MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2026-02-26 21:59:57+00:00
Despite being fairly careless when handling them, I've managed a fair few decades without once shocking myself.

With that being said, I would be delighted with CEE, BS or almost anything other than NEMA anything.

The 120v plugs aren't the worst thing since they usually have some good gripping points, and the 50 amp plugs usually have a handle on the back, but the 30 amp plugs typically have no finger indentation at all for gripping and I feel like my fingers are going to slip over and around every time I pull one out.
by thamer | 2026-02-26 22:00:05+00:00
I had tried `delta` a few years ago but eventually went with `diff-so-fancy`[1]

The two are kind of similar if I remember correctly, and both offer a lot of config options to change the style and more. I mostly use it for diffs involving long lines since it highlights changes within a line, which makes it easier to spot such edits.

I have an alias set in `~/.gitconfig` to pipe the output of `git diff` (with options) to `diff-so-fancy` with `git diffs`:

diffs = "!f() { git diff $@ | diff-so-fancy; }; f"

[1] https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
by Humanista75 | 2026-02-26 22:00:30+00:00
Thanks for the suggestions!

Regarding the swipe-to-draw mechanic, I really believe that drawing the piece cell-by-cell on the board has a few intentional advantages:

1. It gives the player a sense of absolute control over the game and their placements.

2. It provides a sequence of 'micro-pleasures' or tactile feedback with each tap. It acts as a series of tiny micro-goals you achieve as you slowly build the piece.

3. It intentionally slows down the gameplay. Since this is a strategy puzzle, slowing the pace down is ideal because thinking mid-to-long term is absolutely crucial.

As for tapping the red piece to pre-rotate it... well, that’s exactly where the added difficulty lies! It’s a specific mental challenge that few games force you into. You have to make that little extra cognitive effort to visualize the piece on the board. I like to think it definitely helps improve your spatial awareness over time! ;)
by cyberax | 2026-02-26 22:00:31+00:00
Registry cache...

It's yet one more incomprehensible Buildkit decision. The original Docker builder had a very simple cache system: it computed the layer hash and then checked the registry for its presence. Simple content-addressable caching.

Buildkit can NOT do this. Instead, it uses a single image as a dumping ground for the caches. If you have two builders using the same image, they'll step on each other's toes. GHA at least side-steps this.

But I tried the registry cache, and it didn't improve anything. So far, I was not able to get caching to work with multi-stage builds at all. There are open issues for that, dating back to 2020.
by Dig1t | 2026-02-26 22:00:45+00:00
By “these people” do you mean the people who actually make things?

These banned industrial processes sum to making almost every physical object. The net effect is that it’s nearly illegal to make anything physical. Do you think that the state or country will do well in the long term if it’s basically illegal to actually make things?

Also funny that the you Musk derangement people will never actually engage with the content of the quote’s message, preferring to dismiss it based on your political disagreement with the person who said it.
by flyinghamster | 2026-02-26 22:01:04+00:00
Strange that the Balance was largely reliable. I recall one or two hiccups, but nothing that caused me lost work. There were other machines floating around, but they were pretty much reserved for faculty/staff/grad students, and undergrad plebes weren't welcome to use what passed for the internet at the time (but Usenet was was available, albeit via Ray Essick's "notes" software). Also, any student could get an account on the CDC Cyber 170, but few courses used it for actual coursework by the time I was there. Then there was PLATO, a world unto itself... it also ran on CDC hardware, with bespoke way-ahead-of-its-time touchscreen plasma display terminals, online forums, instant messaging, and multi-player online games.

We only had a few of the 5620s in the 3B2 lab, and I remember a wacky mechanical mouse with a metal ball that I can't imagine would have held up in the long run. The PLATO touchscreens were optical, with a grid of infrared beams to pick up touches.
by vanhoefm | 2026-02-26 22:01:11+00:00
When testing our own Enterprise devices, VLANs were not used. This was done to understand the impact of client isolation on its own.

