MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coffeemug | 2026-02-13 01:56:01+00:00
From an execution standpoint you can't work on experimental mobility due to path dependence. How are they going to convince municipal governments to open golf cart lanes? That would require solving two problems (autonomy and overcoming path dependence), and solving just one is hard enough. Once they saturate the market as it is with autonomous driving, then everything will change and opportunities to experiment will open up.

Neal Stephenson wrote a short essay on path dependence that I really like-- https://slate.com/technology/2011/02/space-stasis-what-the-s....
by uriahlight | 2026-02-13 01:57:38+00:00
It depends on whether your API provider is HIPAA compliant and what sort of disclosures are provided. If you're running inference in house then it's not an issue provided you're following all the other guidelines.

With FormKit you'd still be using a predefined deterministic flow where all the conditionals are accounted for in advance. FormKit wouldn't be able to generate a truly non-deterministic UI that changes based upon how the user answers. If you're wanting to sue your neighbor for their tree falling onto your house, an AI powered UI for a law firm could be giving you form fields on what type of tree it was, how old the tree was, hot tall the tree was, how close it was to the property line, and what room in your house the tree landed in...

I'm not advocating for or against this type of approach - I'm just pointing out a few potential use-cases for it since that's what you asked for.
by pvtmert | 2026-02-13 01:58:32+00:00
The main difference being the time it takes to recover/reverse the decision.

Second point is: You don't need to reverse the decision you took, instead you may find a way to fix the impact but not the root-cause.

It's like when one fucks up the MySQL replication and the data consistency is corrupted. One can manually (and slowly) fix the inconsistency with downtime. Or, spin up a whole new cluster from an existing well-known node/state. Some entities may be missing, but you could gradually add them back later.

Not a reversible, but recoverable decision.

Amazon goes by with one-way vs two-way door decisions internally. Sometimes adding much bureaucracy to the equation. Just-do-it/Bias-for-action aspect usually don't go as far as the recovery period prolongs.
by echelon | 2026-02-13 02:00:43+00:00
> Advertising, how will they kill ads any better than the current cat and mouse games with ad blockers?

The Ad Blocker cat and mouse game relies on human-written metaheuristics and rules. It's annoying for humans to keep up.

Agents/Bots or super slim detection models will easily be able to train on ads and nuke them whatever form they come in: javascript, inline DOM, text content, video content.

Train an anti-Ad model and it will cleanse the web of ads. You just need a place to run it from the top.

> Social Media, how will they kill social media?

MoltClawd was only the beginning. Soon the signal will become so noisy it will be intolerable. Just this week, X's Nikita Bier suggested we have less than six months before he sees no solution. They just took down Higgsfield's (valued at $1.3B) main account because they were doing it across a molt bot army, and they're not the only ones.
by terhechte | 2026-02-13 02:02:25+00:00
I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count:

Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-window-ti...

Instead of win key, you can press F3, or just set a hotkey that works for you in the System Preferences

Instead of clicking the red maximize button, you can double-click the window header / title. This will use an algorithm to try to resize the window to the best size for its content.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-13 02:03:12+00:00
There are still three players in smartphones realistically.

ARM makes their Mali line, which vendors like Mediatek license and puts straight on their chips.

Qualcomm makes their custom Adreno gpus. (Derived from Radeon Mobile). They won't sell it outside snapdragon.

Samsung again licensed Mali from ARM, but in their flagship exynos's they use AMD's gpus. They won't sell it outside exynos.

PowerVR makes gpus that are so outdated with features that Pixel 10 phones can't even run some benchmarks.

And then there's apple.
by alehlopeh | 2026-02-13 02:04:01+00:00
A lot of you won’t want to hear it but HomeKit + iCloud secure video is the only way to go. For one thing it’s end to end encrypted. You can also do ML stuff like face recognition which happens locally on your Apple TV. And you can set it to trigger HomeKit scenes if eg the person in the video isn’t recognized, or if it recognizes a particular person. Yeah Apple bad, blah blah. But they don’t have an incentive to sell your data.
by xethos | 2026-02-13 02:05:34+00:00
I was actually playing with voice rooms the other day. One can create a standing call room that people can join or leave as they see fit, without having to set up a new call each time. Discord currently has more integrations with streaming and voicechat rooms, but they had a bit of a head start, and even Element (let alone Commet & Cinny) are catching up
by gnabgib | 2026-02-13 02:06:31+00:00
Original source: Breaking Down ZeroDayRAT - New Spyware Targeting Android and iOS https://iverify.io/blog/breaking-down-zerodayrat---new-spywa...

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by HardCodedBias | 2026-02-13 02:06:35+00:00
Let's be real.

