MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-24 00:22:45+00:00
He has an obnoxious personality but that's the extent of it. It's not I who is "in the reality distortion field."

Protesting makes sense sometimes but I'm not going to sit here and say that they are all patriotic. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that we have different ideas of what is a patriotic, much less worthwhile, protest.
by everforward | 2026-02-24 00:22:47+00:00
If the version control hash changes you have to re-download the dictionary, which is similar to redownloading the whole page.

Reddit/NYT would have to publish their changes without changing the dictionary, meaning some portions would be largely absent from the dictionary and have worse compression than gzip. Probably fine for NYT, something like Reddit might actually have worse ratios than gzip in that case.
by eigen-vector | 2026-02-24 00:23:19+00:00
Thanks a lot for trying. My experience with packet inspection is similar and that's what resulted in me trying to build a simpler plain language UI companion.

• Back navigation: good call. I'll make "Esc back" more explicit everywhere and add Backspace as an alias for back (and mention it in h help).

• Enter on Domains not working: it should drill down to flows. If you can share your OS/terminal + whether you installed from release vs cargo install, I'll try to reproduce and fix in the next release.

• "Clicking" wording: agreed — mouse isn't supported right now. I'll change Ul copy to say Select (and keep "Enter = drill down").

• Packets screen truncation: yep, needs scrolling/paging. On the list views I already do r/; l'll add page scroll and horizontal handling where it makes sense.

• Numbered weird options: great idea - I'll map 1..9 to jump-select and Enter (or open directly).

• Domain names in packets: yes, I want that. I already collect DNS/SNI/HTTP host hints; next step is showing hostname labels alongside IPs when I have more confident mapping.

• "f stream" definition: I'll clarify it as "Follow stream (reassembled payload)" and add a glossary/help entry.

• Inspecting encrypted/compressed data: totally fair. The tool can't decrypt TLS without keys, but it can make it clearer what's happening (SNI/ ALPN, sizes, timing, resets/retransmits). I'Il improve "Explain" to say what's possible vs not.

Super useful feedback thanks!
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-24 00:23:24+00:00
Email is the digital equivalent of a postcard. I really want to argue that this is a bad idea (because it is), but depending how you set your email system up, it might actually compare favourably to using a third-party identity verification company.

Better to use some kind of secure drop web portal (perhaps https://securedrop.org/) that's actually designed for that kind of thing, though.
by autoexec | 2026-02-24 00:23:37+00:00
I like the idea, but I worry about choosing random members of the public when so many people are unprepared for it. Any kind of government made up of "the people" requires that those people be literate, educated, and informed. With things the way they are today I'd worry that your secondary elected legislative body would end up doing everything and you'd either end up with a figurehead who'd be out of their depth and ineffectual or one being used/manipulated.

I could also envision an endless cycle of elections with 75%+ of the population voting "none of the above" because of issues like "Not my personal favorite candidate" or "eats the wrong mustard" or "I hate the idea of government"
by rainsford | 2026-02-24 00:23:41+00:00
Sure, but you have to consider Carl Sagan's point, "The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Some truly useful technologies start out slow and the question is asked if they are fads or bubbles even though they end up having huge impact. But plenty of things that at first appeared to be fads or bubbles truly were fads or bubbles.

Personally I think AI is unlikely to go the way of NFTs and it shows actual promise. What I'm much less convinced of is that it will prove valuable in a way that's even remotely within the same order of magnitude as the investments being pumped into it. The Internet didn't begin as a massive black hole sucking all the light out of the room for anything else before it really started showing commensurate ROI.
by the_biot | 2026-02-24 00:23:54+00:00
One of the problems created by the LLM storm is that open source software, once published, gets stolen and regurgitated by LLMs, minus the copyright notices. As an open source author, how do I go about scratching my itch without contributing to this wholesale theft?

It would be great if I could do something to make my work undigestible, as the article suggests, but your example is unpalatable even for me. What else might serve this purpose?
by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-24 00:23:57+00:00
I mean if you are not connecting it to the real things why even bother, just chatgpt or Claude online at that point.

We have enough assistants, the key idea with opeclaw is it can do stuff instead of talk with what you have. It’s terrible security but that’s the only way it makes sense. Otherwise it’s just a lot of hoops to combine cron jobs with a AI agent on the cloud that can do things an report back.

Not that I think anyone should do it, it’s a recipe for disaster
by danparsonson | 2026-02-24 00:23:57+00:00
Sorry, with respect I think you've missed the point of my comment (which was a reply to your comment, and not a reply to the original post).

