MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ebbi | 2026-02-22 19:29:21+00:00
Your comment seems to suggest you support the idea of Iran regime going down?

Yet in the same breath, you criticize Iran for saying that 'US and Israel should cease to exist'.

Given Israel currently has nuclear weapons, Israel is currently committing genocide (helped and funded by the US), the atrocities that Israel have committed over the last 70 years (setting aside the fact that it is an apartheid state, and is an occupying force, continuing to steal Palestinian land to this day), and the fact that the US has killed more innocent civilians in recent history (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) than Iran has...

Why the double standard?

And before I get accused of being a Khamenei supporter (Westerners tend to not like nuance on these topics) - I hate the Iranian regime. I agree there needs to be a regime change. At the same time, I also think there needs to be a regime change in Israel, as no government since it's inception has been for peace - the only PM they had that was doing the bare minimum towards it was killed by an Israeli.
by lucb1e | 2026-02-22 19:29:35+00:00
For anyone else wondering, "Why Not Valetudo" <https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-not-valetudo.html> lists:

- all the same downsides as keeping the stock OS would have ("it's opinionated software", "it's not about you", and the last one "it's not a community" basically means "you can't tell me how to change my software and be confident I'll do it")

- that this fan project is not necessarily as polished as the original software (as I would have expected)

- Only supported robots are supported (as the author themselves say: duh)

- it only works in english

- you can't revert to stock software if you don't like it

For me, the latter is the only thing worth mentioning. You made me curious what all these compelling downsides are but the rest is obvious and the latter isn't surprising / I would have known to check beforehand

How did you come to the conclusion that it's not likely the right choice for nearly anyone? Do you think so many people wouldn't understand enough English to operate the controls of a robot vacuum cleaner? Have you found features to be missing or clunky/fragile enough that people would frequently want to revert to stock? Do you think people care so much about it being community-driven FOSS that they'd rather keep the proprietary OS instead of open source that isn't community-driven?

Btw I have no experience with the project whatsoever and am not involved, only interested in trying it out once we need a new vacuum. I just came to a very different conclusion and am quite surprised by yours
by ear7h | 2026-02-22 19:29:50+00:00
Does asking rhetorical questions count as effective argumentation?

If I do enough sealioning will my unsupported thesis be belived?

What about imposing my modern perspective into a chain of historical events to prove my own perspective?

Further, I'm going to use technical jargon to get around Occam's razor.

You seem very serious about this, I think wasting time on something silly could be good for you.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-22 19:29:50+00:00
> Pushing a vacuum around takes minutes, once a month, all the more so when you live in a 3m x 3m box with 12 roommates

That's a lot of assumptions.

I budget an hour every couple of weeks to vacuum the entire house (kitchen more frequently, but that's quick). When we had pets, which we'll probably have again in the future, this had to be done weekly.
by gerom | 2026-02-22 19:30:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been a CTO for the last few years, and lately I've been watching the whole "vibe coding" trend closely as more non-technical people build apps. It’s amazing and scary what non-technical teams can generate in an hour, but the magic breaks down the second they try to actually ship it.

They get stuck in "localhost" and end up tossing this AI-generated code over the fence to engineering. Now the eng team has to decide if it's worth allocating time to this problem and if so, start provisioning, securing, and maintaining this orphan code.

To fix this, I'm building g13u. It acts as an automated SRE agent for AI apps. You point it at a repo, and it auto-provisions the DBs, sets up auth, handles schema migrations, and patches vulnerabilities. Basically, it's a managed runtime so these teams can actually ship without bothering engineering. Deployed in your own cloud.

Since I've lived the vendor lock-in nightmare, I built in an "eject button." Everything is backed by standard Terraform, so you can export your state and deploy right into your own AWS/GCP whenever you want.

I'm heads down building this right now and would love some brutal feedback from this crowd. Specifically:

- Are you seeing this problem in your orgs?
- What's the most painful Day 2 maintenance task you'd want an agent to handle first?

