MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-20 06:05:40+00:00
Waymo doesn't sell cars and their tech only drives on trained routes, from what I'm reading. I'm not sure I follow how they fit in here.

Now searching from your commentary on MB and BMW the first result indicates that they dumped their level 3 and will move to licence Tesla FSD instead.

???

You didn't know about that it seems. I didn't either. Does it change your mind at all about the tech?
by brookst | 2026-02-20 06:07:22+00:00
It’s insane and wonderful. I always wanted to get into slipcasting pottery, but of course straight from CAD without all the “make something 20% larger than hou want, fire it, make mold using plaster and expertise” part.

Kicked it around for years, but CAD mold-making, especially multi-part mold-making, is reslly hard. Geometry, physics, understanding the process of using it… it was way more than I could find the time to develop expertise in.

Claude code, an MCP server to controll grasshopper (MCP server entirely written by claude of course), and maybe 8 hours total and I’ve got a fully algorithic multi-part mold-making program that designs the plastic tools I need to print, so I can pour silicone into plastic, so I can pour plaster into silicone, and the plaster parts fit goether perfectly for the final mold.

And it was fun. AI has brought joy back into coding projects I used to put off because they felt like a grind.
by raphaelmansuy | 2026-02-20 06:09:19+00:00
Hi — I'm Raphael Mansuy. I built edgequake-litellm to provide a low-latency, Rust-backed drop-in replacement for LiteLLM. It exposes the same Python API (`completion()`, `acompletion()`, `stream()`, `embedding()`), supports provider/model routing (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, xAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.), and ships as a single ABI3 wheel with zero Python runtime deps.

Quick migration:

```python
import edgequake_litellm as litellm # drop-in alias
```

Why build it? LiteLLM is excellent, but its pure-Python HTTP layer adds SDK overhead. I moved the core into Rust (edgequake-llm) and wrapped it with PyO3 to cut latency and provide a robust, multi-arch wheel. This is v0.1 — P0 compatibility is in place, but I'd love feedback on priorities: provider coverage, proxy features, billing/budgets, or tool-calling parity.

Install:

pip install edgequake-litellm

Repo:
https://github.com/raphaelmansuy/edgequake-llm

If you try it, please star the repo and open issues for features you want most — I'm actively iterating. Happy to answer technical questions here.
Show HN: Syne – AI agent that remembers everything, built on PostgreSQL
by riyogarta | 2026-02-20 06:10:45+00:00
I built Syne because I was tired of AI assistants that forget everything after each conversation.

Syne is a self-hosted AI agent framework where memory is a first-class citizen — stored as semantic vectors in PostgreSQL, searchable across millions of entries, and persistent forever.

Key features:
- Unlimited persistent memory with semantic search (pgvector)
- Anti-hallucination: only stores user-confirmed facts, auto-deduplicates
- Self-evolving: creates new abilities at runtime without restart
- Multi-model: switch between Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude mid-conversation
- True $0/month setup: free OAuth + local Ollama embedding + Docker
- 19 core tools, sub-agents, Telegram + CLI interfaces

Built with Python, PostgreSQL, and Docker. No vendor lock-in.

GitHub: https://github.com/riyogarta/syne
Landing page: https://syne.codes
by ojame | 2026-02-20 06:10:47+00:00
If you write code that powers an EV's 'self driving mode' - which makes calculated choices, sell it and deploy it, when that car gets into an accident under 'self driving mode', you may not be liable (depending on the case and jurisdiction - as proven in the past). The driver is.

There are many instances (where I am from, at least - and I believe in the USA), where 'accidents' happen and individuals are found not guilty. As long as you can prove that it wasn't due to negligence. Could "don't be an asshole" as instructions be enough in some arenas to prove they aren't negligent? I believe so.
by waynesonfire | 2026-02-20 06:11:21+00:00
I had the same experience, I learned it early too. My thinking was, if I'm going to be typing my whole life, I might as well do it with the bee's knees.

