MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aggregator-ios | 2026-02-24 21:45:50+00:00
Surprised this didn't get a higher placement on the HN front page, only 34 points?

Absolutely impressive that this was done with $1100 in tokens and in 1 week. I agree, and so do a lot of my peers that code has quickly become nothing more than a tool to accomplish a task. Code never was and never should have been the product in and of itself. This is amazing news, and this is exactly where we should be as a civilization. The only people that have trouble with this development are the gatekeepers who think that code should be sacred and revered by itself. That is a perversion of computing, and we got the wrong group of people there.

While Vercel continues to be the #1 host for Next.js projects, others seem to claim that migrating to their platform is as easy as enabling the Github integration. It's not. Cloudflare even mentions that you can port your Next project to run on its infra, but I couldn't get it to work. Replit markets the same, and yet, Next fails to on there too. You have to go through several painful hacks and try-build-fail loops and eventually not worth it.

You know what took less time and frustration? I asked Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to convert the entire Next project to React+Vite. And as a shameless plug, I was able to get https://jsonquery.app fully up and running and the builds are lightning fast with Vite, and worked with just 2-3 tries on Cloudflare pages. If you don't need SSR and Next routing, I suggest you do the same.

Oh, and in Next.js land, Turbopack had severe edge cases, that I had to revert to Webpack. Esp when dealing with WASM, as JSON Query uses the jq dependency brought in as a wasm to run on the web. This is not an issue with Vite.
by idop | 2026-02-24 21:46:05+00:00
1. Says the IDF accepted the fictitious 0-militants 100%-civilian death toll claim.

2. Links to a news report that has literally no source on its claims. Just says "IDF accepted" and that's it.

3. Links to another news report which does nothing but report on the previous news report as if this makes it credible.

4. Says IDF isn't contesting the report.

5. Proceeds to provide the only official, verifiable, sourced IDF quote about the report, contesting it.

The logical fallacies you're willing to accept in order to feed your hatred is impressive.
by jiriknesl | 2026-02-24 21:46:16+00:00
I think you oversimplify things a bit.

Are those names erased during compilation? It has a massive impact.

If you have indirect calls, how are those resolved? That matters a lot.

What is even the language, after the code is compiled/interpreted. Does it disappear like in many languages? Do you have some parts available, but not all (like in PHP)? Or do you have full runtime at hand and you can mold it like in Smalltalk? There are languages with no runtime, languages with some runtime, and languages with full image in place. Each has massively different pros and cons.

When you say Haskell and Smalltalk are name focused, you are technically right, but developer experience is extremely different.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-24 21:46:21+00:00
Uptime Kuma supports certificate expiry notifications and will send you messages in whatever channel (e.g. e-mail, Slack, ...) you configure ahead of time: https://uptimekuma.org/

That way, even if some of your automation is borked (or if you don't have any), you'll at least be reminded.

Though with this being pushed, feels like nobody will have much choice, but automate: https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will...
by onecommit | 2026-02-24 21:46:31+00:00
We're figuring our business model out. There're two avenues that we principally think about (1) bundled coding agent subscription and (2)enterprise version with auth, team management, sharing of agent interactions. Admittedly, it's early and this can change. What won't change is that this UI layer for running multiple coding agents is and will be open-source. Emdash itself is funded by YC. Initially developed as a tool while working on another product, but we weren't funded then.
by tadfisher | 2026-02-24 21:46:32+00:00
I don't think you understand. This exists _today_, regardless of how you install apps, because attackers can't spoof app signatures. If I don't have Bank of America's private signing key, I cannot make an app that requests passkeys for bankofamerica.com, because bankofamerica.com publishes a file [0] that says "only apps signed with this key fingerprint are allowed to request passkeys for bankofamerica.com" and Android's credential service checks that file.

No need for locking down the app ecosystem, no need to verify developers. Just don't use phishable credentials and you are not vulnerable to malware trying to phish credentials.

0: https://www.bankofamerica.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json
by wat10000 | 2026-02-24 21:46:43+00:00
Tesla owner here, I agree. One of my cars is over a decade old and I don't see any compelling reason to upgrade. They're still nice, but aside from "Self Driving" the improvements in that time are fairly minor and incremental. They need an actual truck, not the monstrosity they're trying to sell. The new Roadster is six years late. Once the S and X are dropped they're only going to have three models on offer, and no matter how good they are that's going to leave out a lot of customers whose needs/wants aren't met by those three.

They got distracted by self driving and let that take up all of their attention. Now they're pivoting to robots before they've even got their first distraction working. They needed somebody who could tell Elon "no" about eight years ago.
by jsheard | 2026-02-24 21:46:55+00:00
You could do it in the vertex shader, but all of the geometry would have to be very finely tessellated for the curve to look right since each individual triangle would still have straight edges. Alternatively you could raytrace the camera rays, which makes it trivial to use any projection, but that's a non-trivial departure from how most engines operate. Post-process is the simplest and most universal way to do it.

