MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheSpiceIsLife | 2026-02-21 23:32:48+00:00
More accurately, the calculation needs to factor in the fact that battery weight doesn’t decrease as charge is used.

Commercial aviation’s profitability hinges on being able to carry only as much fuel as strictly[1] required.

How can batteries compete with that constraint?

Also, commercial aviation aircraft aren’t time-restricted by refuelling requirements. How are batteries going to compete with that? Realistically, a busy airport would need something like a closely located gigawatt scale power plant with multi-gigawatt peaking capacity to recharge multiple 737 / A320 type aircraft simultaneously.

I don’t believe energy density parity with jet fuel is sufficient. My back of the neocortex estimate is that battery energy density would need to 10x jet fuel to be of much practical use in the case of narrow-body-and-up airliner usefulness.
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-02-21 23:33:01+00:00
Windows solution to this is exclusive fullscreen, which bypasses the compositor.

You can try Gamescope [1] from Valve, that's what Steam Deck uses - i think its a compositor designed to minimize latency but support the few things games need. Some compositors like KDE Plasma KWin support a direct scanout mode which is the same idea as windows' exclusive fullscreen. You might need to look for support for something similar in niri.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope
by pino83 | 2026-02-21 23:33:12+00:00
I'm always baffled why there are obviously enough people (not only here in particular; but also here; and sure, it's not a majority, but it's enough people to actually have some influence) who can formulate all these claims, but the actual movement is quite disappointing.

As long as everybody knows that you are just talking, but in the end you are basically fine with everything and declare "pragmatism" and all those lame excuses from the last ~20 years, there will never be any actual movement for the better. So why taking care and constantly having those lengthy debates?

Is it just your way to deal with frustration? Or what are these discussions actually for?

I'm really just asking, because I'm actually asking that myself since quite some time now. I just don't get it. The same for some other yet similar topics, e.g. having these dependencies to corporate social media, ..., ...

Additional thought: I also constantly find people somewhere, fighting some decades old fight, e.g. against Windows and Microsoft, and how bad it is in terms of privacy, sovereignty, freedom, ..., and Recall, etc.; but if you ask them "Do you use WhatsApp?", they don't even have a clue why you ask...

IMHO, if the community isn't able to recognize that entire mindset as problematic AND find some actual solutions for it, there is no value in all these discussions.
by scoodah | 2026-02-21 23:33:50+00:00
In this particular case I think it has more to do with the times than anything else. Discovering the records of that investigation from when he was 12 in the 40’s would have likely been a massive undertaking if not impossible. The investigator likely recognized this and just had him remove it.

These days I don’t think that happens with digital records. Omitting that incident would almost certainly cause more issues than not now as I’m sure they’d turn up in the investigation. If not included on your sf86 you’d likely be grilled about it.

Investigators are usually reasonable in my experience. If you omitted it because you earnestly forgot because it happened when you were 12, they’d likely understand if you were forthcoming about it during your interview. Investigators are human though so it depends on how they feel.

What they really care about is stuff to try to purposely hide.
by aunty_helen | 2026-02-21 23:33:55+00:00
It’s not even the grid, by the time you’ve done the electrolysis you’d be better off just charging a battery.

Also, compressing and cooling a gas takes another huge hit at the efficiency. Electrolysis comes out at atmospheric pressures.

Oh and the platinum electrodes you need…

I’m also just now visualising a hydrogen pipeline fire… terrible terrible idea.
by suddenlybananas | 2026-02-21 23:34:06+00:00
>language is far from arbitrary labels for things

I think this is a misunderstanding of the arbitrariness of the sign. Arbitrary doesn't mean "random" or "uniformly sampled." The fact there are systematic tendencies among languages in how things are called doesn't negate the arbitrariness of the sign, they could have been called other things. We can also decide to refer to things by another name and we can use any arbitrary name we like! There is no limits on what names we can use (besides silly physiological constraints like having a word with 50 000 consonants). But, of course, there's much more to language than just labels!

