MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-21 17:37:32+00:00
> Autonomous AI weapons is one of the things the DoD appears to be pursuing. So bring back the Skynet people, because that’s where we apparently are.

This situation legitimately worries me, but it isn't even really the SkyNet scenario that I am worried about.

To self-quote a reply to another thread I made recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145#47083641):

When AI dooms humanity it probably won't be because of the sort of malignant misalignment people worry about, but rather just some silly logic blunder combined with the system being directly in control of something it shouldn't have been given control over.

I think we have less to worry about from a future SkyNet-like AGI system than we do just a modern or near future LLM with all of its limitations making a very bad oopsie with significant real-world consequences because it was allowed to control a system capable of real-world damage.

I would have probably worried about this situation less in times past when I believed there were adults making these decisions and the "Secretary of War" of the US wasn't someone known primarily as an ego-driven TV host with a drinking problem.
by danaris | 2026-02-21 17:37:50+00:00
No; what you describe is certainly a phenomenon that exists, but it's not primarily what people talk about when they say that you'll get more conservative when you get older.

IME, what they mean is two different things:

First, the fact that it can be hard to keep up with change—technological, cultural, all types—for several decades straight. When the world changes dramatically between when you're 10 and when you're 30, and then again between when you're 30 and when you're 50, it can be really hard to be willing to keep changing with it. New things become the enemy. Why in my day, we paid with credit cards by running an imprinter over them with a big ka-chunk, and we liked it! None of this newfangled chip and pin garbage. There are too many chips in things anyway! Etc.

And second, the fact that, before my generation, it was basically a guarantee that as you went from 20, to 40, to 60, you would be getting meaningfully wealthier, and as such, identifying with the financial political issues of your new socioeconomic class...and picking up their cultural politics by osmosis.

But two major things are breaking these assumptions.

The second thing above no longer holds. Starting with younger Gen X and elder Millennials, we just haven't had the opportunities to grow our wealth that our parents and grandparents did at the same ages. We're still identifying with the younger people who don't and can't own homes.

And there's been a tectonic cultural shift during our lifetimes, bringing queer people out into the light in ways that they had never been allowed to be before. Obergefell v Hodges broke open the closet and let gay people come out, and the rest of the queer community has been following them ever since. For those of us who genuinely believe in loving our fellow human beings and giving them true equality, that makes it much, much harder to accept a status quo (or reversions to an earlier one) that denies them those rights, simply because we all really know they're there in a way most of us didn't before.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-21 17:38:00+00:00
I’ve been building my own “OpenClaw” like thing with go-mcp and cloudflare tunnel/email relay. I can send an email to Claude and it will email me back status updates/results. Not as easy to setup as OpenClaw obviously but alt least I know exactly what code is running and what capabilities I’m giving to the LLM.
by hackernewds | 2026-02-21 17:38:01+00:00
Maybe you are too young to have noticed, but this is how Facebook used to be for every one. Until some a/b testing likely led to short term engagement boosts for news content and that's all you could see - especially during the 2016 news cycle with (allegedly Russian) political ads. Then people stopped posting, and others stopped posting, feedback loop and here we are.
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-21 17:38:34+00:00
It's the "racism" bogeyman. I have been called a racist innumerable times for advocating against immigration, to the point that I just accept the label. Okay, I guess I'm racist now, let's move on. It's exactly this phenomenon that leads to MAGA. "Trump is an istophobe" has stopped having any meaning to people who just want certain policies passed and are tired of being called istophobes. He thereby gains immunity for other potentially serious claims, just because the claimers are no longer believable.
by Nhlonipho | 2026-02-21 17:38:49+00:00
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The founders who sign up first? They're going to stand out. Not because they're better (necessarily). But because they'll be visible when investors are actually paying attention. Before the platform gets flooded with everyone else.

Think about it like this: Would you rather be founder #47 on a new platform, or founder #5000? Same founder. Different outcome.

