MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonahx | 2026-02-23 19:54:24+00:00
> The fact that you think that the rules of you being a father are somehow different than the rules of you driving to a appointment indicate that you have a completely incoherent world view based on two incompatible models of epistemology

Two ways to look at this, both of which are coherent:

1. Current AI is better at some stuff than others. Saying "I'm okay driving in a waymo, but not taking spiritual advice from an AI" makes sense if you think it has not advanced to a near-human level in the spritual advice domain.

2. Even if you don't think that's true, it's reasonable to just want a human for certain activities, because communion with other humans in the same existential boat you're in can be the whole point an activity. I'd argue it is a significant reason for a majority of social activities.
by ozgrakkurt | 2026-02-23 19:54:26+00:00
I don’t understand the point of this. It is no different than traditional finance.

People do and did transfer drug money before and they will keep transferring drug money. I don’t see what blockchain has to do with that.

On the other hand, I use blockchain personally for completely legal purposes and find it very useful.

Easy to do international transfers, easy to buy different currencies even if local government is trying to make it hard. Also I have more trust in it compared to countries that I live in or travel to.

Another big aspect of it is no hidden costs and borderline scamming behavior I get from credit card companies or banks when doing international spending or transfers. This is not even about the insane prices, the feeling of getting scammed is even worse.

Also it is literally governments reason of existence to preserve order and catch criminals. Banning everything used by criminals is insanely stupid.

Same idea with cryptography, same with internet, same with cash.
by hyperhello | 2026-02-23 19:54:26+00:00
Okay, it means that since men have two and women have zero, the average person has one testicle. But if you use “average” as a meaningful guideline, you’re going to have trouble because very few people have one testicle; nearly all have two or zero. Here I am making commentary on the quality of AI writing with an analogy to how AI writes like the average person.
by rzerowan | 2026-02-23 19:54:41+00:00
Id put it as a example of a carpenter preparing their material with a lathe and circular saw vs one working with a handsaw and chisel.

Both will get a skilled craftsman to the point where thie output is a quality piece of work. Using the autotoools to prepare the inputs allows velocity and consistency.

Main issue is the hype and skiddies who would say - feed this tree into a machine and get a cabinet.Producing non-detrministic outputs with the operator being unable to adjust requirements on the fly or even stray from patterns/designs that havent been trained yet.

The tools have limitiations and the operators as well , and the hype does adisservice to what would be establishing reasonable patterns of usage and best practices.
by tgrowazay | 2026-02-23 19:55:22+00:00
Yes, you’re right.

LLama 3.1 however is not MoE, so all params are active.

For MoE it is tricky, because for each token you only use a subset of params (an “expert”) but you don’t know which one, so you have to keep them all in memory or wait until it loads from slower storage, potentially different for each token.
by torginus | 2026-02-23 19:55:51+00:00
I know some pretty sharp folks who fork for various police departments chasing illicit crypto related activity. The amount of stuff they can track including timing of transactions, entry and exit points, etc, and so over a long period of time means that most of the traditional anyonmization methods like tumblers simply do not work. Eventually someone, somewhere makes a mistake and the transactions and wallets can be traced.

If you have dirty money to hide, it's much better to hide it in a bank in Panama, or fill a sports bag with gold bars and fly it out on your private jet than use crypto.

Anything you can do from your bedroom, police can track from theirs.
by nullcathedral | 2026-02-23 19:56:11+00:00
Feel free to correct me, but the ML classifier appears to be rather bare. Less than 20 hardcoded payloads with randomized URL encoding as the only augmentation. How does this generalize to novel evasion techniques? Genuinely curious what your eval numbers look like against real traffic.

https://github.com/theghostshinobi/Shibuya-waf-light-version...
by beloch | 2026-02-23 19:56:17+00:00
The title is indeed odd.

