MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2026-02-26 04:36:20+00:00
Yeah its tremendously unclear how they can even recover from this. I think the most selective would be: they have to at minimum remove the Generative Language API grant from every API key that was created before it was released. But even that isn't a full fix, because there's definitely keys that were created after that API was released which accidentally got it. They might have to just blanket remove the Generative Language API grant from every API key ever issued.

This is going to break so many applications. No wonder they don't want to admit this is a problem. This is, like, whole-number percentage of Gemini traffic, level of fuck-up.

Jesus, and the keys leak cached context and Gemini uploads. This might be the worst security vulnerability Google has ever pushed to prod.
by car | 2026-02-26 04:36:52+00:00
Great job, love it!

Also lovely: https://sunclock.net

I enjoy running clocks on this circular display from Waveshare: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C14CZ2GG
The content is provided by a Raspberry Pi 4, and these Javascript clocks can be quite taxing. Especially when the second hand is running smooth there was visual stuttering. Had to try different browsers, Chrome was the best I recall.

If anyone knows of other large circular displays, please post here.

The new BMW Mini has a gorgeous 24cm circular OLED display, but that's not generally available, OEM only [1][2].

[1] https://www.mini.com/en_MS/home/new-family/a-digital-quantum...

[2] https://www.bhtc.com/en/news/bhtc-entwickelt-erstes-rundes-o...
by dijit | 2026-02-26 04:39:32+00:00
There's a few things to note here:

1) Prices aren't returning to "normal".

The only way they will is if the hyperscalers and AI companies start to implode -- which will kill a huge portion of the US economy and lead to global recession, so, cheap RAM but nobody can afford it

2) By building up capacity you influence the outcome.

If someone else enters the DRAM space, the duopoly has to actually start thinking about competing on price, maybe they become price competitive before the launch of your new fab in order to kill it, but, it will have an effect and probably before it even opens

3) A western supply chain has benefits by itself.

There's a reason some industries are not allowed to die, most notably farming- because security and external pressure are concerning.

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Realistically there's no reason not to do this. It will be long, painful and expensive. The best time was a decade ago. The next best time is now.
by danny_codes | 2026-02-26 04:39:37+00:00
The question is always about performance plateau. If LLM performance plateaus, then OSS models will catch up. If there isn’t a plateau, then I can simply ask the super intelligent AI to distill itself, or tell me how to build a clone.

It’s ironic, if the promise of AGI were realized, all knowledge companies, including AI companies, become worthless
by windowstolinux | 2026-02-26 04:39:37+00:00
After 30 years on windows I recently switched my gaming desktop over to linux mint. So far proton has handled every game I've thrown at it with only a minor FPS hit. Do note that I only play older games so if you are a bleeding edge gamer it will probably be harder for you. But the peace of mind I get from not being tied to the spyware infected microsoft ecosystem has been well worth it, and the only cost was backing up data from windows for the switch, and the inevitable linux fiddling that's required.
by jerlam | 2026-02-26 04:40:23+00:00
There's also a non-zero number of Canadian engineers in the US. No visa required, just a job acceptance letter for TN status at the border. Minimal language or cultural barrier and educated at competitive colleges. Those workers are going to take their US salaries and experience back to Canada if the US continues to alienate its neighbors. Canada is also building a lot more connections with nations that the US is shunning, like China.

Might be time for a new Blackberry.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-26 04:40:25+00:00
Onboard reforming has been explored and it's not great. The end-to-end efficiency is poor (<50%). It adds a ton of complexity. It requires having a reactor running at over 700°C. It takes time to warm up. It's not cleaner. Impurities like sulfur kill it.

In the end it's only about as efficient as just using a regular diesel engine, much harder to service, more expensive to maintain, and doesn't improve your carbon footprint at all. What's the point?
by selridge | 2026-02-26 04:40:46+00:00
This article is far off the mark. The improvement is not in the user-side. You can write docs or have the robot write docs; it will improve performance on your repo, but not “improve” the agent.

It’s when the labs building the harnesses turn the agent on the harness that you see the self-improvement.

