MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pks016 | 2026-02-22 18:42:16+00:00
I was active on FB, Insta, Goggle +, and Orkut during their early days. My brother and I were the first few people from our circle to have these social media account.

Looking back, the incentives have changed. Back then, there was some openness, rawness, and genuine curiosity about people and things. And of course, the signal-noise ratio was much higher.

Influencer culture ruined everything, consciously or subconsciously. I still use Insta for photography. But, it's a sinking ship. Insta could have made a different app for reels.
by selridge | 2026-02-22 18:42:33+00:00
He's quite good sometimes. But we don't always need to reach for that kind of writing if we struggle. If you want something from that era which is written by a young man who is trying to set the world on fire, you should try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preliminary_Discourse_to_the_E...

This dude, Diderot, is gonna make a new encyclopedia of the world with his friends which breaks the monopoly on printed and well-regarded learning that was held by the traditional humanities. He wanted articles about the trades, about objects and engineered things, and he was PISSED OFF that he had to fight for it.

Is this guy's idea of how to organize knowledge "right"? Probably not. Will it light your brain on fire and make you grumpy or nosy or suspicious about categories of knowledge that persist still? YEAH.
by rdiddly | 2026-02-22 18:43:08+00:00
Well it only took until the 2nd paragraph, and the words "DJI’s remote cloud servers" for me to be forehead-slappingly disgusted again.

Obviously proper diligence wasn't followed with this product, and obviously this is going to be something we've all heard before, but why does a vacuum need to talk to a server at all?

And also, to go even further back, is there anything more leopards-ate-my-face than a compromised robo-vacuum? I have never understood the appeal of these things. Except as satire. Pushing a vacuum around takes minutes, once a month, all the more so when you live in a 3m x 3m box with 12 roommates, and is badly needed exercise for a lot of pathetic little nerd noodle-arms.
by signatoremo | 2026-02-22 18:43:24+00:00
> the obvious use of AI to write or edit the article makes it further indigestible: "That’s it. No magic prompts, no elaborate system instructions, no clever hacks. Just a disciplined pipeline that separates thinking from typing."

Any comment complaining about using AI deserves a downvote. First of all it reads like witch hunt, accusation without evidence that’s only based on some common perceptions. Secondly, whether it’s written with AI’s help or not, that particular sentence is clear, concise, and communicative. It’s much better than a lot of human written mumblings prevalent here on HN.

Anyone wants to guess if I’m using AI to help with this comment of mine?
by roysting | 2026-02-22 18:43:50+00:00
I see the war propaganda slop is in full swing. Does anyone buy this nonsense anymore?

It is going to be quite interesting when the midterms put the Democrats into power. I don't expect it to change anything, because the whole system is just a fake democratic ruse, a facade, but it will surely introduce even more volatility when the blue team starts also realizing that it's just lies and the agenda of the parasitic Epstein Class continues unabated regardless of "our democracy".
by achille | 2026-02-22 18:44:23+00:00
in the article they explicitly said they stripped symbols.
If you look at the actual backdoors many are already minimal and quite obfuscated,

see:

- https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit/blob/main/tasks/dns...

- https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit/blob/main/tasks/dro...
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-22 18:44:27+00:00
What I don't understand is why we would use H2. It's not like batteries are not getting better all the time. Not just the getting H2 for a good price but the whole system seems so much more complicated than just using a battery. What is it that H2 can do so much better that we would even spend the time and money to develop better solutions? Tell me what is the killer feature?

Because it must be a really killer feature to justify wasting about 50% of the electricity you put in and developing a distribution network and building cars that can handle H2 and even using the H2 for driving instead of steel mills or other places that might need green H2. Not to forget about the hassle of refueling with gasses that is totally different from a normal gas pump where you have to create a high pressure seal and the handle gets to cold to touch.

Also comparing a technology that will be only useful in many years with the battery technology from today is an odd choice, to say the least. Not only is the content of problematic materials constantly shrinking, the number of batteries that need recycling is currently so low that there is very little need for a big industry. But it is very likely that just like with the classic car battery recycling the more recent batteries will definitely be stripped for their precious materials.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-02-22 18:45:56+00:00
> Iranians are related to Arabs at the end of the day

Oof, this is a catastrophic screw-up and very offensive. I think you have some serious homework to do. Iranians are very distinct from Arabs in many ways; different language, different sect of Islam (which many of the civilians - particularly the youth - privately denounce), different culture. Iranians are about as much Arab as they are British. The country has been significantly invaded by many other countries throughout the ages, but the ethnicity remains distinct.
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-22 18:46:28+00:00
The three who dissented for Trump on the recent tariffs case are but one of them his appointees, the other two having been there a long time. The one most frequently accused of corruption, Thomas, concurred with the majority. Trump's other two appointees concurred with majority.

