MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sph | 2026-02-13 12:17:34+00:00
Effing yes, I thought about installing or building such an extension myself.

Honestly, with the extreme moderation and censorship, these days I can only tolerate YouTube comments and their sickly positivity that rises to the top. Every other platform is a cesspool of bots and people trying to one-up each other, defending the indefensible just to have an argument or to show off how smart they are (Russeau spoke of this 200 years ago already)

And forums won’t save us, despite the nostalgia. I am part of a few that have survived from the early 2000s, and silly arguments that continue for weeks going nowhere are commonplace.

Web 2.0 was a mistake.
by frou_dh | 2026-02-13 12:17:59+00:00
> sometimes, I allow myself to lean back in my chair and just scroll

WHAT??! This cannot be allowed!! /s

It's clear from reading programmer geek thoughts on peripherals over the years that autistic types love the "Use keyboard 100% of the time!" dogma because it is black-and-white thinking. The idea of someone knowing how to do things in a multitude of ways and changing it up based on mood is displeasing.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-02-13 12:18:05+00:00
I think there’s a level beyond 8: not reviewing AI-generated code.

There’s a lot of discussion about whether to let AI write most of your code (which at least in some circles is largely settled by now), but when I see hype-posts about “AI is writing almost all of our code”, the top question I’m curious about is, how much of the AI-written code are they reviewing ?
Show HN: Ziran, security testing for AI agents
by leoneperdigao | 2026-02-13 12:18:09+00:00
Link: https://github.com/taoq-ai/ziran

Hey HN, I want to introduce you to ZIRAN, an open-source security testing framework for AI agents.

As an AI engineer working with LangChain and CrewAI agents in production, I was frustrated that existing security tools (PyRIT, Garak) only test LLMs,
not agents. They miss the unique attack surface agents create: dangerous tool combinations, multi-step exploits, and agent-to-agent (A2A) communication risks.

That's why I built ZIRAN - a tool specifically designed to find agent vulnerabilities. Key features:

- Tool Chain Analysis - Detects dangerous combinations (read_file → http_request)
- A2A Security Testing - Tests agent-to-agent communication (Google's A2A protocol)
- Multi-Phase Campaigns - Trust exploitation over multiple turns
- Knowledge Graphs - Visualizes attack paths through agent capabilities

Feedback is very welcome!

Leone
by c0balt | 2026-02-13 12:19:59+00:00
> Bringing liquid cooling to the racks likely has to be one of the biggest challenges with this whole new HPC/AI

Are you sure about that? HPC has had full rack liquid cooling for a long time now.

The primary challenge with the current generation is the unusual increase of power density in racks. This necessitates upgrades in capacity, notably getting 10-20 kWh of heat away from few Us is generally though but if done can increase density.
by StilesCrisis | 2026-02-13 12:20:43+00:00
When the phrase originated, manually updating CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT were expected skills of a home PC owner. The idea of buying a device, plugging it in, and having it work without a complex setup was unheard of. "It just works" on the Mac meant the absence of a DOS layer, IRQs, command lines, etc.
Show HN: Sqlmodel.org – open-source Browser Data Modelling
by Sean766 | 2026-02-13 12:21:36+00:00
Data modelling is still surprisingly painful — most tools are either heavy enterprise software, desktop apps, or disconnected from how modern data teams actually work.

I built SQLModel.org, an open-source, browser-based data modelling tool aimed at making schema design fast, visual, and collaborative.
by ruszki | 2026-02-13 12:21:42+00:00
It depends on time. 5 years ago it was quite well defined that it’s the last one, maybe the second one in some context. Especially when distinction was important, it was always the last one. In our case it was. We trained models to have weights. We even stored models and weights separately, because models change slower than weights. You could choose a model and a set of weights, and run them. You could change weights any time.

Then marketing, and huge amount of capital came.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-13 12:21:46+00:00
I think we highly underestimate the amount of "human bots" basically.

Unthinking people programmed by their social media feed who don't notice the OpenAI influence campaign.

With no social media, it seems obvious to me there was a massive PR campaign by OpenAI after their "code red" to try to convince people Gemini is not all that great.

