MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by safetyconcerns2 | 2026-02-21 05:09:31+00:00
Does this have identity, auth, authz, or logging?

Can this be trivially DOS'd with one or more prompts?

Would a robot pausing while DOS'd - on stairs, for example - endanger?

Hopefully this isn't for anything that's fast, heavy, handling chemicals, or moving over heads?

Even foundation model LLM RLHF should not be considered sufficient for robot instruction without a human in the loop deciding.

For which non-simulator applications is this safe enough for?
by andwur | 2026-02-21 05:10:43+00:00
Ownership of paintball guns is regulated under the state-level firearms act in most (all?) states and territories.

You can use them under the direct supervision of the licensed owner, but it's still quite restrictive. If you were to take one and shoot at cameras on the street it would vandalism plus firearms offences, most of which start at inversion of innocence, massive fines and move pretty quickly into prison time.
by troupo | 2026-02-21 05:12:02+00:00
> Is it that Lit gives you a different way of authoring web components than the raw APIs?

than the raw APIs, than Polymer, than Stencil, than...

> Is it that from the outside the components aren't "Lit", but consumed as standard web components? Again, yes, that's entirely the point.

No. That is literally not the point. Which is extremely obvious from what I wrote in my original comment: "lit is both newer than React, and started as a fully backwards incompatible alternative to Polymer"

Again, at this point I literally couldn't care less for your obstinate willful avoidance of authoring, and of your pretending that only the output matters. (And other lies like "lit is native/just html" etc.)
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-21 05:12:42+00:00
> But related to this article, is China winning in terms of accumulating talent?

You can ask Google for metrics:

- China produces about over 1.3 to 1.6 million new engineering graduates per year.

- The USA produces about 130,000–200,000, or about 1/10 of China, but has a population of about 1/4.

- Europe is hard to measure, but USA plus Europe combined is almost certainly less than China by a significant margin.
by RiverCrochet | 2026-02-21 05:12:57+00:00
From article:

"While cheap, modern adapters usually only work with newer "LBA" type drives, ATAboy works all the way back to the earliest CHS only, PIO Mode 0, ATA disks."

So I guess this would work on some particularly ancient drives that a USB adapter wouldn't work with - not that I've ever encountered one. It is vibecoded, but sounds like it would work fine to get an image off of the drive, which won't be very large compared to even modest contemporary storage capacities.
by holden_nelson | 2026-02-21 05:15:22+00:00
I’m not particularly political and am also not a historian but I don’t think it’s necessarily correct to equate the literal text of the manifesto with the principles and practices of fascism.

The message of universal suffrage vs. that of preventing an out group from “stealing” an election are not far apart semantically. Same with workers rights - in practice the worker protection laws that were passed in Italy at this time were so full of loopholes and qualifications that ultimately the workers do not gain power in that system.

It is this fair, in my view, to question the spirit of the manifesto in the first place.
by troupo | 2026-02-21 05:15:31+00:00
> Do you have any concrete examples there? What "mechanics" are you referring to

Try the 2022 Web Components Group Report. Including things like "most these issues come from Shadow DOM".

> Given that very complex apps like Photoshop, Reddit, The Internet Archive, YouTube, The Microsoft App Store, Home Assistant, etc., are built with web components, that would make the claim that they're unusable seem silly.

Trillion dollar corporations also build sites in Angular, or React, or Blazor, or...
by iamnothere | 2026-02-21 05:16:00+00:00
Because what you’re asking for is untenable in a world of billions of people scattered across countless nations, at least without cutting off the internet outside your borders entirely like North Korea. And trying to force the issue domestically just results in oppression and restriction of human rights. The global digital world is a formless, borderless space; this “freedom VPN” thing, Tor, I2P, v2ray, satellite internet, etc, you will simply never be able to fill all the gaps. Those who want to will get around it.

Even China, who has probably the most sophisticated information controls in the world, can’t prevent leaks through the Great Firewall. They just rely on it being “good enough” to restrain the general public.

