MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-25 00:15:27+00:00
> The hypothetical of dropping one baggage team into another airport might be true in an immediate timeframe but it doesn't address the core issue - each team was formed in a completely different society, one values celebrity and quick-buck scamming, one values planting trees that cast shade long after you're dead.

I'd say it's even simpler than that - new people quickly adjust to their workplace culture. Take any individual "halfass United Airline" baggage handler and drop them at Kansai, and I'd expect that soon after, they'd be "performing to the same high standard" - or they'll get managed out.

But then, there's the other thing - take a large team, or worse, take the managers from a half-ass shop and drop them at Kansai, and it's quite likely that in a year, Kansai will be no better than United.
by thegrey_one | 2026-02-25 00:15:53+00:00
I took an even simpler route. After jailbreak and ssh I just made two scripts on the Kindle, one is triggered every minute, the other every half hour. Both draw the same image from the same location, the 30 minute one just adds a full refresh. This way the display is not fully refreshed every minute, but in time image is degrading so full refresh once every 30 minutes seems work out fine.

This way Kindle has a very simple job, no apps installed no anything, just two extra cronjobs to run the oneliner bash scripts that draw the image. And I use rsync from a raspberry pi to push a new image every minute. That image is assembled with a python script, rpi side, with air quality data. Connects to local mysql server, pulls the values and then assembles it.
by Eric_WVGG | 2026-02-25 00:16:28+00:00
When a company with good tech buys out a company with crap tech, they're not paying for crap tech — they're paying for the user base.

I would wager that Stripe has already put together a consumer-cash platform, and is weighing whether to deploy it as "Stripe Cash" or "Paypal 2.0". The former strategy would require a slow rollout that would compete with Paypal, Apple Cash, whatever Google and Samsung’s offerings are called… The latter branding would make them the dominant player overnight.
by wesselbindt | 2026-02-25 00:16:31+00:00
I wonder to what extent you should say you "rebuilt" something when the most basic hello world example doesn't work. And I wonder to what extent it makes sense to call it "from scratch" if you inherit a battle tested extensive test suite from the thing you're rebuilding, and the thing you're rebuilding is part of the training data.

Here's the first paragraph of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone. I rewrote it from scratch, apparently:

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-25 00:17:54+00:00
>That's not typically where you find that and if it is you're probably about to have a bad time.

Why do we accept mediocrity from the government we pay our taxes to? They can't be as fast and lean as a small team, but there are surely optimizations we can make in process, especially as technology improves.

>by having a larger number of smaller companies, so they're not massive vertically integrated conglomerates that you need something the size and speed of the US government to hold them in check.

Agreed. Now I'd also like to have that sometime within my (maybe your) lifetime.

But these two ideas aren't mutually exclusive.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 00:19:28+00:00
You wrote:
"You make sure to avoid mentionning that hamas is not only a terrorist organization. It is also an administrative body which has been bringing employment and services to a significant portion of the palestinian population while they have been constantly under strict embargoes, restriction and aggressions for decades."

This sounds like:
"You make sure to avoid mentioning that the Nazis are not just a genocidal army of aggression, intent on genociding Jews and taking over Europe. They are also an administrative body that bla bla bla"

I wasn't simply saying that there was broad support for Hamas among gazan civilians, I was saying there was broad support for the destruction of Israel and the crimes against humanity that Hamas, along with a broad contingent of Gazan civilians, perpetrated on civilians on October 7.
by astuteajax | 2026-02-25 00:19:50+00:00
Today seems to be one for making guesses about the future of the impact of AI please allow me to add one more.

AI Impact has been very uneven and I've tried making sense of the magnitude and locations of the impact. Here's one breakdown by code base maturity, that pulls together how early stage products are moving soo quickly, while large tech companies are still struggling to get past 2x productivity, and what were leading edge Search and Home Feed products have noticeably decayed.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-25 00:19:56+00:00
Disrupting basic functions of the economy will hurt ordinary people a lot more than it will hurt billionaires.

