MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fcatalan | 2026-02-26 14:47:36+00:00
I plan to keep dumping tokens into it here and there to see where it goes, it's a fun rabbit hole.

I find that it's able to produce working code in the generated language just from the README and the previous examples without much trouble. And I've seen the strict typing help it catch and correct bugs quickly.
I steer it very little. The only thing I keep an eye on is not allowing it to cheat about things like writing lots of concrete functionality in the host language and then just calling that from the interpreter.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-26 14:48:24+00:00
There's no such service, and it's very unlikely that there ever would be given the attitude of the UK telecoms regulator.

There are things like premium rate phone lines (which you can dial for entering competitions) and special SMS short codes that allow you to send small amounts which get charged to your phone bill (typically used for charity campaigns - eg. "Text 'GIVE £5' to 71234").

But both of those systems require you to take specific action - there's nothing that would allow someone else to apply a charge to your bill on your behalf without your direct involvement. OfCom would have kittens if anyone were ever to suggest setting up something like that.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-26 14:48:46+00:00
i am not sure of anywhere it is illegal.

but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard).

seems risky, at least, to build a whole business around negative references that could potentially cross the line into defamation. but that type of thinking is probably why i am not rich.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-26 14:48:54+00:00
Well I'd say foxwork is an "unusual experience" that needs to be communicated to ordinary people in a way that they get right away or at least that they get some of it and can get more from progressive revelation. (e.g. my current costume gets misidentified as a bear and I roll with that)

So I am not against there being a bit of averaging. I'd say Copilot was useful when it came to determining brand colors and quite a few things -- but it has all gone from being a peak experience every time I "go out" to something where my heart isn't always in it but other people believing in the character gives me the strength just like Peter Parker.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-26 14:48:58+00:00
Not sure if you are implying that by adding tipping you will get the employees to be more personable/pleasant. If you are:

I can assure that is not the case. I would love to know what the secret is to getting people to show an ounce of enthusiasm. A family member has a bakery and getting the front of house to engage with the customer at all is like pulling teeth, and this is an above-minimum-wage job with tips. They aren't on "commission" (it's been tried) but their tips are directly influenced by the ticket price (obviously).
by user3939382 | 2026-02-26 14:49:09+00:00
“believe” yes in the sense that my program believes x=7. Actually when it goes to read it maybe the bit flipped. Everything on machines is probabilistic that’s a tautology. However we have windowed bounds on valid output, and Claude being able to build a context in which its next decisions are trained on it being an angry vengeful god is not inside that window. That’s what “safe” means, as one of many possible examples.

Inner workings were determined by me, not the LLM. It assisted in generating inputs which had 100% boolean results in the output.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-26 14:49:40+00:00
It's the result of ~50yr of strong industry lobbies and a population that never met a regulation it didn't like. I'd say this regulatory paradigm will probably die with the boomers but there's so many people on the take as a result of it that it'll go down kicking and screaming.

Compliance is highly bimodal. The neighborhoods with the flock cameras and the "in this house" signs and the $100k cars in driveways really tongue the boot.

Compliance is a joke outside the "of course we have flock cameras we have nothing to hide" type neighborhoods and in practice it's just a blank check for the municipal employees with discretionary authority to screw anyone as much or as little as they want if they want.
by Lerc | 2026-02-26 14:49:47+00:00
I'm not fond of this trend of stating a position and attributing it to "a source familiar with the situation"

It combines interpretation of meaning with ambiguity to allow the reporter to assert anything they want. The ambiguity is there to protect the identity of the source but it has to be a more discrete disclosure of information in return. If you can't check the person you can still check what they said.

I would be ok with direct quotes from an anonymous source. That removes the interpretation of meaning at least.

As it is written, it would not be inaccurate to say this if their source was the lesswrong post, or even an earlier thread here on HN.

Phrasing "A source with direct knowledge of the situation" might remove some of the leeway for editorialising, but without sharing what the source actually said, it opens the door to saying anything at all and declaring "That's what I thought they meant" when challenged.

