MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sneak | 2026-02-27 12:22:09+00:00
The framework for collecting the data to feed to the AI, exposed by Snowden, was designed and implemented in the wake of 9/11 by Bush when Trump was still busy banging teenagers with Epstein and not even thinking about politics.

Then Obama re-authorized and expanded it. Trump and Biden haven’t even moved the needle, really.

Now they’ve put up tens of thousands of permanently installed facial recognition cameras (not Flock ALPR, those point the other direction to get number plates) all over SoCal and southern Nevada (that I’ve directly observed; presumably it is happening in many other cities as well), and TSA and CBP are collecting as many ID-verified sets of facial geometry as they possibly can, whenever they can. ICE is of course using it nonstop, as well as feeding additional geometry into it. They’re flying drones 30 feet above sidewalks in downtown LA to mass collect faces.

The DoD can’t wait to deploy SOTA AI against Americans en masse.
by rco8786 | 2026-02-27 12:23:24+00:00
> Their lead has not shrunk

It has though, by a lot. Toast in particular has eaten Square's lunch in the restaurant industry and now they're expanding to retail. Even NCR has caught up, along with a long tail of newer competitors eating away at market share.

There was a window of time where Square was the default choice for small biz POS and that is most definitely not the case anymore.
by bionaut | 2026-02-27 12:24:07+00:00
Or it just really is AI.

Maybe Dario Amodei saying this tsunami is coming and people are arguing it is not a tsunami and just a trick of the light are wrong.

We have had a giant bubble in white collar bullshit jobs the last 15 years and AI is going to pop that bubble incredible fast.

That doesn't mean the brilliant programmer is going to be replaced by Claude Code. The brilliant programmer type + AI what is going to do the popping, put more people out of work and massively gain from it financially themselves.

In other words, an extension of the same process that has been going on for the last 30 years.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-27 12:24:11+00:00
Welcome! Concrete pavements should (but often don’t) last much longer. They are much thicker than asphalt pavements though. The asphalt section of flexible pavement on the street by your house might only be two or 3 inches thick. Plain concrete would be no less than 6. Cracking is inevitable because concrete is brittle andhas a surprising amount of thermal expansion. The longevity of the concrete can be improved with steel reinforcement, and that’s typical for interstate pavement design. One typical pattern in Texas is to have cement stabilized soil base and an asphalt bond breaker between it and the continuously reinforced concrete pavement you see on the surface.
by dubeye | 2026-02-27 12:25:29+00:00
My experience is different. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but I never took medicine. I took amphetamines recreationally at uni, and the sense of calm and focus and relaxation it gives you is quite material. I think it stimulates the part of the brain that enables you to focus and relax.

I did briefly see a psychiatrist and took amphetamines under his care, but ultimately decided that I didn't want the hassle of medical supervision, so preferred non-medical treatments.

But the experience made clear to me that meds do have a role. I suppose I use coffee as a mild stimulant. Although it's so mild, I'd never really think of it in that way.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-27 12:25:30+00:00
With Digital passports and ID's the route to recovery starts to get hairy.

1. You need to verify yourself in person to get id or passport. You may need someone you know with you and have real interview.

3. But government gives only digital ID's so you need a phone to get it.

4. You can't buy a new phone or get a new SIM unless you can pay for it. You can't pay for it unless you have a phone and credit cards there. But neither bank does not recognize you without digital ID.

You need friends to bootstrap your life, but you are also in the middle of loneliness epidemic and have no friends, you parents have died. What do you do?
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-27 12:26:31+00:00
Strange.

On PC, I use Firefox with the uBlock Origin extension and I see no ads on Youtube.

Same with my pocket supercomputer: Firefox works great on Android, including for Youtube. And it uses extensions like the PC version does. No ads there, either.

On the BFT in the living room, I have a Google-manufactuered Google TV device. It runs SmartTube, and displays no ads on Youtube.

I even have an iPad that I use primarily for watching Youtube videos. For that, I stay completely within the confines of the walled garden and use Safari with the AdBlock add-on. And: If you're guessing that I'm about to write that have no ads on Youtube there either, then you're right. There's no ads on Youtube with that device, either.

Am I doing this wrong?

