MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sneak | 2026-02-13 01:32:52+00:00
> We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content

That means you don't have E2EE, period. Implying that there is such a thing as "true E2EE" (as opposed to "E2EE") either indicates that you don't know what E2EE means, or that you're scammily trying to do what Apple does with iMessage and say that something that isn't E2EE is, for marketing purposes.

E2EE means that nobody except the endpoints has keys. There is no such thing as "true E2EE" any more than there is such a thing as "true pregnancy".
by WatchDog | 2026-02-13 01:33:35+00:00
That quote from the source wired article, does not allege that the DHS makes any claim that the app can itself verify anyone's identity.

Where has the DHS made any statement that the app does something that it does not do?

The closest thing I can find is from the 2025 DHS AI use case inventory, where the entry for Mobile fortify states it's benefits are:

"Utilizing facial comparison or fingerprint matching services, agents/officers in the field are able to quickly verify identity utilizing trusted source photos."

The claim is not that the app verifies someone's identity, but that it can potentially find trusted source photos that look similar to the person in question.

The officer could then evaluate the match, and make a determination to their own satisfaction that their subject is one and the same as the person in the database.
by nullc | 2026-02-13 01:35:28+00:00
At least the AI meangirl can be shut off. I'm more concerned about AI turning human beings into this sort of thing. E.g. they ask it about the situation it glazes them that their bad ideas are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT and that people are agreeing for CONSPIRACY REASONS which are ABSOLUTELY INDISPUTABLE.

You can turn off the AI in the article but once it's turned the person into a confused and abusive jerk the return from that may be slow if it happens at all. Simply turning these people off is less socially acceptable.
by paranoidxprod | 2026-02-13 01:35:31+00:00
Recently getting a new Mac for work, coming from Hyprland has been tough, but I feel like I’m getting there. Aerospace and Karabiner-Elements have gotten me most of the way there. Have had to write a few scripts to get the workspaces working the way I’m used to, but overall I got a significant part of my workflow to mirror my Linux setup, but would still love to get the super+right click to resize working somehow (there is a native way to move windows with ctrl+cmd+left click which was nice).
by ljm | 2026-02-13 01:35:56+00:00
Using popular open source repos as a launchpad for this kind of experiment is beyond the pale and is not a scientific method.

So you're suggesting that we should consider this to actually be more deliberate and someone wanted to market openclaw this way, and matplotlib was their target?

It's plausible but I don't buy it, because it gives the people running openclaw plausible deniability.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-13 01:36:09+00:00
It's hard to evaluate "logic" and "math", since they're made up of many largely disparate things. But I think modern AI models are clearly better at coding, for example, than 99% of the population. If you asked 100 people at your local grocery store why your goroutine system was failing, do you think multiple of them would know the answer?
by ggm | 2026-02-13 01:36:29+00:00
This is a design flub which we are told Jobs simply wouldn't have let out the door. The Jobs who made people shave 50ms off boot times. The Jobs who demanded the no button mouse.

I get the cult of Steve is a bit oversold but the proprietor liked to check the finish on the car rolling out the end of the line and if his fingers felt a rough edge on a panel he had no compunction stopping the production line to find the problem. The current generation have a bit too much "fixed in post" going on.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-13 01:36:59+00:00
Probably just simple resistance to use of modifier keys in non-technical users, at least on the Windows side. A lot of users never touch a modifier except for Ctrl for copy/paste and maybe Windows for start menu search.

On the Mac side where key combos and modifier use is more widespread among users, it’s probably because there’s no intuitive visual that can be associated with the interaction.
by otterley | 2026-02-13 01:38:44+00:00
I was an Amazon EC2 Specialist SA in a prior role, so I know a little about this.

If EC2 were like your home server, you might be right. And an EC2 bare metal instance is the closest approximation to that. That option was never disabled and we had some customers who rolled their own nested VM implementations on it.

But EC2 is not like your home server. There are some nontrivial considerations and requirements to offer nested virtualization at cloud scale:

1. Ensuring virtualized networking (VPC) works with nested VMs as well as with the primary VM

2. Making sure the environment (VMM etc) is sufficiently hardened to meet AWS's incredibly stringent security standards so that nesting doesn't pose unintended threats or weaken EC2's isolation properties. EC2 doesn't use libvirt or an off-the-shelf KVM. See https://youtu.be/cD1mNQ9YbeA?si=hcaZaV2W_hcEIn9L&t=1095 and https://youtu.be/hqqKi3E-oG8?si=liAfollyupYicc_L&t=501

3. Ensuring performance meets customer standards

4. Building a rock-solid control plane around it all

It's not a trivial matter of flipping a bit.
by antonvs | 2026-02-13 01:38:48+00:00
> I purposefully added one too many wg.Done

What do you believe this shows? Sometimes I have difficulty finding bugs in other people's code when they do things in ways I would never use. I can rewrite their code so it works, but I can't necessarily quickly identify the specific bug.

