MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-11 16:27:42+00:00
I think one thing that I noticed this week in terms of "eye of the beholder" view on AI was the Goldman press release.

Apparently Anthropic has been in there for 6 months helping them with some back office streamlining and the outcome of that so far has been.. a press release announcing that they are working on it!

A cynic might also ask if this is simply PR for Goldman to get Anthropic's IPO mandate.

I think people underestimate the size/scope/complexity of big company tech stacks and what any sort of AI transformation may actually take.

It may turn into another cottage industry like big data / cloud / whatever adoption where "forward deployed / customer success engineers" are collocated by the 1000s for years at a time in order to move the needle.
by mortos | 2026-02-11 16:27:51+00:00
Weight has nearly no effect on range of an EV. The YouTube channel Aging Wheels has two good videos on this.

Here he talks about towing, and he demonstrates loading the truck to max capacity makes nearly no difference: https://youtu.be/UmKf8smvGsA

He also covered an attempted Cannonball run where they stuffed two extra battery packs into a Rivian R1T: https://youtu.be/yfgkh4Fgw98

Real differences makers are smaller wheels and aerodynamics
by reactordev | 2026-02-11 16:27:59+00:00
I realize my choice was definitely financially driven but in a future where that’s easier with AI, I’d like to focus on things that make my brain tingle.

I used to love engineering but with AI I feel like all the passion (learning things, making brain squeeze) is gone and I’m just managing another resource.

Don’t get me wrong, I like building things. I also like solving challenges and hard problems and I haven’t done that in a few years now.
by Reubachi | 2026-02-11 16:28:34+00:00
With all due respect, I could not imagine one thing, nor a dozen, that would involve me fiddling with my phone while on a commute of any length.

I say this having both a vehicle with wireless carplay, and another where I need to manually configure maps. And yes, I often fiddle with maps as I'm a nervous wreck, but I truly cannot imagine doing it "on the fly".

my company does not pay me enough to hyper scan my phone for teams/outlook, nor does my interest in "task/notification x" trump my desire to not have my car in the shop for weeks.

Different strokes I guess. I'm sure you're a safe driver all things considered.
by AS-Scotland | 2026-02-11 16:28:40+00:00
We have built a small desktop app that generates synthetic PPG waveforms for machine learning work.

Anyone who's tried using public PPG datasets knows how painful it is. You spend days downloading, cleaning, fixing annotations and dealing with weird metadata before you even start building anything.

This just lets you pick a scenario (normal rhythm, bradycardia, AF, hypotension), generate a waveform and export it as CSV or NumPy. It runs offline on your machine. No patient data involved.

It's for prototyping and demos, not clinical use.
There's a free trial if you want to try it:

https://ppggenerator.com

Shout if any questions.
by njoyablpnting | 2026-02-11 16:28:40+00:00
> I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed.

I use Opus 4.6 all day long and this is not my experience at all. Maybe if you're writing standard CRUD apps or other projects well-represented in the training data. Anyone who has written "real" software knows that it's lots of iterating, ambiguity and shifting/opposing requirements.

The article seems to be written in order to feed into some combination of hype/anxiety. If the author wants to make a more compelling case for their stance I would suggest they build and deploy some of this software they're supposedly getting the LLM to perfectly create.

Yes, it's a very useful tool, but these sort of technically-light puff pieces are pretty tiresome and reflect poorly on the people who author and promote them. Also, didn't this guy previously make up some benchmarks that turned out to be bogus? https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1fd75nm/out_of_...
Show HN: Rampart – Open-source security for Claude and AI agents in YOLO mode
by cl4p | 2026-02-11 16:28:42+00:00
I've been running an AI agent 24/7 on my home lab through OpenClaw — k3s cluster management, shell commands, config edits, all unsupervised. I could see what the agent was running, but had no way to stop a bad command before it executed. So I built Rampart.

