MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gom_jabbar | 2026-02-11 13:12:09+00:00
Yes, this is one of the main references for Nick Land's thesis that capitalism is (retrochronic) AI.

The one you cited is from Machinic Desire (1993). Interestingly, it also appears in the relatively unknown text Shorelines from the Making People Disappear exhibition (1993):

"What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources." [0]

[0] http://merliquify.com/artwork/exhibitions/making-people-disa... (p. 4)
by torpfactory | 2026-02-11 13:12:18+00:00
My read is most likely some kind of strike on the cartels. There hasn’t seemed to be any significant US military buildup so it’s something they’ll be able to do with a smaller force.

The trapezoid makes me worried about a ground incision there- it extends to the border and would be a cover space for an invasion force. Absolutely bonkers that we are even having this discussion.

The TFR is most likely contingency planning for possible retaliation by cartel drones and the need to keep the airspace clear so they can see (with radar) and shoot down drones and not passenger aircraft.
Show HN: I built a voice-feedback collection tool
by divyanthj | 2026-02-11 13:13:27+00:00
I got tired of filling all the feedback forms in restaurant. I wish the staff just listened to what I said. So I built a tool that makes it easier to do so, using openai's whisper. It collects feedback as raw text which you can then have read and score your product on different attributes you define.
by kwar13 | 2026-02-11 13:14:04+00:00
The code is usually minified and heavily obfuscated but you CAN view the source code for any extension:

https://kaveh.page/snippets/chrome-extensions-source-code

Even a tiny extension like this one I wrote with 2k users gets buyout offers all the time to turn it into malware: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/one-click-image-sav...
by whynotminot | 2026-02-11 13:14:04+00:00
> But I think we're in world where very soon, companies will be demanding their engineering departments converge to the lived experience of the people who are seeing something like the author.

I think this part is very real.

If you’re in this thread saying “I don’t get it” you are in danger much faster than your coworker who is using it every day and succeeding at getting around AI’s quirks to be productive.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-02-11 13:14:12+00:00
The larger the entrance pupil is, the narrower the depth of field is.

The smaller, i.e. the closest to an ideal pinhole camera, the wider the depth of field is. A an ideal pinhole camera has infinite depth of field.

Unfortunately the aperture f numbers are the wrong way round; larger numbers correspond to smaller diameters.
by gruez | 2026-02-11 13:14:50+00:00
>At some point, they need to stop asking "can we add this feature?" and start asking "does this text editor need a network-aware rendering stack?"

But so far as I can tell the bug isn't related to "network-aware rendering stack" or AI (as other people are blindly speculating)?

From MSRC:

>How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

>An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

Sounds like a bug where you could put an url like \\evil.example\virus.exe into a link, and if a user clicks it executes virus.exe
by prmoustache | 2026-02-11 13:15:33+00:00
You mention an interesting thing I didn't realize before. Carte Bleues, the brand, seems to have been sold to Visa but CB, the payment system would still be a separate thing and now mean Carte Bancaire. It is not helped by the fact that french people literally adopted carte bleue as a generic name for payment cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group
by CurleighBraces | 2026-02-11 13:15:41+00:00
Because I don't review everything between changes, there might be 10 small commits I review and state I am happy with, then I might prompt the agent to perform some small refactors after the review, I don't want the diff to show me everything in those 10 commits again in the diff ( like the usual PR would ) I want it only to show me new stuff.
by swiftcoder | 2026-02-11 13:15:51+00:00
> What about being required to carry a your-own-government-controlled tracking device?

What part of the cellphone manufacturer being based overseas makes you think the government can't track you via it?

Even leaving asides 5-eyes style data-sharing agreements, your US/Chinese smartphone still connects through a domestic cellphone carrier, using a domestic number. That's enough to have at a minimum fine-grained location tracking, call logs, and data usage.
by Levitz | 2026-02-11 13:15:59+00:00
This post perfectly proves my point, to which you replied "You are displaying your ignorance with pride.".

"Fascism was a capitalist economic system" or "Capitalism has waged more war and caused more destruction than any system before" are utterly ridiculous, evidently false statements. The only way you can ever say these things with a straight face is if you don't have the least idea of what capitalism even is.
by Ideabile | 2026-02-11 13:16:14+00:00
Hi, I am building a framework for interactive notebooks (like Jupyter Notebooks, but focused on modern web development tooling and Org mode - orgp.dev).

This enables me to share my creative thinking.

In this series of articles, I am migrating Starplot (a Python library for creating star maps) to JavaScript while exploring all the related concepts and knowledge around history, math, and astronomy.

I’ve added a bit of narrative-imagine a Tuareg sitting beneath a crystal-clear sky in the desert at night.

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 13:16:52+00:00
Theoretically a lot of that is true for the US.

