MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whazor | 2026-02-26 19:03:51+00:00
With agentic loops, you specify what you want and it continues to do stuff until ‘it works’. Then publish. Its takes less time and attention. So projects are less thought out and less tested as well.

In the end, I think it’s not about how a project was created. But how much passion and dedication went into it. It’s just that the bar got lowered.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-26 19:04:11+00:00
It is hard to disagree with this approach. While I still use WiFi, it is a separate subnet and only whitelisted MACs are allowed to use it. Cameras and microphones are always unplugged when not in use, and my phone runs GrapheneOS. I also removed the hands-free microphone in my car, as well as the cellular modem.
by hx8 | 2026-02-26 19:04:11+00:00
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it?

There was a point of time where some people looked at 3d printers and said "Wow, imagine how great this technology will be in 20 years." There was some amount of anticipation for multi-material printers to come around and for home printers to begin replacing traditional consumer goods. Compared to crypto, vr, and ai it doesn't look like much but 3d printing did go through a hype bubble.
by modeless | 2026-02-26 19:04:12+00:00
A heads up display doesn't need a 3D rendering of the environment around it because the environment is already visible through the screen. The 3D rendering is so you can see what to expect before you get there. If you don't understand why that could possibly be useful then I don't know what to tell you; you'll have to take it for granted that some people's brains work differently than yours and can benefit from seeing places they are about to visit in 3D before they get there.
by ragall | 2026-02-26 19:04:26+00:00
> I do not use blocklists or ignore features except as an absolute last resort

I block people every single day. I've blocked so many people on Twitter that all I see is a very nice timeline with mostly stuff I like, some boring, but none of the culture wars garbage. Some days the timeline is completely empty, I suspect because Twitter can't cope with having blocked so many nodes in the social graph :D

> If the person is not banned from the community, then your decision to pretend they don't exist just leaves other people to deal with it.

When you start banning people outright from the entire community you risk ending up like any far left group, with schisms and civil wars between factions for absolutely tiny differences. The right approach is to have a very high bar for banning, and it's perfectly fine if people decide not to speak to one another.
by epistasis | 2026-02-26 19:05:06+00:00
Fascinating to see so much Clauswitz these days, it's been a major Baader-Meinhof phenomenon for me this year.

One of the strongest points of evidence that Putin is the center of gravity, at least according to Putin, is that he focuses so heavily on trying to make unconstitutional elections happen in Ukraine. It must be a form of projection of Putin's perception of his current situation: Putin thinks that if Zelenskyy is gone then Ukrainians will no longer resist destruction of their identity, language, and state. That's why we see Trump trying so hard to force elections on Ukraine, that's why we see internet commenters suggest that Ukraine should do unconstitutional elections, because they falsely believe that Ukraine's center of gravity is also their primary leader.

Putin is wrong about Ukraine, the center of gravity is a civic identity that's gotten incredibly strong ever since Maidan and the initial invasion. But I have a feeling that Putin understands Russia far more than he understands Ukraine, nad that Putin is completely right about Russia's center of gravity.
by baal80spam | 2026-02-26 19:05:13+00:00
> The best I've been able to find is Alternate Player for Twitch.tv which does hide the ads (essentially freezing the stream while they play), but I have been unable to keep the stream playing ad free for quite some time.

This is not my experience. Alternate Player for Twitch.tv essentially ignores twitch ads for me. Using Brave, not sure if this is relevant.
by jFriedensreich | 2026-02-26 19:05:13+00:00
I keep reading these unfair comparisons mixing many different problems into a naive story in favour of clis.
First of all no one should still consider connecting mcps directly to agents, this is completely outdated, you connect mcps and tools to a single gateway that has an api, handles federation, auditing, prolicies and much more. A good gateway exposes a tiny minimal context with just instructions how to query what is available and has a configurable "eager" flag for the things that should be put eagerly into the context for certain agent profiles.
Secondly many many mcp servers are outdated as they were build for way dumber models than what we have today and will have overly heavy context and descriptions that slow down and degrade the current frontier models. If you compare a cli to a state of the art agent gateway setup with adjustments for the current models, you will find that the only advantage for clis is operational complexity.
by ben_w | 2026-02-26 19:05:13+00:00
> Technology covers healthcare.

