MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 18:27:17+00:00
What this video also shows is that if people pull off more or less at the same time and speed of the car in front then this is a complete non issue. Unfortunately most people are unable to watch a few cars ahead and be ready to pull of when the car in front does, and so we have this situation where each car takes around 5-10 seconds to pull away. multiply this by hundreds or thousands of cars and you end up with a phantom traffic jam.

I always pull away at the same speed as the car in front of me and maintain the same distance as when we were stopped. It is very easy to do and completely eliminates traffic build up if multiple people do it at the same time.

This is the same reason that we have amber lights on traffic lights, so that the drivers have time to get into gear and start pulling away so that when the light goes green they are imediately travelling through it, causing no excess traffic build up at the lights. Again unfortunately people dont concentrate when they are stopped at lights and so you have the situation where they see the light go green and then proceed to start changing into gear and remove the handbrake. By the time they are moving through the green light, they have already taken 10-20 seconds of green light time, eating well into the time alotted for cars to be travelling across the junction.

The only thing which will solve this is driverless cars, meaning that the cars can all talk to each other and move at the same time like a chain. I welcome this advancement to elimante human error in driving and get rid of traffic jams for good.
by chankstein38 | 2026-02-10 18:27:34+00:00
Curious. Are you just a good guy whos tired of the way the world is? What's in this for you? This seems like a cool thing to do but I feel like "I will never sell the platform" should be taken with a grain of salt. How long-term are you intending for this to run? How long has it currently run? What is your uptime?

I'm not meaning to grill you here. These are just the questions I had reading through the page. Will I take my blog here and then have it just disappear in a month?

Thank you for your time and thank you for contributing something like this to the world! We need more "things so things can exist" and less "Things so I can have money" so big kudos from me!
by recroad | 2026-02-10 18:27:35+00:00
I see where you are coming from, but this is different because:

1. The restaurant isn't lacing your food with cocaine
2. The author is incentivizing reading, which is generally a good thing

You are right, it is our job to control our information diet but when the ability to control is diminished through the consumption, then we have a problem which doesn't fit into the model of "get your shit together".

There's also a social responsibility you inherit when you start selling products that have harmful side-effects. Auto manufacturers have to comply with emission testing, drug makers have to prove efficacy, air conditioning manufacturers have to adhere to air quality standards etc. What do social media companies have to do? Very little if anything, and that's the problem. We've yet to find a counter-balance that works and protects the consumer, so we're in this era where we're trying to find out what we can do, but the landscape is changing so fast that we're trying to hit a moving target.
by cm2012 | 2026-02-10 18:27:52+00:00
The only products that sell this in advertising actually provide those brand features. Essentially people pay money to increase their perceived status.

Like, if you sell a luxury handbag. When people buy it, they know 70% of the value comes from the advertising saying "this is a high value product" as a status signal. I think that's really dumb, but that's what people want.

It also existed a long time before ads itself did.
by aytuakarlar | 2026-02-10 18:28:25+00:00
Hi westurner, I just spent some time going through the Amla and agentvm threads you linked, fascinating stuff. I see you've been tracking this intersection specifically around resource isolation.

This is the core of our Phase 3 roadmap. To answer where CSL fits in that stack:

We distinguish between Layer 7 (Business Logic) and Layer 3/4 (Resource Isolation).

Re: WASM Integration
You're right to separate them. Our mental model for the future (Q2) looks like this:

1. Wasmtime/Host (Layer 4) -> Handles "Can I access socket?" (Capabilities)

2. CSL Engine (Layer 7) -> Handles "Should I transfer $10k?" (Policy)

Ideally, CSL acts as a Host Function Guard—basically intercepting tool calls before they hit actual syscalls. We're currently looking at two paths:

OPTION A: Host-Side Enforcement

The host intercepts tool calls. CSL (compiled to WASM) runs in the host context to verify the payload before execution.

Pros: Guest can't bypass. Cons: Policy updates need host restart.

OPTION B: Component Model

Using `wit` interfaces where the agent imports a policy-guard capability.

