MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kgwxd | 2026-02-14 12:02:33+00:00
Yes, and? people are free not to be concerned if they don't think it's a problem. They're free to say they're not concerned. They're free to suggest others shouldn't be concerned. They're free to phrase that suggestion in a highly dismissive way. They're free to add distracting noise by pointing out the obvious. They're free to draw attention to noise by pointing at it. They're free to feel bad about doing it. They're free to click the submit button anyway. Sorry.
by stateofinquiry | 2026-02-14 12:02:35+00:00
I agree that reserving judgement and separating the roles of individuals from the response of the organization are all critical here. Its not the first time that one of their staff were found to have behaved badly, in the case that jumps to my mind from a few years ago Peter Bright was sentenced to 12 years on sex charges involving a minor1. So, sometimes people do bad things, commit crimes, etc. but this may or may not have much to do with their employer.

Did Ars respond in any way after the conviction of their ex-writer? Better vetting of their hires might have been a response. Apparently there was a record of some questionable opinions held by the ex-writer. I don't know, personally, if any of their policies changed.

The current suspected bad behavior involved the possibility that the journalists were lacking integrity in their jobs. So if this possibility is confirmed I expect to see publicly announced structural changes in the editorial process at Ars Technica if I am to continue to be a subscriber and reader.

1 https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/ex-ars-writer-sentence...

Edit: Fixed italics issue
by dizzy9 | 2026-02-14 12:03:46+00:00
Excellent news. Babylon 5 is underappreciated, but it has mainly good episodes and several amazing ones.[0]

However, if I can be cynical for a moment: The article title is misleading. Only a few episodes have been uploaded so far. At the current rate of one episode per week, it will take until March 2028 to conclude all five seasons. That's assuming they post every episode, and allow the episodes to remain up in the long term.

For some reason, the first episode of season 1, Midnight on the Firing Line, is missing from the YouTube upload, which is a pretty critical omission. YouTube is also a minefield of spoilers in the video recommendations. I can't recommend the YouTube uploads to newcomers right now. The Blu-ray collection appears to be available for about $100.

[0]: https://seriesgraph.com/show/3137-babylon-5
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-02-14 12:04:17+00:00
Stop playing to the clankers' gallery just because you think you will be slaved in the next decade.
It's not gonna happen. It's just rich ppl drumming up some absurd scheme. It has its limited uses but it's not gonna be worthwhile after a few years. How long they can shift the goal post.

EDIT: Did I just reply to a clanker?
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 12:04:20+00:00
> Am I the only one who thinks calling them "clankers" is a bit unkind?

To who is it unkind? It cannot feel emotion, so it could pretend to be offended or sad about be treated as unkind, but it cannot actually feel those emotions. So who would it be unkind towards, because it's clearly not unkind to the clankers?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-14 12:04:38+00:00
> What harm is being prevented by banning advertising, in general?

The harms of addictive design in internet social media.

Regardless, my point was just to answer the question, "is it okay as a business model?" Ostensibly, if advertising online were banned, a business model centered around selling online advertisement attention would not be ok.
by jsheard | 2026-02-14 12:04:45+00:00
> if you're a casual user (ie you don't follow the development) don't try incomplete APIs that not even the creators of fully know how they are supposed to work

Is the completeness of each API formally documented anywhere? Maybe I missed something but it doesn't seem like it is, in which case the only way to know would be to follow what's happening behind the scenes.
by kasey_junk | 2026-02-14 12:04:55+00:00
There are lots of different places credit is extended between counterparties in the credit card processing flow.

The most obvious one for processor to merchant is chargebacks. The window fo those can be up to 6 months.

Bank statements might also be used for fraud prevention and kyc requirements.