Put another way, your country can make all the laws it wants, but it can’t change the laws of another country or force them to change how their network behaves, at least not without a fight. And in a world of billions of people, the global network will always be doing something that you don’t approve of, somewhere!
Ask HN: How would you distribute a privacy-first AI chat for teams?
by shreyaspapi | 2026-02-21 05:16:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m looking for advice on distribution and positioning for a privacy-first AI chat system we’ve been building.

We have two open-source pieces:

- Conduit — a native mobile client for Open WebUI (GPL). It started as a personal project, but now has teams using it and asking for things like SSO, reverse-proxy auth, and security reviews.
- Onera — a privacy-first AI chat backend + client where conversations are end-to-end encrypted, with models running inside TEE enclaves. The operator (including us) can’t see conversation content. The client is fully open source and auditable.

The users we’re seeing are:
- companies already using Open WebUI who want a mobile client
- teams that want a hosted or self-hosted AI chat but don’t want the operator to access message data
- privacy or security-sensitive orgs (internal tools, regulated environments, etc.)

What we’re struggling with isn’t building, it’s distribution:
- How do teams usually discover tools like this?
- Is it better to lead with "Open WebUI ecosystem" or "private AI chat"?
- For companies evaluating something like this, what actually matters early on (audits, reference deployments, integrations, etc.)?

If you were building or buying something like this, how would you approach getting it in front of the right users?

Conduit: https://github.com/cogwheel0/conduit
Onera: https://github.com/onera-app/onera
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-21 05:16:27+00:00
>Who gives out scholarships now?

Many different of groups of unrelated people and organizations.

>he standard model of a four-year college degree only has you taking classes from your major during the final two years.

This has always been the case in traditional universities in the US.

As many have stated here the goal of education is not just to teach you how to do things but also teach you how to learn.

I do see value in vocational schools that only teach exactly what you enroll in to save money.
by hoss1474489 | 2026-02-21 05:16:50+00:00
It’s a slow burn, but if you keep using it, it seems to eventually catch fire as the agent builds up scripts and skills and together you build up systems of getting stuff done. In some ways it feels like building rapport with a junior. And like a junior, eventually, if you keep investing, the agent starts doing things that blow by your expectations.

By giving the agent its own isolated computer, I don’t have to care about how the project gets started and stored, I just say “I want ____” and ____ shows up. It’s not that it can do stuff that I can’t. It’s that it can do stuff that I would like but just couldn’t be bothered with.
by godelski | 2026-02-21 05:17:05+00:00
> Dijkstra also said no one should be debugging

Given how you're implying things, you're grossly misrepresenting what he said. You've either been misled or misread. He was advocating for the adoption and development of provably correct programming.

Interestingly I think his "gospel" is only more meaningful today.

| Apparently, many programmers derive the major part of their intellectual satisfaction and professional excitement from not quite understanding what they are doing. In this streamlined age, one of our most under-nourished psychological needs is the craving for Black Magic, and apparently the automatic computer can satisfy this need for the professional software engineers, who are secretly enthralled by the gigantic risks they take in their daring irresponsibility. They revel in the puzzles posed by the task of debugging. They defend —by appealing to all sorts of supposed Laws of Nature— the right of existence of their program bugs, because they are so attached to them: without the bugs, they feel, programming would no longer be what is used to be! (In the latter feeling I think —if I may say so— that they are quite correct.)

| A program can be regarded as an (abstract) mechanism embodying as such the design of all computations that can possibly be evoked by it. How do we convince ourselves that this design is correct, i.e. that all these computations will display the desired properties? A naive answer to this question is "Well, try them all.", but this answer is too naive, because even for a simple program on the fastest machine such an experiment is apt to take millions of years. So, exhaustive testing is absolutely out of the question.

| But as long as we regard the mechanism as a black box, testing is the only thing we can do. The unescapable conclusion is that we cannot afford to regard the mechanism as a black box

I think it's worth reading in full

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD288...
by zug_zug | 2026-02-21 05:17:17+00:00
Well the reason I said it sounds like you were trying to "hack" feelings was that you mentioned you came up with your own social "algorithm" for testing people you meet that could make them uncomfortable. It's been my observation that most attempts to optimize conversation backfire.