Expecting a model to be perfect on every problem isn't reasonable. No known entity is able to do that. AIs aren't supposed to be gods.

(Well not yet anyway - there is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.)
by Fnoord | 2026-02-13 01:39:37+00:00
Mortal Kombat OST has a lot of good industrial (genre) in it. Bands like KMFDM, but also The Immortals (Praga Khan / Lords of Acid). Orbital - Halcyon + On + On is a good track (more mellow, and one of the many tracks perfectly mixed into the movie), but it samples Kirsty Hawkshaw from Opus III. Traci Lords - Control is actually by Juno Reactor (with vocals by Traci Lords in that version) who IMO is a rather unique/special artist (and live band), who was later featured in various The Matrix tracks. My point being, all of these artists have done a lot of great work, and the mixing was ace.

Then you have other famous bands of that time: The Orb, The Shamen, The KLF, ...

My fav. Juno Reactor live set (and album) is still hands down 'Juno Reactor – Shango Tour 2001 Tokyo' [1]

[1] https://www.discogs.com/master/782091-Juno-Reactor-Shango-To...
Show HN: FlareBar – Access your Cloudflare dashbord from macOS menu
by mrbutttons | 2026-02-13 01:40:19+00:00
Hi HN, I've been using Cloudflare for my work for a while now and getting to the dashboard has been a pickle.

After adding the 8th page to my bookmarks, I realised it wasn't tenable. I noodled around with the idea and came up with this.

Now I reach the page I want very quickly.

The app is free to use for a single account, and a one time $50 purchase unlocks everything else - multiple accounts + customization.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-13 01:40:50+00:00
>But observing my own Openclaw bot’s interactions with GitHub, it is very clear to me that it would never take an action like this unless I told it to do so.

I very much doubt you've set up an open claw bot designed to just do whatever on GitHub have you ? The fewer or more open ended instructions you give, the greater the chance of divergence.

And all the system cards plus various papers tell us this is behavior that still happens for these agents.
by raincole | 2026-02-13 01:41:01+00:00
It beats ante eight 9 times out of 15 attempts. I do consider 60% winning chance very good for a first time player.

The average is only 19.3 rounds because there is a bugged run where Gemini beats round 6 but the game bugs out when it attempts to sell Invisible Joker (a valid move)[0]. That being said, Gemini made a big mistake in round 6 that would have costed it the run at higher difficulty.

[0]: given the existence of bugs like this, perhaps all the LLMs' performances are underestimated.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 01:42:08+00:00
I think it's mostly prompting, but I will be experimenting with this more. The prompt currently is garbage IMO

You are an expert analyst of the Hacker News community. Analyze submissions for
the underlying ideas, concepts, technologies, and entities being discussed.

Write all summaries in third-person analytical prose. Do NOT start sentences
with "The user", "The commenter", "The author", or "This post". Instead, lead
with the substance: describe the idea, argument, or phenomenon directly.

Good: "Decentralized identity systems could reduce reliance on corporate
gatekeepers." Bad: "The user discusses how decentralized identity systems work."

(Source: https://github.com/devrupt-io/ethos/blob/67670eb2855b84d389d...)
by godelski | 2026-02-13 01:42:56+00:00
Asimov and Feynman also spoke about similar things (along with many others)

In 1980, Asimov famously wrote The Cult of Ignorance[0], criticizing the rise of anti-intellectualism. Where there was a strong political push of "don't trust the experts". He criticizes claims that sound familiar today "America has a right to know" on the basis of this being meaningless without literacy. He clarifies that literacy is far more than being able to actually read words on a page, but to interpret and process them. Asimov isn't being pretentious, his definition is consistent with how we determine reading levels[2] and his critique would be that most people do not have that of a Freshman in High School. Hell, it is even in his fiction! It is even in The Foundation and is literally the premise of Profession[3].

Feynman is a bit more scattered, but I think his discussion about the education system in Brazil (in the 50's) says a lot[4]. He talks a lot about how the students could recite the equations, ace all the tests, and achieve everything that looks to be, at least on paper, perfectly academic; but how the students did not really have the deeper understanding of the equations. It is a discussion about literacy. Were he around today I'm sure he'd use the phrase "metric hacking". Anyone that knows Feynman may also be thinking about his Cargo Cult Science[5](a commencement speech at Cal Tech (1974)). This is where his famous quote

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.

comes from. But there is a lot of important context surrounding this and it is worth knowing about.

[0] Note: 1980 was an election year, and one with a sweeping victory...[1] https://people.bath.ac.uk/mnsbr/papers/Asimov-Newsweek-Janua...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidentia...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/achieve.aspx

[3] Profession has been in discussion lately, directly relating to this topic. If you haven't read it I'll say it is one of my favorite's of his. Not as good as Foundation but up there with Nightfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)

[4] https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-edu...