Google leadership is pathetic.

Sundar "the manager" has presided over an enormous growth of the businesses he was handed. He also presided over the complete collapse of the internal culture. OTOH he may have fired Dianne Green, so that's something. Overall, at best Meh.

Demis ran a startup that burnt cash on vanity projects and continues to burn cash on vanity projects. Gemini is barely open source quality AI, but Google makes it nearly free and has the best distribution on the planet.

Gemini has been a joke since 1.0. No release has hurt Google's brand more. 3.0 was STOA for about 2 days, easily Gemini's best release.

Anthropic and OAI are moving at amazing pace, Google can not keep up at all.
by skiniks | 2026-02-13 02:06:36+00:00
rari is a React Server Components framework with a Rust-powered runtime. It's not a compiler that converts React to vanilla JavaScript—it's a full framework (like Next.js) that runs React applications.

The Rust part is the runtime engine that executes your React code on the server. Think of it as a faster alternative to Node.js for running React Server Components. You still write normal React code, but the server-side execution happens in Rust instead of Node.js, which gives it massive performance gains (46.5x higher throughput than Next.js).

It handles routing, server-side rendering, and serves both server components (rendered on the server) and client components (interactive JavaScript sent to the browser). The output is still HTML + JavaScript that runs in the browser—just generated much faster.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-13 02:06:39+00:00
this is the one that's hardest to actually practice. it's easy to agree with in principle, but when you've spent weeks building something based on a hypothesis, the psychological cost of genuinely trying to disprove it is enormous.

i've found that the only reliable way to do this in product development is to set up the falsification criteria before you start building. like "if day 7 retention is below 15%, this core mechanic doesn't work and we pivot." if you wait until after you have data to decide what counts as failure, you'll always find a way to explain it away.

sagan was talking about science but this applies to basically any domain where you're investing effort based on an unproven assumption. the sunk cost makes the baloney detector malfunction.
by sapphicsnail | 2026-02-13 02:07:00+00:00
> Wanting people dead or imprisoned simply for existing is the sort of inconsistent view that is likely easiest to change by moving people out of radicalized spaces...

I just don't see how polis would do this. As far as I can tell this is largely about asking a questionnaire and then a polity can view the different responses and try to find legislation that's acceptable to the largest group of people.

There are some people you can reason with but if someone has priors they aren't willing to examine there's not much you can do. I don't think we could workshop our way to civil rights.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-13 02:07:07+00:00
There's no definitive way to tell if some code is written by AI or not; thus their statement doesn't have to be true. Usage of AI itself is nebulous, it could mean anything from OpenClaw-style automated agents to someone prompting an LLM via chat to an engineer manually writing code after wasting hours trying to get an agent to do it (that still counts as "usage", even if not ultimately productive).

The market currently rewards claims of usage of AI, so everyone is claiming to be using AI. There is no way to prove one way or another, and the narrative will be changed down the line once the market swings.

When it comes to productivity claims, I have yet to see it. If AI is truly providing significant, sustained productivity improvements across the software development lifecycle I'd expect products to be better, cheaper, or get developed faster (all of which happened with other industrial breakthroughs). I do not see that in software at large and especially not in Spotify's case.
by walterbell | 2026-02-13 02:07:12+00:00
This thread (on a story about 10 year old 0-day that exposed 2 billion devices to potential breach!) has many comments questioning the mere possibility of repeated breach, yet not a single comment engaging the point of my original post -- that Apple's 2025 introduction of MIE/eMTE changed the observable device behavior vs. Apple devices of the previous five years. On the new iPad Pro, MIE was shipped alongside Apple's $1B investment in modem technology to replace Qualcomm cellular and Broadcom WiFi/BT radios used on billions of existing devices.

"Memory Integrity Enforcement" (2025), 250 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

> has no clear evidence of an actual breach

If the perceived breaches during 5 years of using multiple generations of Apple devices were due to methodology errors leading to false positives, why did they stop after moving to 2025 Apple hardware with MIE and Apple-only radio basebands?
by airstrike | 2026-02-13 02:07:29+00:00
Same here. I use both!

> get the super+right click to resize working somehow (there is a native way to move windows with ctrl+cmd+left click which was nice).

I've tried this with Hamerspoon to no avail and ultimately gave up... if you find a workaround, I'm all ears!

I really miss AHK...
by gnabgib | 2026-02-13 02:08:05+00:00
Original source: CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/02/10/cisa-adds...

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by camillomiller | 2026-02-13 02:08:57+00:00
No it is not. Your mandate is to grow your company’s revenue and profits, not act according to your conscience as an executive, especially if something is not illegal.

