MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mullingitover | 2026-02-11 22:03:21+00:00
Original, far more detailed article that techcrunch is just regurgitating[1].

> Testers have also reported accuracy issues, as well as a bug that causes Siri to cut users off when they’re speaking too quickly. And there are problems handling complex queries that require longer processing times.

> Another challenge: The new Siri sometimes falls back on its existing integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT instead of using Apple’s own technology. That can happen even when Siri should be capable of handling the request.

Honestly seems crazy that Apple hasn't seen a class action suit. They were promising features and selling expensive hardware on those promises back in 2024 and they have yet to deliver anything nearly two years later. Huge black eye for a company that has built a reputation for doing demos and then immediately having the product ready to ship.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-i...
by bhouston | 2026-02-11 22:03:21+00:00
The issue is unlimited spending. Rich people can tilt the political system to benefit themselves by their ability to spend unlimited and then push for things that enrich themselves like lower taxes that doesn’t benefit society at large.

The biggest example of this in the US is the health system that is more expensive and has worse outcomes than other countries. There is a huge and growing gap in the us between ultra wealthy and the rest of the population and it is a virtuous circle for the ultra wealthy with their ability to spend unlimited in politics.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-11 22:04:04+00:00
You'll have to explain that a bit more. Isn't the threshold detection analyzing radio signal data? For identifying people, you don't need to reconstruct their face or fingerpring using that data. you just need to fingerprint them.

With gait analysis for example, it's only looking at a handful of data points, the way we walk is very unique. lip-reading, i can see how that's a stretch, but out movement patterns and gait are disturbances in radio waves. If you're using just one person's wifi, that sounds difficult, but if you're collecting signal from multiple adjacent wifi access points, it's more realistic to build a very coarse motion representation, perhaps with a resolution no finer than 1 cubic ft, but even with more coarse representations, gait can be observed.

Even gait aside, the volume profile of a person and their location in the house alone are important data points, couple that with the unique wifi identifier or IP, you can make a really good guess at who the person is, and what room they're in.
by toephu2 | 2026-02-11 22:04:11+00:00
There is no expectation of privacy in the public setting though. Anyone can record you in public without your permission.

> No amount of surveillance will 100% prevent any individual from being a victim of a crime.

No, but if it reduces crime by 99% would you be in favor of it? (See South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore.. examples of democratic countries with CCTVs all over the public space.. and before you say well those are racially homogenous countries.. I say look at Singapore. Singapore is very diverse racially, and yet they have very low rates of crime. This is because they have strict laws against crime and these laws are actually enforced)
by 3PS | 2026-02-11 22:05:08+00:00
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by smegger001 | 2026-02-11 22:05:18+00:00
I don't know about that they have multiple successful businesses with or without AI and they stand to have all of OpenAI's IP when they implode (their license gives them free access to fork all of OpenAI's AI models with the sole exception of some hypothetical future artificial general intelligence) my guess is they take a hit to the stock price but so will everyone else and they will go on a shopping spree of buying up any IP or infrastructure left after the bubble pops.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-11 22:05:24+00:00
Ah, missed that. For what it's worth, I can kinda read that sentence both ways but it does seem easier to read as being anti-tax. Actually, taking the two quotes juxtaposed like this, their take reads quite a lot like "think of the third-world laborers" in defense of billionaires.

Edit:

Oh, and their reply.
Show HN: MemoryGate – Open-source persistent memory for AI agents via MCP
by pstryder | 2026-02-11 22:05:29+00:00
I built MemoryGate because I kept watching context vanish.
I run multiple AI agents across Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Every time a model updated, a platform changed its API, or a context window rolled over — everything the agent had learned was gone. Preferences, decisions, project history, relationship context. Just... wiped.
The fundamental problem: AI memory is trapped inside the platform that hosts the conversation. Your agent's knowledge dies with the session, the model version, or the provider's business decisions.
MemoryGate is a persistent semantic memory layer that sits outside any single model or platform. It connects via MCP (Model Context Protocol), so any MCP-compatible agent — Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, custom agents — can store and retrieve memories through a shared, durable knowledge store.
What it actually does:

Semantic memory with vector embeddings — recall by meaning, not keywords
Confidence-weighted observations that strengthen or decay based on evidence
Automatic lifecycle management — high-signal stays hot, noise fades to cold storage
Append-only architecture — memories are never overwritten, only superseded with lineage
Knowledge graphs linking observations, patterns, concepts, and documents
Multi-tenant with org isolation, roles, and shared memory stores
OAuth 2.0, audit logs, rate limiting — production infrastructure, not a toy

What it's not:

Not a RAG pipeline. MemoryGate stores what the agent learns from interaction, not document chunks.
Not prompt injection. Memory lives at the infrastructure layer, not stuffed into system prompts.
Not tied to any model or provider. Switch from Claude to ChatGPT to a local model — memory persists.