It's just that

- both parties have undermined the separation of power, and expanded power of the president repeatedly for many years (e.g. with granting special privileges to the president after 9/11 which where way to broad and not strictly limited to a very short time)

- especially Trump has undermined/dismantled a lot of "checks and balances" mechanisms, including in his previous presidency

- people spreading "legal theories" which are very clearly nonsensical but at least half of the countries press pretending they are credible potentially true. As some are about the constitution you can see this as a direct propaganda attack against the US constitution. With close no consequence, too.

- the current supreme court is IMHO strange. They are not at all impartial and have interpreted laws multiple times in ways which are neither backed by the laws wording nor it's spirit (if you based the spirit on the history due to which the laws where made) with this decision often having been reasoned by what looks a lot like "make pretend everything is normal excuses". But at the same time it hasn't gone fully "we go with whatever Trump/Mega wants" or anything like that. I can't really understand what they are thinking, tbh.

so yes, the president has too much executive power at the moment. Both more then intended with the founding of the US, and in practice more then they even legally have.
by sjclemmy | 2026-02-11 13:18:00+00:00
Which reminds me of a weekend I took a few years ago where we drove to Edinburgh from Manchester on day 1 then up to Arisaig on day 2 to camp on the beach - then back to Edinburgh for a wedding on day 3 and then back to Arisaig the next day to continue the long weekend. Then full day drive back to Manchester.
by abainbridge | 2026-02-11 13:18:16+00:00
We're seeing this galaxy as it was 280 million years after the Big Bang. But the universe didn't become transparent to photons until 100 million years after that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology)). So that's impossible. Who's wrong, Recombination theory or this paper?

Or have I missed something?
Show HN: SmoothCSV – CSV editor that opens 1M rows in 2s, with SQL queries
by kohii | 2026-02-11 13:18:18+00:00
Hi HN, I'm kohii, a software engineer from Japan.

I've been building CSV editors for 15 years. This is my third rewrite from scratch, built with Tauri, Rust, and web technologies.

*Why I built this:*

Modern dev tools, that I use daily, are incredibly polished. CSV editors, not so much. I wanted a tool that handles CSVs as they are (messy column counts, various encodings, any delimiter or quoting style), preserves the original format, and gives you a polished spreadsheet UI with thoughtful UX.

*What SmoothCSV does:*

- *Fast*: Opens 100MB files in 1.6 seconds. (12x faster than Excel)
- *Preserves your data*: Detects encoding, delimiter, quotes, headers automatically. Handles files with inconsistent column counts. Saves without breaking anything.
- *Powerful*: All the basics you'd expect, plus multi-cell editing, command palette, convert to/from various formats, CLI, and much more.
- *SQL queries*: Run SELECT on CSV, plus a visual condition builder for filters.

I want this to become the "VS Code of CSV editors". I'd love to add an extension system eventually.

It's free (might add paid plans later). Would love to hear what's missing for your workflow.

Website: https://smoothcsv.com
GitHub: https://github.com/kohii/smoothcsv3

---

Previous Show HN (July 2025): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537558 — Since then I've shipped frequent releases and added lots of workflow features (multi-cell editing, Excel import/export, per-file format rules, auto-backup, CLI/deep links, quick column filters/sorting) plus many UX/perf improvements. Full list: https://github.com/kohii/smoothcsv3/releases
by RIMR | 2026-02-11 13:18:20+00:00
>To be clear no the US is not a full blown violent dictatorship.

The key word you forgot here is "yet".

>Even through things are bad, they are not "that" bad.

They will get "that" bad if you take on the attitude that things aren't that bad.

>IMHO there seem to be people in the government which want to make it exactly that bad.

We should act accordingly then.
by bothlabs | 2026-02-11 13:18:49+00:00
This is a neat idea. At my last company (Octomind) we built AI agents for end-to-end testing and ran into the indirect injection problem constantly. Agents that browse or interact with web pages are especially vulnerable because you can't sanitize the entire internet.

The thing that surprised me most was how unreliable even basic guardrails were once you gave agents real tools. The gap between "works in a demo" and "works in production with adversarial input" is massive.

Curious how you handle the evaluation side. When someone claims a successful jailbreak, is that verified automatically or manually? Seems like auto-verification could itself be exploitable.
by danbruc | 2026-02-11 13:19:07+00:00
Not sure what you mean here, but non-random + non-caused is the very definition of free will.

Now describe something that is non-random and not-caused. I argue there is no such thing, i.e. caused and random are exhaustive just as zero and non-zero are, there is nothing left that could be both non-(zero) and non-(non-zero). Maybe assume such a thing exists, how is it different from caused things and random things?

[...] free will is the "you"'s ability to choose, influenced by prior state but not wholly, and also not random.

