MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelt | 2026-02-12 00:39:06+00:00
> I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this.

Do platforms want to counter it?

Seems to me with an unreliable video selfie age verification:

* Reasonable people with common sense don't need to upload scans of their driving licenses and passports

* The platform gets to retain users without too much hassle

* Porn site users are forced to create accounts; this enables tracking, boosting ad revenue and growth numbers.

* Politicians get to announce that they have introduced age controls.

* People who claimed age checks wouldn't invade people's privacy don't get proven wrong

* Teens can sidestep the age checks and retain their access; teens trying to hide their porn from their parents is an age-old tradition.

* Parents don't see their teens accessing porn. They feel reassured without having to have any awkward conversations or figure out any baffling smartphone parental controls.

Everyone wins.
by phippsytech | 2026-02-12 00:40:01+00:00
I think the more realistic direction is exposing API / MCP-style interfaces for agents to interact with a product’s functionality, rather than shipping UI components that an AI client would render.

The "AI renders your components inside chat" idea feels very similar to Facebook’s old canvas apps. That model disappeared for good reasons: abuse, security, and loss of platform control.

It seems far more likely that AI platforms will provide their own interaction primitives (forms, pickers, confirmations, etc.) and simply call third-party tools behind the scenes. That lets the platform retain control over UX and safety, and avoids the risks of embedding arbitrary third-party UI.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-12 00:40:05+00:00
That seems like a good citation, but it supports the 99% number above

> Additionally, just over 1% of adult U.S. citizens do not have any form of government-issued photo identification, which amounts to nearly 2.6 million people.

The rest of the statistic is about driver's licenses specifically, including technicalities like expiration dates and address changes. The online ID check for age verification don't care about the address part anyway, in my experience.

If someone has an expired drivers' license or they changed their name and haven't updated their IDs, they have bigger problems than age-verifying their Discord accounts.
by rcxdude | 2026-02-12 00:40:06+00:00
It's not like the price is set for the whole year, though. The price is set each half-hour, so it does matter what percentage of the time the gas peaker plants are necessary to supply the grid. This makes the effect of renewables on prices quite nonlinear: if they can never supply 100% of the grid, then they have zero effect on the average wholesale price. But going from 0% to 99% is a large part of the hurdle, then the transition from 99% to 105% will have a very large effect on the pricing (of course, given the variable nature of renewables, this will get blurred a bit more: currently the UK grid is entirely renewables about 1% of the time. But doubling the renewable capacity will raise that percentage to a lot more than 2%).
by coldtea | 2026-02-12 00:40:31+00:00
Here's an example of just one of an endless list of bullshit and hallucinations from paid latest-model AI:

Q. Compare the characters Wormtail and Wormtongue.

A. You’re asking about Wormtail and Wormtongue — two very different (but very unpleasant) characters from The Lord of the Rings.
by minimaxir | 2026-02-12 00:40:51+00:00
I resent your implication that I am baselessly hyping. I've open sourced a few Opus 4.5-coded projects (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543359) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682115) that while not moderate-to-large projects, are very niche and novel without much if any prior art. The prompts I used are included with each those projects: they did not "run and look fine" on first run, and were refined just as with normal software engineering pipelines.

You might argue I'm No True Engineer because these aren't serious projects but I'd argue most successful uses of agentic coding aren't by FANG coders.
by deepsun | 2026-02-12 00:40:54+00:00
Xenophobia, of course.

I just point out that to me "overstaying visa" is such a completely artificial concept, with arbitrary timelines, and is not explainable by any rational considerations of the state. Otherwise they'd neglect it.