Stack: Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Redis, deployed on Railway. MCP-native integration — your agent gets 33 memory tools on connection.
The real pitch: Platforms die. Models get deprecated. Context windows roll over. Your AI's memory shouldn't be hostage to your AI's provider.
Open source (Apache 2.0), self-hostable, with a hosted SaaS option if you don't want to run infrastructure.

GitHub: https://github.com/PStryder/MemoryGate
SaaS: https://memorygate.ai
Docs: https://memorygate.ai/docs/

I'm a solo founder — built this after leaving a decade in enterprise solutions engineering. Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the MCP integration, or why I think persistent memory is the missing infrastructure layer for AI agents.
by palata | 2026-02-11 22:05:39+00:00
This "could become" sounds exactly like when you look at a cool robotics project, and when you ask the researcher what it could be used for, they say "it could be used for search & rescue after a natural disaster".

The truth is that it's cool research that currently has zero use-case. But a) journalists would not write about that and b) researchers may try to use examples to explain what their research does. Probably researchers are tempted to find a cool use-case of course, because it's better for them if journalists write about their research.

This sounds like cool research that is not remotely close to becoming an invisible mass surveillance system.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-11 22:06:32+00:00
I'm not sure the exact trajectory but it's going pretty quickly now.

"Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive"

https://fortune.com/2025/10/27/ray-dalio-america-dependeny-t...

"Millions of Americans Are Becoming Economically Invisible " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374779
by PKop | 2026-02-11 22:06:47+00:00
All of these countries had massive population increase in past 100 years. It is natural especially for high density, smaller size regions to experience a reversal in growth rates of population which is the natural and desired compensation to previous eras of huge population growth given finite space, and other resources and the zero-sum nature of all of this including political power and representation.

Importing foreigners makes your own domestic birth rates worse than they otherwise would be! Some levels of automation will make the overall labor needs lower than they have been in the past. Countries that import many millions of (often) 3rd world populations or in general more bodies wherever they come from that must be employed (or subsidized by taxpayers) and also that are going to want to be married and have children are simply going to exacerbate the fiscal problems, the social problems, the unemployment problems, the family formation problems, while creating resource constraints you otherwise wouldn't have.

So much of this nonsense talk of need for immigrants is policy based on propping up the asset values and lifestyles and subsidization of the elderly which apart even from immigration is arguably the 2nd biggest travesty western nations are subjecting their young people to (prioritizing everything related to interest of the old at the expense of the young, see: COVID). The natural course of events MUST be population growth slow/decline until elderly die out and while you back-fill growth from younger people from your own country to have their own ability to grow, buy real estate, have families, have jobs, not pay exorbitant transfer payments to old and immigrants either through social services, or lost wages. Stealing this opportunity by giving this slack away to foreigners is just so evil in my view.

The carrying-capacity in terms of "comfortable lifestyle" akin to what our recent ancestors experienced in their nations during peacetime is what it is, and when we bump up against those limits, we can't fool ourselves that whatever pain comes next can be solved by causing other worse problems of filling our countries up with more people we have to compete against for everything and making already tough resource constraints worse. How much more unhappy and hopeless for housing and family formation will Australians be as millions and millions more immigrants come in? Why would anyone want that and how does it solve whatever demographics problem you think exists? The solution is population decline, which would help young people. Of course if there is some iron law of politics or the universe that states young people must bear the burden of subsidizing the complete comfort of old people from birth to death, well then we're already screwed.

I don't think it's just anecdotal it's a loud chorus over many decades of popular opposition from large portions of western nations in our supposed "democracies" that is ignored by most players in politics.
by noosphr | 2026-02-11 22:07:10+00:00
>Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

Sam wants money. Dario wants to be your dad.

I'm going with Sam.
by mrandish | 2026-02-11 22:07:12+00:00
> you need an internal crusade to fight these impulses. Take the high road in the short-term...

Anthropic is the market leader for advanced AI coding with no serious competitor currently very close and they are preparing to IPO this year. This year is a transition year. The period where every decision would default toward delighting users and increasing perceived value is ending. By next year they'll be fully on the quarterly Wall Street grind of min/maxing every decision to extract the highest possible profit from customers at the lowest possible cost.

