MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-17 21:41:30+00:00
It uses GRDB which is an SQLite wrapper https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax/blob/786ad6cc541392...

Nothing is very clear here.. the benchmarks might just be comparing WAL mode on vs off, or something else entirely, SQLite does not have 150ms latency on such a small database.
by nitwit005 | 2026-02-17 21:41:39+00:00
But, it tends to be difficult to find any metric that's meaningful.

For example, increased test flakiness can be a positive sign. I know that seems unlikely, but if you see some spike in flakey tests, it's often a side effect of people adding end to end tests, because some issue made it to production.

At my current job they monitor how long PRs are open, and it appears to mostly be a measure of repository age. Old repositories have more PRs sitting around.

What you really want to measure is "how good is the product?", or "are we delivering quickly relative to the difficulty of what's asked?" and those turns out to be extremely expensive to measure, so people use metrics that don't work well instead.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 21:41:42+00:00
My hunch is that the human was more likely hands off, but also could have nudged it in the background. They would have to be forthcoming about it and we would have to believe them.

My custom agent went into an even worse place one time, which I have been unable to reproduce, so it's not surprising that one of these clawds did this autonomously.

The bot has also merged a PR from a human to its own blog now: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 21:41:47+00:00
> why does it matter what Mosseri thinks? It doesn’t surprise me at all that [tobacco executive/drug dealer/social media executive] is downplaying their negative effects on society

It might not surprise me. But if Philip Morris started arguing nicotine isn't addictive, I'd assume they're no longer able to run their organisation without increased public oversight.

> Isn’t it up to the parents to limit social media use?

Sure. One way parents can do that is by encouraging their represenatatives to pass laws to protect their children.
by ManlyBread | 2026-02-17 21:42:29+00:00
Still fails the car wash question, I took the prompt from the title of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580

The answer was "Walk! It would be a bit counterproductive to drive a dirty car 50 meters just to get it washed — you'd barely move before arriving. Walking takes less than a minute, and you can simply drive it through the wash and walk back home afterward."

I've tried several other variants of this question and I got similar failures.
by kiba | 2026-02-17 21:42:57+00:00
Property tax is an emerging issue. There are movement to end property taxes or limit them across the US.

There is some opposite momentum toward the land value tax, which is a good thing, but these are less visible and likely weaker than a tax revolt by landowners.

Eventually, if the current trend continue for property taxes, we will see a disruption in government funding for basic service, and the contraction of the economy through increased taxation of economic activity to compensate for lost revenue from property taxes. It will be a disaster.

This is the endgame of the expansion of land ownership in the post WW2 era. Exemption from property taxes worsen this crisis.
by Imnimo | 2026-02-17 21:43:04+00:00
Apparently Haiku is a very anxious model.

>The anxiety creeps in: What if they have removal? Should I really commit this early?

>However, anxiety kicks in: What if they have instant-speed removal or a combat trick?

It's also interesting that it doesn't seem to be able to understand why things are happening. It attacks with Gran-Gran (attacking taps the creature), which says, "Whenever Gran-Gran becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card." Its next thought is:

>Interesting — there's an "Ability" on the stack asking me to select a card to discard. This must be from one of the opponent's cards. Looking at their graveyard, they played Spider-Sense and Abandon Attachments. The Ability might be from something else or a triggered ability.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 21:43:19+00:00
> I’m not defending him, I’m just being realistic here

The term is over-used, but this is actual victim blaming. Nobody is surprised when a serial killer serial kills. But if a bystanders starts then arguing that we shouldn't be surprised at that, and that the victims shouldn't have gone into a neighbourhood with a serial killer, they're just being realistic...they're defending the serial killer. That's what their lawyer would be expected to argue. (It's literally what Mosseri and his supporters are saying.)
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-17 21:43:20+00:00
Short term memory is the context window, and it's a relatively short hop from the current state of affairs to here's an MCP server that gives you access to a big queryable scratch space where you can note anything down that you think might be important later, similar to how current-gen chatbots take multiple iterations to produce an answer; they're clearly not just token-producing right out of the gate, but rather are using an internal notepad to iteratively work on an answer for you.

