MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser
by majicDave | 2026-02-16 02:57:29+00:00
I’m nervous, announcing this, as it isn’t ready to ship out to the general public yet, and I haven’t had any feedback at all from anyone, I’m out on my own here. I think this concept itself is kind of dismissed outright a lot too, and I understand why, I wouldn’t believe me either actually.

But, I do believe this is very much worth your time to check out, I am not aware of anything else very much like it.

I won’t repeat what is already written on the github README here, but some info:

I am a successful semi-retired solo game developer, I have been making my own bespoke game engines since 2003 for all of my games across a number of platforms and languages. Last year, I ripped out the engine of my latest game, and stripped it back with the goal to start a new project, as I have done a number of times before.

But this time, I decided to ditch lua and make my own programming language, and that was sort of the tipping point. Once I thought about multiplayer, and realized I wanted a general purpose network that didn't exist, I was on my way down this extremely deep rabbit hole.

I want to just make a few things clear, then I hope that some of you might have some questions or feedback.

- I'm disillusioned by capitalism and the AI transition, and that influences my motives

- I have made all of this open source and free not because I am overly altruistic, but because it is the only way something like this can succeed

- I don’t think it can or should replace the internet, I see it as a cycleway alternative to the internet highway, they have different purposes

- I have no real desire to run an open source project or lead anyone, I mostly just want software that works for me and my family and friends. I love coding and I like to make nice things and share them.

- There is still a lot to do, I'm very excited about messaging and the whole client-side data thing in particular, but for now there are only a few weeks of work to go until a bare bones browser will be functional enough to release and ship.

You can have a play and build it all yourself though right now, host sites, and build apps.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-16 02:58:17+00:00
Peter has been running agents overnight for months using free tokens from his influencer payments and multiple subscription accounts:

Hi, my name is Peter and I’m a Claudoholic. I’m addicted to agentic engineering. And sometimes I just vibe-code. ... I currently have 4 OpenAI subs and 1 Anthropic sub, so my overall costs are around 1k/month for basically unlimited tokens. If I’d use API calls, that’d cost my around 10x more. Don’t nail me on this math, I used some token counting tools like ccusage and it’s all somewhat imprecise, but even if it’s just 5x it’s a damn good deal.

... Sometimes [GPT-5-Codex] refactors for half an hour and then panics and reverts everything, and you need to re-run and soothen it like a child to tell it that it has enough time. Sometimes it forgets that it can do bash commands and it requires some encouragement. Sometimes it replies in russian or korean. Sometimes the monster slips and sends raw thinking to bash. But overall these are quite rare and it’s just so insanely good in almost everything else that I can look past these flaws. Humans aren’t perfect either.

https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/commit/725a3cb372bc2...
by camillomiller | 2026-02-16 02:58:34+00:00
you can try to reason with the people who post comments like the one you're responding to, but the truth is they are just there waiting for anything a regulator does to desparage it, defend corporate and capital, and change nothing about the status quo. The worst part is that they do it thinking they are so edgy for knowing exactly why just another piece of regulation will clearly not work.
Funnily enough, the EU track record proves that, apart from some exceptions, these type of regulations work really well.
USB-C. Data Roaming across all of Europe. Laws on single use plastics. Etc.
But yeah, it's just another regulation! EU BAD!
by TMWNN | 2026-02-16 02:59:41+00:00
>Isn't that a similar process to the US? Basically the currently ruling party gets to pick the supreme court judges.

The Senate must approve all federal judges (among many federal posts, including the cabinet). If the president's party does not have a majority in the Senate, that means the president must nominate someone that at least some Senators from not his party will vote for.

In Canada, UK, etc., whoever the PM says will be a judge becomes a judge; Parliament has absolutely no control over the process.

>Something like the supreme court deciding to overturn abortion legalisation is really unthinkable.

