MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by safety1st | 2026-02-18 15:30:11+00:00
When you pick apart what's actually going on in Meta's revenue pipeline it's hideous. Think about this and compare it to what the world was like say 30 years ago:

* There are literally thousands of IG profiles that are essentially softcore porn which serves as a lead gen device for an OnlyFans account. Meta promotes these profiles to its users heavily because sex sells. Meta profits from the engagement with the profile, OnlyFans profits from signups sent to it by Meta.

* This is one of the primary ways OnlyFans has grown its pornography business to $8B a year

* Once users sign up for OnlyFans a common mode of engagement is that a managerial company lies and pretends to be the porn actress, and texts with the user under fraudulent pretense as the user consumes porn

Now... what was the world like 30 years ago?

* You couldn't buy porn mags without showing ID, Internet porn not really a thing for most people yet

* Even softcore stuff was mostly relegated to late night Cinemax

* Far fewer women had body image disorders and mental health disorders

* Far fewer young men had ED

This stuff is evil, when you connect the dots, it's crime, evil, lies and perversion all lined up to make a small number of companies a staggering amount of money. Somehow government and industry are OK with this, I guess this is the world the Epstein class built for us so no surprise. I am not a religious guy, and I would hardly call myself a prude, but this all exists and is widespread because it enables profit and fraud and exploitation, and I find that disgusting. Zuck's a porn baron. He knows what's going on. The fucker's on the take.

If anything should be in the dictionary next to the word evil, it's the 2026 state of affairs
by jazz9k | 2026-02-18 15:30:33+00:00
Zuckerberg was a darling of the tech community...until he decided to show us how the Democrats were censoring Americans during Covid. The same thing happened with Twitter when Musk too over.

If not for this, US citizens would continue to be censored (including politicians), changing our elections.

We only see hit pieces like this when people in power go against the Democrats.
by c22 | 2026-02-18 15:30:37+00:00
Sam Bankman-Fried is probably an even better example.

Still, it's shameful how long all these individuals were able to operate large criminal enterprises in brazen defiance of the law without being called out on it.

If any of these people were scared enough of consequences to put even a little effort into covering their tracks we may never have become aware of their transgressions.
by rc-1140 | 2026-02-18 15:31:01+00:00
I don't really understand what it is with CompSci graduates and their bizarre aversion to handwriting, note taking, and any kind of skill that's derived from arts disciplines or "average joe" office systems.

Shorthand notation exists and it's more than possible to develop your own. I'd trust a OBS recording going in the background over some AI slop that has some chance to micro-hallucinate what it's hearing. It also sounds like a skill issue that the author can't control the pace of his own meetings to where being able to take good notes is seemingly impossible.

The author's AI use cases seem like a band-aid to cover bigger problems. Let's not even get into the part of the blog post where the author has started delegating internal thinking and reflection to conversations with a LLM.
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-18 15:31:42+00:00
Microsoft is pushing everyone onto Entra. There are so many exploits for AD but few for Entra.

Tenable is eliminating all Active Directory use, even when they acquired a company and sell a product specifically designed to secure Active Directory.

The consequences of a compromised AD domain are drastic. We should not try to build the same vulnerabilities into Linux environments, but it’s undeniable there is value in leveraging FreeIPA et al. to interoperable with legacy environments.
by beej71 | 2026-02-18 15:31:46+00:00
Narrowing in one of pieces of this:

> Meeting notes are the obvious one. Before Granola, I’d either scribble while half-listening or pay attention and try to reconstruct things afterwards from memory. Both were bad. Now the transcript happens in the background, a summary lands in my Obsidian vault automatically, and I can actually be present in the conversation. That’s 20 minutes a day I got back, every day, without thinking about it.

Yikes. So, 1) meetings at your company suck. In general, you should be engaged and take short, summary notes and todos while you're there; no need to have a transcript or AI summary. Talk to your manager about getting meetings right. 2) "without thinking about it" might not be the best phraseology in this overall context. :)
Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor
by ekrsulov | 2026-02-18 15:31:57+00:00
I’ve just released VectorNest — an open-source, browser-based SVG editor.

