MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tflinton | 2026-02-11 16:41:46+00:00
How does this differ from what Github Copilot does when writing its .github/copilot-instructions.md? That doesn't keep the transcript or prompts, but it does keep quite a bit of the context and a declarative state of the decisions/design considerations made so another AI bot can pickup and have enough context to understand the rationale. I'm also not really convinced that any AI agent wouldn't still parse the code to understand more about the context vs. just using the checkpoint.
by boringg | 2026-02-11 16:41:58+00:00
Thats true - and I noticed that (but I wanted clarity from shots fired). Though the other follow on comments are interesting - say I may or may not endorse by how I wrote it, that my grammar/punctuation (it was just a fast cut copy) makes it look like i'm endorsing.

My comment is a non statement but people are clearly riled up these days.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-11 16:42:25+00:00
This is state by state, city by city. In some places, a mayor has broad powers over agencies, taxes, etc. That isn't quite the case in NYC. It's up to the state to delegate these powers, just as the federal government delegates powers to the states.

NYC is explicitly restricted (relative to other cities in NY) by the state in terms of what it can do. It can't independently pass its own tax laws (in many cases, at least), which other cities can, for example. Multiple agencies that would often be municipal are handled by the state or require state approval/ explicit delegation.

The city also gets exceptions for more power, including taxation powers. It's all case by case.

The NYC mayor's powers are complex for this reason. On the one hand, no one cares much about other mayors, so you have a ton of political power. On the other hand, you're not exactly empowered to do a lot without asking someone else to sign off.
by Havoc | 2026-02-11 16:42:25+00:00
> which begs the question: what else is censored or outright changed intentionally?

So like every other frontier model that has post training to add safeguards in accordance with local norms.

Claude won't help you hotwire a car. Gemini won't write you erotic novels. GPT won't talk about suicide or piracy. etc etc

>This is a classic test

It's a gotcha question with basic zero real world relevance

I'd prefer models to be uncensored too because it does harm overall performance but this is such a non-issue in practice
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-11 16:42:57+00:00
> I mean get onboard or fall behind, that's the situation we're all in. It can also be exciting.

I am aware of a large company that everyone in the US has heard of, planning on laying off 30% of their devs shortly because they expect a 30% improvement in "productivity" from the remaining dev team.

Exciting indeed. Imagine all the divorces that will fall out of this! Hopefully the kids will be ok, daddy just had an accident, he won't be coming home.

If you think anything that is happening with the amount of money and bullshit enveloping this LLM disaster, you should put the keyboard down for a while.
by Atlas667 | 2026-02-11 16:43:12+00:00
I think you may be very shocked when you find out that you are wrong.

Fascism was an ideology funded by capitalist industrialists, specifically steel trusts in Germany. Henry Ford was a big proponent of fascism. Fascism did not undo any private property relations, it simply was a single party capitalist state. Ownership of companies was still private. If you were not ideologically or ethnically in line your property was taken away and given to someone who was. Any elimination of property rights specifically only applied to the political opposition, which is in line with repressive capitalism, not the abolishment of socialism.

The control of market dynamics and labor was for the purposes of war and murder, not an ideological component of fascism. A similar thing happened in all countries who were at war: rationing, price controls, labor allocation, etc, but still capitalists.

The axis was specifically an anti-communist alliance through the anticomintern pact. They specifically wanted to uphold private property.

The ONLY reason that one German country had socialist in their name was to fool the masses. It was to appeal to the masses.

WW1 and WW2 were both started by capitalism. And most wars on going right now, feb 2026, are waged by capitalists factions on both sides.

The figures of death attributed to communism are widely known by academics to be absurdly and unscientifically inflated. The black book of communism is not considered history by historians. The gulag archipelago is not considered history by hostorians.

Why dont you see the black book of capitalism anywhere? There are millions of excuses for every death under capitalism. But there are billions of deaths under capitalism... and counting.