If you'd chosen to list that in the first place, I wouldn't have said what I did; "supercharge technology and productivity" is looking at everything through the lens of money and profit, not the lens of improving the human condition.

> Your attitude is very European, and it's basically why your continent is being left behind

And yours is very American. You talk about managing the risks, but the moment you see anyone doing so, you're against it.

And of course, Europe does have AI, both because keeping up is so much easier and cheaper than being bleeding edge on everything all the time, and of course, how DeepMind may be owned by Google but is a British thing.

Plus: https://mistral.ai

Also, to be blunt, China's almost certain to win any economic or literal arms race you think you're part of; they make too much critical hardware now.

> as long as there are places in the world where people are allowed to innovate.

I would like there to be a world.

When people worry about the end of the world, they usually don't mean to imply its physical disassembly. Sometimes people even respond as if speakers did mean that, saying things like "nukes or climate change wouldn't actually destroy the planet, it will still be here, spinning", as if this was the point.

AI is one of the few things that could, actually, literally, end up with the planet being physically disassembled. "All it needs" is solving the extremely hard challenges of a von Neumann replicator, and, well, solving hard problems is kinda the point of making AI in the first place.
by _wire_ | 2026-02-26 19:05:51+00:00
I would think a supreme intelligence would completely understand dialog from the other's perspective. This could be surprisingly unwanted: an agent which knows you better than you can know yourself has you forever on the back foot. A human-like intelligence would follow contextual norms in dialog, and carry out its own agenda socially in a collaborative way. This also could be unwanted if the agent has super powers. But these observations are mere conjectures. Actual AI must be constantly cajoled within very narrow bounds by the intelligence of actual humans or its "thinking" turns to mush.

Does AI ever display creativity in any sense other than behaviors that follow a statistical spread around the training space?

If it can, why doesn't this make the news? These pseudo-aphoristic stories of how to cajole AIs are told 100 times a day!

To those uninitiated to computing, it might seem amazing given that a machine can do combinatorials at rates many orders of magnitude faster than a human, but the measure of creativity is with insights, hitherto unknown, that simplify the complex and bring the inexplicable within the range of intelligibility.

The cycle is AI is found to be ludicrously bad by some ordinary or trivial measure that demonstrates nothing like human thinking is occurring in the machine, then the news of it is published and the mechanical turk gets the message, then suddenly the AI "knows" what it can't figure out on its own.

The intelligence is an externality of humans enslaved to the care and feeding of data to it.

The machine is basically a storage system with a semantic mode for retrieval. And as its access mode is semantic, it looks like it's thinking, when there is no innate reasoning in the sense of human reasoning.

Build a house of mirrors and you will find you can get lost in it, but don't confuse a house that reflects your own mind with one that has a mind of its own.

A great danger resides with a system that can confuse people into believing it thinks operating at a world-wide scale.
by nightski | 2026-02-26 19:05:59+00:00
Every legitimate use case for AI. It is a way to mark legitimate work done using AI tools as inferior.

This might be acceptable if it prevented or limited nefarious use cases. But it does no such thing. It doesn't help at all on that front actually and is not a problem that can be solved by technology alone.

I view SynthId as more of a method of control. It's a way for Google to label work produced by an individual using their tools as their own.

I much prefer open models that let me be creative, write code, etc.. without trying to control/track/mark me.
by Someone | 2026-02-26 19:06:10+00:00
FTA:

“Minimize Taps

Most information about that data should be accessible in a minimal number of taps of the stylus — one or two.

Desktop user interfaces are typically designed to display commands as if they were used equally. In reality, some commands are used very frequently while most are used only rarely. Similarly, some settings are more likely to be used than others. On Palm Powered handhelds, more frequently used commands and settings should be easier to find and faster to execute.

