MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-11 04:09:13+00:00
I was wondering the same thing! Looked into it a bit, apparently 'cyber-capable' is defined by lawmakers in 10 USC § 398a:

> The term “cyber capability” means a device or computer program, including any combination of software, firmware, or hardware, designed to create an effect in or through cyberspace.

So apparently, OpenAI's response is written by and for an audience of lawyers / government wonks which differs greatly from the actual user-base who tend to be technical experts rather than policy nerds. Echoes of SOC2 being written by accountants, but advertised as if it's an audit of computer security.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-11 04:09:51+00:00
This couldn't be more wrong.

LLM's are only as good as they are because we have such amazing incredible open source software everywhere. Because their job is to look at the types of really good libraries that have decades of direct and indirect wisdom poured into them, and then to be a little glue.

Yes the LLM can go make you alternatives, and it will be mostly fine-ish in many cases. But LLMs are not about pure endless frivolous frontiersing. They deeply reward and they are trained on what the settlers and town planners have done (referencing Wardley here).

And they will be far better at using those good robust well built tools (which they have latently built-in to their models some!) than they will be at re-learning and fine-tuning for your bespoke weird hodgepodge solution.

Cheap design is cheap now. Sure. But good design will be ever more important. Model's ability, their capacity, is a function of what material they can work with, and I can't for the life of me imagine shorting yourself with cheap design like proposed here. The LLM's are very good, but but honing in on good design is hard, period, and I think that judgement and character is something the next orders of magnitude of parameters is still not going to close the gap on.
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-11 04:10:09+00:00
Not keeping peoples data safe is one thing

However, as I have seen in my country Australia under the new social media ban, our Government has mandated social media companies to use age verification technology. As part of this they have mandated that Government ID verification cannot be the only method. As such the social media giants have implemented age verification technology through the type of information you have posted on your account and potentially facial scans.

I struggle to know what else these companies can do if they are mandated to implement age verification. However, they should not be storing Government ID, there should be a broker.
by antonvs | 2026-02-11 04:12:08+00:00
$200k really isn’t that much in this context. Less than a year’s income for a good developer in the US. Even if you haven’t worked for a FAANG, in the software industry in the US it’s not that difficult to find yourself with that amount, or more, available for investment after working in the industry for a while. Similarly, an amount like that isn’t necessarily going to take you very far.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-11 04:12:51+00:00
> When we’re overwhelmed with information, we benefit from a system that organizes it.

That may be true for something like a HUD or where we're really overwhelmed with info that is fast and reaction time is paramount.

But you can read a hackernews thread one line at a line and never get overwhelmed, right? I literally have never felt overwhelmed looking at the threads (which are also organized into local groups already etc).

I read it for pleasure and engagement, it's not something I want AI to automate away.

And when you say "continue the conversation there", do you mean use AI to write comments? If so, then this is the opposite of what makes HN HN.
by agentultra | 2026-02-11 04:13:35+00:00
The problem is that if you don’t understand the code you’re taking a risk shipping that code.

There’s a reason why most vibe coded apps I’ve seen leak keys and have basic security flaws all over the place.

If you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re generating code at scale that you can’t manage you’re going to have a bad time.

The models are trained on all the slop we had to ship under time pressure and swore we’d fix later, etc. They’re not going to autocomplete the good code. They’re going to autocomplete the most common denominator code.

I don’t agree that design is cheap. Maybe for line-of-business software that doesn’t matter much.
by luckman212 | 2026-02-11 04:13:50+00:00
Ringing up expensive grocery items as cheap SKU at Whole Foods self checkout...

Going on shopping sprees and then calling the credit card company to report it as fraud...

Buying a fancy dress to wear for a few nights out and then returning it...

All things people close to me have done, or continue to do on a regular basis

Talking about a relatively "privileged" class of people here- multiple homes, multiple cars, kids in private school- not struggling single moms working double shifts to put food on the table.

