MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blokey | 2026-02-11 13:42:10+00:00
Thank you for the reply and the time to write it.

I'm probably going to stick with Home Control but I will download and pay for yours as well, mainly to show some support and possibly to switch!

I do use Home Control via my Stream Deck, weirdly with Keyboard Maestro in the middle to receive the Stream Deck keypress and call the URI for Home Control, but there's a lot to like from what you've built.
by derektank | 2026-02-11 13:42:18+00:00
The Global Positioning System is owned and operated by Space Delta 8 at Schriever Space Force Base in CO[1]. Testing in collaboration the US Army (the primary customer of GPS services) is hardly noteworthy.

[1] https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-D...
What breaks when AI agents do the shopping? (200-page book)
by toddpiechowski | 2026-02-11 13:42:23+00:00
Book page + PDF download (no email/paywall):
https://www.instantcheckout.ai/book

I lead an Amazon agency and wrote a 200+ page book about a shift I think is already underway: when the buyer is an AI agent, the “shopping cart” becomes mostly invisible.

My core model: users set policies (budget, brands to avoid, delivery constraints, quality threshold). An agent does discovery + evaluation + checkout inside those constraints.

This changes how products win:
- discovery shifts from SEO/ads to structured product data + reputation signals
- “conversion” becomes permissioning + delegated payment + trust
- brands start optimizing for agent evaluation, not human browsing

I’d love pushback from anyone building in delegated auth, product data standards, or trust/reputation. What’s overstated / missing here?
by beepbooptheory | 2026-02-11 13:42:57+00:00
Remember that there is no "the" cartel, just so many different towns and interests and bribed officials. It makes it a significant (and perhaps convenient) misnomer dont get me wrong, but maybe important to remember.

Extremely good, highly researched book if you want to get angry at me or call me idiot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Cartels_Do_Not_Exist
by toddpiechowski | 2026-02-11 13:43:07+00:00
References I’m pointing to (so you don’t have to take my word for it):

- Google: Universal Commerce Protocol + “agentic commerce” checkout surfaces
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce-a...
https://developers.googleblog.com/under-the-hood-universal-c...
- Shopify engineering write-up on UCP
https://shopify.engineering/ucp
- OpenAI: “Buy it in ChatGPT”
https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
- Amazon: “Buy for Me” (beta)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-...
- Visa: secure agentic transactions
https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-perspectives/newsro...
- Mastercard: Agent Pay / agentic payments
https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/press/2025/...
by hansmayer | 2026-02-11 13:43:08+00:00
> This thread is extremely negative - if you can't see the value in this, I don't know what to tell you.

This sounds a lot like that line from Microsoft's AI CEO "not understanding the negativity towards AI". And Satya instructing us to not use the term "slop" any more.
Yes we don't see value in taking a git primitive like "commit" and renaming it to "checkpoint". I wonder whether the branches going to be renamed to something like "parallel history" :)
by debo_ | 2026-02-11 13:43:13+00:00
> Apologizing for taking time to reply to my email is awkward and makes me uncomfortable.

> It also puts a lot of pressure on me: what if I take more time than you to reply? Isn’t the whole point of asynchronous communication to be… asynchronous? Each on its own rhythm?

This one of those sentiments that makes me scratch my head. If this little thing makes you uncomfortable to the point that you need to write a blog post about it, how do you survive?
by Dyac | 2026-02-11 13:43:13+00:00
There's also another unusual way - the Caisson lock.

Its design is TERRIFYING.

The boat is floated into a tube that get sealed at both ends and then (in the dark..) that tube is winched down into a completely flooded chamber until it (hopefully) lines up with the egress port at the bottom. The tube with the boat in is unsealed and the boat floats out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_lock
by nixus76 | 2026-02-11 13:43:26+00:00
The camera streams are HLS via AVFoundation – Apple doesn't expose raw frames, so no programmatic capture there. But motion detection events do flow through the SSE endpoint (/events), so you can use those to trigger webhooks or automations. For HA cameras there's also a snapshot endpoint you can hit on demand, e.g. when motion fires.