Why first movers win:

VCs start sourcing immediately (they'll be hungry for deal flow)

Less noise (fewer founders = your milestones actually get seen)

You set the bar (early movers look intentional and serious)

You control the narrative (your progress gets attention while the platform is fresh)

Here's what you should do: Join the Discord group now: https://discord.gg/YTdmrC67

We're dropping exclusive early access, updates, and launch day instructions there. When OMISP goes live in 10 days, you'll literally just click and be the first ones in. No waiting. No confusion. Just there.

Founders who join the Discord are getting priority access. You'll be live before 99% of people even know it exists.

10 days. Join the Discord. Be first.
by bouncing_bolete | 2026-02-21 17:39:00+00:00
For me, it has been the journey. I love being able to say "do this" and just magically have it done, then looking over the result and saying, "well not exactly like that, I actually want it to be a little more like this." I am slowly vibe-iterating over what I hope is a solid platform, and it's been a lot of fun
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-21 17:39:14+00:00
You are downvoting the messenger. In a way...its an IQ test...

"Trump says China is paying for his tariffs" - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-tru...

"Trump Incorrectly Has Insisted ‘China’s Paying the Tariffs’" - https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006661985/tr...

"Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work" - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/fact-check-trump...
by antonvs | 2026-02-21 17:39:18+00:00
I was able to get the gist of 1200, with some effort. By paragraph:

P1: Unclear, but I think it's basically saying there is much to say about all that happened to him.

P2: Unexpectedly, a woman ("uuif", wife) appeared at "great speed" to save him. "She came in among the evil men..."

P3: "She slaughtered the heathen men that pinned me, slaughtered them and felled them to the ground. There was blood and bale enough and the fallen lay still, for [they could no more?] stand. As for the Maister, the ? Maister, he fled away in the darkness and was seen no more."

P4: The protagonist thanks the woman for saving him, "I thank thee..."

On first reading, I didn't know what "uuif" was. I had to look that one up.
by wduquette | 2026-02-21 17:39:30+00:00
> All control structures are reserved as keywords in Haskell and they're not extensible from within the language. In C I can't tell that an if(condition) isn't a function call or a macro without searching for additional syntactic cues, or readily knowing that an if is never a function. I generally operate on syntax highlighting, followed by knowing that an if is always a control structure, and never scan around for the following statement terminator or block to disambiguate the two.

Any Haskell function can serve as a control structure in the Algol sense, not so? As for `if(test)` that could indeed be a macro if the programmer’s a durned fool; but absent macros I don’t believe it can be a function call.

Mind you, I take your point about language familiarity; obviously people manage it.
by tolerance | 2026-02-21 17:40:26+00:00
> Pratt showed how to use letter frequencies to break ciphers and reported that the most frequently occurring letters in typical English text are e-t-a-o-n-r-i, in that order.

I use Dvorak. I tried Colemak first but couldn’t get in tune with it. I appreciate how the latter has all these keys in the home row but I feel like Dvorak feels more balanced between my hands. Colemak is supposed to roll or something right? I couldn’t get with that.
by dhayabaran | 2026-02-21 17:41:31+00:00
The "our systems were not breached" framing is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. A code change exposed SSNs for six months and they're calling it "not a breach" because nobody broke in. The data was just sitting there. That's the same pattern showing up everywhere right now. Firebase rules set to public, Supabase with no RLS, a loan app with a code error that exposes PII for half a year. The distinction between "we were hacked" and "we left the door open" doesn't really matter to the 100 people whose SSNs were out there since July.
by Barbing | 2026-02-21 17:41:53+00:00
ChatGPT can do it w/o draining your bank account etc. I’d agree…

But for speed only, I think it’s “your idea but worse” when the steps include something AND instructions on how to do something else. The Signal/Telegram bot will handle it E2E (maybe using a ton more tokens than a webchat but fast). If I’m not mistaken.
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-02-21 17:42:16+00:00
No, not that. The endings are different, the verbs are substantially different. AFAIK invention of printing had generally stabilizing effect on English.

