MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-24 20:47:27+00:00
> First, the bottom has fallen out of the used market creating significant buyers remorse for early adopters.

I feel this directly. On paper I've lost more money on my Model 3 than I have on the previous half dozen cars combined, I'm pretty sure. But on the other hand, Ford canceling the Lightning has (at least temporarily) improved the resale value on my Lightning considerably. I couldn't really sell it today for what I paid for it, but I wouldn't be that far off.

Problem is that I don't really love the Tesla, but I do love the Lightning. Ha! So I keep them both but for differing reasons.

> the switch from the previous US charging standard to Tesla's

As an aside, this is finally happening for real! Several models coming to market now are shipping with J3400 (aka NACS) ports standard. Yay! I look forward to a time where the days of various adapters being required are firmly behind us.
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-24 20:47:28+00:00
Yeah. I wonder why HN has become lax about enforcing the original title rule? I can understand editing the title to meet the character limit or remove hyperbole or make it less click-baity. But some changes really don't make sense - a recent HN Post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111039 ) was titled "The AI apocalypse for enshitification has started", where as the original title is "Large US company came after me for releasing a free open source self-hostable alternative!" - I am sure the original title would have got it more attention here.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-24 20:48:22+00:00
I can see a future where a video from a hardware/stack verified by Apple/Google is a required mechanism for authentication.

For example, you have to say or otherwise signal that you authorize the transaction to x person for y amount on z date.

I kind of do it with my tenants when I record a video walk through at the beginning and end of the lease to serve as proof of damages. I could use a checklist on paper and a signature, but I feel like a video is better evidence for me.
by dang | 2026-02-24 20:48:31+00:00
That was not at all obvious from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136682 alone, which gave me quite a jolt.

We have to be proactive about moderating anti-semitism on HN—which does appear, unfortunately, though of course not in every comment that someone happens to read that way. There is huge variance in how people interpret these things and we do our best to be charitable. (Also, I had better add that we do our best moderate other types of slur in just the same way.)

Let's assume you're correct. Such a point needs to be expressed thoughtfully and substantively, not snarkily in a way that pattern-matches to a slur. This ought to be clear from the site guidelines: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - "Eschew flamebait." - "Don't be snarky." - [etc.]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-24 20:48:34+00:00
No, that's not my point at all. Measures such as that are a tool which is in the hands of the user. There is a default restriction which is good enough for most cases, but the user has the ability to open things up further if he needs. What Google is proposing takes control out of the user's hands and makes Google the sole arbiter of what is and is not allowed on the device.
by ctoth | 2026-02-24 20:49:04+00:00
The story here is that a FedRAMP-authorized system had 53MB of Vite dev source maps exposed on a production government endpoint. That's not "sold the dream, delivered the meme," that's a specific auditable compliance failure. Meanwhile a fintech engineer explaining that this is all standard legally-mandated KYC infrastructure got flagged to death. The interesting question isn't whether technology betrays us, it's why US law requires this surveillance apparatus in the first place and why the security assessment apparently missed checking for /vite-dev/ on a government system.

Also every technological step? Ever? Really? This wouldn't happen to be typed on a computer from a climate-controlled room on a nice global network or anything?
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-24 20:49:55+00:00
It really doesn't matter how "good" these tools feel, or whatever vague metric you want - they hemorrhage cash at a rate perhaps not seen in human history. In other words, that usage you like is costing them tons of money - the bet is that energy/compute will become vastly cheaper in a matter of a couple of years (extremely unlikely), or they find other ways to monetize that don't absolutely destroy the utility of their product (ads, an area we have seen google flop in spectacularly).

And even say the latter strategy works - ads are driven by consumption. If you believe 100% openAI's vision of these tools replacing huge swaths of the workforce reasonably quickly, who will be left to consume? It's all nonsense, and the numbers are nonsense if you spend any real time considering it. The fact SoftBank is a major investor should be a dead giveaway.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-24 20:50:04+00:00
the IRQ conflict resolution use case from 1994 maps directly to modern infrastructure problems. kubernetes scheduling, network policy evaluation, IAM permission resolution - these are all constraint satisfaction problems where declarative logic would be more maintainable than the imperative spaghetti we currently write.