Something's broken in our society.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 04:13:55+00:00
https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/

To actually pass the certification test suite on a real system, Apple sometimes needs to apply special configurations (e.g., disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP), using case-sensitive filesystem, enabling certain legacy services, etc.).

telnet(1) is not required by POSIX (nor is nc or ssh required!)

Ironically, telnet(1) did not begin as a "Unix" utility but an ARPANET protocol suite program. It was available cross-platform. It is unclear whether all editions of Unix included a client, but BSD for sure was the point where telnet and TCP/IP became essential integrations for the systems.
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-11 04:14:29+00:00
Former R1S Gen 2 owner. Love this brand and I want to love the car, but the quality and constant maintenance issues were unacceptable.

Rattles, a door mirror motor breaking, doors that wouldn't shut properly, door weather stripping that fell off, a door that just wouldn't open, panel alignment issues, some kind of screaching-to-a-halt-and-terrifying-my-family auto-brake that Rivian never figured out after reviewing log data.

Oh and did I mention the fans or heat pump that sound like a ROCKET LAUNCHING?! At a park one time someone asked me if something was wrong with the vehicle. Nope, that's just the terrible fans they chose!

Insult to injury: someone rear ended me. Insurance "covered" it, but the local collision center --- my only option within 6 hours --- charges a 2X rate for EVs that State Farm would not cover. So a $14,000 MINOR FENDER DENT turned into $7,000 out of pocket for me.

If you look at /r/rivian, it's a near constant stream of issues. While Rivian did expedite service center visits for critical issues, other times repairs were months out. And as the R2 scales, SC growth will probably trail for a while, and so I really fear for the experience early adopters are in for.

I am rooting for them but for me personally I would not consider another Rivian.
by efreak | 2026-02-11 04:14:31+00:00
I'm assuming you're looking for the monthly planner view that actually shows events and not just indicators? Try calendar widgets suite or business calendar 2 planner. Unfortunately both are ad-supported (anything designed explicitly to show local personal information shouldn't go online IMHO), but there's a paid version as well. There's a couple other apps that have similar looking widgets as well, you might find more by searching for monthly planner widgets, not calendar widgets. It might also be possible to find one using a week toolkit (I used Zooper in the past, but I think it's pretty dead now; not sure what's replaced it).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshy21.ve...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appgenix.b...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.komorebi.n...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshy21.ve...
by anon291 | 2026-02-11 04:15:24+00:00
Correct. And this is the key distinction between the mathematical approach and the everyday / business / SE approach that dominates on hacker news.

Numbers are not "real", they just happen to be isomorphic to all things that are infinite in nature. That falls out from the isomorphism between countable sets and the natural numbers.

You'll often hear novices referencing the 'reals' as being "real" numbers and what we measure with and such. And yet we categorically do not ever measure or observe the reals at all. Such thing is honestly silly. Where on earth is pi on my ruler? It would be impossible to pinpoint... This is a result of the isomorphism of the real numbers to cauchy sequences of rational numbers and the definition of supremum and infinum. How on earth can any person possibly identify a physical least upper bound of an infinite set? The only things we measure with are rational numbers.

People use terms sloppily and get themselves confused. These structures are fundamental because they encode something to do with relationships between things

The natural numbers encode things which always have something right after them. All things that satisfy this property are isomorphic to the natural numbers.

Similarly complex numbers relate by rotation and things satisfying particular rotational symmetries will behave the same way as the complex numbers. Thus we use C to describe them.

As a Zen Koan:

A novice asks "are the complex numbers real?"

The master turns right and walks away.
by stevekemp | 2026-02-11 04:15:25+00:00
> You are getting too worked up about this

No. I just see the same person in this discussion making multiple posts saying "Fedora is modern, fedora is good, stable Debian is broken, old, and wrong".

Of course my reply is a little mechanical and biased because I'm refuting a strawman.

Suggesting that Debian's stable release is no good for users, when I'm sat here using it, and many many other people do so is crazy hyperbole!