For me, the interesting thing in this paper vis-à-vis language is that it shows how much innate structure in cognition must shape our language.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-21 23:34:56+00:00
If you mean "The extremely modern style of voice used to provide contrast between the anachronistic end of the story and the review of the same is how LLMs also sound" the I agree. That style voice is, after all, exactly what most of the training content major LLMs are trained on will use.

If you mean "the usage of that voice implies the article itself is written by LLMs" then I strongly disagree. I'd eat my shoe if an article written this well were made by today's LLMs. Doubly so for an article from a linguistics PhD who was written similar content prior to LLMs.
by spiffe | 2026-02-21 23:35:20+00:00
Sorry, but to call a spade a spade, but this is a convoluted mess of faux-security without actually solving your problem statement.

Faux-security because there is no security - anyone that steals the jwt can impersonate the agent for the lifetime of the jwt - 60 minutes is an eternity.

Your solution does nothing to get to the bottom turtle, or most of the intermediate turtles.
by egorfine | 2026-02-21 23:37:41+00:00
The one machine where cron was working, had crontabs prior to upgrade to 15.x. The other had none.

I have googled back then and discovered that yes Apple specifically want us to suffer with their braindamaged launchd instead of cron, and thus they went to extraordinary lengths to get rid of working tools.

Anyway, cron is easy to rebuild from sources, so that's what I did.
by jolovicdev | 2026-02-21 23:37:55+00:00
I revived Shandu, an open-source multi-agent research system focused on reproducible outputs instead of chat-style summaries.

It uses a lead orchestrator that runs iterative research loops, parallel subagents for search/scrape/extract, and a citation agent that builds/normalizes the final reference ledger.
You get both a Rich CLI control deck and a Gradio GUI with live telemetry, task traces, citation tables, cost coverage, and one-click markdown export/download.

Core ideas:

- iterative planning + synthesis instead of one-shot prompting
- explicit evidence records + normalized numeric citations
- model/provider flexibility via Blackgeorge/LiteLLM
- SQLite-backed run/memory tracking for inspectability
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-21 23:38:04+00:00
> An engineer should be code reviewing every line written by an LLM,

I disagree.

Instead, a human should be reviewing the LLM generated unit tests to ensure that they test for the right thing. Beyond that, YOLO.

If your architecture makes testing hard build a better one. If your tests arent good enough make the AI write better ones.
by Avicebron | 2026-02-21 23:38:23+00:00
I don't think "the best" would be using the claude desktop app. It's like a consumer grade for the masses thing, people like apps on their desktop.. It's an app on the desktop. Run the cli in a vm?

Far be it from me to defend a $300B SF company, but their product is a coding tool that runs in the command line, which most people can stick on to their IDE..
by androiddrew | 2026-02-21 23:39:05+00:00
Oh, well awesome. Glad to see you are getting so much out of the Strix line. I am eagerly awaiting the next gen. I think that will be a tipping point in AMD’s favor. I am a bit of an AMD nerd, even though they don’t seem to love their developers as much as Nvidia.

Before anyone gives me grief my company has a strategic partnership with Nvidia, I do AMD under the cover of darkness. So I live in both worlds. I’m a bleeding heart for the under dog…if being a 360B market cap company makes you the “under dog”.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-21 23:39:25+00:00
> I used Claude to document, in great detail, a 500k-line codebase in about an hour of well-directed prompts

Yes, but have you fully verified that the documentation generated matches the code? This is like me saying I used Claude to generate a year long workout plan. And that is lovely. But the generated thing needs to match what you wanted it for. And for that, you need verification. For all you know, half of your document is not only nonsense but it is not obvious that it's nonsense until you run the relevant code and see the mismatch.
by rossdavidh | 2026-02-21 23:39:39+00:00
Well, the Great Fiscal Crisis did not result in mass starvation, so in some sense, it "wasn't all that dramatic". But, it was a big deal in comparison to a normal downturn. So, it depends on what you mean.

