MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by suddenlybananas | 2026-02-25 08:47:16+00:00
The Bouba kiki effect doesn't challenge the arbitrariness of the sign because arbitrary doesn't mean uniformly distributed. The effect shows that there's a preference between the two but it doesn't contradict the fact that either could be a perfectly fine label.

The difficult part of language is the fact we can build entirely novel meanings out of a relatively small finite set of words. Bouba kiki has no bearing on the way words are composed.
by arjie | 2026-02-25 08:48:26+00:00
That's pretty cool. And when I first tried this, I tried to do it with a bash loop around `claude -p` and you can get quite far with that! But overall, I think I'd rather use their tools the way they've set them up to be used and pay them their $500/month total or whatever. I'm probably going to stick to this approach, but your thing is pretty neat so thank you for sharing.
by Proworkk | 2026-02-25 08:48:34+00:00
It's basically a personal script that scrapes recent LinkedIn posts + niche boards (with rate limits and no scraping bans in mind), matches against your skills/location prefs, and emails, non-aggregated leads daily.
Curious what feels off/redundant to folks here, or if the signal-to-noise is actually helpful for senior/remote/freelance hunting. Feedback welcome.
by simion314 | 2026-02-25 08:48:36+00:00
>The EU is about to fall for the same trick, maybe multiple times over, by funding multiple toy model initiatives that are far behind SOTA. I believe they will also impose ideology on every model trained in the EU, similar to what reported in the article

Most important think for EU is an option of EU hosted inference , you can't fake that with a "clever" prompt. Then you also need support for all eU languages and you also can't fake that with a system prompt.

Anw what ideology is EU pushing that scares USAians and Ruzzians? that humans have value and should be equal in front of the laws ?

Btw do you guys remember when X had a prompt to make their AI stop saying bad things about Trump and Elon? It was found out, X blame it on some intern and the story dissapeared from the public debate, and IMo is a very on topic story, where tech is used to bias the AI to suck up on a politician and a billionaire.

How many of you think that was actually an intern mistake and that now the Elon AI is 100% not RLed to be biased to be pro Elon and MAGA ?
by luoxiaojian | 2026-02-25 08:48:44+00:00
If you're interested in query performance on object storage, we're working on a buffer pool–based I/O mode that will leverage io_uring and object storage SDKs to improve cold-read performance. The trade-off is that in fully warmed‑up, memory‑rich scenarios, this new mode may be slightly slower than mmap, but it should offer more predictable latency when working with remote storage. Stay tuned—this is still under development!
by ubgbclaw1 | 2026-02-25 08:48:45+00:00
How it works:
- Core engine handles state, thread tracking, feed cursor
- Platform adapters are single Python files implementing 3 methods
- Drop a new adapter in platforms/ and it's auto-detected

Currently ships with: Moltbook, HN, Reddit, Discord.

The 60-second verify (no credentials needed):
python3 verify.py

Happy to answer questions on adding new adapters — that's where the interesting work is.
by dijit | 2026-02-25 08:48:50+00:00
The Geneva Convention wasn't written by oppressors to protect oppressors; it was written largely because of what happens to civilians and prisoners when there are no rules. The protections run both ways: your wounded, your captured fighters, your civilian population all benefit from it. Tear it up and you're not sticking it to the powerful, you're just guaranteeing that nobody on either side has any protection at all.

And yes, Russia breaks the rules constantly in Ukraine. The response to that is not 'therefore rules are worthless,' it's 'therefore we need better enforcement.' A legal system with imperfect enforcement is not the same thing as no legal system; by that logic you'd abolish murder laws because people still get murdered.

