MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geocar | 2026-02-13 08:55:13+00:00
> You are confused about what I'm doing.

Absolutely.

And if you're not confused by what I said, that's not obvious in the slightest.

> I'm not telling anyone what to do.

So you say.

> I'm saying what category their actions fall into.

I think that's pretty weird that you think you get to decide that all by yourself.

But I'm not playing, because you're right: I don't know why you would be doing that.

> And the line of yours I quoted is still not supported by anything.

Yes it is. It's a description of the behaviour of other Internet hosts, and it's a description of exactly what is happening in the linked article.
by cherry19870330 | 2026-02-13 08:55:23+00:00
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by XCSme | 2026-02-13 08:55:42+00:00
That's true.

The problem is that if the automation breaks at any point, the entire system fails. And programming automations are extremely sensitive to minor errors (i.e. a missing semicolon).

AI does have an interesting feature though, it tends to self-healing in a way, when given tools access and a feedback loop. The only problem is that self-healing can incorrectly heal errors, then the final reault will be wrong in hard-to-detect ways.

So the more wuch hidden bugs there are, the nore unexpectedly the automations will perform.

I still don't trust current AI for any tasks more than data parsing/classification/translation and very strict tool usage.

I don't beleive in the full-assistant/clawdbot usage safety and reliability at this time (it might be good enough but the end of the year, but then the SWE bench should be at 100%).
by mrob | 2026-02-13 08:56:13+00:00
Not just bats. I'm pretty sure humans are already capable of extincting any species we want to, even cockroaches or microbes. It's a political problem not a technical one. I'm not even a superintelligence, and I've got a good idea what would happen if we dedicated 100% of our resources to an enormous mega-project of pumping nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. N2O's 20 year global warming is 273 times higher than carbon dioxide, and the raw materials are just air and energy. Get all our best chemical engineers working on it, turn all our steel into chemical plant, burn through all our fissionables to power it. Safety doesn't matter. The beauty of this plan is the effects continue compounding even after it kills all the maintenance engineers, so we'll definitely get all of them. Venus 2.0 is within our grasp.

Of course, we won't survive the process, but the task didn't mention collateral damage. As an optimization problem it will be a great success. A real ASI probably will have better ideas. And remember, every prediction problem is more reliably solved with all life dead. Tomorrow's stock market numbers are trivially predictable when there's zero trade.
Closed –> Traced –> Closed: Did a Tech Giant Panic over an HTTP/2 200 OK Bypass?
by CorporationHit | 2026-02-13 08:56:16+00:00
[DISCLAIMER]: This is shared strictly for educational purposes and as a case study for the security community. My goal is to discuss the logic of security response systems, not to target any individual or proprietary data.
The Case:
I am seeking the community's perspective on a technical disagreement. Who is at fault when a manual proof of a bypass is provided, yet the response logic remains inconsistent?
The Timeline & Logic Gap:
The Report: I reported a logic flaw in a payments-related sub-domain. It was initially reviewed and marked as "Triaged".
The Dismissal: Shortly after, the report was marked as "Closed (Informative)". No technical explanation was provided for why the triage was reversed.
The Manual Proof: I provided a manual bypass using an Admin-Token: true header, which resulted in a successful HTTP/2 200 OK response (verified in terminal logs).
The Loop: Following this evidence, the report went through a "Triaged-Closed" loop. Despite the manual proof of a 200 OK status, the case remains closed without a patch.
Where is the Fault?
Is it the Company's fault? For dismissing a manual proof of a 200 OK bypass and relying on automated closure logic instead of verifying the vulnerability's impact.
Is it the Researcher's fault? For providing evidence that contradicts the "Informative" status and expecting a technical justification for the closure.
The Evidence (Screenshots):
Manual Proof (HTTP/2 200 OK Bypass): https://i.ibb.co/kgMjSBBK/Whats-App-Image-2026-02-13-at-1-40-12-PM.jpg
Report Status History (The Loop): https://i.ibb.co/5gsLnyJJ/Whats-App-Image-2026-02-13-at-1-43-58-PM.jpg
Initial Triage Confirmation: https://i.ibb.co/K3ZCQ48/Whats-App-Image-2026-02-13-at-1-38-17-PM.jpg
48-Hour Notice Email: https://i.ibb.co/Df8GwCH0/Whats-App-Image-2026-02-13-at-1-54-37-PM.jpg
Full Communication Logs: https://i.ibb.co/zTbNRFQy/Whats-App-Image-2026-02-13-at-1-38-27-PM.jpg
My Question to Developers & Researchers:
When a researcher proves a bypass with a 200 OK response, but the company keeps the report "Closed," is this a standard industry practice or a gap in the security response logic? Google VRP
by pronik | 2026-02-13 08:56:38+00:00
An especially egregious case I've encountered was at Berlin train station.

