MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by biophysboy | 2026-02-24 19:39:15+00:00
Many tech execs operate under the thesis that china & the democratic party are existential threats that warrant a surveillance/military/police ramp up. Meanwhile, many tech employees are credulous and frequently adopt self-serving geopolitical narratives. The current macro trends don't help (huge defense budgets, bad labor market power, China is in fact more powerful)

Edit:forgot the most obvious... money
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-24 19:39:20+00:00
Your grumpiness contradicts itself. To the extent that it's just for fun, it's not an advance.

And CSS being Turing complete doesn't make it suitable to replace any JS it couldn't already replace, so why can't JS-haters dislike the idea? If I didn't like a language and people offered an even worse to use replacement I'd be justified in having distaste for it!
by mwwaters | 2026-02-24 19:39:27+00:00
The phisher’s app or login would be from a completely new device though.

Passkeys are also an active area to defeat phishing as long as the device is not compromised. To the extent there is attestation, passkeys also create very critical posts about locking down devices.

Given what I see in scams, I think too much is put on the user as it is. The anti-phishing training and such try to blame somebody downward in the hierarchy instead of fixing the systems. For example, spear-phishing scams of home down payments or business accounts work through banks in the US not tying account numbers to payee identity. The real issue is that the US payment system is utterly backward without confirmation of payee (I.e. giving the human readable actual name of recipient account in the banking app). For wire transfers or ACH Credit in the US, commercial customers are basically expected to play detective to make sure new account numbers are legit.

As I understand it, sideloading apps can overcome that payee legal name display in other countries. So the question for both sideloading and passkeys is if we want banks liable for correctly showing the actual payee for such transfers. To the extent they are liable, they will need to trust the app’s environment and the passkey.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 19:39:31+00:00
> If they are trusting AI to replace labor, they should trust AI to be accountable for bad filters.

Surely all of the AI hype is true and there are no hypocrites in Corporate America.

> What happens when a human misses over a document or 2?

If they were obligated to produce it and don't they can get into some pretty bad trouble with the court. If they hand over something sensitive they weren't required to, they could potentially lose billions of dollars by handing trade secrets to a competitor, or get sued by someone else for violating an NDA etc.
by Zigurd | 2026-02-24 19:39:49+00:00
Seriously. While it can't be more than speculative, it's a pretty solid speculation that a competent follow on to Model 3 would've put the rest of the automotive industry so far behind they would never catch up.

Instead, Elon wasted the opportunity on the Cybertruck ego trip to show that he's the genius that transformed cars. Once people catch on to the fact that launching 15 to 25 refueling rockets isn't a viable way to get beyond earth orbit, another project is going to turn out to be an Elon ego trip.
by godelski | 2026-02-24 19:39:58+00:00
Hell, I don't know why we don't just start building a guerrilla network around the Bay. Just start gluing repeaters to things. You could do LoRA like in that video but even WiFi has decent range. Maybe not in the km range but it's also a $5 device. And we don't need to limit ourselves to that cheap of stuff.

We don't need to replace global fiber, we just need to demonstrate enough to inspire others. I'd be perfectly happy if we got just an old web text only system up.

Honestly, would be a lot easier if we could get encryption rules lifted from HAM operations. That's what's needed for long range, even if we won't get the high data rates. We don't need a YouTube to make a difference
by delusional | 2026-02-24 19:40:29+00:00
It's not just a question of the long haul. About 25% of new model 3's failed their first inspection in 2024 in denmark. That means they aren't road legal without repairs. That's compared to 9% of other electric cars. And yeah, they run a 4 year warrenty, so when the first inspection is due after 4 years, it also conviniently out of warrenty.