You can improve your project and your context. If you don’t own the agent harness you’re not improving the agent.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-02-26 04:41:05+00:00
China is certainly lax, but the US doesn't allow autonomous ATTACK systems. For Attack systems it is always required that a human makes the judgement call when to attack.

Or least it didn't until the current regime.

The US does have autonomous defensive systems.

I could be wrong though, can you post your evidence? The closest I could find is loitering munitions.

Even so, a company shouldn't be forced to go against its ethics if those ethics help humans.
by mihneadevries | 2026-02-26 04:41:16+00:00
the reviewer/worker pipeline is honestly the part I'm most curious about.
like how do you handle disagreements between agents, does the reviewer just block and the worker retries, or is there a loop with a hard cutoff?

the failure mode I'd worry about most is cascading context drift, where each agent in the chain slightly misunderstands the task and by the time you get to the test agent it's validating the wrong thing entirely.
fwiw I think the LanceDB memory is the right call for this kind of setup, keeping shared context grounded is probably what prevents most of those drift issues.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-26 04:41:17+00:00
Zorin was trending here a few weeks ago. I installed it on a few machines. It is super slick. I didn’t try the Mac skin but the default windows one is finally a Linux that looks like a professionally built operating system.

I actually went back to headless Ubuntu lts after playing around with it because everything I do is headless but I really liked it while I was using it. Debian based, I had no complaints.
by consumer451 | 2026-02-26 04:42:52+00:00
https://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

I would love to dunk on this or something, but the lesson is that it's all about distribution.

Sama is really good at that, and also.. gotta give props for a lot of forward thinking like the orb, which now makes a lot of sense to me, as a non-Apple/Google proof of human.
by eurleif | 2026-02-26 04:43:45+00:00
The documentation doesn't make this entirely clear, but I think these are two separate things: the original `edit` command which is built into Windows 11 (and has been built into prior Windows releases), and a replacement written in Rust that can optionally be installed.

Note that my link is dated 2023, whereas Wikipedia says that Microsoft Edit was first released in 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor
Show HN: AI vs. Human, a GitHub Visualization
by thedaviddias | 2026-02-26 04:44:01+00:00
I have been wondering how much AI is used by open-source projects on Github.

So I created a small project on https://aivshuman.thedaviddias.com/ which parses commits and try to find trace of AI tools. Not 100% accurate, it depends on people commiting using AI.

That's only when you can potentially determine that AI tools were used. It's interesting and triggers some questions about if we should have a better or stricter way to measure AI vs Human produced code.

Feel free to share any thoughts or improvements! The project is open source (https://github.com/thedaviddias/ai-vs-human)
by UncleOxidant | 2026-02-26 04:44:43+00:00
That got me to googling around since my grandfather was born in Germany and came to the US when he was 5 (circa 1920). But from what I'm finding it sounds like when he became a US citizen that tie to German citizenship was broken. Also, prior to 1975 the citizenship only passed down through the father - it was my maternal grandfather so it wouldn't pass down, apparently. Well, it was fun to think about the possibilities for a few minutes, anyway.
by Aditya_Garg | 2026-02-26 04:45:08+00:00
Pretty cool

Your goal.md examples are all features for the existing codebase. Any largish goal.md examples where your system is able to 1 shot a pretty large app?

The goal.md is what makes this thing either amazing or terrible for the user, so any guidelines or clear examples on writing a good one would go a long way.
by DANmode | 2026-02-26 04:45:34+00:00
Because the law probably should have mandated functionality-only cookies until I disclaim my right to privacy,

such as when creating an account, or doing anything to provide consent besides loading the domain.

Instead, we normalized breaking the site by covering 80% of it so the standard user clicks the first thing that brings the site back: Accept (giving me the 80 advertiser tracking cookies!!1!)
by solid_fuel | 2026-02-26 04:45:55+00:00
It feels generated to me too. It’s this:

When you enable the Gemini API (Generative Language API) on a Google Cloud project, existing API keys in that project (including the ones sitting in public JavaScript on your website) can silently gain access to sensitive Gemini endpoints. No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification.

