MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-17 21:33:39+00:00
This was basically almost real.

Before ChatGPT was even released, Google had an internal-only chat tuned LLM. It went "viral" because some of the testers thought it was sentient and it caused a whole media circus. This is partially why Google was so ill equipped to even start competing - they had fresh wounds of a crazy media circus.

My pet theory though is that this news is what inspired OpenAI to chat-tune GPT-3, which was a pretty cool text generator model, but not a chat model. So it may have been a necessary step to get chat-llms out of Mountain View and into the real world.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fi...
Ask HN: Is "Not vibe-coded here" the new "Not invented here"?
by vilda | 2026-02-17 21:33:49+00:00
Lately, something has been bugging me. Whenever I share my software business ideas with friends, I often get the same response: "That’ll die soon. Customers will make it themselves." or, if I rephrase it, "Why would I buy it? I just vibe-code it."

It made me realize that I’ve heard something similar before. The infamous "Not Invented Here" syndrome. Are we entering a new era of dismissing products simply because people think they are too easy to build in-house with AI? Is the perceived ease of AI-generation making us blind to the value of a verified, functional product?

Is "Not vibe-coded here" the new "Not invented here"?
by adrian_b | 2026-02-17 21:34:13+00:00
The size of encrypted data is completely independent of the block size of a block cipher function that is used for data encryption.

Nowadays, there is almost never any reason to use for encryption any other modes of operation except CTR or OCB, which do not expand the size of encrypted data.

That said, the parent article was less about encryption and more about random number generation, which is done by encrypting a counter value, but you never need to decrypt it again.

In RNGs, the block size again does not matter, as the output can be truncated to any desired size.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:34:17+00:00
Pixels are the only devices providing the required updates and security features. These requirements are listed here:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

GrapheneOS is partnered with a major Android OEM working on improving their future devices to meet our requirements. The first devices with official GrapheneOS support from them are planned for 2027. It takes time and resources to make reasonably secure devices. Future generations can improve further including adding hardware-based privacy/security protections unavailable on Pixels.
by zone411 | 2026-02-17 21:34:18+00:00
They're improved compared to 4.5 on my Extended NYT Connections benchmark (https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/).

Sonnet 4.6 Thinking 16K scores 57.6 on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark. Sonnet 4.5 Thinking 16K scored 49.3.

Sonnet 4.6 No Reasoning scores 55.2. Sonnet 4.5 No Reasoning scored 47.4.
by solomonb | 2026-02-17 21:34:23+00:00
You essentially have to be in the right place at the right time. The FCC releases LPFM channels every year all over over the country. If you have a 501c3 non-profit within the designated broadcast area you can apply for the channel. They tend to award the channels to more established non-profits. There are no filing fees.

In our case we created the non-profit in anticipation of applying for this license. We got really lucky and no one else applied for the license and it was awarded to us.
by calgoo | 2026-02-17 21:34:24+00:00
I did a quick search and it looks like A LOT of business use it (not 100% on the source,but it gives an idea ). Also looking at Persona's website, that includes OpenAI: `OpenAI uses Persona to screen millions of users each month with zero friction`
[1] https://data.landbase.com/technology/persona/
[2] https://withpersona.com/customers/openai
[3] https://withpersona.com/customers
by krautburglar | 2026-02-17 21:34:47+00:00
USSR vs 2026 Russia is apples and oranges.

USSR: kicked their educated jews out (twice -- pogroms & doctors plot), kicked most of their educated gentiles out in 1917, used up their remaining human capital as cannon fodder against hitler. Everything USSR had was gifted from the west to keep the west's military-industrial grift running (see Antony Sutton's works for details). They were a boogeyman used by western elites to extract wealth from their own taxcattle.

Modern Russia is a gas station and strip mine with decent relations to the south and the east. Not a phenomenal position, but a hell of a lot better than what they had. Building up their defense sector so that they don't get internationally looted again (i.e. the 90s) is the right move for them, and an unfortunate reality for us.
Ask HN: AI WTF
by xendo | 2026-02-17 21:35:09+00:00
I need someone to explain me how is this supposed to work. I recently watched Sam Altman saying that model inference will get 10x cheaper in a year. I listened to Dario today and he says Anthropic revenue will increase 10x this year. If both of these are true, that means the usage will go up 100x. Considering fierce competition from China, the fact that smarter models will require less tokens to solve the same problems, and the fact that everyone that I know already tries to swarm their programming problems wasting gazillion of tokens I don't really see how all of this can be true at the same time.
by hibikir | 2026-02-17 21:35:37+00:00
Competition is great, but it's so much better when it is all about shaving costs. I am afraid that what we are seeing here is an arms race with no moat: Something that will behave a lot like a Vickrey auction. The competitors all lose money in the investment, and since a winner takes all, and it never makes sense to stop the marginal investment when you think you have a chance to win, ultimately more resources are spent than the value ever created.

