MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2026-02-13 04:36:28+00:00
What do you mean?

I understand the reporting is like "LOOK AT ALL THESE CRIMES" but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you".

How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction? If you unredacted that person, identified them and called them would they tell you that the girls were all 18 or older? Or would they incriminate themselves? Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on?

I honestly dont understand what people are expecting here.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-13 04:36:40+00:00
Actually, I don't really work at an AI startup. My day job is investing in cool companies that push the limits across all sorts of industries (space, defense, disaster response, aviation, etc.)

In the case of Mnemom, all the passion projects I'm working on hit a brick wall that was hard to get past without reliable alignment tools, which I couldn't find anywhere. After 30 years of being an entrepreneur, it's hard to walk away from an obvious need.

Also... regarding disclosure, I put it in my bio. :)
by stevenwoo | 2026-02-13 04:38:10+00:00
There’s actually more, though the Justice Department is deleting them in real time. The Justice Department used the same filenames for pdfs and the source media so hours of surveillance video from Epstein’s last days in custody was available as well as videos from all his devices including censored child porn with some of the other pedophiles unredacted. https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qx81dj/type_this_...
by eviks | 2026-02-13 04:38:30+00:00
> You create a backport just for yourself for your own device without needing the store, no distribution/App Store is needed.

It is needed, you can't install a custom app permanently on iOS. By the way, what if you only have iOS and not a Mac? How would you compile your backport?

> The old versions still work

I've already addressed it, come back with something meaningful rather than repeat

> I don't really know what you are complaining about.

I've explained it to you several times, maybe you can get that knowledge by reading the conversation carefully?
by movedx | 2026-02-13 04:38:33+00:00
> This is similar to when HN thought Reddit's userbase was going to shrink after the API changes (it didn't) or when the internet thought Netflix was going to lose subscribers when they cracked down on account sharing (they grew, not shrank).

I don't think these are the wins you think they are.

The average user simply doesn't know any better, and likely isn't even aware of the API changes Reddit made. The user base didn't grow because of those changes: it's just no one cared. As more people come onto Reddit post-API-changes, their perception of normal differs from ours "who remember the good old days." The platform is growing because it's the central point at which everyone is gathering; the network effect is massive... that's not good, mate. That's the perfect platform to target with your political ads, designed to sway entire populations to your way of thinking.

Netflix cracking down and seeing growth on the platform was a win... for DRM. For publishers, producers, and studios. No one else won there, bro. The consumer was just forced to pay, that's all. Netflix won.

All that's really happening is the companies are finding ways of extracting more wealth from those out there who want to us their products and services. And I guess that's fine - that's the system we're in now - but it's not the "ha gottem!!" argument you think it is... it's actually more of a self-own, because you, me, and the other guy all got owned, son.

It's time to wake up, Mr Anderson: convenience at the scale of Reddit, Netflix, Discord, and more, can be a force for good, but it's not going to be. It's going to be a force for profits.

These are _bad_ services that aren't healthy. They keep you always connected; always on; and always drinking from the firehose.

And that's why we need slower, simpler offerings.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-13 04:43:03+00:00
Stochastic means that its a system whose probabilities don't evolve with multiple interactions/events. Mathematically, all chaotic systems are stochastic (I think) but not vise versa. Or another way to say it is that in a stochastic system, all events are probabilistically independent.

Yes, its a hard to define word. I spent 15 minutes trying to define it to someone (who had a poor understanding of statistics) at a conference once. Worst use of my time ever.
by pfdietz | 2026-02-13 04:43:18+00:00
Inert gas in welding isn't used to carry heat, it's used as shielding to prevent oxidation, nitridation, and ingress of hydrogen. In any case, the heat capacity of the noble gases are almost identical. What xenon might do is reduce diffusion of heat away from the weld, as its thermal conductivity is just 1/3rd that of argon.