So which of them are corrupted? Why did those corrupt ones vote this way in the recent tariffs case? The OP said "the Republicans have packed the highest court with their judges" and implied this should lead to illegal acts being judged legal, in a corrupt manner.

I'm tired of this rhetoric. The supreme court justices are highly competent legal minds who, in my judgment, judge based on their genuine interpretation of laws. I have read many of this court's decisions and listened to many of the oral arguments. Only Sotomayor seems in any way to sometimes argue with blatant ideology over law. The court leans right in matters of ambiguity because its constituants think in those ways. None of them are of the disposition to "get everything illegal action sanctioned."
by rao-v | 2026-02-22 18:46:43+00:00
I think your analysis is right this would make sense mostly for the 30B-3A style models that are mostly for edge / hobbyist use, where context length is precious so nobody is batching.

Given that experts live per layer I dont think it makes sense to have orbital mechanics experts but … I have wondered about swapping out the bottom 10% of layers per topic given that that is likely where the highest order concepts live. I’ve always wondered why people bother with LORA on all layers given that the early layers are more likely to be topic agnostic and focused on more basic pattern assembly (see the recent papers on how LLMs count on a manifold)
by martin-t | 2026-02-22 18:46:46+00:00
> the right tool

Keep in mind this needs to be judged separately in the legal, practical and moral dimension. For example a state might determine that a person _legally_ deserves to spend 10 years in prison. But the same state will attack you in turn if you abduct that person and hold them for 10 years in similar conditions to prison because _practically_, it weakens the state's monopoly on violence, even if _morally_ that action can be justified (i.e. because if a punishment is just there is no moral reason why it should matter who carries it out).

> often ... usually (always?)

I think the crux lies in how we quantify this. If you live in a western democracy, almost all of the violence you come into contact with or hear about is in fact used by bad individuals (thiefs, gang members, drunks, etc.) or the mentally ill. But even then you have the right (moral and usually legal) to defend yourself.

If you live in other places, that violence might more often be used be institutions (such as states or religions) and might not be materialized (it is potential/threatened/implied). E.g. what happens to a muslim woman who refuses to cover her face - the violence usually never happens because she knows it would and therefore doesn't break the rule. It is still violence used to achieve a goal though and she has the same (moral but usually not legal) right to defend herself - even if any practical defense is beyond her ability to do so because the aggressors are too numerous and dispersed.

I would argue that billions of people live in countries where violence is used against them every day because it is a threat which for example stops them from freely accessing information.

In that regard you're right that it is usually used by bad people. But it says nothing about its morality. The way I see it, violence being used by bad people is a stable equilibrium but it can be used by good people during a transition to a different stable state. It is usually not used by good people in a prolonged because materialized violence tends to reduce the number of people on both sides and cannot be sustained forever.
by MostlyStable | 2026-02-22 18:46:50+00:00
The main value proposition is privacy and security. If you are content with the privacy and security of your existing vacuum, then yes, I'd agree it's not for you. That being said, your critique seems to imply that Valetudo will increase your overall time spent managing the vacuum, and this has not been my experience. There is the initial setup time which I'm sure varies by robot, but for me took (conservatively) and hour or two, and then I never think about it again, to the same degree that I would before. You still have schedules, etc. and all the same features that make a robot vacuum a time saving item.
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 18:47:12+00:00
I am not equating Trump to China/Russia.

For Iranians, USA is strong foreign country that is hostile to them.

For Americans, Russia/China are (relatively) strong foreign countries that (they think) are hostile to them.

As Americans would NOT like if Russia/China was influencing their internal matters (Russia gate ?), so would Iranians NOT like if USA was deciding who is going to govern over them.

First, they are a proud nation with long history. Second, they have a very good reason (many historical precedents) to believe USA will not act in the interests of Iranian people, but in their own (and Israel's) interests.
by isodev | 2026-02-22 18:48:09+00:00
I’m quite literally experiencing a physical reaction whenever I need to browse some algorithmic timeline. Even YouTube, what used
to be a couple of related videos is now a wall full of “recommendations” - the unskippable ads on every video are more relevant than the actual videos…

Mastodon and related (for me Loops mainly) are a breath of fresh air and I wish more people can (re)learn to enjoy that.
Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
by exabrial | 2026-02-22 18:48:23+00:00
Claude mangles files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>

If you you use Claude Desktop, and have it try to edit an XML file containing a tag with <name> , every time the filesystem connector will mange that to <n>.

