MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bko | 2026-02-13 17:20:16+00:00
The article basically describes the user sign up, find it empty other than marketing ploys designed by humans.

It points to a bigger issue that AI has no real agency or motives. How could it? Sure if you prompt it like it was in a sci-fi novel, it will play the part (it's trained on a lot of sci-fi). But does it have its own motives? Does your calculator? No of course not

It could still be dangerous. But the whole 'alignment' angle is just a naked ploy for raising billions and amping up the importance and seriousness of their issue. It's fake. And every "concerning" study, once read carefully, is basically prompting the LLM with a sci-fi scenario and acting surprised when it has a dramatic sci-fi like response.

The first time I came across this phenomenon was when someone posted years ago how two AIs developed their own language to talk to each other. The actual study (if I remember correctly) had two AIs that shared a private key try to communicate some way while an adversary AI tried to intercept, and to no one's surprise, they developed basic private-key encryption! Quick, get Eliezer Yudkowsky on the line!
by devsda | 2026-02-13 17:20:31+00:00
> That's an odd take... open source is a software licensing model, not a business model.

Yes, open-source is a software license model, not a business model. It is also not a software support model.

This change is them essentially declaring that MinIO is EOL and will not have any further updates.

For comparison, Windows 10 which is a paid software released in the same year as first minio release i.e. 2015 is already EOL.
by blenderob | 2026-02-13 17:21:06+00:00
(edit: I totally misunderstood the parent comment and wrote this reply. I've apologized for it in comment below. I could delete this comment but I am leaving it here so that others don't get confused when they see the replies below it.)

> or that anyone should have more power just because they are active in the project.

So you are saying that although I create a project to solve my problems but as soon as I make it open source (so that others can also benefit) my power on the project will become equal to the power every random person on earth has on my project?

If making my project reduces my power on the project, why would I ever open source anything?

Good thing that open source world does not work like that. When I make my project open source, I still have full power on my project and I decide what goes in it and what is rejected. I have no reason to not use the powers I have on the project.

If it ever became like you say that as the creator of an open source project, my powers will be equal to the powers of every random user, I'd stop making anything open source.
by antonvs | 2026-02-13 17:21:08+00:00
I'm running Firefox 145.0.2 on amd64.

It seems like the issue may be that I have WebGL disabled. The console includes messages like "Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL creation failed:
* AllowWebgl2:false restricts context creation on this system."

Oh well, guess I can't use rustfs :}
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-13 17:21:37+00:00
Maintainers are sometimes not perfect. But they are providing known value, and you are trying to add something with unknown value. That's an asymmetry which doesn't look like a mutual exchange. So I'd downgrade most of the hard obligations you describe to "it's really smart to do this."

I agree with the behavioral observations. People shouldn't be assholes just because they can. That applies to everyone everywhere. Reminding someone with a bit of power to not be a petty tyrant is fine with me.
by MYEUHD | 2026-02-13 17:21:41+00:00
> In the past, Apple has usually let you hold back on an older version and shipped security updates for all devices, not just ones that are incapable of running the new OS, but not this time.

No they haven't been, for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-13 17:21:57+00:00
There sadly isn't one. The 4:3 Blu-Ray remasters are about as good as it gets in visual quality, but there's a "cinematic" feel lost from the 16:9 DVDs, but the quality difference is noticeable and unfavorable. It's a bit of a dealer's choice at this point if you want "best available quality" or "best available widescreen."

Babylon 5 was filmed at a weird moment where they were prescient about HD TV and the coming widescreen home television boom and planned for/shot for 16:9 releases, but also had to shoot and composite first and foremost for 4:3 to meet TVs where they were. They had even had plans to preserve the special FX masters to make it easier to recomposite the show. WB's Archives team lost those files at some point. (The general story is WB Archives sent a copy of the masters to Vivendi [Sierra, proto-Activision Blizzard] for the eventually cancelled videogame and discovered they sent the original copy by accident only after Vivendi claimed to have wiped their copy out of respect for the contract terms when the game was cancelled.)
by fromMars | 2026-02-13 17:21:59+00:00
There are multiple different conversations which you are referencing there which is making it difficult to respond to your points.

On Epstein, I do think the Catholic Church scandal was of a similar magnitude, considering the number of priests and victims involved. The main point I was trying to convey is that the coverage of Epstein is greater than anything I have seen and there is a danger of it being used to promote anti-semitism. Just search the topic on X to see thousands of examples.

Regarding my comments on the age of consent, I am sensitive to words used to describe someone like Seinfeld. Pedophilia and specifically acting on it is one of the worst crimes anyone can commit. Branding someone a pedophile is a very serious accusation. That is a common trope used to describe Jewish men.

