MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-25 02:27:58+00:00
American labor was already automated away. That's why all the blue collar folks thinks "They" sold our jobs overseas when America still produces a shitload of stuff in factories.

So, frankly, we know what this looks like: Poverty, a drastic reduction in social mobility, continued disparity between the Haves and HaveNots, good jobs replaced with shitty jobs and now the gig economy is played out so not exactly anything remaining to soak up surplus labor especially surplus overeducated labor, anger, frustration, depression, increasing deaths of despair, violence, political instability, and mobs of people rallying behind populists and possibly continuing to support those populists through violence.
by srameshc | 2026-02-25 02:28:10+00:00
I love Cloudflare but not a big fan of Next, I love Remix though :) But getting to make things work on Cloudflare is a pain, hopefully they will make it easier with OpenNext. On the other hand , maybe they can do something better at infrastrucute level , rather than make it easier, like a lot easier to bring your own JS flavor.
by namuol | 2026-02-25 02:28:17+00:00
> To the extent that it's just for fun, it's not an advance.

The features which are being exploited to implement this are indeed advances.

> If I didn't like a language and people offered an even worse to use replacement I'd be justified in having distaste for it!

You’re missing my point. Nobody is actually suggesting replacing JS with CSS, but many new CSS features eliminate the need to use JS to accomplish what you need in terms of behavior or style. Nobody is seriously suggesting CSS is a _replacement_ for JS, it’s just a better solution for certain common things on the web.
by dralley | 2026-02-25 02:29:13+00:00
No. This is about a specific claim. Hamas claimed that Israel killed 500 people in a hospital bombing, and that was indisputably a lie. Videos show that it was a Hamas rocket, not a bomb. Pictures show that the damage was limited to a few burned cars and broken windows and a pothole sized dent in the asphalt. There were no mass casualties and every credible news outlet that initially reported that there were, walked it back when evidence proved otherwise.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207173798/fake-accounts-old-...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/media/gaza-hospital-coverage-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/10/26/gaz...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/gaza-hospi...\
by signatoremo | 2026-02-25 02:29:51+00:00
> The real achievement is human-built Vite (and it is an amazing project).

From TFA:

Vite is the build tool used by most of the front-end ecosystem outside of Next.js, powering frameworks like Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt, and Remix

Are you saying those frameworks aren't impressive because they are also powered by Vite?

Also from TFA:
A project like this would normally take a team of engineers months, if not years. Several teams at various companies have attempted it, and the scope is just enormous. We tried once at Cloudflare! Two routers, 33+ module shims, server rendering pipelines, RSC streaming, file-system routing, middleware, caching, static export. There's a reason nobody has pulled it off.

That's the most important result of this experiment. They achieved something that they'd wanted to do but couldn't pull it off. Do you think they are lying?
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-25 02:30:18+00:00
...uh, I think Claude Code is great, actually. A lot of that is indeed just the strength of the underlying model, but the local client is great too. Plan mode, checkpoints, subagents... I've been using Claude Code for a year now, and I feel like Anthropic has steadily been eliminating pay points.

It's certainly a lot better than the Gemini cli!
by johndoylecape | 2026-02-25 02:30:35+00:00
Great question. The product is basically the same-- it's a cell phone network and we sell connectivity to it.

A helpful thing to keep in mind is that everyone has basically 2 use cases for their cell phones:

1. Send and receive calls and SMS
2. Connect to the internet

Whether you're a national security professional, an investigative journalist, or an average consumer who values privacy, that's what you do with your phone. So if we can build features that make you more secure and more private across those two use cases, we have a product that can help both government and consumer users.

Sometimes when people ask the "conflict" question they mean some version of "but doesn't the government then ask you for a backdoor to get all the data?" All we can really do here is stand by our privacy policy. We store the minimum amount of data possible, we promise not to sell your data to anyone, we notify our users if we receive legal process on their account that is not subject to a gag order, and we pledge to push back on any law enforcement request we receive that is not well formed and narrowly tailored as required by law.