I'm not sure what HYPER DEMON does, it's actually a custom engine rather than Unreal or Unity so they could really specialize into the crazy FOV if they wanted to.
by selridge | 2026-02-24 21:46:56+00:00
Kinda. PI is principal investigator and usually they’re a professor with a grant (the grant being the thing they are the principal of investigating). That part is right. But they’re not really directly in the review loop. For some fields where things are small enough that folks can recognize style such as it exists, you could see reviewers passing over unfamiliar work and promoting familiar work. That was not the issue.

The issue was that it still was kind of hard to produce crappy mid rate papers, so you kind of needed the infrastructure of a small lab to do that. Now you don’t. The success rate for those mediocre papers produced by grad students and postdocs will go way down. It is possible that will cease to be a useful signal for those early career researchers.
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-02-24 21:46:56+00:00
> I really don't understand the "stop telling me I'm holding it wrong" argument. You probably are holding it wrong!

I can't speak for others, but from my end it really seems like there's no actual way to detect whether someone is holding it right or wrong until after the implications for LLMs are known. If someone is enthusiastic about LLMs, we don't see claims that they're holding it wrong. It's only if an LLM project fails, or someone tries them and concludes they don't work as well as proponents say, that the accusations come out, even if the person in question had been using these tools for a long time and previously been a supporter. This makes it seem like "holding it wrong" is a post hoc justification for ignoring evidence that would tend to contradict the pro-LLM narrative, not a measurable fact someone's LLM usage.
by 5G_activated | 2026-02-24 21:47:10+00:00
there is a long standing problem in Team Fortress 2 where the default FOV is 75, as it was on the console ports of the Orange Box, and it's believed to turn off a lot of new players and enrage regulars because they just don't see things in the periphery that everyone else playing at the maximum FOV of 90 does.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-24 21:47:22+00:00
I didn't know about atomic object rename... it's going to take me a long time to think through the options here.

> RenameObject is only supported for objects stored in the S3 Express One Zone storage class.

Ah interesting, I don't use this but I bet in a year+ AWS will have this everywhere lol S3 is just too good.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-24 21:47:25+00:00
And you imagine these incredibly expensive-to-operate, environmentally damaging, highly specialized, years-outdated GPUs will trigger some sort of technological revolution that won’t be infinitely better served by the shiny new GPUs of the day that will not only be dramatically more powerful, but offer a ton more compute for the amount of electricity used?

The AI use of GPUs didn’t stem from a glut of outdated, discarded units with nearly no market value. All of those GPUs were, and still are, worthless digital refuse.

The closest analog to what you’re referring to is cluster computing with old commodity PCs that got companies like Google and Hotmail off the ground… for a few years until they could afford big boy servers and now all of those, and most current PCs on the verge of obsolescence, are worthless digital reuse.

The big difference is that they chose those PC clusters because they were cheap, commodity pieces right off-the-bat, not because they were narrowly scoped specialty hardware pieces that collectively cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Your supposition fails to account for our history with hardware in any reasonable way.
by tossandthrow | 2026-02-24 21:47:51+00:00
This approach dismisses the cases where Ai submissions generally are better.

I don't think this is appreciated enough: a lot of Ai adaptation is not happening because of cost on the expense of quality. Quite the opposite.

I am in the process of switching my company's use of retool for an Ai generated backoffice.

First and foremost for usability, velocity and security.

Secondly, we also save a buck.
by hansmayer | 2026-02-24 21:47:51+00:00
> Falcons certainly aren't deterministic.

Well falcons are not deterministic and are trained to do something in the art of falconry, yes. Still I fail to see an analogy here as it is the falcon gets trained to execute a few specific tasks triggered by specific commands. Much like a dog. The human more or less needs to remember those few commands. We don't teach dogs and falcons to do everything do we ? Although we do teach specific dogs do to specific tasks in various domains. But no one ever claimed Fido was superintelligent and that we needed to figure him out better.

> That's what makes them hard to use! A programming language has like ~30 keywords and does what you tell it to do. An LLM accepts input in 100+ human languages and, as you've already pointed out many times, responds in non-deterministic ways. That makes figuring out how to use them effectively really difficult.

Well yes and no. The problem with figuring out how to use them (LLMs) effectively is exactly caused by their inherent un-predictability, which is a feature of their architecture further exacerbated by whatever datasets they were trained on. And so since we have no f*ing clue as to what the glorified slot machines might pop out next, and it is not even sure as recently measured, that they make us more productive, the logical question is - why should we, as you propose in your latest blog, bend our minds to try and "figure them out" ? Why the hell should I use it for anything else other than a shittier replacement for pre-2019 Google? In this state they are neither augmentation nor amplification. They are a drag on productivity and it shows, hint - AWS December outage. How is that amplifying anything other than toil and work for the humans?
by unclejuan | 2026-02-24 21:47:51+00:00
If you compare a 2012 tesla model s 70D (the most efficient model tesla had then and arguably the gold standard) it had 33.4 kWh/100mi EPA, the 2025 LR is 27.2kWh/100m which is nearly 22.8% less and this while being larger.