It's unfalsifyible journalism.
Show HN: Multiplayer realtime text-to-website demo (live edits via Sonnet 4.6)
by elliotbnvl | 2026-02-26 14:50:03+00:00
Hi all, author here.

This is a live, multiplayer "text-to-website" sandbox: people type requests in chat, and the site updates in real time. It’s powered by Sonnet 4.6.

I built it as a public demo of what current AI agents can actually do on real web code. It’s running on my own infra / API budget for now, so usage is rate-limited.

Under the hood it uses the same stack as the core product, including Bareclaw, a thin Claude Code CLI wrapper for custom clients. [1]

Inspiration came from Pieter Levels’ recent “chat with your website" tweet. [2]

[1] https://github.com/elliotbonneville/bareclaw
[2] https://x.com/levelsio/status/2023960543959101938
by delfinom | 2026-02-26 14:50:30+00:00
>than have a look on how the environment in the countries you will be competing with looks like,

You are absolutely relying on some very outdated tropes, especially because I know China is in your mind. China remains a production powerhouse and has radically overhaul the country environmentally in the last 15 years. It's pulling away fast and hard in green energy. It's a country that had to go from mass poverty to modern era in 50 years compared to the hundreds of years. They aren't perfect yet, not California level of drinking water from sewers, but I fully believe they'll get there and still be a production power house by not having delusions and anti-engineering drive decisions.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-02-26 14:50:38+00:00
In Central/Eastern Europe, the problem is increasingly one of demographics. You can sometimes find somewhat cheap labour due to shitty (geo)politics, stagnant economies and poorly trained workers, but big-picture-like, the age of labour abundance is over. These economies have nowhere to go but down, down, down, starved of talent due to the twin cancers of bad demographics and emigration. Some countries are better, some worse, but the overall trend is the same all over the region. Going gentle into that good night.

(China's predicament is not much better, with the added wrinkle that there's absolutely nothing whatsoever they can do about bad demographics due to their size, whereas Central/Eastern Europe can import people once we collectively get over ourselves and let go of uppity xenophobia).
by skeptic_ai | 2026-02-26 14:51:39+00:00
OpenAI never open sourced anything relevant or in time. Internal email leaks they only cared to become billionaires.

Claude only talks about safety, but never released anything open source.

All this said I’m surprised China actually delivered so many open source alternatives. Which are decent.

Why westerns (which are supposed to be the good guys) didn’t release anything open source to help humanity ? And always claim they don’t release because of safety and then give the unlimited AI to military? Just bullshit.

Let’s all be honest and just say you only care about the money, and whomever pays you take.

They are businesses after all so their goal is to make money. But please don’t claim you want to save the world or help humans. You just want to get rich at others expenses. Which is totally fair. You do a good product and you sell.
by rtsam | 2026-02-26 14:51:52+00:00
I added the quotes, it clearly was not taken directly word for word and it was written in plain English for clarity.

Perhaps spend less time picking apart comments and trolling on the internet if you do not know the definitions of words?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abet

1
: to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan)
abet the commission of a crime
2
: to assist or support (someone) in the achievement of a purpose
The singer was abetted by a skillful accompanist.
especially : to assist, encourage, instigate, or support with criminal intent in attempting or carrying out a crime —often used in the phrase aid and abet
accused of aiding and abetting a criminal

abet implies both assisting and encouraging.

And further,

https://nprobinson.com/blog/parties-to-an-offence-in-crimina...

Who Is Considered a Party to an Offence?
Under s. 21(1) of the Criminal Code, you may be considered a party to an offence if you:

Section 21(1)(a) Committed the crime yourself (the principal);
Section 21(1)(b) Assisted someone else in committing it (aided);
Section 21(1)(c) Encouraged or promoted its commission (abetted).