It's even worse with the Y where 50% (yes, HALF) of 2021 models failed their first inspection.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-24 19:40:45+00:00
I don't use KP, but I have a pdf for my floor safe in my password manager. I only open it a few times per year and I need more than just the combination, I need instructions on whether the first number is cw or ccw. While I could no doubt look it up on the internet every time, I was fearful that the user's manual might some day disappear from the internet. Some things that aren't obviously passwords still belong in a password manager.
by ifh-hn | 2026-02-24 19:41:24+00:00
The schema issues aren't solved by moving to sqlite, or the proposed solution is doable with XML too. I can see the same thing with the attributes (some described it as a shadow schema) happening in an attributes table just as easily. And in my experience relational schemas are a lot harder to modify than a document schema like XML.

EDIT: also you don't need to have just one password vault and I'd say you probably shouldn't, separate entries also assist with separation of concerns. This last adds a little overhead but is a reasonable workaround.

However on the whole I like sqlite for app persistence. It can, however, leak data (forensically) if not managed properly.
by azan_ | 2026-02-24 19:41:55+00:00
> But I genuinely want to know a true account of what it took to get him there.

I guess it's being one of the biggest geniuses in the history. Why people find it so hard to accept that there can be HUGE differences in intellectual capabilities and that parenting does not account for even 1% of that? I can bet that if Tao's parents did same things they did for him to 1000 of random children, none would come even remotely close to Tao.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-24 19:42:22+00:00
Late 2010s. We actually did have badges but the doors were only locked outside work hours, so nobody carried them.

The thief had to walk past a security desk in the lobby, take the elevator up to our floor, walk past a front desk to the kitchen, then open a door to get to the office area. Probably sounded like enough layers for whoever was in charge of security at the time, but both desks were frequently unoccupied during lunch.

I know we had cameras too, but I never got updates on the investigation. I suspect it was an employee at one of the other companies in our building.
by drcongo | 2026-02-24 19:42:39+00:00
I stopped using 1Password for personal stuff and switched to just Apple Passwords about a year ago so I can add a little colour to what to expect.

Firstly, the Apple Passwords app is slow as molasses, just really really bad. If you've got more than about 1000 items, it's almost unusable. That said, you very rarely have to use it, because password entry in Safari is perfect, and the menubar app for it doesn't have the same slowness problems.

One big gotcha though is that Apple Passwords thinks site1.example.com and site2.example.com are the same site. So if you log into site1, it notices that the password you used isn't the password for site2 and offers to update it. If you click yes, it will overwrite the password stored against every subdomain of example.com - if you need to use multiple Sentry accounts, this is very problematic.

Finally, password entry in other browsers is less than perfect. There's an extension for Firefox but it's clunky, and the experience is even worse in Orion. Don't know about Chrome as I don't like to have spyware on my computer.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-24 19:42:46+00:00
The right wing went full censorship and surveillance long before the Charlie Kirk assassination. Anyone who believed that the right wing (or the left wing, for that matter; let's not pretend that censorious dipshittery is not bipartisan) was honestly promising freedom of speech as opposed to merely freedom of speech they like and censorship of speech they don't like was at best willfully blinding themselves to the actual actions of politicians.
by strongpigeon | 2026-02-24 19:42:59+00:00
The goal for V1 is to be able to create whole programs and workouts in one shot and then edit them. I'm currently iterating on the tools definition, but it'll probably be out in 2-3 weeks. After that I plan on looking into the ChatGPT integration to render the programs myself.

Once that's done, the plan is to add scheduling functionalities.
Show HN: Interactive 3D Moon with real NASA data and WebGPU
by oddurs | 2026-02-24 19:43:01+00:00
A photorealistic Moon viewer running entirely in the browser. WebGPU primary renderer with WebGL 2 fallback.

- NASA CGI Moon Kit textures served via a quadtree LOD tile system
- Oren-Nayar BRDF (lunar regolith is non-Lambertian with strong backscatter)
- Sun position calculated from astronomy-engine (±1 arcminute)
- Scrub through the full lunation cycle or watch in real time
- Earth and Tycho-2 starfield in the background

Tech: Three.js with TSL shaders (compile to both WGSL and GLSL), React Three Fiber, Vite. The shading model was the most interesting part — standard PBR looks completely wrong for the Moon because regolith doesn't have a specular lobe; it actually gets brighter at opposition (the "opposition surge"). Oren-Nayar gets close enough for a web visualization.

