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by close04 | 2026-02-08 11:50:06+00:00
The difference between “PKI” and “just signing with a private key” is the trusted authority infrastructure. Without that you still get a benefit of signatures and some degree of verification, you can still validate what you install.

But in reality this trustworthiness check is handed over by the manufacturer to an infrastructure made up of these trusted parties in the owner’s name, and there’s nothing the owner can do about it. The owner may be able to validate software is signed with the “correct” key bit still not be able to use it because the device wants PKI validation, not owner validation.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-08 11:50:22+00:00
This has been my experience. I tend to use chats, in a synchronous, single-threaded manner, as opposed to agents, in an asynchronous way. That’s because I think of the LLM as a “know-it-all smartass personal assistant”; not an “employee replacement.”

I just enjoy writing my own software. If I have a tool that will help me to lubricate the tight bits, I’ll use it.
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-08 11:50:26+00:00
> They shared they are evaluating a model where they can get a % of your business in exchange for letting you use code generated by their AI models.

That's a gross mischaracterization of what the CFO said. She basically just said the pricing space is huge, and they've even explored things like royalty models.

I'm guessing you just saw a headline and read nothing into it.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-08 11:50:49+00:00
Because these are General Purpose languages you can do the same things, but the contrast here is what's provided in the box and how it is used idiomatically, because in practice that's what gets used, and that's what I explained above.

You can write C++ style OOP hierarchy code in Rust but that's not idiomatic, and you can write Rust style explicit dynamic dispatch in C++ but again it isn't idiomatic.
by orwin | 2026-02-08 11:51:24+00:00
I'll have to ask my brother but that might be NBC's audio engineer decision, or even his default settings (depending on the broadcaster voice).

I'm as critical as the US as they come, in fact I just cancelled my summer trip to the Appalachia, but seeing this as censorship is reading a bit too far, simpler explanations exist (crowd noises are dimmed by audio filters)
by netsharc | 2026-02-08 11:52:51+00:00
https://archive.is/CBQFY

> Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether”—the enrichment of its own members.

A few paragraphs later:

> In the face of flagrant misappropriation, she found, ordinary citizens could experience a sense of grievance so potent that it filled them with something worse than anger—a desire for revenge. Nurallah, an employee at the factory who once worked as a police officer, told her about the humiliation that his brother experienced during a shakedown by Afghan police. “If I see someone plant an I.E.D. on the road, and then I see a police truck coming... I will not warn them,” Nurallah said. This is the central revelation in “Thieves of State”: at a certain point, systemic corruption became not just a lamentable by-product of the war but an accelerant of conflict. All those bribes and kickbacks radicalized the local population, turning it against the Afghan government and, at least some of the time, toward the Taliban.
by MickGorobets | 2026-02-08 11:53:25+00:00
I built a GPU path tracer for volumetric medical data that runs entirely
in Chrome via WebGPU + WebAssembly (C++/Emscripten).

Key technical details:
– Delta tracking (Woodcock null-collision algorithm) for unbiased volume rendering

– Cook-Torrance GGX BRDF + Henyey-Greenstein phase function

– MacroGrid acceleration (DDA empty-space skipping + GPU tile culling)

– Progressive frame accumulation — noisy at first, converges to ground truth

– HDR pipeline: bloom, auto-exposure, PBR Neutral / ACES tone mapping

– Async mip-level streaming with gzip decompression

Built on Diligent Engine — I contributed to its WebGPU backend a few years ago.

Requirements: Chrome (WebGPU enabled). Other browsers don't fully support
WebGPU yet. Works best on discrete GPU but runs on integrated as well.

Happy to answer any questions about the rendering pipeline or WebGPU!
by win311fwg | 2026-02-08 11:53:48+00:00
A page about a C compiler. Not unlike the "golang" result, except without the same design attention. The download link is similarly present but tucked out of the way instead of being the focus, but that is largely down to those design choices.

Which is the best one could hope for given that the search engine doesn't control the content. If I am searching for "golang", a Go compiler is the most likely thing I would want to find. Presumably someone who already has a Go compiler installed will have more specific queries. Likewise, if I am searching for "clang", a C compiler is also the most likely thing I would want to find. For all intents and purposes that is the entry point into using a language.

All in all the search engine did a great job and gave exactly what I would have expected.
by estearum | 2026-02-08 11:55:41+00:00
"Poor billion dollar company" cannot possibly be a slur in an industry that requires $2 billion in investment (and rising!) to make each subsequent product. Maybe if the product were a luxury good that the world could do without, but it's not, and we cannot.

