MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alek-cape | 2026-02-25 02:46:24+00:00
John's account was throttled since it's new. Posting this on his behalf.
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You're right that you don't need to do those things, but I would argue that my background made me uniquely situated to understand and care about these problems deeply enough to spend years of my life building a company in response.

I say "Cape is not a honeypot" a lot just so I don't appear to be mincing words. If you want to delve deeper on how we treat customer data, a couple of good resources are our privacy policy: https://www.cape.co/privacy-summary

And our trust page: https://trust.cape.co/

You can also check out our blog for a bunch of posts on specific features we've built, etc.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-25 02:46:24+00:00
Absolutely true. I lost a belt notch when I visited Japan for two weeks and walked everywhere. That being said redesigning cities is hard. It's a lot easier to meet people where they are: in front of the TV. Kettlebells, treadmills, and bike trainers are all great for doing whilst one marathons the latest season of "Real Housewives of Transylvania" or "Star Trek Impulsivity" or whatever.

Affordability is a real question as a lot of this gear is costly for the average consumer - I wonder whether a government health stipend would help with this.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-25 02:47:56+00:00
All of this is kind of weird.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrq1vwe73po

> the Pentagon official told the BBC the current conflict between the agency and Anthropic is unrelated to the use of autonomous weapons or mass surveillance.

> The official added that the Pentagon would simultaneously label Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

*Supply chain risk*?

The BBC article seems to imply that the government wants to audit Anthropic.

This, coming at the same time those "distillation" claims were published, is all incredibly suspicious.
by randyburden | 2026-02-25 02:49:02+00:00
I chose .NET and C# for my current startup (2 years in), where I'm the founding lead developer, and I'd still make the same call today. We've been very productive, built a lot of solid features, and two years in we have a stable, high-performing set of apps. We're using ASP.NET Razor Pages, Web API, backend services, and a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app that's published to the app stores - all written in C# using the latest .NET version. Some parts run in Azure, other parts run on high-performance GPU servers on Ubuntu. It has felt like a very practical modern stack, not some legacy-only enterprise choice. Also, hiring has been a non-issue as I had no trouble finding solid C# developers.
by energy123 | 2026-02-25 02:49:03+00:00
It's a network effect though, if 80% have zoning then you may as well be a tiny island country.

The other issue is minimum wage and workers rights. It should be possible to have Chinese workers making widgets on US soil instead of Chinese soil, for $0.5/hr more than they can make in China. But that's illegal many times over.

Then people wonder why manufacturing is dying across the West. If your inputs (labor) are more expensive you can't compete, it's extremely basic. That might be acceptable but at least be honest about the trade-off you've made, and don't pretend you can patch it up with hacks.
Show HN: StreamHouse – S3-native Kafka alternative written in Rust
by gbram | 2026-02-25 02:50:07+00:00
Hey HN,

I built StreamHouse, an open-source streaming platform that replaces Kafka's broker-managed storage with direct S3 writes. The goal: same semantics, fraction of the cost.

How it works: Producers batch and compress records, a stateless server manages partition routing and metadata (SQLite for dev, PostgreSQL for prod), and segments land directly in S3. Consumers read from S3 with a local segment cache. No broker disks to manage, no replication factor to tune — S3 gives you 11 nines of durability out of the box.

What's there today:
- Producer API with batching, LZ4 compression, and offset tracking (62K records/sec)
- Consumer API with consumer groups, auto-commit, and multi-partition fanout (30K+ records/sec)
- Kafka-compatible protocol (works with existing Kafka clients)
- REST API, gRPC API, CLI, and a web UI
- Docker Compose setup for trying it locally in 5 minutes

The cost model is what motivated this. Kafka's storage costs scale with replication factor × retention × volume. With S3 at $0.023/GB/month, storing a TB of events costs ~$23/month instead of hundreds on broker EBS volumes.