If you have an SVG and need quick edits (paths, alignment, small fixes, animations, LLM assistance) without installing software, this is for you.

Try the demo: https://ekrsulov.github.io/vectornest/
GitHub repo: https://github.com/ekrsulov/vectornest

Feedback, issues and contributions are welcome.
by sazz | 2026-02-18 15:32:02+00:00
As an Asperger it is very funny to see how people react on that bot behaviour. That behaviour is 100% trained from human behaviour especially that constantly whining and that pathetic self expression of how progressive and inclusive everyone is.

Never thinking about that this actual rude behaviour might come back at some point to yourself - and it was not a question of if but just of when.

Well, question answered.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-18 15:32:41+00:00
The bug is settling for a form of AI that's not perfectly functional from the beginning, without requiring any contact with the internet starting from day 0.

Today's AI and today's internet are just not yet suitable for each other. Doesn't even look like they are moving in the right direction.

I don't foresee trusting MS Office itself to be exposed to the internet ever again any more.

Especially with Windows 11.

I wish it wasn't so, but I for one certainly would never allow Copilot to exist on an office machine.

Even more of an emphatic no if it was not just an office machine but a business machine.
by otherjason | 2026-02-18 15:32:53+00:00
See this correct comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061696

AVX512 leading to thermal throttling is a common myth that from what I can tell traces its origins to a blog post about clock throttling on a particular set of low-TDP SKUs from the first generation of Xeon CPUs that supported it (Skylake-X), released over a decade ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...

The results were debated shortly after that by well-known SIMD authors that were unable to duplicate the results: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/25/avx-512-throttling-heavy-i...

In practice, this has not been an issue for a long time, if ever; clock frequency scaling for AVX modes has been continually improved in subsequent Intel CPU generations (and even more so in AMD Zen 4/5 once AVX512 support was added).
by ativzzz | 2026-02-18 15:33:13+00:00
It seems like your priorities are backwards. CI/CD is meant to keep your product stable, there's no point if there's no product to keep stable. DB scaffolding & proper environment config is meant to help you maintain velocity & allow for the proper dev/staging/prod pipeline for testing & scale up to meet your customer needs. But there's no velocity to maintain and no scale to meet.

Auth flows are important for enterprise customers, but just use an existing off the shelf library for oauth/SSO. Depending on your customers, this is a feature. If you mean auth flows between your own services, then you've overengineered it.

Basically none of the things you've listed are as important as having features that attract customers. Those things you build afterwards for stability and velocity.

I'm biased, but in 2026 I would just use a Ruby on Rails monolith with Postgres. You don't even need to containerize it until the stack becomes too complex to run locally.
by InitialLastName | 2026-02-18 15:33:26+00:00
The word "lied" has a lot of layers[0] other than "knowingly said an outright falsehood". He may not have told an outright, provable falsehood (although some of these examples are close). He certainly has a long history of statements to Congress that are baldly misleading or belied by Meta's own internal records.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Types_and_associated_terms
by bjackman | 2026-02-18 15:33:28+00:00
I guess what I'm saying is: for very large complex features, I don't want one big commit. I want to review a series of commits and then I want to have that series of commits persist in the history.

This is how Gerrit operates "natively" - the commit message and everything is part of the artifact under review exactly like the diff.

If the model is to squash an MR into a single commit before merging it, I'd then want to be able to have MRs that depend on each other.
by charles_f | 2026-02-18 15:33:53+00:00
One thing that I would recommend is to avoid weaving the actual lies with statements that are subject to judgement. For example, the first two rows are about the level of investment in protection tools, and are claimed as lies because of the ineffectiveness of these tools. Both sides can be true simultaneously. You can invest a lot and produce no results.

When I read that, I thought they were grasping at straws. Then carried on reading and found real, unchallengeable lies, nevertheless had a little alarm in my head that these might be interpretations more than facts.

