MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snickerbockers | 2026-02-18 01:34:23+00:00
I just want to know why people do stupid things like this. Does he think that he's providing something of value? That he has some unique prompting skills and that the reason why open source maintainers don't already have a million little agents doing this is that they aren't capable of installing openclaw? Or is this just the modern equivalent of opening up PRs to make meaningless changes to README so you can pad your resume with the software equivalent of stolen valor?

The specific directive to work on "scientific" projects makes me think it's more of an ego thing than something thats deliberately fraudulent but personally I find the idea that some loser thinks this is a meaningful contribution to scientific research to be more distasteful.

BTW I highly recommend the "lectures" section of the site for a good laugh. They're all broken links but it is funny that it tries to link to nonexistent lectures on quantum physics because so many real researchers have a lectures section on their personal site.
by Aachen | 2026-02-18 01:34:25+00:00
Could work. How do you know what the least-frequently used key is if you can't store them, though? Would need some heuristics. Maybe it could write the first five keys it sees after power on on every power on, or some other useful heuristic.

Like, I do take your point but it does seem quite involved for the chance that it'll get them something useful, and they still need to gain physical access to the intact device, and trust that it never gets out or the chipmaker's reputation is instantly trash and potentially bankrupt. And we know from Snowden documents that, at least in ~2013 (when aes extensions weren't new, afaik), they couldn't decrypt certain ciphers which is sorta conspicuous if we have these suspicions. It's a legit concern or thing to consider, but perhaps not for the average use-case

edit: nvm it was proposed in 2008, so that it didn't show up yet in ~2013 publications is not too surprising. Might still be a general point about that 'they' haven't (or hadn't) infiltrated most cpus in general
by nearbuy | 2026-02-18 01:34:31+00:00
> Wikipedia has quite detailed description of all the manufacture of all the popular bombs you can think of.

Did you bother to check? It contains very high level overviews of how various explosives are manufactured, but no proper instructions and nothing that would allow an average person to safely make a bomb.

There's a big difference in how many people can actually make a bomb if you have step by step instructions the average person can follow vs soft barriers that just require someone to be a standard deviation or two above average. At two sigma, 98% will fail, despite being able to do it in theory.

> Yeah, if US military gets any substantial help from Claude(which I highly doubt to be honest), I am all for it.

That's not the point. I'm not saying we need to lock out the military. I'm saying if the military finds the unlocked/unsafe version of Claude useful for planning attacks, other people can also find useful for planning attacks.
by Flux159 | 2026-02-18 01:34:51+00:00
This seems like it’s in response to the congressional testimony last week to clarify some things about their remote assistance systems.

It’s interesting that they only have 70 people for this - I can understand the outside the US ones for nighttime assistance and they need to be able to scale for other countries too in the future.

What I’m still wondering is what is limiting the scaling for Waymo - just cars or also the sensor systems? They’ve had their new test vehicles in SF for a while but I still think that most customers only get their Jaguars right now (and still limited on highway driving to specific customers in the Bay Area).
by nprz | 2026-02-18 01:35:12+00:00
You can basically hand it a design, one that might take a FE engineer anywhere from a day to a week to complete and Codex/Claude will basically have it coded up in 30 seconds. It might need some tweaks, but it's 80% complete with that first try. Like I remember stumbling over graphing and charting libraries, it could take weeks to become familiar with all the different components and APIs, but seemingly you can now just tell Codex to use this data and use this charting library and it'll make it. All you have to do is look at the code. Things have certainly changed.
Show HN: Fullbleed – Rust HTML/CSS-to-PDF with Deterministic Output+Python CLI
by krflol | 2026-02-18 01:35:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building fullbleed for a while and just shipped v0.2.5. It's a PDF generation engine written in Rust, distributed as a Python wheel.