In practice I think a combination of argon and CO2 is typically used for inert gas welding of steel.
by tlhunter | 2026-02-13 04:43:27+00:00
It's definitely neither sensible nor convenient. I expect it to trigger the scrollbar, not move the whole window. The only way one should be able to move the window is to drag the title bar. There's no reason clicking and dragging the 1px window border should ever move the whole window. Every Linux window manager, Windows, and IIRC Mac System <= 9 behaves this way.
Show HN: Roe.md generate your own OpenClaw-like bot from a single Markdown file
by guld | 2026-02-13 04:43:32+00:00
Hi fellow HNers,

I am guld and I created ROE.md (https://github.com/guld/ROE.md), a proof of concept single Markdown file that let's you raise your own custom personal OpenClaw-like AI assistant from scratch.

With a very stripped-down feature-set of course. (For now. Still alpha)

All you need is a little vibe code magic from your favorite AI coding tool. Select your favorite programming language (yes really) and hope that it has been grokked by the SOTA models. (I am looking at you Ruby programmers).

I came up with the idea last week when I first heard of the OpenClaw craze. Listening to steipete's wild stories I was wondering... if the agent can create all these skills by itself... what if we spin it further and let the agent create itself from a single Markdown file. This should work!

How to use it?

Your coding agent of choice should load the ROE.md markdown file, you answer a few questions and it builds a minimal OpenClaw-like personal assistant for you. It comes with a single build in tool (execute_bash).

This is dangerous I know, but it works.

Anyways... I tested it with OpenCode and the Kimi-2.5 model and Python selected. (OpenCode is great!)
With a few questions answered and some bugs fixed the custom agent works nicely in CLI mode with a locally running gpt-oss-20b through LM Studio.

How did I create the ROE.md file?

Mostly by hand, with a very high level overview of the architecture, almost no architecture at all. I rather focused more on adding a lot of example call-responses and used first person singular to improve prompting (Thanks to a comment thread on here where postalcoder verified that first person makes the difference with Gemini)

The next few days I want to extend the ROE.md file to contain more succinct API examples to make sure it works with more languages.

- TODOs alot... Fix, Test, Repeat

Challenges:

- Getting more programming languages to work in as few prompts as possible with the big local models such as Kimi-2.5. Tested Bash, Python, Go, Ruby, and a few others but Python works best.

- Not getting to specific in pseudocode.

- Keeping its structure general enough to be applicable to most programming languages.

- Making it work with weaker local models.

For more details check out the mini-tutorial in the README (https://github.com/guld/ROE.md).

This project and the power of vibe coding brought back the enjoyment I felt when I started out writing my first line of code on an "empty piece of Windows Editor paper" more than two decades ago.

What do you think? Is vibe coding crazy cool or is it just me?
by godelski | 2026-02-13 04:44:30+00:00
> Early we should see huge chunky contributions and bursts. Loc means things are being realized.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works.

This is a common way for tech debt to build. You're right that strategies like "move fast and break things" is a very useful strategy, but it only really works if it is followed by "cleanup, everybody do your share."

LoC as a measurement is nothing without context. But that context is constantly changing and even dependent on people's coding styles. I like to write my first iteration of even small programs pretty dirty, before I refine. I'll even commit them, but they generally won't show up in a PR because I quickly distill.

I think measuring activity or productivity is an extremely difficult thing to measure. A thing that's extremely easy to fool yourself into believing you're measuring accurately. A first order approximation is going to look fine for a little while, but that is the trap. That is how you fool yourself. In a relatively local timeframe it'll keep looking like it is working, but you have no idea if it is accurate over the timeframes that actually matter. The measure is too simple and adding more first order approximations only makes the measurements worse, not better. Context allows you to progress, but complexity increases exponentially while accuracy may not.
by Morromist | 2026-02-13 04:46:10+00:00
True, I don't see the evidence that it was all done autonomously.
...but I think we all know that someone could, and will, automate their ai to the point that they can do this sort of thing completely by themselves. So its worth discussing and considering the implications here. Its 100% plausable that it happened. I'm certain that it will happen in the future for real.
by eviks | 2026-02-13 04:47:08+00:00
It's amazing how much effort is wasted adding various OS degradation features (like poorly readable redesign) while bread & butter basics are broken for decades (it's a bad primitive to require pixel-perfect precision for resizing) and even get worse following those design gimmicks like rounded corners

(and, of course, custom radii would've helped, but users can't have such powers, Apple knows best)
by crote | 2026-02-13 04:47:44+00:00
The Anthropic ads are heavily into the uncanny valley. The services they are demonstrating looks horrible - even before the ad.