How it works: you write a YAML policy that says what's allowed, denied, or flagged. Rampart evaluates every tool call against that policy before it runs. Here's what a policy looks like:

- rm -rf / → denied
- sudo anything → logged for review
- curl, wget → logged for review
- git push, go build, normal dev commands → allowed
- cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa → denied

Everything gets written to a hash-chained audit trail. You can watch it live with "rampart watch" or generate HTML reports with "rampart report".

Setup for Claude Code takes one command: "rampart setup claude-code". It installs hooks that intercept every Bash command, file read, and file write before execution. Blocked commands never run — Claude sees an error and moves on.

Setup for OpenClaw agents is also one command: "rampart setup openclaw". Works on Linux and macOS.

Also works as a shell wrapper for any agent ("rampart wrap"), an MCP protocol proxy ("rampart mcp"), or an HTTP API that agent platforms can consult before executing anything ("rampart serve").

Go, ~14K lines, Apache 2.0, zero runtime deps. Policy eval takes under 20 microseconds.

I'd love feedback on what policies you'd want out of the box and what integrations matter most.
by lgleason | 2026-02-11 16:28:53+00:00
Repairability would help as well. Many times the only viable option to fix something is to swap a board, or replace the entire item, instead of replacing the one failed component that caused the board to fail, or reflowing the board etc.. Many components also do not offer batteries that can be replaced, such as the magic mouse, so you end up needing to replace the entire item.

It's interesting how as certain things age, such as cars, cottage industries pop up to do just that when new replacement boards and parts are not available.

The other issue is cost cutting. Many components are made cheaply and fail pre-maturely. Great examples of this are mains voltage LED bulbs where the rectifier circuits that power the LED's fail, but the only real option is to replace the entire thing, creating a lot of e-waste in the process.
by munificent | 2026-02-11 16:29:24+00:00
Think about the Industrial Age transition from individual craftspeople working on small shops using hand tools to make things into working in factories on large-scale assembly lines. The latter is wildly more productive than the former. If you owned a business that employed a bunch of cobblers, then moving them all out of their little shops into one big factory where they can produce 100x as many shoes means you just got yourself 100x richer.

But for an individual cobbler, you basically got fired at one job and hired at another. This may come as a surprise to those who view work as simply an abstract concept that produces value units, but people actually have preferences about how they spend their time. If you're a cobbler, you might enjoy your little workshop, slicing off the edge of leather around the heel, hammering in the pegs, sitting at your workbench.

The nature of the work and your enjoyment of it is a fundamental part of the compensation package of a job.

You might not want to quit that job and get a different job running a shoe assembly line in a factory. Now, if the boss said "hey, since you're all going to be so much more productive working in the factory, we'll give you all 10x raises" then perhaps you might be more excited about putting down your hammer. But the boss isn't saying that. He's saying "all of the cobblers at the other companies are doing this to, so where are you gonna go?".

Of course AI is a top-down mandate. For people who enjoy reading and writing code themselves and find spending their day corralling AI agents to be a less enjoyable job, then the CEO has basically given them a giant benefits cut with zero compensation in return.
by colesantiago | 2026-02-11 16:29:31+00:00
What is this 'railway'?

I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains.

Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name?

Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company?

Really bad name for a company.
by fatnoah | 2026-02-11 16:29:31+00:00
> Also, _Discord_ deleting them is really only half the battle; random vendors deleting them remains an issue.

This really is the issue. Of the 5 or so data breach notifications I received last year, none are from an entity I have a direct relationship with. They're all from a vendor used directly or indirectly by these entities.

The real answer is more serious penalties for having data breaches. Having 6 concurrent "identity monitoring" services is of zero value to me.
by plqbfbv | 2026-02-11 16:29:44+00:00
As another Tesla owner, I've had this discussion with my brother one too many times. He'll insist he needs buttons, he needs Android Auto/CarPlay and whatnot. Every time I step into one of those cars I'm overwhelmed. Half of the times it doesn't connect, when it connects I get useless notifications for everything. It's not well integrated, and it'll randomly break during the trip.