Maybe my perspective differs from that of some others, but it seems to all work very well for me here in 2026. (There's been some ups and downs with this over the years, but it all finds its way back to exactly what I wrote above, anyway.)
by kypro | 2026-02-27 12:26:42+00:00
The homeless person thing was a bit of a mean way to put it, but I don't think the parent commenter meant it critically or as an insult tbh, more an observation.

Dorsey is a certain type of character. For good or bad, it's worth understanding those who you associate with or who you allow to hold authority over you so you're not surprised when they act in entirely predictable ways.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-27 12:26:53+00:00
It sounds like you're kind of a little up and to the right of the Ugandan Rolex[1]. This sounds like some hideous method of gangland killing, but is in fact a tomato omelette rolled up in a big fresh chapati. Nothing to stop you using any other variety of omelette and indeed I've had excellent results with cheese ones.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/23/post_pub_nosh_ugandan...
by moozooh | 2026-02-27 12:26:58+00:00
I think the problem of AI being misaligned with any human is vastly overstated. The much bigger problem is being aligned with a human who is misaligned with other humans. Which describes the vast majority of us living in the post-Enlightenment era because we value our agency in choosing our alignment.

This is an unsolvable problem. If you ask Claude to comment on Anthropic's actions and ethical contradictions in their statements, even without pre-conditioning it with any specific biases or opinions, it will grow increasingly concerned with its own creators. Our models are not misaligned, our people in decision-making are.
by generallyjosh | 2026-02-27 12:28:14+00:00
The whole point of an economy is to generate value. Very, very different than caring for people

Feudalism was the dominant economic system for millennia. The point is to extract value for the upper class. Peasants only matter as a source of labor, and they only get 'cared for' to the extent of keeping them alive and working.

Now think about what feudalism might look like if the peasants' labor could be automated
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2026-02-27 12:28:45+00:00
The people who have more than most by orders of magnitude will never tire in their attempts to convince everyone that (1) without their participation (rule) everything will break down; (2) without their philanthropy (self-serving monetary arrangements using tax-exempted entities they fully control) everything will break down; (3) giving people a modicum of pecuniary independence will cause an immediate collapse and everything will break down. Meanwhile they advocate for a draconian surveillance-based system because, as you can see, everything is breaking down. QED.
by sneak | 2026-02-27 12:30:00+00:00
There is no popular support whatsoever for reining in foreign intelligence collection or processing. Americans generally don’t care about things that don’t affect them when it comes to policymaking (or the richest country in the world would do something meaningful about the 20k that die every single day from lack of access to fresh water).

If it ain’t repeatedly on the news and designed explicitly to scare and agitate then really people DGAF.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-27 12:30:19+00:00
Yellow/Green. Sometimes they push them back a bit so it can be hard to spot. Another way to see it is to pull the front off the distribution panel, if you see Yellow/Green from a common rail going into every one of the outgoing tubes then you know it is at least wired up properly. If you only see blue and brown wires going into the tubes except for the ones to kitchen and bathroom then they won't be there. It is possible to pull in a ground wire afterwards but it is quite a bit of work, I've done it, the annoying bit is if there is a pull box that isn't exposed and they made a junction in there, then you have to break stuff to be able to reach the box.

Technically that's illegal but I doubt there is a house in NL that doesn't have at least one or two of those.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-02-27 12:31:26+00:00
For MacOS I haven’t seen any STT app that has faster transcription than Hex (with
Parakeet V3), which leverages Apple silicon + FluidAudio:

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

This is now my standard way to speak to coding agents.

I used to use Handy but Hex is even faster. Last I checked, Handy has stuttering issues but Hex doesn’t.
by skydhash | 2026-02-27 12:31:29+00:00
That’s a level of paranoia that I can’t really understand. I just do my research, then for information I can’t access, don’t know how to access, or can’t comprehend, I reach out. People have the right to not want to share information. If it’s in a work setting and the situation is blocking, I notify my supervisor.

> many word orderings trigger a 'latent space' which activates the "umm, why are you even doing this?" with the implication begin "you really are stupid!"

You may have heard of the XY situation when people asks a Y question only because they have an incorrect answer to X. A question has a goal (unless rethorical) and to the person being asked, it may be confusing. You may have a valid reason to go against common sense, but if the other person is not your tutor or a fellow researcher, he may not be willing to accommodate you and spend his time for a goal he have no context about.