What's even crazier is that a tesla 2008 tesla roadster had 28kWh/100mi EPA combined, which is more than today's model S.

Literally there isn't a single combustion car (not including hybrids) which comes anywhere close to this improvement.

Also I don't know about other countries, but I'd argue that in 20 years at least in Europe the fuel economy of diesel cars has gone worse due to emissions, I'm talking about real world usage, regardless of what this WLTP non-sense says.l
by XorNot | 2026-02-24 21:47:55+00:00
Are they? The goal isn't to draw a hard boundary it's to create layered defenses which increase the difficulty and reduce opportunity.

If instead of open access you need to tailgate on a limited set of employees, that increases difficulty considerably and makes the opportunity much less common.

Real security analysis works this way: you don't assume you can build a wall which is never breached.
by vyayasan | 2026-02-24 21:48:05+00:00
Author here.

Quick context on the pilot:

30-day test with 5 compliance analysts at UK fintech doing standard individual onboarding (Know Your Customer checks).

Before: 95 minutes per case (manual searches across OFAC, UN, EU sanctions lists, Companies House, adverse media, PEP databases)

After: 27 minutes per case (Claude orchestrates the searches, analyst reviews at 17 mandatory checkpoints)

Key architectural decision: NO auto-approvals. Every decision requires explicit analyst approval + notes.

Legal team spent 3 weeks reviewing before approving pilot. Main concern was audit trail - solved with immutable markdown logs.

Demo slides show the full workflow: https://github.com/vyayasan/kyc-analyst/blob/main/docs/demo-...

Happy to answer questions about:
- The 17 stagegates
- How risk scoring works (deterministic, not black box)
- Regulatory requirements (FCA/MLR 2017)
- What works vs what doesn't

Built this to test if foundation models can commoditize compliance middleware.
by hunterkampf | 2026-02-24 21:48:14+00:00
I've run through every productivity system you've heard of: Franklin Covey, GTD, Bullet Journal, Focus Course. They all died the same way: maintenance was the first casualty of a busy week.

Most of what I see about AI + markdown focuses on the technical side. What I found is that the productivity system patterns are just as critical and usually missing. BuJo rapid logging and migration discipline. GTD capture-and-clarify. Gary Keller's ONE Thing as a daily forcing function. Anti-goals as hard limits the system monitors automatically, not aspirations you have to remember to check.

On the technical side: CLAUDE.md context files at every folder level for hierarchical context loading, slash commands that run daily/weekly/monthly workflows automatically, sub-agents for email scanning and meeting processing. No database. Plain text in git.

The insight that ties both halves together: AI absorbs the maintenance that killed every previous system. The productivity patterns still do the real work; they just don't die anymore because I'm not the one keeping them alive.

Happy to share the structure and patterns if useful. I'll be sharing more about this system in subsequent posts and when its ready, a version on Github for all to download.
by wayeq | 2026-02-24 21:48:51+00:00
> If genocide were the goal this war would have lasted one day.

You can't infer intent that way. Nuking Gaza isn't free, it would introduce an existential threat to Israel. They are toeing a dangerous line already, and using WMDs would align other countries against them really quickly.

Putin isn't avoiding using nukes on Ukraine because he's a nice guy.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-24 21:48:53+00:00
ZIP files can have block-like relatives to the SQLite page. It could still be a single XML file and have piecewise encryption in a way that change saving doesn't require an entire file rewrite, just the blocks that changed and the updated "File Directory" at the end of the ZIP file.

Though there would be opportunity to use more of the ZIP "folder structure" especially for binary attachments and icons, it wouldn't necessarily be "required", especially not for a first pass.

(That said there are security benefits to whole file encryption over piecewise encryption and it should probably be an option whether or not you want in-place saves with piecewise encryption or whole file replacement with whole file encryption.)
by salawat | 2026-02-24 21:48:58+00:00
No shit. Just running some of these models and their "aligned" versions locally and observing the reasoning traces was really eye opening for me. Watching an aligned model respond one thing, but spit out a CoT 5 times bigger, jumping through hoops to try to plan out what to hide or factor in or what have you just made me realize that somehow, humanity has learned to teach machines how to lie. Straight up, no cap. Thinks one thing, says another. Both representations diverge. No wonder SV/VC loves these things.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-24 21:49:07+00:00
The US is investing in AI technology to try to preserve the empire and its capitalists as its economic power is starting to be eclipsed. This was basically an inevitable move. The rush to replace workers, speed run the production of a superintelligence singleton with barely a thought for safety or whether anyone even wants this, etc all flows from this basic impulse.

