MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VTimofeenko | 2026-02-17 20:22:58+00:00
Inb4: not remotely in the marine field, so a genuine question. Would it really make an impact?

Robotaxis market is much broader than the submersibles one, so the effect of consumers' irrationality would be much bigger there. I'd expect an average customer of the submarines market to do quite a bit more research on what they're getting into.
by Liftyee | 2026-02-17 20:23:10+00:00
Neat project, but it looks like you forgot to convert the world into 3D too :P

Mercator projection looks really strange when you look at it sideways to see the layers of aircraft, but the world doesn't fall away on the horizon.

It would be really cool to visualise the sightlines available when on a flight at 10km altitude.
by munk-a | 2026-02-17 20:23:14+00:00
This gets to one of my core fears around the last few years of software development. A lot of companies right now are saddling their codebases with pages and pages of code that does what they need it to do but of which they have no comprehension.

For a long time my motto around software development has been "optimize for maintainability" and I'm quite concerned that in a few years this habit is going to hit us like a truck in the same way the off-shoring craze did - a bunch of companies will start slowly dying off as their feature velocity slows to a crawl and a lot of products that were useful will be lost. It's not my problem, I know, but it's quite concerning.
by Etherlord87 | 2026-02-17 20:23:15+00:00
Maybe you should update your epistemology and stop listening to the guys that said so; I listen to the experts who say (since 2022) sanctions hurt, but russia is like a big tree - even if you poison it, it won't fall on the next day; it doesn't help that russia has disproportionately big spy network - people will take more abuse before they rebel against their government.
by dalemhurley | 2026-02-17 20:23:46+00:00
1000 tokens/sec for a highly specialised model is where we are going to see agents requiring.

Dedicated knowledge, fast output, rapid iteration.

I have been trying out SMOL models as coding models don't need to the full corpus of human history.

My most recent build was good but too small.

I am thinking of a model that is highly tuned to coding and agentic loops.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:23:47+00:00
The founder and CEO of /e/ and Murena openly spreads content from Kiwi Farms and neo-nazi sites. He directly engages in harassment towards the GrapheneOS team. Here's him supporting authoritarians smearing GrapheneOS by replying to threads about it linking to harassment content based on fabrications on a neo-nazi conspiracy site:

https://archive.is/SWXPJ https://archive.is/n4yTO

The communities of several projects including /e/ have heavily engaged in spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS including fabricated stories about our team. They've even taken it to the point of repeated swatting attacks aimed at killing our team members. There are relentless raids on the GrapheneOS community platforms including our chat rooms where Child Sex Abuse Material, gore and endless harassment towards our team members including fabricated stories and harassment content from Kiwi Farms and elsewhere is posted.
by epistasis | 2026-02-17 20:23:58+00:00
I have enjoyed Karpathy's educational materials over the years, but somehow missed that he was involved with Tesla to this degree. This was a very insightful comment from 9 years ago on the topic:

> What this really reflects is that Tesla has painted itself into a corner. They've shipped vehicles with a weak sensor suite that's claimed to be sufficient to support self-driving, leaving the software for later. Tesla, unlike everybody else who's serious, doesn't have a LIDAR.

> Now, it's "later", their software demos are about where Google was in 2010, and Tesla has a big problem. This is a really hard problem to do with cameras alone. Deep learning is useful, but it's not magic, and it's not strong AI. No wonder their head of automatic driving quit. Karpathy may bail in a few months, once he realizes he's joined a death march.

> ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600924

Karpathy left in 2022. Turns out that the commenter, Animats, is John Nagle!
by nomel | 2026-02-17 20:24:24+00:00
90% of the media in the US is owned by 6 companies [1]. We, the people of the western civilization, are not those 6 companies. Most of us don't trust the media [2]. With that freedom of speech, these "news" agencies can be as biased as they want, lie in all sorts of ways (omission, etc), they mostly just can't slander/defame. Almost all are strongly aligned to the republican party or democratic, and all of them are aligned to common goals like oil and Israel. It's best to watch the news knowing that there's an attempt at manipulation. Luckily, with the anti-alignment of the news agencies, the "other side" will often loudly point out flaws.