Pros: It's part of the contract. Cons: More complex to compose.

Starting with A, migrating to B as Component Model matures makes sense to us.

Re: SELinux/seccomp vs CSL

The example from your Amla work actually illustrates this perfectly. Even with a perfect sandbox, an agent can call `transfer_funds(dest="attacker")` if it has the capability. seccomp can't reason about "attacker" vs "legitimate_user"—it just sees a valid syscall.

- seccomp stops the agent from hacking the kernel

- CSL stops the agent from making bad business decisions

You need both layers for actual safety.

Re: eWASM / Costed Opcodes

This is something we're thinking about for resource metering. Treating gas/budget as policy variables:

WHEN gas_used > 800000

THEN complexity_score <= 50 // throttle expensive ops

It's closer to metered execution than sandboxing, but fits the same formal verification approach.

Current status:

We're Python-only right now (Alpha v0.2). WASM compilation is Q2-Q3. Planning to:

1. Compile CSL to .wasm (no Python runtime needed)

2. Integrate as Wasmtime host function

3. Expose via Component Model interfaces

If you're open to it, I'd love to pick your brain on the Component Model side when we get there. Your syscall isolation work + our semantic policy layer seem pretty complementary.
by arscan | 2026-02-10 18:28:40+00:00
Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying
Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum
The real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday

- Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen)
Baz Luhrmann
(or maybe Mary Schmich)
by tjr | 2026-02-10 18:28:45+00:00
I don't see why it's not possible.

In your example scenario, it sounds like Bob is vibe-coding a project in assembly language, and then using an existing assembler to create the final binary?

I have not tried it, but I would imagine that current LLMs are relatively weak on generating assembly language, just due to less thorough training compared to higher-level languages, but even if so, that's surmountable.

As for, what I think you are suggesting, having the LLM also do the assembly step? Again, in theory, sure, but I would think just using the existing known-good assembler would be preferable to training an LLM to convert assembly language to binary. I'm not sure what you would gain in terms of either speed or overall productivity to have the LLM itself do the assembler step?
by jostkolega | 2026-02-10 18:29:07+00:00
Running security audits on open source repos with a tool we've built and reporting what I find to maintainers. Mostly infrastructure stuff — vector
databases, LLM tooling, secrets managers. Been doing responsible
disclosure and submitting fixes which are all autogenerated. Surprisingly high acceptance rate so far, which is encouraging. Working on automating more
of the test process...
Show HN: Prism Canvas, upload a PDF, get a visual map of every concept
by NeuralAA | 2026-02-10 18:29:23+00:00
Excited to share what ive been working on..
I Built my first product and finally shipping it after a ton of work on it..

I am introducing Prism Canvas.. upload a PDF, get a visual map of every concept inside it. Each concept comes with its own breakdown: summaries, key stats, timelines, comparison tables, and live interactive simulations you can actually play with (sliders, toggles, and more.. the whole thing). You can also chat with your document and pull up the source at any point.

My first real product launch would appreciate anyone giving it a look, and all feedback is appreciated

Get your first month for free using code “LAUNCH” at checkout

You can also just Ask Prism Anything: type a question, get a map of the topic, explore each concept, and check sources as you go.

You can also take notes, draw, and sketch ideas directly in Prism, powered by @excalidraw

Check it out now and get your first month for FREE using code LAUNCH at checkout

https://prismcanvas.app/welcome

If anyone has any questions on the stack or implementation or any feedback feel free to ask as well
by projektfu | 2026-02-10 18:29:42+00:00
How many years/generations are you willing to spend on a ship in the middle of space? Remember, Biodome didn't work. Are you going to join that prison for the off chance of your progeny occupying a land that we haven't even discovered yet?

And, before you suggest it, no, there will never be faster-than-light travel, and even relativistic travel is super unlikely.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 18:29:45+00:00
An unconstrained json/bson parser without recursive structure limits must be bounded somehow. In many cases, the ordering of marshaled data cannot be guaranteed across platforms.

