MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-24 18:41:29+00:00
What phone are you considering? Sailfish still doesn't seem very successful and mobile Linux barely boots on anything that performs better than a fifteen year old budget device.

I'm kind of hoping Qualcomm's open sourcing work will also affect the ability to run mainline Linux on Android devices, but it's looking like a Linux OS that covers the bare basics seems to be a decade away.
by robotguy | 2026-02-24 18:41:41+00:00
> it can say that it’s a controller and it will give the bus address to talk to and a polling rate.

Many moons ago (over 25 years) I was an EE hobbyist working with an inventor, working adjacent to a major game controller manufacturer. The controllers I was prototyping weren't getting polled by the OS. I was just using the USB HID Class and sending "Button Up" and "Button Down" messages using Interrupt Transfers. Are game controllers using Isochronous transfer now or is there some other method that's developed in the last quarter century?
by 317070 | 2026-02-24 18:41:48+00:00
> Second, I think it's human nature to like and want hierarchy.

I just want to point out that this is most likely not true, and that this is cultural. The long argument you can find in the book "The Dawn of Everything".

In short, when the West came into contact with other civilizations, one of the most striking features of our culture from their point of view was how hierarchical we are.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 18:42:14+00:00
$29B over ten years is an annual amount of less than 1% of Microsoft's current annual revenue. Meanwhile the company is appealing it so the government hasn't actually won anything yet (but is incurring additional costs), and on top of that it means there is now going to be a court decision about how this works, which benefits the companies wanting to do it by clarifying the law so that even if they lose the courts will have told them what they need to do differently next time in order to win. Of course, if they win then it's even better for them because then they can just keep doing what they were doing before.

The actual problem is that "transfer pricing" is inherently ambiguous and subject to manipulation but it would take structural legislative changes to the tax code (e.g. tax corporations using something other than corporate income tax) to take it out of play.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-24 18:42:16+00:00
It really depends on the 'time-to-market' requirements. If it's a complex enterprise play, the .NET ecosystem with C# is hard to beat for developer ergonomics and long-term maintenance. However, for a high-performance AI-native startup, I’d likely lean towards a more heterogeneous stack (Python/Rust/Go). The 'Microsoft tax' isn't just about money anymore; it's about the cognitive load of being locked into the Azure-first architectural mindset.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-24 18:42:25+00:00
>If you’re a 1Password user, there’s a decent chance you just got an email about a price increase happening soon.

hmm, i have not received this email yet.

this is a pretty steep price increase, but, when was the last one? i cannot remember ever seeing a price increase since ive subscribed, but im also extremely negligent in tracking my subscription spending.

if it has been 5 years since the last increase, this isnt so bad. if they just did a price increase last year and are doing another ~30% increase, that would be pretty bad.
by drac89 | 2026-02-24 18:42:26+00:00
From the blog post I've recently read; https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio...

1. Request your data. Email idv-privacy@withpersona.com or privacy@withpersona.com. Under GDPR, they have 30 days to respond.

2. Request deletion. The verification is done. LinkedIn already has the result. There is no reason for Persona to keep your passport scan and facial geometry on their servers. Ask them to delete it.

3. Contact their DPO. dpo@withpersona.com — that’s their Data Protection Officer. If you want to object to them using your documents as AI training data under “legitimate interests,” this is where you do it.

4. Think twice before verifying. That blue badge might not be worth what you’re trading for it. A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever.
by hodgesrm | 2026-02-24 18:42:31+00:00
> What a passive way to say executives kept a larger share of profits for themselves, forcing workers to be stressed and do a sub-optimal job.

This is a very limited view of why things don't work. The main issue in my experience is whether the company values the outcome and ensures focus on optimizing for it. That can include everything from adequate staffing to comp to training to management focus. (A lot of the last one.)

