MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dash2 | 2026-02-16 17:35:26+00:00
Perhaps that is true, but the response linked by GP claims exactly the opposite:

"We hired a specialist firm to build, in a secure sandbox, a safety tool for journalists. They are experts in building privacy-preserving AI solutions - for people like law firms or anyone deeply concerned with how data is held, processed, and protected. That’s why we chose them. Their founders are not only respected academics in addition to being professionals, they have passed government security clearance and DBS checks in the past, and have worked on data systems for the National Archives, the Treasury, and other public agencies. They’ve published academic papers on data compliance for machine learning.

"The Minister says we ‘shared data with an AI company”... as if we were pouring this critically sensitive information into OpenAI or some evil aggregator of data. This is simply ridiculous when you look at what we do and how we did it.

"We didn’t “share” data with them. We hired them as our technical contractor to build a secure sandbox to test an idea, like any company using a cloud provider or an email service. They worked under a formal sub-processor agreement, which means under data protection law they’re not even classified as a “third party.” That’s not our interpretation. It’s the legal definition in the UK GDPR itself. ...
"And “for commercial purposes”? The opposite is true. We paid them £45,000 a year. They didn’t pay us a penny. The money flowed from us to them. They were prohibited, in writing, from selling, sharing, licensing, or doing anything at all with the data other than providing the service we hired them for.. and they operated under our supervision at all times. They didn’t care what was in the data - we reviewed, with journalists, the outputs to make sure it worked."

If this is true, it does seem that the government has mischaracterized what happened.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 17:35:34+00:00
But you arent really running LLMs. You just say you are.

There is novelty, but not practical use case.

My $700, 2023, 3060 laptop runs 8B models. At the enterprise level we got 2, A6000s.

Both are useful and were used for economic gain. I don't think you have gotten any gain.
by plexui | 2026-02-16 17:35:59+00:00
This is a really interesting direction. Most current “memory” implementations for LLMs are essentially append-only logs or vector stores, but modeling things like salience, decay, and consolidation is much closer to how useful memory actually works.

One of the biggest challenges seems to be avoiding memory bloat while still preserving important long-term context. I’m curious how you balance forgetting vs retention — especially how salience is calculated and updated over time.
by tzs | 2026-02-16 17:36:07+00:00
It is the outcome of appellate court cases and arguments that determine law in common law jurisdictions, not the output of trial courts. Telling what the law is in a common law system would not be affected if trial court records were unavailable to the public. You only actually need appellate court records publicly available for determining the law.

The appellate court records would contain information from the trial court records, but most of the identifying information of the parties could be redacted.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-16 17:36:20+00:00
> In fact there hasn't been a single parliamentary republic to turn authoritarian since Sri Lanka 50 years ago.

I'd disagree on that. Austria had the FPÖ in government multiple times and each time they caused massive scandals. Some of the German states are on the brink of the AfD not even needing a coalition partner alone - should the elections this year turn out to be as bloody as the polls suggest, it may very well be the case that they go from opposition straight to sole government, with no one holding them back.

Fully agree on the rest though.
by boulos | 2026-02-16 17:36:24+00:00
> The entire global software industry is worth less than $1 trillion dollars

Are you saying "worth" as a shorthand for something like annual profit? If you sort the 2025 data by earnings, you get pretty large numbers quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_technology_com...

That's not how you should measure "worth". In that world, you'd have a P/E ratio of 1. Comparing to a bond, it would be like expecting to get paid the face amount in a single year. Many people are quite happy with 5-10% interest as a risky benchmark, so 10-20 P/E isn't wild. That puts the market cap for tech itself at 10-20T as a reasonable baseline.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-16 17:36:37+00:00
> (who doesn’t these days)

Absolutely fucking crazy that you typed this out as a legitimate defense of allowing extremely sensitive personal information to be scraped.