This might not be what we are facing here, but seeing how little moat anyone on AI has, I just can't discount the risk. And then instead of the consumers of today getting a great deal, we zoom out and see that 5x was spent developing the tech than it needed to, and that's not all that great economically as a whole. It's not as if, say, the weights from a 3 year old model are just useful capital to be reused later, like, say, when in the dot com boom we ended up with way too much fiber that was needed, but that could be bought and turned on profitably later.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-17 21:35:57+00:00
This seems like a tenuous connection at best. The Biden admin were actually sued for their relationship with social media companies. The suit failed but the conclusion was still that the administration was involved in pushing social media companies to take specific actions. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/murthy-v-...

There are also correspondence about moderation right after Biden was elected from his admin. So he's not blameless here. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/...

Personally I don't care, but we should at least be factual in criticism.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:35:57+00:00
Nearly all non-banking apps work with very few exceptions. A large majority of banking apps work. A growing number of banking apps were adding checks for Google certification but now a growing number of those are explicitly allowing GrapheneOS via the Android hardware-based attestation system it supports which can be used to verify the hardware, OS and app with an alternate OS or non-Google-certified hardware if it adds the hardware support for it.
by hbn | 2026-02-17 21:36:01+00:00
These days I only use FB Messenger for the small few number of friends who still use Facebook and send me videos on there. But the experience of watching videos sent to you is so incredibly clunky - Messenger itself apparently can't just play the video, it has to kick you into the Facebook app, so watching 3 videos someone sent involves 6 jumps between apps. And the player in the Facebook app seems broken, seemingly sometimes there's no scrub bar, or if there's supposed to be one it doesn't work.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-17 21:36:39+00:00
I understand where you are coming from, but you're addressing the 0.01% of the code written.

More importantly, I bet none of the companies running with that level of risk are touching Generative AI powered tools with a 30 feet pole. Maybe Boeing.

Many people I know are using GenAI in their day to day professional lives, and loving it. I'm not one of them. I'm a quality freak. While development is not my primary job, I love to write dependable code, which lets me to sleep well at night and forget that it even exists after some point.

But not everyone is enjoying and caring about their job and quality of their work, as long as they get paid and tick boxes. Even in companies where people write millions lines of code touching billions of people's lives (e.g.: Microsoft).

Time to market, retention, engagement, getting that promotion, a new car, meeting KPIs are more important than that pesky thing called quality. Because it slows them down. They are doing something amazing, so they need no permission, and the new amazing thing is "software built with AI in record time with less developers". letter Q in previous sentence stands for quality, if you find one.
by jjice | 2026-02-17 21:36:50+00:00
I don't think discord is going anywhere. Not that I like or support them, but the waves of people leaving anything are always overblown. Look at Reddit after the API switch up.

The reason my friends and I moved to Discord in late 2015 or early 2016 was because it blew the competition out of the water at the time. The audio was so much better. I think screen share and face cams may not have been supported at the time, but it later was and was higher quality and a better experience than Skype or Teamspeak, IMO.

Now though, that might just be table stakes for a new service now that WebRTC is standard and the codecs have gotten better too. I'm rooting for any sort of truly solid decentralized chat (text, video, and audio) to take off. Right now, all of them have notable flaws. I also think many of them try to compete with the community aspect of Discord, which I personally don't use and thus and am a bad judge of quality. Just a way to chat with people I already know.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-17 21:37:00+00:00
That's not "unintended" that is the core of what they call the NPIC, the non-profit industrial complex. They do the same activity, with the same financial outcome, but they do it under a different corporate form and pay no taxes. The public does not benefit. Medical care is not the only player in this game. You also get it with "community land trusts" that take a property off the tax roll but don't lower rents.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-17 21:37:36+00:00
> The deaths from self-driving accidents will look _strange_ and _inhuman_ to most people.

I like to quip that error-rate is not the same as error-shape. A lower rate isn't actually better if it means problems that "escape" our usual guardrails and backup plans and remedies.

You're right that some of it may just be a perception-issue, but IMO any "alien" pattern of failures indicates that there's a meta-problem we need to fix, either in the weird system or in the matrix of other systems around it. Predictability is a feature in and of itself.
Show HN: Jitzu – My PowerShell Killer
by Simon-curtis | 2026-02-17 21:38:02+00:00
Born out of my frustration with powershell’s slow startup and confusing syntax I have long wanted to build a shell and scripting language in .NET. I have been working on it for a long time and thanks to Claude, I was able to finally get it over the line. I daily drive it as my shell on Windows, and really happy with it so far.

