MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-22 17:44:36+00:00
You still don't get what palantir does. they're not necessarily mining online activities of people. although they do that almost certainly. but it's things like where you life, your movements, your associations, work place, etc.. that may seem harmless but they go layers and layers deeper to presume things. For example if someone you know has a friend who is a gang member, they might associate you without your knowledge with that person. the physical stuff is hard to beat by anyone. lots of cameras, radio sensors (wifi/bt), payment transactions, ISP data,etc..

Even if they worked like you think they do, simply downloading tails, or using a VPN alone will harm you in person much more than you think. You might be driving in peace, a cop would put in your license plate and you'd be flagged from heavy vpn usage. if they can't get enough additional information on you to dismiss you as harmless, that will do you more harm than good. No facebook,reddit,etc.. then that means you're up to no good. There is not tech solution for this, it is a human problem, the problem is people.

There is an old adage in hacking circles "physical compromise is total compromise", these people have physical power and control over you. Ever heard of the $5 wrench method of defeating cryptography?

Like you, many are wasting efforts in trying to find technical solutions, instead of communicating the impact of how tech is being abused to decision makers and the public.
by throwyawayyyy | 2026-02-22 17:45:11+00:00
I haven't watched the whole interview. In the clip, a couple of things jump out:

1. He was speaking to a receptive audience. The head nods when he starts to make the comparison between the energy for bringing a human up to speed versus that for training an AI.

2. He is trying to rebut a _specific_ argument against his product, that it takes even more energy to do a task than a human does, once its training is priced in. He thinks that this is a fair comparison. The _fact_ that he thinks that this is a fair comparison is why I think it is too generous to say that this is just an offhand comment. Putting an LLM on an equal footing with a human, as if an LLM should have the same rights to the Earth as we do, is anti-human.

It also contains a rather glaring logical flaw that I would hope someone as intelligent as Altman should see. The human will be here anyway.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-22 17:45:29+00:00
That's projection. Because it is nearly impossible in practice split support as you claim you are. HAMAS is the government in Gaza. They intercept any and all aid that isn't administered directly to Palestinians. Also the questionable version of the history of the region that you have to believe (or be completely ignorant of the history) to support the Palestinians is entirely a HAMAS narrative. If you actually knew the history, you would know that while all Palestinians moved to the Levant voluntarily in the last 150 years, most of the Jews in Israel were moved by force by Muslims. If Palestinians were upset by lots of Jews in the Levant, they should be mad at other Muslims countries as they were the ones who moved most Jews there.

You just make these claims to avoid any accountability of your actions. That tracks because the HAMAS narratives completely do the same, so its easier for you to accept.

PS Most of the videos that swayed you were AI generated.
by constantcrying | 2026-02-22 17:45:35+00:00
>I think it is unlikely philosophers would have suggested to treat population growth like tuning a PID controller.

We are talking about Marxist philosophers. These weren't some scholars of Christianity, who would have insisted on the inherent worth of human life and the injustice of state intervention deep into personal lives, these were the same "philosophers" who justified extermination programs based on the insufficient revolutionary spirit of the exterminated.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-22 17:45:49+00:00
> FreeBSD was perfectly fine but it didn't do anything I needed that Linux didn't already do.

That's pretty much it. A lot of the people I see using a BSD these days do so because they always have and they prefer what they know, which is fine, or they just want to be contrarian.

Realistically, aside from edge cases in hardware support, you can do anything you want on any modern *nix. There's not even as much of a difference between distros as people claim. All the "I want an OS that gets out of my way" and similar reasons apply to most modern well-maintained distros these days. It's more personality and familiarity than anything objective.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-22 17:46:24+00:00
> feel like promoting non-violence outside the context of western democracies is misleading and potentially dangerous

The article discusses "efforts, in a sense, directed against the state itself, both violent approaches (what we might call ‘terroristic insurgency’)1 and non-violent approaches (protest)" (Id.).

