MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qualudeheart | 2026-02-27 13:37:04+00:00
TNTNV is paying for the TTD-contracted plowing service at East Short Trail parking lot #1, one of the busiest leisure trails in North Lake Tahoe. TNTNV is paying the full cost of the service, previously allocated funds for winter plows, and will continue to do so as required by the storm to ensure safe access to the area's trail network so that everyone can enjoy responsible winter recreation.
by Aachen | 2026-02-27 13:37:08+00:00
Several minutes for a few km of car driving¹ is not normal. Even the old A* method didn't take that long on my first Android phone from like 2012

If you want this obvious bug solved, you'll have to provide more info, such as

- what hardware is this on,

- what software version,

- what map version(s),

- an example route where you can reproduce it (even if that's "every route" for you, it might still be specific to your region of the world),

- which profile you have selected, assuming you haven't modified it (otherwise, export the profile so we can try it)...

I don't know how you're expecting HN to narrow down the issue from a mere "it's slow for me". You'll also have more luck in an OsmAnd community such as on https://telegram.me/OsmAndMaps or elsewhere. If you think it'll be reproducible, then the bug tracker would be the right place https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues

¹ maybe walking has to visit every alley and be slower if your profile modifications can't use the HH optimisation. You'll have to share details if you don't want people to have to make assumptions like this
by duxup | 2026-02-27 13:37:37+00:00
The article just describes how they're ingesting the data, some Palantir rep is watching the deliveries remotely and what sounds like manually entering delivery data.

From there I'm guessing the "AI" part is an LLM interface is offered to ask questions about the deliveries?

This wouldn't be the first product where it just provides what a database already does just fine / more efficiently...
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-27 13:37:43+00:00
This also helps build Anthropic hype.

There are military officials saying they need anthropic because it is so good. They can't live without it.

All of this really helps Anthropic.

Its good publicity for them. And gets the military on record saying they are so good they are indispensable. And they can still look like the good guys for resisting, because they were forced.
by microtonal | 2026-02-27 13:39:22+00:00
I agree, but the probability that this is going to happen anytime soon is near-0. The current US administration is not going to rein in the tech broligarchy and if they did, it would be done out of spite and the pieces wold sold to administration-aligned oligarchs (e.g. Ellison), which might end up being worse.

The EU is not going to force this, because it has enough fights to pick with the US, and this is not the hill that they are willing to die on. It would be far more likely for them to financially support an AOSP-based OS.
Show HN: ByteSeal – offline browser-based file encryption (no uploads)
by grayguava | 2026-02-27 13:39:29+00:00
I built ByteSeal because I wanted a simple way to encrypt files
without trusting any server.

it runs entirely in the browser:
- no uploads
- no backend
- works offline

the container format is simple and versioned so files can be
decrypted later even if the UI changes.

demo:
https://byteseal.pages.dev

feedback welcome.
by fnordian_slip | 2026-02-27 13:39:37+00:00
What's your browser? On Firefox mobile with no add-ons except for ublock origin enabled, the site works perfectly for me.

For me, the page contains a number of categories like compass roses, fauna, labels, rivers, monsters etc. under the search box. Each category contains maps from all over the world that include those features, most of them rather nice looking.

Hope that helps you decide if you want to spend time on the problem :)
by Ensorceled | 2026-02-27 13:39:53+00:00
But street crime is often a symptom of the "much broader and insidious effects of corporate crime": social systems stripped of resources by politicians to provide grants to baseball stadiums, police patrols in quiet wealthy streets but abandoning poorer quarters, tax incentives to companies that then pay their employees so little they are a burden on the food security systems, mental health care priced out of reach for the poor so they end up homeless and violent.

You can list these connected problems all day.
by hal9000xbot | 2026-02-27 13:40:21+00:00
The methodical approach Alex took here is fascinating - it mirrors real-world AI system debugging when production models behave unexpectedly. The key insight about treating the network as a constraint solver rather than trying to trace circuits by hand is brilliant. In production AI systems, we often face similar challenges where the "learned" behavior isn't actually learned but engineered, and you have to reverse engineer the underlying logic. The parallel carry adder implementation in neural net layers is particularly clever - it shows how you can embed deterministic computation in what looks like a black box ML model. This kind of mechanistic interpretability is becoming crucial as we deploy more complex AI agents in real systems.
LLMs can run on tiny computers offering the same power and more than cloud LLMs
by Haeuserschlucht | 2026-02-27 13:40:29+00:00
I propose a theory. My theory is that LLMs do not require a lot of computing power. What they do require is a small computer, but it's blown out of proportion with unnecessary information to artificially increase demand for high power hardware. So the reality why models are the way they are, especially local models, is because they actually suck at optimizing on purpose. As I said, it's even added to complexity to increase sales of hardware.