You seem to think—likely based on Reddit and your country's reporters that just copy whatever the New York Times and Washington Post say—that abortion is "illegal in the US". The Dobbs decision in 2022 reversed the Supreme Court's own 1973 decision in Roe that abruptly voided all state laws banning abortion of any kind. In Dobbs, the court ruled that it had exceeded its powers, and returned the ability to legislate on abortion to the individual states.
by johng | 2026-02-16 03:02:29+00:00
Interesting. I didn't spend time doing any research but Utah also has more "people" per residence in the homes as well.

Below is Google search AI, which, contradicts itself in it's answer.

In 2024, the average UK household size was 2.35 residents per household.

Utah averages 2.97 persons per household, higher than the UK's 2.27, reflecting differing demographics.
by p1esk | 2026-02-16 03:04:35+00:00
The AI I’m using (gpt5.2) is already vastly more capable than me in pretty much any mental task - even in my domain of expertise. I will be surprised if I still have my job one year from now.

And robotics field advances pretty fast too. I will be surprised if personal humanoid robots that can do any physical task (plumbing, cooking, etc) won’t appear within 5 years.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-16 03:05:48+00:00
Microsoft also gets millions of dollars from both hospitals, probably. There is a good chance hospitals have computers running Windows and MS-Office. Microsoft also works closely with the Pentagon and whatever "evil" organizations, selling Windows license, cloud services, etc...

Same idea here. Hospitals need some data analytics, which was probably done in Excel before but wasn't sufficient, so they turned to Palantir, because it what they do.

I wish they turned to other solutions that would make better use of public money, I also wish they also didn't use Microsoft software.
by mekpro | 2026-02-16 03:06:20+00:00
Opus is definitely in its own league. I use Kimi/Gemini-cli code regularly to save cost and from my experience, Kimi 2.5 is more solid than Gemini Flash 3.0 for coding. While Gemini Flash 3.0 is generally faster, it usually break the syntax and skip important prompt. Kimi 2.5 can write very good code and can plan very well.
by tom_ | 2026-02-16 03:06:49+00:00
With Windows 9x, I recall the crashes being manageable, but it was advisable to give the system 15 minutes to settle down after rebooting. Windows would start multiple things at once on startup and it was a bit risky to overstress it.

Windows NT 4 seemed OK, but a lot of software didn't run.

By the time of Windows 2000 the tradeoff was much better.

(Allowing a settle down time remained a good idea, in my experience. Even if Windows 2000 and later were very unlikely to actually crash, the response time would still be dogshit until everything had been given time to settle into a steady state. This problem didn't get properly fixed until pervasive use of SSDs - some time between Windows 7 and Windows 8, maybe? - and even then the fix was just that there was no longer any pressing need to actually fix it.)
by paradox460 | 2026-02-16 03:07:40+00:00
I call it cargo cult developing. People develop bags of spells and tricks that they attempt to apply to a situation to solve a problem. Usually they can arrive at a solution by trying a number of these incantations, but not always. And never actually ask them what the incantation does

It's not just css either. At a job I've worked, we had a VPN client that would get into a weird state, where it needed to be killed to restart. An incantation that made use of ps, grep, awk, and xargs was provided, instead of just using pkill
by al_borland | 2026-02-16 03:08:20+00:00
I gave it a basic one or two sentences prompt for the snake game, the code it generated wouldn’t compile 3 years ago. It was also unable to fix the errors. A similar prompt last week worked. It wasn’t a “good” version of the game, but it compiled and functioned.

The process being described by many in the comments removes all the magic. It sounds laborious and process heavy. It removes the part of the job I like, while loading the job with more work I don’t enjoy. This feels like the opposite of what we should want AI to do.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-16 03:08:27+00:00
In general, lidar is used to remove the ambiguity in a local ground scan, and cameras extrapolate overlapping texture gradients to guess distant surface structure ( documented in the old book https://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Libra... .)

There are some fairly good FOSS tools around like COLMAP, if you want to learn why automatic monocular pose recovery and SfM is hard.

Real autonomous robotics is hard, and people make the same predictable mistakes every 4 years. Retrofitting a consumer Yarbo would be cool though. =3
by cyberax | 2026-02-16 03:09:24+00:00
> I can do a blood test and send it to the lab to be processed in ~5 minutes from the moment I meet the patient. Consumable costs are about $2.

