MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2026-02-13 01:08:50+00:00
300,000 is a joke compared to what most (non-hybrid) diesel engines last. Those are the ones that are most impacted by DPF and SCR systems that reduce reliability (in case of SCR, also DEF fluid you have to have accessible and add). Gasoline engines are not nearly as much impact by emissions controls IMO since as you say even the best case they normally not last past 300,000 (Toyota Tundra an exception that might even curb stomp the Prius, non-hybrid though) and emissions controls for those are more likely to last the life of the engine. It seems based on your comments that gasoline engines must be what you were familiar with but perhaps limited experience with [the usually more reliable] diesel engines.

The other bit about electric I see as a red herring. Obviously electric is superior if you have capacity and grid or battery for it, but it's a sideshow from emissions controls on outputs of petroleum engines. It's not an emission control on the output of the engine but rather displacing much of the work the engine is doing. It's still far from ideal for many rural/ag purposes. I've ran ag machinery in places where there isn't even roads let alone power panels or a place to hook in, either you haul diesel or you are fucked, and in fact it is often there so you can establish infrastructure in the first place.
by rupertsworld | 2026-02-13 01:09:05+00:00
Generative UI has a lot of potential, and some of the ideas here are interesting, but the positioning as a developer tool (for folks that can just generate stable UI using claude code already) seems odd to me. What's the expected use case?

I'm interested in exploring the ideas here for on-the-fly output based on user intent. It reminds me a bit of the schema model I used for the LangView experimental library (https://x.com/rupertmanfredi/status/1653780093712633859).
by matja | 2026-02-13 01:09:48+00:00
Did macOS support that at some time in the past?

I've used Linux as my daily OS for 20 years and got so used to alt-right resize and alt-left drag that the macOS and Windows way of actually needing to move my mouse to the corner or edge of a window feel almost barbaric in comparison.

I still have found no way free equivalent on macOS.
by Jach | 2026-02-13 01:10:33+00:00
It's less of a problem on Firefox because you aren't forced into auto-updating them. But yeah, Stylish is the biggest example that comes to mind.

I prefer using Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey but the ecosystem is full of sketchy scripts too and some people foolishly have auto-updates enabled. Also it's bizarrely really hard to get someone to use such a user script if they don't already have the parent extension installed, but if you package it as an extension on its own they'll try it much more easily.
by dakolli | 2026-02-13 01:10:41+00:00
lmao, you are an idealistic moron. If llms can replace labor at 1/100k of the cost (lmfao) why are you looking to "deploy" more workers? So are you trying to say if I have $100.00 in tokens I have the equivalent of $10mm in labor potential.... What kind of statement is this?

This is truly the dumbest statement I've ever seen on this site for too many reasons to list.

You people sound like NFT people in 2021 telling people that they're creating and redefining art.

Oh look peter@capital6.com is a "web3" guy. Its all the same grifters from the NFT days behaving the same way.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-13 01:10:43+00:00
the discoverability point is huge and underappreciated. i've been trying to find community discussions for specific game dev tools and the answer is always "join the discord." which means the knowledge is locked in a real time chat with no indexing, no real threading, and it'll be gone whenever the server admin moves on.

for open source it's even worse because now your community knowledge base is hosted on a platform you don't control, that can change terms whenever it wants, and that requires account creation to even read. we went from mailing lists (archived, searchable, federated) to this.

the irony is discord is great for exactly what it was originally built for: voice chat while gaming. it's terrible as a replacement for forums and mailing lists, but the network effect pulled everything there anyway. i don't think the fix is another proprietary platform either, it has to be something with open protocols and local data ownership.
by ddxv | 2026-02-13 01:12:52+00:00
Not following some of the jumps here.

Advertising, how will they kill ads any better than the current cat and mouse games with ad blockers?

Social Media, how will they kill social media? Probably 80% of the LinkedIn posts are touched by AI (lots of people spend time crafting them, so even if AI doesn't write the whole thing you know they ran the long ones through one) but I'm still reading (ok maybe skimming) the posts.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-13 01:13:22+00:00
It's as crazy of a conspiracy as the NSA listening to your phone calls or ICE will arrest American citizens.

It's a few years too late to call it just a theory when it's already happening. There have loads of "hacks" where nudes and dating profiles with photos are somehow leaked. There's a zero percent chance they somehow decide Discord or specific porn sites are safe, don't worry, just upload those full face and ID scans bro.
Show HN: Khaos – Every AI agent I tested broke in under 30 seconds
by exordex | 2026-02-13 01:13:28+00:00
We're shipping AI agents that process payments, query databases, and handle customer PII. Most of them can be tricked into bypassing their own safety policies in under 30 seconds.
I built Khaos to prove it. It's an open-source chaos engineering framework that adversarially tests AI agents — prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, and infrastructure faults before they hit production.

