MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ouhamouch | 2026-02-20 21:08:41+00:00
They are owner of ArsTechnica which wrote 3rd (or 4th?) article on AT in a row painting it in certain colors.

The article about FBI subpoena that pulled J.P's speculations out of the closet was also in ArsTechnica and by the same author, and that same article explicitly mentioned how they are happy with 12ft down
by jopsen | 2026-02-20 21:08:49+00:00
> Apple will not do anything for actual malware when reported with receipts, besides sending you a form letter assuring you "experts will look into it, now fuck off"

Ask while you are in an EU country, request appeal and initiate Out-of-court dispute resolution.

Or better yet: let the platform suck, and let this be the year of the linux desktop on iPhone :)
by Groxx | 2026-02-20 21:08:52+00:00
If software filters are reducing total light by 50% while only affecting blue-ish tones, and that's a total light level comparable to multiple brightness steps on a Mac... tbh I think it's reducing it quite a lot. Many I see using them (myself included) don't tweak brightness when enabling it, and many (all?) systems don't adjust their brightness to match the perceived change from a software filter (on my Linux machines in particular I have never seen this happen, don't know about Macs though).

Half is not a lot, sure, but their ultimate suggestion is to do the same ~half change:

>You can decrease the amount of light coming from your screen by more than half simply by dimming the screen by several notches.

which is definitely significantly more than I see people doing voluntarily in the hundreds of millions.

Do they have any evidence that people are raising system brightness to match the 50% loss from the filter? If not, it still seems like a rather significant mark in their favor. Perhaps not sufficient to meet the goals (they seem to be recommending a larger change, but aren't specific), but I see no claim that a lesser decrease in light is worse.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-02-20 21:08:56+00:00
> I'm not understanding either what you're claiming or why you believe it. Keep in mind that I don't believe in always taking what the government says at face value.

There was no punishment for not following the government's recommendation or reward for following it.

> Why would I be desperate? I've no skin in this game, beyond a general wish not to have legitimate and important speech suppressed and censored.

You're desperate because you claimed that the government had censored COVID speech, and I showed that it had not, which makes it difficult for you to advance your nonsensical "both sides" narrative.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-20 21:09:25+00:00
Hypothetically, any document, article, work, or object could be uniquely identified by an appropriate URI or URN, but in practice, http URLs are how editors cite external resources.

The URLs proved to be less permanent than expected, and so the issue of "linkrot" was addressed, mostly at the Internet Archive, and then through wherever else could bypass paywalls and stash the content.

All content hosted by the WMF project wikis is licensed Creative Commons or compatible licenses, with narrow exceptions for limited, well-documented Fair Use content.
by jameslk | 2026-02-20 21:09:41+00:00
1. Consumption is endless. The more we can consume, the more we will. That's why automation hasn't led to more free time. We spend the money on better things and more things

2. Businesses operate in an (imperfect) zero-sum game, which means if they can all use AI, there's no advantage they have. If having human resources means one business has a slight advantage over another, they will have human resources

Consumption leads to more spending, businesses must stay competitive so they hire humans, and paying humans leads to more consumption.

I don't think it's likely we will see the end of employment, just disruption to the type of work humans do
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-20 21:09:53+00:00
I tend to read man pages in Emacs, which comes with a 'man' command (invoking that executable) and a 'woman' command (an alternative implemented entirely within Emacs), which both implement a basic amount of hyperlinking in their display. For example, I just tried it with the 'rg' manual (first suggestion when I ran `man`), which says:

> Like other tools such as ls, ripgrep will alter its output

That `ls` is marked-up, so pressing RET on it will open the manual for the `ls` command; which includes:

> FORMAT is interpreted like in date(1).

Again, that `date` is marked up, so pressing RET on it `date` will open the manual for the `date` command; etc.

It's obviously just going on heuristics though; e.g. the `ls` manual has marked-up the `--sort` option, and if I hit RET on that it takes me to the manual for the `sort` command ;-)
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-20 21:09:59+00:00
> Meta runs ads, and they can use AI to help advertisers create content, target people, engage, etc.

It is hard to imagine the level of spending they are doing if that is the sum total of their use case: shoring up a moat for which there really aren't any significant competitors in the first place. It seems like it can only be justified by eventually rolling out some kind of subscription service for... something, but for the life of me I can't think of what they might be able to actually sell to people or corps.
by lesuorac | 2026-02-20 21:10:40+00:00
> The problem is that there is no real feedback mechanism between a what a congress person votes for and their electibility

You would describe this as being different from competitive?