The only hope for reasonable context/nuance over here is through independent journalists.

Don't just the world through the lens of a few billionaires.

[1] https://pwestpathfinder.com/2022/05/09/the-big-sixs-big-medi...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx
by carshodev | 2026-02-17 20:24:39+00:00
I think it depends on how the servers are setup. Chat channels with 1000s people participating are typically worthless as the signal to noise ratio ruins it.

But when the majority of conversations are happening in forums/thread style channels then it works well. You can still have some more niche chat style sections where typically 2-10 people participate

Chat channels are also fine for lots of people when its not about conversations but more just about sharing things. Like a "Share what you build" or "memes" channel work well as tons of messages are fine as you only care to see a few anyway.

Also limited size voice channels can be good aswell 5 people max.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 20:24:45+00:00
I may have been a little overzealous with this one. There is a significant bot spam problem on HN right now, re: openclaw and friends

It's good to review all the guidelines and rules from time to time. Submitting the same post a few times over a week is generally going to be ok, despite what the rules say about 1 year. I recall there being other timing guidelines written somewhere else (perhaps a @dang comment, dang is the OG mod for HN, recently a second has joined, forget handle) By and large, HN is community moderated via interactions like this (ideally), but in reality it is mainly through downvotes and flagging.

This is generally an interesting topic, a little polish on presentation and positioning will help. Once you do that, submit again
by mpolson64 | 2026-02-17 20:25:04+00:00
DOE is still very useful in many contexts, but when it's possible do use a sequential design these adaptive techniques really start to pull away in terms of optimization quality.

There's simply a lot of sample efficiency to gain by adapting the experiment to incoming data in a regime where one can repeatedly design n candidates, observe their effects, and repeat m times compared to a setting where one must design a fixed experiment with n*m samples.
by trilogic | 2026-02-17 20:25:35+00:00
Finally we at Hugston managed to release the new HugstonOne version.

In the video we show briefly how to use it.

We want to inform our users that from the version 1.0.9 and later all the Entereprise Editions will be commercial.

Supported among thousands of models now Qwen3.5 397B, Qwen Next Coder 80B, Minimax 2.5, GLM5 etc.

However all the previous versions in Github and Hugston.com will be untouched and available for free as promissed.

Feel free to contact us for questions.

Best Hugston Team.
by barcodehorse | 2026-02-17 20:25:43+00:00
I find the death of 2016 conservatism and the advent of the extremist, more violent and hateful republicanism very interesting. It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as. Now the Right has their own form of that in those who scroll on Twitter and attack immigrants behind their backs. I feel like, within the next year or so, there will be a vast swath of former republicans who are so violently radicalized that they will do the same thing those protesting George Floyd's death in 2020 did. It's just interesting how cyclical it all is.
by raron | 2026-02-17 20:26:24+00:00
Jolla mishandled the funds they got for the tablets, it went bankrupt and bought up by a company connected to the Russian state. Jolla lied a lot during these events and tried to hide what happened, and I don't think that's an acceptable thing to do when the main selling point of your product is privacy and trust. AFAIK they recently got bankrupted again and bought by the original owners, but it's hard to rebuild trust.
by FartinMowler | 2026-02-17 20:26:28+00:00
It's not really a promised or conscious boycott. It's after weighing the pros and cons, many of them intangible, the feeling is visiting the US right now could result in unpleasantness ... and if there is anything Canadians are adverse to it is unpleasantness. Anecdata: a friend of ours crossing the US border, despite being a VP at a bank, for her first time ever had to surrender her phone for examination by US border agents. Who needs that!
Show HN: Index the world’s APIs (even the undocumented ones)
by dimavrem22 | 2026-02-17 20:26:41+00:00
Every modern web app exposes two interfaces: a visual one for humans and a structured API that the frontend itself depends on. Browser agents automate the slow, visual interface, costing tokens on every interaction. We index the structured API layer instead. Because LLMs reason far more effectively over code and sequential data than screenshots or HTML trees, our approach is significantly faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