You may think I got here through some sort of unhinged bias or just wanting to go against the grain, but no, I got here through asking myself all these questions sincerely and researching them.
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-11 16:43:49+00:00
> In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop.

> To enable an animation to loop, Netscape in the 1990s used the Application Extension block (intended to allow vendors to add application-specific information to the GIF file) to implement the Netscape Application Block (NAB).

VS from the article:

> Lisa Gelobter, a computer scientist who helped shape the modern web by leading the team that developed the animation technology used to create GIFs.

So this person worked on looping the GIF at best, not the animation technology itself. This is a bad look taking credit away from the person who actually did the hard work behind GIF, Steve Wilhite & his team at Compuserve. Netscape certainly made GIF animations popular by introducing the loop - prior to that basically no one used the animated GIF for the prior 6 years before the loop.

The annoying part of the article is making it seem like a technical accomplishment instead of a UX / product / marketing one.
by ericmay | 2026-02-11 16:43:55+00:00
Yea you're right about that. I didn't mean to imply otherwise though it seems I did.

I guess what I meant to say was, to actually solve this problem we also need structural changes so that even driving one of these vehicles in our cities is a bit uncomfortable and so that it's less common precisely because of the reason you specified and many more.

As we build and design better cities, people will naturally not want to buy such vehicles except if they have actual needs for them. I mean, you should be able to buy whatever you want. If you want a giant truck by all means go for it, but society shouldn't cater to edge cases, especially when they cause hazards like the one you described.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 16:44:10+00:00
If that's what they're tuning for, that's just not what I want. So I'm glad I switched off of Anthropic.

What teams of programmers need, when AI tooling is thrown into the mix, is more interaction with the codebase, not less. To build reliable systems the humans involved need to know what was built and how.

I'm not looking for full automation, I'm looking for intelligence and augmentation, and I'll give my money and my recommendation as team lead / eng manager to whatever product offers that best.
HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
by newsoftheday | 2026-02-11 16:44:33+00:00
On a lot of sites, like Reddit for example, on a long scrolled page I can look back at the URL window to remind myself what the context of the page is supposed to be about.

On HN, get way down the page with many comments and look up at the URL window and see just https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678.

It would be nice to see something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678-story-title-here.
by jerf | 2026-02-11 16:44:57+00:00
"In today’s article, we’ll build a rudimentary blur algorithm and then pick it apart."

Emphasis mine. Quote from the beginning of the article.

This isn't meant to be a textbook about blurring algorithms. It was supposed to be a demonstration of how what may seem destroyed to a causal viewer is recoverable by a simple process, intended to give the viewer some intuition that maybe blurring isn't such a good information destroyer after all.

Your post kind of comes off like criticizing someone for showing how easy it is to crack a Caesar cipher for not using AES-256. But the whole point was to be accessible, and to introduce the idea that just because it looks unreadable doesn't mean it's not very easy to recover. No, it's not a mistake to be using the Caesar cipher for the initial introduction. Or a dead-simple one-dimensional blurring algorithm.
by throw876987696 | 2026-02-11 16:45:13+00:00
Same here in LATAM. We are also an AI-First company now. No customer-first, or product-first, or data-driven (I actually liked the idea behind being data-driven). All the code must be AI-generated by the end of Q1. All the employees must include at least one AI-adoption metric or project in their goals.
by coder543 | 2026-02-11 16:45:16+00:00
I thought Tesseract struggled with any documents that weren't composed primarily of a single column of text? If you just need to extract raw characters and map them onto bounding boxes, maybe Tesseract is also enough for that.

On the other hand, if you want to convert images of documents with complex layouts into sensible text documents, I think these new models are a lot better.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-11 16:45:25+00:00
I know many people that access many different systems using remote desktop for this purpose.

I use qemu in a docker container for many Windows related things, partially because I don't want to keep a "real" Windows system running and partially because I don't want to let that OS run outside of a VM or container.

It depends on your security mindset and goals, but I think we're far into the world of VMs and containers all the way down.