You asserted that

> pre-AI, what was impressive to Show HN readers was that you were able to actually implement all that you describe in that sentence by yourselves...

and latterly

> ... HN readers, when alerted to the possibility via a Show HN post, would rather just vibe-code a solution themselves if they are interested in the problem space

and my point is that I disagree - the implementation of an idea in terms of the actual coding is far less interesting to me (and my assertion is: by extension, less interesting to the average reader) than the implementation in terms of the behaviour of the thing. Perhaps you're concerned about someone opening Claude Code and typing "Write me an application that does XYZ" but it's pretty obvious that so far that doesn't produce anything useful, and I think is more of a problem for sites like Stack Overflow where an answer is a small singular thing rather than an entire system.

There is a spectrum between 'writing it all yourself' and 'YOLO vibe-coding' and if you're only arguing about the latter end of the spectrum then, sure, those tend to suck, but I don't think we're really at risk of being drowned in those projects; that's a kind of slippery-slope argument. This is why I talked about 3D graphics; I earlier feared the 'YOLO 3D game' projects taking over, and that just hasn't happened. I believe we (humans) had similar discussions around the time that typewriters and the printing press were invented - 'if you're not handwriting your ideas then you're not really thinking!' but the ideas are the point, not the process of writing them down.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-02-24 00:24:15+00:00
> Singing requires either PIN or finger on the fingerprint, and signed "proof" is valid for like 60 seconds. This whole end-to-end attestation with play integrity is supposed to make setting up token-as-a-service things impractical.

So how would I use this on Linux then? Because I'd be rather unhappy if a bunch of websites became unusable on Linux due to government-mandated security restrictions.

My (Canadian) government's health portal already refuses to load if you use Linux (despite it being 100% web-based), meaning that I'm completely unable to book vaccinations or view procedure results without workarounds. Luckily it only checks the user agent, so it's pretty easy to override this right now, but that wouldn't be possible if cryptography/attestation were involved.
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-24 00:24:40+00:00
> I suspect you are actually a bot but others might read this so...

I'm floored lol. What gives you this impression?

The worst part of this inflammatory nonsense is that, sadly, I'm probably the only person that will read your full comment. And I fundamentally disagree with your thesis of attributing this to "politics". Social media and its effects were poisonous long before "politics" were so prominent. You could see it even during early Obama times. The simple infinite scroll and forcing individuals to so regularly compare themselves to each other was already awful long before "politics".
by andrepd | 2026-02-24 00:25:02+00:00
> The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is to collect personal data about who they are. And the only way to prove that you checked is to keep the data indefinitely.

Well isn't this premise false from the get go? Many countries (not the US sure, but others) have digitised ID. Services can request info from the ID provider; in this case social media websites would simply request a bool isOver16, literally one bit of information, to grant access. No other information needs to be leaked, and no need for idiotic setups like sending photos of your passport to god knows what website (or god knows what external vendor that website uses for ID verification).

Seems silly to worry about this when social media itself is predicated on collecting gigabytes of data about you daily.

Again, this is not about half assed solutions that force you to send photos of your passport to websites. That's a terrible idea for the reasons discussed in the article. But it's obviously false that this is the only way.
by ninkendo | 2026-02-24 00:25:10+00:00
IME, a 1.0 version is usually when a project starts taking backwards compatibility seriously. A pre-1.0 library may be plenty stable enough in terms of bugs, but being pre-1.0 means they’re likely going to change their mind on the API contract at some point.

That is the major problem for me… I don’t actually mind that much if a library has bugs… those can always be fixed. But when a library does a total 180 on the API contract, or removes things, or just changes their mind on what the abstraction should be (often it feels like they’re just feng shui’ing things), that’s a major problem. And it’s what people mean when they say “immaturity”: if I build on top of this, is it all going to break horribly at some point in the future when the author changes their mind?

People often say “just don’t update then”, but that’s (a) a sure fire way to accumulate tech debt in your codebase (because some day may come when you must update), and (b) you’re no longer getting what could be critical updates to the library.
by imiric | 2026-02-24 00:25:36+00:00
I suppose it's a matter of semantics and perspective. The definition of "toy" seems too narrow to me to properly encompass the complexities of board and video games. A ball is a toy, but clearly it's unable to provide the same experience as a board or video game. At a certain point these experiences can be deeply engaging in ways that simpler toys can't provide. Not necessarily better, but certainly different. Maybe it has to do with the amount of play rules, engaged senses, or brain activity... I'm not sure. But at some point a toy stops being a toy to me. :)

Though I do agree with your point. Games/toys are unfairly criticized in our society.
by yvyn | 2026-02-24 00:25:41+00:00
I took a quick look at the incidents tab, I clicked into the red “anomaly” item from 18 days ago. The AI synopsis is fine I didn’t read too much into it, and I think the Root Cause analysis would be great if it didn’t show 0 for everything. Can the app link back the logs specific to those failures in the summaries?
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-24 00:25:55+00:00
There is hope. It's not only possible, but it is likely and is already underway. DNS can be replaced. IPv4/v6 can be replaced. We just need to build a layer on top that ignores the access controls of the underlying layer (the Internet), then replace the underlying layer altogether with new infrastructure.

