MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-26 20:05:16+00:00
Kinda shocking to me that neutrino physics is entirely neglected in this report.

I mean, there are huge mysteries in the neutrino sector, it's the one area of "physics beyond the standard model" where we know there is a something and not a nothing. All that other stuff about precision electroweak measurements, possible third flavor discoveries, and maybe just maybe just maybe the next collider can collect sparticles are just plain boring and a reason to leave the accelerator race to somebody who's willing to make unlimited capital investments to "catch up" to the west.
by eszed | 2026-02-26 20:05:47+00:00
Oh! Yeah, I understand what you mean. "Black hole" (the astronomical entity) and "black hole" (a hole that is black) are said differently, but it takes a good ear, and probably some training, for English speakers to notice. How interesting that speakers of (some) other languages detect that so "automatically"! There also are dialectical complications - some speakers tend to run words together more than others, or maybe use tone / stress rather than syllabic modifications to mark the changes - and I'd be interested to know the extent to which you notice those structures as well?

Nevertheless, dictionaries (conventional ones, at least) concern themselves with written rather than spoken English, so I think my point stands. :-)
by lurkshark | 2026-02-26 20:06:00+00:00
My thought was that if the refusal to service some requests is implemented as an external guard model The Pentagon could try to require them to drop the guard model. This would be similar to saying "we're asking for a 'product' you already 'manufacture'" in the way the DPA is often understood. But if the refusal is baked into the model itself then that argument is dead. Not saying I agree with this, I think it turns into the same kind of problem we saw with the Apple v. FBI conflict and the All Writs Act, but the government doesn't always act in the most sane ways.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-26 20:06:12+00:00
I strongly agree that accessibility/programmatic UI control is the way.

But also: app builders are never going to get in line. UI will incessantly produce novel new spins. And widgets.

Yes the system should demand those have good DOM like expressions, be good components.

But I also feel like using vision processing a pretty direct way to work around making the better world, and while I wish we could make that better orderly world, I think there's something practical and real here.
by alwa | 2026-02-26 20:06:16+00:00
CAI’s Content Credential standard accommodates what you suggest, as far as re-signing/provenance, with a chain kind of approach. It supports embedding “ingredient thumbnails” in an image’s manifest, and/or the image’s manifest can embed or link back to source images that are in turn also signed [2].

It feels like the approach assumes a media environment where a professional wants to provably “show their work,” where authenticity adds value to a skeptical audience.

In that spirit, then, I understand CAI’s intention [0] to be to vest that judgment with the creator, and ultimately the viewer: if my purpose is to prove myself, I’d want to show enough links in the chain that the viewer checking my work can say “oh I see how A relates to B, to C,” and so on. If I don’t want to prove myself, well… then I won’t.

I don’t know Adobe’s implementation well enough to know how often they save a CC manifest, and their beta is vague in just referring to “editing history.” [1] I get the impression that they’re still dialing in the right level of detail to capture by default. Maybe even just “came from Firefly” and “Photoshop wuz here.”

But if I want to prove this Nikon Z9 recorded these pixels at this time and place, or “I am the BBC and yes I published this,” or “only the flying monkey was GenAI, the rest was real” I could conceivably put together a toolchain (independently of Adobe) to prove it in more detail.

[0] https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.2/spec...

[1] https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/docs/manifest/und...

[2] https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/docs/c2patool/doc...
by voiper1 | 2026-02-26 20:06:28+00:00
>Blockchain... NFTs
>The problem is, the same dudes who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial Intelligence.

I was firmly in the camp that blockchain was not a viable solution to any problem, and that NFTs sound stupid. I think AI is much different than that list. So, there goes your argument?
by hedora | 2026-02-26 20:06:36+00:00
I suspect this is one of the less nefarious reasons age verification is getting pushed so hard. 2026: you need a webcam to prove your age. 2030: we know you have a webcam because you verified your age. It must be left on with echo cancellation and background noise suppression disabled so we can hear the ad we are playing.

