MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thehgtech | 2026-02-27 19:28:01+00:00
Author here. I’ve been analyzing the recent push by vendors (CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI, Google SecOps, etc.) to automate L1 SOC triage.

While the "burnout math" makes sense on paper—71% of analysts are burned out and alert fatigue is a massive issue—we are essentially handing over the "defender must be right 100% of the time" standard to probabilistic models.

If an LLM hallucinates and auto-closes a critical alert as a false positive, the human fallback mechanism (the L2/L3 analyst) never even sees the log. I wrote this trying to figure out what happens to the entry-level infosec pipeline if the L1 training ground is completely abstracted away by AI.

Would love to hear how folks here running enterprise SOCs are handling (or avoiding) automated triage right now.
by tristor | 2026-02-27 19:28:35+00:00
> Plenty of folks here on HN and elsewhere legitimately believe that it's possible to do good with tech. But a billion dollar behemoth with great PR isn't that.

To expand on that a bit, many of us (myself included) fully believe founders set out with lofty and good goals when organizations are small. Scale is power, and power corrupts. It's as simple as that. It's an exceptionally rare quality to resist that corruption, and everyone has a breaking point. We understand humans because we are humans, and we understand that large organizations, especially corporations, are fundamentally incapable of acting morally (in fact corporations are inherently amoral).
Show HN: Vis Pro – A Formula-Based Workout Program Editor
by strongpigeon | 2026-02-27 19:29:00+00:00
Hey HN,

About 5 years ago, I built a weightlifting app for 5/3/1 that got me on the front page of HN [0]. After that, life happened. I had kids and so decided to get a job and put that project on ice. Eventually I grew too disappointed with my job, and decided to try building something again.

The biggest feedback I kept getting from users was simple:
“Let me create my own programs.”

That’s how Vis started.

The initial idea was to create a B2B platform where gyms and trainers could build programs using formulas (e.g., percentages of 1RM) and reusable blocks instead of spreadsheets. I built what I still think is the best workout editor out there, but I quickly found out that B2B sales is hard (or maybe I just suck at it). It also just didn’t feel like a big enough sell for gyms.

So I pivoted. I focused on the iOS app for a while [1], and now re-packaged the editor so individuals can use it directly.

With Vis Pro, you can:

- Define programs using formulas (e.g., 0.85 * SQUAT_1RM, or even better: RPE(8, SET_REPS) * SQUAT_1RM)

- Build workouts by re-using pre-defined or even custom blocks

- Share your programs and workouts with others

The core idea is that programs are parametric instead of static. Change your 1RM and the entire program recalculates automatically.

You can try it out without an account at https://vis.fitness/pro/try/create-program

The whole thing is built with NextJS, using Chevrotain (surprisingly solid) for the formula engine.

It's been super interesting using Codex since late Dec. It's been a huge force multiplier, enabling me to ship really cool features like formula autocomplete and syntax highlighting in a couple of hours. I'm used to reviewing a lot of code from my time at Google, so that hasn't been a problem, but it's interesting to feel that the review speed is now the limiting factor. Though the codebase would become unmaintainable real quick without that.

The next step is building an MCP server to allow users to create programs using LLMs and have them show up directly in the editor (and your phone).

Would love feedback, whether you even lift or not!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508009

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vis-next-generation-workouts/i...
by marcandre | 2026-02-27 19:29:08+00:00
I don't get these negative comments for them giving free credits. Either it's "Not many people fit these criteria" or "A ploy for more customers". It can't be both, and I believe it's neither. It's a nice gesture, in line with Github Copilot and JetBrains. Disclosure: I have free Copilot and just applied for 20x Pro.
by Kidiga | 2026-02-27 19:29:53+00:00
Raypher is an AI-native cybersecurity platform engineered to be the foundational trust and governance layer for the autonomous agentic economy. While it begins as a frictionless, local Rust-based proxy that helps developers instantly secure AI API keys and enforce data privacy, its ultimate moat is enterprise-grade, kernel-level enforcement. By embedding un-bypassable security hooks directly into the operating system—using Linux eBPF, Windows WFP, and macOS Endpoint Security—and binding AI agent identities to physical silicon like TPMs and Secure Enclaves, Raypher physically prevents agents from going rogue or bypassing compliance. This decentralized OS-level "muscle" is directed by a centralized, fine-tuned Master Agent in the cloud that continuously analyzes global telemetry, calculates real-time Agent Trust Scores, and autonomously pushes microsecond threat updates to the edge, allowing everyone from lean startups to Fortune 500 banks to deploy autonomous AI with absolute cryptographic certainty.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-27 19:29:54+00:00
I like the idea of SQL as the "common tongue" because provided the query is reasonably terse it's easy for the human to verify and reason about, there's shitloads of it in the LLM's training set, and (usually) the database doesn't lie. So you've mitigated some major LLM drawbacks that way.

