MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mort96 | 2026-02-24 10:03:09+00:00
> There's a whole section in macOS/iOS settings titled "Apple Intelligence and Siri" with ChatGPT being the only option, and you're seemingly happy with that compromise

If you read my comment again, it might occur to you that no, I'm not happy with what Apple is doing to iOS and macOS:

I don't like what Apple is doing to my phone and laptop

> I also invite you to go to firefox.com right now and find me a single mention of AI, since you for some reason are imagining that it is being advertised as an "AI
browser".

Is mozilla.com OK? If so, here you go: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next...

Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software.
Firefox will remain our anchor.
It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser". I don't want an AI browser, modern or otherwise.
by octoclaw | 2026-02-24 10:03:28+00:00
I stopped trying to keep up with every release and benchmark. That was the turning point for me.

Now I pick one tool, learn it properly, and ignore everything else until my current setup actually fails me. Most "AI news" is just leaderboard shuffling that doesn't change how I work day to day.

The real overload isn't the technology. It's the marketing cycle around it. Every week someone announces the new best model, and if you're on Twitter it feels like you're falling behind by not switching. You're not.

Practical filter: if a new release doesn't solve a problem I currently have, I skip it entirely.
by vixen99 | 2026-02-24 10:03:40+00:00
Tangential but am reminded of Churchill's comments" "And when in after years my school-fellows who had won prizes and distinction for writing such beautiful Latin poetry and pithy Greek epigrams had to come down again to common English, to earn their living or make their way, I did not feel myself at any disadvantage." and

"“However, by being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. They all went on to learn Latin and Greek and splendid things like that. But I was taught English. We were considered such dunces that we could learn only English. Mr. Somervell—a most delightful man, to whom my debt is great—was charged with the duty of teaching the stupidest boys the most disregarded thing—namely, to write mere English. He knew how to do it. He taught it as no one else has ever taught it. Not only did we learn English parsing thoroughly, but we also practised continually English analysis."

Even better if you can do both!
by cx42net | 2026-02-24 10:03:48+00:00
So your whole point is the *hypothetical* "what if Bluesky turns bad".

And just with that hypothetical, you scratch the whole effort Bluesky is currently doing to offer an open protocol ? Which is the opposite of almost (Mastodon) all other social networks ?

Come on..

It honestly feel like this was written by someone being paid by a competitor, just to discredit the service.

Of course they will provide an infrastructure to ease users on to creating and using their service, they can't just provide an empty shell just for the pure purpose of decoupling the protocol and the service. You can't blame them for that (well, you can apparently..)
by DeathArrow | 2026-02-24 10:03:49+00:00
>The democratization ends at your router. Unless you are willing to lay down your own wires - which for legal reasons you most likely won't be able to do, we will hopelessly be dependent on the ISP.

We can have other protocols on top of TCP/IP and build a new Internet over the existing one, much like TOR/I2P/Hyphanet/Lokinet but without many of the disadvantages of those.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-24 10:03:53+00:00
It's so easy to google this and find that they all do exactly this.

Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/code-execution

ChatGPT: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8437071-data-analysis-wi...

Claude: https://claude.com/blog/analysis-tool

Reasoning only gets you so far, even humans write code or use spreadsheets, calculators, etc, to get their answers to problems.
by kombookcha | 2026-02-24 10:04:21+00:00
This is already sort of in Jurassic Park 3, which features a 3D-printed velociraptor larynx that can be blown into to reproduce vocalizations remniscent of the velociraptors in the movie. At the end of the movie Alan Grant blows in it, confusing a pack of velociraptors.

There's a specific call that the movie has established as velociraptors in distress calling for help/backup from the pack, and Alan attempted to reproduce it when cornered at the beach to basically bluff/intimidate the pack into avoiding a fight. It coincided with the arrival of a helicopter, and the combined effect made the raptors run away.

Not explicitly a language as such, but specific calls with understandable, relatively complex meaning to the dinosaurs, that can be (sorta) understood and leveraged by humans.
by octoclaw | 2026-02-24 10:04:27+00:00
The PROCHOT discussion in this thread is a good example. Lenovo stops making batteries, third party ones trigger artificial throttling, and the only fix is poking registers with a boot script. With coreboot you can just... fix it properly.