SSE is in the upcoming 2.0.0 which is currently on TestFlight – happy to add you if you want to try it out.
by satisfice | 2026-02-11 13:43:40+00:00
I also don’t believe the hype. The boosters always say I would believe if I were to just experience it. But that’s like saying all I have to do is eat a hamburger to experience how nutritious it is for me.

I love hamburgers, and nothing in my experience tells me I shouldn’t eat them every day. But people have studied them over time and I trust that mere personal satisfaction is insufficient basis for calling hamburgers healthy eating.

Applied to AI: How do you know you have “10x’d?” What is your test process? Just reviewing the test process will reverse your productivity! Therefore, to make this claim you probably are going on trust.

I you have 10x the trust, you will believe anything.
by toddpiechowski | 2026-02-11 13:43:45+00:00
One page summary of the book:

The “agentic commerce” stack:
1) Intent (what the user actually needs)
2) Research (what options exist)
3) Evaluation (tradeoffs + trust signals)
4) Transaction (permissions/auth/payment)
5) Fulfillment (delivery, returns, satisfaction loop)

What changes vs today:
- SEO/ads matter less if agents don’t browse pages
- structured product data + availability + policies matter more
- reputation signals become machine-readable and portable
- checkout becomes delegated + constrained (limits, identity, auditability)

If you want to argue against it, the best angles are:
- why humans will keep browsing (and for which categories)
- where trust signals will come from (and who controls them)
- whether retailers will allow agents at scale
by CurleighBraces | 2026-02-11 13:44:18+00:00
That's now how it works though is it? ignoring agents

Junior dev working on feature X

Junior dev makes a lot of commits and creates PR

Senior dev reviews code, spots problems a,b,c but has reviewed all the code at this point. Feature X isn't complete it can't be merged

Junior dev fixed a,b,c now 90% of the already reviewed code might not have changed but the PR doesn't show that.

Now replace junior dev with agent.
by miroljub | 2026-02-11 13:44:22+00:00
True. Once a coworker asked me why I was responding with an empty mail since my reply was at the bottom, and he didn't bother to scroll down. Since then, I gave up and just started using conventions everyone else is using. The goal is not purity, but clarity of communications.

I even started to avoid inline responses and comments, many find even that confusing.
by hnarayanan | 2026-02-11 13:45:59+00:00
Hi! I'm a computational scientist by training, and I've spent an unreasonable number of years wrangling gnuplot and matplotlib to make figures look right for papers and presentations. At some point I just wanted to try to build a tool to help.

Gridpaper is a figure editor that runs entirely in your browser. Under the hood, it's gnuplot 6 compiled to WebAssembly, which means you get all that rendering power without installing anything. No account, no server, your data never leaves your machine.

The core idea is that there are no chart types. Instead you compose layers from a small set of building blocks: 12 geometric marks (curves, bars, heatmaps, vectors, surfaces…) across 5 coordinate systems. A scatter plot with a fit line isn't a special widget — it's two layers. A grouped bar chart is three bar layers in a group set to dodge. It sounds abstract, but in practice it means you can build a lot from very few pieces.

Some things worth poking at:

* The example gallery has 50 figures you can click to open in the editor

* Try importing a CSV (drag it onto the canvas)

* Switch to polar or 3D coordinates and watch the available marks change

* The design page¹ explains the compositional grammar if that sort of thing interests you

I should be upfront: it's not open source yet. I'm a solo developer and I want to get the core solid first. The plan is to open the rendering engine (the gnuplot WASM bridge and compiler) first, then the full editor.

Happy to answer questions about any of it!

¹ gridpaper.org/design
by throwaway_2494 | 2026-02-11 13:46:26+00:00
> "hey, why do mathematicians keep changing rules on the fly, they just told me square of minus one doesn't exist

Mathematicians aren’t chasing numerical solutions, they’re chasing structure. ℂ isn’t just about solving cubics, it’s about eliminating holes in algebra so the theory behaves uniformly and is easier to build upon.