Or maybe there's even a medium term scratchpad that is managed automatically, just fed all context as it occurs, and then a parallel process mulls over that content in the background, periodically presenting chunks of it to the foreground thought process when it seems like it could be relevant.

All I'm saying is there are good reasons not to consider current LLMs to be AGI, but "doesn't have long term memory" is not a significant barrier.
by jll29 | 2026-02-17 21:43:26+00:00
I felt, like some of the other commenters, that I was close to buying the book, but that the sample on Amazon wasn't helping to support a buying decision.

But thankfully the bibliography is given on the book's Web site in full, so I just checked if the most important paper on the history of early LISP [1] was cited or not. It wasn't, so I'm going to pass on ordering the book's first edition.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800055.802047
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-17 21:43:26+00:00
200% YoY growth in Europe. Surpassed Ford in global auto sales, selling only EVs. Largest private employer in China. EV printer go brrr.

BYD uses aggressive discounts in bid to make Germany its leading European market - https://www.autonews.com/byd/ane-byd-discounts-germany-sales... - February 17th, 2026

China's BYD Overtakes Ford in Global Sales for the First Time - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-byd-overtakes-ford-glo... - February 12th, 2026

BYD's European registrations surge 270% in 2025 while Tesla slips 27% - https://cnevpost.com/2026/01/27/byd-european-registrations-s... - Jan 27th, 2026

BYD Sold Nearly Three Times As Many Cars As Tesla In Europe - https://www.carscoops.com/2025/11/byd-sold-nearly-3-times-as... - November 26th, 2025

The size of BYD's factory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228138 - November 2024 (615 comments)
by c0rleyma | 2026-02-17 21:43:56+00:00
I will read the paper, but I am curious if the methods promoted by eng/researchers at openai for models like codex 5.2/5.3 work? ie, is having a separate agent look at recent agent sessions and deduce problems the agents ran into and update agents.md (or more likely, the indexed docs referenced in an agents.md) actually helpful? A priori that seems like the main kind of meta prompting/harness you might expect to work more robustly.
by palata | 2026-02-17 21:44:10+00:00
In my opinion (which is worth what it is worth), 2027 is perfectly fine (my Pixel should live a lot longer than that anyway). What I find huge is that it is concretely happening! It will show recognition for GrapheneOS, and it will be great to have an alternative to the Google Pixels.

Also, people looking at GrapheneOS want technical excellence, so better not rush it :-).
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 21:44:16+00:00
> I disagree. The 1:100M statistic is too broad, and includes many extremely unsafe drivers

To be clear, I'm not arguing for what it should be. I'm arguing for what it is.

I tend to drive the speed limit. I think more people should. I also recognise there is no public support for ticketing folks going 5 over.

> my choice to use a self-driving car has to assess its risk compared to my driving, not the drunk's

All of these services are supply constrained. That's why I've revised my hypothesis. There are enough folks who will take that car before you get comfortable who will make it lucrative to fill streets with them.

(And to be clear, I'll ride in a Waymo or a Cybercab. I won't book a ride with a friend or my pets in the latter.)
by adrian_b | 2026-02-17 21:44:42+00:00
There are serious risks about backdoors in CPUs, but they are not about the CPU gathering the AES keys.

The storage required for this would be humongous. Moreover this would too easily be defeated, because even if the AES instructions allow to specify a derived round key in them, you can always decline to do this and use a separate XOR instruction for combining the round keys with the intermediate states. Detecting such a use would be too difficult.