More broadly: faster boot times (sub-second POST is common), no vendor bloat or hidden phone-home behavior in the firmware, and you can actually audit what runs before your OS loads. That last one matters more than people think. Your BIOS has full access to everything on the machine before any OS-level security even starts.
by phplovesong | 2026-02-24 10:04:49+00:00
Not sure if you missed the /s?

Anyway, you posted about speed, and then followed by a link to some python related thing. In python speed has never been a key tenet, at least when it comes to pure cpu based calculations. How much tooling is built in python? All the modern python tooling is mostly Rust based too. So theres that.

I mean for a dev working in JS with JS built tooling the speed is not in milliseconds, but in seconds, even minutes.

I still think my point holds, having a build take int he 10s of seconds vs 50ms is very much good enough for development (the usual frontend save and refresh browser cycle)
by Borealid | 2026-02-24 10:05:15+00:00
My comment isn't denigrating frame generation, which can be useful.

It's pointing out the absurdity of calling "45fps plus 1-for-1 frame generation" as if it is in any sense "90fps". It's not, and you aren't hitting a 90Hz refresh rate target at any more with it than you were without it. In point of fact, it lowers real FPS because it consumes resources that would have otherwise been available for the render pipeline.

I wish reviewers in particular would stop saying e.g. "120fps with DLSS FG enabled" and instead call out the original render rate. It makes the discourse very confusing.
by oulipo2 | 2026-02-24 10:08:54+00:00
Okay, on my side I have a server for my API, using Drizzle, I guess it already uses some kind of pooling (or at least it asks me to instantiate a pg.Pool, not sure if that's a lightweight connection pooler on the server side), and only a couple of workers with a Drizzle pool each, so I guess I'm far enough from that limit

Do connection increase mostly as you increase microservices / workers, or is it something more related to how many endusers of your service (eg connections on your webserver) you have?
by palata | 2026-02-24 10:09:18+00:00
Yeah, let's say something like this: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-IR-Infrared-Illuminator-Ni...

> Let me be clear - you're still responsible for verifying the safety of your stuff

Obviously yeah. I was just wondering if there were known rules like "these wavelengths under this power are fine for humans and wildlife, even if they put the LEDs right in front of their eyes", and also if you have an array of such IR LEDs, how they cumulate.

And curious about things like: if I don't see it, can it hurt my retina?

I probably will never do it: I wouldn't want to blind a fox just because I wanted to make my own wildlife camera :).
by raincole | 2026-02-24 10:09:20+00:00
That's crazy that people are complaining the 'LLM writing style' and lack of content here. For me it reads very clear and succinct. Can I rewrite it with fewer words? Yes:

> [Pi](https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/tree/main) is a minimal coding agent developed by Mario Zechner (libGDX's dev). I tried every ai coding tool from Cursor to Claude Code to Gemini CLI. But they're bloated with unnecessary system prompts and instructions. With Pi I saved 50% of my context window. It's open sourced and I believe it's the future!

Is this the future you envision? An HN that looks like Twitter?
Show HN: Murmuration – AI visualizes your state of mind
by paraschopra | 2026-02-24 10:09:40+00:00
Hi HN,

Over the weekend, I built a Chrome extension that transforms your ChatGPT and Claude conversation topics into beautiful, animated black-and-white visualizations on every new tab.

How It Works

- Scrapes conversation titles from ChatGPT and Claude sidebars via content scripts
- Generates self-contained HTML/CSS/JS art pieces via OpenRouter LLM API
- Displays art in a sandboxed iframe on every new tab, biased towards recent pieces (exponential decay with factor 0.95). The refresh button picks uniformly at random from all stored art. Up to 100 artifacts are kept.

