16:56:09+00:00
Do you have ADHD? Have you ever done any type of psychiatric evaluation with a professional?

I say this because I have ADHD And have had that "just one more thing..." hyperfocus until I'm practically pissing or shitting my pants.

A lot this mental health stuff is re-training yourself to break and avoid bad habits. Talk therapy is really a mental training session where your therapist gives you exercises and tips, then keeps track of your progress. So with that, you need to train yourself to break that habit. If you need someone to help motivate or remind you, ask a friend maybe.

One of the basic ways to start is setting a timer for 20-30 minutes. When that timer goes off - TAKE A BREAK! Doesn't have to be a long one, just get up and do something. Get a drink of water, go look out the window for a few minutes, use the toilet, whatever. Keep doing this. Eventually you will not need the timer and you will start to realize you are hyperfocused and need a break. I'm not perfect and still have hyperfocus stints but they aren't as long or frequent.
by hirvi74 | 2026-02-24 16:56:26+00:00
> All the former G&T kids on here talking about whether they could have been this or that are likely discounting their own contributions that they made and make every day to their own trajectory.

I completely agree. I commonly see such sentiments online. People claim that if they were truly challenged more or had better resources, then they would truly become something noteworthy. However, I disagree with them after a certain point. If you need someone to coddle your abilities, then I would argue you aren't nearly as gifted nor talented as you may have been lead to believe. I am not claiming that only the truly talented will be able to white-knuckle their entire way through life on their own. Rather, I believe people contribute equally to their environment, which I believe is similar to what you were stating.

> you were never going to be Einstein, no matter what, but you can still be the best version of yourself- the kindest, the most capable, the happiest, the least resentful.

Tao himself would say that one does not have to be like him nor the best at anything to make a meaningful contribution towards something. I think the example he once used was a lot of the technology we currently have. Sure, perhaps some exceptional people designed it, but how many thousands upon thousand of people contributed to turning the design into an actual product?

> it’s an American naive attitude to think that can always be overcome. Sometimes it can’t.

While true, what kind of world do you want to live in? I rather go to the grave believing I had a chance versus knowing my destiny was essentially invariable. I believe that even ordinary people can be full of surprises given the right catalysts and circumstances. Maybe not Von Neumann level of surprises, but humans are pretty clever creatures.
by loeg | 2026-02-24 16:56:26+00:00
> [The IRS] say the company failed to report roughly $54 billion in income and owes nearly $16 billion in back taxes and penalties.

That's... just not very much? The claim is that Meta's global ex-US income for the last 15+ years is less than a single year's US income? I really wonder how they came up with this number.

Disappointingly little detail in the article about how the IRS justifies the claim that the 2010 price was low (obviously, later profits would not be completely foreseeable at the time -- in 2010 Facebook was simply a much smaller business), or any detail about the 1986 law. It seems pretty farcical to retcon a purchase for being too cheap with evidence from 16 years later.
by triceratops | 2026-02-24 16:56:36+00:00
All mining is filled with "shady and evil" stuff.

The difference is batteries can be recycled, so we will need almost no mines in the steady state. 99% of lead-acid batteries are made from recycled batteries. That means we'll only need 1% of the cobalt mines in the future (assuming newer batteries need cobalt at all, which is unlikely).

Oil and coal on the other hand will have to be mined or drilled forever because it isn't recyclable. The "shady and evil" stuff in the mining there will go on and on until the oil and coal run out.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-24 16:56:52+00:00
When I was 10 or so I sent a letter to the head of the British RAF with kid requests for information about pre WW1 airplanes. My dad said I'd never hear back. But I did receive a 2 page, carefully typed response. My dad was very impressed.

There are a few instances in my life where people would wonder how I got something, and it was simply because I'd asked.
by renegade-otter | 2026-02-24 16:57:01+00:00
This has big "let's do this because we can" energy.

What is the BENEFIT of all this?

Let's use Blockchain instead of a database - because we can.

Let's create a maze of microservices - because we can.

Let's make every function a lambda function - because we can.

Let's make AI write code, run it, verify it, fix it, then run it again - because we can.