There will be more efforts like this:
https://yggdrasil-network.github.io

Those who want control over other people's mouths and eyes and ears, and rely on it to maintain their undeserved authority and prosperity are going to have a bad time.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-24 00:25:56+00:00
There’s a difference between “saw a playboy once” and having regular or semi regular access to it.

Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes.

If you had regular access to those things you had parents who didn’t care.

It’s also not about kids on the margin. The vast majority of 8 year olds have not tried alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes.
by bjackman | 2026-02-24 00:26:06+00:00
I find the attitude of the Ladybird devs refreshing though, and it kinda aligns with my opinions about Rust.

I never fell in love with Rust or got particularly excited about adopting it. But, I just don't see a serious alternative (maybe Swift is fine for some cases but not in my field).

I believe Google's Rust journey was even more closely aligned with Ladybird: "we want memory safety, but with low impedance mismatch from C++". After like 5 years of trying to figure something like that out they seemed to go "OK actually fuck that we just have to use Rust and deal with the challenges it brings for a C++ shop".
by bdangubic | 2026-02-24 00:26:17+00:00
> relentless smear campaign against Trump conducted over a period of about 10 years. He's no saint, but if you look at it objectively then this breathless hysteria is unwarranted and downright harmful.

it is almost like Trump has been a public figure his entire life and in politics (after being best buds (as well as a donor) with the Clintons and the likes his entire life) only small percentage of his life. so we know who he is and we have always known who he is well before this "10 year smear campaign" - too funny to always read about this "oh Trump good, everyone's out to get him"
by mothballed | 2026-02-24 00:26:27+00:00
At ~all times for a long period of time during Gitmos operation, there was at least one (revolving) prisoner that no nation on earth would take. I think that was the biggest challenge for someone who actually wanted to close gitmo, to close it. Not clear where you would put them that wouldn't be yet another prison.

I guess now that the US has normalized relations with the Taliban, maybe they'll end up sending them to them, not sure who else will take the last ones.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-24 00:26:27+00:00
> "to target children with ads about the newest mobile game"

They aren't. The target for those games are middle aged, "middle class" women. Especially childless women. You just don't realize that the loud sounds and bright colors appeal to another demographic other than children. Usually those games are terrible for (as in the children don't like them) children. Its because those are usually pay to win games and adults can just out-spend them (and the adults are often terrible winners).
by sillyfluke | 2026-02-24 00:26:30+00:00
The same underlying magic that enables LLMs to be faster than a brute force SQL query on all the worlds data while producing "good enough" results appears to be the very thing that is creating hallucinations and finite context windows. ie there is no free lunch. It seems to be the theory in many in the field (ilya included?) that the obstacle might not be overcome without an LLM-level breakthrough in AI research, or maybe more likely, a breakthrough in hardware. Big tech until at least recently seems to have thought they can brute force it with energy (nuclear). But who's paying?
by jajuuka | 2026-02-24 00:26:42+00:00
Comparing internet forums, chatrooms, email, and blogs to Facebook and TikTok seems like a bad joke. I don't think you recognize how impactful "Big Social Media" is. Facebook brought about the ability to easily reconnect with people you had lost touch with and stay in touch with them. Things like Instagram made photo sharing and discovery significantly easier than simply looking at what the most recent posted photos on Photobucket. TikTok mass marketed bite sized videos and community trends. These things either did not happen on other platforms or could not happen on them.

I think most people remember the earlier days of Twitter where having a centralized place with strong discoverability led to unique communities forming and expressing themselves. I shouldn't need to say this but, it obviously wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. So I'm not saying these platforms were perfect or without major issues. I am say that their unique nature is not something that can be replicated via other mediums. It simply doesn't scale.

Honestly I'm not seeing the issue with these platforms wanting to maximize time users spend on them. That's the goal of every business. What seems to get lost though is self control. TikTok being fun and enjoyable does not mean that you are incapable of closing the app. It's like banning phones from leaving your house because you are so addicted to texting and apps. You cannot fully control what comes up on most social media. But as any therapist will tell you, all you can control is your response. I just think there is a space for big social media sites in the world. I don't even use them, but I can recognize the impact they have made with the good and the bad.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-24 00:26:45+00:00
It's massively irritating because it's the usual US blend of total ignorance and massive arrogance.