• Frequently executed software commands should be accessible by one tap.

• Infrequently used or dangerous commands may require more user action.”
Show HN: ExactOnce – API for actions that can only happen once
by michaelnewman | 2026-02-26 19:06:34+00:00
I kept rebuilding the same pattern across products (idempotency keys, Redis TTLs, unique constraints) just to avoid duplicate side effects from retries and race conditions. Eventually I turned it into a focused API.

ExactOnce lets you create an action and consume it exactly once. The transition from active → consumed is enforced atomically via a DynamoDB conditional write. Under concurrency, one request succeeds; the rest deterministically get a typed 409 already_used. No distributed locks, no cross-service transactions.

Use cases:

+ magic login links
+ coupon redemption
+ webhook deduplication
+ one-time download links
+ ticket scanning
+ license activation

Try it without signing up:

curl --request POST https://api.exactonce.com/v1/demo

That returns a temporary action (5‑minute TTL) and a reveal URL. Open it once — it consumes. Open again — already used.

Docs: https://exactonce.com/api-docs
How it works: https://exactonce.com/how-it-works

Private beta is free. Happy to answer questions about the DynamoDB implementation or the atomic consume pattern
by Teever | 2026-02-26 19:07:24+00:00
All those things may be true but at the end of the day guys like Jobs and Trump are like oil and water personality wise.

Trump would have invariably said some stupid shit about Jobs publicly or to his face privately and Jobs would have never forgot it and would have obsessed with hurting Trump over it.

For better or worse that's just the kind of guy he was.
by dangond | 2026-02-26 19:07:30+00:00
Costa Rica and Paraguay coverage was added recently (within the last year iirc). The author notes Paraguay as an example of a country that was not yet in the dataset they sourced from.

El Salvador does have a decent amount of coverage on street view, but this was done by El Salvador Maps (if you pan the camera down, you'll see this name on the cars used to capture the coverage). The dataset is curated by a member of the Geoguessr community, in which "unofficial" coverage like this is disregarded, which is why you won't see it included.
by realo | 2026-02-26 19:07:58+00:00
I never heard Russia or China openly say they want to annex-invade Canada.

However, I did hear the USA president say that openly, recently and multiple times.

So pardon me for entirely rejecting your 'Russia+China = BAD, USA = GOOD' narrative.

I would even go as far as saying that today, the most immediate danger to World stability is Donald Trump and his USA, which are not friends to anyone anymore. Let us hope we can survive the next 3 years.
by jamiecode | 2026-02-26 19:08:00+00:00
The text watermarking is the more interesting problem here. Image watermarking is fairly tractable - you can embed a robust signal in spatial or frequency domains. Text watermarking works by biasing token selection at generation time, and detection is a statistical test over that distribution.

Which means short texts are basically useless. A 50-token reply has too little signal for the test to reach any confidence. The original SynthID text paper puts minimum viable detection at a few hundred tokens - so for most real-world cases (emails, short posts, one-liners) it just doesn't work.

The other thing: paraphrase attacks break it. Ask any other model to rewrite watermarked text and the watermark is gone, because you're now sampling from a different distribution. EU compliance built on top of this feels genuinely fragile for anything other than long-form content from controlled providers.
by gibs-dev | 2026-02-26 19:08:30+00:00
Great breakdown. The fail closed point is underappreciated.

I've seen teams bolt on compliance checks as middleware that silently degrades to "allow" on timeout.
That's worse than no check at all because you have a false paper trail.

Are you seeing anyone actually implement hash-chaining in production, or is this still theoretical for most teams?
The regulation requires record-keeping but doesn't specify the technical standard, yet.

The cross-regulation surface is what made me build what I built. DORA Article 19 incident reporting (4 hours) + GDPR Article 33
breach notification (72 hours) + AI Act Article 14 human oversight — hitting all three during a live incident with manual
lookups is not realistic.
That's an API problem, not a legal review problem.

Curious what stack you're using for the audit trail side.

