MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colinnordin | 2026-02-18 19:03:15+00:00
Everyone now have access to a tool that makes them nearly as powerful as only the most creative builders were before.

But these new builders have a tool, they don’t suddenly have a newfound creativity.

I think with time we will stop seeing what we consider AI slop, simply because we know it’s not worth sharing. Instead great creative people will share very impressive things that simply wasn’t possible to build before.
by dxdm | 2026-02-18 19:03:29+00:00
My dog does this thing where she picks a stick and gets you to pull on it, and she will pull on her end, too. She gets very focused on it. Pulling on the stick is the most important thing to her in that moment, when in fact it's just a stick she chose to turn into this tug of war.

That's not entirely unlike what you're doing here. You latched onto a misunderstanding of OP's intent, and by making a thing out of it got people to pull back, and now you also keep tugging on your end.

Except she does it on purpose and enjoys it, while I think you did it inadvertently and you do not seem that happy. But then, you're not a dog, of course.

You could stop pulling on the stick. I do enjoy these doggy similes, though. :)
by jonhohle | 2026-02-18 19:03:43+00:00
They’ve proven themselves to be bad actors with no moral compass. No different than street drug dealers, casinos, traffickers, or any other predatory industry. They should’ve regulated as such.

I don’t have any problem with old-timey “Dishsoap Brand Dishsoap sponsored this content. They want you to know that a dish isn’t clean unless it’s Dishsoap clean!” Type ads. Much beyond that should no longer be tolerated.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-18 19:03:47+00:00
Most posted on HN barely know what a subnet is so it's not that simple

There's two key features

1) Tunnel management

Tailscale will configure your p2p tunnels itself - if you have 10 devices, to do that yourself you'd have to manage 90 tunnels. Add another device and that goes upto 100. Remove a device and you have 9 other devices to update.

2) Firewall punching

They provide an orchestration system which allows two devices both behind a nat or stateful firewall to communicate with each other without having to open holes in the firewall (because most firewalls will allow "established" connections - including measuring established UDP as "packet went from ipa:porta to ipb:portb 'outbound', thus until a timeout period any traffic from ipb:portb to ipa:porta will be let through (and natted as appropriate)".

The orchestration sends traffic from ipa to ipb and ipb to ipa on known ports at the same time so both firewalls think the traffic is established. For nats which do source-port scrambling it uses the birthday paradox to get a matching stream.

I believe you can run a similar headend using "headscale" yourself.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-18 19:04:01+00:00
> curious, how were these notices served to you when you were receiving them? Were they sent to the colo who forwarded them to you?

Yup, they would send their spam to `abuse@provider.tld` regarding an IP address, my provider would look up the IP address and forward it to me.

Presumably if they ever cared to escalate they could file a lawsuit and subpoena the provider for my identity, but they never did. They're looking for easy settlements and that would cost time and money.
by miyoji | 2026-02-18 19:04:21+00:00
That isn't what it's saying and I don't think the idea that "execution is what matters" is even true, other than to point out that ideas aren't valuable by themselves.

This is about marketing, about getting people to know and care that the thing you built exists. You can execute perfectly (in terms of making a great product) and not get a single eyeball.
by c22 | 2026-02-18 19:04:24+00:00
I agree in general, but defining an appropriate target seems intractable at the moment. Perhaps it is something the AIs will have to define for themselves.

I think real intelligences are working with myriad such targets, but an adversarial environment seems essential for developing intelligence along this axis.

I do think if there's a path to AGI from current efforts it will be through game play, but that could just be the impressionable kid who watched Wargames in the 80s speaking through me.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 19:04:35+00:00
> Someone has to wipe our Boomer arses. An aging population means more healthcare and less of everything else

And a much more intense shift to financialization.

Pension funds tends to target an IRR of around 20-30%, and it is they that are the biggest pools of capital that funds invest.

You ain't hitting that amount of IRR without an extreme degree of financial ruthlessness.
by neom | 2026-02-18 19:04:59+00:00
They often WERE creative geniuses with a digital camera! Brilliant people! In fact they were the ones who came and went the fastest, what makes you useful in industry is very frequently nothing to do with genius or creativity or mastery of the tools. It's things like reliability, stability, team spirit, open mindedness etc.