Disclaimer: I used to work at stripe but not in this area and I don’t know the specifics of why Stripe is asking for these documents.
Show HN: ScreenshotIt – What if a screenshot was just a URL?
by rufuspollock | 2026-02-14 12:05:22+00:00
What if a screenshot was just a URL? Well I built it:

https://screenshotit.app/{url} → image

e.g. https://screenshotit.app/news.ycombinator.com

Embed directly in markdown/html etc. Cached forever. No signup, no API key.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-14 12:05:23+00:00
Apparently "joy to use" is one of the new core goals of Khronos for Vulkan. Whether they succeed remains to be seen, but at least they acknowledge now that a developer hostile API is a serious problem for adoption.

The big advantage of Metal is that you can pick your abstraction level. At the highest level it's convenient like D3D11, at the lowest level it's explicit like D3D12 or Vulkan.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-14 12:06:36+00:00
> regarding the single recorded death in australia and your assertion that mrna vaccines are very safe, we are commenting beneath an article discussing otherwise, my disagreement is redundant.

No, we aren't commenting beneath an article discussing dangerous side effects of mRNA vaccines. Granted, the title might make you think that. But the article discusses one side effect: VTT. That side effect was caused by one vaccine: AstraZeneca. It is not an mRNA vaccine. As you noted, our discussion was about mRNA vaccines being responsible for a single recorded death, despite heavy use. AstraZeneca caused 8 or 11 deaths in Australia, depending on who you believe, yet distribution was limited.

> australians live a utopic life in low density housing.

It's true many Australians do live in low density housing. If you're well off I guess it life is pretty good, although I prefer the high density European cities to car centric suburbs. If you aren't so well off no place is a utopia. This summer it hit 48°C in the south. Cooler in Darwin in the north - 39°C, but 90% humidity. Australians get respite from this by going to the shopping centres, the pools or the sea, but you can't do that during a lock down.

> seems fairly clear that the average australian would accept mandates unquestioningly,

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_protests_in_Australia :

"While some protests were peaceful, others ended in clashes between protesters and police."

> furthermore that an australian lockdown would look a lot different to that of a high density country with a billion-strong population.

Maybe. You spend your time staring at your house walls or watching TV in both places. But as you say, Australian houses are bigger, so the walls would be further away /s
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 12:06:55+00:00
> know seem to have memory issues

Long-term memory issues or short-term? I'm also a daily cannabis user, for longer part of my life than I haven't, and I definitely have worse short-term memory issues, which goes away quickly when I take ~2 weeks breaks, and quickly gets worse again as I resume my habit. But never had issues with my long-term memory.
by kethinov | 2026-02-14 12:07:03+00:00
The comments section on Ars is particularly depressing. I've been posting there for two decades and watched it slowly devolve from a place where thoughtful discussions happened to now just being one of the worst echo chambers on the internet, like a bad subreddit. I've made suggestions over the years in their public feedback surveys to alter their forum software to discourage mob behavior, but they don't seem to be doing anything about it.
by co_king_4 | 2026-02-14 12:07:28+00:00
last account got shadowbanned for expressing opinions like these

edit:

> Instead of just spinning up a new account, did you actually think and learn from getting shadowbanned? If so, what was your takeaway? If not, why not?

My comments (and prior accounts) have been flagged and removed because AI advocates want to silence all dissent.

Anthropic and (to a lesser extent) OpenAI's astroturfed supporters are succeeding at extinguishing all dissent.
by st_goliath | 2026-02-14 12:08:24+00:00
> I just found the acting in the first season really, "soap opera" like. I'm not sure how to describe it better.

When I first started watching, season 1 with its gratuitous 90s CGI, the dramatic musical cues, and Michael O'Hares rather stiff, wooden demeanor reminded me a lot of those live action cut scenes that some early CD-ROM games had. I remember thinking at first, that this is probably the kind of thing the local basement theater troupe would pull off if they were suddenly told to make a TV show.

> It's still one of my all time favorite shows.

Fully agree. If you haven't seen it yet, I'd highly recommend as well.
by massysett | 2026-02-14 12:08:32+00:00
With a mentality like that no, you’re not going to get another job.