The backdoor/honeypot fears are often related to the Anom story that came out a few years ago. It's not a perfect rebuttal, but the reporter that broke that story has written about Cape a couple of times. You can read those articles here:

https://www.404media.co/privacy-telecom-cape-introduces-disa...

https://www.404media.co/i-dont-own-a-cellphone-can-this-priv...
by krick | 2026-02-25 02:32:05+00:00
I would like to know: is there even a single person here, who actually changed his opinion regarding this whole matter upon seeing this report? Not confirmed anything, but actually was forced to re-evaluate his opinion. Like, previously you thought that IDF are good guys, and all Israel does is justified self-defense measures, and now you see this as genocide of Palestinians?

Of course, I assume, the answer is — no one. (And I'm hoping somebody will tell me I'm wrong.) So, what's the point? Is somebody gonna be held accountable? Will Israel be treated differently as a country from now on? If no, what's the point?
by yonaguska | 2026-02-25 02:33:03+00:00
I'd point out again, that most dispensationalists don't actually follow their interpretation to it's logical conclusion. And further, the view is not that all Jews will go to hell. It is that a large portion of Jews will suffer through the tribulation period, with most of them dying, but that the "remnant" will survive, all the remaining Jews will turn to follow Jesus, then rule the world under Jesus for 1000 years. And everyone will serve Israel.

I'm annoyed that I spent so much time growing up learning this tbh. But I still find it crazy to call all of your average misguided adherents to this ideology antisemites. The death cult running things, sure.

It's even more ridiculous to call the prosetylizers anti semites for trying to convert Jews, bc based on their world view, if they don't save as many Jews as they can, those Jews are going to suffer terribly instead of being raptured before the tribulation.
by idanr3011 | 2026-02-25 02:33:53+00:00
$300 in a week, yeah. That's what pushed me to build this.

Risk alerting - logging only for now. The data's all there (cost, risk, timing per event) so threshold alerts are straightforward to add. I wanted to nail visibility before touching enforcement. It's next.

Ledger tamper resistance - out of scope for v1, intentionally. You're right that a compromised agent with fs access could modify it. The real fix is a hash chain so tampering is detectable after the fact. I didn't want to over-engineer before validating the basic use case, but it's the right next step on the integrity side.

Cursor billing - Cursor stores per-request token usage in a local SQLite db at ~/.cursor-server/data/state.vscdb. That's your data on your machine, vigilo just reads it. The cursor.com billing endpoint wasn't documented but wasn't hard to find by watching network traffic. Most brittle part of the codebase — if they change the schema it breaks. I've been upfront about that in the docs.

On vendors being uninterested - I think it's structural. Friction around cost visibility isn't an accident.
by johndoylecape | 2026-02-25 02:33:55+00:00
Thanks, it's a good point.

But to be clear, you DO actually know that other cell service providers are selling your data to law enforcement:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/25/att-secretl...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-ve...
Show HN: Courtyard – Open-source macOS app for local MLX fine-tuning Text
by tuwenbo0120 | 2026-02-25 02:34:23+00:00
I've been building Courtyard, a macOS desktop app designed to make local LLM workflows on Apple Silicon less tedious.

The motivation: I was tired of juggling multiple Python CLI scripts, JSONL formatting, and environment issues just to run a simple LoRA fine-tune on my Mac.

Courtyard is essentially a UI wrapper around mlx-lm combined with data preparation tools. It handles:

Dataset formatting and cleaning (privacy filtering, deduplication).
Local LoRA fine-tuning via MLX on Apple Silicon.
An integrated chat UI for A/B testing the base model vs. the fine-tuned adapter.
Exporting to GGUF or directly to an Ollama runtime.
The stack is Tauri 2.x + React + Rust + Python (mlx-lm). It's fully open-source (AGPL).

