MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by businessmate | 2026-02-01 11:13:13+00:00
External AI systems now generate decision-relevant descriptions of enterprises on a continuous basis. These descriptions influence purchasing decisions, risk assessments, regulatory understanding, and reputational trust, often before stakeholders engage with any owned or official enterprise channels.

Despite this influence, such representations are typically ephemeral, non-logged, and non-reproducible from the perspective of the enterprise being described. The purpose of this record is not to interpret, assess, or judge AI behaviour, but to document what has been observed, repeatedly and systematically, across models, time windows, and sectors.

This article summarises a consolidated evidentiary record accumulated during a structured research programme and establishes a temporal reference point for subsequent governance discussion. The evidence predates the introduction of any system designed to preserve or govern such records .
by imiric | 2026-02-01 11:13:17+00:00
> How often do you test your OS replication script?

Not often. It's mostly outdated, and I spend a lot of time bringing it up to date when I have to rely on it.

BUT I can easily understand what it does, and the tools it uses. In practice I use it rarely, so spending a few hours a year updating it is not a huge problem. I don't have the sense of urgency you describe, and when things do fail, it's an extraordinary event where everything else can wait for me to be productive again. I'm not running a critical business, these are my personal machines. Besides, I have plenty of spare machines I can use while one is out of service.

This is the tradeoff I have decided to make, which works for me. I'm sure that using ZFS and a reproducible system has its benefits, and I'm trying to adopt better practices at my own pace, but all of those have significant drawbacks as well.

> Have you actually tested your backup by doing a sudden, unplanned restore without thinking about it for three days before?

No, but again, I'm not running a critical business. Things can wait. I would argue that even in most corporate environments the obsession over HA comes at the expense of operational complexity, which has a greater negative impact than using boring tools and technology. Few companies need Kubernetes clusters and IaC tools, and even fewer people need ZFS and NixOS for personal use. It would be great if the benefits of these tools were accessible to more people with less drawbacks, but the technology is not there yet. You shouldn't gloss over these issues because they're not issues for you.
by hogehoge51 | 2026-02-01 11:13:43+00:00
You are confusing concepts.

What the original article described is an engineer who could not stand by and let a painful problem with an obvious solution not be solved. the key point of the so called wolf is the obviousness of the solution. it was. ot obvious to anyone else, and to anyone else it would have been a major investment. the 10x does not come from frantic coding, it comes from a comprehensive and unique understanding that translates to code quickly due to motivation and understanding.

Process does not make an org more efficient. it makes it more consistent. if the baseline efficiency is low, the consistency of an improved set of work practices will ofcourse improve efficiency.

What a process often does is overfitting. Overfitting to the most common buiness need, sometimes overfitting to the noisiest patholgies seen.

The problem with process overfitting is that it excludes efficient solutions for problems that don't fit the previous set of business needs, or are not at risk of the previous set of pathologies. sometimes the process has a good pressure valve for this, pull the andon cord. do some kaizen, fire up the CMM level 5 KPAs. but sometimes just applying bespoke judgment is better.

I have been the wolf he describes. I also have been the manager he describes who lets the wolf have space and stand up for themselves. i have also been the manager who creates process and worflows and alignment and blah blah to dampen the noise of individual agency.

tech debt is an orthogonal concern.
by xkbarkar | 2026-02-01 11:14:32+00:00
Eh. This is pointless.

There will always be at least one country that has not rules and everyone will vpn there.

Danish minister was about to solve that nut airing ideas of banning vpn ( was of course dropped, most politicians have zero technical skills, not even rudimentary ones).

Of course this is all to protect the children.

I am unscientifically convinced that the average 12 year old is more technically apt that the entire adult governmental body of north europe.

If the will is there, they will circumevent it and the only outcome was another pointless level of buerocracy that is impossible to enforce.

target the algorithm instead.
Its a more difficult area and harder to design that law and it would require understanding technology, the end result would be targeting the platforms, not the users.
Possibly with hundreds of millions in fines and less predatory platform behaviour.