For the university networks that we tested, I'd have to ask my co-author. But perhaps my other comment can further contextualize this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172327 Summarized, I'm sure that it is possible to configure devices securely, and VLANs can play an important role in this. But doing so is more tedious and error-prone than one may initially assume, e.g., there is often no single setting to easily do so.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 22:01:43+00:00
Yes, it is crazy.

The good old coal? Have a look at the life expectancy of a coal worker, and maybe a ct scan of a coal workers lung.

Good old nuclear? Will you accept the nuclear waste getting store in your neighborhood? No? What about your neighbors neighbor? No? Keep asking until you get a yes. See you again after having asked 341.8 Million people.

There are reasons we moved on from this and de-industrialized. Because the industries we got rid of simply weren't actually that great. Go visit a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen/China. I have done it a couple of times. The part of electronics production that is not done by machines is painful and exhausting work. Your back will hurt. Your eyes will hurt.

I really wonder what people are thinking how these jobs look like. Nobody would want them. The only ones in the US who would accept those jobs would be immigrants who have seen far worse and therefore view these jobs as an upgrade. But the US doesn't want those immigrants. So why try to build industries creating jobs only the kind of people would accept that you do not want in the country?
by gambiting | 2026-02-26 22:02:18+00:00
>>These entities, whoever they are, they act on our world, they are real, and more and more over time they will get independent from humans, eventually becoming different species that can self-replicate.

See, I don't believe that for even one second. They are just very clever calculators, that's all. But they are also dumb like a brick most of the time. It's a pretend intelligence at best.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-26 22:02:26+00:00
>We present 12 distinct attacks
against Bitwarden, 7 against LastPass and 6 against Dashlane

They also discuss 1Password. no authentication of public keys, vulnerable to vault substitution attack (it does not authenticate vault keys) and KDF Parameter Downgrade (a malicious server can reduce the iteration count from the default 650,000 iterations to a minimal value of 10,000 iterations.)
by hinkley | 2026-02-26 22:02:37+00:00
Tha was my assumption as well.

I caught iOS trying to autocorrect something I wrote twice yesterday, and somehow before I hit submit it managed it a third time, and I had to edit it after, where it tried three more times to change it back.

Autocorrect won’t be happy until we all sound like idiots and I wonder if that’s part of how they plan to do away with us. Those hairless apes can’t even use their properly.
by grvdrm | 2026-02-26 22:03:13+00:00
Funny. I also have a Boxster. 2014 981 S. I love natural aspiration 6 cylinder cars.

Smoother in what sense? My Boxster is stick so the shifting experience is very different. The flat-6 is a remarkable sound - intoxicating. Especially purely naturally aspirated though I don’t hate the sound of the turbo 3.x variations in various Porsches. BMW ZF is great but it’s not the same.

Otherwise, yes - the handling in Boxster is so different compared to the m340. It just feels like it’s on rails around corners. No body roll. And for me peak way up in RPM means my highway merges are an absolute blast / symphony.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-26 22:03:24+00:00
The equivalence is that in all three cases those are the official duties of the office.

I would agree that the scope of the president's job description has gotten overly broad over the last century as congress has delegated more and more of its powers to the executive branch, but I don't think a prosecutorial Sword of Damocles is a good solution to that problem. Certainly it's not the constitutionally prescribed one anyway, which is what the court's ruling affirmed.
by selridge | 2026-02-26 22:03:47+00:00
I don’t know that this has to be the way. One thing that is really going to confound this very common idea that taste and quality and personal characteristics will win the day, is that you can use AI to represent all of these to other people.

It’s a huge practical problem to try and figure out authentic nature over the Internet. It’s already clear that people will pay for it, but it’s not at all clear that they will get it. If we imagine that the tools get better and more sophisticated than there is no reason whatsoever to assume that the tools won’t be deployed to give the impression that is needed to make money.

I don’t think any of the above survives if we allow for AI to be used as it is currently being used. It only survives if you pretend that ahead of us is some invisible gate past which this technology will not go.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-26 22:03:52+00:00
Other members of my household frequently invite people to my own place that have malicious intent against me. They don't like me for reasons like not being a fan of Trump, Drake, or N3on. Unfortunately, this is a risk that many people other than me have to face. This is an eye-opening article as I do provide my guest password to them.