Yea, Gemini sucks, don't use it lol. Leave those resources to fools like myself.
by MonstraG | 2026-02-13 12:21:57+00:00
What comes to mind

- You are sending a receipt and want table alignment for items

- You want to put a logo of your company so that readers can recognize who's the email from

- You want to make unsubscribe link smaller and the "open the thing I'm notifying you about" link bigger, so that people would know which one is which without reading the url

- You want to add a header
by dangus | 2026-02-13 12:22:05+00:00
This isn’t about people working for free.

Nobody sensible is upset when a true FOSS “working for free” person hangs up their boots and calls it quits.

The issue here is that these are commercial products that abuse the FOSS ideals to run a bait and switch.

They look like they are open source in their growth phase then they rug pull when people start to depend on their underlying technology.

The company still exists and still makes money, but they stopped supporting their open source variant to try and push more people to pay, or they changed licenses to be more restrictive.

It has happened over and over, just look at Progress Chef, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Terraform, etc.
by Someone | 2026-02-13 12:22:07+00:00
> What I do take issue with, however, is convincing everyone that your product is FOSS, waiting until people undertake a lot of work to integrate your product into their infrastructure, and then doing a bait-and-switch.

But FOSS means “this particular set of source files is free to use and modify”. It doesn’t include “and we will forever keep developing and maintaining it forever for free”.

It’s only different if people, in addition to the FOSS license, promise any further updates will be under the same license and then change course.

And yes, there is a gray area where such a promise is sort-of implied, but even then, what do you prefer, the developers abandoning the project, or at least having the option of a paid-for version?
by morningsam | 2026-02-13 12:22:26+00:00
And beyond the ethical points it makes (which I agree may or may not be relevant for LLMs - nobody can know for sure at this point), I find some of the details about how brain images are used in the story to have been very prescient of LLMs' uses and limitations.

E.g. it is mentioned that MMAcevedo performs better when told certain lies, predicting the "please help me write this, I have no fingers and can't do it myself" kinda system prompts people sometimes used in the GPT-4 days to squeeze a bit more performance out of the LLM.

The point about MMAcevedo's performance degrading the longer it has been booted up (due to exhaustion), mirroring LLMs getting "stupider" and making more mistakes the closer one gets to their context window limit.

And of course MMAcevedo's "base" model becoming less and less useful as the years go by and the world around it changes while it remains static, exactly analogous to LLMs being much worse at writing code that involves libraries which didn't yet exist when they were trained.
by hikkerl | 2026-02-13 12:22:37+00:00
Yes, White Nationalist. With detective work like that you could get a job in the media!

Any vaccine can kill you. You cannot deny that. It's completely and indisputably true. Any invasive procedure, any introduction of foreign material, always carries a risk of side effects including death.

It seems like some researchers are now quantifying the lethality of some of those Covid19 vaccines.

You need to be very wary of where you are getting your information from, especially health advice. You've been dangerously misled.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-13 12:22:43+00:00
> Defeatable interlocks are allowed on electrical equipment up to 600 volts.

Fun fact, "high voltage" starts at 600v according to many regulatory bodies. 1kv is another popular threshold.

The blast pressure from an arc can get to a point where protective gear is irrelevant. Copper expands something like 30000x when it vaporizes.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-02-13 12:22:46+00:00
Yea, it's pretty clear you're loudmouthed and an aggressively arrogant know-it-all (at least you think). You keep moving the goalposts too. First you're acting like they can't run models that don't fit in 44GB or 4x44GB. Then you say they can "only" run a larger model at 500 tps but that wouldn't be profitable.. Lol

Cerebras CURRENTLY serves GLM-4.7. I've used it through their API. Look up how big it is. 1,000-1,700 tps. https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/glm-4-7

Not interested in further conversation, so have a nice day! You can go ahead and get in the last word though.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-13 12:23:25+00:00
I wouldn't blame you. But: hypes come and hypes go, this one will go too. But it will destroy the funding environment for a while when it does, the same happened the previous times this happened.

In five years time AI will be just another tool in the toolbox and nobody will remember the names of the hypers. I agree it is depressing: there are quite a few people banging this drum and because of that it becomes harder to be heard. They, like AI have the advantage of quantity. There is one character right here on HN that spews out one low effort AI generated garbage article after another and it all gets upvoted as if it is profound and important. It isn't. All it shows is how incredibly bland all this stuff is.