No, there is no base for fearing that the AES keys can be stored. The greatest possible danger of adversarial behavior of a CPU exists in the laptop CPUs with integrated WiFi interfaces made by Intel. Unless you disconnect the WiFi antennas, it is impossible to be certain that the remote management feature of the WiFi interface is really disabled, preventing an attacker to take control of the laptop in a manner that cannot be detected by the operating system. The next danger by importance is in the computers that have Ethernet interfaces with the ability to do remote management, where again it is impossible to be certain that this feature is disabled. (A workaround for the case when you connect such a computer to an untrusted network, e.g. directly to the Internet, is to use a USB Ethernet interface.)
by webdevver | 2026-02-17 21:45:07+00:00
some additional thoughts:

i think that, for digital design to be interesting, the cost of entry must be lowered by probably orders upon orders of magnitude.

the google skywaterpdk thing, whatever it is (or was?), did produce a great deal of hobbyist designs and proved that there really isn't anything special about rtl - infact, its really quite monotonous and boring.

which is a good attitude to have, really. lots of hobbyist designs got cranked out quickly on what, as i understood, was a very obsolete pdk from two decades ago.

but its fundamentally still too expensive and too limited. open source software 'blew up' because

1. the cost of entry was free...

2. ...for state of the art tools.

its not enough to be free, or open source. it also has to be competitive. llvm/gcc won the compiler world because they blew the codegen of proprietary compilers out of the water, ofcourse being open source it became a positive feedback loop of lots of expert eyeballs -> better compiler -> more experts look at it -> better compiler -> ...

for digital design to become interesting, you can't trick the kids: they want the same tech the 'big boys' are using. so, what scope is there to make it economical for someone like Intel carving out some space for a no-strings-attached digital design lottery?

i get the impression that, unlike for most manufacturing processes, the costs of silicon digital electronics increases every year, and the amortisation schedule becomes bigger, not smaller.

so if anything, it seems that the more high tech silicon manufacturing becomes, the smaller the pool of players (who have the ever-increasing capital expenditure necessary) becomes, which should indicate that the opportunities for digital design work are actually going to be shrinking as time goes on.
by extr | 2026-02-17 21:45:27+00:00
My answer was (for which it did zero thinking and answered near-instantaneously):

"Drive. You're going there to use water and machinery that require the car to be present. The question answers itself."

I tried it 3 more times with extended thinking explicitly off:

"Drive. You're going to a car wash."

"Drive. You're washing the car, not yourself."

"Drive. You're washing the car — it needs to be there."

Guess they're serving you the dumb version.
by benji8000 | 2026-02-17 21:46:08+00:00
That‘s also my experience. I use AI to help me generate the overall structure of a narrative. Apart from the hallucinations (e.g. June is not in spring), it‘s ok to spot inconsistencies, somewhat acceptable to brainstorm some ideas if you‘re new to a certain genre, but the prose it generates (talking about Opus 4.6) feels like an interpolation of all existing texts.
by raffael_de | 2026-02-17 21:46:09+00:00
I'm probably looking at this a little naive, no doubt. It's just that (in my fantasy) a pure good ole radio could be a great medium for enthusiasts and odd balls (#cyberpunk). But as soon as there is an internet stream then the actual radio is going to be a gimmick. The whole experience changes if you actually _have_ to use a radio to listen. Of course, your audience is limited by design ... so, realistically there just might not be a sustainable audience in your FM radius. Anyway, cool project!
by alrs | 2026-02-17 21:46:18+00:00
Why do you need a studio?

If this is completely non-commercial and you have an amateur license you could probably use AREDN as a backhaul instead of HaLow. We've gotten wifi going from a panel in Elysian up to Wilson on AREDN.

100w from the Verdugos should be pretty substantial. I regularly make 70cm FM contacts on 446.500 from Elysian Park down to San Diego at 5w.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-17 21:46:31+00:00
Nono, the claim is not that it is produced by an llm, rather that author researches the subject with llms and generally is a high frequency user.

A common property of llm psychosis is the development of an internal vocabulary that the llm learns, often reusing words but adopting specific meanings, for some reason quantum and quantic are very popular for this.
by leesec | 2026-02-17 21:46:40+00:00
Funny to see the comments here vs the thread the other day where a Waymo hit a child.

There's no real discussion to be had on any of this. Just people coming in to confirm their biases.