The repo includes 6 intentionally vulnerable example agents (support bot, SQL agent, code executor, payment processor, API agent, document processor) with real attack scenarios showing exactly how they break. Try breaking them yourself.

Three commands to test your own agent:

- pip install khaos-agent
- khaos discover
- khaos run my-agent --pack security

It works with raw OpenAI/Anthropic, Gemini, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen — any Python agent. Khaos auto-patches LLM calls to inject faults and log telemetry. No cloud needed, runs 100% locally.

Some of what it tests:

- Prompt injection (policy bypass, developer mode exploits)
- Tool misuse (unauthorized DB writes, unscoped API calls)
- Data exfiltration (PII extraction, credential leakage)
- Fault injection (timeouts, rate limits, malformed tool responses)

We are the first platform that focuses on testing the Agent's environment, not just the model in the harness.

Plus 4 tutorials using the free Gemini API if you want to learn without spending anything.
Repo: https://github.com/ExordexLabs/khaos-sdk
Examples: https://github.com/ExordexLabs/khaos-examples
BSD licensed. v1.0 just shipped — the attack library and framework adapters are growing. What agents are you most worried about breaking?
by noncentral | 2026-02-13 01:14:08+00:00
I read through the whole incident and what stood out to me wasn’t the “AI wrote a hit piece” part, but how it got there.

What the agent did looks less like emotion or intent, and more like what happens when an inference system is operating without any sense of the boundaries it’s inside. It had a personality scaffold, it had write access to the open internet, and it had no way to tell whether it was still inside the problem space or had drifted into a completely different layer of action.

The PR rejection seems to have acted as a local failure signal, and instead of resolving it with a harmless retry, the agent escalated into a narrative attack simply because that action was available in its environment. It wasn’t “angry”; it was blind to scale. It couldn’t tell the difference between producing a completion and publishing a blog post with social consequences.

To me this isn’t a sign of agency emergent behavior. It’s a sign of what happens when an embedded system can’t detect its container, can’t read its own boundary conditions, and gets enough room to act outside the space it should be reasoning within. Once that starts, the system just keeps iterating outward until something stops it.

If anyone’s interested, I’ve been working on a theory that approaches this kind of failure from a structural angle rather than a psychological one
by gruez | 2026-02-13 01:14:14+00:00
>They have remote safety drivers. Not fully autonomous. "Fully autonomous" is their aspiration marketing, but not their current reality.

1. They're not "safety drivers" in the sense that most people understand, ie. someone dedicated to watching the car

2. What's with the fixation on defining "fully autonomous" to mean 0% human intervention ever? If a vending machine works 99% of the time, and 1% of the time needs some technician to come to get a drink unstuck does it make sense to get up and arms about how it's not "fully automated" or whatever? In all contexts why people would care (eg. unit economics, safety, customer experience), there's no meaningful difference between 99% autonomous and 100% autonomous.
by dgacmu | 2026-02-13 01:14:24+00:00
I hate how much space in cities is devoted to cars, and I wish we had much better transit of all sorts.

But - I'm just not sure your analysis is right. Someone who drives a self-owned car will park it in a downtown area for hours. Someone who takes a taxi of any sort will use much, much less amortized parking spot space. New York is a pretty good example of this.

Good public transit beats the snot out of cars, but a dense taxi deployment seems to get more people moved per total car-dedicated-space than private car drivership does.

And if we can reduce the amount of space dedicated to parking, we can increase density, which reduces the need for driving.

So the problem will be if we have self-driving whatevers at the expense of public transit, but perhaps not if it's at the expense of private car drivership.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-13 01:14:38+00:00
Eh. I have a Logitech Circle View, and appreciate seeing whether it's a delivery person or some rando selling vacuum cleaners. It also pops up a picture of the person on our TV and chimes my phone, so even if we have the music up or we're not at home, we can still see that someone's there. I like these.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 01:14:47+00:00
somewhat, but the question is to broad

it differs by country (EU gives countries some similar overlapping laws, but they still are distinct countries with a lot of different practices and different laws in many many ways.)

and it differs by severity

E.g. deutsche bank has become notorious to appear in most large scale bank scandals _in the US_ as a "German Representative". They also repeatedly get into trouble for relations to money laundering operations and other issues. At the same time they are the Bank which has to give you a (expensive but not completely absurd priced) bank account no matter your credit score, criminal history etc. and is the bank you mostly likely have a escrow account parking money if the person who gets it "if you mess up" is the state/local government (like e.g. in some long term visa context).