It would probably be good to either remove those borderline "understatements" or "distortion of the truth" ; or present them as things we can't trust given all the other lies.
Show HN: A pay-per-request API to search social media posts
by joshwaller7 | 2026-02-18 15:33:57+00:00
Hey HN,

API Direct is a single REST API that lets you search posts and comments across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, and forums.

Every endpoint returns the same JSON structure (title, url, date, author, snippet), so you don't need to write normalization logic for each platform.

Pricing is pay-per-request starting at $0.003. No monthly fees. 50 free requests per endpoint per month to try it out with no card required.

Technical details:

- Consistent query parameters across endpoints (query, sort_by, page)
- Pagination support
- Concurrency limit of 3 simultaneous requests per endpoint
- Spending caps you can set in the dashboard

I built this mainly for developers who need social data for things like brand monitoring, lead gen, market research, or feeding context into LLMs/agents without subscribing to an enterprise platform.

Would appreciate any feedback on the API, pricing, or what you'd want to see added. I'm sure there are lots of other platforms that I can add.

Josh
by bunderbunder | 2026-02-18 15:34:18+00:00
I’m thinking survivorship bias here. “Information Technology” is such a wide term, and we immediately think of the IT we currently use. Many of us can’t even remember all the blind alleys we wasted resources on in the ‘80s, especially those of us who weren’t there. I count myself among that group because I was a kid and didn’t pay much attention to business.

But I can say that, judging by historical artifacts, a lot of it was along the same broad lines as AI. And we maybe don’t realize how serious people were about it back then. The technology that actually changed the world was so comparatively boring and pragmatic that the stuff that was being hyped back then seems comically overwrought. It’s easy to assume it must have been a joke all along.
by yoavm | 2026-02-18 15:34:22+00:00
Please, go to https://annas-archive.li/torrents and check their torrent list generator. It will recommend you torrent files that need help seeding. Pick one, and see for yourself that it's practically impossible to audit its content. I just checked and the average torrent size is around 125GB. With a typical file in it being around 0.5mb, you're looking at auditing 250,000 files. And the filenames are all hashes.

I would honestly love to know what you see as an alternative to trust here; an alternative that can still be helpful.
by some-guy | 2026-02-18 15:34:22+00:00
I’m at $LARGE_ENTERPRISE_SAAS and I agree. There is a mass psychosis going on around what these LLM tools (which I use daily) are capable of *at scale*. The amount of business processes and tasks these software suites can, and must perform at near 100% correctness every time is massive, across an insane number of domains, accounting for an insane number of laws, countries, languages, browser configurations, business requests, legal teams. The list goes on, and while you can bootstrap a front end that appears to do 80% of a large dinosaur competitor like ours, the reality is it can’t, and the context windows to get there are in the orders of magnitude larger than they are today.

The weird part is that people at our company also fail to see this. “This vibe coder is going to recreate 20+ years of code, use cases, business processes and integrations for thousands of companies across hundreds of domains!” is uttered every day and just simply isn’t true.
by ctnicholas | 2026-02-18 15:34:54+00:00
Hey all, we've just open sourced our sync engine and dev server, and we're very excited to share this. We're planning on open sourcing more of our platform as time goes on, and this is the first stage.

You can start your dev server in your Liveblocks app with the following command:

$ npx liveblocks dev

The team and I will be keeping an eye out for any questions you have!
by tgtweak | 2026-02-18 15:34:58+00:00
ZLUDA doesn't have full coverage though and that means only a subset of cuda codebases can be ported successfully - they've focused on 80/20 coverage for core math.

Specifically:

CuBLAS (limited/partial scope), cuBLASLt (limited/partial scope), cuDNN (limited/partial scope), cuFFT, cuSPARSE, NVML (very limited/partial scope)

Notably Missing:
cuSPARSELt, cuSOLVER, cuRAND, cuTENSOR, NPP, nvJPEG, nvCOMP, NCCL, OptiX

I'd estimate it's around 20% of CUDA library coverage.
by gorjusborg | 2026-02-18 15:35:26+00:00
I really liked the show despite Lee Pace's performance.

