MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-16 23:17:32+00:00
It's a type of cognitive bias not much different than an addict or indoctrinated cult follower. A subset of them might actually genuinely fear Roko's basilisk the exact same way colonial religion leveraged the fear of eternal damnation in hell as a reason to be subservient to the church leaders.

hyperstitions from TESCREAL https://www.dair-institute.org/tescreal/
by amiga386 | 2026-02-16 23:17:49+00:00
Most cars tend to have both rear lamps and reflectors.

Reflectors tend to be positioned around the bumper.

For example:

- https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9PQAAOSwlbdkueA8/s-l1600.jpg

- https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PxQAAOSwDSthH35W/s-l1200.jpg
by Nevermark | 2026-02-16 23:19:23+00:00
> Yet they continue to run full steam to meddle in oil-producing countries.

That isn't military strategy. That is the politicians choosing oil over alternatives and delegating action accordingly.

The military can warn about the threat of climate change or China's growing technical, manufacturing, scientific and potential AI dominance. But it can't (and shouldn't) set the elected leaders' agenda, or refuse to implement it.

A non-governing military is an anti-corruption firewall.

> This is the part I strongly doubt. Well, not the competence exactly. But the motives

There have been streams of people in power resigning as their particular role gets pinched between corruption or resisting. When that stops, maybe there won't be anyone competent with good motives left. But many people are quietly doing the best they can in the meantime, and hoping for a turnaround in the future.

> And all they want is money.

Yes, for those directly profiting from damage, we are going to have to address that directly if we want to acheive change.

But large segments of the economy are being financially hurt by that damage. So there are many natural allies.

For social media, I think we need some hard laws, to give regulators some teeth. For energy, where the damagers are also value producers (we can't just cut off fossil fuels instantly), whatever financials it takes to straighten that out will result in a net benefit.

People on the right often want companies to be able to do whatever they want, ignoring the damage. People on the left often want to eliminate damage, without any cost. Neither of those viewpoints leads us anywhere but off a cliff.

Boldness here is our friend. The sirens of making little changes, or imagining a big change won't take tremendous coordination or cost something, are mirages.

> I don't believe in public/private collaboration anymore. In Holland that was tried way too long.

That leaves a coupe, which isn't going to produce any improvement. "Tear it down" rarely morphs into building anything. "MAGA" as a soft coupe (democratically elected, undemocratic policies) is a mild example.

It's easy to shoot down the potential for change. But that isn't a plan, a step, or a mindset that has any chance of achieving anything.

Although I 1000% relate to the many reasons we have for cynicism and apathy.
by stevage | 2026-02-16 23:19:23+00:00
This is very cool, but I don't really see the direct connection between a paper structure which is very strong in compression and emergency accommodation (which the article really focuses on).

Tents don't need to be strong in compression - there's no weight on the roof. And obviously paper is not a material that scales up or would be practical for outdoor use.

Just a bit confused by the obvious mismatch here - maybe it's the journalist putting more weight on the disaster application than the kid did.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-16 23:19:39+00:00
Informal or conversational tone has always been the gold-standard for most communications. People just piss on it because they like to feel smart.

But, most writing has purpose. And usually fulfilling that purpose requires readers to comprehend what you're writing. Conversational tone is easy to comprehend, and shockingly less ambiguous than you'd think, especially when tailored to the target audience.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-16 23:19:42+00:00
Note 1: I had to go to the middle and reduce the number of particles to 1000 to be able to run it in my phone.

Note 2: In this case, 2D means that the force is proportional to distance^-1 instead of the usual distance^-2. It's not a 3D word projected into a plane, it's a real 2D word that lives inside a plane. It would be nice to have an option to switch and compare. I have no intuition about the difference.

Note 3: Somewhere in the middle, it's possible to switch the external potencial from z^2 to z^4 to z^20, where z is the distance from the center.

z^2 "Ginibre" is a nice round surface, like a wok. Electrons get evenly distributed.

z^20 "Mittag-Leffler lambda=10" is flat in the center and then goes up quickly, like a saucepan. Electrons escape from each other, a few of them remain in the center but most get squashed against the circular wall.

z^4 "Mittag-Leffler lambda=2" Something in between
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-16 23:19:56+00:00
An unsurprising position given today's world. I want to know who the Trump Supporters are so I can ensure they never work for me. Also, no electric car drivers, they are just not welcome here. Or meat eaters, god forbid! We won't need to worry about canceling you later, because you won't be associating with us to begin with.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-16 23:20:29+00:00
> it is important to note that this is not necessarily what people have in mind when they think of "LLMs generating skills

I’m reading this paper as don’t do this. If you deploy agents to your workforce and tell them to use skills, don’t. Tell them to give it tasks. This sounds obvious but might not be to everyone. (And in any case, it’s nice for researchers to have confirmed pre-prompt skill writing doesn’t work. It would have been neat if it had.)
by scoofy | 2026-02-16 23:20:45+00:00
This is my project and after publishing it today, and while I'm very flattered that so many folks have read it already. Still, I've found myself pushing back against this 'unweaving the rainbow' narrative.