Open Policy Agent (OPA) essentially reinvented a subset of prolog with Rego for exactly this reason. the difference is Rego is purpose-built and limited, while embedding actual prolog gives you the full power of unification and backtracking. the tradeoff is debuggability - watching prolog backtrack through a complex rule set is painful without good tooling.
by apparent | 2026-02-24 20:50:17+00:00
I'm guessing from your handle that you're not a mom, and I'm guessing from your comment that you haven't talked to many about what they want. Most mothers of young children do not want to work full time. They want to work part time, or not at all. Telling them that they should drop off their kids at daycare and go further their career is just tone deaf. Some women want to do that (and don't need to be told to), but the vast majority of women do not. They love their babies/toddlers very deeply, and they take immense pleasure from being with them, taking care of them, and imprinting on them. My wife has a superstar career, but she regrets every work trip, misses her little ones so much when she's gone, and always calls to facetime them while she's away. I don't know any dads who feel that way.

As for

> Don't you dads take any parental leave?

Yeah, I sure did. I spend tons of time with my kids. Some dads like doing this, but not nearly as many as moms.

> Maybe that's why they don't find enjoyment from spending time with their kids. Kids and parents need time together to bond properly, regardless of gender.

This misunderstands the order. For moms, the desire to be with their baby is present from day one. For some dads, it is not. For some dads, it does not ever come. They only want to spend time with their kids when they are no longer babies, or even toddlers. Mothers, on the other hand, tend to be much more maternal out of the gates. That's literally why the word "maternal" comes from the root word for mother.

To be sure, there are some women who are not maternal. Generally they do not have kids, and they do not pair up with men who want kids. That's why in almost every family, the woman is more maternal than the man (which is one of the reasons that when deciding who will take more parental leave, the mother is usually the one).
by mccoyb | 2026-02-24 20:50:30+00:00
Here's my question:

if agents continue to get better with RL, what is future proof about this environment or UI?

I think we all know that managing 5-10 agents ... is not pretty. Are we really landing good PRs with 100% cognitive focus from 5-10 agents? Chances are, I'm making mistakes (and I assume other humans are too)? Why not 1 agent managing 5-10 agents for you? And so on?

Most of the development loop is in bash ... so as long as agents get better at using bash (amongst other things), what happens to this in 6 months?

I don't think this is operating at a higher-level of abstraction if agents themselves can coordinate agents across worktrees, etc.
by verdverm | 2026-02-24 20:50:36+00:00
NextJS is bad enough, cannot imagine an Ai version

Cloudflare also lost my support because their support is among the worst, rep evn sneered (cannot update my WHOIS, still, after months of emails). Strongly recommend avoiding their platform. You will find that you lose more time & money to dealing with the issue of parity. God help you if you ever need support, almost every question in Discord goes unanswered as well.
by mrsmrtss | 2026-02-24 20:50:59+00:00
The Benchmarks Game has some highly optimized implementations and is not a good representation of typical code. Some languages allow you to go a lot lower than others if needed, which adds verbosity, that does not mean typical code must be verbose. There are things possible in C# that you just can't do in Java, for example. That does not mean typical Java code is more concise than C#. On the contrary, typical C# would be probably considerably more "dense".
by dijit | 2026-02-24 20:51:02+00:00
sure, but I fucking hate subscriptions.

If you want to sell software, fine, but I want to buy it then.

Release a v2? Sure, I’ll probably buy again.

I have bought 4 versions of littlesnitch and 3 versions of prompt (5 if you count the macos versions too).

But if I see another subscription I’m just clicking off.
by Nition | 2026-02-24 20:51:03+00:00
Check out Canva. It might even be what they're using at school already. It doesn't have the simplicity and fun of the old stuff, but it's intuitive to use even for kids. A lot of features where they're broken convention in ways that actually make more sense than the standard, for example resizing images keeps the aspect ratio by default instead of stretching.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-24 20:51:08+00:00
> It really takes a solid 6ish months of earnest effort (AT LEAST 3x per week, probably more) to develop cardiovascular fitness. For some people, it'll take even longer

I don't think people need to suffer through 6 months just to start enjoy running.
Yes when beginning running you suck (and also prone to injury); you basically have no zone 1-2 since your'e so out of shape, your zone 2 is basically a fast walk. So for newbies who train like that all runs become a zone 3 or even 4 - when you're totally new to running. No surprise they many time
a) hate it
b) get injured

I advise newbies to walk and run and try to keep HR very very controllable until you build up fitness. That should be both more fun and also more sustainable injury wise.
by thaumaturgy | 2026-02-24 20:51:19+00:00
We need more good people getting involved to be able to change the way this all works. And, in less than a year, we've developed a ton of political capital and we're still gaining ground. So, I would sincerely encourage anyone to join this effort, or similar efforts in their area, and just do whatever you can tolerate.

But also, having just been through this process (for my first time!): however terrible you think the political process is, it's worse.
by 0xy | 2026-02-24 20:52:15+00:00
The notion that audits should be evenly distributed is nonsense. Someone making sub-$200K usually has basic W2 income, versus someone making $20M a year who likely has an extremely complicated web of capital gains, deductions, strategies, carry-forward losses etc.

