MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: 1vsALL Season 3 – Memory game where you remember patterns, not colors
by chrisremo85 | 2026-02-15 23:13:09+00:00
Season 3 of 1vsALL just launched with a fifth game mode: MEMORYSTORM.

It's Simon Says, but panels use geometric patterns (solid, hollow, grid, stripes, diamonds, dots) instead of colors. All monochrome. You can't shortcut it by remembering "the red one" — you have to remember shapes. Each panel also has a distinct audio pitch for multi-sensory memory.

Difficulty is layered: 4 of 6 panels are active initially. The 5th unlocks at round 8, the 6th at round 15. Speed only ramps after all 6 are in play. Early rounds build familiarity, late rounds destroy it.

Same rule as the other four games (typing, aim, rhythm, bullet-hell dodge): every player faces the exact same deterministic sequence (seeded PRNG). You race against the leader's ghost replay on the identical challenge. Leaderboards are pure skill.

Weekly season resets — Season 3 boards are empty across all five games. Free, no account, browser-based.

https://1vsall.voidmind.io
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-15 23:13:28+00:00
The additional shipments aren't going to drastically go up over a few more companies throwing second hand clothing on ships. Large crate ships are relatively efficient for what they tow.

As basic napkin math, if there's 1000 cargo ships moving in and out of the EU in a year, and this law adds 10 more. That's 1% increase. It's a bigger 1%, but I wouldn't be surprised if the emissions are less than the 9% of discarded clothes talked about in the article.
by pseudosavant | 2026-02-15 23:13:28+00:00
I’ve thought about doing something similar, but at the Service Worker layer so the page stays the same and all HTTP requests are intercepted.

Similar to the window.stop() approach, requests would truncate the main HTML file while the rest of that request would be the assets blob that the service worker would then serve up.

The service worker file could be a dataURI to keep this in one file.
by dredmorbius | 2026-02-15 23:13:38+00:00
Yes, we are in agreement here. I was simply noting what HN's past policy and rationale have been.

LLMs change the calculus somewhat in making automated bot-posting far more viable. It's clearly already a problem. I suspect that moderation policies will have to adapt to this. There's also the fact that such a change would make AI-banned discernable from normal bans, in that AI-banned accounts would not have vouchable comments. If explicitly noting AI banning isn't adopted on the basis that this would provide information to either the AI or its operator of the fact / nature of the banning, the absence of a vouch option would reveal the fact regardless.

(A relatively small example of changes we'll see induced by LLMs in the larger world as well. Interesting times....)
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-15 23:13:42+00:00
Yes, I can!

After reading Jacques's response to my question, my list got smaller. Personally, I still like Proton, but I get that they have made some people unhappy. I also agree that Hetzner is a reliable provider; I have used them a bunch of times in the last ten years.

Then my friend, we have to worry about fiber/network providers I suppose.

This general topic is outside my primary area of competence, so I just have a loose opinion of maintaining my own domain, use encryption, and being able switch between providers easily.

I would love to see an Ask HN on secure and private agentic infra + frameworks.
by VorpalWay | 2026-02-15 23:13:45+00:00
Fashion changing all the time (on the order of seasons rather than years) contributes to a lot of waste. Your claim that it "factually something that provides value to society“ is unsubstantiated. Just as unsubstantiated as "You are certainly entitled to the opinion that fast fashion is not a good thing".

All fast fashion does is waste money for consumers who buy into the craze, compared to buying quality that lasts. I have used the same two pair of jeans for over a decade at this point for example, and they are in close to mint condition (apart from the colour on the knees). Some T-shirts that I own have survived as long, many have not (it is very hard to tell the quality of the fibers up front unfortunately). In all cases, I use clothes until they are so worn through that they are past my repair skills.