The maps, importantly, don't tell you how to play the hole. They just show where the hole is easier to play from, if you're already in that location. Whether or not you ought to attempt to reach those areas is the choice the player makes, and it's going to be different based on what the strategy the player uses is. I allude to this in later image of Talking Stick O'odham #2, which has the internal aiming system tuned up to be aggressive (say, for a skins game), and another image where it is tuned down for safety (say, for a derby or defending a lead in a stroke play tournament).

The maps really just kind of "show the idea" behind the strategic design. The best use case would be for helping golf course architects communicate the changes they want to make to potential memberships, who might be hesitant to change they don't understand.

It's very much not a system like Decade, or ones that companies like Arccos can provide to improve performance.
Show HN: I gave OpenClaw 79 tools. It runs businesses now
by deduxer | 2026-02-16 23:21:43+00:00
Took OpenClaw.

Put it in a secure cloud environment. Gave it 79 tools… contracts, invoices, payments, time tracking, reminders, browser automation.

Added custom skill creation. Cron automation. Persistent memory.

Now it runs like a business operating system… from WhatsApp.

“Create a contract for Sarah, $5k branding project” … done.
“What’s overdue?” … pulls everything, reminds everyone.

No dashboards. No tabs. No switching between 10 apps.

You message it… it happens.

I came to realize one thing building this over 2 years and 4 complete rebuilds…

People don’t want another app. They want their business to run in the background while they do the actual work.

That’s what OpenClaw gave me the foundation for. The agent layer… memory, messaging, sessions. I built everything else on top.

Solo founder. Mass amounts of credits.

Feels like it’s finally complete.

Cheers from Bucharest,
Roma.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-16 23:22:06+00:00
I'm struggling to think of a good entry under those sections, what did you have in mind?

For accessibility, that's a client consideration typically, the agent using the MCP server would be responsible for making its output accessible. I don't think the intention is to let webapps define how their output is displayed to end users, but to define outputs for agents instead.

For security, other than what the MCP protocol itself provides, what should be defined?

I think it's a draft, there is still discussion about it, they might not have reached a point where there consensus for those categories. But I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
by heyalexej | 2026-02-16 23:23:09+00:00
Quick glance; FreeFlow already saves WAV recordings for every transcript to ~/Lib../App../FreeFlow/audio/ with UUIDs linking them to pipeline history entries in CoreData. Audio files are automatically deleted though, when their associated history entries are deleted. Shall be a quick fix. Recently did the same for hyprvoice, for debugging and auditing.
by 650 | 2026-02-16 23:23:32+00:00
With all the discourse around H1Bs recently, I ask what the alternative is? Offshoring and workers paying taxes in their own countries? The common argument of X number of CS grads unemployed fails to hold as CS has been a monkey degree over the past few years due to the rush for money. Some investigation will show many graduates are not able to perform software engineering duties up to par, and sub par graduates compared to pre 2015. Of course its nuanced between training that companies used to offer etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-16 23:23:34+00:00
Disappointing article. On one hand, we have direct costs and over prescription. On the other hand, we have folks being educated that (a) they have a condition they should speak to their doctor about or (b) a condition they knew they had had a new treatment option. To answer the headline question you need to at least attempt to measure each of those.
by zmgsabst | 2026-02-16 23:23:44+00:00
Having been in Seattle, I’m not sure there was a time the NSA wasn’t involved with technology — eg, UW hosted meetups between researchers, criminals, and the government at least that long.

Who built the Echelon follow-up, proto-dragnet system that provided the framework for the spying you bemoan? — the one extended and taken live in the early 2000s? Those same 90s hackers you glorify.
by enriquto | 2026-02-16 23:24:02+00:00
good answer if the job is in a big and very expensive city:

"I like this job and would do it for free if I was rich. But I'm not: I'll need to live with this salary. The absolute minimum I require is food and shelter for my family (single dad of 3). Look at the rent of a comfortable 4 bedroom apartment within 10 minutes on foot to the lab, and multiply it by three. That number is the least that I'm able to take. But of course if you pay me more I'll be happier."
by jason_oster | 2026-02-16 23:24:45+00:00
> Us having to specify things that we would never specify when talking to a human.

Interesting conclusion! From the Mastodon thread:

> To be fair it took me a minute, too

I presume this was written by a human. (I'll leave open the possibility that it was LLM generated.)

