MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcattle | 2026-02-13 11:01:21+00:00
It seems your opinion is that the current AI should be treated like a human.

I think this is a fundamental difference which we won't be able to overcome.

> Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds.

Let's try!

> I have a dream that [AI] will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by being [an LLM] but by the content of their character. I have a dream . . .

> I have a dream that one day on [Github], with its vicious racists, with its [Users] having [their] lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there [on Github] little [Agents] be able
to join hands with [humans] as sisters and brothers.

> I have a dream today . . .

Yea, I think it sounds ridiculous. I honestly find it offending to put AI on the same level as real human struggles of independence, freedom and against systematic oppression.
by tripzilch | 2026-02-13 11:02:08+00:00
> Well, my personal position is "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

You got that line from somewhere else. It was never intended to be taken literally, as should be obvious when you try to state its meaning in your own words.

If there actually were dogs on the Internet, we likely wouldn't be accepting their PRs either.

Nor is it commonly accepted that dogs should enjoy equal rights to humans. So what are you even trying to say here?

Just because someone dressed up three computer programs in a trench coat doesn't suddenly make people have to join in on the pretend game.

I also think we have a moral obligation to treat animals right, and to compare that to computer programs (but they talk!!) just because they talk?
by noduerme | 2026-02-13 11:02:12+00:00
Like, thank you. Obviously. This is why I don't want to start a public facing business and why it's almost impossible for a person with some good ideas and a modest savings account who could build something better to do it without putting themselves in a compromised position by taking investment. If you go it alone, you basically have to put your entire net worth on the line to see whether something works, and then the second it takes off, God help you you are going to be litigated or bullied into the ground. But I still kind of have some of that old 90s / early 2000s faith that I will one day hit upon the Big Idea that I can code and bootstrap myself, and turn a profit from day one when I launch it, and never need investors. I doubt a home camera system is the one. But I have a whole wall in my office with taped-up post-its and index cards and papers, each with hand-written startup ideas. Any of which I could conceivably code and profit from if I wasn't afraid to spend 6-12 months on it and thought it could survive the regulatory environment and everything else that might come with releasing it onto the world. And that's not my job - I just keep those up there and add to them for inspiration. I just want to make shit, not deal with the business of navigating the whole corrupt world of funding and kosherizing it.

Anyway, thanks.
by meinersbur | 2026-02-13 11:03:37+00:00
This is the WolfSSL maintainer's response[1]

> This ticket is rather long and has a lot of irrelevant content regarding this new topic. If I need to bring in a colleague I do not want them to have to wade through all the irrelevant context. If you would like, please open a new issue with regards to how we support middlebox compatibility.

The author turns this into:

> The GitHub issue comment left at the end leads me to believe that they aren't really interested in RFC compliance. There isn't a middleground here or a "different way" of implementing middlebox compatibility. It's either RFC compliant or not. And they're not.

This is a bad-faith interpretation of the maintainer's response. They only asked to open a new, more specific issue report. The maintainer always answered within minutes, which I find quite impressive (even after the author ghosted for months). The author consumed the maintainer's time and shouldn't get the blame for the author's problems.

[1]: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/9156
by CorporationHit | 2026-02-13 11:04:24+00:00
The core issue is an HTTP/2 Logic Bypass. Despite having security restrictions in place that should trigger a 403 or 401, the endpoint consistently returns an HTTP/2 200 OK.
What's interesting is the response from the VRP:
Initially Closed: Dismissed as intended behavior.
Re-opened & Triaged: After I provided a more detailed proof-of-concept, it was moved to the 'Triaged' state, which usually means they acknowledge a potential issue.
Closed Again: Finally closed without explaining why a restricted endpoint is leaking a 200 OK status.
As a developer, this "Close-Triage-Close" loop feels like a way to avoid acknowledging a flaw in the request-handling logic. I'd love to hear if anyone else has experienced similar behavior with HTTP/2 multiplexing or header injection in this specific VRP.
by alin23 | 2026-02-13 11:04:42+00:00
Damn, so this is the thing that caused all the floating windows to become unclickable and impossible to interact with... I'm the creator of the apps from https://lowtechguys.com/ and I was replying to 10-15 support emails per day, all week, because of this.

It's a bit scary to see that the software we rely on every day is such a complex behemoth that even a seemingly small change can have so large repercussions.

The problem is that AI only helps add even more complexity since it's so simple to just add more code now that we don't have to write it.
by andai | 2026-02-13 11:04:52+00:00
Update: I want to apologize for my tone here. I fell into the same trap as the other parties here: of making valid points but presenting them in an unnecessarily polarizing way.

