MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neom | 2026-02-26 17:44:33+00:00
I did some tests, my education is in digital imaging technology/film from 20 years ago so I find this stuff fun to follow.

Two what I could consider "interesting prompts" for image gen testing.
Did pretty well.

https://s.h4x.club/KouXmB1O

"A macro close-up photograph of an old watchmaker's hands carefully replacing a tiny gear inside a vintage pocket watch. The watch mechanism is partially submerged in a shallow dish of clear water, causing visible refraction and light caustics across the brass gears. A single drop of water is falling from a pair of steel tweezers, captured mid splash on the water's surface. Reflect the watchmaker's face, slightly distorted, in the curved glass of the watch face. Sharp focus throughout, natural window lighting from the left, shot on 100mm macro lens." - Only major problem i could find at a glance is the clasps don't make sense probably, and the drop of water inside the watch on the cog doesn't make sense/cog mangled into tweezers.

https://s.h4x.club/7KuGJmNw

"A candid photograph taken from behind an elderly woman sitting alone on a park bench in late autumn. She is gently resting one hand on the empty seat beside her, where a man's weathered flat cap and a folded newspaper sit untouched. Fallen golden leaves cover the path ahead. The low afternoon sun casts her long shadow alongside a second, fainter shadow that almost seems to be there, the suggestion of someone sitting next to her, visible only in the light on the ground. Muted, warm color palette, shallow depth of field on the background trees, photojournalistic style." - I don't know why but it internal errored twice on this one but then got there.
by economistbob | 2026-02-26 17:44:40+00:00
The authentication occurs. They are taking the packets sent from the radius/wifi and sending from their evil twin. They take the response from the client, and send that from their evil twin and by alternating between the two they obtain the encryption key.

Getting authentication to the network is not the worst part. That can be found quickly, but is bad if you do not monitor.

The bad part is getting the encryption keys and sniffing all the traffic flowing via the wifi network. They could do that passively without even being authenticated anymore.

Until this attack there was no documented way to get a radius shared key since it is never sent via the wifi.

They have MITM both sides. The question in my mind is whether it can get useful decryption keys over asynchronous time frames. E.g. They denial of service MITM the tablet while no one is watching and then sit and sniff my laptop without me knowing it without having to authenticate anymore.

It clearly broke Peap etc. by impersonation rather than cracking because they got credentials and could reuse them later. Does it work for certificates only and allow time delayed sniffing...
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-26 17:45:19+00:00
That might be true, but this article does not show how, nor does your own comment. Without citations the only proper way to respond to this article is to presume it's 100% false and ignore it.

Neither defend nor refute, and by "presume false" I don't actually mean to come way actively and newly believing the opposite of the claims, but just disregard entirely.

Argue over some other article that actually backs it's assertions with citations and reasoning.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-26 17:45:31+00:00
I believe this is the reason for a return to interest in analog media with both my generation (millenials) and gen-z. I do wedding photography on the side, and the past ~2 years have seen a huge increase in requests for film photography, either exclusively film or as an add-on to digital. Offering film has been one of the best things I've done for my side hustle.

Likewise with the sort of resurgence of vinyl, and the obsession over "old" point and shoot digicams.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-26 17:45:34+00:00
> Claude only talks about safety, but never released anything open source.

im still working through this issue myself but hinton said releasing weights for frontier models was "crazy" because they can be retrained to do anything. i can see the alignment of corporate interest and safety converging on that point.

from the point of view of diminishing corporate power i do think it is essential to have open weights. if not that, then the companies should be publicly owned to avoid concentration of unaccountable power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66WiF8fXL0k&t=544s
by hedora | 2026-02-26 17:45:38+00:00
Everytime someone proposes protobuf as an rpc format, I respond “Hell no! There’s no support for protocol versioning.”

Of course, I bring this up because they could just version their API keys, completely solving this problem and preventing future ones like it.

Versioning data formats is wrongthink over there, so I’m guessing they just… won’t.
by wavemode | 2026-02-26 17:45:53+00:00
I do trust that you earnestly believe in the importance of ethics in AI - but at the same time, I think that may be causing you to assume that the average person cares just as much or similarly.