Medium term, I think it would release a lot of resources (skilled workers, productive capacity, energy) to use on something more productive. But then, I kind of hoped for that after the GFC, also...
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-21 23:39:42+00:00
True, but now that's all it has for large swathes of urban landscape. It's tremendously alienating, nothing but startups texting each other. I figure it's only a matter of time before we see billboards with QR codes or interference patterns designed to make self-driving taxis halt in their tracks so that some security/ alignment/ infrastructure startup can get its brand amplified by giving people something to complain about.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-21 23:39:51+00:00
You have to install a different OS in advance though. Even when the bootloader can be unlocked doing so wipes all the data (as it should). It's no help if you start with a stock phone and then later discover that a particular app you've been using doesn't support data export (for example).

> I can't imagine what would happen if everybody was running something without any sandboxing.

I don't think anyone implied that? Having root or signature spoofing or even the ability to install kernel modules doesn't imply anything about the rest of the security model.
by aeve890 | 2026-02-21 23:40:36+00:00
Managers will be starting to ask for claws in the development flow, claws for automation, etc. Another flashy trend everyone will have to endure because an influencer is hyping the tech. It happened in 2024/2025. Every manager demanding use of "vibe coding", because they bought the lie that is what everyone is doing and is the best thing since sliced bread and whatnot. Karpathy comes up with a new shit to hype, and everyone will jump on the bandwagon. It's exhausting. It's like when there was a new frontend framework every single month and everyone just following the trend. Backbone is good enough. Then Vue. Then react. Then angular. Then svelte. Then SolidJs. Then Astro. Probably now everyone and their mothers will try to come with another abstraction layer on top of llms, then on top of agents, then on top of claws. Like I said, it's exhausting and the ROI of jumping every single fucking trend is becoming really hard to see.
by wartywhoa23 | 2026-02-21 23:41:00+00:00
Bath salts. Ever seen an alpha-PVP user with eyes out of their orbits, sitting through the night in front of basically a random string generator, sending you snippets of its output and firehosing with monologues about how they're right at the verge of discovering an epically groundbreaking correlation in it?

That is what's happening to nerds right now. Some next-level mind-boggling psychosis-inducing shit has to do with it.

Either this or a completely different substance: AI propaganda.
by xeonmc | 2026-02-21 23:41:26+00:00
1. It doesn’t help that on Windows’ “Triple buffering” options actually means FIFO forced three-frame buffering. So people had prestablished PTSD from those dreadfully laggy smoothing.

2. Triple buffering does not reduce latency compared to unsynced tearing. It’s a spatial vs temporal tradeoff between whether to let frequency mismatches manifest as tearing or jitter. For passive consumption of motion, losing temporal consistency in exchange for spatial cohesion is the better tradeoff and so triple buffering is appropriate. For active controls of motion and its feedback, temporal consistency is absolutely critical whereas spatial cohesion while in motion is far, far less important, so triple buffering is unacceptable in this use case.
by selridge | 2026-02-21 23:41:54+00:00
The claim that somehow "code is free now" is struck low by anthropic choosing electron is silly and deserves ridicule.

I guess I don't understand how people don't see something like 20k + an engineer-month producing CCC as the actual flare being shot into the night that it is. Enough to make this penny ante shit about "hurr hurr they could've written a native app" asinine.

They took a solid crack at GCC, one of the most complex things *made by man* armed with a bunch of compute, some engineers guiding a swarm, and some engineers writing tests. Does it fail at key parts? Yes. It is a MIRACLE and a WARNING that it exists at all? YES. Do you know what you would have with an engineer-month and 20k in compute trying to write GCC from scratch in 2 weeks in 2024? A whole heck of a lot less than they got.

