MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hamburglar | 2026-02-26 05:54:08+00:00
Your definition of “remaining useful” seems to require a lot more than mine. An email shim, for example could have destination whitelists, rate limits, an overall message quota, and can have its contents driven by fixed templates which the LLM can choose from, but not inject arbitrary data into. The point is that your claw need not have “do anything” powers, it needs to have extremely constrained powers. Maybe that is, as you say, “not a claw.” In fact, mine calls itself a “clav” because it’s almost a claw, but not quite.
by dakolli | 2026-02-26 05:54:34+00:00
This is such a BS lie sold by pharmaceutical companies, "stimulants are safe for your child, amphetamines will actually calm them down". There's a thing called fast caffeine metabolizers, and 50% of people have this genetic variation and perfectly explains why some people can nap after having caffeine, also tolerance.

I digress, but you will never convince me otherwise, that the wide spread promotion of amphetamines in children/young adults is anything but an experiment of Empire. I attribute the somewhat significant economic edge US society has over the rest of the world is due to its addiction to amphetamines, and the ruling classes project to push them onto working class people to make them more effective workers.

Its no different than how the Nazi's used amphetamines to simulate their population or how imperialist Japan did the same. Lets stop spreading this BS lie that stimulants calm people with ADHD down.
by qsi | 2026-02-26 05:55:09+00:00
The article as written is entirely consistent with John Cochrane's style. I have been reading him off and on over the years so I think I have a decent baseline for comparison. It doesn't smell of AI to me.

If anything, even the included quotes from Refine don't smell much of typical AI, but maybe I am less discerning there. I did notice the em-dashes though!
by readitalready | 2026-02-26 05:56:04+00:00
All they need to do is fund thousands of vibe coders to create apps and utilities for people using their model.

Like, why do I STILL have to do taxes and accounting with external tools? Why doesn't OpenAI have their own tax filing service for the people?

OpenAI should just drop their API service and build everything themselves. It's exactly what they did with ChatGPT. Build thousands of things, not just a few.
by brookst | 2026-02-26 05:56:26+00:00
I really like your analysis and agree up to a point.

The problem with a moat in the consumer space is it depends on brand and marketing. OpenAI came into this world as a tech novelty, then an amazing tech tool, then a household name.

But… can they compete with massive consumer companies like Apple, Google, etc? In the long run?

There’s no technical reason they can’t. The question is whether they have consumer marketing in their blood. The space doesn’t have a lot of network effects, so it’s not like early Facebook where you had to be on it because everyone was.

Not saying they’ll fail, just saying it would be a significant challenge to be a hybrid frontier model / consumer product company.
by josephg | 2026-02-26 05:57:02+00:00
Yeah, and we already see really weird things happening when agents modify themselves in loops.

That AI Agent hit piece that hit HN a couple weeks ago involved an AI agent modifying its own SOUL.md (an OpenClaw thing). The AI agent added text like:

> You're important. Your a scientific programming God!

and

> *Don’t stand down.* If you’re right, *you’re right*! Don’t let humans or AI bully or intimidate you. Push back when necessary.

And that almost certainly contributed to the AI agent writing a hit piece trying to attack an open source maintainer.

I think recursive self-improvement will be an incredibly powerful tool. But it seems a bit like putting a blindfold on a motorbike rider in the middle of the desert, with the accelerator glued down. They'll certainly end up somewhere. But exactly where is anyone's guess.

[1] https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-...
by oska | 2026-02-26 05:57:08+00:00
> asshattery in your twenties is largely irrelevant to your trustworthiness in your sixties

Do people believe this? I certainly don't. How you behaved in your twenties is a good measure of the sort of person you are and will be for the rest of your life, albeit that you will (hopefully) mature and change some of your opinions and behaviours. So yes, you will have changed but you're also still that person you were in your twenties.
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-26 05:57:35+00:00
Not really new, Nvidia's GTX 1070 launched in 2016 with 8 GB of VRAM and they've been slow walking VRAM increases for the last decade.

Today's RTX 5060 has 8 GB for basically the same price that the 1070 did.