I doubt any amount of money would matter if we had 1 representative per 30k people as written in the constitution, NY State is about 20 M people so you'd need to bribe ~300 of the ~600 representatives in order to get your way (and also do that for every other state).
by jajuuka | 2026-02-20 21:10:52+00:00
>But Google said… Said what? That there’s a magical “advanced flow”? Did you see it? Did anyone experience it? When is it scheduled to be released? Was it part of Android 16 QPR2 in December? Of 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 last week? Of Android 17 Beta 1? No? That’s the issue

A bit ironic to not believe Google is doing this. The same questions have same answers when asked about when Google is locking down side loading. A bit self-serving to pick and choose which things you want to believe are happening.
by eastbayjake | 2026-02-20 21:12:18+00:00
This dynamic carries into Threads, where Meta AI slop is aggressively pushed in the feed.

There's also a significant amount of viral content that is clearly an older person's Facebook post which was intended for only friends but got pushed to the public feed of a Threads account that may have been created by accident -- or default -- when Facebook blitz-scaled user numbers after launch. The posts are always hundreds of people piling on about someone posting a photo of their teenager in an embarrassing situation, with the original poster probably blissfully unaware that they're getting publicly dragged on Threads.

Check your parents' phones to see if they're publicly cross-posting on accident!
by skydhash | 2026-02-20 21:12:25+00:00
Have you ever been tasked to maintain a badly coded legacy app? Have you ever read some snippet that is so clear you don’t have anything to edit? Those are the opposite points of things. It’s not objective because the computer doesn’t care anyway.

It’s like a well written prose vs a drunk’s rambling. They could describe the same scene, but one is much pleasurable to listen to. Or strolling through a well-tended garden vs walking in a landfill.

So it’s subjective, but you know instinctively what you prefer to work with.
by neo_doom | 2026-02-20 21:12:34+00:00
The AI slop problem is not going away, unfortunately. Its surprising that the social media companies don't see AI slop as an existential threat to their platform? I guess its an indicator of how low we've sunk that 'any' engagement is good engagement.

If it was up to me, I think AI content should be OPT IN. I must choose to view AI content and not be force fed from the conveyor of slop. This is where governments should legislate but we'll never see this happen.
by nazgulsenpai | 2026-02-20 21:12:41+00:00
I'm so exhausted of the partisan "my team vs your team" politics in the US that shuts down conversation, overlooks the blatant hypocrisies on either side, simplifies every issue to a single label to plaster on your opponent, etc etc.

I take honest conversation where I can get it, even when I don't agree. And to be clear I don't agree with most of your points and think it's idealistic and couldn't work in the real world. But I appreciate the spirit of what you're arguing for (in my interpretation) power with the people vs power with corporations and government and I think that's a very fundamental principle that is very important common ground.

edit: clarity
by overgard | 2026-02-20 21:13:14+00:00
I'm using Claude Code (and Codex) (with the expensive subscriptions) on an app I'm building right now. I'm trying to be maximalist with them (to learn the most I can about them .. and also that subscription isn't cheap!). My impression, and yes, this is using the latest models and harness and all that would agree with the GP. They're a very handy tool. They make me faster. They also do a lot of things that, as a professional software developer, I have to frequently correct. They duplicate code like nobodies business. They decide on weird boundaries for functions and parameters. They undo bug fixes they just made. I think they're useful, but the hype is out of control. I would not trust software made with these tools by someone that couldn't write that software by hand. It might work superficially, but I'm definitely not giving any personal data to a vibe coded app with all the security implications.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-20 21:13:27+00:00
For all of the "saturated market" talk, I always think of the following examples:

- Restaurant Row in NYC is full of packed restaurants b/c people like variety and the demand is high enough to have multiple market participants

- Clorox is a chemical with a fancy bottle and a lot of marketing. They make $150 million+ profit a QUARTER on this [0]

- As someone once said: if it's visible and people see it as part of their identity, there are many brands e.g. clothes, cars etc. If it's not visible, there are fewer brands e.g. underwear

- The ability to personalize applications has been around for over 20 years but people still want predictable user interfaces so they can share with friends, spouses etc

0 - https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/clorox-posts-lower-pro...
by krapp | 2026-02-20 21:13:58+00:00
- allows comments

- allows multiline strings

- no quotes around keys

this is just Lua tables

- no commas

now it's just s-expressions?

also JSON is already made for humans. I've seen a lot of people claim it isn't but I can't fathom that - it was literally created as a text-based format for humans to manually write in a text editor. If it were "made for machines" it would be bytecode.

I'm not saying this is bad but.. meh? Do we really need another bespoke JSON format that mostly does what Lua tables already do?
by Digit-Al | 2026-02-20 21:14:04+00:00
If you are on the mobile app, click on the burger menu and select "Feeds". You will then have a page that has tabs at the top. "All" will be selected by default, but if you select "Friends" you will see only posts from your friends. If you have completely caught up it will be empty and will say that you have caught up and seen everything your friends have posted. There are still ads, but you don't get all the reels, and crap posted by people you don't know.
by fragmede | 2026-02-20 21:14:16+00:00
I want to point out explicitly that .git config supports aliases, so in .gitconfig put an [alias] section, and in that you can put
ciaclean = "!alias ciaclean='git branch --merged origin/main | grep -vE "^\s(*|main|develop)" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d'"

so then it's `git ciaclean` and not bare `ciaclean` which imo is cleaner.
by palata | 2026-02-20 21:14:54+00:00
How do you mean that?

