MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by regnull | 2026-02-11 02:17:09+00:00
The subject appears to be a single individual of medium to stocky build. Based on
proportions relative to the archway and Nest doorbell mount height, the individual is
estimated at approximately 5’8” to 6’0” tall. Their build is medium to heavy-set, with solid
shoulders and torso. The overall physique and movement patterns suggest a male or
masculine-presenting adult, likely between 20–45 years of age.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-11 02:18:00+00:00
You give way too much credit to the average mid level developer at BigTech. A lot of the scalability is built in and they just built on top of it.

There are millions of people that can code as well as you are I and a lot cheaper if you are in the US. Thousands of developers have been laid off over the last three years and tech companies keep going strong - what does that tell you?

I’m just as happy to get away from writing for loops in 2026 as was to be able to get away with LDA, LDX and BRA instructions once I could write performant code in C.

And how are we robbing future generations? Because some of us (not that I can take credit for any of it) move the state of technology from the 1Mhz Apple //e I had in 1986?
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-11 02:18:24+00:00
Yes, this is the problem. They tout this new latest and greatest extension that fixes and simplifies a lot, yet you go look up the extension on vulkan.gpuinfo.org and see ... currently 0.3% of all devices support it. Which means you can't in any way use it. So you wait 5 years, and now maybe 20% of devices support it. Then you wait another 5 years, and maybe 75% of devices support it. And maybe you can get away with limiting your code to running on 75% of devices. Or, you wait another 5 years to get into the 90s.
by taftster | 2026-02-11 02:18:44+00:00
I mean, that's fair. I guess I just wanted to put my old man hat on. The song is a tribute to an era of lost innocence. Which I think is quite apropos to the current situation surrounding telnet. Vestiges of the days of the early internet continue to disappear, almost like an endangered species. Old/obsolete protocols, like telnet, are pined for by old guys like me.
by themaninthedark | 2026-02-11 02:18:46+00:00
I did not realize that we invited "nobodies" to speak at the convention; I can tell how shunned he was based on the Wikipedia page:

>Third night (Wednesday, August 21: A Fight for Our Freedoms)

>The third night was emceed by actress Mindy Kaling, featuring performances by Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Sheila E and Maren Morris. Vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered his acceptance speech. Pete Buttigieg also spoke.

>It was confirmed that Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to speak. The evening was headlined by Walz and Clinton.

Headline - verb - to be engaged as a leading performer in (as in show or performance)

>Clinton left office in 2001 with the joint-highest approval rating of any U.S. president.
-Also Wikipedia

Yes, at this moment the current POTUS is more relevant. At the time however, both Trump and Clinton were both "Some nobody with secret service protection" with the only difference between them being one was running for his second term and the other was not.

>Democrats seem to want the files about him to be released.
Everyone wants the files released and those responsible prosecuted...until they are the ones with the files. Then there are all sorts of hints and allegations that their opposition is featured heavily but no charges brought.

It's really sick, there are real people with lives who have been ruined. Committed suicide because of what happened to them and yet all those with the power to act just talk, be it democrats or republicans.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-11 02:19:32+00:00
Well as depressing as it is, check out the 2024 and 2025 YC batches. Guess how many of them are “ai” something or other? It’s never been about “hackers”. Not a single founder who takes VC funding is thinking about a sustainable business - at least their investors aren’t - they are hoping for the “exit”.

It’s always been jello. I at 51 can wax poetically about the good old days or I can keep doing what I need to do to keep money appearing in my account.
by lll-o-lll | 2026-02-11 02:20:57+00:00
I think you would enjoy (and possibly have your mind blown) this series of videos by the “Rebel Mathematician” Prof Norman Wildburger. https://youtu.be/XoTeTHSQSMU

He constructs “true” complex numbers, generalises them over finite and unbounded fields, and demonstrates how they somewhat naturally arise from 2x2 matrices in linear algebra.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-11 02:21:08+00:00
I like this theory of paying taxes is a felony, tell me more!!

Levity aside, working on a tourist visa is a violation but generally isn't prosecuted as a felony.

Also the grandparent post said "They seized a white Irishman last October who had a valid work permit and was just about to head to his green card interview."