<insert obvious ways in which this will be misused here>
by keriati1 | 2026-02-26 20:06:39+00:00
I work for an old enterprise, so far rather conservative with LLM/AI usage. However the copilot cli adoption in the last 2 weeks is spreading light wild fire. Codex 5.3, a good instructions file and it works. Features are getting done and delivered in days, proper test coverage is done, proper documentation in place. Onboarding to it is also very fast.
by wordpad | 2026-02-26 20:06:45+00:00
AI is a productivity tool.
Instead of working on a single graphic, the artist can now work on the entire marketing campaign.
Instead of spending a year working on background special effects for a single scene, one could now personally produce full featured films.

It will be a golden age where the core differentiating factor is true talent and ideas and execution and not any gatekeeping by degrees, connections or budget.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-26 20:06:50+00:00
Another source, that I will quote from: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-t...

> The Legislature, the letter notes, "did not include a grace period for updating credentials," and anyone operating a vehicle without a valid credential "may be subject to additional penalties."

> Under Kansas law, driving without a valid license is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine—though first-time offenders are more likely to face a citation and fine. A conviction, however, triggers an automatic 90-day license suspension. If a person drives during that suspension, they face a charge of driving on a suspended license, which carries a mandatory minimum of five days in jail.

And according to this: https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mfqa4oynxk2p

> Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

> They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
by jcalvinowens | 2026-02-26 20:07:34+00:00
I didn't know the impetus for the graffiti writing was actually hardware limitations, that's fascinating:

> Gaffiti power writing software was another design decision
affected by the battery selection. During the design of the
first Palm handhelds, users were clamoring for natural
handwriting recognition. However, natural handwriting
recognition would require a more powerful processor and
more memory, which together required bigger batteries.
Adding all these things to a handheld would have weighed it
down and made it cost too much for the market. Instead, the
Palm designers bet that users would settle for good-enough
handwriting recognition if the result was long battery life.
by Reubachi | 2026-02-26 20:07:34+00:00
A question, per your final comment on being available to answer questions:

What do you feel is the benefit to the community for this that isn't offered by native blocking/existing extensions?

I ask not out of malice, I ask because 2 reasons:
1. I imagine spending time on this/it's working well required you to see the value/benefit to it.
2. We must assume all hacker news commenting follows the rules, IE; good faith comment with relevant experience when required. This seems like a way to promote getting around that.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-26 20:07:35+00:00
Western society.

My lifetime giving is more than I paid for my current house. The house in discussion for him is just one of how many that he owns? Or how many boats that count as 'second homes' under tax rules? Also consider he has paid for the entirely of this house, the average person giving 5-10% hasn't come close to paying for their house, so you need to go based off the 'already paid' amount. Also their home would be their largest asset, so going by that his largest asset for comparison would be his stock holdings, an order of magnitude larger than the cost of one of his homes.

Old boy is a billionaire, not a rando, and has proven he has zero shame. Despite starting their companies with techno-optimist claims, the robber barons had more shame/were more decent people/supported society more than the average tech billionaire.
by beloch | 2026-02-26 20:07:43+00:00
There are all sorts of algorithms in use that were once thought of as AI, but transitioned to being mere algorithms well before they entered public awareness, if they did that at all. Some are still useful and used everywhere, but they have never been thought of as AI by the public. For them, AI is a term that has long been reserved for some far-off, sci-fi future.

LLM's are not artificial general intelligence (i.e. not sci-fi AI). Why haven't they transitioned to being mere algorithms by now? Why is the public being told AI is finally arriving when it's really just another algorithm?

