MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by user1138 | 2026-02-22 23:14:48+00:00
Here's your citation — ARIA's Safeguarded AI program, £59M in UK government funding, explicitly claiming mathematical safety guarantees through restricted verifiable models — total languages by another name. The claim exists. It has a budget. Now, do you have a substantive response to the proof, or are we done here?"
@techreport{ARIA2024,
author = {{Advanced Research and Invention Agency}},
title = {Safeguarded AI: Constructing Guaranteed Safety},
institution = {ARIA},
year = {2024},
url = {https://www.aria.org.uk/programs/safeguarded-ai/},
abstract = {Outlines a 'Safeguarded AI' program that seeks to build AI systems with 'mathematical guarantees.' It argues that by using restricted, verifiable models—effectively total languages—one can avoid the 'impossible' task of verifying general AI and instead produce 'quantitative safety guarantees.'}
}
by saurik | 2026-02-22 23:14:51+00:00
While it might be useful to state it again occasionally, I think people would generally find it strange to have a career writing books--wherein you might only publish ten books in your entire life--without having not just read but carefully studied hundreds of books written by other people. And yet, I feel like most of the software developers I know might technically read code in the sense that they have to to edit it, or to review edits by coworkers, but they have potentially never sat down and simply read through and fully internalized the entirety of even a single codebase that they weren't somehow involved with developing... and they think that is "normal".
by fanatic2pope | 2026-02-22 23:15:02+00:00
Cool project.

I solved a problem (not really the same problem as this, mind you) for my family
using a much older technology. I bought a big pane of glass from the hardware store,
built a wooden frame for it with a shelf for an eraser and dry markers.

I hung it up in the kitchen and now when we need to leave "sticky" notes to each
other we just write on it. We keep our shopping list on it, we write small poems
and draw funny faces. It has become a fun ephemeral space for communicating.

Tons of fun and super cheap to build.
by frehu | 2026-02-22 23:16:29+00:00
Seems cursor is based on an older vscode 1.105, my config listed 1.106 as minimum. But as there's no real reason for the minimum requirement, I lowered it.

You'll need to wait for 1.1.2 to show up in the marketplace, it usually takes a few minutes to update. I'm going to sleep now and I'll check on it tomorrow.
by lm28469 | 2026-02-22 23:17:06+00:00
Go to a supermarket, witness that dozens of brands sell the same things at wildly different prices, they still all make a profit, same for most services, you have comparator for subscriptions, mortgage rates, &c.

And a human can 100% search 10 apps and use his brain to do basic maths, that's what we've been doing until now. Sometimes I wonder if ai shills live in a parallel universe because it truly feels like they're living a completely different life than the vast majority of people...
by Anamon | 2026-02-22 23:17:09+00:00
> Not just squash merges, rebase-merges also don't work.

Are you sure? I almost exclusively rebase-merge, and I use ‘git branch --merged‘ all the time. It works perfectly fine for me.

Also conceptually it seems to make sense to me: you rebase your commits onto the tip of the target branch, so you can trivially follow the link from the tip of your source branch to the tip of your target branch, which as I understand it is what the command checks for.
by Svanski | 2026-02-22 23:17:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been annoyed for years by those tiny interruptions: need a quick conversion, calc, fact-check, alarm, or translation -> fish out phone -> unlock -> app -> 10-15 seconds of flow broken. Happens 20-50 times a day for me.

So I built Hollow, a small wrist device that’s basically a fast voice AI, like a mini J.A.R.V.I.S. Tap the screen, speak query, get spoken answer in <2 seconds average. Screen only shows time and responses, no notifications.

Current prototype (Hollow 0W):

• Around 1.5-2.5s end-to-end latency in good conditions

• Cloud-based processing

• Battery lasts 2-3 days with moderate use

• Privacy-focused: Use Groq to run open-source AI models for most queries.

• Can do basic Q&A, send emails, set alarms, and start a stopwatch. Adding more on a weekly basis.