Each password is a PGP-encrypted file, encrypted to security keys. The files are backed up in different places, including my laptop and my phone. The password manager app runs offline, so it has no reason to suddenly fail, but even if it did, my passwords are just encrypted with PGP, so I will never be "locked out".

I find it very unlikely that it would get compromised: again it's encrypted to security keys. If my device is compromised, the attacker can extract the passwords that I decrypt while the attacker has control, but not the whole database.

To lose my passwords, I would need to simultaneously lose all the copies (on my devices, and on the cloud). To lose access to my passwords, I would need to simultaneously lose all security keys.

Doesn't feel like a single point of failure. Or do I misunderstand what you mean by that?
Show HN: Cerebro – I got tired of waiting for Apple to fix their keyboard
by hendricius | 2026-02-20 21:15:40+00:00
Hey HN,

Like many of you, I've been frustrated with the iOS keyboard for years. Autocorrect gets worse with every update. Switching between languages is painful. Dictation dumps raw unformatted text. Apple doesn't seem to care.

So instead of switching to Android, I built Cerebro. It's a custom iOS keyboard that uses AI to actually help you write.

How it works: you type (or speak) what you want to say, pick a mode, and Cerebro rewrites it. That's it. No app switching, no copy-pasting into ChatGPT.

The feature that changed everything for me: Translation + Tone combined. I'm German, and I write messages in both languages all day. Now I just talk in German, pick "Professional English," and get a polished email. Or I write quick notes and pick "Friendly" to get something natural.

Other modes: grammar cleanup, summarize, expand, and you can create your own custom prompts.

Some background: I'm actually a bread baker. I run a YouTube channel called The Bread Code (350K subscribers) teaching people how to bake sourdough. But I'm also a software engineer, and this keyboard started as a side project to solve my own problem.

Built in Swift. Currently in TestFlight beta.

Try it: https://testflight.apple.com/join/x98U4HCk
Website: https://cerebro-keyboard.app

Would love to hear what you think. Happy to answer questions about the keyboard extension API (it's... interesting to work with).
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-20 21:15:41+00:00
Congrats, and thanks for your work, but you should be aware that HN comments are completely different from articles. What makes you think the skills/automations required to identify LLM generated HN comments will work seamlessly with submitted articles? You have to do a statistical analysis of this, otherwise it's just guesswork.

You also have to take into account that the medium is the message[1]. In a nutshell, the more people read LLM generated posts and interact with chatbots, the higher the influence of LLM style in their writing -- the whole "delve" comes to mind, and double dashes. So even if you have a machine that correctly identified LLM generated posts, you can't be sure it'll keep working.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf
by paxys | 2026-02-20 21:15:43+00:00
When you are acting in good faith and the person/organization on the other end isn't, you aren't having a productive discussion or negotiation, just wasting your own time.

The only sensible approach here would have been to cease all correspondence after their very first email/threat. The nation of Malta would survive just fine without you looking out for them and their online security.
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-20 21:15:50+00:00
I've never used kubectl, but I just came across https://github.com/andykuszyk/noman.el which is an Emacs interface for browsing the `--help` output of commands:

> I primarily wrote this package to navigate the command line help from kubectl and aws, both of which have nested sub-commands, and quite verbose (and helpful!) command line help.

> Neither of these programs ships with man pages, or similar offline documentation. I find myself consulting the command line help often, but struggling to find the experience very ergonomic.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-20 21:16:41+00:00
> "Feels good to me" is hardly evidence to begin with

Where did I say anything like that? Please don't mischaracterize my comment, that's not helpful. It's not that it "feels good", it's that it helps at least some people fall asleep more easily, and I know this from personal experience. And many, many other people have written that it does the same for them.

> "Blue light effects" have always had highly questionable evidence behind it... But now that you are reminded that it is actually bullshit

You're right that the evidence for it is questionable. But you know what else there's no conclusive evidence for? That hot herbal tea helps you fall asleep. Or soothing music. Or bedtime stories. Because the funding usually isn't there to perform the kind of large-scale studies required to establish these things, because it's just not a priority or even a good use of our dollars. And lack of evidence for, is not the same as evidence against.

My point is, nothing in this article does establish that it is "actually bullshit". That's a gross misreading of the science, and that's what I'm criticizing the article over.

People experiment with things and discover what works and what doesn't. Again, nobody's going around complaining that there's no scientific evidence lullabyes don't help put you to sleep. And neither lullabyes, nor turning your lights down to amber, have anything to do with homeopathy. You can't possibly suggest they're doing harm. People aren't using amber lighting at night instead of getting their cancer treated.