This is why regulations are extremely important. There need to be a strong enough counterincentive or companies will eventually always follow the path of least resistance to growth.
Ethics when present may create some form of friction along some specific paths, but it’s never enough for those to not become, eventually, that very path.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-13 02:09:46+00:00
It can be some technical detail.

For example: imagine you have 2 windows, the lower right corner of one window almost touching the upper right corner of the other, so that the bounding rectangles overlap but the graphics don't.

With the inaccurate "false square" corners, you just had to check the bounding rectangles, to know which window to resize, now you have to check the actual graphics (or more likely, a mask).

I am not saying it is the problem, but that's the kind of thing that can happen. Or it may be a simple bug, like a crash, memory corruption, an unhandled exception, the usual stuff, but they couldn't fix it in time and it is better to revert instead of leaving the buggy code or pushing an untested fix.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-02-13 02:09:57+00:00
Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the faster turnaround times of the former.

It's hard to see conventional pipelines doing a faster job of parsing scattered mentions of rare phrases like 'jerky' across a million documents than the competitive environment of individual entrepreneurialism could.
by toast0 | 2026-02-13 02:09:59+00:00
> There should be a single entry queue that distributes to the multiple handlers.

Sure, that's more fair. But it also means everyone has to walk over to the queue entry. And often requires dedicated floorspace. If there's not good queuing discipline, it leads to larger gaps between customers at the registers and poor throughput. If there's a queue minder (which there probably should be in order to distribute people into subqueues), that person can steer customers to benefit their favorite register people: this was common at Fry's; register operators got a commission, so and some queue mindets would collude steer expensive carts to preferred registers.

Multiple independent queues works fairly well and avoids extensive coordination. Even if people don't like it.
by senordevnyc | 2026-02-13 02:10:11+00:00
So in other words, like literally every other word out of Elon’s mouth for a decade now, it’s incredibly dishonest. He lies about everything, all the time, without any acknowledgment. Nothing is ever delivered on time, most of it isn’t delivered at all, and virtually every bit of promised capability is exaggerated.

Why does anyone want to do business with a person or company like that? I genuinely do not understand.
by gnabgib | 2026-02-13 02:10:18+00:00
Original source: APT28 Leverages CVE-2026-21509 in Operation Neusploit https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/apt28-levera...

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by gnabgib | 2026-02-13 02:11:06+00:00
Original source: Threat Bulletin: Critical eScan Supply Chain Compromise https://www.morphisec.com/blog/critical-escan-threat-bulleti...

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by ibgeek | 2026-02-13 02:12:18+00:00
I used to think of D as the same category as C# and Java, but I realized that it has two important differences. (I am much more experienced with Java/JVM than C#/.Net, so this may not all apply.)

1. Very load overhead calling of native libraries. Wrapping native libraries from Java using JNI requires quite a bit of complex code, configuring the build system, and the overhead of the calls. So, most projects only use libraries written in a JVM-language -- the integration is not nearly as widespread as seen in the Python world. The Foreign Function and Memory (FFM) API is supposed to make this a lot easier and faster. We'll see if projects start to integrate native libraries more frequently. My understanding is that foreign function calls in Go are also expensive.

2. Doesn't require a VM. Java and C# require a VM. D (like Go) generate native binaries.

As such, D is a really great choice when you need to write glue code around native libraries. D makes it easy, the calls are low overhead, and there isn't much need for data marshaling and un-marshaling because the data type representations are consistent. D has lower cognitive overhead, more guardrails (which are useful when quickly prototyping code), and a faster / more convenient compile-debug loop, especially wrt to C++ templates versus D generics.
by perching_aix | 2026-02-13 02:12:28+00:00
Some would disagree, but I'm squarely of the opinion that comments being inciteful and insightful are not mutually exclusive properties. This is only compounded when you're the kind of person who goes out of their way to try find meaning in what people say (and since that's subjective, you can basically find a perspective in anything if you try hard enough).

