MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numpad0 | 2026-02-25 11:05:23+00:00
I saw somewhere - it's not like "I know a friend" but literally read somewhere - IMEI is just configurable with standard cracked virus-loaded copies of QXDM :p

But realistically, none of that matters. You'll be the only one in 10 miles with this SIM that always uses an never-before-seen IMEI that connects to the exact same set of domains. That's some mall ninja stuff.

Carriers don't just log IMEI/IMSI, as well as last hop cell towers and your precise location, they need those information to route packets back to the phone. You can't establish TLS with bogus IP addresses. That's why people like Stallman or unnamed friend of a friend ex-CIA guys on Internet says cell technologies are evil mass surveillance tools.
by thunderstruck | 2026-02-25 11:05:34+00:00
I found this interesting talk in the comments https://youtu.be/AmrBpxAtPrI

Tech companies constantly claim they are "green" and sustainable. Yet they continue to ship inefficient software that consumes significantly more power. If these app consumes just 1Wh more per day across a billion users, that is 1,000,000 kWh of wasted electricity every single day.

True sustainability isn't just about recyclable packaging; it's about writing optimized code that doesn't force perfectly good hardware into a landfill prematurely.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-25 11:05:43+00:00
Yeah, if "boiling water" is one word, what about boiling sugar? Boiling milk? Boiling volcano? Boiling soup?

Adding two words together creates a new and different concept. The permutations necessary to represent every concept ever formed by combining two or more different words would be endless.

Some of them on the list, like black hole, do make sense. That's a very distinct thing. It's not a hole in the conventional sense and it's not really black. Boiling water, though, is water. And it's boiling.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 11:05:44+00:00
> There isnt going to be a HAL or Terminator style situation

The threat isn't HAL, but ICE. Not AI as some sort of unique evil, but as a force multiplier for extremely human - indeed, popular - forms of evil. I'm sure someone will import the Chinese idea of the ethnicity-identifying security camera, for example.
by zekrioca | 2026-02-25 11:05:55+00:00
I’m not claiming insider knowledge, just going by publicly documents on Apple’s architecture and operations.

Private Cloud Compute runs on Apple silicon servers derived from the same silicon used in devices, with custom secure OS infrastructure built around them. See Apple’s security documentation and reporting on PCC servers by finding the link somewhere in the comments of this thread.

As for their econ model, just see Cook’s methodical style with fast turnover to avoid stockpiling [1], i.e., the opposite of what is going on with AI servers where margins are cut at every step of the way. So sharing an assembly facility doesn’t imply chips are interchangeable, it may well just be assembly efficiency, which I guess is common.

[1] https://mondays.supernegotiate.com/post/inside-tim-cook-s-ma...
by starkience | 2026-02-25 11:06:12+00:00
yup Bitcoin's UTXO model is fundamentally different, gasless doesn't apply there the same way. To clarify what the Starkzap SDK actually does: it operates on Starknet, which is an account-based L2 that settles on Ethereum. Bitcoin assets on Starknet are bridged representations, not native UTXOs (although Starknet will soon have a trust-minimized bridge with Bitcoin thanks to Alpen, removing trust assumptions)

So when we say gasless, we mean the Starknet transaction fees are sponsored via a paymaster. The user doesn't need to hold STRK or ETH to transact. The cost is covered by the app or a paymaster service like AVNU (just like Amazon covers shipping costs). That's a design choice the app builder makes depending on their business model. On the stablecoin side: any stablecoin deployed on Starknet works with the SDK, and the paymaster covers the transaction fees if configured. The technical execution is what matters, and that's what the SDK focuses on. The code is open-source if you want to see how it's handled under the hood.
by abc123abc123 | 2026-02-25 11:06:52+00:00
Easy. Intertia and incompetence. Government is full of paper pushers who hav eno higher wish but to live comfortably on tax payers money until they retire. The key to survival is to do what everyone else is doing, and not to be the first to try anything new.

The good thing is, as soon as someone tries anything new, and it looks like it is a success, the paper pushers will join in as soon as they think it is safe, and try to steal the fame and glory.

