MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mccoyb | 2026-02-25 00:58:42+00:00
> I would say that the project actively expects you to be downloading them to fill any missing gaps you might have.

Where did you get this perspective from?

> I thought pi and its tools were supposed to be minimal and extensible. So why is a subagent extension bundling six agents I never asked for that I can’t disable or remove?

Why do you think a random subagents extension is under the same philosophy as pi?

Your blog post says little about pi proper, it's essentially concerned with issues you had with the ecosystem of extensions, often made by random people who either do or do not get the philosophy? Why would that be up to pi to enforce?
by okanat | 2026-02-25 00:59:53+00:00
It is not the economies of scale but entry cost increase per each new player entering the same market. The real world markets are guarded, price fixing oligopolies.

The most important thing a startup is expected to do is not to get profitable quick but suffocate all possibilities of competition. Dysfunctionality is not a bug, it is a feature of our economic system.
by isagawa-co | 2026-02-25 00:59:55+00:00
Hi HN, I built this to solve a problem I kept hitting: AI agents can generate test scripts fast, but without enforcement they produce inconsistent output, skip patterns, and repeat the same mistakes.

The platform uses a 5-layer test architecture (Test → Role → Task → Page Object → BrowserInterface) based on the Screenplay pattern, enforced by a governance loop that runs inside the AI agent. Every 10 actions, the agent stops, re-reads its protocol, and checks its own work. If it fails, it records a lesson and never makes that mistake again.

The kernel follows a minimalistic design. no external dependencies. I'll post about the kernel in a separate post.

Stack: Python, Playwright MCP, Claude Code.

Happy to answer questions.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-25 01:00:12+00:00
> But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world.

I still think him (of Star Trek) opening AFI's tribute to George Lucas (of Star Wars) was genius:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZVwQptvWw

(Also love Mike Myers' for Sean Connery.)
by cassepipe | 2026-02-25 01:00:24+00:00
Except Israel is an economically sound and undamaged country who has the upper hand against its enemies and Ukraine has been invaded and is the underdog of in this war ?

It doesn't look that weird to me that humanitarian assistance would go to people who need it the most ? Do Israelis currently need heaters not to die from the cold after their energy system has been destroyed ?

It's as if helping populations in need would buy you goodwill and popularity. Crazy to thing about it. I don't see how program trying to contain the spread of AIDS or preventing people to die from the cold is "funding" war. Not sure what you are on about. People will not adapt and shine, they will die or be more miserable, or revolt and probably be crushed. Civil war is always an option too.

But your bird comment tells me you just don't care. You should have started with that.
Show HN: I solo-validated Fed learning at 10M nodes with 50% Byzantine tolerance
by rwilliamspbgops | 2026-02-25 01:00:39+00:00
I just finished testing a federated learning system at 10 million nodes.

It maintains 82% accuracy even when 5 million nodes are malicious.

Here's what happened ↓

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*The Test (Feb 24, 2026)*

10,000,000 nodes
4,000,000 - 5,000,000 malicious (Byzantine) nodes
59 minutes 41 seconds total runtime
100% success rate

Results:
• 40% Byzantine (4M bad): 83.3% accuracy
• 50% Byzantine (5M bad): 82.2% accuracy

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*Why this matters*

Google's federated learning papers max out at ~10K nodes in production.

Academic Byzantine fault tolerance systems (HoneyBadgerBFT, etc.) are tested at 100-1K nodes.

I just validated 10M nodes with 50% malicious participation—solo, in under an hour.

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*Scaling proven across 5 orders of magnitude*

100 nodes → 10M nodes
O(n log n) holds perfectly
Streaming aggregation prevents memory death
Per-round time: 127-154 seconds at 10M scale

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*The stack*

- Rust/Go core (MOHAWK protocol)
- Python SDK
- WebAssembly edge runtime
- zk-SNARK verification (<1ms)
- Hardware root of trust (TPM 2.0)
- Hierarchical batching for extreme scale

---

*Solo dev context*

Built this alone. 5 hours of continuous testing today. 135KB documentation. 100% test pass rate.