Meanwhile, here I am, solving a real problem. I use AI as well but mostly to serve as a teacher and I check each and every factoid that isn't immediately obviously true. And the degree to which that turns up hallucinations is proof enough to me that our jobs are safe, for now.

A good niche is cleaning up after failed AI projects ;)

best of luck there!

Jacques
by Arnt | 2026-02-13 12:23:40+00:00
There are indeed such situations. Two situations AFAICR, and neither of them apply to when you connect to someone else's MX.

Gmail rejects the vast majority of compliant messages, I think they've stated in public that they reject >99.9% of messages, and hearsay has it that the percentage for with minor errors like this is even higher.

There are good reasons why a message might be unreadable. For example, message-id is often used by the threading algorithms in MUAs and IMAP servers, and many don't test whether their threading code handles ID-less messages. I use one that deduplicates by ID, what do you think it does when the ID is empty or missing? I don't know, I haven't tested and I'm not going to.
by courtcircuits | 2026-02-13 12:25:26+00:00
Yep I know, I had to build a proxy for s3 which supports custom pre-signed URLs.
In my case it was worth it because my team needs to verify uploaded content for security reasons. But for most cases I guess that you can't really bother deploying a proxy just for CORS.

https:/github.com/beep-industries/content
by max_ | 2026-02-13 12:25:26+00:00
It really depresses me that there is so much emphasis on arms and weapons startups now days.

Even some financed by Y Combinator.

The thing about weapons is that these startups will have no control in what circumstances they are used.

The hypocrisy is people coming here and claiming that such things happening in the world disturb them.

The world would definitely be a safer place if everyone was a pacifist.
Show HN: Retrospec: reverse-engineer a spec prompt for an AI agent from a commit
by igolaizola | 2026-02-13 12:25:41+00:00
Hi HN, I built (vibecoded) Retrospec, a commit-to-prompt tool.

Given a repo + a specific commit, it iteratively searches for a plausible high-level spec prompt that could have produced that change. It runs agent loops, scores candidates for technical similarity and "realism" (does this look like a prompt a human would actually write), and outputs the best spec.

Inspiration: I saw Mitchell Hashimoto mention experimenting with agents to reproduce manual code edits, and around the same time GitHub released the Copilot SDK.

Repo: github.com/igolaizola/retrospec
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-13 12:25:51+00:00
The original episodes were all recorded in wide aspect ratio, even though they were destined for broadcast TV. They were touted as future compatibility. So the original broadcasts were "pan & scan". Then, when the wide-aspect disc formats arrived, it turned out that converting them was not a simple matter of going back to the originals and plopping them on disc.

https://b5remasterissues.wordpress.com/the-good/
by deng | 2026-02-13 12:26:29+00:00
> Out of interest, how is that relevant?

OK, so: zero. It is relevant because if you did, you probably wouldn't feel so entitled.

> The maintainer is clearly engaging and knows what the problem is but stalls on the "last mile" which is issue creation. Do you agree?

No, I don't agree. This is just your interpretation, done in bad faith.

> wolfSSL also sells commercial licenses so it's not like they're going uncompensated for their work.

The user in question does not have a commercial license, so in this case, the maintainer was not compensated for assisting that user.

> Regardless, we shouldn't put people on pedestals because their title is "FOSS maintainer"

We shouldn't shit on other people's work we got for free just because they asked for a tiny little thing we might do to help them. It's you who needs to get down from that pedestal.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-13 12:27:21+00:00
Are there any successful autonomous driving systems that don't use lidar?

Sure, Wayve did some experiments with just radar + vision, but now incorporate lidar across their fleet. Waymo, Pony.ai, and WeRide have always used it.

You can shout "you don't need it!" as loud as you like, but the people who are actually building and running these systems seem to disagree.
by kombine | 2026-02-13 12:28:05+00:00
You are trying to make it all about Jews, but they aren't any more special than any other people/religion on the planet. So let's use terms that could be applied to anyone.

