MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ABCLAW | 2026-02-23 23:56:15+00:00
>I disagree. You can escape a disease, even during a global pandemic. And not every person that got COVID was on a ventilator or even felt that bad.

Propaganda works.

The knowledge worker class often believes their training will afford them some level of protection against it. Even then, with those warding effects, they're still susceptible. Consider further that most people in society are significantly less educated or trained in epistemological functions than they are - a large portion of society is defenseless against a liar with a megaphone.

Propaganda won't contest that starvation is occurring. It will claim that the reason for the starvation is a specific foe, internal or external e.g. It's China's fault we're starving or the immigrants have caused this food security crisis and once they're gone we'll have enough food for our own people, etc. They'll workshop and see which ones poll well, then run with the talking point that seems to perform best.

Since the government harnessing that discontent has no real desire to fix that problem, all they need to do is maintain the perception that they're the solution, while not addressing the problem itself.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-23 23:56:26+00:00
I'll spell it out for you since you can't read between the lines. It's not actually about fire-keeping in tribes to protect children. It's about certain people (governments, corporations, organizations) wanting control over the Internet and everyone's digital communications. They don't want a free marketplace of ideas and uncensored channels of communication because their propaganda narratives would not survive.

The tribe leader refers to certain rich and powerful folks that have infiltrated governments and are running some of the largest businesses.

The fire refers to instant communication over the Internet. This relatively new technology has the potential to paralyze old power structures and reshape civilization. It's understandable why governments et al are panicking. They know their authority will wane under global free speech unless they do something.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-23 23:56:47+00:00
> Do you see any reason progress will stop abruptly here?

Yeah, money and energy. And fundamental limitations of LLM's. I mean, I'm obviously guessing as well because I'm not an expert, but it's a view shared by some of the biggest experts in the field ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just don't really buy the idea that we're going to have near-infinite linear or exponential progress until we reach AGI. Reality rarely works like that.
by ebbi | 2026-02-23 23:57:35+00:00
> I'd have to fill up my backpack with the heavy camera equipment and carry it around everywhere, which would make photography more labourious and less spontaneous.

I'd recommend looking into a camera such as a Ricoh GR series. Yes, it is an additional cost, so it doesn't solve the 'expense' part of the equation, but you'd get significantly better photos from it than any phone camera, plus it's very compact so wouldn't need to lug around much at all in terms of equipment.

Or something like a Fujifilm XM5 with a pancake lens - this will give you a compact setup, with the flexibility of using different lenses if you wished.
by shaun0927 | 2026-02-23 23:58:07+00:00
Imagine 20+ parallel Playwright sessions — but already logged in to everything, invisible to bot detection, and sharing one Chrome process at 300MB. That's OpenChrome.

Search across 20 sites simultaneously. Crawl authenticated dashboards in seconds. Debug production UIs with real user sessions. Connect to OpenClaw and give your AI agent browser superpowers across Telegram, Discord, or any chat platform.

Guided, Not Guessing

The bottleneck in browser automation isn't the browser — it's the LLM thinking between each step. Every tool call costs 5–15 seconds of inference time. When an AI agent guesses wrong, it doesn't just fail — it spends another 10 seconds thinking about why, then another 10 seconds trying something else.

OpenChrome eliminates this entirely — your Chrome is already logged in, and the hint engine corrects mistakes before they cascade.

Quick Start

npx openchrome-mcp setup

That's it. Say oc to your AI agent.

I'd love feedback on the approach. The hint engine in particular — treating "reduce LLM wandering" as a first-class engineering problem rather than a prompt engineering problem — feels like it has legs beyond browser automation.

GitHub: https://github.com/shaun0927/openchrome
by abraxas | 2026-02-23 23:58:35+00:00
I have had no issues with any of my Pixel phones overheating and I've had many. Maybe you have an issue with a specific app that misbehaved in the background?

