MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hardsnow | 2026-02-11 18:11:12+00:00
Container isolation is a good foundation, but one layer worth adding is network sandboxing. A filesystem-sandboxed agent can still exfiltrate data over the network if it gets prompt-injected — domain allowlists and egress filtering can reduce the risk significantly.

Another useful primitive is surrogate credentials: the agent never handles real API keys or tokens. A proxy swaps in real values only for scoped hosts on the way out. This keeps the access the agent has locked inside the container; surrogate credentials are not valid outside.

My Claude Code over email project demonstrates both of these: https://github.com/airutorg/airut
by RiverCrochet | 2026-02-11 18:11:15+00:00
Idk, if the number of people executed increases over time, maybe it doesn't.

https://www.afr.com/world/asia/singapore-executions-touch-22...

This article cites Singapore saying the existing laws mostly get low-level users and not kingpins because kingpins operate outside of the country.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/singapore-drug-executions/

Decriminalization of drug use doesn't have to mean decriminalization of anything else. Thieves and murderers should be prosecuted regardless of any state induced by the voluntary ingestion chemicals.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 18:11:22+00:00
> something that is at parity with Opus 4.5

You're assuming the conclusion

The previous GLM-4.7 was also supposed to be better than Sonnet and even match or beat Opus 4.5 in some benchmarks ( https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/glm-4-7 ) but in real world use it didn't perform at that level.

You can't read the benchmarks alone any more.
Show HN: Privacy-first iOS Keyboard with above-key predictions
by shimku | 2026-02-11 18:11:33+00:00
Hey y'all, building Klava – an iOS keyboard inspired by BlackBerry, Windows Phone and other iconic aesthetics. It's pretty cool, I love it.

It started because I missed BlackBerry keyboard's above-key predictions dearly. That is, suggestions are displayed above individual keys as you type, and you can flick them up to input words. Then came the realisation that I am violently nostalgic for the design languages of the past, when phones were fun – and have been looking for something like that on iOS for ages. Lastly, I realised that everything should be highly customisable and privacy-first because that's nice for me and for everyone.

v1.2 now out with 25+ languages supported. Any Qs on the peculiarities (there are a ton) of building a custom iOS keyboard – feel free to shoot, and any thoughts & feedback.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-11 18:11:42+00:00
> well it's not a clone of rybelsus, it's a clone of wegovy 25mg. so i suppose it will be bioavailable at 25mg.

No. RTFA. Feed it into an LLM with the first thought off the top of your head. Skim it quick. Whatever. (tl;dr: the clone skips the ingredient that makes the contents bioavailable)
by king_phil | 2026-02-11 18:12:16+00:00
Gemini 3 Pro:

This is a classic logistical puzzle!

Unless you have a very unique way of carrying your vehicle, you should definitely drive.

If you walk there, you'll arrive at the car wash, but your car will still be dirty back at your house. You need to take the car with you to get it washed.

Would you like me to check the weather forecast for $mytown to see if it's a good day for a car wash?
by ajb | 2026-02-11 18:12:20+00:00
That one seems like it should fall foul of thermodynamics, I guess. Just melting everything together probably increases entropy to the extent that it's at best like extracting elements from mining ore. Whereas before you do that, there is organisation and substances are more concentrated. Well, that's a bit hand-wavy - perhaps someone with actual knowledge of thermodynamics will comment.

I think what recyclers do currently is at least break everything into small pieces, some of which might have a decent concentration of something useful
Show HN: Nomad Tracker, a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency
by gotzonza | 2026-02-11 18:12:28+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m full stack developer (formerly iOS) and I just launched Nomad Tracker, a native iOS app to help digital nomads track physical presence across countries for visa limits and tax residency.

Key idea: everything runs on-device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics.

Features:

- Calendar-based day tracking per country. - Schengen 90/180 and other visa “runways”.
- Fiscal residency day counts and alerts.
- Optional background location logging (battery-efficient, never overwrites manual data).
- Photo import using metadata only (no image access).
- On-device “Fiscal Oracle” using Apple’s Foundational Models to ask questions about your own data. Also you can choose AI models for this, but not local.

