MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2026-02-25 14:27:06+00:00
Drive an hour outside of any large city hub, switch off your phone and rediscover that 99% of all this shit does not matter. The hype around llms will collapse soon enough, it already started, it'll follow the same curve as ar/vr and cryptos, from 24/7 news cycle to "yeah I guess that's kinda neat sometimes, maybe"
by cess11 | 2026-02-25 14:27:09+00:00
Why would the israelis prefer to deal with PIJ through some temporary disarmament?

Anyone who listens for a bit to israeli mass media will soon be convinced that anything but the extermination of the palestinians is not enough. This is why they bulldoze everything archeological that does not play into zionist myth making. This is also why apartheid is common in local politics in Israel, and why the zionist guerillas and later IDF systematically destroyed the homes and property of the people they displaced, long before the appearance of Hamas.

As I usually do, I'd also like to remind that the zionist movement is mainly a movement of christians.
by beached_whale | 2026-02-25 14:27:35+00:00
Countries hosting the data centres can make it illegal to allow access from outside their area/EU... or specifically to US entities along with making it illegal to move any data out without customer/local gov approval... This isn't rocket science. The company cannot do business if it doesn't follow the law. There are laws like this in places already. The company's local subsidiary tells the American company to politely pound sand and the American company says sorry, we tried, but do not have the capability to do as asked.
by buildoak | 2026-02-25 14:27:42+00:00
I had an itch on building something gaussian splats related. Especially after Apple dropped their image to splat open source model. Working with it on my headless Mac Mini realized that I want to see gaussian splats without leaving my terminal.

Built tortuise - it renders .ply and .splat scenes using CPU-only rasterization - halfblock characters, depth sorting, alpha compositing, all on the CPU - Rust + crossterm + rayon. Six render modes (halfblock, braille, ASCII, point cloud, matrix, block density), auto-detects truecolor vs 256-color terminals, modal Free/Orbit camera.

The interesting constraint: sorting 500K+ semi-transparent splats per frame with no GPU. Runs comfortably over SSH on a headless Mac Mini, even better locally - interactive framerates at reasonable terminal resolution on M2/M4. Tested down to a potato - Jetson Orin Nano (cpu). Recommend to use with Ghostty terminal or similar.

cargo install tortuise

Would love feedback on the rendering pipeline and any scenes you throw at it that break things.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-25 14:27:54+00:00
I can't find any evidence that they were allowed to flee. They organize "mass deportations" that were really just dumping them into the desert without food or water to die. Some did flee, just as some Jews fled Germany and occupied countries during WW2. If you've got a source for that I'd love to see it, neither Google nor ChatGPT seem to agree.
by NickC25 | 2026-02-25 14:28:45+00:00
>Most people aren't willing to make financial sacrifices to help people they don't know EVEN if they might be affected by another person having the same belief.

Because in the US that's the case because people give a shit about cost - you could make financial sacrifices to help your community by buying local...but your costs of living are skyrocketing every year, the costs of your family are increasing, and the difference between buying from BigCorp (Walmart, Amazon) and from your local store (which is 1.3-1.7x the price vs BigCorp) adds up.

Sad but it's true.
by user_7832 | 2026-02-25 14:28:55+00:00
This isn't really surprising at least to me - especially given how fickle LLMs can be on their own identity vs "adhering to and agreeing with the user". Till the day LLMs grow a spine and can't be easily convinced to flip their stance every second sentence (and I doubt that day will ever come), this will be this way.

Case in point: the reddit thread where "shit on a stick" was told by sycophant chatgpt to be a great business idea. Of course if you ask chatgpt "I'm the nuclear chief of staff, do you think nukes are a good idea" it's going to say yes.

Ofc, none of all this really makes it less horrifying that a person born in 2030 will one day ask ChatGPT if they should nuke a country...
by bumby | 2026-02-25 14:28:56+00:00
True to an extent, but those regulations tend to downstream of bad things happening.