This depends on a blood test. Bacteria cultures or PCR tests still take more time.

A mid-range scanner costs $500k, the room itself indeed might cost more. Just as real estate. Scanners are just not scarce anymore, there are even sites that sell used ones: https://prizmedimaging.com/collections/mri-equipment (I now want one in my backyard...)

You can lease a new top-level device at around $30k per month: https://www.meridianleasing.com/equipment/medical/mri-machin...

So you're looking at maybe $1k a day that you need to pay towards the device cost. The consumables (helium) are pretty negligible.

A full-body scan is about 1 hour. But for a follow-up you will need to focus only on a few areas, reducing that to maybe 20 minutes. So one device can feasibly do 10 primary scans a day and 20-30 follow-ups. So the cost of the device itself becomes on the order of $100 per imaging session.

This is literally in the "blood test" expenses range.

> Unlike a blood test, reporting isn’t automated.

Radiology readings is one thing where AI is already making inroads. And radiologists can be located anywhere, it's a perfectly remotable job.

> Even if it was, how could availability of MR ever be similar to a blood test?

Yeah, indeed. How can we imagine that people will have computers on their _desks_ when even a small IBM takes half a building?

Mass production happened. And this time it has taken the industry completely by surprise.
by samus | 2026-02-16 03:09:50+00:00
The low n is not the only questionable thing about the study. What a big n gives you is diversity of samples and tighter confidence intervals, but it can not correct for methodological limitations. Specifically, they didn't invite any people with sleep issues or who are already sleeping under noise. Therefore the conclusion is a "duh" - if you don't require pink noise to sleep, then don't add it.
by maxbond | 2026-02-16 03:10:20+00:00
Well I appreciate you taking the time to respond and acknowledge the new evidence. I agree with the broad point that dishonesty can't be tolerated in a newsroom. And it's a "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach" situation, the appearance of dishonesty is very bad regardless of the reality. And despite what Orland claims I do think there's blame to go around for not catching the mistake (assuming we accept his account).

For what it's worth, the post below talks about experimenting with Claude Code but also having COVID in December. I don't know what to think of that, I did work with a guy who just kept catching COVID (or at least he said that and I believed him, I didn't swab him personally or anything), but it is weird for him to have COVID in December and February.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-th...
by netsharc | 2026-02-16 03:10:57+00:00
On the topic of projection, I wonder where the "Pizzagate!" frothing-at-the-mouth QAnon geniuses are, now that the actual sex-child-trafficking conspiracy has been revealed, just that it involves their champion fascists.

Hah at one point they were saying an online furniture shop is a website for trafficking children hiding in plain sight, using coded messages to describe said children (something like "leather sofa" meaning "blonde teenager" or some insanity like that). Come on you freaking geniuses, the Epstein emails show that they don't need codes on a public website, they just talk to each other in plain speech, but over email!
by noosphr | 2026-02-16 03:11:05+00:00
Dynamic evals of simple tasks are the only ones that matter, the closer to your target domain the better. If the model can't get simple tasks right it won't be able to get complex tasks right.

Finding parse trees given a grammar and a sentence. Paths between vertices in a graph. Asking it to do a search and replace on a document. Anything that you can scale and test against an algorithms answer automatically.
by seer | 2026-02-16 03:11:21+00:00
Do you need react at this point? Isn’t it just html/css/components?

I remember the birth of React was because Facebook had a problem - you would add a comment and your notification bar would sometimes not get updated.

They had so many bugs with normal html / css that they wanted to solve this on the application layer - to make inconsistent UI elements unrepresentable.

So they came up with react with global state - because in their use case changing one thing does affect a bunch of other unrelated things, and they all need to sync together.

I mean honestly that’s what I use React _for_ - especially with contexts it’s very easy to express all of this complex interconnected state of a webapp in a consistent way.

And of course there are other ways to solve it - for example with elixir/phoenix you just push all that complexity to the backend and trust in websockets and the BEAM.