> only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts

Who cares? Journalism is a dead profession and the people who have inherited the title only care about how they can mislead the public in order to maximize profit to themselves. Famously, "journalists" drove a world-renowned musician to his death by overdose with their self-interest-motivated coverage of his trial[1]. It seems to me that cutting the media circus out of criminal trials would actually be massively beneficial to society, not detrimental.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-of-the-most-shameful_b_61...
by aftbit | 2026-02-16 17:36:46+00:00
Tangentially related, the Trump admin has decreased the number of refugees that America will legally accept this year from 125k to 7,500. The new quota will prioritize white Afrikaners from South Africa, whom Trump claims face extraordinary discrimination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/trump-refugee...
by general_reveal | 2026-02-16 17:36:57+00:00
Karp in particular is just a physical avatar for Thiel (literally, imagine Thiel playing a WoW character called Alex Karp, probably a DH main). You see in the Epstein emails just who owns things, and people like Karp are just truly a virtual representation of an oligarch.

Almost like the thing they say is true, the devil is disguised, but quite apparent … almost brazen. Devil in disguise would be too simple of an explanation, but that is what it truly is.

Trippy times.

Edit:

But to echo the general sentiment, the “cool” super smart ceo shtick who says edgy capitalistic things was always a particularly obnoxious phenomena.
by tom_m | 2026-02-16 17:36:59+00:00
The equipment definitely makes a difference but you're right about diminishing returns. In fact, at a certain point it's zero returns and all gimmick unfortunately.

That said, you don't need to break the bank for good stuff and it does make a huge difference. There's also a lot of marketing out there for bad equipment. Apple air pods and beats headphones and more.
Show HN: Deploy a DuckLake data lakehouse on Hetzner for under €10/mo
by deezypls | 2026-02-16 17:37:25+00:00
DuckLake launched recently and I wanted to try it out.

It's DuckDB, but with a proper catalog on PostgreSQL with S3 for storage. It still takes quite a few steps to set up, so I put together a setup that runs on Hetzner.

It sets up a VPS with PostgreSQL, an S3 bucket, and a DuckDB init script that connects everything. One 'make all' command and it works. Used OpenTofu for the infra, PyInfra for server config.

Runs me about €9/mo with 1TB of storage. The VPS is a cx33 (4 vCPU, 8GB RAM) because Hetzner never has the cheaper tier in stock, maybe you'll get lucky.

Nothing fancy, but if you'd like to try out DuckLake, it should help you get going quickly!
by iamleppert | 2026-02-16 17:37:34+00:00
You can only change the rules, you can never stop The Game™. Now, more than ever before, it's faster and easier to create something and deliver its perceived value at scale. Nerds used to rule the roost of tech because they were willing to invest the time and toil in obscurity. Now that's no longer the case. The only skill you need to have now is sales and showmanship. A chatbot can do the rest.
by fransje26 | 2026-02-16 17:37:52+00:00
Just out of curiosity (not knowing anything about the complexity of adding new devices) what makes the support of a Xiaomi pad 5 and pad 6 possible, while there is not support for the pad 7 and 8?

Are these devices so different that none of the testing and development work is transferable to the newer devices?

And, reversing the question, if one was to be the owner of a such a Xiaomi device, what can be done to help them being supported?
by Korici | 2026-02-16 17:37:54+00:00
Agreed. This is mostly mitigated by using a Bot to auto-delete all messages in a channel based on time since the post. I've switched to this method to be more ephemeral and have less concern of retention in perpetuity by Discord's egregious privacy policy.

Here is the bot I am leveraging: https://eazyautodelete.xyz/en
by salawat | 2026-02-16 17:38:02+00:00
I often wonder why on this forum of alleged hacker types, there seems to be such an impetus to push what all VC's are desperately bought into at the moment, whether it be crypto, or AI nonsense.

Oh wait... Right.

Asking for resources or asking "does anyone know where I can start?" Followed by a description of "here's where I'm at" has been table stakes for the uninitiated since time immemorial.

