MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by digiown | 2026-02-15 21:43:02+00:00
A ZKP will work as a base, but the proof mechanism will have to be combined with anti-user measures like device attestation to prevent things like me offering an API to continually sign requests for strangers. You can rate-limit it, or you can add an identifier, both of which makes it not zero knowledge.

Parent's proposal is better in that it would only take away general purpose computing from children rather than from everyone. A sympathetic parent can also allow it anyway, just like how a parent can legally provide a teen with alcohol in most places. As a society we generally consider that parents have a right to decide which things are appropriate for their children.
by lysace | 2026-02-15 21:43:08+00:00
Echoes of when Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice. That time it was impossible to tell who was in the right - there was no available recording of OpenAI's supposed Scarlett clone.

Then the completely nonsensical HN threads with activists arguing with activists about something they had heard, with no shared common data to refer to.

Maybe don't redo that whole thing?

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice (May 20, 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (May 23, 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448045
by vladdoster | 2026-02-15 21:44:05+00:00
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by shimman | 2026-02-15 21:44:20+00:00
No, the Senate, Presidency, and Legislative branches are for the wealthy. The constitution was literally written so a minority of rich people would have the most control over the government. Having state legislatures (who also happened to decide who can vote + how) choose senators, requiring the senate to pass bills written by the house, judges that are chosen by senators. House of reps only serve for 2 years compared to 6 or 4 or lifetime appointments.

The 17th amendment is a little over 100 years old.

People need to stop treating the US constitution as this "mythical" thing rather than the reality of it being a very undemocratic document that is highly resistant to change.

Luckily the house can be expanded with a simple majority IN the house, one way to truly combat this.
by chocochunks | 2026-02-15 21:44:25+00:00
Yeah, I think it would have had other issues if it carried on further too. Games were starting to understand using the 2nd analog stick and the DC controller was also missing 5 buttons that the Xbox and PS2 controllers had. Even some GameCube ports felt weird because of the missing buttons and that only had 4 less buttons and a 2nd analog stick.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-15 21:45:26+00:00
Why would you not have the bot write in a formal language (e.g. Lean) and then just typecheck it? Then you only need to decide that your definitions were interesting. LLMs are now extremely good at programming given a compiler/typechecker, so I'd expect them to be good at formal math as well. It's nearly (if not precisely) the exact same activity.
by gwern | 2026-02-15 21:45:34+00:00
> that this is an implementation detail which is not really related to the format. In this case, a polyglot zip/html file could also interrupt page loading via a window.stop() call...However, I admit that I haven't implemented this mechanism yet.

Well, yes. That's why we created Gwtar and I didn't just use SingleFileZ. We would have preferred to not go to all this trouble and use someone else's maintained tool, but if it's not implemented, then I can't use it.

(Also, if it had been obvious to you how to do this window.stop+range-request trick beforehand, and you just hadn't gotten around to implementing it, it would have been nice if you had written it up somewhere more prominent; I was unable to find any prior art or discussion.)
by vladms | 2026-02-15 21:46:23+00:00
> It would not be a good idea because the goal of companies are not to get you to consume only what you need, they want you to consume more.

This regulation is not about consumption but about production. Yes, this would not solve the potential over-consumption (I agree generally with what you say) - people actually buying shit they use once - but imagine how bad it is if for each shit used once the company produce 3x that shit...
by vitlyoshin | 2026-02-15 21:46:53+00:00
In a recent podcast conversation, we explored how autonomous AI agents (not just LLM interfaces) are beginning to act on behalf of users. Once agents can execute tasks, respond to inputs, and operate continuously, the question becomes real: who owns the emitted intelligence and the resulting value?
If the architecture centralizes capture, ownership drifts toward platforms. If it’s designed around containment and user control, the leverage shifts back toward individuals.
It feels similar to past infrastructure shifts where the technology wasn’t the defining factor; the governance model was.
Curious how builders here are thinking about ownership in AI agent systems.

Full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7oQ5A3KQc
by cromka | 2026-02-15 21:47:44+00:00
It couldn't have been easily sold because brands establish a floor below they don't want to go with value to maintain their perceived premium.

It's been known for ages that they operate like this. Some more ethical ones cut off the labels from the garment before they sell it in bulk. Most will destroy the items altogether.