This notion that everything is the same just didn't make contact on 2025, and we're in 2026 now. All of software is already changing and HN is full of wanking about all the wrong stuff.
by hleszek | 2026-02-21 23:42:18+00:00
That's much better, thanks. According to the Bitwarden blog post: https://bitwarden.com/blog/security-through-transparency-eth... which contains its full cryptography report at the end, all the issues have been fixed except a few which are considered part of the design (see below), so if I understand correctly you have nothing to worry about if you don't use organizations and use a strong password.

Issue 5: Organisation Key Injection (Medium)

When users interact with organizations, a trust relationship is established through the exchange
of cryptographic keys. A malicious server could add users to arbitrary organizations by
encrypting an organization symmetric key under the user's public key and including it in sync
responses. The client would silently accept the new organization membership. Alternatively,
when a user creates an organization, the malicious server could substitute the newly created
organization's keys with attacker-controlled keys during the post-creation sync.

Issue 7: Disable KDF Bruteforce Protection (Low)

Bitwarden uses Password-Based Key Derivation Functions (PBKDF2 or Argon2id) to derive the
master key from the user's master password. The iteration count – currently defaulting to
600,000 for PBKDF2 – provides brute-force resistance. The researchers identified that KDF
settings are stored on the server without authentication, allowing a malicious server to reduce
the iteration count and receive a master key hash that is faster to brute-force.

Issue 9: Malleable Vault Format and Unencrypted Metadata (Low)

The researchers identified that while individual fields are encrypted, metadata about field positions and item structure is not integrity-protected, potentially allowing field reordering or item manipulation

Issue 10: Access Violation in Organisation Collections (Low)

Organization collections enable shared access to vault items among organization members. By
design, the organization symmetric key is shared with all organization members, allowing them
to access collection contents to which they have specifically been granted access
by mark242 | 2026-02-21 23:42:18+00:00
Title clickbait for sure, but the process has radically changed in the past 6 months due to this new generation of models.

"Perfect code from the agent everytime" isn't really what the expectation is. Bugs are always going to be shipped into production, no matter who or what is writing the code. Where SDLC is really getting compressed is in the iteration phase.

For example:

- "This is a known good state; write tests to enforce this state" is something that takes minutes now instead of days. That is incredibly powerful for understanding and maintaining a system.

- Bugfixing is a matter now of an agent watching error logs, diagnosing traces, and immediately issuing PRs with suggested fixes, something that again would have taken hours at least and is now down to minutes (and can be a 24x7 operation, which for most businesses is a revelation).

- Engineers have the freedom to land enhancements that in the Before Times would have sat in the backlog for months and years on end because of the time commitment. That has knock-on effects of quality, features, and just overall improvements for users.

It is a very, very, very different world that we're operating in, and what used to be huge steps of the SDLC now take less time than checking your email in the mornings with your first cup of coffee.
by rl3 | 2026-02-21 23:42:41+00:00
Nice. I've been looking at doing something similar, more on the order of running a 1T model with less than half the available VRAM.

One workup indicated it was theoretically possible to modify a piece of SGLang's routing layer to support JIT predict-ahead expert swaps from Gen5 NVMe storage straight into GPU memory.

I'm hoping that proves true. The setup relies on NVIDIA Dynamo, so NIXL primitives are available to support that.

Curious if anyone's tried this already.
by egorfine | 2026-02-21 23:42:47+00:00
> Why isn't it neutral or slightly positive?

Because KYC is evil in itself and if the linked article does not explain to you why is that then I certainly cannot.

> KYC provider would want to protect their reputation more than the average company

False. It is exactly the opposite. See, there are no repercussions for leaking customers data, while properly securing said data is expensive and creates operational friction. Thus, there are NO incentives to protect data while there ARE incentives to care as less as possible.

Bear in mind that KYC is a service that no one wants, anll customers are forced and everybody hates it: customers, users, companies.
by anonymousiam | 2026-02-21 23:43:19+00:00
Been there, done that. It's a good account, but I'm pretty surprised that the author felt that he could get away with "butt clinching", which is a form of deception, even when you're using it because you know the polygraph process is flawed. So he had to have lied to the investigator about whether or not he was being deceptive, and he never should have been cleared in the first place.