I plan on disabling the guest network entirely and utilizing a completely different router for the guest network. As the paper states, an isolated guest network isn't standardized. I plan on revisiting my network security once it is.
by Animats | 2026-02-26 22:04:00+00:00
Yes. In Silicon Valley, if you go to Bedwell Bayfront Park, which is behind Meta/Facebook HQ, there is, on the bay side, a small sewerage treatment plant. There's a fenced concrete-lined pond, usually empty. That is a sewerage overflow containment pond. It's next to a hiking trail, so it's easily visible to the public. That whole park, by the way, is a recycled garbage dump. So is the bay side park behind Google HQ.

Wastewater plants have other ponds and tanks which are part of the process, and they're usually full, with liquid moving in and out, accompanied by stirring, air, and chemical injection. A big empty one is a backup system.

Real engineering.[1]

[1] https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-09/documents/la...
by leptons | 2026-02-26 22:04:16+00:00
>Yes, because human-made code is risk-free.

If whataboutism is all you have, this conversation is over.

> I suggest you actually look at a codebase of a proprietary device before forming a proper opinion

You have no idea what codebases I've seen and worked in, so don't assume I have not. My opinions are well-formed.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-02-26 22:04:16+00:00
Said elsewhere on this post...
"AI is a bubble!"
"AI will change everything!"

Is just propaganda...

Iran is 2 weeks from a nuclear weapon
We obliterated Iran's nuclear dreams

Russia is fighting with shovels
Russia is on the verge of swarming Europe

What would Joost Meerloo say about it, I wonder.
by antonvs | 2026-02-26 22:04:34+00:00
I did notice that, but as others have pointed out, the rest of the audience is likely more important than the idiosyncratic biases of the OP.

The OP message of "big pharma is lying to us!" is an appealing one for many people. Pointing out that, in fact, there is serious scientific evidence to the contrary on that exact topic is "worth trying".

Otherwise, if we just abandon the concept of rational thought, we end up with people like the current president of the US, the guy in charge of Health and Human Services, and so on. There are, as philosophers put it, "facts of the matter", and we need to keep reminding people of that if we want to even achieve the minimal level of valid response shown in the movie Idiocracy. Currently, the United States is not actually achieving that level.
by triceratops | 2026-02-26 22:04:42+00:00
The headline numbers:

They're cutting 40% (edit: the post actually says "nearly half") of the workforce (4k out of 10k). That's huge.

The severance is 20 weeks of pay + 1 week per year of tenure, stock vesting through May, 6 months of healthcare, their corporate devices, and $5k cash.
by n4r9 | 2026-02-26 22:04:43+00:00
Some of those objections to Contraction Hierarchies are possibly a little out of date. Modern variants of the technique allow for rapid live traffic customisation, see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.10519 . I suspect that the "nested dissection" approach also allows for regional maps.

It's been a while since I looked at OSRM's implementation, but I don't think they've been keeping up with the cutting edge here.
by joshuamorton | 2026-02-26 22:04:57+00:00
> Laundering millions is a huge amount of work already. You need to hide your criminal activity from banks investigating fraud. Presuming the banks are doing their jobs right, at least, but if they don't, then that'd be the place to start solving this problem.

It's not really clear that this is money that needs to be laundered, it's often irreversible transfers that are legit.

> People are already effectively faking addresses for something as stupid as Amazon reviews. Apparently it's that cheap to fake an address, because those crapware spam stores that rotate their name/products/listings aren't exactly the size of the mob.

I already responded to this below. Those don't involve scammer controlled addresses. If I send you a piece of physical mail with an OTP code, you can't use a random faked address.

> clearing the field for "professionals" while at the same time making identity fraud, address fraud, and (money) mules more lucrative.

The majority of this kind of fraud is already organized. That's why raising the cost is impactful, see my comments below. It's a tool to raise the cost of revenues to an ideally unsustainable amount.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-26 22:05:27+00:00
The real AI has been in action for centuries now.