This legislation targets this vanity and I applaud it.
by Traubenfuchs | 2026-02-15 21:48:56+00:00
https://imgur.com/a/g37lLv2

- flickering

- keyboard appears on readonly document

- can select info text that should not be user selectable

- menu items melt into each other

- can‘t summon keyboard on editable content

- grabbing elements in a document and pulling them up leads to page refresh

- I saw a styling menu pop up once: No idea how I got that.

I am sorry but this is unusable and an awful experience on my iPhone.

https://imgur.com/a/GeErjTa

- manage subscription page broken?

Absolutely nothing here works, besides the anonymous login.
by b112 | 2026-02-15 21:49:02+00:00
We had web browsers, kinda, in that we'd call up BBSes, and use ansi for menus and such.

My Vic20 could do this, and a C64 easily, really it was just graphics that were wanting.

I was sending electronic messages around the world via FidoNet and PunterNet, downloaded software, was on forums, and that all on BBSes.

When I think of the web of old, it's the actual information I love.

And a terminal connected to a bbs could be thought of as a text browser, really.

I even connectd to CompuServe in the early 80s via my C64 through "datapac", a dial gateway via telnet.

ANSI was a standard too, it could have evolved further.
by mmooss | 2026-02-15 21:49:22+00:00
Regarding conservatives/MAGA, if you're saying the US hasn't changed dramatically since 2016 then I don't know what to say to you.

And I think you're misremembering the world before #metoo and George Floyd. Regarding the latter, police used to widely behave like ICE; now it's anathema - at least in cities. None of them help ICE afaik.

The conservatives like to preach hopelessness to their enemies - for obvious reasons, an age-old tactic - saying things like protests accomplish nothing (obviously false), these movements did nothing. The wierd part is, their enemies have picked up that argument and make it themselves. They simply and bizarrely have disarmed themselves, but they had and have the power the entire time.
by XorNot | 2026-02-15 21:49:29+00:00
It's literally just "better then what people had" + they're willing to work through government and military contracting processes so it can actually be deployed in those environments.

They have a lot of "forward deployed engineer" roles which basically means staff with security clearances who get locked in SCIFs and provide on-site technical support.

Which is really why they keep getting hired: when you write into your contract "it stays on premises and technical support can't take logs off site" they agree to it (at a hefty mark up because all of that sucks to do).
by Y_Y | 2026-02-15 21:50:00+00:00
Luckily it's part of Irish culture not to worry about things like that.

Sure some people might be offended, especially if you're an asshole about it. But generally Irish people are glad to share their culture, and delighted to see genuine interest from foreigners. Sad though our history is, we don't have the kind of issues that make some other groups more reluctant to share the symbols of their identity†.

† Notable exceptions apply, especially regarding English upper classes.
by Bluestrike2 | 2026-02-15 21:50:08+00:00
Shorts are treated as a privileged feature; they aren't going to simply hide them just because a few of us have the unmitigated gall not to watch them. That's not to their benefit. Youtube and the other platforms want to manipulate users into getting on that particular hamster wheel, and the app's UX reflects that. In that, it's not dissimilar to how streaming services routinely prioritize engagement maximization over user experience. If it takes you a few more clicks to find your continue watching list, that's your problem.

I'd be surprised if the algorithms have much say on when and where shorts show up in your feed versus just inserting them into specific spots in your feed that were determined by a whole lot of user testing to see what's most effective. There might be some logic to tweak it, but overall placement is probably fairly uniform across users.
by ltbarcly3 | 2026-02-15 21:50:11+00:00
I mean you can just do this with claude code or opencode. I suggest opencode and gemini pro since it has a nice big context window. If you are trying to do something like this on the website version of the models just forget it, stop using those, they are like toys compared to the CLI tools.

Step 1: have it sum up every issue and pr in like 100 words. You can have it do it using subagents working on subsets of the tickets so it doesn't take forever.

Step 1a: concatenate all the summary files to one big file.

Step 2: have it check pairs that seem duplicate from the summary. You may have to force it to read the entire file, for whatever reason models are trained to try to avoid just reading stuff into their context and will try grep and writing scripts and whatever else.

Step 3: repeat the above until it stops finding dupes.

I think this will probably take about 4 hours? 2 hours to get the process working and 2 hours of looping it.

If you don't think the above will work well please just move along, don't bother arguing with me because I've done tasks like this over and over and it works great.