Creative genius is one game, but it's far from the only, or even, main one.

Hope you feel better. <3
by thrwyexecbrain | 2026-02-18 19:05:15+00:00
The Zig maintainers clearly think that keeping up with the undocumented native API is less headache than using the documented but notoriously inelegant win32 API.

This might very well be a good idea. Microsoft is not going to change a vital piece of their OS just on a whim. I would wager that even if they wanted to, they would not be able to do so that easily. A large organization maintaining a large software with a billion users just does not move that fast.
by scoofy | 2026-02-18 19:05:51+00:00
So, I really felt like more people should be reading Nassim Taleb's Incerto series of books. A lot of the issues that fall out of AI he dealt with in his books like ten years ago.

He gives one the best pieces of advice I've ever heard: if you are going to do something for a living, make sure it is NOT scalable.

If you do something that isn't really scalable, like being a welder or a tailor, then you only have to compete against the tailors in your neighborhood, and you can easily find a neighborhood that doesn't have a tailor. If you're building a scalable product, you'll always be competing against the best, most well funded, smartest people in the room.

Everyone here has grown up in the birth of the internet -- a once in ever event -- where building something scalable was just there for the taking. That's never going to exist again basically.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-18 19:06:01+00:00
You don't enforce that, the owner (or the owner's parents, etc) of the device set that policy. MDMs can all already do this, there just needs to be a more user-friendly/consumer focused MDM to allow parents to control their kids devices. Just have it warn "Out of country sites may not follow your device policy, do you want to block them (Y/n)?"
by blacklion | 2026-02-18 19:06:08+00:00
It is not only about regulating huge businesses.

For example, EU has effective definition of electric bicycle, electric moped and electric motorcycle. It is three different classes of vehicles, with strict technical thresholds for properties. You always can say what you see.

These three classes of vehicles require different licenses (no license for bicycle, AM or B for moped and A1/A2/A for motorcycle), different insurance, different equipment (helmet). They can be ridden on different roads (and bicycle roads), etc.

Here, in the Netherlands teenagers (their parents) buy "Fat bikes". Thy are effectively electric mopeds (1000W+ of power, mode when you don't need to pedal, etc), but of course it is hidden mode, and "by default" they are limited as electric bicycles. Only saddle is not adjustable, they weight 20+ kg and it is impossible to ride them as bicycles, you will damage your knees very quickly.

So, all teenager ride them as if they be bicycles (no helmets, no license plates, no insurance, no nothing, on the bicycle paths), in moped mode: very fast (faster than 30km/h), powerful, etc.

Everybody sane hate them. Every city discuss how to ban them completely. Every magistrate want new regulations. But each new definition of "fat bike" is leaky!

There is NO any bribing or "sponsors".

But everybody wants some new regulations when there are perfectly clear regulations. Problem is, you need to do checks of these bikes. You need confiscate vehicles which violate rules, you need raids. Police don't want to do this.

Ok, some Magistrate will come up with definition of "Fat bike" to ban them. What will change? Nothing. Now police has all legislations to regulate this madness. But it don't want to spend resources for this. What new definition of "fat bike" will change? Nothing.
by bflesch | 2026-02-18 19:06:38+00:00
Are you serious?

The CPU firmware blobs are encrypted and nobody except Intel can see what is running there. A handful of people on the planet have the tools and skills to analyze the chip for backdoors.

A small section of CPU cache could stay powered even though the OS is shut down, persisting the keys that were passed to the AES CPU instruction. As CPU is directly linked to wifi/bluetooth and USB chipsets, exfiltration could be possible both wirelessly and via special USB payload.
by nchagnet | 2026-02-18 19:07:01+00:00
It's definitely quite impressive. You can still really tell that each shot is jarringly different from the previous one. Already in the building it felt like the "background" always changes. It was even more jarring in the car section as the terrain just randomly changes in weird ways. But I guess it makes sense.

