MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llbbdd | 2026-02-24 22:35:04+00:00
Thank you for sending this, I've read it through twice and it's already affected how I approached some writing I did today. Even just forcing myself to think "what is another way to say this?" feels like it activates a different part of my brain that goes "well, what were you really trying to say in the first place?", and it's humbling when my mind comes up blank to that.

It reminded me of this comment I saw earlier[0] referring to a situation where Werner Herzog essentially cache-busted a Reverend, who was brought to tears when he could no longer reply with the templates that kept him stoic before. Maybe we stand to lose more than our voices to the machine if we're not thoughtful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119373
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-24 22:35:16+00:00
> In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made

Unless of course you need aerospace or space-qualified screws in which case they are definitely coming from the US.

Where China was successful is volume; Apple makes hundreds of millions of iPhones a year (I was shocked at that number) which is orders of magnitude more than computers. Kind of hard to deliver those numbers when you can't keep slaves on call in a dormitory.
by pmontra | 2026-02-24 22:35:35+00:00
Or make sideloading available only after 24 hours since enabling it. I would enable it on my new devices and wait 24 hours before installing F-Droid and other apps. Not a problem. Scammers might wait one day too but it decreases the chances of success because friends and family members can interfere.

But I'm afraid that this is security theater and the true goal is to protect revenues by making it hard or impossible to install apps that impact Alfabet bottom line (eg third party YouTube clients.)
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-02-24 22:35:45+00:00
Standardized bodycam implementation nationwide was a fantastic improvement to policing post-2020. Axon seems to be king of that coast to coast. Watching bodycam video on YouTube has improved my perception of the police from "often unethical jerks" to "wow, I can't believe the nonsense these people have to deal with". Asshole cops now have to justify their behavior before judges and their bosses in a way maybe they didn't before.

Freedom of Information requests to axon seem to be given our somewhat freely given how large the bodycam genre on Youtube is.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-24 22:35:59+00:00
It was an examination with 300 students in a giant hall, overseen by university staff, not the individual professors.

So many people complained that they did eventually fetch him to come and clarify (correct) the questions.

I didn’t have the patience to wait for him to turn up, so I simply provided a matrix of solutions for every possible combination of potential original intent… with note next to it saying that anything other than a 100% mark will be met with official complaints about his lack of due diligence.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 22:36:28+00:00
> Also I think Israel never signed that part of the Geneva Conventions.

You, earlier: "A lot of that ambiguity would vanish if Hamas did not have a habit of not putting uniforms in combat."

Now it's suddenly not a problem? I can't imagine Hamas signed the Geneva Conventions.

> It sounds like it should be very rare, people don't kill their own so easily?

German Jews in the 1930s/1940s would probably disagree.

> When did that happened elsewhere? It sounds like it should be very rare, people don't kill their own so easily?

I mean, the IDF killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while with their hands up and holding a white flag, because they thought they were infiltrators.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67745092
by Nition | 2026-02-24 22:37:42+00:00
Since there doesn't seem to be any record in the Internet by the way, this is what printed cities looked like in SimCity 1 (these are my own scans of some printouts from 1996):

https://i.imgur.com/E9QgkCp.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/i3MYCZv.jpeg
Show HN: MephistoVault – Zero-storage P2P file transfer via WebRTC
by benmxrt | 2026-02-24 22:38:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MephistoVault to scratch an itch: I wanted a way to send files securely between two browsers without them ever touching a middleman server.

It purely relies on WebRTC data channels for direct P2P connection and E2E encryption.

Tech stack: React, TypeScript, and WebRTC. There is no backend storage involved.
Code: https://github.com/jokallame350-lang/mephistovaultt

I'd love your technical feedback—especially around NAT traversal edge cases, reliability strategies for larger files via chunking, or general UI thoughts.
by xienze | 2026-02-24 22:38:19+00:00
> The people who would be concerned with that are by and large not stressed about paying house mortgages, replacing roofs or fixing cars.