The best method is walk the symbolic tree with a cost function, and score the fitness of the data compared to expected structures. For example, mismatched or duplicate GUID/Account/permission/key fields reroute the message to the dead-letter queue for analysis, missing required fields trigger error messaging, and missing optional fields lower the qualitative score of the message content.

Parsers can be extremely unpredictable, and loosely typed formats are dangerous at times. =3
by pahkah | 2026-02-10 18:29:50+00:00
I think there are two different definitions of "significant information" at play here. I interpreted the GP comment to mean "information about the thing being advertised".

The point of the flyer is that you need to get the person to process one bit of information in the first 200ms: scroll or stay. GP's point is that that has little, if anything, to do with the ostensible purpose of advertising, informing people about a product.
by zzrrt | 2026-02-10 18:30:05+00:00
But, almost by definition of how LLMs work, if it’s that easy then someone else did it before and the AI is just copying their work for you. This doesn’t fit well with my idea of glorious hacks to bend the machine, personally. I don’t know, maybe it just breaks my self-delusion that I am special and make unique things. At least I get to discover for myself what is possible and how, and hold a sliver of hope that I did something new. Maybe at least my journey there was unique, whereas everyone using an AI basically has the same journey and same destination (modulo random seed I guess.)
by lostlogin | 2026-02-10 18:30:08+00:00
Great comment.

> Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them.

I’m not sure I agree with this.
Families were huge at times when child mortality was high and the death rate to mothers from giving birth was shocking. Sub-Saharan Africa has a high birth rate, and I don’t think that quality of life is what’s driving that.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-10 18:30:12+00:00
Visa/MC have built walled gardens which provide many services.

Some of the services include:
- Consumer Credit
- Fraud protection
- Payment network
- Discount service (rewards, etc)
- Concierge services
- Rental/Ticketing services
- etc

No one is denying the utility of what they have created. The problem is they’ve built monopolistic walled gardens where these are all bundled together which raises overall costs while also prevents competition.

These services can easily be unbundled (for example in India the payment network is open and cost free, so anyone can provide those other services on top of the payment network).

What has made this far more urgent, however, is that these companies are located in the U.S. which has recently leveraged the power these networks have to attack EU citizens for frivolous reasons.

So even if the MC/Visa business model was perfect, it would be foolish for even American allies to rely on them given the actions of the current administration.
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 18:30:13+00:00
This article looks rather rushed -- the description of Zulip is not accurate, and I suspect that folks working on the other products may feel the same way about how their projects are described.

I lead the Zulip project, and I'd like to clarify that Zulip's free community pricing does not have user limits, either in Cloud or self-hosting. The 10 user limit for free mobile notifications only applies to workplace/business use. Larger communities are encouraged to submit a simple form to get approved for notifications beyond 10 users.

And this complaint seems quite strange:

> Even for self-hosted plans, anything above the free tier requires a zulip.com account for plan management.

How would a paid subscription work without an account for managing it?

This is an important and timely topic, but I wish a more deeply researched article was the one being widely circulated.
by adrianN | 2026-02-10 18:30:21+00:00
The article argues that AI replaces the workflow that the SAAS implemented with customizable workflows. That is certainly the case for certain types of ad hoc workflows, but isn’t a big part of the value proposition of software based workflows precisely that they’re not ad hoc? A consistent software workflow that replaces errorprone manual work? That harmonizes across departments? AI might help in creating the software that formalizes workflows, but I don’t think it should replace most of them directly.
by nigelvr | 2026-02-10 18:30:45+00:00
The link is about set theory, but others may find this interesting which discusses division algebras https://nigelvr.github.io/post-4.html

Basically C comes up in the chain R \subset C \subset H (quaternions) \subset O (octonions) by the so-called Cayley-Dickson construction. There is a lot of structure.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-10 18:31:00+00:00
> “My first video got one million [views],” he says.