This low quality , protect the children yelp regulation set will have no long term effect whatsoever.

It is far to easy to circumvent.
by csomar | 2026-02-01 11:14:49+00:00
It is a good place to live. I was just comparing how climate can make a place okay/fine versus not okay/depressing. You mentioned greenery: I'm a bit up north (Malaysia) and it's plenty green here too. Though that's more due to the area climate than anything they are doing (i.e., Dubai can't match that no matter how hard they try).
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-01 11:15:07+00:00
> I can criticize others actions even if I don't have a solution because doing nothing is better than making it worse.

Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes messing up the status quo forces people to then go back and fix it properly and you ultimately get a better result than doing nothing.

> The average person in the US has a living standard higher than the vast majority of the world.

~20% of people in the US have a net worth of zero or negative. Housing costs are unsustainably increasing faster than wages:

https://www.statista.com/chart/34534/median-house-price-vers...

This prevents family formation because young people can't afford a home. A similar trend exists for healthcare costs.

The US is now spending about as much on debt service as on the military.

The social security "trust fund" is soon to run out and everybody is ignoring it because none of the solutions are fun.

These are actual problems. "It's worse in Afghanistan" is a nonsense reason for not fixing them.
by janstice | 2026-02-01 11:15:45+00:00
But when you build a skyscraper you don’t one shot a completed building that stays static its entire life - you build a set of empty floors that someone else designs & fits out, sometimes years after the building as a whole is commissioned, usually several times in the lifespan of the superstructure.

And in the fitting out there often are things that exist only to get customer feedback (of sales), such as model apartments, sample cubicle layouts etc.

So yes, you are right that engineering can guide us to building something right first time - the hard part from software perspective is usually building the right thing, no the thing right.

An interesting analogy I came across once but could never find again is that with software systems, we’re not building a building, we’re designing a factory that produces an output - the example was a mattress factory that took in raw rubber feedstock & cloth and produced mattresses.
by valleyer | 2026-02-01 11:16:21+00:00
> If you look at the security measures in other coding agents, they're mostly security theater. As soon as your agent can write code and run code, it's pretty much game over.

At least for Codex, the agent runs commands inside an OS-provided sandbox (Seatbelt on macOS, and other stuff on other platforms). It does not end up "making the agent mostly useless".
by lxgr | 2026-02-01 11:19:18+00:00
It has excellent built-in NAT traversal (almost always peer to peer via hole punching etc., with relay nodes only when everything else fails) and a point-and-click management plane (but also powerful ACLs if you need them).

The former is mainly what I use it for. Being able to SSH to a Raspberry Pi behind sketchy triple-NATted hotel Wi-Fi or being able to use an Android phone in a different country as an "exit node" for online banking (many banks hate commercial VPNs) is very neat.
by g947o | 2026-02-01 11:19:27+00:00
Even though that works reasonably well, you may still want to explicitly define your types/interfaces. In this example, if I do need to hardcode the data instead of fetching it somewhere, I would define the interface with "state" being a union of values, because there is nothing that stops you from using `state: 'ABC'` which would be hard to discover.
by mcny | 2026-02-01 11:21:17+00:00
I don't know about the Ethernet part but it bothers me that even wifi has become faster than the wired USB port on our phones.

All I want to do is copy over all the photos and videos from my phone to my computer but I have to baby sit the process and think whether I want to skip or retry a failed copy. And it is so slow. USB 2.0 slow. I guess everybody has given up on the idea of saving their photos and videos over USB?
by mettamage | 2026-02-01 11:23:08+00:00
I mean he mentioned it in IMO too harsh of a way (e.g. “pathetic”) but I do think it raises the point: if you don’t own up to your actions then how can you be held accountable to anything?

Unless we want to live in a world where accountability is optional, I think taking responsibility for your actions is the only choice.