It’s still rough, hardware is off-the-shelf dev boards, voice can glitch in noisy places, etc. But the core “ask wrist -> instant answer” loop feels surprisingly useful in real life.

If you’re the kind of person who hates breaking stride to grab your phone for trivia, or you’re into AI / wearables / low-distraction tech, I’d genuinely love brutal feedback:

• Does this solve an annoyance you actually have, or is wrist-voice too gimmicky?

• What queries would you actually use it for day-to-day?

• Hardware/form-factor thoughts? (Current one is a mediocre thick watch)

Waitlist for early prototypes is open, with a discount for the first batch if you’re interested in trying one: https://gethollow.com

(Founder here, solo-building this. Happy to dive into tech stack, why I chose certain trade-offs, battery math, privacy details, etc. in comments.)
by signatoremo | 2026-02-22 23:17:53+00:00
That's because you just lack of imagination. Imagine if you have a human personal assistant, what would you ask them to do? Examples:

"Find me the cheapest ticket to Las Vegas for the first week of June. Buy one at anytime that you think is reasonable. Wait until no later than two months from now before buying. Get two tickets if my brother can also go".

"Email me if anyone posts a Sega multi mega for sale. But only if it's in black color".

I have no idea if OpenClaws can already do such a task or not, I don't have one, but it opens up new possibilities. If it isn't there yet, it will be.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-22 23:18:56+00:00
There were a _lot_ of programs in this space, one of the more interesting was AlphaTap! by Network Improv:

http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html

c.f., the research project:

https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/

For my part, I just write text out using a Wacom stylus on my Note 10+
by filldorns | 2026-02-22 23:19:06+00:00
No one chose to be born in a certain context.
But everyone participates in the context that they continue to feed or transform.

Do you recognize that you live in a system that produces racial inequality today?

If the answer is yes, then there is some level of participation, albeit minimal.
Because living in a structure is already being inside it.

If you are white, your ancestors did this. They created separation and made simple words dehumanize people. So yes, you and everyone else has a chance to make amends. The choice is yours.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-22 23:19:36+00:00
Not sure which is better though; as a former internet vendor, we blocked cc payments from the US for this very reason. Rather have less clients than being that easily scammed. Here it is too hard, there it is too easy. But hard does mean you have to think about it at least and not 'oh I made an impulse buy, remorse, let's chargeback'.
by saulpw | 2026-02-22 23:20:09+00:00
This comic ("Is it worth the time?") is categorically incorrect, because it assumes a static system. Instead, when you make something take less time, you can do it more often. Sometimes, much more often. See: Jevon's Paradox. You would never have known that CI/CD was a useful strategy since you didn't optimize your build because you only did a full build when you released.
by ragall | 2026-02-22 23:20:34+00:00
> Do you recognize that you live in a system that produces racial inequality today?

No. I don't think in terms of "race" or "racial inequality".

> your ancestors did this

My ancestors were peasants (serfs) in Europe. They didn't do "this", and I bear no guilt, not personal, not historical.

> So yes, you and everyone else has a chance to make amends. The choice is yours.

Speak for yourself. You sound very foolish.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-22 23:20:44+00:00
Tricky bit with ancient codebases is that their only requirements, generally speaking, tend to be that they should keep working exactly like they have been since 1983, except for the bit that needs changing of course, that needs to change in a way that implements the change, but doesn't have any unintended side-effects in a system that is a fractal of undocumented interdependencies (systems that have been patched for a few decades under those types of constraints tend to become especially gnarly that way).
by F7F7F7 | 2026-02-22 23:21:53+00:00
The Blackberry Bold 9000 is the greatest handheld cellular device of all time. It's perfect. The Bold 2 was the last Blackberry device I owned and used as a actual phone before they started leaning into the black bar monolith. At that point the 'your holding it wrong' iPhone 4 was just better in that area.

The perfect form factor however is the Blackberry Passport which I now own as a little Cyberdeck device (managed to get a version running Android). The combination of touchscreen, keyboard swipe mouse cursor and physical keyboard is what every phone should be.
by ilaksh | 2026-02-22 23:22:20+00:00
This is really hopeful and I agree with a lot of the prediction. The problem is that the number of humans needed to produce video games and movies etc. will be 10 or 100 times less.