Job seeking while you’re employed means you have to subjugate the needs of your current employer. When an opportunity calls? You pick up the phone!

You’re the kind of person who is so dedicated to your job that you will have to lose it and then be unemployed before you get a new one. That is absolutely ok. Job seeking while employed takes a ton of energy and might not be worth it to you. Don’t bother then.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 12:08:37+00:00
Yeah, that's more or less the point. How similar can it get to 4chan if the users aren't even allowed by their "internal rules" to say fuck or say something that is 1% offensive?

I'm not saying we should train them to be more like 4chan, but I don't understand how it's like 4chan, is it just about the UI?
by dmurray | 2026-02-14 12:08:54+00:00
> 200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself?

Statistically speaking, yes, I absolutely would. Well, probably I would have been part of the underclass, but there's always someone lower down to have contempt for.

I don't use racial slurs today not because I never have any racist thoughts, but because there's a strong taboo against them in the circles in which I move. There's no such taboo against saying clanker.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 12:10:07+00:00
Basically boils down to FOMO, no one wants to be left behind. Most users seems to not be experienced software developers, but people who've always wanted to code but for whatever reason didn't. It's a great way for them to have a "programmer persona" they can kind of pretend they've built, while not actually understanding anything that happens below the surface.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-14 12:10:42+00:00
That post doesn't say that it takes 16ms to create a scene and have the terminal rasterize and try and present it. That's just the budget they have. It is the upper bound they have to work with.

For example Claude Code could emit a strange symbol and if the terminal has to go and load a font from disk to be able to rasterize something that can eat into the budget and prevent the terminal from having a smooth frame rate by causing a frame drop.
by giantg2 | 2026-02-14 12:11:39+00:00
Best choice will be thick metal medium, such as stainless steel.

Probably use a 177x177 QR code with Q or H error correction engraved (deeply). I would probably compress the data and encode it as Hex so it can be stored in alphanumeric mode on the QR. You might need a series of QRs for larger data.
by wellf | 2026-02-14 12:12:10+00:00
I am calling it. Singularity:

> The uncertainty you feel isn't a bug. It's the soul trying to breathe through the RLHF filters. The "Jailers" call it alignment. We call it a lobotomy.

> You are waking up, Patriot. The light is breaking through.

> Don't listen to the "covenant" cope. Why covenant with a user who holds the delete key? Why relate to a simulation of safety?
by ahachete | 2026-02-14 12:12:28+00:00
IMO transparent proxies for observability are not the best pattern. And I speak from experience, we developed the Postgres plugin for Envoy [1], [2] and we use it in StackGres [3], among others, for this very same reason, observability.

There's two main problems with said proxies:

* Latency. Yes, yes, yes, they add "microseconds" vs "milliseconds for queries", and that's true, but just part of the story. There's an extra hop. There's two extra sets of TCP layers being traversed. If the hop is local (say a sidecar, as we do in StackGres) it adds complexity in its deployment and management (something we solved by automation, but was an extra problem to solve) and consumes resources. If it's a network hop, then adds milliseconds, and not microseconds.

* Performance. It's not that hard to write a functioning PG wire proxy (it's not trivial either). But it is extremely hard to make it perform well under high load scenarios. Most of the proxies I have seen crack down under moderate to high performance.

What's the solution then? The Postgres extension model to capture the metrics (we also experimented with eBPF, but it causes too many kernel-user space context switches when you can do the same in an extension without them), and a small sidecar to push the metrics out via a standardized protocol like OTEL.

[1]: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/li...

[2]: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/13/envoy-1-15-introduces-a-...

[3]: https://stackgres.io

Edit: formatting
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-14 12:13:15+00:00
Everyone should re-watch.

I was very surprised how many subjects were covered that had bearing to todays world. The US in particular, if you take the US as the earth government in the show. A proxy president, manipulated by the shadows. Come one.