No $10M venture funding. No PhD team. No Google infrastructure.

Just code that works at any scale.

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*What this enables*

- Global sensor networks (climate, defense, agriculture)
- Cross-hospital AI without patient data sharing
- Multi-national intelligence collaboration
- Autonomous vehicle fleets training together
- Any scenario where you can't trust 50% of participants

---

Release: https://github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops/Sovereign_Map_Federated_...

Repo: https://github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops/Sovereign_Map_Federated_...

Looking for: defense pilots, enterprise users, academic collaboration, contributors.

Happy to answer questions.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-25 01:01:20+00:00
Would it matter? Even before AI, most papers couldn't be replicated. Do we really think this is going to help the situation? Even if some of the AI papers are amazing, will anyone ever read them if most of the papers are useless? More research != more useful research. This is the logical outcome of publish or perish and Q-rankings being the main metric used.

"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" - Goodhart's law
by yosamino | 2026-02-25 01:01:52+00:00
I was going to write a whole different comment, but then I thought

> What if, yosamino, your knowledge of the euphemism of knocking on a roof is outdated and this km3r is right? you should probably double check so that in case they are right, you are not having a stupid argument but one backed by facts.

And then I found this hilarious quote:

> As women and children lived in the house, a Hellfire missile was initially shot at the roof as a warning.

referring to American slaughter in Mosul, but still relevant.

The more relevant description is in this article

> The US has adopted a controversial air strike technique known as "roof-knocking", which is best known for its use by Israeli forces during conflicts in Gaza.
>
> The tactic involves detonating a small explosive above the roof a target as a way of signalling to nearby civilians to get out of range.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/us-adopts-contro...

Which tracks a lot better with the descriptions of the practice I have heard from people who experienced it.

So while this is from 2016 and by that metric 10 years old, you'd have to please show me some information about the army of the state of Israel downgrading their tactics from sending as small bomb to sending a ... what are you claiming they are dropping? a rock ?
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 01:01:56+00:00
I don't see how that's relevant to the earlier claim, but even this claim of yours is a gross overstatement.

There was a partial blockade, not a full blockade, and this partial blockade came after Palestinians launched the second intifada. Prior to the october 7 massacre, perpetrated by Hamas and gazan civilians, tens of thousands of gazans were able to travel out of gaza through egypt and israel, where many of them worked. nearly 75,000 truckloads of food and cargo went into gaza from israel in 2022. Gaza exported lots too.
by paperplant | 2026-02-25 01:02:15+00:00
I built an experiment to test whether we've already given up on privacy.

It's a fake "face twin finder" — a website that supposedly finds strangers who look like you. Someone pastes a public link to a friend's photo. AI generates the lookalikes. They send their friend a link.

Their friend clicks it. A website they've never visited instantly shows them strangers who look just like them. They never uploaded a photo. Never signed up. Never consented to anything.

Nobody questioned how the site got their face. Nobody asked about the database of millions of faces it would need. Nobody worried their face was probably just added to it.

They just shrug and keep scrolling.

Before you say "isn't sharing someone's photo the problem?" — that's the point. The photo was already public. Already scrapable. Already trainable. This just forced someone to notice. The reveal shows them the exact URL their photo came from. All data deleted within 24 hours.

Has anyone else tested how people respond to AI-generated identity tools?
by kantselovich | 2026-02-25 01:02:57+00:00
I do not want to self host either, for exactly the same reasons.

However, I do want to have full control of my secret data beyond the secrets themselves, ideally w/out self hosting, i.e. I want to have crypto-proven control over whom I'm sharing secrets with, I want to have have cryto-level assurance that the service cannot use recovery/escrow mechanism to unlock my secrets data stored on the cloud w/out my consent.

Apple Passwords comes closest to what I want, but it's not cross platform.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-02-25 01:03:04+00:00
I ported from Pascal to C a Lisp interpreter system that had an embedded Prolog in it (that used Lisp syntax) (and wrote a new memory subsystem) in my spare time in College. Later I helped a grad student a little bit with their implementation of a Warren machine (runtime for a Prolog compiler) for it. That’s the only embedded Prolog I’m aware of.
Show HN: VeriContext – Preventing Stale Documentation for LLM Agents
by amsminn | 2026-02-25 01:03:05+00:00
Directory-level READMEs / AGENTS.md (“deep init” style) are great early on, but they inevitably drift as the codebase grows. Agents still treat those docs as truth, which makes decisions worse over time.

