MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hknceykbx | 2026-02-24 21:33:23+00:00
Yes it all comes to the culture. But we need to take into account that Japanese culture for the workers themselves is absolutely horrible. Is all that suffering worth not losing a bunch of luggage or getting a train exactly the minute you expect? Not for me at least. I think it’s better to cope with imperfections like that than to work in a toxic environment where you can’t leave the office until your boss leaves.
That same culture is the reason why we don’t hear about successful startups from Japan. God forbid there is a single bug in it. But what’s better - to have a software with a bug and not the cleanest code or not to have it at all? Hardware is another story of course. But my point is that there is both good and bad in any culture. Depends on how you look at it
by microtonal | 2026-02-24 21:33:45+00:00
I understand how passkeys work. You don't need the legitimate app's credentials, we're talking about phishing attacks, you're trying to bring the victim to giving you access/control to their account without them realizing that that's what is happening.

That doesn't work, because the scammer's app will be signed with a different key, so the relying party ID is different and the secure element (or whatever hardware backing you use), refuses to do the challenge-response.
by burnte | 2026-02-24 21:33:52+00:00
Years ago I had an argument with my HR director at the time. I Was hiring for a position and I said I was willing to pay what was approximately 10-15% above market for the position at the time. He said he could get me a dozen prospects at the market rate or even ten percent below, that I was wasting my budget. I said, "I don't want the people who will work for that, the people I'm looking for know they're worth more." He repeated he felt I was over paying. I said, "look at my head count, and compare it to our competitors. I have half the staff but higher metrics in every category. You don't hear about major or long lasting IT problems here. I'm paying 115% but I'm getting 150% and overall spending less."

When your people feel respected and compensated, they work far better.
by Recursion075 | 2026-02-24 21:33:58+00:00
I've been working on a recursive field engine that derives the σ₈ clustering floor from 4D→3D projection geometry — no free parameters, no curve fitting.

The core claim: Dark energy and the σ₈ tension aren't anomalies. They're what 3D observers see when the universe is actually a 4D recursive attractor.

The repo has:
- goldilocks_audit.py → proves N=4 is the only stable dimensionality
- TOROIDAL_S8_ATTRACTOR.py → derives the 0.78 matter corridor
- Full falsification criteria in NOVEL_PREDICTIONS.md

Kill shot: Euclid DR1 drops October 21, 2026. If σ₈ > 0.82 or γ = 0.55, I'm wrong. It's archived on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18758974).

Would love adversarial audit from anyone who reads Python and knows cosmology.
by marty007 | 2026-02-24 21:34:17+00:00
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by sealeck | 2026-02-24 21:34:52+00:00
There are many really excellent papers out there - the kind which will save you hours/months of work (or even make things that were previously inviable to build viable).

That said, it is amazing how terrible a lot of papers are; people are pressured to publish and therefore seem to get into weird ruts trying to do what they think will be published, rather than what is intellectually interesting...
by nemooperans | 2026-02-24 21:35:05+00:00
The anecdote is compelling, but there's an interesting measurement gap. METR ran a randomized controlled trial with experienced open-source developers — they were actually 19% slower with AI assistance, but self-reported being 24% faster. A ~40 point perception gap.

Doesn't mean the tools aren't useful — it means we're probably measuring the wrong thing. "Prompt engineering" was always a dead end that obscured the deeper question: the structure an AI operates within — persistent context, feedback loops, behavioral constraints — matters more than the model or the prompts you feed it. The real intelligence might be in the harness, not the horse.
by jandrese | 2026-02-24 21:35:05+00:00
But the whole shtick with Optimus is that they aren't writing software. It's supposed to be all LLM training so when you buy your robot you can give it orders like "do the dishes", "clean the gutters", "dig a backyard pool for me", or "build me another Optimus" and you can go off to do whatever while it completes the task.

Elon thinks it would be too expensive to have to write code for every task you might ask one of these to do, they want it to be fully autonomous.

Their engineers aren't behind keyboards typing C++, they're wearing VR headsets and feeding the data to a LLM, although even that is probably too specific for Elon's long term plans. Obviously he doesn't want to have to have people repeat actions hundreds of times before the dumb robots figure it out. Especially for "simple" tasks like serving drinks at press events.
by IAmBroom | 2026-02-24 21:35:09+00:00
Not only are most folk etymologies about acronyms pure hooey, but most historical explanations that involve tax-dodging are, too.

Take for instance the upper-story medieval buildings that jut out over the first floor. NEVER done for tax reasons; ALWAYS done for a perfectly simply structural reasons. For the tax story to have an ounce of truth, there would have to have been invariant, multi-country, identical tax laws about footprints of houses.
by wps | 2026-02-24 21:35:16+00:00
Per the article:

> The migration process would also be frictionless for users, it is a simple data map between probably the two easiest formats of all time.