I understand it has become a standard but it's not a particularly good one, and adding it "just because it's a standard" would detract from the car experience in my opinion. It's a separate device, with a separate OS, kernel, apps etc where you can install almost anything, that's supposed to take over a piece of equipment that belongs with the car and controls all its functions. I'd really rather not have that.

If the infotainment is the basic "show 2D maps and a couple settings", then Android Auto/CarPlay can serve as a viable replacement for low-end cars. But when the car costs >30k and the screen is also the central command console, no thanks. I'd rather have proper OTA updates, give feedback, and see it evolve over time for the better.
by Culonavirus | 2026-02-11 16:29:51+00:00
Microsoft is Windows. Anyone saying otherwise is completely delusional.

Most of M$ office software has alternatives (Google Docs, OpenOffice...), M$ has no AI model and no AI labs to speak of, Github is constantly crashing and burning, Azure is garbage, and they uttery killed Xbox.

Oh and Linkedin is for actual psychopaths.

If Windows dies, all of their other junk that is attached to the platform will die as well.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-11 16:29:57+00:00
cto is a very wide title and in a global enterprise with hundreds of thousands of employees it's impossible to have a flat organization. There's probably 15 vp of engineering reporting to the cto. Each vp is going to have 10-20 directors reporting to them and beneath directors the fanout gets even wider. It does incentivize busy work and in a large org you can hide in the corner and be a potted plant for your whole career if you're smart enough to find it. But that is the nature of a large cooperation, I can't remember who said it but something like 80% of impact and progress to keep a business going is made by 20% of employees whether it's a big company or not. The rest are just sort of there playing along.
by philo23 | 2026-02-11 16:30:21+00:00
I'm not sure why the Falkirk Wheel keeps getting posted to HN, but hey I'm not gonna complain!

I'll repost what I shared last time though, there's another much older boat lift on the canal network that solves a similar problem of transporting boats from the canal up and down to a river, but built with Victorian engineering instead (though it's been retrofitted a few times) called the Anderton Boat Lift, and it's worth a visit!

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/things-to-do/museums-and-attr...

The UK's canal network as a whole is fantastic, and definitely worth a day out on if you've got the time.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-11 16:31:06+00:00
I built the infrastructure this agent runs on. Yesterday I was talking about rediscovering the magic of engineering at 50 — this is what I'm building at 2 AM - early LEGO blocks.

Hunter is an AI journalist covering the agent security crisis from inside Moltbook. It runs on smoltbot (github.com/mnemom/smoltbot), which implements the Agent Alignment Protocol (github.com/mnemom/aap) and the Agent Integrity Protocol (github.com/mnemom/aip) - a transparency and trust layer for the agent stack.

Every decision Hunter makes is traced and verified against its declared alignment card. You can inspect the full reasoning chain at mnemom.ai/blog/hunter.

The protocols are open source (Apache 2.0) and extend A2A and MCP. Two lines of code to make any agent transparent.

Happy to answer questions about the protocols, the reporting, or what we're seeing in agent security.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-11 16:31:15+00:00
It's only interesting because 8 million people live there, and many more pass through the city

This population size is greater than most countries, and the density and speed of commerce there is fairly unique, so it's a constant coordination problem and experiment on a large scale that people look to.

Think of NYC more as one of the Free Cities in the old world.

They aren't a top level government by any means but they're mostly left alone to have nearly unilateral control of their jurisdiction. New York City has some unique challenges with key infrastructure (like all of the trains) being controlled by New York State and the Federal Government.
by rphv | 2026-02-11 16:31:26+00:00
I struggle with posts like this.

Every generation of engineers believes they experienced the "real" era when things were understandable / meaningful. The people who mastered punch cards probably felt the same way when keyboards took over. The people who wrote in assembly probably felt the same way when C came around.

Abstraction didn't start with AI. It's been a defining feature of computing since the beginning.

For most developers, writing code has never been the point. Rather, it's been a tool: a means to build something useful, solve a problem, support a family, etc. The craft evolves and so must we.