I don't think there is any inherent flaw in the design of the pixels that causes them to overheat or drain battery. And the OP is likely to replace the Android OS with Lineage anyway.
by thephyber | 2026-02-23 23:59:40+00:00
It seems to me that throwing bad data into the Flock system is far more effective than breaking a few commodity electronic devices.

Figure out how to put an LCD in front of many of the ALPR cameras and play a slideshow of car images of cars that exist almost exclusively in different geolocations. Make the Flock data so noisy that it becomes useless.
by cortesoft | 2026-02-24 00:00:02+00:00
> Someone with domain knowledge could also just write the code instead of trying to get the stochastic prediction machine to generate it.

Well, people with the domain knowledge exist, yet they have not yet written this driver... why not?

Because there is other code those experts want to write, and they don't have time to write it all... but what if they could just give a fairly straightforward prompt and have the LLM do it for them? And if it only took minor tweaks to the prompt to have it write drivers for all the myriad combinations of hardware and software? At that point, there might be enough time to write it all.

Just because people exist that can DO all the work doesn't mean we have enough person-hours to do ALL the work.
by gnotstic | 2026-02-24 00:00:26+00:00
yes i was under the same impression, but i think this LUT/dictionary solution is counter intuitive to both of our current understandings of the web.

The "aha" moment for me was that, without this dict, the user is going to always request a full download of the data. For instance, let's say the NYT published an article and you read it. Then an editors note is added to the article. When you go back to read the article, the data transfer is miniscule. Now that is an edge case, but imagine a website that allows comments.. twitter.. reddit.. small text based pages that at first seem incosequential until you think about how we use the web, millions of users, returning to pages over and over again.

For me, my mental model of this structure is a LUT(key/value pair) wrapped in a Version Control(hash).

Now i think your comment is correct if we were to add how many requests the webpage is recieving and how frequently changes are happening to said webpage. My blog would recieve no benefits from implementing this tech, and using napkin math, my blog would need 1000 days to break even. Microsofts' blog however... less than a day, in theory.
by Affric | 2026-02-24 00:01:50+00:00
I remember going into my networking unit and absolutely destroying it through the use of the command line. Everyone else was clicking through the wireshark GUI and I just grepped every answer. Finished the hour long practical assessment in about 15 minutes having run everything twice.

CLI is so valuable because rather than explore a presentation of the data you plan your RE etc and then run it and it either returns the answer or it doesn't.

There are some TUIs I quite like (LNAV as a pager) but I think if you really know what you're dealing with the CLI is better almost every time.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-24 00:02:06+00:00
Strictly speaking, I don't think we need a human to run repetitive tests. We just need the human to help with the physical parts of the testing jig.

For instance: A microphone (optionally: a calibrated microphone; extra-optionally: in an isolated anechoic chamber) is a simple way to get feedback back into the machine about the performance of a speaker. (Or, you know: Just use a 50-cent audio transformer and electrically feed the output of the amplifier portion of the [presumably active] speaker back into the machine in acoustic silence.)

And I don't have to stray too far into the world of imagination to notice that the hairy, custom Cartesian printer in the corner of the workshop quite clearly resembles a machine that can move a mouse over a surface in rather precise ways. (The worst that can happen is probably not as bad as many of us have seen when using printers in their intended way, since at least there's no heaters and molten plastic required. So what if it disassembles itself? That's nothing new.)

Whatever the testing jig consists of, the bot can write the software part of the tests, and the tests can run as repetitiously as they need to.
by snowhale | 2026-02-24 00:02:19+00:00
fair point, I glossed over that distinction. context separation \!= training data separation. if the driver was in training data, the &quot;spec from observation&quot; pass is already contaminated before the coding pass begins. the phoenix bios parallel actually required strict information separation at every stage -- here that's not achievable since you can't retrain the model. so the legal protection is much weaker than I implied.
by scottyah | 2026-02-24 00:02:36+00:00
The main cases I've seen against people on the left (non-exclusive) are:

- Lots of them in Epstein files

- Mass importations of unchecked non-citizens

- Trying harder to look cool to Europe vs helping Americans

- Overregulation (things like California Coastal Commission)

- Massive fraud (LA -> SF bullet train, tens of billions for "homelessness" that don't go towards homeless at all, building permits, etc)

- Antifa burning down 3rd party businesses for reasons unknown

- Attempts to squash 1st amendment, particularly on gender

Since you linked sites like the Guardian and Atlantic, I figured the bar was low enough that you can just google any of these points and find an opinionated piece of similar quality.