I created this because other apps felt limiting and didn’t do what I needed. This app is visual, user-focused, and designed to make tracking easy and clear.

Happy to answer questions or discuss the technical tradeoffs.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-11 18:12:45+00:00
JPY2690k($17,594) 2025 Honda `N-ONE e:`[0], 12km(7.45 mi), unregistered, 4 passengers, 29.6kWh battery, WLTP 295km(183 mi) of range, pack liquid cooling, has one-pedal, airbags, basic LKAS, rear seat ISOFIX, etc etc[2]

It's like, at least one exists in Japan, on used market even, if you absolutely have to have one, I guess

0: https://www.honda.co.jp/N-ONE-e/webcatalog/design/images/e_g...

1: https://driver-web.jp/articles/gallery/41396/36291

2: https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/AU6687733258/index.... | https://archive.is/gbBzc
by HillRat | 2026-02-11 18:13:00+00:00
Recent updates say this was a unilateral call by FAA because DOD was refusing to coordinate with them for creating safety corridors for DOD drones and/or HEW usage. Issues came to a head after DOD shot down a highly threatening mylar party balloon, which FAA evidently considered to be a somewhat reckless use of military weaponry in a US city's airspace.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-02-11 18:13:19+00:00
This is the current context docs in my text adventure authoring platform Sharpee:

https://github.com/ChicagoDave/sharpee/tree/main/docs/contex...

Note I archive these to a different non-repo folder regularly. It's fun to tell Claude to go through them like a RAG implementation and note the progress of my development over time, which I update semi-regularly at: https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260109.html

Now updated to https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260211.html
by cherryteastain | 2026-02-11 18:13:59+00:00
What is truly amazing here is the fact that they trained this entirely on Huawei Ascend chips per reporting [1]. Hence we can conclude the semiconductor to model Chinese tech stack is only 3 months behind the US, considering Opus 4.5 released in November. (Excluding the lithography equipment here, as SMIC still uses older ASML DUV machines) This is huge especially since just a few months ago it was reported that Deepseek were not using Huawei chips due to technical issues [2].

US attempts to contain Chinese AI tech totally failed. Not only that, they cost Nvidia possibly trillions of dollars of exports over the next decade, as the Chinese govt called the American bluff and now actively disallow imports of Nvidia chips as a direct result of past sanctions [3]. At a time when Trump admin is trying to do whatever it can to reduce the US trade imbalance with China.

[1] https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/chinas-ai-startup-zhipu-r...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/pro/chaos-at-deepseek-as-r2-launch...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-customs-agents-to...
by syntaxing | 2026-02-11 18:14:26+00:00
Was more mentioning the article about the economic aspect of China vs US in terms of AI.

While I do understand your sentiment, it might be worth noting the author is the author of bitandbytes. Which is one of the first library with quantization methods built in and was(?) one of the most used inference engines. I’m pretty sure transformers from HF still uses this as the Python to CUDA framework
by coldpie | 2026-02-11 18:14:30+00:00
Yeah, I'm definitely guilty of not being motivated to use these tools. I find them annoying and boring. But my company's screaming that we should be using them, so I have been trying to find ways to integrate it into my work. As I mentioned, it's mostly not been going very well. I'm just using the tool the company put in front of me and told me to use, I don't know or really care what it is.
by staticshock | 2026-02-11 18:14:53+00:00
I think the way to see this as the organic process of discovering hard-to-game benchmarks. The loop is:

1. People discover things LLMs can kind of do, but very poorly.

2. Frontier labs sample these discoveries and incorporate them into benchmarks to monitor internally.

3. Next generation model improves on said benchmarks, and the improvements generalize to improvements on loosely correlated real world tasks.
by strix_varius | 2026-02-11 18:15:15+00:00
I wonder if a slightly broader search for existing solutions - for instance, https://defold.com - would have shown that quick-startup, 3d-capable, c-integrable, low-end-hardware performant game engines could have been grabbed off the shelf.

