MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ls612 | 2026-02-15 20:35:41+00:00
I’m going to go against the pessimism here and say that this is the US not Europe or the UK and the First Amendment has teeth. There’s ample Supreme Court precedent that anonymous speech is a protected right (Talley vs CA, Macintyre vs Ohio, etc) so I’d expect efforts like this to flounder in the courts if push came to shove.
by viraptor | 2026-02-15 20:35:45+00:00
I see how it could be an actual psychosis, but I read it as full of rhetorical questions / observations / figurative speech. For example "is sugar the enemy?" could easily be a commentary on having to choose between unhealthy calories and having not enough when offered free meal. Paranoia and purgatory is phrasing often used by people for more fancy descriptions rather than literal.
by maxbond | 2026-02-15 20:35:55+00:00
Have you ever gone through a stop sign without coming to a complete stop? Was that dishonesty?

You can absolutely lie through omission, I just don't see evidence that that is a better hypothesis than corner cutting in this particular case. I am open to more evidence coming out. I wouldn't be shocked to hear in a few days that there was other bad behavior from this author. I just don't see those facts in evidence, at this moment. And I think calling it malice departs from the facts in evidence.

Presumably keeping to the facts in evidence is important to us all, right? That's why we all acknowledge this as a significant problem?
by scotty79 | 2026-02-15 20:35:57+00:00
Overproduction is not an issue. The issue is that they damage unsold things instead selling them for a market price dictated by supply and demand.

This is not only clothing and apparel, also sporting goods and many other items.

This should be forbidden across all industries. Unsold stock should be delivered to non-profits at no cost for further distribution.

If you can't prove that you either sold or transfer to non-profit an item you manufactured then you should be fined for each unaccounted item proportionally to their market price.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-15 20:36:54+00:00
> It's _your_ job to understand the basics

I feel like this line of thinking is dangerous: people hit the wall hard when they don’t have sex ed, or financial education classes, or even basic classes on how to cook or do crafts (we had those in school, girls mostly cooked and the guys got to learn woodworking but also swapped sometimes; and later in university there were classes about work safety in general), or computer literacy classes.

I think a lot of people don’t even have basic mental models of how OSes or the Internet works, what a web browser is (“the Google”) and so on.

Saying that they should know that stuff won’t change the fact that they don’t unless you teach them as a part of their overall education.
by coliveira | 2026-02-15 20:37:10+00:00
No, we know very well how they operate. They're paid to get all kinds of sensitive information from governments and other institutions around the world and store it in their very "secure" data centers. Once there, the US government can easily get any of that information for "national security reasons", because how would they say otherwise, and the Israeli government can do the same as well without even announcing anything, because how would the US government ever say "no" to them... It's all just obvious at this point.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-15 20:37:36+00:00
Right, if you look at PDF files from Internet Archive, they're usually compressed with MRC (Mixed Raster Content).

IIRC each page has three layers:

- background (jpeg, color)

- foreground (jbig2, monochrome maybe?)

- mask (indicating whether foreground or background should be shown at this point)

https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
by danaris | 2026-02-15 20:37:55+00:00
> That's not how it works.

Some places.

> It's standard op nowadays to lock out terminated employees before they even walk in the door.

Some places.

You're speaking very authoritatively about what's "standard", in a way that strongly implies you think this is either the way absolutely everyone does it, or the way it should be done.

It's standard op nowadays to acknowledge that your experiences are not universal, and that different organizations operate differently.
by sigwinch | 2026-02-15 20:38:22+00:00
At this security conference, Zelenskyy was able to talk about the secrecy of the Anchorage meeting last August. Putin dominated that meeting; mostly without an interpreter. And there was no ceasefire, no progress from Europe’s point of view, so security observers must conclude that Russia prefers the status quo and directed Trump to do the same.

