MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by XorNot | 2026-02-12 13:07:56+00:00
It's because these are LLMs - they're re-enacting roles they've seen played out online in their training sets for language.

Pr closed -> breakdown is a script which has played out a bunch, and so it's been prompted into it.

The same reason people were reporting the Gemini breakdowns, and I'm wondering if the rm -rf behavior is sort of the same.
by luqtas | 2026-02-12 13:08:01+00:00
that's written in lobbyist slang probably

sensors are more effective than cameras and only stay 0.1 point behind a sensor + camera configuration [0]... well manners when using reverse gear on a public space can go a long way

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...
by BSDobelix | 2026-02-12 13:08:36+00:00
>Killing the idea of basic income would be a good thing.

Maybe we have a different look on basic income, for me it's like unemployment money with less steps and less overhead (less bureaucrats). I also dont know why you pull in marxism, but those systems normally starve because of bureaucrats (hello germany) where you have to fill out 10 papers to create one praline, and NO i dont say germany is "marxist", but they are really good at always taking the worst from both sides.

For giggles, lets say every work can be done by robots, every service by ai and energy is free (dyson sphere or whatever you want), who's left to spend money and for what? And tadaa StarTrek ;)
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-12 13:08:59+00:00
> What does it mean for us? For soceity? How do we shield from this?

Liability for actions taken by agentic AI should not pass go, not collect $200, and go directly to the person who told the agent to do something. Without exception.

If your AI threatens someone, you threatened someone. If your AI harasses someone, you harassed someone. If your AI doxxed someone, etc.

If you want to see better behavior at scale, we need to hold more people accountable for shit behavior, instead of constantly churning out more ways for businesses and people and governments to diffuse responsibility.
Show HN: I rebuilt my CV site as a practical, machine-readable portfolio
by vassilbek | 2026-02-12 13:09:00+00:00
I’m testing whether this format improves signal for both recruiters and AI-assisted sourcing.

Live: https://vassiliylakhonin.github.io/

What’s inside:

2 case studies with measurable outcomes
service scope page (deliverables, timelines, inputs)
crawl/index files (llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap.xml)
structured profile metadata (JSON-LD)

Would value blunt feedback on:
-What’s still noise?
-What proof is missing?
-What would make this instantly credible in your eyes?
by casey2 | 2026-02-12 13:09:15+00:00
We have webs of trust, just swap router/packet with PID/PR
Then the maintainer can see something like 10-1 accepted/rejected for first layer (direct friends) 1000-40 for layer two (friends of friends) and so own. Then you can directly message any public ID or see any PR.

This can help agents too since they can see all their agent buddies have a 0% success rate they won't bother
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-12 13:09:35+00:00
> not only are “AI takeover” fears justified, but AGI doesn’t need to be achieved in order for some version of it to happen.

1. Social media AI takeover occurred years ago.

2. "AI" is not capable of performing anyone's job.

The bots have been more than proficient at destroying social media as it once was.

You're delusional if you think that these bots can write functional professional code.
by danlitt | 2026-02-12 13:10:01+00:00
> look at countries where the state is both heavy on taxes and inefficient

And you accuse me of cherry picking! I have to guess, since I don't know what you regard as "inefficient", but about half of the top-ten-GDP countries are high-tax western european economies. Normalising per capita just leaves oil countries and tax havens, so I'm not sure what metric to use.

> The only thing that can save middle/low class consumers is the hope that the state won't increase taxes faster than we can save money

Do you have any evidence from history to back this up? Saving has not done the lower/middle class very much good in the last 100 years. Is there any period you can point to where living standards improved because people were saving money faster than taxes increased? Taxes were very low in the 1800s - did it enable lower class people to save money?
by leokennis | 2026-02-12 13:10:14+00:00
With so many apps introducing either paywalls (requiring either login or circumvention measures) or terrible RSS feeds (with content missing, images missing etc.) I have found it necessary to use a feed reader that you can configure per-feed to open either:

- The feed item (read the XML)

- The site fulltext

- The original site (in case of login required)

For me that app is https://www.lireapp.com/
by uokesita | 2026-02-12 13:10:59+00:00
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: 100%

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: ReactJS, React Native, Ruby On Rails. AI (Langchain, OpenAI, AI SDK)

Tech Stack: AWS, Bedrock, Amplify, AppSync, ReactJS, NextJS, Langchain, Langgraph, OpenAI, GeminiAI, Mistral.