I also swap ctrl+caps. That caps key real estate is just too good.

It's pretty wild, I can _ONLY_ touch type dvorak. I couldn't tell you which keys are which looking down at the keyboard. And I'm fast. I'm so fast I don't even need to vibecode.
by niemandhier | 2026-02-20 06:12:29+00:00
Saphire-Worff is dead; but I think language matters more than we usually assume.

My favourite example is Arabic, which is both an old and hard to extend language.

In Arabic you would have a hard time to express the concept of „a foreigner who is citizen but resides out of state“.

Not that we often speak about this concept in English, but the word used to refer to „citizens“ carries the connotation of „nation“ and the alternative word used for „inhabitants“ carries the connotation of being on site.

Speaking of a Yemeni citizen and than meeting an Asian person, would surprise people even if they new that the person they were meeting was named „Ho“.
by neilv | 2026-02-20 06:12:40+00:00
> They explained that they switched between multiple models from multiple providers such that no one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing.

Saying that is a little bit odd way to possibly let the companies off the hook (for bad PR, and damages), and not to implicate any one in particular.

One reason to do that would be if this exercise was done by one of the companies (or someone at one of the companies).
by astahlx | 2026-02-20 06:12:56+00:00
In the end, facts are useless. You belief what you think your social bubble, and in particular, the group you think you belong to, is thinking. And many people do not speak up. Mostly those with strong (often selfish) interests speak up, and often in a manipulative way. Having narcissist or sociopaths as leader can indeed be a bad thing. Some sort of media control is good, to protect core values, to protect the law against mass manipulation.
by mr_00ff00 | 2026-02-20 06:13:08+00:00
This is untrue:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/reddit-us...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/facebook-...

Reddit has far fewer users in most countries outside the US than facebook.

Also, I don’t like the current US administration, but you cannot make the claim somehow China is better, especially to minorities.
by TheDong | 2026-02-20 06:13:57+00:00
One possible stupid-but-not-malicious explanation is that some anti-cheat company made a sketchy anti-cheat that includes server-side "is CheatEngine.exe running" code, and they're doing that via ps aux... and then this game player app was bullied by some game company into including this anti-cheat library to allow their game to run.
by lurkshark | 2026-02-20 06:14:02+00:00
I’ve thought an interesting outcome might be that it’s not even that there’s a binary generated. It’s just user input -> machine code LLM -> CPU. Like the only binary would be the LLM itself and it’s essentially mimicking software live. The paper “Diffusion as a Model of Environment Dream” (DIAMOND) is close to what I’m thinking, where they have a diffusion model generate frames of a game, updating with user input, but there’s no actual “game” code it’s just the model.

https://diamond-wm.github.io/

Like you’d have a machine code LLM that behaves like software but instead of a static binary being executed it’s just the LLM itself “executing” on inputs and precious state. I’m horrible at communicating this idea but hopefully the gist is there.
by shepherdjerred | 2026-02-20 06:14:59+00:00
I use cdk8s for my homelab and absolutely love it. 100% recommend.

Homelab CDKs: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...

Script I wrote to generate types from Helm charts: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...
by kettlecorn | 2026-02-20 06:15:05+00:00
I think part of this is preempting concerns that the EU could ban or limit X / Twitter.

They've already fined X heavily for lacking transparency, like not providing a database of advertisers or allowing researchers to access internal data to evaluate misinformation concerns. The EU has threatened that if they need to they may ban or limit X.

Musk and conservatives view X as a critical tool to spread their preferred ideology, and Musk has shown he's not beyond algorithmic and UX manipulation to achieve desired outcomes.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-20 06:15:29+00:00
Thanks for saving me the trouble of writing exactly that. I want my IaC to be roughly as Turing complete as JSOJ. It’s sooo tempting to say “if only I could write this part with a for loop…” and down that path lies madness.

