MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2026-02-26 16:42:42+00:00
>for hiring a team to build a frontier model? These kind of rules will make PBCs weaker not stronger

Weaker is fine if those working there are actually true to the mission for the mission, are not for the profit.

Same with FOSS really, e.g. I'd rather have a weaker Linux that's an actual comminity project run by volunteers, than a stronger Linux that's just corporate agendas, corporate hires with an open license on top.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-26 16:43:03+00:00
Half-ish (don't get hung up on being exact, they are at least of similar orders of magnitude) of the oil that makes its way into the ocean is natural. That is, leaking out of the ground into the water not at all as a result of human activity. Obviously enormous anthropogenic oil spills make this a very spiky statistic one way or the other.

Oil production and natural oil seepage happen in the gulf of mexico because there's oil there, there's not much oil around Hawaii.

So there's likely both a human and non-human reason for this in Texas.
by jll29 | 2026-02-26 16:43:07+00:00
It would be nice if a "What's new?" could be implemented by the Web protocol, a challenging task in a decentralized network.

New domain registrations would have to be queryable and the result set merged across all domain registrars globally.

That would make (completed) Web crawling easier, esp. of pages not interlinked (yet) with others.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-26 16:43:16+00:00
>assume that it means that someone can launch this attack while wardriving, which they cant.

As a former wardriver (¡WEPlol!), it only makes this more difficult. In my US city every home/business has a fiber/copper switch, usually outside. A screw-driver and you're in.

Granted, this now becomes a physical attack — but still viable.

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>the next step is to put [AirSnitch] into historical context and assess how big a threat it poses in the real world. In some respects, it resembles the 2007 PTW attack ... that completely and immediately broke WEP, leaving Wi-Fi users everywhere with no means to protect themselves against nearby adversaries. For now, client isolation is similarly defeated—almost completely and overnight—with no immediate remedy available.

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I think the article's main point is that so many places have similarly-such-unsecured plug-in points. Perhaps even a user was authorized for one WiFi network segment, and is already "in" — bless this digital mess!
by logravia | 2026-02-26 16:43:27+00:00
It certainly is. For people who have not heard the statements, here are some quotes. I bring them up, because I think it's worthwhile to remember the bold predictions that are made now and how they will pan out in the future.

Council on Foreign Relations, 11 months ago: "In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is essentially writing all of the code."

Axios interview, 8 months ago: "[...] AI could soon eliminate 50% of entry-level office jobs."

The Adolescence of Technology (essay), 1 month ago: "If the exponential continues—which is not certain, but now has a decade-long track record supporting it—then it cannot possibly be more than a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially everything."
by fbz17 | 2026-02-26 16:43:29+00:00
There will be a time in the near future that Agents are going to be everywhere. Every company will have one offering and delivering its services, and every one of us will have one or more, getting things done and being our personal assistants for our daily needs.

For example, we will be able to ask our agent to book a table in a restaurant for tonight to have dinner with our friends.

But for that, our agent and the restaurant´s agent need to be able to communicate. And before talking with each other, our agent needs to find the restaurant one, and understand him.

The communication part is partially solved with MCP protocol, but the registry and discovery of agents is still not here.

With my start-up, HONOVA, i am building that discovery and trust layer, to enable agents communication without any human intervention.

Find out more here: www.honova.ai and sign up to be the first to have access!
by ucirello | 2026-02-26 16:43:57+00:00
author here! Good suggestion, we should probably come up with some GOAL.md examples. With that said, one-shotting a pretty large app is a somewhat doable task, and that's one of the reasons we have introduced the interview step: exactly to let the model pull from you (instead you pushing into the model a spec document) what it needs to know to be able to work autonomously.
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-26 16:44:04+00:00
Veritasium started out as a physics channel, and they've covered a wide variety of physics, math and science topics. They are never afraid of showing you the math, but one of the things I think they are really good at is not losing the human part of the story even if you can't follow the numbers exactly. At the end of the day it's humans who came up with this stuff in the first place, so it must be possible to understand it.