I cannot imagine how you could mess this up. The developers already implement numerous export formats. The migration is the easiest part. The actual implementation of a new data format into the codebase and all the new security and robustness testing is the difficult part.
by iberator | 2026-02-24 21:35:24+00:00
This is a strange article imo.

I was expecting to see FORTH in bare metal C or ASM.

There is a common myth about newbie programmers that FORTH is write-only and that you need to type everything in one line, without comments or function calls etc.

Writing forth is super easy especially if you have a stack machine at your disposal. For example when you are building your own virtual cpu/architecture with assembler and compiler.

It's more trivial than to understand any JavaScript framework lol

Research FORTH more guys - it doesn't need to be strange and hard :)

ps. Lisp SUCKS

/rant
by blumomo | 2026-02-24 21:35:36+00:00
> Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents;

CLIs like claude code equally improve over time. tmux helps running remote sessions like there were local.

Why should we invest long time into your „ADE“, really?

> see their status and review / test their work

Won’t that be addressed eventually by the CLIs themselves?

Maybe you’re betting on being purchased by one of the agentic coding providers given your tool has long term value on its own?
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 21:35:52+00:00
> Earshot used echolocation to analyze the audio on the recordings in order to arrive at precise estimates of the shooters’ locations. Echolocation is the process of locating the source of a sound based on an analysis of the sound’s echoes and the environment in which the sound travels. The Israeli military destroyed and cleared so many buildings in the Tel Al-Sultan area where the ambush of the aid workers took place that very few structures remained. This destruction actually strengthened Earshot’s ability to determine the positions and movements of Israeli soldiers, based on identifying the surfaces responsible for clearly distinguishable gunshot echoes. Rather than having multiple buildings reflecting the sound waves, there were only a few standing walls and the emergency vehicles themselves.

Seems like interesting tech.
by gmd63 | 2026-02-24 21:35:57+00:00
I'm interested to hear why you think that better pay wouldn't help the issue. Being comfortable with your living situation and feeling like you're respected in excess of your boss's federal or state legal obligations plays a big role in having the wherewithal to put serious effort into whatever you're doing day to day, and it helps to mitigate the divide between the richest and the poorest among us / bad jokes or insults that originate out of fear of being poor.

> Such institutions can't compete in the marketplace we've set up, because it's cheaper to offer shitty service and low product quality, to keep employees expendable, low skill, low paid cogs, and to reward CEOs and management willing to screw over their fellow employees at every opportunity to ensure the number goes up.

The federal minimum wage has been the same since 2009, but In-N-Out is an example of a company that chooses to avoid blaming the worker or the market or the regulatory environment for all of their business difficulties. They choose to pay well over the California minimum wage, and I don't find it coincidental that I've had better experiences with employees there vs some other fast food locations. Costco has made similar choices with how they treat their employees and they're doing great. No regulation needed, just better leadership.

The CEOs that blame "inevitable" market forces on why they have to treat employees poorly while refusing to look inward will ironically lose out in the market. And at a larger scale, probably the countries too.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-24 21:36:10+00:00
They wouldn't have problems telling apart bots and spammers from regular user activities. Lots of them still have problems just interpreting tweets and their replies make no sense. Just removing out-of-place replies using ML will fix most of problems, or even just restricting mass registrations from narrow ranges of IPs.

They don't do that because spams are their means to achieve something else, specifically to get rid of left wing tech anime porn otakus. The comedy of that is that they've been attempting this by complicating the system, which is like reverse chemotherapy that are nicer to cancer tissues than to the body so that cancer grows faster. I guess they take that as a win as it's a positive action with positive reaction albeit with negative amounts in lieu of negative action with negative reaction with a positive amount.

What's really going to be nice is Twitter transferred to someone else. That will at least stop the stupidity of reverse chemotherapy.
Show HN: NearIRM – On-call alert routing, $29/mo flat for your whole team
by TheGoatedDev | 2026-02-24 21:36:22+00:00
I built NearIRM because tools like PagerDuty charge per seat — a 10-person team runs $200/mo before you've configured anything. That felt wrong for something this straightforward.

NearIRM is flat-rate: $29/mo for your whole team. Alerts go to whoever's on call by push, WhatsApp, or email. If they don't respond, it escalates. Works with Grafana, SigNoz, or any webhook.

It's not perfect. But it works, real people are using it, and I'm genuinely proud of it.

First 10 signups get 75% off their first year — code EARLYBIRD at signup. That's $7/mo instead of $29. 14-day trial, no card required.
by nemooperans | 2026-02-24 21:36:41+00:00
This matches what I've been finding building AI-integrated systems. The persistent memory, behavioral constraints, and feedback loops around the model do more for output quality than any prompt optimization ever did.