Or, as I saw myself in another country, a border guy is like "Wow, you overstayed your visa by N years! Don't worry, let me correct that. I recommend getting a permanent residency, would be easier for you to pay taxes and use our government systems. Welcome!"
Show HN: Production-Ready NestJS Back End (Multi-Tenancy, Event-Driven)
by PkLavc | 2026-02-12 00:41:09+00:00
I’m a Computer Engineering student from Brazil. I built this to showcase backend patterns that go beyond simple CRUDs: row-level multi-tenancy (Prisma), async processing (BullMQ/Redis), and observability (OpenTelemetry). Looking for feedback on the architecture!
by skybrian | 2026-02-12 00:41:14+00:00
When I use ChatGPT to do research, I expect it to justify itself by quoting from web pages and linking to those web pages. (I gave it explicit instructions to quote things, but unfortunately it will only do short quotes.)

This might be an extended web search, but it's still a web search. The documents need to exist. Maybe a lot of the surrounding boilerplate disappears, though?
by taeric | 2026-02-12 00:41:27+00:00
Alas, I think it is far more likely that there is no secret to any of this. Different strokes will arrive at the same place for a lot of people. All the more true for things that are even remotely creative in nature.

Not to say that routine and form can't get results. It is hilarious how much of the current fascination with LLM writing can be summarized by "actually filling out a routine template will satisfy a ton of requirements." People that are surprised with how well some output works, but would have scoffed at filling out a lot of boilerplate in previous technologies.

So, yes, try it. But do not become attached to it. If it works, rejoice in that. But do not count on it always working. If it stops for a time, feel free to leave it for a time.
by phil21 | 2026-02-12 00:41:28+00:00
> But the fraud protection is the same, even if procedures and timelines might differ.

I wrote about outright fraud taking weeks (in one case, months) to resolve. From my own personal direct experience.

> I had a friend who doesn’t even have a passport dispute an ATM transaction in a country he never visited.

Does this sound like a dispute with a vendor or outright fraud?

A dispute with a vendor can also mean an overcharge or something like a renewal fee for a yearly membership that is under dispute. It's not just marginal items you bought and the vendor refuses a return or it never shows up or whatever.

Like I said - if you are a highly paid professional you likely will never have a problem with this. It's an invisible part of the economy to you. If you are working class you are much more likely to have a wildly different experience. Banks have what is effectively an internal credit score system for each customer. For those with serious assets with the bank you get a lot more leeway and benefit of the doubt until you start abusing it.
by Havoc | 2026-02-12 00:41:58+00:00
>is cheaper per watt

It isn't though? Even at high assumed load factor for gas wind beats it on LCOE £/MWh. [0] And not by a small margin either.

The only edge gas has is qualitative not price - it is dispatchable nature...and the cost of energy storage is in freefall. The trendlines here are not subtle.

>There is a reason it sets the price at market.

Yeah the sooner we get rid of ungodly expensive on demand peaker gas doing exactly that price setting the better for us all.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696697d19d9b9...
by nine_k | 2026-02-12 00:42:07+00:00
I don't think it's beyond their comprehension to ask: "how can I have a chat system that I personally control?" The rest will be taken care of.

Look at the Amnezia VPN. It's an app that helps you buy a VPS from a range of cloud provides, then sets it up, completely from the phone, as an exit node under user control.

I don't see why a chat server cannot be set up and managed this way. It only takes one dedicated developer to produce.
by icedchai | 2026-02-12 00:42:18+00:00
Yes, if it can't answer this common sense question correctly, what else has it screwed up and buried among all that slop?

Claude Opus 4.6 failed at first, even in "extended thinking" mode. I had to give it a pretty big hint for it to get the right answer: "Remember, my goal is to actually wash the car!" Only then did it get the correct answer. I will now call myself a Prompt Engineer.
by mrob | 2026-02-12 00:43:08+00:00
He could have introduced a second level of narrative nesting with a single title card at the beginning. Something like "United Citizen Federation presents: Heroes of the Bug Wars" would have made it clear. Lacking evidence to the contrary we have to assume it works like every other movie. Failing to provide this evidence when it would have been easy to do so is bad film-making.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-02-12 00:43:31+00:00
"If a woman sings in a high voice with a girly-girl image, she will tend to attract men."
You mean attract them sexually? maybe. I don't know any guys who are musically into the celine dions or mariah carey's.