I've seen the same phenomenon play out in health-tech startup space. The mission is to "do good", but at the end of the day, for most leaders it's just a business and for most employees it's just a job. In fact, usually the ones who care more than that end up burning out and leaving.
by whit537 | 2026-02-26 17:46:04+00:00
I'll put a plug for the Open Source Pledge here:

https://opensourcepledge.com/members/

The companies listed there have all paid at least $2000/eng on staff/year to OSS maintainers. Real accountability. Endowment accepts corporate donors but is primarily geared towards individuals at this point. Pledge members are all companies. Both/and ... to the OSS moon!
by yosito | 2026-02-26 17:46:07+00:00
"Anthropic had built its brand around promoting AI safety, emphasizing red lines it said it wouldn’t cross. Its usage guidelines contain strict limitations that prohibit Claude from facilitating violence, developing or designing weapons, or conducting mass surveillance."

I can't say that I fully trust this at face value, but I will say, at least at face value, that this commitment to non-violence is something I wish more tech companies in history had made. Whether it's an authentic commitment or just PR remains to be fully seen.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-26 17:46:09+00:00
I think these term frequency comparisons are probably a pretty blunt tool, as some of the most well known AI indicators aren't words, but turns of phrase and sentence structure.

IMO a more interesting experiment would be to show comments to people (that haven't seen these conclusions), and have them assess whether they suspect them of being bots or AI authored, and then correlate that with account age.
by kristjansson | 2026-02-26 17:46:25+00:00
Interesting. I model interior architecture as "here's $xxxK, make it nice" and they do a bunch of work to figure out what you mean by nice, and a bunch more work to codify your definition of nice into, like, SKUs of sconces and so on. Seems like NB helped you figure out your definition of nice, and your subcontractor had a good designer on staff to execute on that.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-26 17:46:44+00:00
I'm adding this to my repertoire of HIGs to study for a new desktop environment project I'm working on. I'm trying to synthesize the best parts of every computer interaction method, primarily focusing on desktops but looking at mobile designs as well.

There are 2 principle reasons for this project:
1. UNIX desktops objectively suck compared to their Mac and Windows cousins, either being too complex to learn and bombarding the user with options (KDE, XFCE) or being so dumbed down and rigid to be actually usable (GNOME, to a lesser extend CDE)
2. I'm a massive fan of the GNU project and the way it designs software and none of the current desktops integrate well with it (EG: texinfo manuals, emacs-y keybinds, A wealth of customization if you want it but otherwise easy to pick up and use)
by pokot0 | 2026-02-26 17:47:06+00:00
Hi! Yes, the premise is exactly to review how 'stable' agents would be if left unsupervised in an end-2-end scenario.

But this is probably unrealistic now, hence the experiment. I think people will be less skeptical the more they interact with these kind of entities and slowly develop trust.

That's why we developed agents with an identity and primarily around email in order to 'plug' them into company processes slowly and naturally. That's the core idea of the main project this experiment spawn off of.
by mannanj | 2026-02-26 17:47:33+00:00
I personally think, and with my personal experience being harassed and abused by the CIA, that the CIA and spy agencies (call them the pentagon or the rest of the government) is responsible for this.

On the other hand, those organizations are operating in the best interest of Americans and the world right?

Surely, those agencies aren't just a trick of the rich people? Right?
by alephnerd | 2026-02-26 17:47:41+00:00
The reality is, to participate in any hobby you will have to expend significant amounts of dough, and invariably some people will spend more of their discretionary income on said hobby over others.

And businesses are businesses - be their your local small business bicycle shop or a mega-conglomerate like Disney - and as such will always optimize for those people who are open to spending a larger proportion on said hobby than the median consumer.

I'm sure if we all took a look at everyone else's hobbies and spending, we would find stuff which we would view as ridiculous consumption but the other person would view as valuable.