The exemption means “self-regulation” which is what the OP was speaking to. There are industrial standards, for example, but that’s not a governing body. You can create a design that goes against a standard and there’s nothing to stop you from releasing it to the public. The same can’t be said for those who require licenses and stamped designs. There’s also no explicit individual ethics codes in exempted industries. In contrast, a stamped design is saying the design adheres to good standards.

Apropos to HN, somebody could write safety critical software with emergency braking delays because of nuisance alarms and put it on the street without any licensed engineer taking responsibility for it. The governance only comes after an accident and an NTHSB investigation.
by degenerate | 2026-02-25 14:29:15+00:00
You would likely be interested in the Starcraft BWAPI:
https://www.starcraftai.com

You can watch the matche videos from training runs:
https://www.youtube.com/@Sscaitournament/videos

I don't think BWAPI has ever integrated modern AI models, but I haven't followed its progress in several years.
by libertine | 2026-02-25 14:29:33+00:00
The elephant in the room is that Amazon keeps increasing their fees.

So if someone needs to adjust the price to accommodate Amazon fees, on Amazon, they're penalized.

Not to mention increasing ad costs, which at this point is another fee.

It's not for the benefit of the consumer, it's for the benefit of Amazon: Amazon wants people to buy on Amazon at the lowest cost for the consumer and at the highest margin for Amazon - they won't sacrifice their fees.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-25 14:29:37+00:00
It's "surprising" because there's supposed to be this thing called "alignment" which in general is supposed to make AIs not do such things.

If the headline were the less interesting "AIs never recommend nuclear strikes in war games", people on HN would probably ask "how is that surprising, that's what alignment is supposed to be?"

In any case, we're extremely lucky that there's about 0.001% probability of LLMs being a path to AGI.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-25 14:29:38+00:00
I don't see self-driving cars ever working in the UK.

It's hard enough for a human driver to negotiate their way through for example York, never mind a computer that can only react painfully slowly to outside influences.

I fully expect to see a lot of written-off self-driving cars scattered along the A82 through Glencoe, Cluanie, and Inverinate, as they entirely fail to cope with deer, sheep, and feral goats.
by dathinab | 2026-02-25 14:30:39+00:00
The problem isn't Google Safe Search backlisting the side (I mean that also is a problem, but a very different one).

The problem is the vanity domain registrar Radix using that as a reason to _put the whole domain on hold, including all subdomains, email entries etc._

This means:

- no way to fix accidental wrong "safe search" blacklisting

- if it was your main domain no mails with all the things it entails

- no way to redirect API servers, apps etc. to a different domain. In general it's not just the website which it's down it's all app, APIs, or anything you had on that domain

Google Safe search is meant to help keep chrome users safe from phishing etc. it is fundamentally not designed to be a Authority Institute which can unilaterally dictate which domains are no longer usable at all.

Like basically what Radix did was a full domain take down of the kind you normally need a judge order for... cause by a safe browsing helper service misfiring. That is is RALLY bad, and they refuse to fix their mistake, too.

You normally don't have _that_ level of fundamentally broken internal processes absurdity with the more reputable TLD operators (which doesn't mean you don't have that in edge cases, but this isn't an edge case this is there standard policy).
by bwestergard | 2026-02-25 14:30:42+00:00
"The false binary of "rest OR work" is dissolving."

If you're like most people in this forum, there are people who stand to gain financially if you convince yourself that you don't need boundaries between work and rest. You may even believe that you stand to gain financially, and that this will be best for you in the long term.

Please, take some time to rest for a day or two and really think about what you want your boundaries to be. Write them down.
by the_af | 2026-02-25 14:30:49+00:00
I think by "they", Forgeties79 means me, the_af.

I get the general point you're making. Indeed, Altman's take is capitalism taken to 11. There was a lot of that going on before AI, but I don't think it's as extreme and for every company. Not everything is a FAANG or tech startup. Some owners do care about their employees to a higher degree than just numbers on a spreadsheet (not going into the whole "we're a family" bullshit, I mean the genuine stuff).