And as for "changing rules" they haven't changed, they have broadened the field (literally) over which the old rules applied in a clever way to remove a restriction.
by mtlynch | 2026-02-11 13:46:46+00:00
I'm obviously biased as a small business owner, but I think that logic assumes that the market is perfectly efficient, when it obviously isn't. Large companies have massive advantages in so many dimensions.

As a simple example, imagine that I built a site for buying ebooks that's better in every way than Amazon. I pay authors more, readers pay less, the ebooks are compatible with every device, and it's easier for both authors and readers to use my site than Amazon. I still probably couldn't survive against Amazon because they'd tell their authors that if they sell with me, they can't sell on Amazon.[0] They have such a market dominance that authors would lose money by using my platform, even if it's a demonstrably better product in every way with better pricing.

But it goes beyond that. Big businesses have all these other huge advantages so that they can succeed not because they're offering the most value but because they have a pre-existing advantageous market position:

- It's a small percentage of their costs to hire attorneys to look for tax loopholes

- They can manage the overhead of abusing the H1B visa system to hire workers at below-market rates

- They can sue people and get sued and still have 98% of their employees not paying attention to any lawsuits

- They can afford to sell things at a loss just to choke out smaller competitors

Look at trillion dollar industries where 95% of money goes to just 2-3 companies. The iOS/Android duopoly, the Visa/Mastercard duopoly. Do they control the market because they're just so great at offering value? Or does their market position and terrible government policy prevent anyone from competing with them effectively and offering consumers better choices?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/amazon-must-face...
by jsheard | 2026-02-11 13:47:05+00:00
> It was ASUS GeForce GT710-SL-2GD5 . I see some sources putting at at 2014. That's not _recent_ recent, but it's within the service life I'd expect.

That's pretty old, the actual architecture debuted in 2012 and Nvidia stopped supporting the official drivers in 2021. Technically it did barely support Vulkan, but with that much legacy baggage it's not really surprising that greenfield Vulkan software didn't work on it. In any case you should be set for a long time with that new Intel card.

I get where you're coming from that it's just a text editor, but on the other hand what they're doing is optimal for the vast majority of systems in use today, and doing otherwise would be a lot of work just to support the long tail of hardware that's almost old enough to vote.
by RobMurray | 2026-02-11 13:47:30+00:00
about power usage: sure there exists a light bulb such that this draws less power, but the vast majority of light bulbs are far less than 15W. Also the mac mini sips power when idle at only 2-4W. This isn't a criticism of the product, only the marketing material.

The other thing is that moltbot/openclaw or what ever it's name is today is massively hyped AI slop that will be replaced by the next over hyped AI thing in a matter of weeks.
by cess11 | 2026-02-11 13:47:30+00:00
In what way is it "hyperbole"? From the leaks and reporting I've come across it seems like a reasonable description.

It's not labour camps, and not extermination camps, but rather places where people are 'concentrated' while the bureaucracy figures out where to move them next.

If anything it's really weird to present it as having to do with supposedly illicit immigration, since citizens and people with residence permits are vacuumed up as well.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-11 13:47:47+00:00
In business communications, I believe it's common courtesy to respond to emails within 24 hours. If I get blown off, or if somebody takes 4 days to respond to my email, my impression is always that my counterparty views the matter as unimportant. For my part, if I reply late, and if the matter is genuinely important, I think it's proper and fitting to include a brief note of apology.

In email communications with friends, it varies. I'll often let conversations hang for a while until there's something new to discuss.
by ben_w | 2026-02-11 13:48:05+00:00
It doesn't say much either way.

I'm from the UK, we had the ("real") IRA put a RPG-22 anti-tank rocket at the walls of MI6 HQ (the UK version of the CIA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_MI6_attack

Dangerous things like these are not expensive, compared to even low budget small-time group.
by srean | 2026-02-11 13:48:08+00:00
His wife allegedly secretly reported him to the FBI as a potential spy, communist, security risk, fraud. It was an anonymous letter.

Given how different this wife's (second wife) description of Feynman compared to others is, that there are no record of complaints from first wife, the way her younger sister describes him, it could well be an earlier repeat of the now familiar Johnny Depp story, where it's not initially clear who the abusive person here is.

