MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thrance | 2026-02-24 21:14:35+00:00
Keep in mind that these powerful men believe that Jewish people coming back to Israel is the first step of the Apocalypse, and the return of Christ. It is a death cult quite literally trying to bring about the end of the world, and they're ruling the world. Also, they are insanely antisemitic and believe most Jews will go to hell.

https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/04/mike-huckabee-trie...
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-24 21:15:01+00:00
There is literally no legal vehicle to uproot it, so, sure. If the law gets in the way of arriving at a functioning government, then breaking the law is what needs to happen. Not that I think what we have now is "functioning" either, but the act of subversion itself is not a big issue for me. Trump's stupid actions are an issue for me, but not so much the legality of them; if he were illegally improving the country that would be welcome.
by cholantesh | 2026-02-24 21:15:11+00:00
A lot of that ambiguity would vanish if Israel did not have a habit of drastically overstating their case and quietly walking it back after they end up killing more journalists and toddlers than active combatants in hospital bombings. Also if reports didn't deliberately conflate 'armed man' with 'Hamas militant' and euphemize about the 'Hamas-run Interior Ministry' like that one does.
by blharr | 2026-02-24 21:15:18+00:00
AI is a big driver of literal direct physical corruption. Language and knowledge is forever tainted because of an outpouring of AI generated spam. Evaluating resumes is more difficult now because you can't tell real impacts versus fabricated hallucinations. Open source projects are overwhelmed with AI generated PRs...

Any corruption is emboldened by AI, it's a catalyst of the problem, doesn't seem anywhere close to potentially being a fix
by XCSme | 2026-02-24 21:16:01+00:00
Yup, for example I tell Claude to return ONLY the answer as "LEFT" or "RIGHT".

And it outputs:

**RIGHT**

With markdown bold formatting... This is probably fine in a chat app, but when you use this in a workflow, it will break the workflow if you then have an if check like if(response === 'RIGHT')...
by TZubiri | 2026-02-24 21:16:23+00:00
I think there's a non-trivial legal and ethical difference between distributing material (whether as a sale or not, or for profit or not) and a child finding material that was distributed to an adult.

The equivalence with alcohol would be finding an alcohol bottle in your parent's cabinet. It's not the same as buying alcohol while you are 10, and it's in no way an excuse to allow the sale of alcohol to minors.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-24 21:18:23+00:00
None of the measures I mentioned are changeable by the user, except possibly sideloading an HTTPS certificate. That's the only way any of those measures even work; if it wasn't set as invariants by the OS, they would be bypassable.

>There is a default restriction which is good enough for most cases, but the user has the ability to open things up further if he needs.

But this is what the other guy's point is. You are defining "good enough for most cases" in a way that he is not, then making the argument that what he says is equivalent to not allowing an alcoholic to buy beer. Why can you set what level is an acceptable amount of restriction, but he can't?
by cxr | 2026-02-24 21:18:24+00:00
Your shitty strawman is shitty.

> It is not a hard requirement that untrusted input is "treated like text".

Good thing that's not what I wrote, asshole. Why bother quoting me if your immediate next move is going to be to subtly alter the claim before you've even ended the very first sentence in your response?

Go fuck yourself.
by rectang | 2026-02-24 21:18:46+00:00
> I mean, is that a consequence of people being innately, for it's own sake, cheap to a point of farce?

Yes.

The price-driven market segment will never disappear and is an emergent property of human nature and the dynamics of a marketplace where prices are instantly comparable.

Plane tickets are way more affordable for nearly everyone than they used to be, but price competition is more savage than ever. The marketplace has spoken.

While I agree that concentration of wealth at the top is a major problem, I don't think that shaking loose that wealth will change the price dynamics of the airline industry in the slightest.
by Rexxar | 2026-02-24 21:19:16+00:00
The account is strange, two years old account with barely any comment for two years then a lot of comments in the last 3 days. The 3 first comments of the account capitalise the first letter, everything is lowercase in the last 3 days. He never replies to comments under his own comment. Sadly, a comment of someone who was telling it was a bot account has been flagged ...
by wps | 2026-02-24 21:19:20+00:00
A commenter here recently just asked me if I have considered BitWarden due to my gripes with KeePass. KeePass cannot rent-seek off my passwords. You can of course host BitWarden, but the official software can always get worse (see Minio). Thankfully we have community run versions of the BitWarden server (VaultWarden), whereas 1password customers are left to dry. There just isn't any money in personal password managers, and restricting features like TOTP (BitWarden free tier) rarely entices the average person to get a paid plan.
by emptybits | 2026-02-24 21:19:40+00:00
Thanks. I had to be reminded about that phrase "honor culture" and, yes, I've heard that definition before.