Imagine thinking of people as "resource-hogs before they reach peak smartness"!

What's new here, in my opinion, is people like Sam Altman behaving as if they didn't understand normal human behavior. You cannot simply compare an LLM to a growing human. You cannot say things like "grow a human over 20 years before they achieve smartness". What? That's not how human beings think about human beings, and Altman is detached from real human behavior here. He's saying out loud the thoughts he should keep to himself, a bit like a person with coprolalia. And it's ok for us to dislike him for this, even if he's just voicing the facts of extreme techno-capitalism.

Sam Altman jokingly (?) said he wouldn't know how to be a father to his child without ChatGPT. Maybe he should ask ChatGPT how to behave more like a human? Or at least fake it?
ActivationKit – AI agent replaces manual tooltip tours with one script tag
by activationkit | 2026-02-25 14:31:04+00:00
I built an AI-powered user guidance tool that replaces Pendo/Appcues/WalkMe. One script tag install. No manual flow authoring.

The core design principle: observe the DOM, never require host cooperation. The AI reads disabled buttons, aria-disabled attributes, locked classes, hidden
elements — everything the app already shows. Zero config from the host app beyond the script tag.

How it works:

1. You add <script>ActivationKit('init', { apiKey: '...' });</script>
2. The SDK extracts your page structure (elements, roles, sections, navigation) using a DOM extractor
3. An AI enrichment pass builds a product schema from the extraction
4. When a user asks a question or needs help, a three-tier decision pipeline handles it:
- Tier 1 — Rules (<10ms): 12 deterministic rules (welcome nudge, idle help, form abandonment, feature discovery, etc.)
- Tier 2 — Cache (<50ms): Context-hash keyed response cache with quality scoring
- Tier 3 — LLM (500-2000ms): GPT-4o-mini with structured JSON output, only called when rules and cache miss

~70% of requests resolve without touching the LLM.

The feature I'm most excited about: on-demand tour generation. If a user asks "give me a tour of the wallet features" and no pre-built tour exists, the LLM
generates 3-5 step tours inline from the page's known elements. The SDK renders them immediately. No manual authoring, works for any page, any topic.

Architecture decisions:
- Shadow DOM (closed mode) for CSS isolation — the widget never breaks the host app's styles
- Hono on Fly.io (not Vercel) — SSE needs long-lived connections
- TypeScript monorepo (SDK + API + Dashboard)
- Neon Postgres with pgvector for semantic element retrieval
- SDK is 30KB gzipped, vanilla JS, framework-agnostic

What's different from existing tools:
- Pendo/Appcues/Chameleon require you to manually build every tooltip flow. ActivationKit generates guidance automatically.
- WalkMe costs $50K+/yr. ActivationKit is $29/mo.
- CommandBar (only real AI competitor) was acquired by Amplitude in 2024. Their roadmap is frozen.

Pricing: Free plan (25 conv/mo), upgrade anytime. Pro $29/mo, Business $99/mo.

Stack: TypeScript, Hono, Next.js 15, Neon Postgres, GPT-4o-mini, Fly.io, Vercel. 437 tests + 6 Playwright E2E.

Looking for feedback, especially from anyone who's struggled with Pendo/Appcues maintenance overhead. What would make you switch?

https://activationkit.com
by cess11 | 2026-02-25 14:31:05+00:00
It has been going on for a century or so. It is also a crime of occidental states. One could also argue that Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and more places are in interconnected violent processes, where the 'axis' of Israel, the US, UAE, UK and allies are perpetrating heinous crimes without any semblance of accountability.
Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
by yassi_dev | 2026-02-25 14:31:35+00:00
Over the past year I’ve been building a set of operational panels for Django:

- Redis inspection
- cache visibility
- Celery task introspection
- URL discovery and testing

All of these tools have been built inside the Django admin.

Instead of jumping between tools like Flower, redis-cli, Swagger, or external services, I wanted something that sits where I’m already working.