A soulless psychiatrist who'll give you generic cookie-cutter advice about deeply personal issues? Why would you want that!?

Same with the personal trainer, the startup coach, and the professor. Any of them would be incredibly creepy in real life, with their fake smiling, uncanny repeated stock phrases, and fake positivity.

They are trying to spin it like the integrated ads are the problem, but the services are too far detached from genuine human behaviour for that to matter. "Our creepy ripoff psychiatrist doesn't have ads" isn't exactly a great message, is it?
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-13 04:48:04+00:00
I went through this hell last year when trying to tell my customers I had to change payment processors.

In my case it turns out I was victim of Google having a beef with afraid.org years ago (the DNS authoritative record for my domain). 100% of my emails to gmail were going to spam, as soon as I switched NS record to fastmail (with same zone file) I hit the inbox.

I never would have caught it without using this site: https://www.gmass.co/inbox

I did not show up on any of the major blacklists with mxtoolbox, this took months to figure out and I felt like I was going insane with hardly anyone responding to my emails.
by rekabis | 2026-02-13 04:48:10+00:00
This graph ignores an even more frightening fact: inertia.

Warming by humans completely ignores all of the feedback loops present in nature, and which are starting to crawl out of the woodwork. From methane eruptions in the oceans from methyl hydrate deposits to bacterial decomposition of permafrost biomatter, all these feedback loops can continue to pump out greenhouse gases for centuries to come even if human sources stop on a dime.

In fact, somewhere between 3℃ and 4℃ the process becomes completely self-sustaining, which means the planet could easily go to 6℃ or even 8℃ before slowing to a stop…

Or it might never stop. At all.

You see, in prior eras, warming proceeded so slowly that entire ecosystems had the time and ability to physically migrate across the planet towards the poles, preserving CO2 sequestering and helping to slow the warming process.

Our current warming is happening in a literal eyeblink. Ecosystems will not be able to adapt in time, and will fail to continue sequestering CO2 because they will be wiped out by the heat.

And with this double-punch inertia of feedback loops increasing non-human CO2 production, and wholesale ecosystem failures preventing CO2 sequestration, warming could easily exceed +8℃ where it could push the planet into a full-scale Venus Scenario.

Yes, the planet has been at that +8℃ level before… when the sun was younger and cooler. As the sun ages and burns through its fuel, it slowly gets older and hotter. This will proceed until even an Earth with zero greenhouse gases in its atmosphere will still get cooked in the same way Venus has been.

We’ll just push it there billions of years ahead of schedule.

Sweet dreams
by adharmad | 2026-02-13 04:48:24+00:00
Swift blocking and ignoring is what I would do. The AI has an infinite time and resources to engage a conversation at any level, whether it is polite refusal, patient explanation or verbal abuse, whereas human time and bandwidth is limited.

Additionally, it does not really feel anything - just generates response tokens based on input tokens.

Now if we engage our own AIs to fight this battle royale against such rogue AIs.......
by xoa | 2026-02-13 04:48:51+00:00
I'll second this, also adding that while it remains more of a project to setup Frigate has made significant advances over the last few years and has improved a lot. So if you previously looked at it and were put off, might be worth looking at again.

Also fwiw, if someone is willing to spin up a Windows VM or are running that stack anyway than Blue Iris is probably the default contender for local security software, well polished. I know a few people who still keep a single remaining W10 with GPU passthrough install just for that, not even for games anymore where Linux has gotten good enough in the last few years.

