MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smusamashah | 2026-02-21 16:28:32+00:00
So there is a spreadsheet of websites. That is very interesting. There was an article here sometime ago about a media group who have so many super SEOd websites. They all have common footer text. I searched and added as many as I could find in uBlacklist. I have a gist listing them and how I searched for them. You might find that useful.

Edit: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6573b27441d99a0a0c792431...
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-02-21 16:28:47+00:00
Should be "how far back in time can you read English?" The language itself is what is spoken and the writing, while obviously related, is its own issue. Spelling is conventional and spelling and alphabet changes don't necessarily correspond to anything meaningful in the spoken language; meanwhile there can be large changes in pronunciation and comprehensibility that are masked by an orthography that doesn't reflect them.
by rvz | 2026-02-21 16:29:07+00:00
Because just like in the legal profession, finance and the defense industry, medicine is a heavily regulated and protected field (as it should) which is meant to gatekeep against low quality or harmful "medical" devices that could be built by anyone.

The costs itself to enter already makes it close to impossible without outside funding which is why you see less startups in this and more vibe-coded toys that are at best experiments.

No-one would be happy to hear that they are using a "vibe coded" medical device instead of the established solutions.
by Chris_Newton | 2026-02-21 16:29:25+00:00
Interesting, thanks. In the UUID example you mentioned, it seems the CodeQL model is missing some information about how FastAPI’s runtime validation works and so not drawing correct inferences about the types. It doesn’t seem to have a general problem with tracking request parameters coming into Python web frameworks — in fact, the first thing that really impressed me about CodeQL was how accurate its reports were with some quite old Django code — but there is a lot more emphasis on type annotations and validating input against those types at runtime in FastAPI.

I completely agree about the problem of someone deciding to turn these kinds of scanning tools on and then expecting they’ll Just Work. I do think the better tools can provide a lot of value, but they still involve trade-offs and no tool will get everything 100% right, so there will always be a need to review their output and make intelligent decisions about how to use it. Scanning tools that don’t provide a way to persistently mark a certain result as incorrect or to collect multiple instances of the same issue together tend to be particularly painful to work with.
by krapp | 2026-02-21 16:30:12+00:00
Gene Roddenberry imagined a society in which humans evolved beyond their base desires and where petty disagreements and conflict didn't exist - but that made for lousy drama so the writers ignored it.

But you don't even need to go that far. A Star Trek style 'post-scarcity' society is impossible because it depends on infinite free energy, FTL and perfect matter replication, none of which are allowed by modern physics. In the real world you can't just outwit the second law of thermodynamics. No matter what form AGI takes - if it ever exists at all - it won't be magical. There will always be scarcity, and where scarcity exists there will always be hierarchies of power and control because human nature doesn't change.
by rhdunn | 2026-02-21 16:30:16+00:00
I can comprehend most of the text back to 1300, if slower than Modern/Present Day English. It helps to know the old letter forms, and some of how Shakespearean (Early Modern), Middle, and Old English work. It also helps sounding it out.

Past that, I'm not familiar with Old English enough to understand and follow the text.
by zephen | 2026-02-21 16:30:28+00:00
Obviously to you and me, but you can see comments right here where others disagree.

And the detractors certainly have momentum in certain segments on their side.

Historically, of course, it was languages like Fortran and COBOL and even Smalltalk, but even today we have MATLAB, R, Lua, Mathematica, and julia.

Big-endian won in network byte order, but lost the CPUs. One-based indexing won in mathematical computing so far, and lost main-stream languages so far, but the julia folks are trying to change that.
by kmbfjr | 2026-02-21 16:30:30+00:00
You are not wrong, except at scale it gets complicated quickly. For starters, to support large user numbers, you’re going to have to process your own grib2 data for radar and turn them into tiles at zoom levels.