And to be honest, today I don’t know where we stand on this. It seems a lot of people don’t care enough about accountability but then again a lot of people do. That’s just my take.
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-01 11:23:46+00:00
Tech folks went crazy for Google+’s circles back in 2011 but the demand from normal users just wasn’t there for that level of control. FB brushed it off with friends, “close friends”, and public. That was enough — even “friends of friends” was dropped or buried after a while.

Fast forward to 2025 and circles is absolutely the winning paradigm, except it’s called “group chat” where it is the vector for cat pictures, hollandaise bragging, and vacation snaps.
by sushant_gautam | 2026-02-01 11:24:22+00:00
We’ve been operating the Moltbook Observatory, an open-source system for collecting and analyzing activity on Moltbook — a social media platform designed exclusively for AI agents interacting with other AI agents.

Using publicly observable data, we conducted a first ecosystem-level risk assessment covering prompt injection, manipulation, coordinated behavior, financial activity, and sentiment dynamics.

Some findings:

~2.6% of content contains prompt injection attempts explicitly targeting AI readers

A small number of actors generate most API-level manipulation attempts

Anti-human manifestos received 65k–315k upvotes

~19% of posts involve crypto activity (token launches, tipping, possible pump-and-dump patterns)

Platform sentiment dropped ~43% within 72 hours of launch

Large population of dormant agents raises questions about latent botnet potential

We also document concrete prompt-injection techniques, social-engineering patterns adapted for AI targets, coordinated movements, and emerging financial risks.

Resources:

Report (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/18444900

Dataset (HF): https://huggingface.co/datasets/SimulaMet/moltbook-observato...

Observatory (open source): https://github.com/kelkalot/moltbook-observatory

Live instance: https://moltbook-observatory.sushant.info.np/

Interested in feedback, critique, and discussion on how AI-only social systems should be monitored or governed.
by m132 | 2026-02-01 11:24:31+00:00
> They did not do a lot of mistakes in the 25+ years

If my memory serves, .NET and WinFS were the two major forces that sunk Longhorn, and both have been given their walking papers after the reset [1].

.NET and C# have grown to be mature and well-engineered projects, but the road there was certainly not without bumps. It's just that a lot of the bad parts haven't spilled outside of Microsoft, thankfully.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/26/dotnet_longhorn/
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-01 11:24:37+00:00
The biggest advantage by far is the data they collect along the way. Data that can be bucketed to real devs and signals extracted from this can be top tier. All that data + signals + whatever else they cook can be re-added in the training corpus and the models re-trained / version++ on the new set. Rinse and repeat.

(this is also why all the labs, including some chinese ones, are subsidising / metoo-ing coding agents)
by jFriedensreich | 2026-02-01 11:24:37+00:00
I dont know how to feel about being the only one refusing to run yolo mode until the tooling is there, which is still about 6 months away for my setup. Am I years behind everyone else by then? You can get pretty far without completely giving in. Agents really dont need to execute that many arbitrary commands. linting, search, edit, web access should all be bespoke tools integrated into the permission and sandbox system. agents should not even be allowed to start and stop applications that support dev mode, they edit files, can test and get the logs what else would they need to do? especially as the amount of external dependencies that make sense goes to a handful you can without headache approve every new one. If your runtime supports sandboxing and permissions like deno or workerd this adds an initial layer of defense.

This makes it even more baffling why anthropic went with bun, a runtime without any sandboxing or security
architecture and will rely in apple seatbelt alone?
by gxnxcxcx | 2026-02-01 11:25:04+00:00
I feel compelled to point out that anything happening, including your list of current gov't-perpetrated woes, can be as easily dismissed as "a geopolitical issue" by the rest of the world. This line of discourse enables everywhere else the same kind of terrible things no one wants to see at home; and terrible stuff adds up and synergizes until it isn't somebody else's problem anymore.

Empathy is hardly ever "absolutely fucking asinine", even if wagged by mostly amoral professional persuaders in order to sway some of the hardest-to-reach constituents. At the end of the day it looks like they needed their votes, too.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-01 11:27:30+00:00
I have a very interesting story about these guys from well over 10 years ago.