Pace really nails the intense Jobs vibe, but having seen his other work, it seems like it might not be 100% acting. There's consistency to the off feeling he gives across roles.

Gordon's role was probably the most setting accurate, but I do feel the story would have suffered if the entire cast was realistic to 80s standards rather than translated into late-2010s sensibilities.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-18 15:35:45+00:00
FWIW, you can generate your own random PW on any UN*X Type system, I think on MACs also:

For example:

tr -cd "[:alnum:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 20 | sed 10q

Change "alnum" to "print" to get other characters. This will generate 10 20 characters passwords.
by anastasija2504 | 2026-02-18 15:35:54+00:00
I was in the room at this year’s Pragmatic Summit when Laura Tacho dropped the numbers: nearly all developers use AI coding assistants, over a quarter of production code is AI-written - and yet productivity gains haven’t budged past 10%.
I had the chance to attend this year’s Pragmatic Summit and catch Laura Tacho – CTO at DX, executive advisor, and Austrian Innovator of the Year – in her keynote.

She presented her latest research, Measuring Developer Productivity & AI Impact, based on three months of data collected through February 1.

The research surveyed 121.000 developers across 450+ companies. A striking 92.6% of them use an AI coding assistant at least once a month, and roughly 75% use one weekly. Clearly, AI isn’t just a side experiment anymore, it’s part of the workflow.

Here are the top takeaways I found most compelling from Laura’s research.
by ozim | 2026-02-18 15:36:22+00:00
It is first time I see name of that project. I don't know anyone who is involved in that project. On Wikipedia I see it "shadow library launched by pseudonymous Anna".

"Anna's archives official torrents only" - doesn't put me at ease and it is far far from SETI@Home that was ran by highly regarded university and it wasn't storing any torrents on people hard drive.

Random people should not "just try it out because it is as easy as SETI@Home" - it should be, people who already know the project and would like to contribute but it was a hassle for them to set it up.
by greysphere | 2026-02-18 15:36:29+00:00
We made an AlphaGo like implementation for the card game Dominion. Certainly not the same number of cards but similar complexity. I have high confidence the same techniques would work for mtg. In fact possibly better as mtg doesn't lend to large search depths. Though possibly worse as there is more hidden information (though that depends on if the format has open deck lists and/or how much of the meta is provided to or trained by the nn)
by elicash | 2026-02-18 15:36:33+00:00
What they wrote is saying the data is available for free, and in fact that they have done extra work to make it cheaper for the LLM, but also says they should "consider" a contribution so support their mission. It's not trying to trick them, it's laying out facts about the value they offer.

And in fact, it's very possible that the person running the LLM would want to be made aware of this information. Or that they have given their agents access to a wallet so that it can make financial decisions like the one noted here around enterprise level donations that could be in the user's self-interest. They might not WANT to sign off on everything.

Is your view that any writing with any eye towards LLMs is prompt injection? That there's no way to give them useful information?
by thanhnguyen2187 | 2026-02-18 15:36:37+00:00
Thanks for the cool tool! I think it's worth mentioning SQLPage, which is another tool in similar vein, to generate UI from SQL. From my POV:

- SQLPage: more on UI building; doesn't use DuckDB

- Shaper: more on analytics/dashboard focused with PDF generation and stuff; uses DuckDB

https://github.com/sqlpage/SQLPage
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-18 15:36:44+00:00
>they are reaching the 200€ threshold on the used market.

Where?! I just cheeked the used market in Austria and 2020 M1s go for at least 350 for the 8GB RAM models and 450 for the 16GB model. Your 230 for the 16gb one fells more like a rare exception but not them norm everywhere.
by rybosworld | 2026-02-18 15:36:59+00:00
Companies over a certain size (say more than 25+ employees), are universally bad at:

- measuring productivity

- adapting to change

This article just reinforces that. Past a certain headcount, executives have little to no understanding of what IC day-to-day is like.