There are things I think Terraform could do to improve its declarative specs without violating the spirit. Yet, I still prefer it as-is to any imperative alternatives.
by throw77488 | 2026-02-20 06:16:27+00:00
More like a dog. Person has no responsibility for an autonomous agent, gun is not autonomous.

It is socially acceptable to bring dangerous predators to public spaces, and let them run loose. First bite is free, owner has no responsibility, no way knowing dog could injure someone.

Repeated threats of violence (barking), stalking and shitting on someones front yard, are also fine, and healthy behavior. Person can attack random kid, send it to hospital, and claim it "provoked them". Brutal police violence is also fine, if done indirectly by autonomous agent.
by 9dev | 2026-02-20 06:17:04+00:00
What are you talking about..? A GmbH is the German equivalent of an Ltd. An AG is a publicly traded company and thus not something investors are looking for. Also, the majority of companies in Germany are just ordinary eigetragene Kaufmänner (so normal businesspeople like your average plumber), or GmbH (literally any other company that isn’t a stock market traded enterprise).
by hi_hi | 2026-02-20 06:17:15+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I'm looking to replace my aging mini pc with a mac mini, so I'm quite interested in any limitations here.

The full disk encryption I can live without. I'm assuming these limitations don't apply if it's disabled. [Ah, I just saw the other reply that this has now been fixed]

I was aware of the Docker in a VM issue. I haven't tested this out yet, but my expectation is this can be mitigated via https://github.com/apple/container ?

I appreciate any insights here.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-20 06:17:45+00:00
> If educating people worked there wouldn’t be any obese people, or drunkards

This assumes that a) everyone is the same, and b) education would always work. Matthew Perry explained that this is not the case. Some people respond differently to drugs. Whether these people are educated or not, changes very little. Education helps, but not in the way as to be able to bypass physiological aspects completely.

> Education is as useful as preaching abstinence at horny teenagers instead of providing access to contraceptives

Education can still help. For instance, I decided very early on that the best way to avoid e. g. addiction is to not "give in and try once". So I never tried drugs (ok ok, I did drink a beer occasionally). This was the much simpler and easier strategy to pursue, simply via avoidance behaviour.

Thus I disagree that the premise can be "if educating worked" - people will always respond differently to drugs. And they will have different strategies to cope with something too - some strategies work, others don't work. One can not generalize this.
Show HN: Photobomb – cards against humanity but for your camera roll
by alhwyn | 2026-02-20 06:17:51+00:00
just shipped my first ios game: photobomb, a party game for 3–8 players.

similar to cards against humanity one player gets a prompt (ex: "bad posture"), everyone else digs through their camera roll to find the best matching photo under 40 seconds. The prompter picks their favorite photo and the player with that chosen phot wins the round, and you rotate until everyone's been the judge.

bonus: if your photo gets screenshotted during the gallery , you score extra point. ;)

its free, just need three friends and photos to share
by insin | 2026-02-20 06:18:20+00:00
/me bunches blanket up next to chin, like Haley Joel Osment in the Sixth Sense

/me whispers They don't know they're boring

I've had to unfollow multiple people I've followed for donkey's years since they pivoted to full-time AI* (LLM) posting, as they just don't know what's interesting and what isn't any more.

A link to a tool you said you've vibe coded is now at about the level of a link to your dream journal, or Suno, in terms of clickability.
by avaer | 2026-02-20 06:19:17+00:00
Remember when GPT-3 had a $100 spending cap because the model was too dangerous to be let out into the wild?

Between these models egging people on to suicide, straightforward jailbreaks, and now damage caused by what seems to be a pretty trivial set of instructions running in a loop, I have no idea what AI safety research at these companies is actually doing.

I don't think their definition of "safety" involves protecting anything but their bottom line.

The tragedy is that you won't hear from the people who are actually concerned about this and refuse to release dangerous things into the world, because they aren't raising a billion dollars.

I'm not arguing for stricter controls -- if anything I think models should be completely uncensored; the law needs to get with the times and severely punish the operators of AI for what their AI does.