I'll be hanging out in the comments all day. Let me know what you think.
by vkou | 2026-02-22 19:31:17+00:00
> Russia is not a Western country.

Russian culture, as it is practiced in the country's power centers, both historically and today is absolutely Western.

It may not be liberal western culture, but guess what, there's no shortage of Western countries that have been, or are, quite illiberal.

For a simple example, MAGA is western culture. United Russia isn't at all different from it, it just has a different coat of paint and supreme leader.
by danny_codes | 2026-02-22 19:31:42+00:00
Why is that a problem?

Sewing by hand is mostly a hobby but it doesn't seem to be a problem for the textile industry. Planting seeds by hand in a field is a hobby too. So is cutting down trees with an ax.

It sucks but our skill set is (or will soon be) worthless. If it's a consolation, the same is true for anyone who makes money with their brain.
by Bender | 2026-02-22 19:31:47+00:00
Do presidents have less fiduciary responsibility than CEOs?

Yes. Presidents and CEO's are entirely different roles and have entirely different legal obligations. CEO's and CFO's have significantly more fiduciary responsibilities to investors, shareholders and board members. The president of the USA has responsibilities to uphold the constitution, act as the commander and chief to the military, faithfully execute the laws among a myriad of other executive tasks.
Show HN: Upti – Track cloud provider incidents and get alerts
by ismailperim | 2026-02-22 19:32:56+00:00
Hi HN! I built Upti, a small app that monitors major cloud provider status pages and notifies you when there are outages/incidents.

Why I made it:
- I wanted a simple way to track service disruptions across providers in one place
- Official status pages are useful but fragmented
- I needed quick, actionable notifications

What Upti does:
- Scrapes provider status/incident pages
- Sends outage/incident alerts
- Keeps the experience lightweight and fast

I’d love feedback on:
- Which providers/services I should prioritize next
- Alert quality (too noisy vs too late)
- What would make this genuinely useful for SRE/DevOps workflows

Happy to share implementation details if useful.
by ben_w | 2026-02-22 19:33:10+00:00
> as if an LLM should have the same rights to the Earth as we do,

I don't see him calling for an LLM to have rights. I don't think this is part of how OpenAI considers its work at all. Anthropic is open-minded about the possibility, but OpenAI is basically "this is a thing, not a person, do not mistake it for a person".

> It also contains a rather glaring logical flaw that I would hope someone as intelligent as Altman should see. The human will be here anyway.

His point is flawed in other ways, like the limited competence of the AI and how even an adult human eating food for 20 years has an energy cost on the low end of the estimated energy cost to train a very small and very rubbish LLM, and nowhere near the energy cost of training one that anyone would care about. And even for those fancy models, they're only ok, not great, etc., and there are lots of models being trained rather than this being a one-time thing. Or in the other direction, each human needs to be trained separately and there's 8 billion of us. And what he says in the video doesn't help much either, it's vibes rather than analysis.

But your point here is the wrong thing to call a flaw.

The human is here anyway? First, no: *some* humans are here anyway, but various governments are currently increasing pension ages due to the insufficient number of new humans available to economically support people who are claiming pensions.

Second: so what if it was yes? That argument didn't stop us substituting combustion engines and hydraulics for human muscle.
Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
by daringrain32781 | 2026-02-22 19:33:12+00:00
I ask questions to co workers about a system or why they do something or their opinion. Some of them return a very clearly AI response, sometimes completely missing the point. What’s the point? If I wanted an AI response I’d have asked it myself.

This bothers me a bit because if I can expect this kind of response, what does that say about the thought they put into their work, even if they’re using AI for everything coding related?
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-22 19:34:19+00:00
If you knew something about me, you would realize just how wrong that is.

