MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rockostrich | 2026-02-24 20:10:36+00:00
But at one point the model is sufficiently large enough to accomplish any task a human could specify. For software development, I think we're pretty much at that point with the latest Anthropic/Google/OpenAI models. We have no idea where the direction of token pricing is going to go in the future, but the consensus seems to be that it will only get more expensive. If Taalas can offer the same functionality that we have with frontier models today at a 1/10 of the cost and 10x the speed then they're going to take over a large part of the market.
by tibbar | 2026-02-24 20:10:58+00:00
Today I got a feature request from another team in a call. I typed into our slack channel as a note. Someone typed @cursor and moments later the feature was implemented (correctly) and ready to merge.

The tools are good! The main bottleneck right now is better scaffolding so that they can be thoroughly adopted and so that the agents can QA their own work.

I see no particular reason not to think that software engineering as we know it will be massively disrupted in the next few years, and probably other industries close behind.
by payala | 2026-02-24 20:11:00+00:00
I did have this situation several times in the past. One thing that has worked well for me is to be a bit of a stubborn mofo in challenging people with arguments and not let go so easily.

I don't think you need to be arrogant, but you do need to know how to argue rationally. At least this works quite well with germanic-origin folks, maybe not so well in other contexts.

Another thing that helps is reputation, you do need to build that and that allows your arguments to be heard. No need really to be arrogant and loud IMO still.

This reputation thing, also brings other problems, because it's not good when people don't challenge you, then you need to find skeptics. This is very necessary when you do high end stuff.
by skryl | 2026-02-24 20:11:03+00:00
I built mlx-onnx (as part of mlx-ruby), a standalone exporter that converts MLX graphs to ONNX.

Web Demo: https://skryl.github.io/mlx-ruby/demo

Repo: https://github.com/skryl/mlx-onnx

It provides:

- MLX callable -> ONNX export
- Python API + native C++ API

The goal is to make it easier to move MLX models into ONNX tooling (onnxruntime, validation, downstream deployment), while keeping
export behavior testable and explicit.

Quick example:

import mlx.core as mx
import mlx_onnx as mxonnx

def f(x):
return mx.exp(x + 1.0)

x = mx.array([[1.0, 2.0]], dtype=mx.float32)

mxonnx.export_onnx("model.onnx", f, x, model_name="demo", opset=18)

If you try it and hit an issue, I’d love a repro.
by raulriera | 2026-02-24 20:11:11+00:00
I love Claude Code I use both the Desktop and the CLI every day. I would love if I could visualize my sessions, and jump back to them. As an exploration, I made an organic mind map that reads your local Claude Code history and renders it as a live, interactive graph.

This allows you to zoom in and out, collapse nodes, view prompts and a small snippet of the latest response, and quickly jump into a specific session by clicking it.
by thaumaturgy | 2026-02-24 20:11:12+00:00
We've got lots of local resources! I've been in the capitol about half of the last two weeks, my partner is there right now, we've been working closely with ACLU Oregon and National, a couple of other legal firms are keeping a close eye on this, and we've built a grassroots network with people from Eugene, Springfield, Portland, Bend, Florence, and more.

Also, your Reps do read your correspondence, and there's a critical moment coming up in this bill.

Drop me a line at contact@eyesoffeugene.org and I'll reply with a Signal link and we can talk more.
by jp57 | 2026-02-24 20:11:30+00:00
Am I the only one who finds this post weird because this is a solved problem? I've worked for 18 years at companies where everyone had to badge into every building. There have never been lines of people waiting to get in. Once I worked in a 12-story building. Of course, the badging wasn't in the elevators: the elevator lobbies on each floor had doors with badge readers.

The feel of the piece is that the entire effort was misguided, when the real story seems to be, "My company was somehow unable to implement something that every other company does easily."
by fhdkweig | 2026-02-24 20:11:43+00:00
I can't remember what the topic was, but I remember hearing a story about a company that was soliciting ideas from the public for maybe a joke book or maybe tv show plots. They got into a lot of legal hot water once they found out that the ideas weren't original and people were actually just taking them from other sources.

If anyone else knows what I am talking about, I'd like to know the name of the company.
by robinhood | 2026-02-24 20:11:52+00:00
Very disappointed by this. I've been a customer for many, many years on a Family plan, but I do not understand this price raise. The only reason they raise price is definitely because of the need to answer to investors, and the necessary enshitification that follows. While I understand every business needs to generate revenues, they put on us, the customers, the burden of their rapid hiring spree and growing operating costs. It's just sad. There is just so much you can charge for managing passwords, and the family plan becomes way too expensive for the value it truly provides. We will need to switch to a less expensive competitor.
by observationist | 2026-02-24 20:12:17+00:00
Them being paid better wouldn't resolve the issue. Updating American culture such that individuals respected themselves, had a sense of shame, operated from a baseline of respect and gratitude for the opportunity to be working in the first place, these things fix the issue. Concurrently, the CEO respecting the workers, the institution, themselves, would result in wages commensurate to their value.

