MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solatic | 2026-02-19 08:44:47+00:00
I'm surprised that this doesn't require DNSSEC or at the very least actively encourage configuring DNSSEC. While I used to be fully in the camp that DNSSEC was way more trouble than it was worth, in particular when access was de-facto secured by trusted CA certificates, more and more DNS record types (CAA, CERT, SSHFP, these TXT records) are responsible for storing information that can be manipulated in MITM attacks to seize control of a root of trust.

Of course, this has little applicability to anyone who is small enough not to have nation-state level actors in their threat model. But when I look behind the curtain of even Fortune 100 companies that really ought to have nation-state level actors in their threat model, too often you find people who are just not operating at that level or are swamped with unrelated work. So I'm starting to become of the opinion that guidance should change here and at the very least be documented recommendations.
by habinero | 2026-02-19 08:44:49+00:00
> Then, I can produce billions of War And Peace

You cannot and will never lol.

This so fundamentally misunderstands (1) the point of writing a novel and (2) what makes a novel interesting.

A novel isn't just a buncha words slapped together, bing bam slop boom, done.

What makes a novel interesting is the author and the author's choices, like all art. It's the closest you can get to experiencing what it's like to be someone else. You can't generate that, it's specific to a person.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-19 08:44:52+00:00
So Atlas can lift 7x the capacity. Even Digit, the tote-consolidating robot, can do 35lbs.

Unitree's demos are a lot of fun, and the antics of releasing the G1 to the public has certainly captured people's attention, but a "working" robot won't look, act, or develop from the G1 or even H2.
by croes | 2026-02-19 08:45:02+00:00
What if I'm only willing to pay if it support by tool of choice?
Would you pay for a streaming service that enforces a certain TV brand?

Given the latest changes on Claude Code where they hide the actions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033622

it's likely more the other way around. They control how fast your subscription tokens are burned
by renewiltord | 2026-02-19 08:45:08+00:00
As The Guardian has previously pointed out https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitt...: USAID and these orgs were "undermining Cuba's communist government". Now it's time to celebrate. People will now be free to live as they wish under communism or whatever else they choose. It is not for us to choose whether people want to be invaded by Russia or ruled by Castro. If they don't want this, let them choose otherwise.

End all American foreign interference.
by coldtea | 2026-02-19 08:45:22+00:00
>It’s actually worse than that. A centralised SaaS product has to architect for diversity - every customer’s feature permutations, every edge case, every conflicting workflow, all coexisting in a single multi-tenant system. That architectural complexity is enormous. A custom build for a single customer doesn’t carry any of it. One set of features, one workflow, one tenant. Orders of magnitude less complex to build, and orders of magnitude less complex to maintain and run in production.

SaaS also covers all kind of legal requirements (accessibility, auditing, security, payment handling, and so on), and has someone to support, blame, and come and fix it when things go sour. Plus the architecture to cover scaling needs.

With some thing Claude churned, you're on your own.
by bonesss | 2026-02-19 08:46:07+00:00
Skins, media packs, servers, hosted realms, upsales through all consoles, multiple copies for multiplayer with/between your kids… also a mass revolving shit tumbler of account stuff on the backend that invalidated lots of old accounts…

I bought during the beta for a lifetime of goodies, had to buy it again after the buyout, then again after an update to MS accounts wasn’t acted on, and then for the Switch. I’ve bought Minecraft 4 times, with another on the horizon if it keeps popular.
by lesostep | 2026-02-19 08:46:08+00:00
>> I realize BSOD is no longer nearly as common as it once was

Anecdotally, installing wrong drivers (in my case it was drivers for COM-port STM32 interaction) could make it as common as twice a day on Win11.
While my windows server 2008 still doing just great, no BSOD through lifetime.