But for some reason, low amber lighting to help with sleep makes you and the article author upset? Why? Why does that make you upset, but not hot tea or lullabyes? Or do those make you upset too?
by Crespyl | 2026-02-20 21:17:00+00:00
Allowing the owner of the device root access doesn't necessarily break the security model. It just means that the user can grant additional privileges to specific apps the owner has decided to trust. Every other app still has to abide by the restrictions.

The fact that Android complains and tells any app that asks whether the owner actually, you know, owns the device they paid for is an implementation detail.

A Linux distribution that adopts an Android style security model could easily still provide the owner root access while locking down less trusted apps in such a way that the apps can't know or care whether the device is rooted.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-20 21:17:17+00:00
Yes, 100%, all the way, full send.

edit: to add clarity, I'm going to leverage full placebo and happiness to my advantage: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12883117/

I'm refute any negative emotions as they are counter-productive. I reject fear of the unknown, and I instead believe happy thoughts.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-20 21:18:48+00:00
>Do you agree with countries doing the opposite to the US?

If their laws allow their leaders to enact tariffs then sure, they're welcome to do it. Foreign relations is complicated. Different countries operate differently. In the US, Congress is supposed to levy taxes and impose tariffs. Not the president. This game of nibbling (now chomping) at the edges of that clearly outlined role needs to end.

>When for example US tech is better than the local alternative but the countries create unfair advantages to the local alternatives?

We can still enact tariffs and similar policies. This just says the President can't just called everything a national emergency and go to town. We have the same mechanisms they do.
by fn-mote | 2026-02-20 21:18:51+00:00
> Can I get compensation from UPS or FedEx for making me pay illegal tariffs - and making me pay a fee to them for processing it too?

I can see why you are mad, but it seems like the were fulfilling their legal obligation (at the time).

The good news is that having directly paid UPS and not a middleman makes it much more likely that you will receive the money back. If anybody does.
by overgard | 2026-02-20 21:18:51+00:00
AFAIK you can't copyright AI generated content. I don't know where that gets blurry when it's mixed in with your own content (ie, how much do you need to modify it to own it), but I think that by that definition these companies couldn't claim your code at all. Also, with the lawsuit that happened to Anthropic where they had to pay billions for ingesting copyrighted content, it might actually end up working the other way around.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-20 21:18:56+00:00
The author managed to find the strangest people & phenomena in San Francisco and make it sound like they’re a complete picture of life there. But there are packed brunch spots and parks on sunny weekends that would disagree very strongly.

San Francisco is a tolerant place. Tolerance is how you get Juicero or Theranos and whatever Cluely seems to have pivoted to, but it’s also how you get Twitter, Uber, Dropbox.. and thousands of others.

So it is crucial to consider proportionality. Taking some bad with some good results in getting a little bit of bad and a hell of a lot of good. But if you aren’t careful, all you’ll see is the bad.
by mindslight | 2026-02-20 21:19:45+00:00
I'm definitely not looking to let anybody off the hook here. I'd sum up my point as tacit support is still support, especially when we're talking about owners of media empires. One can understand how an industrialist that produces widgets and gadgets might not want to get involved in politics, regardless of what happens. But in media you're effectively in politics, and you're going to be involved even if you try and stay out.

FWIW your post nudged me to focus on Costco again. I had signed up for a membership to buy some appliances, but I haven't really incorporated it my day to day household purchases. A bit of activation energy because their warehouse is somewhat far away, the parking lot is always swamped, their website experience is clunky and hostile, etc. But I should at least be able to add them to the rotation.
by raincole | 2026-02-20 21:20:05+00:00
I have an account to follow artists on X. Surprisingly, it never pushes even one single blatant AI artist to my feed (not saying I'm an expert to recognize AI-generate artworks, but I've done digital painting as a side gig and.) There might be some paintover or more subtle ones that eluded my radar, but I've never seen the typical AI styles on my timeline.

However, if you check posts remotely related to the US politics the reply section is out of control.

I honestly believe out of Reddit, Facebook, Bsky and X, X is the one with the most reasonable timeline algorithm[0]. Reddit and Facebook are unusable except for very specific reasons (asking questions in certain apps' subs/groups). Most people I know irl moved to instagram though.

[0]: Bsky is the worst, but interestingly if you use a third-party feed like 'For You' it's on par with X, just less traffic.
by denkmoon | 2026-02-20 21:20:11+00:00
Not OP, but when I got glasses as an adult and while they really improved the sharpness of my vision I could feel my unassisted vision getting worse, so I stopped using them and get by with slightly unfocused but unassisted vision. I assume if I wore them full time my unassisted vision would degrade to the point where I then need the glasses full time.