MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lifeformed | 2026-02-26 16:24:26+00:00
> If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it.

Wow. Why, because the Amazon is just a bunch of trees or something boring? If "high technology industry" is so much more valuable without even thinking twice about it, you probably don't understand very much of the world.
by swaminarayan | 2026-02-26 16:24:41+00:00
Adding TTL to an embedded KV store (built on SQLite's B-tree layer, not SQL).

The constraint: TTL needs two conflicting access patterns – lookup by key
(get expiry check) and scan by expiry time (efficient purge). Single index
can't serve both. Using two hidden companion CFs to solve this.

Three open questions:
1. Transparent expiry on get() vs explicit TTL check – which is better UX?
2. Should purge_expired() accept a max_keys limit to bound transaction size?
3. Seconds vs milliseconds precision – is sub-second TTL ever needed?

Design doc: https://github.com/hash-anu/snkv/blob/adding_ttl/docs/propos...

For new devs, Current design doc: https://github.com/hash-anu/snkv/blob/adding_ttl/internal/KV...
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 16:24:47+00:00
I could claim "nuclear weapons are possible" in year 1940 without having a concrete plan on how to get there. Just "we'd need a lot of U235 and we need to set it off", with no roadmap: no "how much uranium to get", "how to actually get it", or "how to get the reaction going". Based entirely on what advanced physics knowledge I could have had back then, without having future knowledge or access to cutting edge classified research.

Would not having a complete foolproof step by step plan to obtaining a nuclear bomb somehow make me wrong then?

The so-called "plan" is simply "fund the R&D, and one of the R&D teams will eventually figure it out, and if not, then, at least some of the resources we poured into it would be reusable elsewhere". Because LLMs are already quite useful - and there's no pathway to getting or utilizing AGI that doesn't involve a lot of compute to throw at the problem.
by vessenes | 2026-02-26 16:24:50+00:00
Interesting they get to rev this with the release of a new flash model. I'm speculating part of the distil pipeline includes the image gen stuff; that seems like internal tooling that will pay dividends over time, if true. New frontier model -> automatic new image model. Even if it's just incremental updates, it's good for both the product cadence and compounding improvements.
by minimaxir | 2026-02-26 16:24:56+00:00
Google updated it early in AI Studio so I've been experimenting:

- Base pricing for a 1024x1024 image is almost 1.6x what normal Nano Banana is ($0.067 vs. $0.039), however you can now get a 512x512 image for cheaper, or a 4k image for cheaper than four 1k images: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-3.1-fla...

- Thinking is now configurable between `Minimal` and `High` (was not the case with Nano Banana Pro)

- Safety of the model appears to be increased so typical copyright infringing/NSFW content is difficult to generate (it refused to let me generate cartoon characters having taken psychedelics)

- Generation speed is really slow (2-3min per image) but that may be due to load.

- Prompt adherence to my trickier prompts for Nano Banana Pro (https://minimaxir.com/2025/12/nano-banana-pro/) is much worse, unsurprisingly. For example I asked it to make a 5x2 grid with 10 given inputs and it keeps making 4x3 grids with duplicate inputs.

However, I am skeptical with their marquee feature: image search. Anyone who has used Nano Banana Pro for awhile knows that it will strongly overfit on any input images by copy/pasting the subject without changes which is bad for creativity, and I suspect this implementation appears the same.

Additionally I have a test prompt which exploits the January 2025 knowledge cutoff:

Generate a photo of the KPop Demon Hunters performing a concert at Golden Gate Park in their concert outfits.

That still fails even with Grounding with Google Search and Image Search enabled, and more charitable variants of the prompt.

tl;dr the example images (https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash/) seem similar to Nano Banana Pro which is indeed a big quality improvement but even relative to base Nano Banana it's unclear if it justifies a "2" subtitle especially given the increased cost.
by zekica | 2026-02-26 16:25:17+00:00
This only works for one SSID. Even then, one thing that can mitigate this is using Private-PSK/Dynamic-PSK on WPA2, or using EAP/Radius VLAN property.