VeriContext tries to make those docs verifiable.

When a doc references code, it embeds a SHA-256 hash of the exact snippet inside an HTML comment. On verification, either it matches or it fails (fail-closed).

What’s useful in practice is the workflow around it:
• You can install it as an agent skill, so the agent runs verification before finishing a task / finalizing a plan / committing, and updates the citations/hashes when it edits docs.
• You can also enforce it mechanically via pre-commit hooks or CI, e.g. npx vericontext verify workspace ..., so stale docs simply can’t be merged.

This way docs aren’t “trusted” — they’re constrained to stay aligned with code.

I’d love feedback on trade-offs (strict fail-closed vs. ergonomics), and whether AST-aware verification would be worth it vs. raw snippet hashing.
by tartoran | 2026-02-25 01:03:56+00:00
> Terrorism has a simple definition: using force against civilian life to further ones goals.

Not disagreeing with the definition but this is what both sides have been doing.

Look, blowing up aid workers, which is in question in this article, is also terrorism. Killing unarmed civilians, kids, etc is also terrorist. Also if you you use your definition for what Israel has been doing in the last 70-80 years it makes them terrorists as well, the word is simply meaningless at this point.
by rprend | 2026-02-25 01:04:10+00:00
When systems scale you have to look at the effects in aggregate. Android is a tool used to manage billions of people’s finances. If you allow unreviewed apps, people get scammed by fake banking apps.

You might say people shouldn’t be so dumb, or that we should educate them, but the fact is that it happens. If you allow unreviewed apps, people get scammed at a higher rate. If you allow a backdoor, people get scammed at a higher rate. People still get scammed with app store review, but the difference between 1%, .9%, and .8% is millions of lives ruined.

I’m a hacker at heart and I like general purpose computers, but when a tool becomes essential, it can ruin lives. You have to consider your externalities. Otherwise you are a factory dumping pollution in the river.

This debate is an interesting collision between the well being of the general public versus a tiny, elite class (hackers) and their ideology.
by craftkiller | 2026-02-25 01:04:27+00:00
There isn't really a single way to define a country. For background, I would recommend this video from the Map Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nB688xBYdY

But following their conclusion: the thing that makes you a country is being recognized as one by other countries. Most of the world recognizes Palestine as a country (including 157 UN member states). Here is a map where the green countries recognize Palestine, and grey do not: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Palestin...
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-02-25 01:04:53+00:00
The term for China's manufacturing advantage is agglomeration. The US is never going to be successful with these manufacturing initiatives until the US government gets its act together and starts rebuilding all the infrastructure that has been destroyed over the last 50 years. That requires more than just tariffs. It requires actual investment. Investment in infrastructure, people education, power, everything. It's actually why silicon valley is so successful because it is an agglomeration of the tech industry. We need the same for manufacturing if we ever expect to do it again.
by cyberrock | 2026-02-25 01:04:54+00:00
Ah this explains why so many banks are making their own 2FA apps with warnings to never share the codes. Well a lot of people are very annoyed to install them because they perceive it as a technological downgrade when it's the opposite. I can only imagine asking them to use passkeys or hardware keys would be difficult, especially if there is some FUD (or truth?!) about how $boogeyman has your keys if you use them.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-25 01:05:03+00:00
> Is there any front end framework that doesn't do this?

React, if you are judicious about what additional packages you use on top of it.

> I dropped out of the front end years ago, and it seems to just get worse every year with a profusion of confusion.