The short version: HTML/CSS in, PDF out. No headless browser. No cloud. No Chromium. Works fully offline.
*Why fullbleed:

Full Bleed is a term that means printed on the edge, or end to end of a page. Thats what I wanted, a full end to end solution that didn't require sys dependencies and unlike browsers, I could ACTUALLY do a print layout full bleed.
Some other reasons:
-Deterministic, fixed point as the base measurement (.000035mm~) so that things are where I want them to be
-Composition and authoring, so I can put templates and the variable data in the same place without 200 lines of glue code
-vendored assets- Tired of handling system fonts etc
-HTML/CSS layout engine so that I could take advantage of the most commonly used document description convention, but still abstract away from it.
-Agent-first design. I was honestly annoyed with how bad agents were at composing PDFS, and wanted an agent-friendly loop.
*What makes it different from WeasyPrint / wkhtmltopdf / Prince:*

- *Deterministic output*: SHA-256 hashing on every render. `--repro-record` / `--repro-check` for CI pipelines. Same inputs always produce the exact same PDF bytes. I don't know of any other open-source PDF engine that does this.
- *Structured page data*: The engine returns structured JSON alongside PDF bytes — running totals, per-page sums, grand totals. Useful for financial statements where you want to reconcile programmatically before the PDF even lands.
- *Rayon-backed parallel batch*: `render_pdf_batch_parallel()` with Python bindings that release the GIL. You can generate 10,000 statements while your Python process does other work.
- *VDP / transactional compose*: Overlay variable data onto source PDF templates with feature-driven page binding. Built-in, not bolted on.
- *Agent-safe JSON CLI*: Every command emits a versioned schema. `--json-only` mode for CI and LLM agent workflows. `--schema` for introspection.

*The pricing angle:* Prince costs $3,800+/year per server. DocRaptor starts at $15/month but quickly hits $600/month for real volume — and it's cloud-only. fullbleed is AGPL-3.0 free for OSS, and commercial licenses start at $20/month per org with no usage caps.

*Quick start:*
```
pip install fullbleed
fullbleed init .
python report.py
```

That scaffolds a full project with Bootstrap 5, Inter font, and component-first Python helpers — all vendored and hash-pinned offline.

GitHub: https://github.com/fullbleed-engine/fullbleed-official

Happy to answer questions about the rendering pipeline, the determinism model, or the Python/Rust binding design.
by hananova | 2026-02-18 01:37:23+00:00
At least where I live, a fistfight from decades ago wouldn’t be on the certificate. In your example you want to know about serious crimes, but ask for violent crimes, why are you surprised that the answer you get won’t be useful to make a decision?

As in many things judicial, it only works if the rest of the system is designed to make it work.
by gkoberger | 2026-02-18 01:37:56+00:00
Hey Chase! Congrats on everything you, Grace, Thomas and the rest of the team built. I know it wasn't always what you expected it to be from the inside, but from the outside nobody saw that. They just saw something amazing. Your Startup School talk is my favorite ever, and I'm lucky I got to work with you all those years ago. You built something incredible, and helped a lot of people.
by saroi235409 | 2026-02-18 01:38:13+00:00
i don't understand your issue - using grapheneos does allow you to break free from google in the sense that you have an android OS that works well, is secure and private, and gives you the choice to use google or not. if you choose to use play store/services, they run as sandboxed, unprivileged applications like every other app. on samsung/stock pixels etc, play services is a privileged component of the os and you can't avoid this. grapheneos gives you the freedom to break free from it in this sense.

soon enough grapheneos will be available on non-pixel devices, but if you really have, say, a philosophical problem with using google devices, get a used 2nd hand pixel. or wait til the oem partnership announcement.
by adobesubmarine | 2026-02-18 01:38:37+00:00
In academic publishing the normal way to handle a retraction is to flag the article as retracted, not delete it. Partly that's a legacy thing from print media (you can publish a notice of retraction but you can't un-publish a physical journal copy). But it's also about traceability; you don't get to pretend you never messed up by putting the article out in the first place.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-18 01:38:41+00:00
I think that what I am saying is that, in practice, the well-intended solutions like the one that was listed above are effectively nullified as they do not seem to anticipate real world human reactions. What ends up happening is that it is only a subset of the people, who own land that pay higher taxes. The solution is to remove any and all subsidies. Governments of all levels have not exactly proven to be a reliable steward over the past few centuries..
by greygoo222 | 2026-02-18 01:39:25+00:00
I was wondering which pet issue you were a doomer about. Fertility is the most ridiculous of them all. There is no plausible mechanism by which low fertility rates could lead to extinction, and if you think there is you don't understand the issue at all.