Repo: https://github.com/Mcourtyard/m-courtyard

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the architecture, MLX implementation, or any edge cases you run into. Happy to answer technical questions.
by skeptic_ai | 2026-02-25 02:34:32+00:00
They always focused on the safety. (Their own safety). They only backed off from us military once they were in the bad press. As usual, they are not an ethical company. I can’t say it’s bad as all corporations are the same. Just don’t look at the illusion they create.

If you look at my post history you can see I’m always calling them out about how sketchy they are.
by ZebulonP | 2026-02-25 02:35:55+00:00
(to be transparent - I'm a Cloudflare engineer)

The behavior isn't entirely the same and reaching 100% parity is a non-goal, but there are a few things to note.

This is still a very early implementation and there are undoubtedly issues with the implementation that weren't covered in next's original test suite (and thus not inherited) while not being obvious enough to pop up with all the apps we've tried so far.

As for why it's so much smaller, by building on top of Vite and their react + rsc plugins there is a whole lot of code that we don't need to write. That's where a significant portion of the LOC difference comes from.
by estsauver | 2026-02-25 02:36:35+00:00
I think there's clearly a "Speed is a quality of it's own" axis. When you use Cereberas (or Groq) to develop an API, the turn around speed of iterating on jobs is so much faster (and cheaper!) then using frontier high intelligence labs, it's almost a different product.

Also, I put together a little research paper recently--I think there's probably an underexplored option of "Use frontier AR model for a little bit of planning then switch to diffusion for generating the rest." You can get really good improvements with diffusion models! https://estsauver.com/think-first-diffuse-fast.pdf
Show HN: Measuring brand share in AI answers – a Y Combinator case study
by roman10 | 2026-02-25 02:36:43+00:00
After working in data science at Google, I built GeoVector to systematically measure how brands appear in AI-generated answers. Our approach is research-based, using position-adjusted scoring grounded in published GEO literature. The Y Combinator report is one example of the analysis we run.

We ran 150 prompts across ChatGPT and Gemini, tracking 21 brands. Three things that surprised us:

1. Techstars outranks YC on ChatGPT despite YC's far stronger Google presence
2. YC's own site accounts for just 8 of 940 AI source references
3. The single most-cited source driving competitor visibility is a blog post on pitchwise.se — not any accelerator's own website

Full report at the link, no signup. GeoVector runs this analysis for any brand or vertical.
by seveibar | 2026-02-25 02:36:53+00:00
Despite what electrical engineers would claim, I think it's very under-studied under a modern lens. When people ask for good places to get started I usually tell them to just look at what game developers are doing for pathfinding. Autorouting sort of a form of multi-agent pathfinding, so there are a lot of relevant concepts from that area.

The tension in autorouting IMO is people generally want something ideal that passes all design rule checks. My thinking (and IMO the more modern way of thinking) is that fast algorithms, fast feedback loops and AI participation are more important.

There are also a lot of relevant algorithms in VLSI/chip design, the folks at OpenROAD seem to have good stuff although I'm not intimately familiar.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-25 02:37:21+00:00
Oh hi! Do you have vivid dreams??

I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse, but I generally have extremely vivid dreams. I also have a very active inner-monologue and can do the whole “picture a red apple on a green lawn with 3 yellow dots on it, pick it up and rotate it and track the dots” kind of thing. As it happens I’m a visual learner and a voracious reader.

I’ve never thought about if any of this was connected before. I should do some research.
by joaquin_arias | 2026-02-25 02:37:41+00:00
Interesting concept. The biggest challenge I see isn’t the JSON schema or the widget, those are straightforward — but incentive alignment.

Why would creators or platforms voluntarily disclose AI usage if it could reduce perceived authenticity or trust?

For Creative Commons, the incentive was legal clarity and distribution benefits. For something like this to become a real standard, there probably needs to be either:

- Regulatory pressure

- Platform-level enforcement

- Search ranking or discoverability benefits

Otherwise, it risks becoming an “honesty-only” protocol that mainly compliant actors adopt, while bad actors ignore it.