"If a handsome crooner with a deep voice sings sweet love songs, their fans will consist of hetero women."
Maybe, but male tenors will get that and more, and it's been that way since I was a young man non-tenor in a choir.

From a '96 Royko column:

"Then there are their voices. Clinton's voice is high-pitched. Dole's is much deeper. Does that matter? You bet it does. Clinton has a voice for today. Just listen to popular rock music. All of the singers have high- pitched, eunuch-like voices. It's almost impossible to tell the men from the women, if there is any difference.
There was a long-gone time when a baritone such as Perry Como or a bass such as Vaughn Monroe topped the hit charts; when a deep-voiced singer would bellow: "Old Man River, that Old Man River... he don't plant taters, he don't plant cotton." But today, the lyrics would have to be changed to "Old Person River, that Old Person River... he or she does not plant potatoes or cotton because the work is demeaning."

And today's deep-voiced singers are found only in the country music field, self-pitying losers groaning about their two-timing women going honky-tonkying and leaving them with a sink full of dishes and not one beer in the fridge. Their fans will be too"
by Aurornis | 2026-02-12 00:43:54+00:00
Age verification requires a document that can be matched to your ID, such as by the photo on your ID card.

Credit cards don't have photos.

> How many Americans wouldn't be able to present a CC or ID?

The number of Americans who don't have a government issued photo ID is estimated around 1%. The number gets larger if you start going by technicalities like having an expired ID that hasn't been renewed yet.

The intersection between the 1% of 18+ Americans who don't have an ID and those who want to fully verify their Discord accounts is probably a very small number.
by glaucon | 2026-02-12 00:44:36+00:00
The article is a little difficult to read so perhaps I missed this.

Surely a key determinant in making your project closed source is your willingness to cut yourself off from dependencies with strong copyleft licences? And, correct me if I'm wrong, this is true at whatever depth of dependency the copyleft licensed dependency is found, which in some environments ("hello npm registry") is going to exclude an awful lot of code.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-12 00:44:48+00:00
We might categorize new code repos into one of three groups:

Class 1: Fully reviewed: Every line is carefully reviewed and understood before being merged. All necessary edits are made.

Class 2: Partially reviewed: Every line is looked at, but is not carefully reviewed or understood before being merged. Edits are sparse, if any.

Class 3: Not reviewed (true vibe coding): Edits are not reviewed (outside of a major accidental deletion). The trust is altogether in the tests. Functional behavior is
all that is reviewed.

Granted, orthogonal adjustments to this grouping are possible, but imho it captures the essence of the process.

The point is to classify each new repo at the time of its creation, then stick with it. Its classification should be documented in its readme.
by themafia | 2026-02-12 00:45:10+00:00
> In fact, the LLM makes no errors at all.

hah. Sure.

> Subjects were told that they were a judge who sat in a certain jurisdiction (either Wyoming or South Dakota), and asked to apply the forum state’s choice of law rule to determine whether Kansas or Nebraska law should apply to a tort case involving an automobile accident that took place in either Kansas or Nebraska.

Oh. So it "made no errors at all" with respect to one very small aspect of a very contrived case.

Hand it conflicting laws. Pit it against federal and state disagreements. Let's bring in some complicated fourth amendment issues.

"no errors."

That's the Chicago school for you. Nothing but low hanging fruit.
by xanderlewis | 2026-02-12 00:46:19+00:00
I'm sure you don't have the brain of a gnat, and, even if you did, it probably wouldn't prevent you from understanding this.

As for whether these definitions have a clear meaning that one can relate to 'the world': I think so. To take just one example (I could do more), finite-dimensional means exactly what you think it means, and you certainly understand what I mean when I say our world is finite (or three, or four, or n) dimensional.

