MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yuliyp | 2026-02-18 17:10:58+00:00
Of the ones that I know something about, almost each one is a stretch to call a lie, or just downright misleading.

- 'Internal document stating the goal for Meta to be the most relevant social products for kids worldwide. To do so, Meta will focus on “each youth life stage, ‘Kid’ (6-10), ‘Tween’ (10-13), and ‘Teen’ 13+.’"' for instance is talking about a slide deck for Messenger Kids, which was an explicit focus on building something that was COPPA-compliant and independent of the main Facebook/IG/Messenger products. It's not at all inconsistent with the claim of not allowing people under 13 on the main sites.

- In the rebuttal to "We are on the side of parents everywhere working hard to raise their kids” they cherry pick a quote talking about the audience problem: having a social graph full of both peers and family on the same site means that live streaming things for friends will obviously ruin the experience, so figuring out a way around that would indeed be a critical requirement for a live streaming feature. Giving teens a way to interact with friends outside of parental supervision is not inconsistent with wanting to help parents.

I don't like Facebook. Heck, I left a job there partially because I disagreed with the product decisions and evolution. But I trust this article way less than I trust Mark Zuckerberg.
by sd9 | 2026-02-18 17:11:02+00:00
Not discrediting the post, which I think is worthwhile and generally pointing at the right thing, however:

> I launched something last week. 14 people signed up — no ads, just a couple of posts. 14 real people who didn't have to. That number is tiny and it felt like something. Then I sat down to think about what it would take to grow it and I couldn't look at that math for very long.

They launched a paid social network, with no content available without joining a waitlist.

This would not have worked 20 years ago either. Bootstrapping the content for a _free_ social network is incredibly hard. But a paid social network where the only differentiating factor is that users are humans, and there is no activity in the network? Not going to work.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-02-18 17:11:05+00:00
Thanks for looking into it and pulling out that quote. I notice there are some moving goalposts — the parent article claims 79% of _all_ minor sexual trafficking (emphasis mine), but the govt report found

> 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited _on social
media_ were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram

(Emphasis mine). I think the parent article is repeatedly lying about the facts, that’s super annoying. I’m not at all surprised that Facebook and Instagram have the lions share of social-media victims, because they also have the lions share of social media users.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-02-18 17:11:37+00:00
Yes, it is. Anything with a wide userbase that worsens or even just intensifies mood will lead to elevated suicide rates. If your boss picks someone else for the promotion and you kill yourself over it, your boss didn't kill you. If you're attracted to someone and they marry someone else and you respond similarly, same answer. If your instagram friends post pictures of their happy lives and it makes you feel bad, etc.

You can broaden the definition of 'killing people' to include 'elevating their risk of killing themselves', but then you have to shed the intuitions that are the sole purpose of using that kind of language in the first place. It's a rhetorical sleight of hand.
by toldnotmywrath | 2026-02-18 17:11:45+00:00
> One person companies will not have a 100 person marketing team to inject ads into every corner of your life.

But they could have a thousand-agent swarm connected via MCP to everything within our field of vision to bury us with ads.

It's been a long time since I read "The Third Wave" and up until 2026, not much has reminded me about its "Small is beautiful", and "rise of the prosumer" themes besides the content creator economy which is arguably the worst thing to ever happen to humanity's information environment, and LLM agent discussions.
by qdotme | 2026-02-18 17:12:25+00:00
I guess we might have opposite experiences. Part of which I understand - the society moved on, the modern ways are more mature and developed… but I wonder how much of that can be backported without handing over to the centralized systems again.

The advantage of old-school was partially that the user agents, were in fact user agents. Greasemonkey tried to bridge the gap a bit, but the Web does not lend itself to much user-side customization, the protocol is too low level, too generic, offering a lot of creative space to website creators, but making it harder to customize those creations to user’s wants.
Ask HN: How do you guys manage reusable info from AI conversation history
by microseyuyu | 2026-02-18 17:13:29+00:00
As what title said
there are lots of infos from AI could be reused or record as ADR.

But as the task become more and more complex, more chat history remains.

I found a way to save these infos and make sure they can be save immediately and find them quickly.

I use codex to save my conversation history with AI or anything about the task. Ask it to save as a json into my daily note.
If I'm gonna find anything I could also ask codex read the json and find them.

I wanna write about my solution, but before that I curious about how you guy manage your infos. Whatever it is a chat history from AI, or from project you handle or maybe your interest.
by lambda | 2026-02-18 17:13:35+00:00
You don't even need to go this expensive. An AMD Ryzen Strix Halo (AI Max+ 395) machine with 128 GiB of unified RAM will set you back about $2500 these days. I can get about 20 tokens/s on Qwen3 Coder Next at an 8 bit quant, or 17 tokens per second on Minimax M2.5 at a 3 bit quant.