I am with you until including influenced by prior state but not wholly but what does and also not random mean? It means it depends on something, right? Something that forced the choice, otherwise it would be random and we do not want that. But just before we also said that it does not wholly depend on the prior state, so what gives?

I can only see one way out, it must depend on something that is not part of the prior state. But are we not considering everything in the universe part of the prior state? Does the you have some state that the choice can depend on but that is not considered part of the prior state of the universe? How would we justify that, leaving some piece of state out of the state of the universe?
by bell-cot | 2026-02-11 13:19:50+00:00
Kudos for the article very quickly getting to the important stuff:

> However, this approach is not ready for production. Even the best model, Claude Opus 4.6, found relatively obvious backdoors in small/mid-size binaries only 49% of the time. Worse yet, most models had a high false positive rate — flagging clean binaries.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 13:19:51+00:00
This is actually the reason I said "Just use Cinny"

So in a way, the answer's sort of because "I am saying so" but as with all things the answer's subjective but I hope that you can try matrix and enjoy the clients that you wish.

I would recommend you to "Just use cinny", Just try it once and have fun :D See what you like the most and then recommend it then instead to your friends/community.

I am gonna say, Just use cinny but you can say just use fractal and both could be valid and the beauty of the protocol in this sense is the fact that we can all still talk to each other :)

Cinny really fixes the UI/UX problem in my personal experience, even better than discord.

And y'know technically this problem still persists with other messaging protocols like how should a new user know they should use X client and the limitations of X client (UI/UX). Matrix as such meets half way through and cinny can then streamline the experience.

You or anyone using matrix doesn't have to know so much.

The only thing one has to know is "Just use cinny" (in my honest opinion) and everything else is actually really simple.

And I feel like new users like any new users of any tech (discord was once new too) knows simply because the time is convenient/somewhat mouth of word.

I feel like people should convince others to meet on cinny (matrix) because then we can have network effects which is actually a really big issue in my opinion.

So the answer's mouth of word. I hope you can spread the word and hope that you can try cinny. It's seriously that good and I am doing my best spreading the mouth of word.

Have a nice day :D
by somenameforme | 2026-02-11 13:20:23+00:00
PPP is the exchange rate normalized cost of a basket of goods in different countries. The way you have a high PPP is by having an economy where people can buy a lot with a little. Whether that lot happens to be eggs, steel, or artillery shells. The US is avoiding a hot war with Russia over Ukraine. They will never, ever, engage in a hot war with China over Taiwan. They'll feed weapons to Taiwan and let the Taiwanese fight to the last man, somehow try to frame the eventual defeat as a victory, wash our hands of it, and rapidly move on to the next war.

And if you think Russia is failing, then I'm not sure you know what victory looks like when fighting a competent adversary. The Ukrainian army is being fueled by endless and increasingly brutal forced conscription, and backed by Western weapons, tech, hardware, and intelligence. But instead of the present, let's go 4 years back after the invasion and when the West decided to get overtly involved. Imagine I came to you and said 'hey stickfigure not only with this war last for years, but in 4 years Russia will have the strategic initiative, control a massive chunk of Ukraine, and be continuing to push forward' -- what do you think you would have said? 'Russia must be failing' wouldn't really be a logical response then, or now.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-11 13:21:14+00:00
The point is not that this particular binary is huge, the point is that we tend to strip images of anything that is not useful for the actual application shipped. So we strip everything. Also: small things adds up. On AI prompt can be handled reasonably by a single machine, millions of concurrent ones involve huge datacenters and whole energy plants being restarted/built.

The point of reducing the amount of binaries shipped with the image is also to reduce the amount of CVEs/vulns in your reports that wouldn't be relevant for your app but woulld still be raised by their presence.
by bothlabs | 2026-02-11 13:21:45+00:00
This matches what I see from the other side. I'm a solo founder with 10 years in AI startups and my workflow is about 80% AI generated code. It works because I know what's wrong when the AI generates something subtly broken, and I know which corners not to cut.

The real insight the article misses is that AI coding tools actually widen the gap. The more senior you are, the more you accelerate. You're a better reviewer, you scope tasks correctly, you catch the nonsense faster. The friends in this post didn't fail because the tools are bad. They failed because reviewing code is harder than writing it, and you can't review what you don't understand.
by cess11 | 2026-02-11 13:22:09+00:00
Yeah, I know, I've been in the military, but my requirements are much simpler. I'm not going to walk fifty to seventy kilometers per day in them, and I also don't want to spend as much time taking care of my boots as they do. If I happen to walk through a bog too many and the stench gets permanent it feels better to get a replacement pair if they cost like 60 euros rather than 2-300.
by mystraline | 2026-02-11 13:22:13+00:00
In general, this is pretty true in practice.