Specifically, the last bit - “No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification.” Immediately smells like LLM generated text to me. Punchy repetition in a set of 3.

If you scroll through tiktok or instagram you can see the same exact pattern in a lot of LLM generated descriptions.
by lightingthedark | 2026-02-26 04:46:27+00:00
I think that identity verification "to protect the children" is a mistake. As a parent I know how hard it can be to keep kids safe online, and that having tools to help can make a big difference. But the potential for abuse by governments and corporations is too big of a danger.
If it is really possible to build systems that can verify age while preserving anonymity that would be a valuable tool. We will have to see what Discord offers here. Their first attempt burned a lot of the goodwill with their users, and at this point they will have prove they are serious about doing this right. One important thing that they claim they plan is that verification will be optional and only gate off age restricted content, that is much better than requiring age verification to access the platform at all.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-26 04:46:58+00:00
Tech companies in the early 2000s were nerds who grew up in an environment where tech was for losers and a waste of time. A lot of those people had strong values and did it because they enjoyed it and wanted other nerds like themselves to have cool stuff.

Now companies are dominated by MBAs and nepotism. Most join tech for a quick cash out. Having values is seen as a loss, because if you can get a billion, why not? You're invincible if you're rich and none of these downsides apply to you. Screw everyone else. They could just be a billionaire themselves if they don't like it.

As a result, zoomers today meme about people like the unabomber making a good point.
by amatecha | 2026-02-26 04:46:58+00:00
Yeah, I made a website as part of a class at BCIT in 1995 and we just had a raw IP so I was showing people my awesome website on http://142.232.162.27 (actual IP) every chance I got.. for all like, 2-3 some-odd people I knew who had computers and had internet access. Luckily I quickly thereafter got a Geocities site which was just a little easier to remember/share lol
by rasz | 2026-02-26 04:47:54+00:00
> TI had a TMS8080 (and later their own 486)

Well, technically correct :) It was Cyrix made in TI fab to skirt Intel patents. Same deal with ones made in IBM foundry

Cyrix Corp. v. Intel Corp., 879 F. Supp. 672 (E.D. Tex. 1995) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/8...

"Section 1.23 of the IBM Agreement states that IBM Licensed Products "shall mean IHS Products ..." The only logical conclusion is that the parties meant those IHS Products specifically identified in Section 1.2 of the Agreement. Section 1.2 does not limit the products to IBM designed products."

"Therefore, IBM has the right to act as a foundry and to make, use, lease, sell and otherwise transfer the microprocessors in question to Cyrix free of any claims of patent infringement."
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-26 04:48:08+00:00
Sure, there is a choice. it’s rarely/never been stressful for me though, and I value being who I am for my own reasons as a strength and not a weakness. I always try to play by the moderation rules as I can possibly and realistically do. some of what I’ve written online has gotten me opportunities it wouldn’t have if i’d been more hesitant.

My point is if you have a good track record what you maintain online vs irl doesn’t matter as much to people as you’d maybe think as long as you are being true to yourself. I’m an elder millennial though, so that’s always been the case online for me and i dont think i often get out of pocket online anyway.

maybe that won’t be the case in the future. I could write a lot more than I’d care to publicly about personal and implied threats I’ve received based on my writings, but caving to that to me would betray my own values and I choose to consume the web how i choose knowing possible consequences - plus the fact moderation standards and what is “rude” drastically differs amongst platforms.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-26 04:48:18+00:00
No, they are not stronger in any area. Any European country could hand out AKs to the population and instantly have more men on paper. They don't, because that's not what makes a strong military.

Hamas' strategy was in no way unique. They are a militia fighting an urban guerilla war. What was nearly unique in the modern world was the absolute brutality with which Israel fought an urban guerilla war. They decided to level everything. Imagine if the British had leveled all of Catholic Belfast in response to the IRA. It's a level of contempt for the local population and cynical justification of mass murder that is rarely seen from "civilized" countries.