Ways to get better results in general:

- Start by having it write a script to dump all the relevant information you will need up front. It's much faster at reading files than trying to do mcp calls. It's also less likely to pretend to read files and just assume it didn't find anything. (happens more than you think)

- Break the problem down into clear steps for the model, don't just give it a vague project. Just paste the steps above and it should work fine.

- Check what it is doing. Don't assume that because it says it read a file it actually read it, it will very often read the first 1000 bytes, then not read any of the rest of it, then just assume it read everything. In fact ChatGPT will complain that the input is truncated when it is the one that chose to only read the first part.
by joshuaissac | 2026-02-15 21:50:12+00:00
My reading of their comment is that a proof space is a concept where a human guesses that a proof of some form q exists, and the AI searches a space S(q) where most points may be not valid proofs, but if there is a valid proof, it will hopefully be found.

So it is not a space of proofs in the sense that everything in a vector space is a vector. More like a space of sequences of statements, which have some particular pattern, and one of which might be a proof.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-15 21:50:12+00:00
AI won’t kill subscriptions but it will drive prices down. Viable competitors will emerge and incumbency will become a less viable long term play.

Non-experts will build progressively more interesting things as model capability goes up - but experts will always be able to produce yet more complex things than that.

So user expectations will keep rising.

The cost of software development will go down for software at and below some level of complexity, but up for anything above that level. The level where that tips will keep changing, just as it always has. To understand this, consider that tipping point across today’s and yesterday’s “hand-typed software”: it has been moving the whole time, thanks to frameworks and libraries and languages improving.

The world of software will remain much as it is today - a mix of free and non-free stuff. But on average and in the large it’ll be of way higher quality, and bring corresponding improvements in your quality of life.
Show HN: Webmcp-kit – type-safe toolkit for Chrome's new WebMCP API
by xtrkil | 2026-02-15 21:50:35+00:00
WebMCP is a browser API that lets websites expose tools to AI agents. Chrome just shipped an early preview in Canary (behind a flag).

I built webmcp-kit because the raw API is a bit tedious, you write JSON Schema by hand and get untyped inputs. This wraps it with Zod so you define schemas once and get TypeScript inference + validation.

It also includes a dev panel to test tools without needing a real AI agent, works in any browser by falling back to a mock.

Try it out and let me know!
by sudohalt | 2026-02-15 21:51:09+00:00
I feel there is an elephant in the room not being discussed. Why does he care about "diffusion of the model" within the economy? If he truly believes there will be the development of a data center of geniuses wouldn't that imply complete market capture. Who cares if pharmaceutical companies or any other business is slow to adopt the AI, the AI will capture that market entirely making those companies obsolete. An API model wouldn't even make sense in this scenario because why would you sell your model when you can capture the entire economy of the business using your model.
by nickhalstead_ | 2026-02-15 21:51:22+00:00
Smart approach honestly - cap the downside first, figure out the model later. That's basically what we did at DataSift early on too.

One thing worth thinking about as you iterate: track the delta between what customers would pay for the outcome vs what it actually costs you in compute. That gap is your real margin, and it'll shift fast as model costs drop. The companies that instrument that well early will be able to move to outcome pricing confidently when the time is right.

Enjoy the holiday - sometimes the best product thinking happens away from the keyboard.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-15 21:51:41+00:00
This is more or less what we have now. Even a very pedestrian laptop has 8 cores. If 10 years ago you wanted to develop software for today’s laptop, you’d get a 32-gigabyte 8-core machine with a high-end GPU. And a very fast RAID system to get close to an NVMe drive.

Computers have been “fast enough” for a very long time now. I recently retired a Mac not because it was too slow but because the OS is no longer getting security patches. While their CPUs haven’t gotten twice as fast for single-threaded code every couple years, cores have become more numerous and extracting performance requires writing code that distributes functionality well across increasingly larger core pools.
by cromka | 2026-02-15 21:52:02+00:00
A good way to understand this is to think about Apple and how they refuse to run Black Friday or any other type of sales. They just don't. If they do, they're very modest.

This helps to maintain the value of the product and for consumers to not defer purchase until sale event.

Clothing companies are similar. The actual product is worth pennies, but they'll refuse to sell for 10% of RSP because who would be buying them at the full price? They'll do 50%, maybe 70 discount and that's it. They destroy whatever they don't sell. Rinse, repeat, four times a year in this crazy, fast fashion reality

It's a known practice and they've been going on like this for ages.

