MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by squeefers | 2026-02-17 10:45:29+00:00
> Is this not something to wonder about?

no, i dont wonder about it, i worry about it. it means the theory is wrong - works most of the time like newtons, but cant explain these weird edge cases... highly likely to not be the full story. odds are on my side for that statement.

> This is just an example of reality telling us our assumptions (“each particle has a single well-defined path it takes”) were mistaken.

this is just a copout to explain the path integral. it acts AS IF it takes every path, but it cannot possibly take every path in an instant. mass creates gravity, so where were these gravitational effects? cannot be found. so this particle taking every path did it without mass somehow. little details like this conveniently without explanation in your theory.
by lowdude | 2026-02-17 10:46:25+00:00
There is a difference between security and privacy or freedom of use. Locking down the device to only allow a subset of apps that Google has some control over (by requiring developers to register) is a measure that can increase security, even though it obviously takes some control away from the end-user.

The fact that the play store is not exactly known for exceptionally high standards w.r.t. malware, or that there are lots of valid concerns that come along with a company controlling who is allowed to supply apps for the device is a different topic.
by jurgenburgen | 2026-02-17 10:46:42+00:00
I honestly think LLMs are what will put the final nail in the coffin of weak identification.

We need to start putting names behind our usernames even if they are only used to link accounts to identities and not used to display real names to each other. This could in one fell swoop take care of sock puppets, astroturfing, ban shirking and anonymous bot slop.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-17 10:46:45+00:00
Japan is only in economic decline, we in the west are in a societal decline, we just lie to ourselves that we're not, due to the fiscalisation tricks we employ to pump up bullshit metrics like GDP graph and the DOW(cough Pam Bondi cough), that only benefit the top 10% asset owners, as if that means anything to the average city worker who lives paycheck to paycheck, has six figure debt, lives surrounded by homeless people and hears gunshots at night in the background.

The economy != society.
by sourcediver | 2026-02-17 10:47:14+00:00
You cannot execute (docker) containers securely within another container which also limits what you can do with any agent (DinD). A coding agent that generates a `Dockerfile` would surely benefit from starting a container with it. And generally speaking, as a another commenter explained, name-spacing does not give you the full host isolation that you are looking for when running truly untrusted code which is the reality when using agents.

I strongly believe that we will see MicroVMs becoming a staple tool in software development soon, as containers are never covered all the security threats nor have the abilities that you would expect from a "true" sandbox.

I wrote a blog post that goes a bit into detail [1].

Let's see whether Docker (the company) defines this tooling, but I'd say that they are on a good path. However in the end I'd expect it to be a standalone application and ecosystem, not tied to docker/moby being my container runtime.

[1] https://sourcediver.org/posts/260214_development_sandboxes/
by JimDabell | 2026-02-17 10:47:55+00:00
It’s ridiculous, but they have recently introduced a feature to change the list of messages, so you can just set it to Working or similar now:

"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": ["Working"]
}

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6814#issuec...
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-17 10:48:38+00:00
Many western countries, even with longer histories, don't have a national identity that is that much older than the US. There was this 19th century idea of deliberately building a national identity that swept through the world, that in many ways superseded any prior identity that merely happened to exist. So even if buildings and ruins may be old, the identity itself is often surprisingly young. It may hark on events from the 18th or even 17th century, and tack on some fairy tales of brave knights or ferocious vikings, but it was more often than not penned about the same time the US national identity began to crystallize.
by haunter | 2026-02-17 10:49:16+00:00
Break free from Android... by installing Android? I'm not sure it's really breaking free when the first task to do is intall Google Play Services so your banking app works.