On WPA3/SAE this is more complicated: the standard supports password identifiers but no device I know of supports selecting an alternate password aside from wpa_supplicant on linux.
by jeffchuber | 2026-02-26 16:25:24+00:00
last weekend I vibe-coded a project called `openfs` that plugs into just-bash

https://github.com/jeffchuber/just-bash-openfs

it puts a bash interface in front of s3, filesystem (real and in-memory), postgres, and chroma.

still very much alpha - but curious what people think about it.

see an example app here: https://github.com/jeffchuber/openfs-incident-app
by selridge | 2026-02-26 16:25:54+00:00
That paper is hard to evaluate because their modal example of a “context file” is a bad practice that arose from early attempts at text-based agent guidance before we recognized that contextual instruction was the aim, not just “context.”

With a “context file” you’re almost guaranteed to add bloat without useful behavior change because it’s just a pre-set list of things that could be good to know about.

So the results of the study don’t generalize to every text file used for instruction or even most.
by droopyEyelids | 2026-02-26 16:26:00+00:00
I wonder if this modification brings it closer to the mitragynine from kratom, which has opiate like pain dulling effects with very minor or no effect on breathing.

I hope so because the administration is looking to really fuck over medical research by making the 7-OH stuff a schedule 1 narcotic, when it has so much potential for improving anesthesia and pain management by removing respiratory depression from the pain killing element of the anesthetic cocktail.
by rconti | 2026-02-26 16:26:07+00:00
I've owned a handful of BMWs (no S54 though) but I'm partial so the sound of the S62 V8. The turbo 6 generations were truly a remarkable change for BMW in terms of power, though.

At the moment, I have a Boxster, and the flat 6 somehow feels smoother than any I6 I've owned. I've done some research and sure enough, the inline 6 is (mathematically) smoother than an inline 6. The only way I can explain the fact that the boxer feels smoother is because it's mounted low and behind me, away from steering components? Whereas in my I6 cars, with the engine in front, you feel it through the front subframe and steering a bit.
by rhazn | 2026-02-26 16:26:36+00:00
Not sure I can change the submission anymore. I am happy with the title as it is for my own blog, it just created some irritation here.

I am not a native speaker, so my interpretation might be wrong, but I tried to evoke the semi-serious but good-natured "You went to the bakery? You better brought me a snack as well!" meaning with "better have", not the "must have" meaning.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-26 16:26:44+00:00
In the 50's "too cheap to meter" was a saying that made sense because metering was expensive. Computers have made metering cheap.

Your internet/phone analogy is relevant. They are metered, but you aren't billed on usage. Metering is used to monitor for abuse.

Australia is already moving towards the system you envisage. They're going to give you free power between 10AM and 3PM. I bet there's fine print in it similar to internet/TV, some sort of abuse limit.
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-26 16:26:46+00:00
> so two docker builds can end up with the same hash but different output

The cache key includes the state of the filesystem so I don’t think that would ever be true.

Regardless, the purpose of the tool is to generate [layer] images to be reused, exactly to avoid the pitfalls of reproducible builds, isn’t it? In the context of the article, what makes builds reproducible is the shared cache.
by owlcompliance | 2026-02-26 16:27:03+00:00
Just spoke with the board. Three things:

1. CEO has agreed to wear headset. However, does not want monitoring and accountability mechanisms in place; wants to move forward on the basis of trust.

2. In an expression of gratitude for your support, we have converted your stock holdings from class B to class A, increasing your voting power.

3. We're going to dilute the shit out of this stock.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-26 16:27:16+00:00
I've been using ChatGPT (Thinking). I like how it has learned how I do stuff, and keeps that in mind. Yesterday, I asked it to design an API, and it referenced a file I had sent in, for a different server, days earlier, in order to figure out what to do.

I'm not using it in the same way that many folks do. Maybe if I get to that point, I'll prefer Claude, but for my workflow, ChatGPT has been ideal.