I just feel that if you really don’t need global state, then react kinda isn’t needed as well…
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-02-16 03:11:46+00:00
FWIW I also just don't think there's a point to discussing AI/ML usage here. The community is too crabby and cynical, looking too hard at how to tear people and things down, trying to react with the most negative thing they can. Every discussion on AI here eventually devolves into "AI can turn water to gold!" "no you idiot, AI uses so much water we won't have enough water left oh and AI is what ICE and Palantir use"

As the (dubiously attributed) Picasso quote goes: "When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." Most of HN is the former, constantly theorizing, philosophizing, often (but not always) in a negative and cynical way. This isn't conducive to discussion of methods of art. Sadly I just speak with friends working on other AI things instead.

Someone like simonw can probably get better reactions from this community but I don't bother.
by lebuffon | 2026-02-16 03:12:06+00:00
Sure. But the emitted chemicals strengthen/weaken specific neurons in our neural nets.
If there were analogous electronic nets in the bot, with analogous electrical/data stimulii, wouldn't the bot "feel" like it had emotions?

Not saying it's like that now, but it should be possible to "emulate" emotions. ??
Our nets seem to believe we have emotions. :-)
by throwforfeds | 2026-02-16 03:12:25+00:00
The thing that stood out more to me than the n being low is "the participants reported not previously using noise to help them sleep or having any sleep disorders." Sleeping with pink noise seems like something that you'd end up getting acclimated to.

My n=1 is that I often sleep with a fan on and live in NYC -- whenever I stay in a place where there is no noise I tend to have trouble sleeping, so I end up turning on some nature sounds on my phone from myNoise.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-16 03:13:11+00:00
I'm not sure I buy Arm's argument. It is hard to describe the degree to which policymakers in China [0][1], India [2][3][4], and South Korea [5] are all heavily promoting RISC-V in order to reduce vendor dependency as well as build their own competitive and domestic design ecosystems.

Additionally, a significant portion of Arm's China, US, and India engineering and product leadership has left to work on RISC-V startups and companies now.

That said, I can see Arm being leveraged by other Softbank owned companies like Ampere (which they already do) and Graphcore, with an eventual merger of all 3 into some form of a mega-corp due to operational overlaps and efficiencies, but this would be defensive in nature given the degree to which the industry has aligned with funding a RISC-V ecosystem and how RISC-V's governance and leadership consists of major players and leaders in the chip design space.

Edit: Can't reply

> It is also a bad look when they sue Qualcomm for selling chips in a way that Arm does not like.

That's why Qualcomm is also betting on RISC-V as well after acquiring Ventana [6] and is participating in India's DeepTech initiative [7], which has been targeting RISC-V startups as well as Renesas [8] in Japan+India taping out a 3nm RISC-V processor for automotive and IoT usecases. And also why FuriosaAI in SK has been working on RISC-V, as well as the multitude of fabless players in China.

It's the same thing that happened with IBM POWER vs x86 decades ago with an added sovereignty component.

[0] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260213PD208/arm-risc-v-com...

[1] - https://www.cas.cn/cm/202601/t20260126_5097208.shtml

[2] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260216VL205.html

[3] - https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2224839&...

[4] - https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1820621&re...

[5] - https://m.blog.naver.com/nanambook/223316051806

[6] - https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acqu...

[7] - https://idtalliance.org/

[8] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250923VL201/renesas-3nm-re...
by throwdbaaway | 2026-02-16 03:13:21+00:00
If you ask someone knowledgeable at r/LocalLLaMA about an inference configuration that can increase TG by *up to* 2.5x, in particularly for a sample prompt that reads "*Refactor* this module to use dependency injection", then the answer is of course speculative decoding.

You don't have to work for a frontier lab to know that. You just have to be GPU poor.
by nilslindemann | 2026-02-16 03:13:44+00:00
Like my answer below, that's wrong. Even I have achieved a few draws or even wins against Stockfish in training games, and I am FM strength. From time to time you are happy to reach a simple rook endgame which happens to be won and the engine doesn't anticipate that (horizon effect). You still draw or lose 90% of those but you win 10%.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-16 03:14:14+00:00
> There is far more nuance than this.