The bubble I refer to is the fact that seemingly all you see is the bad on one side and good on the other. As easy as you claim one side are Nazis trying to kill off non-whites, the people on the other side claim the left is trying to force movie/music propaganda to eradicate all white people. Both sides have millions of posts from terminally online people wildly claiming outrageous things. Both "sides" have bad people. If you can't agree to that, you are in a bubble or just lying.
by fergal_reid | 2026-02-24 00:02:38+00:00
My story of kids growing up in a post AI world:

There's a gag in Star Trek 4 where Scotty goes back in time, and tries talk to a computer.

The gag is funny because he is from the future where you talk to computers normally. When the computer doesn't respond, someone hands him the mouse, and he tries use it as a microphone.

I watched that scene with my kids recently (9 and 6).

They didn't get the gag. They thought Scotty was completely reasonable to try and talk to the computer.

It took a while to explain.
by Cyberis | 2026-02-24 00:03:02+00:00
Markdown needs to stay human readable and "simple." Yes, I like some of the bolt on capabilities but I also want a document format that can be read using the simplest interfaces like text editors and os utilities like cat. That's THE reason it is our standard for documentation. I can make it pretty with a nice renderer but also read it, version it, consume it in a ton of tools (like AI Agents) using simple tools.
by autoexec | 2026-02-24 00:03:36+00:00
I think more people would bother with voting if they felt their vote mattered, but between the two party system (where both options suck), the gerrymandered distracting, and other voter suppression tactics people have been conditioned to feel powerless over the outcome of elections.

I'm entirely unsurprised if the majority of places taking a stand against flock cameras are liberal. From what I've seen conservatives tend to fetishize police and punishment. There's a lot of boot-licking going on for a group of people who posture as being rebels and anti-government, but I think there's also an assumption that only (or mainly) "others" will be targeted and punished. To the extent that it's true, I sure wouldn't expect it to stay that way.
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-24 00:03:39+00:00
> In the meantime, the company is urging owners to park outside and limit charging to 70% to eliminate the risk of a fire.

They must be using NMC batteries which are fairly common and are not recommended to be charged above 80% for regular driving and not left out in very hot conditions above 80% charge to prevent battery degradation. In this circumstance the batteries are kept "cool" through their onboard temperature packages.

This is a pretty serious issue given these types of batteries have the thermal runaway issues.

I like Volvo, but I can't help but think if this happened to Tesla's there would be an uproar among people.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-24 00:03:41+00:00
I make this argument to neutralize the "protect the children" excuse and also delegitimize the age verification "solution" by pointing out that on-device settings are more effective and easier to implement yet rarely discussed.

There are some parents genuinely concerned with parenting. We should give them the tools to do that and thereby removing them from the discourse, then we can focus on the bad faith people that want more control. I think there are still enough well-meaning people in governments that if we popularize on-device settings, it will prevent age verification in at least a handful of countries, and that's good enough to keep the spark of the free Internet going until we figure out a more permanent solution.
by ozim | 2026-02-24 00:03:44+00:00
Maybe this will make it more clear, so big difference is that people can connect across the planet without "big social media".

There are internet forums, chats, e-mail, blogs, there is no inherent need for "big social media" as we know. I do understand those companies made it much easier for average person to participate but still using internet forum or e-mail isn't exactly rocket science.