Also, I don't know if it was supposed to be a covert ad for the cybertruck, but it reminded how ugly this car is.
by Bender | 2026-02-18 19:07:17+00:00
shuf -i 1-10 -n1
10

shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/usa
saltier

# random 24 char
base64 /dev/urandom | tr -d '/+' | dd bs=24 count=1 2>/dev/null;echo
5seFtWG09vTUc0VCMb3BJ6Al

# random letter
base64 /dev/urandom | tr -d '/+' | sed s/[^[:alpha:]]//g | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null;echo
x

# bash
echo $RANDOM
21178
by throwaway2037 | 2026-02-18 19:07:48+00:00
To clarify your question, are you asking if "AA actually distributes stolen content" (one could argue no, since it is only available by Torrent) or "the stolen contents of AA" (essentially every published book in existance)?

Honestly, in these HN discussions, I am disappointed that people seem very casual about mass piracy of copyrighted works.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-18 19:07:52+00:00
Why is anyone even bothered by this??

Waymo is level 4 self drive. Level 4 is required to autonomously handle all situations it might encounter (they are geofenced, so outside the geofence is not something it's expected to encounter) safely. That does not preclude stopping and calling for help, it just requires that it be able to safely stop itself.

Why do I feel like this whole bit is being stirred up by Tesla to distract from the fact that they aren't making it at level 4?
by ben_w | 2026-02-18 19:08:03+00:00
> Not sure what relevance Musk selling shares has to do with profit they've made. That seems completely irrelevant.

Selling shares for more than the company made in its entire existence, demonstrates the shares are overvalued.

> By comparison GM made 2.7 billion and Stellantis lost 20 billion.

2.7/3.7 = 0.73; GM's market cap is $77.67bn, using them as your framing of the problem gets you to a Tesla market cap of $106.40bn, not their actual ~$1.5T.

And Toyota made 40-45 billion USD profit for each of the last few years, i.e. more than Tesla in its lifetime, while having a market cap that's currently $316.8bn.

Telsa, market cap $1551bn, about 5x that of a company which makes more each year than it did in total, is overpriced. Especially given how harshly both Tesla's profits and sales are declining even in otherwise growing markets.

Telsa could shift the decimal point on its market cap one place and still be overpriced.

Given what they are as a business, they are not in "a phenomenal position financially", they are in an OK position for a normal boring traditional car company and a terrible one for a trillion-dollar market cap club company.

(Numbers from companiesmarketcap.com, in case anyone complains those are out of date).
by kevin061 | 2026-02-18 19:08:07+00:00
State of the art literally just means that it is the latest and most capable, compared with peers.

As such, China launched DeepSeek R1, and they kind of broke the web, because it was pretty good compared with OpenAI, but also fully self-hostable. The self-hostable OpenAI and Meta models just aren't very good, Grok has nothing self-hostable, and I think Gemini only has a small model released.

Meanwhile China has the best self-hostable models, up there with Mistral.

So yes, Chinese AI is SOTA. Maybe not better than the American cloud-based models, but definitely SOTA for self-hostable ones.

Also I think you are wrong about "actual practice". Chinese AIs work great. They are not perfect, but OpenAI Codex also messes up a lot.
by omnimus | 2026-02-18 19:08:15+00:00
Just note i doubt Tailscale were first popular vpn manager as i remember many hobby users are Zerotier converts and also much older products like Hamachi.

Tailscale have build great product around wireguard (which is quite young) and they have great marketing and docs. But they are hardly first VPN service - they might not even be the most popular one.
Show HN: I analyzed 157K HN posts and built skills with guardrails against BS
by buss_jan | 2026-02-18 19:08:25+00:00
Three Claude Code skills for HN posting: /hn-score (87-point scorecard), /hn-spin (content angles + outlines), /hn-optimize (headlines + timing). Built from analysis of 157K+ submissions and the top 31 posts from 2021-2026.
Show HN: See – searchable JSON compression, smaller than ZSTD (on our data)
by Tetsuro | 2026-02-18 19:08:50+00:00
I built SEE (Semantic Entropy Encoding): a page-level JSON/NDJSON format that stays searchable while compressed (exists/pos/eq-style probes), using Bloom+skip + structure-aware encoding.

On our GitHub events dataset, SEE ended up smaller than Zstd-19 while still supporting random access queries:
- combined: 40.4MB vs Zstd 71.8MB (raw 524.1MB) → 7.7% of raw
- str: 9.1MB vs Zstd 9.5MB
- int: 31.3MB vs Zstd 62.3MB
Lookup microbench (one column): p50 ~0.085ms.

