MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2026-02-20 20:05:16+00:00
Nope, actually "both Brave and Opera still support manifest v2" is objectively wrong.

Brave does NOT support manifest v2. They have instead hand picked exactly 4 manifest v2 extensions (AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix) and have hard-coded special support for them. They quite literally say in https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ that all other v2 extensions will go away from Brave once Google fully removes support for them (which may have happened already, since it was posted a while ago).

As for Opera (https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/09/mv2-extensions-opera/):

> MV3 extensions are the new standard and will offer a more stable and secure experience. Opera itself will shift to an MV3-only extension store.
by ktm5j | 2026-02-20 20:05:25+00:00
I feel like you're making a silly distinction. I mean, we ban cigarette use for minors because it's bad for them.. are you against that too? You're admitting that you think certain books are inappropriate for kids, but saying that we shouldn't do anything about preventing their use in schools.. why?

Not every kid goes to a school with wonderful teachers. I think banning books for use in schools is justifiable.
by skizm | 2026-02-20 20:05:31+00:00
I remember a long time ago on Reddit I saw a post saying (paraphrasing) "AMA: PayPal locked up $600,000 of my money because my video game is selling so quickly they think it is a scam." Turns out this was Notch selling early alpha versions of Minecraft off his personal website, which totally did look like a scam at the time.
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-20 20:05:32+00:00
> If you know what you're doing you don't need AWS support.

Some big companies have massive monolith code bases. This is not a generalization you could apply universally. There are a lot of other considerations. What kind of features are we talking about, what kind of I/o patterns are planned, what is the scale of data expected, etc.
by Atlas667 | 2026-02-20 20:05:38+00:00
> Aren't the politicians or their appointed bureaucrats who'd be making all the decisions if these needs were government owned?

Well that would be true under a capitalist government.

> Why would state control lead to less policing?

Its not just "the state runs it", its "we actively become the state".

Collective ownership through peoples councils, peoples courts with a world view that keeps it all open: socialism.

The world view of not allowing individual ownership over collective goods, the world view of socialism, is the life line of the movement. The actual practice of daily democracy, of running production and of deciding social functions is everyones responsibility and it should not be left to what has become a professional class of liars.

Public office members, which should only exist where absolutely necessary, should be locals and serve as messengers with 0 decision making power. All power should be in the local councils. We can mathematically implement this today (0 knowledge proofs).

Every single book on socialism is on theory and practices of acheiving this. Thats what the "dictatorship of the proletariat is", the dictatorship of working people, collectively.

> What incentive structure would lead to innovation without a profit motive, when even the modern communist world relies on capital markets?

We've been innovating for hundreds of thousands of years before capitalism. You dont need to generate money to innovate, the innovation itself is the driver, AKA a better life. No need to lock and limit production behind the attaining of profits of those who lead it.
by overgard | 2026-02-20 20:05:39+00:00
> It is inevitable.

Is it though? I agree the technology evolving is inevitable, but, the race/rush to throw as much money at scaling and marketing as possible before these things are profitable and before society is ready is not inevitable at all. It feels extremely forced. And the way it's being shoved into every product to juice usage numbers seems to agree with me that it's all premature and rushed and most people don't really want it. The bubble is essentially from investing way more money in datacenters and GPU's than they can even possibly pay for or build, and there's no evidence there's even a market for using that capacity!

It's funny you bring up artists, because I used to work in game development and I've worked with a lot of artists, and they almost universally HATE this stuff. They're not like "oh thank you Mr. Altman", they're more like "if we catch you using AI we'll shun you." And it's not just producers, a lot of gamers are calling out games that are made using AI, so the customers are mad too.

You keep talking about "progress", but "progress" towards what exactly? So far these things aren't making anything new or advancing civilization, they're remixing stuff we already did well before, but sloppily. I'm not saying they don't have a place -- they definitely do, they can be useful. My argument is against the bizarre hype machine and what sometimes seems like sock puppets on social media. If the marketting was just "hey, we have this neat AI, come use it" I think there'd be a lot less backlash then people saying "Get in line and adapt"

> And stop clinging to your "great intellectually challenging job" because you are holding back progress.

