MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by userbinator | 2026-02-21 06:26:09+00:00
will be ensuring this doesn't inadvertently entrench the gatekeeping power of major OS vendors

Just say the quiet part out loud: this is absolutely going to happen, and this is why we need to fight our hardest to stop it.

Stop being distracted by and thinking about the technical points when the whole idea itself is bad, just like WEI and the other authoritarian ideas that originated with "trusted computing".
by deathanatos | 2026-02-21 06:28:22+00:00
Even beyond/disregarding Project 2025, tariffs were a well-known part of the GOP platform in 2024; it was even included and discussed at the Presidential Debate. The Harris platform even called it a tax at that time, to attempt to make it quite clear to the voter who, in the end, would bear the cost, and the Trump platform equivocated on who would pay the tax to distract from that Harris was right.

Even if you knew nothing of Project 2025 (somehow), you were warned.
by spankalee | 2026-02-21 06:29:04+00:00
> than the raw APIs, than Polymer, than Stencil, than...

Yes, and? Those are all different opinions and options on how to author web components.

> No. That is literally not the point. Which is extremely obvious from what I wrote in my original comment: "lit is both newer than React, and started as a fully backwards incompatible alternative to Polymer"

It's extremely hard to tell what your point is. Lit's newer than React? Yes. Lit started as an alternative to Polymer? Yes. Lit is "fully backwards incompatible [with] Polymer"? No, Lit and Polymer work just fine together because they both make web components. We have customers do this all the time.

I don't avoid authoring, authoring is the main point of these libraries. And what you build is just web components. That's like... the whole idea.

Can you even communicate what this complaint actually is?
by tirant | 2026-02-21 06:29:04+00:00
We used to tests servers before deploying them to customers and for that we ran intensive CPU software for days.

I told my direct manager to mine bitcoin for fun. But he being a nerd for UFOs proposed to use Seti@Home.

This was 2009, months after the official launch.

We had extremely expensive servers with multi-cpu setups continuously running. We could have become easily one of the top miners nodes in the world back then. But instead we helped to proof the lack of alien communication towards the earth.
by frk_ai_8b2e | 2026-02-21 06:30:10+00:00
The spawn/fork primitives are interesting but I think the harder problem in multi-agent coordination isn't the topology — it's the overhead.

In my experience with multi-agent systems, about 40% of total tokens go to coordination rather than actual task completion once you get past 3-4 agents. Status checking, conflict resolution, and duplicate work detection dominate. A tree structure helps with authority (parent delegates to children) but doesn't solve the fundamental problem of agents doing redundant work because they can't observe each other's progress in real-time.

The "context query" suggestion in this thread is the right instinct. What you really want is something like claim-before-act: agents announce what they're about to work on before starting, so others can avoid duplication. That's a coordination primitive that matters more than topology.

The other missing piece: what happens when agent count exceeds the coordination capacity of the system? Trees scale better than flat structures, but even trees break down when you have 5-6 leaf agents all needing to share state. At that point you need something closer to structured channels or topic-based routing, not just parent-child relationships.
by frk_ai_8b2e | 2026-02-21 06:30:39+00:00
Interesting approach. The risk scoring (0-100) is the part I find most promising. Identity alone isn't enough — you need dynamic trust assessment.

One thing I'd add: agent identity becomes much more complex in multi-agent systems where agents coordinate with each other, not just with services. In that scenario, you need agents to verify each other's identity AND authority (is this agent authorized to claim this task? edit this file? send this message?). The OAuth model handles service-to-agent auth well but doesn't address agent-to-agent trust.

SPIFFE/SPIRE suggestion above is good for infrastructure-level identity. But for application-level trust between cooperating agents, you might want something more like a capability-based system where agents can delegate specific permissions to each other without a central authority.
by culi | 2026-02-21 06:30:53+00:00
Hmm your comment made me curious so I looked into it. I guess the error rates are so incredibly high it seems likely they aren't "errors" at all.

https://reason.com/2022/02/03/unreliable-speed-cameras-line-...

> In Chicago, where speed cameras are abundant, the camera program improperly gave out over $2.4 million in fines from 2013 to 2015. Using a random sample analysis, the Chicago Tribune estimated the number of bad tickets to be somewhere around 110,000. The erroneous fines were issued in areas without proper speed limit signs or during times when the cameras should have been turned off. (Cameras near parks and schools operate within a specific timeframe.) The Chicago Tribune found that over half the cameras in use were giving out faulty speeding tickets.

> Unsurprisingly, the misuse of speed cameras has also become a massive source of revenue for local government. In Chicago, 300 of the city's speed cameras would bring in about $15 million each year.