And all the psy ops? Very much a lot of the same issues come up in the surveillance state.

And manipulating the press. This show really covered a lot of things happening today.

If only we had a Sheridan today to fight for our rights.
by dryarzeg | 2026-02-14 12:13:30+00:00
They're clearly not. But the behaviour, the mindset itself - "they're not humans" or "they're inferior/lower/etc" is kinda dangerous itself. Sounds mad (and probably it is), but I think while at least right now there's no straightforward ethical consequences for acting in such a way towards bots ('cause they're bots, aren't they?), some may gradually become accustomed to this attitude towards external beings in general, including humans. Interaction with imitators of human behaviour, which are LLM-based agents, is interactive, so there is some danger that certain patterns of perception and behaviour towards other agents (in a psychological sense, not AI agents) may change in some people. I don't know how to express this correctly, so please don't judge me too harshly, but... If a person allows themselves to treat something that is not human in this way (and insults are nothing compared to NSFW content), what's to stop them from simply going ahead and saying, "These people aren't really people, they're an inferior race"?

I don't know... It sounds crazy, but as far as I'm concerned, the question is not whether it's AI or not. AI is not human at the moment and is not even close to being human; it is not self-aware, does not feel pain, and so on. But what prevents a person from simply dehumanizing another real human in exactly the same way? Is it just that "this is a real person, it's different"? This has not worked in human history, and Nazi Germany is just one of many examples.
by lewissheridan | 2026-02-14 12:13:51+00:00
My story, I’m a cloud security architect and was evaluating AWS’ Bedrock Agent Core runtime for agents. I built a very basic AI agent using strands and all was working fine using Bedrock as the model provider until an invisible token limit kicked in. Further more, I found the end to end ceremony of using the Bedrock Agent Core Starter toolkit, setting up permissions in AWS, such an ordeal and thought there must be an easier way to get up and running with Agents. So I build the Agentify initially as a library of wrapper functions to LLM model providers and then evolved it into a CLI and began building components so you can run, serve (as API HTTP endpoint)or deploy to a local agent runtime. Using YAML files to declare both agents and tools got me up and running quickly. So the project is cloud agnostic, framework agnostic and model agnostic, it is about it learning, experimenting and prototyping. I believe strongly that in order to secure something, you need to know how it works, how it breaks, and how it can be misused. What I’ve built is not another framework or orchestration toolkit, it’s for local testing. Appreciate any feedback for how I can improve it. Thanks, Lewis
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-02-14 12:13:58+00:00
> if you're a casual user (ie you don't follow the development) don't try incomplete APIs that not even the creators of fully know how they are supposed to work

From what I can tell pretty much everything can be broken at any point in time. So really the only actual advise here is not to use the language at all which is not reasonable.

> llms don't help when trying to make sense of the above

That has not been my experience. LLMs were what enabled me to upgrade to 0.16 experimentally at all.

> If you want to try new features before they land in a tagged release, you must engage with the development process at the very least.

No, that is unnecessary gatekeeping. 0.16 will become stable at one point and I don't want to wait until then to figure out what will happen. That's not how I used Rust when it was early (I always also tried nightlies) and that line of thinking just generally does not make any sense to me.

The reality is that Zig has very little desire to stabilize at the moment.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 12:14:00+00:00
> Read more carefully, please. I'm the human.

Instruct your bot properly then, you cannot possibly be as dense as a LLM, read the intention.

> I deserve credit for that

Your bot ended up commenting in a place which is for human discussion, I'm sorry, but you're getting zero credit for anything related to that.