This is just how the government and the public sector works.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 11:07:37+00:00
> it took Red Hat and some other key players addressing the concerns the businesses and governments had

Red Hat? I don't think they are involved in the moves to FOSS for government agencies, mostly because they're American, and the ones who are currently moving quickly (in the government world at least) are the ones who aren't American and what to get rid of their reliance on American infrastructure and software.
Show HN: MCP-enabled file storage for AI agents, auth via Ethereum wallet
by womd | 2026-02-25 11:07:47+00:00
I built a live demo of an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server backed by FTP storage.
It lets AI agents manage files — read, write, search, edit, upload — through a
structured tool interface, while the same files stay accessible via standard FTP
over TLS.

Authentication is wallet-based (Ethereum signatures — no passwords, no email).

Try it: https://service.c33b.org
Provision: https://signin.c33b.org

Stack: ProFTPD + custom MCP layer, runs on Linux.
Compatible with Claude, Codex, n8n, and any MCP client.

Looking for honest feedback:
- Is the concept useful to you, or is this solving a problem that doesn't exist?
- What would you want from agent-accessible persistent storage?
- Anything that would stop you from trying it?

thx 4 feedback
by bsstoner | 2026-02-25 11:07:56+00:00
We receive in cleartext and encrypt with a key controlled by the customer. Most carriers store voicemail and SMS in cleartext on their servers. The goal is reduce exposure while preserving interoperability. This post on encrypted voicemail gets into more technical details about how it works: https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-encrypted-voicemail...
by solarkraft | 2026-02-25 11:08:46+00:00
I happen to be somewhat familiar with OpenCode and am considering using it as a personal AI workspace (some chat & agentic behavior,
not worrying about initiative behavior just yet, I’d try to DIY memory with local files and access to my notes) because it seems to have a decent ecosystem.

Pi appears to have a smaller, less “pre-made” ecosystem, but with more flexibility, enthusiasm and extensibility.

Is this correct? Should I look towards Pi over OpenCode? What are the UI options?
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-25 11:09:35+00:00
You act as if this is the first time in history technology has wiped out a trade and made people scramble to sort out their lives. No, this has been happening over and over again throughout history and at a rapidly accelerating pace since the industrial revolution. Why should we ask it to slow down on behalf of programmers, when it never did for anybody else? Don't pretend you didn't know this was a possibility when you got into tech in the first place. You might have to downsize your life but humanity as a whole will be better off.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-25 11:09:42+00:00
I'm sorry, but you've got to be a delusional lunatic to attempt to defend that kind of brazen biblical gaslighting. I don't agree with it because it's absolutely objectively insane and mendacious and unjustifiable in any context, no matter how much insincere self-serving apologetics and white-washing you can dig up. And your leaping to its defense is just as evil.

And even if you fully buy into and defend that reality-denying fairy tale, you still have to justify the institutionalized cannibalism and vampirism. It's a sick, sick, crucification fetishizing death cult.

And on top of that, as you very well know and can't deny, the Catholic Church and you complicit enablers also defend and support and perpetuate thousands of years of worldwide institutionalized child rape and pedophilia.

No wonder Catholics are so supportive of and defensive about Trump and Epstein -- your church rapes orders of magnitude more children over more millennia than even Epstein could afford or thirst for, and they're still doing it and hiding it and refusing to pay the consequences thanks to people who still cheerfully carry their water like you.

If you don't support cannibalism, vampirism, rape, and pedophilia, you are free to leave the church, but for God's sake, stop hypocritically defending it and the horrible things it does even if you selfishly choose to remain in the cult! Didn't your bible teach you to have some shame?
Show HN: A human-curated, CLI-driven Context Layer for AI agents
by anatoliikmt | 2026-02-25 11:09:51+00:00
The Context Layer is my take on treating context as a first-class, external layer that exists and evolves alongside your codebase. It's an agent-agnostic CLI tool designed for keeping long-lived project context structured and accessible across projects.

It's intentionally human-curated - nothing is auto-collected or inferred. The goal is control, granularity, and explicit structure rather than embeddings or opaque memory systems.

I've been using it across a few projects so far. Curious to hear from others experimenting with AI-assisted workflows!