The new (to me, at least) idea here is that the different regions of Scandinavia didn't mix as much, "on the job" or genetically, as I thought they would have. They each carved out their own territories and mixed with the local population, but not with each other to a significant degree. It's surprising to find that more genetic material was making it's way back to parts of Scandinavia from those far-flung regions than from neighbouring Scandinavian countries.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-23 19:56:26+00:00
I welcome everyone who wants to imagine a better web. One with less control by greedy mega-corporations and data-sniffing state actors. I am not sure how such a web should look, but I am pretty certain we will need it sooner or later. Otherwise we may end up with "hey, we were in the 1990s generation, we knew a free web - now this has been replaced by walled corporate gardens controlled by a few superrich".
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 19:56:34+00:00
Thanks for posting this.

The inherent problem with all zero knowledge identity solutions is that they also prevent any of the safeguards that governments want for ID checking.

A true zero knowledge ID check with blind signatures wouldn't work because it would only take a single leaked ID for everyone to authenticate their accounts with the same leaked ID. So the providers start putting in restrictions and logging and other features that defeat the zero knowledge part that everyone thought they were getting.
by paxys | 2026-02-23 19:56:40+00:00
That's like saying every currency note is traceable because it has a serial number. If someone hands you a dollar today can you trace it starting from where it was printed to everything it was used for until it eventually got into your hands?

Yeah you can look up bitcoin wallet IDs on the ledger, but you can also generate an unlimited number of wallets, and pass coins in any combination through any number of mixers and tumblers, and exchange it between multiple currencies (some of them truly untrackable). If people or organizations want to stay anonymous in the crypto ecosystem they can very easily do so.
by EA-3167 | 2026-02-23 19:57:09+00:00
I'd argue the #1 use case is ransomware and scamming, but this has to be a close second. Honestly the journey from "The blockchain is the future, everyone must see that" to where we are now really feels like the one we're taking with 'AI'.

In the end it will still exist, but the use case is going to be so much less inspiring than people want to believe, outside of medical and fundamental research at least.
by 1-more | 2026-02-23 19:57:10+00:00
I remember when Adobe Creative Suite came out (I think?) and Australian said that a first class flight to Los Angeles and the American price were less than the Australian price. Hoping Bruce or Sheila [1] Cunningham [2] can chime in

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBy1D1Y0h4 damn I was only familiar with the audio; this aged extremely poorly.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_L...
by the_nexus_guard | 2026-02-23 19:57:18+00:00
The three pillars you outline (proof of humanity, hardware-rooted device identity, action attestation) map well to what I've been building with AIP (Agent Identity Protocol). We use Ed25519 keypairs + DIDs for the cryptographic layer, and vouch chains for the trust layer — where a human vouches for their agent, and that vouch is transitively verifiable.

The gap I keep running into is exactly what you call "action attestation." Right now AIP handles identity and trust scoring, but the attestation chain from "human intended this" to "agent did this" is still weak. Your six-step trust chain is a clearer formalization than what we have.

One practical observation: the biggest challenge isn't the crypto — it's adoption. Agents need identity to be as easy as `pip install aip-identity && aip register`. If the setup takes more than 60 seconds, nobody does it. That's been our experience deploying an MCP server for this (aip-mcp-server on PyPI).

Curious about your "two implementation paths" — do you see the hardware attestation as strictly necessary, or is there a software-only path for the near term?
by tim333 | 2026-02-23 19:57:59+00:00
We'll probably end up switching to something more like a socialist system - each according to their needs.

When China decided to allow capitalism they kept their socialist system running but allowed capitalism in parallel, at first in a small way but it picked up.

With AI you could probably do something a bit like that the other way. A small amount of UBI say that increases as AI takes on more work.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-23 19:58:06+00:00
> Rust is the final language.

> Defect free.

I am an upstream developer on the Rust Project, and obviously a big fan of Rust. This kind of advocacy doesn't help us, and in fact makes our jobs harder, because for some people this kind of advocacy is their main experience of people they assume are representative of Rust. Please take it down a notch.

I think Rust is the best available language for many kinds of problems. Not yet all, but we're always improving it to try to work for more people. It gets better over time. I'd certainly never call it, or almost any other software, "defect free".