> Maybe he addresses it somewhere in the article but I have yet to read it

"The ‘center of gravity’ – the locus of the most important strategic objective – for most insurgencies thus often becomes the political support that sustains a government, be that a body of key supporters in non-democratic regimes or the voters in democratic ones. That body of key voters or supporters, of course, is often not even located in the theater of operations at all: the Taliban ultimately won their insurgency in Afghanistan because they persuaded American voters that the war was no longer worth the cost, leading to the election of leaders promising to pull the plug on the war" (Id.).

> how does he explain the failure of peaceful revolutions in Belarus or China?

"All that said, there are very obviously regimes in the world that have rendered themselves more-or-less immune to non-violent protest. This isn’t really the place to talk about the broader concept of ‘coup proofing’ and how authoritarian regimes secure internal security, repression and legitimacy in detail. But a certain kind of regime operates effectively as a society-within-a-society, with an armed subset of the population as insiders who receive benefits in status and wealth from the regime in return for their willingness to do violence to maintain it. Such regimes are generally all too willing to gun down thousands or tens of thousands of protestors to maintain power.

The late Assad regime in Syria stands as a clear example of this, as evidently does the current regime in Iran. Such regimes are not immune to an ‘attack on will,’ but they have substantially insulated themselves from it and resistance to these regimes, if it continues, often metastasizes into insurgency or protracted war (as with the above example of Syria) because the pressure has nowhere else to go" (Id.).
Show HN: Annually: optimize your annual leave and get destination suggestions
by berkkarayel | 2026-02-22 17:46:31+00:00
Hi HN, I built Annually to solve a problem I had every year: maximizing time off around public holidays is annoying, and after you find the best windows you still need to figure out where to go. Annually optimizes your leave plan for a given country and year, then suggests destinations for each window based on timing and seasonality. It is early and I am still iterating on the optimization logic and destination scoring. I would love feedback on the UX, the output format, and what inputs you would want to control.
by halflife | 2026-02-22 17:46:39+00:00
The country that’s a pillar of the Russo-Chinese axis, which controls vast amounts of oil, which can cripple a shipping channel that moves 20% of the worlds natural gas, which supplies high end drones to Russia and North Korean, which funds terrorist faction across the entire Middle East (that closed the Red Sea shipping lane), which operates terrorist cells in Europe.

That Iran is irrelevant?
by Msurrow | 2026-02-22 17:46:55+00:00
I have not knowledge of this kind of software dev/hw production, so can you please explain why the units cant just be born with a default pass and then have the setup process (which is always there) Force the owner to set a new password?

Knowledge or not, this..

> It's not impossible, it's just extra work that usually goes unrewarded.

.. is just not an acceptable way for business to think and operate i 2026, especially not when it comes to internet connected video enabled devices
by lizknope | 2026-02-22 17:47:02+00:00
10 years ago Instagram was great. I would see 10 posts from friends, 1 ad, and 0 posts from people I didn't know.

I gave up about 4 years ago as I was seeing 1 post from a friend, 3 ads, and then lots of random stranger posts.

My friends gave up too.

I have tons of private groups chats and share stuff with people I care about there.
by bluGill | 2026-02-22 17:47:30+00:00
I takes less than 2 hours to chop down a tree [of the type Lincoln would have been chopping down with an ax - trees elsewhere may be different]. It doesn't take 4 hours to sharpen an ax unless you were mistreating it either though. So given 6 hours to chop down a tree I'd spend 15-20 minutes sharpening my ax (divided into several 2-5 minute sessions when I need a break anyway), 2 hours chopping the tree, and the remaining 3.5 hours reading a book. But I keep my tools in good shape so I don't need a long presharpending before the first cut.

I'm not physically in good enough shape to swing an ax for 2 hours, but I've done enough with an ax to know the above is right if I was in physical shape to do it.
by kokhanserhii | 2026-02-22 17:48:00+00:00
Please explain this in more detail. I don't understand. The level of abstraction seems straightforward, even for an intern.
Properly understanding this level of abstraction in context, without lengthy explanations, is a completely different matter. Beginners struggle with this, just as AI systems struggle with it (or rather, it's impossible). Of course, I'm talking about the conceptual, anthological context here, not the previous textual "LLM context".
by sxp | 2026-02-22 17:48:17+00:00
To add some math to the discussion:

- A human uses between 100W (naked human eating 2000kcal/day) to 10kW (first-world per capita energy consumption).