Now, these models are a bit weaker, but they're in the realm of Claude Sonnet to Claude Opus 4. 6-12 months behind SOTA on something that's well within a personal hobby budget.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 17:13:54+00:00
I think a lot of HNers are letting their guard down for sensationalized news stories like this one because it invokes Mark Zuckerberg in the headline.

Scrolling through the claims I thought the "79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms" claim sounded odd, given what I know from a friend who worked in prosecution of sex trafficking crimes. So I clicked the link to their source, which says this:

> 79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. In 2019, the National Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Children found that Instagram was the leading platform for child grooming in the U.K.
The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram

The study they're quoting isn't about all sex trafficking, it's specifically about sex trafficking victims who were recruited on social media. The statistics are basically a breakdown of the popularity of social media platforms in the UK at the time the study was done.

In other words, they're lying. They're hoping you don't look at the claims too closely.

It's really sad to see so many HN comments from people calling for regulation and taking this all at face value, when just last week everyone was upset that Discord might require some accounts to present ID to remove content filters. Sensationalized reports like this are how we end up with those requirements.
by MostlyStable | 2026-02-18 17:14:41+00:00
Additionally, I don't think that these kinds of failures say much about overall intelligence. Humans are largely visual creatures, and we fall prey to innumerable visual illusions where we fail to see what's actually there or imagine something that isn't there under certain visual patterns.

LLMs are largely textual creatures and they fail to see things that are there or imagine things that are under certain textual patterns.

I don't think you would say a human "isn't really intelligent" because it imagines grey spots at the intersection of black squares on a white background even though they aren't there.
by stephenr | 2026-02-18 17:14:57+00:00
> exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know

Or the things that it has hallucinated, or just referenced incorrectly.

That's my point. You're talking about learning basic maths from a school teacher who isn't a Calculus expert, but the thread is talking about learning maths from a kid with ADHD who completes the homework before the teacher has finished describing what needs to be done, but sometimes returns homework in an invented language with references to Cthulhu throughout it.
by talideon | 2026-02-18 17:15:16+00:00
And even then, I'm not sure it's apples to apples, at least if by Rego you're thinking of OPA. CEL and Rego take very different approaches, with CEL being quite procedural, while Rego is about constraint satisfaction, not unlike Prolog. At $WORK, Rego (in the form of OPA) gets used quite a bit for complicated access control logic, while CEL gets used in places where we've simpler logic that needs to be broken out and made configurable, and a more procedural focus works there.
Show HN: Why use one AI model when you can use all of them at once!
by lurker325 | 2026-02-18 17:15:25+00:00
I kept running into the same problem while using ChatGPT.

I was writing a prompt, then end up pasting it into multiple LLMs to compare responses.

So I built an app that does that for you, send a single prompt to multiple LLM models and get responses side by side

It is a tool for anyone who wants to compare outputs across different LLM models and quickly see results of all LLM models.

Why use one AI model when you can use all of them in single interface!

Features:
- Parallel Responses — Query multiple LLMs at once and compare results in real time.
- Pin, Search & History — Easily organize, find and revisit your conversations.
- Access All LLMs in One Place — GPT, Claude, Gemini and more incoming!
- Bring your own API keys: add keys from each provider’s developer portal inside the app.
- Share your chats with others

I built this tool for my personal use first and I am using it daily now.

Feedbacks are appreciated!

Product Link: MultiLLM.pro

Happy Prompt-maxxing!
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-18 17:15:26+00:00
the LLM training data angle is real - we noticed the same thing when reviewing AI-generated Go code. the style is fine to fix automatically, but the security patterns are harder. LLMs trained on pre-1.21 code will happily generate goroutines with shared mutable state and no context propagation, which go fix doesn't touch. honestly not sure if the solution is more tooling or just better review habits for AI-generated code specifically
by alexgarden | 2026-02-18 17:15:50+00:00
Thanks! We submitted a formal comment to NIST's 'Accelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization' concept paper on Feb 14. It maps AAP/AIP to all four NIST focus areas (agent identification, authorization via OAuth extensions, access delegation, and action logging/transparency). The comment period is open until April 2 — the concept paper is worth reading if you're in this space: https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/software-and-ai-agent-id...
by clickety_clack | 2026-02-18 17:15:59+00:00
This seems to me like the few booms I’ve seen before. Absolutely crazy valuations with very little behind them, massive hype, everyone’s unemployed uncle suddenly becoming a shallow expert. It’s probably going to end the same way too, once the upward momentum dissipates and things start to retreat to “fundamentals”, we’ll find out that there were a lot fewer solid points in the market than we were all told to expect, so the fundamentals are actually pretty far down. After 5 to 10 years of regrouping, a more mature and solid version will come about and become such a normal part of life we barely even remember what it was like without it.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-18 17:16:27+00:00
It was 100% the brand. The creativity may be a bonus for OpenAI. They saw a shitload of people buying Mac Minis specifically for this software.