But I'm not really trying to convince you, I don't have a horse in this race. If you want maybe ask an AI and see what it thinks, they are great neutral tool for being a judge on human tone or being a social mirror.
by SatvikBeri | 2026-02-21 05:19:17+00:00
It's a lot of little things + polish more than any big change.

Amp has a first-class concept of threads, a tree of sessions. This is really nice for long work on related features, it tracks which threads are spawned from others. When you type /handoff, it asks you for a goal for the new thread, then summarizes your existing context with respect to that goal, and opens a new thread with just that context.

This makes it really easy and pleasant to spin up new sessions to do relatively focused tasks, which keeps your context usage low and the model smarter. It also enables some really nice use cases like opening up an old thread where you built a feature two weeks ago, then spinning up a new one to do a modification.

You can do all of this with Claude Code but it's just clunkier and in my experience hasn't worked nearly as well, e.g. I find the compactions tend to be full of a lot of useless stuff, or miss something important compared to the handoffs.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-21 05:20:10+00:00
Jocks becoming nerds or vice versa or both becoming hipsters, are examples of intraclass mobility.

There's also cultural mobility which is different from economic mobility.

All are exemplified by reddit's Ohanian marrying one of the Williams sisters and thus having a either higher or lower social status, than either Ghislaine or Larry Summers, quite independently of how much cash they each have in the bank

I wonder if popalchemist would count the cultural station as something worth improving apart of the economic one
by sergiomattei | 2026-02-21 05:21:09+00:00
My small agent harness[0] does this as well.

The tasks tool is designed to validate a DAG as input, whose non-blocked tasks become cheap parallel subagent spawns using Erlang/OTP.

It works quite well. The only problem I’ve faced is getting it to break down tasks using the tool consistently. I guess it might be a matter of experimenting further with the system prompt.

[1]: https://github.com/matteing/opal
by davorak | 2026-02-21 05:21:14+00:00
I have to assume that some of that 4% has second order negative effects on US importers and consumers.

Profit margins can not always go down by 4% and in those cases goods and services would then not be available to US importers and consumers is only one example.

My assumption is that the 96% statistic does not fully encapsulate the negative costs to consumers. I have to to wonder how much higher the burden is over 96% when all second order effects are taken into account.
by thurn | 2026-02-21 05:22:23+00:00
There's a real hobbyist vs professional distinction with Claude Code. For professionals, including when I use it at work, we're generally super happy to have Claude spawn as many subagents as possible and burn more tokens to get a better result. Hobbyist users on a $20/month plan, though, generally want more conservative behavior.

It's hard for Anthropic to cater to both sets of users with one model.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-21 05:23:08+00:00
It has been reported that Ticketmaster has exclusive agreements with 70-80% of US venues. It's great that you have all the choices you do. For me, in western Ohio, every major venue for hundreds of miles in every direction is an exclusive Ticketmaster venue. You can't gain admittance to any show in those venues without a phone that can run their proprietary app.

Ticketmaster is bullshit, for sure, but they're just one example of the problem of being forced to use proprietary user-hostile software.
by rramadass | 2026-02-21 05:23:35+00:00
Good introductory overview post.

However, most of it was already known and i was looking for something more specific/detailed given the OP article.

In the past i had worked on a custom SoC (on the software side) and had often interacted with the hardware designers to understand more of their domain. The first surprise was that most Verilog/RTL guys didn't know anything about software (not even assembly/C!) while of course embedded software guys (like myself) didn't know anything about HDLs. There was (and is) a very hard disconnect which is quite interesting. In the spirit of the OP article, the book i linked to actually shows a path via Vivado HLS for software folks to move into hardware design using their C/C++ programming skills. But i would like to see some hardware designer here validate that approach in the real-world. Especially now that you have powerful AI tools available to help you do stuff faster and easier.

