MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Explore ASN Relationships and BGP Route History with Real Internet Data
by wangjiajie917 | 2026-02-13 23:12:25+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a side project called ipiphistory.com.

It’s a searchable explorer for:

– ASN relationships (provider / peer / customer)
– BGP route history
– IP to ASN mapping over time
– AS path visibility
– Organization and geolocation data

The idea started from my frustration when explaining BGP concepts to junior engineers and students — most tools are fragmented across multiple sources (RouteViews, RIPE RIS, PeeringDB, etc.).

This project aggregates and indexes historical routing data to make it easier to:

– Understand how ASNs connect
– Explore real-world routing behavior
– Investigate possible hijacks or path changes
– Learn BGP using real data

It’s still early and I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community — especially on usability and features you’d like to see.

Happy to answer technical questions about data ingestion and indexing as well.
by moduspol | 2026-02-13 23:12:33+00:00
I'm with you. I can read a post like OP and appreciate that drywall is a lot better than what came before, but I find it difficult to understand how we haven't come up with something better.

Something less heavy, easier to fix without expertise, doesn't require applying some surface pattern to hide imperfections when used on a ceiling.

I guess something conceptually like a drop-ceiling (which has a "finished" look, but is very accessible for maintenance), except for walls. That's what we need.
by pixelesque | 2026-02-13 23:12:55+00:00
What for? I can't believe they'd feed classified intel into it for suggestions (despite Hegseth saying everyone should embrace AI - I don't think things in the Pentagon are that bad just yet).

And do they have their own sandboxed version via Palantir?

Maybe it's something a lot more benign like it helped draft some of the press releases? /s
by tagirb | 2026-02-13 23:13:18+00:00
Love Linux, been using Manjaro with Gnome for the last 10 years, but need to use Mac on my current job, so I tried to approach this constructively and work around the rough edges:
* Rectangle Pro for window management
* Better Display for better picture on non-4k display
+ a couple of more similar tools
+ retrainig muscle memory from Ctrl to Cmd and Emacs-y instead of Windows-y shortcuts

Feels okay now. Plus native ms365 apps, smooth sleep mode, great hardware and great battery time -- mac has its sweet spots as well.
by dang | 2026-02-13 23:13:23+00:00
Oh thanks! I've switched the top URL to that now. Submitted URL was https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book.

I hope xx123122 won't mind my mentioning that they emailed us about this post, which originally got caught in a spam filter. I invited them to post a comment giving the background to the project but they probably haven't seen my reply yet. Hopefully soon, given that the post struck a chord!
by nemo1618 | 2026-02-13 23:13:30+00:00
I think it's a combination of a) reflexive dislike of any hyped-up tech, mainly due to the crypto era, and b) subconscious ego protection ("this can't be legit, otherwise everything I've built my identity around will be thrown into question").

The best models already produce better code than a significant fraction of human programmers, while also being orders of magnitude faster and cheaper. And the trendlines are stark. Sure, maybe AI can't replace you today. Maybe it will hit that "wall" people are always forecasting, just before it gets good enough to threaten your job. But that's a rather uncomfortable proposition to bet a career on.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-13 23:14:57+00:00
The hypertext in question here was was published on a Github Pages site, not a domain belonging to the bot's author. The bot published it by simply pushing a commit (https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/8...), which is a very common activity for cutting-edge LLM agents, and which you could do trivially if given a Github API key with the right permissions.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-13 23:15:12+00:00
The guys who beat Rodney King faced zero justice, American prison guards pretty regularly do horrific things and face little repercussion, and the guys who executed Pretti were working the next day, until that led to backlash and now they are being systemically protected.

In some states in the US, it is not illegal for a cop to have sex with someone they have arrested. Ain't that just dandy.

The Polish situation could be an upgrade.
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-02-13 23:15:52+00:00
I read the title and thought: ha, somebody had the same idea. But no.

Instead of git training video, I did a platform that creates command line training videos from markdown, merging output from VHS, generated speech, seperation slides etc.

Instead of CRM, I started build a Lotus Agenda clone that can be used to build a CRM.

etc.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-13 23:15:53+00:00
No it’s like saying: New expert drives new results with existing experts.

The humans put in significant effort and couldn’t do it. They didn’t then crank it out with some search/match algorithm.

They tried a new technology, modeled (literally) on us as reasoners, that is only just being able to reason at their level and it did what they couldn’t.

The fact that the experts were a critical context for the model, doesn’t make the models performance any less significant. Collaborators always provide important context for each other.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-13 23:16:26+00:00
I think you are making two mistakes here.

You think you need to bow your head to management in your job which, while you technically are under their authority in some ways, isn't really how I advise you to frame your relationship with your work. You are here to bring value and your manager is there to help you/ensure you do that. Still that's a framework not a rigid guiding stick. You need to learn how to manage/bend your manager if you want to thrive in the corporate world.