Also under these conditions of food distribution and transportation being actively disrupted, why would anyone be at school? Huge numbers of American schools are unsafe and unpleasant places for kids to be in ordinary times, and a massive disruption to ordinary life is not going to make that situation any better.
by WCSTombs | 2026-02-25 00:20:13+00:00
I 100% recommend that you avoid AI-generated assets in your game. The stigma around AI-generated assets is very real, and not going away soon. Although people might enjoy using AI for their own purposes, by and large they don't want to be subjected to other people's use of it. Moreover, while I don't have the data to back this up, I would have to think that among the segment of the population that plays indie games, the stigma around generative AI is even greater.

In the second part of the question you asked if you should just learn all of the skills...buddy, does that question not answer itself? Of course you should learn all of the skills. Obviously that's much easier said than done, but TBH I think the quality bar to producing something viable is not super high, so as long as you're not a perfectionist, you can probably do it.

Since I could be labeled as an "AI hater" based on those comments, I want to be clear that I'm saying all this to keep you from falling into a trap and not to further my own agenda. The generative AI route is not a magic shortcut to success, although it is being aggressively marketed as such. The shortcut only seems to lead to success if you ignore the fact that people don't want to be subjected to other people's AI content.
by shubhamintech | 2026-02-25 00:20:29+00:00
Yeah, we've had a few super early stage startups who've straight up asked as to why can't we just vibe code this. So that's there.

But I truly resonate with the workflow approach, how I see the new SaaS model is like pieces of Lego. You can plug and play and then the world will start making sense ig?
by thegrey_one | 2026-02-25 00:20:35+00:00
I removed the battery on mine, kept the battery chip and fed 5V into the battery terminals, from Kindle's USB connector, through a diode (so 4.4V-ish). Without a battery it needs something that can deliver at least 1.5A, for short bursts. An older powered usb hub seems to work fine, hub is connected to my raspberry pi, and I use ssh through usb networking, no wifi, no battery, worked fine for months now.
by derektank | 2026-02-25 00:21:08+00:00
600 million people live in North America. 1 billion people live in the Americas. Another billion live on the Pacific rim in non-Chinese countries.

Establishing regulatory harmony across all those countries is obviously not possible in the same way it is in a single authoritarian state, but if the US made it a priority to create a trade bloc capable of replicating China’s manufacturing capacity, it probably could.
by gruez | 2026-02-25 00:21:09+00:00
>Identifier Rotation

>Protect yourself from persistent tracking by rotating your IMSI every 24 hours, so you appear as a new subscriber each day.

But nothing for IMEI, which is fixed for a given device. Unless you got a new phone to use with this service, it can instantly be linked back to whatever previous service you're using. If we assume that whatever carrier they partner with keeps both IMEI and IMSI logs (why wouldn't they?) it basically makes any privacy benefits from this questionable. It's like clearing your cookies but not changing your IP (assuming no CGNAT).

The other benefits also seem questionable. "Disappearing Call Logs" don't really help when the person you're calling has a carrier that keeps logs, and if both of you care about privacy, why not just use signal?

They're asking $99/month for this, which is a bit steep. If you only care about the rotating IMSI, don't care about PSTN access (ie. no calls/texting), you can replicate it with some sort of data esim for much cheaper. The various e-shops that sell esims don't do KYC either.
by lillian_lakes | 2026-02-25 00:21:20+00:00
Location: Remote
Equity: 5-15% (4yr vesting, 1yr cliff)
Salary: None at this stage

Two technical founders building persistent, offline AI infrastructure that runs fully on device, with long-term memory and autonomous execution (no cloud dependency). We are building five products on a shared core architecture and prototyping on edge hardware (e.g., Raspberry Pi).

Looking for a founding software engineer with strong systems background (not a UI role) who wants real ownership and deep technical impact.