You can spend a huge amount of money and still get a crappy outcome. US healthcare provides a rich field of examples.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-02-24 18:42:40+00:00
That's the status quo, though. Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store are essentially unmoderated. The sheer scale of them and both platforms' technical architectures prohibits either company from properly validating their stores' contents - they can't even catch the easy cases, like all the apps that impersonate ChatGPT. The main thing they manage to do is inconvenience innocent indie devs once in a while.

The result is unwarranted trust from users in stores that are full of scams.

Apple and Google effectively built malware pipelines under the guise of security.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-24 18:43:35+00:00
>you can adjust the numbers and criterion to get a yes or no whichever way you like.

Good idea, I'll do that :)

>can an average intellect with an obsession for math end up

>working on AutoCAD or 3D rendering game engine or industrial statistics and process control or economics or vehicle aerodynamics and be in the top 10% of the world in mathematical ability?

I think this does happen quite a bit and the need for strong math in these difficult areas is so great that there will never be enough people as briliant as Tao to fill the positions.

That's so far outside the mainstream anyway, most systems are going to screen the rare person like that out without understanding why.

Now what happens when those having top 10% of ability are very excellent themselves, but cases come up that would yield only to a Tao level of "natural-born" problem-solver?

Nobody would ever know :\
by mcbits | 2026-02-24 18:43:37+00:00
The last two paragraphs are mainly what stood out. I've spent hours trying to get LLMs to stop writing like that. It's hard because you can't just say things like "don't write lists of three items" because sometimes you want a list of three items. The rest of the text could be written by a person as it's kind of disjointed, but that could also be the result of trying to prompt out the AI-isms.
by juleiie | 2026-02-24 18:44:26+00:00
To be honest I look with scorn at non-dog (human) developers building hobby indie games with AI en masse.

Let me explain.

The nature of the indie game development is pouring your love into a project and thinking about passion first and monetary incentives second.

Noone is thinking "I will make this game and it will make me filthy rich" or if they do they are... strangely minded.

It's like 'mass produced AI local craft'. Oxymoron in itself. Worst of the two worlds.

Where I see AI is empowering single developers to craft things they couldn't before. Not some small slop factory pipeline where you release game after a game everyday drowning steam in your 6/10 slop.

No. This should be ostracized and condemned.

What is proper beneficial to everyone usage is producing a game that is the size and scope that was unachievable for you before.

This is what I am doing. This is how AI is meant to be used. To empower us doing things that weren't achievable for us before.

Obviously dog produced games get a huge endorsement man and get a pass.
Show HN: Rent-a-Hater
by B_R_G | 2026-02-24 18:44:35+00:00
Like DoorDash for Internet trolls, Rent-a-Hater is a digital marketplace where users can pay what they want for other users to send memes, jokes, roasts, and taunts (within ToS guidelines) to a publicly accessible recipient (no private harassment or doxxing). Rent-a-Hater is meant for US-based 18+ users that agree to strict no-harassment/threat/bigotry guidelines and primarily serves a fun way to make a few extra bucks online. While the platform is fully functional with Stripe integration, leaderboards, and user anonymization, the platform is also meant to serve as a commentary on the predatory nature shared between the gig economy and rental companies, turning those who rely on them into, effectively, "haters".
by the_bear | 2026-02-24 18:44:56+00:00
When we used Stripe, we opted out of all their fraud prevention stuff to save money (not sure if that's still an option). As a b2b SaaS where payment happens after a free trial (not at signup), we're just not a target for fraud, so it was totally fine.

I can't speak to why Stripe's fraud protection is so expensive. Is it because they're a target? Or maybe because they realized people will pay for it (it seems valuable for something like ecommerce)? I dunno, but I can confidently say that as of ~5 years ago, it wasn't required by any regulation, and my business was perfectly fine without it.