I agree that for a common user BSOD is now less likely to happen, but wonder whether it's less to do with windows core, and more with windows defender default aggressive settings
by amatecha | 2026-02-19 08:46:17+00:00
I figured this might be about Meshtastic before I clicked the link. There is a lot of Meshtastic use in some areas in UA and they even use the mesh network to relay announcements of incoming air strikes. You can see the web dashboard for it at https://mesh.in.ua/grafana/d/R4RChebVk/mesh?orgId=1&refresh=... (yes that is chat of people on the UA mesh, and before you freak out, the locations are randomized by default for privacy, as broad as a 5.8km radius, so they are not "doxxing" themselves by being on there)

T-echo is pretty good but it drains battery even when "off", so I don't consider it a good option for long-term use. I've had a solar-powered RAK4631 in my window for about a year now, continuous uptime. Pretty cool tech for sure.

IIRC (and I might be mis-remembering this) Meshtastic forwards packets even if it can't decrypt them (as long as it's on the same channel), so anyone could contribute to the coverage by putting a node up at a high elevation. Once someone did this in my area it was amazing how many nodes I could contact.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-19 08:48:06+00:00
Ahhh! When he said staffs I assumed he meant people, not staves! Yeah, that's 100% CG. Here [1] you can see where the kids take a stance where it was to be edited in, and if you pause at the exact moment - it looks pretty bad, with something like a lightsaber just popping in the kid's hand.

Hmmm. Not sure what to make of this. I wish it was possible to see the raw unedited footage. It makes me question everything else.

[1] - https://youtu.be/mUmlv814aJo?t=82
by raggi | 2026-02-19 08:48:49+00:00
It's difficult for us to maintain documentation of exactly the kind you'd want there, though we do try to keep up with docs as best we can. In particular there is a fairly wide array of heuristics in the client to adapt to the environment that it's running in - and this is most true on Linux where there are far far too many different configuration patterns and duplicate subsystems (example: https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux).

To try and take a general poke at the question in more of the context you leave at the end:

- We use rule based routing to try to dodge arbitrary order conflicts in the routing tables.

- We install our rules with high priority because traffic intended for the tailnet hitting non-tailscale interfaces is typically undesirable (it's often plain text).

- We integrate with systemd-resolved _by preference_ on Linux if it is present, so that if you're using cgroup/namepsace features (containers, sandbox runtimes, etc etc) then this provides the expected dns/interface pairings. If we can't find systemd-resolved we fall back to modifying /etc/resolv.conf, which is unavoidably an area of conflict on such systems (on macos and windows they have more broadly standard solutions we can use instead, modulo other platform details).

- We support integration with both iptables and nftables (the latter is behind manual configuration currently due to slightly less broad standardization, but is defaulted by heuristic on some distros/in some environments (like gokrazy, some containers)). In nftables we create our own tables, and just install jumps into the xtables conventional locations so as to be compatible with ufw, firewalld and so on.

- We do our best in tailscaled's sshd to implement login in a broadly compatible way, but again this is another of those places the linux ecosystem lacks standards and there's a ton of distro variation right now (freedesktops concerns start at a higher level so they haven't driven standardization, everyone else like openssh have their own pile of best-guesses, and distros go ham with patches).

- We need a 1360 byte MTU path to peers for full support/stability. Our inner/interface MTU is 1280, the minimum MTU for IPv6, once packed in WireGuard and outer IPv6, that's 1360.

I can't answer directly based on "very custom" if there will be any challenges to deal with. We do offer support to work through these things though, and have helped some users with fairly exotic setups.
by beAbU | 2026-02-19 08:49:11+00:00
WhatsApp takes bot spam very very seriously, and as a result, there is zero bot spam.

Before you can sign up to build a WhatsApp bot, you need to jump through a million hoops, and after that, every automated message template must be vetted by Meta before it can be sent out, apple style.

I'm glad of this, because unlike SMS and other messaging platforms, WhatsApp is spam free and a pleasure to use.
by dannersy | 2026-02-19 08:49:20+00:00
Well, yes. They know what they are doing. They know when given the option the consumer makes the affordable choice. I just don't have to like or condone their practices. Maybe instead of taking on billions of dollars of debt they should have thought about a business model that makes sense first? Maybe the collective "we" (consumers and investors, but especially investors) should keep it in our pants until the product is proven and sustainable?