- Frontier models need something like 1-10 MW-years to train.

- Inference requires .1-1kW computers.

So it takes thousands of human-years to train a single model, but they run at around the same wall clock power consumption as a human. Depending on your personal opinion, they are also .1-1000x as a productive as the median human in how much useful work (or slop) they can produce per unit time.
by renegat0x0 | 2026-02-22 17:48:25+00:00
Tried to find more duke nukem sites

- https://m210.duke4.net/

- https://infosuite.duke4.net/

- https://msdn.duke4.net/

- https://hrp.duke4.net/

- https://dukeworld.duke4.net/

- https://scent-88.com/

- https://dnr.duke4.net/

Found in domain index https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
by surajcdry | 2026-02-22 17:48:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a CS student and I lead the computer club at my university. Lately, I’ve been part of a few tech cohorts where the networking sessions are great, but the chat logs are a disaster.

Every time someone introduces themselves, they paste four or five separate links: LinkedIn, GitHub, Portfolio, X, etc. Within minutes, the actual conversation is buried under a mountain of 'link-spam.'

I built The Profile Hub to be a single, fast-loading 'source of truth.' The goal was to create one clean URL that aggregates a developer’s entire presence without the bloat, ads, or tracking usually found in generic bio-link tools.

It’s been really helpful for our club meetings and cohort sessions to keep the chat focused on the discussion rather than the links.

It’s still early, so I’d love to get some feedback from the community. What features are missing that would make this more useful for your own networking?
by anthk | 2026-02-22 17:48:50+00:00
Also rewriting i2pd in Go would be the sanest step. From Java to Go is not a big challenge and you gain even more portability. Just look at Yggdrasil on how these people created meshnets running even under Android and cheap i386 netbooks.

Thus, something like this in Go should be the norm. The GC it's ideal for this, it comes with batteries charged for networking and it can be for sure be made compatible with stuff like NNCP like nothing.

It wouldn't run many times slower than i2pd in C++, it should be perfectly bearable.
by ben_w | 2026-02-22 17:49:01+00:00
Most of the people working on AI, and even those on the specific sub-domain of AI where Roko's basilisk was coined which isn't the majority of the field by a long shot, have been rolling their eyes at Roko's basilisk since the moment it was coined.

Even a brief moment of thought should reveal that, even if you think the scenario likely, there are an infinite number of potential equivalent basilisks and you'd need to pick the correct one.

I'm less worried about Roko's basilisk*, and rather more worried about the people who say this:

I think you have said in fact, and I'm gonna quote, development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. End quote. You may have had in mind the effect on, on jobs, which is really my biggest nightmare in the long term.

- https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-senate-judiciary-sub...

Because this is clearly not taking the words themselves at face value; either you should dig in and say "so why should we allow it at all then?" or you should dismiss it as "I think you're making stuff up, why should we believe you about anything?", but not misread such a blunt statement.

(If you follow the link, Altman's response is… not one I find satisfying).

* despite the people who do take it seriously, as such personalities have always been around and seldom cause big issues by themselves; only if AI gets competent enough to help them do this do they become a problem, but by that point hopefully it's also competent enough to help everyone stop them
by constantcrying | 2026-02-22 17:49:02+00:00
This has nothing to do with 5 year plans, but with having a functional and competent government enable to enact a coherent long term policy.

In western countries every couple of years we elect a new clown show, which then proceeds to destroy whatever the last clown show tried to accomplish. That has happened again and again for decades, truly awesome "our democracy".
by vkou | 2026-02-22 17:49:20+00:00
> It's coming from Toyota because Toyota can't wrap its head around not making engines.

Which is also the reason why its plug-in hybrids are so reliable, despite being dramatically more complex than either an EV or an ICE.

