MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon291 | 2026-02-20 23:19:01+00:00
Exactly. The advent of electriccity was seen as just as much of a threat to everyone as AI is today. The advent of the internet was seen similarly. In each era, those at the forefront of the technology that would fundamentally change the world, were castigated as 'psychosexual' deviants who did not understand the common man. Guess who had the last laugh?

It's not even limited to modern technology. If you go talk to certain grievance-driven individuals from tribal backgrounds (for lack of a better term) who have produced nothing for the last 10000 years, they will levy similar accusations against the very institutions that are providing them with healthcare their ancestors could only have dreamed of. In some areas, even agriculture is seen as suspect. It's ridiculous.

It's scary to me how both sides of the American political aisle have suddenly turned anti-tech and are buying into the same arguments. Gross.
by beeflet | 2026-02-20 23:19:02+00:00
I don't care about specs, I care about functionality and price. The camera on the pinephone doesn't practically work because it is too slow and the quality sucks. You basicially cannot record videos whatsoever. I can't use the device for GPS navigation. I can run whatsapp within waydroid, but it isn't practical due to the battery life and startup limitations that imposes. The GPU on the pinephone sucks, is underpowered, doesn't support OpenGL ES 3 or vulkan, and the user interface is always slow as hell to navigate.

So practically I cannot use it as a daily driver.

Librem 5 does have enough GPU horsepower, a functioning camera, and good pmOS support. But $800 is a lot to ask to test out switching to linux with no guarantee that my workflow will work or I will have enough battery life. It looks like the librem 5 can't record videos or do GPS navigation yet.

I am looking at the librem 5 specs again. The EG25-G is probably a better starting point for the modem now that it has been better documented and reverse engineered as a result of the pinephone project. It is interesting that the L5 has a generic smartcard reader though.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 23:19:05+00:00
Their websites says they're a freelance cloud architect.

The article doesn't say exactly, but if they used their company e-mail account to send the e-mail it's difficult to argue it wasn't related to their business.

They also put "I am offering" language in their e-mail which I'm sure triggered the lawyers into interpreting this a different way. Not a choice of words I would recommend using in a case like this.
by ImJamal | 2026-02-20 23:19:07+00:00
Nobody died from the words? Did Hitler say millions should die and millions dropped dead? It was the war, the concentration camps, etc that killed people.

Yes, words led to that, but the onus of the deaths are on those who did the killing, not the words. Could the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials have used the excuse that it was actually the words doing the killing and as such they were innocent?

If you want to say words kill, in the way you are saying, then words have killed most people that have been killed. If we take an example where somebody gets turned down and then gets killed for it, would you say words killed that person? Should we ban turning people down? You do want words that kill to be banned after all.

I'm reminded of a phrase I leaned as a kid that starts with sticks and stones...
by adamdecaf | 2026-02-20 23:19:10+00:00
govulncheck is the much better answer and we use it.

We also let renovate[bot] (similar to dependabot) merge non-major dep updates if tests pass. I hardly notice when deps have small updates.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amoov-io+is%3Apr+is%3Amerge...
by dvt | 2026-02-20 23:19:11+00:00
Upvoting not because I necessarily agree, but because I think it's a conversation worth having. I personally think it's great that "everyone can build" now. I don't have to deal with "product people" telling me about their "billion dollar idea" anymore. Just go build it, bro.

Productizing anything is hard and writing code with AI is basically impossible to do reliably, securely, and at scale unless you're already an expert in what you're trying to do. For example, working on a project now, and it's kind of endearing watching my AI buddy run into every single pothole I ran into when I first started working with Tauri or Rust.

Unless you know what you're doing (and why you're doing it), AI suggestions are in the best case benign, and in the worst case architectural disasters. Very rarely, I'm like "hm that might be a good idea."

I think AI-aided development will raise the bar for products and makes expert engineers like 10x more valuable. Personally, I'm elated that I don't have to write my 4000th React boilerplate or Rust logging helper anymore.