All of this though benefits a lot from already having some sort of homelab and/or self-hosted stack. If you do then the marginal investment may be pretty minimal and value quite high as you use it for a lot of other stuff. If starting from scratch it's a lot more of a haul which of course is precisely why a lot of people use other solutions.
by e8bai | 2026-02-13 04:49:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a web-based Gaussian Splat viewer that supports camera path recording and deterministic MP4 export.

The viewer loads .ply / .splat scenes and allows users to:

- Record camera keyframes (position + quaternion rotation)
- Edit them in a draggable timeline
- Scrub preview in real time
- Export the animation to MP4

The export system renders offscreen frames using a dedicated WebGLRenderTarget and pipes raw frames to FFmpeg on a Node server.

A few design decisions that might be interesting:

• Keyframes are stored as immutable snapshots (vec3 + normalized quaternion).
• Interpolation uses slerp to avoid rotation artifacts.
• Paths can be saved to path.json and re-exported to produce identical output.
• Export rendering is isolated from the visible canvas to avoid layout thrashing and UI jitter.
• Added cancellation + progress reporting without corrupting partially written video files.

One challenge was GPU → CPU readback cost during frame extraction.
Another was ensuring deterministic replay when the interactive viewer state differs from export state.

I’d appreciate feedback on:
- Cleaner patterns for deterministic rendering in WebGL
- Better ways to pipeline frame encoding
- Architectural improvements for separating editor vs render state

Repo: https://github.com/iab131/Scene-Gaussian-Splat-Viewer
Demo: https://youtu.be/EPXJpeUkBSA
by freetime2 | 2026-02-13 04:50:44+00:00
My guilty pleasure at these tourist trap places is significantly overpaying for their staged portraits. They (often) ask you if you’d like a free portrait, and then will print you up a postage stamp sized picture with a big watermark on it, with the option to pay ¥2000 or (or thereabouts) for a larger print. I don’t know if dododo land does this, but seems like the kind of place that would.

I’ve got one with my family from Pineapple Park in Okinawa that makes me laugh every time I see it. Smartphones make it easy to take a million photos with incredibly good quality, but there’s something about that crappy print with its ridiculous cardboard frame that hits different.
by alexhans | 2026-02-13 04:51:11+00:00
Specifically an automated entity functioning as a detractor? I don't think I can answer that specifically. I can brainstorm on the some of the dimensions the book talks about:

- moral pressure shouldn't apply (adversarial actor)

- reputational pressure has an interesting angle to it if you think of it as trust scoring in descentralized or centralised networks.

- institutional pressure can't work if you can't tie back to the root (it may be unfeasible to do so or the costs may outweight the benefits)

- Security doesn't quite work the way we think about it nowadays because this is not an "undesired access of a computer system" but a subjectively bad use of rapid opinion generation.
by noduerme | 2026-02-13 04:51:47+00:00
I know businesses that have these setups and outside tech support to maintain them. I've also seen them have all kinds of issues when routers are replaced or they change ISPs. That's why I was saying a company could sell a box preloaded with Tailscale and a custom installer that walks a non-technical person through it. The default setup for a tailnet is pretty safe. Yeah you could have your own signaling servers or whatever, but TS usually manages to punch right through most NAT issues. They don't need a reverse proxy to login to their private webserver, although I guess you could provide that as an add-on service. They just need TS on their phone.

[edit] To my mind, the biggest hurdle wouldn't be networking to allow this box to host its own app that was accessible to the user from elsewhere. The hurdles would be things like lack of "smart" reporting / facial recognition, backup power, backup connectivity, etc..But in theory, a repurposed smartphone as the platform could solve the backup power and connection issues.
by shash | 2026-02-13 04:52:15+00:00
> The name, yes, but going by name is a bad idea as the V in AVX also stands for Vector.

Now I get your point after reading more of the linked page. Yes. It is very implementation specific.