I don't find a single counter-example compelling. I guess as evidence that "only moat" is somewhat hyperbolic?

But to counter the counter-example, what would have happened if he did not join? OpenAI can just write and release their own version. They can then do the typical loss-leader and advertising tricks that OpenClaw cannot.

The "simply write and release" is what used to be a barrier.
by marcyb5st | 2026-02-18 17:16:52+00:00
If you search on YouTube for "carney walks out" or similar you'll see several videos with AI vibes (hard to tell at a superficial glance) about Carney interrupting crude oil exports or similar stuff. In the URL there's one of these videos.

Normal news outlet didn't report anything on the subject, but some of these videos are approaching 1M views (which is frightening).

Edit (as I can't change the URL): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carney+walks+ou... <- link with the search query results
by exceptione | 2026-02-18 17:16:55+00:00
This is not a personal opinion of mine, it is pretty much established science. I think only think-tank backed sources would claim the opposite.

One should understand the phenomenon as a common pattern of dynamics in unregulated markets. Not every snapshot will showcase an end state of monopolist dominated markets.

You bring up a valid point though. Regulatory capture is a indeed a weapon in the hands of anti-competitive players to prevent incumbents. Good policy usually applies differently to different strata: the small players are exempt from certain rules, or have to deal with less stringent ones than big players do, to prevent killing the market. At the risk of sounding like an llm: it is not just about policy, it is about good policy.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-18 17:17:01+00:00
I’ve been running K2.5 (through the API) as my daily driver for coding through Kimi Code CLI and it’s been pretty much flawless. It’s also notably cheaper and I like the option that if my vibe coded side projects became more than side projects I could run everything in house.

I’ve been pretty active in the open model space and 2 years ago you would have had to pay 20k to run models that were nowhere near as powerful. It wouldn’t surprise me if in two more years we continue to see more powerful open models on even cheaper hardware.
by zeristor | 2026-02-18 17:17:02+00:00
Sounds like the famous Gandhi bug in Civilisation:

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

edit: turns out this was a fabrication, good thing I read my cited source!

"On September 8, 2020, Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games, was released, containing confirmation that the Gandhi software bug was fabricated and a detailed background of the urban legend's formation"

from the above link
by strcat | 2026-02-18 17:17:56+00:00
GrapheneOS does focus on browser fingerprinting with a long term approach that's being implemented. That's why adblocking is implemented the way that it is with a specific list of filters and then regional/language filters activated based on which languages are enabled. Vanadium does provide good protection against instances of Vanadium being distinguished from each other in ways other than the IP addresses, language, time zone, etc. Adding support for using a universal UTC time zone in Vanadium is one of many planned features for countering fingerprinting. Expanding the Vanadium userbase beyond GrapheneOS would be the main way to reduce fingerprinting since it heavily depends on the number of people using the browser so we eventually plan to launch it for use outside of GrapheneOS once it has more features.

Brave has the best anti-fingerprinting on Android right now but it's not all implemented in a good way and they have a lot of features with privacy and security downsides too. Vanadium is gradually working towards having stronger anti-fingerprinting than it. It will take time. In general, our approach is focusing on doing things properly with the long term in mind. It takes longer but the end results will be better as can be seen for what we ship in many areas. Our network-based location implementation is a nice example among many others.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-18 17:18:11+00:00
Re hard to get benefits: a lot depends on the compiler. In Elements (the toolchain this article was tested with) we made a bunch of modifications to LLVM passes to prioritise vectorisation in situations where it could, but did not.

I've heard anecdotally that the old pre-LLVM Intel C++ Compiler also focused heavily on vectorisation and had some specific tradeoffs to achieve it. I think they use LLVM now too and for all I know they've made similar modifications that we did. But we see a decent number of code patterns that can and now are optimised.
by mindslight | 2026-02-18 17:18:22+00:00
Not all projects have to be taken on with the goal of commercialization. The beachhead functionality would be manual remote control - operate two machines from one seat. Then maybe some cameras to be able to work in the dark/cold/hot/etc from the comfort of inside. Even that is getting into the safety issue (any control system can go sideways), but seems straightforward to solve (some kind of redundant remote-control e-stop).

Any type of automation would be a huge pile of unknown unknowns, safety being one of them, how to even define goals for it to solve being another. Which is what keeps this idea in the realm of a dog chasing a car - if you gave me an excavator I could remote-control from my computer today, I'd not have the first clue what to actually do with it.

I do get that in the era of "AI" and vibe-coding why I may have set off your engineering sensibilities wtfometer though.