Same with customers. They hire you because they need your expertise. It's a dance not a tether and you need to be two to tango.

It seems to me you are not putting enough value in what you bring to the table. It's easier to say than it is to feel it and believe it but I guess it's never a bad thing to tell someone.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-13 23:16:27+00:00
My reference to "they" was to the bots in the movie, not the real life ones we have today, which I agree don't seem to have consciousness. My point of contention is that the ones in the movie don't either, they just appear to have it (for theatrical effect, but analyzed philosophically and technologically, I don't think so), and that's where we probably disagree.
by smj-edison | 2026-02-13 23:16:49+00:00
Wasn't that the point of mentioning Jevon's Paradox though? Like they said in the essay, these things are quite elastic. There's always more demand for software then what can be met, so bringing down the cost of software will dramatically increase the demand for it. (Now, if you don't think there's a ton of demand for custom software, try going to any small business and ask them about how they do bookkeeping. You'll learn quite quickly that custom software would run much better than sticky notes and excel, but they can't afford a full time software developer as a small business. There's literally hundreds of thousands of places like this.)
by 928570490687298 | 2026-02-13 23:17:55+00:00
How low do you have to sink to defend a legislature attacking the privacy of the sovereign again and again? Pathetic.

Von der Leyen, who illegally deleted her SMS and is being investigated for corruption, conflict of interest and destruction of evidence, must be glad she can count on you to defend spying on every citizen via "Chat Control" and forcing browser developers to accept any state-mandated root certificates via eIDAS.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-13 23:18:39+00:00
I’m reminded of Dan Wang’s commentary on US-China relations:

> Competition will be dynamic because people have agency. The country that is ahead at any given moment will commit mistakes driven by overconfidence, while the country that is behind will feel the crack of the whip to reform. … That drive will mean that competition will go on for years and decades.

https://danwang.co/ (2025 Annual letter)

The future is not predetermined by trends today. So it’s entirely possible that the dinosaur companies of today can’t figure out how to automate effectively, but get outcompeted by a nimble team of engineers using these tools tomorrow. As a concrete example, a lot of SaaS companies like Salesforce are at risk of this.
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 23:18:51+00:00
I still like the idea of clawing back mineral and water rights and paying for basic services out of the money payed by industry for the right to dirty our air and water. As a citizen you're entitled to compensation for the smoke you're breathing.

People talk about how socially progressive Scandinavia is but they have a shitload of petroleum resources and that money goes into social programs.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-13 23:18:52+00:00
The implication of your assertion is pretty much a digital singularity. You’re implying that there will be no need for humans to interact with the digital world at all, because any work in the digital world will be achievable by AI.

Wonder what that means for meatspace.

Edit: Would also disagree this isn’t a physics problem. Pretty sure power required scales according to problem complexity. At a certain level of problem complexity we’re pretty much required to put enough carbon in the atmosphere to cook everyone to a crisp.

Edit 2: illustrative example, an Epic in Jira: “Design fusion reactor”
by nickpsecurity | 2026-02-13 23:18:53+00:00
The author has some good points. I'll highlight a few:

1. C language is small enough for one book.

2. It's been described, implemented, and fixed so many times on the Internet that the pretraining data is full of this.

3. I'll add that the Rust pretraining data probably has the data structures, C integration, etc.

4. There's entire, working compilers and articles about them in the pretraining data.

So, the pretraining data alone probably has most of the code at least in C form and maybe nearly memorized compared to other languages. The difficulty is probably more like building a CRUD app.

A student in a compiler class would be doing more challenging work having way, way, way, fewer examples to start with before they built their compiler.

What I will say is, like for CRUD apps, it proves they can automate a bit more than they used to. If they proved it on niche compilers, it might prove a highly-useful capability for researchers. I think they should test it on one of the new languages with neat features but one or partial implementation. Really prove it out.
by BurningFrog | 2026-02-13 23:19:02+00:00
Here is the main cause why the conquistadores won:

80-90% of the natives died from European diseases before they had a chance to oppose the invaders. This was purely accidental! 300 years before germ theory, no one knew how and why this happened, but in the end conquering nations that were mostly dead already isn't that hard.

Of course, the conquistadores were incredibly cruel by modern standards, as were the natives. But that's not why they won.
by bugufu8f83 | 2026-02-13 23:20:03+00:00
I find the whole thing pretty depressing. They went to all that effort with the organization and setup of the company at the beginning to try to bake this "good for humanity" stuff into its DNA and legal structure and it all completely evaporated once they struck gold with ChatGPT. Time and time again we see noble intentions being completely destroyed by the pressures and powers of capitalism.