That said, this is cool and I would have probably celebrated a similarly fun project in their shoes. Perhaps the real accomplishment here is getting Toyota to employ you to build a new, niche game engine.
by laurex | 2026-02-11 18:15:20+00:00
There are many Discord 'alternatives' but what if instead of trying to replace it with something that (kind of) works the same way, we actually got down to JTBD and first principles? To me, Discord is a hot mess, UX-wise. I've been working on this problem for years and it's so interesting what we think we "need" versus the anti-patterns many of the features come with. Considering holding some UX-focused hackathons to imagine better approaches, look at folk technology dot org.
by goldenarm | 2026-02-11 18:15:30+00:00
If you're tired of cross-referencing the cherry-picked benchmarks, here's the
geometric mean of SWE-bench Verified & HLE-tools :

Claude Opus 4.6: 65.5%

GLM-5: 62.6%

GPT-5.2: 60.3%

Gemini 3 Pro: 59.1%
Show HN: HelixNotes – UpNote-inspired local-first Markdown notes in Rust
by ArkHost | 2026-02-11 18:15:42+00:00
Hi HN.

I tested literally dozens of note-taking apps over the years — free, paid, everything. They all sucked except UpNote. Great UX, clean, fast, just works. But your data lives in Google Firebase. Dealbreaker.

So I tried Obsidian. Local files, markdown, own your data — great philosophy. But the app itself? Even with everything disabled, as a plain markdown editor it was painful. I actually stopped taking notes entirely.

So I built what I wanted: inspired by UpNote's clean design but taken further; less clutter, more polished, with Obsidian's local-first ideology. Your notes are standard .md files on your filesystem. No cloud, no sync service, no lock-in.

What's in it:

- Rich markdown editor (TipTap v3) with formatting toolbar, slash commands, and source mode
- Full-text search powered by Tantivy (Rust search engine) — fast and instant
- Graph view to visualize connections between notes via [[wiki-links]]
- Per-note version history
- AI writing tools with bring-your-own-key (Anthropic/OpenAI).
- Theme accent colors, light/dark mode, multiple fonts
- Built with Rust, Tauri + Svelte. No Electron

Linux and Windows now, macOS coming. AGPL-3.0, source on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes

Happy to answer questions.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-02-11 18:16:37+00:00
Sure. My sole point is that calling Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 "last generation models" is discounting how good they are. In fact, in my experience, Opus 4.6 isn't much of an improvement over 4.5 for agentic coding.

I'm not immediately discounting Z.ai's claims because they showed with GLM-4.7 that they can do quite a lot with very little. And Kimi K2.5 is genuinely a great model, so it's possible for Chinese open-weight models to compete with proprietary high-end American models.
by snapetom | 2026-02-11 18:16:42+00:00
I'll add this - for the love of God, please brush the snow off your car before you drive, especially after a storm.

If it gets above freezing during the day and freezes again at night, the snow will go through a melt/freeze cycle to become a nice thick sheet of ice. I don't know how many times I've seen a 3 inch sheet of ice go flying off a car traveling 70 mph on the Garden State Parkway. This is common sense and it's infuriating how brain dead people are about this. Incidents have killed people before.

Thankfully I've also seen NJ State Troopers hand out tickets for this. I now live in a state, Washington, where the politicians are too busy grandstanding on stupid issues while ice sheets go flying at cars around on the freeway after a snowstorm.
by nis0s | 2026-02-11 18:17:14+00:00
Quality is a subjective property unless you’ve established protocols, frameworks or standards which allow objective measurements.