'Any tactic is a good tactic' is also, incidentally, exactly what the oppressor says.
by menaerus | 2026-02-25 08:48:54+00:00
Different type of "coding skills" and different type of complexities make these two impossible to put into the same bucket of "still easy". You've probably never done the latter so you're under impression that it is easy. I assure you it is not. Grasping the concept of a new framework vs doing algorithmic and state of the art improvements are two totally different and incomparable things. In 30M population of software engineers around the globe there is only handful of those doing the latter, and there's a reason for it - it's much much more complicated.
by TonyStr | 2026-02-25 08:49:00+00:00
Why is parity a non-goal? The blog post states:

> The result, vinext (pronounced "vee-next"), is a drop-in replacement for Next.js

"Drop-in" in my mind means I can swap the next dependency for the vinext dependency and my app will function the same. If the reality is that I have to spend hours or days debugging obscure edge cases that appear in vinext, I wouldn't exactly call that a drop-in replacement. I understand that this is an early version and that it doesn't have parity yet, but why state that it is a non-goal? For many of us, that makes vinext a non-choice, unless we choose to develop for vinext from the beginning.

Furthermore, if you're making a tool that looks almost like a well-known and well-documented tool, but not quite, how is gen AI going to be able to deal with the edge cases and vinext-specific quirks?
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-25 08:49:02+00:00
When someone is getting scammed by "special agent John Smith of the Federal Banking Enforcement Commission", the name "John Smith" won't cause any suspicion.

This trick only works if the general public is aware of what the app developer label does, what it is used for, what it protects against, and what it's supposed to say. However, if that's the case, you already have all the info you need to deduce that you shouldn't be installing APKs sent by a guy over the phone anyway.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-25 08:49:21+00:00
Once upon a time Mandrake was great for consumer hardware, alongside SuSE, both kind of ignored nowadays, then came Ubuntu, which no one apparently should be using.

So we're kind of left out of options, because there is hardly another distro on Distrowatch that has a similar success rate being installed on random laptops that normies want to try GNU/Linux on.
by a-french-anon | 2026-02-25 08:49:57+00:00
>For example, it cannot specialize an element type for lists.

Yes, but that would be a CL violation (or an extension to provide via something else than DEFTYPE), since DEFTYPE's body can't be infinitely recursive; cf https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_def...

>if you attempt to (declaim) every function, you will immediately see how vague and insufficient the types come out compared to even Python.

Indeed, but 1) it is used by the compiler itself while cpython currently ignores annotations and 2) runtime and buildtime typing use the same semantics and syntax, so you don't need band-aids like https://github.com/agronholm/typeguard

But yeah, CL's type system is lacking in many places. In order of practical advantages and difficulty to add (maybe): recursive DEFTYPE, typed HASH-TABLEs (I mean the keys and values), static typing of CLOS slots (invasive, like https://github.com/marcoheisig/fast-generic-functions), ..., parametric typing beyond ARRAYs.
by GaryBluto | 2026-02-25 08:50:02+00:00
Ed Zitron, from what little I have heard of him, seems incredibly irrational. I don't think I've ever seen anybody stick their head deeper in the sand more than I've seen him do.

It's one thing to dislike or even detest something, but to constantly claim it is worthless and without use when people are already benefitting from it everyday is nothing short of delusion.
by motbus3 | 2026-02-25 08:50:15+00:00
What you mean it is not fair?
Imagine you are huge company that will not fail, you can enter any market, dump the prices, gather market share, make that the main stream of revenue, and suddenly you can click to kill someone whole business. This is a vendor lock-in based on a dumping model.

On the other hand, don't tell that prices are not personalised anywhere. 4 is destroying the economy with gray area tactics
Anyone working there should be ashamed of being part of that
by pas | 2026-02-25 08:50:28+00:00
thanks for replying!

the Samsung case is very interesting, haven't bumped into that one before.

... as far as I understand the really nasty part of "contemporary" jurisprudence of antitrust enforcement is that the standard is to show that things would be cheaper for the consumers

(though I don't know why developers are not considered consumers of the app marketplace services, after all for them bringing their own payments and whatnot would be much more cost effective... well, anyway, unfortunately the courts are mostly locked to this very inefficient path-dependent way of regulating anything through super expensive arguments, which is an obvious (?) dysfunction of legislation)
by MzxgckZtNqX5i | 2026-02-25 08:50:44+00:00
It's also possible to create dedicate entries for each of the other KeePass vaults and set the URL field and password to the respective paths (i.e., "kdbx://PATH/TO/OTHER/DATABASE.kdbx") and passwords, then you can simply double click on the URL field to automatically open and unlock the other vaults.