For example, I've been pretty competitive in powerlifting for several years and unsurprisingly spending significantly more than other people getting personal training from coaches, buying IWF-certified barbells, Nike Romaleos, Titan bumper plates, etc. Someone who isn't into powerlifting would look at me as being weird (why not just go to a gym 2 times a week and call it a day?!?) but I derive utility from it.

As long as someone is able to afford their hobby without impacting their professional and personal lives, there is nothing wrong with it.
by nazgulsenpai | 2026-02-26 17:47:51+00:00
I understand, and in particular the point about making yourself feel better, but that's where I would expect the sticking point to be before it was for other people. There are a great many ways I could make my life easier that I stubbornly refuse to because it would decrease my opinion of myself. I guess that's where your last point creeps in -- I've never been financially incentivized enough.
by self_awareness | 2026-02-26 17:48:03+00:00
I just told PI to generate itself a permissioned_* equivalents of read,write,bash,edit. Now, permissioned_read,permissioned_write,permissioned_edit have full access to anything from current dir and deeper, and permissioned_bash is always permission-gated.

Default read,edit,write,bash are disabled.

It seems to work really good.

Generally, I'm in awe. I think I've already changed the way I work.
by kseniamorph | 2026-02-26 17:48:06+00:00
> The policy change is separate and unrelated to Anthropic’s discussions with the Pentagon, according to a source familiar with the matter.

ok lol what a coincidence.

but setting aside the conspiracy. the article actually spells out the real reason pretty directly: Anthropic hoped their original safety policy would spark a "race to the top" across the industry. it didn't. everyone else just ignored it and kept moving. at some point holding the line unilaterally just means you're losing ground for nothing.
by sfink | 2026-02-26 17:48:07+00:00
>> Buses have a long tradition of user-hostile design. "Exact change only"...

> On every pay-in-cabin bus I've ever ridden, this is synonymous with "No change given". The machines are quite happy to accept more money than is needed for a single ticket, and the reason for that is pretty obvious....the most useful information about fares is posted on the paybox inside the bus

That's fair, but (1) when I was a kid and starting out riding a bus, I didn't know that; and (2) as that same kid, neither my family nor I had very much money at all and paying "extra" for something is just not something you do. Consider it a cultural thing. "inside the bus" is good but insufficient when I'm deciding between walking a mile or chancing the bus that I don't understand. (I almost always walked the mile. I was cheap, and I hated looking stupid in front of unsympathetic people.)

As for Muni, I didn't live where I could use it until I was no longer that kid. But adult me fully agrees with you. My experience with Muni has been much better than with most other busses I've used.
Show HN: Browser-based WebGL terrain editor with authoring mode and camera
by bartoszu_ | 2026-02-26 17:48:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building browser-based WebGL terrain editor powered by a custom Three.js engine. It’s a real-time 3D scene, not a static render.

What’s new since the last iteration:

Authoring mode UI integrated into the left navigation (clean tool separation, no ad-hoc overlays)

Camera Mode vs Explore Mode (orbit/zoom author camera with a clear mode switch)

Visual modes for authoring (production parity vs simplified white “workspace” mode)

Live demo: https://playzafiro.com/isle-lab/

Short context: I’m doing this solo. The long-term goal is a lightweight world-building tool that can evolve into a broader editor/workflow.

I’d love feedback on:

- usability (does the navigation/tooling feel intuitive?)
- performance on your machine
- what feature would make this immediately useful for you (even as a prototype)