Tile system is a geodetic quadtree similar to CesiumJS's approach. Zoom level picks based on screen-space error. Currently 7 levels deep which gets you to ~4 km/pixel at max zoom.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's worked with lunar data or WebGPU in production.
by cesarb | 2026-02-24 19:43:12+00:00
> > Good luck with that.

> No luck needed. Linux based phones are starting to become viable as daily drivers.

Then please tell me, which non-Android Linux-based phone can I buy here in Brazil (one of the first places where Android would have these new restrictions)? I'd love to know (not sarcasm, I'm being sincere). Keep in mind that only phones with ANATEL certification can be imported, non-certified phones will be stopped by customs and sent back.
by kbolino | 2026-02-24 19:43:26+00:00
A ZIP file with solid encryption (i.e., the archive is encrypted as a single whole) has all of the same tradeoffs as a KDBX file as far as incremental updates are concerned.

A ZIP file with incremental encryption (i.e., each file is individually encrypted as a separate item) has its own problems. Notably: the file names are exposed (though this can be mitigated), the file metadata is not authenticated, and the central directory is not authenticated. So sure, you can read that index, but you can't trust it, so what good is it doing? Also, to support incremental updates, you'd either have to keep all the old versions of a file around, or else remove them and end up rewriting most/all of the archive anyway. It's frankly just not a very good format.
by kgwxd | 2026-02-24 19:43:47+00:00
Some decent arguments for development concerns, but the users will certainly never notice.

For 10 years I've managed a family of 4 in a single KeePass db. Unique passwords across all accounts, random passwords instead of PII for "security questions", fake DOBs, and all other random security related stuff. Never had a single issue. Everything happens instantly as far as I can tell. And the file is 67kb.

My work dbs, separate only because they should be, are much smaller and simpler.

I love KeePass. Changing everything under the hood probably only has potential to make pain for the user. Best case is that nothing is made noticeably worse. Doesn't seem worth the risk.
Off Grid: On-device AI-web browsing, tools, vision, image gen, voice – 3x faster
by ali_chherawalla | 2026-02-24 19:43:48+00:00
Nine days ago I posted Off Grid here and you showed up - 124 points, 66 comments, bug reports I fixed same-day, and the kind of feedback that makes open source worth it.

You told me what you wanted.
Here's what I shipped:
Your AI can now use tools - entirely offline.

Web search, calculator, date/time, device info - with automatic tool loops.

Your 3B parameter model doesn't just generate text anymore. It reasons, calls tools, and synthesizes results.

On your phone. No API key. No server. No cloud function.

So what? It means the gap between "local toy" and "useful assistant" just got dramatically smaller.

You don't need GPT-4 to look something up and give you an answer. A quantized Qwen 3 / SMOLLM3 running on your Snapdragon can do it in no time.

3x faster with configurable KV cache.
You can now choose between f16, q8_0, and q4_0 KV cache types. On q4_0, models that were doing 10 tok/s are hitting 30. The app even nudges you after your first generation: "Hey, you could be running faster." One tap.

So what? The #1 complaint about on-device AI is "it's too slow to be useful." That argument just lost a lot of weight. 30tokens/second on a phone is faster than most people read.

Live on both stores. No sideloading. No Xcode.

Off Grid is now on the App Store and Google Play. Install it like any other app. Your parents could use this.

So what? On-device AI just went from "cool weekend project for developers" to "thing normal people can actually try." That matters because privacy shouldn't require a CS degree.

What hasn't changed:
- MIT licensed. Fully open source. Every line: https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile-

Zero data leaves your device. No analytics. No telemetry. No "anonymous usage data."
- Text gen (15-30 tok/s), image gen (5-10s on NPU), vision AI, voice transcription, document analysis
— all offline
- Bring any GGUF model. Run Qwen 3, Llama 3.2, Gemma 3, Phi-4, whatever you want.