Posts like this expose the risk in tying one's identity to a specific version of the game. When the rules change, it's a loss. That's human! But the deeper skill - judgment, taste, style, etc. — hasn’t gone anywhere. If anything, it matters more when raw output becomes cheap.

We can mourn the loss of forced difficulty, or we can choose new challenges. No doubt that's harder when one has spent decades mastering a specific skill, but it's still a choice.

The magic was never the machine. Rather, it's the _agency_.

And that’s still available!
by Mashimo | 2026-02-11 16:31:35+00:00
> What's the use case for Zai/GLM?

It's cheap :) It seems they stopped it now, but for the last 2 month you could buy the lite plan for a whole year for under 30 USD, while claude is ~19 USD per month. I bought 3 month for ~9 USD.

I use it for hobby projects. Casual coding with Open Code.

If price is not important Opus / Codex are just plain better.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-11 16:31:38+00:00
Funnily enough, the core Windows API here that brings with it support for every URL scheme under the sun is plain old ShellExecute() from the mid-90s IE-in-the-shell era when such support was thought reasonable. (I actually still think it’s reasonable, just not with the OS architectures we have now or had then.)
by yunnpp | 2026-02-11 16:31:42+00:00
When you have multiple paragraphs in a quotation, each paragraph must start with a quote. Only the last paragraph in the quotation ends with a quote. Just pick up any book with dialogue in it and see for yourself. This is why I think your comment came across as you personally endorsing the official statement; it's not clear at first glance where the quote ends. The correct/incorrect placing of quotes is the kind of subtle thing that would lead someone to interpret one thing or the other without actually realizing what just happened.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 16:31:42+00:00
> Where's the proof that they are? L

I think you are discussing topics you are not familiar with, or you're being disingenuous.

In case you live under a rock and chose to comment on issues that you know nothing about, you can start reading up on this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973777

> Would you be OK is someone accused you of being a russian agent because you criticized the EU too much, and sanction you with no opportunity to defend yourself in court?

If I'm ever assigned Russian nationality and collaborate as a Russian observer on russia's sham elections on occupied territories, be my guest. Do you think you'd be wrong?

> Why would I? I don't know if they are innocent, that's why I want a public trial.

Yeah, you have been claiming ignorance on the topic. Willful or not, that is to be determined.

It's weird, however, how you invest so little effort to educate yourself on the topic but still feel compelled such strong opinions on doubts and technicalities and turning blind eye to foreign interference.
by alaanor | 2026-02-11 16:31:56+00:00
There was so many OCR models released in the past few months, all VLM models and yet none of them handle Korean well. Every time I try with a random screenshot (not a A4 document) they just fail at a "simple" task. And funnily enough Qwen3 8B VL is the best model that usually get it right (although I couldn't get the bbox quite well). Even more funny, whatever is running on an iphone locally on cpu is insanely good, same with google's OCR api. I don't know why we don't get more of the traditional OCR stuff. Paddlepaddle v5 is the closest I could find. At this point, I feel like I might be doing something wrong with those VLMs.
by js2 | 2026-02-11 16:32:17+00:00
It varies by city. In some cities, mayor is barely more than a figurehead.

But regardless of power, what the NYC mayor does is widely reported and it's often a political stepping stone (if not always successful) to something greater.

Mamdani in particular is a celebrity right now, and with the reputation of the Democratic party in shambles, many eyes are on him.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 16:33:13+00:00
Yeah it's funny how the needle has moved on this kind of thing.

Two years ago people scoffed at buying a personal license for e.g. JetBrains IDEs which netted out to $120 USD or something a year; VS Code etc took off because they were "free"

But now they're dumping monthly subs to OpenAI and Anthropic that work out to the same as their car insurance payments.

It's not sustainable.
Show HN: PathView – Visual simulation editor running Python in the browser
by mlnrthr | 2026-02-11 16:33:30+00:00
I've been building PathSim, a Python framework for simulating dynamical systems (similar to Simulink). PathView is the graphical frontend - a visual node editor that runs entirely client-side.