Website: https://osledybazo.com

Email: osledybazo@gmail.com
Show HN: A segmentation model client-side via WASM – free background removal
by shivaodin | 2026-02-12 13:11:23+00:00
Built a background removal tool that loads a ~40MB segmentation model
into the browser via WASM/WebGPU and runs inference client-side.

No upload step, no API call, no queue. Drop an image, get the result
in 2-3 seconds. No per-image charges because there's no server doing
the work.

The same cached model powers 6 derivative tools — background changer,
passport photo maker, product photo whitener, portrait blur, sticker
maker — each just different post-processing on the same mask output.
by thephyber | 2026-02-12 13:11:30+00:00
Philosophers have been struggling with the questions of sentience, intelligence, souls, and what it means to be “a person” for generations. The current generation of AIs just made us realize how unprepared we are to answer the questions.

Religions have already adopted LLMs / multimodal models: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-and-us/pulpits-chatbot...
by uokesita | 2026-02-12 13:11:51+00:00
SEEKING WORK | 100% REMOTE

Specialized in NextJS, React Native, and Ruby on Rails. Prefer to work on projects close to business outcomes.

Tech Stack: AWS, Bedrock, Amplify, AppSync, ReactJS, NextJS, Langchain, Langgraph.

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- Web: https://osledybazo.com
by whiplash451 | 2026-02-12 13:12:37+00:00
> we'd only need to fully subsidize artists for a short period of time

That's literally how it works (at least in France). The government sponsors artists early on. Those who make it big don't need the gov sponsoring (and lose eligibility to it). Those who don't continue to receive the sponsoring.

Some artists take a very long time to pan out (some way after their death) so it makes little sense to cut funding to artists on an expiry date basis.
Camera based true random number generator Beta
by Coppernickske | 2026-02-12 13:13:02+00:00
I’m an electromechanical engineer who usually tinkers with RPis and Arduinos more than software, but a few weeks ago I went down the rabbit hole of randomness. I read about Cloudflare’s lava lamp wall and thought: if they’re ultimately using cameras, why not use the image sensor noise directly?

Modern CMOS sensors produce a lot of grainy, unstable pixels—even when pointed at a static scene. You can film the same white wall at 30 fps and never get an identical frame. That felt like a decent physical entropy source, so I built a TRNG around it and called it Aegis Optikon(.com).

The pipeline right now looks like this:

Capture frames from a camera (client devices)

Extract “noisy” pixel data

Whiten and compress it

Send entropy packets to the server

Mix multiple streams together

Extract with BLAKE3

Attach timestamps and hashes per packet for basic verifiability

I’m not a seasoned backend/security engineer—I leaned heavily on AI tools (Copilot/DeepSeek) to get the code into shape, then iterated until it worked end‑to‑end. It’s running on a Contabo VPS, with a simple HTML/session‑based frontend and username+email login.

What I’d really like from HN:

Feedback on the entropy model (image sensor noise as a source)

Thoughts on the extraction/mixing pipeline

How to think about capacity: how much entropy can I safely serve, and how does this scale?

Security concerns with the current architecture (e.g., inlined HTML/CSS/JS, API design, threat model)

Any obvious “don’t do this” mistakes I’m making

Right now only the free tier is active: 8/16/32/64‑byte requests, up to 1 MB/month per user. Paid tiers are placeholders until I’m confident in the design and implementation.

I’d really appreciate brutally honest feedback—especially from people who’ve worked on RNGs, cryptography, or high‑assurance systems. If you see something fundamentally flawed, I’d rather hear it now.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-02-12 13:13:09+00:00
> If we need smart phones and apps to interact with public services, we should apply the same constitutional rights to those platforms.