Please try it and let me know where it can improve!
by alistairSH | 2026-02-17 21:38:08+00:00
To use your example... Taxes are easy for the vast majority of people (claim the correct number of dependents, take the standard deduction, and you're done). For the rest of us, there are CPAs willing to do them for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

I say this as somebody who had to navigate the AMT rules for years in my 30s and hasn't used the standard deduction since college. In no way would I expect a high school to teach me personal tax law at the expense of a basic understanding of biology or literature.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-17 21:39:01+00:00
> negative PR from self-driving accidents will be much worse for every single fatal collision than a human driven fatality

We're speaking in hypotheticals about stuff that has already happened.

> I think these things genuinely need to be significantly safer for society to be willing to tolerate the accidents that do happen

I used to as well. And no doubt, some populations will take this view.

They won't have a stake in how self-driving cars are built and regulated. There is too much competition between U.S. states and China. Waymo was born in Arizona and is no growing up in California and Florida. Tesla is being shaped by Texas. The moment Tesla or BYD get their shit together, we'll probably see federal preëmption.

(Contrast this with AI, where local concerns around e.g. power and water demand attention. Highways, on the other hand, are federally owned. And D.C. exerting local pressure with one hand while holding highway funds in the other is long precedented.)
by mothballed | 2026-02-17 21:39:45+00:00
Taxes going up for shittier and shittier return is unfortunately something we are seeing across the US. Regardless of ideological viewpoint, the relative advantages of just buying the services you need on your own rather than playing into a broken system will appeal to larger and larger subsets. I was in the majority "subset" until I was tired of being squeezed dry by a system that always squandered my tax money.

Maybe the government can be fixed, or even "must" be fixed for the sake of the poors that we always pretend we're thinking about (no doubt some are, but most are just using them as a prop for political persuasion), but in the meanwhile contingency plans must be made.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-17 21:40:00+00:00
> We need laws for agents, specifically that their human-maintainers must be identifiable and are responsible.

This just creates a resource/power hurdle. The hoi polloi will be forced to disclose their connection to various agents. State actors or those with the resources/time to cover their tracks better will simply ignore the law.

I don't really have a better solution, and I think we're seeing the slow collapse of the internet as a useful tool for genuine communication. Even before AI, things like user reviews were highly gamed and astroturfed. I can imagine that this is only going to accelerate. Information on the internet - which was always a little questionable - will become nearly useless as a source of truth.
by jcalvinowens | 2026-02-17 21:40:09+00:00
Funny your example is rc5, I wrote exactly what you describe to generate 32-bit cookies in a random prototype a few years ago: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/sdvr/blob/main/rc5.c

It is cute, but surely there's a more efficient way than RC5? There are bijective hash functions which are much cheaper (murmur, at least).
by emigre | 2026-02-17 21:40:16+00:00
Or you mean he'll probably already know about the paper? Yes, I guess that's probably the case...

I did not think about it too much to be honest, I just knew that article and thought that he would really like it if he had not read it. But I can imagine somebody writing a book on the history of Lisp has already read probably all articles around on the topic.

I just did not think about it for too long.
by ysnp | 2026-02-17 21:40:16+00:00
>GrapheneOS does not have an equivalent of ublock origin built into the OS which I'd consider step 1 of fighting the problem.

Content filtering is built into the browser. GrapheneOS have always maintained that you cannot prevent an app from exfiltrating data, especially if it has internet access. Enumerating badness is an unsustainable approach they don't want to encourage. Instead they attack the heart of the issue with Storage Scopes/Contact Scopes/Network Permission/Sensors Permission etc. They allow aps to think they have full access when they do not, so you can control exactly what data they get in the first place. Maybe all of the other AOSP projects could contribute App Communication Scopes/Enhanced Clipboard Privacy and other things because this approach makes a lot of sense to me. Like preventing an illness instead of wasting energy treating symptoms.

>The "ideal android" in my head would just have a dynamic ruleset to patch/nop tracking libraries as the app loads, which as far as I know, nobody does that, eOS doesn't either. Kind of like Revanced but on steroids and built into Android.

Something similar was addressed some years ago as a feature request for GrapheneOS https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/284. To summarise there was no way to do this without an unacceptable security cost to the OS, but this is sort of doable if you run your own userdebug build which you have the power to do.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-17 21:40:39+00:00
The other element here is that the vibecoder hasn't done the interesting thing, they've pulled other people's interesting things.

Let's see, how to say this less inflamatory..

(just did this) I sit here in a hotel and I wondered if I could do some fancy video processing on the video feed from my laptop to turn it into a wildlife cam to capture the birds who keep flying by.