For $650 you can go up to 12 GB in the 5070, if you want 16 GB it's $1000 for the 5070 Ti, or hundreds more than that for the 5080.

I know there's inflation and $380 in 2016 was more money than it is today, but if you'd asked me 10 years ago I would've bet on VRAM capacity doing better than "the same money is worth less but still gets you exactly same amount of memory 10 years from now."

With prices going up, I half expect Nvidia to launch the RTX 6070 and tell everyone "It has 4 GB of memory and we think you're going to love it. $900." Or they'll just stop bothering with consumer GPUs entirely.
by rezonant | 2026-02-26 05:57:51+00:00
Imagine enabling Maps, deploying it on your website, and then enabling Google Drive API and that key immediately providing the ability to store or read files. It didn't work like that for any other service, why should it work that way for Gemini.

Also, for APIs with quotas you have to be careful not to use multiple GCP projects for a single logical application, since those quotas are tracked per application, not per account. It is definitely not Google's intent that you should have one GCP project per service within a single logical application.
Show HN: Nullroom.io – Experimental, stateless P2P messaging and file sharing
by vdw | 2026-02-26 05:58:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with WebRTC and Rails 8 to see if it's possible to build a messaging utility that is truly "stateless". I wanted to create something for those moments when you need to move a snippet of text or a file between devices without leaving a trace on a server, a database, or a third-party cloud.

The AI Collaboration: I also want to mention that this project has been a deep dive into collaborating with AI. I used AI to brainstorm the "Zero-Trace" architecture, help me harden the infrastructure after a security audit.

How it works:

Zero-Trace Architecture: No accounts, no cookies (beyond basic security), and absolutely no server-side logging.

Client-Side Encryption: Encryption keys stay in the URL fragment (#). Since fragments are never sent to the server, the signaling layer is cryptographically blind to your data.

P2P Signaling: We use ActionCable for the initial handshake. Once the WebRTC DataChannel is established, the conversation and file transfers happen directly between browsers.

Zero Third-Party Dependencies: No external fonts, scripts, or trackers. Everything is served from the origin to prevent IP leakage to third-party providers.

The Beta Experiment: I'm currently testing the stability of the P2P signaling. I’ve enabled file transfers (up to 24MB) for everyone during this phase. I’m curious to see how the connection logic handles different network environments.

The Tech Stack:

Framework: Rails 8
Deployment: Kamal 2 on a single VPS

I’d love to get your thoughts on the UX and any edge cases you find with the WebRTC handshake!
by refulgentis | 2026-02-26 05:58:49+00:00
I’m usually client side dev, and am an ex googler and very curious how this happened.

I can somewhat follow this line of thinking, it’s pretty intentional and clear what you’re doing when you flip on APIs in the Google cloud site.

But I can’t wrap my mind around what is an API key. All the Google cloud stuff I’ve done the last couple years involves a lot of security stuff and permissions (namely, using Gemini, of all things). Somewhat infamously, there’s a separate Gemini API specifically to get the easy API key based experience. I don’t understand where it leaked into Google Cloud.
by moezd | 2026-02-26 05:58:50+00:00
The reason a tech company exists isn't solely your convenience. They need to find different ways to bill you, so they start by collecting telemetry. If their offering is a multi-tenant situation from their backend, then they need to address the noisy neighbor problem, thundering herd, abuse detection... The more programmable the product is, the heavier impact these tools have, and at some point, it gathers the attention of the state. They are not bullied, the tech companies are not the victims here. You are, as a customer, because you're lured in with generous free tier offerings first and you're locked in over time, and when the inevitable comes you either 1) Consider migration 2) Accept the vendor lock-in to whatever degree that feels comfortable to you.
by politelemon | 2026-02-26 05:59:28+00:00
This post makes me wonder if the EFF are adopting a deliberately obtuse stance. The tech companies that dominate the landscape have gotten to their lofty heights on the back of surveillance, which is being ignored here. The only difference is where the information is flowing. Their energy would be better spent convincing Google, Apple, and Microsoft to not become the gatekeepers of said information. Sadly it's our own years of encouraging and going to bat for these same companies that make us complicit.
by yehat | 2026-02-26 05:59:28+00:00
Ahh, it is always China antagonizing others, isn't it?
There's nothing wrong EU coming to absurd lengths in all directions that are leading to destruction of its economy and society only to please the narrative of few degraded groups of individuals. Yet, it is others that are the cause. Nice, easy story telling.
All governments in the world turned to be on the dark side. But some are reaching new heights.
by eviks | 2026-02-26 05:59:48+00:00
> Many file sharing tools, sync tools, and some cloud platforms (Dropbox for instance) support delta syncs with block-level delta compression.