Toyota is very good at making engines, and it would be insane to throw away all that expertise to deliver a half-assed new product.
I made my favorite AI tool
by sebringj | 2026-02-22 17:49:28+00:00
i do not submit things to hacker news unless its related to my favorite tool ever, literally, that i happened to have made. i made this out of being super lazy and wanted my copilot (works in all ai editors) to run my UI while its coding and validate it at the same time by using the apps. i don't know how to contain how good this is for me to use other than putting it here for people to look at. so using it with opus 4.5-4.6 its extremely good, however using it with gpt-5.3 its still good but you have to remind it to use the "autonomo help" when it forgets how to use it correctly sometimes.

anyways, please check it out if you are curious and want very fast efficient UI driven (multi app/web/desktop at the same time, agnostic) validation while you vibe. I just keep using it everyday but still waiting for something to just make this obsolete.

web page: https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/
github: https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo
by selridge | 2026-02-22 17:49:39+00:00
>While end-to-end malware detection is not reliable yet, AI can make it easier for developers to perform initial security audits. A developer without reverse engineering experience can now get a first-pass analysis of a suspicious binary. [...] The whole field of working with binaries becomes accessible to a much wider range of software engineers. It opens opportunities not only in security, but also in performing low-level optimization, debugging and reverse engineering hardware, and porting code between architectures.

THIS is the takeaway. These tools are allowing *adjacency* to become a powerful guiding indicator. You don't need to be a reverser, you can just understand how your software works and drive the robot to be a fallible hypothesis generator in regions where you can validate only some of the findings.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-22 17:49:52+00:00
> when I mention rolling back the interstate commerce clause one of their main go to is that they're afraid I will destroyed the CRA and that's why they can't do it

I'll be honest, I've literally never seen this argument in any hall of power. And I know quite a few folks who believe in overturning Wickard.

The CRA, as currently interpreted, is more than fine on equal-protection grounds.
by lizknope | 2026-02-22 17:50:15+00:00
Same here. My father is 1 of 8 children and my mom is 1 of 12 children. I have tons of aunts, uncles, 30 first cousins, and they have lots of kids that I know as well. It's lots of birthday pics, graduations, weddings, vacations, and especially when some of us get together.
Ask HN: Weekly News Recap?
by stevenhubertron | 2026-02-22 17:50:17+00:00
With the non-stop news cycle and news on top of new on top of news I am hoping I can find a new service that recaps the conclusions of the weeks drama and I can tune one 1x a week rather than be governed by the latest news headline. For example just this week the tariffs were overturned, then they were 10% then 15%s. Or just this morning the HSA was closing down TSA Pre-Check but now 3 hours later they aren't. Its chaos.

Is there a news service out there that I can read say Sunday morning that fills me in on what happened this week? It used to be National TV but that isn't for me anymore and is just a continuation of outrage based.

Thank you for any ideas.
by jolmg | 2026-02-22 17:50:30+00:00
Probably a bad example. Hammers are quite more unbreakable than computers, and the equipment you'd need to fix a computer hardware failure might also be more specialized (e.g. in the case of a short on a laptop motherboard). I'm no woodworker, but I imagine with a hammer you can get away with a stick and a hand-saw. Can't imagine the hammer-head breaking.
by Aachen | 2026-02-22 17:51:16+00:00
Did I miss the part where the title was answered?

The article mentions some building blocks like microlearning, explains how researchers test people with, for example, fictional words and shapes to avoid that you draw on prior knowledge, states that "experts make a case for human instruction" (but not which case or how that human instruction should be shaped or structured), and shares shards of how well the author did on the different tests. There's a lot of links, which is nice, so I can dive deeper into the things mentioned (I've read a bit about 'statistical learning' and plan to read the linked paper on microlearning which is new to me), but I am not a step further in what (combination of) method(s) is the "best way" up learn a new language. Did I overlook it or fail to put some pieces together?

