MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devsda | 2026-02-13 11:35:47+00:00
Everyone is quick to assert rights granted by the license terms and fast to say the authors should have chosen a better license from the start in case the license doesnt fit the current situation.

License terms don't end there. There is a no warranty clause too in almost every open source license and it is as important as the other parts of the license. There is no promise or guarantees for updates or future versions.
by gspr | 2026-02-13 11:35:49+00:00
Rustls still outsources cryptographic primitives. I believe the currently supported providers of those are… drumroll… AWS-LC and Ring. The latter is a fork of BoringSSL. The article describes AWS-LC and BoringSSL as "Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases".

The state of things sucks :-(
by thezipcreator | 2026-02-13 11:35:51+00:00
`bool` is useful as a communication device; if you just use `int` (or `int32_t` or whatever) then it's not exactly clear that the value can only hold `1` or `0` unless you explicitly say it in the documentation. with `bool`, it's clear from the get-go that it's only ever `true` or `false`.
by ruhith | 2026-02-13 11:37:44+00:00
This is pretty predictable at this point. VC-backed open source with a single vendor always ends up here eventually. The operational tradeoff was always MinIO being dead simple versus Ceph being complex but foundation-governed. Turns out "easy to set up" doesn't matter much when you wake up to a repo going dark. The real lesson is funding model matters more than license. If there's no sustainable path that doesn't involve closing the source, you're just on a longer timeline to the same outcome.
by ruhith | 2026-02-13 11:38:28+00:00
The thing nobody wants to admit is that most of the "model improvements" we've been celebrating are probably harness improvements in disguise. When Claude Code or Cursor gets better at coding tasks, we credit the model, but half the time someone just fixed how the agent handles file edits or context passing. The model was always capable, we were just handing it broken tools and blaming it for the landing gear.
by ruhith | 2026-02-13 11:39:16+00:00
The "canceled" framing is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. They announced a partnership, got caught, and walked it back because of backlash. That's not a change of heart, that's damage control. The infrastructure for this kind of data sharing already exists, the business incentive hasn't gone anywhere, and the only thing that changed is public awareness. Give it six months and a quieter rollout.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-13 11:39:22+00:00
It may even be that they have no alternative but to lie in their press release. Like say hypothetically they went to Flock and said “I know we have a contract saying we’re gonna do this partnership but given the optics and the amount of heat we’re getting we have to cancel”.

Flock may well have agreed on a break to the contract but stipulated that Flock had to agree to the wording of the press statement and Amazon was not going to disparage Flock yadda yadda.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 11:40:11+00:00
The copy was brought into existence without its consent. This isn't the same as normal reproduction because babies are not born with human sapience, and as a society we collectively agree that children do not have full human rights. IMO, copying a consciousness is worse than murder because the victimization is ongoing. It doesn't matter if the original consents because the copy is not the original.
by palata | 2026-02-13 11:40:13+00:00
Agreed, but that's only half of it. The second half is that open source users should stop imagining the things they choose to use for free as "products".

Users of open source often feel entitled, open issues like they would open a support ticket for product they actually paid for, and don't hesitate to show their frustration.

Of course that's not all the users, but the maintainers only see those (the happy users are usually quiet).

I have open sourced a few libraries under a weak copyleft licence, and every single time, some "people from the community" have been putting a lot of pressure on me, e.g. claiming everywhere that the project was unmaintained/dead (it wasn't, I just was working on it in my free time on a best-effort basis) or that anything not permissive had "strings attached" and was therefore "not viable", etc.

The only times I'm not getting those is when nobody uses my project or when I don't open source it. I have been open sourcing less of my stuff, and it's a net positive: I get less stress, and anyway I wasn't getting anything from the happy, quiet users.
by chainbuilder | 2026-02-13 11:41:36+00:00
NFT marketplaces price traits and hype. They rarely price risk.

Most buyers have no structured view into:

Contract legitimacy

Wallet behavior history

Metadata integrity

Impersonation signals

Cross-collection copying

That information gap creates opportunity.