You don't need to trust anything except that left to their own devices, those greedy pharma companies will price as efficiently as possible in order to maximize revenues. Despite this revenue maximization, the industry as a whole is nearly uninvestable. Any deviation from the optimal pricing will reduce their overall revenues, which will obviously make the industry even less investable, which in an R&D heavy sector means they will no longer make new products.

You do not need "trust" whatsoever, this is just basic logic.
by rvz | 2026-02-08 11:55:45+00:00
> With the price of computation so high, that inefficiency was like lighting money on fire. The small group of contributors capable of producing efficient and correct code considered themselves exceedingly clever, and scoffed at the idea that they could be replaced.

There will always be someone ready to drag down prices of computation low enough so that it is then democratized for all, some may disagree but that would eventually be local inference as computer hardware gets better with clever software algorithms.

In this AI story, you can take a guess who are the "The Priesthood" of 2020s are.

> You still have to know what you want the computer to do, and that can be very hard. While not everyone wrote computer programs, the number of computers in the world exploded.

One can say, the number of AI agents will explode and surpass humans on the internet in the next few years, and reading the code and understanding what it does when generated from an AI will be even more important than writing it.

So you do not get horrific issues like this [1] since now the comments in the code are now consumed by the LLM and due to their inherent probabilistic and unpredictable nature, different LLMs produce different code and cannot guarrantee that it is correct other than a team of expert humans.

We'll see if you're ready to read (and fix) an abundance of lots of AI slop and messy architectures built by vibe-coders as maintainance costs and security risks skyrocket.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912781

[1] https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co...
by iamthemonster | 2026-02-08 11:55:46+00:00
Sadly international diversification is far less effective during downturns, which is exactly when you need it. It really turns out that the old adage "when the US sneezes the whole world catches a cold" is borne out by the evidence: https://earlyretirementnow.com/2017/08/23/how-useful-is-inte...

I started getting concerned about the US stock market being overvalued in about 2019. If I'd followed my gut and ditched the US entirely I'd have missed out enormously.

Unfortunately the "guys, it's getting a bit frothy" stage can last for years and years. If you pull out of the stock market whenever everything's looking irrationally overvalued you're probably going to fall behind the unthinking approach of continually investing the same amount every month.

Although I don't think investments are easy to "bubble-proof" I feel like your career choices can make you more resistant to catastrophe. The strongest strategy of all (if it's practical in your lifestyle) is to be nationally and internationally mobile so that your job search can cover the entire world, and you pick whichever employer is most desperate to find someone. After that, you can sometimes transfer internally to teams that are more robust (in my industry we have teams that design new facilities and teams that run existing facilities - the ones that design new facilities are far more vulnerable to ups and downs as projects get cancelled). Finally, you can make lots of casual contacts in your industry (we sometimes get together for coffee or beer with other people in our city who do a similar job at other companies) - then when you're made redundant, you've got the inside information of where new roles might come from.

On the cost side of the equation, your choices of "how big a house & car can I afford?" should learn towards being more pessimistic, but often there's not huge scope for choice there in the short term.

Long story short, the glib answer to your question "where do I put my money now, knowing that everything's going to blow up?" is "leave it in the S&P 500 and be aware that one day it will blow up"
by orwin | 2026-02-08 11:56:16+00:00
That might work for hallucinations, that doesn't work for useless verbose. And the main issue is that LLM don't always distinguish useless verbose from necessary one, so even when I ask it to reduce verbose, it remove everything save a few useful comments/docstring, but some of the comments that were removed I deemed useful. Un the end I have to do the work of cutting verbose manually anyway.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-08 11:56:19+00:00
>Users shouldn't need permission from trillion dollar corporations

All of these mechanisms can be disabled and overridden. You are annoyed that users are protected from people like you, and, you know, too bad? Suck it up.

The rest of your ridiculous spiel, where you so effortlessly transitioned to laughable whataboutism, is just nonsensical noise, so no point addressing that.