AI tooling doesn't fix the bureaucracy the c-suite helped to create.
Show HN: Agentpriv – Sudo for AI Agents
by nichkej | 2026-02-18 15:37:13+00:00
AI agents call tools autonomously, but some calls (delete_db, reset_state) shouldn't run unchecked.

agentpriv is a tiny permission layer: wrap any callable with allow/deny/ask and it gates execution before the function runs.

Zero dependencies, ~100 lines, works with any framework or plain Python. Happy to hear what's missing.
by sneak | 2026-02-18 15:37:58+00:00
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest

originally published as a standard in 2003, apparently.

HTTP equivalent:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8615

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI
by toldnotmywrath | 2026-02-18 15:38:44+00:00
No, you cannot ignore every argument by claiming someone else made it before. Make an actual response.

What new opportunities does the LLM create for the workers it may displace? What new opportunities did neural machine translation create for the workers it displaced?

In what way is a text-generation machine that dominates all computer use alike with the steam engine?

The steam engine powered new factories workers could slave away in, demanded coal that created mining towns. The LLM gives you a data centre. How many people does a data centre employ?
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-18 15:39:05+00:00
Ask Musk why he refuses to provide details of accidents.

Tesla’s own Vehicle Safety Report claims that the average US driver experiences a minor collision every 229,000 miles, meaning the robotaxi fleet is crashing four times more often even by the company’s own benchmark.

https://www.automotiveworld.com/news/tesla-robotaxis-reporti...
by elzbardico | 2026-02-18 15:39:23+00:00
I am not a big fan of copyright law, but I am still fascinated how OpenAI et caterva moved us from "Too Big to Fail" to "To Big to Arrest" without people even blinking an AI.

Where is the DMCA? Where are the FBI raids? the bankrupting legal actions that those fucking fat bastards never blinked twice before deploying against citizens?
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 15:39:34+00:00
That's too broad. You aren't going to get any nibbles.

You need to narrow it down to a single and specific persona and business domain.

This is because it takes years to fully flesh out and productionize a workflow from scratch, so concentrating on a business domain you know intimately well helps you build that muscle, which you can then repeat if you are able to hit revenue metrics for a Series A/B.
by close04 | 2026-02-18 15:40:02+00:00
> Both sides can be true simultaneously. You can invest a lot and produce no results.

Evidence show that Meta can be very effective at achieving the results that drive profits. It's already suspicious when they fail exactly at the ones that would lower profits. Even more when you consider the rest of the evidence which shows intention to hide the "failure". That breaks trust and you're just choosing to believe that the lie that they got caught with must have been the only one.

Short of universal laws almost anything can go both ways. But when one is overwhelmingly more likely you can make a concession and agree Zuck was lying a lot in there.

You're bending over backwards to muddy the waters with vague "it could go both ways" statements.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-18 15:40:05+00:00
> However, niche stuff like vertical-specific CRUD apps that used to be able to charge a heavy SaaS premium simply because they could develop CRUD apps and UI faster than their customers are toast.

You'd be surprised how many industries are just not that tech-savvy. Your average real estate company or accounting firm doesn't have the expertise to build even the simplest apps, and a keen employee vibe coding a CRUD app at a non-tech company is only 20% of the problem. Where are they hosting the CRUD app? How are they getting alerted when the CRUD app goes down, or when it starts spitting 500s? Who's handling database and OS upgrades for the server hosting the web app? These may sound like simple things to you and I, but to a company with zero expertise, the first time their database goes down and they (and ChatGPT) can't figure out why, they get spooked. If these companies wanted to avoid paying SaaS they'd be better off using Excel.

I started my career in consulting and it was filled with cases like this, even pre-AI, where a non-tech company built some kind of internal tool, it got too unwieldy because it was coded like shit by people with minimal development experience, and they ended up outsourcing hosting and maintenance because it was too difficult and they had no interest in building a software department.
by majora2007 | 2026-02-18 15:40:24+00:00
That's interesting, 4.6 is finally when AI started to become good in my eyes. I have a very strict plan phase, argue, plan then partial execute. I like it to do boilerplate then I do the hard stuff myself and have it do a once over at the end.

Although I have had it try to debug something and just get stuck chugging tokens.