When I see "ask the LLM", all I hear is "prop up my investment portfolio".

To this OP in particular: try playing around with different binaries you already have source to, and using the RE tools to get a feel for their post compilation structure and flow; start by compiling with no compiler optimization. You'll want an understanding of what the structural primitives of "nothing up my sleeve" code reads and looks like post-compilation to build off of. Then start enabling different layers of optimization, again, to continue familiarizing yourself with output of modern compilers when dealing with fundamentally "honest" code.

Once you can eyeball things and get an intuitive sense for that sort of thing is where you jump off into dealing with dishonest code. Stuff put through obfuscators. Stuff designed to work in ways that hide what the actual intent of the code is, or things designed in ways that make it clear that the author had something up their sleeve.

It'll be a lot of work and memorization and pattern recognition building, and you'll have to put in the effort to get to know the hardware and memory architecture, and opcodes and ISA's, and virtual machines you're reversing for, but it will click eventually.

Just remember; odds are it won't make you money, and it will set time on fire. I cut my teeth on reversing some security firm's snake oil, and just trying to figure out why the code I wrote was acting weird after the compiler got done with it. (I have cursed at more compiler writers than about anyone but myself).

Then just remember that if someone got it to run, then it's gotta eventually make sense. The rest is all persistence on your part of laying bare their true, usually perverted motivations (generally boiling down to greed, job security, or wasting your goddamn time).

Would the world be nicer if that wasn't the case? Absolutely. I lived through a period where a lot of code wasn't "something up my sleeve" code. Now is not so much that time anymore. We've made programming too accessible to business types that now the interests of organization's at securing their power has a non-trivial distortion on how code gets written; which generally means user hostile in one way or another.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-16 17:38:43+00:00
The defense department probably boosted Anthropic’s terms of service. Now they want to make the terms more clarifying. Defense department wants to be able to use Anthropic for anything they want:

> Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.
by greedo | 2026-02-16 17:38:51+00:00
This is a great example...

Designing and building chairs (good chairs, that is) is actually a skill that takes a lot of time and effort to develop. It's easy to whip up a design in CAD, but something comfortable? Takes lots of iterations, user tests etc. The building part would be easy once the design is hammered out, but the design is the tough part.
by dmitrygr | 2026-02-16 17:38:58+00:00
> a teenager shouldn't have their permanent AI profile become "shoplifter" because they did a crime at 15 yo that would otherwise have been expunged after a few years.

On the other hand, perpetrating crime is a GREAT predictor of perpetrating more crime -- in general most crime is perpetrated by past perps. Why should this info not be available to help others avoid troublemakers?

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/returning-prison-0

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/sex_offense_recidivism_2...

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-common-is-it-for-released-...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/

https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/the-case-for-incarcerat...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/topics/recidivism-and-reentry
by nancyminusone | 2026-02-16 17:39:04+00:00
>social media feels more like a private conversation in a public space

Then it wasn't very smart of you to post something publicly then.

You should be able to choose what things you want public or private, but if your intention is for public, I don't think you should be able to delete it. You can make amendments to what you say, but you shouldn't be granted the ability to choose what other people remember. Otherwise, private conversations or just saying nothing are alternatives.
by gleipnircode | 2026-02-16 17:40:09+00:00
I understand the need to protect sensitive parliamentary data, especially when built-in AI features silently send data to cloud services. But I hope this is only a temporary measure.

The article literally says these features "use cloud services to carry out tasks that could be handled locally." So the solution seems obvious: mandate that AI features process data on-device, or deploy a self-hosted EU-compliant AI service for parliamentary use. The technology for local LLM deployment is mature enough at this point. Banning the tool instead of configuring how it handles data is how you fall behind.
by vbezhenar | 2026-02-16 17:40:21+00:00
It makes no sense to walk. So the whole question makes no sense as there's no real choice. It seems that LLM assumes "good faith" from the user side and tries to model the situation where that question actually makes sense, producing answer from that situation.