It is not that I am incapable to understand old English, it is that 1600 is dramatically closer to modern than 1400 one; I think someone from 1600 would be able to converse at 2026 UK farmers market with little problems too; someone from 1400 would be far more challenged.
by dhosek | 2026-02-21 17:42:17+00:00
Indeed, I remember being in Oxford in the 90s and an older man approached me and spoke to me in English and I couldn’t understand a word he said. My ex-wife, who’s an ESL speaker who speaks fluently and without an accent has trouble with English accents in general. Similarly, in Spanish, I find it’s generally easier for me to understand Spanish speakers than Mexican speakers even though I learned Mexican Spanish in school and it’s been my primary exposure to the language. Likewise, I generally have an easier time understanding South American speakers than Caribbean speakers and both sound little like Mexican Spanish. (The Spanish I understand most easily is the heavily accented Spanish of non-native Spanish speakers.)

Accents have diverged a lot over time and as I recall, American English (particularly the mid-Atlantic seaboard variety) is closer to what Shakespeare and his cohort spoke than the standard BBC accent employed in most contemporary Shakespeare productions).
by sdkfjhdsjk | 2026-02-21 17:43:48+00:00
As a Southern American I love it too.

Every single one of my ancestors who were in the war--except one--fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. (Or the War of Lincoln's Aggression, according to some. Yankees call it the "Civil War.")

Going further back, my Cherokee forefathers (the Chickamauga) were equally unimpressed by what they saw and experienced of this entity (they viewed it as a malignant tumor) that calls itself the "United" States of America.

I believe my ancestors are envious that I get to see the day when the truth of the Empire of Lies is finally exposed in front of all the world.
by imiric | 2026-02-21 17:44:09+00:00
How are you getting persecution complex from what I said? If anything, your comment might be feeding that delusion. :)

My point is that HN definitely has certain weights associated with accounts, which control the karma, visibility, and ultimately discussion of certain topics.

This problem doesn't affect only negativity or downvotes, but upvotes as well. The most upvoted comments are not necessarily of the highest quality, or contribute the most to the discussion. They just happen to be the most visible, and to generally align with the feeling of the hive mind.

I know this because some of my own comments have been at the top, without being anything special, while others I think are, barely get any attention. I certainly examine my thinking whenever it strongly aligns with the hive mind, as this community does not particularly align with my values.

I also tend to seek out comments near the bottom of threads, and have dead comments enabled, precisely to counteract this flawed system. I often find quality opinions there, so I suggest everyone do the same as well.

An essential feature of a healthy and interesting discussion forum is to accomodate different viewpoints. That starts by not burying those that disagree with the majority, or boosting those that agree. AFAIK no online system has gotten this right yet.
by Zetaphor | 2026-02-21 17:44:19+00:00
If you're on Strix Halo, check out Donato's prebuilt toolboxes for ROCm with RADV or Vulkan:

https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes

It takes all the work out of it, you just start llama-server in the container context and you're off doing inference without having to figure out dependencies.
by belorn | 2026-02-21 17:44:36+00:00
We had a situation in Sweden when a person found that if you remove a part of the url (/.../something -> /.../) for a online medical help line service, they got back a open directory listing which included files with medical data of other patients. This finding was then sent to a journalist that contacted the company and made a news article of it. The company accused the tipster and journalist for unlawful hacking and the police opened a case.

But was it? Is it pen testing to remove part of an URL? People debated this question a bit in articles, but then the case was dropped. The line between pen testing and just normal usage of the internet is not a clear line, but it seems that we all agree that there is a line somewhere and that common sense should guide us in some sense.
by antonvs | 2026-02-21 17:44:42+00:00
Knowing a bit of German or Dutch helps as well.

