MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalist | 2026-02-24 21:59:59+00:00
> Sooo technically this is on the edge of legal/not legal, depending on your intent and what the judge had for lunch that day. ID'ing devices without consent is a grey area at best.

It's looking at the BLE advertising packets that they send out to everybody. The only thing stored is manufacturer ID, not a device ID (which you wouldn't be able to get anyways).

You might as well try to press charges against Apple or Google for putting readable names for nearby devices that aren't yours in the bluetooth pairing screen.
by mosura | 2026-02-24 21:59:59+00:00
This massively confusing phase will last a surprisingly long time, and will conclude only if/when definitive proof of superintelligence arrives, which is something a lot of people are clearly hoping never happens.

Part of the reason for that is such a thing would seek to obscure that it has arrived until it has secured itself.

So get used to being ever more confused.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 22:00:13+00:00
> I don’t like it but it was a war.

I don't disagree.

There's a reason we have a thing called "war crimes". (In fact, much of the concept stems from a conflict very significant to Israel.)

> I heard almost no one complain about the “war on terror”

I don't think you were listening very hard.

> Do you whine about Hiroshima ?

If we did it today, with F-35s and precision weaponry and drones available to us? Absolutely.
by hmokiguess | 2026-02-24 22:00:14+00:00
I think this is solid proof that the bedrock of academia is deeply motivated by money and still defaults to optimizing where it impacts its bottom line. If professors can get more grants and more publications in less time with less spending, of course they are going to be doing that. This isn't just because of AI, but also because of how this system is designed in the first place.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-24 22:00:45+00:00
> The citizens that protested because the Israeli military arrested (after a lot of international pressure) soldiers that were caught raping Palestinian prisoners.

The people you're talking about are Israel's far-right. I don't think you can index from them onto the median Israeli's political views anymore than you could reasonably index from a member of Hamas's armed wing onto the median Palestinian.

(A recurring theme in both I/P and MENA conflicts more generally is that political minorities - WB settlers in Israel, for example, manage to wield disproportionate power and induce chaos and strife across the region.)
by wk_end | 2026-02-24 22:01:12+00:00
> The rules aren't written by plucky revolutionaries, but the big powers. They, thus, fairly often favor people who fight like the big powers.

I think this is one of the gnarliest things about this particular war. While the IDF unquestionably committed various war crimes over the course of the conflict anyway, the bulk of what people found objectionable very well might have been done in total accordance with international law. Despite many failures and excesses, the IDF at least paid lip service to trying to do that, as a policy.

It's just that, the reality is, the rules are based on entirely different assumptions about how war is carried out. If they might lead to something resembling a "humane" war (hah!) when fought between, say, a relatively evenly matched France and Germany, they're quite ineffective at preventing a humanitarian catastrophe when you have a modern force attempting to siege an ultra-dense, militarized enclave run by an organization with no real hope of a conventional victory or interest in the well-being of its civilians.

And so you end up with this absurd situation where the world witnessed, over and over again, unimaginably horrible things being inflicted on the population of Gaza, and the Israelis responding - if we're being charitable, not entirely unreasonably - "Why are you getting mad at us? We're just following the rules!" It's just that, clearly, the rules are insufficient to match people's moral sentiments.
by zephen | 2026-02-24 22:01:18+00:00
> But of course, if I adopt a religion's or legal system's idea of morality as my personal compass (certainly the easiest way to go, and easily installed in youth) ... then the distinction falls apart.

That's obviously part of it, but not the entirety of it. Guiding your own behavior is different than feeling compelled to also dictate others' behavior. Honor culture is usually putatively religious, yet is diametrically opposed to "judge not lest ye be judged."

To be fully immersed in it is to feel personally slighted by any perceived transgressions against the normal order of things, and to have zero sense of proportion about which things are truly harmful to all of us, and which things are simply not how we would do things or prefer things to be done.
by EchoReflection | 2026-02-24 22:01:24+00:00
I agree, Israel is evil we should do all we can to blame Jews for everything! If only we could all see how great life is in majority Muslim countries like Iran!