I was focused on how I think an "honourable person" behaves, which is ... IMO ... someone who behaves well regardless of whether or not someone is watching them. i.e. being guided by a personal moral compass, without cultural shame, guilt, government laws, religious conventions, or physical fear being primary motivators

But of course, if I adopt a religion's or legal system's idea of morality as my personal compass (certainly the easiest way to go, and easily installed in youth) ... then the distinction falls apart. Cheers.
by firefax | 2026-02-24 21:19:49+00:00
I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumbled upon it because it was the only KeePass implementation that tried to look like a native MacOS app)

This is a killer feature for me, since apparently iOS backups do not backup your TOTP generators in Google Authenticator, which I discovered after I wiped my phone and restored it thinking I was perfectly safe doing so given I had a backup.

I now encourage all the folks I mentor to set up a KeePass vault for the TOTP seeds.

There's even an option to generate one of those fancy QR codes that apps like authenticator can use, so the two are not mutually exclusive.

If you're an individual, not an enterprise user, I don't see why anyone would pay for a password manager.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-24 21:19:56+00:00
I think that's where I see the most concerns with this proposal: XML is already an extensible format (that's what the X stands for) and XML schema changes should be simpler than needing to run SQL migrations (alter/drop/etc). A switch to SQL doesn't guarantee that schema extensions better align as standards or allow for easier schema modifications. I think it more extends the risk that schema components get ossified and harder to extend.

That problem that the current schema doesn't have enough ways to declare custom memory-protected fields outside of user-facing attributes seems just as likely to be replicated and maybe worsened in an SQL schema.

Changing the database engine doesn't fix the architecture problems nor schema migration problems. It's certainly a good time to reevaluate the architecture problems and the schema migration problems. But the huge caution I'd suggest here would be look at the ossification complaints about the current XML schema and expect SQL migrations to be worse and plan for worse multi-schema operations and intenser ossification. (Especially because these files are expected to live in a large multi-vendor ecosystem, SQLite schema migration management is going to be much worse than any XML schema management.)
by microtonal | 2026-02-24 21:20:02+00:00
There could be many other factors, like abysmal patch policies. Many vendors still only do Android Security Bulletins (which are only vulnerabilities marked as high and critical), do them late (despite a three month embargo for patches), very delayed device firmware updates, and sometimes only for two or three years.

Many Android phones still do not have a separate secure element.

Also, the Play Store itself regularly contains malware.

In the end it is mostly about control, dressed up as protecting users. If it was about security, Google would support GrapheneOS remote attestation for Google Pay (for being the most secure Android variant) and cut off many existing phones with deplorable security.
by Mond_ | 2026-02-24 21:20:08+00:00
I used Manjaro for a few years.

That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day.

"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer."
by spranab | 2026-02-24 21:20:35+00:00
I built an MCP server that lets Claude (or any MCP client) orchestrate structured debates between multiple LLMs.

You give it a topic, it sends it to all configured models in parallel, they see each other's responses, refine their positions over multiple rounds, and a synthesizer produces a final consolidated output.

Works with OpenAI, DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, Mistral, Together — anything with an OpenAI-compatible API.

npx brainstorm-mcp
by TZubiri | 2026-02-24 21:21:17+00:00
A little bit of a hijack, but it's hard to find a more relevant time to post this.

For a defunct startup, I built this exact thing as a product for coffee shops:

cafetren.com.ar

https://cafetren-com-ar.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_... (translated from spanish):
by piskov | 2026-02-24 21:21:19+00:00
First, all your passwords are locked behind the same passcode you use to log-in. You cannot set different password to unlock the passwords. Anyone who saw your iphone passcode or macbook’s password can not only onlock the device but get access to all the passwords as they are behind the same passcode.

Second, what would happen if you were locked out of apple id account? Or don’t have access to apple hardware.

Password manager should really be platform and device agnostic.

That’s why people used stuff like 1password in the first place.

You really don’t want to put all your life into a single account (that’s why you should not use sign with google or what have you).
Show HN: A simple, free web app to track my portfolio across brokers
by erinc951 | 2026-02-24 21:21:24+00:00
So, I have been investing for some time now. At first, it was easier to track my portfolio because I was just using one broker, but as time went on, my portfolio became bigger and more diversified (for example, I bought physical gold, deposited money into a savings account at Bank A, and also used Broker A and Broker B because only Broker B had the stocks I wanted to buy).

It just got harder to track my investments, it was also getting harder to understand whether my investments were aligned with the portfolio I had built.

So naturally, I started to search for solutions. At first, I found a few desktop and mobile apps. But the problem with the majority of them was that they were either too complicated to use or just over-engineered. Nearly all the apps had a FIRE calculator, were synced with the market (which was logical, but how can I get the price for physical gold?), or were also trying to track my expenses. I just wanted to track my portfolio. Hence came the second option: using Excel.

