MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by encom | 2026-02-21 05:38:41+00:00
>That's why we have technology in the first place, to improve our lives, right?

No, we have technology to show you more and more ads, sell you more and more useless crap, and push your opinions on Important Matters toward the state approved ones.

Of course indoor plumbing, farming, metallurgy and printing were great hits, but technology has had a bit of a dry spell lately.

If "An always-on AI that listens to your household" doesn't make you recoil in horror, you need to pause and rethink your life.
by car | 2026-02-21 05:39:02+00:00
So great to see my two favorite Open Source AI projects/companies joining forces.

Since I don't see it mentioned here, LlamaBarn is an awesome little—but mighty—MacOS menubar program, making access to llama.cpp's great web UI and downloading of tastefully curated models easy as pie. It automatically determines the available model- and context-sizes based on available RAM.

https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn

Downloaded models live in:

~/.llamabarn

Apart from running on localhost, the server address and port can be set via CLI:

# bind to all interfaces (0.0.0.0)
defaults write app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork -bool YES

# or bind to a specific IP (e.g., for Tailscale)
defaults write app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork -string "100.x.x.x"

# disable (default)
defaults delete app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork
by willis936 | 2026-02-21 05:39:05+00:00
Of course it was. The proof is in the pudding. You don't go from a skunkworks program to a major division without profit. Selling millions of consoles and games for hundreds of dollars with healthy margins is a printing press. The issue is while searching for making the printing press to have ever growing margins you squeeze the soul out of the product and make it so your customers leave. Optimizing for 3 months out kills you in 24 months. This is textbook enshittification. It is very obvious when it's happening and it should be very obvious when looked back on.

It was xbox yesterday, it's Windows today. Microsoft is on the way out.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-21 05:39:25+00:00
I recognize that Bluesky is at present more open than Twitter and that all of the necessary building blocks for the infra are publicly available. That's good of course.

However I think the view you expressed there is misguided. If Bluesky locked out third party infra tomorrow presumably the vast majority of people would not move. Thus vendor lockin via network effects remains. (Ie you are always free to leave but you'd be moving from a metropolis to a backwater.)

The only scenario where this isn't true is one where no more than a few percent of the people you interact with reside on any given node. By that metric small AP nodes pass while large ones such as the flagship Mastodon node fail. Similarly Gmail and Outlook fail while any self hosted mail server passes.

It's not an easy problem to solve.
by user3939382 | 2026-02-21 05:39:53+00:00
We check the output of engineers tjats what infra audits and certs are for. We basically tell industry if you want to waste your money on poor engineers whose output doesn’t certify go ahead.

you could do that with civil engineering. anyone gets to design bridges. bridge is done we inspect, sorry x isn’t redundant your engineering is bad tear it down.
by pests | 2026-02-21 05:40:10+00:00
I was born in late 80s, NE USA. I remember it being LiveJournal, Tumblr, Myspace,
Foursquare for early check ins, and pre-app text-only twitter, mostly used as a massive group chat with a huge IRL friend group. Newgrounds Forums. GameFaqs Forums. Lots of forums for every topic. I was just turning an adult by the time FB released to college kids, I thought myspace was never going to get dethroned.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-21 05:40:41+00:00
Can you recommend some positive sum games for kidults who have a hard time getting angry ---even with minimal gratitude--- but would like to keep it that way :)?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

EDIT: I see mention of coops below.. 10x improvements on that y'all working on? Coops for all ages?
by davorak | 2026-02-21 05:41:02+00:00
I think I found the law:

> SEC. 122. BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS AUTHORITY.

> (a) Whenever fundamental international payments problems

> require special import measures to restrict imports—

> (1) to deal with large and serious United States balanceof-payments deficits,

> (2) to prevent an imminent and significant depreciation of

> the dollar in foreign exchange markets, or

> (3) to cooperate with other countries in correcting an international balance-> of-payments disequilibrium,

> the President shall proclaim, for a period not exceeding 150 days

> (unless such period is extended by Act of Congress)—

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-10384/pdf/COMPS-10...

search for "SEC. 122." to find it quickly.

None of these seem to apply and I am not a lawyer, but if they do not apply then, why would the president have the power of taxation when that is given to the legislative branch not executive branch.

Not clear to me why these new tariffs would be on better footing than the last and the last never seemed to be on good footing.
by selridge | 2026-02-21 05:41:08+00:00
>no one should be debugging

He literally said those exact words out loud from the audience during a job talk.

And yeah, the total aim and the reason why he might just blurt that out is because a lot of the frustration and esprit de corps of programming is held up in writing software that's more a guess about behavior than something provably correct. Perhaps we all ought to be writing provably correct software and never debugging as a result. We don't. But perhaps we ought to. We don't.