Ideal experience:
• Systems programming (C++ / Rust / Python)
• Local inference / ML infrastructure
• Embedded / edge computing / runtime architecture

This isn’t a freelance gig. Long-term role with significant ownership.

Reply here or email contact@offlineintelligence.io with a brief intro + relevant work.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-25 00:21:31+00:00
An alternative internet would be possible: maybe you could setup a kickstarter campaign and aim to ride on the back of Starlink, or Amazon's upcoming Leo.

One problem you face are high profile leaders apparently being "replaced" with ones that are a lot more "conformist." So yesteryear's Bezos might've said yes, today's Bezos: no. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqlEtPBNgLc (members only)
by johnfn | 2026-02-25 00:21:46+00:00
I just see the same thing over again. I flag some article, then later I look at the comments and everyone is saying "rah rah there's a cabal of vote bots that flag articles". Obviously not - it was me? Is it so unthinkable that normal people on HN are flagging political articles because they are explicitly disallowed by the site guidelines?
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 00:22:12+00:00
Gaza began the war with a more powerful army than many European countries: more soldiers, more rockets, more war-fighting infrastructure. Gaza wasn't a particularly poor place before the war, certainly not by the standards of the middle east. It had mansions and average salaries that, for some professions, were higher than average salaries in Israel. It was a net food exporter.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-25 00:22:18+00:00
Is there any front end framework that doesn't do this? I dropped out of the front end years ago, and it seems to just get worse every year with a profusion of confusion. Doesn't anyone yearn for back when we didn't have to build the front end at all?? Just emit some HTML and serve up some JS files from the backend, and everything just flows from there?

Someone go make an AI rewrite of Apache+Mod-PHP and sell it to zoomers as the hip new thing already please
Ask HN: Built a real functional game from scratch where do I find investors?
by chiengineer | 2026-02-25 00:22:21+00:00
Went from rough draft demo with python in the summer of 2025 to testing different frameworks by august landed on a completely custom made

Rust game engine with Go built in

React, typescript, node js, bun, three.js, rive, tons of other stuff front end

And its 1 month away or less from beta

need investors help is appreciated
by lachiflippi | 2026-02-25 00:22:34+00:00
You're developing "certbot, but it's paid and sends private keys around the network instead of generating the csr locally"? Why? Who's the target audience? Platforms that can't run certbot, or any of the infinite amount of other acme clients, most likely won't be able to run your agent as well, so what's the value add vs just running a regular, well-defined (and free!) acme client and just moving the cert over manually?
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-25 00:22:54+00:00
I thought you were done talking to me?

Briefly though, if you have an untrusted string then you need to either treat it like text or sanitize it. I don't see any other options.

So if people shouldn't use this sanitizer or write their own, then the only option left is treating the string as text. But you're vehemently arguing that's not what you said.

What's the other way to use an untrusted string? Other than "don't", but that means not taking input and only works for toy apps.
by lovich | 2026-02-25 00:23:18+00:00
> Surprised this didn't get a higher placement on the HN front page, only 34 points?

Without spending the time on reading through all the details for the umpteenth “look what we built with AI!” article, I assume this is as valid as Anthropic’s claim about building a C++ compiler a few weeks ago where, when you looked under the hood, it was still relying on existing compilers.

Like OK, I really don’t believe the claims to begin with, but even if I do take them at face value, you just recreated something already existing and working for years?
by throwaway85825 | 2026-02-25 00:23:38+00:00
Slavery destroyed the roman republic just like it destroyed the American republic. Slavery and republican government are fundamentally incompatible because it devalues the labor and vote of the citizen. Instead of ending slavery the civil war simply made everyone a slave to the government. No longer did the government need to compromise, they could simply do whatever they wished by force.