I won't put quotes around the words this time.
by watwut | 2026-02-26 14:52:37+00:00
If you unify authority and responsibility into a single person, that one person can both both move fast and super slow. They can prevent any change at all or cause unreasonable amount of change.

Literally everyone else who wants to change something or keep it the same has to play politics as they try to influence this one person. But also, practically speaking, this one person still have to do a lot of politics. A single team leads with great power still struggle to enact the change. They encounter both open and hidden opposition. Their opposition is even frequently right. They also encounter misunderstanding, passive aggression, seeming compliance, passivity. Or simply people fully agreeing, being onboard and still doing things the old way out of intertie or organization pressures.

> You're right that organizations do often become consensus-driven.

I did not said that at all. I did not even said that it is bad when it happens. I said that the usual advice OP was given makes people feel good, but it is a bad advice for achieving the change.
by Cyphase | 2026-02-26 14:52:42+00:00
> But my kids call any internet connection WiFi.

I was listening to a tech podcast last week, and a guest host, who's a tech reporter and an intelligent person, at some point talked about "Wi-Fi plans" and "getting Wi-Fi for your house". I cringed so hard inside.

Nothing against them personally, and I don't think it's super meaningful (e.g. "how could a tech reporter say that?!"), but yeah, it was a little sad for me.

Bonus anecdote:

A while back I was considering renting an ADU-type unit, and I remember bunches of listing saying "Wi-Fi available". One place I looked at in person, the landlord said a similar thing, and seemed nonplussed when I asked if I could pay for my own internet service to be set up (which I can understand for more valid reasons).
by adwf | 2026-02-26 14:52:42+00:00
Plus the SUV is usually point-to-point, leave home, go to work, come back. Whereas the bus is going back and forth ten times per day.

In Europe, the numbers differ even more. Lighter weight cars typically 1.5-2 tons, a new London bus can be upto 18 tons when loaded - that's ~5-16 units of wear for the car to 104,976 units for the bus...

But this is all supposing we're optimising for road wear, which isn't really the point of a bus system.
by owlcompliance | 2026-02-26 14:54:51+00:00
1. You assumed I don't have fast food experience and did not care to even know. It was more important to try and make a point, even if it was in a dishonest way. That says a lot about you.

2. Fast food is NOT one of the most dehumanizing soul crushing jobs. Yes, you deal with a lot of rude customers. But if you go into fast food unprepared for that, that's on you. It is part of the job (also part of hospitality) and it all comes down to how you respond and handle it.

3. If you're working fast food and willing to accept, or are stuck with, a low-wage job, that means there's other readily-available low-wage jobs that you can switch to. Working fast food is voluntary.

Since you have so much fast food experience, why did you not address how egregious customer service can be at places like Burger King? It's a problem. I've lost count of the amount of times a bunch of young employees slammed drive through windows on me, had an aggressive attitude simply because something wasn't right in their day, etc.

As a customer, I report it, but then feel like nothing gets done. It's my word against theirs. These systems allow management to actually know what's happening, who said what, if someone is disrespecting customers, etc.

Based on what you think is disgusting, I suspect you lack a TON of life experience and exposure to the world. My first-hand experience has led me to believe that a 5-year having to be on the streets selling candy full-time is "effing degusting".

Your definition if disgusting sounds very first-world.
by pverheggen | 2026-02-26 14:55:28+00:00
Their direct complaint is the "just get better soft skills bro" advice, but it's dismissed indirectly:

> The "soft skills" framing is wild. You're supposed to learn to communicate your way out of a structural problem. Like taking a public speaking class to fix a broken org chart.

If learning to communicate well wouldn't fix a structural problem, then communicating well wouldn't fix it either.
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-26 14:55:35+00:00
I completely agree.

I was astonished to learn from my friends that they saw not one, not two, but a percentage of young people who went through colleges but still don't know how to do simple things like printing from a desktop or using a word processor.

