MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogogo | 2026-02-23 00:58:58+00:00
About 10 years ago I was at a startup that used one of the upstart 401k providers of the time. Logged in one day and could see several of my coworkers’ accounts. Really bad class of bug. Still not clear to me how they could have screwed up account atomicity so poorly but assume it was something to do with how they managed orgs.

I was pretty mad about it but also tried to play ball and not make too much of a fuss because I learned some pretty private things without meaning to and didn’t want to inadvertently make them public. Should have been more vocal.
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-23 00:59:04+00:00
Lmao no. You cannot use your common sim card for that. It's for an individual and they will cut your service and justifiably so, if they figure out that's what you're using it for.

If you buy a sim card built for that purpose sure, but then you'll be paying...biz prices!

This isn't really that hard to figure out people. So much outrage in comments on this. Self entitlement to the max from people who really haven't lifted a finger to stop the corporate overlords anyway.
by ab_testing | 2026-02-23 01:01:47+00:00
I believe that it is well known that California politicians talk a lot about equity, equality and other such bullshit but they are the most NIMBY politicians in the whole US. They pile on so many studies and other roadblocks to building housing just to maintain high property values.

Example, In April 2024, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area permitted 7,851 new homes, surpassing the 7,612 permitted in the entire state of California.

There are so many other examples

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mission-district-affo...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-supervisors-n...
by ageedizzle | 2026-02-23 01:02:53+00:00
It's not necessarily the case that Loops is just as addictive as TikTok. Because TikTok is more than just short term videos. It's also a recommendation algorithm that slurps up as much information as it can about you to predict what you'll want to watch next. This recommendation algorithm plays a big role in making TikTok addictive. And as far as I'm aware, Loops does not have this functionality. It will just show you videos based on a much simpler algorithm that takes into account how recent a video is and how many likes/comments it has, or something like that, which will make it less addictive.
by thisoneisreal | 2026-02-23 01:03:03+00:00
I'm not buying into this vision at all, but, hypothetically, they could use money to optimize whatever reward function they're trained on. They could perceive it like any other resource to achieve those ends. You can also imagine a universe where it "reasons" something like, "I do work, people who do work should get paid, I should get paid" irrespective of its goals.
Show HN: VerdictMail – IMAP daemon that uses LLM reasoning to catch phishing
by ascarola | 2026-02-23 01:03:04+00:00
I built VerdictMail as a homelab project to explore whether combining
classical email authentication signals with LLM reasoning produces better
threat classification than either approach alone.

It runs as a daemon on Ubuntu, monitors a Gmail inbox via IMAP IDLE, and
processes every incoming message through a multi-stage pipeline:

RFC 822 parse → whitelist check → enrich → AI analyze → decide → act → audit

The enrichment stage collects SPF/DKIM/DMARC results, DNSBL reputation,
WHOIS domain age, display-name spoofing detection, and URL expansion — then
packages all of that as structured context in a prompt to the LLM. The model
returns a JSON threat assessment with a confidence score and reasoning chain,
which the decision engine maps to one of three IMAP actions: pass, flag
($VerdictMail-Suspect keyword), or move to Junk.

Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama instance. I run it with
qwen2.5-coder:7b locally for privacy. Full pipeline typically completes in
under 15 seconds with a cloud provider.

Includes a Flask web UI with dashboard, paginated audit log, whitelist
management, in-browser YAML config editor, and a manual test page where you
can paste a raw email and dry-run the full pipeline.

Runs as two systemd services. Tested on Proxmox LXC (unprivileged).
MIT licensed.

Happy to discuss the enrichment → LLM prompt design, the confidence threshold
tuning, or the LXC-specific stop/pause behavior if anyone is curious.
by eulgro | 2026-02-23 01:03:29+00:00
That's 58 GWh, but considering each food calorie actually require 5-10 calories of input energy (oil mostly), let's say 290 GWh.