If he had a valid work permit I suppose this means that he was allowed to work and pay taxes on that work, in other words - no, he was not committing a felony.
by opello | 2026-02-11 02:21:12+00:00
> misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture. The same is said of Hitchcock, (as an example) and his behaviour was unacceptable by todays standards. We've come some way from that but still a way to go.

The video actually addresses this very point in the first few minutes:

> the second component of the Feynman lifestyle that the Feynman bro has to follow, you know as told in this book, is that women are inherently inferior to you and if you want to be the smartest big boy physicist in the room you need to make sure they know that I think people are sometimes shocked to hear this like that that exists in this book especially because as I said if you were a precocious teenager interested in physics people shoved this book at you they just put it into your hands like oh you want to be a physicist here's the coolest physicist ever

> I feel like it's at this point in the video when like Mr. Cultural Relativism is going to show up in the comments and be like how dare you judge people from the past on their actions that's not fair things were different back then women liked when men lied to them and pretended to be an undergrad so that-- it was fine back then it was fine and I just, no, actually this book was published 40 years ago which is just not that long ago Richard Feynman should have known that women were people 40 years ago like absolutely not it's not "how things were back then" what's wrong with you people, no, it's inappropriate then it's inappropriate now

Later the actual author, Ralph Leighton, of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is mentioned so perhaps the responsibility for what was included is his more than Feynman's. I think the criticism stands that the degree of sexism effectively celebrated by inclusion was certainly less culturally accepted in 1985 when the book was published than when the events occurred, and that's the point of raising the issue of why was it judged as good and proper to include this marginalizing anecdotes when his actual contributions to physics and teaching were worthy of celebration.
by misir | 2026-02-11 02:21:59+00:00
That’s something LLMs are also presumably good at. At least I’m seeing more and more push to use LLMs at work for ambitious business requirements instead of learning about the problem we’ve been dealing with. Instead of knowing why you are doing what you’re doing, now people are just asking LLMs for specific answers and move on.

Sure some might use it to learn as well, but it’s not necessary and people just yolo the first answer claude gives to them.
by tekacs | 2026-02-11 02:22:25+00:00
To those wondering about their rationale for this.

It would be great if the HN title could be changed to something more like, 'OpenAI requiring ID verification for access to 5.3-codex'?

> Thank you all for reporting this issue. Here's what's going on.

> This rerouting is related to our efforts to protect against cyber abuse. The gpt-5.3-codex model is our most cyber-capable reasoning model to date. It can be used as an effective tool for cyber defense applications, but it can also be exploited for malicious purposes, and we take safety seriously. When our systems detect potential cyber activity, they reroute to a different, less-capable reasoning model. We're continuing to tune these detection mechanisms. It is important for us to get this right, especially as we prepare to make gpt-5.3-codex available to API users.

> Refer to this article for additional information. You can go to chatgpt.com/cyber to verify and regain gpt-5.3-codex access. We plan to add notifications in all of our Codex surfaces (TUI, extension, app, etc.) to make users aware that they are being rerouted due to these checks and provide a link to our “Trusted Access for Cyber” flow.

> We also plan to add a dedicated button in our /feedback flow for reporting false positive classifications. In the meantime, please use the "Bug" option to report issues of this type. Filing bugs in the Github issue tracker is not necessary for these issues.
by sporkl | 2026-02-11 02:22:42+00:00
The framework used in the book, malt[0], is currently not GPU-accelerated, but it's being worked on.

Maybe interesting, I used it for a toy implementation of the GPT architecture[1] in about 500 lines.

(I studied with one of the authors, Dr. Daniel Friedman; wasn't super involved here but proofread a late draft and TA'd for a course based off the book.)

[0]: https://github.com/themetaschemer/malt

[1]: https://github.com/sporkl/malt-transformer
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 02:22:58+00:00
> similar to Waymo

> taking a page out of Waymo’s book

> something that [...] Waymo has already deployed

> one thing that Tesla is taking from Waymo’s approach

> interesting to learn the level of teleoperation Tesla plans to deploy

Basically, this article you linked is reporting only on a job description. The job posting is for an engineer, not a teleoperator! The job posting touts the VR environment that will be used to "drive requirements", not vehicles! What company would hire a highly-skilled and credentialed engineer to be a drone pilot? It is absurd.