Man, I really wish I had the power you think I have. Also, I use these tools daily, I'm deeply familiar with them, I'm not holding back anyone's progress, not even my own. That doesn't mean I think they're beyond criticism or that the companies behind them are acting responsibly, or that every product is great. I plan to be part of the future, but I'm not just going to pretend like I think every part of it is brilliant.

> It can't be that challenging if it can be handled by a machine anyway.

This will be really funny when it comes for your job.
by ben_w | 2026-02-20 20:06:01+00:00
They really don't.

One of my childhood life-lessons, which took far too many examples to internalise, was all the people who are very happy to follow the crowd because it is the crowd.

In fact, what you're doing now suggests my approach is so alien to you that you yourself are right now not only not even telling yourself this but also labelling yourself as someone who does not say this.
by alejohausner | 2026-02-20 20:06:50+00:00
I bought some amber glasses from blublocker.com[1], because they link to a research paper that actually measured how much of each wavelength their filters allow (as well as other brands). They're pretty dark, so you have to crank up the brightness on your screen, but I'm confident that I'm not getting ANY blue.

1: https://www.blublocker.com/blogs/news/what-blue-light-blocki...
by jmalicki | 2026-02-20 20:06:54+00:00
There is the pre-training, where you passively read stuff from the web.

From there you go to RL training, where humans are grading model responses, or the AI is writing code to try to pass tests and learning how to get the tests to pass, etc. The RL phase is pretty important because it's not passive, and it can focus on the weaker areas of the model too, so you can actually train on a larger dataset than the sum of recorded human knowledge.
by anp | 2026-02-20 20:07:04+00:00
> any [] property can be [taken by the state] from its [original] owners simply by [those owners becoming more powerful than the state wants]

When rephrased like the above, I think what you’re describing is pretty common in history. Many industries and assets have been nationalized when it serves the state’s interests.

IMO the moral justification is that there is no ownership or private property except that which is sanctioned by the state (or someone state-like) applying violence in its defense. In this framing, there’s little moral justification for the state letting private actors accrue outsized power that harms consumers/citizens.
by casey2 | 2026-02-20 20:07:04+00:00
The problem is that people are often delusional and AI feeds these delusions. You have to switch to objective measures to gain skill and taste. This is true for art (ask: Where is the focal point) instead of "is this good or necessary"

There are long lists of successful programs that market themselves as little more than "like program X, but faster/distributed/higher resolution/bigger map"
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-20 20:07:38+00:00
It's not though? People aren't doing fact-checking out of kindness, they're doing it because they're being paid to do it. The people paying them expect a certain outcome from their fact-checking activities, and objectivity doesn't really factor into the picture, but ensuring a certain narrative prevails, does.

Pretending that a news story is factually correct because someone is getting paid to check it for accuracy is asinine. The fact checkers themselves have biases and aren't objective sources of truth, same with the people supplying their paychecks.

The fact that people have the capacity to lie and be violent, but that not everyone is a liar or a murderer is obvious and doesn't need to be stated.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-20 20:08:02+00:00
> United States remains at the forefront of cutting-edge AI technology

then the US can just call up Google and Anthropic and use their on-par if not better cutting-edge AI technology. OpenAI just isn't important enough and alternatives exist to fill the crater they leave. Also, the public isn't a huge fan of AI taking all the jobs and it's an election year (albeit mid-term).
by ramses0 | 2026-02-20 20:08:38+00:00
I've always thought of it more as "Co-Pilot", but formally: "Autopilot" might truly be the better definition (lane-keeping, distance-keeping), whereas a "Co-Pilot" (in aviation) implies more active control, ie: pulling you up from a nose dive.