I couldn't find much on training AI models. Apparently GPT-3 used 1.3 GWh for training. So maybe ~10 GWh for newer models?

So... let's stop training humans I guess.
by estearum | 2026-02-23 01:03:59+00:00
You should disclaim this comment by acknowledging that you have zero firsthand experience with having a device like this in your home.

You're entirely talking out of your ass. You have no clue what's more usable, cluttered-feeling, or useful.

As someone who built a similar device to this: it is absolutely awesome to have one of these, even though I have a smartphone!
by root_axis | 2026-02-23 01:04:08+00:00
> You'll never find sports, guns, cars, comedy and a lot of other mainstream content on these platforms even though there is nothing inherently offensive about it.

What are you talking about? Sports, cars, and comedy are present everywhere on the internet. Guns are more of a niche and not without controversy, and it's certainly true that the incumbent networks place restrictions on some gun related content.
by bluGill | 2026-02-23 01:04:29+00:00
Depends - my family almost always has events coming up for something, so there is always something that needs attention in the next couple days. The display has no idea when I look at it if I'm asking "is there anything tonight" - that is things where the answer is sometimes no; or if I'm asking what is planned for the rest of the week.

Likewise there are always chores. Cleaning the litter box is daily, but in the rare case where everything that must be done is done there are things like washing windows that can wait a few months but if I have time...

It is also useful to put a clock on this display - computers are accurate unlike the battery powered things you have on the wall. (though it is a matter of taste if this is worth it...)

And at least where I live I always need to know the weather for the day (if storms are expected it might be deadly to ride my bike to work even though it is fine now).

Sure knowing the temperature and relative humidity in the house isn't really useful if the system is working correct. Though it does settle some arguments so it is worth having anyway.
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-02-23 01:05:14+00:00
> I realize Intel has done some serious ball dropping over the past two decades but you do realize the US has on shore cutting edge fabs, right?

We could squabble about the finer details of Intel's fab capabilities. They have advanced nodes, but it's irrelevant. They simply do not have the capacity to support the entire demand that is currently supplied by TSMC.

It is not just "high end luxury electronics" that have modern CPUs. It's every bloody server in the cloud. (Have a look at who makes and distributes the mainboards. Same story, substitute Intel for Supermicro.)

The economic impact on this field would be a disaster. Compute becomes much more expensive, SaaS prices will follow, and with that a massive drop in demand.

Not to mention you can kiss the entire AI industry goodbye if the price of GPUs spike.
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-23 01:05:20+00:00
Oh I would absolutely love this.

It would prove that many, many parents are incapable of being the responsible adults they should be and will just cave to their kids tantrums about their phone being unlocked so they can watch tiktoks for (sometimes more than) 8 hours a day.

Everyone in the UK is now using a vpn for everything because of these "won't somebody please think of the children" smucks. Now let's see if they make good on their end and lock their child's phone...
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 01:05:23+00:00
> There's an entire mesh of metrics that are used to calculate your relation to separate accounts.

> It's the confidence tolerance that keeps you and your partner from getting banned together.

Thanks for that bit of info, the degree of disgusting that google would be tracking who people's partners are is off the scale invasive and should be a reason for an immediate complaint to the various data privacy authorities.
by usef- | 2026-02-23 01:05:53+00:00
I don't think that's an apt metaphor. You bought one general water supply, like an API user. If they sold a "no baths" cheaper option I'd be fine with them banning baths to those customers.

Google's API does let you use any client.

The gemini/antigravity clients are a different (subscription) service. When you reverse engineer the clients and use their internal auth/apis you will typically have very different access patterns to other clients (eg: not using prompt caching), and this is likely showing up in their metrics.

This isn't unusual. A bottomless drink at a restaurant has restrictions: it's for you to drink, not to pass around to others at the table (unless they buy one too). You can't pour it into bottles to take large quantities home, etc. And it's priced accordingly: if sharing/bottling was allowed the price would have to increase.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-23 01:06:01+00:00
Yep. Anything similar to what was Vine (i.e., TikTok, Youtube Shorts, Instagram Reels; e.g., very short videos with infinite scrolling) is ultimately too consuming literally a drug that robs one of the ability to concentrate and patience.