The general public may not fully understand this nuance. The entire point of autonomous operation is to remove humans from the decision loop and permit the machine to use its own sensors to make rapid decisions in real-time. As autonomy is refined, remote operators will intervene less and less. And as sensors are refined, humans will have less insight than the AI onboard, due to our inability to directly process those signals.

The author does not know "what level" of teleops Tesla wants to implement. But why even attempt to implement FSD or top-level autonomy, if your operators are doing the driving anyway?

This would never scale. We already discussed the incident where Waymo's disengagement overwhelmed their remote techs and it was an undesirable edge-case. In order to operate a robotaxi fleet, the disengages and takeovers need to be safe, legal, and rare.
by mmh0000 | 2026-02-11 02:23:44+00:00
There are many things I want to say in reply to this. So I’ll bullet point them:

* yes, do not buy equipment that has acquired so much tech debt that it still requires telnet.

* there are a million telnet clients out in the world. And ones far better than the default OS one. Apple not shipping one standard is not the end of the world or really anything more than a mild inconvenience for the small handful of people who need actual “Telnet” as opposed to Netcat or socat, both of which are far better than base Telnet.
by mptest | 2026-02-11 02:23:52+00:00
Luckily I am US based, but unfortunately looks like there's no way out of the developer grind for a few years.

I have presentation skills and plenty of soft skills but no experience building complex b2b systems. I've, for many a year, done a very basic version of my understanding of the role for non profits, business and individuals. designed technical solutions of all sorts but mostly just met their needs with existing software along with education.

I was hoping I could enter straight into customer facing roles but I suppose I was simply really holding out hope I could avoid what I've heard called, so lovingly, "the code mines". Any further suggestions would be greatly welcome.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond and offer this wisdom.
by parsimo2010 | 2026-02-11 02:24:15+00:00
Cigarette companies were not penalized for making addictive drugs or doing generally immoral but technically legal things. They were penalized because the USA had set a minimum age for smoking cigarettes, and they were marketing directly to people who could not legally buy their products, and there was conclusive proof that they were targeting minors with their ads.

The DIRECT comparison from my previous comment would be if a country set a legal age requirement for accessing social media, and then you could hold the social media companies if they continued marketing to them. But for now, no such law exists in the USA. Social media has not been regulated like tobacco, because Congress has abdicated its responsibility to regulate these companies.
by gruez | 2026-02-11 02:24:57+00:00
>Here’s the link again for anyone else who completely missed it:

Going through the links you provided:

[0] Berry 2025: the in vitro study from OP that I mentioned earlier

[1] Witkowski 2023: the 2023 cohort study that I mentioned earlier

[2] Witkowski 2024: study that found ingesting erythritol "enhances platelet reactivity in healthy volunteers". It doesn't attempt to prove that it actually causes negative health outcomes, but it does speculate that "may enhance thrombosis potential". I'm not sure how reliable that speculation is, given that the study doesn't say (at least in the abstract) whether "platelet reactivity" is an accepted proxy for thrombosis" (eg. similar to cholesterol is an accepted proxy for CVD). It concludes "discussion of whether erythritol should be reevaluated as a food additive with the Generally Recognized as Safe designation is warranted". Again, at best this is consistent with "there's a consensus that we should look into erythritol", not "there's a consensus that erythritol is harmful"

[3] This is just a blog that links to Witkowski 2024.

So in conclusion, you have 1 cohort study, 1 in vitro study, and 1 in-vivo study. I await your "dozens" of studies.

>You’re really leaning hard into the sea-lioning trope.

So what's the implication here? That anyone can make spurious claims about there being a "medical consensus" on some controversial topic, drop a few studies, and then when there's people pushing back denounce them as "sea-lioning"? If we adopted this attitude we'd still be proclaiming that there was a "medical consensus" that ivermectin cured covid, and I can actually turn up more than 3 studies for that[1].