And actually, this is the way the majority of people do it. Knowing that, I tried to create an Excel sheet for myself. But the barrier to entry was just too high; I didn't know how to use it, so it just seemed too hard to implement a solution for myself. Also, the user experience just didn't feel very good. I wanted to see pie charts, good fonts, etc. (I could probably do these things with Excel as well, but if I can't even implement a simple sheet, how could I do these cool visuals?).

So, I decided to implement my own solution. My needs were really simple:

- I want to see all my investments on one screen.

- I want to see my P&L.

- I want to see whether my investment ratio is aligned with my portfolio.

- I want to sync it across different devices.

- I want to have different currencies (like EUR, TL) because I
invest in different markets.

- I want it to be free.

- I want to see how my investments grow over time.

And that's about it. So, keeping all these things in mind, I built a web app for myself and wanted to share it with you
by cardanome | 2026-02-24 21:21:31+00:00
That also shows the delusion of some people that believe their vibe coded projects have any value.

If generative AI improves at the rate that is promised then all your "promting skills" or whatever you believe you had will be obsolete. You might think you will be an "AI engineer" or whatever and that it is other people that will lose their job, that you are safe because you have the magic skills to use the new tech. You believe the tech overlords will reward you for your faith.

Nope. You are just training your replacement.

No one will buy your game that you vibe coded. If the tech were good enough to create games that are actually fun then they would just generate their own games. Oh your skill? Yeah, a dog can do it.

Yes people will cope by saying but oh the whole initial prompt and setting it all up was still hard but yeah currently. The tech will improve and it will get more accessible. So enjoy the few months you are still relevant.

Of course there is reason to believe that you can't scale up LLMs endlessly and bigger models hit diminishing returns. In fact we might already be seeing this. So there is an upside but then again when the AI bubble pops and the economy crashes you will be out of a job all the same.
by spzb | 2026-02-24 21:21:44+00:00
I had a play with it using mitmproxy and one thing is for sure, it doesn't implement certificate pinning. It happily connected to my self-signed certificate. When you set a master password for access to your Mac it's sent to their server (a Cloudflare Worker) as plaintext (albeit over TLS) rather than using it as input to a key derivation function. That makes me think it's probably stored server-side with little to no security. All in all, there ain't a bargepole long enough for me to touch this with.
by firefax | 2026-02-24 21:21:58+00:00
>Chase Mobile

What banking tasks are you doing that other apps don't seem to handle -- are you trading stocks or something?

I basically never use a banking app except to deposit a check (which all the various apps seem to handle well now) or transfer money from the checking account that receives my direct deposit to the account I use at ATMS. (Love that air gap).
by dang | 2026-02-24 21:22:21+00:00
If the above list gives the mistaken impression that flagging is basically random, that's an artifact of the way I cherry-picked the list. The flagging system has problems, for sure, but it's a vital part of how HN's system functions.

If you squint and look closely, though, I think you can detect this in the above list. The weirdest "wtf?" cases of flagging are ones where the threads had a lot of comments and were on the frontpage. That means upvotes won the tug-of-war with flags, as they should have in most of those cases.

Conversely, it you look at the submissions in the list which had 0 comments or very few, it looks to me like most were either spam, low-quality articles, or dupes.

Remember, also, that some flags are just mistakes - the link is easy to fat-finger or misclick, and the UI doesn't provide feedback about that. That's likely to change soon as part of work that tomhow and I are planning.
by alexhans | 2026-02-24 21:22:22+00:00
This fun exercise might actually be extremely insightful as a educational vehicle around AI and intent.

It can also help combat the excessive emphasis on any "end to end" demo on twitter which doesn't really correspond to a desired and quality sought outcome. Generating things is easy if you want to spend tokens. Proper product building and maintenance is a different exercise and finding ways to differentiate between these will be key in a high entropy world.

> I'll go further: it's not only not "the bottleneck", it simply doesn't matter. The dog's ideas certainly didn't matter, and the dog didn't think of the feedback loop for Claude either

Absolutely. The scientific test would to put any other signal and look at the outcomes. Brown noise, rain, a random number generator. whatever.
by thrance | 2026-02-24 21:22:30+00:00
The correct course of actions is to reexamine your beliefs in light of the new evidence that was presented to it, not shut off your mind completely. If you still doubt its truth, you can easily get more with a quick google search. Also, it's not like Israel's government ever tried to hide their genocidal rhetoric (well, outside of the PR they serve the West, of course).
by paganel | 2026-02-24 21:22:34+00:00
They'll for sure cave in because of this:

> Pentagon officials also warned they would either use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic, or designate Anthropic a supply chain risk if the company didn’t comply with their demands. (...)