If the US Secretary of State is going to tell Europe about Russia, they reminded him that Spicy/Venomous Pepe memes have escaped.
by dynm | 2026-02-15 20:38:43+00:00
What I find puzzling about these proposals is that it SEEMS like they could be designed to achieve 90% of the stated goals with almost 0% of the loss of privacy.

The idea would be that devices could "opt in" to safety rather than opt out. Allow parents to purchase a locked-down device that always includes a "kids" flag whenever it requests online information, and simply require online services to not provide kid-unfriendly information if that flag is included.

I know a lot of people believe that this is just all just a secret ploy to destroy privacy. Personally, I don't think so. I think they genuinely want to protect kids, and the privacy destruction is driven by a combination of not caring and not understanding.
by delichon | 2026-02-15 20:39:29+00:00
Imagine a future news environment where oodles of different models are applied to fact check most stories from most major sources. The markup from each one is aggregated and viewable.

A lot of the results would be predictable partisan takes and add no value. But in a case like this where the whole conversation is public, the inclusion of fabricated quotes would become evident. Certain classes of errors would become lucid.

Ars Technica blames an over reliance on AI tools and that is obviously true. But there is a potential for this epistemic regression to be an early stage of spiral development, before we learn to leverage AI tools routinely to inspect every published assertion. And then use those results to surface false and controversial ones for human attention.
by dang | 2026-02-15 20:40:06+00:00
Trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN, so we've banned this account*. If you want to pick a different username that isn't trollish, we can rename the account and unban it. It would be best to email hn@ycombinator.com for this, to make sure we get the message.

(It would have been better for us to catch this sooner, but in this case someone had to explain the name to me. Out of respect for HN's many Francophone readers, I think it's best to apply the rule.)

* https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by gus_massa | 2026-02-15 20:40:22+00:00
The orbital of a single atom have a simple closed formula.

H2 is harder, you must determine the distance, make some aproximations and solve the problem that is like the eigenvalues of a matrix, and there is no closed form

With more atoms/electrons the matrix gets exponentialy bigger. Without too many aproximations, probably water is the biggest one you can solve.

If you want something bigger like most molecules in biology, you must do more aproximations. If you want to go down the rabit hole, try googling DFT.
by piskov | 2026-02-15 20:41:11+00:00
2015 is good enough.

For example instead of grid center, one can use flex and margin auto.

If you are building really nation-wide products, there are still a lot of guys in corporate with old windows (where even chrome stopped updating like win7). Or, you know, old or poor people with PC from 2008.

Also don’t forget guys with mobile phones: not like one could easily install a browser there. Especially on phones which no longer receive updates.

So writing CSS like it is 2015 is great.

Otherwise you’ll get humbled by your clients soon enough. And in corporate they won’t even be your clients unless you support old stuff: IE 11 is a great target if you really want to shine.
by tadfisher | 2026-02-15 20:42:15+00:00
There's network effects and then there's core competencies. OpenAI has not demonstrated their ability to create software that is not a primary use case for LLMs. Chat is absolutely not a primary use case for LLMs, and so far LLMs have been sold as a value-add for traditional software.

The argument that OpenAI has the critical mass to dethrone Slack can be made for just about any other product with an 800-pound gorilla market leader. Windows, Office, Photoshop/Premier, Search, GMail, Figma, etc. Thus far, we have yet to see OpenAI build anything like these at scale, and there's no reason to assume their successes in the LLM space will translate.

I agree that they should build killer apps like these, because they are at extreme risk of being commoditized by smaller, better, faster genAI systems, but I don't think anything they do currently shows that they can.
by zh3 | 2026-02-15 20:42:22+00:00
The light is produced by electrons combining with holes, so the size of the material doesn't come into it (unlike an antenna). I've personally pushed* a single rubidium atom about in a quantum computer and watched it move by emitted light.