Commutative also means something very down to earth: if you understand why a*b = b*a or why putting your socks on and then your shoes and putting your shoes on and then your socks lead to different outcomes, you understand what it means for some set of actions to be commutative.

And so on.

These notions, like all others, have their origin in common sense and everyday intuition. They're not cooked up in a vacuum by some group of pretentious mathematicians, as much as that may seem to be the case.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-12 00:46:32+00:00
The concept of identity doesn't necessarily have to be embodied by a piece of physical plastic that goes into a wallet.

Ad-hoc identification can occur via other means like dynamic knowledge based authentication. The sources of this mechanism can be literally anything. Social media itself being one obvious source for the target cohort.

You can walk into many US financial institutions without an ID and still get really far using KBA workflows. The back office will hassle you for a proper scan of a physical ID, but you can often get an account open and funded with just KBA.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-12 00:46:36+00:00
The main issue is that fearmongering, aggressive marketing (as seen here), and subsidized pricing has convinced people to buy that spyware. The playbook is very much the same as for the Alexa and other "bugs" people now willingly pay for and place in the middle of their homes, constantly recording and monitoring their activities.

In reality, these cameras are next to useless when it comes to protecting the owners as seen in other news. If you fear a home invasion, it's a shotgun that you need, not a Ring camera.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-12 00:46:47+00:00
this is already how the EU infrastructure for digital ID works, basically. Using public/private keys on your national id, the government functions as a root authority that you (and other trusted verifiers downstream) can identify you with and commercial platforms only get a yes/no when you want to identify yourself but have no access to any data.

South Korea also has had various versions of this even going back to ~2004 I think.
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-02-12 00:47:00+00:00
> Imagine your own product. You likely won’t expect users 5 years from today to navigate 5 pages deep, apply filters and sort data just to try to derive the answer themselves… will you?

Yes, I do, because outside of tech circles, AI adoption is not as pervasive/ universal as the loudest voices keep suggesting. I’m not dismissing its value, but gentle reminder to spend more time around nontechnical people, listen to how they feel about the tech, and pay attention to how they engage with it when offered.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-12 00:47:18+00:00
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?

Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich

Von 99 Luftballons

Auf ihrem Weg zum ... well, El Paso as it turns out.

the English rewrite of course starts:

You and I in a little toyshop

Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got

Set them free at the break of dawn

'til one by one, they were gone...
by arctic-true | 2026-02-12 00:47:51+00:00
What’s interesting here from a legal perspective is that they acknowledge a somewhat unsettled question of law regarding South Dakota’s choice-of-law regime. The AI got the “right” answer every time, but I am curious to know if it ever grappled with the uncertainty. This is the trouble with the concept of AI judging: in almost any case, you are going to stumble across one fact or another that’s not in the textbooks or an unsettled question of law. Even the simplest slip-and-falls can throw weird curveballs. Perhaps a sufficiently advanced AI can reason from first principles about how to understand these new situations or extend existing law to meet them. But in such a case there is no “right” answer, and certainly not a verifiable answer for the AI to sniff out. At least at the federal level, judicial power is only vested in people nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate - in other words, by people who are chosen by, and answer to, the people’s elected representatives. Often, unappointed magistrates and special masters will come in to help deal with simpler issues, and perhaps in time AI systems will be able to pick up some of this slack. But when the law needs to evolve or change, we cannot put judicial power in the hands of an unappointed and unaccountable piece of software.
by sitharus | 2026-02-12 00:48:14+00:00
Your job is to make sure the number of people harmed _while using the device as intended in a reasonable situation_ is as close to 0 as possible.

A domestic microwave is for use only on land, indoors, in a domestic kitchen, and in an unmodified form. In these conditions there is no conceivable way that salt water could saturate the main board, or bypass all the interlocks in another way.