Repo + release assets are here:
https://github.com/kodomonocch1/see_proto

NDA eval request (optional):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScV2Ti592K3Za2r_WLU...

Happy to answer questions about the design trade-offs and where this beats “Zstd + separate index”.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-18 19:08:56+00:00
Great minds... I built my own memory harness, called "Argonaut," to move beyond what I thought were Beads' limitations, too. (shoutout to Yegge, tho - rad work)

Regarding your point on standards... that's exactly why I built AAP and AIP. They're extensions to Google's A2A protocol that are extremely easy to deploy (protocol, hosted, self-hosted).

It seemed to me that building this for my own agents was only solving a small part of the big problem. I need observability, transparency, and trust for my own teams, but even more, I need runtime contract negotiation and pre-flight alignment understanding so my teams can work with other teams (1p and 3p).
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-18 19:08:57+00:00
To piggyback[1], agency discussion are orthogonal to affecting outcomes.

Shifting responsibility typically justifies outcomes rather than making meaningful change. It resolves the cognitive dissonance between a negative outcome and inaction.

If one is actually interested in improving the negative result, it doesn't matter what their personal relation to the cause is. The process is simple: make meaningful change to to the system that causally proceeds the outcome.

In your example of obesity, personal responsibility is meaningless if one's goal is to decrease it.

Same with the negative effects of social media. If you care about the consequences, personal responsibility's only effect is to make one ok with inaction.

1. Intended
by Dimittri | 2026-02-18 19:09:31+00:00
Yes exactly! The purpose isn't to create one PR per alert—that would just move noise from one place to another. The bottleneck we're solving is triaging: cutting the noise and turning it into signal. Once we've done that, we fix issues and show you a PR.

I think it works well because we have two deduplication steps and we group based on RCA—both before and after Claude Code analysis.

Severity also helps cut noise by highlighting which problems/solutions to review first. It's easier when the issue comes from a frontend trigger, but many alerts come from backend errors only. In those cases, Claude Code assigns severity based on its understanding of how a broken feature blocks product usage.
by Tetsuro | 2026-02-18 19:09:32+00:00
Repro / proof pointers:

1) Demo pack (10-min): prints ratio/skip/bloom + lookup p50/p95/p99.
2) DD pack: strict decode mismatch checks across 3 datasets (mismatch==0) + run_metrics.json / SUMMARY.md.

If you want, I can share which query shapes we optimize for (exists/pos/eq) and why the “searchable-in-format” approach avoids the usual index consistency tax.
by throwawayq3423 | 2026-02-18 19:09:32+00:00
> Targetted killing of US citizen without a trial via drone strike ( Anwar al-Awlaki )

This was in a literal war zone against a man who literally declared war on the United States.

> Signed 2012 NDAA with 'indefinite detention' provisions

Didn't answer my question. This law targeted terrorists, not mothers of two, driving home from dropping their kids off at school.

> Extended Patriot ACT in 2011 - Re-authorized FISA in 2012

Didn't answer my question.

> Defended post-Snowden NSA metadata collection

Didn't answer my question.

> Seized reporter's property in leak investigation

This appears to be an actual leak investigation done by the DOJ. I don't recall these journalists being arrested, denied a lawyer, etc. I can't find any evidence that this was a legitimate leak investigation done in accordance with the law.

> 'fast and furious'

Reminder, we are talking about domestic surveillance and illegal detainment for political purposes.

Donald Trump has over 6,000 habeas corpus violations working their way through the court system in America right now. Obama had < 10 in 8 years. He is detaining U.S. citizens without cause, without explanation, and subjecting them to torturous conditions.

Your attempt to say both sides are the same is clearly an attempt to sound intelligent like you're above the discourse. You're not.
by Henchman21 | 2026-02-18 19:09:32+00:00
I don't buy this at all. There's significantly more to management than tracking and hitting metrics. You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

I'm sorry, but vomiting up another bulleted list is NOT management. Its giving orders and then culling the % that don't comply. Wildly different things.
by selridge | 2026-02-18 19:09:44+00:00
No one will hire expert generalists at any kind of scale worth caring about. They are WAY too hard to evaluate as such and basically no pipelines exists to do so. Big software companies with cutesy riddles thought they were hiring for this, but they just got specialists with a culture fit.