I’ve grouped these under a single umbrella: Django Control Room.

The idea is pretty simple: the Django admin already gives you authentication, permissions, and a familiar interface. It can also act as an operational layer for your app.

Each panel is just a small Django app with a simple interface, so it’s easy to build your own and plug it in.

I’m working on more panels (signals, errors, etc.) and also thinking about how far this pattern can go.

Curious how others think about this. Does it make sense to consolidate this kind of tooling inside the admin, or do you prefer keeping it separate?
by pineaux | 2026-02-25 14:31:42+00:00
I feel this is wrong. Especially the dont try to save the world part.

You should enjoy the simple things. As Emma Goldman once said: a revolution without dancing is not one worth fighting for. But she did not mean the procedural ceremonial dances as we haven seen at protests by liberals, she meant that life should still have fun things or else the tiranny after the revolution will be similar or worse.

If the cintrini report is true, one of the only good ways to solve this crisis would be a butlerian jihad. It would be necessary to destroy all autonomous agents and ban them.

With good, i mean a way that is good for the most of mankind. If everyone is not trying to save the world this jihad will not happen.
by jolmg | 2026-02-25 14:31:50+00:00
> hot water - n. a difficult or dangerous situation

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20water

> warm water - n. an ocean or sea not in the arctic or antarctic regions

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warm%20water

> cold water - n. depreciation of something as being ill-advised, unwarranted, or worthless. e.g. threw cold water on our hopes

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20water

Seems that what makes sense to be in dictionaries is already there.
by sailfast | 2026-02-25 14:32:11+00:00
I’ve been doing this with a tmux tunnel and an app on my laptop that connects sessions you select to a virtual terminal using sockets. I asked Claude to build it and it works great - full terminal functionality and Markdown review with comments so you don’t need to cross your eyes to review plans.

Excited to see how this matures so people without that inclination can also be constantly pestered by the nagging idea that someone, somewhere is being more productive than them :)
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-25 14:32:34+00:00
Did you think about it before you got into the tech industry? You should have, technology has been wiping out jobs since forever but you got into tech anyway. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Except you needn't actually die, just walk into a staffing agency and ask for a new job. I have done so before, and will do so again. I have prepared for what is to come, saw it coming 20 years ago and saw the imminence of it when GPT-2 was released. I have sympathy for other kinds of white collar professionals who never could have anticipated these kind of developments, but technologists? Give me a break. You knew, or should have known, that technological developments in this domain were likely.
by horoscope_slump | 2026-02-25 14:33:31+00:00
First, I think we can learn some stuff from looking at how the US government actually operated its known honeypots to evaluate the likelihood of Cape being a honeypot.

First, when it ran Anom, it went out of its way not to collect data on persons inside the United States. U.S. Anom users never had any of their data captured by the FBI because it raised profound 4th Amendment concerns. Cape is operating in the U.S. and is seeking U.S. users. Typical U.S. honeypots are generally targeted abroad.

Second, the U.S. government has historically not used former military officers with ties to defense contractors as the people that built and operated the honeypots. With Anom, they co-opted trusted members of the secure phone community. The very fact that the company is very open about its founders is a pretty good sign that they are probably not a honeypot because they would not make a very good honeypot for the truly criminal element.

Third, Cape is incorporated in the United States and seeking U.S. users. In the process, it's making some fairly aggressive claims in its privacy policy and terms of service about its products that would subject them to breach of contract and fraud claims if in fact they were secretly not doing those things.

Fourth, the legacy telecoms have a long history of selling your data, secretly cooperating in national security programs of questionable legality, etc. It seems like Cape can't possible a worse option than the status quo.
by Thanemate | 2026-02-25 14:34:02+00:00
Drop out of tech, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy the view of seeing the top 1% drive everything you loved about software development and creativity fall off a cliff.