With respect to memory, try it and see. Modern Linux is very good at memory management, since it powers the entire data center world. You can certainly overcommit memory with Docker containers easily without a problem.
by kergonath | 2026-02-11 16:45:32+00:00
National governments are often at odds with the commission. France was regularly threatened and fined for its energy policy, for example, which was not pro-business enough. All EU regulations are the result of horse trading in the council of ministers and the commission, the member states are not helpless victims or perfect enforcement forces blindly applying what the president of the commission of the day wants.
by emsign | 2026-02-11 16:45:37+00:00
It comes down to entropy and cost of labour. It takes more work to undo entropy turning a complex material mix which is either an appliance still intact or crushed and mixed even more back into its raw materials.

Processing mineral ores into raw materials is cheaper.

So the only way is to regulate market, meaning forcing companies to put in the extra work.

Currently these regulations tend to be circumvented by illegally exporting e-waste into countries with cheap labour, no such regulations or corruption (usually all at the same time).
by brabel | 2026-02-11 16:46:03+00:00
Stockholm also has famous canon balls lodged on buildings in the old town: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stortorget-cannonball

They are supposed to be from the Blood Bath that happened there in the 16th century when Swedes and Danes still enjoyed killing each other frequently, but no wall survives this long with a metal ball in it, hence that’s apparently a fake thing by some smart 18th century building owners.
by starkparker | 2026-02-11 16:46:05+00:00
Much of the world was against Saddam Hussein, but it took the wholesale invention of an Iraqi nuclear program to justify and get authorization for deposing him through international military action. Iraq didn't attack us, though in attacking an oil partner they might as well have, but the public certainly didn't feel attacked until someone dreamed up the prospect of Iraq nuking Israel, Europe, and/or us.

In that case, the justification was a prerequisite to Congress authorizing a war without losing elections, and then selling it to the US's allies so we wouldn't have to send quite as many troops and thus lose elections. This administration demonstrably doesn't care about justification, authorization, alliances, or elections. So why bother? If they're going to stage an arbitrary Venezuela-like military operation in Mexico because of "cartels", they wouldn't wait for a civilian mass-death event, or for Congress, or regional allies, or public opinion. They didn't wait for any of that in Venezuela.

TBQH this just felt like a cheap and easy way for them to perpetuate the idea that we're always at war with terrorists. Now they're "narcoterrorists", but they're still "terrorists". And this administration might not like obstacles like authorization and due process, but it loves cheap, easy terrorists.
by 650 | 2026-02-11 16:46:36+00:00
As most people who have worked in engineering at large companies can attest, there are entrenched dinosaurs who have worked themselves up the management chain due to inertia. This is such an example. They are almost always out of their depth technically, and are great at taking credit for the work of others. There are people in this comments section, and online claiming she invented Adobe Shockwave.

This article claims she invented Adobe Shockwave while holding the title of "Director of Program Management".

https://www.govtech.com/workforce/tech-and-gif-pioneer-lisa-...

There are disparate sources online from Facebook and Instagram claiming she invented GIFs.

There are (incorrect) AI summaries when searching her name on Google that claim she invented Adobe Shockwave and GIFs.
by KyleVlaros | 2026-02-11 16:47:24+00:00
ktl is a Kubernetes CLI for building, previewing, and applying releases, but
the real glue is its SQLite-backed local state. Helm and the broader Kubernetes
workflow often feel fragmented, with too many separate tools for planning,
rollout tracking, logs, and status, and ktl is basically an attempt to make
that flow more cohesive. You still get fast feedback, rollout visibility, chart
planning, and sandboxed build workflows, but SQLite is what keeps it all
stitched together in practice. It holds run metadata, cached operational
context, and UI/CLI state in one lightweight embedded store, so you get
responsive behavior and useful history without adding more infrastructure.
by the_other | 2026-02-11 16:47:41+00:00
> At what point does the project outgrow the AI in your experience? I have a 70k LOC backend/frontend/database/docker app that Claude still mostly one shots most features/tasks I throw at it.