But to repeat, we went through a period where users would install *NOTHING* from small developers, weary and jaded that their trust had been abused for years. The average computer had Chrome and Office on it. Developers who rail (especially so hysterically) against mechanisms that actually made users more likely to trust software do so from a position of astonishing levels of self-sabotaging ignorance.
by ookblah | 2026-02-08 11:56:38+00:00
honestly the example he gives there is not convincing.

it's not quite the best example, but when bootstrap and all those css frameworks were first released everything did converge toward that cookie cutter "look" and UI designers/devs everywhere lamented it, but it gave "good enough" results for those that just wanted to get things done. eventually those patterns evolved and laid foundation for a lot of things we do now.

i think the vast majority of software engineers overestimate how much their extra 10% in their special snowflake app actually matters in the day to day. 90% for most people is good enough, esp if you can solve 90% of the actual pain, people will gladly put up with way shitter experiences because literally nobody else wanted to solve it.

not saying ai slop is good, but everything is moving so fast and i'd say still in the "infancy" stage. next/react/tailwind setup is the bootstrap right now. time will tell what comes out of it.
by ramon156 | 2026-02-08 11:57:01+00:00
> if they are correct I see no issue at all.

I guess the term "correct" is different for me. I shouldn't be able to nitpick comments out like that. Putting LLM's aside, they basically did not proof-read your own docs. Things like "No python required" are an obvious sign that you
1. Started talking about a project (you {found || built} in python), want to do it in Rust (because it's fast!) and then the LLM put that detail in the docs.

If they did not skim it out, then they did not read their own documentation. There was no love put into it.

Nonetheless, I totally get your point, and the docs are at least descriptive.

> LLMs are so good at creating decent descriptions and keeping them up to date

I totally agree! And now that CC auto-updates memories, it's much easier to keep track of changes. I'm also confident that you're the type of person to at least proof-read what it wrote, so I do not doubt your validity in your argument. It just sounds a lot different when you look at this project.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-08 11:59:20+00:00
If they spent it abroad on say Dutch tulips, so it didn't affect the Norwegian economy directly then short term we'd have to significantly cut spending.

While there's a rule in place to withdraw less than 3% of the value to ensure long-term survival of the fund, due to its size that now constitutes a significant part of the national budget. For 2026 they'll be withdrawing 2.9%, which translates to about 580B NOK, or $58B USD.

However the total spending in the 2026 national budget is 2200B NOK, or $220B USD. So the fund covers about 26% of the budget for 2026.

Lets just say it would be very painful if we suddenly did not have that fund.
Show HN: BestClaw Simple OpenClaw/MoltBot for non tech people
by nihey | 2026-02-08 11:59:29+00:00
I've been using OpenClaw/Moltbot a lot these past few days. I even set up some of these instances for friends so they, too can enjoy the possibilities of this project.

So I thought it would be good to have a way to deploy it for non-tech people, bringing your own key and avoiding expensive markups in their prices.

I plan to provide easy plans to setup without needing accounts in OpenAI/Anthropic/Google but for now, people can BOYK and set it up for a reasonable price and control their instance entirely.
by ozgung | 2026-02-08 11:59:31+00:00
This is exciting as a reality check of our expectations from the current level of AI. I expect AIs to solve at least 2-3 of them in a week. I expect one “easy” problem that multiple models solve. And I expect at least one solution to be “interesting” and different than the human solutions. I also expect human researchers to solve more than AIs in a week (globally, by total) but I don’t know what happens if they publish their results during the week. We’ll see results soon.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-08 11:59:36+00:00
Nice site, with apt illustrations and mathematical explanations.

This reminds me of an interesting trivia:
For centuries, it was believed that paper could not be folded in half more than 8 times. Until one high school student broke that seemingly impossible limit. And she did so with a giant sheet of paper, and some interesting mathematics.

She won the Guiness World Record for that feat.

"It was an accepted belief that folding a piece of paper in half more than 8 times was impossible. On 27 January 2002, high school student, *Britney Gallivan*, of Pomona, California, USA, folded a single piece of paper in half 12 times and was the first person to fold a single piece paper in half 9, 10, 11, and 12 times. The tissue paper used was 4,000 ft (1,219 m; 0.75 miles) long.

In preparation for the challenge, Gallivan identified criteria for folding and the phenomenon that ultimately limits the geometric folding progression. She derived mathematical equations for single direction – L=πt/6(2ⁿ+4)(2ⁿ-1) – and alternate direction – W=πt23(ⁿ-1)/2 – folding. The equations establish the relationship between the length of paper required (L), the thickness of the paper (t), the minimum possible width of square material (W), and the number of possible folds (n). It is documented in her book *How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times*."
by dijit | 2026-02-08 11:59:50+00:00
Hey!