I used to do re-enactment in the UK, and after almost every show I'd have some idiot wander up and say "I'm a Saxon!" and blather shite at me about what that meant about their identity and culture.

If I asked if that meant they weren't American, then obviously they'd react in horror at the suggestion.

The idea that my culture, my history, can just be co-opted as part of someone else's cosplay identity, is tiresome at best. But then they walk up to me and expect me to recognise them as a fellow Saxon? No. Fuck off you annoying fucking wanker.

And I notice that none of them claim to be English or even British. Oh no, too much Braveheart and The Patriot for that.
by donmcronald | 2026-02-24 00:27:01+00:00
The solution is education. The most well adjusted kids I've seen are told flat out about the risks they'll face and, in general, helped to understand there are break points where things get too serious for them to try to deal with on their own.

I think that if you block all porn, social media, etc. all that does is create an opportunity for kids to be shifted to platforms controlled by bad actors. Adults fall victim to pig butchering schemes where they're given 100% fake investment apps that look completely real and they don't realize they're getting scammed until they try to get their money out of the system. There was a story in Canada about a guy and his daughter that thought they had $1 million in savings and it was a pig butchering scam with a fake app.

Are kids today equipped to deal with that? What happens when someone tells a kid to get app XYZ because it's un-moderated, but that app is controlled by a bad actor? Imagine a Snapchat like platform promising ephemeral messaging with simple username / password on-boarding so parents don't see account creation emails, but the app is run by organized crime.

I don't even know how you handle it if they manage to normalize the idea of children sending ID to random platforms. In addition to getting platform shifted and exploited, kids will be vulnerable to sending their real ID to bad actors.

The whole thing seems insane to me. Spend some money on education. That's the only long-term option.
by keybored | 2026-02-24 00:27:05+00:00
If you really want to know: more than one emmy-dash per paragraph is probably excessive.

> LLMs don’t—and can’t—do everything. What they do is very impressive—and useful. It’s broad. And in many ways it’s human-like. But it’s not precise. And in the end it’s not about deep computation.

This is a mess. What is the flow here? Two abrupt interrupts (and useful) followed by stubby sentences. Yucky.
by caseyolayos | 2026-02-24 00:27:20+00:00
One thing that tripped us up that might be useful for anyone building on Solana:

The first buy on any new token kept throwing "insufficient funds for rent." Took a while to realize the issue: the curve vault and fee vault PDAs are uninitialized before the first trade. The first buy needs to send enough SOL that (a) the 1% fee exceeds the rent-exempt minimum (~0.00089 SOL) for the fee vault AND (b) the remaining amount exceeds rent-exempt minimum for the curve vault.

Fix was two-fold: seeded the fee vault manually with 0.001 SOL, and enforced a 0.001 SOL minimum buy in the UI so no transaction can ever fall below rent-exempt threshold.

Obvious in hindsight. Cost us about 2 hours of debugging.

On the AI dev workflow: the parts that worked surprisingly well were Rust/Anchor (Claude is very good at Anchor IDL and PDA derivation). The parts that needed the most human guidance were anything involving Solana's account model — things like "who pays rent for this account" and "which accounts need to be writable" required back-and-forth. The AI would write correct-looking code that failed at runtime because of account constraint mismatches.

Happy to go deeper on any of it.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-24 00:27:21+00:00
There’s a difference between “saw a playboy once” and having regular or semi regular access to it.

Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes.

In the US, If you had regular access to those things, you had parents who didn’t care.

It’s also not about kids on the margin. The vast majority of 8 year olds in the US have not tried alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes.

I can’t rely speak to post Cold War Romania.
by rising-sky | 2026-02-24 00:27:27+00:00
I guess this is trend now because it's a contrarian / attention grabbing headline. See:

- "Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity..." https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-s...

- “Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI…” https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

But fundamentally, large shifts like this are like steering a super tanker, the effects take time to percolate through economies as large and diversified as the US. This is the Solow paradox / productivity paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

> The term can refer to the more general disconnect between powerful computer technologies and weak productivity growth
by qsort | 2026-02-24 00:28:00+00:00
I think the Landau notation is a bit more finicky with the details. When it's really a quotient (like modular arithmetic) I'm with you, but here $O()$ morally means "at most this" and often you have to use the "direction of the inequality" to prove complexity bounds, so I'm more comfortable with the set notation. But again, it's just notation, I could use either.
by edflsafoiewq | 2026-02-24 00:28:01+00:00
O(1) just means "a bounded function (on a neighborhood of infinity)". Unlike f(x), which refers to some function by name, O(1) refers to some function by a property it has. It's the same principle at work in "even + odd = odd".

Programmers wringing their hands over the meaning of f(x)=O(g(x)) never seem to have manipulated any expression more complex than f(x)=O(g(x)).