MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2026-02-27 08:11:06+00:00
In these days of the Epstein mails, it's worth remembering one thing that's become clear: Epstein was an extremely nice guy. He seemed kind, sincere, interested in what you were doing, civilized etc.

But to quote Little Red Riding Hood in Stephen Sondheim's musical: Nice is different than good. It's hard to accept if people you really like do horrible things. It's tempting to not believe what you hear, or even what you see. And Epstein was good at getting you to really like him, if he wanted to.

That doesn't mean we should be suspicious of niceness. It just means that we should realize, again, nice is different than good.
by reacweb | 2026-02-27 08:11:10+00:00
make 2>&1 | tee m.log is in my muscle memory, like adding a & at the end of a command to launch a job, or ctrl+z bg when I forget it, or tar cfz (without the minus so that the order is not important). Without this terseness, people would build myriads of personal alias.

This redirection relies on foundational concepts (file descriptors, stdin 0, stdout 1, stderr 2) that need to be well understood when using unix. IMO, this helps to build insight and intuitiveness. A pipe is not magic, it is just a simple operation on file descriptors. Complexity exists (buffering, zombies), but not there.
by jackbventures | 2026-02-27 08:11:38+00:00
No, not by default. Diffusion models are stochastic so each run produces a different image.

The plan would be: generate once upfront, deliver a low-res watermarked version immediately, then serve the full-res after payment. One generation, two delivery tiers. The cost is the same either way - we're just changing when the user sees the output.
by dgfl | 2026-02-27 08:12:54+00:00
Disagree on the last statement. Makie is tremendously superior to matplotlib. I love ggplot but it is slow, as all of R is. And my work isn’t so heavy on statistics anyway.

Makie has the best API I’ve seen (mostly matlab / matplotlib inspired), the easiest layout engine, the best system for live interactive plots (Observables are amazing), and the best performance for large data and exploration. It’s just a phenomenal visualization library for anything I do. I suggest everyone to give it a try.

Matlab is the only one that comes close, but it has its own pros and cons. I could write about the topic in detail, as I’ve spent a lot of time trying almost everything that exists across the major languages.
by grumblepeet | 2026-02-27 08:13:00+00:00
Two years before I moved across into IT. This was when I was a graphic designer making magazines and nursing journals using tools like Aldus PageMaker and QuarkXpress. Those were fantastic times. It felt like we could do anything with computers.

I was eyeing a career in IT and moved across soon after, and was dumped into Novell Netware 3.12 land which was an eye opener (Fire Phasers anyone?).
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-02-27 08:14:05+00:00
This administration^Wregime has a lot of experience pressuring publicly with high stakes followed up by making backroom deals that would even make Jared Kutcher blush.

This is protection racketeering 101! So much so, that if any form of a functioning US judicial systems makes it past 2028, I’m willing to put money on that more than a handful of people in the upper echelons of today’s administration will end up getting slapped with the RICO Act.
by isomorphic | 2026-02-27 08:14:10+00:00
My interpretation:

First, they can't attack a WiFi access point for which they do not know any password(s). Thus your multi-SSID access point with multiple passwords is "safe" from this particular attack.

However, second, they can attack an access point for which they know any password, gaining access to clients on the other SSIDs. This means your security is now effectively only the security of your worst SSID's password. It also may defeat your purpose in having multiple SSIDs/passwords in the first place.
by Throwagainaway | 2026-02-27 08:14:26+00:00
I don't know where you might get your info from but Anthropic has only denied using Autonomous AI to kill humans without anyone pressing a button/having some liabilty on and mass surveillance.

I don't think that your point makes sense especially when you can have enemies within your own administration/country who can use the same weapons to hunt you.

I don't think that the people operating the drones are a bottleneck for a war between your country and your enemies but rather its a bottleneck for a war between your country and its people. The bottleneck is of morality as you would find less people willing to do the same atrocities to their own community but terminator style AI is an orphan with no community ie. it has no problem following any orders from the govt. and THIS is the core of the argument because Anthropic has safeguards to reject such orders and DOD is threatening to essentially kill the company by invoking many laws to force it to give.
by tmountain | 2026-02-27 08:14:29+00:00
It’s a subjective conversation but putting AI in the same category as a real artist is like saying someone that’s played a ton of first person shooters has gone to war. It might have a lot of observed information about what is involved in living, but real art comes from a lived experience, just like reading about going to Hawaii doesn’t mean you’ve been to Hawaii. Making something authentic requires synthesizing your life experience with the message you want to convey, and personalizing it in a way that puts an imprint of yourself into the work. Sure, it can render beautiful imagery, but I am speaking to a different issue entirely, and I don’t see any way that it can create in the way I am describing.
by torginus | 2026-02-27 08:14:33+00:00
Sorry by, JWT, I meant the middleware that integrates the crypto nto my web server (pretty sure even Claude doesn't attempt to do hand-rolled crypto, thankfully).