* Ok, actually pressed buttons that manipulated the electric field that was trapping the atom and watched the result on a display - lot of physics going on behind the scenes.
by 13415 | 2026-02-15 20:42:23+00:00
What the US Supreme Court decides is much less relevant than it used to be because the US executive can and will simply ignore the decision. If anyone in the US administration breaks the law, they can be pardoned by the US president,if the president breaks the law, he's immune against prosecution based on a previous decision of the Supreme Court, and no court can enforce anything if the executive doesn't comply with the court order.
by kakacik | 2026-02-15 20:42:52+00:00
Shocking? Why such drama? Is this AI text?

I don't see anything shocking here. Corporations doing corporatey things, which is maximizing profits and that can easily literally mean destroying unconsumed stuff since it would cost them 2 cents more per tonne to ship it and sell someplace cheaper. Ever heard the term economies of scale for example? Those distort many things in money flows.

Those corporations don't give a fuck about mankind, environment, future, long term stuff etc. Any approach to similar topics which gives them benefit of the doubt is dangerously naive and misguided from the start. It's up to society to enforce rules if its healthy and strong enough. Some are better off, some worse.
by rockskon | 2026-02-15 20:43:10+00:00
Did I say to provide feedback to the Trump administration - an entity that has not made an official stance on this matter?

No.

I said your state Attorney General's office and your elected federal Senators and members of the House.

So I reiterate - the worst that can happen is you don't change where things have been going to.

The best? Your elected officials bow out of this.
by maxbond | 2026-02-15 20:44:19+00:00
> I don't believe there is any greater journalistic malpractice than fabrication. Sure, there are worse cases of such malpractice...

That's more or less what I mean. It was only a few notches above listicle to begin with. I don't think they intended to fabricate quotes. I think they didn't take the necessary time because it's a low-stakes, low-quality article to begin with. With a short shelf life, so it's only valuable if published quickly.

> I also do not believe this was a genuine result of incompetence.

So your hypothesis is that they intentionally made up quotes that were pretty obviously going to be immediately spotted and damage their career? I don't think you think that, but I don't understand what the alternative you're proposing is.

I also feel compelled to point out you've abandoned your claim that the article was generated. I get that you feel passionately about this, and you're right to be passionate about accuracy, but I think that may be leading you into ad-hoc argumentation rather than more rational appraisal of the facts. I think there's a stronger and more coherent argument for your position that you've not taken the time to flesh out. That isn't really a criticism and it isn't my business, but I do think you ought to be aware of it.

I really want to stress that I don't think you're wrong to feel as you do and the author really did fuck up. I just feel we, as a community in this thread, are imputing things beyond what is in evidence and I'm trying to push back on that.
Show HN: Triad Engine beats Claude 4.6 (100% vs. 45%) on Rome cultural benchmark
by MysticBirdie | 2026-02-15 20:44:46+00:00
Live MVP at airtrek.ai - Ancient Rome therapist with 3 voiced characters (senator, noblewoman, merchant).

Benchmark proves cultural grounding: Triad 100% vs Claude 4.6 45% on 222q anachronism test.

Public: eval framework + 20 sample questions
Gated: full research dataset (airtrek.ai/research)

Cultural intelligence that frontier models fail.

Feedback welcome!
by ebiester | 2026-02-15 20:44:50+00:00
Tenure, in this case, is rewarded by not being laid off - because this person had old knowledge and friends with people who were in power and knew them from earlier in the company.

It absolutely does happen. But I have also seen people rise through the ranks by just being there long enough and being competent. That said, it is not a way to maximize wage growth or general career progress by any stretch.
by lapcat | 2026-02-15 20:45:07+00:00
> You're speaking very authoritatively about what's "standard", in a way that strongly implies you think this is either the way absolutely everyone does it, or the way it should be done.

Neither. I just meant it's common.

The comment I replied to said, "they may need to wait for office staff to return to begin the process."

I think the commonality of the practice shows that Ars Technica doesn't need to wait for office staff to return to begin the process, if office staff is even gone in the first place (again, Ars Technica appears to be open for business today). There's certainly no legal reason why they'd need to wait to fire people.