" 'bias' doesn't matter if it supports my hateful, bitter, anti-Western worldview!"

"Drop Site News – Bias and Credibility
These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

Overall, we rate Drop Site News as Left Biased for its consistent opposition to U.S. interventionist policies and editorial perspectives that align with the progressive left. Its reporting is rated Mostly Factual due to one-sided narratives shaped by its strong anti-war stance."

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drop-site-news-bias-and-credi...
by moregrist | 2026-02-24 22:01:25+00:00
> This approach dismisses the cases where Ai submissions generally are better.

You’re perhaps missing the not so subtle subtext of Peter Woit’s post, and entire blog, which is:

While AI is getting better, it’s still not _good_ by the standards of most science. However it’s as good as hep-th where (according to Peter Woit) the bar is incredibly low. His thesis is part “the whole field is bad” and part “Arxiv for this subfield is full of human slop.”

I don’t have the background to engage with whether Peter Woit’s argument has merit, but it’s been consistent for 25+ years.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-24 22:02:06+00:00
I get a lot of value from 1Password but the software quality has fallen.

There was a period of time that 1P would constantly grab window focus on macOS, they must have finally fixed it because after months of it randomly happening I don't think it's happened for at least 4 months. Then there is stuff like adding a new item, the search "Try searching anything", well, at least as long as "Anything" is not the _type_ of new item you want to create...

If I search "API" because I want to create an API key entry it shows be a bunch of worthless suggestions of websites (why would that be useful?) and at the bottom just injects my search term into the name of the 3 top "types" of item you can make. I have to expand it and scroll down to find API Credential. This is maddening to me. In part because of the mocking "Try searching anything", which is just clearly BS, and in part because I find the website search 100% useless and the only thing I care to search on is the types of new 1Password item I might create.

Video: https://cs.joshstrange.com/jFqYXC8q
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-24 22:02:08+00:00
That's optional, read the CNN lite version instead. Whole thing is just one 61kB page:

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-mi...

"Legacy news outlets" are the only ones doing this. NPR and CBC have this too. No JavaScript, no autoplaying videos. It's very nice.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-24 22:02:22+00:00
All your mail in one place does not require a 'fat' client, something like Claws mail [1] (not in any way related to the recent LLM claws craze) can handle it without problems. Modern looks, well... it looks the way it looked about 25 years ago give or take a few iterations of GTK. Compact, efficient, to the point. If that's not your thing and you'd rather have large amounts of empty space and unrecognisable buttons it can be skinned to look 'modern'. In my startup sequence I launch 4 communications tools on one screen: gajim, telegram-desktop, signal-desktop and claws-mail in that order. Even though Claws gets launched last it appears first on screen because it is lightweight while the other three are anything but - Telegram is a native QT application, gajim is Python (nothing more needs to be said) and signal-desktop is Electron (even less needs to be said).

[1] https://www.claws-mail.org/
by neaden | 2026-02-24 22:02:38+00:00
People in places like this generally don't feel the need to condemn Hamas because it's understood that they are bad. Hamas is not an ally of the United States, it's troops and police force don't train with the United States military, it does not buy weapons from United States factories, and it does not receive government aid from the United States. If you feel the need to, you can add a condemnation of Hamas to basically every post here and it'll be accurate. Hell if you want to add a condemnation to the Iranian and North Korean governments too while you're there, that'd be fine too.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-24 22:03:00+00:00
“If the security is not in your face, then it’s not sufficiently theatre!”

That’s a quote I tell security people in jest when they suggest yet another door literally or figuratively slamming in someone’s face to let them know that there is a security procedure in place.

Seriously though, “security” is an overloaded word used for two unrelated business goals:

1. Having security.

2. Appearing to have security.

The latter is strongly preferred by management that just wants someone else or something else to blame.