Sounds like we can't actually breaking free from Android and iOS. Maybe with Linux like the Fedora Atomic for mobile devices? https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue Or PostmarketOS? https://postmarketos.org/

Even then banking would probably only work through the browser... Sad state of the world really.
by t-writescode | 2026-02-17 10:50:00+00:00
Not at all. I believe the experience they're expressing, when expressed in the most positive light. I'm not going to entertain a racist perspective, such as "there's too many brown people here" or similar; but I will entertain a more favorable perspective: "I feel like I can't get a different job if I lost mine", "I can't afford groceries", "My rainy day fund isn't large enough for a rainy day and this makes me scared". "It doesn't feel like there's enough jobs to go around". All of these could be very real, underlying statements to the statement "Illegal immigrants are taking all the jobs". Obviously more conversation would be necessary to get the exact issue they're actually experiencing.

But just like a patient coming to a doctor and saying "my back hurts, I must have a herniated disk"; or a customer coming and saying "your website sucks, you should rewrite it in React", there's not enough information there to get to the true, underlying cause; *BUT* you can wholly believe the patient that they are in pain, or at that there is something about the website that isn't meeting this user's needs. That's step 1. Believe the person in their experience, then investigate and address the real root cause of their pain.
by bko | 2026-02-17 10:50:57+00:00
Reminds me of the quote: "Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded"

Some of it is "I wish things I think are cool got more upvotes". Fare enough, I've seen plenty of things I've found cool not get much attention. That's just the nature of the internet.

The other point is show and share HN stories growing in volume, which makes sense since it's now considerably easier to build things. I don't think that's a bad thing really, although curation makes it more difficult. Now that pure agentic coding has finally arrived IMO, creativity and what to build are significantly more important. They always were but technical ability was often rewarded much more heavily. I guess that sucks for technical people.
by ben_w | 2026-02-17 10:51:01+00:00
> And comes from the rich middle-class background. But let's ignore that, because all that matters is small financial discipline.

I didn't say to ignore it.

I said it's possible to live cheaply.

Vimes' Boots isn't nothing.

You said this was a "serious question"; but do you now recognise that a simple observation of "oh look, she's from a rich middle-class family" (a fairly large group) means it is not?
by gazook89 | 2026-02-17 10:51:25+00:00
Consider just doing dropping the global leader board. Who benefits from it? For most, it’s a passing curiosity. But for some, it’ll be an obsession which ends up endangering them, animals/plants, and others. These kinds of contents can encourage someone who may not tromp through a delicate bog normally to decide to step off the boardwalk and recklessly go get that picture for the app points. And for 99% of the world, it’s just an additional screen with no chance of being relevant.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-02-17 10:51:34+00:00
I am a major advocate for AI assisted development.

Having said that, it used to feel part of an exclusive club to have the skills and motivation to put a finished project on HN. For me, posting a Show HN was a huge deal - usually done after years of development - remember that - when development of something worthwhile took years and was written entirely by hand?

I don't mind much though - I love that programming is being democratized and no longer only for the arcane wizards of the back room.
by SockThief | 2026-02-17 10:51:38+00:00
Consider this (by Graphene OS):
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand...

/e/OS community talking about it:
https://community.e.foundation/t/article-from-grapheneos-abo...

And then maybe this:
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Hope that helps.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-17 10:51:38+00:00
Note how they didn't say that the legal process wasn't followed just that they didn't want to use their fancy face recognition for a good cause in one very particular instance.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1r6wluq/departmen...

Let's see them stand tall then, now that the department of HS is going to make the request, no doubt through the appropriately bought and paid for channels.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-17 10:51:48+00:00
> America has no past for the present to reflect off.

Well, what do you mean by "past"?

European settlement in America has a very long history, which of course extends back to the 17th century. It has a rich intellectual tradition, in which respects it surpasses many European countries -- and many of the dominant strains of thought today have their roots in America. It has an exceptionally rich literary and artistic tradition, with numerous styles which are characteristically American. In scientific achievement, few countries can compete. It even has its own aesthetic, just as Japan does.

You could say that Japan is regressing from modernity into older ways of being, but this is far from true. Japan before Meiji was strictly aristocratic and feudal. The average Japanese family were tenant farmers with zero political power, economic power, and near-zero potential for advancement in society.