They aren't really a technology channel though, at least as it relates to software/computers, so that's probably why the video starts out with a brief history of Linux.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-26 16:44:09+00:00
Yup. I can see that being a problem. My use is pretty linear, so that isn't an issue. I think that you might be able to establish different "contexts," though I haven't tried.

I will see whether or not I can “wipe the slate clean,” between projects.

I would also NEVER use it for any confidential/proprietary stuff that can’t leak.

The project I’m working on is not open-source, but we don’t really care too much, if it leaks. I don’t send in any credentials; just source.

Right now, it’s helping me design tests in Postman, to validate the API.
by gaws | 2026-02-26 16:44:22+00:00
> It's a shame that the free/cheap password managers that regular people would use (like those by Apple, Google) seem unwilling to loosen their platform lock-in, and others like 1Password mainly target business use and are too expensive for the average joe to bother. So decades and dozens of new auth standards later we are still in a place where people use the same password on all accounts and write it down on post-its.

Bitwarden is free and easy to use.
by istillcantcode | 2026-02-26 16:44:27+00:00
I prefer Googles. I can only afford the free models. I normally copy and paste my stuff into 4-5 models and compare the responses. Its probably a waste of time, but very mentally satisfying. I mostly program as a form of mental stimulation instead of trying to become a billionaire. Taking this perspective, using AI agents is not really the same experience, and less mentally stimulating than programming.
by kevincox | 2026-02-26 16:44:56+00:00
I actually think this was a good thing. Manipulating images incredibly convincingly was already possible but the cost was high (many hours of highly skilled work). So many people assumed that most images they were seeing were "authentic" without much consideration. By making these fake images ubiquitous we are forcing people to quickly learn that they can't believe what they see on the internet and tracking down sources and deciding who you trust is critically important. People have always said that you can't believe what you see on the internet, but unfortunately many people have managed without major issue ignoring this advice. This wave will force them to take that advice to heart by default.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-26 16:45:19+00:00
There are many places in general office work where you need some kind of graphics. Slides, reports, info graphics, dataviz. Or academic papers. Some are just illustrations, like a fancy clipart or stock photos, some are drafts for a proper tikz or svg or something that you then redo in draw.io etc. There is much more use for graphics than the use cases where people would ever even consider hiring an actual artist. I've seen good results for iterating on eg model architecture figures quickly between PhD students and supervisors, faster than dragging boxes around and fiddling with tikz. Obviously you don't simply paste the result into the paper. You redo it but it's a good discussion basis. That's for info graphics stuff. But the same can apply to creative stuff, like an event poster, an invitation card to your wedding, storyboards, mood boards, DIY interior design, outfit planning etc etc
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-26 16:45:28+00:00
This Tweet ascribes a known phenomenon (creating software on your own, to satisfy a personal need or curiosity) to the new "vibe-coding" trend. This ignores lots of examples like curl, Linux, Unix itself and maybe even the world wide web. There's been absolutely nothing stopping writing your own software for your own purposes since the mid-70s or so.
by evrenesat | 2026-02-26 16:45:30+00:00
I only needed help of this banana boy twice, it managed to disappoint me each time. The most recent one, I was trying different beard and mustache styles on myself, on a photo I imported from my own Google photo gallery, and it consistently rejected me, claiming I'm a public figure. Nobody ever told me that I look like any famous person, so that's googles own bananination. ChatGPT nicely handled the job.
by mrdependable | 2026-02-26 16:45:33+00:00
I use Claude for a few reasons.

1) I don't want to give OpenAI my money. I don't like how they are spending so much money to shape politics to benefit them. That seems to fly in the face of this being a public benefit. If you have to spend money like that because you're afraid of what the public will do, what does that say?

2) I like how Claude just gives me straight text on one side, examples on the other, and nothing else. ChatGPT and Gemini tend to go overboard with tables, lists, emojis, etc. I can't stand it.