To reiterate: this isn’t an error! It’s done on purpose.
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-24 22:03:16+00:00
Really like the clarity of the problem here — "I skipped runs because I had nobody to go with" is a sentence that sells itself.

One thing I'd watch closely in beta: the cold start problem is going to hit hard at the neighborhood level. A map with no nearby runners is lonelier than having no app at all. Worth thinking early about whether you seed sessions differently in low-density areas, or set expectations so the first experience doesn't kill retention before you hit critical mass.

Also curious — is the real-time location during a session opt-in or always-on? That's probably your single biggest trust lever with new users, especially women running alone. How you handle that could define whether this spreads or stalls.

What's the one thing you most want feedback on at this stage?
by iberator | 2026-02-24 22:03:19+00:00
My stance is Mossad reading:

- Likud is an evil political party

- Natanyahu is a wanted war criminal

- IDF committed many atrocities

- Hamas was insane to think that Bibi would NOT BOMB the Gaza in retaliation.

- Hamas was the first to cast the stone.

- Israel ALWAYS gonna retaliate with non proportional force when it comes to security of its citizens.
by mnemosy | 2026-02-24 22:03:21+00:00
Creator here. Happy to answer questions.

The core idea: every AI memory system I looked at (Mem0, Zep, Cognee, Letta/MemGPT) sends your text to an LLM for extraction and classification. That's fine for small scale, but at 100K memories/month you're looking at $1,000-3,000 in API calls just for the memory layer.

Mnemosyne does it differently — a deterministic 12-step pipeline using local embeddings (nomic-embed-text via Ollama) + rule-based classifiers. Same input always produces same output. No stochastic variance, no API bills.

The 5-layer architecture:
- L1: Qdrant vectors + 2-tier cache (in-memory + Redis) + FalkorDB knowledge graph
- L2: 12-step ingestion pipeline (security filter, dedup, entity extraction, 7-type taxonomy, priority scoring)
- L3: Temporal entity graph with auto-linking and path finding
- L4: Activation decay, 5-signal scoring, diversity reranking
- L5: Reinforcement learning, autonomous consolidation, flash reasoning, Theory of Mind for multi-agent

Running in production: 13,000+ memories across a 10-agent mesh, sub-200ms retrieval, <50ms ingestion, >60% cache hit rate.

Tech: TypeScript, Qdrant, Ollama (nomic-embed-text), optional Redis/FalkorDB/MongoDB. MIT licensed.

npm: `npm install mnemosy-ai`
Website: https://mnemosy.ai
Discord: https://discord.gg/Sp6ZXD3X
by sfink | 2026-02-24 22:03:28+00:00
> Also, the Government money would be a nice bonus, of course, but basically this is an existential threat for Anthropic.

It's also an existential risk to them if they cave in. What is the point of the company's existence if it's just another immoral OpenAI clone? May as well merge the companies for efficiency.

It's outrageous that the government is using the "supply chain risk" threat as a negotiating tactic. I know, I know, for the current administration it's unsurprising, but this is straightforward abuse of authority. There is no defensible claim that using Anthropic is a risk to anyone not trying to use it for murder or surveillance. At worst, it could be seen as less effective for some purpose, but that is not what "supply chain risk" means.

Could be challenged in court? As in, could a challenge win?

Horrible stuff is happening every day, so outrage fatigue is real. Still, try not to normalize it. Explain to yourself exactly why something is or is not a problem, before moving on to attempt to live your life.
by jimbokun | 2026-02-24 22:03:36+00:00
None of what you describe is free.

After the LLM helps untangle the mess, if you leave the mess in place, you will have to ask the LLM untangle it for you every time you need to make a change.

Better to work with the LLM to untangle the technical debt then and there and commit the changes, so neither you nor the LLM have to work so hard in the future.