Well they should be, because actually putting 2/3rds of the workforce out of work in a short, sudden fashion is probably not going to end well for them.

> The things you mentioned don't need intrinsically need money. The machine can fix or create whatever car, replace whatever roof, and build whatever house.

What machine is this? It certainly doesn’t exist and won’t in the short timeframe these AI companies are predicting everyone is gonna be laid off. Maybe, maybe if the timeframe for “no one has a job anymore” happens over say, 100 years, things might go slowly. Over two or three years? Heads will roll.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-24 22:38:20+00:00
That happens today in the wild even. CSS url() function and basic things like applying background images to semi-invisible blocks for entirely CSS-based data exfiltration. From what I've heard it is most commonly used today for fingerprinting systems of trackers that use a ton of @media queries to try to fingerprint you based on the subtleties of your browser.

Relates to some Safari and Firefox engineers warning on pretty much every new CSS proposal to consider how it can be (ab)used for tracking.
by markisus | 2026-02-24 22:38:22+00:00
I felt the same.

> This isn’t a sign of incompetence. It’s a sign that you’re actually doing real work.

> Your value as an engineer isn’t in executing the same playbook forever. It’s in expanding the domain of what’s possible.

> That experience doesn’t produce arrogance. It produces humility.

> They’re not confident that they already have all the answers. They’re confident that they’ll find them.
by deaddodo | 2026-02-24 22:38:35+00:00
This is the part that blows my mind. People seem to think the US is incapable of and does no manufacturing. It is the second largest manufacturer[1], and has a capacity about 65% of what China does. Which is 350% of the next largest manufacturing country.

What they stopped manufacturing was menial and low-end product; because it's not price-effective to have 100 Americans sit on an assembly line and solder SMT components for $7-18/hr. Instead, those potential workers pivoted into service jobs and office work.

1 - https://www.safeguardglobal.com/resources/blog/top-10-manufa...
by antiford2049 | 2026-02-24 22:38:42+00:00
when companies go public usually the easy money has been made, and for the growth to come back a lot of time might pass.

frankly i dont know why would one go public today unless money is needed badly. Quarterly calls, filings, are one thing, dealing with vest bros asking "so how should we think about" questions on round tables or "whats an incrimental margin" musings as they clack away at their mini keyboards filling out their model no body can make sense of.. and then someone will publish a blog saying their company is gonna be extinct because of AI ... this is not for everybody thats for sure...
by cthalupa | 2026-02-24 22:38:57+00:00
Except it wasn't a production endpoint and there's no actual security risk in having source maps available. It's more annoying to read source code that has been minified, but if a security professional tells you that minifying source code is something that increases security, you should be wondering what other bullshit they've pedaled you.

I'm not a fan of persona and have gone out of my way to not provide my details to them even before this, and I really dislike Thiel, but... let's be honest about the stuff we're complaining about.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 22:39:02+00:00
At the end of the day, I make the conscious choice to trust three different Israeli news outlets, CNN, the fact that the IDF isn't offering a different estimate, and satellite photos of the destruction in Gaza.

The IDF is most welcome to publish a claim and have it dissected. I would remind you we're on a thread where their "official data" fell apart because of direct video evidence of their war crimes obtained from their dead victims' phones.
Show HN: OpenTangl – Autonomous AI dev engine for multi-repo products
by 8con | 2026-02-24 22:39:04+00:00
OpenTangl is an open-source TypeScript tool that runs an autonomous development loop. You define a product vision and point it at one or more repos. It proposes tasks, writes code via GPT-4o or Claude, verifies builds, creates PRs, reviews diffs, and merges — in a closed loop.

The part I found most useful: it manages cross-repo dependencies. If a UI feature needs a new API endpoint, it builds and merges the API task first, then builds the frontend. Task ordering via `depends_on` fields.

It runs locally on your machine. No cloud services, no accounts beyond an LLM API key and GitHub CLI. A cycle of 4-5 tasks costs about $0.30-0.50 in API calls.