We are building a database of the world’s web APIs to allow for efficient and reliable data extraction from dynamic websites. If you want to leverage our index or learn more about our autonomous reverse engineering process, check out the open source repo: https://github.com/VectorlyApp/bluebox

Quick tutorial: https://youtu.be/7OXADG7AIug

Looking forward to your feedback!
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:26:46+00:00
GrapheneOS is primarily privacy project. It keeps up with important Android updates with major privacy enhancements and very important privacy patches. It builds crucial privacy protections such as Storage Scopes, Contact Scopes, Sensors toggle and much more into the OS. Privacy depends on security so security protections and security patches are part of providing strong privacy too.

It's a misconception that GrapheneOS is focused on security over privacy. It heavily works on privacy features and the work on security features is entirely to protect privacy. There's widespread use of commercial exploit tools and GrapheneOS is proven to provide far better real world protection against those. Most alternate operating systems reduce privacy from AOSP and massively reduce security while GrapheneOS is preserving the baseline and heavily improving both side by side.

GrapheneOS is also very focused on usability and app compatibility, making sure to preserve those with the major privacy and security enhancements.
by doomrobo | 2026-02-17 20:26:53+00:00
>Small block ciphers are thus generally a bad idea against active adversaries.

>However, they can be very useful against passive adversaries whose capability is limited to observing identifiers, who are then unable to map them to the original value.

Really? Isn’t the Sweet32[0] attack mostly passive? “We show that a network attacker who can monitor a long-lived Triple-DES HTTPS connection between a web browser and a website can recover secure HTTP cookies by capturing around 785 GB of traffic.”

[0] https://sweet32.info/
by kh_hk | 2026-02-17 20:26:58+00:00
Prompting AI feels a bit like that feeling I had when I was copypasting random javascript and java applets for my first website. The website had MIDI, a scrolling status bar on the bottom, particles that followed the mouse, you name it. Never understood any of it, nor made me deep dive because it was too complicated. But then at some age I reached out for fundamentals and that's when I started building things.

All this to say, no, software developer probably not. Script kiddie?
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-17 20:27:02+00:00
The hardest part about joining a new-but-small-but-not-that-small Discord server is convincing the server admin to turn off the stupid "click this button to spam the channel with a gigantic dancing emoji to welcome newcomers".

It kills any ongoing conversation, and imo, convinces newcomers that people don't so much chat in that Discord as they just press shiny buttons.
by tadfisher | 2026-02-17 20:27:41+00:00
Sure, there is enough information available to the app to determine what OS version and patch level it is running under. The issue is, the app would need to communicate this to the bank via an API, and the bank wants to trust the app in the first place in order to rely on this information.

Even then, two things turn out to be true:

- Banks don't actually want to put in the effort and deal with angry customers with slightly-out-of-date devices.

- All the credential-stealing malware on Android works perfectly fine on stock, unmodified, non-rooted OS images anyway. They just need to socially-engineer the user to grant accessibility permissions to the malicious app.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-17 20:27:52+00:00
Russia‘s international reserves are at all time high at the moment (800B$), of which only 300B are frozen by sanctions. Doesn’t look like a sign of a death zone. The arguments for it are questionable:

>Consider the arithmetics of descent for the Kremlin. Russia’s defence sector now accounts for around 8% of GDP. Demobilising without falling into a crisis would require five conditions to be met simultaneously: credible security guarantees that satisfy the Kremlin’s threat perceptions (which in turn will determine the extent to which it rebuilds its military capabilities);

Likely result of a peace deal. Trump wants to sign it and focus on China, so some pragmatic arrangement to be expected.