Just dont mess with: GPS, Airline radio, cell phones, broadcast infra, emergency services

If you're blowing double the power for ISM, nobody cares. Your PEP using a yagi is 4x what is legal? Unless you piss off a ham, nobody cares.

And even if you are a ham, and are using 150KHz bandwidth with low power in, say 50MHz (regulation says 40KHz max), again, nobody cares.

And also if above 6GHz (common SDR top end), nobody will notice. The equipment up there is $$$$$.

But damn, you want to piss off hams? Mention bitrate maximums or encryption. You'll never hear the end from the old gatekeeping idiots.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 13:23:07+00:00
I would never ever install your distro for this reason alone.

Someone has already pointed out that old/deprecated/obsolete software like a telnet client represent tech debt.

Removing the telnet client was, in part, a recognition that its complementary server was deprecated and unsafe. If everyone was transitioned to ssh and nc, [and custom MUD clients], why keep telnet around?

Any software like this represents tech debt and a support burden for the upstreams and distros which carry them. You have unnecessarily assumed a burden in this way.

Furthermore, ask the maintainers of OpenBSD or any hardened OS about attack surfaces. The more software that you cram into the default distribution, the more bundled features an OS or system has, you are multiplying your potential vulnerabilities, your zero-days, and your future CVE/patch updates.

Especially in the face of growing supply-chain attacks and LLM-automated vulnerability disclosure. Your focus should be on limiting attack surface in every regard.

It is good practice for everyone to uninstall unnecessary apps and software. Whether you use Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, BeOS or Plan9 or Inferno. Do not install and maintain software that you do not use or need. It will come back to bite you.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-11 13:23:14+00:00
>We don't have a model for how an LLM that doesn't exist will respond to a specific query.

We don't have a model for a LLM that does exist will respond to a specific query either.

>For an LLM that exists it's still hard to interpret but it's very clear what is actually happening.

No, it's not and I'm getting tired of explaining this. If you think it is, write your paper and get very rich.

>That's better than you often get with quantum physics when there's a bunch of particles and you can't even get a good answer for the math.

You clearly don't understand any of this.

>And even for potential LLMs, there are some pretty good extrapolations for overall answer quality based on the amount of data and the amount of training.

Oh really ? Lol
by dizzant | 2026-02-11 13:23:23+00:00
I recall a paper from many years ago (early 2010s) describing methods to estimate the camera motion and remove motion blur from blurry image contents only. I think they used a quality metric on the resulting “unblurred” image as a loss function for learning the effective motion estimate. This was before deep learning took off; certainly today’s image models could do much better at assessing the quality of the unblurred image than a hand-crafted metric.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-02-11 13:23:24+00:00
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade.[1] Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against each other. Drug cartels often transport both drugs and narcotics, and most often the term "Narcotics cartel" is not used to describe an organization that transports the latter legally defined set of illegal substances, such as marijuana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_cartel
by thatguy0900 | 2026-02-11 13:23:38+00:00
I'm convinced the real reason for this is nations are growing terrified of the extreme effectiveness of political bot farms. Nations have been asleep at the wheel letting hostile countries spew trash into their citizens heads 24/7, even epstein was in on it with him potentially being the impetus for 4chans /pol/ board that was a major driver for Trump. Everyone is panicking trying to put a stop to it before every western government gets overthrown by a extremist one with foreign backing.
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-11 13:23:39+00:00
15 is age of consent in most of western world? not sure what 'west' you are talking about. Did you keep going so far west you ended up in middle east? Might have agreed with 16, a lot of US states in the 'south' have 16.

There is a pattern, the more backward, and religious a region, the lower the age is ok.
by brazzy | 2026-02-11 13:23:39+00:00
Math and reality are, in general completely distinct. Some math is originally developed to model reality, but nowadays (and for a long time) that's not the typical starting point, and mathematicians pushing boundaries in academia generally don't even think about how it relates to reality.

However, it is true (and an absolutely fascinating phenomenon) that we keep encountering phenomena in reality and then realize that an existing but previously purely academic branch of math is useful for modeling it.

To the best of our knowledge, such cases are basically coincidence.
by skydhash | 2026-02-11 13:24:12+00:00
This is a non-problem. Git primary role is a VCS. What you decide to version is up to you.

On the main repo I like linear commits on the main branch where each is tied to a PR and a ticket number. On my local, how I work is relevant to no one except myself.

When I create a PR, I expect the reviewer to do a full review. If I update, it would be best to also do a full because that’s what will be applied. I believe, as a reviewer, you need to understand the full patch, not little snippets over days.

> Git just needs 2 separate mechanisms for these 2 different ideas

Git is distributed. What is shared between two instances are patches. These are immutables. If I was sent a set of patches that I would not accept for some reason, I would discard it and wait for an updated set of patches. What you propose should be good according to you, I don’t want days long back and forth.