Edit: that microlearning paper is a waste of time if you've read the submission whence it was linked and know about spaced repetition already. The paper makes a case that society has become more fast-paced since Charles Babbage made the difference engine in the 1800s and so microlearning can help us by breaking down lessons to fit into our day, lowers costs per lesson etc., but might also fragment the learning (and other obvious pros and cons). The most interesting part was a forgetting curve cited from another paper
Show HN: Bagisto Headless – open-source Laravel commerce with 100/100 Lighthouse
by anikeshkumar | 2026-02-22 17:51:37+00:00
We published our new docs of Bagisto Headless ecommerce.

Bagisto headless ecommerce built on Laravel and GraphQL, featuring a Next.js storefront that hits a perfect 100/100 Core Web Vitals score out of the box.

You can create entire and production ready headless ecommerce within 5 min, check this and setup your ecommerce store filled with modern architecture and Tech Stack like next.js, laravel, graphql also provide Rest API.

https://headless-doc.bagisto.com/bagisto-headless-ecommerce/...
by dtagames | 2026-02-22 17:51:49+00:00
That's decidedly not what the article or I said. This only works with carefully controlled context and that context replaces much of the previous SDLC. No one is talking about one-shot or even vibe coding.

As for agile, it was always ceremony (even says so on the tin) and can't die soon enough. A timed sprint makes no sense in an LLM environment. Just ship your damn software and stop having meetings. AI tools get us closer to XP, not agile.
by upofadown | 2026-02-22 17:51:51+00:00
AES defines a block cipher (128 bits in, 128 bits out) so there is no "before". I think that you are suggesting that default crypto libraries should work at a higher level where the documentation specifies that the resultant encrypted material is going to be, say, one IV length longer than the unencrypted material. ... which is valid I think... Part of the problem here is that the library is doing some stuff, but perhaps not enough. The function has a name that is in one sense too descriptive and in another sense not descriptive enough. The user doesn't know exactly what sort of thing they are getting.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-22 17:52:32+00:00
The fuel tanks are compartmentalized and have baffles to prevent sloshing. It's a solved problem.

Electric motors are not 98-99% efficient.

As you alluded to, battery weight is more than ICE weight. EVs are significantly heavier than ICEs.

I'm sure we can expect improvements along the lines you mentioned, but I seriously doubt it will be nearly enough.
Show HN: FrameVault – Desktop photo backup app (Windows and macOS)
by arbopa | 2026-02-22 17:52:40+00:00
FrameVault is a desktop-first photo backup app built specifically for photographers who want controlled, transparent backups instead of generic sync tools.

Key design choices:

• Desktop app (Tauri + embedded Python backend)
• Real cloud storage (Backblaze B2)
• Subscription enforcement on restore limits
• No “trust us” background sync magic

Just shipped v1.0.1 with full macOS (Apple Silicon) support alongside Windows.

The Mac release required hardened runtime, nested binary signing, entitlements preservation for a bundled backend, notarization, and stapling. It now runs fully notarized and approved by Apple.

Would appreciate feedback from anyone building desktop SaaS or working with embedded backends on macOS.

Download:
https://cameratrician.com/framevault
by lizknope | 2026-02-22 17:53:19+00:00
I went from Slackware in 1994 to Red Hat in 1998 to Fedora when they split into Fedora and RH Enterprise. Every 2 or 3 years I will install a different distro in a VM and see "Okay, now I see what it's about." But I have no interest in switching as long as Fedora does everything I need. I don't really understand the people that distro hop. I just assume they are really young and I have work to do and a family to take care of.
by syphia | 2026-02-22 17:53:25+00:00
I've known many people who met through games. They offer something similar, in the sense that you can meet new people and learn about them.

The synchronous nature of multiplayer games leaves most of this expression implicit rather than explicit, though, so for some people it doesn't fit the same need. It's a kind of role-play.

I think most people are, for lack of a better metaphor, blood-sucking vampires for honest, explicit, and carefully-crafted communication. People are pleased when I offer it, but they struggle to offer it back, so I learn to not bother. Most relationships degenerate into expressing things better left unsaid, or being entirely superficial.