Anyway I guess arguing further is pointless.
by dikobraz | 2026-02-11 04:16:15+00:00
LLM inference throughput benchmark for RTX PRO 6000 SE vs H100, H200, and B200 GPUs, based on the vllm serve and vllm bench serve benchmarking tools, to understand the cost-efficiency of various datacenter GPU options.

Benchmarking Setup:
The benchmark is optimized for throughput. VLLM serves models. The model is split across multiple GPUs using the --tensor-parallel-size VLLM option, if needed. Multiple VLLM instances serve the model; an NGINX load balancer on top distributes requests across them, maximizing throughput (replica parallelism). For example, if only 4 GPUs are required to run the model on an 8-GPU machine, two VLLM instances are launched with --tensor-parallel-size=4, and an NGINX load balancer is used. If all eight GPUs are required, then a single VLLM instance with --tensor-parallel-size=8 is used.

The vllm bench serve tool is used for benchmarking with random data and a sequence length of 1000. The number of concurrent requests is set to 64-256 to ensure the LLM's token-generation capacity is saturated.

Three models are benchmarked to better understand the effect of PCIe communication on the 8xPro6000 server vs. NVLink on the H100/H200/B200.

Here is the model selection and the logic behind it:
- GLM-4.5-Air-AWQ-4bit (fits 80GB). Testing single-GPU performance and maximum throughput with replica scaling on 8 GPU setups. No PCIE bottleneck.
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-AWQ (fits 320GB). This 4-bit-quantized model fits into 4 GPUs. Some PCIe communication overhead in Pro 6000 setups may reduce performance relative to NVLink-enabled datacenter GPUs.
- GLM-4.6-FP8 (fits 640GB). This model requires all eight GPUs. PCIe communication overhead expected. The H100 and H200 configurations should have an advantage.

Besides raw throughput, graphs show the serving cost per million tokens for each model on its respective hardware. The rental price is set at $0.93 for Pro6000, $1.91 for H100, $2.06 for H200, and $2.68 for B200.

Results:
- B200 wins on throughput, with the largest gap on the most communication-heavy workload – GLM-4.6-FP8 (8-way TP): B200 is 4.87x faster than PRO 6000 (8,036.71 vs 1,651.67 tok/s) – Qwen3-Coder-480B (4-way TP): B200 is 4.02x faster than PRO 6000 (6,438.43 vs 1,602.96 tok/s) – GLM-4.5-Air (single-GPU replicas): B200 is 4.22x faster than PRO 6000 (9,675.24 vs 2,290.69 tok/s)
- B200 is also the cost efficiency leader under updated run-cost estimates. B200’s throughput advantage more than compensates for its higher hourly cost.
- PRO 6000 is an attractive low-capex option. It beats H100 on cost per across all models and is on par with H200 on GLM-4.5-Air.
- H200 is a major step up over H100. H200 delivers ~1.83x to 2.14x H100 throughput across the three models.
- H100 looked worse than expected in this specific setup. It’s on par with PRO 6000 in throughput on GLM-4.5-Air and behind all other contenders in cost per token across all workloads.
by amluto | 2026-02-11 04:16:24+00:00
This article is lumps design and implementation together. In my experience, LLMs are really quite bad at designing anything interesting. They are sort of tolerable at implementation — they’re remarkably persistent (compared to humans, anyway), they will tirelessly use whatever framework, good or bad, you throw at them, and they will produce code that is quite painful to look at. And they’ll say that they’re architecting things and hope you’re impressed.
by seanosaur | 2026-02-11 04:18:10+00:00
I saw these on display at Pinball Expo in the Chicago area last October and they were magnificent. My kids loved pressing the buttons and seeing what happened, and I had a great time walking them through what's happening. The amount of creativity and ingenuity that went into these mechanisms and assemblies is something to behold. Especially the ones within the electromechanical (EM) games, which were basically 60s / 70s, they did so much with so little when it comes to computing power.
by varenc | 2026-02-11 04:18:18+00:00
Since Tier 1 transit providers have now blocked telnet (port 23), this means the death of watching ASCII Star Wars with `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`