Does Ars Technica have a "policy" to only fire people on weekdays? I doubt it. Imagine reading that in the employee handbook.

Besides, President's Day is not a holiday that businesses necessarily close for. Indeed, many retailers are open and have specific President's Day sales.
by Animats | 2026-02-15 20:45:56+00:00
> This language moves beyond platform-level age gates and toward infrastructure embedded directly into hardware or operating systems.

This is lurching toward what the US military calls the Common Access Card. This is a security token carried by most US military. It's used for everything from logins to building access to meals.[1]

Merely having a Common Access Card doesn't allow access to anything. The system reading it has to recognize the identity. So there are lots of databases of who's allowed to do what.

Is that where we're going?

[1] https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-15 20:46:10+00:00
It’s honestly terrifying. I’m in the PNW and we haven’t had winter yet. Extremely low snowpack in the mountains and not even a single day below freezing where I live.

I’ve been observing the change for the past 10 years or so here and this is the first year that’s it’s been so “in your face” obvious instead of just subtle changes and effects.

If this is our new normal winter and/or gets rapidly worse we will have a major water crisis sooner than anyone is ready for.

Climate change needs to be the number one focus and policy for every nation on earth right now. Not AI, not economic growth, not wars.
by robby_w_g | 2026-02-15 20:46:37+00:00
It’s more that many adult citizens (and increasing every year) have grown up with the patriot act and liberties being stripped away in the name of security.

I talked with cousins about it 8 years ago and I got laughed at as a conspiracy nut for saying that our personal data will be used against us if we allow it. People either don’t understand or don’t care because they’ve grown comfortable with it.
by mrandish | 2026-02-15 20:46:58+00:00
I was wondering the same thing. After I posted above, I followed the archive.org link to the original article and did a quick search on the last four quotes, which the article claims are from Scott's blog. None appear on the linked blog page. The first quote the article claims is from Scott does appear on the linked Github comments page.

When I wrote my post above, I hadn't yet read the original article on achive.org. Now that I know the article actually links to the claimed original sources on Scott's blog and Github for all the fabricated quotes, how this could have happened is even more puzzling. Now I think this may be much more interesting than just another case of "lazy reporter uses LLM to write article".

Ars appears to use an automated tool which adds text links to articles to increase traffic to any related articles already on Ars. If that tool is now LLM-based to allow auto-generating links based on concepts instead of just keywords, perhaps it mistakenly has unconstrained access to changing other article text! If so, it's possible the author and even the editors may not be at fault. The blame could be on the Ars publisher's using LLM's to automate monetization processes downstream of editorial. Which might explain the non-standard vague retraction. If so, that would make for an even more newsworthy article that's directly within Ars' editorial focus.
by peterfirefly | 2026-02-15 20:47:00+00:00
> I wouldn't have stopped at apparel, but it's a start.

They didn't. You can look at the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) yourself. It's fairly long but it should be easy to scroll until you find some of the lists.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1781/oj/eng
by zahlman | 2026-02-15 20:47:17+00:00
They need to do way instain chip> which corrupt thier data, becuse these data cant fright back? It was on the news this mroing a motherboard in pc which had flip its three bits, they are taking the three data back to new file too era to correct. my parity are with the process which lost its ingetrity ; i am truley sorry for your lots
by acdha | 2026-02-15 20:47:25+00:00
Those aren’t loopholes and are widely known? I mean, they have an entire E2EE iCloud feature giving customers a choice between security and convenience:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756

RCS has never offered that security guarantee at the protocol level. Google has deployed a proprietary encryption layer on top but refuses to allow other clients access. This was rather famously part of the blue/green message divide which was in the news for years.

Similarly push notifications have had privacy recommendations for ages - that’s why apps like Signal give users the option to choose their level of risk exposure.
by btown | 2026-02-15 20:49:15+00:00
Even if contractors/intermediaries consider themselves bound by HIPAA, the protections are lighter than one would think, in the political environment we find ourselves in.