Now we use Paddle, and they also try to sell us a bunch of stuff we don't need at ridiculous prices. We're just using them because we wanted a merchant of record (where they handle taxes and stuff), but no, I'm not going to pay a % of my revenue for basic dunning emails, fraud prevention, vague "optimizations" that "increase conversions" (lol no they don't), etc.
by criddell | 2026-02-24 18:45:03+00:00
Something like 7 iOS phones are sold every second of the day and there are even more Android phones sold. The number of people who care about this issue is far too few for any kind of boycott to be noticed by the handset makers. The only option is to appeal to Google's sense of what's right.

In the time it took you to read this comment, 200 phones were sold.
by hinkley | 2026-02-24 18:45:24+00:00
I’ve only worked two places as big as OP described, but you probably see this more when your company leases a third of a floor on a giant office building. Or a floor and a half, or two half floors because it was easier to expand onto the 12th floor.

Elevators do back up, especially when everyone has to scan for their floor. Not like the author suggests, but you can lose a good few minutes a couple times a day that way. It does start some people on an exercise kick of using the stairwell to leave the building. Not great exercise though.

The one place solved this by not building parking garages. Flat parking that went to the horizon. By the time I got to work the spot I parked at was going to be over half a mile from my desk. I bought a grownup scooter with oversized wheels, first day I used it security tracked me down and said those aren’t allowed on company property (I had half a mind to use it on the sidewalks around the outside of the property but didn’t, since I’d still be carrying the stupid thing into the building). But I spent a lot on that scooter and had no other use for it, so I was mad.

My coworker had convinced me that this was billable hours (court precedent about a factory that had a bad setup for employees to get to the time clock) so I started phoning into standup when I was on site but still eight minutes from my desk.

When you’re walking half a mile to the security doors it tends to stagger the arrival times. Which is a feature, if the dumbest one.
by projektfu | 2026-02-24 18:45:35+00:00
Six year old me sent an idea to McDonnell Douglas for an airplane with turboprops to back up the jets in case of engine fire. There was also a fire suppression system. They sent me some nice brochures about the DC-8, -9, and -10, but looking back on it they could have mentioned that the jets are already redundant and will usually stop burning when the fuel is cut.
by lemagee | 2026-02-24 18:45:41+00:00
I'm a solo indie developer and this is my first app. I built Dreamscroll because I have a terrible habit of scrolling social media before bed, which obviously doesn't help with sleep.
The concept is simple: scroll through thousands of curated nature photos instead of your social media feed. Mountains, oceans, forests, etc. No engagement algorithms, no ads, no data collection.
Apple rejected the first version for "minimum functionality" — basically said it was just a photo viewer. Instead of arguing, I spent a week adding session tracking, streak tracking, and bedtime reminders. The rejection made the app better.
The core app is completely free. Planning to add paid features later, but the basic experience will always be free.
Happy to answer questions about the build (React Native/Expo, Cloudflare R2) or any design decisions!
by subdavis | 2026-02-24 18:45:45+00:00
The keepass ecosystem is comprised of a dozen implementations of the KDB(X) file spec. Some are better than others.

I built KeePass Tusk back in 2018, for example. This would kill the project and abandon 30K users without a rewrite of the JS engine (there are several now!)

I agree with you that KDBX sucks, but at this point a keepass based on SQLite would be keepass in name only, a new password manager to migrate to.
by fsflover | 2026-02-24 18:46:04+00:00
> "I don't want to pay full flagship prices for sub flagship performance"

First, it is a flagship GNU/Linux phone. Second, https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

> I got ~11 hours of battery life

Looks like you didn't enable the suspend. Later updates brought it to >20 hours.

> simply running a software update on a completely stock librem 5[1] managed to send it into an infinite boot loop that I was only able to recover from by flashing the factory image.