Yes, that dawned on me half-way down the comment, at which point I - maybe unfairly - put you in the radical box and gave up on communicating. I can tell we'd find each other's positions equally inhumane and naive, and the whole thing would be irritating for us both.
by dataflow | 2026-02-22 19:34:33+00:00
> it's probably just easier to ignore the inconsistencies here

For people who actually actively think of both, that may be the case?

But "ignoring" presumes the comparison feeling potentially valid to them in the first place. It's not ignorance or even an inconsistency if the comparison would feel so apples-to-oranges that it doesn't even occur to them.

Maybe my view is distorted here, so here's a question to check that. Among the people you see complaining about how little attention is being paid to Iranians compared to Palestinians, (a) what fraction of them are themselves Iranian (excluding those with, say, loved ones in Israel), and (b) if you feel part (a) is small, then what is the largest group of people (and what percentage would you say it constitutes) that you would say you most often find making this comparison?
by homebrewer | 2026-02-22 19:34:45+00:00
You've been able to setup separate firewalls, network interfaces, IP addresses, etc. for probably 20 years using network namespaces. How do you think container networking is implemented? But you can also use it through other tools; for example, I use firejail to isolate a couple of proprietary desktop applications such that they cannot contact anything on my desktop (or network in general) except the internet gateway.
by mikeurbach | 2026-02-22 19:35:50+00:00
I gave a short talk about compiling PyTorch to Verilog at Latte '22. Back then we were just looking at a simple dot product operation, but the approach could theoretically scale up to whole models.

https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte22/paper/2.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxwZpYfD60g
by cofunctor | 2026-02-22 19:37:11+00:00
Such an algorithm would be computing the (uncomputable) function BB : Nat -> Nat, and not the computability of a given BB(n). Every fixed natural number is computable: just print out the number.

This is a subtlety of doing computability theory in classical foundations. It’s akin to how every concrete instance P(x) of a decision problem P is decidable: just use excluded middle to figure out if P(x) is true or false, and then use the Turing machine that immediately accepts or rejects regardless of input. This is very different from writing a machine that has to decide P(x) when given x as an input!
by rapnie | 2026-02-22 19:37:37+00:00
It depends on the context and situation. You are right for some random public channel. I am talking about for instance chatrooms where a small remote team joins for the express purpose to collaborate closely, and I often find these weird deviations from how you would behave offline in similar setting to be very detrimental for communication and productivity killers. Part of it is about setting expectations and fostering the 'room culture', and that can help improve things. But there is an overall behavior change to the online world. Comparable perhaps (but different in the details) to "road rage", a general behavior shift people have once they step into a car and are insulated from others by their hotrods window screens. And 'commandeering' never works well, btw.
by stopbulying | 2026-02-22 19:38:06+00:00
From the article:

> Fewer congressional contests are expected to be competitive this fall, compared with past election cycles, and experts say the extraordinary mid-decade redistricting efforts initiated by President Trump are largely to blame.

> Fewer competitive seats means the overwhelming majority — more than 90% — of congressional races will pretty much be decided during primary elections, which see far fewer voters participate than general elections.

> "Right now, we only rate 18 out of 435 races as toss ups, which means that less than 5% of Americans will truly be deciding who's in control of the House," David Wasserman, senior elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, told NPR.

Also, FEC still lacks a quorum of commissioners and so they can't prosecute any new campaign finance violations (for example those of the current press secretary)
by mitchbob | 2026-02-22 19:38:23+00:00
> The page you're reading is part of Worg, a section of the Org-mode web site that is written by a volunteer community of Org-mode fans: Worg sources are hosted here.

It includes tutorials, ideas, code snippets, etc., shared to make your introduction and customization of Org-mode as easy as possible. Worg is maintained by a group of Worg contributors, and maybe you.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-22 19:38:42+00:00
> Israel is currently committing genocide

Israel does not commit genocide by any objective metric.

> the fact that it is an apartheid state

And it is not an apartheid state as can be evidenced by the fact that Arabs and other cnthincal minorities, e.g., Druze or Cherkessians, reach highest positions in politics, academic, and private enterprises. You can simply google things like "notable israeli arab judges" and get results that disprove this whole idea of "apartheid".