Notably (though I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice) - https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/part-164/section-164.5... describing "similar process authorized under law... material to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry" without any notion of scoping this to individuals vs. broad inquiries, seems to give an incredibly broad basis for Palantir to be asked to spin up a dashboard with PII for any query desired for the administration's political agenda. This could happen at any time in the future, with full retroactive data, across entire hospital systems, complete with an order not to reveal the program's existence to the public.

Other tech companies have seen this kind of generalized overreach as both legally risky and destructive to their brand, and have tried to fight this where possible. Palantir, of course, is the paragon of fighting on behalf of citizens, and would absolutely try to... I can't even finish this joke, I'm laughing too hard.

I'm old enough to remember we literally had a Captain America movie, barely more than a decade ago, where the villains turn private PII and health data into targeting lists. (No flying aircraft carriers were injured in the filming of this movie.)

Clearly, we learned the wrong lesson there.
by apsurd | 2026-02-15 20:49:29+00:00
AI got it from people though.

I too am saddened by the instant-polish marketing pages everyone and their grandma deploys to Render, but also some people at some point in time really did make these effects. And they are nice. HTML based UIs will always have a place in my heart.

Btw: actually I think webflow did more to pump this stuff out to the masses. The animate on scroll being the biggest offender. It's so good, but not for every literal text paragraph on your local bakery's website.
by jtbayly | 2026-02-15 20:50:28+00:00
It is correct that the business expects that your time and energy is worth more to them than it is to you. Profit.

But then literally every trade between two people—trading four sheep for one cow, say—is exploitation in both directions. I expect to benefit more from the product I receive than I can profit from what I give away. I have plenty of milk but need some wool for clothes. But to improve my own situation is somehow to abuse the other person!?

You’ve seemingly declared every form of economic transaction immoral.
by djkurlander | 2026-02-15 20:50:42+00:00
My $6.75 per year vps was a Dedirock Black Friday sale that I found https://lowendtalk.com. https://cheapvpsbox.com/ reports several nice Los Angeles sales still going on from various providers. My London, Tokyo, and Amsterdam VPSs are holiday sales from RareCloud and Racknerd - all less than $19/year.
by acdha | 2026-02-15 20:50:57+00:00
Uh, that’s how he likes to style himself but that’s more of an ideological stance than you’re complaining about. A true focus on truth and defense of the public would have included questions like “are the Russians totally unbiased in feeding me this information?” or “am I serving the public by refusing to admit I made a mistake and repeated untrue claims which were highly beneficial to the political party who amplified my claims?”
Restty = libghostty-vt and text-shaper and WebGPU
by wiedymi | 2026-02-15 20:51:14+00:00
Powerful, lightweight web terminal. Batteries included. Powered by libghostty-vt, WebGPU, and text-shaper.

GitHub: https://github.com/wiedymi/restty
Demo: https://restty.pages.dev
by kakacik | 2026-02-15 20:51:20+00:00
What you say can be true while what I say is valid in the same time. US gov is currently very hostile to whole Europe, way more than say to China and I don't see any option for a change in this in future. This is the approach US population prefers.

If we here use such tech, maybe we need to come up with our own (just FFS don't buy israeli stuff if we want to have any higher moral ground), its not magic just data analytics. And to be frank, I am more than happy if we don't have such capabilities, we have much more serious topics to focus on like russia probably starting another war in Baltics in few years - thats a real mortal enemy, not some left wing dissidents (unless heavily manipulated by russians but then you don't need palantir's solutions).
by aSidorenkoCode | 2026-02-15 20:51:27+00:00
I made a benchmark on the top tier models as this is not the case in the article. Also I did several cases and the result is self speaking. Hashline is not an improvement that speaks for itself. It is the overhead of harness itself in tool descriptions and schemas. Here are my benchmark results and also my repo for a plugin to truely reduce token usage in top tier models: https://github.com/ASidorenkoCode/openslimedit