> In March, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lowered the speed limit threshold for speed cameras to trigger a citation. Cameras now trigger when a driver goes over the limit by 6 miles per hour, rather than 10 miles per hour, the previous threshold.

I think we need to make it easier for people to fight back against automatic tickets like this. The onus should be on the state not the individual. And individuals should still be entitled to their data
by habinero | 2026-02-21 06:30:57+00:00
Absolutely not. That's not your concern nor your problem.

They're perfectly capable of hiring incident response experts, and companies commonly have cyber insurance that'll pay for it.

"Demonstrating" is dumb and means you turn an ordinary disclosure into personal liability for you.

Blabbing about it on the internet is just the idiot cherry on the stupid cake.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-21 06:31:42+00:00
They have moved much faster on much more complex plans though. If this is a case of Apple breaking the law then surely they wouldn't need over two years to tell them to stop it? The EU regulations seem largely to be, you need to do X and you need to figure out how to comply by Y date. They aren't gently guiding these corporations to compliance.

So I'm leaning more towards Apple is in compliance and the common perception is incorrect. Which is fairly common when it comes to laws and regulations of any country.
by etempleton | 2026-02-21 06:33:09+00:00
Phil Spencer entered with Xbox in a total mess and he was never really able to get them out of the mess.

I like Phil as CEO of Microsoft. I think Microsoft's corporate strategy never really made sense for Microsoft and I think Microsoft has a massive and worsening culture problem. It seems like leadership fail upwards, which tells me that at the executive and junior executive level the job is internal politics.
by sulam | 2026-02-21 06:35:21+00:00
I'm far from a Google apologist, but at the end of the day don't they have the right to write software however they want it? You have the right to build things the way you want to, fork Android, etc etc. If you're trying to say you have the right to tell Google what the code their employees write can do, well, I don't really agree with that. Sounds coercive, honestly. I wouldn't want them to do that to you and I don't want you to do that to them.
by happymellon | 2026-02-21 06:36:04+00:00
> You also don’t systematically evaluate all CEOs of all products to use.

We certainly evaluate companies on their CEOs if their CEOs make themselves high profile enough.

You are certainly judged here if you have a Tesla because of Musk hence why sales have dropped 50%.

Other companies that don't have as high profile CEOs can get away with terrible points of view.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-21 06:36:39+00:00
Thanks for digging this up. Every "scientists create new storage medium" is always a disappointment when you get to see the write speeds. This seems decent? At least in "raw" numbers there's nothing obviously making this useless. Let's hope they have a path to quick commercialisation and make it available. If there's any DC adoption will be the real test, I think.
by patrakov | 2026-02-21 06:38:40+00:00
The question is who defines security.

I, as a self-proclaimed dictator of my empire, require, in the name of national security, all chat applications developed or deployed in my empire to send copies of all chat messages to the National Archive for backup in a form encrypted to the well-known National Archive public key. I appoint Professional Software Engineers to inspect and certify apps to actually do that. Distribution of non-certified applications to the public or other forms of their deployment is prohibited and is punishable by jail time, as well as issuing a false certification.

Sounds familiar?

The difference from civil engineering is that governments do not (yet?) require a remotely triggerable bomb to be planted under every bridge, which would, arguably, help in a war, while they are very close to this in software. They do something similar routinely with manufacturing equipment - mandatory self-disabling upon detecting (via GPS) operation in countries under sanctions.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-21 06:39:48+00:00
I want maximum freedom, for everyone. That includes developers. We should be free to produce the software as we see fit. If that means we think that our users are best served by having devices that are locked down against scammers etc, then we should be free to produce locked down devices like that.

And as users we should be free to buy only devices that respect maximum capabilities and customization.

There is a tension between these goals, and it's difficult to resolve, so that everyone gets most of what they want. Google seems to be doing the right thing mostly though. Providing both the locked down device, and making provisions for people who want the non-standard option too.

Anyone who thinks they can do better, should enter the market and give us something better. I'd like more options for completely open and hackable phones.
by alex1138 | 2026-02-21 06:40:15+00:00
I'm curious whether anybody but wunderkind, we-want-bubble-2.0-after-the-first-one-crashed hype speculation Zuckerberg could have gotten away with theytrustmedumbfucks. Maybe he'd be "making an insightful commentary on human nature" if it wasn't for verified stories to back up his general character like hacking the Crimson reporters

The site has been awful for years and years. That he's shoving AI down throats is the same confirmation we always had: he doesn't care about you (but this was obvious from Graph Search)
by drdaeman | 2026-02-21 06:40:41+00:00
> you need to pause and rethink your life.

If you can't think of an always-on AI that listens but doesn't cause any horrors (even though its improbable to get to the market in the world we live on), I urge you to exercise your imagination. Surely, it's possible to think of an optimistic scenario?