And since human attention can only spread out over so many different entertainment items, there will not be nearly enough opportunities for all of the humans. Even if many convert to AI and robotics enhanced entrepreneurship.

I actually think that this can work out if we just assume humans have some value and right to live, identify the actual humans, track resources a bit better, and make sure enough robots are employed to maintaining key resources for humans like food

But that only can happen if decision makers actually agree that all humans have value and are willing to figure out how to make that assumption globally and fairly.
by alright2565 | 2026-02-22 23:22:56+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_n...

You are welcome to join the conversation and try and convince everyone maintaining Wikipedia that random peoples' tweets should be considered a reliable source. Both those other people you mention have been mentioned multiple times in various reliable articles (see the bibliography), while the only thing I can find online about Ray Peat is something that looks a whole lot like blogspam on usnews.com.
by chrysoprace | 2026-02-22 23:22:57+00:00
We tried adoption of Claude Code at my last job as our PM was quite excited about its potential and I saw some horrors that were raised during code review (where I thankfully read the code):

- Using private undocumented APIs subject to breaking changes;

- Removing a call to produce a message to an external topic, with no internal references besides tests, declaring it as "redundant" (it was very much not redundant);

- Repeated duplication of formatting, calculation, and permission logic, causing inconsistencies and bugs.

They met whatever goal the agent created for itself, but they would've broken several features in ways that would've been difficult to test for, either today or in the future.
by neodymiumphish | 2026-02-22 23:22:59+00:00
My wife constantly asks me about adding books to her Kindle. I use Anna’s archive for this, but the process can be very annoying. I have to go to the site, search for the content. Filter by epub and English. Then download the content. Then send it to her Kindle email.

My openclaw now searches for the relevant content upon her request, sends the URL to a Stacks docker instance, monitors the Stacks instance for when the download completes, grabs the resulting epub from a local file share, then sends it to her kindle email. She doesn’t even send me the request anymore; she sends them straight to the Discord bot.

It also corrects our calendar every night. She often just through something on the calendar like “[son’s name] speech”, but we have speech appointments in either of two locations, and I have a strong preference for calendar items in the format “[person] - activity”. If she puts the city name with the speech appointments (“[son’s name] speech [town]”), openclaw reformats the title accordingly and adds the physical address of the speech therapy office we go to in that town. This means Apple Calendar sends us notifications when it’s time to leave, instead of just 30 mins prior.

I have a few others as well, but those are real world examples. Maybe they don’t matter for your use case, but they’re good for mine.
by ragall | 2026-02-22 23:23:04+00:00
> That would be like refusing to allow someone to ...

You should stop thinking by analogies. You're doing a disservice to yourself and your thinking capacity.

> The owner of this repo is free to do whatever they want but I’m free to point out that it’s a dumb practice.

I find it very useful, just like most of its users, and if ever I were to find it necessary to use a website that's obviously blocked, I know how to unblock it. Most of the time I don't bother, so that's something for you to think.
by blackcatsec | 2026-02-22 23:23:07+00:00
One of the unspoken parts of the open source social media movement is to put the 'social' back in the 'social media'. There has been a fine line between true user-driven content and centrally-controlled (and often authoritarian-lite) algorithms; with major players (advertisers, oligarchs, governments) putting their thumb on the latter half to ensure that everyone stays isolated, divided, and pacified.

Everything you called out is a symptom of that control: engagement baiting, algorithmic manipulation, censorship and suppression. Absent these items, social media can be an incredible force for good and a hopeful longer term future of more peace.
by lijok | 2026-02-22 23:23:22+00:00
> I guess I didn't quite say my point clearly, the time and physical cost to get to a grocery store puts up barriers against perfect price matching. You likely are not going to go out of your way to visit a grocery store for just a single item.