I ask Codex to whip something up. I iterate a few times, I ask why processing is slow, it suggests a DNN. I tell it to go ahead and add GPU support while its at it.

In a short period of time, I have an app that is processing video, doing all of the detection, applying the correct models, and works.

It's impressive _to me_ but it's not lost on me that all of the hard parts were done by someone else. Someone wrote the video library, someone wrote the easy python video parsers, someone trained and supplied the neural networks, someone did the hard work of writing a CUDA/GPU support library that 'just works'.

I get to slap this all together.

In some ways, that's the essence of software engineering. Building on the infinite layers of abstractions built by others.

In other ways, it doesn't feel earned. It feels hollow in some way and demoing or sharing that code feels equally hollow. "Look at this thing that I had AI copy-paste together!"
by palata | 2026-02-17 21:41:02+00:00
> I fear "Android" will continue to be understood as a word for either variant

Well, "Android" generally means either variant. I run GrapheneOS and I call it Android. If someone asks, I say I run Android, not GrapheneOS. Actually in terms of experience, it is Android to me.

But in a context where we oppose GrapheneOS to Android, then I think it's important to be clear. GrapheneOS belongs to the family of OSes that are based on AOSP (like Android, LineageOS, IodeOS, /e/OS, CalyxOS), while Android is itself a "subfamily" of that, including the Google Android, the Samsung Android, the Xiaomi Android, etc.

In a way, I personally feel like GrapheneOS is closer to Google Android than the Samsung Android is from the Google Android, if that makes sense. Moving from GrapheneOS to Google Android, I really don't see significant differences. Now Moving to a Samsung Android, I need to adapt a little.

All that to say, I really only make a difference when we are talking about AOSP-based systems as a distinct group, by opposition to "Android certified" systems. Just like it sometimes make sense to talk about GNU/Linux in specific conversations, but generally, we refer to a Linux distribution as "Linux".
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-17 21:41:17+00:00
> We need laws for agents

I know politics is forbidden on HN, but, as non-politically as possible: institutional power has been collapsing across the board (especially in US, but elsewhere as well) as wealthy individuals yield increasingly more power.

The idea that anything as solutions to problems as subtle as this one will be solved with "legal authority" is out of touch with the direction things are going. Especially since you propose legislation as a method to protect those that:

> that dares to speak out against powerful entities

It's increasingly clear that the vast majority of political resource are going towards the interests of those "powerful entities". If you're not one of them it's best you try to stay out of their way. But if you want to speak out against them, the law is far more likely to be warped against you than the be extended to protect you.
by Rover222 | 2026-02-17 21:41:18+00:00
"In an emailed statement, CBS said: “THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options."

Show me the Fascism, please.
by homebrewer | 2026-02-17 21:41:19+00:00
Coccinelle for C, used by Linux kernel devs for decades, here's an article from 2009:

https://lwn.net/Articles/315686

Also IDE tooling for C#, Java, and many other languages; JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time), including automatically upgrading your code to new language features. The sibling comment is slightly "wrong" — they've been available for decades, not mere years.

Also JetBrains has "structural search and replace" which takes language syntax into account, it works on a higher level than just text like what you'd see in text editors and pseudo-IDEs (like vscode):

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tutorial-work-with-struc...

For modern .NET you have Roslyn analyzers built in to the C# compiler which often have associated code fixes, but they can only be driven from the IDE AFAIK. Here's a tutorial on writing one:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/t...
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-17 21:41:19+00:00
No, a FPE algorithm is a cryptographic construct that uses an existing block cipher (e.g. AES-256) to construct a cryptographically secure permutation of the input without length extension. That is, input size = output size, for all sizes. Ideally, if input size >= block size of the underlying cipher, the resulting permutation is no weaker than just using the cipher directly.

You could use FPE for multi-megabyte permutations, but I don't know why you would.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-17 21:41:25+00:00
reducing or removing property taxes for legitimate historic properties seems like a good thing to me. I don't want every community to look like a slightly randomized version of every other community. Historic stuff is interesting. If we can encourage it to stay interesting and not get torn down to build a TGI fridays that sounds like a good thing to me. How much did your crusade to tax local historic structures save the average taxpayer? How many of those places will be lost?
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-17 21:41:28+00:00
I disagree. The 1:100M statistic is too broad, and includes many extremely unsafe drivers. If we restrict our data to only people who drive sober, during normal weather conditions, no speed racing or other deliberately unsafe choices, what is the expected number of miles per fatality?

1 in a billion might be a conservative target. I can appreciate that statistically, reaching parity should be a net improvement over the status quo, but that only works if we somehow force 100% adoption. In the meantime, my choice to use a self-driving car has to assess its risk compared to my driving, not the drunk's.