It will be real interesting if the haters are right and this technology is not the breakthrough the investors assume it to be AFTER it is already sewn into everyone's work flows. Everyone keeps talking about how jobs will be displaced, yet few are asking what happens when a dependency is swept out from underneath the industry as a whole if/when this massive gamble doesn't pay off.

Whatever. I am squawking into the void as we just repeat history.
by dreamhomestore | 2026-02-19 08:49:45+00:00
A cohesive bedroom furniture set is far more than a visual choice; it is a functional ecosystem designed to regulate the flow, storage, and recovery phases of your daily life. In the typical UK home, this system — often comprised of a wardrobe and drawers set, a robust chest of drawers bedroom unit, and a high-performance memory foam mattress — must work in perfect synchronicity to maintain both comfort and longevity.
by tw1984 | 2026-02-19 08:49:56+00:00
Well, that is obviously another overcapacity issue, this time for robotics. In the last 10 weeks, there were -

Unitree's army of robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4IOJH9Akhg

Robotera sword dancing robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ti9Mi8rbIQ

AGIbot's flying kicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnXdh6IEkA

LimX's Tron2 robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3QFPr7hyo

one interesting observation is that none of those companies are located in Shenzhen, which arguably has the best supply chain for all electronics stuff. I guess those trillions $ spent on infrastructure paid off - Shenzhen didn't suck all talents into its proximity, it becomes an enabler for industries across the country.
by coldtea | 2026-02-19 08:49:59+00:00
In a major (pre-AI-IPO) hype bubble, we can't be sure of any "deeper thing" causing software valuations to fail.

Especially when the economy goes shock after shock unrelated to AI too (tarrifs, a bad economy, unpredictable White House tennants, fears of war).

Valuations are fickle and can reverse course just as well as continue it.

The "deeper thing" is mostly taking what the article says for granted, when it hasn't been happening in any real scale. No real movement of companies getting rid of their Salesforce or Microsoft suite or such just yet - a handful of cherry-picked examples that might have replaced some smaller SaaS with a custom thing with different degrees of success.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-19 08:50:03+00:00
How come a graphics powered REPL is less capable than a window that pretends to be a tty from the 1970's?

You can certainly use the same Web GUIs from macOS and GNU/Linux as well, as for Powershell remoting, no need for VM when Powershell nowadays is written in modern portable .NET.
by xfeeefeee | 2026-02-19 08:50:45+00:00
Really cool to see this here. I always loved these in movies. There are a bunch of really interesting artists making use of ink ink liquid, oils, chemical reactions etc that create beautiful abstract pieces. Fitting for HN, Roman De Giuli even creates his own machines. Check out Emitter https://youtu.be/VMd608zCEWc
by scotty79 | 2026-02-19 08:52:40+00:00
> I obviously can go around punching people in the face on the street. What use is there to forbidding that? Perhaps that it's beneficial for society to discourage people from doing certain things?

Right. I have to agree. Still, somehow copyright feels more like punishing people for not praying on Sunday than punching people in the face. All forbidden things are definitely not equal and some, naturally, feel more deserving of being forbidden and more easy to enforce the punishment for them without invading personal freedoms and privacy. It's entirely pointless to forbid things that don't (even potentially) harm living beings (there's no human right to having a viable business model) which would require permanent invigilation (even in private) for full enforcement.

> patents (N.b. copyright is far from the only law that applies to intellectual property) were created in order to encourage people to share their ideas

Which pretty much failed spectacularly and should have been ended about 100 years ago when it ran its course. Way before such abomination as software patents spawned in somebody's mind.

> Because exactly the sort of "free for all" rights you are arguing for meant a

The world is free for all. Every industrial economy that got big, got there by disregarding intellectual property. Even US, blatantly copying industrial designs from UK. Intellectual property is kicking off the ladder.