One of the things about RVV (and in general any vector ISA) is that the data path can be different enough between different implementations such that specific rules of thumb for hand tuning most probably won’t carry over. As you say it is true of even sufficiently advanced SIMD architectures like AVX.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-02-13 04:52:37+00:00
Shit, explain Reddit with a P/E much higher than nVidia.

Makes pretty much no money, has no real opportunity to make money, only a small segment of fanatics actually like it… and yet… infinite stock price.

I’ll give you the point they aren’t actively and intentionally losing money. My point is that everything is fake and… lame.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-13 04:52:58+00:00
IMO restaurant tips (and other service businesses) are 15% by default, 20% if they do well, 10% if they do poorly. If they do especially poorly (like, completely ignoring the table for an hour while chatting with coworkers off to the side), they get $.02. If they do especially well, more than 20% (I've gone as high as 50% once).
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-13 04:53:13+00:00
THERE ARE! BILL CLINTON! NOAM CHOMSKY (if they'd acted faster they could have nabbed him before he died!)

Democrats WANT to see the pedos in our party getting justice! We have no loyalty to our party. We are the party of purity testing and infighting.

Anthony Weiner went down quickly. Cuomo went down quickly. Even folks who didn't deserve it like Al Franken go down quickly!
by mmooss | 2026-02-13 04:53:58+00:00
> Every checkout screen has become a guilt machine.

Is bill-paying UI also a guilt machine? If you don't pay, you feel guilty! How about holding the door for elderly people? Going to your kid's event? Not running people over in the crosswalk? Saying please and thank you? Buying birthday presents? It's all so unfair - to me!
by toraway | 2026-02-13 04:55:18+00:00
So, you've said multiple times in the past that you're not concerned about AI labs training for this specific test because if they did, it would be so obviously incongruous that you'd easily spot the manipulation and call them out.

Which tbh has never really sat right with me, seemingly placing way too much confidence in your ability to differentiate organic vs. manipulated output in a way I don't think any human could be expected to.

To me, this example is an extremely neat and professional SVG and so far ahead it almost seems too good to be true. But like with every previous model, you don't seem to have the slightest amount of skepticism in your review. I don't know if I truly believe Google cheated here, but it's so good it does therefore make me question whether there could ever be an example of a pelican SVG in the future that might actually trigger your BS detector?

I know you say it's just a fun/dumb benchmark that's not super important, but you're easily in the top 3 most well known AI "influencers" whose opinion/reviews about model releases carry a lot of weight, providing a lot of incentive with trillions of dollars flying around. Are you still not at all concerned by the amount of attention this benchmark receives now/your risk of unwittingly being manipulated?
by theendisney | 2026-02-13 04:56:28+00:00
>the probability of new physics here is essentially nil.

I dont function like that. I have true, false and unknown.

If i prematurely promote an unknown to true or false i would feel the need to defend my uninformed conclusion. Since i dont have what it takes to do that i would try to spoof the data. I would also blind myself to everything that contradicts the opinion.

You, feynman, the septic communty, you have sunk to a level that wouldnt even be legal if the man was alive. Claims of fraud and first degree murder?!?!

Unlike the inventor such claims require evidence and until you have it the accused is innocent.

But lets compare the two cobtradicting stories. One claims the other unplugged the device and claimed he really wanted to hold the plug in his hand and politely asked. The other claimed the one to have unplugged it himself and refused to give it back.

Which one of the two would require settling out of court?

The debunking doesnt really talk about Papp. You can copy paste it under any exotic claim.

>if the motor had any merit, he could refuse the out-of-court settlement and demonstrate the working principles of his motor.

No reason to think any demonstration would change information-free debunking.

Well over a thousand geet engines were build, hundreds of youtube demostrations but it is still not considered real.

There are now respectable publications about the pons and fleishman device with 100% successful replication but it is still not considered real.

If you personally build a working Papp engine it would simply not be considered real. People would say you are a fraud and a murderer and that would be the final word on the topic.