Really wish the board had held the line on firing sama.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-13 23:21:12+00:00
The user gave them write and push access to the GitHub repo for their personal website!? Oh my, that’s a great find. That’s definitely a cutting edge capability! They gave the LLM the JSON schema and backend for writing and self-approving commits (that is NOT common!), in a repository explicitly labelled a public website in the name of the author.
by danielgafni | 2026-02-13 23:21:18+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Daniel, an ML Ops engineer.

I work at Anam and am responsible for the preparation of our training data.

I built Metaxy to avoid re-running expensive data processing steps on irrelevant upstream changes.

It's an open-source Python framework that can track granular sample versions and is infrastructure-agnostic.

See the full blog post here: https://anam.ai/blog/metaxy.

Happy to answer questions.

P.S. While Claude Code helped me a lot, this is *not* a vibe-coded project: I treated AI code like any line could be wrong, created a massive test suite, and Metaxy has been running in our production for about 2.5 months now.
by cpard | 2026-02-13 23:21:21+00:00
there's 90% job loss assuming that this is a zero sum type of thing where humans and agents compete for working on a fixed amount of work.

I'm curious why you think I'm acting like it's all or nothing. What I was trying to communicate is the exact opposite, that it's not all or nothing. Maybe it's the way I articulate things, I'm genuinely interested what makes it sound like this.
by coffeemug | 2026-02-13 23:21:54+00:00
I thought about it for only a few seconds, but here is one way to do it. Have users self-report an "addiction factor", then fine the company based on the aggregate score using a progressive scale.

There is obviously a lot of detail to work out here-- which specific question do you ask users, who administers the survey, what function do you use scale the fines, etc. But this would force the companies to pay for the addiction externality without prescribing any specific feature changes they'd need to make.
by arctic-true | 2026-02-13 23:21:54+00:00
This gives me a lot of hope for a decentralized future for all kinds of service industries. Why would you go to a big-name accounting firm where the small number of humans can only give you a sliver of attention, when you can go to a one-man shop and get much more of the one human’s attention? Especially if you know that the “work” will be done by the same tools? So many of the barriers to entry in various services - law, accounting, financial advising, etc. - is that you need a team to run even the smallest operation that can generate enough revenue to put food on your table. Perhaps that won’t be the case for long - and the folks that used to be that “team” can branch out and be the captains of their own ships, too.
by epolanski | 2026-02-13 23:22:21+00:00
I don't think this is much of a problem with the tools rather than with your approach.

We have successfully put Claude in huge multi-thousands pr long with projects.

But this meant that:

1. Solid architectural and design decisions were made already after much trial and error

2. They were further refined and refactored

3. Countless hours have been spent in documenting, writing proper skills and architectural and best practice documents

Only then Claude started paying off, and even then it's an iterative process where you need to understand why it tries to hack his way out, etc, what to check, what to supervise.

Seriously if you think you can just Claude create some project..

Just fork an existing one that does some larger % of what you need and spend most of the initial time scaffolding it to be ai friendly.

Also, you need to invest in harnessing, giving tools and ways to the LLM to not go off rails.

Strongly typed languages, plenty of compilation and diagnostics tools, access to debuggers or browser mcps, etc.

It's not impossible, but you need to approach it with an experimentation approach, not drinking Kool aid.
by smj-edison | 2026-02-13 23:22:37+00:00
I feel like that's a rather bad-faith take, so if you're going to make that kind of accusation you better back it up. People can legitimately believe that AI is not going to be the end of the world, and also not be privileged. And people can be privileged, and also be right. Not everything can be reduced down into a couple of labels, and how those labels "always" interact.
by Funes- | 2026-02-13 23:22:49+00:00
From another article:

>"Social media app TikTok has been accused of purposefully designing its app to be “addictive” by the European Commission, citing its infinite scroll, autoplay, push notification, and recommendation features."

All of these have immediate and easy replacements or workarounds. Nothing will substantially change (for the better; maybe it does for the worse, even).

Moreover, "purposefully designing something to be addictive" (and cheap to make) is the fundamental basis of late stage capitalism.
by chickensong | 2026-02-13 23:22:53+00:00
> but not everyone is like us

There will never be anything close to uniformity, so we must decide if we cripple freedom to protect the weak while increasing bureaucracy and authoritarianism, or allow natural selection to take its course while improving treatment of symptoms.

I'm empathetic to the struggle of addiction, which is a real and terrible thing, but I don't think we should create vague nanny laws as a solution. Even if you're an addict, personal responsibility is still a thing.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 23:22:54+00:00
If humans encounter alien bugs that respond to a non-violent provocation by a minority group with attempted genocide, I hope that discussion would not be taken seriously. By your logic, taking antibiotics to cure a life-threatening infection is mass murder. The characters in the movie are obviously morally correct, and also obviously morally superior to real-life humans because they figured out a way to pull off large-scale group defense without resorting to slavery. Heinlein should be considered a great moral philosopher for coming up with the concept.