So yes, some people are "invested" in fashion, but I'm saying that is akin to being "invested" in gambling or shopping for the sake of shopping. Addictions come in many forms.
Show HN: GatewayStack – Deny-by-default security for OpenClaw tool calls
by davidcrowe | 2026-02-15 23:14:17+00:00
I installed OpenClaw and pointed it at a project directory. Within minutes it had read my .env file. I tried adding a permissions skill to lock things down. The agent ignored it. Skills are advisory; the LLM can skip the check or be convinced by a prompt injection to bypass it.

So I built a plugin that hooks into before_tool_call at the process level. Checks run on every tool call: identity mapping, deny-by-default scope, enforcement, rate limiting, injection detection, and audit logging. The agent doesn't get a choice — governance runs before the tool executes.

Zero dependencies beyond Node.js. Adds <1ms per call. Works out of the box with no config, or customize with a policy file.
by tecoholic | 2026-02-15 23:14:27+00:00
Typical flow for a greenfield project for me is:

First prompt, ask it to come with a plan, break it down to steps and save it to a file.

Edit file as needed.

Launch CC again, use the plan file to implement stage by stage, verify and correct. No technical debugging needed. Just saying X is supposed to be like this, but it’s actually like that goes a long way.
by parpfish | 2026-02-15 23:16:00+00:00
the "latent space containing all voices" may give you the ability to parametrize voices and make an infinite number of unique voices. BUT... people have a limited ability to distinguish points in that space.

in perceptual psychology/psychophysics, there's the concept of the "just-noticeable difference" (JND) which is the smallest change to a stimulus you can make that is reliable detectable.

normally the JND is measured on physical properties like brightness, pitch, etc but there's no reason it couldn't be applied to a more abstract latent space. two points in a particular latent space may be mathematically unique, but if they're indistinguishable to humans we shouldn't treat them as distinct voices
by lapcat | 2026-02-15 23:16:30+00:00
You're putting a lot of words in my mouth. I didn't call for anyone to be fired.

throw3e98 is the one who suggested that Ars Technica was going to fire people, but not for a few days. I merely suggested that if anyone was getting fired, they would likely already be fired.

At this point, however, I don't think anyone is getting fired, not this weekend and not Tuesday either: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

I don't condemn Ars Technica for not firing the guy, but I do condemn Ars Technica for the terse hand-wave of an editor's note with no explanation, when on the same day we get a fuller story only from someone's personal social media account.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:16:56+00:00
> Everyone has known Google reads your email since day one.

These constructions feel too simplistic to capture anything useful.

My credit card company can see my transactions. My medical provider can read my medical records. People who hire house cleaners let people see inside their house.

It's commonly accepted that when you engage with a company for business purposes, they can see things involved in your business with them.

The problem with the Ring situation isn't that Ring can "see" your video cameras. It's that they were using the information for things outside of the scope of business that was implied when you bought the camera.

People don't care if a Google bot "reads" their e-mail for spam filtering. They don't care if a contractor sees the inside of their house during construction. What they do care about is if the other party tries to use that access for something outside of the scope that was agreed upon.

> It's hard to have any empathy when the warning label was already on the box for all these products.

These snooty takes where we're supposed to look down upon others for having reasonable assumptions about usage of their data are why it's so hard to get the general public to care about privacy. It's unnecessarily condescending for what? To look down upon people or play "told you so" games? If privacy advocates want to get anywhere they need to distance themselves from people who run with this kind of attitude.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-15 23:17:08+00:00
I consider it compiler abuse to #include a source file. Useful for IOCCC competitions though.

Apt is fine for local development, but it's a bit of a disaster for portability and reproducibility. Not uncommon to see a project where the dependencies either have unspecified versions whose latest versions in universe are incompatible, or where the package has been renamed and so you have to search around to find the new name. Plus package name conventions are terrible. libbenchmark-dev, libgoogle-perftools-dev, and libgtest-dev are all library packages from the same company. The second one is renamed to gperftools-lib with RPM repos, to further compound the inconsistency.