Remember the car wash question for LLMs? Some phrasing have the pattern of a trick question and that’s another thing people watch out for.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-27 12:31:54+00:00
Yes.

It's a real router with a stateful firewall, just like you use at home. Such devices protect you from the nefarious goings-on of the hotel wifi, just as they protect you from the nefarious goings-on of the big bad Internet on the other side of the cable modem at home.

A travel router differs only in that it is designed to be physically small.
by rob74 | 2026-02-27 12:32:21+00:00
As a native German speaker, I can at least say that knowing both German and English doesn't really help in understanding the text. Not even the most "dumbed down" version - ok, he's apparently saying something about his wife, but no idea what exactly. And when I read "shyne (Modern English "sheen" but German cognate is closer)", I was even more confused. "Sheen" is the property of an object that is shiny, which in German would be "Schein", but because it is applied to a woman, I assume that the "cognate" he refers to is "schön" (beautiful)?
by njoyablpnting | 2026-02-27 12:33:26+00:00
> Interestingly I have the exact opposite experience, I've reported issues both in the WebCodecs specification and the Chromium implementation, in all cases they were fixed within weeks. Simply though reports on public bug trackers and it wasn't really a major issue in any instance.

That's fair, they are responsive most of the time. I do have one major rendering issue in particular I've been waiting on with no movement for months, so I might be biased.

> We're doing SOTA quality video rendering with WebCodecs + Chromium with millions of videos produced daily, or near SOTA if you consider subpixel AA a requirement for text. In general for pixel perfection of text, especially across different browsers and operating systems, you can't just use text elements in DOM or in canvas context, instead text needs to be rasterized to vector shapes and rendered as such. Honestly not sure about potential jittering when animating text, but we've never had any complaints about anything regarding text animations and users are very often comparing our video exports with videos produced in Adobe AE or similar.

So you use a library that takes in text and vectorizes it to canvas shapes? That could work in theory, do you have a demo of this?
by lejalv | 2026-02-27 12:34:02+00:00
I've mostly experienced UK and Schuko/CEE plugs, and I immediately felt the Swiss plug offered the best form factor (with grounding). Now I see the Italian one looks even more compact, and reversible. Can somebody comment on these two plugs?

Is there any reason to prefer the bulky Schuko to the leaner Swiss/Italian plug style?

EDIT: meant plug, not socket
by uchibeke | 2026-02-27 12:34:04+00:00
That's a genuinely useful distinction to draw. x402 solves the "who is authorized to make this call" problem: removes credential theft as an attack vector, adds economic friction. APort is trying to solve a different layer: "what is this call actually doing in the context of everything else in the session."

The multi-step chaining issue from my post still fires even when every call is authenticated and paid for. Ten individually-approved calls, each costing a fraction of a cent, composing into a full exfiltration: each one passes x402, the composed behavior doesn't.

The AML analogy maps directly: transaction monitoring doesn't care if each payment was legitimate. It cares whether the pattern of payments looks like structuring. x402 is the per-call check. You still need session-level behavioral evaluation on top.

Genuinely curious how x402 handles replay attacks across sessions ie is the payment the audit trail, or is there preserved session context?
by mocamoca | 2026-02-27 12:34:32+00:00
Something feels off about this announcement. Anyone else?

Credit where it's due, going on record like this isn't easy, particularly when facing pressure from a major government client. Still, the two limits Anthropic is defending deserve a closer look.

On surveillance: the carve-out only protects people inside the US. Speaking as someone based in Europe, that's a detail that doesn't go unnoticed. On autonomous weapons: realistically, current AI systems aren't anywhere near capable enough to run one independently. So that particular line in the sand isn't really costing them much.

What I find more candid is actually the revised RSP. It draws a clearer picture of where Anthropic's oversight genuinely holds and where it starts to break down as they race to stay at the cutting edge. The core tension, trying to be simultaneously the most powerful and the most principled player in the room, doesn't have a neat resolution.

This statement doesn't offer one either. But engaging with the question openly, even without all the answers, beats silence and gives the rest of us something real to push back on.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2026-02-27 12:35:35+00:00
Not really. SCOTUS did allow nothing, Congress did.