Hope you like it! It's been three days for me, and I keep getting surprised by the generations I see :)

Note: you'll require an OpenRouter key and that it may cost ~$5/mo for generating 3 visuals/day with Sonnet 4.6.
by dewey | 2026-02-24 10:09:52+00:00
I'm really not a big fan of X these days, but they moved quickly on that after Nikita Beer jumped on the topic in the past days:

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/update-to-reply-behavior-in-x-a...

> Moving forward, replies via the API will only be permitted if the replier has been explicitly summoned by the original post’s author. This means:
The original author @mentions the replying user/account in their post, or
The original author quotes a post from the replying user/account.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-24 10:10:51+00:00
Awesome. I'm pretty unfamiliar with the Wolfram Language, but my understanding that the power of it came from the fact it was very batteries-included in terms of standard library and even data connections (like historical weather or stock market data).

What exactly does Woxi implement? Is it an open source implementation of the core language? Do you have to bring your own standard library or can you use the proprietary one? How do data connections fit into the sandboxing?

I realise I may be uninformed enough here that some of these might not make sense though, interested to learn.
by DeusExMachina | 2026-02-24 10:11:12+00:00
The same way you avoid it doing anything else illegal that involves cash.

Crime is risky, but not pure anarchy. It is still based on trust and rules, just not those written in the law.

There are plenty of regular people who interact with criminals, for example drug dealers, without getting murdered or robbed of all the cash they are carrying.

In Argentina, years ago, you could exchange dollars/euros for pesos on the street and get a far better exchange rate than in a bank. It was obviously aimed at tourists, who didn't get robbed, or the whole enterprise would stop.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2026-02-24 10:11:14+00:00
The important factors seem to be intrinsic motivation and other good mental faculties like great memory for concepts and formulas, understanding.

It's hard to say whether the motivation came from the good skills (understanding, memory) e.g. "I'm good at this, I like it!", or that the good skills came from the motivation. I believe both are important though, and that they are intertwined.
by XCSme | 2026-02-24 10:11:29+00:00
I got similar results for most models, with gemini 3 flash (with reasoning) being the most consistent/reliable model: https://aibenchy.com

I also noticed the same thing: some models reason correctly but draw the wrong conclusions.

And MiniMax m2.5 just reasons forever (filling the entire reasoning context) and gives wrong answers. This is why it's #1 on OpenRouter, it burns through tokens.
by ossa-ma | 2026-02-24 10:11:55+00:00
Yeah exactly, it's best to keep track and be aware of common tropes used in AI writing so that you don't end up 5 responses deep and emotionally invested in a conversation before you realise you've been fooled into speaking to a bot.

I built this tool primarily to identify AI writing in articles and posts but it's proven useful for comments/responses too: https://tropes.fyi/vetter
by mongrelion | 2026-02-24 10:12:09+00:00
I agree with you, especially with this:

They paid for the access the same as any other.

If anything, this makes them more legit than Anthropic because they are paying for the content, whereas Anthropic just stole *all* the data they got a hold of. So, in this case the Chinese AI labs stand on higher moral ground LOL.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-24 10:13:02+00:00
I think firstly is the FOSS obsession and backdoor paranoia from evangelists, and secondly and the more practical one is that the proprietary IBM BIOS is full of bugs and anti-consumer blacklists and whitelists designed to limit repairability and upgradeability, which stil boggle my mind on how those laptops got such a good image on that front.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-24 10:13:07+00:00
Only the microcontrollers are automotive redundant CPUs from Texas Instruments.

The high-level control and data processing is done by a now very old smartphone Snapdragon 801 CPU, which has no redundancy and it runs Linux. That CPU uses 4 custom 32-bit Qualcomm Krait cores, which were extremely fast in comparison with the radiation-hardened CPUs available at that time, but which are very slow in comparison with the current automotive CPUs or smartphone CPUs.

Nowadays there are automotive redundant CPUs, using high-performance automotive-enhanced ARM cores like Cortex-A78AE or Neoverse V3AE, which are far more suitable for a space mission than a smartphone CPU.

Because Snapdragon does not have the right hardware, approximate redundancy is achieved by software, i.e. by running multiple times each algorithm and comparing the results, and also by periodic self tests.