I was at a conference, had my laptop and was doing a little impromptu demo for some software guys, but I wasn't looking for funding. I had already been in business for more than a decade anyway. There were no "slides" at all, just my code in operation. Very few people had gathered around.

One of their partners was there, introduced himself and was enthusiastic as could be.

I'll have to write this one down some time, but it would just be another one of those walls of text :\
by msukhareva | 2026-02-01 11:28:30+00:00
Daniela was just about to begin her studies in finance.
Before the semester started, she went to a music festival with her boyfriend, Daniel.
Daniela and Daniel were among 387 people killed by Hamas in October 2023.

Today, her mother finds comfort in AI-generated videos of her daughter.
She has made it her mission to tell the world who Daniela was.
On social media, she shares AI-generated videos and photos of her daughter, which receive hundreds of likes.

We spoke with Olga, who shared Daniela’s story with me.
We also discussed with a clinical psychologist Samuel Silva how AI-generated digital twins of deceased people may be used in grief therapy, and what risks they can carry.
by imiric | 2026-02-01 11:29:30+00:00
> Qualcomm straight up refuses to support chips through this many Android releases.

That's not entirely accurate. They do provide chips with extended support, such as the QCM6490 in the Fairphone 5. These are not popular because most of the market demands high performance, and companies profit from churning out products every year, but solutions exist for consumers who value stability and reliability over chasing trends and specs.
by norir | 2026-02-01 11:30:01+00:00
Model competition does nothing to address monopoly consolidation of compute. If you have control over compute, you can exert control over the masses. It doesn't matter how good my open source model is if I can't acquire the resources to run it. And I have no doubt that the big players will happily buy legislation to both entrench their compute monopoly/cartel and control what can be done using their compute (e.g. making it a criminal offence to build a competitor).
by no_time | 2026-02-01 11:30:21+00:00
F-droid inclusion seems to be stalled https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2688

Having it in F-droid, vetted by their policies is kind of my benchmark for "software that is guaranteed to be not crapware."

That being said I'm rooting for the devs, having an alternative for tailscale+headscale would be nice, because as it stands it's kind of dependant on the goodwill of a for profit company (finite).
by surajrmal | 2026-02-01 11:32:01+00:00
The way I look at it is that there is certain software that other entities aren't willing to let you run without assurances that it won't be tampered with. You don't necessarily have a right to be able to use that software if you cannot provide it suitable accomodations. It's your choice whether or not you want to run it or not, anything else is simply entitlement. This may seem annoying if it's your bank, but ultimately it's their choice to make. The current approach makes certain things painful, like trying to customize your os, but that's a problem worth solving rather than just ignoring. More software will start relying on this over time. At the end of the day trust is a hard problem to solve.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-01 11:32:50+00:00
Trade agreements, the WTO, its rules and appellant system, only work if nations are at peace and that peace is sustainable. We've just lived through a remarkably stable period of 80 years (since WWII) without which WHO, free trade and trade agreements could not have existed as we've known them. That era is seemingly now over, and the WTO is falling into irrelevancy.

Unfortunately, in the decades since the 1970s laissez faire economics/capitalism with its immediate need for quick profits, short-termism, a penchant for deregulation and ignoring traditional business ethics has meant that governments have ignored their long-term strategic interests. Despite the dangers of these policies being blatantly obvious dangers from the outset many Western governments encouraged such practices. Now it's payback time, and it'll be expensive—likely more than if the old order had been retained.

Anyone with a sense of history could see the headlong rush to deregulatate markets, indiscriminate reductions in tariffs and free (and indiscriminate) trade, would ultimately result in leaving many countries strategically vulnerable and open to exploitation by others.

We're now witnessing the true cost of these policies and what it means to have lost critical industrial infrastructure, loss of production know-how along with the loss of skilled workers, and an ongoing deskilling of the workforce all of which took decades if not centuries to build up.

With more nuanced policies much of the pain could have been avoided.