Do share if you want. Dont mind
Show HN: TechGrill – AI Interview Practice
by wasivis | 2026-02-26 19:08:34+00:00
I wanted to simulate the pressure of a real senior-level, cold, brief, and focused on edge cases interview, so I built TechGrill.

The Stack:

- Next.js 15 & Server Actions

- Groq (Llama 3.3 70B): Used for sub-second latency to keep the "grilling" conversational.

-Neon (Postgres) & Drizzle: For transcript persistence.

It handles Junior to Senior levels and generates a performance scorecard after a few questions.

Any feedback is appreciated!
by guerython | 2026-02-26 19:08:44+00:00
Your theory matches what we've seen in production. "Save for later" is an off-policy action unless you make it a completion precondition.

The pattern that improved compliance for us was turning memory into a required finalizer step: task is only considered done after (1) artifact output and (2) a structured observation write with a fixed schema (decision, evidence, failure, next-check). If the second step is missing, a checker agent rejects completion and asks for retry.

Prompting alone stayed flaky. Gating plus an explicit verifier moved behavior from "optional hygiene" to "part of done". Passive extraction is still valuable, but as a safety net instead of the primary path.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-26 19:08:46+00:00
I can give a list of ones I'm studying
CUA (87 and 91 versions)
Awaita
Breeze
Material (primarily 3, but also 2 and 1)
Apples HIG
Microsofts HIG
and Motifs HIG
Some of these aren't technically HIGs and are rather "design-systems" but they all contain the commonality of trying to set up a consistent model for user-interaction in their environment
by crazygringo | 2026-02-26 19:09:04+00:00
We could be... but why? What's the product?

It makes sense they prototyped it. But putting it into production is $$$, way more expensive than current street view.

Current street view works well enough. How is a massively upgraded 3D version, that is bloated and slower to use on older devices, going to make Google more money?

It feels more like a separate product to license to architecture firms, city planners, video game studios, etc.
by nfm | 2026-02-26 19:09:17+00:00
Google Search has no stickiness and they managed to build a behemoth.

ChatGPT is a great product, but the lack of stickiness comes into play because there are many viable alternatives.

They’re all going to have to monetise the consumer segment at some stage, and I think that’s likely to be via ads on a freemium tier in most instances.
by logicprog | 2026-02-26 19:10:32+00:00
Agreed, independent of where the terminology came from, I think if you're trying to promote healthier engagement both for yourself and others using this extension, then not having such adversarial names it's probably a good idea. It should just end up being a sort of web of trust to help you decide what's worth engaging with — and sometimes perfectly valid people that you're not actually enemies with or anything just aren't worth your time engaging with because of fundamental axiological or positional differences.
by theptip | 2026-02-26 19:10:33+00:00
> Tech has been trying to "gobble up" legal, medical, etc for decades

This time it’s different, obviously.

> especially while selling those incumbents access to the same models they are building on.

In the extreme, i think it’s plausible that frontier labs basically stop selling any access to their leading models. Whatever you make available by API will just get distilled. In the vertical integration world, the only way you get access to these models is by contracting with a company to buy a product (requirements in, code/decisions out) rather than direct conversation with the AI.

I don’t think they would unship Opus 4.6, but there isn’t a strong incentive to compete on chatbot intelligence in this world.
by Retric | 2026-02-26 19:10:44+00:00
22 tons are huge busses and overkill unless you actually need that much space, and tend to have 4 axles. ((22 / 4)/(3/2)) ~= 13.5x a heavy SUV but could be replacing 30+ vehicles.

Also that visible ware is noticeable because it hasn’t been replaced. Looking worse when you resurface on the same schedule isn’t an actual cost.
by Apocryphon | 2026-02-26 19:11:02+00:00
The hype cycle of 3D printers has probably plateaued into productivity now. Certainly the Maker movement is alive and well but it's not the hot new thing like it was a decade or a dozen years ago. Makerspaces aren't sprouting like mushrooms like they were before (partly because critical mass was already reached, partly because the pandemic reduction of physicality I'd guess), you don't see gimmicky 3D-printing kiosks at the mall anymore.
by Esophagus4 | 2026-02-26 19:11:18+00:00
You say 5% of users pay like it’s a shockingly bad number, but that’s almost exactly the same as YouTube’s paid subscribers (125m) vs MAUs (2.5b).