What bothers me is that the push for AI safety is really just a ruse for companies like OpenAI to ID you and exercise control over what you do with their product.
Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers
by arjunbajaj | 2026-02-20 06:20:34+00:00
Hey HN! Arjun and Sid here.

Fostrom is an IoT Cloud Platform designed for developers to make it really easy to get started and scale fleets. We have Device SDKs (in Python, JS, Elixir, more coming soon), Typed Schemas, Per-Device Mailboxes, Programmable Actions, 4 Global Regions for lower-latency connections, and much more.

We've built Fostrom to solve a real need we faced in our previous startup, building a fully automated indoor vertical farm. We spent more time figuring out IoT infrastructure than writing automation logic. Fostrom is the platform we wished existed back then.

Over the last few years we've experimented with a lot of interesting tech and architectures, and settled on an architecture that we believe is quite elegant. We wrote a Go<->Elixir bridge to execute JS code in WASM for Actions, implemented a DuckDB library for Elixir, and wrote a Device Agent in Rust that our SDKs run in the background (https://github.com/fostrom/devicekit).

The most interesting realization we had was about the data architecture. For years, we tried using distributed databases and built complex layers on top of them, but all approaches had significant limitations specifically around consistency and querying. We want to provide operational correctness, rich insights, and reliability. Finally, we came to the conclusion that to achieve this we really need a SQL database for fleet data. So we built a DuckDB-based replicated multi-tenant data layer. We're still improving it (hence the Technical Preview badge) but we're quite proud of this decision. It simplifies the rest of the codebase, while keeping operational complexity in just a few places.

Our vision is to make a powerful IoT platform that enables you to build correct, secure, and reliable connected systems without dealing with any of the plumbing or infrastructure.

Next up, we're gonna launch our CLI, add automatic device monitoring to our Device SDKs, and improve the debugging experience. We have some pretty cool ideas to make Fostrom and the experience of developing connected systems better. We're also going to write more about our architecture and journey soon.

We also published our launch blog post which goes into more detail about our vision, what we've built, and our future plans: https://fostrom.io/blog/introducing-fostrom

Would love for you to try out Fostrom and give us your feedback and thoughts.
by Twisell | 2026-02-20 06:21:31+00:00
The system you describe is already implemented at least on this French independent media "Arrêt sur Images". Subscribers can vote to gift articles to the public.

(I'll link Wikipedia as a proxy to avoid HN hug of DDOS https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arr%C3%AAt_sur_images English version has not been updated so recently)
by theYipster | 2026-02-20 06:22:14+00:00
There really is no going back when you go split and tented. I've was on a Kenesis Freestyle for years, then upgraded to a Dygma Raise (V1) about three years ago. It's served me well, but I've been eyeing a CyBoard Imprint, which is like a Dactyl or Charbydis, but has hot swap-able switches (a rarity for curved key-well boards.) Can't give up my holy panda switches. :)
by alextingle | 2026-02-20 06:24:05+00:00
C++ destructors are implicit, while defer is explicit.

You can just look at the code in front of you to see what defer is doing. With destructors, you need to know what type you have (not always easy to tell), then find its destructor, and all the destructors of its parent classes, to work out what's going to happen.

Sure, if the situation arises frequently, it's nice to be able to design a type that "just works" in C++. But if you need to clean up reliably in just this one place, C++ destructors are a very clunky solution.
by MadnessASAP | 2026-02-20 06:24:43+00:00
As I tell my friends

You dont see those "coincidental" ads because your phone is listening to you, you see them because your freind showed interest in the product and theirs enough information to infer they talked to you about it. The good news is, your phone isn't listening to you without your consent. The bad news is, because it doesnt need to.
by Pay08 | 2026-02-20 06:26:08+00:00
China and Chinese companies flaunt every single law that at all hinders them, IP law being the typical example. The EU has the Privacy Shield agreement with the USA. Such an agreement with China would be effectively impossible, since even if it existed, they'd simply ignore it. People criticise Five Eyes, and for good reason, but it's existence at least means that intelligence agencies are willing to follow domestic law.