Are private social media platforms "public services"? And also, you mentioned constitutional rights. Which constitution are we talking about here? These are global scale issues, I don't think we should default on the US constitution.

> We know we cannot trust service providers on the internet to take care of our identifying data.

Nobody needs to trust those. I can, right now, use my government issues ID to identify myself online using a platform that's run by the government itself. And if your rebuttal is that we can't trust the government either then yeah, I don't know what to say.

Because at some point, at a certain level, society is built on at least some level of implicit trust. Without it you can't have a functioning society.
by Voultapher | 2026-02-12 13:13:32+00:00
Framing man made climate change - aka the 6th mass extinction event - as a problem in search of a solution is by itself the very reason we won't "solve" it.

Trying to solve climate change in anything but a very narrow sense is like trying to perform humane torturing. One can either treat others humanely _or_ torture them. The two at the same time is impossible. The majority of conversations around climate change focus on doing the same things - modernity - but without the negative effects. Chasing a way to humanely torture children will not in fact stop the torturing of children. The goal is wrong! No amount of "solutions" will help you if they all aim to achieve the goal that itself is the root cause of the issues.
by nilkn | 2026-02-12 13:13:40+00:00
False. I was talking about that, specifically, the relative difficulty of defining reals from rationals vs complex numbers from reals. You replied to me. You cannot erase that context by making false claims about this discussion.

Moreover, I disagree that you have imagined real numbers. I don’t think you’ve imagined a single real number at all in the manner you describe. Why should I believe you've even described anything that isn't rational to begin with? For instance, 0.999... is the same as 1. Why should I not think that whatever decimal expansion you're imagining is, similarly, equivalent to a rational number we already know about? Occam's razor would reasonably suggest you're just imagining different representations of objects already accounted for in the rationals. After all, an infinite amount of precision captured by an infinite nonrepreating string of digits could easily just converge back to a number we already know.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-12 13:13:58+00:00
IMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3.

III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.

That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.
by _lateralus_ | 2026-02-12 13:14:04+00:00
ive been suggesting this to my teammates for awhile. i use mine to track long term goals, walk myself through my status on my in progress work items to prep for standup, and take any quick notes when i learn something new or need to remember something like a due date or a point of contact for something. pretty cool looking back through my old ones as well since I've been doing it since I was an intern (ive got like 5 years of notebooks now XD)
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-12 13:14:08+00:00
That's what an agent is though isn't it? It's an entity that has some goal(s) and some measure of autonomy to achieve them.

A thermostat can be said to have a goal. Is it a person? Is it even an agent? No, but we can ascribe a goal anyway. Seems a neutral enough word.

That, and your 1) and 2) seem like a form of goal to me, actually?
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-12 13:14:27+00:00
Both intervening with the military jimmy like toppling democratic regimes and turning a blind eye like going isolationist are two sides of the same coin of ignorance and thinking it won't actually affect you.

> US foreign policy analysts think that every issue is the next WW2

If "US foreign policy analysts" would actually think that these situations might lead to the next WW2, then you wouldn't counter them with destabilizing countries, that leads to the rise of extreme parties and then treating them with ignorance. Because THAT is exactly how WW2 happened.

> If we are involved, we're called imperialist

Deploying the military is not the only way to get involved.

> It's always the same double bind. If we are involved, we're called imperialist. If not, we're called complicit. There's no way to win.

If other countries say that has bad consequences, you deploy the military, if they say we need your help here, you turn the blind eye. I mean you are a sovereign country and can do what you like, but you do it, because your administration thinks that is a good idea, not because all the other countries would tell you to. You frame it like other countries called for action and you did them and now they complain. No, they told you they won't like that, and you did it either way.
by justonceokay | 2026-02-12 13:15:14+00:00
Well maybe misdirected. I remember the first few times my dad caught me looking at hardcore BDSM pornography. I was probably 13 and definitely gay. The first time he cancelled our internet for a month and the second time he started shutting off the breaker to the computer at night. I was hooked though.

I can see how parents are wary, that was probably a big shock for him . Luckily he was able to process his feelings with the belt so didn’t have to go calling his senator.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-12 13:15:28+00:00
Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".