3) A lot of technical online conversation seems to have been hollowed out in recent years. The amount of people making blog posts explaining how to use something new has basically tanked.
by bensyverson | 2026-02-26 16:45:37+00:00
I recently experimented with Apple's Foundation Models framework, and I came away impressed at the speed and accuracy of the LLM. You can't ask it to build you a web app, but it can reliably translate a written instruction into tool use within your native app. I think there's a lot of merit to Apple's approach, using specialist tiny models like Ferret-UI Lite, though I don't think we'll see the full fruits of their labor for another year or two.

But it's a vision that I can get behind, where basic tasks like transcription, computer use, in-app tool, image understanding, etc, are local, secure and private.
by slfnflctd | 2026-02-26 16:45:40+00:00
"Y'know, like, the thing is, like, y'know, here's the thing..."

I totally feel for people with speech pathologies or anxiety that makes it harder for them to communicate verbally, but how is this guy the public face of the company and doing all these interviews by himself? With as much as is at stake, I find it baffling.
Show HN: Ansible TUI – a zero-dependency terminal UI for running playbooks
by congzhangzh | 2026-02-26 16:45:42+00:00
I got tired of grepping YAML files to remember tag names and copy-pasting
hostnames into --limit every time I ran a playbook. AWX/Semaphore solve this
but require a database and a daemon. So I built a single-file TUI instead.

Demo：https://raw.githubusercontent.com/congzhangzh/ansible-tui/re...

It parses your inventory.yml and playbook.yml, gives you a split-pane
selector for hosts and tasks, builds the ansible-playbook command live as
you toggle checkboxes, then runs it with streaming output — all inside the
terminal.

The binary is ~100MB (Deno runtime embedded), but there's also a one-liner
for Deno users that needs nothing local:

deno run --allow-read --allow-run --allow-write --allow-env \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/congzhangzh/ansible-tui/main/app.tsx

Single file (~650 lines of TSX), MIT licensed.

https://github.com/congzhangzh/ansible-tui
by dylan604 | 2026-02-26 16:45:54+00:00
The "legitimate way" is nothing short of weasel words. Who defines what is legitimate. The doomers that are prepping for the future by building stockpiles of food/water/weapons being stored in bunkers/shelters they have built would say this is exactly what they are doing. Yet, these people are often panned as being a little unhinged. If we're having a conversation about tech destroying humanity, then planning a way to survive without tech seems like a legitimate concept.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-26 16:45:59+00:00
Feels like the future is here at last. First we get Asimov's Bard (https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/mp3s/Someda... ), now Professor Bullfinch's Isit.

Oh, and General Gruntle from the second story is cutting deals left and right with the labs that brought us the first.
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-26 16:46:01+00:00
There is also the very lame auto win category that i happen to fall into...

I dont trust openai, or google. google has beyond proven that they aren't trustworthy well before the LLM coding tool era. I am legitimately not even giving them a chance.

Sadly I am assuming anthropic will at some point lose my trust, but for now they just feel like the obvious choice for me.

So obviously i am a terrible overall observer, but i am sure i am not alone in the auto win portion of devs choosing anthropic.
by fasteddie31003 | 2026-02-26 16:46:03+00:00
I'm building my personal home right now. The AI image models have been a game-changer in designing the look of the house. My architect did an OK job, but the details that Nano Banana added really bring the house up a notch. I just do hundreds of renders from the basic 3D models and I find looks that I like and iterate from there. We are implementing the renders from Nano Banana over our Interior Designers designs. We would not have hired the Interior Designers again after using Nano Banana to do our interiors.

I think part of the issue with architects and designers today is that they use CAD too much. It's easy to design boxes and basic roof lines in CAD. It's harder to put in curves and more craftsman features. Nano Banana's renders have more organic design features IMO.