I think that's a valid problem with LLMs. They should recognize nonsense questions and answer "wut?".
by Fnoord | 2026-02-16 17:41:02+00:00
Don't worry about Tesla's being tracked. Via Bluetooth this has existed for at least 7 years [1] (was mentioned on HN as well). Tesla know (also for 7 years), Musk doesn't care 'since license plates can also be tracked'.

I used it in train stations, and get hits when passing highways via train or bus. Esp. fun if you stand still due to traffic lights or traffic jam, since you can try to get a visual.

The only lesson to be learned here is that it allowed one to learn in 2019 Musk is overrated. But you can also learn that lesson from the book The PayPal Wars which predates this by 15 years.

> I believe shopping malls often use such signals (wifi, bluetooth) to track what your travel pattern through the mall is. They know what section of the store you spend most of your time in and what storefronts you stall at.

Not allowed in EU.

[1] https://www.teslaradar.com/
by ratrace | 2026-02-16 17:41:05+00:00
> Also I think you meant "capitalists" rather than "anti-capitalists".

No, I'm very much talking about talibanized socialists/communists/whatever they want to particularly call themselves. "Eat the rich" has become "The rich eat babies" because it doesn't matter what you try and get people to believe as long as they align themselves with your side and against the people you don't like. The Big Lie of our times, perhaps?
by arielcostas | 2026-02-16 17:41:09+00:00
The problem is "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". It doesn't matter when the bubble pops if the governments (especially the US') bail those companies out.

The damage is already being done, whether you are a 401k/IRA holder with a position on the S&P 500 way too overweighted by the Mag7&co and their circular dealings, or just needing to buy computer parts way over their market value because some companies are over-leveraging to outcompete you for that hardware (or electricity), or even at a smaller scale by increasing software costs because everything is "AI-powered" now and of course you wouldn't want only "deterministic" software that just works and doesn't have a slop machine integrated.
by ericmcer | 2026-02-16 17:41:18+00:00
Why is Vue, Svelte, Qwik etc. faster?

React done poorly can be slow. Bad code can just force the virtual DOM to diff unnecessarily 1000s of times and your app will still work fine for the most part. That said, if you are intelligent about when you force React to reconcile state changes with the DOM it is very efficient.

All of these frameworks purpose is to synchronize the state of your app with the state of the DOM. There is no getting around that, that is why they exist. Vue uses a virtual DOM with diffing as well, I am not sure how Svelte/Qwik do it but I imagine they have a similar mechanism? Like you can't get around the fact that at the end of the day all of these frameworks exist to say: "The data in the users app updated, what DOM updates do we need to make to reflect that?".

Anyway that was a tangent but, I think React is perceived as "slow" or buggy because the vDOM & reconciler are so flexible that it allows people to do extremely dumb things while coding and it will still work.
by ezulabs | 2026-02-16 17:41:38+00:00
I stop seeing those issues after starting using Bambulab X1 3d printer, it just works 99 percent of the time. My old ender 3 v2 had those issues due to bed changing its shape during printing(thin metal changing shape in micro level due to temp and mechanical stress with 4 knobs pulling down), not sticking well, not enough fast cooling or cooling effects bed temp profile, way off even with auto level probes. Also open 3d printer with bunch of air flow is a killer for those prints. OP should try Bambulab like enclosed more accurate 3d printer from a local 3d print shop or a hackerspace after locking the design and enclosure iterations.
by aftbit | 2026-02-16 17:42:11+00:00
You're talking about how higher prices can motivate higher supply. The parent commenter was talking about how higher prices shift the current point on the demand curve to the right. If hard drives sold for $1 billion per gigabyte, we wouldn't see even AI companies buying as many as they are, and current production would go idle. Even assuming supply is locally inelastic (as it is given no time or space to scale, or given a lack of confidence that scaling is wise), you should be able to find a price point that avoids supply shortages by manipulating demand.