This path is inevitable and unavoidable, even with the most well-intentioned management and employees.
by toephu2 | 2026-02-11 22:07:31+00:00
People tend to behave if they know they are being watched.
Yeah it's not going to stop crime 100%, but I bet you it will (and it has) help reduce crime by double digit percentages.

Look at places where there are CCTV cameras all over, there is very little crime there compared to the United States. I won't use China as an example because then you are going to attack me for saying it's an authoritarian state. In that case I will use democratic examples: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore.
by helle253 | 2026-02-11 22:07:42+00:00
> Do NOT get wet and cold.

One thing i keep saying over and over, and few believe me, unless they know from experience - is that winters in Chicago are actually significantly more miserable than Minneapolis, where I went to college.

Minneapolis winters are so cold that everything is dry as a bone, so the cold doesn't 'stick' the same way - Chicago winters sit mostly in the 20-40 range where it's both wet and cold (often raining at a balmy 34-38F), and it's much much more immiserating to be outside.
by luma | 2026-02-11 22:07:50+00:00
> The cannonball crashed into the church and went through a first wall. It then ended on the altar of the Chapel of the Virgin. [...] The cannon ball was walled into the left wall of the Chapel and a commemorative epigraph was added to it.

It wasn't showing the wall where it had crashed through, it's showing where the ball has been mounted into the wall for display.
by magicalist | 2026-02-11 22:08:12+00:00
> The privacy absolutists will tell you that license plate cameras are “Orwellian.” But here’s what I know: unsolved crime means more innocent people get hurt and maimed and killed. Flock has audit trails. There’s accountability. The people who benefit from keeping murders unsolved aren’t victims—they’re criminals.

jesus christ. assuming he's not going to start syndicating this, who is this even pandering to?
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-11 22:08:19+00:00
Rust based ECS game engine, with 3,000 word diatribes about what decentralized, federated social media presence it should have, woefully incomplete, full of bugs, with no consideration of how any actual games are written other than Factorio, because that's the game that programmers who write open source game engines and not games play: "Aww, you're sweet"

Something about games authored by a giant company that will presumably actually ship in some products: "Hello, human resources?"
by Tangurena2 | 2026-02-11 22:08:28+00:00
One small company I worked for had a similar mandate come from their large clients - since offshoring was fashionable in business journals, they must offshore the next project for those clients. That company spent more time reworking the offshored software than if we had done the development in-house.

This is just another business fad, but because the execs want to seem to be cool and seem to be doing what their "peers" claim to be doing, well, then by gosh, all of the workers have to do the same fad.
by lysace | 2026-02-11 22:08:32+00:00
The referenced Bloomberg source (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-i...) says this about the delayed effort:

But it’s been a complex undertaking. The revamped Siri is built on an entirely new architecture dubbed Linwood. Its software will rely on the company’s large language model platform — known as Apple Foundations Models — which is now incorporating technology from Alphabet Inc.’s Google Gemini team.
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 22:08:35+00:00
> You talk about me, my, mine, my network, my computer. But you're promoting a "distro". That means you're distributing software. It's not yours anymore.

It's OURS. It was never YOURS. Get it?

> Attackers on a network will use techniques to "pivot". Once a "foothold" is established then they scan for other places to attack. They will indeed get inside "your" computer, or router, and then compromise your telnetd.

Oh no! Someone is going to hack into my LAN! I guess I'd better keep the shotgun loaded.

Are you aware that your entire computer is backdoored, starting at the CPU level on up? It's like you don't realize this. Your 'security' = gaping asshole, same as everyone else these days. And you're worried about telnet?

> It comes back to the liberty of swinging your arms vs. the proximity to my nose. If your distro is connected to a network, then you're responsible and accountable for security issues that result.

Fascinating new legal/morality theory you've concocted. No, I am in fact not responsible for some noob running a telnetd on the open internet then getting hacked. Craziness.

Wait a second. Are you also the type of person who is susceptible to the bullshit belief that, because I never got the, quote-unquote ''covid vaccine'' (nor the flu vaccine, nor any other), that I'm somehow a threat to you? Are you one of those people too?

> You don't seem to understand the CVE under discussion.

You don't seem to understand much of anything.

> The reason "telnet" was deprecated is

I've just explained to you that it hasn't been 'deprecated' at all ON MY SYSTEM. What you choose to do is irrelevant.