When was it? I never experienced this. It could be a problem in the first years though. Current PureOS Crimson is stable.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-24 18:46:46+00:00
Beyond just the concept of thought crime, one of the themes in Orwell's 1984 was that the government could arbitrarily decide that a thing you've done could be punished at any time. You didn't need to break a law to be punished by Big Brother, you just had to be a thorn in its side. In our world, the government/Palantir/ICE collecting the identities of people who criticize them is the kind of infrastructure that makes that arbitrary punishment from 1984 possible.
by paxys | 2026-02-24 18:47:04+00:00
It's a shame that the free/cheap password managers that regular people would use (like those by Apple, Google) seem unwilling to loosen their platform lock-in, and others like 1Password mainly target business use and are too expensive for the average joe to bother. So decades and dozens of new standards later we are still in a place where people use the same password on all accounts and write it down on post-its.

The industry has collectively spent untold billions/trillions on cybersecurity over the years, while the best way to actually secure access would be to have a free, preinstalled, interoperable password manager that "just works".
by observationist | 2026-02-24 18:47:41+00:00
The culture bit is the most important. You could add 100x the current headcount at all American airports and because the workers simply don't give a shit about doing good work, because they're treating it as a 9 to 5, where they have to go and suffer through a meaningless 8 hours, or worse, they treat it like their own personal access to other people's stuff to loot at will.

The TSA is security theater, a vast majority of American jobs seem to be competence theater. You only ever tend to see care and craft in small business and actual crafts. It's so rare that it's incredibly refreshing to find anyone in any business that bothers to do good work and take care of the small things.

It's not about respecting the baggage handlers. It's about a culture where you respect yourself such that you are obliged to do the best work you can, whether it's baggage handling, being a CEO, or flipping burgers. Self respect and respect for the job far outweigh any notion of employers or other citizens respecting baggage handlers. They have sophisticated notions of status and face and place in society that are sadly absent in American culture.

You could take the Kansai airport baggage handler team and drop them into any airline in the world, and they'd perform to the same high standard. Take any halfass United Airline baggage team and drop them at Kansai and they'd be breaking guitars, killing dogs, and all the other usual shenanigans just like back at home, and they wouldn't give a flying rat's behind about how their employer respects them or not. They're there for paychecks. Respect doesn't even enter into consideration.
by jcynix | 2026-02-24 18:47:44+00:00
>I agree that mandatory developer registration feels too heavy handed, but I think the community needs a better response to this problem than "nuh uh, everything's fine as it is."

OK, so instead of educating stupid (or overly naive) people, we implement "protections" to limit any and all people to do useful things with their devices? And as a "side effect" force them to use "our" app store only? Something doesn't smell that good here …

How about a less drastic measure, like imposing a serious delay for "side loading" … let's say I'd to tell my phone that I want to install F-Droid and then would have to wait for some hours before the installation is possible? While using the device as usual, of course.

The count down could be combined with optional tutorials to teach people to contact their bank by phone meanwhile. Or whatever small printed tips might appear suitable.
by rectang | 2026-02-24 18:47:49+00:00
In the airplane industry, KPIs and beancounting are just a response to a mindbendingly price-driven marketplace — to the extent that consumers need to be protected by regulations from flying in unsafe planes.

I agree that there's an issue about western capitalism, but I don't think it's in the tension between middle management and craftspeople who take pride in their work. I think the problems arise at a higher level, with the modern-day aristocracy of the capitalist ownership class and the slice of the pie that they capture.
by mikestew | 2026-02-24 18:48:04+00:00
Bad implementations do not "security theater" make. When I did some work for a large coffee company, they had turnstiles at their building entrances, and I don't remember any lines in the morning. The scan/auth/enter process went about as fast as if there was no turnstile.

I remember when I started at Microsoft decades ago that there were still "old-timers" who were pissy about having to use card keys to enter the building. With that attitude, man, did that ever explain Microsoft application and OS security in the early 2000s.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-24 18:48:11+00:00
This is a really cool project! I will install and try!

I did finally get a T-Deck Pro to join & see what would-be-fellow Meshtastic users are doing. The stock firmware is so so. The Meshtastic experience is that I just use my phone because it's so rough to use. Battery life is less than I was expecting by far, leaving it plugged in to a 100Whr bank will drain it in ~2 days.