My last few polygraphs (I've had well over a dozen of them) were abusive. Before one of the later tests, the investigator tried to establish rapport, and told me that he had interrogated terrorists in the middle east, who had threatened to kill him. Before the test, I sympathized with him on this and thought that those terrorists must have been really bad people. After the test, I completely understood why those subjects had threatened to kill him.

The polygraph is basically a mind fuck. They try to guilt you into admitting some wrong that you've done by pretending that they already know about it. People with a conscience will break down and admit something, but different personality types react differently.

A senior security officer that I knew always passed his polygraphs on the first sitting, and never had any trouble. The reason was because he was a pathological liar. One of the requirements for his job was to come up with "cover stories", which are lies that you must convincingly tell others, to protect the security of a program.

Two co-worker engineers I know failed, because they refused to go back for more abuse. They were not bad or deceptive people -- They were "Type A" personalities, and it was just too stressful for them.

Refusing to take (or re-take) a polygraph is a red flag, and gets a lot of high level attention. The government will assume that you are refusing because you've done something wrong, and may go after you, and could ruin you life, even if you are innocent.
by Retric | 2026-02-21 23:43:35+00:00
> "Contributed to", in the sense that the pilots decided to just blindly trust the autopilot and let it make a developing situation worse rather than, oh I don't know, maybe FLYING THE DAMN PLANE.

Excuses don’t save lives. You can’t trust pilots or drivers to always make the correct decision instantly. Any system designed in such a manner will get people killed.

> If you allow the autopilot to fly the plane into the ground, yes.

Things can be unrecoverable a full minute before impact.
by whynotminot | 2026-02-21 23:43:50+00:00
Yeah. Everyone sort of assumes that not having personally written the code means they can’t debug it.

When is the last time you had an on call blow up that was actually your code?

Not that I’m some savant of code writing — but for me, pretty much never. It’s always something I’ve never touched that blows up on my Saturday night when I’m on call. Turns out it doesn’t really change much if it’s Sam who wrote it … or Claude.
by snapetom | 2026-02-21 23:44:04+00:00
At my most recent job, 2022-2025, I saw this under the guise of SAFE agile.

Previously, no, you're right. It was move fast, but it was always under aggressive engineering teams with Product and Engineering closely aligned. My last company, though, was utter undisciplined chaos for decades. SAFE was an attempt to try something to corral teams together even though it basically became waterfall.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-21 23:44:09+00:00
The same evidence (the only evidence) could have been presented as:

Mississippi is doing great for its kids. We should all follow them.

Instead it’s completely unnecessarily frames as “the political side that I don’t like is ruining everything”. There are instances (too many, unfortunately) where this is true. This isn’t one of them. In comparable Blue/Red states (CA vs TX, NY vs FL) the blue states are doing better, even if u think the blue state performances are also inexcusable.

Have people become incapable of talking normally and need to force everything into an enemy/ally frame? Or is this just rage bait, or ironically, the author “virtue” signaling to their own political tribe
by nness | 2026-02-21 23:44:15+00:00
Blast from the past — I made the EDuke32 logo when I was teenager back in 2004. (I still have the PSD sitting around somewhere...) Back then there was quite an active community on the now defunct 3drealm's forums and I spent a lot of time contributing icons, logos, or web dev help to different Duke Nukem projects.

I don't think I ever properly played Duke 3D until recently, picking up the "Cursed Randy Version" version on Switch. But as a kid I was hooked on the level editor (and pixelated nudity.) Duke 3D's custom maps scene never eclipsed the popularity and duration of Doom or Quake, but there were some fantastic creations that really stirred the imagination and kept me in that editor for hours.

(There is also a port of the Duke Nukem 64 version, which whilst almost identical, does have a few interesting variations which makes it worth the try for a series fan.)