This has actually gotten somewhat better in recent years starting with esbuild which made it possible to use a simple single-binary tool for bundling.
by sosomoxie | 2026-02-25 01:05:21+00:00
> On the other side there was the famous "hospital bombing" news event early in the war where it was claimed that 500 people were killed, and then within a couple of hours it became obvious that the explosion was caused by a misfiring Hamas rocket,

This is an Israeli lie. Not only has Israel bombed all of the hospitals, they murdered an entire NICU of infants. I can't believe people are still trying to justify blowing up hospitals!
by pear01 | 2026-02-25 01:05:42+00:00
And that was true when we built things too. So what point are you making? If only FDR was an engineer then maybe we would have ramped up production and taken on the Axis across two oceans. But oops he was educated as a lawyer I guess we're doomed now. Like I just don't get it.

Sure Xi and some other senior leadership in China studied as an engineer. He also studied Marxism and lived abroad in Iowa of all places. The world is too complicated for this type of analysis, sorry. I don't even think it is remotely the right data point to focus on or compare.

Dan Wang does the same spiel on every podcast and it is always terrible and seems predicated on credulous hosts who know little about the history of either country and certainly not enough about both who just use his lame analysis to engage in this current fad of Western self-pity. Instead of reform and asking hard questions let's just throw soft balls at Dan Wang's cheap analysis that anyone with a Wikipedia level education would know is absurd so we can keep propping up the same impoverished China v America tropes.

Why don't we demand better honestly we should be ashamed that one guy can just come up with such a dubious thesis suddenly appear everywhere and no credible debate or pushback once. The only thing Dan Wang convinces me of is the poverty of the modern intellectual environment.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-25 01:05:49+00:00
> Calling people fascists for any reason

Luckily it's not just "for any reason" then! There are plenty of examples, where do you want to start? I'll start with a few: Steven Miller saying they have plenary authority, Bovino claiming a city was "theirs" after rolling up with CBP/ICE goons, JD Vance saying federal officers have "absolute immunity", CBP officers showing up in force at Gavin Newsom's rally, and the pardon of Jan 6th insurrectionists.

Also you didn't answer how the economics of onshoring have changed, I guess the fascist thing really struck a nerve... I wonder why.
by baubino | 2026-02-25 01:06:11+00:00
> “I’ve never filmed pornography,” Wylder says. “But they have plenty of pictures and videos of my body and me walking in and out of the office, myTikTok, photos of me on Twitter before my account was deleted. They could easily make a composite of me, and I could be starring in adult videos that I never agreed to and never consented to.”

It just needs to be illegal to make an AI likeness of someone without their consent. I honestly still don’t understand why it’s not. It’s a whole new form of exploitation when brothel owners want to create AI porn that will be more profitable for them than the sex work taking place in the brothel yet they don’t want to pay the sex workers for the porn (or even get their consent to create it).
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-25 01:06:11+00:00
Who's we?

The college educated white collar professionals who are grossly over-represented in policy discourse?

Middle america, the formerly industrial northeast and the former bulk industry west have been complaining about this shit policy for over a generation.

Implicitly shuttering our manufacturing and heavy industry by subjecting it to policy that we knew would make it increasingly noncompetitive at the margin and would prevent continuing investment was a macro/federal level economic policy choice that was actively pursued for approx 50yr.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-25 01:07:37+00:00
Fair point, and using VueJS with Postgres is a great way to decouple the frontend and data layers from the MS ecosystem. My concern was more about the 'default' path many teams take when they go full-stack .NET, but your approach proves that the runtime itself is now truly cross-platform and flexible. Glad to see more people breaking the traditional vendor-lock patterns.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-25 01:08:06+00:00
Or did stagnant wages drive Americans to buy what they could afford instead of products that would last?

We also have many US manufacturers moving sourcing their subcomponents from overseas to save a few cents per unit, there's no way to prevent that, nobody is going to check the BOM from everything they ever buy.

I think collective behavior is a large component but it is not quite right to declare it as the primary driver.
by GaryBluto | 2026-02-25 01:09:49+00:00
Unfortunately there is a type of person who thinks there should be no places where politics is absent, and these people will endlessly spam non-tech politics articles like this one in the hopes of a few making it to the front page and surviving being flagged.

You'll notice that posts like these don't have actual, logical discussion underneath and in their stead have repetitive slogan comments.
by tharkun__ | 2026-02-25 01:10:11+00:00
Yeah I'd sorta second that actually. I can't "judge" on everything they say in the blog post. But some things I definitely recognize as "bad-faith".