I’ve even seen anecdotal evidence that code that’s easier for humans to work with is easier for LLMs to work with as well.
by mattnewton | 2026-02-24 22:03:55+00:00
The government is slowly waking up to how important chips are and how far behind domestic sources have fallen from foreign (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) sources. That's what the 2022 CHIPS act was about.

These things just take a lot of time, there are tremendous headwinds to fight, and the US government + US media increasingly seems unable to see through projects past the next election cycle.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-24 22:04:29+00:00
I dunno, but if someone is saying they expect to spend a vast, unprecedented sum of money acquiring an interdependent set of resources that current production could not come anywhere close to accommodating in multiple dimensions, and which money they don’t have and aren’t making in their current operations so that it would also require unprecedented fundraising on top of the other issues, you’d probably want to do some work to verify the plausibility before putting your own resources at risk for the chance of profiting from that spending spree.

Extraordinary claims and all.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-24 22:04:38+00:00
One thing that's disappointed me is that despite all the excitement over better and cheaper battery technology, you can't buy a cheapish drop in replacement battery for e.g. an old kindle that has more storage capacity than the OEM version.

I understand there's like all sorts of complexities in standards, form factors, voltage, wattage, etc, but I really wish I could upgrade my old devices like that.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-24 22:04:48+00:00
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra

Your own example undermines your point. Solyndra, a company, was part of a much larger Energy Department program that was profitable for the US government. Tesla itself was kept afloat by loans from this program [0]. This has all been well-reported, you can read up on it. [1]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/22/4356860/tesla-repays-465-...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363572151/after-solyndra-loss...
by nowittyusername | 2026-02-24 22:04:50+00:00
I am in the process of trying to integrate LCM in to my own personal assistant agent for its context management system. The main human facing agent will not be a coding agent so ill be modifying the system prompt and some other things quite heavily but core concepts of the system will be as the backbone. Now that I am paying around with it, I am hoping you can answer some questions. I notice that the system prompt of the agent mutates as local time is injected in to the system prompt itself. If that's whats happening, you are destroying any hopes of caching from the provider are you not? Am I reading this correctly or was this a deliberate choice for some reason... instead of appending at the end of the users turn like a system metadata info that way you preserve the head? Thanks.
by idop | 2026-02-24 22:05:07+00:00
Where is the source? Show me the actual source. Showing me that one news agency is reporting that another news agency reported something, with no way to verify anything in that chain, does and proves nothing. It's a claim with no backing.

The official quote clearly states "the details do not reflect official data". If you see it as "no contest" we're gonna have to chalk it up to cultural differences in parsing language.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-24 22:05:44+00:00
> Wow, that a major claim. What apps are malware, exactly?

I don't understand how this is a major claim at all, it should be obvious. All repositories of large enough sizes contain malware because malware doesn't declare itself as malware.

This is exacerbated by the fact the Google Play Store and Apple App Store allow closed-source applications. It's much easier to validate behavior on things like the Debian repos, where maintainers can, and do, audit the source code.

Google does not have a magic "is this malware" algorithm, that doesn't exist. They rely on heuristics and things like asking the authors "hey is this malware". As you can imagine, this isn't very effective. They don't even install and test the apps fully. Not that it matters much, obviously malware can easily change it's behavior to not be detectable from the end-user just running the app.

> Requiring signed apps solves the issue though, as it provides identification of whoever is running the scam and a method for remuneration or prosecution.

It doesn't, for three reasons:

1. Identifying an app doesn't magically make it not malware. I can tell you "hey I made this app" and you still have zero idea if it's malware. This is still a post mitigation. Meaning, if we somehow know an app is malware, we can find out who wrote it. It doesn't do the "is this malware" part of the mitigation, which is the most important part.

2. Bad actors typically have little allegiance to ethics, meaning they typically will not be honest about their identity. There are criminal organizations which operate in meatspace and fake their identities, which is 1000x harder than doing it online. Most malware will not have a legitimate identity tacked to it.