[1] https://c19early.org/imeta.html
Show HN: Yes, I'm building an AI directory in 2026
by HenryZheng99 | 2026-02-11 02:25:23+00:00
It’s 2026. Is anyone still building AI directories? Apparently, I am.

This space was "over" a year ago, but I finally built my own: aiboom.tools. I've wanted to do this for a long time.

Budget is ready for the DR grind.

Free submissions are open. If you have a clean site or blog, let’s swap links.
by Jtsummers | 2026-02-11 02:25:44+00:00
I think you're overstating the difficulty of Seasoned and Reasoned, both are comfortably undergraduate texts (though Reasoned is a challenging text if it's your first time with that style of programming). We used to teach Seasoned to high school students (advanced high school students, but I'd put them on par with motivated 1st/2nd year college students not more advanced than that). I'd agree with the other three, though, they are advanced texts.
by emilianosolazzi | 2026-02-11 02:25:52+00:00
Quick clarification on what this DOES and DOESN'T do:

DOES NOT: Make Bitcoin consensus quantum-secure
- On-chain, your TX is still 100% BIP-340 Schnorr
- A quantum attacker who breaks secp256k1 could still spend on-chain
- This is NOT a consensus change proposal

DOES: Provide quantum resistance at the wallet/custody layer
- Defence-in-depth: Attacker needs BOTH your Schnorr key AND your PQ key
- Quantum insurance: If Bitcoin soft-forks to PQ, your PQ attestations prove ownership
- "Harvest now" resistance: Recording your transactions today doesn't help future decryption
- Policy enforcement: Custody can require dual-sig validation before broadcast

The security gap this addresses:

Standard Taproot:
- Quantum security: ~0 bits (Shor's algorithm breaks ECDLP)
- Current estimates: 2330 logical qubits needed, achievable 2030-2040+

PQ-PSBT Hybrid (wallet layer):
- ML-DSA-65: ~128-bit post-quantum (NIST Level III)
- ML-DSA-87: ~192-bit post-quantum (NIST Level V)
- Falcon-512: ~103-bit post-quantum (NIST Level I)
- Falcon-1024: ~230-bit post-quantum (NIST Level V)

Threat model improvement:
- Classical attacker today: 0× (secp256k1 already secure)
- Quantum attacker (on-chain): 0× (consensus still Schnorr)
- Quantum attacker (wallet/custody): ∞ (goes from ~0-bit to 128-230-bit)
- Soft-fork migration: Priceless (cryptographic ownership proof)

Technical achievements:
- 136/136 tests passing - BIP-341 compliance, 4 PQ algorithms, security
- Real crypto: coincurve (libsecp256k1), bech32, pqcrypto (NIST C)
- Zero mocks, full BIP-341 sighash implementation

Performance:
- ML-DSA-65: 0.5ms sign, 3,309B sigs
- Falcon-512: 3.2ms sign, 657B sigs

Built this to answer:
1. What's the real integration cost? (Answer: ~0.5-3ms overhead)
2. Is wallet-level PQ enforcement viable? (Answer: Yes, today)
3. Could this inform future Bitcoin soft-forks? (Answer: Reference impl)

Not seeking funding. Looking for:
- Cryptographic review
- Academic collaboration
- Performance feedback

The "harvest now, decrypt later" threat is real - this is one approach
to quantum insurance while Bitcoin consensus evolves.

Happy to answer questions.
by AnonHP | 2026-02-11 02:26:28+00:00
So Telnet as a client is not dead though, right? A long time ago, I used to use the Telnet client to talk to SMTP servers (on port 25) and send spoofed emails to friends for fun.

With port blocking widening in scope, I’ve long believed that we would one day have every service and protocol listening on port 443. Since all other ports are being knocked off in the name of security, we’ll end up having one port that makes port based filtering useless.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-11 02:28:02+00:00
> yes, do not buy equipment that has acquired so much tech debt that it still requires telnet.

No, you already own this capital equipment. It's the laptops running macOS that are ephemeral and disposable.

I don't care for excuses or workarounds; why did they do it?

It was an explicit decision whilst leaving a lot more—arguably more useless—garbage in.