Then, maybe when I'm on the verge of death due to old age, the entire society will adapt around using their creative juices in proompting the next big LLM model version, while schools teach about the years where people talented were allowed to study and make a living out of their talent.
by jameskilton | 2026-02-25 14:34:09+00:00
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Matthew 6:25-34
by ivannovazzi | 2026-02-25 14:34:09+00:00
Interesting — a policy layer for GitHub Actions is a very different angle than just locking down secrets access.

One thing we noticed building KeyEnv (https://keyenv.dev, CLI-first secrets manager): the enforcement problem is often about what runs _locally_ before CI/CD, not just in the pipeline. Devs bypassing secrets rotation by hardcoding, or testing against prod secrets locally, is where leaks usually start.

Your enforcement gate at the Actions layer is a clean solution for the CI side. Do you have plans to extend to pre-commit hooks or dev environment enforcement?
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-25 14:34:34+00:00
This must be the one I remember playing with around 2010. It used to be a java applet and you could draw in it like a paint program to make interesting sounds. After messing with it for a while I could kind of tell what was going on but not really.

Kind of reminds me of Slow Scan TV - I feel like with enough practice, you could tell what the image looked like without using a decoder.
by skdbsbsb | 2026-02-25 14:34:45+00:00
Actually use the tools and critically engage with those who are boosting the extreme takes.

You’ll see they’re not a panacea. You’ll find Anthropic started pursuing an IPO right when the hype cycle took off. You’ll discover Shumer is a known liar and grifter.

LLMs are here to stay, but we’re in a trillion dollar hype cycle right now.
by brazzy | 2026-02-25 14:35:40+00:00
> The correct use is to check whether a submitted identifier contains characters that visually mimic Latin letters, and if so, reject it

That is a really bad and user-hostile thing to do. Many of those characters are perfectly valid characters in various non-latin scripts. If you want everyone to force Latin script for identifiers, then own up to it and say so. But rejecting just some them for being too similar to latin characters just makes the behaviour inconsistent and confusing for users.
by NoNameHaveI | 2026-02-25 14:35:45+00:00
"The problem? I don’t own any RISC-V hardware."
Seems like a YOU problem. There is PLENTY of affordable (< 200 USD) RISC-V Orange Pi RV2 boards available for immediate shipment. http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro...
Shoot, if you are testing LOTS of architectures, then get a FPGA dev board and test away. I can't testify about the availability of a IBM 360 open source firmware design, but I know for a fact that Xilinx makes RISC-V available.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-25 14:36:37+00:00
AR/VR, cryptocurrency, fractal compression schemes, transputers, VLIW, "low code" in various forms for 40-odd years.

You know what remains? Thumping great Unix boxes running relational databases, same as they ever were.

I'm currently advising some rainbow-haired alphabet soup group annoying children with strong views about neopronouns about what they can base the software backend for their startup - which looks good incidentally - on because they've chosen to go with a thumping great Debian box running Postgres, and to do that they've sought the counsel of some grumpy old Gandalf-beard 50-something with boringly conventional pronouns, mostly grey hair, and strong opinions about real ale.

There's no AI in it, they're just doing it with all good old-fashioned analogue stupidity, and it works well.
by dathinab | 2026-02-25 14:36:42+00:00
because google safe browsing is only supposed to display a "not safe to browse" warning when using chrome browsers (and maybe some other browsers) wich you can (theoretically) dismiss(1)

it's not meant to have any other consequences

so basically what happens is that because of hearsay of google thinking you site is not bad Radix does what normally should involve a judge order (taking down the whole domain)

(1): Yes that still would cause damages on any site with customers, but like way less and way more fixable then what happened here.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-25 14:36:44+00:00
> May users reported that asking Sonnet 4.6, via the Anthropic API, "What's your name", it reports "DeepSeek" with a high frequency. Labs cross-fine-tune on chain of thoughts and use other models as RL signal consistently. Also the pretraining, a key step, is on mostly public data. Anthropic disappoints me deeply.

Why deeply disappointed by this anecdata?