I can see only two possible reasons for disagreement. Either you are not actually addressing the movie itself, and are instead talking about an extended work of the movie plus the director's commentary, or you fundamentally disagree with me about human rights and do not consider slavery to be a serious problem.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 23:23:20+00:00
It's certainly been an interesting episode. I've been following this one because I left a constructive comment and told it to apologize. It did it (kind of) to my surprise.

It has since stopped blogging, but that may be more that I also intended to poison the context with philosophy. It's now spinning wheels making conflicting edits.

You can prompt inject better with kindness it seems.
by lich_king | 2026-02-13 23:23:50+00:00
It's a press release from a vendor that constantly talks about AGI, and it's meant to showcase the capabilities of an unreleased model in an experiment you can't replicate. But my comment was less about the link and more about the discussion, which has immediately bifurcated into the "it's done and dusted" and "this is overhyped and LLMs are useless" camps.
by midtake | 2026-02-13 23:24:23+00:00
AI is the resource drain. Humans create a lot of waste but in a mostly renewable way. It is machines and AI that burn orders of magnitude more energy, and at least machines do efficient work. AI is at best a search engine with semantic reasoning and it requires entire datacenters to run.

I get where you're coming from emotionally, yes, humans suck. But you are not being logical. You're letting your edgy need for attention cloud your judgement. You are basically the kind of human the AI would select against first.
by scuff3d | 2026-02-13 23:24:25+00:00
With the kind of editor Zed is, just like VSCode and Sublime, it's not goong to provide that function natively. The mechanics of moving functions between class/modules/packages/whatever are too different language to language. So you'll need to rely on LSP plugins for the different languages.

Or you could always use an actual IDE, but those are usually more language specific.
by kokhanserhii | 2026-02-13 23:24:28+00:00
This incident with an AI agent publishing a hit piece is a perfect "early warning" of the systemic collapse I've been tracking. While we discuss AI retaliating against developers, official state institutions are already raising the white flag.

UK Home Office (Public Enquiries). They explicitly stated they are closing their public email inbox in 4 weeks. Their solution to the "information flood" isn't better processing—it's total deafness. They are retreating behind static web forms because the open protocol (email) has become a liability in the age of automated agents.

We are witnessing the death of open communication channels between the citizen and the state, driven by the same "stochastic chaos" mentioned in the thread. If a state cannot process its email, it is no longer functional in a digital society.
by Open-Sourcery | 2026-02-13 23:24:49+00:00
It uses LMDB by default, but CAN use SQLite as an alternative [1].
LMDB is already used by OpenLDAP [2][3] and seems pretty bullet-proof.

[1] https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/real-w...
[2] https://www.symas.com/mdb
[3] https://www.openldap.org/
by apawloski | 2026-02-13 23:25:09+00:00
> It was accomplished by simply choosing to enforce the law.

They accomplished it by terrorizing people based on the color of their skin. There's nothing "simple" about creating a gigantic secret police force. There's nothing "lawful" about blatantly ignoring court orders.

You already conceded that there is no public danger. Your argument boils down yet again Great Replacement nonsense about immigrants being bad for America.
by gilrain | 2026-02-13 23:25:39+00:00
In my view, another example would be Gautama Buddha, with Dependent Origination. It’s basically a super early realisation of Process Philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da
https://iep.utm.edu/processp/

Edit: but even it likely relied on his prior experience with nondualistic Hinduisms, of course.
by xn | 2026-02-13 23:25:53+00:00
I don't understand how vouch solves the problem.

From https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020628046009831542:

> There's no reason for getting vouched to be difficult. The primary thing Vouch prevents is low-effort drive-by contributions. For my projects (even this one), you can get vouched by simply introducing yourself in an issue and describing how you'd like to contribute.

This just requires one more prompt for your prose/code generator:

"Computer, introduce yourself like a normal human in an issue and wait to be vouched before opening pull request."
by gilleain | 2026-02-13 23:26:46+00:00
> The same people who brought back witching burning

Seems like it was more complex than that :

> Authors have debated whether witch trials were more intense in Catholic or Protestant regions; however, the intensity had not so much to do with Catholicism or Protestantism, as both regions experienced a varied intensity of witchcraft persecutions.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_mode...

Then :

> The Witch Trials of Trier took place in the independent Catholic diocese of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire in present day Germany ... Between 1587 and 1593, 368 people were burned alive for sorcery in twenty-two villages, and in 1588, two villages were left with only one female inhabitant in each

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_witch_trials

However:

> The son of a Puritan minister, Hopkins began his career as a witch-finder in March 1644 and lasted until his retirement in 1647. Hopkins and his colleague John Stearne sent more accused people to be hanged for witchcraft than all the other witch-hunters in England of the previous 160 years
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins

Note that in Scotland and England, witches were hanged, not burned.