Every OS that removed telnet did so for a symbolic reason, not because it was helpful technically.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-11 02:28:19+00:00
if only they had killed the Americans without harming them, but I think it was a step too far to harm the Americans and Kill them! That's rude. How many Americans did each of these millions of Illegal Aliens Harm and Kill, I'm guessing at least two due to the plural usage and there are millions of the Illegal Aliens therefore there are at least two million.

This means that the Illegal Aliens have evidently harmed and killed at least 4 million Americans.

I'm not gonna sugar-coat it here, that is a lot of harming and killing alright.
by kevinfiol | 2026-02-11 02:28:47+00:00
At least in the U.S., from my observations, it's mainly a right-wing phenomenon and borne from the same culture that brought us the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Hal Turner. As a teenager, my friends and I would laugh at this stuff and assume by the time we were having kids, Fox News and similar right-wing, vaguely racist, puritanical media would be diminished to a point where it was hardly noticeable. We were clearly very wrong.
by ajross | 2026-02-11 02:29:24+00:00
None of this affects the use of telnet the client program nor the ability to run a telnetd on your own host (but do be sure it's patched!).

What's happened is that global routing on the internet (or big chunks of it, it's not really clear) has started blocking telnet's default port to protect presumably-unpatched/unpatchable dinosaur systems from automated attack. So you can no longer (probably) rely on getting to a SMTP server to deliver that spoofed email unless you can do it from its own local environment.
by kaicianflone | 2026-02-11 02:30:31+00:00
This is interesting. I’m experimenting with something adjacent in an open source plugin, but focused less on orchestration and more on decision quality.

Instead of just wiring agents together, I require stake and structured review around outputs. The idea is simple: coordination without cost trends toward noise.

Curious how entire.io thinks about incentives and failure modes as systems scale.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-11 02:31:19+00:00
I am bored to tears by this and it is simultaneously heart-breaking. My MD friend wasted $100K on MicroStrategy, ignoring my advice when he asked for it a couple months ago, and he's like "It's fine I'm not 65." and then proceeded to explain he absolutely should hold it because Trump will add it to Bitcoin strategic reserve.

Been following the market for 30 years and I've never seen loss per share > $10. They lost $42/share. Didn't make a dent in our conversation, I think he just ignored it twice.
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-11 02:31:29+00:00
I... What?

This is literally the definition of selfish? You see what you must give up for the sake of someone else (children), see the lack of support you will receive, and decide that you don't want to make that exchange.

That's literally a selfish decision, because you are deciding you want to keep that energy and those resources for yourself.

It's not inherently bad to make that decision, but it absolutely is selfish.
by SR2Z | 2026-02-11 02:31:35+00:00
A large part of why the government has slowly accumulated these powers is because Congress has been abdicating its power to the President under both Republican and Democratic administrations since the early 1900s.

The first change I would make with a majority in Congress is to change apportionment so that there is 1 representative per 50,000 people. All it needs is a simple majority, and it would neuter the rural-area advantage in the electoral college while also forcing the legislature to streamline its processes.

Texas will undoubtably try to gerrymander itself into a pretzel, but it's not nearly as easy to draw 582 stable districts that produce a huge Republican advantage - a minor demographic shift could easily lead to a backfiring blowout at the polls. With 6,835 seats in the House, Congress would be forced to streamline its procedures (goodbye, filibuster and reconciliation) and it would be significantly harder for the executive branch to ignore public disapproval.

Of course, this represents a ~15x dilution in the power of each current representative (who would then have to run in a new district) so I'm skeptical. Hopefully enough Democrats have woken up and realized that the country won't survive if it keeps going on like this and deep reforms are needed.
by Isamu | 2026-02-11 02:32:04+00:00
Apropos of Feynman on computing, the story of his time working at Thinking Machines Corp
https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...

“For our first seminar he invited John Hopfield, a friend of his from CalTech, to give us a talk on his scheme for building neural networks. In 1983, studying neural networks was about as fashionable as studying ESP, so some people considered John Hopfield a little bit crazy. Richard was certain he would fit right in at Thinking Machines Corporation.”