That express middleware library has a ton of config options that were quite the headache to understand, and I realized that it's basically a couple hundred line skeleton that I spent more time customizing than it'd have taken from scratch.

As for old JS vs new JS - I have worked more in the enterprise world before, working with stuff like ASP.NET in that era.

Let me tell you a story - way back when I needed to change how a particular bit of configuration was read at startup in the ASP.NET server. I was astonished to find that the config logic (which was essentially just binding data from env vars and json to objects), was thousands upon thousands of lines of code, with a deep inheritance chain and probably an UML diagram that could've covered a football field.

I am super glad that that kind of software engineering lost out to simple and sensible solutions in the JS ecosystem. I am less glad that that simplicity is obscured and the first instinct of many JS devs is to reach for a package instead of understanding how the underlying system works, and how to extend it.

Which tbf is not their fault - even if simplicity exists, people still assume (I certainly did) that that JWT middleware library was a substantial piece of engineering, when it wasn't.
by phgn | 2026-02-27 08:15:52+00:00
> I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

Was this written by the state department?

The overall statement is very disappointing in my opinion, doesn’t nearly go far enough.

How can you think that a “department of war” does anything remotely good? And only object to domestic AI surveillance?
by oguz-ismail2 | 2026-02-27 08:16:04+00:00
This is one of those places where Bash diverges from POSIX. The standard says `echo &>/dev/null' is two commands, namely `echo &' and `>/dev/null', but Bash interprets it as redirect both stdout and stderr of `echo' to `/dev/null' both in normal and POSIX mode.
by skywal_l | 2026-02-27 08:16:16+00:00
There must be a law of system design about this, because this happens all the time. Every abstraction creates a class of users who are powerful but fragile.

People who build a system or at least know how it works internally want to simplify their life by building abstractions.

As people come later to use the system with the embedded abstractions, they only know the abstractions but have no idea of the underlying implementations. Those abstractions used to make perfect sense for those with prior knowledge but can also carry subtle bias which makes their use error prone for non initiated users.
by remarkEon | 2026-02-27 08:16:36+00:00
Okay but this isn't a book ban. I'm not understanding what you're saying. This bill doesn't prohibit these books from being printed or sold or possessed. Did you even read it? Seems like you're pivoting to "prison camps for people in the country illegally means we'll have a theocracy soon". I'm not sure you've actually thought this through.
by vkou | 2026-02-27 08:16:38+00:00
Catholics are a minority denomination in America, and an especially small minority in the relevant states.

Russian Orthodoxy, on the other hand, encompasses ~95% of Russian Christians, and there is no organized alternative to it.

... Also, Trump 2024 won Catholics by 12 points (While 2020 and 2016 was a 50/50 split.)

Whatever the church's views are, unlike the evangelicals, it's not dictating to its members how they should vote.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-27 08:16:58+00:00
> It's going to be a generational effort to fix what these people are breaking more of every day.

That assumes you have people wanting to fix what is broken - and I have a hard time believing even now that they are in the majority.

MAGA and their supporters? They want to see the world burn, if only for different motives: the "left behind" people in flyover states just want revenge, the Evangelicals literally believe they can cause the Second Coming of Christ by it [1], the Russia fangroup wants to see Ukraine burn to the ground and the ultra-libertarians/dont tread on me folks want all government but maybe a bit of military to go away. That is what unifies so many people behind the Trump banner.

The problem is, on the left side you got a bunch of people completely fed up as well. Anarchists of course, then you got the "left behind" people who still want revenge on the system but aren't willing to enlist the help of the far-right for that goal, you got revolutionaries of all kind... and you got those who believe that the rot runs too deep to fix by now.

And let's face the uncomfortable truth: every one of them, bar the Evangelicals and the Russia apologists, actually has a decent point in wanting to see the world burn. Post-Thatcher capitalism has wrecked too many lives, the US Constitution hasn't seen a meaningful update in decades and no overhaul in centuries, the "checks and balances" that were supposed to prevent a Trump from reaching office or rising to the position of effective dictator have been all but destroyed, the "American Dream" has been vaporware ever since 2007...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g1zvgj4do
by Const-me | 2026-02-27 08:17:00+00:00
I like engine=memory tables. Compared to data structures found in programming languages, memory tables are more powerful: arbitrary columns, indices. The DB server solves concurrency with transactions and row-level locks; need B-tree primary key which is not the default for memory engine but easy enough to do at table creation.

I think they save quite an amount of software complexity, delegating these problems to the DB server.
by vivid242 | 2026-02-27 08:17:02+00:00
Thanks for the effort!