Jerry may be a lecher or a scumbag or a pervert, but I have difficulty using that word in his case, and I think in that context the mores in different countries is important. Maybe I am being paranoid and seeing anti-semitism where it isn't.

Thanks for the discussion.
by pessimizer | 2026-02-13 17:22:11+00:00
> Maintainers don't get to be rude just because they run a project.

Everybody gets to be rude. They don't need your permission.

The rest of this is you just sort of making up standards that you're asserting that other people are obligated by "human decency" to adhere to. You're demanding ownership of other people's time and effort, and declaring that this obligation is triggered by the fact that they've already freely given of their own time and effort. You're the person who has been fed once and sues on those grounds to be fed forever.

If you, yourself, don't want to be rude, maybe reframe this as a list of suggestions that you think might be helpful to interact with people like you.
by k310 | 2026-02-13 17:22:48+00:00
Link is 404 at WSJ

Try:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/13/...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cbp-shot-...

Paywall:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-laser-weapo...
by reliefcrew | 2026-02-13 17:22:56+00:00
> And if they fix it? Pay them. Simple.

> Stop fooling around with abstract puzzles

I beg to differ on the simplicity here.

The very best candidates don't want to think about your stuff at all, unless they're paid ahead of time, since they've already made tons of $$$. In effect, they're already getting paid by your competition or they themselves are your competition.

It's a great example of Akerlof's "market for lemons".

The "satisficing" solution IMHO is to take [calculated] risk on available consultants/contractors and keep the better ones on retainer [to hire]. Yes, in a sense, I'm suggesting you pay to interview people. That way you stand a chance of beating the average.

Finding the "best value" in a candidate is a trap... you only need good enough.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-13 17:23:01+00:00
Yeah, I find the whole concept a bit of a nonstarter until models that I can run on a single somewhat-normal-consumerish machine (e.g. a Mac Studio) with decent capability and speed have appeared. I’m not interested in sending literally everything across the wire to somebody else’s computers, and unless the AI bubble pops and cheap GPUs start raining down on us I’m not interested in building some ridiculous tower/rackmount thing to facilitate it either.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-13 17:23:06+00:00
That whole argument flew out of the window the moment so-called "communities" (i.e. in this case, fake communities, or at best so-called 'virtual communities' that might perhaps be understood charitably as communities of practice) became something that's hosted in a random Internet-connected server, as opposed to real human bodies hanging out and cooperating out there in the real world. There is a real argument that CoC's should essentially be about in-person interactions, but that's not the argument you're making.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-13 17:23:28+00:00
> wouldn't your network service provider also be able to filter based on SNI?

Two things:

1. Only if they knew that the hostname in question is indeed being used for telnet tunneling. You can set that host name to whatever you want.

2. Encrypted SNI is a thing.

> You would need to agree on a protocol and you would gain all the advantages but also the disadvantages of the tunneling protocol.

Yeah, admittedly the entire thing is a bit contrived. If your client is capable of speaking the tunneling protocol, then likely you'd just use the tunneling protocol itself, rather than using it to tunnel telnet.
by thatswrong0 | 2026-02-13 17:23:30+00:00
o/ I'm a silent majority member for sure. I've seen these complaints before and I nod my head every time remembering that "Oh yeah, this DOES suck but I just put up with it because it happens so frequently and there ain't no way I'm switching ecosystems".

Sidenote: please Apple, if I type the same misspelled (but not) thing two times in a row, just leave it be. And no, I did not mean "what the he'll". And why is selecting text so hard.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-13 17:23:59+00:00
Maybe. Though you have missed out the second part - which doesn't talk about cleansing - it only talks about end of occupation.

Only one side is an illegally occupying power who took the land by force from the people who were peacefully living there.

And don't quote me events from ~2000 years ago.

If everyone held grudges that long the whole world would be at war.

The people in the West bank currently being driven from their homes - they aren't a threat to Israel - they are just farmers working their land. Trying to pick their olives.

It's a false equivalence to say there are two sides, on the one hand and the other.
by kixiQu | 2026-02-13 17:24:50+00:00
Maybe I'm stupid, but why is this tech needed now? Whenever I watch movies (new to me) if they're from before ~2005 I never need subtitles to understand, never mind genre or origin... and if they're more recent I frequently do. It's cool to have tools that highlight this for folks in industry, but how were they getting it right before that?
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-13 17:25:18+00:00
How is this specific to 4o? This can happen with any model. See how people acted after Character.AI essentially removed their AI "partners" after a server reset. They actually used DeepSeek before which didn't have the same limitations as American models, especially being open weight means you can fine tune it to be as lovey dovey as your heart desires.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-13 17:25:19+00:00
Then you're going to have a hard time learning any subject.

