MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-05 16:38:56+00:00
Right I'm going to assume you're naive rather than just instantly being contrarian.

Yes of course someone could be socially engineered into downloading a malicious package, but that takes more effort, so whilst bad, is not an argument for removing all best security practices that have been rolled out to users in the last 5 years. what you are arguing for is a fundamentally unsafe OS that means no sensitive data can ever be safely stored there.

You are arguing that a system that allows anyone to extract data if they send a reasonably well crafted prompt is just the same as someone willing installs a programme, goes into settings to turn off a safety function and bypasses at least two warning dialogues that are trying to stop them.

if we translate this argument into say house building, your arguing that all railing and barriers to big drops are bad because people could just climb over them.
by clydethefrog | 2026-02-05 16:39:10+00:00
Interesting part of the making of these ads - "While Claude helped behind the scenes – synthesising research and streamlining production – Anthropic and Mother say the concept, direction, scripts, performances and production were led by human teams."

https://lbbonline.com/news/claude-anthropic-mother-jeff-low-...

I wonder how much the CEO of ChatGPT used his own weapon to
counter (very weakly, imo) this human-made attack ad.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-02-05 16:39:28+00:00
This sounds like how curses did things, a 1980 technology.

On the other hand, if the guy in the video ran his app over a remote connection with limited bandwidth, diffing would probably perform better. I have a one Gbps google fiber connection to my job but at times my vpn bandwidth can choke down to a couple hundred kbps and sometimes worse.
by mcnamtm1 | 2026-02-05 16:39:29+00:00
I started coding in the late 70's (not 1908). I suppose I will take the "older folk" label as a compliment :-)
I coded with Fortran and "wrote" software on punch cards that had to be compiled by a machine that read the cards and they had to be kept in order (line by line). The code went into a large mainframe computer and was scheduled with other jobs. Sometimes you would wait for hours to get large printed sheets of output. Then review it and start over again with fixes and patches.

Fortran was the 'scientific' language.
People in the business schools learned Cobol.
Show HN: TabPFN MCP, gives LLMs tools for predictions on tabular data (beta)
by clastiche | 2026-02-05 16:39:40+00:00
Releasing our MCP server that connects AI agents to TabPFN, a foundation model for tabular ML. Beta is open now.

If you're building agents that work with tabular data (sales pipelines, customer data, inventory, financial records) you've probably hit this: agents spend tokens generating ML code that doesn't work, or produce unreliable results.

TabPFN MCP gives LLMs 2 tools: fit_and_predict (fits a model and runs predictions) and predict (uses a previously fitted model). Your agents don't need to impute missing data, encode categorical features, or preprocess messy tables as TabPFN handles it natively.

Available on ChatGPT, Claude, n8n and other major LLMs. Uses streamable HTTP for broad compatibility.

Keeping the beta small to work closely with early users. If you're shipping with structured data, join here: https://priorlabs.ai/deployment/model-context-protocol

Disclosure: I work at Prior Labs.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-05 16:39:50+00:00
That is true, but security is similarly subject to the need to constrain threat models to those that are relevant. The scientist doesn't need to worry about mass production, the engineer (in most cases) doesn't need to worry about someone taking a chain saw to it.

Security will have a wider scope by default (unlike natural phenomena, attacks are motivated and can get pretty creative after all) but there will still be some boundary outside of which "not my problem" applies. Regardless, it's the same fundamental thought pattern in use. Repeatedly asking "what did I overlook, what unintended assumptions did I make, how could this break".

That said, admittedly by the time you make it to the scale of Google or Microsoft and are seriously considering intelligence agencies as adversaries the sky is the limit. But then the same sort of "every last detail is always your problem" mentality also applies to the engineers and software developers building things that go to space (for example).
by robhawkes | 2026-02-05 16:40:03+00:00
Hey! And thank you

1) Absolutely agree. The current approach for the boundaries is a quick hack until I can implement something more sophisticated. Safe to say an update is already in the works that adds a MW value and more insight into the state of each boundary (and is also more accurate in general)

2) "Please don't tell me that we are paying batteries to _not_ export" – it's actually the opposite, the batteries paid to not export (at least today). You can dig into this yourself via the Detailed System Prices dataset [0] and looking at one of the batteries on the sell stack (eg. KILSB-5)

[0] https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/detailed-system-prices
by keepamovin | 2026-02-05 16:40:06+00:00
No, I know that. I wasn't actually implying you were personally across this. Just highlighting how personal experience differs. I don't think you're making it up, at all, I just think there's a larger story, and more nuance to the product overall.