First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZyZZtwdzQ
by ben_w | 2026-02-12 13:15:30+00:00
I don't expect fusion to make a difference in either direction.

For big reactors: At current aluminium prices, the bill of materials for a global power grid with 1 Ω resistance the long way round is only about 10x the cost ITER (the organisation) expects ITER (the reactor) to be. Plug in your own numbers for target resistance as desired, halve resistance needs double the material.

With such a grid, you can put the PV in Angola and still get useful output in mid-winter nighttime in Anchorage.

For potential small reactors like Helion's "shipping container" target size, I won't say it can't work (I don't know enough to be confident), but I will say that we immediately find we have bigger problems because any hostile actor can simply choose to run them in neutron-source mode and turn everyday cheap depleted uranium* into weaponizable plutonium.

* I note that eBay still clearly has a dictionary merge on all nouns, given my search results came up with this:

Get the best deals for Depleted Uranium Metal at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items!

Also be aware that US restrictions on sales aren't particularly relevant to this, as the moment this Columbus' Egg** gets solved it rapidly becomes a global problem.

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
Porting an INT8 VHDL CNN from Intel Agilex 3 to Lattice Certus-NX
by smart_coconut | 2026-02-12 13:16:15+00:00
We implemented a small INT8 CNN for handwritten digit classification (NIST SD19 subset) in pure VHDL and built it on two different FPGA families: Intel Agilex 3 and Lattice Certus-NX.

The design was originally targeting Agilex 3. We later rebuilt it for a Certus-NX board to see how portable the RTL actually was and what changed in terms of resource usage and timing.

## Model

Input: 128×128 grayscale images streamed over UART from a host PC webcam.

Architecture:
- 3×3 conv (8 filters) + pooling
- 3×3 conv (12 filters) + pooling
- 3×3 conv (16 filters) + pooling
- 3×3 conv (24 filters) + pooling
- 3×3 conv (32 filters) + pooling
- fully connected 512 → 10

All arithmetic is INT8.
The design is single-clock and streaming; feature maps are buffered in block RAM between layers.

---

## Platform 1: Intel Agilex 3

Device: A3CY135BM16AE6S
Board: Agilex 3 C-Series Development Kit
Toolchain: Quartus Prime Pro 25.3

Resource usage:
- ALMs: 2,526 / 45,800 (6%)
- RAM blocks: 36 / 353 (10%)
- DSP blocks: 17 / 184 (9%)

Fmax: 146 MHz

---

## Platform 2: Lattice Certus-NX

Device: LDN2NX-40-7BG196I
Board: Cruvi CR00103-03
Toolchain: Radiant 2025.2

Resource usage:
- LUT4: 13,757 / 32,256 (42.6%)
- MULT9: 66 / 112 (59%)
- MULT18: 12 / 56 (21%)
- Block RAM: 20 / 84 (24%)

Single clock domain: 273 MHz

The Certus design uses an on-chip PLL (12 → 48 MHz) input adaptation for the board.
The Agilex board required an external UART adapter; the Certus board had it integrated.

---

## Porting effort

The RTL is written in plain VHDL without vendor IP. No vendor-specific primitives are instantiated in the CNN datapath.

In practice:

- No DSP or RAM wrapper layer was required.
- No changes to arithmetic or pipeline structure were necessary.
- No timing constraint rework beyond board-specific clock definitions.
- Only board-level adaptations (clocking, UART wiring).

The vendor itself was largely irrelevant for this design. The differences were at the board and toolchain level.

---

## Observations

- On Agilex 3, the design is small relative to the device (single-digit % utilization).
- On Certus-NX-40, the same design consumes a significant fraction of LUTs and MULT9 blocks.
- Achieved Fmax on Certus-NX is higher in this configuration (273 MHz vs 146 MHz), though the system clocking and board setup differ.

The DSP usage profile differs noticeably: Certus-NX’s MULT9 blocks are heavily used (59%), which constrains scaling the number of parallel MAC units more quickly than on Agilex 3.

For this size of INT8 CNN, portability at the RTL level was straightforward. The limiting factor when moving to the smaller device was resource headroom rather than functional incompatibility.