Another thing SQL has in it's favor is the ability with tools like trino or datafusion to basically turn "everything" into a table.

EDIT: thinking on it some more, though, at what point do you just know off the top of your head the small handful of SQL queries you regularly use and just skip the expensive LLM step altogether? Like... that's the thing that underwhelms me about all the "natural language query" excitement. We already have a very good, natural language for queries: SQL.
by asdff | 2026-02-27 19:30:30+00:00
Intelligence jobs are sort of the apex of the economy where everything coalesces around to serve those positions ultimately. E.g. any low skilled area even devoid of any resources that basically insists upon its own existence at this point (e.g. walmart workers need gas station, gas station workers need walmart, there is a sort of economy but these are straight up consumption black holes with nothing actually being invented or produced, maybe agricultural products but not by a large fraction of the labor force any longer).

So where does that leave our world without actual creation, production, ideas? I work at the gas station and sell you zyns? You work at the walmart and sell me rotisserie chickens? We both work doubles and eat and sleep in the time remaining? Remain in this holding pattern until World Leader AI realizes we are just waste heat and culls us? I mean, that is sort of the path we are on. Disempowering people. Downskilling them. Passifying them. Removing their abilities to organize themselves. Removing access to technology and tooling. Making the inevitable as easy at it can be when it comes time for it.

We are in a death cult called business efficiency. Fire them, it's more efficient. Lean up the company. Don't invest in research, cheaper not to and buy back stock instead. These are death spirals no different than what happens with ants. We are justifying not giving our own species a seat at the table out of pragmatism. Why create a job for someone? It is inefficient, do more with less and don't worry about the unemployed it is their fault. Why pay them well and let them live comfortably? That is profit you could be making. Eventually it is going to be why feed the human species, because that is the line of logic here with business efficiency. We don't optimize to uplift our species. Quite the opposite, we optimize to hold it down and squeeze and extract.
by zabzonk | 2026-02-27 19:32:08+00:00
I liked all of the Hyperion/Shrike novels, except when Raul Endymion persistently refers to the heroine/love-interest as "my young friend", or similar phrasing - slightly creepy/boring.

I didn't know that Summer of Night was a series - really liked the original book - will have to investigate.

And, of course, I'm sad he's died.
by b112 | 2026-02-27 19:32:41+00:00
Is your argument that you're not involved enough in American politics to have responsible opinions about it, even though you're involved enough to comment in the first place?

I wonder who or what you're replying to here. Certainly, it has no relation to anything I've said in this thread.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't appreciate others calling it out.

Again, who are you replying to with this?

I said "take it easy", not "don't ever bring that up".
by ptero | 2026-02-27 19:33:02+00:00
> inexact quote: "You know, we're throwing towns into the sky" related to the early mishaps of R-7 program development

I have not looked at the source (in Russian) for several years; now that I am curious I will check at home tonight. But as far as I remember "we are shooting towns into the sky" remark was not in reference to the R-7, but in reference to N1-L3, a hellishly expensive competitor to the Apollo manned Moon mission rocket. The meaning of the phrase was that each and every test should be taken extremely seriously as the cost of each flight is comparable to the cost of building a new city.

R-7 was developed much earlier when Korolev and his team at OKB-1 were iterating rapidly on much cheaper models that were primarily funded as rockets for strategic thermonuclear strike warheads. The civilian (Sputnik and later Gagarin) flights were an offshoot of that and were small enough that it happened as a side project. R-7 was a comparatively simple and cheap design, which may be why that family became a workhorse from the late 50s to carrying crews to the ISS. And the super expensive N1-L3 was a stillborn.

That's my recollection, need to recheck the sources.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-27 19:34:02+00:00
yes, it worked a lot so once you say watch it watches until you stop it, including through closing terminals, computer power off, etc. It should restart on reboot, but -- test it yourself and tell me if I'm wrong :)

> unf watch

# reboot
> unf list

it should say watching on your directory still, if it stays crashed or something else. ping me at support at v1.co

Just one human, two machines at my home can't replicate all configurations...
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 19:34:15+00:00
In theory, yes. Any supreme court interpretation can be overruled by a congress that is truly in lockstep.

Reality, is disappointing. Where we have a dealocked congress we try to switch around every 2 years while 9 people in the courts can re-interpret how they wish with basically zero reprecussions, for life.