Anyway, this is beside the point, reporting on Israel's atrocities and its genocide in Gaza has been accurate for the most part, unlike the lies coming out of Israeli government or IDF.
by zerof1l | 2026-02-13 12:28:20+00:00
I hate the tipping culture in the USA and Germany. Instead of being an extra, it feels like an obligatory surcharge I have to pay just to receive the service, good or bad. I usually don’t return to restaurants or bars that nag for tips. In those few places that I like and visit regularly, I don’t give tips. Me being a regular customer brings them more revenue than any tip I’d give otherwise.

Somehow, employers of these establishments convinced the staff that it's the customer’s fault that their wages are inadequate and that they should go after the customers to get the difference. I would much rather pay a higher price and not hear anything about the tips.
by bothlabs | 2026-02-13 12:29:08+00:00
The Cerebras partnership is the most interesting part of this announcement to me. 1000+ tok/s changes how you interact with a coding model. At that speed the bottleneck shifts from waiting for the model to keeping up with it yourself.

Curious how the capability tradeoff plays out in practice though. SWE-Bench Pro scores are noticeably lower than full 5.3-Codex. For quick edits and rapid prototyping that's probably fine, but I wonder where the line is where you'd rather wait 10x longer for a correct answer than get a wrong one instantly.

Also "the model was instrumental in creating itself" is doing a lot of heavy lifting as a sentence. Would love to see more details on what that actually looked like in practice beyond marketing copy.
by ivxn | 2026-02-13 12:29:22+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | EU (UTC+0)

Software/Platform Engineer, 5+ yrs. SWE, distributed systems and cloud background. I build dev-centric platforms for startups/larger orgs.

Recent work:

- Built European managed multicloud/BYOC Kubernetes PaaS
- Shipped multi-tenant SaaS on EKS/GCP (50+ microservices, tenant isolation)
- Durable AI agents: memory/context management, safety guardrails (finetuned classifiers), real-time voice agent latency optimization (LiveKit, KEDA)

Stack: Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Temporal, NATS, Dagster, LLMs, Qdrant. Not sticky with tools.
Sweet spot: Long-running agentic workloads, AI infra cost/latency optimization, platform zero-to-one, developer experience.
CV: https://github.com/NominalTrajectory/cv/blob/main/dist/cv.pdf
Email: i [at] ivxn.sh
Web: ivxn.sh
by dns_snek | 2026-02-13 12:29:59+00:00
This is in no way a "if you're homeless just buy a house" argument, it's a "you can't have it both ways, pick a lane and stick to it" argument.

You want to unilaterally decide that you don't want to pay much tax on income, billionaires decide that they don't want to pay much tax on capital gains, yet both of you want to continue living in a society where you can buy cheap bread baked from flour milled from wheat grown on subsidized farms, heavily reliant on public infrastructure, and you want to drink clean water and drive on public roads, all of which is paid for through taxes that you want to opt out of, and somehow you don't see a problem with that?

You can't pick and choose parts of society that benefit you and opt out of your duties, that's not how society works. All of those parts that you don't see value in are essential to someone else.
by breppp | 2026-02-13 12:30:20+00:00
The slavers in Qatar are the chief financiers of Hamas, so no surprise their news network acts as it defacto propaganda arm.

Hamas documents have shown direct contact between Hamas propaganda chiefs and Al Jazeera news rooms with direct sharing of material such as hostage videos and terrorist body cams

https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2025/10/E_098_...
by antongribok | 2026-02-13 12:31:13+00:00
Not sure what you mean about Ceph wanting to be in a single rack.

I run Ceph at work. We have some clusters spanning 20 racks in a network fabric that has over 100 racks.

In a typical Leaf-Spine network architecture, you can easily have sub 100 microsecond network latency which would translate to sub millisecond Ceph latencies.

We have one site that is Leaf-Spine-SuperSpine, and the difference in network latency is barely measurable between machines in the same network pod and between different network pods.
by ivxn | 2026-02-13 12:31:19+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | EU (UTC+0)

Software/Platform Engineer, 5+ yrs. SWE, distributed systems and cloud background. I build dev-centric platforms for startups/larger orgs. Currently focusing on AI workloads and associated platform challenges.