> The supply chain risk designation is usually reserved for companies seen as extensions of foreign adversaries like Russia or China. It could severely impact Anthropic’s business because enterprise customers with government contracts would have to make sure their government work doesn’t touch Anthropic’s tools.

Also, the Government money would be a nice bonus, of course, but basically this is an existential threat for Anthropic.

More generally, is quite interesting to look at the similarities between how pre-2022 Russia was seen and how pre-Trump-second-term US used to be seen until not that long ago, i.e. both governments were believed to be run by big business (oligarchs in Russia, big corps/multinationals in the US).

But when push came to shove it became evident (again) that the one that holds the monopoly of violence (i.e. not the oligarchs in Russia, nor the big corps in the US) is the one who's, in the end, also calling the shots. Hence why a company like Anthropic is now in this position, they will have to cave in to those holding the monopoly of violence.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-24 21:22:47+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carradine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carradine_family

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001019/

https://archive.org/details/endlesshighway00carr

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL792227M/Endless_highway
by dancrystalbeach | 2026-02-24 21:22:48+00:00
Well, you know I simply can’t resist throwing my hat in the ring. If everyone else is going to stand on a soapbox and decry the end of all data pipelines as we know it, you can be sure I’m going to climb to the top of the old oak tree and scream my truth to the glassey eye’d masses who’ve been sitting in their echo chambers for far too long.
by wps | 2026-02-24 21:22:50+00:00
> Chase Mobile

Really? To me that app is like the WeChat of banking. It just does so many things. Do not even get my started on the non-standard long totp that they force you to enter when trying to navigate certain parts of the app (you're already authed, why reauth?!).

I think the Schwab app-for doing as many things as the Chase app, is a much smoother experience.
by fernirello | 2026-02-24 21:23:20+00:00
There's a very good Brazilian series "Desejos S.A."—literally "Wishes Ltd" but translated into English as "Whatever, whenever". People call a mysterious phone number, voicemail prompt tells them "At the tone, speak your wish clearly", then they get no further feedback and hang up. Shortly after, their wish comes true... and they have to do one task (always incomprehensible to them, often reprehensible) so that someone else gets their wish.
by zerotolerance | 2026-02-24 21:23:20+00:00
We do not have a supply side issue. We have a worsening discovery and discoverability issue. People publish on platforms because that is where they might be FOUND / or pushed by the algorithm into the feeds of others. RSS is subscription, not discovery. Search / suggest / IR requires scaled centralization. Then there are the network effects and activation cost to moving.

Yeah, sure we need this. The time for it was back in like 2005 at the latest.

The real issue is more existential. Right now we're about to lose the war that requires digital connectivity to live and use modern services. We're going to lose cash payments. If you're going to fight a fight, that is where the effort matters in 2026.
by wonderwhyer | 2026-02-24 21:23:27+00:00
For the last year MCPs were backends without a frontend — dumping text into LLM context and hoping it would show it well to the user. Now MCP Apps are here and they could mean way more for MCPs than it seems at first.
Since ChatGPT we've been putting chatbots into our apps. Now we can put our apps into the chatbots. And if one image is worth a thousand words, good UI/UX can be worth ten thousand — without polluting the LLM context window.
I wrote this as someone building an MCP server (Desktop Commander, ~392K installs by now) who felt the pain of having zero UI control firsthand. Happy to answer questions about what building with MCP Apps is actually like.
by kej | 2026-02-24 21:23:54+00:00
From the About page:

>SBCL derives most of its code from CMU CL, created at Carnegie Mellon University. Radical changes have been made to some parts of the system (particularly bootstrapping) but many fundamentals (like the mapping of Lisp abstractions onto the underlying hardware, the basic architecture of the compiler, and much of the runtime support code) are only slightly changed. Enough changes have been made to the interface and architecture that calling the new system CMU Common Lisp would cause confusion - the world does not need multiple incompatible systems named CMU CL. But it's appropriate to acknowledge the descent from the CMU hackers (and post-CMU CMU CL hackers) who did most of the heavy lifting to make the system work. So the system is named Steel Bank after the industries where Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, respectively, made the big bucks.
by jsheard | 2026-02-24 21:25:49+00:00
Unreal supports Panini out of the box:

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...

Very few games seem to use it or any other alternative projection though.

HYPER DEMON may be the best known exception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScglDSi9KUs
by anematode | 2026-02-24 21:26:01+00:00
> The better you document your work, the stronger contracts you define, the easier it is for someone to clone your work.

Well said; this is my thinking as well. One person or organization can do the hard work of testing multiple approaches to the API, establishing and revising best practices, and developing an ecosystem. Then once things are fairly stable and well-understood, another person can just yoink it.

I have little empathy for Vercel, and here they're kind of being hoist by their own petard of inducing frustration in people who don't use their hosting; but I'm concerned about how smaller-scale projects (including copyleft ones) will be laundered and extinguished.