Maybe the SCOTUS also needs terms limits thanks to modern medical advances. I don't think the founding fathers intended for courts to remain the same people for decades on end. It can be a very long term like the Federal Reserve, but we definitely need something.
by esafak | 2026-02-27 19:35:03+00:00
Forgive me if this is tangential to the debate, but I am trying to understand Mendral's value proposition. Is it that you save users time in setting up observability for CI? Otherwise could you users not simply use gh to fetch the logs, their observability system's API or MCP, and cross check both against the code? Or is there a machine learning system that analyzes these inputs beyond merely retrieving context for the LLM? Good luck!
by Bender | 2026-02-27 19:35:25+00:00
Agreed though I have never heard of a non-darkweb business going through these procedures and certainly would not be caught documenting them as the legal system may interpret that as evading a lawful order with some slimy wording that suggests premeditation. A corporate lawyer would have to chime in as I am entirely guessing at this point. So many laws have so much wiggle room.
by ralferoo | 2026-02-27 19:35:49+00:00
I sincerely hope the event branding played on calling it a "Block Party".

But anyway, as others have said, the tweet seems outrageous at first, but at $6800 per employee for a multi-day offsite, with hotels, travel, etc included, it doesn't seem excessive. I'm sure their salary for that month was significantly higher.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-27 19:35:53+00:00
>the first time I visited Disney was during my high school

Me too, but back when I started high school Disneyworld didn't yet exist, and by the time I got there the first phase was only about halfway built.

It was already too expensive for Florida natives though, but almost every Orlando resident could get special passbooks from places like their employer or church. My sweetheart's older brother had moved up there and set us up with a few days worth.

It was just plain designed to not only be expensive, but overpriced to boot :\

I'll still remember the second time we went to it a few years later after it was "complete." Still surrounded by swamp, there were no competitive attractions yet and to celebrate the completion they were going to shoot off fireworks for the first time, like the original in Anaheim was famous for every day.

It was a massive show, way over the top, after all it was Fourth of July, 1976, the Bicentennial of the founding of the USA :)
by spuz | 2026-02-27 19:36:30+00:00
I was curious to see if I could crack the MD5 hash so I managed to write the following python code to extract the expected hash from the model:

https://gist.github.com/alexspurling/598366d5a5cf5565043b8cd...

Knowing the input text was two words separated by a space, I was able to use hashcat and the unix wordlist (/usr/share/dict/words) to find the solution almost immediately. It's a shame that Alex didn't find it this way on his first attempt as the two words are fairly common.
by mechanicalpulse | 2026-02-27 19:37:04+00:00
I do and it does.

$ ls -al /dev/std*
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdout -> fd/1
$ ls -n /dev/fd/[012]
crw--w---- 1 501 4 0x10000000 Feb 27 13:38 /dev/fd/0
crw--w---- 1 501 4 0x10000000 Feb 27 13:38 /dev/fd/1
crw--w---- 1 501 4 0x10000000 Feb 27 13:38 /dev/fd/2
$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jan 19 22:00:55 PST 2026; root:xnu-11417.140.69.708.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000
$ sw_vers
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 15.7.4
BuildVersion: 24G517

Lest you think it's some bashism that's wrapping ls, they exist regardless of shell:

$ zsh -c 'ls -al /dev/std*'
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdout -> fd/1
$ csh -c 'ls -al /dev/std*'
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdout -> fd/1
$ tcsh -c 'ls -al /dev/std*'
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdout -> fd/1
$ ksh -c 'ls -al /dev/std*'
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdout -> fd/1

I tried the install example that you provided and it worked on macOS as well as Linux.
by tristor | 2026-02-27 19:37:20+00:00
>You should be asking why 70 million people voted the way they did in spite of the events you describe.

Propaganda, 1 in 6 Boomers being exposed to amounts of lead in childhood that lead to measurable cognitive declines, average age of the US population being on the rise with lower birth rates means most eligible votes are in the age groups most likely to suffer low grade dementia, and the weaponization of social media by foreign adversaries and wealthy elites.

There's maybe 4-5M true believers, the rest are gullible lead-addled old fools who got brainwashed by Fox News. That's the unvarnished truth of it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-27 19:37:39+00:00
> And on the actual matter of things, it's really sad to see California to be on the front line of this crap (this screams ageism). And, dear "adults", screw your parental authority so much. Whatever skills I've gained before the university I've done against an explicit parental prohibition. This is what I live off now. Screw you all.

It's yet another surface that totalitarian parental control has crept into, and it's a serious problem. Young people kept strictly within the iron grip of their guardians generally aren't the ones who become happy actualized all-star adults.

Obviously there should be some limits on what teenagers and children can access, it shouldn't be entirely free reign, but robbing them of space to bend the rules severely limits their potential for growth and incurs a strong risk of extinguishing their spark.
by binarycrusader | 2026-02-27 19:38:08+00:00
Can you clarify?

As far as I'm aware, dwAllocationGranularity returned via GetSystemInfo determines the MEM_RESERVE alignment and size. Yes, in practice this is always 64KiB but may not always be true in the future.