> huge incentive to keeping everything as secret as possible

There's only so much you can keep a secret if you want to go to market with it.

And despite wonderful protections of intellectual property many companies still choose to keep as much as they can secret. Because protections can't physically work 100% and they need to be 100% for them to work at all.

Patents serve many purposes but none of their stated goals.

> Finally, can you explain what you think stealing is?

Taking possession of a thing that does not belong to you. For data economy it can be slightly extended to taking the copy of information that is held by someone else without their permission (hacking basically).

> Why is it a crime for me to take one bike to work but not the other, if they both stand unlocked outside the building?

Because you can keep your items in public spaces. This changes dynamics of theft a little bit. It is a crime to take my item that I left in publically accessible place because after you did that I no longer have the item.

If you were to just make a perfect copy of my bike that I left in public space, that would be totally ok because I would still have my bike.
by uncanny2 | 2026-02-19 08:52:42+00:00
> theory that our brains perform quantum operations, and that this ability generates our consciousness.

Consciousness is the inflection of the quantum potential. Consciousness is not “generated” it is animated.

> The finding could strengthen the theory that, on a quantum level, your consciousness is entangled with consciousness all across the universe.

Yes and no. It is silly to express it in this way, yet the magic is also our curse.

We are not alone in our own minds and a long standing culture exists among us who may manipulate and navigate this entanglement.

It would be more appropriate to say that the vibrational coordinates (more combinations than exist particles in the Universe) of any number of particle may be synchronized with any other through entanglement. These hyperdimensional vibrational coordinates exist outside of and independently of time and space, which are still quite real and limiting merely not as exclusively as classical physics presumes.
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-19 08:53:15+00:00
If the mechanism for generating those 256 random bits is distributed and untrusted parties generate ids, then you need collision detection because they may be malicious

If it's not distributed you can just have a counter

If it's distributed but coordinated by a single party (say, it's your servers), you can do sharding on incremented counters. Like, every server are assigned a region of ids
by Gym-Berlin | 2026-02-19 08:53:54+00:00
Somalia’s fragile coastline sits at one of the world’s most strategic maritime chokepoints, where global trade routes intersect with rising extremist threats. In this article, Ajmal Sohail unpacks the convergence of piracy, terrorism, and geopolitical rivalry in the Horn of Africa—asking whether Somalia could become the next epicenter of global instability. From Al-Shabaab’s evolving tactics to the international scramble for influence in the Red Sea corridor, this analysis explores the risks, the players, and the urgent choices facing policymakers.
by aregue | 2026-02-19 08:54:10+00:00
I cannot read the paper that this article is based on, but it seems that it refers to the use of big data analytics and AI in 2024, not LLM. It concludes that the use of AI leads to a 4% increase in productivity. Nowadays the debate over AI productivity centers around LLMs, not big data analytics. This article does not seem to contradict more recent findings that LLM do not (yet) provide any increased productivity at the company level.
by oarfish | 2026-02-19 08:54:18+00:00
This is well known for spine issues in general: MRI is super unspecific, and the older you get, the more interesting things you can find on the scans. Even if you're fully asymptomatic. So such findings are now better reframed as age-related changed rather than pathologies.
The fact that every radiologist will highlight different things also doesn't help.

This is in fact one reason why you don't want an MRI if the outcome does not change what you do (i.e. sports related injuries or non specific low back pain). You will just nocebo yourself into thinking you have problems that are not real, because the belief in the answer donut is so strong.
by habinero | 2026-02-19 08:54:24+00:00
> People will do this because it's interesting and because there's potential to capitalize on the result.

I don't know why anyone admits to thinking this. For one, there's nothing stopping you from making movies or writing stories now. You're not suddenly going to develop creativity or interesting ideas using LLMs, either.

Also, think it through. If everyone can yell at computer until movie fall out, there will be millions of them and nobody will pay for anything.
by grey-area | 2026-02-19 08:54:38+00:00
Not sure how I feel about Shakespeare and JK Rowling living in the same parenthesis!