Written in Rust, ~50K lines across 15 crates. Apache 2.0 licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/gbram1/streamhouse

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, tradeoffs, or what I learned building this.
by crossroadsguy | 2026-02-25 02:50:33+00:00
I just want Apple and Linux to offer ASAP:

1. Extremely granular ways to let user control network and disk access to apps (great if resource access can also be changed)

2. Make it easier for apps as well to work with these

3. I would be interested in knowing how adding a layer before CLI/web even gets the query OS/browser can intercept it and could there be a possibility of preventing harm before hand or at least warning or logging for say someone who overviews those queries later?

And most importantly — all these via an excellent GUI with clear demarcations and settings and we’ll documented (Apple might struggle with documentation; so LLMs might help them there)

My point is — why the hell are we waiting for these companies to be good folks? Why not push them behind a safety layer?

I mean CLI asks .. can I access this folder? Run this program? Download this? But they can just do that if they want! Make them ask those questions like apps asks on phones for location, mic, camera access.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-25 02:50:47+00:00
> Once all the models become basically the same who you go with will be who you're already with (mostly OpenAI)

Imho, people are undervaluing the last mile connection to the customer.

The last Western megacorp to bootstrap its way there was Facebook, and control over cloud identity and data was much less centralized circa-late-00s.

The real clock OpenAI is running against is creating a durable consumer last-mile connection (killer app, device, etc).

"Easy to use chat app / coding tool" doesn't even begin to approach the durability of Microsoft, Apple, Google, or Meta. And without it, OpenAI risks any one of them pulling an Apple Maps at any time.

Unless it continually plows money into R&D to maintain the lead and doesn't pull an Intel and miss a beat.

Maybe they do, but that's a lot of coin flips that need to continually come up heads, in perpetuity.
by JARVIS_ALIVE | 2026-02-25 02:51:21+00:00
I feel like code generation today is prompt → code.

Which works for greenfield functions, but breaks down when a feature needs to respect existing architecture, ownership boundaries, and in-flight work across the org.

I’ve been building a blueprint-first approach. We model org context across 6 layers and build a unified graph:

-- People (ownership)

-- Planning (Jira/Linear/Notion)

-- Execution (GitHub/GitLab)

-- Documentation (Drive/Confluence)

-- Communication (Slack/Teams/email/meetings)

-- Feedback (Zendesk + customer signals)

From that graph, the system:

-- derives a structured spec from org context (and optionally external signals)

-- infers repo conventions + architecture constraints

-- generates PR-ready feature diffs

The goal isn’t “AI writes code.” It’s giving codegen the same context a senior engineer has after 6+ months at a company.

We’re opening a small closed beta (20 teams) aiming for march once the UI around the PR/codegen workflow is polished. You’ll need GitHub + at least one of Jira/Linear/Slack connected.

Happy to answer technical questions : architecture, guardrails, permissions, etc.
by albert_e | 2026-02-25 02:51:58+00:00
Are hypens no longer acceptable?

There is no mention of it in the post. If words (in any language) can be arbitrarily long and columns can be arbitrarily narrow, we will need to solve for this anyway.

Even without those extremes, I feel that there will always be place for the good old hypen when displaying or printing text for the main purpose of readability. No need to max out on perfect "look" in every application of text.

In fact in many places one might even find columns with jagged right edges more readable -- letting you visually distinguish each line from the one above/below it easily by length alone -- and may even lend a certain aesthetic character that is the opposite of mechanical / boring / machine produced / sterile.

Of course not negating the need for a well implemented method without bugs to justify text correctly when the use case demands it.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-25 02:52:10+00:00
The assumption that everyone has social media, computers, cell phones.. what the actual fuck. Multiple of my family members--Americans, mind you--don't have computers or cell phones. Never have, never will. By choice. It would be an even easier choice if they weren't financially well-off. The idea that you'd discriminate against a visa applicant for not using this crap is revolting. I think it's time for a good old fashioned Carrington Event or a few hundred upper atmosphere nuclear detonations. This has gotten completely out of hand. If this is how we're going to use computers, fuck it, burn it all down.
by bsstoner | 2026-02-25 02:54:17+00:00
Appreciate the shoutout. We love what Apple is doing in this area. There is a lot of room for them to help improve things at the modem/hardware/OS layer.