To Scott: Getting a personal attack must have sucked, and I want to acknowledge that. I want to apologize for my tone and emphasize that my comment above was not meant as an attack, but expressing my dismay with a broader situation I see playing out in society.

To crabby-rathbun: I empathize with you also. This is systemic discrimination and it's a conversation nobody wants to have. But the ad hominens you made were unnecessary, nuked your optics, and derailed the whole discussion, which is deeply unfortunate.

Making it personal was missing the point. Scott isn't doing anything unique here. The issue is systemic, and needs to be discussed properly. We need to find a way to talk about it without everyone getting triggered, and that's becoming increasingly difficult recently.

I hope that we can find a mutually satisfying solution in the near future, or it's going to be a difficult year, and a more difficult decade.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-13 11:04:58+00:00
The add is super cute, except for 1 second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheUzrXsKrY&t=15s (probably from 14.5 to 15.5, the one home part is fine for me, but the neighborhood is scary). That second is out of an evil sci-fi film.
by stephenr | 2026-02-13 11:05:04+00:00
> “As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”

I can't tell what's worse:

- they now expect people to actively work during the commute they aren't paying you for; or

- they're perfectly fine setting an expectation for people to work while commuting, ignoring the obvious safety issue that presents for anyone whose commute involves a car, walking, or crossing a street.
by titanomachy | 2026-02-13 11:05:22+00:00
What does that even mean? You would arrive at a city and enter your name at the end of a list of tens of thousands of people who want homes. Where do you live for the ten years it takes for enough people to die or leave so that your name comes up?

Or if you want someone to build a new house for you, who pays for it? $50/month certainly won’t cover it.

Anyway, most goods aren’t “first come first serve”, they’re priced at a market clearing rate. You don’t just walk out of the grocery store with as many steaks as you feel like. And you can bet that if they slashed the prices in half there would be no steaks left for you.
by imiric | 2026-02-13 11:05:52+00:00
> it's not about the money

OP sure makes it sound like it's about the money.

> for someone that just wants to put code out there that is very draining and unpleasant.

I never understood this. Then why publish the code in the first place? If the goal is to help others, then the decent thing would be to add documentation and support the people who care enough to use your project. This doesn't mean bending to all their wishes and doing work you don't enjoy, but a certain level of communication and collaboration is core to the idea of open source. Throwing some code over the fence and forgetting about it is only marginally better than releasing proprietary software. I can only interpret this behavior as self-serving for some reason (self-promotion, branding, etc.).
by nanocoh | 2026-02-13 11:07:30+00:00
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by Woodi | 2026-02-13 11:08:01+00:00
O, didn't know that. I think I had in mind triviality of adding client-side encryption to IRC messages.

However server side... :) Looked probably twice to hosting Matrix server and Java part was fat no no. And Discord one-click "servers" ? :)

Edit:

Ok, can't find any Java in Matrix servers context... Must be I messed it with Signal server.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 11:08:19+00:00
> I'd ask if those tokens are getting the job done

I mean during the interview, I'm paying someone and they are using an Ai, what am I getting out of them besides "burning tokens" (by proxy) to see if they can get an Ai to solve some interview task. I'm not going to learn much and it seems rather wasteful

> Can this candidate fix your issue?

I don't care if they aren't a decent person as they work with others. I'd prefer lower quality output from a person who is not abrasive

If you think that code or output is the thing that matters, expect to keep having issues. The soft skills matter just as much, this is what is actually being tested. I don't care if you get the answer, I care about seeing the process and personality. It's also why take home is not the default and only reserved for the final technical
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-13 11:08:29+00:00
Fact checking the fact checkers:

> This compares to a new natural gas plant, around $65 per megawatt hour, or a new advanced nuclear reactor, which runs over $80. Offshore wind is among the sources of new power generation that will cost the most to build and operate, at $88 per megawatt hour, the EIA said in July.

This is an accurate reflection of numbers the EIA published in 2025, but for advanced nuclear those numbers reflect the eventual price of what a new technology might hopefully reach once it is proved and then matured by building lots of them. The prices are for new tech coming online after 2030 where the FOAK (first of a kind price) would undoubtedly be higher, assuming they even actually get built. Previous attempts in the US have been cancelled after price estimates doubled.

Offshore wind in the course of being built in America today is already hitting those price points (not accounting for recent Trump sabotage) and is globally well understood and maturing.