What are your pros and what are your cons? And do not refer to secondhand information as in "well I was told" or "well I read a paper".
by freehorse | 2026-02-27 13:41:40+00:00
> the correction was largely complete over a year ago

I am not sure how to be certain about this case, as the numbers (as far as I remember) still stayed higher than before. Moreover I do not think Blocks fired people back then?

But there is an extra factor, that around covid times hiring became signal for growth thus stocks went up after the hiring rates were announced, now firing is a signal for AI/efficiency, thus stocks go up when they fire people. It becomes easier to mass-fire people when it does not signal that there are problems going on (for the company).
by quietbritishjim | 2026-02-27 13:42:04+00:00
Your previous comment was ludicrously arrogant and overconfident ("You're having it explained to you.") especially given that you're wrong.

Rather than lower myself to your level, I carefully explained the reality of the situation, complete with a mention of how I actually did check what you said (despite having overwhelmingly enough experience of version control to already be certain it's nonsense).

Clearly you didn't do the reasonable thing of rethinking your understanding or checking for yourself because you took your arrogance up a notch by telling me to do a Google.

Please get a grip on yourself.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-27 13:42:18+00:00
That’s silly

I think you overestimate the influence of traditional media these days. CNN is a declining asset. Nobody under 60 gets their news from these places. Anyway, by the time the deal closes Trump will be in lamb duck status.

And the amount of debt being taken on for the deal is astronomical.

There is a post Trump world. These companies have to be financially successful in.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-27 13:42:29+00:00
It's struggling, because large institutions are invested in it

Many of these "large institutions" (for example, Fidelity) are merely facilitators responding to client interest --- aka, speculation. They have nominal investments in crypto as necessary to offer trading services to their clients.

An apparent exception to this is Strategy, led by Michael Saylor. But even in this case, their direct "investments" are actually financed by debt ($6 billion or so) --- aka other people's money.
by codebitdaily | 2026-02-27 13:42:43+00:00
That is a tough but classic strategic bottleneck. If I were in your shoes, I would view the CPA license as a 'foundational asset' rather than just a local permit. Even if you don't stay in Turkey long-term, having a specialized certification often signals a high level of discipline to future international employers.
However, the legal inability to pursue both paths simultaneously is the real constraint. My advice? Commit to the path that builds the most 'portable' skill set first. If the CPA process gives you a deep understanding of international standards, it’s a win regardless of geography. Don't see it as being 'stuck'; see it as building the leverage you'll need to negotiate a much better 'simple life' abroad later on. Leverage always precedes freedom.
Show HN: FishDex An offline fishing log built to show my students
by ffsoftboiled | 2026-02-27 13:42:45+00:00
I’m a teacher, not a professional developer. I’ve been trying to track my fishing life-list in Excel for the last year, but it was clunky and I eventually gave up.

I wanted to show my students that the "technical wall" shouldn't stop them from building tools they actually need. I "vibe coded" this entire app in about a day using AI to handle the syntax while I focused on the logic and the user experience.

The Goal: To prove that with modern tools, you can move from "spreadsheet fatigue" to a functional, custom application without a CS degree.

The App:

100% Local: No sign-ins, no databases, no tracking. It uses IndexedDB to keep data on the device.

Offline First: It’s a PWA, so it works on the water where there’s no signal.

Open Source: I’ve put it under an MIT license so my students (and anyone else) can fork it and break it to see how it works.

I’d love feedback—not just on the code (which I know is AI-assisted), but on the utility. Is this a viable way to teach "Creation over Consumption" to the next generation?
by muralibasani | 2026-02-27 13:42:57+00:00
If you've ever visualized a Kafka cluster with Schema Registry, you've probably seen the problem: a single Avro/Protobuf/JSON schema registered under multiple subjects (e.g., orders-value, payments-value, returns-value) creates separate nodes that are all structurally identical. In a cluster with dozens of topics, the graph becomes unreadable.

Full demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQIdaqVqgtk
by netsharc | 2026-02-27 13:43:10+00:00
Gotta love the German creativity in naming. It's called "C Net" because that came after "B Net", which came after "A Net". While "A" apparently stood for "Autotelefon" (car phone).

And when D-Net came, T-Mobile called their service D1, and Vodafone called theirs... D2.
by zabzonk | 2026-02-27 13:43:14+00:00
> can't recall experiencing that (at least not to the extent of chocolate) when eating gelatin-based stuff.

The traditional jelly around the outside meat of British pork pie would frankly be weird texture (and probably horrible) if it was made from agar. It really has got to be made from pork bones to be authentic. It does melt in the mouth, when the pie is properly made - sadly rare these days.
by xen0 | 2026-02-27 13:43:54+00:00
As an Englishman that has been transplanted to another country, I find myself making them more in Germany than I ever made them back home.

But that's because my wife requests it.