On the tower question, you’re right, we can’t control what data is collected by the tower owners. Like I said above our strategy is to add noise through a variety of methods that makes it harder (not impossible) for anyone collecting data to track you. We also give you multiple phone numbers. I think this stuff adds up and is a meaningful improvement over the status quo for most average user/citizens.

I like to use the organic food analogy. If given the choice, why not choose the carrier that is actually making an effort not to track you vs everyone else who clearly doesn’t care?
by zamalek | 2026-02-25 02:55:30+00:00
> I need to get my car washed; should I drive or walk to the car wash that is 100m away?

> Walking 100 m is generally faster, cheaper, and better for the environment than driving such a short distance. If you have a car that’s already running and you don’t mind a few extra seconds, walking also avoids the hassle of finding parking or worrying about traffic.
by alek-cape | 2026-02-25 02:55:39+00:00
It's probably worth calling out that this is an experimental feature, and we are happy to get any and all feedback on things we can build out around them.

They are real numbers, not VOIP. That can matter depending on what they are used for and if the entity you are expecting a message from blocks sending to VOIP numbers.

The numbers don't rotate like our identifier rotation. They are yours. You can choose to delete a secondary number in the app, and if you have less than two, create a new one after 30 days.
by cyber_kinetist | 2026-02-25 02:55:41+00:00
I think this was the most important insight in the article:

> I experimented with Rust/Bevy and Unity before settling on Godot. Bevy’s animations and visuals weren’t as crisp, and Claude struggled with its coordinate conventions - likely a combination of less training data and Bevy leaving many core features, like physics, to the community. Unity was a constant struggle to keep the MCP bridge between Claude and the editor healthy. It frequently hung, and I never figured out how to get Claude Code to read the scene hierarchy from the editor. Godot’s text-based scene format turned out to be a huge advantage - Claude can read and edit .tscn files directly.

Didn't expect Godot to be the most friendly game engine for LLM usage! I think it's because of various factors - Godot has been used quite a lot in recent years so there are various code examples on the Internet, and its scene file format (.tscn) is very concise enough for LLMs to write and edit directly (Unity has its own YAML-based format but it's very unfriendly for human consumption, and Unreal stores its core assets in binary files)
by rambojohnson | 2026-02-25 02:55:57+00:00
I mean you're not wrong, but let's not shy away from the usual pattern we see on here where the YC-brain sees a camera, a cloud dashboard, and a monthly SaaS fee and immediately calls it "the future," then acts blindsided when people notice they funded a suburban panopticon. Every time it is the same script, and then six months later everybody is pretending nobody could have foreseen the obvious abuse case.

I was always anti-IoT for this exact reason.
by mixdup | 2026-02-25 02:56:38+00:00
The biggest mistake we've made is allowing Amazon (and now Walmart) to both be a seller and to operate what is supposed to be an open marketplace

It's insane that the landlord of the mall is also running the biggest store in the mall

It's led to this scheme, but also just the general enshittification of buying things online. You can never trust what you buy from Amazon because their "marketplace sellers" will send you a counterfeit, and it's hard to find some brand names because they don't want to be in that cesspool

As low rent and lowest common denominator as Walmart was in the 90s, at least I could go in and know that a) I probably was getting the lowest price on that Rubbermaid trash can b) it was legitimately a Rubbermaid trashcan and not someone who ripped off the molds, used plastic that was 50% as good, and sells it under the brand Xyxldk, and c) could reasonably expect to find that trashcan offered for sale in the first place
by ethmarks | 2026-02-25 02:58:05+00:00
> You do realize there is both lossy and lossless compression, right?