Thus far, we've not found that point.
by bmitc | 2026-02-16 17:42:17+00:00
It's always been curious to me how Americans have pointed at places like China, mocking their government surveillance state, while also just allowing U.S. (and foreign) corporations to surveil everything under the sun, including our schools. Those corporations then sell or give information to both other corporations and the government.

These corporations have nothing in mind but profits and would sell your sould if it meant a tick up in their bottom line.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-16 17:42:57+00:00
> "we don't speak in those text about things that don't need to be spoken about"

I'd imagine plenty of stories contain something like "I had an easy Saturday morning, I took my car to the carwash and called into a cafe for breakfast on my way home".

Plenty of instructables like "how to wash a car: if there's no carwash close enough for you to bring your car, don't worry, all you need is a bucket and a few tools..."

Several recipe blogs starting "I remember 1972 when grandpa drove his car to the carwash every afternoon while grandma made her world famous mustard and gooseberry cake, that car was always gleaming after he washed it at BigBrand CarWash 'drive your car to us so we can wash it' was their slogan and he would sing it around the house to the smell of baked eggs and mustard wafting through the kitchen..."

And innumerable SEO spam of the kind "Bob's car wash, why not bring drive take ride carry push transport your car automobile van SUV lorry truck 4by4 to our Bob's wash soap suds lather clean gleaming local carwash in your area ford chevvy dodge coupe not Nokia iphone xbox nike..."

against very few "I walked to the carwash because it was a lovely day and I didn't want to take the car out".
by mempko | 2026-02-16 17:43:08+00:00
It's also ironic for a self described "classic liberal" building a company which grows the power of the government instead of limiting it. Alex Karp must have deep cognitive dissonance and likely suffers for it.

Palantir itself is trading at an unjustifiable premium given their fundamentals. They P/E is north of 200x. It's forward guidance also doesn't justify their price imo.

So their beef with analysts is obvious since they have a huge risk to the downside in price. The recent pullback of around 21% is not sufficient in my opinion. Note this is not financial advice.
by Muromec | 2026-02-16 17:43:37+00:00
>If someone wants to be a daycare worker, the employer should be able to submit a background check to the justice system who could decide that the drug possession arrest 20 years ago shouldn't reasonably have an impact on the candidate's ability to perform the job, while a history of child sex offenses would. Employers would only get a pass/fail back.

Welcome to the world of certificates of the good conduct and criminal record extracts:

- https://www.justis.nl/en/products/certificate-of-conduct

- https://diia.gov.ua/services/vityag-pro-nesudimist
by saghm | 2026-02-16 17:43:46+00:00
This might just be me being uninformed as someone who doesn't drive but how are you seeing what wifi networks are available so quickly right after being cut off? My very naive instinct is that looking at your phone or opening up a menu with the available wifi networks on your car's display seems like it would require a noticeable decrease in attention to the road, so I'd almost expect an uptick in being cut off from other people who are annoyed with your driving.
by danbruc | 2026-02-16 17:44:38+00:00
I was wrong about the law of excluded middle, that is not an issue. Intuitionistic logic rejects it, because it says P or not P is definitely true, whether or not we have any proof for P or not P. But that is not really relevant here, the real question is whether there are things that are neither determined nor random. If random means not determined, then no such thing can exist, unless you accept a violation of the law of noncontradiction [1]. So are random things and determined things complementary sets with respect to some universe of things under consideration?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction
by dash2 | 2026-02-16 17:44:55+00:00
I think you're underestimating how important "just a pain in the ass to work with" may be.

An analogy would be Hansard and theyworkforyou.com. The government always made Hansard (record of parliamentary debates) available. But theyworkforyou cleaned the data, and made it searchable with useful APIs so you could find how your MP voted. This work was very important for making parliament accessible; IIRC, the guys behind it were impressive enough that they eventually were brought in to improve gov.uk.