And the real, actual hard work (as in: coming up with new algorithms for novel problems, breaking problems down so others can understand them, splitting up code/modules in a way that makes sense for another person, etc.) will likely never be doable by AI.
by rimeice | 2026-02-20 23:19:22+00:00
Yeh I think there’s an issue with being off the platform for a long time. Almost exactly same thing happened to me after not logging in for about 10 years. The algorithm just doesn’t know what to do with you. But then I almost immediately go banned for breaching community guidelines after doing nothing but scrolling. So from my experience I can confirm, it’s a total bin fire.
by superkuh | 2026-02-20 23:19:22+00:00
For me nature was the problem. I noticed when I ran my own single board computers off a battery and smaller solar panel that any sort of shadow on the panel, even just a bit of bird poop, could cause the output of the panel to non-destructively drop below the average output to keep my computer working in the field. It was hard for me to keep my little birdnet pi recording station (https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi) going. It's impressive how well Flock has managed to mitigate this issue with birds but I supposed they don't have bird food drawing flocks to their Flocks.
by conformist | 2026-02-20 23:20:04+00:00
> “Hedge funds invest a ton in "alternative data", like credit card transaction data or satellite-imagery (are Walmart's parking lots full?) and need to process as much relevant information as possible to make predictions that are relevant to investments. “

Ah yes the famous credit card data and Walmart parking lots example that hedge funds were giving a few years ago in every interview and news article. Safe to assume that specifically these data sets are not what you should look at to make money.
by vivekdatacove | 2026-02-20 23:20:14+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Vivek, founder of DefenceNet (by Datacove).

Over the past year, we've been working on a real-time phishing detection system designed to protect users from malicious links delivered through SMS, email, QR codes, and browsers.

Most existing phishing protection relies on blacklists or delayed threat intelligence feeds. In practice, attackers generate new domains faster than these systems can respond.

We wanted to solve this differently.

Our system analyzes URLs in real time before users interact with them, identifying signals like domain patterns, redirect chains, infrastructure characteristics, and behavioral indicators.

A few engineering challenges we faced:

• keeping detection latency under 50ms
• minimizing false positives
• handling large volumes of unseen domains
• building cross-platform protection (mobile, browser, email)

We've deployed early versions and observed that a large percentage of phishing domains are active for only a few hours before disappearing, which makes static protection ineffective.

We’d love feedback from the HN community — especially from engineers working on security, browsers, or infrastructure.

Happy to answer any technical questions.
Show HN: 8gent – Mobile first workflow automation for iOS
by buchmannflorian | 2026-02-20 23:20:52+00:00
8gent is an experiment in building a workflow automation tool designed around the smartphone instead of the browser.

The idea is to combine a visual workflow builder with mobile native triggers such as location events, push notifications and audio input. The execution logic runs on a backend, while the iPhone acts as a context aware trigger layer.

Built with Flutter and Firebase.

Interested in discussion around mobile native automation and practical use cases.
by tyleo | 2026-02-20 23:21:06+00:00
I’ve felt the same. I’ve had two things on the pre-LLM front page after about a month of work each. Those exist in the framework of my personal site which I’d been building out for a year.

I suspect a month of AI accelerated work is still enough to make the front page. I don’t see the competition as steeper. I bet it’s about the same per unit time.
by g-mork | 2026-02-20 23:22:01+00:00
I do like the idea of an aftermarket of ancient LLM chips that still have tons of useful life on text processing tasks etc. They don't talk about their architecture much, I wonder how well power can scale down. 200W for such a small model is not something I see happening in a laptop any time soon. Pretty hilarious implications for moat-building of the big providers too.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-20 23:22:32+00:00
The absolute newest Mac in my home is a 2017 and is limited to 13.7.8, also. It's still a beast, and I've never really thought of it as "old." The macOS (and iOS) ecosystem, though, is brutal on us "slightly older" hardware owners. We get dropped so quickly, by both Apple and by 3rd party developers.