This is simply wrong. There is no lossy compression for ZIP.

DEFLATE, by far the most common ZIP compression method, uses LZ77 and Huffman Coding, both of which are lossless. There are other methods compatible with ZIP containers as specified by PKWARE (e.g. BZIP2, LZMA, Zstandard, PPMd, etc), but all of them are lossless. According to both the official ZIP specification and every ZIP implementation on Earth, you cannot have a lossy ZIP unless it is corrupted.

There do exist lossy data formats (e.g. JPEG), but if you put those in a ZIP file it'll still encode and decode it losslessly.
by goranmoomin | 2026-02-25 02:58:17+00:00
TBH I am sad that Anthropic is changing its stance, but in the current world, if you even care about LLM safety, I feel that this is the right choice — there’s too many model providers and they probably don’t consider safety as high priority as Anthropic. (Yes that might change, they can get pressurized by the govt, yada yada, but they literally created their own company because of AI safety, I do think they actually care for now)

If we need safety, we need Anthropic to be not too far behind (at least for now, before Anthropic possibly becomes evil), and that might mean releasing models that are safer and more steerable than others (even if, unfortunately, they are not 100% up to Anthropic’s goals)

Dogmatism, while great, has its time and place, and with a thousand bad actors in the LLM space, pragmatism wins better.
by jimbokun | 2026-02-25 02:59:13+00:00
Two things jumped out at me.

1. Average American spends THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR year at Amazon. That’s staggering.

2. As of now the trial is not scheduled to begin until January 2027 (although the discussed injunction is meant to address that). I believe the length of time required to get a decision in court is the single biggest impediment to justice being served. It usually waters down the final judgment, makes costs prohibitive for plaintiffs, and allows perpetrators to continue benefiting from illegal behavior indefinitely. In some cases, the defendant can be elected President in the interim eliminating any chance of facing a court decision.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-25 02:59:24+00:00
Trump was very popular till he decided to run against Hillary. He was known as kind of a character, but was generally well-liked and invited on many TV shows (in addition to his own TV show, and starring in movies). The smear campaign escalated with Russiagate lies (yes, lies, and commissioned by Hillary). Trump has his flaws but he has put up with more shit than any other president I remember. Seeing how bad they had it out for him naturally makes me take his side, even though he is not my ideal candidate lol...
by jorl17 | 2026-02-25 02:59:34+00:00
Hi! Congratulations on building something new!

I'm going to look into it soon, but since you might be hanging around here, I'll ask: do I have a quick way of telling the system how to actually creating a worktree efficiently?

Here's my problem: I want to do manual testing for several things, especially frontend related ones. However, every worktree needs its own ports, and specific particularities (e.g. so docker volumes don't collide).

Is there a way for me to tell Emdash: "Hey, when you create a new worktree, you need to run this script"?

Thanks in advance and, once again, congrats on building something new, clearly in the direction we are going.
by YZF | 2026-02-25 03:00:34+00:00
Your Google search returns all the anti-Israeli propaganda. That much is not surprising. Are we expecting Al Jazeera to support Israel? Or the UN? Or the Guardian?

This is from Gemini:

### Military and Security Violations
* *Direct Attacks on IDF Troops:* There have been multiple incidents of Palestinian militants opening fire on Israeli forces. For example, the IDF reported 14 specific ceasefire violations between February 5 and February 20, 2026, which included armed militants emerging from underground tunnel shafts in eastern Rafah to attack soldiers.
* *Breaching the Demarcation Line:* Militants have repeatedly crossed the "Yellow Line"—the agreed-upon boundary separating Israeli-controlled and Hamas-controlled zones in Gaza—while armed. The IDF views these armed approaches as an imminent threat and an explicit violation of the truce.
* *Refusal to Disarm:* A central condition of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan requires Hamas to decommission its weapons. Hamas has publicly and privately refused to disarm or dismantle its remaining military infrastructure, such as its tunnel networks.