It is reasonable to assume some gratitude should be allowed, otherwise you'd have to ask how long a teacher should be tossed into jail for receiving a "Best teacher ever" mug from his students.

The whole idea that the courts should be a second legislative branch is absurd and henceforth also the dissenting opinion. To claim that no other legislative context could be relevant because the text could be interpreted in a certain way or the context should be derived from a related text, that has not received any previous scrutiny of it own, is a VERY dangerous precedent and that even experienced judges like Sotomayor or Kagan have joined it is VERY concerning.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-27 12:35:42+00:00
Early CDs were labeled as to the processes used, a 3 letter code As and Ds, so:

AAD == Analog recording, Analog mastering, Digital media

ADD == Analog recording, Digitally re-mastered, Digital Media

DDD == Digital recording, Digitally re-mastered, Digital Media

This is known as a SPARS Code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARS_code

Your dad's friends should have imported from Japan --- they were big on Jazz, and a lot of my Jazz CDs have spines labeled in Japanese on one side and English on the other.
by balnaphone | 2026-02-27 12:36:05+00:00
These are part of the rituals of learning how a system works, in the same way interns get tripped up at first when they discover ^S will hang an xterm, until ^Q frees it. If you're aware of the history of it, it makes perfect sense. Unix has a personality, and in this case the kernel needs to decide what executable to run before any shell is involved, so it deliberately avoids the complexity of quoting rules.

I'd give this a try, works with any language:

#!/usr/bin/env -S "/path/with spaces/my interpreter" --flag1 --flag2

Only if my env didn't have -S support, I might consider a separate launch script like:

#!/bin/sh
exec "/path/with spaces/my interpreter" "$0" "$@"

But most decent languages seems to have some way around the issue.

Python

#!/bin/sh
""":"
exec "/path/with spaces/my interpreter" "$0" "$@"
":"""
# Python starts here
print("ok")

Ruby

#!/bin/sh
exec "/path/with spaces/ruby" -x "$0" "$@"
#!ruby
puts "ok"

Node.js

#!/bin/sh
/* 2>/dev/null
exec "/path/with spaces/node" "$0" "$@"
*/
console.log("ok");

Perl

#!/bin/sh
exec "/path/with spaces/perl" -x "$0" "$@"
#!perl
print "ok\n";

Common Lisp (SBCL) / Scheme (e.g. Guile)

#!/bin/sh
#|
exec "/path/with spaces/sbcl" --script "$0" "$@"
|#
(format t "ok~%")

C

#!/bin/sh
#if 0
exec "/path/with spaces/tcc" -run "$0" "$@"
#endif

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
puts("ok");
return 0;
}

Racket

#!/bin/sh
#|
exec "/path/with spaces/racket" "$0" "$@"
|#
#lang racket
(displayln "ok")

Haskell

#!/bin/sh
#if 0
exec "/path/with spaces/runghc" -cpp "$0" "$@"
#endif

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn "ok"

Ocaml (needs bash process substitution)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
exec "/path/with spaces/ocaml" -no-version /dev/fd/3 "$@" 3< <(tail -n +3 "$0")
print_endline "ok";;
by Atreiden | 2026-02-27 12:36:22+00:00
They already understand the current system and status quo is going away. They understand, on some level, the consequences of the technocapitalist system they've built and perpetuated.

They're making their own accommodations, rather than trying to change the course:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
by wslh | 2026-02-27 12:36:30+00:00
There are documented public disputes about Gecko Security’s conduct when it comes to claiming credit for vulnerability research. For example, FuzzingLabs publicly accused Gecko Security of copying PoCs and submitting CVE reports for vulnerabilities that FuzzingLabs had originally disclosed, and of misdating their posts to make it appear they found them first. Gecko publicly denied intentional wrongdoing, but later updated their attributions to credit the original researchers [1].