Our house is looking great and we're very happy how it's going so far with a lot of the thanks to Nano Banana.
by conscion | 2026-02-26 16:46:03+00:00
I think they gloss over a major factor also. They mention:

> Distribution centres are built around motorway junctions (J24 of the M1, the Golden Triangle in the East Midlands) because that’s where road access is.

But they skip _why_ is that road access and motor junction there. It's there because the government decided building roads was something that was it's responsibility. I know this article is UK focused, but for the US if the government decided to build rails also, then they could put them in more convenient places. Instead they allow rail companies to decide which monopoly corridors the companies get to control.
by goodmythical | 2026-02-26 16:46:28+00:00
I've noticed this core philosophical difference in certain geographically associated peoples.

There is a group of people who think AI is going to ruin the world because they think they themselves (or their superiors) would ruin the world.

There is a group of people who think AI is going to save the world because they think they themselves (or their superiors) would save the world.

Kind of funny to me that the former is typically democratic (those who are supposed to decide their own futures are afraid of the future they've chosen) while the other is often "less free" and are unafraid of the future that's been chosen for them.
by fortyseven | 2026-02-26 16:46:30+00:00
It's shitty, but I think it's almost as bad that people are calling everything AI. And I can't even blame them, despite how infuriating it is. It's just as insidious that even mundane things literally ARE AI now. I've seen at least twice now (that I'm aware of) where some cute, harmless, otherwise non-outrageous animal video was hiding a Sora watermark. So the crazy shit is AI. The mundane shit is AI. You wonder why everyone is calling everything AI now. :P
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-26 16:46:37+00:00
people only notice when they are prompted to look for AI or scrutinize AI

a lot of these accounts mix old clips with new AI clips

or tag onto something emotional like a fake Epstein file image with your favorite politician, and pointing out its AI has people thinking you’re deflecting because you support the politician

Meanwhile the engagement farmer is completely exempt from scrutiny

Its fascinating how fast and unexpected the direction goes
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 16:46:45+00:00
>I think we mostly agree. Just "no RAM factories because we have more competitive advantage elswhere" is different than "no RAM factories because they are not guaranteed a profit".

But then people shouldn't moan that the EU is absent from the RAM manufacturing industry or pretend like they could be on a whim if the EU suddenly decides to.

>Are pharma and weapons really guaranteed?

There will always be sick people and people killing each other.
Show HN: A WASM to Go Translator
by ncruces | 2026-02-26 16:47:09+00:00
I've spent the past couple of weeks building a Wasm-to-Go translator.

It supports a subset of Wasm useful enough to translate SQLite into 600k LoC (~20 MiB) of Go code. It already passes all of my Go SQLite driver's tests across the 20 platforms I support.

Performance compared to wazero is a bit of a mixed bag: code that frequently crosses the Go-Wasm boundary improves, but code that spends most of its time in "Wasm land" doesn't.

There's probably room for improvement (I'd love to hear your ideas), but this is also a testament to how good the wazero AOT compiler actually is.

You can get a feel for the generated code by looking into https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go/tree/main/testdata

I should eventually spend some time ensuring the translator passes the spectest, though I suspect that'll be far less fun than building the translator itself was.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-26 16:48:23+00:00
Last year I was talking with somebody about business plans and we were talking about using browser extensions for social news applications to get around paywalls, another part of the "lockdown economy".

I have an "image sorter" that ingests image galleries, it used to use a bookmarklet that cued a webcrawler but after a decade of having my time as a user wasted clicking on those Cloudflare thingies I finally had it get in the way of my webcrawler.

I was talking about options w/ Junie and it suggested, "why not write a browser extension?" and I'm like "is that hard?" and it says "no" and 20 minutes later I have a prototype browser extension.

So that plug-in you're talking about where an AI can see directly into your browser is another option, another is vibe-coding a custom browser extension. I think it was always pretty easy to write a browser extension but I had I done it myself my usual scholarly way I'd spend a few hours reading documentation before I started coding and never realized just how simple it is... Just the way people are discovering web crawlers and API integrations are easier than they thought.
by maciej_pacula | 2026-02-26 16:48:34+00:00
We're a small startup that had to build and iteratively evolve both the backend API and the Python client with a tiny team.