It's capitalism.

Capitalism is a functioning AI that controls the world, that has had humans serving it. AI is the tool that capitalism will use to remove humans from the equation.

The end state of capitalism is slave labor. The end state of technocapitalism removes humans from the labor equation.
by bassettr86 | 2026-02-26 22:05:37+00:00
I've been working on a online config editor for Quake Live, with the ability to create a custom config entirely in the browser.

https://quakeliveconfigeditor.com

It has the ability to:

* Set binds for all binds found in QL ingame interface + more
* Create custom weapon scripts
* Create other custom scripts in a window module
* Set 281 different Quake Live cvar / config settings
* Search by cvar name and tags
* Export and download a .cfg directly from the UI
* Programmed-in dependencies for certain cvars, hiding and revealing dependent cvars when master toggles are enabled/disabled

This has been an entirely solo project, and I'm seeking some community feedback and possibly some suggestions.

Note: Current scripts I've included are...

* Weapon aliases
* Volume up/down
* Enemy Colors (custom Head/Torso/Legs)
* Enemy Model toggle
* Direct Rocket Jump

For all those oldschool first person shooter gamers that still love Quake, let me know about how you feel!
by archagon | 2026-02-26 22:06:13+00:00
What’s funny is how much the chuds try to frame revulsion at white supremacy as “political disagreement” and “derangement.” As I was raised, this is actually just deadass “normal.”

I see no reason to engage in any way with the mental flatulations of this virulently racist Epstein fanboy. The quicker his empire can be dismantled and the sooner he gets utterly shunned from polite society, the better off we’ll all be. To a lesser degree, the same goes for his eager and willing co-conspirators.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...

As for California, as a resident, I’ll take environment over industry, thanks. Half my home neighborhood is already a Superfund site. Go fuck up Texas if you like.
by liveoneggs | 2026-02-26 22:06:49+00:00
I was exploring this today and just clicked on the "maps" Platform or APIs & Services to just explore and it immediately popped up a screen with "This is your API key for maps to start using!" without my input.

It sent me to a url:
https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/onboard;fl...

which auto-generated an API key for me to paste into things ASAP.

---

Get Started on Google Maps Platform
You're all set to develop! Here's the API key you would need for your implementation. API key can be referenced in the Credentials section.
by bawolff | 2026-02-26 22:06:52+00:00
The post used the phrase "all known conflicts in the history of the world". Is world war 2 not a known conflict?

I do not know how many journalists were killed in most conflicts. I do know more than 242 were killed during world war 2, so on its face the claim seems false that it is the deadliest war for journalists in the history of the universe.

The only way their claim can possibly make sense is if they are using different definitions between wars. I'm assuming that to give them the benefit of the doubt. The only alternative explanation i can see is they are straight up lying.

I don't know enough to verify related claims, like deadliest for journalists post world war 2. However given the source seems to be blatently incorrect, i'm not really inclined to believe them on related claims.
Show HN: Prove that a human wrote it
by ttamslam | 2026-02-26 22:07:22+00:00
Hey HN, my name is matt. I built "i typed it" as a platform agnostic proof for human typed text. I've been frustrated recently by posts and comments (on hn and elsewhere) that feel obviously ai generated. I don't mind using AI to brainstorm/edit/revise, but it's a bit painful when it seems like a human didn't even bother reading it before positing.

The tool today measures high level signals (typing consistency, paste %, edit rate ,etc.) to give a score. After writing your message you save an attestation link and include it in the post/comment. This basic approach is deeply flawed, but hopefully better than nothing. I'm curious what current state of the art is for _guaranteeing_ that something is human typed. Perhaps some sort of hardware integration?