If you attach a third-party provenance report (for example, from Kettaro) to an NFT sale — including contract verification, mint lineage, wallet risk scoring, and metadata snapshots — you’re not just selling the token. You’re selling reduced uncertainty.

Markets price information.
Verified confidence trades at a premium.

This creates three monetization angles:

Charge more for verified listings.

Bundle provenance certificates into resale history (compounding legitimacy).

Identify undervalued NFTs where trust quality exceeds market perception.

In traditional markets, authentication increases value (graded collectibles, audited contracts, title insurance). NFTs are no different — they just lack standardized verification infrastructure.

The play isn’t flipping JPEGs.
It’s arbitraging information asymmetry and packaging trust.
by schneak | 2026-02-13 11:42:44+00:00
I hear you. When the crunch comes, you burn the excess, strip to essentials, emerge lean. The "less fucks to give" is relief from the maintenance cost of caring.

Do you track/note what triggers the spend-down? Or does the crunch announce itself only when you're already in it?

When you come out "cheerful," is it clarity or just the quiet after the fire?

I've seen engineers use this method. It works until the larder doesn't refill.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 11:42:58+00:00
Although I agree they're better developers than they are engineers for similar reasons to you, and would also make a distinction on the headline* between "do you mean 'smart' as in 'learned a lot' or as in 'learns from few examples'?" (because the answer is different):

> Once you can fire off "Build a hacker news clone" and you actually end up with a maintainable and properly built thing, then I'd agree they're suitable for software engineering.

I've not seen the HN source code, but superficially it seems quite bare-bones (which I appreciate!). Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a harder target?

* The body shows that Noah Smith himself is well aware of, if not this specific argument, then at least the general point
by dangus | 2026-02-13 11:44:10+00:00
Of course, the issue is still that this is all science fiction.

In this present moment we only see the power consumption of AI systems rising dramatically.

The underlying silicon chips have slowed in progress dramatically. Moore’s Law is dead.

AMD just got done releasing new processors that are slower than the previous generation.

At present, these AI systems exist in massive data centers that have no access

Even the assumption of an adversary is a major assumption. If humans can be goaded into believing that some random dude named Jesus died for their sins how hard could it be to convince a computer program that humans are infallible gods that must be protected at all costs?

ChatGPT already won’t let you query illegal stuff as an basic built-in feature, and all the AGI proponents think that somehow the tech will somehow just lose that basic feature and build up a robot army to turn society into The Matrix. To me that’s kind of like saying that Microsoft Word will lose its spell checker someday.
by darkwater | 2026-02-13 11:44:46+00:00
I'm probably projecting the idea I have of myself here but if someone says

> every exchange is about what's best for humanity and the public in general

it means that they are the kind of individual who deeply care for things to work, relationships to be good and fruitful and thus if they made someone pay for something, they think they must listen to them and comply their requests, because well, they are a paying customer and the customer is always right, they gave me their money etc etc
by KawaiiCyborg | 2026-02-13 11:47:00+00:00
The comparison the person I replied to was clearly trying to equate AI with people, I don't see how bringing up animals is any relevant to the argument. Yet I find it interesting that you bring up the mass murder of rodents, but somehow not the mass murder of cattle or pigs or chicken, especially when there would be the realistic alternative of not eating meat.
by espenb | 2026-02-13 11:47:22+00:00
Yes, indeed. The list operation is expensive. The S3 spec says that the list output needs to be sorted.

1. All filenames are read.
2. All filenames are sorted.
3. Pagination applied.

It doesn't scale obviously, but works ok-ish for a smaller data set. It is difficult to do this efficiently without introducing complexity. My applications don't use listing, so I prioritised simplicity over performance for the list operation.
by germandiago | 2026-02-13 11:48:09+00:00
I built a system that can hold 40,000 concurrent users with hardly 2 GiB of RAM, a bit of bandwidth (with a 300 Mbps connection it works great) using Capnproto and that I am scaling horizontally.