Built this for my own projects over the past few months. Open-sourced it today. TypeScript, ~17k lines, MIT licensed.
by rob | 2026-02-24 22:39:07+00:00
I would imagine tons of them are bots. They're getting hard to distinguish, they don't do the normal tropes any longer. They'll type in all lowercase, they'll have the creator post manually to throw you off, they'll make multiple comments within 45 seconds that normal human couldn't do. All things I've witnessed here over the past couple of weeks. And those are just the ones I've caught.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-24 22:39:17+00:00
> Things are getting higher quality but bland.

"Bland" is not a bad thing. The FLOSS ecosystem we have today is quite "bland" already compared to the commercial and shareware/free-to-use software ecosystem of the 1980s and 1990s. It's also higher quality by literally orders of magnitude, and saves a comparable amount of pointless duplicative effort.

Hopefully AI will be a similar story, especially if human reviewing/surveying effort (the main bottleneck if AI coding proves effective) can be mitigated via the widespread adoption of rigorous formal metods, where only the underlying specification has to be reviewed whereas its implementation is programmatically checkable.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-24 22:39:25+00:00
The IRS thing indirectly has categories but it doesn't say what to do with them, and what to do with them is what I disagreed with your original post on. I didn't say all input is untrusted or whatever analogizes to your tax thing.

Anyway, I see you edited your previous post after I wrote my reply.

If you weren't trying to divide things into two categories, you wrote it very confusingly. When you say how to handle trusted strings, then say how to handle untrusted strings, then say "There's no getting around knowing whether or any arbitrary string is legitimate markup from a trusted source or some untrusted input that needs to be treated like text. This is a hard requirement." it really sounds like that's supposed that's supposed to cover all cases.

Me thinking you were using two categories is an honest mistake, not malicious misquoting.

And reading your original post that way is the interpretation that makes it stronger. If there are more categories then SetHTML is no longer "fundamentally confused". Your argument against it falls apart.
by DulyPDF | 2026-02-24 22:40:22+00:00
Hi guys, I just recently built DullyPDF, a website that allows you to convert a raw pdf to a database mapped template with no manual intervention other than review. The templates have form fields on all areas where input needs to go like client name, address etc. You can also filll any client information to these template by specifying their name or ID. This works by running commonforms ML algorithm to find form fields then automatically renaming fields based on a csv, json file, excel document or txt.

I have a demo on my website that can visually explain my product perfectly too. All functionality also exist on the site, no need to download a desktop app.

Once you have this template, you can fill in any row information from the csv. I have a pilot license avaiable for free users right now, will let you create database mapped templates from atleast two pdfs. Feel free to play around with it, let me know if you got any use out of it and if you did I would love your feedback.

I just got my first two premium users yesterday, however I am wondering if this is worth countinuing to pursue. Pretty much I haven't done much marketing yet but I am at the state where I have a polished website. Should I lean into marketing this harder or is my idea too niche? I'm ok with brutal feedback. I would love any advice and am open to anyone that would like to help/co-found.
by mixdup | 2026-02-24 22:40:58+00:00
I think it's just much more likely that all of those things become features on the bank's website and Ford's website, I doubt that my non-technical family members will go to ChatGPT as the everything app and ask it to do everything, because they won't actually know how to ask it in a way that they'd trust, or that gets a good outcome vs. trusting a vendor in a specific vertical
by keybored | 2026-02-24 22:41:12+00:00
You want it both ways? It both is exploitation and motivates “people” (?) to be hyper productive?

Those people just need to violently exploit people to be “hyper productive”? They can’t be “hyper productive” by way of their own bodies?