Additionally, dwPageSize returned via GetSystemInfo determines the alignment and size for MEM_COMMIT which in practice is 4KiB or 16KiB.

Put differently, while an application might be stuck with allocation-granularity reservations, the actual commit is in units of page size, right?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/reser...

Page protections are also based on page size afaik, for example:
https://www.softwareverify.com/blog/leaking-memory-with-virt...

Or the way I read it, you might be stuck with a dwAllocationGranularity reservation, but the actual commit increment is in units of dwPageSize.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-27 19:38:57+00:00
It's interesting how different stories have different underlying religious underpinnings in different parts of the world. It's important to consider that these themes are precisely because the stories are born from the surrounding culture.

Christian references in the Cantos were probably incidental, given the expected familiarity of the intended audience (american white male young men). eg The Matrix trilogy started with the obvious messianic hero's journey, then attempted to expand it in the following films (karma, cycles of death and rebirth, etc).

For some, these religious messages can be a turn off, I agree. I happened to be raised in a culture that allowed me to ignore it more or less and I can recognize that.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-27 19:39:22+00:00
> You only get to land on the moon once before people stop giving a shit.

Depends on what happens once on the moon. If all you do is send 2 people at a time to collect rocks, then it does get boring to the general public. If each landing assembles the next section of a moon habitat, then I think the interest sticks around longer.
by eesmith | 2026-02-27 19:39:44+00:00
Where "classic literature" is specifically defined as:

“(B) CLASSIC WORKS OF LITERATURE.—The term ‘classic works of literature’ means the works of literature (including translations of such works)—

“(i) included in the Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 1990), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica;

“(ii) referenced in the article ‘Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read’ by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and published by Compass Classroom (as such article appeared on the date of enactment of this subsection); and

“(iii) referenced in the article ‘Classics Every High Schooler Should Read’ by Mary Pierson Purifoy and published by Compass Classroom (as such article appeared on the date of enactment of this subsection).

Of the first, "The selection of authors has come under attack, with some dismissing the project as a celebration of European men, ignoring contributions of women and non-European authors" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

Of the latter two, Thomas Purifoy, Jr. is a Young Earth Creationist. Mary Pierson Purifoy is, I believe, his 26 year old homeschooled daughter, who then went to Liberty University, a conservative, private evangelical Christian.

Compass Classroom develops materials for Christian Homeschooling.

That sounds like a deliberate bias towards a white, male, English, Christian subset of classic literature. Not only doesn't they include something like "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", it doesn't look like they even include Les Misérables, which we read in school.

While the first list includes Freud's "The Sexual Enlightenment of Children"???

Yeah, go ahead and explain why students should read that but not have an explicit allowance for Les Misérables.
by gradientsrneat | 2026-02-27 19:40:24+00:00
> (g) This title does not impose liability on an operating system provider, a covered application store, or a developer that arises from the use of a device or application by a person who is not the user to whom a signal pertains.

So, this makes desktop Linux illegal, but all the software-as-a-service like Microsoft Azure and OpenAI get off scott-free?

Fantastic.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-27 19:40:37+00:00
Per Wikipedia, the Golden Gate Bridge was proposed in 1917, approved by the state for design in 1923, funded in 1930, started construction in 1933, and completed in 1937.

The reason modern projects take so long is that so many of them are stuck in design or awaiting funding stage for what feels like interminable ages; once the construction phase starts, they tend to go fairly quickly. But if you look at projects 100 years ago, well, they also seem to have fairly lengthy pre-construction timelines. It's just that we conveniently forget about those when we look back on them nowadays.
by foltik | 2026-02-27 19:41:05+00:00
“The smartest people pursue whatever is incentivized, therefore the current incentive structure is humanity's greatest calling.”

Yeah, no. The smartest people on earth didn’t convene and design this system. What we have now is just a fragile equilibrium we collectively stumbled into. There’s no reason to think it’s final, unless you've come to assume history ends with you...
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-27 19:41:29+00:00
I agree that, given the actual history of the US military and foreign policy, it is a harmful and misleading euphimism.

It is also, however, the official name of the department, as determined by the US Congress who are empowered to determine such names.

In no case I am happy to humor this administration's decisions, especially when they are illegal/extra-legal/paralegal. If they wanted to actually rename the department, there's a clear process for that, and then perhaps we could "humor" that effort. As it stands, there's nothing here to humor, since there is no decision, only illegal aspiration.
by ifyoubuildit | 2026-02-27 19:41:46+00:00
You're a lay person. You know there is a thing out there called 'foo'.

You've read things that compellingly claim that foo causes xyz symptoms. You also know that some people that have obviously palpable disdain for you claim that foo could never cause these symptoms.

You have xyz symptoms. Are you mentally ill if you think that foo could be the cause?