I think you’re a bit out of touch with the common man. People do this constantly, some to a comical degree, going so far as to make two loops on their shopping trip to return groceries they found cheaper at the next store.
by donatj | 2026-02-22 23:24:05+00:00
For me, as a two thumb typer, I feel like if you had kept the letters generally on the same side (left/right) as Qwerty, even if nowhere near the same location, I could adapt to it much more quickly.

I go to spell something as simple as my name on this and none of the keys are anywhere near where 40 years of muscle memory expect.

Frankly, I just want to hit the letters with the same thumb.

I understand not wanting to copy, to be a purely original creation, but you could certainly help adoption by making it a little less painful.
by greatgib | 2026-02-22 23:24:20+00:00
When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display.

It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a not of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field.

I think that a few years a go, a lot of possible innovation were blocked by a few aggressive patents. I don't know if it is still the case.
by hodgesrm | 2026-02-22 23:24:29+00:00
The Grokipedia article on Malleus Maleficarum is almost unreadable. It’s long on wordy, thinly sourced disquisitions on marginally relevant topics. The section on historical and theological context is a case in point. It seems to be largely summarizing easily available primary texts like the Bible, not evaluating arguments based on scholarly works. Personally I can’t judge how much of that section even makes sense, despite having a reasonably good background in late medieval history. The Wikipedia article is much more sound.

P.s. humans do this too. Max Weber was pretty thin on the ground when it came to sources as I recall.
by aestetix | 2026-02-22 23:25:47+00:00
Yes, it feels like another round of the same old tired "force everyone to use legal names online to save the children" that has been pushed continuously since the Internet driver's license of the 90s.

It will not save any children. It will destroy privacy, destroy free speech, and give lots of money to whatever corporation wins the bid for supplying the tech.

And of course, when that corporation gets hacked and all the personally identifiable information is put on the dark web, nobody will be held accountable.
by YaraDori | 2026-02-22 23:25:54+00:00
This is wild — using iPhone Mirroring as the “device API” is a clever hack.

Two reliability questions:
1) How do you handle UI drift / A-B layouts / dynamic text (e.g., different font sizes, localization)? Do you anchor on vision+OCR only, or do you also incorporate accessibility tree / UIAutomation hints where possible?
2) Do you have a concept of checkpoints + recovery (e.g., if a tap misfires, can the agent detect it’s in the wrong screen and roll back / retry)?

I’m working on SkillForge (https://skillforge.expert) — we’re doing something adjacent for web UIs: record a workflow once, then replay it later as a reusable skill with checkpoints + retries. Curious if you’ve considered exporting a “skill file” for iPhone flows (step evidence + approved boundaries), so people can share/reuse automations safely.
by xenophon | 2026-02-22 23:26:01+00:00
The point is that if this article is correct about the assumption that AI is capable enough to reduce the friction of consumers rationally comparing options for a far wider basket of goods, then competition will reduce prices. No company wants to reduce prices if they don't have to -- their hand is forced by declining market share (or, with discounters, price reductions are a deliberate strategy to increase market share and absolute profit).

The bull case for AI and consumer welfare is 1) turning more markets into "perfect competition" like airline tickets, and 2) driving actual prices lower because the marginal cost of production is lower with less labor. Even if real inputs don't change, removing labor will reduce marginal cost (which implies that you'll see the largest price declines in labor-intensive industries).
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-22 23:26:19+00:00
> I think the only one that exists

Wechat moments show you the things that your contacts post. There are theoretically ads too, but ever since they forcibly converted me to a US-based account I don't get ads because no one is interested in advertising to me.

It's too bad; I liked seeing the Chinese ads.

Comments on wechat follow the Maplestory system where you can see comments (on anyone's posts) from your own contacts, but not from other people.
by hinkley | 2026-02-22 23:26:35+00:00
I don't like that 'yak shaving' has degenerated into a synonym for boondoggle.

Some explanations of yak shaving split it into a complex form of procrastination and also necessary annoyances - friction - obstacles.