Because it's pretty common for educational materials to start with the first-order approximation, then go into the places where you need second-order corrections to it.

If you think the first-order approximation is false because there are exceptions, and you aren't even willing to read a few paragraphs down to find out about the exceptions and nuances, then hey, it's your loss.
by NietzscheanNull | 2026-02-13 17:26:46+00:00
You can't be serious. We're discussing a class of people making sub-minimum wages, barely scraping by to afford rent and groceries (much less any childcare or medical expenses), and your suggestion is "lobby to change that" or "just get a different job"?

As someone who has previously worked for that wage and finally did "get a different job," there was no "just" about it. I had the support of well-off family who were willing to significantly contribute to my education and living situation, and it still took years of hard toil (all while being nearly destitute) before ever achieving anything resembling financial stability. That was not (and likely never will be) an option for 90-95% of the people I worked with in the food-service industry. There is absolutely no justification (beyond abject greed) for that type of poverty wage, and it's the responsibility of everyone in our society to prevent that type of exploitation of the vulnerable, precisely because they cannot afford to "lobby to change that" and often can't "get a different job" outside of the same industry.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-13 17:26:53+00:00
> None, it's just obvious to anyone who has a high school level of business knowledge.

That's a highly ironic statement given your position on "cost per mile".

With a small amount of business acumen, you'd know that betting on technology staying expensive is a bad idea. This is seen in all industries, but especially electronics, where there are many competitors continuously optimizing for cost. E.g., we're at the point now where an internet enabled phone is basically disposable, costing people ~ a few hours of wages.

History has shown that technology costs decrease over time, and rapidly if it's a critically important technology. If you don't agree, share a counter example.
by subscribed | 2026-02-13 17:26:53+00:00
I've been using two separate accounts, also always via VPN. My account was immediately blocked until I provided a phone number (doable but a chore to have a private number).

Same with the other account.

An attempt to remove an "optional" and totally not mandatory phone number results in immediate account block "for my own security" and a request for the number.

You might be an outlier.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 17:27:36+00:00
> 4. Ceph [...]

MinIO was more for the "mini" use case (or more like "anything not large scale", with a very broad definition of large scale). Here "works out of the box" is paramount.

And Ceph is more for the maxi use case. Here in depth fine tuning, highly complex setups, distributed setups and similar are the norm. Hence out of the box small scale setup experience is bearly relevant.

So they really don't fill out the same space, even through their functionality overlaps.
by fooker | 2026-02-13 17:27:39+00:00
> this is just handling index allocation, release and avoiding dangling manually

No, it is abstracted away. You just have to follow best practices when writing a library.

resource foo(...); // This gets freed at the end of scope. See RAII.
auto x = make_unique<resource>(...); // can be moved, freed when owner is.
auto y = make_shared<resource>(...); // freed on zero reference count
by latexr | 2026-02-13 17:27:41+00:00
You’re projecting. How is mentioning a counter once in one comment “obsessing”? You’re being ridiculous. I’m glad this post is getting traction, I’m pretty open about my disdain for Apple’s declining software quality and Tim Cook’s management, I welcome posts that shine more light on it.

> Realistically, another post about Apple's borked keyboard should create zero emotional response

Of course that is not true. That is so trivial to disprove.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232528
by LexiMax | 2026-02-13 17:27:43+00:00
> To me, these are all clear cases of "the correct response is not one that tries to persuade but that dismisses/ isolates".

I believe it is possible to make an argument that is dismissive of them, but is persuasive to the crowd.

"Fuck off clanker" doesn't really accomplish the latter, but if I were in the maintainer's shoes, my response would be closer to that than trying to reason with the bad faith AI user.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-13 17:27:45+00:00
It’s not overly far fetched. A lot of the software and platforms we use now we’re all developed around the same time period.

There’s obviously new talent coming in to the industry but the attitudes are different, and talented people like to make new things not work on someone else’s legacy code.

So yeah I think it’ll continue to get worse until something new replaces iOS/Android/macOs/Windows hegemony.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-13 17:27:50+00:00
vk.xml[1] is the canonical Vulkan specification; this is updated essentially weekly.

The C++ equivalent, Vulkan-Hpp[2], follows extremely closely behind. Plus, ash isn't just an FFI wrapper; it does quite a bit of RAII-esque state and function pointer management that is generally required for Vulkan.

[1]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/blob/main/xml/vk...

[2]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp/
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-13 17:27:53+00:00
Not actually autonomous until it can be more or less trusted to handle itself, without constant human supervision. Until then, it's just prototype or testing miles.