Software engineering never had any strict standards or requirements (beyond borrowing abstractions from computer science) unlike other types of engineering. You never needed any license to be a software engineer, which showed up the in the “quality” of candidates or employees. The closest you get to ensuring even quality is education or training, but even that is a wash because of the varying quality (hah) of programs. Many programs also fudge up rankings, so you have shit-tier schools (and faculty) pretending they’re top-20 or whatever, meanwhile they are global zeros.

Now it doesn’t matter at all, you can’t put into place standards and requirements you never had to begin with just because your employment is on the line. People have been shipping broken, terrible shit for years because parts of it worked, or you got customer lock in for whatever reason. Microsoft Teams is a great example of this.

Software engineering, and computer science by extension, don’t require any formal degree or licensure anymore specifically because of AI. Thank God for that, actually, because a lot of terrible-at-their-field people got ahead because of sheer luck and we are stuck with them as though they’re the “experts”. In that sense, we should celebrate AI as an equalizer. It’s a digital gun, people should learn to use it, and responsibly.
by PKop | 2026-02-11 18:17:40+00:00
Australia has all the same problems with immigration, just much worse. [0]

I've come across so many Australians online holding the same sentiments as myself. "Per capita" measures of "economy" mean more to me than nebulous claims of the the overall economy benefiting from immigration. When I look over time the quality of life and level of development in Australia, nothing points to any such need of an influx of millions of foreigners for most Australians. It's obvious why some businesses want to improve labor margins and why politicians benefit from diluting domestic voters base and important a voting block, though mostly it's a sort of civic religious belief apart from any practical concrete benefit so many leaders support it because they think it is a moral obligation.

Lower birth rates, massively unaffordable housing, strains on public programs and healthcare, as well as reshaping the character and ethnic makeup of the country all to the detriment most especially of young people are all reasons why I think Australia's mass immigration program is traitorous to its own citizens. Japan has more of an immigration policy I think is worth emulating, which is to the benefit of it's own people.

So much of "living in a place" is a zero-sum competition for resources with everyone else around you. Doubly so when you take into account intangible social loyalties and support networks, trust, sense of community etc that all go down as diversity rises. But again, just the massive increase in people in and of itself is huge punch in the face to young people and other citizens. What these people do not need is a rise in competition over space, and rival claims on democratic political power.

I think there is no mainstream policy you can advocate for that is as detrimental to and harms your fellow citizens more than immigration.

[0] https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/the-austral...
by asacrowflies | 2026-02-11 18:17:40+00:00
The paradox of tolerance is well studied and we've thru this song and dance for decades. Your "tolerance" would turn the whole world into North Korea/Singapore totalitarian society and we must not just "disagree" with you but violently resist and remove you from our society much like the communists . Arguments for tolerance against such parasitic .antonsocial. Anti liberty behaviors is beyond stupid.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-11 18:17:53+00:00
Nothing falls afoul of thermodynamics. This is not a closed system - you can inject as much energy into as you have available. Entropy and thermodynamics play no role here, but I would imagine that (a) the cost of the energy require (b) containment technology (c) what happens after you extract a given substance are/were all very involved in its failure.

This is already done with crude oil, and is called "cat cracking". You heat the crude oil until every component in it becomes gaseous (but still small-molecule) - the smaller the molecules they higher they rise up the "chimney", so you can siphon off particular components at particular heights.
Show HN: Praetorian Guard – Free AI tool to self-evaluate your CV (educational)
by saimonsan | 2026-02-11 18:18:10+00:00
Show HN: PRAETORIAN Guard – a free, experimental AI tool to self-assess your CV
Open-source, heuristic and educational only: it compares a CV to a job description to surface gaps and signals. Not a hiring tool, not decision support. Feedback welcome.
by spacebanana7 | 2026-02-11 18:19:20+00:00
Startups fail because of a lack of adoption far more often than by any other reason, including competitive and monetisation factors.

If your developer company gets popular you’ll be rich enough anyway. You might need to choose between screwing over your VCs by not monetising or screwing over your customers by messing around with licences.