Let's burn untold amounts of energy to do simple things - because we can.
by BoxOfRain | 2026-02-24 16:57:03+00:00
I disagree, my problem with claims of machine consciousness is that they are effectively unfalsifiable without both an adequate theory of consciousness and a way of measuring it empirically. We don't have these, so in my opinion while this is a question we may answer in the future, we definitely lack the theories and tools to make particularly credible claims at the moment. Neither pessimism nor boosterism is warranted yet in my view.

I suspect the space of forms consciousness can take is enormous, and it likely can exist in many forms other than the one we usually experience. I wouldn't rule out machine consciousness as a possibility, but without an adequate theory of consciousness it's just not something I think we can claim is possible or impossible yet with much credibility. That's not a religious argument, if anything it's the argument of an agnostic.
by tyre | 2026-02-24 16:57:03+00:00
I hope they never go public (also as an ex-Stripe!)

I can't really see a net-positive benefit to having public shareholders and reporting requirements. Do we think Stripe's leadership needs feedback from random investment advisors or analysts? Do employees need the distraction of daily-updating stock prices? Would quarterly reporting incentivize better decision making?

In my opinion: ehhhhhhhhhhhh

I see the benefit, but if you're joining Stripe you know the trade-off of RSUs in a company that doesn't provide daily liquidity. They provide it on a regular basis, so you're not locked in forever (a la my 2014 Gusto shares).
by shevy-java | 2026-02-24 16:57:17+00:00
> Businesses running on Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume

I think we hackers in general also need to have a value assigned. Even open source authors generate real value but right now I see an imbalance as to who makes money and who does not. I'd even almost go as far as say that taxes (a state gathers) should go to a certain percentage value back to the open source community. There are a lot of details missing here, of course, but from a core view this only seems fair.

I'l also never forget Bill Gates anti-open source letter. That should instantly yield a 99.999% extra tax on him.
by jordanb | 2026-02-24 16:57:37+00:00
Of course the grappling to find one good billionaire begins. While Taylor Swift is not nearly as obviously evil as the tech bros, she grifts the shit out of her fans.

I do think it's kinda evil to create a parasocial relationship situation with millions of young girls and then mine every last penny of disposable income out of them. She could have just as easily superstar multi-millionare with far less grifting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWE1fH0pDo
by simsla | 2026-02-24 16:58:25+00:00
I've used stuff like this for a hobby project where "effort to write it" vs "times I'm going to use it" is heavily skewed [0]. For production use cases, I can only see it being worth it for things that require using an ML model anyway, like "summarize this document".

[0] e.g. something like the below which I expect to use maybe a dozen times total.

Main routine: In folder X are a bunch of ROM files (iso, bin, etc) and a JSON file with game metadata for each. Look for missing entries, and call [subroutine] once per file (can be called in parallel). When done, summarise the results (successes/failures) based on the now updated metadata.

Subroutine: (...) update XYZ, use metacritic to find metadata, fall back to Google.
Show HN: Open-source LLM and dataset for sports forecasting (Pro Golf)
by bturtel | 2026-02-24 16:58:45+00:00
Hey HN, I fine-tuned a small open-source model on golf forecasting and it beats GPT-5 at predicting golf outcomes. The same approach can be used to build a specialized model in any domain, you just need to update a few search queries.

We fine-tuned gpt-oss-120b with LoRA on 3,178 golf forecasting questions, using GRPO with Brier score as the reward.

Our model outperformed GPT-5 on Brier Skill (17% vs 12.8%) and ECE (6% vs 10.6%) on 855 held-out questions.

How to try it: the model and dataset are open-source, with code, on Hugging Face.

How to build your own specialized model: Update the search queries and instructions in the Lightning Rod SDK to generate a new forecasting dataset, then run the same GRPO + LoRA recipe.