We have some truly slick and shady corporations involved in the bubble right now and they're marketing LLM's like tobacco. LLM's have been pushed out, at immense cost, to the public in a way that makes them more directly accessible to average people than any past algorithm. Young children can ask a LLM to do their homework for them. Middle managers can ask a LLM to create a (shitty) ad campaign for them. Corporations have gone to tremendous expense to make that widely available and, for the moment, mostly free. They seem to be following the Joe Camel school of marketing. Get them hooked while they're young so they come to you first when they're older! The only difference is that nobody is stepping in to stop the new Joe Camel from handing out free samples to kids.

Then there's the "go big" aspects of the bubble. The major competitors are trying to out-spend each other to dominance, but the suckers are so colossally big that their bubble is affecting global GPU, memory, and storage prices. This bubble is going to stress power grids wherever it operates and do considerable environmental harm. The financial games being played behind the bubble are absolutely stupid. The results, so far, are tantalizing for billionaires. LLM's offer the promise of being able to fire all their pesky and annoying human workers. It won't deliver on that, and none of these companies is ever going to make enough to pay their debts. There might be "too big to fail" government bailouts, but there are going to be some big bankruptcies too.

Useful algorithms will come out of all this, a lot of tears too, but not "AI".
by rzzzt | 2026-02-26 20:07:46+00:00
I'm sort of buying and not buying this interpretation. Celsius is discussed under section "Unit symbols" in the PDF (page 8-9 of the linked Chapter 22), where the quoted "it is better" sentence appears...

...then immediately afterwards a new section named "Compatibility" starts where the use of code points that are composites of several letters, e.g. ℡ and ℻ are indeed discouraged, suggesting they be spelled out in full as TEL and FAX instead.

Do you feel ℃ falls into a continuation/overlap between these two sections?
by api | 2026-02-26 20:07:47+00:00
Client isolation is helpful in the real world, but it's yet another band aid for the deeper more fundamental problem.

If a device is insecure when placed directly onto the Internet with no firewall, it is insecure. Full stop. Everything else is a hack around that fact. Sometimes you have to do that since you can't fix broken stuff, but it's still broken.
by acaciabengo | 2026-02-26 20:09:00+00:00
This is great and exciting. I happened to be doing some research to build memory-efficient diffusion models. I have not yet built the demo, but looking at a mix of architecture from several papers, IMTalker, SageAttension, FlashVSR, and Sparse VideoGen, with the intention to reduce memory to about 8GB.

The plan was to swap FlashAttention out, and also for an audio driver; SVG could have improved. At 60FPS, I think you are already doing this.

Great work.
by simianwords | 2026-02-26 20:09:20+00:00
Token usage is increasing but the link I shared is comparing price per token which is the reason they are excluding reasoning models.

Reasoning models have also gotten cheaper.

Generally cost to “achieve a certain task” using whatever model, even reasoning has drastically reduced.

The best example is arc agi.
https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

This measures cost to achieve certain percentage of score. Fix a certain accuracy and see how much price reduces over time. It’s more than 100x.
by nwellnhof | 2026-02-26 20:09:23+00:00
Concrete examples: GNU software, musl C library, everything from x.org and freedesktop.org. Just have a look at the top 1,000 projects from the Debian popularity contest and you'll find many projects outside the Github bubble. Why not use the Debian package name in your nomination form instead of a Github URL? Any project important enough to matter will have a Debian package, right?

If you're trying to come up with something like the "criticality score" based on repo metadata like the OpenSSF, you're likely to fail just like they did. Starting with Debian's popcon data makes a lot more sense, in my opinion.
by dolebirchwood | 2026-02-26 20:09:27+00:00
> The vibe coded thing might even be useful - that does not make it impressive though.

Then "impressive" shouldn't even be the benchmark. If someone gifted me $10K, I'm not going to care if they earned it in a competition or won it in a lottery. Value is value. I'm gratefully accepting it and not being snobby about it. I couldn't care less about how "impressive" anything is if it's useful to me.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-26 20:09:42+00:00
>God I miss the old calculator.