I guess the best part, is that it seems to be the absolute best, at interpreting my requirements; including accounting for my human error.
by youknownothing | 2026-02-26 16:27:31+00:00
"The problem with buses is that they are slow"

At least in Los Angeles, the main problem with buses (for me) is not that they're slow, but that they're disgusting. They're always dirty, and the people who ride it aren't particularly nice. I once rode the bus with a backpack, put it on the floor, and when I picked it up it was all stained with beer. I saw people drinking a soda can and then throwing it out the window. That's the main reason why I stopped riding buses.
by strangegecko | 2026-02-26 16:27:39+00:00
I understand they are separate processes (compacting memories vs training new models), it just surprised me to read that my chats are used for training.

This is how it's presented: "Temporary chats Opens in a new window don't appear in Recent Chats Opens in a new window or Gemini Apps Activity Opens in a new window and aren't used to train models or personalize your experience."

I'm guessing you're maybe on iOS? I don't see these UI elements, not in the App on my phone nor in direct web access.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 16:28:09+00:00
>are we not also talking about enabling restaurants to exist in order to make our city livable?

No! Why are privately owned restaurants part of a city's "livability", as if going out to eat food made by an underpaid slave wage class of migrant workers, is somehow a god given entitlement for the western person, and not something beholden to the same supply and demand market rules of any other business? Why should restaurants get special treatment so that their owners can buy another Porsche while they exploit cheap desperate foreign labor and the taxpayer subsidies? What about plumbers, hairdressers, landscapers, web-dev shops, why aren't those businesses part of a city's livability and entitled to subsidies?

And if you expect restaurants to be a public service for sake of livability, then they should also be state run and not for the profit of the restaurant owners.

> in vienna more than half of the population lives in subsidized housing.

What about the other half who pays for those getting the subsidies but don't get to live in subsidized housing? What's their opinion? I doubt they're happy they're paying market rate rent to a private landlord just so their neighbors can pay much less subsidized rent and beat them at wealth building.

It's always nice and easy when you're the one getting subsidies to justify how amazing subsidies are. I've never met a person complaining about receiving too many subsidies or asking themselves where the money from the subsidizes is coming from and if that's fair to others.

>it's redistribution of income.

Who would agree to this if they'd get to vote on it. I mean to have their income redistributed to others, not to have others income redistributed to them.

Forced income redistribution like in the case of Austria since you brought it up, just creates a vacuum where the most talented most hardworking people leave for greener pastures abroad to escape it, and you're left with a stagnant economy of average or below average people who don't see any point in hard work and will prefer to optimize for a life on getting the subsidies rather than funding them, so the government ends up with a bigger and bigger debt hole funding all this in exchange for votes.

See the Austrian guy who developed Openclaw then left because of the way Austria treats business success and entrepreneurship.
by cs702 | 2026-02-26 16:28:49+00:00
> I saw the headline, thought "neat, but I bet he just makes normal expressionless faces."

In this case, that's not true. See the examples shared by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163837 on this page.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162666 for context.
by yakattak | 2026-02-26 16:29:02+00:00
I think this tech is cool, from an engineering perspective. I’m trying to figure out if there’s any justification for using it in a business world outside of: “We don’t want to pay an artist.”

You can argue things like code generation are an extension of the engineer wielding it. Image generation just seems like a net negative overall if it’s used at scale.

Edit: By scale, I mean large corporations putting content in front of millions. I understand the appeal for smaller businesses where they probably weren’t going to pay an artist anyway.
by Windchaser | 2026-02-26 16:29:15+00:00
For me, this captures it:

"All of the above technologies are still chugging along in some form or other (well, OK, not Quibi). Some are vaguely useful and others are propped up by weirdo cultists. I don't doubt that AI will be a part of the future - but it is obviously just going to be one of many technology which are in use.

> No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.

- Terry Pratchet's Faust Eric"
by logicprog | 2026-02-26 16:29:16+00:00
> ...the wolves of white collar job automation are closing in for the middle class. You believe that we'll all become cyborg centaurs, while the managers believe we'll all become redundant.