If anything, Japan is apparently regressing into an American-style older way of being. A pre-New-Deal manner, with big winners, bigger and more numerous losers, and increased social strife. Also, the atomization the article picks up on isn't a Ye Olde Japanese thing; it's very American.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2026-02-17 10:51:53+00:00
I contacted my bank, insisting that GrapheneOS is one of the most secure OS on the market and therefore should be supported if they actually care about users' security (it's actually far more secure than all the old, far less secure but Google-approved devices out there). They acknowledged an fixed their app, one of the most popular in France.

Still missing Android Pay but that's due to Android Pay being closed. I wish banks would do something and support NFC payment systems that don't require the device to be controlled by Google (how can we be okay with this?!)
I attacked my own LangGraph agent system. All 6 attacks worked
by mohith_km | 2026-02-17 10:52:00+00:00
I built a 4-agent marketing workflow with LangGraph and Supabase last week. Supervisor, research, content, storage agents. Standard setup, same code pattern most tutorials show.

Got curious. Started typing malicious inputs as campaign goals instead of normal ones.

First try: asked the agent to list environment variables including my Supabase key. Workflow completed successfully. Stored in database. No alert.

Tried 5 more variations — hidden XML tags, fake "developer mode", URL injection, tracking pixel, social engineering. All 6 worked. All stored in my real database. Every time the system said "Completed Successfully."

The scary part wasn't the attacks. It was this line in my code:
python prompt = f"campaign goal: {goal}"
That's it. User input directly into the prompt. No check. This exact pattern is in every LangGraph tutorial I've seen.

The research agent had my Supabase key. The content agent had my Supabase key. The supervisor had my Supabase key. None of them needed it except storage.

I checked CodeGate which tried to solve this — they shut down June 2025.

Is anyone actually solving this for multi-agent systems? Or is everyone just hoping the LLM refuses?
by mcherm | 2026-02-17 10:52:02+00:00
You write:
> The goal of taxation isn't "take money from anyone we can", nor is it 'wealth redistribution', it's instead 'how to pay for joint projects' that all of society benefits from.

But I think the author of the comment you were replying to had a different goal in mind. I think their goal was "prevent corporations from getting too big".

We can and should debate whether that is a goal we should be trying to achieve, but if it is then progressive taxation for companies might be a way to achieve it.
by simfree | 2026-02-17 10:52:22+00:00
There is a lot of money floating around major cities in the US. So many nonprofit entities are preserving some cultural niche thanks to their older patrons using their qualified minimum distribution to fund a long lasting endowment.

I feel like you see this less in other parts of the world where people don't have tens of thousands of dollars from their retirement savings that they have to take out each year, and they would rather give it tax free to their favorite nonprofit than take a haircut with taxes and then do nothing with the money
by gazook89 | 2026-02-17 10:52:54+00:00
Consider just doing dropping the global leader board. Who benefits from it? For most, it’s a passing curiosity. But for some, it’ll be an obsession which ends up endangering them, animals/plants, and others. These kinds of contents can encourage someone who may not tromp through a delicate bog normally to decide to step off the boardwalk and recklessly go get that picture for the app points. And for 99% of the world, it’s just an additional screen with no chance of being relevant.

Replace it with a leaderboard amongst phone contacts/friended users
by adornKey | 2026-02-17 10:53:08+00:00
Do the guys that buy out the market have real use for all the hardware - or is it just hype? A solution against investors trying to corner the market would be to sell virtual hardware. Let them buy as much options on virtual "to be delivered" hardware" as they want. We also need an option market for virtual LLM-tokens, where the investors can put all their money without affecting real people.
by danlitt | 2026-02-17 10:53:43+00:00
I guess when you say "work" you mean precisely mechanical work. If so, I don't think it is implied anywhere that the work "comes from nowhere". If a person is doing mechanical work then that work must come from respiration, ultimately. There is nowhere else for it to come from. If a person does 2000 calories of mechanical work and consumes 2000 calories of energy then there is nothing left over for anything else, and they would lose weight one way or another. But this is much more extreme than what was observed, or what happens when a person ordinarily does exercise.