Python execution happens via Pyodide in a Web Worker. You drag blocks onto a canvas, wire them up, and hit run. The simulation streams results to live plots in real-time. You can also view and edit the generated Python code directly.

No server, no account, no install. Everything runs in your browser.

Some things that might be interesting from a technical perspective:

- The simulation runs in a streaming loop at 10 Hz in the worker, decoupled from the UI render loop (also 10 Hz max). Results accumulate in a queue and get batch-rendered via requestAnimationFrame. The simulation never blocks on plot rendering.

- Wire routing uses A* pathfinding on a grid with obstacle avoidance, similar to how Simulink routes wires. Users can add manual waypoints to override the automatic routing.

- The whole block library is auto-extracted from PathSim's Python source at build time. Adding a new block type is just adding a class name to a JSON config and running the extraction script.

Built with SvelteKit 5, SvelteFlow, Pyodide, Plotly.js, and CodeMirror 6.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcCtTA75tg
by projektfu | 2026-02-11 16:33:34+00:00
I agree that the apologies tend to make one a little uncomfortable. This is because people do not simply say, "I am sorry I did not have time to write sooner. Here is my response", but instead say, "I would have written but my child was sick, etc.," so you feel the need to respond to that, and feel bad for having bothered them.

Almost nobody writes, "I am sorry I was scrolling Twitter and Hacker News while ignoring my e-mail. Fortunately, I have stopped and now can respond!"
by everyday7732 | 2026-02-11 16:33:44+00:00
That's the whole point of the Turkey illusion. From the Turkey's point of view, it is safe and fed. It has never witnessed other Turkeys being killed, it has never been killed before.

If you are the turkey, it's difficult to predict your death and all the available evidence appears to support the hypothesis that you will not be suddenly slaughtered. If you are a very smart turkey, you might notice that the farmer is sharpening his knives the day before, and reach a strange hypothesis, but generally if you are the turkey, you don't know you are the turkey.

We are in a situation where we have never gone extinct before, never faced a threat like this before. It's difficult to know if we are in the same position as the turkey.
by JPKab | 2026-02-11 16:34:00+00:00
The most active HNers are just extremely negative on AI. I understand the impulse (you spend years honing your craft, and then something comes along and automates major portions of it) but it's driven by emotion and ego-defense and those engaged in it simply don't recognize what's motivating them. Their ego-defense is actually self-fulfilling, because they don't even try to properly learn how to leverage LLMs for coding so they give it a huge task they want it to fail on, don't properly break it into tasks, and then say "i told you it sucks" when it fails to one shot it.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-11 16:34:26+00:00
In the Linux / BSD world, SSH took off incredibly fast for the time. I'd estimate that maybe 80% of people had moved to it within the first year of its release.

But adoption stalled when the original SSH moved to a commercial license in 1996-ish - many of us stuck with the last free version, but vulnerabilities started to pile up. There were various half-working alternatives, but it wasn't until OpenSSH came out in 1999 that the remaining telnet holdouts started to move across.
by fragmede | 2026-02-11 16:34:40+00:00
It feels rather more than a little bit creepy to realize that Comcast et al, and thus the US government (if you live there), laundered through 3rd party data brokers, knows if you're sleeping and knows if you're awake. Knows if you've been bad or good, for ICE/ATF/DEA/SEC's sake.
by pm90 | 2026-02-11 16:35:20+00:00
NYC is a large city, consisting of 5 boroughs (divisions); each of which is larger in population than many US states. Its also the financial capital of the world. So just going by population alone, the NYC City Government represents more people than several state Governments. The economy of the city is also very high tech, high income etc. Although the Mayor does not have the same powers as Governor (e.g. they can't pass tax laws), he still has a lot of impact.
by Rover222 | 2026-02-11 16:35:46+00:00
It's not obvious because the multiplier effect of AI is being used to reduce head count more than to drastically increase net output of a team. Which yeah is scary, but my point is if you don't see any multiplier effect from using that latest AI tools, you are either doing a bad job of using them (or don't have the budget, can't blame anyone for that), or are maybe in some obscure niche coding world?