Prayer won't help you now ;)

With numbers >1000 they are of course displayed with thousands separators as 1,000 (text) now like you would see in financial reports, how attractive. Big numbers have a few commas too. No longer displayed as unseparated numerical constants, like you know, computers have always used.

And if you copy the figure from the calculator display, by right-clicking for the context menu or CTRL-C, you get the whole separated text with commas included to paste into where you need it.

So the receiving textbox you pasted to now needs to have the commas manually edited out before you can go forward, unlike any other Windows calculator.

I guess somebody forgot that people might want it to be at least as useful as it was since the 1990's.

You can still paste plain numeric text in without any commas, it just doesn't copy back out in the same usable format like it always did before.

You can't make this up.

A calculator is supposed to be the perfect example of a no-brainer :\

Edit: If you do the math it must have been more than one person who forgot, you have to think, is it even possible for one person alone to be responsible for quality declines like we have seen on their own? If so who would that be?
by Retric | 2026-02-26 20:09:43+00:00
Closely space axels work fine for road surfaces they don’t help on bridges but that’s a separate concern. You can see a plethora of heavy military vehicles etc which use extra axles to avoid getting stuck in the mud due to plastic deformation IE rutting. EX: The 22 ton KTO drives has to deal with rutting on vastly worse road surfaces like mud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTO_Rosomak

But this is where you need to do a deeper analysis than just a simple rule of thumb. Even adding extra wheels to the same axle makes a big difference to road surfaces.

> so the surface must be replaced more often too.

Level of ruts you see are considered acceptable or they would be replaced.

However, ultimately the same entity is paying for the busses and road maintenance. If lighter busses saved taxpayers money that’s what they would use which is a major sign your analysis is inherently flawed.
Show HN: Octrafic – Natural language API testing CLI
by mbadyl | 2026-02-26 20:09:57+00:00
It's a CLI tool that lets you describe what you want to test in plain English - the agent generates and runs the test plan against your API. You can point it at an OpenAPI spec, a Postman collection, GraphQL schema, or just a URL.

New in v0.5.0:

OpenAPI Scanner - scans your source code and auto-generates an OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Headless/CI mode - run non-interactively with octrafic test for pipeline integration

GitHub: https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli

Happy to answer questions any questions.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-26 20:09:58+00:00
Agreed! Very notable codex behavior to prefer python for scripting purposes.

I keep telling myself to make a good zx skills or agents.md. I really like zx ergonomics & it's output when it shells out is friendly.

Top comments are lua. I respect it, and those look like neat tools. But please, not what I want to look at. It would be interesting to see how Lua fairs for scripting purposes though; I haven't done enough io to know what that would look like. Does it assume some uv wrapper too?
by jmj | 2026-02-26 20:10:44+00:00
S combinator always duplicates its last parameter, never deletes it. That's why K is needed for universality.

This can be proved by induction. Or you can cite Craig's theorem (the less known one) for that. See [1]

Honestly, I don't see the endgame here.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/839926/is-there-a-p...
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-26 20:10:51+00:00
Apple has allowed similar audits for Chinese as the Germans audits discussed. Chinese even do spot checks for individual phones sold in China to verify that they don't have US backdoors. (Apple services in China are not safe from the Chinese government of course, they are compelled to give access to Chinese).

NSA can try to install backdoor if they can (like DROPOUTJEEP), but Apple has no interest in helping and can't be legally compelled to. The Snowden documents show that Apple’s cooperation was compelled, not voluntary. Apple was the last of the major tech giants to join PRISM.
by shimman | 2026-02-26 20:11:02+00:00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/academi...

https://archive.ph/0MzkZ

https://www.wired.com/story/top-ai-researchers-financial-bac...

I live in Cambridge, MA there are dozens of these relationships going on; big tech offers lucrative access to cutting edge hardware in return for closed research.