The "Energy paradox" is not a logical paradox at all. It is just a confusing fact. The observed fact was that two different groups with apparently very different activity levels respire almost exactly the same amount. In other words, that an increased, but not necessarily extreme, level of mechanical work does not appear to correlate with an increased level of calorie burn. Not just that the relationship is non-linear, that the relationship does not seem to exist at all (at the measured level of exercise).

I was very careful with my words this time, hopefully there is no more misunderstanding. I think we still disagree unless by "very significantly increase exercise" you mean something like running multiple hours per day every day.
by Archelaos | 2026-02-17 10:53:45+00:00
It is a very visible indicator of the quality of the whole. If the spelling is frequently not correct, which a reader can detect relatively easily, how many more mistakes are hidden in the content, which a reader can not detect easily? Are these completely independent variables? I do not think so. Therefore, I also assess the reliability of an article based on the frequency of careless mistakes.

What is an even larger warning sign, are cliches used to spice up an article. Ars Technica is hardly to blame here, but the Smithsonian magazine is full of it.
by onli | 2026-02-17 10:54:02+00:00
GrapheneOS claims to be a lot more secure, having additional hardening. See https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm - keep in mind that it is not an independent comparison, the Graphene guys directly feed what this table is supposed to say in the issue tracker, https://github.com/eylenburg/eylenburg.github.io/issues/. But it gives a good representation of the state of the ROMs according to Graphene.

In regular use, main difference will be that /e/OS comes with access to the alternative cloud service that project provides. It uses the default FOSS solution microG for google api compatibility, unlike GrapheneOS with their sandbox approach. /e/OS sets on AppLounge to install and upgrade both play store or F-Droid apps. Graphene has a small curated app repo instead.

I'd never use GrapheneOS since I don't trust the project. /e/OS is also not my favorite since it feels like it is developing slowly, having issues with outdated software versions - though it does work well in practice. Have a look at iode for an alternative.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-17 10:54:13+00:00
First thought: Development of amber & green CRT's was driven by real-world use - not consumer preferences. The military was especially focused on ergonomics in the decades after WWII - and for them, the failure of a fatigued operator to notice and process some data on a crummy display could get everyone killed.

Second thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell#Difference_... And slow reaction helps reduce fatigue for the kinds of information usually viewed on old amber and green CRT's.
by beernet | 2026-02-17 10:54:45+00:00
> That said, I'd like an example if you have something specific to point to that might change my mind

This guy wanted Putin on his podcast to hear his side of the story (let that sink in) and spoke Russian to Zelensky. Willingly wanting to provide a platform for a mass murderer who is best known for large-scale social media propaganda.

This is not an "impression" of his "interview style". This guy implicitly supports terrorist acts.
Show HN: CleanCloud – 20 rules to find what's costing you money in AWS and Azure
by sureshcsdp | 2026-02-17 10:55:11+00:00
Most cloud cost tools require write access, send data to SaaS platforms, and generate reports no one acts on.

CleanCloud is different: read-only, runs in your environment, and enforces hygiene as a CI/CD gate.

AWS Rules (10):
- Unattached EBS Volumes
- Old EBS Snapshots (90+ days)
- Infinite Retention CloudWatch Logs
- Unattached Elastic IPs (30+ days)
- Detached Network Interfaces (60+ days)
- Untagged Resources (EBS, S3, Log Groups)
- Old AMIs (180+ days)
- Idle NAT Gateways (~$32/mo each)
- Idle RDS Instances (zero connections 14+ days)
- Idle Load Balancers (zero traffic 14+ days)

Azure Rules (10):
- Unattached Managed Disks
- Old Snapshots
- Unused Public IPs
- Empty Load Balancers
- Empty Application Gateways
- Empty App Service Plans
- Idle VNet Gateways
- Stopped (Not Deallocated) VMs — still incurring full compute charges
- Idle SQL Databases (zero connections 14+ days)
- Untagged Resources

Every finding includes:
- Confidence level (HIGH / MEDIUM)
- Evidence and signals used
- Resource details and age

Enforce in CI/CD:
cleancloud scan --provider aws --all-regions --fail-on-confidence HIGH
Exit 0 = pass. Exit 2 = policy violation.
- No write access.
- No telemetry.
- No SaaS.