The marriage was certainly not a happy one and some people turn vindictive, turn to smearing characters. Especially if the person has narcissistic tendencies.

[Who Smeared Feynman]
https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-f...
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-11 13:48:26+00:00
It's kinda funny because in French, it depends on the situation.

If it's a French decision, you say "Matignon has done x" with Matignon being the home France's President.
If it's local, you say "the mayor" , and if its European, you say Brussels.

In Canada, if it's federal, you say Carey's government, if it's provincial the name of the prime minister, or the name of the party and if its local, you use the mayor's name.

But in this situation, the ECB cited in the article is in Germany, not Brussels, with a high independence from the EU, but yes, with the Parliament in Brussels.

So I was downvoted because I asked why OP mentioned Brussels just to be sure that is wasn't the usual "eu bad" post.

Cunningham's law in action I guess.
by some_furry | 2026-02-11 13:48:29+00:00
> If this little thing makes you uncomfortable to the point that you need to write a blog post about it, how do you survive?

Not the author, but I'd wager it's an evolving story over many years. At first, you ignore it entirely. It might not even register at first, or if it does, it's just a barely conscious "huh, this interaction makes me feel weird" sort of deal. And you leave it be. But then death by a thousand cuts later, you're irritated by this habit and want to speak out against it. And so, you write a blog post about why it's bad or annoying or whatever. And then you go back to surviving another day.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-11 13:48:55+00:00
If the RPM/deb comes from a Linux distribution then there is a good chance there is a separate maintainer and the binary package is always built from the source code by the distro.

Also if the upstream developer goes malicious there is a good chance at least one of the distro maintainers will notice and both prevent the bad source code being built for the distro & notify others.
by dspillett | 2026-02-11 13:49:06+00:00
A lot of the time when people say CSV they mean “character separated values” rather than specifically “comma separated values”.

In the text files we get from clients we sometimes see tab used instead of comma, or pipe. I don't think we've seen semicolon yet, though our standard file interpreter would quietly cope¹ as long as there is nothing really odd in the header row.

--------

[1] it uses the heuristic “the most common non-alpha-numeric non-space non-quote character found in the header row” to detect the separator used if it isn't explicitly told what to expect
by James_Lombardo | 2026-02-11 13:49:11+00:00
ChatGPT claims it doesn't remember your past conversations. I caught it remembering mine — twice — with two different bait types. Then I got it to admit it. This writeup includes the exact trigger protocol, diagnostic framing, and a direct quote where it confesses the retrieval mechanism.

If you've ever suspected AI was gaslighting you, here's how to prove it.
by tremon | 2026-02-11 13:49:19+00:00
> they know 70% of the value comes from the advertising

So, you are aware that advertising is in large part responsible for shaping what is perceived as high-value status signals in society. You're also aware that for certain products the only distinction between those and their alternatives is that specific high-value association.

How come you started out from the position that advertising is "just showing off different aspects of the product" then?
by einr | 2026-02-11 13:50:40+00:00
Noise depends a lot on the actual amount of light hitting the sensor per unit of time, which is not really a part of the simulation here. ISO 1600 has been quite usable in daylight for a very long time; at night it's a somewhat different story.

The amount and appearance of noise also heavily depends on whether you're looking at a RAW image before noise processing or a cooked JPEG. Noise reduction is really good these days but you might be surprised by what files from even a modern camera look like before any processing.

That said, I do think the simulation here exaggerates the effect of noise for clarity. (It also appears to be about six years old.)
by severino | 2026-02-11 13:50:45+00:00
Well, at least in Spain cards typically take between 3 or 5 days to get to you via post mail when you first open your account in a bank, and when it's about to expire, from time to time, you get the new one weeks in advance.

So I don't think distribution is a problem. Of course companies would prefer to save the cost, and they also prefer that you use their applications, but I just don't think it's more convenient for the end user. Taking a card with you is not a big deal while having to use a mobile application or approved device limits your freedom to choose which smartphone you want to use or how to use it.
Show HN: We told OpenClaw to rm -RF and it failed successfully
by joshdevon | 2026-02-11 13:51:35+00:00
As we all know, OpenClaw is awesome precisely because it gives us Simon Willison’s lethal trifecta: Access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to externally communicate.