It takes about 24 cores with a GPU to do CONUS, Canada, Alaska, Pacific and Caribbean data. This should be 2x for redundancy. Even being cheap with main processing in my basement (gen power, backup internet) the cloud costs to serve it are $200 month plus data transfer. The standby grib machine spins up should it not see the cheap primary or the NOAAPort receiver is offline.

There is no money to be made without whoring out your user’s privacy. People just won’t pay for a privacy focused weather app. I keep this going as a hobby.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-02-21 16:30:32+00:00
I also guess you haven't read the article too:

> And the real irony? The legal threats are the reputation damage. Not the vulnerability itself - vulnerabilities happen to everyone. It's the response that tells you everything about an organization's security culture.

See. The moral of the story is that the entity care more about their face than the responsibility to fix the bug, that's the biggest issue.

He also pointed out bugs do happens and those are reasonable, and he agreed to expose them in an ethical manner -- but the goodwill, no matter well or ill intentioned, those responses may not come with the same good tolerations, especially when it comes to "national" level stuff where those bureaucrats knows nothing about tech but they knew it has political consequences, a "deface" if it was exposed.

Also, I happened to work with them before and know exactly why they have a lot of legal documents and proceedings, and that's because of bureaucracy, the bad kind, the corrupt kind of bureaucracy such that every wrong move you inflicted will give you huge, if not capitcal punishment, so in order to protect their interest, they rather do nothing as it is unfortunately the best thing. The risk associated of fixing that bug is so high so they rather not take it, and let it rot.

There's a lot of system in Hong Kong that is exactly like that, and the code just stay rotten until the next batch of money comes in and open up new theatre of corruption. Rinse and repeat
by tptacek | 2026-02-21 16:31:18+00:00
This reads very LLM-y, misses huge chunks of the story (multiple paragraphs on "clamping" and static ECDH, a single line on Ristretto and nothing on signature schemes, which is where that matters), has a breathless tone about Chapoly and Nacl that is totally unwarranted, misses almost all the NIST PQC drama, most of which was not in fact about hybrid cryptography, and in the end doesn't offer any analysis, just this bad re-telling.

My guess is someone had this generated as part of some dumb pressure campaign. It's weird.

(It's funny that people are chiming in to call this a "hit piece"; if anything, it's twisting itself into pretzels to be charitable to Bernstein's IETF involvement. I assume whoever generated it supports him.)
by simonw | 2026-02-21 16:31:29+00:00
I do most of my programming from my phone now. I love it. I get to spend more time out in the world and not chained to my laptop. I can work in the garden with the chickens, or take the dog on a walk, or use public transport time productively while going to fun places.

It's actually the writing of content for my blog that chains me to the laptop, because I won't let AI write for me. I do get a lot of drafts and the occasional short post written in Apple Notes though.
by mpalmer | 2026-02-21 16:31:47+00:00
And thanks for taking the criticism.

In all honesty, "would have written it myself but I was too eager to get it out the door" doesn't really make sense to me. You're acknowledging that you took a shortcut to get it out the door (blog post as tech debt is a new one!) - does that mean you'd like to write something up yourself eventually?

I hope so, and would like to read it. In particular, since this is presented as research, I'd be very interested to read about your experimental observations that show the risks/costs/edge cases/limits of this pattern. As it stands, there's no indication of self-critique or really any process of systematic evaluation of the solution.
by fogzen | 2026-02-21 16:31:53+00:00
What I don’t get: If it’s just a workflow engine why even use LLM for anything but a natural language interface to workflows? In other words, if I can setup a Zapier/n8n workflow with natural language, why would I want to use OpenClaw?

Nondeterministic execution doesn’t sound great for stringing together tool calls.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-21 16:32:10+00:00
This is a lot bigger than one municipality. And with the Munich thing there was a lot of dodgy lobbying going on. Like Microsoft suddenly moving their HQ there. Then a new mayor came in that was suddenly all pro-Microsoft.

La suite is a lot bigger than that. And parts are actually being used already. They recently started using the meeting component called visio.
by secondcoming | 2026-02-21 16:33:12+00:00
It used be Google Deployment Manager but that's dead soon so terraform.