I find myself dealing with package and versioning rename issues regularly in the CI pipelines I have using apt.
by keeda | 2026-02-15 23:17:15+00:00
And yet they sat on transformers until OpenAI kicked off the AI boom by actually productizing that research in ChatGPT. Though it's possible they were just being cautious, my uncharitable view is that they knew this would disrupt their highly lucrative ads business, which is always the problem with monopolies.

Also you're overlooking other top-notch corporate research institutions like Microsoft Research, which arguably are more "Blue Sky" in the sense they are not constrained to any current product lines.
by thoughtjunkie | 2026-02-15 23:18:02+00:00
It's kind of a shame actually, because the whole promise of OpenClaw is that you own all the data yourself, you have complete control, you can write the memories or the personality of the bot. "Open"AI will never run ChatGPT this way. They want all of your data, your documents, your calendar, they want to keep it for themselves and lock you into their platform. They will want a sanitised corporate friendly version of an AI agent that reflects well on their brand.
by lekomurphy | 2026-02-15 23:18:54+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Leko. I'm a one-person team and I built Dasher so I could manage parallel Claude Code agents from Slack while on the go.

Every Slack thread is its own isolated agent. I drop "see the alert above and put up a fix" in one thread, "Jon mentioned the onboarding flow is broken above — look into it and open a PR" in another, "the deploy failed — check the logs, fix it, and redeploy" in a third — and they all run at the same time in separate sandboxes, editing my code in parallel. I review the PRs when I'm back at my desk or use the github app.

Each request spins up a fresh Modal sandbox that's destroyed after. The agent can never access your real API tokens — secrets are encrypted and proxied through the gateway, so they never enter the sandbox (architecture at [/how-it-works]).

Works with Claude Code and Codex. Bring your own subscription.

Integrations: GitHub, Supabase, Vercel, Railway, X and more coming soon. Also works from Telegram.

Free to try right now. If running sandboxes gets expensive, I'll add pricing. For now I just want people using it and get feedback.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:20:59+00:00
> This is an app that would've normally had a dozen or so people behind it, all acquihired by OpenAI to find the people who really drove the project.

Acquihires haven't worked that way for a while. The new acquihire game is to buy out a few key execs and then have them recruit away the key developers, leaving the former company as a shell for someone else to take over and try to run.

Also OpenClaw was not a one-person operation. It had several maintainers working together.
by illichosky | 2026-02-15 23:21:00+00:00
I also not a Sam's fan for the same reason. But if he offered me a big check to work whatever project I wanted, I would not care about it being a "marketing ploy".

Regarding openclaw's hype, it is not about how you access it, but rather what the agents can access from you, and no one did that before. Probably because no one had the balls to put in the wild such unsecure piece of software
by nine_k | 2026-02-15 23:21:01+00:00
Variables are hugely helpful, I agreee.
IDK about bikeshedding. I'm very used to writing React code that normally declares no styles for components at all, and having CSS that style components using 1-2 classes, specific to these components. Container components control margins, <body> controls general things like fonts.

It seems that what solves the problem is a good component library. "But I need red text here!" For what reason? It's a warning. OK, we've got <Text variant="warning">, it will be styled appropriately, and will look like every other warning in the application.
by Gormo | 2026-02-15 23:21:04+00:00
> Get money out of politics (reverse citizens united) and enact

Citizens United was a case about a federal agency attempting to suppress the publication of a movie due to breaching "electioneering communications" rules first introduced in 2002. Contrary to the common narrative, it was more a case of the government arguing "speech is money" as a pretext to use its authority to regulate certain expenditures of money in order to control what information could be released into the media ecosystem. The court struck this down under a correct application of consistent first amendment jurisprudence, ruling that speech is always protected by the constitution, and cannot be suppressed under the guise of regulating spending.

The case and the ruling had nothing to do with campaign donations or funding of candidates. Overturning the Citizens United ruling would create a situation in which agencies under the authority of incumbent politicians would be able to control and curate public political discourse in the lead-up to elections. This is likely the exact opposite of what you intend.

> term/age limits for all public offices.