But it’s fine by you. Parasites are after all part of the natural world.
by ljm | 2026-02-24 22:41:30+00:00
Some dude vibe codes OpenPaw and gives credit to his XL Bully called Threadripper that would never hurt another person, gets acquired by OpenAI for 7 figures total comp purely on clout, and both simonw and Karpathy are calling it the next best development in AI because it draws penguins and industrialises slop while Sam Altman talks about the negative impact of human life compared to AI data centres while pleasuring Jony Ive in a coffee shop.
by abdelhousni | 2026-02-24 22:41:50+00:00
"A new investigation alleges that OpenAI’s identity verification vendor, Persona, operated dedicated watchlist screening infrastructure since 2023 and exposed 53MB of internal dashboard code via public source maps. Here’s what was discovered, what is confirmed, what remains unproven, and what it means for biometric data, compliance reporting, and online privacy in 2026."
by bri3d | 2026-02-24 22:42:06+00:00
I agree; I didn't want to editorialize too much as I think the writeup stands on its own.

My takeaway was that in this case, even an author with a clear and extreme bias against this sort of thing could find only unfortunately-common bad practices rather than deeply nefarious intent. Of course, this is just the front-end code, but this just looks like a KYC platform to me. Most of the secondary reports on this write-up seem to completely ignore section 0x13 and jump to the specific conclusions the author does not draw.

The fact that we've created a system where Discord need and want a KYC platform is a different and quite strange thing, but the KYC platform itself just looks like what it says on the tin.
by ghaff | 2026-02-24 22:42:14+00:00
Walmart is pretty much the only big discount store available to many people regardless of their income level unless they have personal shoppers picking stuff up for them. I have a nearby Walmart; the nearest Costco is an hour away and it's a different type of product mix anyway. I don't love shopping at Walmart for a number of reasons but it's convenient for many purposes.
by avazhi | 2026-02-24 22:42:22+00:00
The 1Password app(s) have never been buggier or more frustrating to use. App UIs have never been more convoluted.

Enshittification comes for us all, sadly, even something like this that has largely been indispensable for me and my family for so long now.

Not sure what to say, because Bitwarden is worse at everything and nothing else is even worth mentioning based on what I know. Great example of something I’ll stay with for now simply because there are no better alternatives on the market.

PS - listing AI auto naming of items as an improvement got a genuine laugh out of me.
by apercu | 2026-02-24 22:42:49+00:00
I agree with you on all of these except: low tax

I grew up in DFW.

My house in WI is assessed at a significantly higher value than my siblings house in Ft Worth.

My 2025 property tax bill ~$5k, my 2025 state income tax - not gonna publish it here but not all that significant.

Sibling in Texas property tax bill: ~$14k. Significantly higher than my state income tax + property tax.

Also, I don't have to live in Texas.
by WillPostForFood | 2026-02-24 22:43:03+00:00
The US manufacturing situation is much worse than you suggest, and is top heavy with low margin boring industrial stuff. Largest sector for US manufacturing is Chemicals, which includes fertilizer, petrochemicals, pesticides, and some pharma. The second largest sector is Tobacco, Food, and Beverages.

I think some more "low margin" computer and chip manufacturing would be healthy.
by fortzi | 2026-02-24 22:43:08+00:00
Love you spouting memes such as “hasbara” instead of responding to the point.

You understand exactly what I mean, yet you try to portray what I said as if I’m alluding to a technicality.
If a nation has the means and intent for genocide, you get a genocide. This is not what it is.

Lastly, I’m not trying to show I’m balanced, and neither are you.
by rainmaking | 2026-02-24 22:43:10+00:00
The attack on Israel was deliberately designed to provoke Israel into committing atrocities, and Israel- partially- took the bait.

That is a very different situation from, say, the Kosovo, when the Serbs just walked in intent on killing everybody.

Was that good? Of course not.

If you go around accusing Israel of genocide, deliberately omitting the little detail of facing an enemy who does everything they can to get their own people killed to make you look bad- are you being fair and just in your assessment? Obviously not. Are you incentivizing Hamas to do it all again? Absolutely.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-24 22:43:26+00:00
People who commit crimes generally do not think they will be caught and therefore the punishment is of no concern to them. The better way to deter crime[1] is to convince more the public that people who commit crimes are caught. Preferably by actually catching people who commit crimes.