I'm building this because I believe the phone in your pocket should be the most private computer you own — not the most surveilled. Every week the models get smaller and faster. The hardware is already there. The software just needs to catch up.

If this resonates, a star on GitHub genuinely helps: https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile

I'm in the comments. Tell me what to build next.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-24 19:44:28+00:00
It's not puzzling. Journalism was murdered because it asked Nixon too many questions. So now unless you softball interviews, you just don't get to interview anyone, so the only news orgs with content to monetize are the ones just printing Press Releases and being a backboard for "interviews".

It sure is fun how the party who screams about "personal responsibility" seems to get very upset if you ask a responsible person to explain themselves and their actions.
by elifuentes | 2026-02-24 19:44:40+00:00
AI agents hallucinate differently than chatbots—they fabricate API parameters, claim success after failures, and execute on false beliefs. After reviewing recent research (MetaRAG 2025, RAG-KG-IL 2025, ATA 2024), I tested 4 mitigation techniques on a travel agent with 300 FAQs: Graph-RAG for precise data (vs vector similarity), semantic tool selection (86% error reduction), neurosymbolic guardrails with Strands hooks (blocks what prompts can't), and multi-agent validation. Each technique includes working demos, Jupyter notebooks, and ground truth verification.
by mindslight | 2026-02-24 19:45:13+00:00
No, that is not the "extent of it". Trump's obnoxious personality serves as a distraction from the abject incompetence, and it is apparently still working on you. The general pattern I've seen is that he picks a position, no matter how outlandish or impractical, that gets the most vocal support. He then claims to be doing something about it with some token actions. When anybody points out the glaring flaws, he and his cult of believers go to work attacking the critics.

For a recent example, see his atrocious failure on tariffs. A supposed mandate to do something about bringing American industry back, plus a Republican majority in both houses of Congress. But then the main plan merely consisted of tariffs that could have worked twenty years ago, applied in a simplistic blanket manner that harms domestic industry? And still even then the whole push ends up being a giant failjob for not doing the basic work to get them passed into law! But of course the enemy-scapegoat will always end up being someone else, because making excuses is Trump's only skill.

Some of these dynamics have terribly destructive results, especially with regards to our individual liberties. For example, the terrorist attacks on American cities - hence the protesting. And protesting about the violation of our natural rights as laid out in our country's founding documents seems pretty damn patriotic to me.
by ghaff | 2026-02-24 19:45:41+00:00
The customer has presumably been paid. If they're smart there's nothing or very little in the suitcase that can't just be replaced. The airline/insurance has paid out and just wants the claim to go away.

As a side-note, had a small kitchen fire with smoke damage last year and it was pretty obvious that, even though they were reasonably generous, the insurance adjuster, cleaning people, movers, etc. just wanted the whole process to go away so they could move on. They objected a bit to a few claims but, for the most part, spending $50K was nothing compared to the claims being reopened.
by rvnx | 2026-02-24 19:45:47+00:00
The law will adapt, same as it adapted for OpenAI/Anthropic when they started doing piracy to train their LLMs

Nvidia started funding piracy sites too; https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-s...

If you are billionaire+ it's legal or at least financially worth it and no punishment on management.

If you are worth xx'000 you personally go to jail, you get into very big troubles, and get ruined.
by fsflover | 2026-02-24 19:46:02+00:00
> This was with the default settings after flashing Crimson

This is strange. See this post concerning the battery life: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-battery-life-improved-by-100/. Have you updated the modem firmware?

You are right, I have case 1). It is quite likely that Byzantium is (was) much less stable, as it required a lot of hacks and relied on a very old Debian version.
by dvdkon | 2026-02-24 19:46:19+00:00
Filtering for GP's requirements on GSMArena.com, I only see a handful of recent phones. Some of them do have an unlockable bootloader, but all of those are made by GPL violators, so you won't get the source code necessary to really make use of that unlocked status.