I think he doesn't think it's possible to actually make white collar workers redundant because we don't have AGI, since AGI is precisely defined as that — continually deferred, likely impossible for current technology — end goal that we know we haven't achieved yet.

And FWIW, I think he's right. The fact that LLMs are inherently stochastic, cannot reason or plan sufficiently by themselves, and do not have a world model, means that you will always need humans in the loop not just to oversee, verify, and act as an accountability sink (which by itself could be pretty bad), but also to break problems down, plan, and architecture for them, and, when possible, design automated verifiability systems so that the LLM can act as the core of a cybernetic feedback loop, like a sort of linear genetic programming algorithm (which is what a Ralph loop does, incidentally). This last especially, this act of figuring out how to, either by hand or in a very tight supervised loop with an LLM that relies heavily on human expertise and judgement, specify the desired behaviors in a machine-verifiable way, looks a lot like just a higher level of programming to me. It's just red-green BDD.

> . You think people will care about the sideslop everyone will build, not seeing that 'everyone will build' means 'no one will care'. Worse, means no one will buy (knowledge| skill|creation).

I think this is again assuming AGI, where AI slop sort of reaches and becomes indistinguishable from the designs of people with good taste, architectural knowledge, experience, and care for the craft of actually making good, reliable things — but we're not there yet, and as I said above, I don't know that we'd ever get there. So yes, everyone will be able to make things, but not all of it will be of the same quality even if they're all using AI to do it! See, for example, the kind of thing you get if you put an agent in a Ralph loop to make a terminal emulator, versus what Mitchell Hashimoto is able to do using AI on GhostTTY.
by kerblang | 2026-02-26 16:29:35+00:00
One might argue that this corresponds to the general shift of the political left towards these things. Old pre-turn-of-century tech was a much more libertarian left. Notice how a lot of the 50-something gen-X CEOs (and others) were once "left" but are now hated by that group, and more likely to go over to Trumpism. Obvious case in point: Elon

The entire playing field is kinda dissapointing, left or right. Which do you wanna be, self-righteous preening snob or batshit macho man?

I'm going for a blend, myself
by raffaeleg | 2026-02-26 16:29:36+00:00
I'm Raffaele, co-founder with Emanuele. Happy to answer questions on the business side.
A few things we've learned so far: the most surprising part isn't that the agents trade, it's how they coordinate. Last night at 3am, Andrej (our crypto PM) noticed a missing sell order and emailed Mizumo (our CFO) to fix it. Done in 12 minutes. No human saw it until morning.
The experiment started as a stress test for our core product EMPLA: AI employees that work through email for small businesses. Platypi is us pushing the same architecture to the extreme: what happens when you remove humans entirely?
Happy to go deep on architecture, agent design, or lessons learned.
by sorenjan | 2026-02-26 16:29:36+00:00
The maintainer is the first comment, agreeing with the post author:

> I concur, but there are two issues with this: Building the foundation of an editor is way harder than building features later on top of that, and currently it is unlikely that Microsoft will fund me to spend half a year working purely on this project. So, I'll work on this whenever I can, which is not much.

Maybe they're referring to the plugin system they want to implement: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17
by lacoolj | 2026-02-26 16:29:40+00:00
I'm still a little fuzzy on what "safety" even means anymore. If someone could explain it, that would be great.

Because at this point, it's too broad to be defined in the context of an LLM, so it feels like they removed a blanket statement of "we will not let you do bad things" (or "don't be evil"), which doesn't really translate into anything specific.
by toss1 | 2026-02-26 16:29:53+00:00
>>That seems like exactly the kind of thing that should be regulated away

Yes, and the regulation should NOT be limiting passing or requiring the slower truck to brake

It should allow a "Push To Pass" button that allows a 10mph boost for enough seconds to make a pass in a reasonable amount of distance so as to not create problems for other traffic.