I find this to be kind of the whole reason why acting inciteful is socially problematic anyways: it derails conversations. It's also why I can consider it malicious: you can lay into this effect parasitically, with intention. You point to HN; I find that this idea is reflected in the HN guidelines as well (or at least the lessons from it are), but also that it's by no means immune.
by parsimo2010 | 2026-02-13 02:13:17+00:00
I don’t think I’m judging shallowly- there is no em-dash on a standard keyboard. The one way it ends up in real writing is if you use a typesetting program like LaTeX, or Word changes an en-dash with auto formatting, or the user consciously interrupts their writing flow to insert the character with a special keystroke combination or by pasting it in. The proportion of people who do any of those things in writing for the web is quite small. The number of clearly AI written posts with em-dashes is quite large. So large, that I immediately suspect AI writing when I see an em-dash and I rarely see countering evidence that suggests the author is human but meticulous about how they write.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-13 02:14:09+00:00
That used to be the case, but in 10.7 they changed the green window button from being "zoom" (snap the window to fit its content) to "fullscreen". They let you change the default behavior back to zoom for a few years but seem to have gotten rid of that setting. You can still access the zoom behavior by option-clicking the green button, but on basically every program I've tried, zoom just means "maximize" like on Windows now. The only exception I've found is Preview, where "zoom" seems to mean "make the window take up most of (but not all of) the screen and scale the image up to some random value". One image I tried got scaled to 146%, another got scaled to 207%. I would think it should mean "scale the image to 100% if it's smaller than the display resolution" but who knows, I don't work at Apple.

Edit: Finder still has the correct zoom behavior, it's the only program I've found so far that does.
by anenefan | 2026-02-13 02:14:50+00:00
It greatly depends on the nurse or doctor and the amount of effort ... and care they are putting into the job. I eventually, as much as I see serious issues with AI, at some point I see Australia following what China is doing in developing an AI doctor - though in Australia it might be more than a mere medical assistant but rather an education tool as well as a wage penalty system for when they do (or try) really fucking stupid BS.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-13 02:14:56+00:00
This is interesting. So here, your app generates data, and you use AI to decide how to render those data.

This is similar to, but not the same as, the approach taken by json-render: https://github.com/vercel-labs/json-render

The latter assumes AI generates the data AND picks the components it will use from your predefined library.
by acidburnNSA | 2026-02-13 02:16:14+00:00
Frigate is incredible. I have 3 instances of it (different homes across the family) running using various amcrest and reolink local-only PoE and Wifi cams. I access the remotely using wireguard. One is running on a 2017 miniatx box (Intel i7-7700T) using openvino to do local-only object detection with the 2017 intel CPU. One is using a Beelink EQ14 Mini PC, Intel Twin Lake N150, also using openvino for object detection (people, dogs, cars, etc). One is using a nvidia 5070 gpu. All notifications are processed via the home assistant integration.

Truly top-notch quality, full-featured, very low maintenance, easy to set up, cheap to operate. I'm glad so many people are using it now.

For video doorbell I just have a cam that can see the front door and I drew a box around the area I want notifications for. When a person enters the box, I get a notification and snapshot.

https://docs.frigate.video/
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-13 02:16:20+00:00
Sarcasm is never friendly; it's necessarily at the expense of someone else. The simplest example is where someone makes a bold claim and someone else says 'sure, buddy...' to express contemptuous disbelief via the weakest possible form of assent. The claimant here wants to be believed, or at least agreed with.

Irony is imho much more complex and variegated, but a simple example would be any sort of self-deprecating humor, where someone is making fun of the mismatch between their aspirations and their capacity to achieve them. Irony isn't necessarily mean, whereas sarcasm is always a little bit mean even if it's mild.
by ebiederm | 2026-02-13 02:17:36+00:00
Message-ID is a requirement for Usenet where it came from.

It is a requirement for being able to reply to messages and in general for email threading.

Message-ID is a requirement to archive email.

Practically every email client has included Message-ID since dial-up internet was fast and fashionable.

Given all of the above I am amazed more places don't drop email without a Message-ID.

Not including a Message-ID seems to be saying you don't want replies and you don't want your message to be archived. That seems very shady to me.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-13 02:18:03+00:00
It’s important to understand that more than likely there was no human telling the AI to do this.

Considering the events elicit a strong emotional response in the public (ie: they constitute ragebait), it is more likely a human (possibly, but not necessarily, the author himself) came up with the idea, and guided an AI to carry them out.

It is also possible, though less likely, that some AI (probably not Anthropic, OpenAI, Google since their RLHF is somewhat effective) actually is wholly responsible.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-02-13 02:18:04+00:00
My favorite story about revitalizing land: company dropped 12,000 tons of (waste) orange peels and left. Decades later and the wasted land has been revitalized after the nutrient infusion.

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-ora...
by brewtide | 2026-02-13 02:18:41+00:00
Frigate NVR tied to a home assistant instance has my phone getting proactive notifications about people, birds, and buses (in their select areas...). It's not the easiest thing to setup, but if you're using ethernet cameras it seems to work very very well. The few POS wyze cameras's I have on the system tend to cause some problems, but I know for a fact it's 100% a combination of a) wifi (no matter how 'quality') b) wyze.

So, yeah. Look into frigate.