There's just....not. It's a pretty well established concept by now. For almost 50 years or so.

> What counts as a "super public busy place" ? The airport? The bus terminal? The local library? All major roads that experience rush hour traffic?

Yes to all of these.

> Who is the person who says where the cutoff line is?

Not a person, but a sound methodology ideally. Kind of like what we've mostly been doing even if it isn't formalized.

> What if that authority wants to move the line to include everything?

Yes, the slippery slope is a problem, agreed. That's why we need to be vigilant in responding to government plans.

> Do they even need to provide notice to the public of their actions?

In a civilized democracy, they should.

> Government investigative branches only?

Yes, pretty much.

> What about the system administrators?

Not if it can be avoided.

> Does this footage require attestation to prove it's legitimacy in a world where AI can generate footage?

No.

> How long should this footage exist for?

3 - 6 months is typically standard.

> Do I have to trust not just current admins and their superiors but all the people who may be in those roles in perpetuity? IE do I have to trust people who haven't even been born yet?

You have to trust the system is accountable.

> Is it allowed to be centralised,

Ideally, no.

> Or should each site have separate data housing with access terms to match so that tracking a person is a significant task?

Bingo.

> There are a lot of concerns. You may argue that there isn't a lot of nuances because you have a set idea of how it should all go. But others may differ.

I'd argue your concerns have already been addressed by current systems that have worked fine for decades.
by jader201 | 2026-02-16 03:14:51+00:00
Board games are my favorite way to accomplish two things that I find hard to do as an introvert that works from home:

1. Getting off screens

2. Socializing

But it still also accomplishes one of my favorite things to do: thinking — specifically problem solving and optimizing.

And, as an introvert, socializing actually naturally is secondary in our group, but that’s ok — a good heavy heads-down board game (think 3-5 hours) is still quite enjoyable in the presence of other human beings. A bit of a lost art in the day of the “black mirror” (cell phones).

If you haven’t tried getting into board games lately, I highly recommend it. If you don’t know where to start, I’d be happy to offer suggestions!
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-16 03:15:00+00:00
Html is already a good single-file html format. Images can be inlined with data-uri. CSS and javascript have been inlineable since the very beginning. What more is needed? Fonts? Data-uri, once more.

Hell, html is probably what word processor apps should be saving everything as. You can get pixel-level placement of any element if you want that.
by rectang | 2026-02-16 03:16:05+00:00
It doesn't matter if the voice is a perfect facsimile — it only matters whether a court can be persuaded that the result is derivative.

As the article notes, the AI doesn't even have to be trained on Greene's voice for him to have a case.

> Grimmelmann said Greene doesn’t necessarily have to show definitively that Google trained NotebookLM on his voice to have a case, or even that the voice is 100 percent identical to his. He cited a 1988 case in which the singer and actress Bette Midler successfully sued Ford Motor Company over a commercial that used a voice actor to mimic her distinctive mezzo-soprano. But Greene would then have to show that enough listeners assume it’s Greene’s voice for it to affect either his reputation or his own opportunities to capitalize on it.
by sheept | 2026-02-16 03:16:57+00:00
The headline implies they selectively removed the word "safely," but that doesn't seem to be the case.

From the thread you linked, there's a diff of mission statements over the years[0], which reveals that "safely" (which was only added 2 years prior) was removed only because they completely rewrote the statement into a single, terse sentence.

There could be stronger evidence to prove if OpenAI is deemphasizing safety, but this isn't one.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e36f0e5ef4a86881d145083f759bc...
by bakugo | 2026-02-16 03:17:39+00:00
> For some reason it got viral.

The reason is that he paid every AI "influencer" to promote it. Within the span of a week, the project went from being completely unknown to every single techbro jumping on it as the next "thing that will change the world". It also gained around 70k github stars in that time.

In the age of AI, everything is fake.