> As for "traceroute", I'm not sure it's "useless or dangerous", but it can be misleading and definitely superfluous. It is widely misinterpreted by novices trying to prove something about their WAN connectivity.

And here we come to the epicenter of your problematic thinking:

I am not a novice. I'm a power user. Get it? I've been doing this shit for decades. I'm sick to death of my entire life being ruled and dictated by the 'needs' of morons. You can keep your Play-Skool OS and padded walls, thanks.

Really, your entire philosophy is so full of logical contradictions. You're scared to death of telnet/traceroute, but you're cool with having this giant package ecosystem where you are constantly streaming Other People's Binaries to your system, and you think that is safe, and would never be hacked or used against you. Clueless.

Go argue with a brick wall; you'll get further. I know what I'm doing.
by terminalshort | 2026-02-11 22:08:48+00:00
No one is stopping him, but they would be if the people in this comment section had their way. You are absolutely not required to cheer him on, and in fact you have the right to oppose him. But that isn't happening here. Nobody in these comments is exercising their first amendment rights to argue against any of his political opinions. They are using their first amendment rights to argue that the government should use its monopoly to restrict Gary Tan's right to make his argument at all.
by Sentinel-gate | 2026-02-11 22:09:07+00:00
The prompt injection thing is especially nasty for agents because they process untrusted input (web pages, emails, documents) and can take real actions. With a chatbot, prompt injection makes it say something dumb. With an agent that acts as you, a malicious payload hidden in an email could make it forward your contacts, reply on your behalf, whatever. You can't fix this in the model alone — you need an enforcement layer outside the model that limits what it can actually do regardless of what it thinks it should do. I'd bet Apple is working on exactly this and it's why they're taking their time.
by asdff | 2026-02-11 22:09:23+00:00
Prop 13 wouldn't lead to those incentives if property prices didn't increase so aggressively. Once again comes back to zoning as the root cause. Is prop 13 bad? Only in the face of inappropriate zoned capacity, it seems. Which begs the question of what prop 13 removal would even do in such a situation? Zoning capacity isn't changing so prices will still go up beyond what is affordable for the median worker. The only thing changing is people won't be insulated from that rise at the end of their life when they are on a fixed income is all. Does that solve the housing crisis? No, but it does ensure more people are regularly displaced from their homes.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-11 22:09:54+00:00
> Skyrim is one of the most over-rated games of all time.

Those are fightin’ words as someone who has dumped more hours than I can count into Skyrim but…

I had never heard of this game, but it has a lot going for it (source engine) and I watched a little of the gameplay you linked and I’m intrigued. I’m probably gonna pick this up for the steam deck.

A friend recommended the Might and Magic games to me a long time ago and I bought them off GoG, but wasn’t a fan of the gameplay and just couldn’t get hooked. This looks very different from what I remember (probably because this is a very different game from the earlier ones).

Thank you for mentioning this game!
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-11 22:09:57+00:00
like i mentioned in another comment, do you really need good resolution for gait analysis? You also have people carrying their phones inside the house all the time, so you know what bssid is associated with that coarse movement. and if you have access to their ap/router combo, you can tell what IP that device has and what domains it's been visiting.

Let's say you visit a friend in a different city, the same ISP controlling their router, can use your mac, but even if you turn off your wifi or leave your phone in your car, your volume profile and gait can betray you. how you sit, how you lean, how you turn. I'd wager, if 6-10 distinct "points" can be made out and associated with a person, that's all that's needed to uniquely identify that person after enough analysis of their motion, regardless of where they go in the world.

Imagine if they're not using one AP, but using your neighbors AP as well, two neighbor APs and your own can triangulate and refine much better.
by Baeocystin | 2026-02-11 22:10:02+00:00
Just a heads up, don't go in to Echopraxia expecting it to feel like Blindsight. When I first read it, I was actually pretty disappointed overall, and a few of my friends had similar reactions.

Over a couple of years a few re-reads, though, I've come to enjoy it perhaps even more that Blindsight, but in a completely different way. It fills out a lot of the posits opened in the first novel, without coming to specific conclusions, but it gives you a lot to think about.
by globalnode | 2026-02-11 22:10:12+00:00
People will have to vote for non-captured candidates (good luck finding them) or protest in large enough numbers that the system will change. Those people will also have to be critical thinkers to a degree that they can consciously push back against the wall of marketing and propaganda pumped out by those in power with money. And they will have to self educate since governments generally don't teach people these skills while they have them in school for 12 or more years. From my point of view the future looks pretty grim but I'm certainly hoping to be surprised or corrected!