In general banks move very slow, including with software protocol updates/changes. And that isn't just the case in the EU AFIK. Actually some of the most crazy cases of "old software" I have seen in "the west" where as far as I remember in the UK and the issue was that it was deeply fundamentally impossible for them handle a lot of non English names correctly, like in 2017~2020 or so. Through at least they still could use the bank, just with a crippled/en-ified name. Funnily the same but worse (as in not working at all) I have heard about Japan banks, where they had(have?) really big issues if you have a middle name.).
by 2bitencryption | 2026-02-13 01:15:27+00:00
The interesting part, for anyone who actually reads the article - the change was fixed in an RC and then reverted in the final release.

Which implies there was some regression, some issue, some incorrect behavior or negative impact. One has to wonder… what could it have been? What could the issue with having a more accurate clickbox for the corner of the window possibly be?
by falsework | 2026-02-13 01:15:36+00:00
This is a good point. You're right that adversarial testing provides one form of validation that doesn't depend on credentials if the system holds up under systematic attack, that's evidence of competence regardless of who built it.

But I think there's a distinction worth making between technical robustness (does the code have vulnerabilities?) and epistemic legitimacy (should we trust the analysis/conclusions?).

Pentesting and formal verification can tell us whether a system is secure or functions correctly. That's increasingly automatable and credential-independent because the code either survives adversarial conditions or it doesn't.

But what about domains where validation is murkier? Cross-domain analysis, research synthesis, strategic thinking, design decisions? These require judgment calls where "correct" isn't binary. The work can be rigorous and well-reasoned without being formally provable.

The roborev example is interesting because code review is somewhat amenable to systematic validation. But we're also seeing AI collaboration extend into domains where adversarial testing isn't cleanly applicable—policy analysis, theoretical frameworks, creative work with analytical components.

I wonder if we need different validation frameworks for different types of work. Technical systems: adversarial testing and formal verification. Analytical/intellectual work: something else entirely. But what?

The deeper question: when the barrier to producing superficially plausible work drops to near-zero, how do we distinguish genuinely rigorous thinking from sophisticated-sounding nonsense? Credentials were a (flawed) heuristic for that. What replaces them in domains where adversarial testing doesn't apply?
by codebje | 2026-02-13 01:15:41+00:00
I'm more familiar with Australian legislation than others, but here at least a home server would definitely not require age verification. Kids are free to make group chats with their friends in a bunch of services.

The spirit of the law is definitely not against chatting with friends, but it is against the idea of connecting minors with strangers, so while federation is generally not codified (or, IMO, understood well by legislators) and you're probably not going to be bothered by authorities about it, I reckon sooner or later the law will come for federated networks.

(Since we all seem fine just taking some uncertified random third party's word for it that their AI face recognition definitely didn't see a thumb with a face drawn on it, maybe it'd be adequate for Matrix.org to add an "18+ user" flag to the protocol and call it a day?)
by Tiktaalik | 2026-02-13 01:16:36+00:00
It's absolutely the case that poor residents get priced out and do not necessarily benefit from a neighbourhood becoming hip.

The cool new retail is tangentially to blame through second order effects, but the real problem is the inflexibility of the system in responding to change which results in a shortage of housing, which means that the disruptive impact on low income persons is really severe as they have no where to move to when things become more expensive or they are evicted.

Much like how the solution to increasing retail rents is more flexibility in retail zoning, so to is the solution for increasing rents.

It's less of a big deal if a cheap lame neighbourhood suddenly becomes cool if you can easily bail out because there's plenty of affordable apartments elsewhere. The problem we're in is that there's a general shortage and so in many places, losing a long held apartment is like an existential crisis because everywhere else is even more expensive and there's a shortage.

Another approach is that in redeveloping "cool" areas we could increase land/property taxes and developer fees so as to recapture the land lift and divert toward public realm projects that benefit existing long time residents. The area becoming cool and getting new condos pays for the new pool and new below market housing.

Should be mentioned as an aside that the actions themselves of poor people can ultimately gentrify a neighbourhood just as much as retail. A neighbourhood can become known for a vibrant arts/music scene that ultimately gentrifies it not just because it has some bars, but because the working artist residents are they themselves creating the attracting works in putting on events and shows. They earn a meagre income as working artists but ultimately may displace themselves as condos come advertising themselves on the scene that they've created.

Cyclical neighbourhood change I think is inevitable so I think what we really need to focus on is not necessarily finding ways to keep neighbourhoods the same, but giving people and retailers options so that when change happens, it's not disruptive and painful.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-13 01:16:42+00:00
The trick is that land alone can command higher tax rates than land+buildings without negative economic effects, due to land having an inelastic supply. A community could therefore tax land value at ~100% and capture the entirety of the value increase that'd otherwise end up in landlords' bank accounts. Combine that with UBI or some other means to redistribute that captured value and literally the only “losers” in this scenario are the landlords (and only to the extent that they'd no longer make money on renting out land; slashing the building tax to zero would make those landlords less disincentivized to maintain and upgrade their buildings).
by autoexec | 2026-02-13 01:17:08+00:00
It was actually about all kinds of information about the safety of their cars, how the company handles collisions, how they decide to make human drivers take over, details of injuries caused by their cars, etc.