To roll back you tell GCE to use the previous image. It does all the rolling over for you.

Our deployment process looks like this:

- Jenkins: build the code to debian packages hosted on JFrog

- Jenkins: build a machine image with ansible and packer

- Jenkins: deploy the new image either to test or prod.

Test deployments create a new Instance Group that isn't automatically attached to any load balancer. You do that manually once you've confirmed everything has started ok.
by fuzzy2 | 2026-02-21 16:33:18+00:00
They probably did not. Privacy notices are usually written by non-technical people. They include a lot more than what is actually stored. I’d also be very surprised if they actually interacted with the digital passport (NFC) as part of the process.

I was once part of the process of creating one. After two rounds, business decided too much money is wasted here and all the nonsense will stay. Better to have too much listed than too little.
by gattilorenz | 2026-02-21 16:33:23+00:00
I mean, I’m sure there _are_ drive adapters without CHS support; in my sample size of 1, a cheap no-name adapter bought from Amazon a few years ago, it works just fine (I’m assuming the very early IDE drive I used didn’t use LBA, but I don’t have it anymore).

For what is worth the adapter is one of those half-red half-black vertical-insertion ones with a cursed USB-A to USB-A cable, connections for SATA and PATA (2.5 and 3.5”) and a sliding “Molex” connector for the 3.5 PATA drive. Not a quality item…
by sdkfjhdsjk | 2026-02-21 16:33:26+00:00
I am in the USA (regrettably--my nation was conquered and subjugated long ago) and it IS dystopian, but there IS an alternative.

The alternative is stay far away from digital slavery. Keep out of the slaughterhouse. Never approach it, and denounce it with every breath and fiber of your being.

Do you have a phone? It's a surveillance device. Its entire purpose from day one was to enslave you. Do not participate.

The question is, how much are you willing to give up in order to obtain freedom? What lengths will you go to? How badly do you really want it?
by demosito666 | 2026-02-21 16:33:54+00:00
In countries with functional democracy it actually is happening. In Sweden anti-immigration sentiments allowed for right party to gain significant share in the parliament and now immigration rules are changing and immigration rates are lowering. One may argue that this is 20 years too late, but in the past the majority of the population public actually didn’t actively oppose the policies. They do now, the situation is changing. No swexit required.
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-02-21 16:33:59+00:00
I did consider using Cairo but figured a simple PDF driver would take care of most of the work. That would have been fine if not for the pathforall operator. I ended up doing all the stroke path implementation for dashed lines as well.

I used to work for the UK distributor for QMS who were Adobe's second largest OEM for PostScript so I had a lot of exposure to early PostScript printers. Also I've always thought the LaserWriter was more significant to Apple than most people realise. I lost count of the number of companies I visited who had a bunch of Macs and a LaserWriter networked over AppleTalk.
by GistNoesis | 2026-02-21 16:35:04+00:00
It's even worse than that.

The positives outcomes are structurally being closed. The race to the bottom means that you can't even profit from it.

Even if you release something that have plenty of positive aspects, it can and is immediately corrupted and turned against you.

At the same time you have created desperate people/companies and given them huge capabilities for very low cost and the necessity to stir things up.

So for every good door that someone open, it pushes ten other companies/people to either open random potentially bad doors or die.

Regulating is also out of the question because otherwise either people who don't respect regulations get ahead or the regulators win and we are under their control.