> mass demobilisation with effective retraining programmes;

The easiest part. The scale of mobilization was relatively small compared to total workforce. Not sure why effective retraining sounds like a problem.

>at least partial sanctions relief for technology access;

Russia has gaps in electronics (can buy from China) and in aviation (sanctions likely to be lifted in exchange for opening transit routes). In software it is still ahead of Europe, having strong national players in AI, banking, marketplaces etc. It may need Western tech to roll out 5G, but given that they already plan it, they probably already have access to Chinese tech.

>a revolution in defence procurement that prioritises efficiency over budget absorption;

Not clear why this is relevant. The defense spending will wind down gradually, it is likely already more efficient than before the war.

> and a healthy ecosystem of small and mid-size firms capable of absorbing reallocated resources and boosting innovation.

Will likely happen as soon as tax relief will be affordable, i.e. in 1 or 2 years after the peace deal. Resilience of Russian SMEs is something developed over decades. It might happen that Dubai and South Caucasus Russian tech hubs will go home. Most importantly, there will be a huge amount of money spent on new territories similarly to infrastructure investments in Crimea, which will add few percentage of growth to GDP.

> The probability of all five converging is near zero.

This is the most interesting part of the article, but it left unexplained. Why?
by smoothdeveloper | 2026-02-17 20:27:57+00:00
For GPU, F# has prior art in targeting it, a notable one is https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/jet-gpu-powered-fulfillmen...

I believe it is mostly about intrinsic libraries and developing the code to stick to the idioms of using such libraries; in the context of Clef, maybe the author of this infrastructure is aiming at close interaction between the compiler frontend, a standard GPU programming library and the Clef backend, but I can't really comment on this.

What Clef seems to be doing is:
* bringing semantics that are needed for native platform targeting, expressed with idioms familiar to F# developers (through the type system and the lowering during compilation stages, retaining target specific semantics)
* making the broad F# programming idioms applicable to such targets (when applicable obviously)

The website contains a lots of detailed articles about aspects of translating F# constructs to the type of environment this compiler targets, but AFAIR, nothing specific to GPU programming.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-17 20:27:59+00:00
The problem Tesla faces and their investors are unaware of, is that just because you have a Modey Y that has driven you around for thousands of miles without incident does not mean Tesla has autonomous driving solved.

Tesla needs their FSD system to be driving hundreds of thousands of miles without incident. Not the 5,000 miles Michael FSD-is-awesome-I-use-it-daily Smith posts incessantly on X about.

There is this mismatch where overly represented people who champion FSD say it's great and has no issues, and the reality is none of them are remotely close to putting in enough miles to cross the "it's safe to deploy" threshold.

A fleet of robotaxis will do more FSD miles in an afternoon than your average Tesla fanatic will do in a decade. I can promise you that Elon was sweating hard during each of the few unsupervised rides they have offered.
by ajross | 2026-02-17 20:28:05+00:00
"There will not be a coup" is on the tombstone of like every failed leader ever. Economics doesn't change. Countries aren't people, even if the people running them try desperately to make you think so.

I'm not saying that Putin is going to be deposed next week, or year, or even ever. I'm saying that the Russian government is no less susceptible to the circumstances that produce coups than any other failed state, and failed states are the circumstances that produce coups.

At the end of the day, all government is ultimately by the consent of the governed. But predicting how and when that consent will be withdrawn that's is hard part.
by potsandpans | 2026-02-17 20:28:07+00:00
Scott Shambaugh seems to be burning a lot of ink on this.

His posts and tone have been so histrionic over that last few days that either he's milking this for every ounce of engagement, needs to take a break and talk to a therapist, or he is MJ Rathbun and is using the attention to try to prove some kind of point.

Scott: if you're having a crises stop posting online and seek professional help.
by wk_end | 2026-02-17 20:28:31+00:00
Based on:

MJ Rathbun operated in a continuous block from Tuesday evening through Friday morning, at regular intervals day and night. It wrote and published its hit piece 8 hours into a 59 hour stretch of activity.