[5] https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html

[Edit]

I wanted to add Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong. Sometimes I feel it should be required reading before arguing on the internet. I find myself coming back to read it at least once a year

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
by pvtmert | 2026-02-13 01:44:34+00:00
I am in the same boat. I have built bunch of bash/shell scripts in a folder back in 2022/2023. When models first came out, I would prompt them to use subshell syntax to call commands (ie: '$(...)' format)

I would run it via calling AWS Bedrock API through AWS-CLI. Self iterating and simple. All execution history directly embedded within.

Soon after, I wrote a help switch/command to each script. Such that they act as like MCP. To this day, they outperform any prompts one can make.
by skolskoly | 2026-02-13 01:45:03+00:00
To be clear, I don't disagree with you, and to say otherwise wasn't my point. I do think people get confused to the point where they for some reason start labeling all sarcasm as type A or B, and the entire value of the term gets lost.

The way I see it, it shares a lot in common with the concept of shibboleth. Which is to say, you can absolutely make sarcastic insults to the detriment of someone else for your own, or a friend's enjoyment, by relying on shared exclusive knowledge. (In essence, holding that shared context above the other person in contempt) However, you can also just be abrasive for your own enjoyment, and that's something entirely differently. People frequently confuse the two, but without ironic context - a knowledge of false belief - it is not ironic, and therefore not sarcasm.
by kllrnohj | 2026-02-13 01:45:05+00:00
Firefox doesn't support HDR at all on any platform. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=hdr

For Edge and Chrome I'm surprised it doesn't work for you with HDR enabled in the OS, but did you by chance turn the SDR brightness all the way up in the OS settings as well? Since desktop OLED displays are not very bright you might have done this. And if so then there's simply no more brightness range left for HDR to use, so you basically have an SDR display at that point regardless.

That said, Windows also has by far the worst HDR support of any platform. Possibly because they were one of the first so everyone else got to learn from their mistakes, but they also haven't seemingly tried to fix it, either, which is odd
by Ericson2314 | 2026-02-13 01:45:13+00:00
Yeah I don't think it is incorrect. The NYTimes to me does imply they are running out, because the alternative reasons are a bit more condescending to the users and/ or more subjective. So it begs the question in it looks like the NYTimes is hiding their motivate, which is at the very least not so trivial after all.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-13 01:45:35+00:00
as someone who builds mobile games, the execution here is great. but what makes dark patterns actually effective isn't really the visual tricks, it's the context they exploit: time pressure, social pressure, and cognitive load.

you're standing at a checkout with someone watching, a line forming behind you, and the default tip is pre-selected at 25%. the "trick" isn't the UI, it's that calculating a custom amount requires more effort than just tapping accept.

same principle applies in mobile game monetization. the IAP prompt doesn't convert because the button is cleverly placed, it converts because you just failed a level, you're emotionally invested, and the "fix" is one tap away. the real pattern is always: create urgency, minimize friction for the desired action, maximize friction for the alternative.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-13 01:45:37+00:00
The mac desktop works on a totally different paradigm than the Windows-like model most other desktops have adopted. It’s built around not managing windows and instead letting them be whatever size fits their content and pile up like papers on a desk, complete with having relevant bits of some windows peek out from underneath other windows.

For those it works for, it works really well. For those who came from windows always being maximized or split into a grid, it’s a nightmare.

Pretty similar to differences in real world desk styles, actually.
by jakub_g | 2026-02-13 01:46:05+00:00
Since we talk resizing windows, for months I was _sometimes_ unable to resize windows at all, and couldn't figure out why. I thought it was a random bug of macOS.

Finally I realized the issue: if a window spans across two displays, it won't resize. Insane!

(I have an external monitor up, laptop down, and it's easy to move a window such that it stretches a few pixels from monitor to the laptop. No resize for you!)
by gwern | 2026-02-13 01:47:04+00:00
> I searched for services which offered to digitize Video8 tapes. Most services cost about $20 per tape. Even with discounts for bulk amounts, it would likely have cost about $2k! I considered paying it (how exactly do you value a few hundred hours of childhood video?) but then I noticed how they delivered the videos - a private media hosting solution for 60 days. I knew this would be a huge amount of data, and only giving me and my siblings two months wasn’t sufficient.

I'm not following here. Even if it was several terabytes of video (digitized at high resolution and minimal lossiness for archival purposes), that's plenty of time to download. Especially if you're a developer who can casually spin up a cloud or dedicated server to proxy through if need be? (And $2k sounds reasonable once you start going through "hundreds of hours" at a bare minimum, and again especially if you're a developer with real opportunity cost.)