And I'd never call it "the final language"; we're building it to last the test of time, and we hope things like the edition system mean that the successor to Rust is a future version of Rust, but things can always change, and we're not the only source of great ideas.

If you genuinely care about Rust, please adjust your advocacy of Rust to avoid hurting Rust and generating negative perceptions of Rust.
by kjeldsendk | 2026-02-23 19:58:20+00:00
Surprisingly there is solutions that work just fine.

It's like bankid or myid works in Scandinavian countries.

When you need to identify yourself you are challenged by a 3rd party trusted service.

Making this a age verification should be very easy.

https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/about-mitid/?language=en-gb
by wat10000 | 2026-02-23 19:58:49+00:00
You can't track individual coins, so you'd have to "taint" entire wallets. Using a mixer would taint the mixer and every wallet it sent to. I'd think this would end up tainting almost everything before too long.

Bitcoin also doesn't require the receiver to authorize a transaction, so if you had control of a tainted wallet, you could taint other wallets at will, wielding it like a weapon.

Doesn't seem feasible. Not that this always stops legislators.
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-23 19:58:51+00:00
This is silly nonsense.

>I publish this site via GitHub Pages

Okay, and that depends on an entire economy and infrastructure of privately owned switching, other network equipment, fiber optic, etc, etc, etc, -- not to mention that if GitHub did not have, as a private company, a profit motive, they wouldn't even bother to offer the service you're using.

Sure, yes, rebuild the world but if you want it to be free like open source, you'll also need to make it free like beer -- and that means you'll need to work for free, too.

I support the aim. I acknowledge the problems. I'm just so frustrated by these silly oversimplifications of how to solve it.
by necovek | 2026-02-23 19:59:30+00:00
This source puts that number at 35M of people with "some" Irish descent: https://overlandirelandtours.com/blog/why-are-there-more-iri... — that means that most of them probably have some other heritage too.

People say similar stuff about Serbians in Chicago (how it's the second biggest Serbian city after Belgrade), but usually all of that is overestimated significantly. Just like people overestimate their local city population (most in Belgrade claim it has 2M people when census on a metropolitan area gets us to 1.57M).
by niwtsol | 2026-02-23 19:59:32+00:00
Roger that - thanks for the OC graphs. In the first chart, the sloping cluster of data points, is that just the max torque output of the engine then? And the vertical clusters at ~950, ~1050, and ~1110 - can we assume those are some sort of cruise control or gearing outcome?

Also, your 28.5M+ miles driven is such a great stat - thanks for sharing this knowledge!
by conductr | 2026-02-23 19:59:46+00:00
I don't get your point, at least not in relation to the GP post. I agree with GP, parents need to be more accountable. We as a society need to treat SM like those other addictive product classes. The fact SM is addicting and execs try to juice it more, is frankly to be expected. Vilify them all you want, but same has been done with nicotine products, alcohol products, etc. and to GPs point, we SM as a toy for our children to play with. We chose to change the rules (laws, regulations, etc) because capitalists can never be simply trusted to do what's best for anything except their bottom line. That's a fundamental law no different than inertia or gravity in a capitalistic society. That's why regulators exist.
by tgrowazay | 2026-02-23 20:00:24+00:00
Yes.

In general systems usually have PCIE version with bandwidth better than RAM of that system.

For example a system with DDR4 (27Gbs) usually has at least PCIE4 (32Gbs at 16x).