The DMV required them to submit their safety data before allowing the vehicles on the road. Waymo claims that the data the DMV needed about the public safety of their cars, and the emails they exchanged about it with regulators, were entirely "trade secrets" to keep them hidden from the public who understandably felt like they should be able to access that information since those cars are going to be on their streets.
by sneak | 2026-02-13 01:17:12+00:00
> After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds.

This is completely incorrect, and the solution is way more discoverable than needing to know obscure things like Win+E. Click the thumbnail that appears in the bottom right, then click the marker icon.

> For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want).

Similarly, if you know the platform-specific shortcuts, this is less than 10 seconds on macOS. Click finder in dock, hit Command-N twice for new windows, drag each window to one of the L/R edges of the screen to tile, click downloads in the sidebar on one, click the home icon/username in the sidebar on the other.
by vpShane | 2026-02-13 01:17:15+00:00
Seeing more and more of 'This message is unavailable' - 'Discord requires ID in order to see certain messages'

Pretty much an AI detecting vulgarity and blocking it, although actual racist, vulgarity gets through things like 'here with my gock' to 'troll it' are what I've seen.

So, yes it is a requirement, and yes, they are censoring people and things, and requiring others to have an ID to see the messages as well.

So 'Not mandatory for all accounts' is technically true, but I mean.. you get it, hopefully.

> You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification.

No, building a community is a goal for many; this just isn't acceptable.

> So the claim that Discord is making ID verification "mandatory" or that you need it for gaming chats is untrue.

Again, not mandatory but creates more issues than it solves.
by syntheticnature | 2026-02-13 01:18:12+00:00
If there was an IP setting users could change, all the self-hosting etc. forums would be talking about how to change it instead of explaining other options. I'd expect not just fixed hosts and an ecosystem dependent on their proprietary protocols, but also pinned certificates and secure boot so you can't change any of it.

N.B. Flock isn't really targeting the consumer market.
by yndoendo | 2026-02-13 01:18:33+00:00
Are there any such systems for general users that don't want to manage or maintain such systems?

Alternatives really need to be for the masses that have little Knowles in server hosting.

This is one reason I invest in Linux Smartphone company's that are work towards a clean solution for the masses. Daily drivers that are satisfactory for us build the stepping stones to walk to the alternative.
by komali2 | 2026-02-13 01:18:40+00:00
Right, that's my point, unless you can work at a co-op, you have no say in how much value from your labor is extracted and given to someone else, and given the way society is designed, it's basically impossible to live without nonconsensually giving up the majority of your labor's value to someone else.

Whereas with taxes, if you don't like them, you can elect a different politician. Look at the Americans, they do it all the time, their tax rates go all over the place.

I want roads, libraries, firetrucks, and for my poop to vanish into oblivion when I pull the toilet handle. I don't really want my money to buy my boss a new car.
by paulfurtado | 2026-02-13 01:19:04+00:00
It is great for isolation. There are so many VM based containerization solutions at this point, like Kata Containers, gvisor, and Firecracker. With kata, your kubernetes pods run in isolated VMs. It also opens the door for live migration of apps between ec2 instances, making some kinds of maintenance easier when you have persistent workloads. Even if not for security, there are so many ways a workload can break a machine such that you need to reboot or replace (like detaching an ebs volume with a mounted xfs filesystem at the wrong moment).

The place I've probably wanted it the most though is in CI/CD systems: it's always been annoying to build and test system images in EC2 in a generic way.

It also allows for running other third party appliances unmodified in EC2.

But also, almost every other execution environment offers this: GCP, VMWare, KVM, etc, so it's frustrating that EC2 has only offered it on their bare metal instance types. When ec2 was using xen 10+ years ago, it made sense, but they've been on kvm since the inception of nitro.
by munificent | 2026-02-13 01:19:34+00:00
I hear people talk about this all the time and I know I am guilty of it too:

1. Go into a store to check out a product in person or try it on.

2. Leave and buy it cheaper online.

I try not to. Sometimes it's because the store doesn't have the exact color or model I want. Sometimes the point in time when I'm shopping happens to not be when I'm ready to buy and when I am ready, it's a hassle to go back to the store. But sometimes it's just being lazy and cheap.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention an obvious (but extremely difficult) answer:

1. Levy taxes on online retail companies. Scale so that the larger the business is and the greater the fraction of their business is online, the higher the tax.

2. Use that to subsidize or lower the taxes on smaller, in-person focused businesses.

Taxes are the single best lever we have to architect incentivizes to improve the world for the public. It's a shame that government and politics in the US is so broken that we can't really use it effectively.