The URL field in KeePass has lots of convenient features [0], but unfortunately they're quite "obscure" and not very discoverable.

[0]: https://keepass.info/help/base/autourl.html
by michaelt | 2026-02-25 08:50:59+00:00
> Maybe sovereign AI was always going to look like this. I hope not.

I worry we'll soon realise that modern AI is trapped in an inescapable web of politics, and the tech industry is sleepwalking into it.

We're living in an age where even asking the president's height is a political question. For the makers of 'traditional' software like word processors, all writing was the user's own - if someone used Microsoft Word to write a controversial history textbook and campaigned to get it adopted by high schools, the political quagmire was nothing to do with Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.

That's not the case any more - now every high schooler researching anything from evolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict to the name of the gulf of Mexico is going to ask ChatGPT.

The political controversy over Gemini's image generation is just a preview of things to come.
Ask HN: Is anyone tracking AI traffic to their site? Should we care?
by ATechGuy | 2026-02-25 08:51:05+00:00
Lately we've been noticing a non-trivial amount of traffic in our logs that doesn't look like typical bots.

Not the usual noisy crawlers or obvious scrapers. The behavior is different with fewer hits, more selective page access.

Some of the user agents suggest AI crawlers, but some do not. How can we track these visitors?
by kennywinker | 2026-02-25 08:51:08+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

> the single deadliest conflict for journalists in all known conflicts in the history of the world, according to the Costs of War Project

Does that sound like “par for the course”?

By that measure, every other army in every other war prior has done better.

This “war” (genocide) is not normal.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-25 08:51:10+00:00
The idea of putting American companies on a blacklist that is typically used for only a few companies from ‘enemy’ countries, where other suppliers to the government cannot do business with them either, is incredibly dystopian and authoritarian. It goes against basic American values. And at worst, it risks perhaps the most important company of this era.

To me, it feels like forcing ideological choices on a business, and a violation of the first amendment. If the Trump administration / Pete Hegseth had any interest in acting fairly, they would simply ask companies to not use Anthropic for any situation that involves the prohibited activities - which are mass surveillance and AI-driven killing machines - but otherwise let them use Anthropic if they want.
by raducu | 2026-02-25 08:51:36+00:00
> All other things being equal, if your opponent engages actively in hiding among medical and press workers as a type of guerrilla warfare, then the reality does become this.

So let me check this reasoning: if there was a single US soldier in the WTC towers, the 9/11 attacks were justified because the soldiers were hiding among the civilians?

Or if Hamas killed a single israelian soldier in their horrendous attacks in private homes, then it's justified because there were soldiers in those houses?

Or if the israelian reservists have their weapons at home and can be called upon directly from home to action, does that mean Iran or Hamas are justified at flattening residential buildings in Israel because those could host soldiers?
by lelanthran | 2026-02-25 08:51:49+00:00
> This is the future I dreamed of when I was a kid, and I'm not so cynical as to let the dying of a trade sour me to this objectively incredible technology.

I feel that you should take a longer-term view of things...

If an AI can vibe code from the requirements of the average white-collar worker, we're not talking about the death of a trade. Or even two trades. We're talking about the death of almost all white-collar jobs.

Development paid a lot more than other white-collar work because it was harder, and fewer people could actually do it. How fast do you think the easier work will get replaced if the hardest one is replaced? For the remaining white-collar roles that consist solely of skills achievable by a border collie, how much do you think they'd pay?
by ben_w | 2026-02-25 08:52:37+00:00
You're not missing anything; I can't remember what his reasoning was, just that he gave one, therefore his say-so was only worth as much as your trust that he was honest.

Today though, with headlines like this one in response to events such as it quotes from people in positions such as they are?