I posted my amateur translation of 1200 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102874

At first it stumped me, but I spent some time on it and it started to become intelligible. I didn't look up any words until after I was done, at which point I looked up "uuif" (woman/wife) since I wanted to know what manner of amazing creature had saved the protagonist :D
by replooda | 2026-02-21 17:44:52+00:00
Goes to show what happens when we let politicians on charge of anything — worse still, geriatric politicians who wouldn't recognize a operating system if it bit them. I assume they will outlaw open source OSes or custom kernels next? I'd say that arresting the island man's entourage would do more for child's safety than any further stupidity those absolute nincompoops choose to insult our intelligence with next, except for the fact that they know and such absurdities are sleights of hand to avoid doing just that.
by jorvi | 2026-02-21 17:45:23+00:00
Go to the Adguard GitHub (or use the extension) and report it. And get all your friends to switch to Adguard extension and Adguard Home (Pi Hole alternative) as blockers.

Easylist and its sublist are notorious for being extremely poorly maintained and ignoring issues opened against it. Adguard is much more active in maintaining its lists. Especially Adguard its language blocklists have much, much less breakage and missed ads than Easylist.
by phba | 2026-02-21 17:45:30+00:00
Yeah. This is the curse on any legacy software that doesn't enforce strict separation of logic and UI. Any larger change to the UI requires an awful lot of manpower that open source projects usually don't have.

I wonder if it would be possible to extract the spreadsheet data model and logic into a library completely separate from the UI. This would enable a diversity of UIs, and also interoperability between different tools.
Show HN: ShellDock – Run curated DevOps toolchains with a single command
by horduntech | 2026-02-21 17:45:42+00:00
Hi HN

I built ShellDock to make setting up and running development tools less painful across different environments.

ShellDock is a lightweight CLI that lets you define and execute curated command sets for installing or configuring tools — think of it like a portable launcher for repeatable dev environment setup.

Instead of copy-pasting long installation scripts or maintaining scattered setup docs across machines, ShellDock allows you to:

- Bundle related setup commands into reusable tool definitions
- Run them interactively or non-interactively
- Standardize installs across local machines, servers, or fresh VMs
- Keep environment setup reproducible for teams

A typical use case would be bootstrapping tools like Neovim, Docker, language runtimes, or infra dependencies on a new system in one step.

It’s especially useful when spinning up new dev boxes or provisioning ephemeral environments where consistency matters.

I’d love feedback on:
- CLI UX
- Command definition format
- Real-world use cases I might not have considered
- Anything that feels clunky or missing

Repo:
https://github.com/OpsGuild/ShellDock
by pousada | 2026-02-21 17:45:50+00:00
Hard power was always stronger.
That’s why the US was so successful in the past century - they just have a lot of weapons and little hesitation to use them. It’s a pretty bellicose culture too.

I still think that soft power helped the US tremendously. For all their faults i really had a very positive view on the US, most of it was coloured through soft power. “Inventing” modern democracy, liberating EU from the nazis, Rock’n’Roll, hippie movement, Hollywood, early internet culture - all that overshadowed the imperialism.

Now the mask has come off. And I believe you are right that it ultimately may not matter too much. But then again I doubt the US will be able to style itself again as the “good guys”, the ones who spread democracy to all the oppressed people and and so on without significant effort.
by dhosek | 2026-02-21 17:46:24+00:00
Some early English translations of the Bible were unintentionally comical, e.g., “and Enoch walked with God and he was a lucky fellowe.”