Like it or not, OpenAI is building a real business. It’s obviously capital intensive, but we will see how it goes.

And no, the vast majority will not migrate. Just like the vast majority didn’t migrate away from Google after they launched ads.

I don’t get the HN urge to be the contrarian saying “that’ll never work.”
by robtherobber | 2026-02-26 19:11:36+00:00
Precisely. There are even strong arguments to support this take; they speak about a "free market" that simply never existed, an "invisible hand" that supposedly beneficial, the ridiculous belief that competition always improves outcomes, the equation of price with value, the (HN favourite) that profit proves virtue / merit, consumer choice = freedom, and so, so many other unfounded or partially true beliefs.
by Pinkert | 2026-02-26 19:11:53+00:00
One architectural tradeoff we are actively working on right now is the latency of the "Select" step for shorter conversations.

Currently, the open-source version of Librarian uses a general-purpose model to read the summary index and route the relevant messages. It works great for accuracy and drastically cuts token costs, but it does introduce a latency penalty for shorter conversations because it requires an initial LLM inference step before your actual agent can respond.

To solve this, we are currently training a heavily quantized, fine-tuned model specifically optimized only for this context-selection task. The goal is to push the selection latency below 1 second so the entire pipeline feels completely transparent. (We have a waitlist up for this hosted version on the site).

If anyone here has experience fine-tuning smaller models (like Llama 3 or Mistral) strictly for high-speed classification/routing over context indexes, I'd love to hear what pitfalls we should watch out for.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 19:11:56+00:00
>All signs point to Trump and Jobs becoming thick-as-thieves. Sorry.

Yep, this. We're talking about a guy who basically abandoned his biological daughter, had his stuff manufactured by slave labor in factories with suicide nets to save costs and increase shareholder value, and GP imagines Steve Jobs as this leftist freedom fighter that would fight Trump instead of work together with him to increase profits even further. People's delul, historical revisionism of people who were just cutthroat unscrupulous businessmen at the end of the day, saddens me.

We can agree has was good at business, without trying to whitewash him as some humanitarian saint.

Don't worship people you never knew personally as some sort of heroes because you never know. For all we know he could have been a client on some else's island, like Steven Hawking.
by guerython | 2026-02-26 19:12:13+00:00
We’re seeing both in production, but mostly in regulated orgs where auditability is part of procurement.

Common implementation is append-only event log + periodic Merkle root anchoring (internal TSA or external timestamp service). Not blockchain, just verifiable ordering + immutability proofs during audits.

Agree with your API point. The practical win is prebuilt control mappings (AI Act articles -> concrete checks + evidence fields) so incident response is data retrieval, not policy interpretation under time pressure.
Show HN: Bingo Caller Pro – Offline 75/90 Ball Bingo Host
by 1derfool | 2026-02-26 19:12:22+00:00
I built an offline-first bingo caller app for hosting 75-ball and 90-ball games without physical cages or printed boards.

It started as a simple number generator for family game nights, but evolved into a full hosting tool with:

Professional voice calling (multiple personalities)

TV/projector display mode

Digital player cards via QR

Hex-based number verification to reduce disputes

Rollback for incorrect calls

9 language support

The app works completely offline and uses a secure RNG. No tracking, no data collection.

Would love feedback on usability, performance, or feature ideas.

Google Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bingosurf....
by alexgarden | 2026-02-26 19:12:43+00:00
Vibe coding hardware. Nice.

Super cool idea, and I like the hierarchy view - looks like SolidWorks / OnShape, but your UI's pretty flaky; it keeps chasing the solution. If you could make that part more robust, it would be more fun. I did enjoy my "anthropomorphize a unicorn taking off in flight like Superman" model. Does ordering actually work, or is this still a test?