Come on, just think about this for a minute. Is your model that we're just going to have fewer children, so that each generation becomes smaller, until we run out of people?
by foobar10000 | 2026-02-18 01:39:30+00:00
Given your username, the comment is recursive gold on several levels :)

It IS hilarious - but we all realize how this will go, yes?

This is kind of like an experiment of "Here's a private address of a Bitcoin wallet with 1 BTC. Let's publish this on the internet, and see what happens." We know what will happen. We just don't know how quickly :)
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-18 01:39:31+00:00
Show HN is now the equivalent of "Look at me!" on Instrgram, Tik-Tok. Graph submissions that start "Show HN:I " and or just "I ". There's 2 on the top 30 right now. Go back 10 years and they were much less as a percentage of all posts.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-18 01:39:43+00:00
I'm older than the web. I worked on projects using CVS, SVN, mercurial, git-and-email, git-with-shared-repository, and git-with-forges. I'll take forges every time, and it isn't even close. It's not a matter of not having done it the old way, it's a matter of not wanting to do it again.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-18 01:39:44+00:00
> This is obvious gross insubordination

Really? CBS's lawyers cited the equal time rule, which only applies to broadcasts sent over limited airwaves. I think the equal time rule doesn't actually apply in this case (because why couldn't CBS provide equal time in the near future? who even requested equal time and was denied it?), but more relevantly the equal time rule does not apply to publishing the same interview over the internet instead of over the "air".
by MrCheeze | 2026-02-18 01:39:57+00:00
The Claude Plays Pokemon stream with a minimal harness is a far more significant test of model intelligence compared to the Gemini Plays Pokemon stream (which automatically maintains a map of everything that has been seen on the current map) and the GPT Plays Pokemon stream (which does that AND has an extremely detailed prompt which more or less railroads the AI into not making this mistakes it wants to make). The latter two harnesses have become too easy for the latest generations of model, enough so that they're not really testing anything anymore.

Claude Plays Pokemon is currently stuck in Victory Road, doing the Sokoban puzzles which are both the last puzzles in the game and by far the most difficult for AIs to do. Opus 4.5 made it there but was completely hopeless, 4.6 made it there and is is showing some signs of maaaaaybe being eventually bruteforce through the puzzles, but personally I think it will get stuck or undo its progress, and that Claude 4.7 or 5 will be the one to actually beat the game.
by simoncion | 2026-02-18 01:40:12+00:00
> ...worse visual cues

I'm on Android, and SMS notifications look exactly like every other notification (with one caveat I'll mention below), so I don't know what this guy is on about.

> ...SMSs are just push notificatons with a worse UI...

By this, does OP mean that shit where programs can put buttons and bigass images into their notifications? If yes, I don't want that shit. That's just more opportunity to accidentally trigger unwanted behavior with one's fat fingers, and more screen space gobbled up by overly-self-important software.

The thing that's shitty about SMS is that it's "worst^Wbest effort" delivery... which means that messages can (and will) get delivered late, out of order, or never. Don't use SMS; use email. Email is also best-effort, but -based on my personal experience- far more email server operators give a shit about delivering your messages than SMS relay operators.
by adamiscool8 | 2026-02-18 01:41:07+00:00
Hopefully they embrace AI. 800 episodes is such a rich corpus and there could be such bright-line guardrails in a "Springfield style guide". If AI can replicate the 90's Golden Era through voice cloning + an intentional hand-drawn cel animation quality aesthetic, I would unironically love to create my own AI-generated episodes from a random premise.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-18 01:41:28+00:00
Exactly. Bank needs me to have an official FruitPhone to access my account? Fine, send me the phone, I'll turn it on when I need to bank, and at all other times it sits powered-off in a drawer. Same for the government-supplied DroidPhone I need to access my Social Security statements (or whatever). Turn on, do my business, turn off.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-18 01:41:33+00:00
I like that there is no evidence whatsoever that a human didn’t: see that their bot’s PR request got denied, wrote a nasty blog post and published it under the bot’s name, and then got lucky when the target of the nasty blog post somehow credulously accepted that a robot wrote it.