Computer languages are the opposite of natural languages - they are for formalising and limiting thought, the exact opposite of literature. These two things are not comparable.

If natural language was so good for programs, we’d be using it - many many people have tried from literate programming onward.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-02-19 08:55:24+00:00
If you watch at 0.25 speed, you can see the staff is actually a magician's cane. It's a coiled up bit of plastic that springs open when you release the ends. You can see similar tricks on YouTube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-j6G4sPwWU
by yellowapple | 2026-02-19 08:56:37+00:00
So compared to the 9a: slight weight reduction, lightly better screen (better brightness and contrast, newer iteration of Gorilla Glass), Android 16 instead of 15, some slight battery life and camera improvements that are probably from shipping with a newer Android version (and that the 9a therefore probably already has, since upgrading to Android 16 is an option). Seems to be using the same Tensor G4 CPU as the 9a, instead of the newer Tensor G5 of the rest of its generation.

Unless I'm missing something, 9a→10a seems even more incremental than 8a→9a was. The price reduction is the most interesting thing about the 10a to me; if that ends up being permanent (instead of just a pre-order promotion), then once GrapheneOS support lands I could see this being handy with a prepaid SIM as a burner phone for international travel or music festivals or attending/documenting protests or something else where if it gets lost or stolen or confiscated as “evidence” or whatever then it wouldn't hurt quite as bad if I never saw it again.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-19 08:57:01+00:00
>I fired up Win 3.11 in 1600x1200@256 mode to run SimAnt, and was pretty shocked at how much better it felt than most modern operating systems.

Maybe for older people who used it back then and have nostalgia for it, but I think at 35 even I'm too young to find that UI appealing for daily driving when linux has WMs/DEs targeted for minimalism, efficiency and productivity but in a modern way.
by lioeters | 2026-02-19 08:57:40+00:00
So interesting to hear about the internals of the browser, how it evolved from a standard library in an OS project. It's the kind of insight that's rarely documented, spoken about, or even known to anybody other than the author.

I can totally imagine how a prolific and ambitious developer would create a world of their own, essentially another language with domain-specific vocabulary and primitives. People often talk about using a "subset of C++" to make it manageable for mortals, and even the somewhat unusual consideration of Swift was related to this desire for an ergonomic language to express and solve the needs of the project.
by Wilder7977 | 2026-02-19 08:58:16+00:00
YouTube is a platform, it's not a product. And in this case, created a new market. A market in which, by the way, still very few people (relative to those who try) are successful. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage would be much smaller than 10%.

A quick search leads to different answer, but https://alanspicer.com/what-percentage-of-youtubers-make-mon... suggests that 0.25% of all YouTube channels makes any money (not good money, any money). Which means 99.75% earns 0$.

Basically I would flip the question and ask: if you could produce videos now very simply with AI and so could other 10000 people, how many of the new channels do you think will be successful?
If anything, the YouTube example shows you exactly that it doesn't matter than 1000000 people now can produce content with low overhead, just a handful of them will be successful, because the market of companies available to spend money to sponsor through channels and the men hours of eyeballs on videos are both limited.

Talking about companies that just produce products, either you come up with something new (and create a new market), or you come up with something better (you take shares of an existing market). Having 10000 companies producing - say - digital editing software won't make suddenly increase by 10000x the number of people in need of digital editing software. Which means that among those 10000 there will be a few very good products which will eat all the market (like it is now), with the usual Paretian distribution.

The idea that many companies with smaller overhead can split the market evenly and survive might (and it's a big hopeful might) work on physical companies selling local and physical products (I.e., splitting the market geographically), but for software products I cannot even imagine it happening.

New markets are created all the time, and it's great if maybe smaller companies (or co-ops) could take over those markets rather than big corporations, but the way the market distribution happens I don't think will be affected. I don't see any reason why this should change with many more companies in the same market.
I also don't think that 10000 new companies will create 10000 new markets, because that depends on ideas (and luck, and context, and regulation, etc.), not necessarily on resources available,