Recent work:

- Built European managed multicloud/BYOC Kubernetes PaaS (run managed k8s on your own Cloud / in your own DC)
- Shipped multi-tenant SaaS on EKS/GCP (50+ microservices, tenant isolation)
- Durable AI agents: memory/context management, safety guardrails (finetuned classifiers), real-time voice agent latency optimization (LiveKit, KEDA)

Stack: Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Temporal, NATS, Dagster, LLMs, Qdrant. Not sticky with tools.
Sweet spot: Long-running agentic workloads, AI infra cost/latency optimization, platform zero-to-one, developer experience.
CV: https://github.com/NominalTrajectory/cv/blob/main/dist/cv.pdf
Email: i [at] ivxn.sh
Website: ivxn.sh
Show HN: Orangensaft – A mini Python-like language with LLM eval in lang runtime
by jargnar | 2026-02-13 12:31:36+00:00
I've just been doing various little projects lately. Recently, I was reading the Crafting Interpreters book and I thought maybe it's a good idea to try and see what the 5.3 Codex model can do. So with it, I created a v0.1 of this silly toy language. It's almost a silly art project really.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-13 12:32:53+00:00
For those unfamiliar with that phrase: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blood_libel

In the current context, OP's use of "insane blood libel" is a very efficient way to communicate his interpretation of the article. And probably his cultural/political background and worldview. And his emotions on the subject.

The terms you've suggested would, at best, be far less efficient for that purpose.
by monideas | 2026-02-13 12:33:17+00:00
The IDF has responded directly to this story and called it a complete lie.

The "thermobaric bomb" part is the specific claim and it's what has the highest propaganda value. The accusation is that the IDF used some specialized weapon to intentionally "vaporize people".

Qatar's entire national defense strategy rests on propaganda and influence campaigns, they have essentially no military. There's no reason to give any credence or benefit of the doubt.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-13 12:33:19+00:00
Yes, this isn't a question about the US or Europe.

Some of the absolute worst service I've received have been in the US, yet they ask for tips. I've also received some of the best service at a US restaurant, where the suggested tip was 10% and the prices where pretty low.

The weirdest thing I've experience is the large number of staff in US coffee shops, compared to locally, yet basically not being able to order, and then having a suggested tip at 20%. I've encountered this a multiple locations, and different chains. Four people, one person takes the order, one makes the drink, one continuously mop the floor and the last person just stands around (manager?) You could significantly increase the base pay by getting rid of two of these people.
by azernik | 2026-02-13 12:33:30+00:00
There are commercially available drones that can carry a payload of high-single-digit to low-double-digit kilograms for at least 10km.[1] They fly low enough and are small enough to avoid most radar.

Their use in cross border smuggling of weapons and drugs is well documented[2]; interception rate is low enough that they can make multiple runs before being downed, and they can pay back their purchase cost with only a few successful runs. Typical concept of operations is similar to manned ground crossings, but with drones covering the most dangerous 5-10km of actually crossing the border: a team on one side loads them up and sends them to a team on the other side, with both having a LOT of real estate to hide in because of the drone's range.

(I work on counter drone EW, and border-control customers are under intense pressure to get this under control.)

[1] Just from DJI, see e.g. the Matrice 400 [https://enterprise.dji.com/mobile/matrice-400/specs], with 6kg payload and approximately zero purchase controls; or the T25 [https://ag.dji.com/mobile/t25p/specs], with >20kg of payload capacity, and even in restrictive regulatory regimes only requiring a shell crop spraying company to buy.

[2] https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/article-1183896
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-13 12:33:37+00:00
A new kind of software displayed an interesting failure mode. The 'victims' are acting like adults; but I've seen that some other people (not necessarily on HN) have taken the incident as a license for despicable behavior.

I don't think anything is a license for bad behavior.

Am I siding with the bot, saying that it's better than some people?

Not particularly. It's well known that humans can easily degrade themselves to act worse than rocks; that's not hard. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!
by mmustapic | 2026-02-13 12:33:48+00:00
I can't say if it's unfair or not. I would prefer every worker to get a decent salary, but no idea how they feel in countries where tipping is widespread like the US.
But, if I go to a restaurant in the US, or, Argentina (where tipping is also a thing), then I'll tip, and consider the price of the food to be 10, 15 or 20% more expensive. Otherwise, I won't go, because then I am complicit with the exploitation of the workers.