So much for "never" needing to specify ambiguous scenarios when talking to a human.
by vessenes | 2026-02-16 23:24:51+00:00
Riffing on this a little, there’s a few things that would be useful:

1 - global namespace - for the gateway agent/coordinator - would make inspecting results of subagent tasks much more safe and efficient, and all the benefits of precision across compaction boundaries for the main chat thread. I could see giving the subagents access to it, or just prompting them fresh and storing results in the global memory - probably the second is better.

2 - permissioned memory spaces - stuff that a given subagent should know without giving them global memory access. Then a gateway could mark some stuff ‘available’ as part of prompting.

This would be a super useful set of primitives - from reading the paper, I think you could do this relatively cheaply, maybe a tagging system for branches/nodes in the DAG. openclaw keeps some sort of track of what subagents should have access to already in the form of skills, but I haven’t looked into the actual permissions architecture.
by trescenzi | 2026-02-16 23:25:13+00:00
I find this line of thinking so hard to follow. I happen to have worked at FactSet and when I was there we were stuck supporting chromium 18 because it was embedded in the version of the workstation that a partner had signed a contract which prevented them from needing to upgrade the base install. SASS is of course to some extent about functionality. Maybe it will make sense for larger customers to duplicate functionality themselves using AI. I very much doubt we’re anywhere near being able to prompt Claude and get FactSet out but fine we can grant that. The reason SASS is so valuable though is because it allows firms to pass off the costs and risk of maintenance behind SLAs. Why would you want to bring that risk in-house when you can essentially buy insurance against software errors by paying a SASS company?
by Centrino | 2026-02-16 23:25:30+00:00
Don't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea.

The boy experimented to find the optimal parameters (height, width, angles) for load bearing of that earlier invention.

So, the result of his work would warrant a new patent, of course with reference to all earlier patents of which his work is an improvement.
Show HN: WowAI.pet – Generate cinematic videos from blurry pet photos
by zy5a59 | 2026-02-16 23:25:34+00:00
I built WowAI.pet to solve the "uncooperative subject" problem in pet photography. Most pet owners have a gallery full of motion-blurred "failed" shots because pets simply won't sit still.

Instead of fighting the shutter speed, I’m using generative AI to treat these blurred images as structural seeds. The tool transforms a single low-quality photo into high-fidelity video (4K, consistent depth-of-field) across various styles—from traditional ink-wash aesthetics to talking avatars.

Key Features:

Zero-shot generation: No model training or fine-tuning required.

Temporal consistency: Maintaining pet features across dynamic motion.

Integrated Lip-sync: Automated voice synthesis for "talking" pet videos.

I’m looking for feedback on the generation speed and the consistency of the output styles.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-16 23:25:51+00:00
> If AI is just “spicy autocomplete,” then what’s responsible for the current frenzy of attention? Autocorrect could explain away pre-ChatGPT interest levels without too much trouble. But it doesn’t come close to accounting for the trillions now invested, the data centers appearing around every corner, or the daily reports of AI automating task after task.

If tulip bulbs are just “pretty flowers,” then what's responsible for the current frenzy of attention? Garden fashion could explain away pre-mania interest levels without too much trouble. But it doesn't come close to accounting for the fortunes now committed, the contracts changing hands on street corners, or the daily reports of bulb prices climbing higher and higher.
by einrealist | 2026-02-16 23:26:43+00:00
I can follow the arguments, and I find many of them plausible. But LLMs are still unreliable and require attention and verification. Ultimately, it's an economic question: the cost of training the model and the computing power required to produce accurate results.

The strongest argument is the one about the interface. LLMs will definitely have a large impact. But under the hood, I still expect to see a lot of formally verified code, written by engineers with domain knowledge, with support by AI.
by boricj | 2026-02-16 23:27:33+00:00
You only need a full DB if you want to fully delink your artifact. You can just clean up the subset you're interested in exporting (the fully populated disclaimer is just there because there's a lot you can get away with, as long as you know precisely what you are doing).

Even then, a full DB is quite achievable, even on large projects. The biggest public project using ghidra-delinker-extension out there is the FUEL decompilation: https://github.com/widberg/FUELDecompilation

The executable is 7 MiB, has over 30,000 functions and has more than 250,000 relocations spots. The user made the game relocatable in six weeks (with four of them debugging issues with my extension). They then managed to replace code in spite of the fact that the artifact was built with LTO by binary patching __usercall into MSVC.

There's a write-up about all of that that is well worth a read: https://github.com/widberg/fmtk/wiki/Decompilation

I've also had one user manage to fully delink the original Halo on the Xbox in one week. To be fair, they were completely nerd-sniped and worked non-stop on it, but it still counts.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-16 23:27:39+00:00
The main thing that shortens the lifetime of solid state drives is sustained writes over time. You should disable all system logging options and all "spotlight databases for fast search", avoid swap use and not let the drives "sleep" too aggressively since this will force the system to persist some volume of writes from RAM to disk that might have turned out to be unnecessary down the road.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-16 23:28:53+00:00
Yeah I always keep my cpap on airplane mode. It even had 5G. The therapist complains they can't monitor it but I have to come in with the machine and SD card every few months so they can check it then. They don't need 24/7 access.