1. aside from the obviously effective but difficult to implement deterrent of meeting everyone's physical needs
by delfinom | 2026-02-24 22:43:46+00:00
Yes/no.

China at this point is hard in automation, beyond anything the US has. China is well past the peak of sweatshops.

As someone in the manufacturing space in the US, the biggest issue we have in the US is that manufacturing continues to die. Any manufacturing we have left is the old guard dying off. It comes from a range of issues from companies refusing to invest in younger employees, to the cost of real estate (both buy or rent) for commercial properties being absurd..
by titzer | 2026-02-24 22:43:56+00:00
The dark side of this is that everyone has graduated to prompt engineering and there's no one with expertise left who can debug it. We'll be entirely dependent on AIs to do the debugging too. When whoever controls the AIs decides to enshittify that service, we'll be truly screwed. That is, if we can't run competitive models locally at reasonable efficiency and price.

I don't know how this will play out, except that I've been so cowed by the past 15 years of enshittification that I don't feel hopeful.
by AngryData | 2026-02-24 22:44:25+00:00
It is apparently economic to do so in China and apparently any other place you want to outsource it to. Does smaller and one-off productions have as high of margins as high speed automated stamping machines running 24/7? No. But that doesn't mean it isn't profitable at all.

And quite frankly, who gives a fuck if top owners and investors get maximum returns, boo hoo they got 4% return instead of 8%, that is still far better than the average working class's deal. Our entire problem is a suffering middle and lower classes that need decent work, they will still be happy even if the product they make is a bit lower margin because they are paid hourly, not paid by dividends and stock options which is where all the higher margins profits go. Average citizens pay has not correlated with increased company profits, and increased company profits isn't what makes society stable, so the investor class is going to have to suck it up and take the hit unless they want their entire house of cards to collapse.
by tombert | 2026-02-24 22:44:35+00:00
I like AI, I use Codex and ChatGPT like most people are, but I have to say that I am pretty tired of low-effort crap taking over everything, particularly YouTube.

There have always been content mills, but there was still some cost with producing the low-effort "Top 10" or "Iceberg Examination" videos. Now I will turn on a video about any topic, watch it for three minutes, immediately get a kind of uncanny vibe, and then the AI voice will make a pronunciation mistake (e.g. confusing wind, like the weather effect or the winding of a spring), or the script starts getting redundant or repetitive in ways that are common with AI.

And I suspect these kinds of videos will become more common as time goes on. The cost to producing these videos is getting close to "free" meaning that it doesn't take much to make a profit on them, even if their views are relatively low per-video.

If AI has taught me anything, it's that there still is no substitute for effort. I'm sure AI is used in plenty of places where I don't notice it, because the people who used it still put in effort to make a good product. There are people who don't just make a prompt like "make me a fifteen minute video about Chris Chan" and "generate me a thumbnail with Chris Chan with the caption 'he's gone too far'", and instead will use AI as a tool to make something neat.

Genuine effort is hard, and rare, and these AI videos can give the facsimile of something that prior to 2023 was high effort. I hate it.
by joshuamorton | 2026-02-24 22:44:37+00:00
You now need to have a variety of fake addresses you can use, since scammed addresses will get banned. You also need fake IDs. So again, the bar has now been raised from "run a bot to make fake Facebook accounts" to "I have a large number of physical addresses and the ability to create arbitrary fake government IDs".

> Amazon has a huge problem with packages being sent to fake people at different addresses.

This usually involves those people getting weird packages and not doing anything with them, it doesn't require attacker-controlled addresses.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-24 22:45:24+00:00
What folks don't talk about, is that the reason for all the offshoring, is good old-fashioned American Greed™.

Lots of billionaires in the US, got that way, by exporting all their production to China. Because they did it, lots of lower-tier people had to do the same, or go out of business.

Since we worship billionaires, that little bit never seems to get mentioned, as it makes them look bad.

The only cure is to cost some of those billionaires money.

Ain't gonna happen.