I'm always intrigued by the German FE-Schrift ("fälschungserschwerende Schrift", "more-difficult-to-forge font") chooses shapes for characters that makes it hard for them to be turned into one another (like a 3 into an 8 or so):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
by keybored | 2026-02-27 08:17:31+00:00
> > I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

These blurbs always mainly communicate that they are in line with US foreign policy. And then one can look at the actual actions rather than the rhetoric of US foreign policy to judge whether it is really in line with defending democracies and defeating autocracies.
by luulinh90s | 2026-02-27 08:17:41+00:00
We haven’t benchmarked our steering for scaffolding function-calling in an agent loop yet (and the model we are using is just a base model), so I can’t give a quantitative claim. But concept-based steering should be a good fit for keeping the agent on task and enforcing behavioral guardrails around tool use.

In practice, you can treat concepts as soft/hard constraints to bias the agent toward: (1) calling tools only when needed, (2) selecting the right tool/function, or (3) using the correct argument schema.
by kranke155 | 2026-02-27 08:18:19+00:00
The purpose of Twitter is IMO no longer to be profitable.

For a man with a trillion dollar fortune it’s just his personal equivalent of Fox News, a way to shape the nations conversation.

Plus a way to get data for xAI.

In that regard it’s a huge sucess. I use grok to find out about stuff on X and it’s very effective. Grok is also nowhere as bad as it should be (it’s still not great).
by lm28469 | 2026-02-27 08:19:42+00:00
All of what's happening is a symptom, there is no reason it would change course with the next elections, all of this is the logical development of decades of cultural, political and morale rot in the US society. Trump isn't a bad moment we have to push through before we get back to the baseline, there has been no serious push back from anyone so far, it's here to stay
by itsilyas | 2026-02-27 08:20:04+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Ilyas, founder of Vigilbase. We're a managed security services provider that works primarily with Cloudflare. Over the past few years, we kept running into the same problem with our customers: they'd invest in Cloudflare Enterprise, configure WAF, Zero Trust, Gateway, and then nobody would actually monitor what those tools were catching.

So we built Flarehawk.

It connects to your Cloudflare environment, ingests events in real time across HTTP and WAF logs, and soon Zero Trust, DNS, and Gateway. We then run them through what we call the Flarehawk Fabric, a per-tenant ML model that learns what normal looks like for your specific setup. When something deviates, our agentic platform, Flarehawk Aegis, automatically and gives you a plain-language explanation with a one-click fix.

On the infrastructure side, we run distributed Kubernetes clusters processing millions of rows per second, with a multi-stage analysis pipeline that handles normalization, enrichment, and behavioral modeling per tenant. All logs are written to ClickHouse Cloud for long-term retention (up to five years), fully queryable for audits and incident investigations.

We've been in private beta for a few months. Early customers have found misconfigured WAF rules and anomalous access patterns that had been sitting undetected for weeks. Now in open beta.

Try it out today, with a free month to get you started with code HACKERNEWS. Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the ML approach, or anything else.
by antirez | 2026-02-27 08:20:18+00:00
Related:

https://github.com/antirez/qwen-asr

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c

Qwen-asr can easily transcribe live radio (see README) in any random laptop. It looks like we are going to see really cool things on local inference, now that automatic programming makes a lot simpler to create solid pipelines for new models in C, C++, Rust, ..., in a matter of hours.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-27 08:21:32+00:00
Feels like they’re leaving a lot of money on the table and inviting existential peril by not bending the knee to the current Great Leader.

It does feel like what anyone sane should do (especially given the contradictions being pointed out and the fact that the technology isn’t even there yet) but when you metaphorically have Landa at your door asking for milk, I’m not sure it’s smart.

I feel like what most corpos would do, would be to just roll along with it.
by morsch | 2026-02-27 08:21:51+00:00
Charge full overnight, top up at 300-350 KW once a day for 45 minutes. 600 kWh lfp battery weighing 4.5t. This seemed to work out fine for a guy on YouTube documenting his experiences. SoC wasn't a big deal in itself, flexibility in (overnight) stops more so, but still less than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/@elektrotrucker
by pmyteh | 2026-02-27 08:22:45+00:00
I fitted a Bafeng mid-drive motor to my city bike and it's fabulous for hills. Because the power goes through the existing drivechain you can get high torque simply by switching to first gear. No minimum speed, power kicks in after half a turn of the pedals. Coupled with hub gears you can change at rest it's a marvel.

Even at the European street legal limit of 250W it makes acceleration trivial.
by EZ-E | 2026-02-27 08:23:08+00:00
> i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus

Being in a company that has done the gradual cuts, instead of one big cut, I unironically agree. I must have dodged like 15 staff reductions at this point. Company would be in a better state if the decision was taken to go for it big time. Still, it must be hard and shocking - but only once.
by imtringued | 2026-02-27 08:23:50+00:00
>"You're currently here" is the always existing point which isn't achieved at the moment and which gives to critics something to point to and mount the objection to the process as a whole, because, see, this particular thing isn't achieved yet.