Datadog RUM (browser-intake-datadoghq.com) - real-time user monitoring. every click, every page load - on a FedRAMP platform processing PII and biometrics.

Well duh, yes, DataDog does have those capabilities. Doesn't mean you use all of it, just coz you use RUM in general. We also use DataDog and RUM. But we also use filtering, including filtering out the known PII sources we have in our specific case (non-FedRAMP) and we don't have entire session recording enabled for example and we only sample.

Yet no mention of that in the post. They just assume that they must be sending PII from a FedRAMP site to DataDog. No proof of what data actually does get sent.
by vyayasan | 2026-02-25 01:10:19+00:00
Thanks for asking! Honestly, I'm testing a thesis more than building a product.

The thesis: If foundation models can reason through structured workflows, a lot of "middleware" categories (compliance, GRC, back-office automation) are just orchestrating free public data + applying published formulas. The "platform" becomes commoditized.

For KYC specifically:
- Data is free (OFAC, UN, EU sanctions lists, Companies House, etc.)
- Formulas are published (MLR 2017, FinCEN CDD rules)
- Workflows are well-documented

So what are teams paying £60K/year for? Orchestration + audit trail.

If Claude can orchestrate and markdown can audit.. the economics shift dramatically.

Goals:
1. Prove open source can compete with commercial platforms (for standard workflows)
2. Make compliance accessible to smaller teams who can't afford £60K licenses
3. Test if this pattern applies to other regulated categories (legal, accounting, HR compliance)

Not building a company or raising money. Just want to see if expertise-as-code can disrupt vertical SaaS in regulated industries.

What do you think? Does this pattern apply to other categories you've seen?
by Slapping5552 | 2026-02-25 01:10:41+00:00
I see the privacy issues with smart glasses.

But as someone who can really use the features for daily use - visual assistance (low vision), alwyas worn set of speakers (no need to futz around with airpods everytime i want to listen to audio without looking like a dork)... I really can't wait for android XR smart glasses (sans display)
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-25 01:12:12+00:00
But that really is a false equivalence, as you state. Hawaii created a slate of alternate electors, in case the recount changed the result. But only one slate was endorsed by the governor; only one slate was presented at the Electoral College.

Having "alternate electors", who were not endorsed by the governor, and who didn't win the recount (or the court case), show up at the electoral college anyway, claiming to be the real thing... that is a whole different deal. It's not a good-faith contingency plan for if you win the recount; it's a bad-faith attempt to overthrow the vote after you lost the recount.
by isagawa-co | 2026-02-25 01:13:02+00:00
Interesting approach to planning via extensions. I took a similar direction with enforcement. A governance loop that hooks into the agent's tool calls and blocks
execution until protocol is followed. Every 10 actions (configurable), the agent re-centers. No permission popups, but the agent literally can't skip steps.

Open source:
https://github.com/isagawa-co/isagawa-kernel
by sothatsit | 2026-02-25 01:13:07+00:00
People use UIs for git despite it working so well in the terminal... Many people I knew at uni doing computer science wouldn’t even know what tmux is. I would bet that the demand for these types of UIs is going to be a lot bigger than the demand for CLI tools like Claude Code. People already rave about cowork and the new codex UI. This falls into the same category.
by em-bee | 2026-02-25 01:13:31+00:00
I'm not against "intuitive UX design" in general, but at it's extreme, it just fuels incompetence.

how does it do that? (i am not getting hung up on "intuitive", i just mean you argue that the currently used design fuels incompetence)

how is a UI designed that doesn't fuel incompetence?

i have a hard time imagining what design aspects matter here, and how to improve upon them.
by quacker | 2026-02-25 01:13:48+00:00
Oh true. Considering inflation, $60 in 2016 is about $80 in 2026 so really the price has gone down in real terms.

(Not actually sure about the price history of the family plan or when family was introduced. I was originally on the individual plan and it was $35 then, and switched to the family plan in 2022. I don’t think prices have changed though)