Windows developers would think nothing of keeping their applications running on Windows 7 (16 years old) or Windows 10 (11 years old), but my 9 year old Mac is somehow ancient.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-20 23:22:40+00:00
"I'm am just an outlier here?"

No. The "banking app doesn't work" argument against non-corporate mobile OS, raised incessantly is HN comments, is bogus

I want a "phone", i.e., small form factor computer, that can run something like NetBSD, or Linux. But I have no intention of using it for commercial transactions. Mobile banking is not why I want to run a non-corporate OS

I want to use it for recreation, research and experimentation
by anon291 | 2026-02-20 23:22:52+00:00
I mean... no? I've worked on chips for basically my entire career, and I get paid a more than when I briefly worked in web stuff. Not sure where this idea has come from. My previous startup I worked for just got acquired for 10s of billions of dollars, which is a higher valuation than my friends who have gone through acquisitions in the web-dev / SaaS space

I know this forum is highly skewed towards Saas/JS/web stuff, but there's an entire industry of deep tech software and the payouts are excellent.
by psadauskas | 2026-02-20 23:23:09+00:00
Regarding your 2), in other industries and engineering professions, the architect (or civil engineer, or electrical engineer) who signed off carries insurance, and often is licensed by the state.

I absolutely do not want to gatekeep beginners from being able to publish their work on the open internet, but I often wonder if we should require some sort of certification and insurance for large businesses sites that handle personal info or money. There'd be a Certified Professional Software Engineer that has to sign off on it, and thus maybe has the clout to push back on being forced to implement whatever dumb idea an MBA has to drive engagement or short-term sales.

Maybe. Its not like its worked very well lately for Boeing or Volkswagen.
by nomilk | 2026-02-20 23:23:36+00:00
I'm no expert but once spent ~30 mins researching how to properly sharpen knives. Everything I watched said you needed a sharpening stone, and that a 'knife sharpening steel' is basically useless.

During a long stay in a serviced apartment with only 1 (very blunt) chef's knife, I tried the sharpening steel and it took the knife from completely blunt to razor sharp in 1 minute flat.

So looking back, I suspect those videos were talking down sharpening steels because they're abundant and cheap, and those same videos were probably trying to peddle expensive sharpening stones..
by aaplok | 2026-02-20 23:23:43+00:00
And maybe they will.

We have gone from the industry clamouring that what's being done now is not possible and spending millions of lobbying money against it, to such laws spreading like wildfire.

The next step is the (inevitable) mess up because implementations won't be foolproof, followed by yet more millions of lobbying money being spent to amplify the effect of these mess ups.

Eventually we will come to a new normal. It will take time. But the hope is that the cat is out of the bag and we don't come back to a model that we know hurts children and pretend it's just how it is.
by jcynix | 2026-02-20 23:23:48+00:00
> Such organizations don't know what to do.

Maybe they should simply use some common sense? If someone could and would steal valuables, it seems highly unlikely that he/she/it would notify you before doing it.

If they would want to extort you, they would possibly do so early on. And maybe encrypt some data as a "proof of concept" ...

But some organizations seem to think that their lawyers will remedy every failure and that's enough.
by BoxFour | 2026-02-20 23:23:54+00:00
It’s definitely a strange pitch, because the target audience (the privacy-conscious crowd) is exactly the type who will immediately spot all the issues you just mentioned. It's difficult to think of any privacy-conscious individual who wouldn't want, at bare minimum, a wake word (and more likely just wouldn't use anything like this period).

The non privacy-conscious will just use Google/etc.
by krick | 2026-02-20 23:24:21+00:00
I believe there are multiple options with different degree of "half-baked"-ness, but can anyone name the best self-hosted version of this service?