Is control via natural language a doomed effort? Perhaps, but I'd be cautious rather than confident about predicting that.
by ash_091 | 2026-02-21 05:41:27+00:00
I generally agree with you, but:

> If other industries worked like this, you could sue an architect who discovered a flaw in a skyscraper

To match this metaphor to TFA, the architect has to break in to someone else's apartment to prove there's a flaw. IANAL but I'm not positive that "I'm an architect and I noticed a crack in my apartment, so I immediately broke in to the apartments of three neighbours to see if they also had cracks" would be much of a defence against a trespass/B&E charge.
by palmotea | 2026-02-21 05:42:03+00:00
> Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive".

No, certain edits are understandable and required. Even the archive.org edits its pages (e.g. sticks banners on them and does a bunch of stuff to make them work like you'd expect).

Even paper archives edit documents (e.g. writing sequence numbers on them, so the ordering doesn't get lost).

Disclosing exactly what account was used to download a particular page is arguably irrelevant information, and may even compromise the work of archiving pages (e.g. if it just opens the account to getting blocked).
by colbyn | 2026-02-21 05:44:10+00:00
I have yet to read this article (in full), but I love trees! As an amateur AST transformation nerd. Kinda related but I’ve been trying to figure out how to generalize the lessons learned from this experiment in autogenerating massive bilingual dictionary and phrasebook datasets: https://youtu.be/nofJLw51xSk

Into a general purpose markup language + runtime for multi step LLM invocations. Although efforts so far have gotten nowhere. I have some notes on my GitHub profile readme if anyone curious: https://github.com/colbyn

Here’s a working example: https://github.com/colbyn/AgenticWorkflow

(I really dislike the ‘agentic’ term since in my mind it’s just compilers and a runtime all the way down.)

But that’s more serial procedural work, what I want is full blown recursion, in some generalized way (and without liquid templating hacks that I keep restoring to), deeply needed nested LLM invocations akin to how my dataset generation pipeline works.

PS

Also I really dislike prompt text in source code. I prefer to factor in out into standalone prompt files. Using the XML format in my case.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-21 05:46:39+00:00
> The most helpful AI will also be the most intimate technology ever built. It will hear everything. See everything

Big Brother is watching you. Who knew it would be AI ...

The author is quite right. It will be an advertisement scam. I wonder whether people will accept that though. Anyone remembers ublock origin? Google killed it on chrome. People are not going to forget that. (It still works fine on Firefox but Google bribed Firefox into submission; all that Google ad money made Firefox weak.)

Recently I had to use google search again. I was baffled at how useless it became - not just from the raw results but the whole UI - first few entries are links to useless youtube videos (also owned by Google). I don't have time to watch a video; I want the text info and extract it quickly. Using AI "summaries" is also useless - Google is just trying to waste my time compared to the "good old days". After those initial videos to youtube, I get about 6 results, three of which are to some companies writing articles so people visit their boring website. Then I get "other people searched for candy" and other useless links. I never understood why I would care what OTHER people search for when I want to search for something. Is this now group-search? Group-think 1984? And then after that, I get some more videos at youtube.

Google is clearly building a watered-down private variant of the web. Same problem with AMP pages. Google is annoying us - and has become a huge problem. (I am writing this on thorium right now, which is also chrome-based; Firefox does not allow me to play videos with audio as I don't have or use pulseaudio whereas the chrome-based browser does not care and my audio works fine - that shows you the level of incompetency at Mozilla. They don't WANT to compete against Google anymore. And did not want since decades. Ladybird unfortunately also is not going to change anything; after I critisized one of their decisions, they banned me. Well, that's a great way to try to build up an alternative when you deal with criticism via censorship - all before leaving alpha or beta already. Now imagine the amount of censorship you will get once millions of people WERE to use it ... something is fundamentally wrong with the whole modern web, and corporations have a lot to do with this; to a lesser extent also people but of course not all of them)
by shevy-java | 2026-02-21 05:48:40+00:00
Memories are usually private. People can make them public via a blog.

AI feels more like an organized sniffing tool here.

> If a product passes those criteria, then it - by design - cannot violate others' privacy

A product can most assuredly violate privacy. Just look how Facebook gathered offline data to interconnect people to reallife data points, without their consent - and without them knowing. That's why I call it Spybook.

Ever since the USA became hostile to Canadians and Europeans this has also become much easier to deal with anyway - no more data is to be given to US companies.
by fragmede | 2026-02-21 05:49:41+00:00
But unfortunately, it turns out that some people you interact with aren't actually your friend. That guy that seems totally legit and just wants your sister to install his fun little game/app that he wrote is actually trying to get her to install an app that's going to track your location and read all your messages and copy all your photos. To keep her safe from the "actually" bad people, of course.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-21 05:51:12+00:00
I understand why the author thought that way, but showing up with private data that the company is obligated to protect complicates things quite a lot more.