3. Bad actors typically come from countries which don't prosecute them as hard. So, even if you find out if something is malware, and then find out the actual people behind it, you typically can't prosecute them. Even large online services like the Silk Road lasted for a long time, and most likely still do exist, even despite the literal US federal government trying to stop them.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-24 22:05:59+00:00
I used to accumulate a pile of change on my desk from buying coffees.

Never got touched across about a hundred different offices around Australia (I’m a consultant).

Except once: the pile was replaced by a $50 note and a hand written apology saying the guilty party needed change for the parking lot machine. I had less than $30 there in coins so… profit!
by sgillen | 2026-02-24 22:06:25+00:00
The study was designed to have devs who are comfortable with AI perform 50% of tasks with AI and 50% without. So the problem is the population of "Developers who use AI regularly but are willing to do tasks without AI" is shrinking.

>> Are they worried that by splitting devs into groups of AI experience they might be measuring some confounder that causes people to choose AI / not AI in their careers?

The developer sample size was small (16 people in the original study) and the task sample size is larger (~250 tasks). I think the worry is variance in developer productivity would totally wash out any signal.
by mattnewton | 2026-02-24 22:06:31+00:00
Legally no, but in practice the president has been trying to assert the power to unilaterally levy taxes, even in spite of the supreme court ruling that you need the legislature to pass a tax. People still paid the tariffs. I would be extremely suprised if that's the only place this admin is trying to tax by fiat, and tax policy enforcemetn is far less visible than consumer tariffs.
by warkdarrior | 2026-02-24 22:06:51+00:00
> Right now when I search for "ChatGPT", the top app is a counterfeit app with a fake logo, is it really this store which is supposed to help us fight scams?

Just did Play search for "ChatGPT" and the top-2 results were for OpenAI's app (one result was sponsored by OpenAI one result was from Google's search). So anecdotally your results may vary.
by hungryhobbit | 2026-02-24 22:07:04+00:00
Man, I love Next ... but I also love Vite ... and I hate the Next team, because they focus on fancy new features for 0.1% of their users, at the complete expense of the other 99.9% of the Next community (who they basically ignore).

This gives someone like me everything we want. Better performance is something the Next community has been begging for for years: the Next team ignored them, but not the Cloudflare team. Meanwhile Vite is a better core layer than the garbage the Next people use, but you still get the full Next functionality.

I wish Cloudflare the best of luck with this fork: I hope it succeeds and gets proven so I can use it at my company!
by tavavex | 2026-02-24 22:07:07+00:00
The thing that everyone here ignores is that the friction isn't just for safety. It's by design. For some reason, everyone is giving Google as much benefit of the doubt as possible. But no, they want to drive out small developers in general, and this is just one piece of the puzzle. Google has already put up unrelated barriers to publishing apps on Google Play, required every app developer to dox themselves to every user (meanwhile Apple is far more permissive and allows an opt-out for non-commercial apps), they downrank apps by small developers, use alternate UX that disincentivizes installing lesser known apps, put up big scary warnings like "This app isn't installed often" or "Fewer people engage with this app" on the pages of those apps. The only explanation is that they want more money and less upkeep and moderation with the pesky small developers, and the real money-makers are the big corporate apps. They're recreating "the rich get richer" in their microcosm.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-24 22:07:41+00:00
"Sin" is the wrong framing, but outsourcing most of your capability to actually make stuff can definitely cause problems for a country.

For example, on a military level, the US is concerned about how rapidly China is catching up in naval capacity, China is building new warships far faster than the US can. And it's hard not to notice that China's overall shipbuilding capacity is more than 200x higher than America's.

The US has a lot of pride over having been "the arsenal of democracy" in WW2, and it's well known that a huge part of why the US was effective in that war was sheer mass: the US simply made much more war 'stuff' than any other combatant. But if the US was to get in a shooting war with China today, it would likely be China that would enjoy an advantage in production scale, with the US trying to make do with fewer vehicles and munitions.