I'm working on a browser extension, and a quick way to integrate attestations with comment sections so users don't need to include the link copy/pasted. Would love any and all feedback.

p: https://www.ityped.it/p/RvRegYS453Sy
Show HN: Tracecore: Benchmark AI Agents on Deterministic Coding Tasks
by extra_cookin | 2026-02-26 22:07:31+00:00
I'm sharing Tracecore, an OS tool I'm building to evaluate AI agents' ability to handle deterministic software tasks like log triage, config remediation, and incident recovery. It started as a way to test whether agents could reliably perform structured operations without free-form guessing, inspired by frustrations with brittle automation in ops workflows.

What sets it apart: Unlike benchmarks like SWE-Bench (which tests code generation on open-ended GitHub issues) or general agent evaluation suites (that mix diverse reasoning, coding, and interaction tasks), Tracecore focuses on deterministic episodes where agents must use constrained actions (e.g., file operations, ops triage) to achieve exact outcomes, with strict validation. It includes 15+ tasks across suites like operations and games, and supports running agents via adapters for frameworks like OpenClaw and Autogen, or custom scripts.

You can try it out by installing through pip/uv, or by cloning the repo and installing the optional dev dependencies, and running the dashboard, the cli wizard or the cli commands. It outputs structured results with success/failure, steps used, traces for analysis, diffs, bundles and more.

I've been iterating on this over the past few weeks, adding new tasks and improving the harness. Previous discussions on AI eval tools were helpful in shaping the design. Feedback welcome, especially on expanding task suites or integration ideas.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-26 22:07:31+00:00
> We do manufacture things. Just not in California.

California has the highest manufacturing employment and most manufacturing companies of any state, the second highest (behind only Texas) dollar value of manufacturing output.

It is just below the national average in manufacturing as a share of GDP, but its also the fifth highest state in GDP/capita; leaving it still above average in manufacturing GDP/capita.
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-26 22:07:33+00:00
US style plugs and derivatives (and Australian, Japanese, Brazilian, etc) - all invented by Hubbell - are "good enough".

Are they objectively good? No. Do they regularly fail, cause fires, or shock people? No.

Even my kids when young understood how to grip the plug without touching the metal contacts and to this day still have not been shocked. In theory can something fall and hit the pins just right to cause a short? Sure. You could also get struck by lightning. In practice it just doesn't happen very often.

For the US/North American NEMA style there are some improvements and some clever things about them. Modern receptacles have shutter doors that stop you from putting anything into the holes unless the ground pin or neutral pin unlocks it first. Many plugs also cover the rear part of the hot/neutral with plastic so if the plug is not fully inserted there is no exposed metal.

The plugs also prevent mixing voltage and amperage. The typical two vertical blades (5-15) are for 15 amp circuits. 20 amp circuits (5-20) have one horizontal + one vertical blade. The receptacle has a T shaped slot to match - that way you can plug a low-amp device into a high-amp circuit but not the reverse.

Similarly the 240v version of this plug (6-15/6-20) has the same property: 15amp and 20amp versions. The 15 amp is two horizontal blades. The 20 amp is one horizontal + 1 vertical but swapped places compared to the 120v version. I do wish more builders installed the 240v receptacles in kitchens in the US. There is no technical reason we can't have higher power kettles and whatnot. If code required these in garages and kitchens more appliances would be available for them.

(I find it insane that Brazil continues to be dual exclusive voltage; all of North America is dual concurrent voltage. Every home/office has 120v and 240v available. In Brazil it depends on what state/city you live in - some get 120v, some get 240v. Even worse they use the same standard plug design for both so you'd better hope the plug is the right color or has the right sticker. And you can't be sure you can take electrical appliances from one city to the next! At least they should have adopted different plugs for different voltages.)

The huge advantage of these plugs is compatibility. We already have them. The cost to change designs is massive. The benefit extremely small. It just isn't worth doing.

Note: The 240v NEMA plugs I am referencing are not "dryer plugs" which are physically much* larger and designed for much higher amp loads in the 30-60 range. The 6-15/6-20 are literally identical to the standard 120v plugs but with different blade orientations. They were designed to support 240v appliances in everyday use since all of North America is dual voltage. In practice 240v is only ever used for large appliances like ovens so the 6 series doesn't get much use which is a bit of a shame.