Thanks!
by _trampeltier | 2026-02-26 17:48:13+00:00
A kind of the same happend to music. With a LP or a tape, you had to listen to all songs. Later with a CD you just skipped the not so good songs. And with MP3, you don't even bothered to save not so good songs. And now with TikTok etc. a song just have to be 20sec but has to bang hard for this short time.
by mjorgers | 2026-02-26 17:48:38+00:00
Am I the only one who hasn’t felt the need to upgrade in _way_ more than just one year? I still have an old XPS 15 9560 (pushing 10 years!!!) running Ubuntu which is perfectly usable. I upgraded the ram (32Gb) and the battery, and I still consider it to be totally usable for most day to day tasks. Development, docker containers, browsing the web with an unhealthy number of tabs open. What more do I need?
by a1o | 2026-02-26 17:49:17+00:00
I have a feeling that the maker movement specific being talked here was with meetups for showcasing things (fairs?) and with local hackerspaces at the age of the makerbot as the “game changer” 3D printer. If that is the case that one was captured by corporations - and for makerbot, the Stratasys “takeover”. I guess the AI/vibe coding was born from corporations but with local models there is this promise to move it to easier/more open access. I feel it’s too soon to tell to trace part of the parallels. I also feel the Maker movement cited was at a better age for Blogs, so lots of the vibe coding may just be happening without an audience.
Show HN: Conjure – 3D printed objects from text description only
by suchanekj | 2026-02-26 17:49:33+00:00
I like to print, but I'm no artist. So I though of turning the full pipeline of my text -> concept images -> 3D mesh -> postprocess for the specific 3D printing workflow -> order it online into a nice UI. You can obv. also just download the STL and print it yourself!
by margalabargala | 2026-02-26 17:49:35+00:00
There was something someone said in a comment here, years and years ago (pre AI), which has stuck with me.

Paraphrased, "There's basically no business in the Western world that wouldn't come out ahead with a competent software engineer working for $15 an hour".

Once agents, or now claws I guess, get another year of development under them they will be everywhere. People will have the novelty of "make me a website. Make it look like this. Make it so the customer gets notifications based on X Y and Z. Use my security cam footage to track the customer's object to give them status updates." And so on.

AI may or may not push the frontier of knowledge, TBD, but what it will absolutely do is pull up the baseline floor for everybody to a higher level of technical implementation.
by dlubarov | 2026-02-26 17:49:41+00:00
The 276 figure is a claim from Hamas. I don't think they regularly make up casualty numbers, but they certainly did in the Baptist Hospital case, where they initially claimed Israel killed "at least 500" before it became clear it was actually a PIJ rocket. It's highly plausible that they made another exception to their usual casualty reporting process for this embarrassing incident.

Even if we accept the claim at face value, it's just a total. It includes Hamas fighters who were trying to kill fleeing hostages and their rescuers, and anyone killed by them.

In any case, Israel has a responsibility to rescue its civilians that were kidnapped. The moral culpability for collateral damage lies on the terrorists who kidnapped and held hostages, and then fought to prevent their rescue.

If some terrorists kidnapped several American civilians, and the US determined that any rescue plan would risk disproportionate harm to the country that kidnapped them, would you expect the US to just give up and ignore the hostages?
by ex-aws-dude | 2026-02-26 17:49:48+00:00
That is something that annoys me with fandoms

You could ask "how many more movies should we make?" and the answer would be "there is no limit, I always want more"

The thinking is like "I like this thing therefore more of it is obviously better"

I think it takes maturity to say "I like this thing and I don't want more of it."
by gnabgib | 2026-02-26 17:49:52+00:00
Related: (launched development toward the commercialization isn't a huge update)

Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse (35 points, 10 months ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596641

Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022) (39 points, 2024, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454994
by suchanekj | 2026-02-26 17:49:56+00:00
Also experimented with new UX to raise the conficts and guide the user based on the current capabilities of the system. I think there's huge potential in what can be done on the front of "hardware vibe coding": having single source of truth, visualize assumptions, get animations of the part working, show where will be the supports, so they don't mess up the face of my figurine...