However, if you still long for nostalgia, I was able to access it over IPv6 using a VPN based in the Netherlands:

telnet 2001:7b8:666:ffff::1:42

I'm sure the port 23 telnet blocking will be coming to IPv6 soon though.
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 04:19:27+00:00
XMPP has had less allure as "the new thing" since it's been around for a very long time. It was _the_ chat protocol in the 2000s when it started, and all chat apps used it (when AOL Instant Messenger, Trilian, Purple, Yahoo, ICQ, etc all interoperated). Vendor lock in started taking off not long after though, so Facebook Messenger (also originally XMPP) stopped interoperating and went fully closed along with a number of others, and the ones that interoperated didn't shift business models and disappeared.
None of that means there's anything wrong with XMPP, it just means it's not in the public mind.

IRC has been getting the retro nostalgia kick start, and it briefly came back to attention when Slack started as "wrapper" of IRC. In my experience IRC channels are used by about 50% of open source projects, even though it's abysmal for access on mobile devices, very unfriendly for users, and extremely limited in functionality. About 50% of those have a bridge to Matrix so the mobile access is at least somewhat solved, and there are some more usable client options.

It seems because you haven't seen people already adopt it, you believe it must not be good. I'd encourage some basic research for your own benefit so you can see how XMPP is way easier to setup and maintain, far more efficient, and more capable than the oddly more commonly used Matrix/Element. In fact, between the organization issues of the last couple years, everyone finally getting fed up with Matrix being brittle, unmaintainable, and extremely inefficient to run on a server, I would expect Matrix support channels to drop off very rapidly over the next few years.
Show HN: Yan – Glitch Art Photo/Live Editor
by xcc3641 | 2026-02-11 04:19:54+00:00
Everything evolves in digitality, and deconstructs in logic.

Tired of filters that make everyone look like a glazed donut? Same.

Yan is not another beauty app. It's a digital chaos engine that treats your pixels like they owe it money. We don't enhance photos — we interrogate them at the binary level until they confess their true nature.

[What We Actually Do]
• Luma Stretch: Grab your image by its light and shadow, then yeet it into oblivion. Speed lines included.
• Pixel Sort: Let gravity do art. Pixels fall, colors cascade, Instagram influencers cry.
• RGB Shift: That drunk 3D glasses effect, but on purpose. Your eyes will thank us. Or sue us.
• Block Jitter: Ctrl+Z had a nightmare. This is what it dreamed.

[Why Yan?]
Because "vintage filter #47" is not a personality. Because glitch is not a bug — it's a feature. Because sometimes the most beautiful thing you can do to a photo is break it.

Warning: Side effects may include artistic awakening, filter addiction withdrawal, and an uncontrollable urge to deconstruct everything.

Your camera roll will never be boring again.
by stingraycharles | 2026-02-11 04:21:40+00:00
> The figure, which totals the money generated through advertising on YouTube as well as paid subscriptions, far surpasses streaming rival Netflix's $45bn revenue.

I wonder if this is a fair comparison, though. It strikes me that Netflix’ revenue model is simpler and their costs are also lower, but I guess we won’t know YouTube’s costs any time soon.
by neom | 2026-02-11 04:21:53+00:00
Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply and I may come back and comment again as I digest it. I struggled with the same things in film school, I almost dropped out because I was frustrated at the the level of what I considered, very many different names... "unfair", "cheating", "plagiarism", I used to get very worked up about it. "They used full auto here I can tell" - "Those vectors are downloaded" - "That filter is a preset they bought" - especially so when I came second. Our dean would regularly say the most creative people simply do the best job of hiding their source of creativity.

I agree with you code and art are not the same thing, but I do suspect it can get a bit complicated, it still is for me. Even on your question about how I feel - I don't have a good answer for you because I won technical Emmy awards for working on abstractions, lots of people said our work was cheap and gimmicy, cool, we won Emmy's. I go back and forth often on what is "fair" (whatever that means).