Here we are on HN, where no one is changing the layout and not doing much to drive engagement. Some days I don't even open any discussion because there is a lot of stuff that is not interesting for me.

"Big social media" companies had already multiple people speaking up explaining that they specifically made changes to drive engagement to hook people up and keep them scrolling without "creating compelling content". They specifically tuned feed algorithms to promote lowest common denominator trash content that makes people react in anger/frustration/whatever and not "creating/promoting compelling content".
by PastScales | 2026-02-24 00:03:53+00:00
I have been a kid and now a parent. It is impossible with the tools available to proof kids from the internet. If it's not a parent it's at a friends house, school devices, or a dedicated sense of curiosity.

Two things tech companies want to protect:

The perception of anonymity

Who gets to collect that information

I agree that a smaller loop of people should have that data but the loop is growing every day.

So if it ruins the perception anonymity for young naieve users so be it.

I'm not saying it's impossible to be somewhat anon, I'm just saying untrained users should understand the environment they're interacting with before they get hooked on useless products.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-24 00:04:17+00:00
One of the worst sites in existence is the Japanese Visa site they direct people to to make QR codes for when you land in Japan as a tourist. It's atrocious.

https://services.digital.go.jp/en/visit-japan-web/

I hate it so much I kind of wish I could volunteer to fix it. I suspect the process though would be torture

Note: experience on mobile is bad. I don't remember if desktop is better.
by hippo22 | 2026-02-24 00:04:45+00:00
> Are you proposing that an LLM can extract some meaning from your initial prompt that a human being couldn't?

No, I’m asserting that an LLM can help formulate ideas in a coherent, understandable way. You can give it a brain dump with a rough outline for an argument and it fill in the details. If the argument isn’t to your liking, you can try again. But the end result is basically equivalent to the human-written equivalent.
by ohyoutravel | 2026-02-24 00:04:54+00:00
It’s a grift being perpetuated by the folks at the top, who then sweep along in their slipstream folks under them, and so on. The folks who “need to hear this” are helpless to go against and so can’t back down, and the folks who don’t need to hear this because they’re driving it have their paychecks aligned to it, so they’re not backing down.
by bsjaux628 | 2026-02-24 00:04:57+00:00
In a three way chat between the movement, politicians and the game industry, you need to know the technical details to rebuke the arguments and support your claims.

Also, the technical decisions are not just about saving a buck but getting the game shipped. If my game is about growing vegetables and I want to let the player drive to the state farm, but I don't want to spend time (and money) building my own physics engine for driving, I grab a solution off the shelve with their license and go back to the core of my game, this same thing is repeat for many other things like authentication, anti-cheat, networking, etc
by mv4 | 2026-02-24 00:05:06+00:00
Thank you for clarifying. It is true that many of such possessions have become incredibly cheap (and therefore affordable) especially when it comes to media consumption and other forms of escapism, but they do very little to address our fundamental needs (physical safety & health, financial security, emotional stability).

True luxuries (not having to worry, not having to waste time) are increasingly out of reach for most people.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-24 00:05:40+00:00
It comes from a combination of things that always existed getting online and the monetization of the attention economy. Influence operations (both corporate and governmental) are the source of most of the problems. Bots, influencers pushing propaganda, etc. I suspect you are actually a bot but others might read this so...

The biggest changes to the Internet over the last few years are usually in the political spaces. There are a few other things but mostly its political. Those other things always existed but now they are online. But this isn't the fault of the communications medium, its the ills of society leaking into online spaces. If we banned those things online, you still as a parent have to worry about them happening IRL. Its better to talk to your kids about these dangers honestly and it always has been. Its always been easier to just prevent your children from being exposed to those dangers but that usually backfires later on. Banning unpopular political discourse to do that has never been the answer to these issues. But in this case, banning discourse is the goal and children are just the excuse. As proof of this, the same government pushing this only instituted a real drinking age in the last 10 years, in a country known for making liquor.
by qgin | 2026-02-24 00:05:41+00:00
The most interesting thing about this is that the underlying economy is actually stronger than people realize. The narrative has been that AI data center construction was propping up an otherwise weak economy. If this analysis is true, then it wasn't being propped up by data center construction. The strength was usual and normal strength.