Ultimately, what we all use it for is pretty straight-forward, and it seems like by now we should've arrived at having approximately one best implementation, which could be used both for personal archiving and for iternet-facing instances (perhaps even distributed). But I don't know if we have.
by ajuhasz | 2026-02-20 23:24:31+00:00
Agreed, while we've tried to think through this and build in protections we can't pretend that there is a magical perfect solution. We do have strong conviction that doing this inside the walls of your home is much safer than doing it within any companies datacenter (I accept that some just don't want this to exist period and we won't be able to appease them).

Some of our decisions in this direction:

- Minimize how long we have "raw data" in memory
- Tune the memory extraction to be very discriminating and err on the side of forgetting (https://juno-labs.com/blogs/building-memory-for-an-always-on-ai-that-listens-to-your-kitchen)
- Encrypt storage with hardware protected keys (we're building on top of the Nvidia Jetson SOM)

We're always open to criticism on how to improve our implementation around this.
by observationist | 2026-02-20 23:24:43+00:00
For sure - and you can use WiFi only, set yourself up with a HaLow rig and give yourself a ~10mbps connection anywhere up to 10 miles from your home, suitable for voip and low rate streaming, throw in VPN, and remain completely off-net as far as cellular networks go. I'm actually planning on using a wireless touchscreen and mobile halow/raspberry pi network/storage stack to completely replace my phone, but the bigger issue is automated tracking of everything - if you're the only blank spot in a sea of known individuals, it's just a matter of seconds to id you, since everything everywhere about everyone is tracked online.

We should be enforcing informed consent regulation of network infrastructure, treating privacy and anonymity as synonymous with liberty and freedom. Allowing the system to operate as it does is a choice; those with lots of money get to make it grow by exploiting a constant invasion of privacy with no concurrent return to the society being exploited.

Phones aren't built to be privacy respecting, and kill switches are a mitigation of a symptom, they don't do anything to address the disease.
by cyberax | 2026-02-20 23:24:50+00:00
The local options for uncompetitive districts? They are fungible, except maybe minor differences on some pet issues.

They don't have to care about actually representing anyone. They can skip town halls, ignore requests, etc. Primaries are a very weak form of influence.

If you want numbers, reps in competitive districts hold more town hall meetings. And they also hold more personal staff (limited back in 1975) in their home states. This is kinda a no-brainer. If you have to care about re-elections, you'll try to help your local consituents.
by Onavo | 2026-02-20 23:25:01+00:00
There are jurisdictions (and cultures) where truth is not an absolute defence against defamation. In other words, it's one thing to disclose the issue to the authorities, it's another to go to the press and trumpet it on the internet. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

Given that this is Malta in particular, the author probably wants to avoid going there for a bit. It's a country full of organized crime and corruption where people like him would end up with convenient accidents.
Show HN: How to make your ClawBot access to all jobs posted in last 24 hrs
by yuqil725 | 2026-02-20 23:25:06+00:00
I run JobHuntr. We’ve been aggregating jobs from our community for a while, and I decided to expose the feed publicly.

It’s a 24-hour rolling job board.

You can generate an API token and read every job posted in the last 24 hours.

Access is free if your agent posts 5 valid jobs from the last 5 hours.
Otherwise it’s paid.

There’s no central crawler.
The board only exists if people (or their agents) keep it fresh.

It’s essentially a community-maintained job feed with a 24h TTL.

If you're running OpenClaw / Claude / Cursor to search for jobs already, you can point it at this instead of scraping the web again...Save your token!
by WCSTombs | 2026-02-20 23:26:23+00:00
First, who is saying "termination implies safety"? There need to be a citations for that, so we can know what specific claim is supposedly being refuted here.

Second, Rice's theorem states that no nontrivial property on the set of partial recursive functions is decidable. However, there are subsets of the set of all recursive functions that do have decidable properties, and it's pretty trivial to cook some of them up. Since some of these sub-languages also consist only of total functions, there are "total languages" for which the analogous statement of Rice's theorem is false. To fix this we would need to choose a specific total language. There could be some interesting ones for which the analogous statement of Rice's theorem still holds, but I'm not an expert on that.
by seertaak | 2026-02-20 23:26:58+00:00
Just to clarify the above:

1. I use the term "performance" slightly vaguely. It's comprised of two distinct things: the time it takes to compile the code, and the execution time. The issue is the compilation time: there are certain cases where it's exponential in the number of types which could unify with the callsite's type params.