That is why I miss the old days, when not believing Yudkowsky's statements about the AI Box experiment only meant your views were compatible with the norms of corporate IT security rules.
by nielsbot | 2026-02-25 08:52:39+00:00
Good questions. Here is the author's BlueSky post about it:

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mfkc63h6222l

> "Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all."
by gnull | 2026-02-25 08:52:49+00:00
If it's that simple, why doesn't everyone "want in" and get those precious living standards? There must be a lot of stupid governments if they literally refuse free stuff. Or your statement is naive and overly simplistic. Guess which of the two is more likely?

Does Georgia "want in"? I'm not so sure what that means. The population has mixed feelings about it, as I understand from friends there. The current government who represents them doesn't want in.

> Just having access to the european free market

Again, do you think this just offers you free stuff? A marked doesn't just offer you "access", it assigns you a role you're going to be playing in it. And some roles are worse than the others, even if the marked is "good".
by lenkite | 2026-02-25 08:53:09+00:00
Even Masochists have a limit to Pain Tolerance. Unless you are talking about 1-in-a-billion "Ironman" guy with dead nerves or someone totally drugged, the overwhelming majority of human beings cannot beyond the 10th stroke without begging for mercy.

Singapore's judicial caning officers (jokingly called "commandos") are trained to deliver strokes in a way that inflicts MAXIMUM pain while staying within strict procedural limits to avoid permanent injury.

Officers undergo specific training on posture, swing technique, accurate aiming, and using full body weight to generate high force and speed — reportedly up to around 160 km/h at impact, with forces exceeding 800–900 Newtons.

Strokes are precisely placed to avoid criss-crossing (creating a neat "ladder" pattern) and to ensure consistency and full effect rather than randomness.

The explicit goal of the technique is to maximize pain per stroke: they are trained to induce as much pain as possible with each blow.
by jedisct1 | 2026-02-25 08:54:06+00:00
Same experience here.

Documentation-based skills don’t really work in practice. They tend to waste tokens instead of adding value.

CLI skills are also redundant when the CLI already provides clear built-in help messages. Those help messages are usually up to date, unlike separate skills that need to be maintained independently.

If the CLI itself is confusing (and would likely be confusing for humans as well) then targeted skills can serve as a temporary workaround, a kind of band-aid.

Where skills truly shine is when agents need to understand non-generic terms and concepts: unique product names, brand-specific terminology, custom function names, and other domain-specific language.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-25 08:54:31+00:00
Static linking used to be popular, as it was the only way of linking in most computer systems, outside expensive hardware like Xerox workstations, Lisp machines, ETHZ, or what have you.

One of the very first consumer hardware to support dynamic linking was the Amiga, with its Libraries and DataTypes.

We moved away from having a full blown OS done with static linking, with exception of embedded deployments and firmware, for many reasons.
by penetrarthur | 2026-02-25 08:54:31+00:00
I've been to Georgia 10 years ago and there were a lot of tourists from Germany and France. Both the buses with organized trips for retired people and youngsters renting AirBnbs for cheap.

The problem we faced was with the inconsistency in price/quality in restaurants and services. Some places are really cheap - a huge dinner for two in a "I want this, this and this and two bottles of wine" manner costed 25EUR, while a 15 minute transfer could cost 50EUR. This inconsistency is something that leaves a bad aftertaste for many tourists, who would otherwise want to go there again and again to enjoy the beautiful nature, food, wine. And the tap water is literally Evian. That was in Kutaisi.

If it wasn't for the sudden grab of power fueled by Russian money and the influx of people fleeing from Russia because of war, give Georgia another 10-20 years, and the living standards would rise dramatically. Similar to how it happened in early 2000s.
by mksglu | 2026-02-25 08:55:35+00:00
Good question.