Of all you said the last paragraph I can connect with the most, I tried to have someone thrown out of film school for the same type of thing, but as that same dean told me "life is too short man, you gotta chill out".
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-11 04:22:09+00:00
> They should do some actually police work. This kind of "Papers, please" approach to immigration enforcement is dystopian.

Why it’s dystopian? It’s literally how it’s done in other places as well.

I agree that the government has to go through and punish those who employ illegal immigrants too to disincentivize unauthorized employment, but it doesn’t have to be only one avenue.

> Why isn't the FBI or local police?

I do not know where you live, but lately crimes in the US in many jurisdictions are not prosecuted, and repeat offenders are not punished. Coupled with the fact that many cities forbid their local law enforcement to cooperate with immigration, I am not sure how can local police do anything.

If an illegal immigrant committed a crime it is a failure of both local LEO and immigration. It doesn’t have to be only one.
by shrijayan | 2026-02-11 04:22:42+00:00
this is a very real take. a lot of teams blindly plugged vector db into their stack without questioning if retrieval is actually learning or just matching numbers.

i’m building an open source project called selfmemory.com exactly around this gap. not just better shelves, but a memory layer that can evolve per agent, per tenant, and across sessions. multi-tenant, mcp with auth 2.1, python sdk, llm chatbot, everything open source. the idea is simple: memory should not be frozen at ingest time. it should adapt, get corrected, and improve over time.

completely agree that cosine similarity alone cant be the brain. retrieval needs feedback loops, structure, and learning on top. that’s what we’re trying to experiment with in selfmemory. would love more people thinking about fixing the foundation instead of just optimizing the storage layer.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-11 04:23:40+00:00
> value would be in analyzing those rich traces with another agent to extract (failure) patterns and learnings

Claude Code supports hooks. This allows me to run an agent skill at the end of every agent execution to automatically determine if there were any lessons worth learning from the last session. If there were. new agent skills are automatically created or existing ones automatically updated as apporpriate.
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-11 04:23:51+00:00
Contactless is the convenience provided to get us into some wall garden. Apple pay. Google pay. Samsung pay.

These are not open or interchangeable standard, they aren't interested in that. They want our valuable transactional data, and location when those are made.

QR codes are a standard. It allows any bank to issue funds. It's a wire transfer. Transfer are a standard. Any bank can adopt it. Typically a bank adopts it..it doesn't require a specific device or partnership for merchant, nor the payer.

It also offers the ability to transfer funds remotely. In that sense it is more so contact "less" than the proximity handshake that contactless payments do, which is somewhat proprietary.

You can save a QR code, make a payment later. QR codes also are more intuitive because they represent an identity. An electronic device that can be swapped, tempered with, is unhelpful to help figure out a fraud or who we are actually paying until the handshake happens.

More importantly they don't incur a hidden fee for either the payer or merchant. Because it's a transfer. Not a transfer disguised as card payment.

A QR code scan keep the payer in control. Merchant presents an amount to pay, payer initiates the transactions, approves, and gets a confirmation. Can use bank A, or Y, or even a bank in another country, so long as it supports QR scan and a fast wire so that the merchant can be assured the transfer is well received.
by amterp | 2026-02-11 04:23:53+00:00
I've been working on Kan [0] which is a CLI written in Go that can serve a Kanban board ( `kan serve` ). Serving the Kanban board means opening up a localhost page for a Kanban board which acts on files stored locally on your machine, in your repo. Just plaintext JSON & TOML files. The Kanban board is written in TypeScript. You commit Kanban board changes like any other files.

I use it for all my personal projects. Any new project where I will have todo lists, I'll run `kan init` and `kan serve`, and begin tracking tasks. Because it's a CLI, you can interact with the board thru the CLI with commands like `kan add` and `kan edit`, so I've even included a SKILL markdown file in the repo which I use to let Claude read and interact with my boards. You can also navigate all your boards from a single `kan serve`, so it's convenient and snappy cross-project too.

[0] https://github.com/amterp/kan