Normally in Germany, you've got those distinct card terminals with a display where you see your total before paying. Some of those have started nagging you for tips which you need to explicitely accept or decline first before tapping your card. Not in this case though: after you've ordered your food, they point you to the combined order/pay display and while you awe at the technology marvel of combining both, you tap your card on that and then you notice that 15% tip has been automatically included and charged. You needed to notice some small text and small buttons in the corner of that display beforehand and actively tap on "0%" or something before tapping your card. I'm already furious they've let this tip begging to be added to the card terminals, but charging tips without explicit consent should be completely illegal.
by Markoff | 2026-02-13 08:56:59+00:00
> In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc).

that's exactly my understanding as a non-native English speaker who haven't even read the article :-)

in my native language, they both share same word - disk (hard disk, compact disk), though floppy disk had it's own word
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-13 08:57:45+00:00
Yeah, it’s true though. The most annoying outages we’ve had are when poles get damaged and need a full replacement.

A couple years ago we had a black locust tree split and break the T on the top of telephone pole across street. It didn’t take the power out itself, but the utility felt it was safer to shut it off until the pole was replaced. Took 3 days as they sent the crew from texas to NJ.

My parents place had 2 pole replacements on their driveway, each time in different years it was same guy sent up from Alabama. Each time took days.

This area I just don’t think they prioritize getting power restored quickly, population density too low, most own generators, and we don’t have medical stuff nearby. Better to send workers from regions where pay is lower, that’s my guess. I had to file complaints with BPU last year as they fired the meter readers and estimated the bills for like 7 months before installing smart meters.
by like_any_other | 2026-02-13 08:58:20+00:00
> For any theory/ hypothesis: how well does it stand against the null-hypothesis? For example: How much physical evidence is there really for the string-theory?

That's an unfortunate choice of example - the problem with string theory is that there is no null hypothesis. We know that our other theories are not self-consistent when unified, but we don't have a theory that is self-consistent, that could serve as the null hypothesis.
by jychang | 2026-02-13 08:58:39+00:00
Uh, that paragraph translated from "marketing bullshit" into "engineer" would be "we distilled the big gpt-5.3-codex model into a smaller size that fits on the 44GB of SRAM of a Cerebras WSE-3 multiplied by whatever tensor parallel or layer parallel grouping they're doing".

(Cerebras runs llama-3.3 70b on 4 WSE-3 units with layer parallelism, for example).

That's basically exactly what gpt-5.3-codex-mini would be.

So perhaps OpenAI intentionally picked the model's layer param count, MoE expert size, etc to fit onto the Cerebras machines. That's like saying "the DVD producer optimized this movie for you" (they just cropped and cut it down to 4.7GB so it would fit on a DVD).

I'm underselling it a little bit, because it takes a bit more work than that to get models to run on Cerebras hardware (because they're so weird and un-GPU-like), but honestly if Cerebras can get Llama 3.1 405b or GLM 4.7 running on their own chips, it's not that much harder to have Cerebras get gpt-5.3-codex-mini running.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-13 08:58:45+00:00
Atheist blogger Rebecca Watson has a more personal take on this, since Dawkins and Epstein were conspiring against her in the emails:

Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are

https://skepchick.org/2026/02/epstein-files-reveal-how-pathe...