The dog experiment takes this to its logical conclusion — if random keystrokes produce playable games, the "intelligence" was never in the input. We spent two years obsessing over prompt engineering when the real discipline was always system architecture. The scaffolding isn't supporting the AI — it IS the AI's capability.
by roscas | 2026-02-24 21:37:01+00:00
I use Chromium or LibreWolf and use Perplexity site. It cannot install anything I guess as I only use it from the webpage.
OS is ArchLinux with Chromium, but I did not use tcpdump yet. I will try it. I notice the connections with OpenSnitch that pop's up every call made that is not authorized. And I can see it was UDP.
by tadfisher | 2026-02-24 21:37:07+00:00
> He then walks them through "updating" their app, effectively going through the "new device" workflow - except the new device is the same as the old one, just with the backdoored app.

This is where the scheme breaks down: the new passkey credential can never be associated with the legitimate RP. The attacker will not be able to use the credential to sign in to the legitimate app/site and steal money.

The attacker controls the fake/backdoored app, but they do not control the signing key which is ultimately used to associate app <-> domain <-> passkey, and they do not control the system credentials service which checks this association. You don't even need attestation to prevent this scenario.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-24 21:37:18+00:00
> to meet demand for Clawbots is wild

This is not in response to OpenClaw. It takes a long time to plan a new manufacturing facility.

The Mac Mini is a natural place to start training at a new facility because it's their simplest product.

Mac Minis are also around 1% of Apple's device sales. Even with an OpenClaw-inspired burst of sales, it's still a small part of their volume.
by philipallstar | 2026-02-24 21:37:40+00:00
> but if people like you represent how Americans think, with nothing but contempt for Europe and only obsessed with power, then the Chinese were right about who Americans are and we were naive.

I think it's much more the other way round. As a not-American, the amount of contempt I see Europeans having for Americans for not "valuing family" (i.e. lots of free childcare and maternity pay), or generally not having really expensive social programmes, and having medicine prices based on the R&D costs, when the only reason they can do that is because the US taxpayer funds most global shipping, and most health R&D in the world, is much higher than the reverse.

Saying "oh we should be autonomous" won't ever remove all the free help the US has given those countries in the past, even if they stop relying on it in the future.
by moffkalast | 2026-02-24 21:38:04+00:00
Why a hospital? There's very little convenience at play when it's a life and death situation.

It is what drives the market quite a bit at least. It's why we've produced over 2 billion cars and use them every day to pollute our own air so we don't have to walk two blocks. Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer. It's why we have supply chains up the wazoo to bring products from all corners of the globe to everyone's nearby supermarket, a large amount of it getting thrown away when it's expired unsold. We fly across countries for something as pointless as a business meeting. Hell people now even order a taxi for their food, so they don't have to go out to get it.

Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience. Of course people with the option to do so will exploit the one thing that's easily exploitable, that's like water flowing downhill.
by spranab | 2026-02-24 21:38:04+00:00
Thanks for the excellent references! We actually just added a SKILL.md following the agentskills.io spec based on your suggestion — it's live now: https://github.com/spranab/saga-mcp/blob/master/.skills/saga...

Great point about sqlite-utils FTS. Saga already has full-text search via tracker_search across all entities (projects, epics, tasks, notes), but we're using basic LIKE queries — proper SQLite FTS5 indexes would be a meaningful upgrade for larger projects. Adding it to the roadmap.

The bugwarrior/syncall direction is interesting too. A github_sync tool that pulls issues into Saga's local tracker (and optionally pushes status back) would close the loop between local agent planning and team-visible issue trackers. Definitely something worth exploring.

Re: SWE-bench agents and issue tracking — most SWE-bench agents read the issue description as input but don't write back to GitHub. Having a local structured tracker that an agent can read/write freely (without API rate limits or auth concerns) is exactly the gap Saga fills.
by netsharc | 2026-02-24 21:38:10+00:00
If you have 3 hours, there's a documentary you can watch, about a man who was sanctioned by the government to kill a lot of "communists" in 1960's Indonesia: The Act of Killing (available at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDeEObjR9Q ).

It's sort of understandable why the defenders of the genocide have to keep defending it. Stopping doing so today would mean admitting that until yesterday you've been defending utter inhumanity.

A review:

> Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a challenging documentary. It is not only difficult to watch, but it also probes into one of the most grotesque aspects of human nature: the capacity for self-delusion in the face of horrific atrocities. This isn’t a film about history, facts, or statistics; it’s about the memories of the men who killed, the stories they tell themselves, and how they continue to live with the horrors they’ve inflicted on others. The film’s power lies in its ability to take the viewer beyond a surface-level understanding of evil and into the psychological abyss of those who have committed atrocities—and seemingly moved on with their lives.