Expert generalists are also almost impossible to distinguish from bullshitters. It’s why we get along so well with LLMs. ;)
by apenwarr | 2026-02-18 19:09:55+00:00
(Tailscale founder here) Two main differences: first, every DERP server used by your tailnet must be accessible by every node on your tailnet at all times, otherwise you get hard-to-debug netsplits. That's a very high bar to maintain so we've historically recommended you don't try. In contrast, peer relays are "if a given pair of nodes can connect through any of the relays, go for it" so deploying one is always a performance and reliability improvement.

Secondly, peer relays support UDP while DERP is TCP-only. That would be fixable by simply improving the DERP protocol, but as we explored that option, we decided to implement the Peer Relay layer instead as a more complete solution.
by eesmith | 2026-02-18 19:10:10+00:00
Sounds like blockchain hype from 5 - 10 years ago.

Eg, from 2021, "New Zealand businesses need to up their game and adopt a plan to embrace de-centralised technology or are at risk being left behind according to some leading Blockchain advocates." https://www.theprofit.co.nz/blockchain-hawkes-bay/

Another from 2021, https://coingeek.com/2-new-blockchain-bills-head-for-us-sena...

> Soto said the future would see an increased role for blockchain technology, and that the U.S. must move quickly on research and development to avoid being left behind.

> “In order to ensure that the U.S. does not fall behind on research and development, we must embrace blockchain technology and explore all of the ways in which it can help our nation grow.”

From 2018, at https://www.xische.com/all-articles/2018/10/24/blockchain-th...

> Aside from Estonia, which has been a trailblazer in the use of technology to improve government services, the UAE has fully embraced the power and potential of blockchain to improve the lives of residents and citizens. ... The last 10 years of activity has revealed who will be at the forefront of this transformation and who might be left behind. The UAE will certainly be a major player.

EDIT: Oh, I didn't realize George Osborne is recycling his comments about Bitcoin from last summer. From https://99bitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-btc/uk-may-be-missing-ou...

> In a warning to the UK government, former Finance Minister George Osborne said that Britain may be “left behind” in the global crypto race. According to a Financial Times report published on 4 August 2025, Osborne said, “Britain missed the first crypto wave. We can’t miss the second.”
by lipzo14 | 2026-02-18 19:10:13+00:00
Verified! 0.025s loading times using a pure client-side architecture.

Implemented BM25 (Best Matching 25) for high-relevance token scoring, Added a PageRank function (20 iterations) to calculate domain authority, Switched to an in-memory JSON index to eliminate server-side round-trips, Benchmarked 100 results for "Hacker News" in ~0.15s.
by Mixtape | 2026-02-18 19:10:21+00:00
Adding onto that, the last quarter or so of the article is spent quoting William Rampe of the Institute for Energy Research.

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

> IER is often described as a front group for the fossil fuel industry. It was initially formed by Charles Koch, receives donations from many large companies like Exxon, and publishes a stream of reports and position papers opposing any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. Thomas Pyle, president of the IER and its offshoot American Energy Alliance (AEA), was appointed to the US Department of Energy's transition team after the 2016 United States elections.

Regardless of whether or not the buses proved effective, it's pretty obvious to me that this isn't neutral journalism. It seems like the author approached it first as an opportunity to echo anti-EV talking points and second as a noteworthy story.
by lithocarpus | 2026-02-18 19:10:31+00:00
Eye Spherical Cylindrical Axis Prism Base
O.D. (Right) Pl -1.00 075 1.5 OUT
O.S. (Left) -1.00 -0.50 076 1.5 OUT

Mildly nearsighted in left eye, with astigmatism in both eyes.

I am not sure to what extent it was a reversal of myopia or reversal of astigmatism. It must have been one or both as far as I can understand. Neither are considered to be at all reversible "officially" but I've seen other people claim that their myopia has reversed naturally.

What I do know for sure is that I can see crispness at long distance in both eyes that I could not before. I imagine I was mildly nearsighted in my right eye as well and that the eye test was not granular enough and rounded down to it being considered perfect. My right eye is still a little better than the left. But even with both eyes open things are crisp now.

I don't have health insurance that covers eyes now so I haven't bothered to get another test. Someday I will.