I have no doubt that people will use this to axe grind about they think AI is dumb in general, but I feel like that misses the point that this is mostly about data center construction contributing to GDP.
by patmorgan23 | 2026-02-24 00:05:48+00:00
Maybe, I think a bigger reason is that Europe doesn't have near the level of regulatory harmonization that the US has. There are tons of policy areas where member states just do whatever they want, in pretty important areas. Like the US has a single bankruptcy code, and state commercial codes are all pretty close to the UCC, that's not the case in Europe.

The current EU commission president is pushing pretty hard to create more harmonization to make it easier for companies and investors to operate across Europe.
by schaefer | 2026-02-24 00:06:09+00:00
again, just an oppinion, but it feels really weird to hear you find "exception after exception", when the net result that you've ruled out more real world robotics projects on ARM than likely exist on x86 that you're suggesting should be the "norm".

you've ruled out the entire NXP ecosystem, the entire Nvidia Jetson ecosystem, the entire AMD/FPGA/Zynq ecosystem, even perfectly good options like beagle-board .... who else?

incidentally, you've also ruled out this project - as they are using an M7 microcontroller to meet their hard-real-time timing constraints...
by HardCodedBias | 2026-02-24 00:06:11+00:00
I think this is key:

"On top of that, there is currently no reliable way to accurately measure how AI use among businesses and consumers contributes to economic growth."

No doubt people are using it work ( https://www.gallup.com/workplace/701195/frequent-workplace-c... ) the question is how much productivity results and to whom does it accrue.

Partially this is AI capability (both today and in the past), partially this is people taking time to change their tools.
by thephyber | 2026-02-24 00:06:34+00:00
> I don‘t think it really matters how much people supported these extreme actions. This policy was clearly wrong.

This is wrong and ignorant of how we select elected representatives. They have no incentive to do “what is right” and all of the incentives to do “what is popular”. The representatives who stood up against the Patriot Act, the surveillance state, “you’re either with us or either the terrorists”, etc were unable to hold any control in Congress.

The reason we have stereotypes of politicians as lying, greasy, corrupt used car salesmen is because their incentives align with those qualities.

I am exclusively discussing the _is_, not the _ought_ (which is where I would agree with you)
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-24 00:07:12+00:00
Throwing myself to the sharks here, but sure.

pcie.c

/*
* BAR0 register access
*/
uint32_t
brcmf_reg_read(struct brcmf_softc *sc, uint32_t off)
{
return (bus_space_read_4(sc->reg_bst, sc->reg_bsh, off));
}

Is sc null? Who knows! Was it memset anywhere? No! Were any structs memset anywhere? Barely! Does this codebase check for null? Maybe in 3% of the places it should!

All throughout this codebase variables are declared and not initialized. Magic numbers are everywhere AND constants are defined everywhere. Constants are a mix of hex and int for what seem to be completely arbitrary reasons. Error handling is completely inconsistent, sometimes a function will return 5 places, sometimes a function will set an error code and jump to a label, and sometimes do both in the same function depending on which branch it hits.

All of this is the kind of code smell I would ask someone to justify and most likely rework.

Or I'm just a dumbass, I suppose I'll find out shortly.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-02-24 00:07:24+00:00
Why would it be? If you can describe an approximation of a system and regenerate it to be, let’s say, 98% accurate in 1% of the time that it would take to generate it by hand (and that’s being generous, it’s probably more like 0.1% in today’s day and age and that decimal is only moving left) aren’t there a giant set of use cases where the approximation of the system is totally fine? People will always bring up “but what about planes and cars and medicine and critical life or death systems”. Yeah sure, but a vast majority of the systems an end user interacts with every day do not have that level of risk tolerance