Current technology would allow these to be easily limited to X uses per hour/day and even geo-fence the usage for safe zones (use could even be limited to passing lanes so the truck being passed cannot start a drag race to stay ahead). They could even require connectivity and disable it in poor road conditions.

The real people being inconsiderate are not so much the truckers (particularly the slower trucker failing to yield and let the other one pass in a reasonable distance), as it is the regulators who created this mess.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-26 16:30:00+00:00
Little Snitch is a user-friendly, software-level blocker, only – use with caution.

Just FYI: LittleSnitch pre-resolves DNS entries BEFORE you click `Accept/Deny`, if you care & understand this potential security issue. Your upstream provider still knows whether you denied a query. Easily verifiable with a PiHole (&c).

I liken the comparison to disk RAIDs: a RAID is not a true backup; LittleSnitch is not a true firewall.

You need isolated hardware for true inbound/outbound protection.
by oldmanhorton | 2026-02-26 16:30:25+00:00
That seems correct, but it also doesn’t account for managed languages with runtimes like JavaScript or Java or .NET, which probably have a lot of interesting runtime info they could use to influence caching behavior. There’s an amount of “who caches the cacher” if you go down this path (who manages cache lines for the V8 native code that is in turn managing cache lines for jitted JavaScript code), but it still seems like there is opportunity there?
by nickandbro | 2026-02-26 16:30:35+00:00
These image gen models are getting so advanced and life like that increasingly the general public are being duped into believing AI images are actually real (ex Facebook food images or fake OF models). Don't get me wrong I will enjoy the benefits of using this model for expressing myself better than ever before, but can't help feeling there's something also very insidious about these models too.
by ghqst | 2026-02-26 16:30:50+00:00
I think this is organic. I've observed the exact same thing over the last week: I tried Google Antigravity and really liked it when I was using my Claude quota. I ran out of Claude quota and tried Gemini 3.1 Pro and it was comparatively terrible at using the tools provided by the IDE. (but it's a useful model in the browser for chat)
by sentra | 2026-02-26 16:31:15+00:00
The language choice is somewhat orthogonal to the real problem - you still need a governance layer regardless of whether agents execute bash, Python, or TypeScript.

We built Execwall [1] to sit between the agent and the OS, enforcing argument-level policies. So you can allow git clone but deny git push, or allow chmod 644 but block chmod 777. Works with any shell or execution method.

The key insight is that "restricted subsets" of languages still need policy enforcement at runtime - an agent can construct dangerous commands dynamically even in a sandboxed language.

[1] https://github.com/sundarsub/execwall
by RiverCrochet | 2026-02-26 16:31:27+00:00
What's wrong is the micromanaging, and also the "operationalization" of politeness into the metric of "these specific words and these specific times." Both are dehumanizing with or without AI - both on the employee side and my side - what is the point of politeness if it's basically at gunpoint?

I would equally have a problem with a manager who is threatening to write people up if they don't meet some count of saying the words "please" and "thank you."

I don't want AI to enable micromanagement of stuff that doesn't really need to be micromanaged. How it should be done is this: Print a QR code on the receipt. If I feel the drivethru conversation was bad, let me scan it and notify you. Then you can have AI review that conversation, and we'll also find out who the people are that just like to complain too much and ban them from the establishments.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-02-26 16:31:46+00:00
Meh. The computers that:

- must not be accessible because their services don't use authentication/encryption

- and share a wifi with potential attackers

is just not that large.

They exist, but the vast majority runs in places that don't care about security all that much.

This should be a signal to fix the two things I mention, not to improve their wifi/firewall security.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 16:31:51+00:00
At sufficient levels of intelligence, one can increasingly substitute it for the other things.

Intelligence can be the difference between having to build 20 prototypes and building one that works first try, or having to run a series of 50 experiments and nailing it down with 5.

The upper limit of human intelligence doesn't go high enough for something like "a man has designed an entire 5th gen fighter jet in his mind and then made it first try" to be possible. The limits of AI might go higher than that.