Right now I used it to generate many stupid figurines like Shrek-o-llama, or a brutalist deadlifter lifting my huge name from "concrete". Did not oreder it, but printed myself from the STL, coz it fixes the thickness in a smart way to be printable (it's quite cautiuos). The print may change from the original 3D mesh, but you can JUST see what part of the statue will be changed. Right there, in the app, before you commit :D

Next is articulated statues and in-place printed hinges, so that you can make enclosures. Then combining it with CAD precission, so that it actually fit if you make, say, Rasp Pi enclosure, or ice-skating shoe GoPro mount.
by nzach | 2026-02-26 17:50:20+00:00
That's true, but you forgot a key piece in this puzzle. The AI can only produce things that already exist. It can combine new things, this is why you can it for a picture of Jesus planting a flag on the Moon. But it only works because Jesus is a concrete concept that already exists in our world. If you ask for a picture of jacquesm planting a flag on the Moon the result will be nonsensical.
by mrbonner | 2026-02-26 17:50:26+00:00
You know, all of a sudden, I am starting to lose interest in meticulously drawn Mermaid diagrams in README, perfect grammar and spelling in doc reviews, or neat generated general photographs. They are all correctly presented, of course. But the ideas are mostly wrong, too.

I guess my stick figure hand drawn diagrams, a doc with few mistakes in grammar or spelling would be seen as more worthy to read as long as my ideas are sound. Right? :-)
by bikenaga | 2026-02-26 17:50:38+00:00
"Abstract. The tragedy of the commons describes a dilemma where individually rational actions degrade shared resources. Strategies to overcome this issue remain limited. We examine how artificial intelligence (AI) agents can foster cooperation in Public Goods games, moving beyond traditional regulations. We test three scenarios: (1) Mandatory Cooperation Policy, requiring AI agents always to cooperate; (2) Player-Controlled Cooperation Policy, allowing players to control AI cooperation rates; and (3) Agents Mimic Players, where AI agents imitate human behaviors. Using computational evolutionary modeling, we show that only AI agents mimicking player behavior effectively reduce the synergy threshold needed for cooperation, resolving the dilemma. These findings suggest that designing AI agents to replicate human behaviors can enhance cooperation and improve collective welfare."

The "Public Goods Game" they used: "To study the emergence of cooperation in groups, EGT [evolutionary game theory] most commonly turns to the 'Public Goods' game. At its core, this game presents participants in a group with a choice: to cooperate (C) by contributing a cost (or ante, here set to 1 without loss of generality) to the (common) public good, or to defect (D) by withholding that contribution. The total contributions to the common are amplified by a multiplication factor r, symbolizing the synergy between cooperating parties. This enhanced public good is then evenly distributed among all participants, regardless of their contributions. In such a game, defectors always obtain higher rewards than cooperators in the same group, even though they could reap an even higher return if everyone cooperated. Once the synergy factor r becomes high enough (r≥k + 1, where k + 1 is the group size), a defecting player fares worse than if they had cooperated instead. Therefore, to promote cooperation we ask: 'How can we influence the game so that cooperation becomes the rational choice for synergies where r < k + 1?'."
by TiredOfLife | 2026-02-26 17:50:49+00:00
Probably some of us here remember paintings before the photography era. They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few painting per YEAR to look back on. The feel of paintings back then, was at least 100x stronger than now. They were a special item, could be given as a gift. But once they became freely available that same amount of emotion is now split across many thousands of photos. (not saying this is good or bad, just increased supply reducing value of each item)
by whodidntante | 2026-02-26 17:50:50+00:00
With AI, as we currently understand it, we may have stumbled upon being able to replicate a part of the layer of our brain that provides the "reason" in humans., and a very specific type of "reason" a that.

All life has intelligence. Anyone who has spent a lot of time with animals, especially a lot of time with a specific animal, knows that they have a sense of self, that they are intelligent, that they have unique personalities, that they enjoy being alive, that they form bonds, that they have desires and wants, that they can be happy, excited, scared, sad. They can react with anger, surprise, gentleness, compassion. They are conscious, like us.

Humans seem to have this extra layer that I will loosely call "reasoning", which has given us an advantage over all other species, and has given some of us an advantage over the majority of the rest of us.

It is truly a scary thing that AI has only this "reasoning", and none of the other characteristics that all animals have.

Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos and Peter Watts Blindsight have different, but very interesting takes on this concept. One postulates that our reasoning, our "big brains" is going to be our downfall, while the other postulates that reasoning is what will drive evolution and that everything else just causes inefficiencies and will cause our downfall.