Just more insidious ways on how big tech requires massive amounts of welfare to exist and persist.
Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas
by travelyesim | 2026-02-26 20:11:19+00:00
I resell travel eSIMs data plan under my brand. I have 3DS enabled and strict Stripe Radar rules and backend logic to limit fraud. Last dispute I received was 7 months ago.
Still, suddenly today my account closed. I did appeal and reach out to support through multiple channels via email and X.

All payments by my current customers are being rejected. You can imagine how hard it was to attract customers in the current hot eSIM market.

My LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas so they already have all my info in addition to the document I sent today during the appeal.

Waiting 2-3 days to get a response whether they will reactivate or not is very long.

That's supper unprofessional. Can you help push this post bcz they only seem to take serious action after a social media post..!!
by bilbo0s | 2026-02-26 20:11:20+00:00
>while even the Deep South, which has consistently been at the bottom, is going up

Well their PISA scores haven't been going up. In fact they've been going down. So if their education is getting better, it's not showing up in the ability of their students to answer questions that other students seem to be able to answer.

That's kind of what I meant by PISA removing "BS"-ability from the equation. For some reason, on American standardized tests, all our children do great. Then we take PISA with all the other kids in the world, and the truth comes out.

That's also why I think we should all just take Massachusetts' education curriculum and implement it across the nation. Because you talk about demographics, but even when you control for income and race, kids in Massachusetts just flat out do better than our kids. Even just taking all kids at the bottom of the rankings in Massachusetts, they are still doing better than kids at the median of the rankings of many, many other states. (And think about the demographics of kids at the bottom in Boston, Brockton, or Springfield. Come on, admit it man. I'll try to stay politically correct here and just state that those very likely aren't professors' kids at the bottom of the rankings in Massachusetts.)

Massachusetts is so far ahead of all of us that I think I'd be comfortable just saying that they seem to have gotten it right, and we should simply copy it. Because right now, the gap is just getting wider and wider with every round of PISA testing.
Show HN: Quantumopt – GNN-based quantum circuit compiler (34% gate reduction)
by Naveen_S1 | 2026-02-26 20:11:22+00:00
I'm a CS student with no prior quantum computing
background who built this in about a week.

quantumopt uses a Graph Attention Network trained
on 10,240 quantum circuits to predict optimization
potential, then passes to Qiskit's transpiler for
hardware-specific compilation targeting IBM Brisbane.

Results on 41 real QASMbench circuits:
- 34% average gate reduction
- 28% average depth reduction
- 0 circuits made worse
- 82% GNN prediction accuracy

Happy to answer questions about the GNN architecture, training pipeline, or quantum compilation approach.
by AltStackHQ | 2026-02-26 20:11:49+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the creator of AltStack.

I built this because the current landscape of discovering open-source software is highly fragmented. You either rely on static "Awesome Lists" that go out of date, or you get SEO-farmed listicles.

I wanted to build a dynamic, community-driven database. The entire directory (450+ tools) is open-source and JSON-driven from our GitHub repo.

On top of the discovery engine, I've started mapping production-hardened Docker Compose configs for the most popular tools (Supabase, Plausible, n8n, etc.) to make the jump from "discovering" to "self-hosting" as frictionless as possible.

The frontend is built with Next.js and React, but the core soul of the project is the open data repository.

I'd love your feedback on the project structure, the UI, or any missing tools you think belong in the database. Happy to answer any questions about the stack!
Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas
by travelyesim | 2026-02-26 20:11:49+00:00
I resell travel eSIMs data plan under my brand. I have 3DS enabled and strict Stripe Radar rules and backend logic to limit fraud. Last dispute I received was 7 months ago.

Still, suddenly today my account closed. I did appeal and reach out to support through multiple channels via email and X.

All payments by my current customers are being rejected. You can imagine how hard it was to attract customers in the current hot eSIM market.

My LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas so they already have all my info in addition to the document I sent today during the appeal.

Waiting 2-3 days to get a response whether they will reactivate or not is very long.

That's supper unprofessional. Can you help push this post bcz they only seem to take serious action after a social media post..!!