Expecting excellence, putting care and craft into your work, is something that is taught, it doesn't just magically happen.

Paying these same workers more would not noticeably improve outcomes, people would still lose luggage, steal shit, and then have even more money to spend.

The workers and the CEO are products of their culture, and without some sort of specific intervention against the outcomes wrought by those cultural influences, things would continue as before. Serious institutions indoctrinate their members and build a culture oriented around expectations of excellence and care and craft.

Such institutions can't compete in the marketplace we've set up, because it's cheaper to offer shitty service and low product quality, to keep employees expendable, low skill, low paid cogs, and to reward CEOs and management willing to screw over their fellow employees at every opportunity to ensure the number goes up.

That doesn't change unless the culture changes, which would change the regulatory environment, which would allow for things like excellent service and quality to be valued accordingly. America doesn't value excellence, it values "number go up."
by kodebach | 2026-02-24 20:12:18+00:00
Like you said, for years now they have added more and more restrictions to address various scams. So far none of them had any effect, other than annoying users of legitimate apps, because all the new restrictions were on the user side. This new approach restricts developers, but is actually a complete non-issue for most, since the vast majority of apps is distributed via Google Play already.

In the section "Existing Measures Are Sufficient." your letter also mentions

> Developer signing certificates that establish software provenance

without any explanation of how that would be the case. With the current system, yes, every app has to be signed. But that's it. There's no certificate chain required, no CA-checks are performed and self-signed certificates are accepted without issue. How is that supposed to establish any form of provenance?

If you really think there is a better solution to this, I would suggest you propose some viable alternative. So far all I've heard for the opponents of this change is, either "everything is fine" or "this is not the way", while conveniently ignoring the fact that there is an actual problem that needs a solution.

That said, I do generally agree, with you that mandatory verification for *all* apps would be overkill. But that is not what Google has announced in their latest blog posts. Yes, the flow to disable verification and the exemptions for hobbyists and students are just vague promises for now. But the public timeline (https://developer.android.com/developer-verification#timelin...) states developer verification will be generally available in March 2026. Why publish this letter now and not wait a few weeks so we can see what Google actually is planning before getting everybody outraged about it?
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-24 20:12:53+00:00
Interesting that Amodei is the only major tech executive I can think of at the moment with a spine or any semblance of a moral compass. OpenAI/Google et al. will gleefully comply with any such requests, no matter how dangerous or unethical. The "problem" that the US govt faces here is that they are kind of tacitly admitting Claude has the most powerful models right now, otherwise they would just cancel all contracts and go to Gemini/OpenAI. It feels like a bluff, so they are trying to bully them into compliance.

> The Pentagon is also considering severing its contract with Anthropic and declaring the company a supply chain risk, which would require a plethora of other companies that work with the Pentagon to certify that Claude isn't used in their workflows.

If Anthropic believes they are in a position to become the main player in the "AGI" space, they should just say "ok then" and let this happen. Their growth strategy looks realistic and sustainable and not necessarily relying on sleazy defense contracts (aka making the taxpayer subsidize their growth, as is so common lately) - it would probably give them a lot of good will with consumers too.

However, I've yet to see in the last 10-15 years a major tech company make the "right" choice so I am probably just wishcasting.
by tsoukase | 2026-02-24 20:13:01+00:00
Banning apps installation outside PlayStore will be a disaster for power-ish users and will start a fight between Google and community. I abandoned rooting my devices because I could achieve all I wanted through apps (mostly ad- and nag-freedom, it's impossible to be online without ad blocking). But all these were downloaded as APKs. I cannot imagine how the first day without these will be.
by gadflyinyoureye | 2026-02-24 20:13:03+00:00
Not to be that guy, but citation needed. My Pontiac Vibe engine from 2007 worked fine when I got rid of in 2025. Still got about the same fuel economy. My old ass Silverado needed new piston seals but has over 200k miles and still gets 22 mpg on the high way at 70 mph.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-24 20:13:11+00:00
Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup had well concluded and just a couple of hours before the Senate committee was to vote on it -- managed to neuter one of the key protections in the bill.

This is why I'm increasingly jaded with 'get involved with your local legislative process!' proponents. If you don't have the ability to lobby around the clock and make campaign or in-kind political donations (and know how to communicate your willingness to do that), then you're at a massive disadvantage. As well, the process itself is highly corruptible, eg altering the text of a bill just before a scheduled vote.