Sharpen your Tools often falls into the latter category, and it's always useful to question whether those 'necessary annoyances' are actually necessary.

It is, like you say, not always necessary to tackle those annoyances right now. But it is a situation where both the Campsite Rule and the Rule of Three have some domain. As a person whose entire job is about writing code to replace tedious and error-prone human tasks, you need to interrogate yourself any time you start thinking, "This is my life now." Because if anyone has the power to say 'no', it's us.

It's always worth spending 12-15 minutes most times you do a task that you have to do over and over again in service of trying to reduce the task from ten minutes to five or to zero. The reward for engaging in the task more fully rather than putting it off until it has to be done is that you're working toward a day when maybe you don't have to do it at all (you've automated it entirely or you've made it straightforward enough to delegate).

Hal's example is so funny because he's using both arms to scoop in everything from Column A and Column B at the same time. Everybody gets a laugh. A couple of those tasks actually had to be done. A couple could have gone on the shopping list.
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-22 23:26:48+00:00
I do not know how to phrase this politely. I like the platform and the concept is interesting. But the people on it are just so far away from what me (and men my age) deem interesting and seem to be hostile to anything that doesnt fit their very restrictive ideals.

You'll never find sports, guns, cars, comedy and a lot of other mainstream content on these platforms even though there is nothing inherently offensive about it. I havent used Loops but im assuming its the same crowd as on Mastodon.
by lysace | 2026-02-22 23:27:06+00:00
Altman is not a speciesist, I guess.

Context:

Elon Musk is perhaps the world’s most famous doom-monger and has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the possibility of super-smart machines wiping out humanity.

But Google founder Larry Page allegedly dismissed these fears as ‘speciesist’ during an argument at a Napa Valley party in 2015.

A top professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has claimed the two tech moguls clashed in a ‘long and spirited debate’ in the early hours of the morning.

In his book Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark wrote: ‘[Page’s] main concerns were that AI paranoia would delay the digital utopia and/or cause a military takeover of AI that would fall foul of Google’s “don’t be evil” slogan.

‘Elon kept pushing back and asked Larry to clarify details of his arguments, such as why he was so confident that digital life wouldn’t destroy everything we care about.

‘At times, Larry accused Elon of being “speciesist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.’

(https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/02/elon-musks-fears-artificial-i...)
by lm28469 | 2026-02-22 23:27:55+00:00
None of the productivity increase of the last 50 years have benefited the workers, there is absolutely no reason for that to change

Is everyone on this website 20 years old? They pulled the same shit with automation, with computers, with internet, with cryptos, and now with ai,... And people keep falling for the same bs over and over again. "the three day workweek", "we'll retire at 45", &c.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
by ilaksh | 2026-02-22 23:28:40+00:00
Great article. If you narrow the audience to be a more discerning group then you could go further with some predictions incorporating robotics that will also displace blue-collar workers.

Integration of intelligence into humanoid robots is rapidly improving. Some indicators: multiple recent demos of learning from human demonstrations or from video, doing household tasks like putting dishes in the dishwasher and folding clothes, dramatic adaptive acrobatic performances, etc.

We have to anticipate that within the next couple of years, general purpose intelligence becomes standard in humanoid robots. And so a similar story about blue collar work could be written.
by sp33der89 | 2026-02-22 23:30:09+00:00
I hope org-mode gets more popular outside of Emacs. I know all the words already about how org-mode is great because of Emacs, but the way you can do plaintext outlining, with great support for TODO's, in org-mode is fantastic. It retains a lot of readability, and that isn't Emacs specific: there are things that make org-mode great as-is!

A small todo application for mobile that uses org-mode as the database doesn't need to parse fancy org-babel stuff, except maybe that org-mode itself can be hard to parse.

Personally I'm hopeful that org-mode gets some more love outside of Emacs, so here's a list of interesting org-mode projects that aren't pandoc or Emacs related:

- https://github.com/RWejlgaard/org
- https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/
- https://github.com/haxscramper/haxorg
- github.com/cnglen/windancer
- https://braintool.org/