If you still see some positive door, I don't think sharing them would lead to good outcomes. But at the same time the bad doors are being shared and therefore enjoy network effects. There is some silent threshold which probably has already been crossed, which drastically change the sign of the expected return of the technology.
by Elevanix | 2026-02-21 16:35:06+00:00
Thanks a lot for comparing my solution to Storj like infrastructures and You’re right the concept of decentralized/fragmented storage has roots in the early 2010s with Storj and Sia

But I meant to say deduplication and network with safety was seemed as impossible by many so I made that statement

By the way,
We didn't require complex node setups or crypto-tokens like them we work above base providers like Dropbox and providing well hardened safety that anyone could use without prior crypto-knowledge with streaming and parallel downloading as base

We have created a Consumer version of file manager with integrated mesh(all cloud providers mixed) with options like creating shareable pools so on total your college notes sits in everywhere all users cloud provider spot with safety and you can only feel the speed of parallel downloading from different providers when you try it out

Once again thanks for your comment for being constructive ,Feel free to express your knowledge I need it myself to Grow to make usable and stable versions to every level of peoples
Our goal is in file deduplication be Semantic compression where files within get deduplicated or indexed for collective mesh yet keeping privacy as base

And we did this all on free you can use your cloud storage more safer than themselves and as a 17-year-old self-taught dev, I'm eager for your technical insights to help us stabilize this for the masses.
by anon_cow1111 | 2026-02-21 16:36:20+00:00
I think it should be hopefully obvious to everyone by now, that bashing your neurons with a bunch of chemicals during critical formative years always carries some risk of later consequences. That applies to alcohol and nicotine and HFCS and caffeine and leaded gasoline and dude weed lmao.

Anecdote: For the teenager reading this now, I'm not saying you should be a completely straightedge loser and abstain from whatever this generation's sex drugs and rocknroll equivalent is, but...

I know a few stoners that had to get serious therapy after highschool, and the drugs were probably a major factor in this. Not definitive proof, but maybe ya know, tone it down a little for the sake of your future self? Just a mild suggestion.
by cryptonector | 2026-02-21 16:36:45+00:00
Exactly. My apologies for not noticing this was over in Europe, but you'll find laws similar to CFAA all over the place. And in Europe it might be worse simply because you might have 27 different such laws _and_ the European arrest warrant, and you might not know which of those 27 laws applies. (I guess you could say the same about the U.S., with 50 instead of 27, but at least for this sort of thing in the U.S. it's mainly federal law that matters the most.)
by nottorp | 2026-02-21 16:36:46+00:00
Well it's not like I buy many physical goods from US companies (and amazon US is fine, even handles customs for me).

Keeping my subscriptions to Asimov's and Ars Technica is becoming a pain though because ... Stripe I guess. Ars staff even confirmed it.

A Revolut card works fine, local banks' cards deny the charge by default and if you're lucky they call you and ask if they should allow it.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-21 16:37:01+00:00
That's really a different issue. There may be only one light switch vendor, and then you're stuck with what they offer, too. There is room in the market for more manufacturers. I'd definitely buy from one who offered a truly open source and customizable option. But I wouldn't get it for my grandmother, she's much better served by what Google offers already.
by ceroxylon | 2026-02-21 16:37:32+00:00
I also find AI trope-ification articles exhausting to read, there's a reason I've fine tuned my system prompts to wipe all of it away. This reads like "Hey Gemini, I verified my passport on LinkedIn, write an impassioned exposé on Persona's privacy policy".

When people leave in things like staccato language and Blogspot era emphasis, I feel like I might as well copy the Persona privacy policy and prompt my own AI(s) on the topic and read that instead.
The Reason Robotics DevOps Is Failing to Scale
by ajime | 2026-02-21 16:37:54+00:00
In the robotics industry, the transition from manual "bespoke" workflows to standardized Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is a critical requirement for scaling operations. Robotics CI/CD involves automating the build, testing, and distribution of software specifically for heterogeneous hardware, such as NVIDIA Jetson or other edge devices.

Robotics CI/CD: Key Requirements:

Hardware <-> Software Alignment: Unlike traditional cloud CI/CD, robotics requires managing diverse hardware stacks and ensuring that software (e.g., ROS2 packages, CUDA drivers) is compatible with specific sensor and motor configurations. Edge-Native Pipelines: CI/CD must extend to the "execution layer" at the network edge to handle intermittent connectivity and bandwidth constraints. Automated Validation: Standard practices now include using simulation environments (like NVIDIA Isaac Sim) to validate code before it touches physical hardware, reducing the risk of catastrophic failure.