Tesla's current robotaxi deployment is also geofenced and monitored by humans -- moreso than Waymo, even -- but of course Tesla superfans always conveniently leave that out of the narrative.
by Linux-Fan | 2026-02-13 17:28:02+00:00
> - Since maintainers do owe basic human politeness, and they know people will be interacting with them, maintainers do owe this culture some form of communication of their intentions. If they don't want to take any changes, put that in CONTRIBUTING and turn off GH PRs. If they want to take changes, but no AI changes, put that in CONTRIBUTING. If they don't want to do support, turn off GH Issues. If they require a specific 10-point series of steps before they look at a PR or Issue, put that in CONTRIBUTING. It's on the user to read this document and follow it - but it's on you to create it, so they know how to interface with you.

In general it is already in the license. Even permissive licenses like Expat have (in ALL CAPS no less)

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO [...]

There is zero need to indicate anything about CONTRIBUTING whatsoever because already it is clear that the developer already indicates that nothing can be taken for granted.

Of course it helps to be open about expectations.

I for instance don't put CONTRIBUTING instructions online but so far all of my stuff gets so little attention that I have received almost no feedback about my free software at all.

To me, this is perfectly OK and in line with the expectation that I for instance put my code online mostly for my own benefit. If it helps anyone else, all the better. But don't derive any more expectations from it because it's free...?
by einpoklum | 2026-02-13 17:28:07+00:00
> People who paid for your software don't really have a right to lord you around.

Of course I realize that, rationally, but:

* They might feel highly entitled because they paid.

* I feel more anxious to satisfy than I should probably be feeling. Perhaps even guilty for having taken money. I realize that is not a rational frame of mind to be in; it would probably change if that happened frequently. I am used to two things: There is my voluntary work, which I share freely and without expecting money; and there is my 'job' where I have to bow my head to management and do not get to pursue the work as I see fit, and I devote most of my time to - but I get paid (which also kind of happens in the background, i.e. I never see the person who actually pays me). Selling a product or a service is a weird third kind of experience which I'm not used to.
by tambourine_man | 2026-02-13 17:28:10+00:00
> but the DUV Intel-fabbed silicon was not.

Sure, but why? Why the company that was on the fab forefront for decades and participated in EUV research was reluctant to bet on it?

> Apple's failure to improve the Mac seems pretty straightforward looking at their profit breakdowns. The Mac really is not ever their priority.

iOS very much is and it's a disaster as well.
by wilkommen | 2026-02-13 17:28:48+00:00
I think in the short to medium term, they will continue expanding the availability of credit and expanding the money supply when crashes happen in order to keep asset prices high. At some point there will be a breaking point, but I think 2009-style "Quantitative Easing" and 2020-style fiscal spending can and will happen again. So I'm still in, but this game won't last forever.
by makeitcount00 | 2026-02-13 17:28:53+00:00
This article fails to mention the bigger security issue with openclaw/anything else like this is prompt injection, not exposed network ports.

Isolating it from incoming requests is better than not, but does nothing to prevent data exfiltration via outgoing requests after being prompted to do so by a malicious email or webpage that it is reading as part of a task you've given it.
Show HN: Free OSS cold email bulk sender and management
by danesto | 2026-02-13 17:29:06+00:00
Have you ever had to send cold emails for a side project?

As an engineer, I've always struggled to keep track of cold mailing lists for my side projects.

I could find contacts and save them in a sheet. The part I hated and struggled with was bulk emailing and keeping track of who I already emailed, adding notes, etc.

There's just wasn't any intuitive and simple solution I could find for this that I liked. Especially, if you want to connect you own custom domain email over SMTP.

I just wanted something simple that let me connect my own SMTP config, create a template, import a CSV with contacts and then bulk send 15 emails at once all by keeping the record of sent ones.

Nothing more, nothing less. Focus on finding leads and building, rather than writing every email manually or paying for bloated software just to do this.

Scripts worked, but I needed to share the management with non-technical folks.

Current options I found - I didn't like at all, overcomplicated and time consuming.

So, over the weekend I decided to build the simple OSS tool to help me achieve this and save time in the future.

The tool is built using SvelteKit as a weekend project; so, like any weekend project, the code is not the best or most performant, but it gets the job done.

Demo: https://cold0-gamma.vercel.app/register
Repo - feel free to fork or contribute: https://github.com/danesto/cold0
by neom | 2026-02-13 17:29:55+00:00
The founder is a friend of mine, so maybe I'm bias, but I'm surprised wired doesn't get how network effects work and adoption curves happen, at least, it seems strange to publish this about a project someone did in a weekend, a few weekends ago, and is now trying to make a go of it? Like.. give him a couple of months to see how to improve the flow for the bots side, and general discoverability of the platform for agents at large. Maybe I'm a bit grumpy because it's my buddy but this article kinda rubs me the wrong way. :\