Fair enough on your musk views - did he really encourage people to do disturbing stuff? Can you point to that? I have not seen it.
by lovich | 2026-02-05 16:40:22+00:00
Everyone in the IDW or who followed Mencius moldbug always told normies they weren’t fascist and that you just called them Nazis because you disagreed with them until the current day when they are now more open about being in what they consider a post Constitutional era.

That’s why they were called cryptofascists even though I agree they’ve dropped the hidden part since they feel they have the power to get away with it.
by yesfitz | 2026-02-05 16:40:27+00:00
Beyond the headline, the author provides information for people interested in increasing the longevity of their "Show HN" post.

Sections 4-6 have actionable insights:

* Part 4: The 1% — Who Survived and Why

* Part 5: When to Post

* Part 6: What This Means for Builders

But I agree, the headline doesn't convey that those insights are within the article.
by hnfong | 2026-02-05 16:40:39+00:00
r/locallamma/ is not entirely Nvidia.

You have a point that at scale everybody except maybe Google is using Nvidia. But r/locallama is not your evidence of that, unless you apply your priors, filter out all the hardware that don't fit your so called "hypotheticals and 'testing grade'" criteria, and engage in circular logic.

PS: In fact locallamma does not even cover your "real world use". Most mentions of Nvidia are people who have older GPUs eg. 3090s lying around, or are looking at the Chinese VRAM mods to allow them run larger models. Nobody is discussing how to run a cluster of H200s there.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-05 16:41:38+00:00
you can, you can turn locking off.

But the point is, you are a power user, who has some understanding of the risk. You know that if your phone is stolen and it has any cards stored on them, they can be easily transferred to another phone and drained. Because your bank will send a confirmation code, and its still authorized, you will be held liable for that fraud.

THe "man in the street" does not know that, and needs some level of decent safe defaults to avoid such fraud.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-02-05 16:42:06+00:00
I went with "set up 0 swap" and then never needed to increase it. I built my PC in 2023, when RAM prices were still reasonable, stuck 128GiB of ECC DDR5 in, and haven't run into any need for swap. Start with 0, turn on zswap, and if you don't have enough RAM then make a swap file & set it up as backing for zswap.
by jampekka | 2026-02-05 16:42:43+00:00
I'm currently teaching an introductory programming course in Python, and I definitely feel the allure to teach using a simpler language like Scheme.

Python has become a huge language over time, and it's really hard to make a syllabus which isn't full of simultaneous "you'll understand when you're older" concepts. OTOH students don't seem to mind it much and they do seem to learn to write code even with very shakey fundamentals.
by robhawkes | 2026-02-05 16:42:48+00:00
The most time and energy has been getting my head around the source data [0] and industry-specific nuances.

In terms of stack I have a self-hosted Dagster [1] data pipeline that periodically dumps the data onto Cloudflare R2 as parquet files. I then have a self-hosted NodeJS API that uses DuckDB to crunch the raw data and output everything you see on the map.

[0] Mostly from https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/
[1] https://dagster.io/
by antonvs | 2026-02-05 16:43:01+00:00
> One of AWS's favorite situations

I'll give you an alternative scenario, which IME is more realistic.

I'm a software developer, and I've worked at several companies, big and small and in-between, with poor to abysmal IT/operations. I've introduced and/or advocated cloud at all of them.

The idea that it's "more expensive" is nonsense in these situations. Calculate the cost of the IT/operations incompetence, and the cost of the slowness of getting anything done, and cloud is cheap.

Extremely cheap.

Not only that, it can increase shipping velocity, and enable all kinds of important capabilities that the business otherwise just wouldn't have, or would struggle to implement.

Much of the "cloud so expensive" crowd are just engineers too narrowly focused on a small part of the picture, or in denial about their ability to compete with the competence of cloud providers.
by jeffwask | 2026-02-05 16:43:10+00:00
The first 3 pages are literal copy paste blog slop or SEO ads for the competitor of the thing you are looking for. I dropped Google as primary search ages ago. It's a pale shadow of what it once was.

Google search business is not the most successful in history. It's their ad business and monopolization of online advertising that's the most successful in history and the only way to break their ad monopoly is to stop using their junk.