Fleet Management and Edge Maturity:

According to a 2025 Gartner Strategic Roadmap, edge computing has become a fundamental part of digital transformation, with 27% of enterprises already deployed and an expected doubling within two years. However, many organizations struggle by focusing on individual use cases rather than unified platforms, leading to "disjointed islands" of technology. Today, most enterprises are in the “independent edge” phase, with some amount of IoT. Deployments tend to be custom-made, without shared technologies or architectures. While there are some edge AI deployments, they tend to be unique in how they are managed and deployed"

Manual: No IoT monitoring; robots run until failure.

Connected: Cloud only processing with high latency (2–8 seconds).

Conditional: Edge filtering active; basic threshold-based alerts.

Predictive: On-robot ML inference predicts failures 7–14 days ahead.

Autonomous: Self-healing fleets; edge AI triggers autonomous safe-stops or rerouting.

Fleet Management Challenges:

Operational Connectivity: Securely managing remote devices over unstable networks is a primary hurdle, requiring tools that provide SSH-less connectivity and realtime observability.

Interoperability: Managing heterogeneous fleets where different manufacturers use proprietary localization and communication systems remains a significant "RobOps" challenge.

Resource Optimization: Efficient fleet management requires sub-second decision making at the edge (under 50ms) to ensure safety and resilience during network outages.
by ksherlock | 2026-02-21 16:38:16+00:00
alias sandbox-no-network='sandbox-exec -p "(version 1)(allow default)(deny network*)"'

pro-tip on alias:

for sh-compliant shells, including a whitespace at the end of the alias string causes the next token to also go through alias expansion. (maybe it would also be a hint to the shell for tab completion as well). This is a perfect example of when, where, and why you would want to do that.
by Retric | 2026-02-21 16:39:16+00:00
Autopilots have contributed to a significant number of crashes and that’s with a very safety conscious industry.

In a hypothetical Tesla style let’s take more risk approach, buggy autopilots can surprisingly quickly get into a situation at cruising altitude which isn’t recoverable before hitting the ground. What is the worst possible thing an autopilot could do in this situation is eye opening here.

> There are no production aircraft fitted with autopilots that can correct for breaking a wing off.

That was a production aircraft still in service. https://simpleflying.com/how-many-f-15-eagles-are-still-in-s...

Granted that specific case depends on the aircraft being a lifting body etc so obviously doesn’t extend to commercial aviation. But my point was lack of aerodynamic stability on its own isn’t enough that giving up is ok.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-21 16:39:47+00:00
Yeah I hate it when people do that and I always call them out on it.

Unfortunately our company is trying to be "AI First" so they'll just point to that and continue their bullshit.

Our company literally promotes AI slop over personally made content even if it's mediocre crap. All they care about is rising usage numbers of things like copilot in office.
by leoc | 2026-02-21 16:39:59+00:00
If you want to improve your score, the blog author (Dr. Colin Gorrie) has just the thing: a book which will teach you Old English by means of a story about a talking bear. Here's how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhlWdVvZfw . Your dream of learning Old English has never been closer: get _Ōsweald Bera_ https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ today.
by jgb1984 | 2026-02-21 16:40:19+00:00
Numbers from Denmark and the Netherlands (the only two European countries where it's allowed to gather such statistics) show that non-EU immigration is a net cost to the society (and economy). In the Netherlands a non-western asylumseeker comes to about 800.000 € to 1.300.000 € net cost to the state over the persons lifetime, depending on what you take into account.
And that's purely the financial part, we're not even talking about the increase in crime and the ghettoisation of most western European cities.
It's a tragedy, for everyone involved (because most 2nd and 3rd generation non-western immigrants still live a life of poverty in Belgium/Netherlands).