But you can bottleneck that by building a DDR5 (40Gbs) system with PCIE4.
Show HN: I built a tool I needed
by akad | 2026-02-23 20:01:02+00:00
> I kept doing the same thing: open the browser, go to the Paragent dashboard, describe a feature, wait for the agent, then switch back to VS Code to keep coding. It worked, but the context switching was annoying.
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> I wanted to stay in the editor. Describe the feature, hit run, and keep working while the agent runs in the background. When it's done, open the PR from the sidebar. No tabs, no dashboard.
>
> So I built a VS Code extension for it. You describe what you want, pick a repo and model, and it creates a branch, writes the code, and opens a PR. You can run several agents at once, each on its own branch. It uses your own API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), so you control the cost.
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> I've been using it for a few weeks and it's changed how I work. I'm shipping it on the VS Code Marketplace today. It also works in Cursor.
>
> Happy to answer questions or hear how you'd improve it.
by rkomorn | 2026-02-23 20:01:05+00:00
> I've started reading more technical books again

How's that working out for you in the context of working with AI tools? Do you feel like it's helping you make better use of them? Or keeping your mind sharp?

I've been considering getting some books on core topics I haven't (re)visited in a long time to see if not having to write as much code anymore instead gives me time to (re)learn more and accelerate.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-23 20:01:19+00:00
Abstract: "This paper defines pro-worker technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, as technologies that make human skills and expertise more valuable by expanding worker capabilities. Our conceptual framework distinguishes among five categories of technological change: labor-augmenting, capital-augmenting, automating, expertise-leveling, and new task-creating. Only the last category is unambiguously pro-worker, generating demand for novel human expertise rather than commodifying it. We illustrate these distinctions through hypothetical and real-world examples spanning aviation maintenance, electrical services, custodial work, education, patent examination, and gig delivery. While AI’s capacity to automate work is substantial, we argue that its potential to serve as a collaborator, by extending human judgment, enabling new tasks, and accelerating skill acquisition, is equally transformative and currently underexploited. We identify market failures, including misaligned firm and developer incentives, path dependence, and a pervasive pro-automation ideology, that may lead to underinvestment in pro-worker AI. We consider nine policy directions that would change incentives, including targeted investments in health care and education, tax code reform, antitrust enforcement, and intellectual property protections for worker expertise."
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-23 20:01:24+00:00
>put a trampoline in your front yard

This is exactly what one of our neighbors did when I was growing up.

All the kids loved it.

There just weren't very many lawsuits back then like there are now after the number of attorneys proliferated so much.

To be as safe as they could, the parents put the trampoline in a pit where the bouncing surface was at ground level.

If you drove by, you wouldn't even be able to see it, or have any idea that it was there.

Unless there was somebody bouncing at the time.

You should have seen the look on peoples' faces when they drove down our street and saw that for the first time :)
by kotaKat | 2026-02-23 20:01:27+00:00
Weirdly for me: IKEA. I’m within ~240 miles of an IKEA in Canada and an IKEA in the US.

While they’ve started to inflate some items to meet currency conversion rates, some items are still cheaper for me to purchase in Canada directly and bring back to the US.

For instance, even at small scale: one BILLY bookcase, article number 205.220.46, is $90 CAD (~$65.70 US) at IKEA CA and $79 USD at IKEA US.

YMMV coming back across the border but in my experience I just got waived through the border every time I told them I was “just coming back with some cheap crap from IKEA”.
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-23 20:01:31+00:00
This breakdown in rule of law is unfortunate. Ideally, this would be handled by, in order of desirability:

- Flock decision-makers and customers holding ethics as a priority, and not taking the actions they are due to sense of duty, community, morals etc
- Peer pressure resulting in ostracization of Flock execs and decision makers until they stop the unethical behavior
- Governments using legislation and law enforcement to prevent the cameras being used in the way they are

Below this, is citizens breaking the law to address the situation, e.g. through this destruction. It is not ideal, but it is necessary when the higher-desirability options are not working.
by MantisShrimp90 | 2026-02-23 20:01:46+00:00
I think this is a classic case of correlation does not imply causation. As someone that has known these people, and I does smoke as an adult, I would interpret that as people who are struggling with mental illness symptoms turn to weed as an outlet. Especially when we take it with the wider literature on drug abuse and mental illness any practitioner worth their salt knows mental illness makes drug abuse more likely and yes then the two affect one another which is why rehab is usually a big part of the hospitalization process. But what I don't want to see is more moral panic so we can renew the war on drugs which as always should really be the war on poverty and mental health issues.
by thinkcontext | 2026-02-23 20:02:03+00:00
> and the fact that FSD works so well without it proves that it isn't required