Not to mention the use of the word "Western", which is the kind of bullshit I could write a smaller book about.
by kingstnap | 2026-02-20 06:26:21+00:00
I personally found Gemini 3.0 to step on my toes in Agentic coding. I tried it around 10 or so times but it quickly became apparent that it was somehow coming to its own conclusions about what needs to be done instead of following instructions.

Like files I didn't mention being edited and read and stuff of that nature. Sometimes this is cute in fixing typos in docs but when its changing things where it clearly doesn't even understand the intentionality behind something it's annoying.

Gemini 3.1 is clearly much better when trying it today. It stayed focused and found its way around without getting distracted.
by tsoukase | 2026-02-20 06:27:23+00:00
China doesn't want as a prime goal to become world leader. They just want to expand their infrastructure, science, production, everything for their own prosperity. If there is no other competitor left, then world leadership will be a by product. They don't suppress foreign countries for that goal (see military presence, coups and secret diplomatic deals in foreign countries that the US was doing after WWII in order to remain at the top by all means). They don't want (until now) to spread their culture worldwide (see language, movies, video games etc) due to the language difficulty. They do want to expand their productive capacity by financing projects in foreign countries, but in a business-as-usual way not in a I-am-the-boss way.
by captainhook | 2026-02-20 06:28:37+00:00
I'm surprised Graphene foundation haven't banned or heavily restricted Daniel Micay from publicly representing GOS. He's fine when he's providing product updates and technical information but he absolutely needs to see a therapist. I know he's been told this a million times and I'm not sure if he takes it serious enough. If he doesn't do something about this behaviour, his spiraling will be the downfall of GOS.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-20 06:29:15+00:00
No, you do have to choose because money for education (or anything) isn’t unlimited.

There’s a real question of how many resources and what kind of ROI you’d get from trying to educate that bottom 20% to the same level.

I saw this play out when I was in school: profoundly intellectually disabled students getting 1:1 or even 2:1 teaching, trying to get an 18 year old to be able to read 3 letter words, while AP classes were bloated to 30+ students.
by raincole | 2026-02-20 06:29:27+00:00
It computes quite well.

> It was a 2021 case involving Andy Grote, a local politician, that captured the country's attention. Grote complained about a tweet that called him a "pimmel," a German word for the male anatomy. His complaint triggered a police raid and accusations of excessive censorship by the government.

A police raid for calling a politician a dick. Let it sink.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-online-hate-speech-pros...
by michaelteter | 2026-02-20 06:30:55+00:00
Have you not been observing what is happening in the US right now? Any dissension is labeled as "domestic terrorism" - this is coming from the highest levels in US government.

So is the facade of democracy much different from a dictatorship?

I'm not here saying that Singapore is doing everything right. I'm just noting that public political presentations from Singapore seem vastly better than watching Trump, Leavitt, Noem, Bondi, Patel, or virtually any other "leaders" speak. The quality of communication - message aside - is utter garbage. It's a very sad state of affairs. What we see here is dumbed down language that caters to the least educated, most easily misled masses. And this illustrates where democracy fails: democracy assumes a reasonable level of education and comprehension. We don't have there here, especially when psyops tactics have been employed by some news networks for two decades now.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-20 06:32:13+00:00
Care to elaborate on "known antagonistic stance"? Is there any evidence that China has ever actually performed any of these types of attacks you're discussing?

"Get creative" might work well for fictional writing exercises, but is it such a sound strategy for assigning guilt? Surely you wouldn't like being prosecuted for crimes that someone "got creative" with in accusing you of, no?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-20 06:32:20+00:00
And it's a horrible moat. I've gotten locked out of a Google Workspace permanently because the person who set it up left, used a personal email/phone to do it, and despite us owning/controlling the domain, Google wouldn't unlock admin access to the Workspace for us, they would only delete it. Unacceptable business risk.