It doesn't even make sense from a pure cash point of view. It's better for an agent to audit someone making $20M and win a $500K judgement than it is for them to audit 1,000 $25K earners and fleece them $500 a piece. What a waste.

Audits should be exponentially lopsided, not targeted exclusively at the middle class.
by Guid_NewGuid | 2026-02-24 20:52:17+00:00
I mean doesn't your take strain credulity as well? Let's actually think where most discussion happens these days, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, the few remaining newspaper comments sections. I'd struggle to list more off the top of my head.

Why wouldn't influence campaigns, we know every big country to be running, target this site? What reason would they have to leave it out from their list? Why not target a major news forum for the more wealthy and connected (predominantly) Americans in tech? This is not an uwu smol bean site anymore and the cost of (undetectably) botting any given site is rapidly approaching cents.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-24 20:52:19+00:00
I agree, looks like you are correct. It seems that it is just one of those things that manufacturers have agreed to do voluntarily, in the absence of a specific law. I imagine they have calculated that the loss of goodwill from abandoning a product quickly would outweigh the cost savings (especially since there is so much sharing of parts that keeping a few specialty components on hand is not going to move the needle much).
by chickensong | 2026-02-24 20:52:48+00:00
> sometimes it just continues to go into the next step

Use a structured workflow that loops on every task and includes a pause for user confirmation at the end. Enforce it with a hook. I'm not sure if you can toggle auto-accept this way, but I think the end result is what you're asking for.

I use this with great success, sometimes toggling auto-accept on when confidence is high that Claude can complete a step without guidance, and toggling off when confidence is low and you want to slow down and steer, with Claude stopping between the steps. Now that prompt suggestions are a thing, you can just hit enter to continue on the suggested prompt to continue.
by btbuildem | 2026-02-24 20:52:49+00:00
> idea that agent harnesses should primarily have their functionality dictated by plaintext commands feels like a copout

I think it's more along the lines of acknowledging the fast-paced changes in the field, and refusing to cast into code something that's likely to rapidly evolve in the near future.

Once things settle down into tested practices, we'll see more "permanent" instrumentation arise.
by hibikir | 2026-02-24 20:53:03+00:00
It does seem like a lot, but if you look at growth rates, the differences are significant.

Stripe is also doing far more value-added stuff: If all you need is to process credit card Adyen is probably going to outbid Stripe. They almost always did last time I checked. But Stripe is offering a significantly larger product, especially to people running marketplaces. That was always the selling point for the doordashes and deliveroos of the world. Even for Amazon. So I bet that the skinny version that is just a payment processor would be worth a lot less.

They aren't the only ones trying to widen their horizons either: Paypal and Square/Block came up with plenty of plans to try to grow past boring payments. They just didn't execute on those things all that well, and somehow Stripe does.
by ratnaditya | 2026-02-24 20:53:10+00:00
Cool project — the passkey-based approval flow and per-org budget enforcement are really well thought out. Looks like a solid governance platform for enterprise AI operations.

I'm building AgentWard (https://github.com/agentward-ai/agentward), which comes at the problem from a different angle. The core difference is where enforcement happens:

GovernsAI looks like a centralized API service. The agent/SDK calls a precheck endpoint before acting, and the platform returns allow/deny/redact. Is that correct? This works great when you control the integration code and can guarantee every tool call goes through the precheck.

AgentWard is an inline proxy: It sits directly on the wire between the agent and its tools (MCP servers, HTTP gateways). The agent literally cannot make a tool call without it going through the policy engine first. There's no precheck API to forget to call, no client-side integration to get wrong. The enforcement is structural, not cooperative.

A few other differences:

1/ Zero infrastructure: pip install agentward && agentward scan gives you a permission map in seconds. No database, no Keycloak, no platform to deploy.
2/ MCP-native: Parses JSON-RPC 2.0 at the protocol level — intercepts tools/call, enumerates tools from live servers, auto-discovers configs from Claude Desktop/Cursor/Windsurf/VS Code.
3/ Static analysis + runtime: agentward scan tells you what each tool can access (data, network, credentials, chaining risks) before you even write a policy. Then agentward inspect enforces that policy at runtime. ->I think this is a HUGE value add.
4/ Skill chaining detection: Analyzes and blocks unauthorized tool-to-tool invocation chains (e.g. email content triggering a browser tool → code execution).

Honestly, I think these are complementary more than competitive — GovernsAI governs the organizational plane (who, how much, what data), AgentWard governs the execution plane (which tool calls happen, with what arguments, through what protocol). Different layers of the same governance stack.