This is causing simple chat threads to extend much longer than needed and the tool simply isn't working correctly.

It's impossible to get actual support these days, other than report problems on HN. So here we are, in hopes you press that upvote button and maybe Boris might see this.
by mothballed | 2026-02-22 18:48:49+00:00
Overturning of CRA of 1875 ruled equal protection under 14th amendment doesn't bind private actors, that's why the CRA of 1964/68 depending on expanded ICC. The equal protection amendments (basically the 14th) of relevance haven't changed since the overturning of the 1875 CRA.

The Reconstruction era ended with the resolution of the 1876 presidential election, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was the last federal civil rights law enacted until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled in the Civil Rights Cases that the public accommodation sections of the act were unconstitutional, saying Congress was not afforded control over private persons or corporations under the Equal Protection Clause. Parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 were later re-adopted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, both of which cited the Commerce Clause as the source of Congress's power to regulate private actors.[]

of particular note: were later re-adopted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, both of which cited the * Commerce Clause as the source of Congress's power to regulate private actors.

* my note: now expanded

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-22 18:49:18+00:00
I disagree.

It helps readers understand that Peter Steinberger is a delicate snowflake.

It presents many facts, for example, calling Elon Musk the wild party king of Epstein Island is factually correct.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk...

The orange toll wizard just got handed a spanking by the Supreme Court. It was on the news yesterday so you should know where to find more information about that mess.

It’s well within my right and my duty to publicly ridicule the man if he does stupid shit.

It’s also educational, you learn first hand what true freedom of speech looks like.

I don’t think Peter Steinberger is a genius, and I can be sarcastic about it. I even gave an example why I think he is not very smart in the very first sentence.

You can disagree with my comment but advocating for removing it from the site is just suppresion of a in its majority factual based opinion you don’t like.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-22 18:49:22+00:00
What we need is to cap all wealth at $200k. Any more than that and it is 100% taxed away. Inequality is the number one problem. And it should apply to unrealized gains as well. E.g. houses should not be more than $100k. And if you have a beneficial interest in something it should count as owning the whole thing. The taxes should be distributed to the poorest.

Of course if you oppose this you are wealthy and are a money hoarder. Inequality is the number one problem.
by ViktorRay | 2026-02-22 18:49:28+00:00
”This interpretation reeks of Western naivete.”

The essay you are responding to was written by a historian.

The ideas actually described in the essay were not developed by a Western person. They were first implemented successfully by a non-Western person.

Mahatma Gandhi.

And Gandhi developed these ideas from reading the writings of another non-Western person. Leo Tolstoy.

More information can be found here.

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

As you can see in this article the non-Western Tolstoy was influenced by many non-Western religious and philosophical figures. Tolstoy then influenced the non-Western Mahatma Gandhi to successfully implement these ideas.
by sc68cal | 2026-02-22 18:49:29+00:00
I think this reveals a great deal about the thinking of the ruling elites.

The K shaped recovery phenomenon demonstrated that the economy can continue to thrive, when consumption by the lowest earners is replaced and concentrated by earners at the top. This demonstrated to the elites that actually, we don't need as many consumers to grow the economy, and that it's possible to redistribute wealth upward without losing growth.

These public comments just show that the elites are more and more comfortable making it explicit that there are too many "useless eaters" in their opinion, and that the change has been from considering just the Third World to be where these "useless eaters" are while still preserving an imperial core, to now considering everyone that isn't them, regardless of First or Third world, to be a useless eater.

Very dangerous thinking, but at least it's out in the open now.

They want to capture the entire value of everyone's labor and hoard it for themselves, and discard the people that produced it.
by maxglute | 2026-02-22 18:49:48+00:00
>treat population growth like tuning a PID controller.

Treating human resources like resources because 100s of millions of bodies ultimately subject to statistics. "Libtard" philosophers from small countries don't truly have to reckon with Malthusian pressure and law of large numbers.

And PRC family planning wasn't wrong, averted ~300m births, and bluntly PRC still left with ~400/1400m surplus mouths trapped in low-end farming and informal economy. Otherwise they'd have 1000m/1700m, more than 400+300 because every family with more kids is one that can't concentrate surplus/resources on tertiary/skill uplift. Now PRC left with TFR problem, but averted developmental doomsday scenario of too many subsistence peasants, aka where India trending towards.
by DAVI_RMX | 2026-02-22 18:49:51+00:00
I built NEXO, a governance-first execution runtime for AI agents.