The Israelis think they can solve their "Palestinian problem" with pure violence. A terrible irony.
by mihneadevries | 2026-02-26 04:49:38+00:00
yeah the cost thing is real, though I think it's moving fast enough that the trajectory matters more than today's price.

like a year ago running an agent on a non-trivial task was painful and expensive. now it's annoying and somewhat expensive. tbh at the rate efficiency is improving I wouldn't bet on "still more expensive than a human" holding for long.
by alejohausner | 2026-02-26 04:50:09+00:00
This is a tax on wealth. Since many wealthy people don’t want to share their money, maybe it’s reasonable for some of it to be taken away from them and redistributed. That’s the real issue.

As Pikkety pointed out, vast fortunes distort the democratic process, because a few rich people can manipulate politicians to pass laws that favour them. Moreover, the growth rate for investments is always greater than the growth rate of wages, so exponential growth means that wealth inequality will only worsen with time. One way to reduce inequality is to tax wealth more than income.
Show HN: Prince Cloud – Create PDFs with AI Agents
by mikeday | 2026-02-26 04:50:52+00:00
We've been working on Prince for over twenty years and consider it the best way of getting HTML + CSS (and now Markdown!) into PDF, so it's bothered me that AI agents struggle with this, even writing Python programs to generate PDF and then getting confused when you ask for edits. So we've made an MCP server to make PDFs easier!

It exposes three tools: markdown_to_pdf, html_to_pdf, and url_to_pdf, so prompts like "Create a beautifully formatted invoice" can be handled appropriately. LLMs are great at generating Markdown and HTML and Prince is great at typesetting it to high-quality PDF, so this workflow should assist with documents that require careful formatting, multiple revisions, or PDF accessibility features.

We're still figuring out the best way to package this so it can be used ergonomically. Our first attempt simply returned the PDF file to the agent directly, but the LLM would often struggle to decode it, so now it caches the PDF on the server and returns the URL for you to download it, which keeps the response small and the agent happy. (There's a download button widget to make it look nicer in ChatGPT).

I'm curious if anyone has been making PDFs from AI agents and what they think of this approach! Of course you could also call Prince through a local/stdio MCP or run it directly from the command-line, or use the DocRaptor online service, but it's nice to have an example to play with that only requires pasting in the endpoint without installing anything or even creating an account.

Website: https://prince.cloud

Prince: https://www.princexml.com

DocRaptor: https://docraptor.com/
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-26 04:51:48+00:00
Everyone needs to quit trying to one-shot, and quit assuming AI can’t do it because it can’t one-shot it.

Since the author can enumerate the problems and describe them, it’d be interesting to just use the one-shot pickleball racket model as a starting point. Generate it, look at the problems, then ask an agent to build “fixers” for each problem - small scripts (that they don’t need to build themselves!) which address each problem in turn. Then send the first pass AI output through a pipeline of fix scripts to get something far better but not quite there - and do final human tuneups on the result.
by ClayShentrup | 2026-02-26 04:52:25+00:00
there's no such thing as "acceptable" or not, there are just utilities and _relative_ satisfaction. you want to get the most satisfaction possible from the options you have.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6

approval voting is insanely good at this.

https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig
by chipsa | 2026-02-26 04:52:26+00:00
It’s not claiming: you can’t have an automotive paint shop. It’s claiming you can’t start a new paint shop. Specifically, if you don’t have one for your car manufacturing line already, you can’t set one up. Wikipedia shows 13 pages for auto plants in CA. Most of them have the verb “was” in the opening sentence. There are two current plants: Tesla Fremont and Toyota California. Both of these plants are over 50 years old, and only one of them produces actual cars instead of parts.
by mihneadevries | 2026-02-26 04:52:58+00:00
honestly this is a pretty natural move, mobile access to your coding agent makes sense when you just want to check on a long running task or review something quick.