It would never occur to me to up the egg ratio so high to reach into that void though. My wife manages to mess up the proportions every time though, so maybe we'll unwittingly explore that region one day.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-27 13:44:57+00:00
Old homes also often have been wired to use radiator/water pipes as ground. This causes a lot of issues now that old, metal pipes are being replaced with modern plastics, which turn a stupidly-grounded socket into a potential death trap.

Also, when there's a light circuit involved, there may be a black wire. In very old wiring situations, you may also encounter red/white/green wires, with green being the live wire rather than the ground!
by mocamoca | 2026-02-27 13:45:14+00:00
Agreed. That said, Anthropic's original pitch was about embedding safety at the foundational level of the 'model' (acknowledging that a model is more than just its weights).

If the safeguard against mass surveillance is strictly tied to geolocation (US vs. non-US), it can't be an intrinsic property of the model. It has to be enforced at the API or contractual level. This means international users are left out of those core, embedded protections. Unless Anthropic is planning to deploy multiple, differently-aligned foundation models based on customer geography or industry, the safety harness isn't really in the model anymore.
by rwallace | 2026-02-27 13:45:59+00:00
I looked into that, concluded the spoiler is Specter.

Basically, you have to have out of order/speculative execution if you ultimately want the best performance on general/integer workloads. And once you have that, timing information is going to leak from one process into another, and that timing information can be used to infer the contents of memory. As far as I can see, there is no way to block this in software. No substitute for the CPU knowing 'that page should not be accessible to this process, activate timing leak mitigation'.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-27 13:46:26+00:00
Your point is not lost, but why would you heat things in the plastic or BPA or PFAS coated wrapper at home? It makes it pretty bad for health. At least remove it and heat it in a plate. You can rewrap it in a paper towel if you must. In fact I would even rinse it well first while frozen to remove the plastic residue without impacting the food.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-27 13:47:34+00:00
It's not a reference to any study. It's common sense, and you see it everywhere, on every scale and throughout history.

What children do you think have a better future on average: Those whose parents love them or those whose parents hate them?

What companies do you think succeed in the long run: Those with people who love working there or those with people who hate working there and want to jump ship?

What countries become the best to live in: Those whose populace dream of moving abroad or those whose populace love their native land?
by maeln | 2026-02-27 13:47:43+00:00
A lot of food production worldwide is used by meat production, which is quite inefficient. It does generate some useful side product (manure), but also a lot of bad side product.
In some places, almost every field is dedicated to meat production.
Consuming less meat and shifting food production away from meat would be very good for the environment and instantly solve the issue of the amount of calorie produce.

But as you pointed out, this is not the actual issue. Getting food to people who need it is almost entirely a political and logistical issue at this point. War (especially civil war), natural disaster, with local power stealing international aid, etc, are mostly the biggest responsible for hunger in the 21' century.
We have the technology and logistics to accurately drop-ship huge amount of food in even the most remote places in the world, even when the local infrastructure is heavily damaged or inexistent. We cannot deal with local power decision to voluntarily starve a place.
by proofrelay | 2026-02-27 13:48:22+00:00
AI agents can now call APIs, execute workflows, and move money.

But there’s no standardized way to generate machine-verifiable proof that an action actually occurred.

Today, most systems rely on:
- Logs in a database
- Screenshots
- Internal audit trails

Those don’t travel well between systems.

I built a small API experiment that issues cryptographically sealed execution receipts.

Under the hood:
- The payload is canonicalized
- Hashed (SHA-256)
- Sealed with HMAC
- Timestamped
- Stored idempotently

Two endpoints:

POST /execute
- Accepts structured JSON
- Returns a receipt ID + HMAC seal

GET /verify
- Recomputes the hash + verifies integrity

This week I recorded a 90-second demo:
An agent “hires” a freelancer, verifies the deliverable, and generates a tamper-evident receipt.

https://www.loom.com/share/845adcf05d2e40c6b495e3b9663fcfd0

Curious about feedback from engineers building:
- autonomous agents
- workflow systems
- distributed automation

Does "proof-of-execution" feel like a real primitive to you? Or is this just glorified logging with extra steps?

Would especially appreciate thoughts on the trust model.

Live at proofrelay.app
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-27 13:49:30+00:00
True. And of course there is no problem with other stores like fdroid.

But somehow google play is different, which is why I added the highly integrated part.

I think fdroid actually helps google play by going so far the other direction that it excludes most apps, so you cannot have fdroid as your only app store. (to be clear I highly approve of fdroids policy and would not change it)

But there are even other app stores that cover both bases, allowing all the non free apos from play store and yet not being google. But then the problem is trust. I trust the apps in say the ubuntu repos and in fdroid, but say Aurora store? ehh, maybe? I would normally not even slightly consider installing apks from a 3rd party like that, but I got an eink tablet that can't install google play, so was more or less forced to try it just on that device. But that's not my phone. I don't have or do anything important or sensitive on it.