This is a contradiction that is so blatant I don't even know what language you're speaking. The definition of that phrase is the exact opposite of what you're saying.

"You're currently here" is the always existing point which is achieved at the moment.

>gives to critics something to point to and mount the objection to the process as a whole, because, see, this particular thing isn't achieved yet.

No it doesn't, because unless progress is reversed or undone, you can always point to your current success and say that the critics have been wrong so far. In fact, that's exactly the argument you're making here, which is why it's so weird that you're twisting it into its opposite.

If you want people to understand you, then you actually have to articulate what you're thinking instead of wrapping it in layers of euphemisms and hoping that the recipient nods along because they happen to agree for a completely irrelevant reason (e.g. "I like AI" or "I like space") to the argument presented.
36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
by Slaboli | 2026-02-27 08:25:00+00:00
I am 36 years old, single, and currently unemployed, living with my parents in my home country. I am at a point that might define the next decade of my life. I am struggling with a choice between two paths that offer completely different types of security.

Option A: Relocating to Southern Europe (Portugal)

The Income: A low-skill remote role (Content Analysis) with night shifts (PST hours), paying ~1100 EUR. I also have some passive income to supplement this.

The Lifestyle: Living in a studio or small apartmentin in smallish Portuguese town. For around 800 EUR.

The Perspective: The move isn't about a specific career goal or a passport; it’s about the higher life standards, safety, and the stable social environment of Western Europe.

The Trade-off: I would be far from my aging parents. I would be working an unskilled job that doesn't build professional equity, potentially living in studio at 36, which might be isolating during night shifts.

Option B: Staying in my Home Country (Ankara, Turkey)

The Job & Security: A Finance/Accounting role for a SME. I own my apartment here, so I have no housing costs.

The Professional Play: Pursuing a CPA-equivalent certification. This is a 3-year commitment of internships and exams, leading to legal signing authority and the ability to open my own practice later on with adaquate experience and networks.

The Context: Turkey is facing economic instability, high inflation, and politically unsettling.

The Trade-off: While I would be near my parents and building a protected professional title, I would be staying in a high-stress, unpredictable environment.

The Financial Weight:

I have already spent roughly 10k EUR on the relocation process for Option A (visas, consultants, etc.).

The Dilemma:

One path offers a prestigious, recession-proof career in a struggling, unstable country. The other offers a simple, comfortable life with 'okay' standards in a stable country, but with no professional growth.

At 36, is it wiser to invest 3 years in a professional license to root myself, or to take the jump for a better quality of life even if the work is menial?

What would you do?

THANK YOU!
by kennywinker | 2026-02-27 08:25:00+00:00
It takes like 30s of reading to figure out their criteria: an average of 13 journalists per week. That is the number they are usung to compare conflicts. Do you know how many journalists were killed on average per week of ww2? Because unless you know, you are just denying based on vibes i guess? When I google it the number that comes up is 69 - so unless ww2 was a lot shorter than i remember, fewer than 13/week seem to have been killed - at least by the records we have.

I said that the nature of journalism has changed since ww2, because there’s a lot more citizen-journalism - which probably means there are more journalists around to be killed today than during most conflicts in history. So it doesn’t actually surprise me that the highest number would be from a conflict post-2010.
by opan | 2026-02-27 08:25:41+00:00
Going against the spirit of TFA here, but I believe you can eat anything at any time of day, and my favorite breakfast tends to be regular food. Chili, soup, pasta, baked potatoes. Something warm, filling, and usually involving salt. I do sometimes have something more traditional, like oatmeal, but it's not as satisfying. I also sometimes have oatmeal as my final meal of the day if I'm hungry but already a bit tired, as it's more calm than something like spicy chili.
by habinero | 2026-02-27 08:25:48+00:00
Nope. News companies don't do it because of different reasons.

For one, it's an opinion, and traditional journalism likes to pretend it doesn't have those.

The bigger reason is anyone can sue for anything in the US. Litigation can be ruinously expensive, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get it thrown out. Hundreds of lawsuits gets expensive, even if you win or hand out $25K "get lost" settlements.

(That's why SLAPP laws are so important -- a strong SLAPP law like CA kills this behavior)

Whether or not something is prudent behavior has nothing to do with legality.
by small_model | 2026-02-27 08:26:38+00:00
X has added more useful functionality in the last year or two than twitter did in their entire existence, it is also much snappier and reliable, that's with 5% of the workforce. I don't put this down to AI though it's more like a very lean, talented and motivated teams without layers of pointless middle people. Add AI into the mix and it's naturally going to be the way forward. Companies that stay bloated and not utilising AI will die.