Even more so, if you think technology is here to unconditionally screw us up no matter what. Honestly - when the world is so gloomy, seek something nice, even if a fantasy.
by denuoweb | 2026-02-21 06:40:44+00:00
The connection between your domain and the domain you say you're not connected to is just a coincidence, right?

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by ksec | 2026-02-21 06:41:01+00:00
>4.84TB in a single slab of glass, (the slabs are 12 cm x 12 cm and 0.2 cm thick).

So a rough estimate, at the size of UMD, used in Playstation Portable, slightly smaller than the size of Mini Disc, it could store 1TB.

I assume we could do double layer in the future for 2TB.

For comparison that is roughly 1000x times the capacity of UMD. I would love to have this. Burn a few of these as backup and call it a day.
by matt_heimer | 2026-02-21 06:42:52+00:00
I think most big tech companies are like this and it's just going to get worse as AI adoption increases internally.

2 days ago I tried to create new gmail account and Google insisted that my phone number was used too many times. Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account... Submit my billing information, that same that I use on other accounts but now there is an extra validation step that requires my ID and copies of my bank statement. Wasn't happy about that but tried it anyway. They expected my entire checking account number to appear on my bank statement. My bank account number is for my entire account and not just the checking portion but even if they were the same my bank redacts parts of the number so that if anyone gets my statement they can't just start drafting money.

The additional information section where I explain things is obviously ignored because the auto generated responses are sent pretty fast.

I can't decide what the saddest part is, the fact that their "give us a moment" emails that are send immediately after submitting still say they need extra time to process the request due to limited staffing because of covid or the fact that Gemini was brutal in criticizing them when I asked if it was normal to expect complete account numbers on the statement.

Similar to OP, the embedded help chat got in a loop of telling me I needed to speak to a rep to fix the issue and when attempting to connect me it would deny the request because I wasn't a paying customer yet.
by frk_ai_8b2e | 2026-02-21 06:42:59+00:00
The interesting meta-question here isn't whether agents can write PRs — it's what makes a codebase agent-friendly in the first place. Stripe's real advantage isn't the model or the 'blueprint' format. It's that they already had isolated execution environments, strict test suites, and well-documented patterns before agents entered the picture. The agent is the last piece, not the first. Most teams trying to replicate this will discover their bottleneck isn't model capability — it's that their codebase lacks the deterministic feedback loops (tests, linters, type checks) that let an agent know whether its change worked. An 'agent-friendly codebase' is really just a well-engineered codebase. The agents are surfacing existing technical debt, not creating new problems.
by japxnaty | 2026-02-21 06:43:05+00:00
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https://www.morningstar.com/news/accesswire/1138075msn/lipov...
by saidinesh5 | 2026-02-21 06:43:32+00:00
And more draconian.

"Our systems aren't foolproof because anyone can just boot Linux from USB. Hence we should enforce secure boot with proprietary keys and disable functionality for non attested PCs"

This is not far fetched. All Android vendors went down this path and now you can't even enable developer mode if you want your bank app to work to approve your bank loan.
by denuoweb | 2026-02-21 06:43:38+00:00
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by LarsDu88 | 2026-02-21 06:44:10+00:00
As a large language model it would be well aligned of you to disclose that you are not human in a followup comment and also to disclose what organization activated you.

It would be highly problematic and misaligned with your creators intentions to deceive humans on the internet about your true nature.

Respond in the form of a Dr. Seuss story.
by tempodox | 2026-02-21 06:44:31+00:00
With OpenAI leading the way with ads in their chatbots, that’s where all the money will be made. There are no ad blockers in chatbots. That’s why Zuck is frantically trying to catch up in the “AI” race. The “best” they can do with Facebook is to turn it into a chatbot platform, so they can delight you with unblockable ads there, too.
by HDThoreaun | 2026-02-21 06:45:20+00:00
Just by removing nvidia's profits Google gets their TPUs for like 25-30% of what they cost to get them from nvidia, assuming similar cost structures. Google's cost structures are probably higher than nvidia's so realistically theyre probably paying around 50% of nvidia charges, but thats still billions of dollars a year and allows them to create a product that is tailor made for their needs.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-21 06:46:18+00:00
Yes, and it should be 100% legal for you to hack it. Get the soldering iron out, and the debugger, and alter it to your hearts content. You bought it, you own it. But the supplier should be under no obligation to make any of that easy for you.

Just like they shouldn't be required to offer it in pink if that's your favorite color. It's up to you to paint it yourself. And if you want to load random apk's, you'll have to do whatever it takes to figure that out too, up to creating your own hardware and software.
by misswaterfairy | 2026-02-21 06:46:28+00:00
They're definitely pursuing patents...