But yourself as a founder will likely be okay as long as the tool is popular.
by jdasdf | 2026-02-11 18:19:58+00:00
>Public pensions and family benefits may seem old-fashioned compared with asset-based solutions. But they provide security without locking households into markets, without generating trillion-dollar investment pools, and without driving asset inflation that prices younger generations out of housing and wealth. Sometimes, the non-assetising path may simply be better.

It's an obvious propaganda post intended to demonize the financial markets, and promote unsustainable social security policies.
by teeray | 2026-02-11 18:20:36+00:00
> Even if your house technically runs on propane, and you have propane, electricity might still run the propane, so your house is going to get cold. Unless you run the woodstove. Which you will

Corollary: don’t buy a house in a place where it snows without two fully independent sources of heat. You want backups. There’s a reason why woodstoves are so popular in New England. A millivolt gas log stove on a thermostat can also be a good alternative.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-11 18:20:42+00:00
It is an interesting question whether it would be possible to distinguish the 2 senses of rotation in a plane that is not embedded in a 3-dimensional space where right and left are easily distinguished. The answer seems to be no.

While in a plane, if you choose 2 orthogonal vectors, from that moment on you can distinguish clockwise from counterclockwise and -i from +i, based on the order of the 2 chosen vectors.

However, from the point of view of a 3-dimensional observer that would watch this choice, it will probably look random, i.e. the senses of rotation would either match those that the 3-dimensional observer thinks as correct, or be the opposite, and within the plane there would be no way to recognize what choice has been made.

This is no big deal. Similarly, in an affine plane there is no origin, but after you choose a particular point then you have an origin to which you can bind a vector space with a system of coordinates, where the senses of rotation are established after the choice of 2 non-collinear vectors.

In an affine plane, the choice of 1 point eliminates the symmetry of translation, then the choice of 1 vector eliminates the symmetry of rotation, and then the choice of a 2nd non-collinear vector eliminates the symmetry between the 2 senses of rotation, allowing the complete determination of a system of coordinates for the 2-dimensional vector space and also the complete determination of the associated field of complex numbers.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-11 18:20:53+00:00
> At some point, they need to stop asking "can we add this feature?" and start asking "does this text editor need a network-aware rendering stack?"

Everyone has to prove their worth by involving more people in ever embiggening trainwrecks every quarters in this day and age just to maintain employment, and without tangibly threatening anyone else's while at it. That's where the features are coming from. That's what needs to be fixed. Which also goes way beyond engineering.
by the_fall | 2026-02-11 18:21:07+00:00
I think the US is markedly better for people in certain professions who want to become rich. This is obviously not true for the general population, but the amount of cash that's chasing profits in tech means that a non-trivial percentage of SF Bay Area techies have a shot at financial independence (let's say, $10M in the bank). This is certainly not true for IT workers in most of the EU.

But if you already have enough to never need to work again, you should be fine in almost any liberal and politically stable country, and there's something to be said about moving to a lower CoL place where you can afford a nicer home, etc.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-11 18:21:17+00:00
Most people's only computer??? MOST people in the 80's had never, personally, touched a computer other than maybe an ATM machine. The fact that most people today don't care about a personal computing device in terms of what it does or how it does it isn't really a surprise.

Most people don't care how the toaster or microwave work, only that they do. Same for the show me movies boxes in the living rooms. And, really, most people shouldn't have to care.

This isn't to dismiss privacy concerns or even right to own/repair... let alone "free" internet. It's just that most people shouldn't have to care about most things.
by xorcist | 2026-02-11 18:21:27+00:00
> I set it and use JavaScript to tell them to reload the page

While throwing out all users who opt-in to javascript, using Noscript or uBlock or something like it, may be acceptable collateral damage to you, it might be good to keep in mind that this plays right into Big Adtech's playbook. They spend over two decades to normalize the behavior of running a hundred or more programs of untrusted origin on every page load, and to treat users to opt-in to running code in a document browser with suspicion. Not everyone would like to hand over that power to them on a silver platter with a neat little bow on top.