I really hope we see some neat higher level embedded OS emerge. Ideally off a well connected base like Zephyr. It's been a bit deflating seeing just how limited these environments are.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-24 18:48:25+00:00
So they'll have a lead time building up a set of verified developers. These scams are pulled by organized crime syndicates, using human trafficking and beatings to keep their call centers manned with complicit workers.

Now they'll need to pay off a local mailman to give them all of Google's letters with an address in an area they control so they can register a town's worth of addresses, big whoop. It'll cost them a bit more than the registration fee, but I doubt it'll be enough to solve the problem.
by fusslo | 2026-02-24 18:48:29+00:00
AXON seems to be really good about not pushing things too far. I don't know if they lobby/amplify the need for police body cameras, however. Even that, IMO, doesn't have the stench of evil

They must be making huge profits, assuming every bodycam needs some kind of recurring revenue (for evidence.com, maintenance, replacements). BUT as far as I can tell, they are also taking the judicial requirements very seriously. Unlike Flock, I haven't heard anything about AXON providing tools to circumvent the 4th amendment. In fact, AXON makes tools that make it easier to comply with the law. For example, record requests for bodycam videos are (again, afaik) easy to satisfy with their tech.

I don't know what ownership they have of videos stored on their services. Can they use it for LLM training? can they sell anonymized data? do they? no idea, but trust in Flock is at about a 0 out of 10.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-24 18:49:37+00:00
> I agree that mandatory developer registration feels too heavy handed, but I think the community needs a better response to this problem than "nuh uh, everything's fine as it is."

Why would the community give a different response? Everything is fine as it is. Life is not safe, nor can it be made safe without taking away freedom. That is a fundamental truth of the world. At some point you need to treat people as adults, which includes letting them make very bad decisions if they insist on doing so.

Someone being gullible and willing to do things that a scammer tells them to do over the phone is not an "attack vector". It is people making a bad decision with their freedom. And that is not sufficient reason to disallow installing applications on the devices they own, any more than it would be acceptable for a bank to tell an alcoholic "we aren't going to let you withdraw your money because we know you're just spending it at the liquor store".
by cloverich | 2026-02-24 18:49:41+00:00
Going to copy paste my comment from today's other thread[3] that linked to this:

Note also there's a direct response from Persona's security team here[1], and a lot of back and forth from Rick on Twitter[2].

[1]: https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map...

[2]: https://x.com/Persona_IDV/status/2025048195773198385?s=20

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136036
Show HN: ClawForge – MDM for AI assistants (governance for OpenClaw)
by clawforge | 2026-02-24 18:49:55+00:00
AI assistants are going local.

Tools like OpenClaw let employees run AI agents directly on their machines — with file access, shell execution, web fetch, custom skills, etc.

That’s powerful.

But for enterprises, it creates a new problem:

• No visibility
• No policy enforcement
• No audit trail
• No kill switch
• No control

We built ClawForge, an open-source control plane for OpenClaw.

Think of it like MDM — but for AI assistants.

ClawForge gives organizations:
• Org-wide tool allow/deny policies
• Skill approval workflow
• Audit logs for tool calls & sessions
• Heartbeat monitoring
• Emergency kill switch
• SSO/OIDC auth

Architecture:

OpenClaw instance (employee machine)
→ ClawForge plugin
→ Control plane (API)
→ Admin console

Policies are enforced at the edge (client-side), not server-side blocking.

If the control plane is unreachable, it fails secure.

Repo:
https://github.com/ClawForgeAI/clawforge

Would love feedback from folks working on AI agents, DevTools, or enterprise security.
by godelski | 2026-02-24 18:50:08+00:00
> All electronics that can be freely programmed by the owner, not impossible.

I'm not sure that is possible. Most chips are reprogramable. You think your cheap electricians are going to put in high security defenses?

Even Google and Apple can't keep themselves from getting jailbroken. You think that's going to be true about a $5 toy with a WiFi or Bluetooth chip in it.

It'll be too expensive