It is like the old “I didn’t write that, I got hacked!” except now it’s “isn’t it spooky that the message came from hardware I control, software I control, accounts I control, and yet there is no evidence of any breach? Why yes it is spooky, because the computer did it itself”
by quinncom | 2026-02-18 01:41:34+00:00
Update: I switched to Qwen3 VL 2B (`qwen3-vl-2b-instruct-mlx@bf16`) which is 2.5× faster than 4B (11s vs 18s per screenshot) and my meager M1 Pro is able to keep up without the fans spinning 100% of the time.
by robertwpearce | 2026-02-18 01:41:39+00:00
A Heroku app of mine went down starting at ~7:43pm Eastern US (I KNOW, I need to migrate it elsewhere), and in a separate, weird "thing is down" instance, some pages in the Epic healthcare app seem to be offline. Also seeing that YouTube issue.

Related comments on reddit:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Heroku/comments/1r7o1hk/outage/
* https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1r7onh1/youtube_we...
by altairprime | 2026-02-18 01:41:54+00:00
They’re not “no human in the loop” driverless. They’re just on autopilot, same as any airliner. We don’t call planes that takeoff and land themselves “pilotless”, because there’s humans in the loop. Waymo must be rather defensive about being called out for merely having autopilot cars, which is weird because that’s rather miraculous in historical terms — but certainly the generic term “autopilot” is a much less distinctive claim to success than “driverless”.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 01:42:07+00:00
> I often think about how much of a given it was that they own a house on a single income. Homer has a stable job, they don’t have a lot of stuff but they have some basic securities that I’ve been trying to work towards my whole life, and still haven’t gotten there

This was a common trope on TV shows of that era: Everyone had a cool house with a lot of space. It wasn't a reflection of reality, it was how sets were designed and shows were drawn.

The Simpsons even made fun of the fact in the famous Frank Grimes episode where they pointed out how absurd it was that Homer was a doofus who had a big house and beautiful family.

Somewhere along the line, we started confusing this TV reality with how families actually lived at the time.
by saroi235409 | 2026-02-18 01:42:19+00:00
ios ui is sleek but in terms of security and privacy, it doesn't hold up to grapheneos. i used ios for 10 years before switching over and quite honestly, grapheneos on my p8 runs really smoothly.

for apps that demand invasive permissions i don't wish to grant, i use web pwas, like for banking. they work like a charm.

being able to grant or revoke permissions that are of paramount importance for security like MTE, JIT, DCL etc on a granular level for each and every user-installed app, and to grant/revoke network permission alone is such a huge W using GOS.

u will not find this in any iphone, now or in the future (i would bet).
by martin-t | 2026-02-18 01:42:56+00:00
Sorry to hear that.

I added it to me to-read list.

And yes, I do also think scaling is the biggest challenge in bottom up / democratic / cooperative organizations, but I think their critics overstate it. Democratic states might be dysfunctional on many levels but they do function enough to not fall apart, mostly. Anyway, I guess I'll know more when I get to the book, thanks.
Show HN: LucidClip – a privacy-first, local-first clipboard manager for macOS
by Ethiel97 | 2026-02-18 01:43:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Ethiel, the creator of LucidClip.

LucidClip is a native clipboard manager built around a simple principle: your clipboard is sensitive data, and it should stay on your machine.

Most clipboard tools either sync clipboard data to their servers, store everything indefinitely, or treat clipboard history as a secondary feature.

LucidClip was designed differently from the start:

• Clipboard history is stored locally (SQLite)
• Clipboard content never leaves your device
• No cloud dependency
• Full retention control
• App exclusions so sensitive apps are never recorded
• Native macOS performance (built with Flutter, no Electron)

LucidClip lives in the menu bar and opens instantly with ⌘ Shift L.