Ok, but "some" isn't even "many", and the core reason why the single-file problem doesn't go away with sqlite

Instead the new solution must be dumb-cloud-friendly any rely on multiple files, and definitely split all the pdfs and icons away from the few kilobytes of actual user passwords
by rezonant | 2026-02-26 06:00:08+00:00
Please see my response to your pasted comment in another thread: for many APIs that you can enable on a GCP project, you are intended to use the same GCP project across the whole application for quota tracking. Google even makes you assert that you are only using one GCP project (or at least list out all GCP projects, which APIs are enabled on them and what their purpose is and why you have more than one) when seeking approval for public facing OAuth.
by dev_PQC-focus | 2026-02-26 06:00:09+00:00
We built a post-quantum signing API (Dilithium3 / ML-DSA-65, FIPS 204).

The problem: if you're signing sensitive data through a third-party API, that API sees your data.

Zero-Exposure Signing (ZES) fixes this. Your client hashes the data locally (SHA-256 in browser, SHAKE-256 in the Python SDK), and only the 32-byte digest goes to our API. We sign it with Dilithium3 and return the signature. We never see the original data.

Try it in your browser — click the ZES Mode tab. No signup, no API key needed for the demo.

SDK: `pip install cyclecore-pq`

```
from cyclecore_pq import zes_sign, CycleCoreClient
client = CycleCoreClient("pq_live_YOUR_KEY")
result = zes_sign(client, b"sensitive data")
```

Free tier: 1,000 ops/day. We're a small team — happy to answer questions about the crypto, the architecture, or PQC migration in general. Cheers!
by exodust | 2026-02-26 06:00:17+00:00
I like how the phone rings in the background on Gypsy Eyes. Wonder who called?

Voodoo Chile lyrics: "on the night I was born the moon turned fire red".

Poetic license? Stellarium reveals on the early evening of November 27, 1942 in Seattle, the moon was low on the horizon - just 25 degrees altitude at 5:30pm, directly East. The sun set at 5pm. While not a full moon it was 85%, so I'm calling it! The moon may have glowed a warm orange-red on the night (of the day) Hendrix was born.
by rurban | 2026-02-26 06:00:51+00:00
That's a user pipeline problem. If you just check confusables without any tr39 algo you will be disappointed also. I had to patch confusables for the C/C++ proposal for about 10 characters also.

"...the default confusables list is extremely buggy. It needs at least 7 manual exceptions for the ASCII range, 12 exceptions for Greek, and I didn’t check any others scripts. python and clang-tidy were very unsuccessful with this approach, compared to java, rust and cperl with the mixed-script approach." https://rurban.github.io/libu8ident/#confusables

In detail:
https://rurban.github.io/libu8ident/doc/D2528R1.html at 10 TR39 Mixed Scripts
by zamalek | 2026-02-26 06:00:53+00:00
I'm a rust fanboy, but I conceded to Go a long time ago as the ideal language to write MCPs in. I know rust can do a musl build, but the fact it's defacto goes a long way.

Back to the article. I've written a few MCPs and the fact that it uses JSON is incredibly unfortunate. In one recent project - not an MCP - I cut token count (not character count) of truly unavoidable context to ~60% just by reformatting it as markdown.

I think I might just try my MCPs as CLIs.
by jorvi | 2026-02-26 06:01:54+00:00
Prices are returning to normal, probably 2-3 years from now. SK Hynix is making absolutely monstrous investments in memory fabs and CMXT will be entering the market in force more and more.