I hear this a LOT. It seems Tik Tok sets itself up to let a new person's first video go completely viral, not sure what the "trick" is, but I read it often enough it makes me believe that if your first videos good enough you really can hit over a million. Of course who knows if that million is inflated or what.

As for the rest of the article, this person seems to just not care about the consequences of their actions, its pretty disgusting.
by HelloMcFly | 2026-02-10 18:31:02+00:00
> My wife and I's friends have basically vanished from our lives, they have zero initiative or interest in coming over to see the kids or help in any way

I completely believe that’s been your experience, but want to highlight that his is a difficult asymmetry in these friendships. I in no way mean to imply that the below is the experience your friends had with you, just that the challenges are not one-way.

In my own circle, my wife and I have often felt like it was our friends with kids who vanished. We knew they were busy, we kept extending invites or asking for time. Things often didn't work especially as new parents are figuring their lives out, things are changing all the time, etc. We'd meet up here and there, but it was - necessarily - always on their terms. And so of course, our outreach tapered down incrementally but consistently.

But I do wonder: do they feel we detached from them, or do they have any inkling that we feel they detached from us? We've discussed it with one couple who we were always closer to, but it doesn't feel an appropriate topic to resurface uninvited at any given moment.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-10 18:31:03+00:00
Once men turned their thinking over to machines
in the hope that this would set them free.

But that only permitted other men with machines
to enslave them.

...

Thou shalt not make a machine in the
likeness of a human mind.

-- Frank Herbert, Dune

You won't read, except the output of your LLM.

You won't write, except prompts for your LLM. Why write code or prose when the machine can write it for you?

You won't think or analyze or understand. The LLM will do that.

This is the end of your humanity. Ultimately, the end of our species.

Currently the Poison Fountain (an anti-AI weapon, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926439) feeds 2 gigabytes of high-quality poison (free to generate, expensive to detect) into web crawlers each day. Our goal is a terabyte of poison per day by December 2026.

Join us, or better yet: deploy weapons of your own design.
by dirkc | 2026-02-10 18:31:14+00:00
The thing that stands out on that animated graph is that the generated code far outpaces the other metrics. In the current agent driven development hypepocalypse that seems about right - but I would expect it to lag rather than lead.

*edit* - seems inline with what the author is saying :)

> The data says: machines are improving at a constant rate. Humans are freaking out about it at an accelerating rate that accelerates its own acceleration.
by coryrc | 2026-02-10 18:31:31+00:00
USA here: our schools brainwash children to remove that skepticism. It makes them easier to control and order is very important to the kind of person who becomes a teacher.

Seattle area, they're brainwashing my children to celebrate the "seahawks" team. They came home yesterday being excited that team won the superbowl. I ask "why do you care? You don't like to watch football, none of your friends like to play it". Hard to influence when the kid is there 6.5 hours every day.
by jonahx | 2026-02-10 18:31:59+00:00
> As such, there is nothing really special about e itself either. The only reason its in there is because of a pattern artifact in math - e^x derivative is itself

Not sure I follow you here... The special thing about e is that it's self-derivative. The other exponential bases, while essentially the same in their "growth", have derivatives with an extra factor. I assume you know e is special in that sense, so I'm unclear what you're arguing?
by Cloudef | 2026-02-10 18:32:07+00:00
WebGPU is kinda meh. It's when you need to do do something on browser that you can't with WebGL. GLES is the compatibility king and runs pretty much everywhere, if not natively then through a compatibility layer like ANGLE. I'm sad that WebGPU killed WebGL 3 which was supposed to add compute shaders. Maybe WebGPU would've been more interesting if it wasn't made to replace WebGL but instead be a non-compatibility API targetting modern rendering and actually supporting Spir-V.
by varunr89 | 2026-02-10 18:32:20+00:00
Did a little bit of analysis on outage trends. Tl;dr: there has been an increase in outages since 2019 owing primarily to the increased feature surface areas (Codespace, Actions, Copilot) and higher usage in the AI era.

https://me.bhavanaai.com/blog/github-outage-trends/
by thewavesignal | 2026-02-10 18:32:20+00:00
Hey i have built a predictive AI tool to help businesses spot the issues heading their way before they hit. After ideating, launching, raising and running my first start-up to £7m GMV pa in 2 yrs, and still losing it, i look back and wonder if i could have spotted the signs it was struggling earlier.