So... informally, "Tesla Co-Pilot" => "You're still the pilot but you have a helper", vs "Tesla Autopilot" => "Whelp, guess I can wash my hands and walk away b/c it's AuToMaTiC!"

...it's tough messaging for sure, especially putting these powertools into peoples hands with no formal training required. Woulda-coulda-shoulda, similar to the 737MAX crashes, should "pilots" of Teslas required training in the safety and navigation systems before they were "licensed" to use them?
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-20 20:08:51+00:00
The headers alone are a huge giveaway. Spams repetitive sensatational writing tropes like "No X, No Y, No Z" and "X. Not Y" numerous times. Incoherent usage of bold type all throughout the article. Lack of any actually verifiable concrete details. The giant list of bullet points at the end that reads exactly like helpful LLM guidance. Many signals throughout the entire piece, but don't have time to do a deep dive. It's fine if you don't believe me, I'm not suggesting the article be removed. Just giving a heads-up for people who prefer not to read generated articles.

Regarding your allergy, my best guess is that it is generated by Claude, not ChatGPT, and they have different styles, so you may be sensitive to one but not the other. Regarding plausibility, that's the thing that LLMs excel at. I do agree it is very plausible.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-20 20:09:10+00:00
Honestly FDR doesn't get enough credit for probably saving capitalism.

He borrowed just enough of the stuff socialists were promising, and bolted it onto the government to mollify the working class who'd been absolutely ravaged by oligarchs for the preceding decades. You only have to look at the rest of the world to see how things might've turned out without FDR's very reasonable interventions.
by matt_d | 2026-02-20 20:09:18+00:00
Some highlights (by Stuart Sul):

> Tensor core and memory pipelining: it turns out some tensor core instructions are implicitly pipelined, without proper documentation. Identifying these implicit semantics and the resulting pipelining tactics can boost your throughput by up to 10%.

> Hinting the PTX assembler properly: even logically identical PTX code can compile into meaningfully different SASS instructions, depending on how you write it. Signaling the assembler with the right instruction patterns is significant for minimizing latency.

> Occupancy: with all the modern GPU features, it gets tricky, and it is (again) poorly documented. Distributed shared memory doesn’t behave identically across all SMs, and 5th-generation tensor core instructions silently cap occupancy.
by solomonb | 2026-02-20 20:09:41+00:00
If you're accepting additions here is a fun one some friends and I did as experiment at the Topos Institute: https://github.com/ToposInstitute/polytt

And here is a set of single file lambda calculus implementations with a variety of extensions:
https://github.com/solomon-b/lambda-calculus-hs

`polytt` is kind of an ended experiment but that lambda calculus repo i plan to extend in the near future.
by overgard | 2026-02-20 20:10:25+00:00
I do. But, there's a lot of annoying things about it being a TUI. I can't select a block of text in my editor and ask it to do something with it. It doesn't know what I'm looking at. Giving it context feels imprecise because I'm writing out filenames by hand instead of referencing them with the tools. A lot of other small things that I find are better in an IDE
by greatgib | 2026-02-20 20:10:32+00:00
Also something that frustrated me a lot is that when browsing with the web browser on a computer, there is absolutely no way to share a link to a post.

For exemple there is a post with details about an event that will happen, when you look at available options: you can't click on it to go to a dedicated page like on LinkedIn, there is no option in the menu to have a shareable link. You can share with: someone on fb message, a group, your wall, things like that but no link.

