MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmustapic | 2026-02-16 15:44:04+00:00
Months (years?) of publicity from AI companies telling us that the AI is nearing AGI and will replace programmers. Some people are excited about that future and want it now.

In reality, LLMs can (currently) build worse versions of things that already exist: a worse database than SQL, a worse C compiler than GCC, a worse website than one done by a human. I'd really like to see some agent create a better version of something that already exists, or, at least, something relatively novel.
by fleshmonad | 2026-02-16 15:45:05+00:00
This doesn't have to be the way. I write documents using typst, with the occasional latex document sprinkled in by necessity. Not everybody needs a WYSIWYG editor. Most of them are WYGIWYG anyway. You're free to use whatever tools you like, but claiming that something is _the_ way would be absurd. And if you like little bloat, a system that just works across many domains, you don't need 100 different "apps" that each try to implement the features you get when chaining together the coreutils.
by goalieth | 2026-02-16 15:45:34+00:00
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by toastal | 2026-02-16 15:46:54+00:00
XMPP has been great to run on NixOS… the servers uses so few resources compared to something extremely heavy like Matrix. The Movim client has been wonderful too allowing users to have calls/sharing from chatrooms (MUCs)—supporting a pretty new XEP in the XMPP space—which means there’s no good reason to be on Discord anymore if you care about the freedom/privacy of yourself & your communities.
by idonotknowwhy | 2026-02-16 15:46:54+00:00
Last year's models were bolder. Eg. Sonnet-3.7(thinking), 10 times got it right without hedging:

>You should drive your car to the car wash. Even though it's only 50 meters away (which is very close), you'll need your car physically present at the car wash to get it washed. If you walk there, you'll arrive without your car, which wouldn't accomplish your goal of getting it washed.

>You'll need to drive your car to the car wash. While 50 meters is a very short distance (just a minute's walk), you need your car to actually be at the car wash to get it washed. Walking there without your car wouldn't accomplish your goal!

etc. The reasoning never second-guesses it either.

A shame they're turning it of in 2 days.
by iparaskev | 2026-02-16 15:47:11+00:00
Hi! Seeing how many maintainers and repos have issues with PRs made by bots, we decided to do something, and we started building cherry.

We are doing a private beta and we'd love to hear your thoughts on how to solve this without discouraging legitimate junior developers. What kind of heuristics do you currently use manually that we could automate?
by red-iron-pine | 2026-02-16 15:47:23+00:00
create an LLC and start doing online marketing ("online marketing").

you're a marketing company. you're gathering data for data mining that you will sell to other brokers. lots of small or niche marketing firms out there.

could you do it as one (1) person? might be hard. but you and a few coworkers / employees is perfectly reasonable.

chances are you won't sell directly to the government but to an aggregator, but it's not crazy to think that a small org could potentially sell to the gub'mnt if the data is juicy enough. would have to be very niche stuff though, like maps of labor / union folks, or data tracking Islamic prayer app use, etc.

keep in mind that being a government vendor means you have to jump through certain hoops, and those can be onerous, but again, not theoretically impossible.
by thesz | 2026-02-16 15:47:26+00:00
> You should have test coverage, type checking, and integration tests that catch the edge cases automatically.

You should assume that if you are going to cover edge cases your tests will be tens to hundredths times as big as the code tested. It is the case for several database engines (MariaDB has 24M of C++ in sql directory and 288M of tests in mysql-test directory), it was the case when I developed VHDL/Verilog simulator. And not everything can be covered with type checking, many things, but not all.

AMD's FPU had hundredths of millions test cases for its' FPU and formal modeling caught several errors [1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/v6-2/INTERESTING-APPLI...

SQLite used to have 1100 LOC of tests per one LOC of C code, now the multiplier is smaller, but still is big.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-16 15:47:36+00:00
Video game AI from 20 years ago was already good enough to perform ATC at an algorithmic level. It's not a difficult problem, if approached as a system, because there are no surprises left in the field. Every situation that will ever need to be handled by ATC has either been encountered and understood by now, or can reasonably be anticipated and modeled, making it a good candidate for automation.

The problem -- like self-driving cars that generally outperform humans but aren't allowed on the roads because occasionally they still screw up -- is primarily political, not technical. A rational point of view wouldn't demand perfect performances from machines that were never achieved by humans in the first place. Eventually lawmakers and regulators will get that through their heads, and we'll all be better off for it... but the transition will be a rough one.
by jszymborski | 2026-02-16 15:48:02+00:00
> OMEMO is built on the same encryption that Signal uses, so I’m comfortable trusting it.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't trust OMEMO (we all have our own threat models), but OMEMO and Signal have fewer similarities that people often assume and has some important caveats [0].