Have you thought about what mechanism could drive adoption beyond goodwill?
by monooso | 2026-02-25 02:38:22+00:00
> But the mechanism of power differs: In centrally planned systems, control flows from political authority. In market systems, control flows from voluntary transactions and competitive success.

This is a boilerplate theoretical explanation of capitalism which bears very little resemblance to how things actually work in most Western capitalist societies, particularly America.

A cursory glance at the majority of large markets reveals that they are dominated by a handful of massive companies, who use their enormous wealth and influence to steer (centrally planned) political policies, thereby stymying competition and entrenching their position.
by rtfeldman | 2026-02-25 02:38:57+00:00
If a stranger asks me, "Should I walk or drive to this car wash?" then I assume they're asking in good faith and both options are reasonable for their situation. So it's a safe assumption that they're not going there to get their car washed. Maybe they're starting work there tomorrow, for example, and don't know how pedestrian-friendly the route is.

Is the goal behind evaluating models this way to incentivize training them to assume we're bad-faith tricksters even when asking benign questions like how best to traverse a particular 100m? I can't imagine why it would be desirable to optimize for that outcome.

(I'm not saying that's your goal personally - I mean the goal behind the test itself, which I'd heard of before this thread. Seems like a bad test.)
by nowittyusername | 2026-02-25 02:39:10+00:00
How does the whole kv cache situation work for diffusion models? Like are there latency and computation/monetary savings for caching? is the curve similar to auto regressive caching options? or maybe such things dont apply at all and you can just mess with system prompt and dynamically change it every turn because there's no savings to be had? or maybe you can make dynamic changes to the head but also get cache savings because of diffusion based architecture?... so many ideas...
by igravious | 2026-02-25 02:39:27+00:00
> There was a second part to that which is "and surrender".

Honest question. Why should they surrender?

> Most or all of it in response to violations of the ceasefire by Hamas.

A complete and utter inversion of reality.

First page of Google results for: Israel ceasefire violations

“How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers: Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 615 Palestinians and injured 1,658.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has...

“UN experts urge States to act as Israeli violations threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire”
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/11/un-experts-u...

“Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/israel-has-vio...

“Fact Sheet: Israel’s History of Breaking Ceasefires”
https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-israels-hist...
by aakresearch | 2026-02-25 02:40:02+00:00
This is a very useful take, thank you. Really helped me to adjust my mental model without "antropomorphising" the machinery. Upvoted.

If I may, I would re-phrase/expand the last sentence of yours in a way that makes it even more useful for me, personally. Maybe it could help other people too. I think it is fair to say that in presence of hints like "Pretend you are X" or "Take a deeper look" the inference mechanism (driven by it's training weights, and now influenced by those hints via "attention math") is not "satisfied" until it pulls more relevant tokens into "working context" ("more" and "relevant" being modulated by the particular hint).
by hackersk | 2026-02-25 02:40:29+00:00
This is the kind of project that makes me want to raid the drawer of old electronics. The power consumption breakdown from hex4def6 is really valuable context too - wifi being the dominant power draw explains why so many of these e-ink dashboard projects end up with a Pi doing the heavy lifting over USB.

I've been thinking about similar setups for kitchen recipe displays. E-ink is perfect for anything you glance at - no backlight burning your eyes at 6am, and the always-on nature means you don't have to wake up a screen. The trade-off of slow refresh is actually a feature when your data only changes every few minutes.
by abustamam | 2026-02-25 02:41:12+00:00
I mean, I'll take the 4090 if you don't want it :)

It's funny how we convince ourselves we need things. I bought myself a 3080 Ti a few years ago because I wanted a gaming computer, but then I ended up buying a Playstation 5 and not using my computer for anything more intensive than Factorio. More recently though I have been using my 3080 for Comfy UI image generation and messing around with local models, so I guess it's getting use now.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-25 02:41:24+00:00
I'm very worried for both.

Cerebras requires a $3K/year membership to use APIs.