I think we need to encourage long form videos from 5 minutes to 1-2 hours and organize stuff around metadata (title, keywords/tags, lists, unique identifier) to mesh with a living, standardized ontology in a curated, sensible fashion that disallows proliferation of slop, too low quality stuff, and spam. From there, choose your own recommender and related algorithms/plugins.

The big gotcha of decentralized video platforms is content distribution that doesn't hug a self-hoster's server with barely any traffic.
by martinald | 2026-02-23 01:06:09+00:00
It's a fair point, but I think people are thinking too much about 'cost' and 'subsidies' and just the fact that everyone is so compute stretched.

While it's sort of the same thing, I think it's much more a symptom of not enough compute vs some 'dump cheap tokens' on the market strategy.

One related thought I had was that given OpenAI is the only one _not_ doing this of the big3, it probably indicates they have a lot more spare compute.

It doesn't make sense to me that given the absolutely brutal competition any of these companies would block use of 3rd party apps unless they had to. They clearly have enough cash, so I don't think it's about money - I think it's that an indicator that Google and Anthropic are really struggling with keeping up with demand. Given Anthropics reliability issues last week this does not surprise me.
by bilegeek | 2026-02-23 01:06:49+00:00
Until

* CPS gets called?

* cops harass them again?

* the malls and many other places kick them out

* (at least for most of the USA) zoning laws and public transit issues are all fixed?

You cannot let individual families, even individual kids/teens, shoulder this burden alone. If your local malls, cops, and nosy neighbors have already clearly shown that they DO NOT want free-range kids in practice, would you risk the breakup of your family and bankruptcy from legal fees alone? (Assuming there's no community support, because a functional community wouldn't have this problem.) Kudos if so, but most people won't risk it if the chance of success is too low.
by bluGill | 2026-02-23 01:07:24+00:00
I have my phone as well. However the screen is where I'm most likely to need that information anyway. And the screen information density is much better than the phone.

I have the apps on my phone. I use them, and at times they are great - but they are not a perfect solution. (though I agree that $3000 for a system is too much)
by m_ke | 2026-02-23 01:07:28+00:00
1. Compete directly with their highest margin API customers

2. Buy up real businesses with the billions of equity and cash that they're raising

3. Lobby the government for regulations to stifle competition

4. Beg for a bailout or 0% loans when the music stops

5. Follow the Zuck playbook of copying competitors, spying on their users, spamming and addicting them, then squeezing the whales out of everything that they have (there's a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI have a bunch of Facebook execs leading their product groups)
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-23 01:07:32+00:00
While the frustration is understandable I don't see any difference between this and Netflix not allowing you to use your Netflix subscription in Amazon Prime federated video hub or something of that sort.

At the end of the day we know that these tools are massively subsidised and they do not reflect the real cost of usage. It is a fair-use model at best and the goal is to capture as market share as possible.

I am a no defender of Google and I've been burned many times by Google as well but I kind of get it?

That being said, you don't really need to use your gemini subscription in openclaw. You can use gemini directly the way it was intended and rip the benefits of the subsidised plan.

I developed an open source tool called Pantalk which sits as a background daemon and exposes many of the communication channels you want as a standard CLI which gemini can use directly. All you need is just some SKILL.md files to describe where things are at and you are good to go. You have openclaw without openclaw and still within TOS.

The project is hosted at: https://github.com/pantalk/pantalk
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-23 01:08:09+00:00
Has anyone solved the e-paper ghosting issue? Do you just have to set a complete screen re-render every few seconds or something?