Term limits would have the effect of creating large incentives for office holders to use the prerogatives of office to set themselves up for their future careers after their terms expire. Term-limited politicians would be even more motivated than those in the status quo to hand out favors to potential future employers and business partners.

On top of that, it would be much more difficult for for politicians to establish notoriety and carve out a base of direct public support by building reputation in office. Instead, a steady stream of relative unknowns would require support from sponsors and entrenched party organizations to win office, making back-room players much more powerful than in the status quo. This is, again, likely to result in the exact opposite of what you intend.

> Given recent relevations re Epstein this is our best chance to reform corruption in generations.

Agreed, but that will require voters to abandon their reflexive partisan positions and accept that the institutions themselves are dysfunctional, irrespective of which people happen to be administering it at any given time. In the current cultural climate, that seems unfortunately unlikely.
by eszed | 2026-02-15 23:21:05+00:00
That's really cool! It'd be fun to display along with it a computer (Raspberry Pie, even?) programmed to make the same calculations the ENIAC first did. Press the button and out comes an artillery table with, "this took X seconds to calculate. On ENIAC it took Y minutes / hours". Would give one an immediate grasp of the scale of improvement in the last 80 years.
by antidamage | 2026-02-15 23:21:13+00:00
It's not an accurate recollection at all. In 1990 a couple of us 12 year olds snuck into the university library to use the web to look at the Marathon website. It took 5 minutes to load some trivially-sized gifs and a tiny amount of HTML. They had a pretty decent connection for the day.

Web pages took a minute to load, now we're optimising them for instant response.
by Rebelgecko | 2026-02-15 23:22:04+00:00
A lot of the functionality I'm not using because of security concerns, but a lot of the magic comes down to just having a platform for orchestrating AI agents. It's honestly nice just for simple sysadmin stuff "run this cron job and text me a tl;dr if anything goes wrong" or simple personal assistant tasks like"remind me if anyone messaged me a question in the last 3 days and I haven't answered".

It's also cool having the ability to dispatch tasks to dumber agents running on the GPU vs smarter (but costlier) ones in the cloud
by readitalready | 2026-02-15 23:22:11+00:00
Correct. Withdrawing Section 230 would lead to more free speech, not less. We will have lots of smaller sites hosting content with their own individual editorial controls instead of monopolistic corporations that enforce their own viewpoint.

The only thing section 230 did was protect large corporations. It did NOT promote free speech, as the Guy Christensen episode yesterday showed.
by segmondy | 2026-02-15 23:22:27+00:00
RLVR. Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards. Prior to this it was RLHF, reinforcement learning with human feedback. The models can now be trained without human in the loop for coding problems, you give them code to solve. you have a means of verifying the answer. think like a unit test. the model codes it, it fails? it get's a fail. it passes it gets a pass. you do enough of this and the model really learns to code on it's own or operate better as an agent. That's the main thing that has changed between last year and this year.
by awesomeusername | 2026-02-15 23:22:28+00:00
"The Outlaw Sea" is a book about the long history of the complexity of responsibility, ownership, in international shipping and the ships themselves. It's very good, it should be on the HN standard reading list, much like _The Box_.

I'm only interested in comments here from people who have an understanding of the complex world of outsourcing responsibility.

TL;DR: International cooperation isn't at a level where ANY country/bloc can have an impact on how their own waste is disposed of. The idea that magically that will happen with clothing is an admission of ignorance of this fact in decades old industries.

We need more and stronger international laws. The opposite of the current US administration's influence.
by cactus2093 | 2026-02-15 23:22:35+00:00
It has a heartbeat operation and you can message it via messaging apps.

Instead of going to your computer and launching claude code to have it do something, or setting up cron jobs to do things, you can message it from your phone whenever you have an idea and it can set some stuff up in the background or setup a scheduled report on its own, etc.

So it's not that it has to be running and generating tokens 24/7, it's just idling 24/7 any time you want to ping it.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-15 23:22:39+00:00
Apple = Run more commercials with black backgrounds and white text that says

SECURITY

PRIVACY

---

Heyyy it never said "good privacy" perceive as you want...