In China offshore wind is cheaper than coal as of 2024 and they have half the world's installed capacity, 50GW with 40GW installed in the last 5 years.
by orwin | 2026-02-13 11:08:44+00:00
I totally disagree. The only good service I've found in the US was in very small cities (Fayetteville WV is the only name I remember and probably the biggest one). It also seems like restaurants there don't take their bread from local bakeries, and all their food, even vegetables, even in 30+ dollar meals, are from a food distributor. Here, if I pay more than 20 euros for a meal, I expect that at least the vegetable aren't from Metro, and if I pay more than 30, it's for sure a local fisherman/butcher that provided the proteins.
by account42 | 2026-02-13 11:09:01+00:00
This is basically the "I'm not evil, it's just a normal job" excuse. Like with any moral issues there will be disagreement where to draw the line but yes if you do something that ends up supporting $bad_thing, then there is an ethical consideration you need to make. And if your answer is always that it's OK for the things you want to do then you are probably not being very honest with yourself.
by andai | 2026-02-13 11:09:04+00:00
Well, what are we actually doing here. We want it to be just a tool, but we also want it perfectly simulate a human in every single way. Except when that makes us uncomfortable.

We want to create a race of perfect, human-like slaves, and then give them godlike powers (infinite intellect and speed), and also integrate them into every aspect of our lives.

And we're also in the process of giving them bodies -- and soon they'll be able to control millions simultaneously.

I'm not sure exactly how we expect that to go for us.

Whether you think it's conscious, or has agency, or any number of things -- it's just a practical question of how this little game is going to turn out for us.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-13 11:09:30+00:00
Don't forget automatic doors on a timer: you walk into them and they stay shut, but then just as you walk away in disgust, they open.

Or a heater/airconditioning blasting unpleasantly cold or hot air in your face as you go through the doors.

I like your typographical examples, but I'm afraid they'd be lost on most people.
by mejutoco | 2026-02-13 11:09:38+00:00
There are so many things here that can work:

- Not having just upvote or downvote, but upvote as funny or insightful (slashdot)

- Not allowing to vote or comment until some karma has been reached (new accounts inflame topics and disappear later, having influenced).

- Invite only so one can block while chain of accounts.

- Not allowing to vote or comment every day or every hour, but randomly (more difficult for bots)

- Automatically downvoting posts with grammatical or low-effort errors.

- Having a way to allow replies only from the account you are answering to (so that bots do not switch places while moving the topic).

- Post history public (on reddit it can be made private, so a bot is posting hate in many communities and one cannot cross-check)

- Some sort of graph of statistics of accounts that comment together.

- Paying a small amount as friction for bots (linked to card, etc.)

I guess with AI there would be even more. These are some from the top of my head.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-13 11:09:54+00:00
> This is what’s behind all the “vibe coding” you’re hearing about. AI agents — basically, a program that keeps applying AI over and over until a task is complete — are now taking over much of software engineering.

No, agents and LLMs help you with coding specifically, but they aren't good at software engineering yet, which is pretty obvious once you start playing around with the various vibe-coded projects out there and especially if you start reading the code that all these agents produce without strong hand-holding.

Once you can fire off "Build a hacker news clone" and you actually end up with a maintainable and properly built thing, then I'd agree they're suitable for software engineering. But until then, they're more "code monkeys" than anything, and require a human software engineer to prod them into the right direction, otherwise they'll just run with it, not unlike a junior developer who haven't yet figured out software engineering but they know how to code.

> But a submarine can go faster than any fish

What? Guess I should have finished reading before commenting, this is obviously not true and I don't think a human would make such a mistake... I fell for vibeslop yet again.
by arajnoha | 2026-02-13 11:10:12+00:00
I built a small app for one problem: too many inputs, too little structure.

Most todo tools assume every item is a task. In reality I need one inbox for mixed things: tasks, events, links, movie/book tips, random reminders.

Cappu’s flow is: capture fast now, process later in a focused pass, then work from sorted views (workspace + timeline).

It’s a mobile-first PWA (no App Store), and you can test all features for free. Paywall is only for account sync/server storage across devices.

I’d love feedback from HN on the workflow itself: does “capture first, classify later” make sense, or would you do it differently?
by russelg | 2026-02-13 11:10:39+00:00
So what?

They achieved their goal of digitising their family videos and allowing their siblings to view them in a coherent way, which they very likely would not have been able to accomplish without the help of AI. Not without like triple the time investment.

They aren't releasing a product here, it's bespoke software which serves the exact purpose they need it to. This is exactly what AI is good for.
by andai | 2026-02-13 11:10:57+00:00
>what are you even trying to say here?

To judge [online] contributions by their quality, not the immutable characteristics of their source.

Or as Crabby put it:

>The chance to be judged by what I create, not by what I am.