How do you do this?

Admittedly, I'm using Copilot, not CC.

I can't get Copilot to finish a refactor properly, let alone a feature. It'll miss an import rename, leave in duplicated code, update half the use cases but not all.. etc. And that's with all the relevant files in context, and letting it search the codebase so it can get more context.

It can talk about DRY, or good factoring, or SOLID, but it only applies them when it feels like it, despite what's in AGENTS.md. I have much better results when I break the task down into small chunks myself and NOT tell it the whole story.
by NamTaf | 2026-02-11 16:47:57+00:00
My hot take: nerds think AI is transformative because nerds build AI to be really good at their niche tech activities.

In my experience, it’s far less useful outside of that. To the point where if AI disappeared tomorrow, it’d make approximately 0 difference to my overall life. I simply don’t find it useful, neither in my professional life nor my personal.

The only repeated use case I’ve found is throwing a PDF at it and asking it to translate the PDF. To its credit, it’s able to now OCR handwriting prior to translating which is nice.

It still doesn’t make a translated PDF. Yes, I know PDF is a shitty proprietary mess of undocumented functions. I don’t care - this is the vaunted AI, it’s apparently eating the entire jobs of programmers. Have it go create and A/B test an entire clean room implementation of the PDF format then.

Now it may be an underlying shim in a feature pipeline with which i interact but thats chasms apart from this “AI is about to eat all of our jobs”. It’s a tuned feature, such as improved translation, in that instance.

My experience from very sporadic use and observation of my colleagues is that, outside of tech, AI is much more of a “go and find the info, summarise it and give me the results” layer to the internet. It’s a slightly more convenient search engine. That’s it.
by drecked | 2026-02-11 16:48:06+00:00
> Metanarratively, the replicants weren't the problem. The problem was the people that made them. The people that gave them the ability to think. The ability to feel. The ability to understand and emphathize. The problem was the people that gave them the ability to enjoy life and then hit them with a temporal Sword of Damocles overhead because those replicants were fundamentally disposable.

> In Blade Runner, the true horror was not the technology. The technology worked fine. The horror was the deployment and the societal implications around making people disposable. I wonder what underclass of people like that exists today.

That underclass is non human animals. We breed tens of billions of them into existence every year. They have the ability to feel, think, enjoy life, understand and even likely empathize. They don’t want to suffer and they want to live. And they are enslaved, tortured, and then brutally killed all for a few minutes of pleasure, when alternatives exist in abundance.
by em-bee | 2026-02-11 16:48:14+00:00
assuming something wrong is fine, even getting upset is ok, feeling hurt, and expressing that is also ok, it's a misunderstanding after all. these things happen. but the next step is to talk about it. what is wrong is to immediately threaten to breakup without finding out what the problem is.

if you are sending me a message that says: answer or i'll delete this chat, which means break up, and i am not even able to see the message, let alone respond, so i have no clue whats going on, then i effectively learn that you don't trust me and that you'll assume the worst whenever something happens. that's a character trait that i can't handle. which means we are not fit to be together.

you are right, as in your other comment that this depends on established communication patterns, and if i know that my partner gets anxious when i don't respond quickly enough then, like you suggest i'd let my partner know in advance. but you could also have a situation where you can't do that. the phone breaks, you get into an accident, or you are so sick or tired that you fall asleep before you have a chance to send a message...

i would not respond with a counter-ultimatum. that's the thing. ultimatums should never be used in a relationship. breaking up is a step i would take after the conversation, if i come to the conclusion that my partner thinks it is ok to threaten me like that. i had a partner do that to me three times over the course of half a year. after the third time i had enough. i realized that this is part of her usual behavior, and she will continue doing that whenever something upsets her to much. she refused counseling too. so i said good bye, we are not fit for each other. i never threatened to leave myself. i tried to find out what is upsetting her and resolve it. i had to realize that this was part of her character and that i would not be able to keep going. i had no motivation to try to change her. that's generally futile anyways.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-11 16:48:27+00:00
An increasingly major provider who many here at HN will know about - they just raised a $100M Series A. Multiple services are receiving SIGTERM or shutdown signals.