As for me, I'm happy to make and take bets on Tesla beating Waymo. I've heard all these arguments a million times. Bet some money
by klardotsh | 2026-02-17 21:47:07+00:00
Tell me about it. I remember being able to snag a nice room at a Courtyard/Hampton caliber of hotel for like $100 in 2016-18 timeframe. Based on https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2016?amount=100 I would expect that to cost about $135 now if adjusting only for (hyper)inflation. It instead tends to cost something like $175-225/night. WTAF.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2026-02-17 21:47:08+00:00
These guys get posted here every now and then

Looking through https://www.openstar.tech/technical-resources, I don't see any indication that their thermal shielding will ever work for a levitated dipole magnet within a plasma that can actually generate fusion (other than a claim with no reference on the poster https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6473d1660b2c1f2c3780dfdc/...)

You'd think this would be the #1 problem that needs to be thoroughly addressed...
by cobertos | 2026-02-17 21:47:12+00:00
Huh... I have used messenger.com plenty.

* To share my account creds w/ a friend to help sift through many real estate leads we advertised on FB Marketplace.

* Working easily between FB ads and comms

* Linking things from my computer for a business-related group.

* Handling anything FB marketplace while in flow on my desktop.

Hopefully the replacement isn't worse
by rgthelen | 2026-02-17 21:47:24+00:00
Thanks! On auth providers — Corral already supports 9 OAuth providers out of the box (Google, GitHub, Apple, Discord, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, GitLab, LinkedIn) plus email/password, magic links, and email OTP. Adding a new one is one command:

corral add provider github
Under the hood, Corral is built on Better Auth, which has a plugin architecture. Any Better Auth plugin works with Corral — so if someone builds a provider plugin for Better Auth, it automatically works here too. We're not reinventing auth crypto, just making it agent-installable.

On the crypto payments front — that's actually a great use case for Corral's plugin model. The billing layer is modular (Stripe today, but the gating/metering layer doesn't care where the payment event comes from). A BTC/USDC payment plugin that fires the same "user upgraded to plan X" event would slot right in. Interesting idea.
by skybrian | 2026-02-17 21:47:45+00:00
We have good ways of monitoring chatbots and they're going to get better. I've seen some interesting research. For example, a chatbot is not really a unified entity that's loyal to itself; with the right incentives, it will leak to claim the reward. [1]

Since chatbots have no right to privacy, they would need to be very intelligent indeed to work around this.

[1] https://alignment.openai.com/confessions/
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 21:48:08+00:00
The anxiety is coming from the "worrier" personality. Players are combination of a model version + a small additional "personality" prompt - in this case (https://mage-bench.com/games/game_20260217_075450_g8/), "Worrier". That's why the player name is "Haiku Worrier". The personality is _supposed_ to just impact what it says in chat (not its internal reasoning), but I haven't been able to make small models consistently understand that distinction so far.

The Gran-Gran thing looks more like a bug in my harness code than a fundamental shortcoming of the LLM. Abilities-on-the-stack are at the top of my "things where the harness seems pretty janky and I need to investigate" list. Opus would probably be able to figure it out, though.
by rgthelen | 2026-02-17 21:48:48+00:00
webhooks are the part where most agent-built auth falls apart. Here's how Corral handles it:

The server-express.ts template generates the webhook route with the raw body parser before express.json() (Stripe requires the raw body for signature verification — agents almost always get this wrong). The route handles checkout.session.completed, customer.subscription.updated, and customer.subscription.deleted events and auto-updates the user's plan in your database.

So when your agent runs corral init, the webhook endpoint is already in your server at /api/corral/webhook, with Stripe signature verification wired in. Your agent just needs to:

corral stripe sync — creates the products/prices in Stripe
Set STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET in .env
For local dev: stripe listen --forward-to localhost:3000/api/corral/webhook
That's it. The agent doesn't have to figure out raw body parsing, event routing, or idempotency — the template handles all of it. And since corral doctor checks for the webhook secret in your env, the agent gets told if it's missing.