From: https://docthisway.com/2024/09/23/the-act-of-killing-review/
by _wire_ | 2026-02-24 21:38:11+00:00
Bob Slydell: So, what you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers?

Tom Smykowski: Yes, yes that's right.

Bob Porter: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people?

Smykowski: Well, I'll tell you why, because, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.

Slydell: So you physically take the specs from the customer?

Smykowski: Well... No. My secretary does that, or they're faxed.

Porter: So then you must physically bring them to the software people?

Smykowski: Well. No-- Ah sometimes!

Slydell: What would you say you do here...?

Smykowski: (shouting) Engineers are not good with people! I'm a people person!
by sixtyj | 2026-02-24 21:38:26+00:00
Well… it is happening. You can’t put spilled milk back to bottle. You can do future requirements that will try to stop this behaviour.

E.g. in the submission form could be a mandatory field “I hereby confirm that I wrote the paper personally.” In conditions there will be a note that violating this rule can lead to temporary or permanent ban of authors. In the world where research success is measured by points in WOS, this could lead to slow down the rise of LLM-generated papers.
by firefax | 2026-02-24 21:38:53+00:00
I suspect any cloud service without strong encryption at rest ala Protonmail will have insider threat issues. Hell there's an entire Wikipedia article entitled "Saudi infiltration of Twitter"[1] just to give one example.

This is anecdotal, but once when I worked for a well known NGO as an experiment I created a document outlining what our positions would be for a meeting with representatives from a certain country[2].

We in fact were taking very different positions, and using different points to support those positions.

The delegation was visibly shaken, surprised, and I daresay upset that they were completely unprepared for our meeting -- they basically refused to dialogue (the entire purpose of the meeting) and ran home to ask their overlords in the embassy what to say.

I am doubtful that they deployed zero day malware onto our network -- I suspect they had an insider at company whose cloud offering I used to create the false flag document.

Sometimes it surprises me, as someone who got my education in tech by reading Slashdot comments and researching the terms I did not understand, how trusting this generation of hackers is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter
[2] I won't say who other than "not KSA"
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-24 21:39:04+00:00
I consume very little social media these days, but when I take a short peek, here is what I see:

1.) Hockey highlights 2.) LoTR memes 3.) kittens

While the addictive nature of social media is a problem, what you're describing is only being fed to people who want to watch it (kinda like legacy media).
by mullingitover | 2026-02-24 21:39:04+00:00
> pre-2022 Russia was seen and how pre-Trump-second-term US used to be seen until not that long ago, i.e. both governments were believed to be run by big business

Who on earth believed that Russia was anything but a de facto dictatorship for roughly the past two decades? Putin murdering with impunity has been a running gag since 2003[1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/putin-critics-dead-full-list-navaln...
by groundy | 2026-02-24 21:39:25+00:00
Facebook is decaying in real time. The platform that once connected friends and family is now a scroll-wheel of AI-generated spam, emotionally manipulative slop images, and algorithmic junk food optimized for engagement over meaning. User experience has degraded sharply since 2022, with young users fleeing to TikTok and Instagram, and older users increasingly using Facebook as a utility rather than a social network.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-24 21:39:33+00:00
I don't see what point you are making here. I responded to OP asking about "who is going to buy all the stuff". The people who would be concerned with that are by and large not stressed about paying house mortgages, replacing roofs or fixing cars.

And if they were, then the machine will just do all that for them. That's the point. The things you mentioned don't need intrinsically need money. The machine can fix or create whatever car, replace whatever roof, and build whatever house.
by wps | 2026-02-24 21:39:37+00:00
Of course, the technical backbone of a product is rarely a user concern. But, changing the store allows for new design decisions when making the schema that are not tied to the old (IMO) technical debt of the KDBX format.

Users have wanted proper custom entry templates for years in order to input their card details into the manager. BitWarden, CodeBook, and others all have this built in without needing to fiddle with attributes and autofill to make it work.

I think a major change like this is worth it when we consider the KeePass of the next decade or two. This is genuinely my most important file by a longshot. Basing it on SQLite is just the right move for future proofing.
by thaumaturgy | 2026-02-24 21:40:03+00:00
-12 is what was queued up for the vote up until 2:30 pm that afternoon: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Downloads/Prop...

-14 materialized, Prozanski called for a vote on -12, Senator Braodman voted with Republicans against -12, and then they unanimously voted in -14: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Downloads/Prop...

The sole difference between the two is that -14 removes the following language: "'End-to-end encryption’ means a method of data encryption that ensures only the law enforcement agency that owns the captured license plate data possesses the capability to decrypt, access or grant access to the captured license plate data."

This was just the latest move in a long, long series of behind-the-scenes work by Axon to undermine the entire bill throughout its development.

There's a lot more I'm eager to say about that process, but we have some work to do before it all can be made public.