With the rise of demanding AI/ML/Crypto applications, there is now a greater interest in designing new types of custom hardware requiring Hardware/Software Modeling(verification/benchmarking)/Co-Design/Co-Verification etc. They involve designing complete SoCs containing CPU/GPU/FPGAs based on specific designs. Given that hardware design is a universe of its own, not knowing the overall picture i.e. architecture/tools/methodologies/etc. makes it quite daunting for software folks to approach it.

PS: Maybe you can augment/create-new blog post with an actual case study based on your experiences on steps involved going from ideation to tapeout.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-21 05:23:37+00:00
Motivation for standing for something comes from internal principles.

Enemy centered mindset is precisely unprincipled. You stop looking at what you care about and start mirroring the enemy.

In this case the impact on mark is even imagined, as he personifies the product. And mark only comes to mind because he’s famous. You also don’t systematically evaluate all CEOs of all products to use.
by andwur | 2026-02-21 05:23:42+00:00
Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which may also count as execution depending on visibility and aim on the day.

/s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-21 05:23:46+00:00
That documentary looks like it pulled content from Microsoft's own commissioning of a documentary (an excellent one where they pull no punches on the mistakes they made). While most of it focused on the original Xbox going into 360 the last episode discusses the Xbox One years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1h--43R8Oo&list=PL0il2l-B_W...
by rajbiswas125 | 2026-02-21 05:23:51+00:00
he numbers being presented are deliberately misleading. On this model, Groq delivers around 1,300 tokens per second, whereas Cerebras achieves roughly 2,500 tokens per second.

With the next generation of Cerebras chips expected to be 5–7× faster, peak throughput could reach the ~17,500 tokens-per-second range. For smaller models like this, that level of performance is entirely realistic. So no, a general-purpose accelerator will likely continue to outperform a fixed-function ASIC with a specific model etched into it.

Moreover, we’re only looking at results from a two-year-old, relatively small model. We still don’t know how this architecture will scale with a large MoE model, especially given constraints like limited on-chip KV cache and more complex attention mechanisms.

The real test isn’t performance on a small benchmark model, it’s how the system handles large-scale, production-grade workloads under architectural constraints.
by corimaith | 2026-02-21 05:24:37+00:00
I wouldn't say he mismanaged but clearly his strategy wasn't working, although I'm not sure if there was a path to a better outcome.

The problem was the lack of hit IPs, and buying a bunch of studios with good histories like Bethesda was on the surface, a logical choice. The problem is that the Western AAA industry was also undergoing through a general decline amidst a larger cultural shift that was anathemic to originality, so no new hits could be made.

Nintendo and Sony in contrast still had a portfolio of more niche legacy studios like Monolith or Atlus or Kojima that could create new things. Obviously the talent for that does exist in the West, from Larian or smaller indie studios, but it is very hard for upper management to discern these kinds of details or be willing to take the risk with them.
by instagib | 2026-02-21 05:25:20+00:00
4.3kilos for the Hubbard variety at 56 days is pretty high. I wonder the percent make it to 56 days or they collect early.

Most I saw in US were running 3.4kilos avg at 51 days. If they make it to 53 days they usually have heart failure due to fast growth. Lots of breeding issues.
by phil21 | 2026-02-21 05:25:49+00:00
It’s really just easier integrations with stuff like iMessage. I assume easier for email and calendars too since that’s a total wreck trying to come up with anything sane for Linux VM + gsuite. At least has been from my limited experience so far.

Other than that I can’t really come up with an explanation of why a Mac mini would be “better” than say an intel nuc or virtual machine.
by 0x38B | 2026-02-21 05:26:04+00:00
How is that an unacceptable thread model for a repo of packages that are optional and user-made? One that clearly says, "DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk." (1)

The AUR, along with Arch's minimalism, is one of my favorite things about it. Instead of cloning the source repo, reading the build instructions, building, and then installing, I download a script, read it to make sure it looks okay (e.g. the source points to what I expect), and then `makepkg -si`.