I've dealt with security issues a number of times over my career, and I'm genuinely unsure what my legal obligations would be in response to an email like this. He says my company has committed "multiple GDPR violations"; is there something I need to say in response to discharge or mitigate those? What must I do to ensure that he does eventually delete the customer data? If I work with him before the data is deleted, or engage in debugging that gives him the opportunity to exfiltrate additional data, is there a risk of additional liability?

There's really no option when getting an email like this other than immediately escalating to your lawyers and having them handle all further communication.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-02-21 05:52:23+00:00
> It is often easy to assume this position if you are majority, white, employed, etc.

What is your evidence to that claim?

I think it is actually not easy to assume that position, as evidenced by vast numbers of Europeans who do not assume that position. I think that it is in fact far easier (as a majority, white, employed, etc.), to go through life believing your government will solve everything and protect your feelings from being hurt by hearing what other people think. I just think it is an undignified existence.

> Your argument is similar to saying that we shouldn't have rules when driving cars. "Why life cannot be dignified if I have to observe stop signs."

I can see how bewildering this is for you, but my "argument" is also quite different in important ways.

> In every are of life there are balances to be struck. I am sure your country has rules for slandering individuals (because most have).

Adjudicating disputes between private parties is clearly one of the real roles of government.

> What's the difference to also having rules against slandering entire people?

I'm not sure if you are being rhetorical and actually want me to list the differences because you are unaware of them? Civil actions brought by private parties are different from government censorship and criminalization of speech. And I can be sued in civil court for what I say, I never said or even hinted that this should be disallowed that seems to be a strawman you have made up.

I don't think it should be easy to be found liable for damage if you tell the truth or give your opinion though.

What about you? Do you think calling AfD voters in general racists or extremists or selfish or xenophobic should be censored and criminalized by your government?
by Marsymars | 2026-02-21 05:53:54+00:00
They only share a brand and a subset of filter lists - the implementation and functionality of uBlock Origin Lite and uBlock Origin are entirely different.

When UBOL was released for Safari I switched to it from 1Blocker in hopes of getting a closer experience to the full uBlock Origin, but actually switched back after a few weeks - the filter lists in UBOL were letting through more ads than 1Blocker - and both of them are notably deficient compared to uBlock Origin in Firefox.
by nuuuwan | 2026-02-21 05:54:42+00:00
My dear Gen Alpha child,

Sit down for a moment, plea. Not that you can sit still without a vertical-scrolling feed, but please try.

As an older Millennial "uncle" (Colombo kind, not Biological kind) whose cultural relevance peaked well before you were born, I have a question for you.

What is "six-seven"?

MEDIUM: https://medium.com/p/06fc1cb8957c

SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/the-67-meme
by tabs_or_spaces | 2026-02-21 05:55:21+00:00
It's kind of sad what social media has become and I'm more frustrated with myself for not noticing until it was too late

I deleted all my social media profiles, but then at my current job I needed to add them back because my work used these and you need accounts to get access to developer accounts.

Anyway, my Facebook feed starts showing me Japanese and Korean nsfw videos. Instagram reels starts showing me increasing racist dark humour reels. I actually have to manage this feed to avoid these types of posts from popping up.

Then there's bots, there's so many bots that you don't even know who's real anymore. Like threads will have a bunch of new accounts posting for the first time. For me, this happens a lot on reddit

Then there's the ai content. There's so much slop in the posts as well as the comments. Increasingly more text seems to be ai generated these days for me

I also feel like I'm being "programmed" by social media. Like using claude is a good example, many folks seems to have started using claude fully in November. Another example is reddit, many times what is upvoted seems "programmed" to appear on the main feed.

In terms of mental wellbeing, I also see my mental wellness being affected. If I look at specific things related to relationships or financially successful people, then I'll eventually go through waves of depression symptoms just because I'm not good enough to be that person.

I initially joined social media looking to improve my quality of life. But these days, these sites feel like they just want my attention instead of wanting to make people's lives better.

Maybe that's naive of me to think this way, but at one point these sites did feel "good for me". It's just that I didn't catch on to the algorithm changes and their effects on my well being until it was too late.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-21 05:57:07+00:00
> I can only assume what you're really trying to say is "AI bad".

Lmao rarely have I seen a strawman so clearly announced.

No, if you want me to be more precise, it’s that generative AI is limited by its (1) its training corpus and (2) the amount of effort put into its prompts. I don’t think either of those statements are controversial to even the biggest AI bull, but let me know otherwise.

Following from (1) and (2), it takes little effort for even the most milquetoast vibe coder to produce something that there are millions of training examples of, and require very little specification in terms of prompting: TODO CRUD React Apps.