Groq's been dead for about 6 months, even pre-acquisition.

I hope Inception is going well, it's the only real democratic target at this. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was promising but it never really went anywhere, even by the standards of a Google preview
by hackersk | 2026-02-25 02:41:49+00:00
The buried lede here is the Astro acquisition timing. Cloudflare bought Astro a month ago, and now they're showing they can replicate Next.js's API surface with AI in a week. The strategic play isn't vinext itself — it's signaling to the market that framework lock-in is dissolving.

If you're a Next.js shop stuck on Vercel because self-hosting is painful, Cloudflare just gave you two exit ramps: Astro (for new projects) and vinext (for existing ones). Whether vinext is production-ready today matters less than what it represents for Vercel's pricing power.

The real question nobody's asking: if your framework's value can be replicated by targeting its test suite, what exactly are you paying for with Vercel's premium tiers? The answer used to be "the only place Next.js runs well." That moat is eroding fast.
by bitwize | 2026-02-25 02:43:25+00:00
The laws of scale are stone cold bitches, and so you really don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. By 2030 writing code by hand in an IDE will almost certainly be a curiosity for retro enthusiasts, like programming a C64 in BASIC is now. The field as a profession will be unrecognizable and, as things become more automated and even self-improving, have far fewer people working in it, by 2030.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-25 02:43:44+00:00
I just don't believe this is the case. Bonta acknowledges in his press release that Amazon's prices intuitively seem to be cheap, and the concrete examples of alleged price fixing are all so redacted that it's impossible to understand them. Like, this is the complete available text of example 2:

> Amazon, vendor [...] fixed prices on [...] This is also an example of Breaking the Price Match, but here, Amazon [...] The plan was memorialized in an email from [...] In other words [...] In response, Amazon insisted on [...] The plan was realized [...] The result of Amazon, [...] price fixing agreement was to increase the retail prices

I don't know how you could even understand what's being alleged without seeing the unredacted version.
by legitster | 2026-02-25 02:43:48+00:00
There are some really salacious things in the files that are probably not true - investigators were required to record all accusations, and there were a lot of tips provided during Trump's first run for office that are probably fabrications.

But there's some stuff that is really incriminating. Guiffre was arrested for prostitution BEFORE she was hired at Mar-A-Lago. Another underage survivor recalled a conversation with Ivana about Trump to her psychiatrist. Epstein regularly bragged about both having conversations with Trump and having dirt on him after he was elected.

The administration should not be let of the hook - they are still stonewalling on the actual FBI 302 files - AKA, the actual investigation. So far we only know the evidence the FBI collected - not what the evidence is evidence of. We don't know what accusations or stories they are supposed to validate or invalidate.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 02:45:10+00:00
Huh. You, a comment earlier: "They also have a documented history of being wrong."

Care to "refute the claims" in the linked report instead of attacking the messenger?

Even the IDF had to admit it happened when the video came out. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...
by logicprog | 2026-02-25 02:45:28+00:00
It was claimed to find that, but I don't think it did. It compared developers' beliefs about average speed up across tasks, measured by asking them once at the end, compared to the average comparative speed measured per task and then averaged. That's measuring two different things, and all kinds of things could mass up developers' fuzzy recollection of the gestalt of several tasks (such as recency bias and question/study framing) that wouldn't effect it if you asked them right after; moreover, when tasks were broken down by task type, the speed up/slow down results actually matched developers' qualitative comments.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-25 02:45:54+00:00
Nobody gives a damn about the dying of a trade. People don’t want their house foreclosed on when they lose their income, or their cancer to kill them when they lose their health insurance, to move an elderly parent into a cheap shitty old folks home because they can’t afford home health care, or not be able to pay for their kid to go on that school field trip.

This would all be pretty fucking swell if the fundamental problems this could cause were even considered before hitting the gas. Instead, you’re going to have a shitload of people with ruined lives, but as a consolation prize, they can vibe code stuff! Wowee!