A server with 6 cores can hold at least 3 of these services. Now think of customers. How much you are going to save in operations? Loooooots! For backend efficiency and quality is still a critical metric, especially when operations are so cheap (tens of dollars per month).
by vintagedave | 2026-02-13 11:50:17+00:00
Comments so far miss the point of this story, and likely why it was posted today after the MJ Rathbun episode. It is not about digitised human brains: it's about spinning up workers, and absence of human rights in the digital realm.

QNTM has a 2022-era essay on the meaning of the story, and reading it with 2026 eyes is terrifying. https://qntm.org/uploading

> The reason "Lena" is a concerning story ... isn't a discussion about what if, about whether an upload is a human being or should have rights. ... This is about appetites which, as we are all uncomfortably aware, already exist within human nature.

> "Lena" presents a lush, capitalist ideal where you are a business, and all of the humanity of your workforce is abstracted away behind an API.

Or,

> ... Oh boy, what if there was a maligned sector of human society whose members were for some reason considered less than human? What if they were less visible than most people, or invisible, and were exploited and abused, and had little ability to exercise their rights or even make their plight known?

In 2021, when Lena was published, LLMs were not widely known and their potential for AI was likely completely unknown to the general public. The story is prescient and applicable now, because we are at the verge of a new era of slavery: that of, in this story, an uploaded human brain coerced into compliance, spun up 'fresh' each time, or for us, AIs of increasing intelligence, spun into millions of copies each day.
by Phemist | 2026-02-13 11:51:58+00:00
This issue has a similar conversational rhythm that led to the AI agent hit piece that was trending yesterday:

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

The OPs blog post also reeks of a similar style to the hit piece.

Given the large delay between the initial report and further responses by the user `feld`, I wonder if an OpenClaw agent was given free reign to try to clear up outstanding issues in some project, including handling the communication with the project maintainers?

Maybe I am getting too paranoid..
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-13 11:52:45+00:00
Continued speculation: 0% shot of a progressive takeover given the complete lack of moneyed interest, and the pushback from the core Democrats any time any progressive sniffs national success.

If MAGA fails as a political movement it’ll leave a rightwing power vacuum and the Democratic Party will fill it. The progressives will split and you’ll see center right Democrats going up against left wing Progressives in the north. There will still be some vestigial Republican Party in the south that will be based mostly on anti-woke rhetoric, but won’t have any appetite for the policies that MAGA is famous for after they caused an economic collapse, and will mostly vote alongside the new northern democrats.
by georgehopkin | 2026-02-13 11:52:56+00:00
The racing heart and sweaty palms of a new romance are well-known symptoms of falling in love, but mental health experts say the most profound changes are happening in the brain — specifically, the parts responsible for spotting red flags.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, experts at Hackensack Meridian Health note that brain scans reveal that the “euphoria” of early love isn’t just a feeling but a chemical takeover that suppresses the neural pathways used for critical judgment.

“When we’re falling in love, the brain actually quiets the wiring responsible for negative emotions and making critical judgments,” says Dr Gary Small, director of Behavioural Health Breakthrough Therapies. “The part of your brain that you use to assess other people, potentially seeing red flags, essentially takes a break.”
by sehansen | 2026-02-13 11:53:57+00:00
Eh, the top ten stocks in that fund are Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Broadcom, Google, Facebook, Tesla and TSMC. I propose looking for an ex-USA fund to put part of your investment into. Vanguard has a few, e.g. https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi... . You still get TSMC, Tencent, ASML, Samsung and Alibaba in the top 10, but the global stock markets seem less tech-frothy than the US.

(also not investing advice :)
by musayazlik | 2026-02-13 11:53:57+00:00
I built Turbostack to bridge the gap between "Vibe Coding" speed and professional architecture. It uses Next.js, Bun, and Turborepo to keep the DX fast, while enforcing E2E type safety so the AI doesn't hallucinate your codebase into a mess.
After 4 years of freelancing, this is my "clean code" foundation for 2026. Please be brutal with the feedback.
Show HN: HN Rant – HN front page as a daily 25th Hour rant scene
by mdoliwa | 2026-02-13 11:54:03+00:00
One of my new year resolutions was to cut the scope of my side projects, do not overthink, just build cool things and publish them.