Fwiw, there are 13-inch eInk displays for ~$140 (https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-b.htm?sku=272...) which you can pair with a Raspberry Pi (~$40) or ESP32 (~$15) and battery (~$10). Smaller displays are cheaper if you don't need all that real estate. You can then use AI vibe coding and open source projects to throw together your own apps
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-23 01:08:36+00:00
>>> What surprised me the most was the fees that just piled on. I knew the land, labor and materials costs.
Just the sewer (the capacity only, no work done) was $11k. Then add on the park and school fees which both were over $10k. No wonder it a builder has to build something over 2000 SQFT to make it pencil out.

>> The actual problem, the elephant in the room, is that California is expensive, both by popularity and regulation. This makes for an embarrassing conundrum where California is simultaneously pushing poor people out while trying to subsidize their life via social programs.

> I think your comment works by making a bold assumption that construction in California is wildly expensive than elsewhere and that it’s the major driver of cost.

I didn’t make any bold claims.
by hsur8192 | 2026-02-23 01:08:37+00:00
Very interesting, I've been working on a similar project (using word2vec to learn vectors using playlist data), but using songs instead of artists as the 'words'.

The main bottleneck at this point is the volume of data - many songs I'm interested in only are only represented in a handful of playlists, and . Evaluation at any useful scale is also quite difficult. For somewhat obvious reasons, in our AI era Spotify has become quite skittish about letting third parties gain access to their data at scale...
by inder1 | 2026-02-23 01:09:06+00:00
The feedback loop described here is what stuck with me — AI improves, companies cut headcount, savings go back into AI, AI improves. No natural brake.

The article puts a specific number on it: a $180K PM replaced by a $200/mo AI agent. I've been building a tool that lets you run this kind of scenario on your own career — scores your AI exposure and simulates paths that reduce it.

One thing I've found from running hundreds of simulations: augmenting your current career with AI consistently leads to better financial outcomes over 5-10 years than pivoting to a new field entirely.

The best move isn't to run — it's to adapt in place.
Free to try: parallaxapp.world
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-02-23 01:09:20+00:00
> Why would they bother to invade Taiwan when they’re winning economically and diplomatically?

They are hedging their bets. If Taiwan refuses to accept re-unification, China wants to have the option of a military annexation.

They have been planning this for quite a bit longer than the current US administration. They're not going to bank on Donald Trump forever, he's not getting any younger and healthier, and November 2028 is sooner with every passing day. A military conflict is not off the table, and so it is considered and prepared for.
by snowhale | 2026-02-23 01:09:44+00:00
the ToS enforcement itself is defensible -- consumer plans vs API access really are different unit economics. what's not defensible is permanent ban with zero appeal path for paying subscribers. that's a product failure. if you're charging /mo you should at minimum have a 'we caught you, stop it or we'll close the account' step before 'account gone forever, sorry'.
by ctl0v0 | 2026-02-23 01:10:09+00:00
Not to hijack, but if folks are interested, I built a similar project based on a very similar premise, but since I had a old touchscreen monitor laying around and some woodworking experience I used a raspberry pi, LineageOS, along with Nova Launcher to build a similar implementation based on android. I posted about it here if interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1ik3myy/turni...
by muyuu | 2026-02-23 01:10:24+00:00
it is especially a normie world when it comes to chat

the intersection of people who aren't sheepish normies, get stuff done and also chat, is almost entirely covered by forums and IRC, as they had been for decades and they don't really have a need for anything flashier

if you want for some reason to have a self-hosted chat of sorts, imo your best bet is to install it on your own website next to your own forum/BBS and pretend it's not really an open messaging service so authorities don't end up coming to you asking to id your users (ideally you'd be moving your server to a non-authoritarian jurisdiction outside of China, UK, Iran, North Korea, possibly the USA at this rate, etc)

basically stay below the radar and enforce compulsory anonymity in your spaces to be on the safe side, that way you only need to gatekeep registrations and the occasional ban and moderation
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-23 01:10:34+00:00
>Shouldn’t there be a huge market opportunity here for parental control systems

Requires parents to be invested and unlike the OP (appreciate you btw) many parents are not.