(Automating a lawnmower though...)
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-18 17:18:29+00:00
An FPU coprocessor doesn't make an 8088 run any faster, it only accelerates computation of floating-point calculations important for a subset of software.

The original DOOM used fixed point math so it could run on machines lacking an FPU like the 386 and 486sx. MSFS 1.x to 5.x didn't require a coprocessor either. Falcon 3.0 and related sims (MiG-29, F/A-18) likewise require only a 286 but could use it optionally.

Here's a approximate list of x87-usable (required or optional) software: https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2019-06-06-list-of-software-that-u...

R:Base System V port to OS/2 (FPU optional) was basically a rewrite from FORTRAN to C, and experienced issues due to Microsoft's substandard floating-point emulation library compared to the one(s) Microrim used previously.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 17:18:30+00:00
I caught the same thing. Clicking on the link gives this text:

> 79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. In 2019, the National Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Children found that Instagram was the leading platform for child grooming in the U.K. The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram

The study was only looking at sex trafficking victims in the UK in 2020 who were recruited on social media platforms.

So 100% of the victims in the study were recruited on social media platforms. The breakdown is basically a map of which social media platforms were popular in the UK in 2020.

It's a blatant lie to claim that this number represents all sex trafficking victims.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-18 17:18:51+00:00
>as someone who's been building for the internet for 25+ years, this is the first time that i've ever felt like it's very difficult to make money building new things.

I understand it was already the trend 25 years ago, but way before that you really weren't expected to be able to make money building things for the internet.

The internet itself was simply not designed for that to begin with.

Building things where the internet was an element was already getting bad enough.

The force from within to return to "normal" baseline may yield, but probably never go away.

>The people winning mostly had a head start. Or they have money. Usually both.

As said every millennium since institutions and finance have existed.

>Show HN, the one place the internet was supposed to notice if you built something real.

No no no no no. This is for people who want to share with a much more limited audience than the entire internet.

HN readers did notice a lot of times especially when the project is amazing, OTOH sometimes the latest little side project from somebody well-known, or random interest could be shown.

Naturally the most popular things are free since that's inherently the most compatible with the internet anyway.

But real marketing and promotion is supposed to be far away from this site. If you're trying to sell to "the internet" you've got the whole rest of the internet for that.

HN is not supposed to be enough to be widely noticed at all, if you've got something that's worth marketing, YC is there the whole time and might be able to get you making the most of the internet and then some. Especially if you need a moat of money.

But why do so many people think the only business plan is to prepare to be sieged by a small enough horde which can be deterred by a moat anyway?

>if you're not already moving, you might never take off.

>The cost of acting like it isn't true when it is: permanent.

As I first mentioned, the internet being in place so people can make money off of it is the thing that just wasn't true to begin with, lots of people had some pretty good workarounds for a while though.

I've been watching businesses from startups to large corporations lock in high costs the exact same way for decades before the internet ever came around.
by runjake | 2026-02-18 17:19:14+00:00
> If you were already experienced and productive, it does very little for you beyond summaries, a little boilerplate, and possibly search help.

It sounds like you already have your mind made up about AI, but I disagree. The rest of your comment make assertions and assumptions to points I did not make, so I'll leave those alone and leave them for someone else to address.
by ekrsulov | 2026-02-18 17:19:25+00:00
Thank you! This is definitely an initial version and I hope to keep evolving it with more features over time.

The plugin-centered architecture comes from how the project was built: a large part of the development was done with AI agents (Copilot, Claude, Codex, Antigravity, etc.). To reduce the risk of new features breaking existing functionality, a strong approach was to keep a stable core and implement capabilities as plugins. The project also has many Playwright end-to-end tests that help catch regressions when something fails.

And yes — I’ll review options and add an appropriate license to the GitHub repo soon.
by advisedwang | 2026-02-18 17:19:27+00:00
> What would China actually need to do to make the RMB a global reserve currency?

> The answer, it turns out, is a five-point plan that is conceptually straightforward, historically grounded, and politically impossible.

The answer, based on western economic theory. There are other options. An illustrative example is that a military empire can mandate tribute paid in their currency, essentially forcing global adoption. China hasn't shown more of an inclination to economic incentive though. Tie belt-and-roads development to economic integration and RMB will be used, even if there are huge flaws as shown by the economic theory.
by rawgabbit | 2026-02-18 17:19:35+00:00
From https://annievella.com/posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertai...

“Ideas that surfaced: code as ‘just another projection’ of intended behaviour. Tests as an alternative projection. Domain models as the thing that endures. One group posed the provocative question: what would have to be true for us to ‘check English into the repository’ instead of code?

The implications are significant. If code is disposable and regenerable, then what we review, what we version-control, and what we protect all need rethinking.”