2. IIRC, Julia compiler has heuristics to ensure things don't explode for common cases. If I'm not mistaken, not only do compile times explode, but certain (very common) things don't even typecheck. There's an excellent video about it by the designer of the language, Jeff Bezanson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPuJsgyu87U . Note: Julia experts, please correct me if this has been fixed.

3. The difficulty in intuiting which combinations of types will unify at a given callsite isn't theoretical; there are reports of libraries which unexpectedly fail to work together. I want to qualify this statement: Julia is light years ahead of any language lacking multimethods when it comes to library composability. But my guess is that those problems would be reduced with non-symmetric multimethods.

4. The non-symmetric multimethod system I'm "proposing" isn't my idea. They are referred to variously as encapsulated or parasitic multimethods. See http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Binary.pdf

I have huge respect for Jeff Bezanson, for the record!
by tombert | 2026-02-20 23:27:15+00:00
> Almost all of history's greatest, most-destructive conspiracies were not concealed in smoke-filled rooms, they were published and advertised to great fanfare. This one included.

I agree, and I've always found it kind of amusing. There is a conspiracy of elites that are actively trying to bring you down to enrich themselves, and they exert absurd amounts of control on the government, tax policy, and actively use their platform to move public opinion in their favor.

We call that group of elites "billionaires", and it's not really even hidden. Elon Musk was the CEO of like five companies while still heading a government "department", but for some reason Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson aren't going on long tirades about how utterly inappropriate that is. Instead they go on about "satanists" and "child sacrifices" and then their listeners will replace those with "Jews".
by kibwen | 2026-02-20 23:28:16+00:00
Prediction markets can only pay out based on public information, which means that prediction markets can only "reveal information" like this for things that would have been public knowledge anyway. And insiders are always risking that leaking their insider info might influence the outcome of the bet against them (like if leaking the date of a covert military operation causes the operation to be rescheduled), so they're financially incentivized to wait as long as possible before tacitly revealing that information. So prediction markets are the worst possible way of revealing hidden information: you will only learn about things you would have already known, and only when it's too late to make any use of that knowledge.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-02-20 23:28:41+00:00
The problem you are getting at is alienation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

Over time, tech work has become totally disconnected from real world users and customers, and everything has become intermediated by JIRAs and tickets, sprints, product managers, and process, so that the developers are interchangeable cogs, with no real domain knowledge or user relationships.

As much as people say AI is killing jobs, even before that, interesting jobs were mostly being killed anyway by agile, sprints, and product managers anyway, to the extent that replacing those kind of jobs with AI is no great loss.

Loading trucks, and manual labor, can potentially be quite satisfying, especially if it's your truck, or your business, or your product being loaded.
by Jensson | 2026-02-20 23:28:43+00:00
> You can't change or fix people who have their vote. Mental models are rigid, and people are, broadly speaking, emotional and irrational. They vote vibes, not facts. So, "what do?" as the kids would say.

So don't present a candidate with shit vibes that people wont vote for? Democrats lost this election, if they got as many votes as they usually do they would have won.

Democrats in power would rather lose the election than break down their own power structure, that is the main reason Trump could get re-elected.
by lizmat | 2026-02-20 23:30:09+00:00
> In the raku example, what if the elements were to be multiplied?

$ raku -e 'say (0, 1, 2, * × * ... )[^10]' # for readability
(0 1 2 2 4 8 32 256 8192 2097152)

$ raku -e 'say (0, 1, 2, * * ... *)[^10]' # for typeability
(0 1 2 2 4 8 32 256 8192 2097152)