That’s not to say that it’s impossible to create compelling content or code with AI, it’s just why go through the effort if all you need is a TODO CRUD React App to e.g. make a grocery list or create a “Show HN”.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-21 05:57:10+00:00
My feed isn't as bad as some mentioned here. Mostly geeky stuff, 80s nostalgia, and some mildly funny comics. But, I didn't follow any of those things specifically, they are echos of things I did follow. And my friends have been relegated to perhaps 1/4 of the feed.

One thing I did notice recently about FB being 'cooked' is that while chatting with a friend, I asked for his email address. Believe it or not FB deleted my question, twice! I knew they were sleazy, but this is a new low.
by dasil003 | 2026-02-21 05:59:50+00:00
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't understand the appeal of the always-on AI assistant at all. Even leaving privacy/security issues aside, and even if it gets super smart and capable, it feels like it would have a distancing effect from my own life, and undermine my own agency in shaping it.

I'm not against AI in general, and some assistant-like functionality that functions on demand to search my digital footprint and handle necessary but annoying administrative tasks seems useful. But it feels like at some point it becomes a solution looking for a problem, and to squeeze out the last ounce of context-aware automation and efficiency you would have to outsource parts of your core mental model and situational awareness of your life. Imagine being over-scheduled like an executive who's assistant manages their calendar, but it's not a human it's a computer, and instead of it being for the purpose of maximizing the leverage of your attention as a captain of industry, it's just to maintain velocity on a personal rat race of your own making with no especially wide impact, even on your own psyche.
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-21 05:59:59+00:00
Physical attacks are difficult to pull off at scale, especially anonymously. There’s a huge evidence trail linking the people involved to the scheme. And a device being in the hands of a minimum wage employee is very different from a bored and talented and highly skilled person probing your software remotely. Now who’s naive?

As for certification and it being difficult, what does that have to do with the process of bread in Paris? Unless you’re somehow equating certification with a stamp of vulnerability imperviousness in which case you’re seeing your own naivete instead of in others. Btw, Target was fully certified and fully had their payment system breached. Not through the terminals but through the PoS backend. And as for “but you’re here living and breathing”, there’s constant security breaches through whatever hole, memory safety or otherwise. Persistent access into the network is generally only obtainable through credential compromise or memory safety.

> When did you meet this person?

You. You’re here claiming that memory safety issues are statistical noise yet every cloud software I’ve seen deployed regularly had them in the field, sometimes even letting a bad one through to canary. And memory safety issues persisted despite repeated attempts to fix issues and you couldn’t even know if it was legitimately an issue or just a HW flaw due to being deployed at scale enough that you were observing bad components. It’s a real problem and claiming it’s statistical noise ignores the consequences of even one such issue being easily accessible.
by adjwilley | 2026-02-21 06:02:39+00:00
The bug that was causing the crazy token burn was added on Feb 15. It was claimed to have been fixed on Feb 19 (see https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/20597 ) but it's unclear to me whether that fix has been rolled out yet or if it completely solved the problem. (see https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/21785 )

TLDR: the commit broke caching so the entire conversation history was being treated as new input on each call instead of most of the conversation being cached.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-21 06:03:04+00:00
you are accusing me of virtue signalling without discussing the evidence. this in itself is a virtue signal. I'm not trying to insult you by saying this ... you are behaving hypocritically. lots of people don't treat that gently, I genuinely suggest you be careful towards whom you act that way. if you have an actual point I'm happy to chat about it, however my tolerance of snippy snappy rhetoric is running low
by Avicebron | 2026-02-21 06:03:47+00:00
I also come from a more "traditional engineering" background, with PEs and a heavier sense of responsibility/ethics(?). I definitely think that's where it's going, although in my somewhat biased opinion, that's why the bar for traditional engineering in terms of students and expected skill and intuition was much higher than with CS/CE, which means the get rich quick scheme nature of it might go away.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-21 06:03:58+00:00
> The always-on future is inevitable

Not if you use open source. Not if you pay for services contractually will not mine your data. Not if you support start-ups that commit to privacy and the banning of ads.

I said on another thread recently that we need to kill Android, that we need a new Mobile Linux that gives us total control over what our devices do, our software does. Not controlled by a corporation. Not with some bizarre "store" that floods us with millions of malware-ridden apps, yet bans perfectly valid ones. We have to take control of our own destiny, not keep handing it over to someone else for convenience's sake. And it doesn't end at mobile. We need to find, and support, the companies that are actually ethical. And we need to stop using services that are conveniently free.

Vote with your dollars.
by AlexeyBelov | 2026-02-21 06:04:12+00:00
At my job a certain department was very enthusiastic about AI, and were going out of their way to show the top managers that they can leverage it in the best possible way. Maybe they thought they must appear to be at bleeding edge tech-wise, I'm not sure. 75% of people from that dept were let go because of how successful their AI trial was.