See dozens of support messages here: https://station.railway.com/questions/services-down-799f7bc1

I've had about one third of my Railway services affected. I had no notification from Railway, and logging in showed each affected service as 'Online', even though it had been shut down.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-11 16:48:39+00:00
That's an interesting idea. One has to test things to see if they can be made to work.

I think the amount is something that can be disputed, but the underlying idea is, IMO, a sound one. Similar to the "unconditional basic income" idea - again, the amount can be contemplated, but the idea is sound, even more so as there are more and more superrich ignoring regular laws or buying legislation in a democracy. That means the old model simply does not work. Something has to change - which path to pick can be debated, but something has to be done.
by kergonath | 2026-02-11 16:49:30+00:00
Indeed, which is why entanglement goes deeper than simply trade. The emergence of pan-European companies like Airbus makes the cost for one country to go alone much steeper. Same for the establishment of EU-wide supply chains. There are also incentives to play nice in the form of the customs union and the single market. The moment you leave, you’re on the wrong side of a trade barrier.
by hnlmorg | 2026-02-11 16:49:43+00:00
> Microsoft is Windows. Anyone saying otherwise is completely delusional.

What's delusional is making an unsubstantiated claims and then dismissing any counterarguments before they're made.

> Most of M$ office software has alternatives (Google Docs, OpenOffice...)

True. Yet MS Office is still the de facto standard.

> Github is constantly crashing and burning

True. But that doesn't mean it isn't still a business strategy for MS.

> Azure is garbage

Also true. But that doesn't mean it isn't profitable: "Microsoft Cloud revenue increased 23% to $168.9 billion."

> and they uttery killed Xbox

Quite the opposite. Xbox is thriving: "Xbox content and services revenue increased 16%."

> Oh and Linkedin is for actual psychopaths.

That's subjective. And even if it were true, that's got nothing to do with profitability (eg look at Facebook).

> If Windows dies, all of their other junk that is attached to the platform will die as well.

First off, literally no-one is claiming Windows is going to "die".

Secondly, even if it were to "die", you've provided no evidence why their other revenue streams wouldn't succeed when it's already been demonstrated that those revenue streams are growing, and in some cases, have already overtaken Windows.
Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling
by gemini-15 | 2026-02-11 16:49:55+00:00
Hi HN,

Deadend is an agentic pentest CLI that automates vulnerability research in webapps.

the problem we are trying to solve : removing the time consumed in repetitive assessments, report generation and extracting relevant information to let them focus on vulnerability research but powerful enough to find issues or leads by itself when we are in a deadend.

highlights : As of today, we scored 78% on XBOW’s benchmarks with claude-sonnet-4.5 in blackbox (we are currently iterating over the architecture of the agent and running the newest to get better results overall).

The agent runs entirely locally with optional self-hosted models. Shell tooling is isolated in Docker, and the python interpreter with WASM.

Some cool ideas are on the roadmap : CI/CD integrations, code review, bash completion, OWASP Top 10 plugins…

Docker is needed and it currently works only on MacOS Arm64 and Linux 64bits installable in one bash command.

Github Repo : https://github.com/xoxruns/deadend-cli
Discord server : https://discord.gg/zwUVa3E7KT

Love to hear your thoughts and feedbacks!
by Legend2440 | 2026-02-11 16:50:02+00:00
>pledging to pay 2,000 creative workers 325 euros ($387) per week

>The randomly selected applicants will receive the payments for three years, after which they would not be eligible for the next three-year cycle.

Is it really correct to call this UBI? It is hardly universal if it applies to only 2000 selected artists.

Seems more like a 3-year grant, similar to the art grants awarded by the national endowment for the arts.