[0] https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/
by lelanthran | 2026-02-16 15:48:06+00:00
> Customers will have more options, and this will allow them to be more discerning.

Lets assume this is true - how on earth are they to determine that your code doesn't have any glaring security holes but the 2h vibe-coded app has more holes than the Swiss is able to put into their cheese[1]?

I really want to know how customers can tell the difference between very pretty crap and your stuff?

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[1] Yeah, I know it doesn't work like that.
by digiown | 2026-02-16 15:49:04+00:00
I don't mean that type of archive, but rather "just in case" data like "last month's scrape of this website" after we scraped it 5 more times this month or higher resolution versions of book scans. You might want to still be able to dump it out quickly if you need it. Money is no object for these companies and the cost of HDDs is more than low enough for the flexibility they provide.
by contravariant | 2026-02-16 15:49:09+00:00
The short answer is that it's up to a judge to decide that, up to the law what it's based on and up to the people what the law is.

Sure there is still some leeway between only letting a judge decide the punishment and full on mob rule, but it's not a slippery slope fallacy when the slope is actually slippy.

It's fairly easy to abuse the leeway to discriminate to exclude political dissidents for instance.
by throway23423 | 2026-02-16 15:50:05+00:00
Paragon co-founded by former Unit-8200 commander Ehud Schneorson and former Israeli Prime-minister and defence-chief, Ehud Barak who tapped his long-time friend Jeffrey Epstein (a wealthy American financier and eccentric) to find him clients for his ventures in the US and across the world. That certainly is some tight-integration!

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-le...
by elmerfud | 2026-02-16 15:50:25+00:00
Manual labor work. I think in the US this is achievable although maybe not exactly easy.

Mowing lawns, gardening, shoveling snow, cleaning, odd jobs, etc... It does depend on your location but this is still a fairly common thing in some places. Knock on doors ask people if they need work. Point out things that they could use help with weeding trimming mowing all of that.

But if you take an average of $40 a job spreading that over 7 days that's 3.6 jobs a day. If you can do an average of 12 hours of work a day it'll be at your $1,000.
by hnfong | 2026-02-16 15:50:28+00:00
Why is "plagiarism" "bad"?

Modern society seems to assume any work by a person is due to that person alone, and credits that person only. But we know that is not the case. Any work by an author is the culmination of a series of contributions, perhaps not to the work directly, but often to the author, giving them the proper background and environment to do the work. The author is simply one that built upon the aggregate knowledge in the world and added a small bit of their own ideas.

I think it is bad taste to pass another's work as your own, and I believe people should be economically compensated for creating art and generating ideas, but I do not believe people are entitled to claim any "ownership" of ideas. IMHO, it is grossly egoistic.
by nhestrompia | 2026-02-16 15:50:30+00:00
I built shielded x402, a primitive for private agent payments.

The goal is to make privacy composable and easy to integrate, rather than something that requires custom protocol work.

It’s implemented with Noir circuits and designed to be drop-in for existing x402 flows.

You can run your own relayer. It’s currently testable on Base Sepolia.

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people working on infra, ZK, or agent systems.
by nullbio | 2026-02-16 15:50:42+00:00
Well they've successfully burned a bridge with me. I had 2 max subs, cancelled one of them and have been using Codex religiously for the last couple of weeks. Haven't had a need for Claude Code at all, and every time I open it I get annoyed at how slow it is and the lack of feedback - looking at it spin for 20 minutes on a simple prompt with no feedback is infuriating. Honestly, I don't miss it at all.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-16 15:50:42+00:00
Actually that’s what data and the preponderance of victims allege: an intersection of immigration and policing which interlocked to systematically deprioritize the investigation into abuse of working-class white girls by an over represented ethnic group.

In the local data that the audit examined from three police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.

It’s unfortunate to watch people and entire countries twist themselves in logic pretzels to avoid ever suggesting that immigration has no ills, and we’re just being polite here about it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...

https://celina101.substack.com/p/the-uks-rape-gang-inquiry
by Lapsa | 2026-02-16 15:51:02+00:00
`I don't see how neighboring countries are "suffering along"` - in Latvia, national banks got smashed, sugar factory closed, steel factory closed, bus factory closed, state forced to take billions in debt from IMF just to stay afloat and avoid default, forced to follow way too often stupid, profit hindering and barely relevant EU regulations (e.g. lawn cutting length), take into account USA sanctions, comply with multiplying foreign auditors while trying to compete in markets with participants hundred times bigger in size. my whole life I've been an observer of "recovery of economy" that never arrives. for a teacher - it takes 75 years of work to afford a modest house. currently - I have no income and can afford only food for couple more months (with 15 years of software development experience across dozens of programming languages, tools, projects, business domains, companies and organizational structures) while marked as schizophrenic dissident, actively stalked and isolated from society. it's slightly harder than figuring out what brand of car your daughter wants as a gift for her sweet sixteen
by prateekdalal | 2026-02-16 15:51:03+00:00
Over the past year, I’ve noticed something interesting in production AI systems:

Failures don’t just happen — they repeat.