As a general matter, I'm increasingly disgusted with the prevalence of tactics like holding votes in the dead of night or in closed sessions. Politicians engage in a lot of tricks to evade scrutiny from their constituents, relying on the fact that once a piece of legislation is passed people might be angry but the politician can often get away with saying 'there was no other choice, we have to work within the process' or some similar empty truism.
by varankinv | 2026-02-24 20:13:22+00:00
I was personally surprised when the agent debugged kernel panics caused by its own code (many times by now). It just iterates from the stack traces and crash dumps.
The nice part is that, when you do see that the code smells — you ask the agent to rework it, focusing on specific problems. This is just code, and you don't need to dance around, hoping that AI will spill some "magic" at you.
by paul7986 | 2026-02-24 20:13:54+00:00
I love smart glasses they are very useful for people who wear sunglasses and use their phone to take pics & videos.

Of course with all new technology people fight against it. When I wore them on rollercoasters at Cedar Point in 2024 ride attendees said take those off and store them in a locker at the front entrance of the park (that kid / ride attendant hated them) yet as feb 2026 Six flags now allows smart glasses to be worn and 7 million have been sold.

Overall I am detailing why they are useful, why I think they will be widely adopted and like many technologies before it those who are against them will adopt them too(its a counter argument here). Sure some creeps will use them and with that in mind Apple has the possible ability to solve that privacy issue as they are a privacy company (all pics and vids taken thru APple glasses faces not in your network are randomize/anonymized).
by tetha | 2026-02-24 20:14:01+00:00
One uncomfortable, but wise truth is: Actual security is bound to the number of minutes until people with big guns arrive. A lot of other measures just exist to bridge time and limit damages until that happens.

We learned this during a funny situation when a customer sent us the wrong question set for vendors. We were asked to clarify our plans for example for an armed intrusion by an armed, hostile force to seize protected assets from us. After some discussion, we answered the equivalent of "Uh Sir. This is a software company. We would surrender and try to call the cops".

During some laughter from the customer they told us, the only part missing from that answer was the durability rating of our safes and secure storages for assets, of which we had none, because they just had to last until cops or reinforcements arrived. That was a silly day.
by payala | 2026-02-24 20:14:07+00:00
Fair point.

I kept this one intentional as a thesis statement, but the concrete examples live in the companion pieces — like a bug that took 7 years to find because I kept assuming my mental model was right (https://agilitza.com/blog/the-7-year-bug-that-took-3-minutes...).

That one's the humility and persistence lesson in action.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-24 20:14:25+00:00
1) The upstream only supports latest versions of SDK, they're not going to accept a patch to make the app work on an older SDK

2) I sent the patch to MacPorts which is what I was using and also had failed builds, and the maintainers closed my submission as a dupe (of a ticket which actually didn't have the full patch nor anyone testing it). I offered to do more investigation, no response

3) It's open source, I really don't owe anyone anything, nor they me
by adolph | 2026-02-24 20:14:43+00:00
> 63% of the IRS' audits under the Biden admin targeted those earning sub-$200K.

In 2022 92.3% of filers reported income of less than $200K [0]. An audit rate of 63% is lower than what one would expect if audit-attracting behavior was evenly distributed across the population.

0. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat...
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-24 20:15:46+00:00
> Despite popular belief, it is not the job of the US Tax Payer to feed the impoverished world.

This is an overly simplified perspective. Work at this scale requires impressive logistics and commitments that are haphazardly "rug-pulled" can have catastrophic consequences, regardless of whose "job" it is.

When I was looking at being a bone marrow donor, they talk about this. The process for such donation is involved, including minor surgical procedures for the donor. But they talk about autonomy and consent, and one of the topics is this (paraphrasing): Do I have the right to change my mind about donation at any time?

The answer: while you always maintain the legal right to withdraw consent, at a certain point in the process, the recipients existing bone marrow is destroyed in preparation for your donation. At that point, there may be considered a moral obligation to continue the donation, as without your donation, the recipient will die, due to the destruction in preparation.

> How many billions have been sent to Africa?

Speaking for myself, I'd rather continue sending billions to Africa than contributing ~1.5% of Israel's GDP in foreign assistance to it.
Show HN: I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks
by pklym | 2026-02-24 20:16:06+00:00
I had a bunch of ebooks with no audiobook version available. So I built an
iOS app that converts EPUB files into audiobooks using text-to-speech.

Two voice options:
- Free on-device voices (processed locally, no server needed)
- Natural cloud voices (one-time purchase per book, no subscription)

Cloud conversion runs chunk by chunk. You can start listening other chapters generate in the background. Once done, the audiobook lives on your device.

No account required. No subscription. You import your own EPUBs and either use device TTS for free or pay per book for the cloud voices.