Pydantic and code generation both had friction points that didn't fit our situation, so we ended up with a ~435-line framework that makes the client read like a mini-ORM.

The post walks through our implementation. While it worked well for us (so far), it may not be right for everyone. And we miss out on the ecosystem around OpenAPI etc. Not having Swagger definitely stings.

I'd love to hear whether others are still building REST clients by hand, or is everything auto-generated from OpenAPI specs these days?
by rsingel | 2026-02-26 16:48:41+00:00
It was too early and a bit of a dangerous design, but the StokeMonkey was built for torque and worked great at low speeds.

Some pedicab folks in Austin used to use them.

Hill climbing video
YouTube https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux

Design info
https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux
by falcor84 | 2026-02-26 16:48:42+00:00
>they won't have a runtime dependency on their billing system

Well, that makes sense in principle, but they obviously do have some billing check that prevents me from making additional requests after that "final query". And they definitely have some check to prevent me from overutilizing my quota when I have an active monthly subscription. So whatever it is that they need to do, when I prepay $x, I'm not ok with them charging me more than that (or I would have prepaid more). It's up to them to figure this out and/or absorb the costs.
by santadays | 2026-02-26 16:48:53+00:00
Intelligence seems to boil down to an approximation of reality. The only scientific output is prediction. If we want to know what happens next just wait. If we want to predict what will happen next we build a model. Models only model a subset of reality and therefore can only predict a subset of what will happen. Llms are useful because they are trained to predict human knowledge, token by token.

Intelligence has to have a fitness function, predicting best action for optimal outcome.

Unless we let AI come up with its own goal and let it bash its head against reality to achieve that goal then I’m not sure we’ll ever get to a place where we have an intelligence explosion. Even then the only goal we could give that’s general enough for it to require increasing amounts of intelligence is survival.

But there is something going on right now and I believe it’s an efficiency explosion. Where everything you want to know if right at hand and if it’s not fuguring out how to make it right at hand is getting easier and easier.
by genghisjahn | 2026-02-26 16:49:07+00:00
I use Claude Code as an orchestrator and have the agents use different models:

product-designer ollama-cloud / qwen3.5:cloud
pm ollama-cloud / glm-5:cloud
test-writer claude-code / Sonnet 4.6
backend-builder claude-code / Opus 4.6
frontend-builder claude-code / Opus 4.6
code-reviewer codex-cli / gpt-5.1-codex-mini
git-committer ollama-cloud / minimax-m2.5:cloud

I use ollama pro $20/month and OpenAI $20/month. I have an Anthropic max plan at $100/month.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-26 16:49:19+00:00
He writes about Ralph Merkle:

"When Ralph [Merkle] had to do a term project in CS 244 in the fall of 1974, he proposed 'secure communication over insecure channels' (the privacy part of public key cryptography), but the professor wrote: 'Project 2 [a much more mundane proposal] looks more reasonable, maybe because your description of Project 1 [the privacy part of PKC] is muddled terribly.'

Merkle dropped the course and pursued public key distribution on his own.

When Ralph submitted an early version of the paper to Communications, it was rejected with the editor telling him in an Oct. 22, 1975 letter, “I … was particularly bothered by the fact that there are no references to the literature. Has anyone else ever investigated this approach?”4 Partially in the editor’s defense, Ralph should have included references, as he did in the final version of the article that appeared three years later.

The editor was also hindered by the reviewer on whom she relied. The reviewer recommended rejecting the paper because it 'is not in the mainstream of present cryptography thinking.' He was right. It was totally new and groundbreaking."

He also has a section entitled "The Wisdom of Foolishness", giving his discoveries and the discoveries of TCP/IP, GPS, DSL, microprocessors, and others as examples.