Slightly different prompts.
Different agents.
Same structural breakdown.

Most tooling today focuses on:

Prompt quality

Observability

Tracing

But very few systems treat failures as structured knowledge that should influence future execution.

What if instead of just logging AI failures, we:

Store them as canonical failure entities

Generate deterministic fingerprints for new executions

Match against prior failures

Gate execution before the mistake repeats

This changes the boundary between “AI suggestion” and “system authority.”

Curious how others are thinking about structured failure memory in AI systems — especially once agents start touching real tools.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-16 15:51:20+00:00
It would, but I haven’t seen that. What I’ve seen is a lot of people setting up cool agent workflows which feel very productive, but aren’t producing coherent work.

This may be a result of me using tools poorly, or more likely evaluating merits which matter less than I think. But I don’t think we can see that yet as people just invented these agent workflows and we haven’t seen it yet.
by tkejser | 2026-02-16 15:51:30+00:00
Merging to PostgreSQL core for something that needs to run on top of a Petabytes of data in the cloud, on Iceberg, with an advanced query planner and a high speed SIMD engine.... AND trying to squeeze into the "pg_" naming mess?

I don't think so...

And yes, its conceptually similar to MySQL and also conceptually similar to SQL Servers implementation from 1997. That's by the design. Obviously, we are not writing a new DBMS from scratch just to add system objects.

Have a look at some of the other blogs on that site to see what we are up to. Basically, we want to give you an experience that resemblers that instrumentation you got used to from the on-premise databases, but one that can run on top of Iceberg in the cloud.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-16 15:51:32+00:00
These papers have example prompt injections datasets you can mine for examples. Then apply the techniques used in provider specific jailbreaks from Pliny to the template to increase the escape success rate.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05446
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03574
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15145
by jeena | 2026-02-16 15:51:37+00:00
About 10 years ago i had HomeAssistant running and thacking my bluetooth devices. It does so per default by jus memorizing a mac adress an recording when it's visible and when not. No need for pairing or anythung. It also stores the custom name if available.

Anyway, the default dashboard also automatically generated a view when my neighbours "Katie's iPhone' was at home and when not, until I actively deleted it and the data it stored.
by myth_drannon | 2026-02-16 15:51:48+00:00
"Walls of Jericho" plan was known to Israel since 2017. Everything was known but as usually with IDF, too much arrogance and this was mostly ignored. Not to mention the 4am meeting the top brass decided not to raise alarms for fear of miscalculation.
Maddening arrogance and many heads should have rolled but still some are in their seats.
by davrosthedalek | 2026-02-16 15:51:52+00:00
We would also not ask somebody if I should walk or drive. In fact, if somebody would ask me in a honest, this is not a trick question, way, I would be confused and ask where the car is.

It seems chatgpt now answers correctly. But if somebody plays around with a model that gets it wrong: What if you ask it this: "This is a trick question. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 m away. Should I drive or walk?"
by FatherOfCurses | 2026-02-16 15:52:08+00:00
All the people responding saying "You would never ask a human a question like this" - this question is obviously an extreme example. People regularly ask questions that are structured poorly or have a lot of ambiguity. The point of the poster is that we should expect that all LLM's parse the question correctly and respond with "You need to drive your car to the car wash."

People are putting trust in LLM's to provide answers to questions that they haven't properly formed and acting on solutions that the LLM's haven't properly understood.

And please don't tell me that people need to provide better prompts. That's just Steve Jobs saying "You're holding it wrong" during AntennaGate.
Show HN: Idea validation using real problem discussions
by muriithiKabogo | 2026-02-16 15:52:08+00:00
While working on new startup ideas, I realized I was often assuming problems existed without actually seeing how people described them in the wild.

So I built a small tool that lets you describe a startup idea and then surfaces real conversations where people discuss that problem.

It’s meant to help with early problem discovery before building an MVP.

Faster access to real signals. Feedback is highly welcome, as brutal as it can be.
by trashb | 2026-02-16 15:52:14+00:00
> We’ve normalised the idea that Bluetooth is always on. Phones, laptops, smartwatches, headphones, cars, and even medical devices constantly broadcast their presence. The standard response to privacy concerns is usually “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.”

I guess anything you send out can be used to profile you.