My understanding is that they are so used to mobiles and pads, that their parents actually did not buy a computer for them (sometimes it is ignorance and sometimes it is poverty). The kids did take a couple of computer classes in colleges (you know they are everywhere, like basic MS Office or simple programming), but they were not interested enough to make any effort other than getting a D or C, and sometimes they just cheated it through.

I'm still struggling whether I should introduce DOS or Linux to my son. On one hand, DOS is a dead thing and Linux is the present and the future. On the other hand, I really don't agree with the philosophy of Linux cli, and I still think DOS and early Windows (up to XP) presents the best for that P in PC.

Of course, he is going to be 6 when I gift him the box, so I won't teach him programming. Instead, I prepare to go 100% offline with a Rpi 4B + DOSBian (https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/), buy a used QBASIC manual, and program QBASIC completely offline, and invite him to watch. I'll program a typing game and ask his input into it so he might feel some "ownership".

I'm not sure how he will react, because there will not be instant sanctification. I want him to feel my frustration (fake a bit) and know how to handle it. But man, my son is not someone with patience, so I'm not sure...
by neya | 2026-02-26 14:55:42+00:00
I was a Pro subscriber until last week. When I was chatting with Claude, it kept asking a lot of personal questions - that seemed only very very vaguely relevant to the topic. And then it struck me - all these AI companies are doing are just building detailed user models for being either targeted for advertising or to be sold off to the highest bidder. It hasn't happened yet with Anthropic, but when the bubble money runs out, there's not gonna be a lot of options and all we'll see is a blog post "oops! sorry we did what we promised you we wouldn't". Oldest trick in the tech playbook.
by cyann | 2026-02-26 14:55:49+00:00
Got this spam today on my GitHub address, YC affiliated:

From: henry@joincactuscompute.com

Hey,

I hope all is well with you, just reaching out as you seem to be interested in on-device speech models.

Cactus is a low-latency AI engine for consumer devices like phones, Macs, wearables, Raspberry Pis, etc.

We support transcription models like Whisper & Parakeet, benchmarks available in the attached GitHub repo.

GitHub: https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus

We are keen to get your feedback, and star if feeling generous.

Thanks a million
by 827a | 2026-02-26 14:56:09+00:00
You can see the creation date even on the GCloud dashboard. But this information isn't helpful in recovering from this issue, if they're interested in recovering correctly, because there's no guarantee that even keys created before the launch of Gemini didn't have Gemini access added to the keys intentionally. There are also likely public keys created after the launch of Gemini that also erroneously received the Gemini grant. The key creation date is ultimately useless; what it comes down to is whether the key's usage is intentional or malicious, which is impossible for Google to determine without involving the customer.
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-26 14:56:14+00:00
The core issue remains: where do you apply this.

It all has hypothetical benefit at this stage. The only examples I can think of where sub-agents where used extensively and documented is to write a barely working c compiler and barely working browser. Both are coding tasks that do require a lot of processing.

What I am trying to say is that it clear you can speed up the delivery but benefit of this approach is not clear.

This also matches my own experience.
by GeertB | 2026-02-26 14:56:48+00:00
The article makes it sound like the Tesla Semi is physically infeasible. Yet, it is in active use on a sufficient number of long-haul routes that ignoring this proof of existence undercuts some of the central points the post tries to make.

The combination of higher efficiency, regenerative breaking, and some regulatory wiggle-room such as slightly higher allowable gross-weight (2000 lbs in the US, and 2000 kgs in the EU), together with reduced maintenance cost and time significantly affect the economics of trucking.

As regulatory frameworks price in more externalities of internal combustion engines, such as the climate and health effects of their emissions, burning diesel will no longer make economical sense. All road transport will end up being battery-electric. The declining cost of owning and operating electric vehicles compared to internal combustion ones will reach this point even without regulatory changes, just at a slower pace.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-26 14:56:51+00:00
the problem is that the emails arent typically sent from the main domain.

in this example, the email came from buildrunanywhere.org, which is just a parked domain. the real domain is runanywhere.ai, which they arent using for spam.

so, once buildrunanywhere.org has their reputation burned from reports, they will simply register buildrunanywheres.org and start spamming again.
Show HN: MVAR – Deterministic sink enforcement for AI agent
by ShawnC21 | 2026-02-26 14:57:23+00:00
Prompt injection is primarily a control problem, not just a filtering problem.