Google Search hasn't been designed for users in like 10 years
by threetonesun | 2026-02-05 16:43:50+00:00
Shortcuts on the desktop can run shell commands or Applescript. You can send a limited number of things to Apple Intelligence in it already too. I still rarely use it. There's probably good things I could codify (like search all my Mail and Calendar events for a given string), but the reality is most stuff I don't do on a regular basis, and a natural language request to go do something would be a lot easier.
by mmmlinux | 2026-02-05 16:43:51+00:00
For Opensauce '24 I modified a Leclerc Dorothy Table Loom to be a Jaquard. With exception of some bearings and rods it was entirely 3D printed. It could run real punch cards (that I cheated and used a laser cutter to make, I wasn't building a second machine to punch the cards. Although that machine is super cool on it's own.) I had found a book that detailed extremely well the mechanisms used in the machine. It surprisingly worked very well with not terribly much trial and error. Even surviving being in my luggage from Maryland to SF. A surprising number of people were super excited to get to see one up close and really see how they had operated. So many people came up to tell me they had been to so and so museum where they had one, but it was a giant machine you couldn't really look at up close.

Currently I'm down the rabbit hole of leavers lace machines, they make Jaquard looms look like child's toys. But they were much less common, and I don't think any exist in the united states. If anyone has any leads or information on someone that works on or with or near or has heard of one of these machines please let me know.
by re-thc | 2026-02-05 16:44:21+00:00
> you shouldn't own the infrastructure (capital expense) and instead just account for the cost as operational expense (opex)

That was part of the reason.

The real reason was the internal infrastructure team in many orgs got nowhere. There was a huge queue and many teams instead had to find infinite workarounds including standing up their own. The "cloud" provided a standardized way to at least deal with this mess e.g. single source of billing.

> A 1990s VP of IT would look at this post and say, what's new?

Speed. The US lives in luxury but outside of that it often takes a LONG time to get proper servers. You don't just go online. There are many places where you have to talk to a vendor with no list price and the drama continues. Being out of capacity can mean weeks to months before you get anywhere.
by gpm | 2026-02-05 16:44:23+00:00
Less than a billion of dollars to become the arbiter of truth probably sounds like a great deal to the well off dictatorial powers of the world. So long as models can be trained to have a bias (and it's hard to see that going away) I'd be pretty surprised if they stop being released for free.

Which definitely has some questionable implications... but just like with advertising it's not like paying makes the incentives for the people capable of training models to put their thumbs on the scales go away.
by robhawkes | 2026-02-05 16:44:47+00:00
Yup! I have two ways to do it right now, the first is to click the plug-looking button on the map and this'll switch into curtailment mode to filter the assets that are currently being turned down due to transmission constraints, as well as the assets being turned-up elsewhere to balance things out. Also if you click on a curtailed assets you'll see the curtailment as a yellow area on the charts.

The other method is to visit my dedicated page [0] for tracking aggregate curtailment and turn-up, plus the costs for this.

[0] https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/curtailment
by alexsmolen | 2026-02-05 16:45:23+00:00
In my research I haven’t come across the prior art you suggest exists. The trust centers you linked aren’t fungible with what I’m building with GraphGRC. The idea is to make all your security docs just a GitHub repo with structured markdown that permits useful automation (e.g. generating linked internal site, validating all docs have been “reviewed” annually by checking metadata, change control via PR, etc.)

There are plenty of GRC products out there and are popular for good reasons, but I don’t think any of them are Git/Markdown/developer-first.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-05 16:45:56+00:00
Information asymmetry has always been a thing, wars have been though over this.

But I think that in our age, information asymmetry is particularly low, at least in western countries. Each one of us has access to a tremendous amount of data, sure the powerful have access to more, but I have a feeling that the relative difference is shrinking.

I will always remember when a police investigator was interviewed, the context was a controversy about police files. The investigator said: "police files? not very useful, when we want to investigate someone, we browse Facebook". It means that the police doesn't have much as much of an information advantage compared to you and me.

Journalism, world events, etc... Most of the times, we have all sorts of first hand reports, photos, videos, news sources from enemy countries, etc... Not all of them reliable, and factchecking enough to see through that mess takes work, but it is possible in a way that wasn't before. A lot is available on open data platforms, plus all the shady stuff like Wikileaks, darknets, etc... that are not that hard to access either.

Should you want to, you can be your own Palantir, because most of what Palantir does is standard data analysis that can be done with open source tools, and most of the data sources are public, private data is just the cherry on top.

Of course it takes work, but it is possible with limited resources, mostly a computer, an internet connection, and time. No need to travel around the world to meet contacts and get access to paper archives.
by sgarland | 2026-02-05 16:46:03+00:00
> But until then it's a long term cost optimization with really high upfront capital expenditure and risk.