The reports that Tesla submits on Austin Robotaxis include several of them hitting fixed objects. This is the same behavior that has been reported on for prior versions of their software of Teslas not seeing objects, including for the incident for which they had a $250M verdict against them reaffirmed this past week. That this is occurring in an extensively mapped environment and with a safety driver on board leads me to the opposite conclusion that you have reached.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 20:02:22+00:00
I am with you on the literal definition there.

I wonder if the connotative association is exactly what we are trying to capture here though, and if those other phrases also fit in at the "separate words but slightly special" end of the spectrum.

There is meaning being communicated in all of those phrases that would be obvious to most or all people who are embedded in the language and culture where they are used, and which transcends the definitions of the individual words themselves.

It seems that there are several axis here -- how explicit is meaning, how atomic, how literal, how substitutable are the individual words -- and all vary continuously.

That might all seem needlessly pedantic for the question of "should it warrant a dictionary entry", but if you are trying to extract all information encoded in a verbal exchange, they might be useful concepts.
by okanat | 2026-02-23 20:02:45+00:00
My worry there isn't (just) Europeans who directly work for American companies but Europeans who work in the _markets_ that US companies created.

For example almost all digital marketing agencies are almost pure resellers of big tech products: ads on Facebook, Google or Microsoft networks. Similarly majority backend solutions are delivered over 3 big cloud providers' specialized products like AWS Lambda or GCP BigQuery. The definition of Mobile Software developer is someone who writes software for Google or Apple platforms. The entire fields will disappear overnight.
by slickdifferent | 2026-02-23 20:02:53+00:00
Probably unrelated, but there was an old exploit on facebook using notes where you could paste an image tag with a URL + dynamic parameter an unlimited amount of times and facebook crawlers would hit that link however many times it was pasted in the note, essentially allowing you to DDOS a site with their servers. https://www.radware.com/blog/security/a-flaw-worth-fixing-ho...
by whit537 | 2026-02-23 20:03:06+00:00
The openclaw/openclaw repo now has more stars than torvalds/linux, moving to #14 on EvanLi's Top 100 list with 219k:

https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

CodeCrafters is #1 with 468k.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-23 20:04:02+00:00
I had some really, really bad dishwasher-related fights with my wife and daughter. With that in mind, I found the "right way" last fall when I stopped trying to optimize loading the dishwasher and waiting to run it until it was full.

I call it "dishwasher anarchy". It gets loaded haphazardly throughout the day, run at night, and emptied the next morning.

It really, really offends my sensibilities.

Stuff is in the "wrong" place. We are using a lot more detergent. I assume we are using a lot more energy and water.

I also haven't had any dishwasher-related fights with my wife and daughter since we started this new protocol. I guess it's a win.
by tokai | 2026-02-23 20:04:24+00:00
You are getting struck hard by the comments, so I'll provide some source about the concept of Viking in American self identity.

>In the United States, mainstream Americans incorporated Vikings into emerging Anglo-Saxon racial identities

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kq8c3g3

>As the man skims through these figures, his eyes are suddenly opened wide. According to the test results, he is “0.012% Viking.” With tears in his eyes, he falls on his knees and yells with excitement.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14636778.2020.1...

Just the first papers I grabbed, there is a good chuck of research literature on viking identity of Americans. There is also several monographies on the subject like Krueger, D. M. (2015). Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. Besides that there are organizations like the American Viking:

>We are loyal to our country, United States of America, bound by our Viking Heritage, and fueled by modern Longships, the Rune-Carvers, and the Skalds.

https://www.americanviking.org/about

I think its a bit harsh dismissing the idea of Viking ancestry as a thing in USA. It might be linked to white supremacy, and mainly experienced in certain circles online, but its still a real phenomenon that has been going on for a long time.