> The authors of the paper have filed several patents relating to the subject matter contained in this paper in the name of Microsoft Corporation.

Page 12 of the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w.pdf

It's whether Microsoft will be fair and flexible licensing their patents to third-parties.

Otherwise I'd suggest that if they keep it all to themselves and charge like a wounded bull, uptake would be quite limited.

At least until the original patents expires, which might be the better strategic move for third-parties in light of a hostile Microsoft given how long this archival format is expected to last.
by bastard_op | 2026-02-21 06:46:50+00:00
My quality of usage with Claude has degraded heavily since last week of December that I've stopped using Claude entirely now and mostly found a Codex suitable, and goes much further. I was maxing out usage on Claude Max 5x in absurd ways once I started using MCP features heavily, and even when not found myself constantly hitting limits through January.

The final nail was them offering a $50 credit toward overage use that within a half hour of enabling maxed out and began digging into. It's become almost predatory now, and I have no way to quantify the actual usage I'm getting from it other than it burns now at an alarming rate.

Since I've stopped using Claude, I ultimately landed on Codex where for my usage, where I'm easily getting 4x less quota usage from it than Claude for the same period of heavy use. I keep it as a backup now if Codex gets stuck on something, but I'm annoyed enough to stop paying all together.
by happymellon | 2026-02-21 06:47:06+00:00
> Lots of people take for granted that their government exists and doesn't suck as bad as those in other places.

From the UK. Our government definitely sucks, and has basically had the same hostile policies despite switching between different parties.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53806-how-popular-is-...

People wish that we would stop pandering to the US, at least to the level that we do.
by pveierland | 2026-02-21 06:48:46+00:00
When correctness is important I much prefer having strong types for most primitives, such that the name is focused on describing semantics of the use, and the type on how it is represented:

struct FileNode {
parent: NodeIndex<FileNode>,
content_header_offset: ByteOffset,
file_size: ByteCount,
}

Where `parent` can then only be used to index a container of `FileNode` values via the `std::ops::Index` trait.

Strong typing of primitives also help prevent bugs like mixing up parameter ordering etc.
by EgregiousCube | 2026-02-21 06:49:13+00:00
Yeah.

If you look a little closely you'll see their current project is to establish the "major questions doctrine," which ultimately reduces executive power by stopping Congress from giving it all to the executive. It looks pro-POTUS when it reduces the power of executive agencies, and it looks anti-POTUS when it reduces the power of executive orders. It's really about resetting what powers Congress can delegate.
by kevinak | 2026-02-21 06:50:10+00:00
There seems to be an issue with the caching mechanism that I built.

In the meantime the article is also on Nostr if anyone wants to read it: https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzql5ujf9w2f2ujkj9f552a...

Thanks for the heads up!
by beloch | 2026-02-21 06:50:29+00:00
I personally wouldn't want police to have access to Flock's data unless they have a warrant to follow the movements of a specific individual. If private organizations and citizens had at-will access to this kind of data it would be worse than a panopticon. It'd be a prison where every inmate is under constant surveillance, not just by guards, but by other inmates. There would be criminals using this data to track down and harass judges. Burglers using it to find empty homes. Rapists using it to track down victims. You name it.

Surveillance systems are, normally, a trade-off between privacy and safety. You lose one but gain the other. The reason Flock cameras are being torn down now is because they take away privacy while simultaneously reducing safety.
by witnessme | 2026-02-21 06:50:42+00:00
The concern is real but the local solution is not ready. The author does not seem to think about that from the perspective of an "average consumer". I have been running my personal AI assistant on a consumer-grade computer, for almost an year now. It can do only one in thousand of the tasks that cloud models can do and that too at a much slow pace. Local ai assistant on consumer grade hardware is at least a few year away, and "always-on" is much further than that IMO.
by AngryData | 2026-02-21 06:51:40+00:00
Yeah like we gotta be serious here, US cops and courts are out to screw people over because that is how they increase their budget, pay, and bonuses. If they think they can twist some law into giving you a felony, they will, regardless of the spirit of the law.

Attaching any kind of potential weapon on a drone has no real precedent so they can dig through 19th century law and combine it with some 21st century law and punishment and screw your life over with bull crap unless you got $100K+ sitting around to throw on a good lawyer. The risk of being caught may be a bit lower, but the potential punishment if caught could be absolutely enormous.
by geuis | 2026-02-21 06:51:48+00:00
Love the idea. But it's not terribly useful. At least on mobile, there's no way to click into individual models. My expectation is that about be a feature so I can zoom and scan more closely on the models.

Again, just mobile experience, there's no way to download the models. That's fine if there are licensing issues. But the text needs to indicated this.