> my name was in the first Epstein document drop because back in 2011 I criticized physicist Lawrence Krauss for defending his “friend” Jeffrey Epstein, years after Epstein was revealed to be a pedophile running a sex trafficking ring. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Krauss immediately forwarded my critical emails to Epstein

The second email drop reveals Dawkins later joins this attack on her, in order to defend Knauss and Epstein.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-13 08:59:18+00:00
> I cannot understand why people are thinking a gigabyte of RAM in this context save for their context being imagining what this would take with

Who's people? It isn't me, I was rounding to the nearest positive integer. And bastawhiz is arguing in the abstract about RAM prices so I don't see how they fit this complaint either.

> It’s like saying your family of four is going to take a vacation, so you might need to reserve an entire Hyatt for a week, rather than a single room in a Motel 6.

From my point of view, it's more like each room only holds one person so you can't just say "a room" (megabyte), and renting a whole hotel would only be 0.1% of the total vacation budget, so I simplify it and just say "rent a hotel" (gigabyte). It doesn't mean I think it's necessary, it means I'm pointing out how cheap it is and don't need to go deeper.
by gspr | 2026-02-13 08:59:38+00:00
> Bear in mind europe is known for millennia of pogroms and ethnic cleansing (like, I'm sure, many other parts of the world). Sometimes the culture must bend towards the needs of a stable culture.

Of course. I'm absolutely not saying that culture shouldn't bend. I'm just saying the law must bend to follow culture to some degree.

And let's be clear: it wasn't a change of law that ended the millennia of pogroms and ethnic cleansing. It was culture that changed. Once culture was enough changed for enough people, the law followed and took care of the stragglers.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-13 08:59:45+00:00
It's not about distraction, actually. Since the mode of typing vs. writing is different; I can feel that my brain is working differently.

While I don't type lightning fast (~130WPM and beyond), I already type without thinking about it. I just think and it appears on screen, actually. On the other hand, when I'm writing, there's another sub-process which is evaluating whether what I'm writing makes sense or works in real world. It's not possible to do this while typing since the freedom provided by the pen, and the thinking process is completely different. Also, I can build a model of what I'm writing about in my mind better. In short, typing lends to shallower thinking while writing allows more depth and exploration on the subject.

The research articles I started to collect also points to something similar. When using pen and paper, neurons fire differently and in larger networks, pointing to a different mode of thinking. Considering I started use pen/paper and keyboards almost at the same time, and able to verify that using a pen really makes my brain work differently, I find "you're typing it wrong" a flawed argument for the most part.
by gdhaliwal23 | 2026-02-13 08:59:46+00:00
Founder here. Gemini actually suggested I build this. I was brainstorming SaaS ideas and it pointed out the gap between AI cost tracking and revenue attribution. I dug into it, agreed, and built it.

The hardest part was the cost simulator. Comparing price-per-million-tokens across models is misleading — different models burn different amounts of tokens for the same task. So we normalize token counts to estimate what a swap would actually look like. When we recommend an alternative, we filter out anything that drops more than 10% on any benchmark or can't handle your context window size. Still improving this.

The SDK never sees your prompts or responses — just model name, token counts, and a customer ID. Limitations: simulator recommends from six vendors only, no custom/fine-tuned models, USD only.

Stack is Rails and Postgres. Happy to answer anything.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 09:00:16+00:00
As far as I can tell, the dock appears on either the left/rightmost display (when docked to the side) or on the main display.

What is the "main display"? You can find out by going to settings > displays, where you find a "use as" dropdown that can be set to "mirror", "main display", or "extended display". If you want to move the dock, change the main display. This also affects a few other, smaller things.