Don't publicly acknowledge that you were the reason someone got murdered and 1000 VIPs got hacked.

One day when I'm deemed a 'Baddie', I looked at Apple as inspiration.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-15 23:23:09+00:00
Yup, it's absolutely not his voice. The NotebookLM voice is pitched significantly higher.

Nor does it seem like his voice but changed "just enough" (like in pitch).

I agree, he just has a very generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice. And obviously, NotebookLM trained on tons of podcasts and is generating a highly generic, average-sounding voice. Which is why it's pitched higher, since David Greene has a lower than average pitch.
by tl2do | 2026-02-15 23:23:18+00:00
This matches my experience. In Kaggle audio competitions, I've seen many competitors struggle with basics like proper PCM filtering - anti-aliasing before downsampling, handling spectral leakage, etc.

Audio really is a blue ocean compared to text/image ML. The barriers aren't primarily compute or data - they're knowledge. You can't scale your way out of bad preprocessing or codec choices.

When 4 researchers can build Moshi from scratch in 6 months while big labs consider voice "solved," it shows we're still in a phase where domain expertise matters more than scale. There's an enormous opportunity here for teams who understand both ML and signal processing fundamentals.
by alterom | 2026-02-15 23:23:32+00:00
I wouldn't care about social credit either, but comments with unaligned points of view getting flagged and consecutively hidden under the pretense of being irrelevant to the discussion or not pertaining to the interests of the "community" (you can't see flagged comments at all without an account) can get old real fast.

I mean, we all write here because we want someone to read what we wrote; otherwise, why bother screaming into the void.

Anyways, I'm pleasantly surprised that your comment hasn't yet met that fate.

EDIT: mine did though, which, in a way, demonstrates that point, doesn't it?
by wredcoll | 2026-02-15 23:24:02+00:00
Ah yes, the "culturally russian civilians" that... were mostly part of the ukraine army or the russian sponsored rebellion. Boy. How awful.

> I count a war as started when someone starts murdering people w the military

So saddam hussein started the second iraq-america war?

Don't answer that.

Also tell me more about your evidence of united states soldiers landing in ukraine and killing/capturing the existing government to replace it, that sounds like a really big scandal we should be talking about!

(Also, gee, I wonder why a government would be "anti-russian" during the past 50 years. Hmmm, nope, nothing comes to mind. Must be racism or something)
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-15 23:24:03+00:00
Aren't these models are trained publicly available data? this might hold for some rando you doesn't have their likeness in many places to be gobbled up by the Datamongers but these programs imitating someone who has been in the media for 20 years like David Greene is not the result of chance unless you are being excessively charitable.

Even if it is complete chance, there's no way to peer inside and confirm that because these things are completely opaque black boxes
by gwern | 2026-02-15 23:24:18+00:00
I'm not following your point here. Yes, a web server (probably) has access to zip/tar utilities, but so what? That doesn't automagically make a random .zip jump through hoops to achieve anything beyond 'download like a normal binary asset'. That's what a ZIP file does. Meanwhile, Gwtar works with any server out of the box: it is just a HTML file using a pre-existing HTTP standardized functionality, and works even if the server declines to support range requests for some wacky reason like undocumented Cloudflare bugs, and downgrades RANGE to GET. (It just loses efficiency, but it still works, you know, in the way that a random .zip file doesn't work at all as a web page.) You can upload a Gwtar to any HTTP server or similar thing like an AWS bucket and it will at least work, zero configuration or plugins or additional executables or scripting.

Now, maybe you mean something like, 'a web server could additionally run some special CGI software or a plugin or do some fancy Lua scripting in order to munge a ZIP and split it up on the fly so as to do something like serve it to clients as a regular efficient multi-file HTML page'. Sure. I already cover that in the writeup, as we seriously considered this and got as far as writing a Lua nginx script to support special range requests. But then... it's not single-file. It's multi-file - whatever the additional special config file, script, plugin, or executable is.