The worst Stripe webhook bugs I found during testing were (1) express.json() parsing the body before the webhook route sees it, and (2) agents putting the webhook route after auth middleware that rejects unsigned requests. Both are baked into the template ordering now.
by DennisP | 2026-02-17 21:49:08+00:00
"Coordinated" and "deceptive" are orthogonal concepts as well. If AIs are acting in a way that's not coordinated, then of course, don't say they're coordinating.

AIs today can replicate some human behaviors, and not others. If we want to discuss which things they do and which they don't, then it'll be easiest if we use the common words for those behaviors even when we're talking about AI.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:49:58+00:00
> Something similar was addressed some years ago as a feature request for GrapheneOS https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/284. To summarise there was no way to do this without an unacceptable security cost to the OS, but this is sort of doable if you run your own userdebug build which you have the power to do.

It's badness enumeration which is an unworkable approach to providing strong privacy. It fundamentally can't provide it, only weak case-by-case improvements which are very fragile and trivially bypassed. It can also be done by modifying APKs instead of having a hooking framework within the OS heavily compromising security. You don't need the OS providing anything to use arbitrarily modified APKs. We also don't want to give apps a legitimate reason to ban GrapheneOS as opposed to being able to convince the tiny number of apps enforcing Google certification to allow it.
Show HN: Cursor for Observability
by kvaranasi_ | 2026-02-17 21:50:04+00:00
Hi HN, I've been building RocketLogs, an intelligence observability layer that sits on top of Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus.

The problem I kept running into: you get paged at 3 AM, open Grafana, flip between six dashboards, grep through logs, try to figure out which deploy went out, and an hour later you maybe have a root cause. You still need to dig through code and find the culprit. The data is all there, but nothing connects it for you.

RocketLogs tries to fix that:

VS Code / Cursor Extension - Fetches your slow and errored-out endpoints from production and lists them right in the Cursor chat sidebar with their latencies. It maps them to your codebase using Pyroscope profiling. So you have metrics -> traces -> profiles -> code right inside the codebase. It shows latency and a heat-map of how much your modules/funcs are bleeding your endpoints. So you can jump to the offending function and fix it without context-switching and within minutes.

Beyond those, it's a full observability stack: log search, distributed tracing with waterfall views, SLOs with error budget tracking, incident management with AI-generated synopses, smart alerts, and Prometheus dashboards.

We're built on the LGTM stack, so if you're already sending data to Loki/Tempo/Prometheus, you can point RocketLogs at your existing infrastructure. Using this as essentially another observability layer that sits on top. If you want to use multiple vendors, you can also do a telemetry fan-out.

Would love feedback. What's the most painful part of your current observability workflow?
by pdabbadabba | 2026-02-17 21:50:25+00:00
I guess I'm getting the dumb one too. I just got this response:

> Walk — it's only 50 meters, which is less than a minute on foot. Driving that distance to a car wash would also be a bit counterproductive, since you'd just be getting the car dirty again on the way there (even if only slightly). Lace up and stroll over!
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-17 21:50:28+00:00
The search was terrible before the AI mode was introduced. Personally my take on the enshittification of search was that it was a thing long before Doctorow came on the scene, in the late 2000s I rubbed shoulders with grey-hat and darker SEO people and by 2010 or so the people doing affiliate marketing had mostly given up on spamming the SERPs and had become well-behaved buyers of AdWords.

Since that time this blogger

http://www.seobook.com/blog

has been relentless about how unfair it is so when I see people upset about how their precious posts are being hoovered up for ChatGPT I can only think “Jesse they are really slow on the draw, maybe ChatGPT would be better off not hovering that stuff up”

But to take that hat off, AI mode works on many queries that would never have worked with the old Google. If I am having a conversation with somebody in a language I barely know I can go back and forth to make very precise replies and ask it “why does it have … in it?” and get a good answer. If I remember there was a scientific paper that came to a certain conclusion I can describe the conclusion and… get it first thing. No way that would have worked with the old google, pubmed, arXiv search…

Of course, if Google didn’t come out with a useful search engine based on the new tech, somebody else would have.