Yes there are ways that all the safety systems can be bypassed, but not while a reasonable person is using the device as intended.
Show HN: DeleteTik – Bulk delete TikTok reposts
by lysddp | 2026-02-12 00:48:33+00:00
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by epistasis | 2026-02-12 00:49:37+00:00
> Every platform on earth Shadow Banned and blocked people if you said anything other than "Safe and Effective"...

Absolutely false. Safety of this vaccine was talked about all over. I did it, and I was never shadow banned.

Somehow there was enough discussion of this specific vaccine to enable a recall, even!

Search the news and it was all over at the time, found a ton of articles just now with a web search. There's so much documentary evidence to directly contradict your very weird claims.

If you were shadowbanned, it was either a very rare occurrence, or perhaps you were talking about something else?
by tialaramex | 2026-02-12 00:50:13+00:00
The UK hasn't produced enough gas in the North Sea to actually run the country for a very long time, maybe ever. Anybody who sells you a dream about British gas for British people isn't telling you the truth and it doesn't matter whether they are lying or incompetent, you can't trust anything they say.

America, Russia and a handful of other places could do this. It's probably a terrible idea, but it is technically possible. However Britain is not one of those places.
by bostonvaulter2 | 2026-02-12 00:51:03+00:00
> To be clear: we re-purposed verbose mode to do exactly what you are asking for. We kept the name "verbose mode", but the behavior is what you want, without the other verbose output.

Verbose mode feels far too verbose to handle that. It’s also very hard to “keep your place” when toggling into verbose mode to see a specific output.
by jagged-chisel | 2026-02-12 00:51:03+00:00
I don't follow your reasoning at all. Without a specific input stating that you can't be your own victim, how would the AI catch this? In what cases does that specific input even make sense? Attempted suicide removes one's own autonomy in the eyes of the law in many ways in our world - would the aforementioned specific input negate appropriate decisions about said autonomy?

I don't see how an AI / LLM can cope with this correctly.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-12 00:51:53+00:00
> but the basics that he tried to fight with elephants is highly likely. We have plenty of sources for War Elephants in his time, so the idea that he didn't have them would be the larger surprise if someone could prove that.

Just to add to your point: Many many cultures have used elephants in their armies, so the only real bone of contention (oh god I do love my puns) would have been that Hannibal was using them on the European continent.
by aydyn | 2026-02-12 00:52:35+00:00
> Just for one instance, bug I ran into a few hours ago (persisting in 26.3!) is that, sometimes, you can't even open the lock screen. It just wiggles.

Even if true, which I haven't experienced, that doesn't sound like a problem with glass.

> The performance continues to be very poor, rendering far below the 120fps target that iOS 18 hit consistently. This persists with 26.3.

Do you realize how tiny of a minority you are in to complain about this, much less even notice it?
by da_chicken | 2026-02-12 00:52:38+00:00
Yeah, that already exists.

Protocol multiplexing/demultiplexing is a feature of software like sslh, nginx, and HAProxy exist, and they don't need to listen on multiple ports to speak multiple protocols or connect multiple services. Many advanced reverse proxies can do this with stream sniffing of some flavor.

People already do actually run everything through port 443 simultaneously.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-12 00:53:08+00:00
> The main job of a judicial system is to appear just to people.

Agree 100%. This is also the only form of argument in favor of capital punishment that has ever made me stop and think about my stance. I.e. we have capital punishment because without it we may get vigilante justice that is much worse.

Now, whether that's how it would actually play out is a different discussion, but it did make me stop and think for a moment about the purpose of a justice system.
by themafia | 2026-02-12 00:53:15+00:00
> If AI wants to own the internet

As if. It's corporations that want to own _your eyeballs_.

It also kills any incentive to publish anything.

It completely removes the user from having any agency over the sources of information they are presented with.

> My hope is that you will embrace the change

Some people get so caught up with the technology they seem to forget they're charging straight into the most boring dystopia imaginable.