Fashion is vain by definition and this whole industry is very wasteful of our resources. This legislation is meant to help mitigate this.

What's gonna change long term is manufacturers will be keeping more items on sale for longer and the fast fashion cycles will slow down. Hopefully they'll start competing with quality and workmanship thus, in turn, giving EU textile industry a new chance to survive Asian competition.

THIS IS GOOD FOR EU ECONOMY!
by gildas | 2026-02-15 21:52:10+00:00
The reason I did not implement the innovative mechanism you describe is that I did not think of it because, in my case, all the technical effort was/is focused on reading the archive from the filesystem. No one has suggested it either.

Edit: Actually, SingleFile already calls window.stop() when displaying a zip/html file in HTTP, see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-core/blob/22fc...
by gbriel | 2026-02-15 21:52:13+00:00
- Jan 6, the day the votes are certified by Congress.

- The goal was interrupting the peaceful transfer of presidential power, a foundational element of U.S. constitutional governance.

- Force was used to disrupt lawful governmental authority.

- Part of a larger conspiracy to use alternate slates of electors to dispute the election and send it back to state legistatures (see Eastman memo and resulting lawsuits).
by roywiggins | 2026-02-15 21:52:27+00:00
It used to require some real elbow grease to write blogspam, now it's much easier.

I hardly ever go through a post fisking it for AI tells, they leap out at me now whether I want them to or not. As the density of them increases my odds of closing the tab approach one.

It's not a pleasant time to read Show HNs but it just seems to be what's happening now.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-15 21:52:36+00:00
> “Give me liberty or give me death.” It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall.

The thing is, that's a gross misrepresentation of what he said and meant. Patrick Henry was referring exclusively to political liberty from British colonial rule. There is no sense whatsoever in which he was referring to civil liberties against domestic rule. It didn't have a single thing to do with "security".

> But the core premise of the West generally, and the U.S. in particular, is that those trade-offs are never worthwhile.

Again, totally false. This is the core premise of libertarians in the West, who are, and always have been, a minority. It is not, and has never been, the "core premise" of the West or the US. Or else, quite obviously, we wouldn't have the constant tension between these liberties and the need for security. The idea that "those trade-offs are never worthwhile" is not a core American idea. We make those tradeoffs every single day. And continue to argue about them, e.g. over what degree of gun control is proper after each school shooting that happens.
by talideon | 2026-02-15 21:52:41+00:00
Yes, she's making a lot of allusions of Irish mythology, and that's definitely a reference to the god Lug Lámhfhada. Also, the word 'lámh' in Irish isn't quite arm. It's your arm below the elbow, including your hand. He has that epithet because for a bunch of reason, not least because of how skilled he is in all things.

The line between folklore and mythology is fuzzy, but this definitely falls on the mythology side of the line.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-15 21:52:45+00:00
I live in a poor country. People here buy "American clothes" which importers get inside "pacas" (random bundles). Those clothes come USED from rich countries.

My assumption is these clothes are dumped to someone to get rid of them, and then that person bundles them and ships them to poor countries. Once here, someone buys the bundles, sort the content according to their expected retail price and sells them to resellers.

There is junk that can't be sold and is destroyed. Except in some cases, like in Chile, where they are just dumping the used junk "intact" in the desert.

Prohibiting destroying new clothes is a net positive. There is market for clothes in poor countries, but it is already being exploited. Some clothes will always be dumped in poor countries, but not all of it can be resold. The manufacturers will make less clothes, there is no way around it.
by kube-system | 2026-02-15 21:53:20+00:00
I’m not suggesting that any countries have clothing shortages.

However, countries don’t wear clothes. People do. People sometimes have shortages of clothing in many places.

For example, here in the United States people sometimes experience poverty and may sometimes experience a lack of suitable clothing. This happens at the same time that there are also people in the US throwing away clothing that they do not use. This is because those people are different people in different immediate locations.

The reasons that people lack clothing is not because there is not enough clothing in existence. It is because the clothing is not distributed universally to every person who needs it.

If I have seen this with my own two eyes in the US, then I am sure it happens in other places.

> A single garment can last decades if it's synthetic or allowed to fully dry between uses.

So? A person with the ass ripped out of their jeans or a hole in their shoe doesn’t give a fuck whether other clothes last 10 years.