The upfront capex does not need to be that high, unless you're running your own AI models. Other than leasing new ones, as a sibling comment stated, you can buy used. You can get a solid Dell 2U with a full service contract (3 years) for ~$5-10K depending on CPU / memory / storage configuration. Or if you don't mind going older - because honestly, most webapps aren't doing anything compute-heavy - you can drop that to < $1K/node. Replacement parts for those are cheap, so buy an extra of everything.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-05 16:46:11+00:00
I would probably adapt a slightly different strategy/structure... probably using a git repository with markdown files and a mix of front-matter and TS with a DSL library for rules processing.

The cold storage is a combination of directory structures and markdown files with appropriate front-matter. This could then be queryable directly, or via normalization into a database that represents the same data. By being markdown, you can write rules/policies in a longer/legalize format that Management/HR and Employees can read and understand... port to web layouts for looking at and searching while having a structure that is reasonably developer friendly... the relationships would be similar, but each entity would be represented with a markdown file with its' own front matter and references to other documents.

Just my own thoughts on this.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-05 16:46:46+00:00
I would also be highly skeptical that the jammer would actually prevent someone in the moment from ceasing to look down at their phone anymore, since 1. most phone operations aren't so heavily dependent on an active internet connection e.g. messages will come in whenever they come in, and 2. having no connection could actually cause them to look even more at the phone, to try to figure out why it's not working or retry whatever they're doing.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-02-05 16:47:10+00:00
There's a very interesting insight from your message.

The Cloud providers made a lot of sense to finance departments since aside from the promised savings, you would take that cloud expense now and lower your tax rate.

After the passing of the One Beautiful Bill ("OBB"), the law allows you to accelerate CapEx to instead expense it[1], similar to the benefit given by cloud service providers.

This puts way more wind on the sails of the on-prem movement, for sure

[1] https://www.iqxbusiness.com/big-beautiful-bill-impact-on-cap...
by _bohm | 2026-02-05 16:47:31+00:00
Good reminder to always remember Chesterton's Fence. The post indicates that the bottleneck occurs when "many thousands" of EC2 instances are connecting simultaneously. In order for this to happen, presumably someone had to turn `max_connections` way up on their database server to make this to work at all. Seems like the issue could have been avoided at that point with a bit more understanding about why the default is an order of magnitude or more lower than whatever they tuned it to.
by sshadmand | 2026-02-05 16:47:58+00:00
On the same track:

https://x.com/Khaliqgant/status/2019124627860050109

Here he mentions "Store trajectories " is a tent pole to see vectors of work over time which goes back to the point above. But also, will that trajectory be stored in the agent/framweork, or will it also need live elsewhere for us humans?
by troyvit | 2026-02-05 16:48:22+00:00
> You might as well just run curl https://example.com/script.sh | sudo bash at this point.

Hey I ran this command and after I gave it my root password nothing happened. WTH man? /s

Point being, yeah, it's a little bit like fire. It seems really cool when you have a nice glowing coal nestled in a fire pit, but people have just started learning what happens when they pick it up with their bare hands or let it out of its containment.

Short-term a lot of nefarious people are going to extract a lot of wealth from naive people. Long term? To me it is another nail in the coffin of general computing:

> The answer is not to stop building agents. The answer is to build the missing trust layer around them. Skills need provenance. Execution needs mediation.

Guess who is going to build those trust layers? The very same orgs that control so much of our lives already. Google gems are already non-transportable to other people in enterprise accounts, and the reasons are the same as above: security. However they also can't be shared outside the Gemini context, which just means more lock-in.

So in the end, instead of teaching our kids how to use fire and showing them the burns we got in learning, we're going teach them to fear it and only let a select few hold the coals and decide what we can do with them.
by cjkihlbom | 2026-02-05 16:48:57+00:00
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by beepbooptheory | 2026-02-05 16:49:35+00:00
I guess I just dont get the mode everyone is in where they got the editor hats on all the time. You can go back in time on that blog 10+ years and its all the same kind of dry, style guided, corporate speak to me, with maybe different characteristics. But still all active voice, lots of redundancy and emphasis. They are just dumb-ok blogs! I never thought it was "good," but I never put attention on it like I was reading Nabakov or something. I get we can all be hermeneuts now and decipher the true AI-ness of the given text, but isn't there time and place and all that?

I guess I too would be exhausted if I hung on every sentence construction like that of every corporate blog post I come across. But also, I guess I am a barely literate slop enjoyer, so grain of salt and all that.

Also: as someone who doesn't use the AI like this, how can it become beyond the run of the mill in slop? Like what happened to make it particularly bad? For something so flattening otherwise, that's kinda interesting right?