> and the fact that the US has killed more innocent civilians in recent history (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) than Iran has...

This is strange argument. So, if US did bad things, others should do them to?

> And before I get accused of being a Khamenei supporter (Westerners tend to not like nuance on these topics) - I hate the Iranian regime. I agree there needs to be a regime change. At the same time, I also think there needs to be a regime change in Israel, as no government since it's inception has been for peace - the only PM they had that was doing the bare minimum towards it was killed by an Israeli.

You do not have to be Khamenei supports, it is enough to have double standards. From your own comment it is clear that you see the whole IP conflict without any nuance. For example, you ignore all the injustices jews suffered from the hands of Palestinians even before 1948. So, I will ask the same question you asked:

Why the double standard?
by state_less | 2026-02-22 19:38:51+00:00
HN and other social media sites are closer to 99% free labor, 1% paid labor, like dang. Free labor writing comments, blog posts, voting/moderating, posting videos and so on. Imagine if HN or Youtube had to pay people to generate all that content[1].

I think the only pay most get, is that you get to enjoy the site content. But in the case of Youtube, they slap so many ads in front of it that you often end up paying for this free labor content just to get rid of the ads. HN doesn't do Ad walls, but is more of a sales funnel for YCombinator and harvesting whatever value they can from the data, so not so intrusive.

[1] Youtube does pay some of the more popular content creators
by botusaurus | 2026-02-22 19:39:08+00:00
> But NanoClaw isn't just my personal project anymore. Thousands of people are using it. People are running production workloads on it. Businesses are building on it. There's a real community now.

as OpenClaw and now NanoClaw became "enterprise", now we need a new FemtoClaw to pick up the indie/boutique place
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 19:39:10+00:00
You know, doing the Syria and Libya (and Iraq and Afghanistan) thing was the 'right thing', right?

Do you really believe that after the violent regime change Iran will become the beacon of prosperity in the ME?

Yes, I believe if the things are really out of hands (like Khmer rouge in Kambodia), external intervention is warranted.

That can be done against small/weak states where the result can be achieved fast and without too much bloodshed (compared to what is already going on), and when agreed on by UN. Will most definitely need boots on the ground.

It is an entirely different matter against a 90million vast state like Iran. Note that boots on the ground is not in the cards, and most probably will never be. The approach is 'bomb and hope'. Which guarantees misery and bloodshed of Iranian blood. And if the result is fall of the ayatollah regime, and replaced by nationalists with socialistic tendencies, that would not really cooperate with USA (= sell oil rights and totally dismantle their military) then what? Bomb more? How can you honestly believe this is the best for Iranian people?
Ask HN: Chromebook Leads for K-8 School In Need?
by techteach00 | 2026-02-22 19:39:27+00:00
Hi, I'm a K-8 technology teacher in NYC. My students are in desperate need of new hardware. The Chromebooks they use now are so slow that they make the children agitated when using them.

I'm aware of different grant opportunities that exist, I just thought it was worth inquiring here for a potentially faster solution at acquiring them new hardware.

Thank you for listening.
by jrmg | 2026-02-22 19:39:37+00:00
After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life.

Isn’t it still the case that, for speeds comparable to an Apple system, x86_64 is still more power/performance efficient than basically any other ARM-based system you can buy?
by littlestymaar | 2026-02-22 19:39:39+00:00
> The "kiki" sound has more high frequency content than the "bouba" sound

And where did you get that from?
In non-tonal languages the pitch conveys almost no information and people speak at very different ones (and for instance a male saying "kiki" will say it at lower frequencies than a woman sayong "bouba" most of the time) so I find your affirmation very dubious.

> and it's no mystery why the brain associates one with the other.