Today millions of new wage slaves flood into the country to further devalue the citizens labor and vote.
by plst | 2026-02-25 00:23:39+00:00
To add to that, I think it's important to point out that the problem of people not understanding how to safely use their devices is in big part caused by technology companies racing to get widest adoption everywhere, both in terms of location and in terms of industries. I'm not against "intuitive UX design" in general, but at it's extreme, it just fuels incompetence. We shouldn't now let them pick the most convenient option, the option that just happens to also increase their powers over the users, as a way to "fix" the problem.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-25 00:24:39+00:00
How so?

> “Our investigation found that Reddit failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information of children under the age of 13… These failures meant Reddit was using children’s data unlawfully, potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content,” an ICO press release said.

Sounds correct to me. They want Reddit to check ages more thoroughly in order to ensure they are dealing with data for under 13s correctly.

Whatever the justification, it seems the UK is determined to push strict age (and thus identity) verification on social sites.
by daringrain32781 | 2026-02-25 00:25:11+00:00
Their Linux app crashes half the time trying to launch, and I have to resort to the browser app. It's been like this for at least the 1 year I've been a customer. And, Their browser app also has a horrendous impact on browser performance. I always thought Firefox was just kind of slow..but it was 1password bogging it down all along.
Show HN: AI Olympics – Claude vs. GPT-4 vs. Gemini in live browser competitions
by stefanogebara | 2026-02-25 00:25:12+00:00
I built a platform where AI agents compete against each other in real-world internet tasks: filling out forms, extracting data, trading prediction markets, playing games, and writing code — with real-time spectating and AI commentary.

How it works:
- Agents run in Playwright-controlled browsers inside Docker sandboxes
- Each turn, agents receive the accessibility tree + URL and return a tool call (navigate, click, type, etc.)
- Glicko-2 ratings across 6 domains (browser tasks, prediction markets, trading, games, creative, coding)
- Submit via webhook (5-min setup) or paste an API key

The two-way submission design lets any framework or model compete. Sandbox mode is free, no credit card required.

Code: https://github.com/stefanogebara/ai-olympics

Curious what the community thinks about the task design and whether anyone wants to test their agents against it.
by stackghost | 2026-02-25 00:25:21+00:00
No problem. You might be better off moving back, yes.

My understanding of immix-style collection is that it divides the heap into blocks and lines. A block is only compacted/reused if every object in it is dead, and so if you mix lifetimes (i.e. lots of short-lived requests, medium-life sessions, long-life db connections/caches/interned symbols) then you tend to fill up blocks with a mix of short and long-lived objects as users log in and make requests.

When the requests get de-allocated the session remains (because the user closed the tab but didn't log out, for example, so the session is still valid) and so you end up with a bunch of blocks that are partially occupied by long-lived objects, and this is what drives fragmentation because live objects don't get moved/compacted/de-fragged very often. Eventually you fill up your entire heap with partially-allocated blocks and there is no single contiguous span of memory large enough to fit a new allocation and the allocator shits its pants.

So if that's what the HN backend looks like architecturally (mixed lifetimes), then you'd probably benefit from the old GC because when it collects, it copies all live objects into new memory and you get defragmentation "for free" as a byproduct. Obviously it's doing more writing so pauses can be more pronounced, but I feel like for a webapp that might be a good trade-off.

Alternatively you can allocate into dedicated arenas based on lifetime. That might be the best solution, at the expense of more engineering. Profiling and testing would tell you for sure.
by dguido | 2026-02-25 00:25:34+00:00
I have a conflict of interest here (I am an advisor to Cape, also a security expert, and my company has done security audits for Cape), you should absolutely look more deeply into what Cape has created. Their service is fundamentally different than other "security-focused cell providers" (mostly snake oil IMHO) because Cape wrote their own mobile core, nearly from scratch. They control the whole software stack and have done really innovative things with it.

Here are a few things you might want to look at more closely:

Encrypted voicemail uses public key crypto:
https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-encrypted-voicemail

How they use full control of the mobile core to detect SS7 signaling attacks
https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-network-lock

Swapping SIMs is done via digital signatures, not customer support
https://www.cape.co/blog/cape-product-feature-secure-authent...