But on the phone is it possible.
by partiallypro | 2026-02-20 20:10:36+00:00
Same, I have never interacted with their Facebook reels/videos but all the video thumbnails are practically just videos of porn stars/OnlyFans style content. Instagram isn't as bad on the Reels side, you'll get good content there...but the feed itself is dreadful, I never see anything from friends. It's all just slop from bigger brands/publishers. At this point, there are just chat services to me and my friends.
by nikcub | 2026-02-20 20:10:46+00:00
> What we've found is that giving LLM security agents access to good tools (Semgrep, CodeQL, etc.) makes them significantly better

100% agree - I spun out an internal tool I've been using to close the loop with website audits (more focus on website sec + perf + seo etc. rather than appsec) in agents and the results so far have been remarkable:

https://squirrelscan.com/

Human written rules with an agent step that dynamically updates config to squash false positives (with verification) and find issues while also allowing the llm to reason.
by sellne | 2026-02-20 20:10:51+00:00
I built this after seeing a tweet where someone was trying to describe a show from their childhood and nobody could figure it out.
You type what you remember — even if it's vague or wrong — and Claude AI identifies the movie, show, cartoon, or anime. TMDB provides the posters, ratings, and metadata. Each result includes links to JustWatch, Amazon, Apple TV, YouTube, and Google to find where to watch it.
Supports 20 languages and voice input via Web Speech API.
Stack: Python, Flask, Claude API (Anthropic), TMDB API, vanilla JS frontend. Deployed on Render free tier.
Source: https://github.com/SaraTnazari/whatdidIwatch
Would love feedback — especially on accuracy. Try it with something obscure and let me know if it gets it right.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 20:11:26+00:00
> In what way is having a single trucking standard for the entire country less efficient than having 50? In what way is having a single currency across the entire country less efficient than having 50?

This is why issuing currency and interstate commerce (meaning actually crossing state lines, not the modern interpretation of anything that affects commerce anywhere) are among the explicitly enumerated powers of the federal government.

> In what way is having a single standard for approval of medication less efficient than having 50?

It allows large states to set their own standards and smaller states to choose which of the standards to apply, e.g. Arizona says you can sell anything in Arizona that you can sell in Texas, without requiring everyone to agree on how the trade offs should be made, e.g. California can have more stringent rules than Texas. Meanwhile people in Texas could still choose not to consume anything if it hasn't been approved in California and people in California could go to Arizona to get things they think California is being too reserved by prohibiting.

> The US's advantage is precisely because of it's scale. It provides a massive addressable market allowing companies to scale rapidly.

Which in itself has the tendency to promote megacorps and market consolidation over competitive markets with larger numbers of smaller companies, and consolidated markets themselves have significant inefficiencies and costs.

Meanwhile why would that require the federal government to insert itself into local education policy or be issuing subsidies to oil companies etc.?
by ieie3366 | 2026-02-20 20:11:37+00:00
You are just not the target audience. Meta is a trillion dollar company and their algos are extremely optimized.

It probably detected your gender (male), age, location, social graph, as a combination of all these that you would be interested in AI-generated softcore pornography. And for the average user with your stats, they absolutely are.

Of course, nobody at Meta hardcoded their algorithm to do this: it’s just naturally found out the kind of content a person with your specs loves. Sorry, OP
by nickff | 2026-02-20 20:11:44+00:00
I invite you to read both the claims and the judgements related to the Instant Pot lawsuits yourself; they're all quite clear, and you can come to your own decision about how reasonable they are.

My read is that people overpowered the safety interlock, after which the lid (predictably) flew off, and they were injured (mostly by the hot steam and bits of food). I think it's ridiculous for people to expect safety mechanisms to be impossible to bypass, but maybe you disagree!
by Tharre | 2026-02-20 20:11:47+00:00
Who else is going to maintain and develop it? It's the same issue as with Chrome, even if you force Google to give it to some other company, they're all just as bad. And it's too big and too costly to maintain for anyone else but tech giants.

The only other options would be convincing users to pay 5 bucks a month for their software, or have some Government fork over the tens of millions required to pay open source developers. And good luck with that.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 20:12:31+00:00
> any hope of that long bet paying off will require one of three things: a free-market boom in workers that require commercial property for success (e.g. physical invention companies like e.g. Saildrone due to not being able to homelab resins for safety reasons)

That doesn't make sense for WeWork, though. Aren't they a rent-a-generic desk company? If you have any kind of specialist requirements (e.g. "processing resins") they'd seem like a bad fit.
by ben_w | 2026-02-20 20:13:18+00:00
> and debate is a means to pursue an agenda

Scount mindset: the discovery of the truth to the best of our ability without fear or favour.