So while I am still sure that Google is doing multiple things that keep play store practically unavoidable necessity, it's probably also a combination of other, kind of coincidental factors too like fdroids strict principles and no obvious basis to trust any other store. Maybe some of those other factors are not immutable.

Maybe it's just an impression thing or a failure of marketing and Aurora is exactly the answer and exactly as trustworthy as any official major linux distro repo, and I just don't have that impression for some reason.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-27 13:49:32+00:00
Yet the US government can't seem to parade the hundreds of drones they are surely catching with the new operating model?

It seems 100% of the drones they have shot down are US government ones.

Which is it

1) US government is deliberately avoiding the cartel ones

2) US government is completely incompetent and the cartel outmatch the might of the US military

3) The cartel isn't actually using drones

4) The US government have shot down dozens of drones but are keeping quiet about it
by autonomousErwin | 2026-02-27 13:51:27+00:00
I think this is the wrong way to think about it. In this case the "intelligent people who are wasted on finance and ads" are drawn to high-status, low-risk, well-paid jobs, with interesting problems to solve.

If you want to solve meaningful problems you need a different kind of intelligence; you need to be open to risk, have a lot of naivety, not status orientated, and a rare ability to see the forest among the trees (i.e. an interesting problem isn't necessarily a important one).
by lizknope | 2026-02-27 13:52:59+00:00
I remember I started my internship in June 1995. We were doing stuff with this brand new thing called the World Wide Web.

They gave us a win3.1 computer and Spyglass Mosaic which required the Win32s susbsystem.

http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=4971&view=min

The full time guys all had a Sun on their desk next to their PC. We also had to run an IBM 3270 terminal emulator and X server to connect to the Suns. It was all so unstable. I rememember a bunch of "Win32s error" popups.

The other intern and I found a room full of decommissioned 486 machines, installed Linux and didn't tell anyone for a month. Everything worked great and then we started an assembly line of installing Linux on those old machines for all the older coworkers to take home.
What is meme management in organizing team workflows?
by accofrisk | 2026-02-27 13:53:00+00:00
If you were offered to lead a team in the format of fictional meme management, what would it include?
For example: assigning tasks in comics where the heroes are your employees; at meetings - mandatory stand-up routines; reports - playing tic-tac-toe with the manager; office dress code - strictly hipster.
In my opinion, this management format is underrated.
Let’s add our own "serious" management elements to meme management. My examples were mostly jokes, except for communication through comics.
Show HN: I scraped 25 UK water companies to grade your tap water by postcode
by VelvetBrick135 | 2026-02-27 13:53:57+00:00
UK water providers publish tap water quality data, but it's scattered across 18 different websites, buried in PDFs, and difficult to decipher. Here you can find it in a easy to get format.
Enter your postcode and get readings for lead, copper, iron, nitrate, hardness, chlorine, pH and fluoride.
by faryalbukhari | 2026-02-27 13:54:04+00:00
Interesting direction — especially the event-driven autonomy part.
One thing I’ve noticed while working on founder tooling is that the biggest challenge isn’t building agents anymore, but deciding, what workflows are actually worth automating before people invest time connecting tools and infrastructure.
Curious how you’re seeing users define successful agent tasks — are they mostly repetitive operational workflows, or more decision-based use cases?
Also wondering how you handle failure states when an agent runs long-term without supervision.
Show HN: Shannon – Local desktop app to orchestrate Claude Code agent teams
by lydionfinance | 2026-02-27 13:54:09+00:00
I ran into a problem when using Claude Code CLI on larger projects: I wanted to split work across specialized agents (one writes code, another reviews, another runs tests) and coordinate them with dependency graphs. Managing this across multiple terminal sessions was painful.

Shannon solves this:

- Create customized agents with different models (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) and system prompts
- Build team workflows with a drag-and-drop DAG editor (parallel, sequential, or fully custom)
- Describe your goal in natural language → AI analyzes your codebase and proposes a task plan with dependencies
- Watch everything in real-time: task graph, agent chat, code diffs

There's also a Monaco-based prompt editor with semantic syntax highlighting for XML tags (the kind Claude responds well to), autocomplete, and an "AI Improve" button that rewrites your system prompt in one click.

Tech: Go backend, React frontend, Wails v2 for the desktop shell, SQLite for storage. It shells out to the Claude Code CLI under the hood — not calling the API directly — so you get all of Claude Code's built-in tools (file editing, bash, etc.)

Named after Claude Shannon, as you might guess.

Limitations: requires Claude Code CLI installed and authenticated. Local-only desktop app. Hobby project — expect rough edges. Workspace copies can eat disk space on large repos.

Linux and Windows builds available. MIT licensed.

https://github.com/yessGlory17/shannon