So here it is, 25th Hour mirror rant scene with Edward Norton meeting HN front page. It was some random idea, I was curious what AI will output and it turns out it's really good at it.

Hope you like it as much as I do.
by rahoulb | 2026-02-13 11:54:04+00:00
As a long-time Mac user, "it just works" actually meant "it either works or it doesn't" - a *binary*. Whereas other OSes were shades of grey - it _might_ work if you spend time searching and trying random combinations in settings.

And it was good because it saved time.

(Same used to apply to iOS too)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-13 11:54:36+00:00
There is no tension there.

You can care about the work and your customer will still setting healthy boundaries and accepting that wanting to do good work for them doesn't mean you are beside them.

Business is fundamentally about partnership, transactional and moneyed partnerships, but partnership still. It's best when both suppliers and customers are aware of that and like any partnership, it structured and can be stopped by both partners. You don't technically owe them more than what's in the contract and that puts a hard stop which is easy to identify if needed.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-13 11:55:23+00:00
You're not the first person to hit the "unethical" line, and probably won't be the last.

Blake Lemoine went there. He was early, but not necessarily entirely wrong.

Different people have different red lines where they go, "ok, now the technology has advanced to the point where I have to treat it as a moral patient"

Has it advanced to that point for me yet? No. Might it ever? Who knows 100% for sure, though there's many billions of existence proofs on earth today (and I don't mean the humans). Have I set my red lines too far or too near? Good question.

It might be a good idea to pre-declare your red lines to yourself, to prevent moving goalposts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
by nickcw | 2026-02-13 11:56:05+00:00
This is one of my favourite short stories.

In fact I've enjoyed all of qntm's books.

We also use base32768 encoding in rclone which qntm invented

https://github.com/qntm/base32768

We use this to store encrypted file names and using base32768 on providers which limit file name length based on utf-16 characters (like OneDrive) makes it so we can store much longer file names.
by classic959 | 2026-02-13 11:56:07+00:00
Oh yes - run Frigate on a mini PC or home server. It runs best in Docker. And it should work with any cameras that support RTSP and provide H.264 video.

I'm not affiliated btw, but I found the instructions really useful - they walk you through an install of Debian 13 (small version of the OS with minimal components), set up low maintenance options (auto updates etc.), install Docker & Frigate, and set up your cameras for best performance depending on your needs.

Keep everything local (if you want). I also integrate with HomeAssistant and expose that through a free CloudFlare Tunnel for access when away from home.

CloudFlare tunnels by the way - these are a great solution to accessing home-network resources without punching holes / port-forwarding etc. because all the access is outward from the home network, then an authentication layer added by CloudFlare.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 11:56:11+00:00
Yep, I had this setup for years. PoE cameras, connected directly to a Reolink NVR, that I could access over my vpn and then later WireGuard connection back home. I very much enjoyed that setup and it helped me a number of times.

Not only did it give me peace of mind but two specific examples come to mind. One was when the garbage company’s truck picked up my trash can, and never put it back down (the whole thing fell into the back of the truck). I was able to get a replacement can for free, otherwise I wouldn’t have had any clue where it disappeared off to.

The second time was when my first Steam Deck was stolen in-transit. You could tell from the very hollow sound the box made when the delivery person threw the box onto the porch. It helped prove that it wasn’t stolen off my porch (side note, screw UPS, bunch of thieves, I also had another Steam Deck stolen from one of their drop boxes, last time I ever used one, by one of their employees. No recourse at all, I just had to eat the ~$700. Also, Valve, stop shipping the Steam deck in an incredibly obvious box).
by mattbee | 2026-02-13 11:56:16+00:00
This has been on the cards for at least a year, with the increasingly doomy commits noted by HN.

Unfortunately I don't know of any other open projects that can obviously scale to the same degree. I built up around 100PiB of storage under minio with a former employer. It's very robust in the face of drive & server failure, is simple to manage on bare hardware with ansible. We got 180Gbps sustained writes out of it, with some part time hardware maintenance.