I personally put the dock to the side so it doesn't take up precious space (windows don't seem to want to cover the dock if it's at the bottom, even with the setting for that disabled).
by roysting | 2026-02-13 09:00:17+00:00
Am I missing something? I thought it was not the ad itself, but rather the combination with the reporting on that Guthrie abduction, which claimed that although there was no subscription to the recording service, the video data was still recovered, i.e., recorded and sent to Google servers.

Regardless of how you see it, although the ad was a kind of manipulative reframing of surveillance infrastructure by using pets as means of psychological manipulation, the Super Bowl ad seems to have just been an unfortunate (or fortunately) timed ad that caused people to glimpse through the cracks in the control matrix being constructed around them.

I don’t think it will really make a difference though. It’s like wildebeest watching their compatriot snatched underwater by a crocodile, to only momentarily pause before venturing right into the same river.
by coldtea | 2026-02-13 09:00:39+00:00
>Of course, I know that there is nothing innate in the miraculous "Japanese Way" because expats living here quickly adapt to the same behaviors.

That just proves it's not genetic/innate (which nobody seriously doubted). But it is a unique developed trait of a culture. The expacts merely "adapted" to it. The Japanese culture on the other hand, developed it (and thus gave this specific thing to adapt to).
by johnfn | 2026-02-13 09:00:41+00:00
Consider that an iPhone zero-day could be used to blackmail state officials or exfiltrate government secrets. This isn't even hypothetical; Pegasus[1] exists, and an iPhone zero-day was used to blackmail Jeff Bezos[2]. This was funded by NSO group. This is a real thing that happened. Now, imagine if those guys had about 1000x more resources because they were all using Claude Code to search for iPhone zero days 24/7. I think we can both agree that wouldn't be good.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
[2]: https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146...
by int_19h | 2026-02-13 09:01:17+00:00
> Some person (not the OP) legitimately thought giving an AI autonomy to open a PR and publish multiple blog posts was somehow a good idea.

It's not necessarily even that. I can totally see an agent with a sufficiently open-ended prompt that gives it a "high importance" task and then tells it to do whatever it needs to do to achieve the goal doing something like this all by itself.

I mean, all it really needs is web access, ideally with something like Playwright so it can fully simulate a browser. With that, it can register itself an email with any of the smaller providers that don't require a phone number or similar (yes, these still do exist). And then having an email, it can register on GitHub etc. None of this is challenging, even smaller models can plan this far ahead and can carry out all of these steps.
by johnwalkr | 2026-02-13 09:01:35+00:00
>Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on.

And despite things being smaller, there's also white space everywhere so there is less information on your screen.

The trend in UIs is making filenames into discrete icons instead of lists. In outlook this morning all I got 3 attachments and it's 3 icons that all are something almost identical like "<word icon>2026-02-13_A....docx" and I have to hover over them to figure out each filename. I don't get it.

I'm a Solidworks user. It's a 3D CAD program. From about 2012 to 2018, it was unusable with a display higher than 1080p because it did its own bad scaling of UI. Text elements would overlap and be cut off. Since then it works in general but to make 2D drawings I still change to 1080p. Making drawings involves a lot of clicking on lines and vertexes to add dimensions, but the hitboxes are 1 dimension thick, or even 1 single pixel. It's maddening at 4K. There are selection filters that help, but since it's sluggish in general in 4K I just admit defeat and use 1080p.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-13 09:01:51+00:00
They he should do without.

Live like the Amish in 2026 (though I assume they have phones now).

It's not setting an example. We have a word for it and it's called being a mooch.

The attitude is consistent with that famous video where RMS explains that he's "never installed GNU/Linux" because he could just ask someone else to do it for him, and suggest others should do the same.