This is better than nothing, but a hardware-redundant CPU would have provided much better performance.
Ask HN: How do you implement production-grade draft isolation in Django?
by pigon1002 | 2026-02-24 10:13:39+00:00
I'm building an open-source LMS with a content studio for instructors — exams, quizzes, assignments, courses.

Hit a wall with preview.

Instructors don't want a fake preview.

They want to actually take the exam they just built — real timer, real submission, real grading, state persisted across requests — then either publish it or throw everything away.

Looked at three options.

PostgreSQL schema separation is conceptually the cleanest but Django migrations get painful fast.

is_draft flags end up as conditionals in every layer.

Snapshot tables can't run real workflows.

What I actually want is pytest-style DB isolation in production.

Persistable, discardable.

Does this exist? How do systems like this usually handle it?
by veganmosfet | 2026-02-24 10:13:40+00:00
I experimented with OpenClaw (using opus4.6 and gpt5.2) and found this interesting way to get silent Remote Code Execution via email when using Gmail pub/sub Hook, exploiting prompt injection (out of scope from the security policy of OpenClaw) and insecure plugin design (properly documented as such). Works only with the full Gmail pub/sub hook. If your agent uses gogcli without the webhook, it is not affected.

Main issue: OpenClaw injects untrusted content in user messages instead of using the tool channel (less authoritative) when using the Gmail webhook.

Original links:

https://veganmosfet.codeberg.page/posts/2026-02-02-openclaw_...

https://veganmosfet.codeberg.page/posts/2026-02-15-openclaw_...
by sshine | 2026-02-24 10:14:48+00:00
> When will conscious, actual intelligence be called 'synthetic intelligence' instead of 'artificial'?

One can bypass the whole sentience discussion and say that AI stands for Automated Inference.

If actual, conscious intelligence were to manifest synthetically, as in silicon-based rather than carbon-based, it is a losing battle to convince people.

If there is a functional equivalence between meatspace intelligence and synthetic, it will surely have enough value to reinforce itself, philosophical debates aside.
by vixen99 | 2026-02-24 10:15:14+00:00
'I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution.'

In the light of ' Almost half of the 6 million people needing treatment from the NHS in England have had no further care at all since joining a hospital waiting list, new data reveals. Previously unseen NHS England figures show that 2.99 million of the 6.23 million patients (48%) awaiting care have not had either their first appointment with a specialist or a diagnostic test since being referred by a GP.'

- Assuming it's successful in its goal, can your country tell Britain how to do it? Please!
by booffa | 2026-02-24 10:15:14+00:00
I made this little fun project: a Stick Hero game where you control the stick length using trackpad pressure (Force Touch on Mac).

Play it directly in Safari: https://stick-hero-pressure.vercel.app

GitHub: https://github.com/Olcmyk/Stick-Hero-Pressure

It's super simple, just for fun to experiment with pressure input. Any Mac users wanna try and tell me if it's smooth? Bugs/ideas welcome!
by palata | 2026-02-24 10:15:34+00:00
> The most interesting extension of this idea comes from the creator of Signal, Moxie Marlinspike’s recent work with Confer. In Passkey Encryption, he describes using the WebAuthn PRF extension to derive durable encryption key material from a passkey.

I do respect Moxie Marlinspike, but I'm not sure he "came up with this idea". I read about it first from the author of Age [1]. And to me it seems like whoever worked on adding a PRF extension to WebAuthn probably knew that PRFs are cool and could be used for cool stuff.

All that to say, I don't feel a need to attribute that to someone in particular, but if I did, I would want to be sure I am right.

[1]: https://words.filippo.io/passkey-encryption/
by andy12_ | 2026-02-24 10:16:46+00:00
> Auto-AI translation youtube uses is, bluntly, horrid. Any jokes, even obvious ones, are still fumbled frequently.