If anyone wants to try it: "pip install agentward && agentward scan" — takes about 5 seconds and shows you exactly what every MCP server on your machine can access && also puts a safety wrapper for runtime checks.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-24 20:53:12+00:00
My 13 year old Volvo has 138,000 miles and the same mileage as advertised when it was first sold. Also, when an engine goes, you can rebuild it, you can do a valve job, or replace the gaskets, replace the oil pump, replace the cylinder sleeves and you have a brand new engine. Or if you have scratches on your cylinder walls, you can bore those out and install wider pistons, rebalance the crankshaft, although on many modern engines the cylinder sleeves are effectively sprayed on and are just a few microns thick, in which case you need to get a machine shop to bore out the lining and install a race sleeve with custom pistons, which is expensive, but you can do it. And you can do this for less than the replacement cost of a car battery, both in terms of price and more importantly in terms of minerals required. You are talking about adding at most a couple of pounds of steel or aluminum versus manufacturing a new 700kg lithium iron with a lot of circuitry.

The main constraint now on car longevity is going to be the circuitry and all the electronic modules. Those expire with time and need to be replaced, and they are the same for EV and ICE, I'd wager that EVs have much more. Thermal stresses, vibrations, capacitors degrade over time, there is corrosion from moisture, etc. How many years do you think all those Tesla boards will last? I would worry about them more than the battery, which has proven to be very durable, and long term we will find ways of servicing these batteries without requiring replacements. Or at least, some manufacturers will, and smart consumers will buy from them. Just think of the problems a 20 year old computer has, one that has been used for an hour a day for 20 years. Now imagine one constantly vibrating, left outside in the sun and rain, etc. What would be the survival rate of that board over 20 years? Not good.

What we all need is an open source car for the electronics, as well as right to repair laws. That is probably the most important thing needed to keep cars on the road.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-24 20:53:21+00:00
What are you talking about? Iran topics get flagged at least as often as Gaza (in proportion to the amount to posts on the topic).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599742
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849715
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553599
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839106
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754132
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624529
by mengchengfeng | 2026-02-24 20:53:32+00:00
Yeah that was definitely a worry of mine before I booted it up. Luckily it's still got decent battery life. We'll see how it holds up in 6 months...

Dyson vacuums and Kindles are not the same whatsoever, but I wonder how easily it'd be to swap out the battery on an older Kindle. For our vacuum, all I needed was a 20 dollar replacement battery and the will unscrew 3 mini screws.
by XorNot | 2026-02-24 20:53:36+00:00
Except a decent part of security is literally just deterrence.

Will my front door stop someone robbing my house if they want to? No: I have sidelight windows you could just smash them and come through.

But the one time a house I was in got robbed, it was because we left the front door open and went out.

Which is odd if you think about it right? Statistically an open front door rather implies someone is home, not away so it's a terrible targeting priority - but our house was targeted and not say, our neighbors who also wouldn't have been home that day.

People are quick to claim security theater, talk about threat models, but equally ignore them anyway.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-24 20:54:07+00:00
You are setting up to say "I wouldn't tolerate that" for any example given, but if you look at the market and what makes people actually leave, instead of what makes people complain, then basically anything that isn't life-and-death, safety critical, big-money-losing, or data corrupting is tolerable. There's plenty of complaints about Microsoft, Apple, Gmail, Android, and all kinds of 3rd party niche business systems.

All the decades people tolerated blue-screens on Windows. All the software which regularly segfaulted years ago. The permeation of "have you tried turning it off and on again" into everyday life. The "ship sooner, patch later" culture. The refusal to use garbage collected or memory managed languages or formal verification over C/C++/etc because some bugs are more tolerable than the cost/effort/performance costs to change. Display and formatting bugs, e.g. glitches in video games. When error conditions aren't handled - code that crashes if you enter blank parameters. Bugs in utility code that doesn't run often like the installer.

One software I installed yesterday told me to disable some Windows services before the install, then the installer tried to start the services at the end of the install and couldn't, so it failed and finished without finishing installing everything. This reminded me that I knew about that, because that buggy behaviour has been there for years and I've tripped over it before; at least two major versions.

Another one I regularly update tells me to close its running processes before proceding with the install, but after it's got to that state, it won't let me procede and it has no way to refresh or rescan to detect the running process has finished. That's been there for years and several major versions as well.

One more famous example is """I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you’re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.""" - Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP. I've a feeling that was admitted about 37 Signals and Basecamp, it was common to restart Ruby-on-Rails code frequently, but I can't find a source to back that up.