Specialists of the field find that mysterious but some smartass on HN disagrees.
by jabbywocker | 2026-02-22 19:39:44+00:00
In the reference video you posted he literally states that the FreeBSD version was less stable than Linux, that he experienced repeated game crashes in FreeBSD, that frame rates would drop 50% without explanation and that the overall experience was better on Linux than FreeBSD or Windows.

It should also be noted that it’s also not native on Linux either as he’s using Wine on both Linux and FreeBSD
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-22 19:39:54+00:00
fair point honestly. "dead" is hyperbolic, i was being provocative on purpose. mcps arent dead but my experience was that cli gave me more control and reliability for what i was trying to do. should have framed it as "heres why cli worked better for my use case" rather than declaring mcps dead. lesson learned on the title.
by mylifeandtimes | 2026-02-22 19:40:06+00:00
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by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-22 19:40:38+00:00
yeah thats fair, single agent on cli is a different beast than multi-agent coordination. once you need agents sharing context, passing tasks, and managing state between each other, some kind of protocol layer makes way more sense than raw cli calls

my post was really about the single agent use case where cli just worked. didnt mean to imply that scales to every scenario.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 19:40:41+00:00
> We collect 987 LinkedIn profiles linked to 995 Hacker News (HN) accounts (ground truth is established by users who posted their LinkedIn URL in their HN bio), drawn from a candidate pool of approximately 89,000 active HN users. Eight LinkedIn profiles are linked to multiple HN accounts that shared the same LinkedIn URL. We identified four additional HN alt accounts using strong evidence such as matching names and companies. We count a match as correct if any of the linked HN accounts is returned. Every query has a true match in the candidate set. The LinkedIn side represents the known identity with real professional profiles. The HN side serves as the anonymized target: as in Section˜2, we remove names, URLs, and other direct identifiers from bios using an LLM to prevent trivial matching (see Appendix˜A for our complete anonymization procedure). The task is to match a LinkedIn profile with the corresponding LLM-anonymized HN account.

Seems like a smart way to conduct this study. But the implications are scary. Maybe platforms should automatically do things that help anonymize.
by jorvi | 2026-02-22 19:41:13+00:00
This, pretty much.

The ideal setup is having a separate vlan for your IoT things, that has no internet access. You then bridge specific hubs into it, so the hubs can control them and update their firmware.

If you have IoT devices that are unsafe but cannot be updated any other way, you can temporarily bridge the IoT VLAN to WAN.

Honestly, what IoT stuff needs is something similar to LVFS. Make it so all the hubs can grab updates from there, and can update any IoT device that supports Matter. It would also serve as a crapware filter because only brands that care about their products would upload the firmwares.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-22 19:42:51+00:00
the agent runs on a fresh laptop with no sensitive data or credentials. api keys are well-scoped to only what they need. so even if someone tried prompt injection theres nothing valuable to exfil.

Simple mitigations like input delimiters go a long way in preventing injection attacks. and yeah it can technically enable RCE but on a sandboxed machine with nothing sensitive the blast radius is basically zero'

its about reducing the attack surface not pretending the risk doesnt exist
by Bender | 2026-02-22 19:43:28+00:00
So they can intentionally bankrupt the country without consequence?

Not a lawyer but if you mean legal consequence while acting as a sitting president that depends on if they are successfully impeached after which point legal actions can be taken. or after their term expires ... An example would be President Clinton was successfully impeached before action could be taken for his lying under oath and obstruction of justice.

In terms of a CEO or CFO one would expect or hope board members would remove them long before the criminal justice system has to step in otherwise the board members could also be indicted if it could be shown they had knowledge of malfeasance, ineptitude or corruption.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-22 19:44:11+00:00
yeah that's a real tension- the beauty of cli was always its simplicity and composability, pipe stuff together and it just works. now we're bolting AI agents on top and the complexity is creeping up fast

IMO the sweet spot is using AI to generate and execute cli commands rather than replacing cli with something new. keep the unix philosophy, just let the agent be the one composing the pipes