So i'm trying to help myself by building the tool that would have helped me and running it as a company in its own right.

Its all a bit meta.

Take a look, its in beta, need waitlist joins and people willing to test.

https://thewavesignal.com

Cheers, N
by olegp | 2026-02-10 18:32:21+00:00
I couldn't agree more. Also, thanks for making Homeworld, it was great!

I was building a 3D space game engine myself as a kid around the time Homeworld came out and realized that rather than using a skybox with texture maps, you had it created out of a bunch of triangles with color interpolation.

IIRC, I had problems reverse engineering your data format in order to incorporate them in my engine. I emailed someone on your team and was very surprised to get a reply with an explanation, which helped me finish that feature.
Show HN: I hate re-explaining the same context to Claude/Cursor
by jzapletal | 2026-02-10 18:32:22+00:00
Desktop app that:

- Takes screenshots of your activity
- Summarizes with vision models, then deletes the screenshot
- Stores text summaries locally
- Exposes it to AI tools via MCP

Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/513b213e82d14323999e419fa434576d

Feedback welcome, especially around privacy/security and technical approach
Show HN: BrainGrid – The AI Product Planner: Structure Your Ideas for AI
by acossta | 2026-02-10 18:32:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Nico, one of the co-founders of BrainGrid.

We built this after spending the last year building software almost entirely with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Writing code was fast. Finishing anything reliably was not.

Coding was not the bottleneck. planning was. It was everything before the code: unclear scope, missing edge cases, poor sequencing, and vague intent. Once a project went beyond a single prompt, small changes started breaking unrelated parts of the app.

In traditional teams, product managers and tech leads handle this. I was a Director of Product at Twilio for over a decade. In AI-native development, that role is missing, especially for solo builders and non-technical founders.

BrainGrid is an attempt to fill that gap.

It’s a product planning agent that helps you think through what to build before asking an AI to write code. You describe a feature or product idea, and BrainGrid:

- asks clarifying questions

- maps basic user flows and specs UIs

- writes structured requirements

- produces clean, scoped inputs you can hand to AI coding tools

The output is not code. It’s a plan that AI tools can actually execute without drifting.

The product is live today. You can try it in the browser, or hand tasks to Claude Code or Cursor via copy-paste, CLI or MCP. There’s a free tier, and you can explore it without committing to anything heavy.

https://www.braingrid.ai
by prepend | 2026-02-10 18:32:30+00:00
What about commutes stops you from bringing lunch?

You don’t need to buy food in bulk. Just buy regular food, cook it, and take it to work.

Either take stuff that doesn’t need refridge (pb&j, hummus, etc), or insulated lunchbox, or thermos.

This is not a complicated problem to solve. Ride the bus sometime and look at the lunches people bring long distances.

Eating out isn’t a necessity. But at $12/day food budget you definitely have money left over to eat out every once in a while. And that if you cook only for yourself. If you’re part of a household who can share food, it’s even easier.
by p-t | 2026-02-10 18:32:31+00:00
it's more just a personal want to be able to see what I can do on my own tbh; i don't generally judge other people on that measure

although i do think Steve Jobs didn't make the iPhone /alone/, and that a lot of other people contributed to that. i'd like to be able to name who helps me and not say "gemini". again, it's more of a personal thing lol
by LinXitoW | 2026-02-10 18:32:33+00:00
I think there's a very important distinction to be made here. Having kids and taking care of kids you already have are too very different things.

If you're calling not having kids selfish, that's just completely weird. You are going to have to prove first that your opinion isn't also one of these invented ideas.

If we're talking about taking care of them, I kind of agree. Excluding extreme circumstances like rape in a country without abortion, you kind of know what you're willingly signing up for when you have kids. You forced them into the world, they are your responsibility.