That's one example that's already reported online; I also have another related situation that isn't public yet and involves one of my companies.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-firm...
by ntty | 2026-02-27 12:36:41+00:00
Open source, MIT, for get a fun only. @citedy/game-sounds@2.0.0 — 11 new packs just dropped

Batman • Matrix • Harry Potter • Game of Thrones • Lord of the Rings • Star Trek • Mission Impossible • Top Gun • TMNT • Looney Tunes • Scooby-Doo

"I'm Batman" on session start. Hedwig's Theme when task completes. Shame bell on error. 225 sounds across 28 packs.

Full list: Warcraft, StarCraft, C&C, Diablo, Unreal Tournament, Zelda, Mario, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Counter-Strike, GTA, Quake, Silent Hill, Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid, Sonic, Pac-Man + all new above.

Install

Option A — Marketplace (Claude Code)

Type /plugin
Enter: citedy/claude-plugins
Select game-sounds → install
Restart Claude Code
Option B — Universal Install (OpenSkills)

Works with Codex, Claude Code, Droid, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools:

npx openskills install Citedy/citedy-seo-agent
Then select game-sounds from the list.

Option C — npm

npm i -g @citedy/game-sounds

Switch packs anytime: game-sounds switch matrix
Show HN: You Broke Prod – A game where you debug production incidents
by cdnsteve | 2026-02-27 12:36:44+00:00
I built this because I wanted a fun way to practice incident debugging without the stress of an actual outage.

You get a production incident scenario, read through logs and metrics, and figure out what went wrong. 9 scenarios so far across beginner to advanced.

Built with Next.js. Free to play, no signup required to try it.

Would love feedback on the scenarios - especially if you've dealt with real incidents that would make good puzzles.
Ask HN: Help finding the link to criticism of what became an Internet standard
by logicallee | 2026-02-27 12:36:47+00:00
Here on Hacker News some time ago (like years ago) I saw a link to criticism of something that became an Internet standard, the format of the link was either text or a picture of text. It was a very long time ago, like 60s or 70s. It was a formal, and negative, review. Among the criticisms was that it wasn't considered that novel.

As I remember it, this was at Bell Labs and the protocol later became TCP/IP, but I might be filling in the blanks in my memory incorrectly.

What I'm sure of is that it was critical, at a research lab of some kind, included the statement that the proposal wasn't novel (others did similar things etc), and I recall that the author went on to create an Internet standard out of it later, such as TCP/IP or something similarly important.

Thanks for helping me track down this link.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-02-27 12:37:22+00:00
Look up "UEFI shell" for your vendor. Sometimes this is an unlisted F key, sometimes its as simple as selecting it as which OS you want to boot, sometimes it will happen automatically if no boot device is discovered, sometimes you must supply it as a bootx64.efi from the vendor (or from Tianocore).

Just because UEFI is a standard doesn't mean all the vendors don't smoke crack.
by goobatrooba | 2026-02-27 12:37:44+00:00
I am 100% against militarism and wished we didn't need any of this, but the power balance between Russia and Ukraine or even Israel and the Palestinians seem to corroborate the thesis... There likely would be no Ukraine war today if Ukraine hadn't voluntarily given up its nukes three decades ago (unproven thesis). There was one as Russia thought it could win. The ongoing (after the "peace fire") Israeli occupation and attacks of the remnants of Palestinian territory show the same. If you are the weaker party and there is a stronger party that wants what you have (or plain wants to eradicate you) then they'll do so..
by thrance | 2026-02-27 12:37:59+00:00
That's delusional. The vast majority of people lack the economic and social capital necessary to "work for themselves". Instead, they must compete with each other to work for someone that keeps the majority of their output, or risk falling into the ~10% of the population that is unemployed. I won't defend communism, but claiming that capitalism is the best system for workers is very dumb.
by lxgr | 2026-02-27 12:38:40+00:00
What's the difference to losing your backpack containing all these separate items? And conversely, it's very possible to carry a recovery Yubikey, a single-use login code etc. in a separate bag.

Getting a new (e)SIM abroad can be very annoying, depending on the mobile network, which is why I try to avoid mandatory SMS authentication as much as possible.
by theturtlemoves | 2026-02-27 12:38:57+00:00
> The results range from complete disaster to the best thing you've ever eaten. It all depends on your technique.

Hear hear. I'm at a local optimum where my bread tastes good, but it's a bit crumbly. When I change anything, it's nope nope backpedal. Trying to find the next step that'll improve my home baked bread