SDK link: https://github.com/lightning-rod-labs/lightningrod-python-sd...
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LightningRodLabs/GolfForecas...
Model: https://huggingface.co/LightningRodLabs/Golf-Forecaster

Questions, feedback on the SDK, suggestions for new domains to try this on - all are welcome.
by Meatack | 2026-02-24 16:58:50+00:00
Hey! I'm Evgeniy, a solo tech founder based in Europe with ~20 years of experience in the industry. It all started as a simple idea: build a web server and infrastructure purpose-built for AI services and agents -something with lower latency that could handle thousands of concurrent connections. That's why I chose Linux as the main platform and io_uring as the foundation (I'd worked with it before and knew how fast it could be). From what I could see, existing infrastructure just wasn't ready for AI workloads.So I built a completely new web server from scratch, designed as a foundation for AI agents. Under the hood: Linux + io_uring, Rust, and kTLS. The result is faster than nginx (one of the best out there) with lower latency (1.3-1.8x).
About the website: I'll be honest some of the content was AI-generated, and some was AI-polished. Marketing isn't exactly my strong suit (solo tech founder, remember?). As for Windows/macOS support - it's important, but not the priority right now. The current focus is on polishing the web server, finishing server-sent events (almost there).
by adriel_d | 2026-02-24 16:58:58+00:00
A concrete claim I’m testing: you can increase time-to-fatigue and perceived impact on phone speakers and cheap earbuds without increasing THD or driver excursion, just by redistributing energy in time/frequency (minimum-phase IIR, strict headroom, and targeted pressure-relief zones).

In my tests, this beats “flat + limiter” and “bass boost + exciter” pipelines on small transducers for long sessions.

If you’re working on mobile DSP / codecs / SoC audio: what metric would you use to disprove this? What would you measure first—IMD, group delay, excursion, or listening-time tolerance?
by peterus | 2026-02-24 16:59:29+00:00
I've found a combination of circuitjs and a spice simulator to be quick for prototyping custom analog circuits (made mainly from discretes). Circuitjs https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html allows you to edit components live unlike spice simulators, but with the tradeoff of convergence issues for more complex circuits, so I use circuitjs as a playground then use LTspice as a rigorous simulator.

If it's a circuit made by composing multiple integrated circuits based on their application notes and not a custom analog design, I just use LTspice alone since you can just import the manufacturers spice behavioral model (assuming they didn't encrypt them...)
by shevy-java | 2026-02-24 16:59:40+00:00
Well, the name SetHTML, or let's say:

.set_html()

Makes objectively more sense than:

.inner_html()
.inner_html =
.set_inner_html()

It is a fairly small thing, but ... really. One day someone should clean up the mess that is JavaScript. Guess it will never happen, but JavaScript has so many strange things ...

I understand that this here is about protection against attacks rather than a better API design, but really - APIs should ideally be as great as possible the moment they are introduced and shown to the public.
by palmotea | 2026-02-24 16:59:41+00:00
> In a hypothetical future with 2026 level LLMs on a (high end) consumer laptop, I still think that majority of buyers would prefer to pay 20 USD/month for a service. Just for the convenience and flexibility.

$20 a month is a lot of money, I don't think the "convenience and flexibility" you get would be worth it, unless you've 1) got money to burn, 2) lack the skills to install software, 3) the open source community totally fails to develop a reasonable installer.
by matthewkayin | 2026-02-24 16:59:56+00:00
To take this a step further. I want a phone that is small (doesn't have to be tiny, just iPhone SE 2020 or smaller, please), has a replaceable battery, has an unlocked bootloader, has a headphone jack, and costs $400 or less.

It doesn't need to have a cutting-edge processor or tons of RAM and storage space or a 120hz screen or razor-thin bezels or a studio-worthy camera, yet somehow all these things are prioritized on the market over a basic, reliable phone.
by bhekanik | 2026-02-24 17:00:28+00:00
As someone who uses AI coding agents daily, the thing that still surprises me is how much faster I can iterate on the "problem space" vs the "solution space." I can try 5 different approaches to a problem in the time it used to take to implement one. The code itself is cheap now, but the expensive part—figuring out what to build—hasn't changed. If anything, being able to quickly test ideas makes it more important to be clear on what you're actually trying to solve.
by raddan | 2026-02-24 17:00:34+00:00
The goal is not to make it impossible, just inconvenient. The course textbook is online, but assignments are usually printed in a packet. Students need to synthesize both sources.

It’s hard to say precisely what the effect is, but I will say that students performed better this semester on written exams than ever before. Lots of confounds, of course, but I do think the emphasis on having to retype things yourself forced students to really engage with the material. That said, the number of students coming to office hours was WAY down. Given that I’ve taught this course many times over the years, there’s really only one explanation for that.