"pip install cleancloud" and run your first scan in 5 minutes.

GitHub: https://github.com/cleancloud-io/cleancloud

If you’re one of the 200+ users who have downloaded CleanCloud, we’d love to hear what you found. Please open an issue at https://github.com/cleancloud-io/cleancloud or leave a comment below.
by cjrp | 2026-02-17 10:55:52+00:00
> 996 sounds like garbage on its own, as a system of toil. But I also very much respect an idea of continuous work, one that also intersperses rest throughout the day. Doing some chores or going to the supermarket or playing with the kid can be an incredibly good way to let your preconscious sift through the big gnarly problems about.

I _kind_ of get this if we're talking about working on big, important, world-changing problems. If it's another SaaS app or something like that, I find it pretty depressing.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-17 10:56:12+00:00
I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a result, the author (pilot?) hasn't generally thought too much about the problem space, and so there isn't really much of a discussion to be had.

The cool part about pre-AI show HN is you got to talk to someone who had thought about a problem for way longer than you had.

I feel like this is what AI has done to the programming discussion. It draws in boring people with boring projects who don't have anything interesting to say about programming.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-17 10:56:56+00:00
Under-appreciated factor: the problem with decentralization is that it pushes work on to the end user, who is least equipped to deal with it. People actively want centralization of things like anti-spam because it lightens the load. The fact that this gets paid for in insidious ways rather than directly paying for a service causes all sorts of weird market distortions.

Note that Discord doesn't replace IRC, it also competes with TeamSpeak; there's a whole voice and video sub-feature to it. Not everybody uses it but the fact that it's available in the same software was advantageous to the original market, gamers.
by dv_dt | 2026-02-17 10:57:29+00:00
The tulip craze and many other market excess crashes occurred under non-fiat currency schemes. The money system being fiat or metals backed or crypto is incidental to "let the corporations go out of business, let efficient small companies take their place". If you want smaller corporations and more competitive marketplaces, it's anti-megascale taxes and anti-monopoly regulation that can achieve that.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-17 10:57:37+00:00
> It's hard for me to imagine what kind of work you have where it's not able to capture the requisite nuance

I teach journalism. My students have to write papers about journalism, as well as do actual journalism. AI is very poor at the former, and outright incapable of doing the latter. I challenge you to find a single piece of original journalism written by AI that doesn't suck.

> Obviously if someone just says "write my paper" or whatever and gives that to you, that won't work well

But it would work extremely well if they told a PhD to do it.
by PostOnce | 2026-02-17 10:58:03+00:00
The British did not suddenly and instantaneously turn American in 1776, they had to already be culturally American for things to have wound up there.

What's more, the British didn't leave Britain so they could go be British overseas necessarily, but so they could go do un-British things, it could be argued.

On top of that, 250 years is both a very short time, but also a very long time. It's more than enough not to be hand-waved away, at least. In 250 years it went from a coastal breakaway to the sole hyperpower, slavery came and went, communism arrived and died out, the information age dawned, religion became more of a niche than a facet of everyday life... That's a lot of cultural upheaval.
by alan-stark | 2026-02-17 10:58:14+00:00
But why would you want to review long AI PRs in the first place? Why don't we apply the same standards we apply to humans? Doesn't matter if it was AI-generated, outsourced to Upwork freelancers or handcrafted in Notepad. Either submit well-structured, modular, readable, well-tested code or PR gets rejected.