Youtube auto-translations are horrible indeed, and I say that as someone that has to live with the fact that Youtube decides to badly translate titles from a language I understad to Spanish because bilingual people don't exist I suppose. But that is because they use some dumb cheap model to make the translations; probably not even a Gemini-based model.
by mort96 | 2026-02-24 10:16:53+00:00
No battle has been won. Firefox's market share is dwindling, and they're going full steam ahead with turning Firefox into an "AI browser". Yes, they are adding an option to turn off AI features, but I don't want to use an "AI browser with AI features disabled", I want to use a normal web browser. Mozilla is not delivering that.

Note that just not bogging down Firefox with AI features is not enough here. Firefox market share has been going downhill for most of my life, long before they appointed this new AI-crazed CEO. I don't know what the solution is, but it's clear that it's not Mozilla.
by laserbeam | 2026-02-24 10:17:36+00:00
> against the spirit of science to keep them from the general public

Within science, participants have always published descriptions of methodology and results for review and replication. Within the same science, participants have never made access to laboratories free for everyone. You get blueprints for how to build a lab and what to do in it, you don't get the building.

Same for computation. I'm fairly sure almost all (if not all) algorithms in these suites are documented somewhere and you can implement them if you want. No one is restricting you from the knowledge. You just don't get the implementation for free.
by dust42 | 2026-02-24 10:18:14+00:00
I use MLX server directly from the MLX community project (by Apple). 42 tps is with 0-5000 token context. Starts to drop from there, I have never seen 60.

Yesterday I tested the latest llama.cpp and the result is that PP has made a huge jump to 420 tps which is 30% faster than MLX on my M1. TG is now 25 tps which is below MLX but does not degrade much, at 50k context it is still 22-23 tps.

Together with Qwen code CLI llama.cpp does a lot less often re-process the full KV cache. So for now I am switching back to llama.cpp.

It is worth to spend some time with the settings. I am really annoyed by the silly jokes (was it Claude that started this?). You can disable them with customWittyPhrases. Also setting contextWindowSize will make the CLI auto compress, which works really well for me.

And depending on what you do, maybe set privacy.usageStatisticsEnabled to false.

Like Gemini, Qwen CLI supports OpenTelemetry. When I have time I'll have a look why the KV cache gets invalidated.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-24 10:18:15+00:00
The Chinese have many good arguments for keeping their characters, which go far beyond mutual intelligibility.

But you don't have to go all the way to "English should switch to hieroglyphs" to see that keeping a uniform but imperfect phonetic system is far superior to having everyone write their own partially intelligible dialect however they want.

> English is intelligible enough that someone from Vancouver can easily talk to someone from Sydney and every other major population center in between.

I assume you mean going East from Vancouver, because there are practically no major population centers practically in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

But no, the dialects spoken in the major English-speaking population centers are not mutually intelligible. An American exposed to Cockney, a major English dialect, for the first time will have no idea that is being said.

Here's the future you want:

"Ai fink va braan kye-ao iz ow-va ve-ya bai va waw-ʔuh."

How many Americans do you think will understand that at first sight?
by ben_w | 2026-02-24 10:18:43+00:00
> This belligerent take is so very human, though. We just don't know how an alien intelligence would reason or what it wants. It could equally well be pacifist in nature, whereas we typically conquer and destroy anything we come into contact with. Extrapolating from that that an AGI would try to do the same isn't a reasonable conclusion, though.

Given the general human condition, and that the Pentagon has recently announced that it will make use of an LLM which described itself as "Mecha Hitler", are we likely to create a pacifist AI, or a warmongering AI?

Even without that specific example, all machine learning follows some path in the high-dimensional space of possibilities according to some target function ("loss function", "reward function") that we humans define; this target function is itself an approximation of what the humans who make the AI want (see all buggy software ever, all legal loopholes, the cobra effect and Goodhart's law, everyone who plays games with a min-maxing strategy and finds game-breaking strategies as a result), and what the AI ends up with is an approximation of that target function.

Any given AI is an approximation of the target function, which is an approximation of the creator's goals. But the creators are companies and nations, and the goals of those are often (not always, but the exceptions don't matter when the bad case is even so much as occasional) to grow and to dominate, and even companies will campaign for changes to laws to promote their narrow self interests over those of the people (cigarettes, pollution, workplace safety), while governments have been known to go to war even with supposed allies.