The idea is simple: instead of evaluating agents only by task performance, NEXO treats agent execution as a controlled system with policy gates, risk thresholds, and runtime constraints.

The runtime classifies behavior into regimes (healthy, defensive, unstable) and measures operational stability under different environment conditions.

In experiments, a sharp stability frontier appears:
- below a minimum risk threshold → agents collapse
- above the threshold → stability emerges
- increasing uncertainty collapses stability again
- no gradual degradation band observed (phase-transition behavior)

The repository includes:
- governed execution runtime
- reproducible experiment harness
- stability frontier analysis
- policy and capability controls

This is early research. Feedback and criticism welcome.
Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
by harshdoesdev | 2026-02-22 18:50:14+00:00
Shuru is a lightweight sandbox that spins up Linux VMs on macOS using Apple's Virtualization.framework. Boots in about a second on Apple Silicon, and everything is ephemeral by default. There's a checkpoint system for when you do want to persist state, and sandboxes run without network access unless you explicitly allow it.
Single Rust binary, no dependencies.
Built it for sandboxing AI agent code execution, but it works well for anything where you need a disposable Linux environment.
by hedgehog | 2026-02-22 18:50:50+00:00
I'm not sure what you're responding to. What I'm describing is my actual experience using Claude, and what I'm hoping for is that they'll spend something like two engineers for a quarter making the app more pleasant to use.

Setting that aside, I think you learned the wrong lesson here. There's no fight. Performance comes from app architecture engineering more than the underlying tools. Building on the trash fire that is the current JS ecosystem may make it harder, true, but apps like VS Code, Discord, Slack, etc show that with enough effort a team can use those tools to deliver something with relatively much better performance. The underlying browser engines are quite sophisticated and very efficient for what they are asked to do, it's just a question of good engineering on top of that. Based on the observable behavior I'm guessing the Claude app is doing something like triggering reflow for the entire chat thread every time they append a few characters to the chat. Totally avoidable.

The big reason web tech is ubiquitous is it has the best properties for distribution. That may last a little while or a long time, but there is no fundamental reason why it's more durable than say Win32 and MFC.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-22 18:52:03+00:00
You are correct that neither option is free BUT there are options. I don't know but to me it seem like the cheaper option than building the H2 infrastructure. Second of all there are options like on site battery/capacitor banks that can buffer the energy used for the faster charging. It might not be for everywhere but as a final option there is slower charging.
by cloverich | 2026-02-22 18:52:07+00:00
If you're still dipping your toes into an LLM world, this is an excellent place to begin. I helped with a deploy at work the other day, we have some QA instructions (Notion). I pointed the LLM at one of the sections, asked it to generate task list for each section, and once that looked good, had to convert the processes into a set of scripts. The latest models make short work of scriptable stuff that you can use for debugging, testing, poking, summarizing, etc.
by martin-t | 2026-02-22 18:52:08+00:00
Thanks, looking forward to reading the full article myself.

Hopefully there's more about how these regimes have failed in the past and how to make them fail in the future. Because AFAICT at that point, violence is the only possibility apart from waiting for the dictator to die from natural causes and the system to disassemble itself as potential successors fight each other.
by travisb | 2026-02-22 18:52:20+00:00
A big part of it is the industry standard for using the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCoE) as the benchmark metric. By that metric, solar IS the lowest cost power source.

But that definition doesn't take into account availability. This wasn't a problem when all electricity sources were highly available by default. You can burn coal or run the hydro turbines any minute of the year. With the rise of often-unavailable renewable sources like solar and wind that definition is now insufficient and under counts the true like-for-like cost of solar.

By any metric which takes into account minor availability requirements (eg. supplies electricity at night) solar badly loses its cost advantage. It gets even worse if the metric is the still important "deepest winter night" scenario.
by verdverm | 2026-02-22 18:52:27+00:00
ATProto is designed to improve residence and resistance over time. The starting point and requirement was a UX that didn't suck. If you actually want to build a new social fabric that everyone will eventually adopt, you need to be easy and safe for normies, they care more about that than the federated stuff.

Has anyone from the blockchain and federated world found a UX for key management that doesn't suck? Same problem, same non-solution afaik, for how many years now?
by bluegatty | 2026-02-22 18:54:25+00:00
A lot of people, especially outside the US are going to look through a cynical geopolitical lens, which is not entirely unreasonable, so it's not 'surprising' at all that people would jump on this.

For example, I think Musk is a horrible person and I view all of his statements through the 'lens' of the fact he is lying, confabulating and he's a jerk.

But - I mean, SpaceX does work, it's by all means a pretty good company (work-life balance not withstanding).

It's really hard to separate these issues.