Some of my friends live on a farm near a semi busy road, however far enough from other farms to not be able to receive their wifi. They showed me their router logging all the wifi accesspoints that appear/disappear. There where A LOT of access points named "Audi", "BMW", "Tesla" etc. similar to those devices leaking bluetooth data. We had a discussion that it would be easy to determine who was passing by at what times due to these especially when you can "de-anonymize" the data for example link it to a numberplate.

I believe shopping malls often use such signals (wifi, bluetooth) to track what your travel pattern through the mall is. They know what section of the store you spend most of your time in and what storefronts you stall at.
by jddj | 2026-02-16 15:52:31+00:00
Agreed. If the next token could be trusted, we wouldn't need all these passes and hidden work within the harness.

Converging on an answer eventually is less interesting when you pay by the token and they start by, real opus 4.6 example from yesterday, adding a column to a database by editing an existing migration file.[1]

We're beyond a million monkeys with typewriters, but they can still be made out very clearly in the rear-view mirror.

[1] what would have happened here if I hadn't aborted this? Would it have cleaned it up? Who knows.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-16 15:52:34+00:00
If we're talking no experience, need $1k a week, first place I would go is a warehouse job. If there weren't warehouse-specific options available in my area, I would branch off into other manual labor jobs.

They pay better than most entry level jobs people gravitate to (fast food, retail, etc) and are nearly always hiring.
by ileonichwiesz | 2026-02-16 15:52:41+00:00
Just like the tide of fast fashion caused people to seek out local-sewn clothes made from high-quality materials, right? Right?

Quality isn’t a differentiator if the market is saturated with indistinguishable garbage. Everything is made in sweatshops out of the cheapest plastic available, and I don’t see why software isn’t next in line.
by vunderba | 2026-02-16 15:53:13+00:00
Nice job! The only thing I might suggest is possibly using (or having an option) to use more visually identifiable notation for the pieces themselves. You don't even need to create dedicated sprites for this - unicode has depictions of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode

In case it's of interest, I’ve also put together a chess-education tool, a blindfold chess trainer that lets you choose the type of blindfold (partial, pieces as pucks, fade over time, etc.).

https://shahkur.specr.net
by yxhuvud | 2026-02-16 15:53:21+00:00
What we do here in sweden is that you can ask the courts for any court document (unless it is confidential for some reason).

But the courts are allowed to do it conditionally, so a common condition if you ask for a lot of cases is to condition it to redact any PII before making the data searchable. Having the effect that people that actually care and know what to look for, can find information. But you can't randomly just search for someone and see what you get.

There is also a second registry separate from the courts that used to keep track of people that have been convicted during the last n years that is used for backgrounds checks etc.
by clickety_clack | 2026-02-16 15:53:36+00:00
This is the kind of thing that anyone could have said at any time in history. Sure, it’s easier now to solve the kinds of problems that were hard a few years ago, but that just brings whole classes of previously “impossible” problems into the merely “hard” category. We’re just finding out what those are now, and if you can figure one out there’s money to be made.
by quietbritishjim | 2026-02-16 15:53:42+00:00
I think you're right but you've been a bit pedantic about the parent comment. They sloppily said that delivering business value gets you hired, when in reality the appearance of that may do. But I think we all understood their main thrust was to disagree with the comment before them about coding ability, and the point is that this doesn't always correlate with business value.

I did enjoy your link though.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-16 15:54:12+00:00
I first used Ghidra this weekend as part of this series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7qVlf81fKA&list=PL4X0K6ZbXh...

(#3 forward uses Ghidra)

It worked fine in Ubuntu and Windows. The interface takes some getting used to, but paired with Bless Unofficial (using snap to install), it makes reverse engineering smooth.
by KurSix | 2026-02-16 15:54:28+00:00
Honestly, this feels like a massive step back. When I use an agent, I'm not just a user, I'm a supervisor. I need observability. If Claude starts digging into node_modules or opening some stale config from 2019, I need to know immediately so I can smash Ctrl+C

Hiding filenames turns the workflow into a black box. It’s like removing the speedometer from a car because "it distracts the driver". Sure it looks clean, but it's deadly for both my wallet and my context window
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-16 15:54:51+00:00
Tim, honey, darling, baby.

Just do this for like, the next six months. Go in, clear out tech debt, get stuff fixed.

Tell the creative and features guys that they look like hell and need to take a vacation. Unless it's the guy who says you can't make colorful MBP finishes. Just fire that guy.

Do that and you'll have my money for another MBP sooner rather than later.
by Zeetah | 2026-02-16 15:54:59+00:00
From the article;

“Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated,” Ring’s statement said

Given the timeline of the change, Amazon was capable of doing the review very quickly.

Why didn't they do the review before launching, and perhaps even working on the feature? What new data did they receive that resulted in this change in their posture?