I appreciate the arrogant ignorance, but PKI by definition relies on CAs.

First result on Kagi: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/public-key-infrastructure

—-

Public key infrastructure (PKI) provides protocols to validate the authenticity of the digital certificates that underscore the trust in public key cryptography systems. A cornerstone of cybersecurity, cryptography provides confidentiality, integrity, nonrepudiation and authenticity. PKI adds validity to cryptographic systems by cryptographically binding digital certificates to unique users, institutions, entities and third parties.

The following are the key components of a public key infrastructure.

*Certificate authority (CA)*

A trusted entity responsible for issuing, storing and signing digital certificates. CAs use their own private key to sign digital certificates that can be verified through a requestable public key.

—-

if you have a differing defintion of public key infrastructure, I’m all ears.
by beardyw | 2026-02-08 12:00:24+00:00
I think this is far too nuanced. I am terrified by what the civilization we have known will become. People living in less advanced economies will do OK, but the rest of us not so much. We stand on the brink of a world where some wealthy people will get more wealthy, but very many will struggle without work or prospects.

A society where a large percent have no income is unsustainable in the short term, and ultimately liable to turn to violence. I can see it ending badly. Trouble who in power is willing to stop it?
by estearum | 2026-02-08 12:00:47+00:00
I would suggest it's the reverse. Americans accept higher prices because they have many many layers of intermediation.

Americans pick their employer. Their employer picks their health plan. Their health plan picks which drugs are covered and which doctors and pharmacies they can use.

With the "innovation" of vertical integration between insurers, healthcare providers, and PBMs, there is effectively zero incentive for health insurers to manage costs, because those costs show up as revenue for their own subsidiaries. This is actually hugely advantageous for insurers because they are required by law to spend a certain percentage (~80%) of their members' premiums on healthcare goods and services, not profit or business development.

Well... if you own the pharmacies, the PBMs, the GPOs, and especially the healthcare providers... you can arbitrarily siphon money at any % rate you want while increasing the gross dollar intake by simply raising prices at your subsidiary companies!

All of this is well documented.
by yallpendantools | 2026-02-08 12:00:49+00:00
> Copilot is notoriously bad.

"notoriously bad" is news to me. I find no indication from online sources that would warrant the label "notoriously bad".

https://arxiv.org/html/2409.19922v1#S6 from 2024 concludes it has the highest success rate in easy and medium coding problems (with no clear winner for hard) and that it produces "slightly better runtime performance overall".

https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-coding-benchmark/ from 2025 has Copilot in a three-way tie for third above Gemini.

> Have you tried (paid plans) codex, Claude or even Gemini on your legacy project?

This is usually the part of the pitch where you tell me why I should even bother especially as one would require me to fork up cash upfront. Why will they succeed where Copilot has failed? I'm not asking anyone to do my homework for me on a legacy codebase that, in this conversation, only I can access---that's outright unfair. I'm just asking for a heuristic, a sign, that the grass might indeed be greener on that side. How could they (probably) improve my life? And no, "so that you pass the bare minimum to debate the usefulness of AI tools" is not the reason because, frankly, the less of these discussions I have, the better.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-08 12:01:43+00:00
If this database is a large portion of the infrastructure required then the fixed-ish costs don't scale so well, but a smaller cloud/hosting company should be considered.

But I have over 60 servers. Using the pricing calculator for the two AWS SaaS services that closely align with our primary service (40+ of those servers), we'd face a cost of over $1.2M/year if reserved for 3 years and paid upfront — that's for the service alone, I haven't added any bandwidth costs, or getting the data into those systems, and I've picked the minimum values for storage and throughput as I don't know what these should be. (Probably not the minimum.)

Add the remaining compute (~20 decent servers), a petabyte-scale storage pool, and all the rest, and the bill would likely exceed our entire IT budget including hardware, hosting, cloud services we do use, and all the salaries.

My rough estimate is our infrastructure costs would increase 8-10 times using AWS, our staff costs wouldn't reduce, and the risk to the budget would increase with variable usage.

This is tax money being spent, so I am asked every few years to justify why we aren't using cloud. (That's why I'm putting this much effort into a HN reply, the question was asked again recently.)

I know someone working in another country on essentially the same system for that country. They went all-in on AWS and pay every 1-2 months what we spend in a year, but have a fraction of our population/data.