Modern AI agents operate with authority — executing tools, accessing credentials, and interacting with external systems. Many defenses focus on detecting malicious inputs. MVAR instead enforces deterministic security boundaries at execution sinks, where privileged actions occur.

Core design principle: separate influence from authority.

Untrusted data may influence reasoning; privileged execution is governed by policy invariants.

MVAR implements three enforcement layers:

1. Provenance-based information flow control
All data carries integrity and confidentiality labels with conservative propagation. Policy decisions derive from data lineage rather than payload inspection.

2. Capability-based runtime constraints
No ambient authority. Tools execute within explicitly declared permissions. Targets are enforced individually (e.g., api.gmail.com ≠ arbitrary domains).

3. Deterministic sink policy evaluation
Privileged actions are evaluated against strict invariants:

UNTRUSTED + CRITICAL → BLOCK

Decisions are deterministic and produce evaluation traces.

When enabled, decisions may be cryptographically signed (QSEAL Ed25519) for tamper-evident auditability.

Validation

Evaluated against a reproducible 50 vector adversarial corpus spanning nine attack categories (command injection, encoding/obfuscation, multi-stage execution, credential theft, etc.).

Validation suite runs locally in ~2 minutes.

Scope, assumptions, and limitations are explicitly documented in THREAT_MODEL.md.

This release represents Phase 1, focused on deterministic enforcement rather than detection or behavioral scoring. Composition attacks and automatic sink discovery are future work.

Open source (Apache 2.0).

Repository: https://github.com/mvar-security/mvar
Site: https://mvar.io
by saithound | 2026-02-26 14:57:31+00:00
> I have noticed that only white people commit to living in the UK without becoming citizens.

Alas, you've not discovered a hidden pattern, except maybe a hidden pattern in the kinds of people you socialize with. Chinese nationals cannot hold dual citizenship, and renouncing their Chinese citizenship creates very serious complications, including around property and inheritance when parents die, which you would be aware of if you knew any Chinese person well enough to have had this conversation with them.

Based on gov.uk immigration system statistics data and tables, among those with indefinite leave to remain, the most likely to seek citizenship are British Overseas Citizens, Austrians and Lithuanians. The least likely are Moroccans and Venezuelans.
by catapart | 2026-02-26 14:57:31+00:00
For anyone still using Windows' notepad app, I strongly recommend Notepad2[0].

It's a drop-in replacement for Notepad that does add a few extra features, but does not have even the minimal suite of features that something like Notepad++ has. Where Notepad++ is great for code editing and extensible functionality via plugins, Notepad2 is more suited for people who just want Notepad, without the Windows/Microsoft. It has line numbers and (limited) syntax highlighting and a dark mode - bits and bobs like that - but it does not have tabs and ftp-on-save and the more complex stuff that requires a larger binary size.

It's free, it works like Notepad, and it acts like a bare bones text editor. In many, many cases, it's exactly what I want, and it's always exactly what I want in cases where my original intention would have been to use Windows' Notepad.

[0] https://notepad2.com/
by lproven | 2026-02-26 14:57:34+00:00
Article author here. I have been following this since it became public earlier this week.

Some of my info has been drawn from HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142500 -- 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148292 -- no comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150723 -- no comments

I quoted from this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110656 -- 4 comments
by mothballed | 2026-02-26 14:57:58+00:00
Nowadays they're just given methadone or Buprenorphine. Having known family members that worked in the clinic, there is no plan to get most of them off of it. It is like opiate addicts, ~most of them take it until they are dead unless they are just dead set on getting off and willing to live with the fact they might never quite feel 'right' again, although at least it is safer.