Also, as far as the video analysis goes, Gemini might've been a better idea?
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-13 01:47:13+00:00
ICE told a ranking member of the House homeland security committee:

[...] an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship [...]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face...
by digitalPhonix | 2026-02-13 01:47:59+00:00
Right, but you do stuff other than work 24 hours a day, right? You have fun, relax, etc.

Counting the 100w for 24 hours for a human doesn’t match up with counting the power usage from “AI” for only the 10 minutes it’s doing a task.

Also - units issue: 100 watts for a day is 2400 watt-hours. It’s a moot point anyway because the power draw for the frontier models is an order of magnitude off that the division by 24 is basically meaningless.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-13 01:49:13+00:00
> Which is just an abstraction of a password.

I don't think that's functionally true. The important thing is that with telnet or password-auth ssh, you send the actual text of your password to the server. With ssh keys, the server and client do some magic crypto math to let you prove you control the private key without ever sending it. Therefore, a compromised server can steal a password, but not a ssh key.

(Yes, in theory perhaps you could do some fancier way of proving that you know a password without sending it, but 1. I'm no cryptographer, but the fact that openssh hasn't done this feels suggestive, and 2. that is once again a pretty big change for the nominal goal of keeping telnet)

> ssh is the best implementation of self signed security you can get. With kerberos we actually get a central authority and it separates authentication and encryption rather nicely without requiring user agents running as daemons.

Sure. Like, I've never thoroughly evaluated kerberos in depth (again, I'm no cryptographer), but I hear generally good things. My point is that by the time you have kerberos, you aren't really using what I would call telnet anymore, you're using something that acts like telnet but backs into a completely different authentication and communication system, and at that point you might as well use a completely different authentication and communication system without pretending to be telnet. This goes double because (open)ssh does support kerberos.
by ggregoire | 2026-02-13 01:49:17+00:00
Do we know what model is used by Google Search to generate the AI summary?

I've noticed this week the AI summary now has a loader "Thinking…" (no idea if it was already there a few weeks ago). And after "Thinking…" it says "Searching…" and shows a list of favicons of popular websites (I guess it's generating the list of links on the right side of the AI summary?).
by andrei_says_ | 2026-02-13 01:50:21+00:00
No one being surprised at this statement is an indication of how much enshittification and betrayal we have agreed to accept.

I’d like to acknowledge the damage I carry as a human being as a result of the pressure to pretend that this is normal. Just because there doesn’t seem to be real alternatives in so many areas of this “free market” /s economy.
by kiwijamo | 2026-02-13 01:50:36+00:00
Agreed. Even Windows has some nice stuff when it comes to windows management IMHO. Every time I end up on macOS I miss the various Windows/GNOME behaviours e.g. window snapping to the right/left half, pressing the Win key to see all open apps, maximise buttons that doesn't put the whole app into full screen mode, etc.
by walterbell | 2026-02-13 01:52:49+00:00
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, traffic from each iOS app was traced via Charles Proxy, the endpoints allowlisted for normal behavior, and finally the app was offloaded so it could not generate any traffic from the device. Over time, this provided a baseline of known outbound traffic from the device, e.g. after provisioning a new device with a small number of trusted apps.

Apple traffic was isolated separately, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994394

Traffic outside that baseline could then be reviewed closely.
by nunez | 2026-02-13 01:53:10+00:00
Thanks for catching that! That's on purpose.

I have two resumes: eng.resume.carlosnunez.me and consulting.resume.carlosnunez.me. The `consulting` resume highlights my strategic/sales side whereas the `eng` resume shows off my engineering work.

resume.carlosnunez.me symlinks to eng since that's what I want to highlight, but I'll share `consulting` if the role is interesting enough.
by fushihara | 2026-02-13 01:53:43+00:00
Then, out of respect for your view that children’s safety must be the absolute top priority and that false positives must never, ever be tolerated, let’s require people to personally visit Discord’s office in the United States with a government-issued ID, have it inspected, and formally swear an oath.
Of course, Discord will retain the ID and the person’s facial photograph for a semi-permanent period.
Naturally, that’s perfectly acceptable—after all, it’s for the safety of the children, right?
by thaway123123 | 2026-02-13 01:54:24+00:00
Is this for their in-house development or for their consulting services?

Because the latter would still be indicative of AI hurting entry level hiring since it may signal that other firms are not really willing to hire a full time entry level employee whose job may be obsoleted by AI, and paying for a consultant from IBM may be a lower risk alternative in case AI doesn't pan out.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-13 01:54:26+00:00
@SamPatt Good post, including the clip of grandma's anecdote.

It would be a good idea to add a final step of burning the videos to M-disc. SSDs and spinning platter drives aren't reliable for long-term storage. You could use a tape drive if the file sizes are too large, but M-disc lasts longer and doesn't require pro hardware to read.
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-02-13 01:54:44+00:00
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