The metaphor is: A scout who tells the general his troops are strong when they are weak, that the enemy is weak when it is strong, is a bad scout.

The opposite is a soldier mindset: a soldier who fears to fight when ordered, no matter the strength of the enemy, isn't a good soldier.

You can call the search for truth an agenda in its own right if you wish, but it lacks the "primarily used to influence or persuade" aspect of propaganda.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-20 20:13:40+00:00
Without these tariffs Trump and his advisors' already legislated and approved agenda adds 2 trillion dollars to our national debt. Step one is the Republican Congress rolling back the big beautiful bill that is no longer funded, if they truly are the fiscally responsible political party.

But we all know they are actually the party of unsustainable debt (with the political agenda of it blowing up the country as they lay out in their 40+ years of starve the beast policy). They then come to threads like this and talk about...the unsustainable debt that their 40+ years of policymaking has created and how government doesn't work (because of their 40+ years of policy making) and we need to get rid of it. 40+ years of destroying the country via starve the beast policy and placing the country in unsustainable financial peril all for a political agenda they can't reach any other way.
by com2kid | 2026-02-20 20:13:55+00:00
Facebook owning the local classifieds section is often overlooked.

Offer up is dead in my area. Craigslist is a joke. Everything happens on FB marketplace. Vendors sell food, gyms liquidate old equipment, small furniture stores post their entire inventory.

FB isn't monetizing any of that beyond ads for related products, which I guess is how they monetize everything.
Show HN: Ember MCP – local persistent memory for LLMs, kills stale memories
by TimoLabs | 2026-02-20 20:14:11+00:00
Most memory tools for LLMs just append to a flat list. Ember uses a different approach: a Shadow-Decay system that detects when new information contradicts stored memories and marks old ones stale automatically, rather than piling up conflicting facts.

It runs locally, stores everything in a vector database you control, and plugs into Claude (and other MCP-compatible clients) through 16 tools covering store, recall, graph search, and health monitoring.

The core problem it solves: you tell your AI you changed jobs, and three weeks later it still references the old one. Ember's contradiction engine catches that at write time.

Repo: https://github.com/Arkya-AI/ember-mcp

Still alpha — single user, some token overhead, scoring weights need tuning for different use cases. Posting here for technical feedback before wider release.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-20 20:14:23+00:00
> Seller wasn’t involved in the tariffs. Rather the importer paid them

Strictly speaking it depends on the Incoterms agreed upon by the seller and buyer[1]. If the Incoterms are DDP, then the seller should pay import duties and taxes and as such is involved.

Of course sellers are typically trying to run a business, so they'll bake the taxes and import duties into the sales price. So effectively the buyer ends up paying for it, just indirectly.

This was relevant when the tariffs were introduced, as sellers with DDP goods in transit had committed to a sales price which included any tariffs and would have to swallow the extra costs when they got the bill from the freight forwarder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoterms#Allocations_of_risks...
by viccis | 2026-02-20 20:14:25+00:00
This is somewhat related, but I know of a fairly popular iOS application for iPads that stores passwords either in plaintext or encrypted (not as digests) because they will email it to you if you click Forgot Password. You also cannot change it. I have no experience with Apple development standards, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows whether this is something that should be reported to Apple, if Apple will do anything, or if it's even in violation of any standards?
by stayallive | 2026-02-20 20:14:39+00:00
I’m trying to do my part with Domain Chief. Becoming a registrar is pretty gnarly especially without very deep pockets (ICANN very expensive) but some great reseller companies (also Dutch) make it possible to enter the market.

I’m not perfect yet and tiny parts use Fly/Cloudflare (Anycast / Turnstile) and Stripe for payments but the core runs on own hardware in a Dutch datacenter provided by Dutch companies.