What bothers me more is that my sex toys broadcast on Bluetooth even when I'm using them through WiFi. It even says the brand in the device name.

Not that I give a fuck what the neighbours think but it's just none of their business. And some toys are for discreet outdoor use too. Though that's not my thing.

In the past I renamed one of my phones to "Lovense Hush" to troll, though I've never seen anyone looking suspiciously. I guess most people aren't creeps like me who check stuff like that :)
by bpodgursky | 2026-02-16 23:29:12+00:00
If he was making nuclear weapons, would you question the statement, "I would be happy if everyone stopped making nuclear weapons, but if China is making them, we can't unilaterally disarm"? I'm very willing to believe a CEO who says that! They are human beings!

Whether or not you believe it, a lot of people view advanced AI the same way.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-16 23:29:15+00:00
I went into a rabbit hole reading after your comment. It seems the toxin in question (saxitoxin) is not secreted by the fish, but concentrated from contaminated food, usually algae.

The toxin weakens, but doesn't paralyze the heart, contrary to the respiratory system. Proper respiratory aid will help you regain full function after a few hours/days, as the toxin is excreted in the urine unchanged. There is no known antidote, or method to accelerate excretion.

So the heart attack gun would be thwarted by timely but common medical care, but maybe they have better toxins these days.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-16 23:29:15+00:00
For boards with a bunch of layers and BGA/LGA packages, that have internal manufacturing errors or damage (e.g from overflexing), repairs can be untenable.

If the parts all have pads on their perimeter, then a jumper wire can replace internal traces. If the pads are underneath the part, and the trace is only internal, than a jumper may not be feasible, unless the damage happens from the surface in, in which case each layer can be jumpered at the damage.
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-16 23:29:17+00:00
Similarly underwhelming experience. I have been using it for about a week. I like how unlike Gemini or ChatGPT I don't have to copy+paste code. I have to keep going back to it to tell it I don't want it to access unrelated project folders beyond the scope of the problem, then it runs out of tokens for the next few hours, or gives me a response of varying quality.

My pattern matching brain says this is normal for hype. It's a good product, but no where near to the level you read about in some places (like HN in this case)
Ask HN: What code repository inspires you?
by mixto | 2026-02-16 23:30:09+00:00
I was thinking today how we will in such a cool age. Yes, AI slop is rampant, but there are so many skilled individuals and teams who post their code repositories publicly. I'm trying to grow and looking for examples of things like excellent architecture, code readability, and quality. I am even more curious about repositories (on the smaller side) written by a few people or less.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-16 23:30:23+00:00
What happens when you remove the velocity of money from the economy and replace it with companies that count on their employees receiving government assistance in order to be able to live? Are things actually cheaper for the average worker long term in our current scenario? Or is it a temporary affordability in exchange for a worse economic future? It seems like things still have to keep getting worse and worse to be financially viable in our current cycle (clothes are Kleenex quality like sci-fi books joked would be issued in a UBI future, enshitification is in everything).

When a system takes the money from the economy and delivers it to the capital class and foreign workers, what happens to that economy? We don't know. We're gambling it will somehow be ok. We are also losing the 50% of taxes that comes from individual workers, so add in losing that velocity of money vector going through the government as well.

It doesn't seem like a sustainable system, nor a cheaper system. Only a very risky short term gamble.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-16 23:30:59+00:00
So when I was at Bank of America they did advertise about being a “best place to work”, but it was well earned. Their benefits were great, they were super inclusive, and management really focused on taking care of people.

I left the bank for a small company that also claimed to be a best place to work. I didnt like the project I was on and they were quick to fire people to keep metrics like this up.

I currently work for a small company that does not advertise about this and just might be the best employer I have ever had. It’s all about the people you work with and the quality of your leaders.
by swyx | 2026-02-16 23:31:51+00:00
i thought this was more common than it is, but it's also not rare. Claude:

Around a dozen turtle species globally can breathe through their cloacas (rear openings), with roughly half living in Australian rivers. The main species that have truly mastered this ability include the Fitzroy River turtle, Mary River turtle, and white-throated snapping turtle. Additionally, some freshwater turtles like Blanding's turtle use a more limited form of cloacal respiration during hibernation when trapped under ice for extended periods.
The Fitzroy River turtle is particularly impressive, obtaining up to 70% of its oxygen needs through cloacal respiration and staying submerged for up to 21 days. The white-throated snapping turtle can get nearly 70% of its oxygen this way as well. These turtles have specialized structures called cloacal bursae—sac-like organs with densely packed papillae (small blood vessel-rich structures)—that allow oxygen from water to diffuse directly into their bloodstream.