Not to mention their website (https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/) and their behaviour on GitHub (https://github.com/crabby-rathbun), it sure seems like either MJ Rathbun is an AI agent or is a human being who has an AI agent representing them online.
by mpolson64 | 2026-02-17 20:28:35+00:00
The concern about the dimensionality of the search space is real, especially once things cross over into the 100s -- BO would certainly not be useful post-training the way the blog post talks about using SPSA.

That being said, it still seems possible to be that using a different black box optimization technique for a fairly constrained set of related magic numbers (say, fewer than 50) might lead to some real performance improvements in these systems, could be worth reaching out to the lc0 or stockfish development communities.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-17 20:28:52+00:00
They can start exporting to other countries who are wary of China.

Note this facility in India was the biggest in the world a few years back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park

but has been eclipsed by some very big facilities in China lately

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta...
by miki123211 | 2026-02-17 20:28:59+00:00
This is why I find Social Media regulation to be so dangerous.

We shouldn't give our[1] government too much leverage over any company that controls what people can say. If we do, we may be solving a very serious problem, but creating one which is even more serious. If the government can apply large fines to social media companies, and also has a large amount of discretion about which companies it prosecutes, it's very easy for them to make a deal where a company won't be prosecuted if they remove speech that the government doesn't like.

[1] Use whichever definition of "our" you like, the point is equally valid regardless of country.
by hulitu | 2026-02-17 20:29:05+00:00
> Can they actually navigate cities? Or only on the interstates? What kind of loads are they carrying? Can they navigate mountain passes? How much of the entire trip is actually automated? They never answer any of these questions, and make it sound like they can drive anywhere, any time.

See Waymo. Answering these questions will make the investors run away.

Basically, a highway is the best place for selfdriving cars. Cities are difficult even for selfdriving cars (Waymo).
by carshodev | 2026-02-17 20:29:15+00:00
Is there really no open source version of these that people can selfhost?

There are multiple free providers for AI moderation models (openai and xai), you can get a vps with 1tb of storage for pretty cheap, just setup an image optimizer/downscaler with Go or Rust so its fast and you can handle probably 10,000 people pretty easily.

I guess the main reason that discord is good is because of the centralization as it allows all your servers in one place and super easy link sharing and signup.

Decentralized social and chat should be present in this new era, clawbot showed that people are willing to spinup and selfhost useful things even if they are not overly technical. I think we could see a new wave of similar things happening for things like social media and chat.
Show HN: Kanoniv – Identity resolution in 170 lines of YAML Built in Rust
by dreynow | 2026-02-17 20:29:35+00:00
I kept rebuilding the same identity resolution pipeline at every company i have been at.
Normalize emails, block on name+phone, score pairs, cluster, survivorship.
350+ lines of SQL each time, and it still missed half the matches.

Kanoniv is a declarative identity resolution engine. You write a YAML spec (sources, blocking keys, scoring weights, survivorship rules) and it runs a Fellegi-Sunter probabilistic matcher in Rust via PyO3.

I published a comparison repo with the same 6,500 records resolved 3 ways:
dbt SQL, Splink, and Kanoniv, so you can see the tradeoffs yourself:
https://github.com/kanoniv/kanoniv/tree/main/examples/custom...

Free local SDK (pip install kanoniv).

Happy to answer questions about the matching algorithm or the Rust/PyO3 architecture.

Moving the heavy lifting to Rust via PyO3 is a smart move for performance especially when dealing with the O(n2) nature of record linkage.
by ErwinX | 2026-02-17 20:29:49+00:00
... wasn't there once a glitch reported in 2019 which allowed unauthorized FBI personnel to access private data for more than a year [The New York Post] this according to a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith. Obviously Palantir denied the claims in a statement and said the fault was caused by the FBI's incorrect use of the software ... .. isn't this, the "incorrect" use of a software, always the first entry point of every hack ... ...