EDIT: I forgot to check the "removable battery" checkbox; with it you get zero matching phones. Maybe you should've checked that before assuming GP just can't search.

Not to end on such a negative note, foregoing a maimum height and the removable battery, Sony's Xperia 5 and 10 fit the rest of the requirements and are very good phones. Hard to find for sale in the last few years, though.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-24 19:46:21+00:00
I wouldn’t point to Epstein, but there is a very powerful lobby that will protect the image of any Israeli government. A lot of Evangelicals also consider Israel important in bringing about the apocalypse, without which they can’t access eternal life. I wish I was kidding on that last one, but there are people actively trying to bring down civilisation so they can go to heaven.
by tirant | 2026-02-24 19:46:51+00:00
Same as any other economic system: power is usually concentrated around a very small group of people. In socialism and communism, that concentration typically occurs within the party leadership or central planning apparatus.

However, in free-market capitalism, anyone is allowed to participate in capital formation and accumulation. Ownership is not formally restricted to a political class. Entry into markets is open in principle (unless it stops being a free market), and capital allocation is decentralized through free and voluntary exchange rather than administrative decree.

That does not mean capitalism eliminates power concentration, as Wealth can accumulate and translate into political influence. But the mechanism of power differs: In centrally planned systems, control flows from political authority. In market systems, control flows from voluntary transactions and competitive success.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-24 19:46:56+00:00
Do you have an Android or an iPhone?

IMO terminals are still the fastest way to do a lot of things on a phone, but it's a much better experience on Androids with keyboards for the purpose.

And even on an iPhone, it's just fine. Python works really well as a shell for quick calculations, and you can use a script with the -i flag to make it more accessible.
by Hizonner | 2026-02-24 19:47:09+00:00
If the actual bank app does that, or is even easy to fool into doing that, then the bank should be responsible. That's the world "regular people" want and it's the world as it should be.

If random malware the user chose to install does that, then that is not the bank's fault. The bank is no more involved than anybody else. And no, I don't think "regular people" want to make that the bank's fault.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-24 19:47:10+00:00
That’s simply not quite true if you read the article. When Terence Tao got stuck on a continued fraction problem, his mother told him to use the quadratic.

In contrast when I was a kid and was thinking about optimizing my program to print all prime numbers, my mother, instead of telling me about the sieve of Eratosthenes, told me to do school-approved math instead.

Now shoutout to my actual math teacher, who, having been told that I got stuck on writing a program to solve simultaneous linear equations, told me about Gaussian elimination.
by nailer | 2026-02-24 19:47:13+00:00
> About the name: The subdomain was called onyx, a reference to the Pokémon Onix (a Pokémon made of multiple boulders, fitting for a multi-node architecture). It was an informal codename chosen by the engineer. It had no connection whatsoever to Fivecast ONYX, an unrelated 3rd party commercial product previously used by ICE. We understand this coincidence caused confusion, and we address it further below.
by jfengel | 2026-02-24 19:48:01+00:00
Interesting that the runners-up were much more conventional choices, Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird.

I've never read Mockingbird; I gotta say that it doesn't sound like a fun read. I really admire Jane Austen, though I find her books a bit of a slog even now. (I really hated them when compelled to read them in high school, though with the aid of some film adaptations I have a much better understanding of what those books are about.)

Hunger Games does nail a sweet spot of Young Adult fiction: compelling, easy to read, but not completely dimwitted.

The first Harry Potter book might have been a good choice, but it's really a juvenile rather than YA, and that narrows the audience somewhat as a "favorite book". Later Harry Potter books are more appealing to older readers, but no single one of them quite captures the lightning of the first one.
by fusslo | 2026-02-24 19:48:24+00:00
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-g...

> Judge Carolyn Kuhl, who is presiding over the trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned.

I am not a believer in Zuckerberg's idea of humanity's future.