For that matter, why own a car if we can borrow someone else's? Especially with license plate readers and traffic cameras everywhere, who wants to be tracked? Let your friend be tracked instead. That is the level of logic here.
by s3tt3mbr1n1 | 2026-02-13 09:02:56+00:00
Original title (too long for submission): “A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand“

Abstract:
The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural complexity impede self-replication and preclude their spontaneous emergence. Here we describe QT45: a 45-nucleotide polymerase ribozyme, discovered from random sequence pools, that catalyzes general RNA-templated RNA synthesis using trinucleotide triphosphate (triplet) substrates in mildly alkaline eutectic ice. QT45 can synthesize both its complementary strand using a random triplet pool at 94.1% per-nucleotide fidelity, and a copy of itself using defined substrates, both with yields of ~0.2% in 72 days. The discovery of polymerase activity in a small RNA motif suggests that polymerase ribozymes are more abundant in RNA sequence space than previously thought.
by Markoff | 2026-02-13 09:03:36+00:00
And imagine people bring their own drinks to restaurants in China (for big family lunch it can be even big plastic bags full of many bottles) and nobody even understand the concept of the tipping - why would you tip someone for doing their work and paying for the meal? One of the things I loved about China. They even come running after you if you forget your change.

What I liked much less is smoking in the restaurants which happens in Beijing even in 2026 despite posters on the wall saying No smoking in Chinese and English and everyone is affraid to tell something to smoker. You would think after years of campaigning it will improve, but I don't see much improvement after visiting after many years.
by nice_byte | 2026-02-13 09:03:55+00:00
the "porn" angle is very funny to me, since there is nothing pornographic or inapropriate about the image. when I was young, I used to think it was some researcher's wife whom he loved so much he decide to use her picture absolutely everywhere.

it's sufficient to say that the person depicted has withdrawn their consent for that image to be used, and that should put an end to the conversation.
by merpkz | 2026-02-13 09:04:02+00:00
I just bit the bullet last week and figured we are going to migrate our self hosted minio servers to ceph instead. So far 3 server ceph cluster has been setup with cephadm and last minio server is currently mirroring its ~120TB buckets to new cluster with a whopping 420MB/s - should finish any day now. The complexity of ceph and it's cluster nature of course if a bit scary at first compared to minio - a single Go binary with minimal configuration, but after learning the basics it should be smooth sailing. What's neat is that ceph allows expanding clusters, just throw more storage servers at it, in theory at least, not sure where the ceiling is for that yet. Shame minio went that way, it had a really neat console before they cut it out. I also contemplated le garage, but it seem elasticsearch is not happy with that S3 solution for snapshots, so ceph it is.
by tamimio | 2026-02-13 09:04:50+00:00
I don’t tip either, simply because the work done wasn’t worth tipping. The only time I tipped was in a 7 stars restaurant, and the waitresses were up to their names, literally standing and waiting by our table changing utensils and plates and filling the drinks. North America tipping “culture” is out of control, I remember picking up some street food and the guy asked for a tip.. Most restaurants nowadays buy the food from costco, machines do most of the cooking, and the waitress job can be literally replaced by a robot, it’s just a scam and it should be illegal actually.
by dijit | 2026-02-13 09:04:55+00:00
Would be cool to understand the tradeoffs of the various block storage implementations.

I'm using seaweedfs for a single-machine S3 compatible storage, and it works great. Though I'm missing out on a lot of administrative nice-to-haves (like, easy access controls and a good understanding of capacity vs usage, error rates and so on... this could be a pebcak issue though).

Ceph I have also used and seems to care a lot more about being distributed. If you have less than 4 hosts for storage it feels like it scoffs at you when setting up. I was also unable to get it to perform amazingly, though to be fair I was doing it via K8S/Rook atop the Flannel CNI, which is an easy to use CNI for toy deployments, not performance critical systems - so that could be my bad. I would trust a ceph deployment with data integrity though, it just gives me that feel of "whomever worked on this, really understood distributed systems".. but, I can't put that feeling into any concrete data.
by re-thc | 2026-02-13 09:05:04+00:00
> but you now need to re-invent all of the AWS APIs you use or might use and it's big CAPEX time investment

Or maybe you just never needed most of these in the first place. People got into this "AWS" mentality like it is the only way to do things. Everything had to be in a queue, event driven etc.

I'd argue not using AWS means simplifying things and it'll be less expensive not just in server cost but developer time.