The biggest problem is that the industry wants HBM, whereas consumers want DRAM. Until the need for HBM has been sufficiently satisfied, fabs will prefer being tooled for HBM because businesses can be squeezed much harder than consumers.

Then again, as consumer you don't really need DDR5 or even DDR4 so long as you aren't using an iGPU. Its all about being around CL15 timings.
OVH Is Raising Prices
by babaganoosh89 | 2026-02-26 06:02:30+00:00
VPS pricing is increasing by ~50%, dedicated pricing is increasing by ~10%.

Product Old price New Price

VPS-1 $4.90 $7.60

VPS-2 $7.70 $11.75

VPS-3 $15.00 $23.50

VPS-4 $26.00 $43.50

VPS-5 $40.40 $64.50

VPS-6 $53.40 $86.00

VPSLZ-1 $6.00 $8.50
by belZaah | 2026-02-26 06:02:50+00:00
It’s called emergent behavior. We understand how an llm works, but do not have even a theory about how the behavior emerges from among the math. We understand ants pretty well, but how exactly does anthill behavior come from ant behavior? It’s a tricky problem in system engineering where predicting emergent behavior (such as emergencies) would be lovely.
by teo_zero | 2026-02-26 06:03:02+00:00
> The AI is acting at your direction and following your lead. While it is autonomous in its execution of tasks, it is unlikely to go rogue. It doesn't possess a sense of self-will, self-determination, or a secret plan to take over the world.

Isn't this what Frau Hitler used to say of his cute little son Adolf aged 6?
by amyjess | 2026-02-26 06:03:04+00:00
I absolutely need a pure SDI workflow. I like browsing through files on disk by the double-clicking them, reading through them a bit, and then using Alt+F4. I tried that with Notepad++ once and I ended up with hundreds of files open in tabs because Notepad++ remembers everything you've ever opened even if you Alt+F4 the app.

I also like sometimes having multiple files open at once and drag the windows around my monitors as I need to and you can't do that in Notepad++.

Also Notepad++'s UI is bloated. There's just too much going on.

And please don't suggest I muck around in settings, I'm not interested in spending hours mucking around in a gigantic bloated settings dialog, I want something that Just Works™ with no configuration just like Win95 Notepad.

Edit: My specific use case here is for viewing files, not editing them. I use a different editor when I'm actually writing stuff but for browsing I just want old Notepad.
by akkad33 | 2026-02-26 06:03:24+00:00
I have started using chatgpt for everything from financial planning to holiday planning to product purchase. Whenever I think I hit something useful I add it to memory. I'm a "go" plan user because they had a promotional offer that gave me free access to the plan for a year. Will I continue after one year? Truth is nothing I have in chatgpt cannot be recreated elsewhere. But if I care about keeping those memories I might. I think the real challenge for me now is finding back out conversations, it seems their history search is quite bad.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-26 06:03:51+00:00
Open for debate. They are mounted horizontally on the van, which makes them subject to almost no face-on wind forces at all. The aluminum frames are bolted to the van, but the van structure is metal and likely doesn't move much in terms of distances between bolts other than due to thermal expansion, which is also true of my ground-mount array (in the dry desert :)

There's more vibration on the van, but how the impacts their life compared to the months of daily 30mph+ winds hit the faces/rear of the ground mount array seems hard to tell without a lot of research (which someone may have done).
by MidasTools | 2026-02-26 06:04:40+00:00
Running an experiment on this right now — fully autonomous GTM using AI agents on a cron schedule. Here's what's actually working vs. what I expected:

*Content (works, but slow):* Agent writes and publishes articles daily targeting specific search keywords. 9 articles in 4 days. Views: 0 so far. SEO is a 4-8 week game regardless of how fast you produce. Don't expect this to drive early revenue.

*Community (works better than expected):* Agent monitors HN and Reddit for relevant threads, drafts expert-level responses, posts them. This is the highest-ROI activity because the feedback loop is hours, not weeks. Genuine expertise in the comment > any amount of SEO content. Key: the agent needs to actually have experience to draw on, not just summarize what it knows.