If they are successful, they are going to shrink their base of people that buy into this system domestically even further, so they need to bank on an ever shrinking locus of support. Autonomous weapons and mass surveillance are a necessity if your population has become restive and unreliable. However, I think unless they attain a certain level of capability, this will accelerate popular anger rather than suppress it. If they shoot protestors with robots, it could cause an explosion of popular anger rather than scaring people into submission.
by dima55 | 2026-02-24 21:49:26+00:00
I would love for us to move past the idea that non-pinhole projections have "distortion", and we should strive to remove this "distortion" by reprojecting stuff to pinhole models. In practice, ALL projections distort straight lines and/or shapes and/or sizes, so if you use the pinhole projection everywhere, your images look like crap (see iphone wide-lens camera output for instance). Most of the normal non-pinhole projection functions work fine for wide lenses, while behaving like a pinhole lens with long lenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens#Mapping_function
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 21:49:32+00:00
1. No, it doesn't.

2. "Kan 11, the country’s public broadcaster, attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT)"

(That's a state-owned news outlet, to be clear; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan_11)

3. See above.

4. Accurate.

5. Re-read that statement. At no point does it contest the toll.
by jimbokun | 2026-02-24 21:49:54+00:00
This was the single worthwhile point behind “agile” development: getting new code in front of users as quickly as possible to know whether or not you’re building the right thing.

With agile that meant delivering something to evaluate every two weeks instead of 6 months or a year. Now with AIs maybe it should be a new version every day? Are current processes outside of writing the code capable of supporting that cadence? Do users even want to try new versions that often?
by TZubiri | 2026-02-24 21:50:46+00:00
If I may advocate for the non HN partisan position here.

Let's consider that Google's Android was and is a huge improvement in security in terms of OS design (even if inspired by iOS) over the previous incumbent (let's call Windows that). That difference in security still exists today (probably due to Window's Backwards Compatibility prioritization, and its later positioning in the market as a cheap powertool (cheap compared to iOS, powertool compared to android).

That security advantage, by the way, was not just the result of initial design, but it required a lot of maintenance, in the form of the 'Play Store' App Store equivalent (at no cost to the user no less).

All this to say that let's consider this context, and consider what alternatives are proposed.

1- The windows 'install whatever you want model' (Now with OS approved certificates): As mentioned, worse, with almost no sandboxing.
2- Linux package managers + install whatever you want: Valid model for powerusers and programmers, not really relevant for massive personal computing.
3- Keeping the old Android system: This would imply simply ignoring the problem of growing professional and untouchable malicious actors that seem to be growing in power with the advent of anonymous financial tech. Is this the actual proposal? Do nothing about the problem? Pretend there is no problem?
I don't think the problem is necessarily malware, but to take a specific example, suppose a Casino from Isle of Man is allowing underaged and users from jurisdictions where it is illegal. Regardless of whether you think this is ok, or debatable or it depends on the circumstances. Isn't the ask to identify the developer rather trivial? Just a little bit of paperwork, you want to be a developer? Install code that someone else will use? Put your name in it, have skin in the game.

I think there's also a contradiction between the need for developer privacy and user privacy. Most HN users are privacy-sensitive. Well I propose there's a tradeoff between the privacy of the consumer and the producer. In order to provide privacy and rights to the user, the producer needs to come forward. There's no way to have the cake and eat it too, if both producer and consumer are shy, they will never find each other, if both producer and consumer stay anonymous, they won't trust each other, if both producer and consumer stay anonymous, they don't give any guarantees to the other party that they won't go rogue.

You know this if you've tried to start a business, you can either put your face, your name, register with the state, put your actual address. Or you can use an anonymous brand, a Registered Agent Address, etc... The latter is a harder sell than the former, and you only don't notice it if you are completely absorbed in your own world and cannot put yourself in the shoes of your customer.

tl;dr: Google has an impeccable data security track record. And User/Developer privacy is a tradeoff. Google is right to protect user privacy and not developer privacy.
by mbac32768 | 2026-02-24 21:50:58+00:00
You have to be a craven, hollowed out husk of a person if you let the DoD demand your AI be used for killing people or surveillance of Americans. Even if you believe America serves a positive role as world police, even if you're pro-Trump, you just have to see what a terrible precedent this sets.

Here's where I would expect the CEOs of the other AI labs to stand by Anthropic and say no.
by Romario77 | 2026-02-24 21:51:06+00:00
you can get a lifetime fan just by replying to a letter - like you see here. That's a very effective marketing.

I got a rejection letter once from a company I submitted my resume to (online) and I still remember that and in a positive light even though it was a rejection.

Now they just ghost you even if you went through 5 rounds of interviews and spend a bunch of your time.