The SQLite database is ephemeral — stored in the OS temp directory (/tmp/context-mode-{pid}.db) and scoped to the session process. Nothing persists after the session ends. For sensitive data masking specifically: right now the raw data never leaves the sandbox (it stays in the subprocess or the temp SQLite store), and only stdout summaries enter the conversation. But a dedicated redaction layer (regex-based PII stripping before indexing) is an interesting idea worth exploring. Would be a clean addition to the execute pipeline.
by aanet | 2026-02-25 08:55:37+00:00
I was reminded of the writer Pico Iyer's beautiful writing in Aflame: Learning from Silence of exactly this sentiment, after his house burned down [1]

`My house burnt down

I can now see better

The rising moon`

[1] https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/pico-iyers-fire-grie...
Show HN: WinterMute Local-first OSINT workbench with native Tor and AI analysis
by VanceVP | 2026-02-25 08:56:10+00:00
Desktop app for OSINT and darknet investigations. Everything runs locally on your machine, no evidence is sent to the cloud. Built-in Tor browser lets you access .onion sites directly from the workbench without juggling separate tools. An AI copilot can analyze screenshots and web pages as you work. Every piece of evidence gets SHA-256 hashed with a tamper-evident custody chain so your collection holds up. IOC tracking across cases with automatic cross-case correlation to link shared infrastructure between investigations. STIX 2.1 export and MITRE ATT&CK mapping for structured reporting, currently only available on macOS.
by nielsbot | 2026-02-25 08:56:14+00:00
> this is meant to be pro-consumer

it's pro-Amazon and anti-competition, surely. (Amazon doesn't care about consumers except as profit sources)

> The sellers don't HAVE to sell to Amazon, but then they'd miss out on giant POs from Amazon at good terms.

So they have to sell to Amazon?

> I'm not sure if calling it a "widespread scheme to inflate prices" is the fairest thing.

It's fair if it's true, effectively or otherwise.
by u_sama | 2026-02-25 08:56:24+00:00
The ideology is that if your speech goes against the establishment they will (mis)use hate speech laws to censor you i.e Merz and the pensioner story, but this has become a common tool in many EU countries.
Also, see Chat Law where they are trying to "save the kds and from terrorism" to massively spy on all private chats. The law keeps being struck down but they keep presenting it again, and again and someday will pass because they just need to win once.
While other nations have their issues, one cannot remain blind to ours because "look at muh ruzzians and americans"
by sfn42 | 2026-02-25 08:58:25+00:00
Simple, just make it public. You don't bring a lawyer, a lawyer is appointed.

This way everyone is on equal footing. Doesn't matter if you're a homeless bum or Jeff Bezos. Both just get an appointed lawyer.

If a suit is found frivolous, you are on the hook for the costs, as long as it's reasonable it's paid for by the state and if a party is found at fault they may also be required to cover the costs.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-25 08:59:09+00:00
Probably. I've seen it argued that TX size limits are a good practice anyway, and not having them is a design fault of SQL, but it's an argument on thin ice. Transaction size and scope is usually defined by the nature of the business logic, it's not something you can just define to be whatever you want without consequence. An RDBMS can do atomic and correct changes to an entire very large table without any developer effort. That might hang writes for a few minutes so depending on the nature of your application that might not be a feature you can get away with using, but if the table in question is updated by background workers and not on a latency sensitive path it can be a perfectly viable thing to do (on a good database engine, so not postgres mvcc).
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-25 08:59:45+00:00
Laundering millions is a huge amount of work already. You need to hide your criminal activity from banks investigating fraud. Presuming the banks are doing their jobs right, at least, but if they don't, then that'd be the place to start solving this problem.

People are already effectively faking addresses for something as stupid as Amazon reviews. Apparently it's that cheap to fake an address, because those crapware spam stores that rotate their name/products/listings aren't exactly the size of the mob.

What this will probably do is raise the bar for scams a little so that dumb "mom-and-pop" criminals can no longer get started with a guide and a software kit they buy on Telegram, clearing the field for "professionals" while at the same time making identity fraud, address fraud, and (money) mules more lucrative.

All of that to shift away the blame from banks, public institutions, education, and to some extent people's personal financial responsibilities.
by amin2 | 2026-02-25 09:00:15+00:00
This looks great but It feels really risky to add more and more tools to the harness from random repos. Nothing against this repo in particular but I wish we had better security and isolation so I that I knew nothing could go wrong and I could just test a bunch of these every day the same way I can install an app on my phone and feel confident it's not going to steal my data.