Nothing stored on backend, neither books or audio files.
by gadflyinyoureye | 2026-02-24 20:16:11+00:00
Command economies break too. Capitalism has occasional fires like a forest. This is good. It allows things to shake out. New growth comes from the destruction. Command economies don't. They just continue to grow weeds and tall trees until everything is choked. Then they wonder why everything is garbage.

The US is moving to a fascist economy. That is a form of command economy. For example the FDA is controlled by big pharma.
by sparky_z | 2026-02-24 20:16:21+00:00
But why would they reason through it in that way? You haven't asked them to listen carefully and find the secret reason you're a dumb-ass in order to prove how smart they are. If they default to that mode on every query, that would just make them insufferable conversational partners, which is not the training goal.

Let me put it this way. If you were to prefix the prompts they used with "This is an IQ test: ", I wouldn't be surprised if most of the the models did much better. That would give them the context that the humans reading this article already have.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-24 20:16:32+00:00
I'm all for walkable/bikeable cities, but that doesn't solve the intrinsic motivation problem either.

I live in an area that has a lot of walkable and bikeable things nearby. There are a lot of people who drive anyway. Some because they're older, others because they have kids, others because they have busy schedules, and some are just lazy.

So while I'm in favor of better city layout, I don't think this would be a magic solution.

> Gyms are for people who have plenty of intrinsic motivation and money and time.

There are a lot of ways to work out without a gym. You can go for a walk or run around your neighborhood or even do a lot of workout programs at home. There are many easy workout systems that don't even take a lot of time and are easy to get started if you're not in shape.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-24 20:16:41+00:00
Currently detects via Meta, Essilor or Snap company ID.

So it won't detect my XReal's. I purposefully bought my XReal now because it feels like they might be one of the last models released without cameras.

But theoretically I could have the XReal Eye attachment on my glasses, and could be taking video through that. I don't, but the XReal user next to me might.

Of course the USB wire hanging from my ear probably makes me look suspicious enough already that the warning probably isn't necessary either way...
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-24 20:16:54+00:00
One outcome of the Epstein files release is getting direct evidence, very clearly, how goddamned stupid and crass and uninteresting these assholes are.

They talk like the dumbest 1850s british aristocrats. They talk as if they are discussing how lazy the Irish are and how that is definitely why they are starving. They have objectively stupid opinions. They believe themselves especially smart as they fire off one or two sentences about high school level philosophy topics, and they somehow find a way to generate wrong answers to questions that really shouldn't even have wrong answers. All the while, they misspell everything because apparently they are outright illiterate too.

Like, they say such utterly stupid things as "Women are too emotional to make good decisions". As if they don't do the things they do for extremely petty reasons.

And yet, still some morons all over the US think they must be geniuses because they fell ass backwards into a literal bubble and came out rich. You can publicly be an absolute moron and the Wealth propaganda in the US is so bad people will still insist you must be magically genius and only pretending to be stupid.

Did they even encrypt their "I'd like to purchase a rape of a little girl please" emails?
by breakyerself | 2026-02-24 20:17:09+00:00
Sure, but while the world waits for another super power to step up lives are being lost. The US could have announced a phase down with a hard pressure campaign to get the other countries to take over with no loss of life.

Instead these are just numbers in a statistic and opportunities for leverage in geopolitics instead of real lives with as much depth and meaning as your own.
by foxglacier | 2026-02-24 20:17:38+00:00
I suspect his persistent confidence was already there to lead him to write to Disney in the first place. As a kid, I had an idea like that and my Dad was going to write to the company but he never did, I never had the inclination to do it myself, and now I'm not an actor.

It also takes some awareness to state your age at the start of the letter. That's what makes people respond so well to it. I would never have thought age was relevant, or even that it was shameful to admit you're just a child. I didn't understand how people think. This guy apparently did, so again, he was already cut out for acting, I'd say.
by hvb2 | 2026-02-24 20:17:51+00:00
I get your point about Tesla. I don't get it at all about SpaceX...

You might have said the same about landing and reusing a booster. It's impossible, until someone does it.

If they screw up a project it's mostly their own money they're burning.

You want to take a ride on Starliner? Because without crew dragon the US would still be politely begging Russia for seats to the ISS.
Perplexity.ai tries to connect via UDP without being open
by roscas | 2026-02-24 20:18:02+00:00
perplexity.ai tris to make a udp connection without me having it's page open. I even removed the Chromium shortcut because it might just been that, but no. So what is going on?
I've used it a few times but how is it connecting without I'm using it or even the website open?

With the website it keeps to connect to their site, ok, I don't mind, but trying to connect this is is very very... strange.

This is Chromium, their website is not open, shortcut removed, I don't even know if there is an extension but I don't have any.

Keep in mind that is is an UDP that is trying to escape my pc...

update: I suspend the pc every time, and the connection comes like 10 minutes after I'm using the network. And yes it is being made from /usr/lib/chromium