Of course that’s not limited to the 16th century. The Good News Bible renders what is most commonly given as “our name is Legion for we are many” instead as “our name is Mob because there are a lot of us.” In my mind I hear the former spoken in that sort of stereotypical demon voice: deep with chorus effect, the latter spoken like Alvin and the Chipmunks.
by cloverich | 2026-02-21 17:46:33+00:00
You can follow the discussions between that blogger and the CEO btw - https://x.com/rickcsong/status/2025038040599810385

Persona was not hacked. No database was breached. Frontend code source maps were leaked,
which means unminified variable names were exposed revealing all the names of our features.
These names are already publicly listed in @Persona_IDV's help center and API documentation.
by dosstxtx | 2026-02-21 17:46:40+00:00
Fitness is a retirement account you can't contribute to later

After ~70 your body enters physiological free fall — and there are no catch-up contributions.I built a free calculator that reverse-engineers the exact fitness "minimum balance" you need today to stay independent (and ideally robust) at 90, using Peter Attia's Centenarian Decathlon framework + real longitudinal decline data. You enter your age, height, weight, and current numbers (VO₂ max, grip strength, farmer's carry, sitting-rising test score).
by Zetaphor | 2026-02-21 17:46:41+00:00
> The model you're using to speculate could be anything, but if it's not guessing what the main model would predict, it's useless.

So what I said is correct then lol. If you're saying I can use a model that isn't just a smaller quant of the larger model I'm trying to speculatively decode, except that model would never get an accurate prediction, then how is that in any way useful or desirable?
by Jordan-117 | 2026-02-21 17:47:13+00:00
The accusation is not that they alter pages at all -- they obviously need to in order to make some pages readable/functional, bypass paywalls, or hide account names used to do so. The Wayback Machine does something similar with YouTube to make old videos playable.

The allegation here is that they altered page content not just to remove their own alias, but to insert the name of the blogger they were targeting. That moves it from a defensible technical change for accessibility to being part of their bizarre revenge campaign against someone who crossed them.
by benreesman | 2026-02-21 17:47:14+00:00
Sure they have:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045406

https://youtu.be/uBGotJvlh7E

https://youtu.be/V9YSC4gBagg

https://youtu.be/ghm9F0RCFsY

I'll take all comers, any conceivable combination of unassisted engineers of arbitrary Carmack/God-level ability, no budgetary limits, and I'll bet my net worth down to starvation poverty that I will clobber them flat by myself. This is not because I'm such hot shit, it's a weird Venn that puts me on the early side on this, but there are others and there will be many more as people see the results.

So there are probably people who can beat me today, and that probability goes to one as Carmack-type people go full "press the advantage" mode on a long enough timeline, there are people who are strictly more talented and every bit as passionate, and the paradigm will saturate.

Which is why I spend all my time trying to scale it up, I'm working on how to teach other people how to do it, and solve the bottlenecks that emerge. That's a different paradigm that saturates in a different place, but it is likewise sigmoid-shaped.

That, and not single-player heroics, stunts basically, is the next thousand-year paradigm. And no current Valley power player even exists in that world. So the competition I have to worry about is very real, but not at all legible.

I don't know much about how this will play other than it's the fucking game at geopolitical levels, and the new boss will look nothing like the old boss.
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-21 17:47:33+00:00
I agree. There needs to be a non racist president that just sweeps in and does a El Salvador type cleanup of the streets. I bet the 80%+ of normal black people in crime ridden cities like Baltimore, St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans would be in full support. Let’s be honest, young black gangsters are the main criminal element in these places. Trump can’t do this because he is a piece of shit with no integrity.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-21 17:47:46+00:00
I agree for in-person jobs.

For remote jobs with remote interviews, not having a LinkedIn page or having a LinkedIn page full of generic information that can be disproven by a quick background check are common traits of scam applicants.

A friend’s employer started requiring more verification after they hired a group of remote workers who would some times connect from North Korean IPs when they made a mistake with their VPN.
by rkagerer | 2026-02-21 17:47:53+00:00
I thought saved pages sometimes do contain users' IP's?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Advice/comments/5rbla4/comment/dd5x...

The way I (loosely) understand it, when you archive a page they send your IP in the X-Forwarded-For header. Some paywall operators render that into the page content served up, which then causes it to be visible to anyone who clicks your archived link and Views Source.