> The way I see it installing software from the AUR is about as safe as installing software from the pirate bay.

No, if I trust the source - and I often follow the source link to GitHub to check out the project - then it's like one of my distro's packages, except I'm the one saying it's safe for me to install. I'm not claiming it's risk free, but it's been a great boon to me. (2)

1: https://aur.archlinux.org/

2: I used the AUR to compile and install Goldendict-ng, a fork of the dictionary software Goldendict that's being maintained. It accepts my Stardict converted-from-Apple dictionaries and supports Wayland!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-21 05:27:48+00:00
> Not property damage! We can't possibly go that far!

Anyone can go that far. The question is if it’s smart. The answer is it’s not. Acting out one’s need for machismo on a good cause is just selfish.

If I were a Flock PR person, I’d be waiting for someone to pull a stunt like this. (Better: they shoot it.)
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-21 05:29:10+00:00
Was it really profitable when it was doing things fans did want? The original console was a massive loss and a mess because they didn't know what they were doing. The 360 gave them a few good years but in the end the ended the cycle in second place yet again. Afterwards it was years of being distant third. Will Microsoft ever recoup that investment? The only good years they had were because their competitor stumbled momentarily. How good was the brand when they never really made inroads into asia?

(I say all this as someone enamoured with the first console as it was a core moment of my upbringing)
by names_are_hard | 2026-02-21 05:30:10+00:00
I'm in Israel. If you turn on the TV lately, you will inevitably hear a bunch of talking heads endlessly analyzing every word Trump said, and the movement of various US military apparatus, and then sharing "expert" insights into when there's going to be an escalation.

I can't do anything about this, except decide when it's time to pack my go-bag and leave it near the door so I'm ready to go to the bomb shelter in middle of the night. To that end, polymarket odds are helpful. I'd never bet any money myself, of course.

In related news, I read recently that the IDF is currently investigating some personnel who evidently made money predicting the last Israel-Iran flare up using inside information. Naturally this is quite unlawful.
Show HN: Fix-my-mic – stop macOS from switching to AirPods mic every connection
by yigitkonur35 | 2026-02-21 05:34:53+00:00
airpods connect to mac → mic hijacked automatically → you sound like a tin can. mac has a 3-mic built-in array made for calls. airpods doesn't come close.

this runs in the background, keeps airpods as output, keeps mac as input. native swift. ~10mb ram. zero cpu.

```
npx fix-my-mic
```

that's it.
by shuxer0205 | 2026-02-21 05:35:06+00:00
Hi,

I enjoy vibe coding and shipping ideas quickly.

But I kept getting slowed down by the same thing, that is, rebuilding dashboards, settings pages, tables, billing layouts. Not difficult, just repetitive.

So I started saving the shadcn/ui patterns I reuse most.

That became ReUI, a free collection of copy-paste shadcn/ui patterns to help you move faster with UI and stay focused on your product logic.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
— Sean
by amluto | 2026-02-21 05:36:03+00:00
Is it? It’s less than obvious that the orbital datacenter boom will happen. Space mining could be a big deal but that’s not a foregone conclusion. Maybe someone will want to build a huge radio array on the far side of the moon, but I don’t expect hundreds of billions to be spent launching it — who would pay? Mars is less fashionable than it was a few years ago. Starlink is pretty impressive, but so is boring singlemode fiber, and the latter is increasingly being deployed everywhere.

(Obviously it will “skyrocket” unless someone comes up with a commercially viable launch system that doesn’t involve rocketing into the sky…)
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-21 05:36:37+00:00
> is something missing from this equation?

Decades of historical evidence to the contrary.

If you’d like to have an informed opinion, at least engage with the academic material. Otherwise you come off sounding naïve, insisting that complex problems have simple solutions.

Edit: maybe my ears are a bit sensitive, but I can’t help but hear a faint whistle in the wind, maybe only at a frequency a dog could hear. But no, surely not here in gentlemanly company.