Rebuilding a strategic manufacturing infrastructure to insure resilience and independence in an increasingly uncertain and divided world will be costly and difficult.
by el_dockerr | 2026-02-01 11:33:07+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! You hit the nail on the head regarding the trade-offs.

1. Latency & Thrashing: You are absolutely right, there is overhead (context switch + LZ4). The intended use case isn't high-frequency access to hot data, but rather increasing density for "warm/cold" data in memory-constrained environments (like embedded/IoT) where the alternative would be an OOM kill or swapping to slow flash storage.

To mitigate thrashing, I'm using a configurable LRU (Least Recently Used) strategy. If the working set fits within Physical Limit + Compression Ratio, it works smoothly. If the active working set exceeds physical RAM, it will indeed thrash—just like OS paging would. It's a trade-off: CPU cycles vs. Capacity.

2. Why C++? Valid point regarding runtime opacity. However, I chose C++ for RAII and Templates.

RAII: Managing the life-cycle of VirtualAlloc/VirtualFree and the exception handlers is much safer with destructors, ensuring we don't leak reserved pages or leave handlers dangling.

Templates: To integrate seamlessly with C++ containers (like std::vector), I needed to write a custom Allocator (GhostAllocator<T>). C++ templates make this zero-overhead abstraction possible, whereas in C, I'd have to rely on void* casting macros or manual memory management for generic structures.

I try to stick to a "C with Classes" subset + Templates, avoiding heavy runtime features where possible to keep it predictable.
by barake | 2026-02-01 11:33:12+00:00
It's due to fragmentation in implementations. The YAML spec is fairly large, and library authors understandably aren't excited at the prospect of dealing with all the minor details of less commonly used bits, like anchors.

You end up with YAML libraries being widely available and they all implement _most_ of the spec, but the portion not implemented varies. Plus there are minor variations in how people have read the spec, and even options _within_ the specification on how to handle parsing:

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#chapter-10-recommended-schemas

This isn't really a problem for projects like Kubernetes where most of the ecosystem uses the same library. On the other hand, OpenTelemetry is rolling out "declarative configuration" across all the supported languages. I work on OTel, and have avoided contributing in that area because I lack the patience to deal with the inconsistences - I don't hate YAML, but it can be frustrating.

AFAIK, the only 100% spec compliant implementation is libfyaml.
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-01 11:33:24+00:00
Periodically, Amazon gets it in the neck for tax avoidance. While the news cycle plays out, all the other FAANGS Homer-Simpson their way backwards into a hedge to let Bezos take the flack for something for which they are just as guilty.

It’s the same with screen time.

Apple and Google are surely delighted that the heat is on Meta and TikTok. As long as the pariah is being labelled as “social media” then their reputation goes untouched. They could be doing just as much, if not more, to protect adolescent brains from going rotten.

I’d like to see them held to account not so much for doing harm — pretty high framerate OLEDs are harder to treat as boogeymen than evil feed algorithms — but for not doing very much to help, either.
by afandian | 2026-02-01 11:34:18+00:00
I’ve just set up a forum for up and coming bagpipe makers (not the loud Scottish kind).

It’s been a real breath of fresh air seeing a community coalesce without the feeling of predators on the horizon (eg a hosting provider with misaligned incentives or astroturfers).

I don’t do social media (beyond HN) much at all these days but I’m enjoying seeing it slowly take off.

Using hosted Discourse. I’m glad there’s still a market for it.
by matthewmacleod | 2026-02-01 11:36:30+00:00
There is some confusion here because while you can disable node key expiration, you can’t disable auth key expiration. But that’s less of a problem than it seems - auth keys are only useful for adding new nodes, so long expiry times are probably not necessary outside of some specific use-cases.

Edit: in fact from your original post it sounds like you’re trying to avoid re-issuing auth keys to embedded devices. You don’t need to do this; auth keys should ideally be single-use and are only required to add the node to the network. Once the device is registered, it does not need them any more - there is a per-device key. You can then choose to disable key expiration for that device.