No money/use in it unless people actually care enough to invest personal effort into it (which they don't, hence forcing solutions that fuck everybody over, like UK requiring id for adult websites).
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 01:10:39+00:00
No, the problem is that the discounted rate exists in the first place. Essentially these are unfair business practices, product cross subsidization to ensure market dominance. See also: Microsoft and a whole bunch of other companies.

And once they've got their monopoly position there is inevitably the rug-pull. I wonder if some CPO somewhere actually had the guts to put a 'rug pull' item on the product roadmap.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-23 01:12:06+00:00
I think we can all agree that police departments are allowed to reject applicants based on IQ. Cognitive tests are common from what googling I've done, although only about 10 states have IQ tests specifically. It's also hard to prove that candidates get rejected based on their IQ, it's not like this would be a department policy. Whether they exercise their right to do so, or how many exercise that right, there is no hard data that I could find, and you might be right that this is a bit exaggerated.

However, from direct experience, and the endless videos of police interacting with citizens out there, it's hard to not to draw conclusions.

I would imagine applicants would be told they're not a culture fit or something, similar to any other workplace that uses informal reasons to reject applicants. I would even agree that if you pass the right vibe-check, having high-IQ might not be an issue (e.g.: white supremacist tendency, or gang membership).

Google AI overview regarding cognitive testing (sorry, too lazy to dig up specific sources, i assume you can google the same things I did and find out):

While specific, standardized, state-wide cognitive test mandates for police hiring are not uniform across the U.S.,
approximately 37 states mandate or conditionally require psychological screening, which often includes cognitive assessment components. These evaluations are typically part of a broader, mandatory, and highly competitive selection process that often includes reading, writing, and, in some cases, critical thinking, or scenario-based assessments like the FrontLine Testing System.
Show HN: AgentLint v0.5 – 42 rules, stack-aware guardrails for AI agents
by maupr92 | 2026-02-23 01:12:34+00:00
Follow-up to my post 3 days ago. AgentLint went from 10 rules to 42 across 7 packs.

The interesting technical bits since last time:

Stack auto-detection. AgentLint inspects project files (pyproject.toml, package.json, framework dependencies) and activates relevant rule packs. Python pack catches bare excepts, unsafe subprocess calls, SQL injection patterns. Frontend pack checks accessibility (alt text, form labels, heading hierarchy). React
and SEO packs activate when their dependencies are present. No config needed — drop agentlint.yml if you want to override.

All 17 hook events. Claude Code exposes more lifecycle hooks than most people realize: PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, UserPromptSubmit, SubagentStop, Notification, SessionEnd, and 10 others. AgentLint now handles all of them. The interesting one is UserPromptSubmit — you can validate what the user asks before the
agent acts on it.

File content caching for diffs. PreToolUse caches the file's content before an Edit/Write. PostToolUse receives the "before" snapshot so diff-based rules work (e.g., detecting when error handling gets removed from a file).

Binary resolution problem. Claude Code runs hooks via /bin/sh with a minimal PATH. On macOS, pip installs console_scripts to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/ which isn't on that PATH. shutil.which() fails. The fix was a 5-step probe chain: PATH → ~/.local/bin (pipx) → uv tools dir →
sysconfig.get_path("scripts") → python -m fallback. The sysconfig call is the key — it returns exactly where pip put the binary. Also had to add __main__.py since the python -m fallback was broken without it.

Quality pack (always-active). Validates commit messages against conventional commits format. Detects dead imports. Warns when try/except or .catch blocks get removed entirely (not refactored — removed). Injects a self-review prompt at session end. Tracks token budget across the session.

741 tests, 96% coverage. Still Python 3.11+, still no dependencies beyond click and pyyaml.

The custom rules API hasn't changed — subclass Rule, implement evaluate(), drop a .py file. But the engine now provides richer context: file diffs, prompt content, subagent output, notification metadata.

https://github.com/mauhpr/agentlint