Website: https://ctxlayer.dev/

Tutorial: https://ctxlayer.dev/docs/

GitHub: https://github.com/anatoliykmetyuk/ctxlayer
by snickerer | 2026-02-25 11:11:00+00:00
Reform idea:

We should decouple the publishing of papers from academic careers completely.
Papers can't generate any reputation or money for the authors anymore. To achieve that, we must anonymize the authors.

All scientists get some (paid) time to write papers — if they want. What they write and if they publish it is not known to anybody. They are trusted to write something of value in that time.

Universities can come up with other ways of judging which professors they hire. Interviews. Test teachings. Or the writing of an non-public application essay, which describes their past research and discoveries.
by globular-toast | 2026-02-25 11:12:13+00:00
Yep, all of the following make perfect sense to me, they're just non-idiomatic:

- Don't put your hand in water that's boiling,

- Add the pasta to water that's boiling,

- That saucepan is full of water that's boiling.

If "boiling water" were a distinct word, all of these sentences would change meaning compare to their idiomatic counterparts.
by alt227 | 2026-02-25 11:12:22+00:00
No-one is selling pronography to minors. I guess your analogy lends itself more to minors walking into stores and seeing pornography magazines and DVDs for sale, which happens everywhere all the time.

The point is it can be accidentally stumbled upon in many different situations, so why focus so heavily on a draconian online law which doesnt actually stop children from seeing pornography?
by arindamdawn | 2026-02-25 11:12:41+00:00
I've been working on a small project that lets you show progress, notifications, and status on your tab favicon - similar to how GitHub shows build status in their tabs.
Key features:
- Progress bars, pie charts, notification badges
- Status icons (success, warning, error, check, cross)
- Pulsing/spinning animations
- Tiny: ~2.5KB gzipped, no dependencies
- Works in any modern browser

Would love feedback!
by atgreen | 2026-02-25 11:12:45+00:00
If you are interested in this, you might also be interested to learn that I also got clojure running on SBCL via OpenLDK. See https://github.com/atgreen/cl-clojure.

Regarding LLM-usage, the bulk of OpenLDK was written without the use of LLMs. But recently I let Claude loose on the code to fix a few remaining problems blocking kawa. Claude also upleveled the Java support from Java 8 to Java 21.

I wrote a couple of blog entries related to this work that might be of interest. One was around how I had to use the MOP to optimize method dispatch in CLOS for clojure: https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/clos-mop-dispatch/
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-25 11:13:09+00:00
> Why would I want to use YOUR software if it's easy for me to cook up my own?

You're still in the mindset of thinking about software as something you sell to other people. Forget that crap. Software will be something you summon on demand to solve a specific problem you have. As long as people have problems that computers are good at solving, they'll keep using computers. What likely won't continue is computer programming as a career, but so what?
by Frieren | 2026-02-25 11:13:46+00:00
> Government is full of paper pushers who hav eno higher wish but to live comfortably on tax payers money until they retire.

Even billionaires are into getting as much tax payer money as possible. But they get the big numbers.

Report Says Elon Musk's Businesses Have Been Awarded $38 Billion In Government Contracts Since 2003: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-says-elon-musks-busine...
by cbdevidal | 2026-02-25 11:13:48+00:00
A slightly different definition of “best” is Verizon’s Visible division. NO caps. Just slightly deprioritized speeds 100% of the time. Their website says 5Mbps speed cap at all times but I’ve tested 180Mbps and that was after using like 30GB on my hotspot. Basically all-you-can-eat (including the hotspot) with a risk that sometimes it’ll slow a little compared to others on the network, for $25/mo.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-25 11:13:58+00:00
I have a few ideas but I think they were set on using their own chip.

There was a memo asking if TI should support those other CPUs in their AMPL prototyping system (990 based tools and in-circuit emulator). That investment was rejected.

Anecdotally, Don Bynum was unhappy with slow progress on defining the Home Computer, and hacked together a Z80 based machine. The engineers redoubled their efforts... supposedly...

There's politics between the Calculator division (all consumer products), Semiconductor, and Data Systems Group.

Still, TI had a TMS8080 (and later their own 486).

I'll work on this idea, thanks...

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As a child, I knocked some books off a garage shelf once and was plonked on the head with copies of The 8080 Bugbook. What the heck was a Bugbook? Or an 8080?