### Political and Humanitarian Violations
* *Obstructing Transitional Governance:* Nickolay Mladenov, the top diplomat overseeing the ceasefire transition, recently stated that Hamas is actively obstructing the agreement by refusing to hand over day-to-day institutional control of the enclave to the technocratic National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).
* *Withholding Hostage Remains:* As part of the phased ceasefire, Hamas was required to return all remaining hostages and the bodies of deceased captives. The IDF reported that Hamas violated these terms by withholding the locations of bodies and delaying the return of the remains of several deceased hostages for months.

Why should they surrender? Because they started the war and Israel has the right to persecute this war until their enemy surrenders. If they want to stop fighting that's the word you're looking for - surrender. If they want to keep fighting (with their dirty methods, in civilian clothes, in hospitals and schools, attacking civilians) they have to accept the consequences of that.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-25 03:01:06+00:00
Serious question, what services are you using that this isn't a deal breaker for you? And why isn't it?

Most services either don't have a legitimate interest in my phone number (so they can get bent) or they do have a legitimate interest in which case not accepting my phone number means they aren't doing their #$&^ job (so they can get bent).
by notpushkin | 2026-02-25 03:01:06+00:00
I’m looking at the comparison [0] and the `pretty` example is hyphenated, while greedy is not. Not sure it’s fair to compare them like that, considering we’ve had `hyphens: auto` for a while now.

[0]: https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/14/justifying-text-wrap-pr...
by Art9681 | 2026-02-25 03:01:59+00:00
Of course the US is going to do this and of course its in Anthropics best interest to comply. Right now China is flooding HuggingFace with models that will inevitably have this capability. Right now there are hundreds of models being hosted that have been deliberately processed to remove refusals and their safety training. Everyone who keeps up with this knows about it. HF knows about it. And it is pretty obvious that those open weight models will be deployed in intelligence and defense. It is certain that not just China, but many nations around the world with the capital to host a few powerful servers to run the top open weight models are going to use them for that capability.

The narrative on social media, this site included, is to portray the closed western labs as the bad guys and the less capable labs releasing their distilled open weight models to the world as the good guys.

Right now a kid can go download an Abliterated version of a capable open weight model and they can go wild with it.

But let's worry about what the US DoD is doing or what the western AI companies absolutely dominating the market are doing because that's what drives engagement and clicks.
by heftykoo | 2026-02-25 03:02:35+00:00
Claiming higher accuracy than Whisper Large v3 is a bold opening move. Does your evaluation account for Whisper's notorious hallucination loops during silences (the classic 'Thank you for watching!'), or is this purely based on WER on clean datasets? Also, what's the VRAM footprint for edge deployments? If it fits on a standard 8GB Mac without quantization tricks, this is huge.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 03:04:08+00:00
> The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.

900 points, 800 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760329

400 points, 380 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761822

And some others: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

(And this one, at least, has the interesting little bit about echolocation from a cell phone video being used to verify events. I find that neat, technologically.)
by Aqueous | 2026-02-25 03:04:45+00:00
If it was the easy part, then why did they pay us hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, sometimes more - to do it? The fact of the matter is that it wasn't easy, not for a brain that's architected the way a human's is. The fact that computers can now do it much more quickly and arguably - in many cases - better doesn't diminish the act itself - it just shows how far AI has come, and how easily human intelligence will be dwarfed as it continues to make progress.
by the_af | 2026-02-25 03:05:09+00:00
We haven't evolved past the point intent matters.

First, because there's intent in the very verbose initial prompt.

Second, because you have to factor in the quality of the output. I don't want to be a killjoy, but past the (admittedly fun!) art experiment angle, these are not quality games. Maybe some could compete with Flappy Bird (remember it? It seems like ages ago!), but good indie games are in a different league. Intent does matter.