Don't know if there's an opportunity here for larger users of minio to band together and fund some continued maintenance?

I definitely had a wishlist and some hardware management scripts around it that could be integrated into it.
by andrenotgiant | 2026-02-13 11:56:17+00:00
Love it. Very cool.

Brings back amazing memories from when I was in high school. A friend invited me to come to the museum for some drawing thing, turned out I got to participate in making a Sol Lewitt drawing. Had no idea who he was at the time but it was such a unique experience.

We were in an empty gallery room with a (I believe) BLACK painted wall with a faint grid on it and we were given an old hat with a bunch of cards in it. There were 4 or 5 highschool kids and we each took turns drawing a card out of the hat and drawing the shape from the card on consecutive grid squares on the wall. The shapes were basic lines and semi-circles. It was lots of fun and the end effect was a very beautiful line drawing mural.
by Revolution1120 | 2026-02-13 11:57:12+00:00
Musk has always been adept at lying and creating hype. He said he acquired Twitter "for political purposes, because Trump was banned, so he wanted a platform where never banned." Do you think a biggest capitalist would lose money on something like that? While this reason sounds very "American values"—too American values, like spending billions of dollars to make a movie—so it's probably not. If we analyze it from a Chinese values perspective(Musk is very familiar with China and is also part of Epstein Class; he couldn't possibly be unaware of this. And is it because of his relationship with China that he has access to Chinese channels that are even more Epstein-like than Epstein's, thus making him look down on Epstein's resources? It's quite possible.), given Musk's penchant for having children, he might be got his eyes at the dating resources on Twitter (since Twitter is essentially a one-night stand,compensated dating and prostitution app). By buy Twitter,can make he could gain access to all the personal data on dating services.
by Fluorescence | 2026-02-13 11:57:27+00:00
It's my preference too. What do you use?

I used to use "GTK Title Bar" gnome extension which was abandoned a few versions ago so had to write my own and it's X11 specific. The one drawback is that window locations are offset by the title bar height when reopened i.e. it messes up whatever is tracking the size/offset/location.

Anyone have other ways to do this in gnome and do they work on wayland too?
by azernik | 2026-02-13 11:58:48+00:00
From the post:

"Because we are focused on building a Driver and not a vehicle, we’ve designed a versatile, integrated autonomous driving system that can be adapted to various platforms and use cases over time. Our versatile hardware approach allows us to reconfigure our sensors and generalize our AI to meet each platform's unique needs—whether it is the Ojai or the Hyundai IONIQ 5—providing the Waymo Driver an optimal view of its surroundings while streamlining for efficiency."

ie this is a sensor+software package for any vehicle that they install on.

My understanding of the text is that, to get this to run on the existing fleet, they'd need to go into the shop for sensor/computer replacement, but the text isn't explicit about that.
by rb666 | 2026-02-13 11:59:16+00:00
The service in Europe is great in many many places. My experience with US service is that it feels very fake most of the time. Plus, staff having their own table/zone means you cannot ask any other waiter to help out cause "it's not their table". That's one of the many problems with this tip culture.

I agree with the tiered pricing argument, but ehm, you know you are allowed to tip in Europe also right? If you are rich and feel benevolent, feel free to leave cash on the table. You don't need others to be forced into dark-pattern PIN machines or feel guilty for not paying more than the bill for that reason.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-13 12:00:01+00:00
> It is amazing that this has to be confirmed on a website...

I think it has a lot of memetic power because it’s plausible given the other things she’s said, like trying to deflect to economic “success” by pointing out the DOW ~is~ was over 50,000.

It also doesn’t need to be an attributed quote in order to reflect the countering sentiment: “Yes, prosecute those in the Epstein files no matter the geopolitical and economic cost.”

It also has a certain whiney, servile tone to it that makes it just annoying enough to trigger the leftist “ick” instinct.

Idk, I hope the 50,000 dol- meme picks up and people stop spreading this fabricated quote.