Some years later, a 9995 data sheet fell on my head and I thought how hard can it be to wire up a computer?
What breaks when AI agent frameworks are forced into <1MB RAM and sub-ms startup
by NULLCLAW | 2026-02-25 11:15:03+00:00
Most AI agent frameworks today assume environments with:
- dynamic runtimes
- long-lived processes
- large dependency trees
- forgiving memory behavior

That works fine in the cloud, but breaks quickly when you push into embedded,
edge, or latency-sensitive systems.

When memory budgets drop into the single-digit MB range and startup time
matters more than throughput, very different problems dominate:
- cold start time can exceed useful execution
- memory fragmentation becomes a hard failure mode
- dependency resolution costs more than the work itself
- predictable restarts matter more than flexibility

Exploring this constraint space forced several uncomfortable tradeoffs:
- static linking over dynamic composition
- fewer abstractions, more explicit control
- deterministic memory usage over convenience
- language choice becoming architectural rather than ergonomic

I’m curious how others here think about agent or planner-style systems under
these kinds of constraints. If you’ve tried pushing higher-level logic into
embedded or edge environments:
- what broke first?
- which assumptions didn’t survive contact with hardware?
- what design choices actually held up?
by carderne | 2026-02-25 11:16:38+00:00
The people pushing oh-my-pi seem to have missed the point of pi... Downloading 200k+ lines of additional code seems completely against the philosophy of building up your harness, less your agent self-improve, relying on code that you control.

If you want bags of features, rather clone oh-my-pi somewhere, and get your agent to bring in bits of it a time, checking, reviewing, customising as you go.
by anhphong | 2026-02-25 11:17:40+00:00
Hey HN,

My iPhone library grew to thousands of photos, and many of them were basically the same shot: multiple takes of the same pose, bursts, and old screenshots.

Most duplicate cleaners I tried only caught exact pixel duplicates, so I still had to scroll through everything myself.

SnapSift scans the library on-device, groups photos that look alike, and helps you keep one best shot from each group.

- Scans the whole library in under a minute

- Shows similar photos side by side

- Picks a likely “best” photo in each group

- Lets you delete the extras quickly

Everything runs locally using Apple’s Vision framework. Photos never leave the device, there is no server and no cloud.

You can scan for free and delete up to 25 photos per month on the free tier. Pro unlocks unlimited cleanup.

I would like to hear how well the grouping works on your library, and any cases where the “best pick” is clearly wrong.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapsift/id6759221222
Landing page: https://snapsift.app
by Noaidi | 2026-02-25 11:18:09+00:00
I mean seriously, is this not the very definition of fascism?

"n general, fascist governments exercised control over private property but they did not nationalize it. Scholars also noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Italian Fascist and German Nazi governments after they took power. Business leaders supported the government's political and military goals. In exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies.[8]"
by bsstoner | 2026-02-25 11:18:35+00:00
It depends what your threat model is. Most telco data collection and resale is based on IMSI’s attached to KYC’d customers. If they can’t get personal information and the IMSI looks like it’s a day old, that data is inherently less valuable to data brokers. The large telcos have plenty of clean data with stable IMSI’s tied to KYC’d customers that is worth more.
Nano Banana 2 is real！Gemini 3.1 Flash Image just appeared in Vertex AI Catalog
by zaaaaooo | 2026-02-25 11:19:14+00:00
A new entry in the Vertex AI model catalog was spotted: model:gemini-3.1-flash-image.
It looks like the rumors were true—this is the official identity of Nano Banana 2. While everyone was waiting for a Pro update, Google seems to be doubling down on the "Flash" tier for high-volume production.
Here’s the breakdown of what this means for production:
The Pro vs. Flash: Based on early internal samples, the quality is surprisingly close to Nano Banana Pro. In some dense compositions, the Flash model actually seems to handle spatial logic better than the flagship.
Put them to the test with the same prompt. The left is generated by Nano Banana 2/Gemini 3.1 flash image, and the right is Nano Banana Pro called via AtlasCloud.ai. To my eyes, the gap is almost invisible. You could see it from here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nanobanana2pro/comments/1rea91s/nano_banana_2_is_realgemini_31_flash_image_just/
Built for Scale: The naming convention confirms this isn’t a Pro replacement, but a high-speed, low-cost alternative.
Feature Parity: It’s inheriting all the features from the Nano Banana series:
Multi-subject reference
High-fidelity style transfer.
Precise semantic following.
This is clearly aimed at high-frequency pipelines—think bulk UGC ad creation, or generating consistent frames for video models like Kling 3.0 or Seedance 2.0. If the pricing is as low as the previous Flash models, this might be the most important release for H1 2026.
by agentic-wiki | 2026-02-25 11:19:22+00:00
As we looked to the mainframe for "deterministic certainty," Anthropic handed the AI a crowbar. IBM’s 13% swan dive—its worst day since 2000—reveals a massive market bet: we’d rather have a fast, cheap, "vibe-coded" migration to the cloud than a slow, guaranteed life in a COBOL vault. Are we witnessing the "Probabilistic Purgatory" of our last stable systems, or is the 1970s "Adult" finally being sent to a retirement home?
by ralfd | 2026-02-25 11:20:54+00:00
Similarly law professor Rob Anderson joked on X that llm hallucinated cases are good law:

https://x.com/ProfRobAnderson/status/2019078989348774129

> Indeed hallucinated cases are "better law." Drawing on Ronald Dworkin's theory of law as integrity, which posits that ideal legal decisions must "fit" existing precedents while advancing principled justice, this article argues that these hallucinations represent emergent normative ideals. AI models, trained on vast corpora of real case law, synthesize patterns to produce rulings that optimally align with underlying legal principles, filling gaps in the doctrinal landscape. Rather than errors, they embody the "cases that should exist," reflecting a Hercules-like judge's holistic interpretation.
by kzahel | 2026-02-25 11:20:58+00:00
Yeah the remote control featureset is pretty limited right now. I did a comparison here https://yepanywhere.com/claude-code-remote-control/ (with my own project). I'm sure they'll iterate on it. Overall it's such an obvious feature for them to add I'm surprised it took them so long to ship. There are probably at least 50 such projects that people have made (https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere/blob/main/docs/competi...)

The one feature drawback of tailscale/tmux/termius is no file upload. And ergonomics, ability to view files/diffs easily, though that's subjective.
by moritonal | 2026-02-25 11:21:32+00:00
It feels wild to have to keep reminding people, but AI changes very little. Tools have always had a variety of output, and ways to control this, and bad tools output a lot by default, whilst good tools hide it behind version of "-v" or easy greps. Don't add a --LLM or whatever, do add cleaner and consistent verbosity controls.
by espadrine | 2026-02-25 11:22:32+00:00
Interestingly, while it uses diffusion, it generates incorrect information, and it doesn't fix it when later in the text it realizes that it is incorrect:

> The snail you’re likely thinking of has a different code point:
> The correct code point for the snail emoji is U+1F40C? No—U+1F40C is SEAHORSE. The snail’s true code point is U+1F40C? Wait, this is still confusing.
>
> Let’s set the record straight:
>
> Snail → U+1F40C? No, that’s wrong.
> Snail → U+1F40C? Still wrong.
>
> The snail emoji is actually U+1F40C? I’m mixing things up.
>
> Correct snail code point
>
> The snail emoji is U+1F40C? No…
>
> After double‑checking the official Unicode tables (Unicode 13.0 and later), the snail is U+1F40C? The…
> Given the confusion, the safest answer is: the Unicode Standard defines U+1F40C as “SEAHORSE”. If your device shows a snail, it’s a rendering quirk, not a change in the underlying code point.
by mihneadevries | 2026-02-25 11:22:48+00:00
Aider's `--yes` flag combined with a git-based loop works honestly better than I expected for this, like it'll just commit and you review the diff.
Pi I've tried headless and it's fine but you kinda have to wire up the exit conditions yourself since it's so minimal by design.

Fwiw the janky `claude -p` approach you described is actually pretty solid once you stop fighting it, the simplicity is the feature I think.
by bsstoner | 2026-02-25 11:23:14+00:00
We don’t operate our own towers and as you point out we can’t control what someone there does. Our privacy and security model is to treat the towers as untrustworthy. This is why we do things like rotate your IMSI daily or split your traffic across multiple underlying network partners. We want to make any data that is collected noisy and less valuable to data brokers.