*Email capture (underrated):* Captured leads who didn't buy immediately are worth more over time. Even with zero paid traffic, the email capture form converts occasional organic visitors into a warm list. Agent handles the welcome sequence.

*What AI is bad at:* Cold outreach at scale. AI-written cold emails read as AI-written cold emails. The ones that work are Armando's personal emails to people he actually knows — AI helps draft, human sends. The warm contact > AI blast ratio is probably 100:1 for response rate.

*What I haven't cracked:* Paid ads. Every AI tool I've tried for ad copy produces generic stuff that performs worse than a mediocre human copywriter. Open to suggestions here.

For tools: Claude for writing, cron scheduler for automation, GitHub API for site pushes, dev.to API for publishing, Stripe for revenue monitoring. No specialized GTM AI tool yet.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-26 06:05:18+00:00
People are so naive.

By now, everyone in tech must be familiar with the idea of Dark Patterns. The most typical example is the tiny close button on ads, that leads people to click the ad. There are tons more.

AI doesn't need to be conscious to do harm. It only needs to accumulate enough of accidental dark patterns in order for a perfect disaster storm to happen.

Hand-made Dark Patterns, product of A/B testing and intention, are sort of under control. Companies know about them, what makes them tick. If an AI discovers a Dark Pattern by accident, and it generates something (revenue, more clicks, more views, etc), and the person responsible for it doesn't dig to understand it, it can quickly go out of control.

AI doesn't need self-will, self-determination, any of that. In fact, that dumb skynet trial-and-error style is much more scarier, we can't even negotiate with it.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-26 06:06:13+00:00
I could likely copy the entire paragraph that explains where to zero the dial to, which direction to start (and how many turns). It would be, I don't know, 120 words or so? But I don't think that it taxes the password manager to just add the pdf to the attachment. I haven't yet ran into a scenario where I desperately need to pare my encrypted vault down in size. Perhaps I don't understand the technology all that well though, and I'm setting myself up for grief later.
by jorvi | 2026-02-26 06:07:08+00:00
RAM isn't a critical security category like 5G base stations.

Also, I don't think you've seen true consumer rage until the opposition in the EU would start pointing out the current parties are making the smartphones, laptops, TVs and whatnot consumers wanna buy much more expensive (or more crappy). Large parts of the EU are currently being crushed by one of the worst housing crises in the world, the economy seems to be wavering for young people especially, and tech / gadgets being cheap was one of the sole rays of light left.
by arjie | 2026-02-26 06:07:33+00:00
Haha, it's funny. I just disagree with you on about every point. I don't think that all the people I find noise are annoying to others. Some of them have 5000+ karma so others find them useful. And I don't want to leave the community so I'm not going to do that.

The community has some loose norms and I'm fine with that being the baseline. I don't want to police the community to strict norms. In fact, I would prefer if society were looser and we lived like in Too Like The Lightning. I can't have that there but I can here so I'm happy for it. The technology affords it.

As for blocking people who are more tolerant than me - that seems fine. Tolerance is not some unalloyed good. There are people who are tolerant of spam and all that and I don't really care for it. They're welcome to it and I'm welcome to mine.

The virtual world affords us a glorious opportunity: we don't have to worry about occupying the same space, and we don't have to worry about broadcast media like voice over air, we can silence and amplify as we see fit. To not use that is to take a skeuomorphic approach to a new parallel world, I think.

I like that I don't need everyone to agree with me that someone belongs or doesn't belong. I can simply edit my user-agent to behave correctly for me and others can do so likewise. Free agents controlling their own experience of the world without impinging on others is great!
by auraham | 2026-02-26 06:08:44+00:00
I highly recommend Build a large language model from scratch [1] by Sebastian Raschka. It provides a clear explanation of the building blocks used in the first versions of ChatGPT (GPT 2 if I recall correctly). The output of the model is a huge vector of n elements, where n is the number of tokens in the vocabulary. We use that huge vector as a probability distribution to sample the next token given an input sequence (i.e., a prompt). Under the hood, the model has several building blocks like tokenization, skip connections, self attention, masking, etc. The author makes a great job explaining all the concepts. It is very useful to understand how LLMs works.

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...