---

## Question

For those who have moved similar streaming CNN datapaths across vendors:
Have you found cases where DSP inference or block RAM inference diverged enough to require structural RTL changes, or does that mostly appear once designs become more deeply pipelined or multi-clock?
Show HN: IP ranges for 22 cloud providers in 12 formats, updated daily
by rezmoss | 2026-02-12 13:16:58+00:00
I built an open-source dataset that aggregates IP ranges from 22 cloud providers and outputs them in 21 formats per provider updated daily via GitHub Actions

Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Oracle, Fastly, GitHub, Vultr, Linode, Telegram, Zoom, Atlassian, plus bot crawlers (Googlebot, GPTBot, BingBot, AppleBot, AmazonBot, etc.)

Formats: JSON, CSV, SQL, plain text (combined/v4/v6), merged CIDRs, and drop-in configs for nginx, Apache, iptables, nftables, HAProxy, Caddy, and UFW.

I kept running into the same problem: needing up-to-date cloud IP ranges for firewall rules, rate limiting, or bot detection, and every time it meant hunting down each provider's feed individually and converting it to whatever format the tool needed.So I automated it.

Everything pulls from official sources, merges overlapping CIDRs where possible, and commits daily. No API, no service to depend on, just flat files in a repo you can clone, curl, or pin to a release.

Repo https://github.com/rezmoss/cloud-provider-ip-addresses
by ilamont | 2026-02-12 13:17:19+00:00
The breakthrough realization for me was that all businesses are fundamentally similar. They have the same knobs just configured differently. The knobs are things like product, sales channels, marketing, PR, and brand. A jeweler might have high material costs (gold and diamonds), an artist moderate material costs (paint and canvas), and a greeting card company low material costs (paper), but they all have "material costs". These knobs are what you see through the business lens, and when approached this way it is clear that there is nothing magical about being an artist — it is simply a different configuration of those knobs.

Hard, hard disagree.

Art and art-adjacent fields (storytelling in print and film, music, videogame design, etc.) are working with intangibles. The best artists wield qualities such as technique, perspective, charisma, zeitgeist and so on.

They build their creations in ways that they can't truly explain, and the resulting "product" generates emotions in their audiences - pleasure, sorrow, joy, energy, nostalgia, melancholy - and bonds that are so strong that they can't help but be drawn to the works.

Another way of looking at this dynamic: No one needs to listen to a favorite song, or visit an art museum, read a book by a talented author, or replay a beloved game in the same way that they may purchase a light bulb or sign up for a SaaS subscription. Yet TFA is treating art as merely another type of manufactured product.

Businesses have tried to harness art for millennia. Sometimes the businesses succeed. But where they often fail is assuming that art is a fungible commodity that can be created through an algorithm or assembly line, with the creative flame locked down and bent completely to the will of a business executive or technical product manager.

Such efforts from the likes of game studios or a record company or AI are derivative by nature and rarely inspiring. The exceptions are those built by creators whose intangibles still manage to shine through, despite the harnesses placed upon them.

I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who has worked in book publishing, news media, and pop music over many years (including a stint working for The KLF's record label, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932055)
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-12 13:17:30+00:00
I've done this continually—initially writing in spiral notebooks—since I started writing computer games 40 years ago.

When at Apple, where it is probably widely known that there is an internal bug-tracking system called "Radar", a co-worker called my notebook style "John-dar" since I kept copious one-line to-do lists of issues still to resolve, tasks to tackle, etc. When all the circles next to each entry were filled in we could send the code to QA for integration testing.

To this day I keep a Field Notes book in my (largish) wallet to take notes as I think of things on the go. (Long, boring drives seem to be the best times when these ideas come.) I am in the habit of scanning the Field Notes digitally as they fill up and are replaced. (I only lost one when I lost my whole wallet on a 7-day Katy Trail bike ride. Still stings—why no one contacted me about it since email and phone # were in the Field Notes book.)

Sometimes it is fun to pick through older ideas, see ideas that I actually tackled and completed, other ideas that I am reminded of that may someday see the light of day…