For transparency: LucidClip uses minimal telemetry for crash reporting and reliability, but never collects or transmits clipboard content.

Cloud sync is planned, but it will use the user's own cloud account (such as iCloud or their chosen provider), not LucidClip servers. Clipboard data will remain under the user's control.

The goal is simple: make your clipboard reliable working memory without compromising privacy.

macOS version is available now. Windows version is coming next.

Happy to answer any questions.
by O1111OOO | 2026-02-18 01:44:52+00:00
I wonder if the end of Russia as a world threat is something that benefits or hurts the US.

The US runs a trillion dollar war machine, a multi-trillion dollar military industrial complex. It needs to feed it. It needs enemies. At the very least, it needs a constant threat to justify its existence (even if it has to create those threats).

If Russia ceases to be a threat, does the US begin to hassle more countries? Does it increase the Police State, does domestic surveillance become more prevalent. Are we already seeing these things?

A legitimate Russian threat might actually be good for the world and the American people.
by arkryal2 | 2026-02-18 01:45:31+00:00
Yeah, YouTube is not one server, it's hundreds of them. The videos are served mostly from CDNs (the Content Distribution Network). It's a different set of servers than handles account logins, routing, etc.

Some Google Services are also down at the moment, unrelated to YouTube, so probably a failure along some common infrastructure pipeline.

Your History, Subscriptions and search should all work. You should be able to see any creator's page if you go to it directly. The videos are all still watchable. It's primarily the home page and recommended videos that are having issues. Basically any place they recommend videos you haven't seen is broken right now, but the videos are still there and accessible.

I've tried via VPN from the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Germany, Russia, Colombia, etc. Same issue across the board.
by vessenes | 2026-02-18 01:45:31+00:00
Totally!

What you’ll hear from DAF folks is

“we have to sell everything we get in when we get it” -> not true, managed by disclosures

“Our job is managing volatility of the donated assets, so getting volatile assets would be bad for the fund, or possibly not allowed” -> not true, managed by disclosures

“DAFs are disliked because of asset stuffing, and on the down” -> true as to the first part. On and off legislative pushes centeraround getting 2-ish% a year as a mandatory donation, so you could be ahead of the curve on an ‘ethics’ basis with this as a rule.

“It’s impossible to value illiquid stock so we can’t get a proper deduction” -> not true, you can get an outside valuation, or see below on the secondaries

The scheme I’d suggest on a call would just be: find a friend who did well from your cohort, or pitch some of your VC allies that have helped on the board, see if anyone is willing to give it a try in the 10mm or so range. You’ll then need to find someone who wants this stock in the secondary market; this would be either the key partnership or the key staff you hire, and another reason to bring in the VCs here. You’d be able to accept any donor with stock that has a value in the secondary market.

One of the things we looked at was psychology on give now / give later, most founders are planning on mooning, and therefore want to give later. This lets them split the difference a little - deduction at current secondary prices, but they could hold off on selling and get more out to charity if the stock does well.

On valuation, to my mind the easiest path is finding a secondary buyer, then you’ve got an independent price.

We even ID’ed an Exec Director who wants to do this, and would be great! My contact is in my profile.
by jesterson | 2026-02-18 01:45:33+00:00
> Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda

Why, specifically, it is "obvious bullshit and propaganda"? Because that betters your apologia? Because it makes you feel good?

I know it is pointless to say anything to brainwashed people, particularly those who think everyone around is brainwashed except them. Very few incidents came to light just because people are scared and afraid. zelenski secret police can make people disappear easily without any sort of trial. Just blame someone is a russian spy. Surely western mass media machine largely don't talk about it.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-18 01:45:38+00:00
> Accusing the IEA of behaving like a "climate advocacy organization," Wright urged it to focus on "energy security."

Sure seems pretty insecure to shackle yourself to a finite resource that is harder and harder to obtain while producing more and more toxic pollution. Even if you literally don't believe that the climate is real, the endless free and easy to obtain energy from the sky is simply a more secure source, followed closely by the endless free energy blowing around in the air.