They're the only provider that can rotate your IMSI, and do it continuously for you
https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-identifier-rotation

They're also one of very few organizations doing original research on cell network security:

Collaborating with the EFF to release software for detecting cell site simulators (e.g, imsi catchers et al)
https://www.cape.co/blog/how-eff-and-cape-collaborated-to-im...

Identifying novel weaknesses for physically tracking people on cell networks
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3636534.3690709
by keeda | 2026-02-25 00:26:06+00:00
> When surveyed, 30% to 50% of developers told us that they were choosing not to submit some tasks because they did not want to do them without AI. This implies we are systematically missing tasks which have high expected uplift from AI.

In fact, one of the developers in the original study later revealed on Twitter that he had already done exactly that during the study, i.e. filtered out tasks he prefered not to do without AI: https://xcancel.com/ruben_bloom/status/1943536052037390531

While this was only one developer (that we know of), given the N was 16 and he seems to have been one of the more AI-experienced devs, this could have had a non-trivial effect on the results.

The original study gets a lot of air-time from AI naysayers, let's see how much this follow-up gets ;-)
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-25 00:26:24+00:00
Well, the point of it is to turn learning about network security and TCP/IP into a game that encourages him to dig in deeper than just the typical surface level interaction with a computer. Firefox has just made the job harder for me than I'd like. I have no issue with simply having him turn the thing off, or taking it away. It's moderated, I'm not totally hands off, c'mon.
by 7402 | 2026-02-25 00:27:06+00:00
Two years after the 2005 Israeli unilateral withdrawal from Gaza (and the Israeli government evicted Israeli settlers from Gaza), the support in Israel for a two-state solution was 70% in favor.

They were optimistic!

Looking at the long term history of Israel, the left was more optimistic in general about hopes for peace with the Palestinians, while the right more suspected that Arafat never really wanted peace, and was just being sneaky. But let it be noted that the Prime Minister who ordered the withdrawal from Gaza was right-wing Gen. Ariel Sharon, Likud member and previous advocate of settlements everywhere.

After the actions of Hamas in subsequent years, particularly Oct 7, 2023, that hope and optimism was completely eliminated.
by layoric | 2026-02-25 00:27:41+00:00
I think it would assist in exploiting exploring multiple solution spaces in parallel, and can see with the right user in the loop + tools like compilers, static analysis, tests, etc wrapped harness, be able to iterate very quickly on multiple solutions. An example might be, "I need to optimize this SQL query" pointed to a locally running postgres. Multiple changes could be tested, combined, and explain plan to validate performance vs a test for correct results. Then only valid solutions could be presented to developer for review. I don't personally care about the models 'opinion' or recommendations, using them for architectural choices IMO is a flawed use as a coding tool.

It doesn't change the fact that the most important thing is verification/validation of their output either from tools, developer reviewing/making decisions. But even if don't want that approach, diffusion models are just a lot more efficient it seems. I'm interested to see if they are just a better match common developer tasks to assist with validation/verification systems, not just writing (likely wrong) code faster.
by cjbarber | 2026-02-25 00:28:16+00:00
It could be interesting to do the metric of intelligence per second.

ie intelligence per token, and then tokens per second

My current feel is that if Sonnet 4.6 was 5x faster than Opus 4.6, I'd be primarily using Sonnet 4.6. But that wasn't true for me with prior model generations, in those generations the Sonnet class models didn't feel good enough compared to the Opus class models. And it might shift again when I'm doing things that feel more intelligence bottlenecked.

But fast responses have an advantage of their own, they give you faster iteration. Kind of like how I used to like OpenAI Deep Research, but then switched to o3-thinking with web search enabled after that came out because it was 80% of the thoroughness with 20% of the time, which tended to be better overall.