I've been building something similar, basically a way to run your full dev environment on your Mac and connect to it from iOS. terminal, files, AI agent all talking to the same session. the tricky part is honestly just keeping state in sync when you switch devices.
Show HN: AI-assert – Constraint verification for LLM outputs (278 lines, Python)
by kaantahti | 2026-02-26 04:53:34+00:00
I built a tiny library that verifies LLM outputs against constraints and retries on failure.

The core insight: LLMs don't reliably follow instructions, but you can catch failures cheaply and retry with targeted feedback. This is essentially a lightweight "process reward model" that requires zero training.

How it works:
1. Your LLM generates output
2. ai-assert checks it against constraints (length, word count, sentence count, regex, custom predicates)
3. Each constraint returns a score in [0,1] -- composite is multiplicative (zero in any = zero overall)
4. If score < threshold, retry with feedback ("Constraint X failed because Y -- regenerate")
5. Return the best-scoring attempt

On IFEval (25 instruction-following constraint types): 69.3% -> 76.2% accuracy.

278 lines. Zero dependencies. Works with any callable that takes a string and returns a string.

pip install ai-assert

https://github.com/kaantahti/ai-assert
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-26 04:53:38+00:00
The first rule of Trump conservatism is that whatever goes wrong, it's always somebody else's fault.

The second through tenth rules of Trump conservatism are remarkably like the first.

These rules work as reliably as sunrise and sunset. The Trumpers will blame the nearest Democrat, as they are wont^H^H^H^H programmed to do.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-26 04:53:53+00:00
I think this is the best article on open AI that I've ever read. A lot of content these days will try to paint OpenAI in sensational ways that really doesn't get to the bottom of whether open AI has an economic mode, and this article does a very thorough job of explaining why OpenAI doesn't have power like the other platforms.

And so this goes back to my theory that open AI's execution is basically to get it itself in a position where the market cannot afford to have it implode. Basically, it wants to or it needs to be too big to fail. And I think we're already kind of seeing the politicization, if you will, sort of the rocket race between two superpowers or large powers on the AI front, and I think that Might be a viable strategy.
by dlev_pika | 2026-02-26 04:53:57+00:00
> what a platform really achieves is to harness the creative energy of the entire tech industry, so that you don’t have to invent everything yourself and massively more stuff gets built at massive scale

I hear this, but every time I look the platforms have captured another use case that the startup ecosystem built (eg images, knowledge summarization, coding, music).

The sector is already littered with the corpses of the innovators that got swallowed by the platforms’ aggressiveness to do it all.
by jibal | 2026-02-26 04:53:58+00:00
Again, "honor-based" as used in this discussion is about integrity and has nothing to do with cultures of honor ... notably the word "based" doesn't occur anywhere in the cited material. No one is trying to change anything but someone is trolling hard (and not acting with integrity), and threats about things not going well are unwelcome.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/honor

> 1. honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions.

Enough (more than enough) said. Over and out forever.
by somat | 2026-02-26 04:54:04+00:00
I have a theory that the renaissance and perhaps more critically the industrial revolution that followed was in a large part driven by coffee.

Middle ages, things are a bit sleepy, dopey. Everybody is drinking beer all the time. progress runs at a slow pace.

Then there is this popular new tea sweeping the scene and boy howdy does it get you up and going. Now people are waking up and doing things.

Caffeine, It's a hell of a drug.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-26 04:56:13+00:00
> The near billion users OpenAI has is actually a real moat and might translate into decent chunk of revenue.

> My wife, for example, uses ChatGPT on a daily basis, but has found no reason to try anything else.

Is she paying for it? Because as we have seen repeatedly in the past, paid products whither and die when Microsoft bundles a default replacement.

You need to provide a really good reason why this time its different.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-26 04:57:11+00:00
I'm not so sure about that. There's a lot of people that were turned off by Anthropic, especially with the weekly usage limits. that in comparison to Codex is on the last side. And actually Codex is one of the few products that I think OpenAI has executed really well on. there's just no real equivalent in terms of actual usage that you can get for the same amount of money. Gemini is great, but it seems to be still in a state of flux. Way too much products stretched too thin. Anthropic is also okay, but it's very limited in the weekly usage you can get out of it.