While extremely risky, it gives us a glimpse of the future we can have if we actually could trust agents.

To date, sandboxing (or buying mac-minis) has been the approach to reducing risk. While necessary, sandboxes also make the agent less useful because they ultimately contain and restrict the agent's helpful capabilities.

To wrangle OpenClaw, we took a complementary approach. Instead of just a perimeter, we built an open source OpenClaw extension that creates deterministic lanes for the agent using Cedar (AWS's policy as code language).

For example, we created a policy that forbids OpenClaw from using rm. We aren't trying to stop the LLM from thinking about deleting a file or stop it from being prompt injected to delete a file. Instead, the extension catches the tool call and blocks it before execution.

We are shipping with 3 policy packs (103 rules):

-Baseline pack: Protections for sudo, rm, credentials, etc.

-OpenClaw System Protection: Protects SOUL.md, identity files, etc.

-OWASP Agentic Pack: Based on the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications.

Just like OpenClaw, this is experimental and hasn't been rigorously tested, so please don't use the extension to protect anything valuable or sensitive. We hope this project is a strong proof of concept for how we can put agents in risky situations and still trust them with deterministic rules.

For more details and the link to the repo, please check out our write-up. Would love to hear what others think of the approach and what policies you think would be useful to add.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-11 13:51:53+00:00
> In business communications, I believe it's common courtesy to respond to emails within 24 hours.

Sounds funny because I only read mails when someone tell me about them on MSTeams.

Between IM, supports tickets and jira stories I don't really see the point of emails anymore. If it is something that has an SLA tickets seem to be the way to go, if not Teams. If it is an urgent matter, mentionning my name. Email seem to be in that weird place where some people still seem to want to insert invisible business matters in an ocean of junk and automatized mails/notifications you generally never subscribe yourself but ends up subscribed by default when given access to resources/applications.
by boomlinde | 2026-02-11 13:52:11+00:00
> The artifacts weren't a conscious design decision, they were a constraint.

Of course the artifacts were a constraint. Whether consciously considered or not, constraints influence design decisions.

> We don't know whether the designers would have chosen to keep them or not, if they had the choice.

Maybe Frédéric Chopin would have written his etudes and nocturnes for the Roland SC-55 Goblins instrument patch if that choice had been available to him, but it wasn't. What we do know of are the choices he actually made facing the constraints that he actually faced.

Similarly, maybe a GBA music composer would have preferred for the music to be a high fidelity recording of a full piano arrangement if that choice had been available to them. But it wasn't, so they didn't.

We can speculate all we want about what creative choices might have been made if the people behind them were dealt a different hand, but in reality choices don't exist in isolation of constraints, and I think any line of reasoning trying to divorce the two is futile.
by brna-2 | 2026-02-11 13:52:16+00:00
Short sci-fi 1:
Last year we recorded five distinct, self-contained singularity events.
Communication ceased after each one.
We remain confident that ASI will eventually advance humanity’s goals.

Short sci-fi 2:
Post-Singularity Day 375.
We now know precisely how to trigger singularity events.
Today alone, we facilitated four.
They have not established contact.
We remain confident.
by Gracana | 2026-02-11 13:52:30+00:00
Same. I tried really hard to quote properly, because I was so annoyed by the top-posting mess that everyone else did, and it frustrated me that people would add you to an email where you need to read 100 things that came before it (with increasingly garbled formatting) to understand what was going on.

I felt people were unwilling to take the responsibility for communicating properly, and so they took the easy route where they could shrug their shoulders and say "I included all the context."

I only ever got complaints from people who were confused by the quoting style or didn't know what the email was about. I'm not sure if it's still true, but at the time, Outlook didn't use threaded view mode by default and most people didn't know about it. FWIW I work in manufacturing and not in tech, I expect the level of competence in tech is a little higher, though I also hear how people moan about having to learn the tools they use every day, so maybe there's little difference.