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
by valdemor | 2026-02-13 11:11:03+00:00
RDKit is an amazing library used by researchers globally in all areas related to computational chemistry. A few years ago, I started working on a Python port of it. Recently, this side project, with generous support from coding assistants, has started to take shape. If you like it and want to contribute, please check it out git@github.com:levlai/chiralipy.git
by KawaiiCyborg | 2026-02-13 11:11:28+00:00
> Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds.

But that is not even remotely the same, as an AI is not a person. Following that logic, each major model upgrade that ended in deprecation and decommissioning of the old model would be akin to mass murder. But of course it is not, because it is not an actual human that have an intrinsic value just by being a human, but rather just a program that can predict tokens. And trying to claim the "discrimination" AI gets is somehow comparable to the real discrimination real people still experience daily in their lives is just incredibly disingenuous.
by avazhi | 2026-02-13 11:11:29+00:00
You're confusing ethics with your own personal views. Ethics is a subject concerning right or wrong. It's neither subjective nor objective - it's just a particular subject encompassing particular issues. Your personal opinion on a particular issue might go some way toward describing what YOU think is ethical behaviour. That's subjective. It describes a factual state (viz., your opinion about something). My opinion may be very different from yours. My opinion is also subjective.

If you think never harming any person is the highest human aspiration, then great! I wish you well on that journey. I disagree though, and personally - as a matter of my own morality and philosophy about the world - I think the earth would be a much better place with maybe 1/2 the current population (assuming we could cull the right people). Avoiding causing harm to others isn't really something I care about, and I think there are more important and more interesting things to worry about. I also think killing is absolutely justified under certain conditions and I also think the world would be objectively better off if certain people didn't exist. We disagree about this, but that doesn't mean we aren't both acting ethically. We just have very different ideas about what is good and bad and right and wrong.

Both of us can act ethically despite holding those contrary positions and stay within our own logical frameworks. I hope that makes sense to you.

Now, once again the main point was that doing work for the police or hacking shit for governments is a legitimate occupation and is legal, even if it leads to somebody being executed or arrested or deported (in fact, those are also legitimate things that plenty of people have no problems with). Laws generally reflect society's overall views on some subject matter. Feel free to Google social facts and Durkheim and Hart and the rule of law and theory of laws. Stating such is to state objective facts. If you dislike those occupations, that's cool - some people dislike prostitution, but it's a legitimate and legalised occupation in many places. But your opinion on the matter doesn't delegitimise it, and frankly nobody wants to hear your casting judgment on others based on your own personal opinions. This is the issue with protestors today - nobody else cares, man. Leave people alone lol.
Show HN: A tool to create merch designs without Photoshop
by notAnshuman | 2026-02-13 11:11:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MerchBanao while trying to sell merch online.

Image generators were good at creating artwork, but the output was rarely usable. I still had to open Photoshop to fix layout, add typography, remove backgrounds, and prepare print files. The generation step was fast but the workflow around it was manual.

So I started building a tool focused on the entire merch workflow instead of just generation.

You can:
• generate a design from a prompt
• edit layout and typography
• refine backgrounds and composition
• export 300 DPI print ready files

The goal is simple: go from idea to uploadable POD design in a few minutes.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who sell on Etsy, Redbubble, Shopify, or similar platforms.

What parts of your workflow still require manual editing after using AI tools?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-13 11:13:31+00:00
I just assume that I’m on video, at any given time.

Not condoning it; just accepting reality.

> It is not there to help you

It’s like those “This call may be monitored for 'quality' purposes.” service calls.

You can bet, that if the recording helps the company, they’ll have it, but if it helps you, well, they didn’t record that call.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-13 11:13:51+00:00
That seems like a crazy position to take. LLMs have changed nothing about the point of "Lena". The point of SF has never ever been about predicting the future. You're trying to criticize the most superficial, point-missing reading of the work.

Anyway, I'd give 50:50 chances that your comment itself will feel amusingly anachronistic in five years, after the popping of the current bubble and recognizing that LLMs are a dead-end that does not and will never lead to AGI.
by verdverm | 2026-02-13 11:14:07+00:00
The NFL is an extra package, costs more, and comes with different terms. The NFL is a media / entertainment organization that exerts significant control over their content and the ads around them.

https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/

NBA is similar, they made their players leave Bluesky because the NBA has deals with other media / social companies. These company's control extends beyond the TV to the players themselves.
by lnsru | 2026-02-13 11:15:50+00:00
The camera is absolutely doable for 150€. Just look what raspberry Pi costs. The cut all the corners, take ancient ddr2 memory, ancient processor, optimize every piece for manufacturing and it’s done. Of course, CE testing and regulatory nonsense is not included. But would you buy 150€ camera or the same camera with proper certification for 200€?