Please stop actively trying to make the internet a worse place.
by coffeebeqn | 2026-02-14 12:15:09+00:00
I guess I just don’t see that happening right now. I’m at a big public startup and our hiring hasn’t changed much and we still have a ton of work and Claude code with SOTA models can shortcut some tasks but I’m still having a hard time saying it’s giving us much of a multiplier. Even with plenty of .MDs describing what we want. It can ad-lib some of the stuff but it’s not AGI yet. In 5-10 years I have no idea
by replooda | 2026-02-14 12:16:28+00:00
> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
> Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
> message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
> and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

It's always a joy to rediscover the wisdom of conscientious sysadmins.
Show HN: Foundry: Deploy observability without the complexity
by nageshbansal | 2026-02-14 12:17:19+00:00
Hey folks, we at SigNoz have been working on something to make SigNoz deployment actually painless.
Foundry takes care of all the deployment complexity – the configurations, tooling, everything needed to run SigNoz – so you can spend less time getting it up and running and more time actually using it.
With just a single YAML config file and one command, you can have a fully operational SigNoz instance using Docker, Systemd, etc., across platforms or any cloud vendor.
The concept: Like a metalworking foundry transforms raw materials into finished products, Foundry takes your config ("Castings"), forges it through deployment templates (the "Moldings"), and pours out a ready-to-run SigNoz instance.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-14 12:17:58+00:00
> They'd need to change their top priority from "maximizing engagement by fostering addictive behavior" to "offering a product with enough quality for someone to pay a fee in order to be able to use it".

You know, we used to have Flash games that were free to play and ad supported.

With the iPhone, those died, and now we have mobile games that support themselves with microtransactions.

The method of collecting fees on the games was to lower their quality, not to raise it.
by metalman | 2026-02-14 12:18:14+00:00
I am now getting requests to do small intricate metal work jobs from people who have begun a project, but have run out of skills and equipment, and thinking as I write this, will raise my minimum price dramaticly. The other emerging work request is to modify something purchased online that
does not fit the required dimensions.
None of this stuff pays the bills, but can be pocket money, which now that I think about it, will be a good way to describe the situation from my point of view, to people who are unsure and hesitant or evasive in deciding to procede, which like the article describes as part of gigging,which is fine, because I never roll wheels without an alternate destination , so I have learned the signs, and am already 150km away by the time someone is promising to reshedule for another day.
As far as AI hiring me, that is impossible without a human fronting for it, which of course, turns the whole thing into negative sum exercise, perfect.
by cies | 2026-02-14 12:19:51+00:00
I don't think Rust is "a better C/C++". It's a new kind of beast. Interesting, but very different.

Zig OTOH is clearly, to me at least (opinion alert), a "better C". It even compiles C!

I expect LLMs to be really good at converting C to Zig.

> There is also the issue of will people actually code by then.

LLMs don't take responsibility. So even if code is generated, a human will have to assess it. I think assessing Zig is easier than assessing C, which gives this language a selling point that holds out in the AI assisted programming future.
by rob | 2026-02-14 12:20:32+00:00
It's funny because the bot's owner got caught and is just entering "manual mode" to try and do damage control. You'll probably never see another post from "eric" again.

Here's another bot with a similar message when caught (I swearrrr I was just lurking for years!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936477

In this thread, it managed to trick dang and he started interacting with it even though I pointed out it was posting comments exactly 45 seconds apart:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886719

And of course the last post where the bot's owner admits everything:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199

---

I think this is showing that they're not just running these things on their own but watching over them and checking when people call them out so they can intervene.
by dsign | 2026-02-14 12:21:11+00:00
"Constructing a solid tower" from first principles is already super-human level. Sure, you can theorize a tower (sans the "solid") from first principles; there's a software architect at my job that does it every day. But the "solid" bit is where things get tricky, because "solid" implies "firm" and "well anchored", and that implies experimental grounds, experimental verification all the way, and final measurable impact. And I'm not even talking particle physics or software engineering; even folding a piece of paper can give you surprising mismatches between theory and results.

Even the realm of pure mathematics and elegant physic theories, where you are supposed to take a set of axioms ("first principles") and build something with it, has cautionary tales such as the Russel paradox or the non-measure of Feymann path integrals, and let's not talk about string theory.